tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70920511576546927672024-03-13T23:44:00.093+05:30PromenadeA walk through my lanes...Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-45287520371439126892015-04-27T23:06:00.002+05:302015-04-27T23:06:37.482+05:30A Quartet recalled
Memories hit hard sometimes. Nostalgia bugs me down
as I recall my college days. A similar nostalgia bugged me when I was leaving
my beloved school, friends and teachers for a newer, bigger and a hectic
institution called college. A new set of friends, professors and professionals awaited
me. The start was traumatic. Seriously! No friends, no fun and language
barricade, as I studied in the Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-56422821394554874932015-04-15T12:53:00.000+05:302015-04-15T13:01:17.264+05:30Dafe dar dafe...hum marte rahe
Dafe dar dafe, hum marte rahe
Dafe dar dafe, tujhse darkaar karte rahe
Tujhe kehti rahi nigaahein
K maan bhi lle zaalim, is dil ki qaraarein
Har nazm tere liye padhi
Har lafz tere liye dhari
Tujhe dekh hi ye dil khile
Tujhe paa kr hi rooh chale
Tu maan bhi lle zaalim
Har afsana sachcha hai
Teri hi nazar se sab sach nahin
Kuch toh mera bhi haq banta hai
Gidgidati Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-86734151376324158962015-04-11T23:34:00.001+05:302015-04-11T23:34:37.721+05:30DARPA Robotics Challenge all set for finale in June
This summer, 25 robots from around the world will go head to head in a
competition to test how machines could one day provide assistance after natural
or man-made disasters.
In October 2012, United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA) announced a prize competition with the aim to develop
semi-autonomous ground robots that can do "complex tasks in dangerous,
degraded, Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-32949737931960328302015-04-11T23:32:00.000+05:302015-04-11T23:32:31.807+05:30Why India should know about ITER?
Near the west banks of Sabarmati, in the green city
of Gandhinagar, a team of 122 scientists and engineers from across the country,
are working silently on building the crucial components required to power the
world’s largest nuclear reactor, upcoming in Cadarache, a province in southern
France.
At a time when Indo-US nuke deal
impasse has broken and both the countries look forward to steer Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-23574303950575378982014-04-27T11:49:00.002+05:302014-04-27T11:52:16.373+05:30LIVES IN EXILE: Exploring the Inner world of Tibetan Refugees
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Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-9928773443855268272014-03-11T22:08:00.003+05:302014-03-11T22:08:26.538+05:30An Average Indian Girl in LOVE!!!!
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-61117516922300587172014-02-17T22:09:00.000+05:302014-02-17T22:12:56.294+05:30WINNING OR WHINING!!!
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Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-8369862004597193232014-01-06T00:34:00.001+05:302014-01-06T00:34:32.271+05:30Annual feedback ! 2014's on the go!
Hi guys. As we welcome 2014, it strikes me that i have been writing for many years now, though the blog came up in 2010, a little late than what it should have been. Anyway, i gather that there are a few, and may i say, very few staunch followers who care to read all the posts put up here. To those, i appeal, please help me improve. i call for you suggestions, be it about the blog layout, Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com2Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India23.2248196 72.6463768999999523.1080806 72.485015399999952 23.3415586 72.807738399999948tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-65235557811183193442014-01-06T00:12:00.002+05:302014-01-06T00:12:18.626+05:30Welcome 2014 :)
Ah! So we completed another year.
Another year of smiles and tears,
another year of joys and turmoil,
another year of laziness and toil,
another year of strong and fragile,
another year of scams and donations,
another year of political upheavals,
another year of cinema and music,
another year of religion and brawl,
another year of joys and ahoys,
another year of rueful eyes and
another Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-50406125417429933342013-11-21T14:41:00.000+05:302013-11-21T14:42:50.120+05:30An interview with Rita Lee Chapman
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Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-47318837945177719382013-07-07T11:37:00.001+05:302013-07-07T23:35:54.757+05:30
ये कैसी तलब है, क्या एहसास है
जो दूर होकर भी तू मेरे पास है
अंधेरो में भी रौशनी का प्रकाश है
बंद कमरों में फिज़ा भी तो बेहिसाब है
हर वक़्त तेरे होने का एहसास है
तू नहीं तो बेजान ये नमाज़ है
तू है तो सपनों में रंग हैं
ये मेरी दुनिया ही फिरदौस है
तू हस दे तो मन खिल जाये
मेरी रूह मेरी जान
तुझसे हीVandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-25199651160812970322013-07-07T11:03:00.003+05:302013-07-07T11:05:28.820+05:30Mango tango!
:D jeez! How could you pick a piece from my plate!!! (read furious!)
Hi friends! The season of mangoes has been here for a while now but since i was busy in having mangoes, i couldn't manage to take time out for writing :p A poor joke this may seem, but yes, the fact remains that i had been absent from promenade for the past few days..or rather months. :/ I missedVandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-48364601158399097342013-06-21T13:45:00.002+05:302013-06-21T13:48:38.028+05:30
"Sometimes
friends turn their backs on you. Don’t stoop down to their level, you’ll be
alright. Just remember to always be you and get on with your life."
Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-34618768699659893922013-05-20T12:35:00.001+05:302013-05-20T12:35:22.059+05:30
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
i started with this one... then read a thousand splendid suns...n now eagerly waiting for and the mountains echoed..... Khalid is an amazing writer, true to his content, facts and vision. this book build the lump in my throat a hundred times!
View all my reviews
Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-29564407251623229802013-05-20T12:34:00.001+05:302013-05-20T12:34:55.168+05:30
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
a real book... of real lives... real struggles...... and a real world...... simultaneously breathing somewhere where people are not so free....not so happy...... this book changed my vision about few things....... i was left thinking,tears rolling down my eyes.......... read it for the very truth, the simplistic way with Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-18013543467195806852013-05-19T10:04:00.001+05:302013-05-19T10:04:24.824+05:30
Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
hmm, this book is not meant for a general read..... i was curious to know what left the world talking and that's how i decided to read this. it's a dark novel, not as in sense of story, but it's about the darkest, meanest and even dumbest sexual fantasies of a man called Grey...... BDSM is the genre of sex it has....... if you too are Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-43608285610934328792013-05-18T16:28:00.002+05:302013-05-18T17:49:41.872+05:30Seven Days Without You - Book Review
"mai tera sarmaya hoon....
jo bhi main ban paya hoon....
tumse hi...
tumse hi...
tumse hi..."
As you open the book, these beautiful words, entwined with feelings of strong love and reverence for his wife, greet you; bringing a lovely smile on your face. 'His', being Mr Anmol Rana. A debut novel couldn't have found a better theme than the one which touches cord with the young, Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-87426019846120202312013-05-12T00:27:00.000+05:302013-05-12T00:28:19.574+05:30talab...
talab si lagi h
jo phansa h saansoen me
jisne jakda h phanso me
usse chhootne ki, tutne ki
ek talab si lagi h...
apne hi khayalo se, yaadoen se
iraadoen se, dil ki muraadoen se
chhootne ki, azaad hone ki
ek talab si lagi h...
mann k vichaaaroen se
behti sookhi nadiya ke
kinaroen pe dabi seepiyon ke
us gungunahat se
use khamosh karne ki, ansuna karne ki
ek talab si lagi h...
Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-18406637275947137152013-04-25T11:20:00.000+05:302013-04-25T11:27:17.969+05:30sigh! life! :)
The value of life (or potency of life) is an economic value assigned to life in general. In social and political
sciences, it is the marginal
cost of death
prevention in a certain class of circumstances. This is what Wikipedia offers
us on the ‘value of life’. But can we measure lives on the scales of economic,
political or social values? Or can Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-7045567860349688972013-04-10T20:09:00.000+05:302013-04-10T20:09:54.837+05:30OUCH! IT HURTS!!
shining through my eyes
anticipation roared
smiling pink lips
turned brown and sour
when you said i was wrong.
pulsating thoughts in my mind
all my manners turned wild
when you said i was wrong.
smile was replaced
furrowed brow
aching heart
fading glow
this happened when you said i was wrong.
burgeoning expectations
hard work
insensitive remarks
towards me you Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-41614192530731744792013-04-10T11:49:00.001+05:302015-04-15T12:23:17.780+05:30Broken...
Pearls of dew on the blades of green
scintillating colors emanating from sheen
drizzling down the sky
A love story was born. aye!
Magical it was. in trance, i gasped!
My love was smiling, arms stretched
waiting for my steady clasp.
I started towards him. i walked, i ran.
His touch, his warmth engulfed me.
We embraced amidst breeze. it was divine.
All tensions drained, all Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-40052555416386733012013-04-10T11:49:00.000+05:302015-04-11T23:56:56.385+05:30I Hold Onto Still…
The world sees what I showSmiling and happy, a cheerful proDeep within floats a huge sorrowNobody knows what I go through.Every day, numerous timesThe bell of olden memories chimesI had suppressed them, buried themI had forgotten them, bullied them.But they haunt me stillPinches of words, goes down a deep chill.His charming face, his cute smileTiny freckles of mischief nubileHis sleepy eyes, aVandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-40554490063781095072013-04-10T11:48:00.001+05:302015-04-11T23:59:11.534+05:30ONSET OF DELIGHT!
This world is so beautiful
Coz it has love.
Love…an urge to be with him
When the first raindrop falls.
Love…an ecstasy,the joy you feel
When his presence is sound.
Love…a tender tickle when you
Sit alone thinking of him.
Love…a tear of happiness
When the proposal dooms.
Love…the divine angel that bears within
When the seeds of care blooms.
I can go on and on…
Love’s endless. Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-18495140038705440212013-04-08T15:40:00.000+05:302013-04-08T15:40:44.000+05:30LIFE EXPRESS!!!
life's like a train. a train constantly running around, all over places, with people exiting and entering at various terminals and junctions; people whom you forget, people whom you remember for some time and people who leave an imprint, an impression on your mind. i once read somewhere :
"it's the same earth the same sky but Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com5Sector 30, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India23.2392294 72.66981129999999223.2246389 72.6496413 23.2538199 72.689981299999985tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7092051157654692767.post-33465712960271105622013-04-04T16:14:00.000+05:302013-04-04T16:27:11.855+05:30‘Many mothers of my Kashmir will cry today’
This article was published in The Times of India editorial. Iam only presenting this as a work of, and copyright of Dr. Syeda Hameed.
On June 30, last to last year, Asif Rather, aged nine, ran out of his home in Baramulla in search of his older brother. Minutes later, he fell victim to a bullet fired by securitymen. He was just 150m from his front door. An elegy on the death of an Vandana http://www.blogger.com/profile/13961644657694110857noreply@blogger.com0