Category Archives: Travel

India Swine Flu Helpline Details & Contact Information

With the first swine flu death reported in my city of Pune, I thought I’d pro­vide some Swine Flu related infor­ma­tion spe­cific to India.
Swine Flu India is the cen­tral web­site for all infor­ma­tion and updates.

The Min­istry of Health and Fam­ily Wel­fare has an infor­ma­tion page for Swine Flu.
This MS Word doc­u­ment sup­plied on the above page

Roller Coaster Ride at Cedar Point

A few weeks back, when I real­ized that the world’s largest automaker was head­ing towards bank­ruptcy, I did a nos­tal­gic photo-post of Gen­eral Motors World Head­quar­ters at the Renais­sance Cen­ter and Detroit. This week, Six Flags, one of the world’s largest amuse­ment park com­pany in the world announced that it is fil­ing for bank­ruptcy. It

Dark Ages at the Renaissance Center, Detroit

Yesterday’s news about GM cut­ting 21,000 more jobs and killing the Pon­tiac brand evoked nos­tal­gia and some mixed feel­ings. So this is a photo-sequel to my almost two year old post about life in Detroit.

 

For two years, I lived, worked, breathed, ate, and slept in the shadow of this land­mark. Gen­eral Motors World Head­quar­ters, the

Digitizing Memories with a Techno-Bhajan Mix

The year was 1995, the place, Berlin. The Berlin Wall col­lapse was still in pub­lic mem­ory, and a per­sonal wall was col­laps­ing for me in the form of my first stay abroad. As a twenty-something year old young man, this trip opened new doors for me — explor­ing the WWW, devel­op­ing per­sonal friend­ships with Euro­peans,

Dreams of An Unquiet Mind

I am amused by peo­ple who say they have no dreams. When even ani­mals dream, how can peo­ple not? An evil thought comes about sub­ject­ing such peo­ple to dream depri­va­tion, if only to advance sci­en­tific under­stand­ing.
I dream both in color as well as in black and white. As with most peo­ple, I have recur­rent dream

Traffic Road Sign in Pune, India

Runaway Train

Pro­logue
I decided to add this pro­logue after the first few com­ments to this post. This post uses an inci­dent in India, but is actu­ally uni­ver­sal in nature and focuses on the moral, philo­soph­i­cal, and eth­i­cal decision-making involved in an emer­gency.
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Imag­ine you’re trav­el­ing from Mum­bai to Pune by train, which is full to capac­ity, as

Pune’s E-Governance Initiatives

Is Pune liv­ing up to its claim of being the “IT hub of Maha­rash­tra”? At least some ini­tia­tives point in that direc­tion.
Bet­ter Roads in Mon­soon
Pune is noto­ri­ous for its bad roads, and the mon­soon sea­son is pure night­mare. Both the PMC and the IT geeks-based “Bet­ter Roads Group” have teamed up to make this mon­soon

How to pay homage to Chhatrapati Shivaji?

Unlike the moronic ways I’ve writ­ten about many times ear­lier, this group of peo­ple show us the real way.
“For two months they stayed away from home, quit jobs and risked their lives and limbs climb­ing to dizzy­ing heights and faced nature’s chal­lenges. For, pro­pelling these 20 youth, was their devo­tion to Chha­tra­p­ati Shiv­aji Maharaj.

Nice travelogs with pictures

If you liked read­ing my Spiti Trav­el­ogue, I must refer you to Priyank’s site.
Priyank did a mountain biking trek in the Himalayas, and his pictures are awesome. Check his Niagara pictures too!