Trek to DeoriaTal,Tungnath and ChandraShila Peak

What will be our life if we stay away from the gadgets and internet world (especially social networking) for few days?

A break for few days and trekking into Himalaya’s gave me such feelings. Leaving all artificial life and concrete jungle behind, passing through the sharp curvy roads which revolves around mountains on one side and the death defining valleys on other, we reached the Sari village near Ukimath in Uttarkhand state.

To reach Deoria Tal, we started trekking from Sari Village near Ukimath. Gaining height on trail with step by step and experiencing the nature’s beauty on both the sides of pavement we reached to the top. On top, a big plateau with a small lake (Tal), which is covered on one side with dense jungle and Himalayan mountain on the other side. Misty weather and heavy rain we couldn’t identify the Himalayan peaks on that day but the next day the morning was very pleasant and crystal clear. We observed Chokumba, Kedar Dome, Hathi Parvat, Nanda Devi (India’s highest peak) and Kala khadak peaks in the Himalayan range. As the rays of the Sun started coloring these peaks, they have started glittering as gold and the reflection of these mountains in the Deoria Tal adding the beauty in this scenery. Apart from this, we saw jackal (which gave us a thrilling experience as well as tension), fingerprints of leopard, many birds and their chirpy sounds, red flowers - Rhododendron, which has medical values – completed our package for this trek.

Spending a wonderful and thrilling night in the tent and with sky full of shining stars, next day we started descending to the base village – Sari. Then, we started moving towards the village called Chopta. It’s a base village to start our second trek for Tungnath Temple.

– which is one of the Punch Kedar and consider being a part of pilgrim trip in Hindu Culture. Tungnath temple is the only temple in the world at this much height (source Wikipedia). Leaving all jungles behind and passing through the meadows we reached to the top after 3-4 hours of steep trek. Here, the atmosphere was rapidly changing – sunlight, cloudy and thunder storms. During the discussion about weather with the local people, we get to know that they compare the weather with the Mumbai’s Fashion. They said that “As Mumbai’s fashion change rapidly, so the weather changes here. Luckily, the Tungnath temple was opening on the next day. So on the next day we covered the Chandra Shila peak

– where Lord Ram had done meditation after defeating Ravana and we did puja at Tungnath temple. Then we started descending. During this trip, talking with the local people and hearing their stories and myths about the places like Deoria Tal and Tungnath temple was very interesting to us, whereas a talk about the new technology and gadgets which we used here in metros was very surprising to them.

That’s all we covered in this 4-5 days trekking. Such a mind refreshing treks and stunning view of nature’s beauty brought lots of serenity in us. Nature, trekking, photography and Writing about such places are all going hand in hand.
To see more photos for this trip click here

whatever it will be... will be..!!!

Wind was flowing, thoughts were blowing,
Mind was poaching, heart was weeping,
Sitting atop mountain, looking at sunset,
Attempted to draw picture of my future,
No clarity, no omens, just full of mystery,
And nothing came as concrete as this mountain..!!!

Looking at sky, questioning the almighty,
What is my future?
Where is my life heading?
Give me chance to see my life designed by you,
Through the window of intuitions and senses;

Bewildered, discouraged and whispering
Prayers of hope headed towards my home,
Whatever it will be …will be...!!!

Necessity and act of adapting new Technology

Its Saturday afternoon, I visited the most popular telecom operator’s gallery to change my mobile billing plan. It’s heavily crowded. There are people come with their application forms and supporting documents for the new connection happily standing in a queue and on the other corner there are customers shouting on the representative as it’s complain handling desk. It seems to me a very balance atmosphere out there…!!!

In this chaos, I happened to observe that an old age uncle was chit-chatting with customer care representative in very annoying way. He was fighting for the extra amount added in his mobile bill for some unwanted service. I get to know from the conversation that they have activated some service by mistake on their touch screen mobile (which they are not so familiar) and because of that the amount was added in their bill. Customer care representative was trying to convince them and making them understand that this has been activated from the customer side, so they were helpless and couldn’t revert it.

This was just one observation, there are ample such observations you can find in our daily life. Such incidents make me think, these new technologies are boon or curse for the people? In a way it’s solve the problem or some time crates problem for the people who are not so good at adapting new technology.

As and when the new Technology is introduced to the market, people become crazy in buying such new stuff. They just bought it for the sake of keeping themselves with pace of new technology or may be some time they are just do show offs. They hardly know about the technology or its actual usage or even their own need. Being into telecom technology, I have observed many times that people are buying new flunky mobiles by spending many thousands, but they hardly know how to feed the contact of the person into address book of mobile. I have seen they keep the additional telephone pocket diary for just noting down the numbers.

Ahhh..!!! Look at this race for newer and newer technology..!!! Where and when it will end or what direction it is taking? Is there any one to guide this or question them that “Do we really need all such high end technologies?” It’s surely debatable.

Innovations are happening due to requirements and problems face by certain category of people or due to some situation. Those categories of people or situations have actual requirements of such technology and innovations, as it solves their problems. There is no mandate that everybody must use all technologies available in the market just because those gadgets are falling in their buying capacity even if they don’t have any hardcore requirement.

Hindu Mythology and their Lessons..!!!

Some of best epic stories which we have studied during our childhood in the history books and a lot we have heard from our granny and grandpa. These stories are still around us in some different format.

Holy books Ramayana and Mahabharata are some the best written stories in the world. Some says its real and some says it’s totally mythology. Let's not go into the discussion about the reality of their existence or maybe we are not supposed to. However, the essence of these stories is much deeper and very helpful to many of us.

Ram's character of being "maryaada purushottama" - supreme glory of mankind, whereas on the other side the supreme politician Krishna's Character are truly create affection in you to read more about the situation they were passed through and the life they have lived. These mythological stories are vast source of lessons if you understand comprehensively and relate them with the current situation of our life and corporate culture.

As a part of my reading material, I used to read “management mythos” in Corporate Dossier supplement of Economic times on every Friday. They have these mythological stories and relate them with the office environment, corporate culture and even our life’s principals. They are worth reading and we all should imbibe them in our life.

These days, i am not able to catch-up with ET paper, so found the e-link of the "Management Mythos" author “Devdutt Pattanaik”. He is great mythologist and his articles are available here.

A usage of word 'hallucination'

I came across a new word “hallucination", while writing in Microsoft word and using the synonyms application.

Fantasy of using different new words makes me feel proud or sometimes make a foolish out of me among the others. But, who cares attitude give strength to my unbound courage each time and I am keep attempting on new words. Hereby, describing one of the occurrences of such thing.

Passing through a little confusing and unclear state of my mind, made me use of word “hallucination” in my status of Goggle Talk. And the show has begun. Many of my online friends contacted me asking what hallucination is. I have been proudly explaining them about using my shallow understanding about word and projecting my extraordinary knowledge in English vocabulary to them, until one dear friend of mine broke my understanding about word.

He started to ask “what happened to me? And why hallucination?”. Similar to others, I have explained him about word and told about unclear state of my mind. But this dear friend of mine was having deep understanding about this word and its usage. So, he understood that I am passing through the mental disorder (a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders – which is the actual meaning of this word). He has also suggested me, it’s not good to be in such hallucination state and don’t update such status in Google talk. On top of that, he was trying to help me out to come out of this state; he recommended a course of ‘Art of Living’ which he has attended.

On the other end, looking at the chatting window I was laughing, that my interest of using different word, without understanding them properly, pulled me in such troublesome situation.So, even if I was not in such a mentally disorder condition and not seeing any imaginary things, the world got to know that I am in hallucination condition. Ohhh GOD...!!!

PS: for better understanding of the word click here

visit to Butterfly garden in pune

Wandering on city streets

New City, new people, new surroundings – hundreds and thousands of observations. One of the obervation was little funny, describing here.

A number of advertisement boards and billboards about new construction sites and new home schemes on our way to the office and even everywhere in the city. From this anyone can easily make out that, the city’s real estate is booming and lots of construction work is going on in the city. So you might mislead yourself that houses may be cheaper here because of so much construction work and new areas are developing. But when you look at the prices, one quote can easily describe it – “Sky is not the limit”.

On the other side, What will you think; when you were travelling in a local city bus and you got to see the doctor’s advertisement for the diagnosis of piles in almost all the buses (specially on all handles of the bus, where we hang for support). Next thought was, "Does this city have lots of piles cases? Or there may be plenty of doctors who are really good in diagnosis of piles and may be because of that they are having blood shedding competition?" Whatever is the case, I got little scared and nervous about my own digestion system.

Plenty of advertisements on the same topics or subjects are sometimes very misleading...!!!