Habits die hard

Well well ... I have always been mentioning that I need to post on quite a regular basis but habits die hard. I am forgetful, very forgetful to be very honest.

There have been massive changes in my life very recently. These should have taken place a long time back, but things happen when they have to happen how hard we may try.

The biggest change has been shifting my residence from the most prime areas of New Delhi to Noida in a rented accommodation with my family. If one wants to live good with the best of the comforts then we need to be able to live within the elites of power, the real mercenaries after the East  India Company later the British crown. When can we have the real independence as of today we are still governed by the colonial laws, the colonial mentality so very well and zealously continued by the politicians and the beaurocrats post so called independence.

It is a growing region but the basic amenities are awfully missing. The water very, very bad. So hard and so dirty. Power outages are there all the time. One needs to have power back-ups, very good support to the industrial houses. Roads are so bad with pot holes/rough areas in colonies. Crime rate has to rise with living costs spiraling up like anything. no place seems to be safe except the most nurtured area of the city. We have the most well oiled and smooth corrupt system in place, I doubt it can be done away in a million years. Those who could not maintain a two wheeler in their pre-political power become crore-pattis within a few years in power. If there is so much of official salary that makes them crore pattis with in a few years in coming to power, why do they crib about being poorly paid? They are the Dhitrastras of today, who was one of the most well versed with Dharmsastra, but greed of power for his son overcame the best of his sensibilities as a king. We see it in routine life we live today.

If an independent body takes the task of finding the 'sweat equities', facilitation shares in contracts and companies there will hardly be any above board. IPL did spill some beans, and surely this would be found in all things like power distributions, toll road contracts, housing, any thing you can imagine.

History tells us proudly that the Britishers gave rail, their language, other things but let us not forget these were their own purpose and use. They came to trade. In trading one gets money in lieu of the products traded. They took the goods and the money as well. Their Commonwealth!! How could that hurt be consoled, they created a group of their colonies as "Commonwealth". How zealously are the current masters honoring the memories of those who looted the country through out their occupancy. The Mughals did come but they remained and became a part of this land. They created here and they lived here, but the British rule can not be equated. They were a band of cruel deceiving thieves with no human rights as they like to propagate to day as champions of human rights and fairness. Let us not equate British laws and colonial laws as the same, if they were I am sure they could not get away with all what they did in their colonies.

The same divide and rule policy continues today. The bait of the carrot had worked good to help the East India Company to firmly push in its claws, it is still working strongly. Why would the press people from private ownership companies be given free government accommodation for life? It is fair to provide government accommodation to government employees, but why to those who were never a part of the government but private enterprises?

Well well ... those get exposed who get in the bad books of the powers who have been in power for the longest period after the so called independence.

Photographing the photographer

I do not know how clumsy or funny looking I am when behind the camera while busy shooting pictures during a commercial shoot or during street photography.

It has always interested me photographing the photographer/s. There were far and few during the analog age, but still one could find quite interesting shoots.









Today with digital age we have all kinds of camera from mobile cameras, to thin credit card types, pro-cameras and so on. Mobile phones today come in almost all models and they have become so very common.  Each one has one in one's pocket. I always avoided buying a mobile phone with a camera, but kids bought me one so I also happen to use it quite occasionally taking pics of my grand children. Times have changed and will keep on changing.

Taj Mahal is one monument that receives the maximum foot fall all round the year irrespective of the weather conditions. There is hardly any visitor who is not carrying one or the kind of camera. I had enough of the shoot taking various angles of the monument.


It is such a nice feeling to be sitting on the marble floor, it is real cool and relaxing. Looking around seeing people, I found people standing or sitting in the funniest stances while taking a pics.

Seeing people making various kinds of poses when being photographed. It is also a free for all for photographers as many a times people like try and capture some thing interesting to show case in some place or the other.
I am sure no words of description are required for the few photos posted within this story. I am sure there would be many with better enjoyable photos, but this is a small contribution with a hope to gain more by your comments.

  

   

A tough Janaury

It was a bad start for me within the first few hours of New Year. The accelerator wire got stuck. In process of checking, I nearly fell down fortunately could balance myself with the support of the car body. Only a few days into the New Year, while wiping my feet the small plastic bath stool slipped and I got a big jerk in my back. Was down confined to bed and home for almost whole of January and a week or so of February. Things are now under control, I am moving around but with lots of care.

I had so many plans for going on a trip, all came a cropper.

Working on a new blog with some street photography pictures shot on 26th December, 2009 and some more from earlier shoot in the same area.

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