भगवान् अमरनाथ को ज़मीन नही चाहिए। पर उनके 'मेनेजर' १०० हेक्टेयर के बिना जी नही सकते....

Diamonds Are Forever..

Yeh Hain UP ke 13 Heere..

NSJ..The Calendar Man..if you want to know how many days, hours and minutes are left for the semester to end..Neelesh is the man..

Vermaji..Bahari Mudrika Ring Road Sewa..stops at up@spa are very few..

Yours truly..The Weatherman..hamesha kuchchh zyada hi tension..too much..

Das Babu..Pushpaa...most volatile of the diamonds..can say almost anything to almost anyone in the most subtle manner..don't believe me?..ask Commissioner of Jodhpur Municipal Corporation..or some of our visiting faculties..

Malhotraji..Jaipurewale..the uniquest piece of UP..shayad bhagwan ne inko banane ke baad woh saancha tod diya..

Rachna..Inner Mudrika..follows almost the same route as Outer Mudrika..

Digambar Sir..alias..Bashabullah Khan

AT..Topper topper...how many gold medals..1..2..3..4..we are counting..

Sood Sahab..Ek the Abraham Maslow..uske baad hamare Sood Sahab..lekin what about UD ki bus?

Shilpa..hmm..hmm..Hum..Hum..Na main na tum..sirf Hum hi Hum

Dagaji..the Impulsive and Compulsive Buyer..

Marbiangbor..alias Murphy..alias Miang alias Mario..alias Mogambo..what's in the name after all?

Saikia Sir..Tigerrrrr...from Jorhat

Here I am....the Urban Planner

Farewell up@spa and farewell..our beloved faculty..

And farewell tp@spa and their faculty..H

Heartfelt thanks for keeping their promise..

That of making life most (un)comfortable for us..

In the first semester atleast..

Farewell..my classmates in UP..

And farewell..my classmates in RP..

The classmates who always remained UP and RP..

And never became URP..

I shall always miss and remember..

The boss..for his sense of humour..

The only person who could make a 'dry' subject like sewage..

As interesting as ancient Rome and Greece..

SCG..for his awesome one liners in the reviews..

RLPS..for all the inaudible comments..

JHA..for the deepest of baritones..

BM..for the chai in class..'dip wali'..

The thesis..

Urban heat islands and Bangalore..

Cottonpet and Cubbonpet and Jayanagar..

The endless rounds of filter coffee and vadas in IISc..

The smelly and dingy lodge near Majestic..

And..

Finally..the futile attempts to explain anyone and everyone..

My work..

The Gem Who Went Away

It's been one year,
And we still look for reasons.
You come into my dreams everyday,
And we talk.
I ask you why but you go laughing away.
Memories shall remain,
And so will tears, agony and dismay.
If we ever meet, I will ask again,
You better not laugh it off then.
Rest in peace..
Eternally yours,
We remain.
UP '06.

Kuchchh aur Mumbai Matinee

Mumbai Jo Shahr Hai....

Some images from Mumbai..view through Gateway of India..long verandah of Elphinstone College..an old hoarding near Colaba..piegons..books..books..and more books near NGMA..Asiatic Society..and view from the front seat of a double decker..rest I can't remember..

Vivaldi's four seasons, and Beethoven's Fifth

Yanni's Santorini, and Schubert's Unfinished

Lennon's Imagine, and Beatles' Let it Be

Ray's Mess Around, and the Moment of Kenny G

Fascinating pieces all these are,

But nothing is more intriguing,

than the sound of silence....