By nandan on December 26, 2008
Nisha is my neighbor. She moved into my neighborhood about four years ago when she married one of my friend’s brother. She is my wife’s friend also. My wife says that her life before marriage was always painful. Her parents were so poor. One of her cousins used to help her family. He was a [...]
Posted in Women in pain | Tagged male dominant Indian society, women in India, women rights india
By nandan on December 22, 2008
Nadia left Benares on the 20th. She stayed at my place for one month while she was doing research for her photo documentary called child of Ganga. We wandered together to different places in Varanasi along the river. We went to see all the sewage discharge place. It was an amazing experience to be with [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged ganga documentary, Ganga research
By nandan on December 20, 2008
A guy from California stayed at my place for one week. He was here to learn music and Sanskrit. This trip was only to know the city and get some idea about classes. He had asked me about music classes and I suggest him to go to Pandit Shivnath Mishra, who lives next door. It [...]
Posted in Groovy Ganges Guest House, Studies in India | Tagged family stay varanasi, guest house varanasi, home stay varanasi, music classes varanasi, tabla classes
By nandan on December 18, 2008
On 22nd of October, 2008 India launched Chandrayaan, a satellite, to compile a 3D atlas of the lunar surface and map the distribution of elements and minerals. I am sure these kinds of work costs huge amount of money. Right after one month of this satellite launch India faced the biggest terrorist attack ever. Almost 200 people [...]
Posted in Corruption, politics | Tagged development in India, india, sanitation in India, security in india
By nandan on December 15, 2008
I have been watching something everyday which nobody would ever like to see. Its blood and meat everywhere in my city. There is a Muslim festival called Bakrid. Each and every Muslim family is supposed to slaughter on male goat. Sometimes they buy one for each member of the family. They slaughter the animal and throw [...]
Posted in Varanasi | Tagged festivals in Varanasi, Meat in Varanasi, muslim festivals
By nandan on December 12, 2008
I think it has become our compulsion to use the word “Pending” again and again. Maybe we use this word most in the whole world. We have most number of legal cases pending before courts in the whole world. People file a case and spend their lives but never get any result. Now people feel [...]
Posted in Corruption | Tagged civil courts in India, india, indian government, Varanasi
By nandan on December 6, 2008
I think condoms are one the biggest inventions of science, one of the biggest gift of science to us but still a lot of people don’t use it and the thing that made me write this post is the people who are shy buying condoms. I never understand why people are shy to buy it. They [...]
Posted in HIV and AIDS | Tagged condom, sex, weaving
By nandan on December 2, 2008
Mumbai was attacked by terrorists on 26th of November. Almost one hundred and seventy five people were killed and over three hundred and fifty people were injured. Terrorism has been effecting India continuously for the past few decades but still the government is just making the same kind of boring statements and not doing anything to [...]
Posted in Corruption, politics, terrorism | Tagged Mumbai bomb blasts 2008