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RTWA 3: A short visit to Fatehpur Sikri

Today was supposed to be a just long drive day. I wanted to cover maximum distance today and reach Allahabad. Since App wanted to do something before and as ready to get up early enough, we planned to do Fatehpur Sikri before we start to Allahabad. So we wokeup early and reached Fatehpur...

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RTWA 2: Mathura And Agra

We left early around 530AM this morning. Except navigating the area around new Delhi railway station. The drive was actually good. In 2005 I didn’t get to drive on Yamuna Expressway. This time I did. My around 8 am we were at Mathura. We got to see the jail in which Krishna was...

My first selfie with Appa. In Red Fort. 1

RTWA 1: RoadTripWithAppa begins and we are in Delhi

RTWA – #RoadTripWithAppa was supposed to be his group travel with bunch of his people, but it got cancelled. But he is just like me (or may be I am like him?)he wanted to do it at any cost once planned. So he asked me if I can join him. I said yes...

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Maximum Change

It’s been two months that Max has been with us. It seems like he has been with us forever. I must say he has changed us more than anything else. No matter what; we need to wake up early to take him out for walk and cook for him. In a way I...

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Max

Its 5:30 AM. I am up because our maid is here and Max is up. Yes. We adopted Max yesterday. This was his first night at our home. He wasn’t totally comfortable because ours is his third new home is last five months and he is ten+ years old. We are hoping he...

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ಅಮ್ಮ ಹಾಗು ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನ

ಅಮ್ಮನಿಗೆ ತುಂಬ ನಂಬಿಕೆಯಿದ್ದದ್ದು ಮನುಷ್ಯನ ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನದ ಮೇಲೆ. ಹಾಗಂತ ಆಕೆಯೇನು ನಾಸ್ತಿಕಳಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಆಕೆಯ ದೇವರ ಕಲ್ಪನೆ ಸ್ವಲ್ಪ ವಚನಕಾರರನ್ನು ಹೋಲುತಿದ್ದದ್ದು ಕಾಕತಾಳಿಯವೇನಲ್ಲ. ಕೆಲಸ, ಶಿಸ್ತು, ಪ್ರಾಮಾಣಿಕತೆ, ದುಡಿಮೆ, ಸಮಾನತೆ ಹಾಗು ಮನುಷ್ಯ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಗಳ ಮೇಲೆ ಆಕೆಗೆ ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಜಾಸ್ತಿ. ಅಮ್ಮ ಕೆಲವು ಹಬ್ಬ, ಹರಿದಿನಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಭ್ರಮದಿಂದ ಆಚರಿಸುತಿದ್ದರು (ಸಂಕ್ರಾಂತಿ ಹಾಗು ಯುಗಾದಿ ಆಕೆಯ ನೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಹಬ್ಬಗಳು), ಆಕೆಯ ದೇವರ ಮೇಲಿನ ನಂಬಿಕೆ ಮೂಢನಂಬಿಕೆಗಳಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ. ಆಕೆ ಒಂದು ದಿನವೂ ವಿಗ್ರಹದ ಮುಂದೆ ಕುಳಿತು ಪ್ರಾರ್ಥನೆ...