being blessed....

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 5/11/2013 11:01:00 AM

'Her poems are like blessing and it never fails to bring a smile on my face. Suranga Date is one lovely person who connects with people and nature so well, her poetry is transparent and imaginative, sometimes funny and sometimes just like a pure blessing. She wrote a few lines to me today, in a poetic way as always. She writes a wonderful poetry blog inspired by the beautiful pictures she comes across on the internet and social media almost everyday. But let (...)'

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Sounds of silence in our summer garden...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 4/30/2013 11:08:00 AM

'Yes, the colors of spring are slowly fading now, the chill is history. Welcome to the Delhi summer. Dry, hot and seemingly lifeless.Summer is the time when even the leaves refuse to flutter in our garden. The absence of any unwanted noise or presence of a much revered silence. The absence of voices doesn't mean no living activity. Silence has its own energy and vibrations.   Silence in the summer noon is not lifeless though. Last weekend I decided to check by mys(...)'

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Who steals my flowers?

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 3/30/2013 6:27:00 PM

'The whole family likes flowers it seems...Gnawing the flowers was never seen.. I had been wondering who plucks the flowers this way until we spotted this. Arvind brought the camera quickly and started clickety click...These rodents seem to be the most clever as I watch them playing tricks all the time.And they seem to like all beautiful things in life. Colorful flowers for example...Reaching out for the nectar from all angles. No, for the whole flower actual(...)'

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look who can do monkey crawling...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 3/23/2013 7:15:00 PM

'Yes. The squirrels. They have their own ways to reach the bird feeders I put up on the most difficult places for them. I could catch this one in the act when he was monkey crawling to reach and then to return from the hanging bird feeder.Don't ask me how I know it was a he squirrel. You would see that by yourself :-)He descends down..there is an Asparagus extending it's creepers to the bird feeder and on the clothesline, the squirrel is not bothered... Settl(...)'

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Faithfully your's | an exhibition of photos and art installations by some young artists...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 3/13/2013 6:25:00 AM

'Some believe in magic and some in dreams. Most of us believe in prayers as well. Some of us would travel long distances to go to a temple or shrine and 'offer' our prayers and some of us would just sit under a tree, 'connect' with the universe and call it a prayer. It is the faith that takes us there, the belief in the magic that we perform in our head.I was quite inquisitive when I got to know about the theme of a photo exhibition happening with Faith as a theme(...)'

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ye facebook pe aaya hua hai...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 2/7/2013 8:39:00 AM

'We hire a certain 'cab driver' whenever we have to go out with late night return schedule. Unlike most cabbies this guy is a chatty fellow, very enthusiastic, wanting to grow on his own and probably seeking approval form our kind of people. Since we have been witness to many of his chatter we know that he is just a 26 year old kid who came form a village of Punjab to Delhi when his father died and the family was rendered without a place to live and any income to survive. He was 16 y(...)'

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another cycling expedition in the western ghats of India...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 1/17/2013 5:44:00 AM

'This is my first post of the new year and a few of you would remember how I promised last year that 2013 will start with a new chapter. Well, chapters of life sometimes change abruptly and sometimes they just slip in quietly and deceptively, sometimes we have to make an effort to start a new chapter. I told you my angel has done a miracle to me and the new chapters will all be full of that light. This new year already started with a refreshing note, on the 4th of Janu(...)'

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making small discoveries while being a tea drinker...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 12/29/2012 2:25:00 PM

'I seriously need a way to make a good cup of chai without boiling it on a gas stove.Now you would say why not a gas stove. After all the whole world..ah okay..the whole of India... okay at least the whole of north India makes (read boils) chai on a gas stove. We like our chai boiled for a while with the ginger and masala in it and then we add some milk and boil again. Right?I have tried making chai in microwave and in a kettle but these electronic equipment (...)'

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my signs to stay positive, stay blessed ...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 9/26/2012 7:10:00 AM

'Woke up early after a long time. Working like a maniac, not sleeping properly and seeing ungrateful, unethical people around had left me feeling like a buzzing head. Just a buzzing head, not with ideas but a numbing buzz.The husband had to leave early today, and I decided to water the parched garden after days of neglect. Some insects have made the plants sick, yellowing, falling leaves were picked and thrown away. Some insects were buried into the soil alive. Yes, I was ruthless to(...)'

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Hushed conversations?

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 8/26/2012 6:12:00 PM

'This month one of my friends got another bout of the big C and she kicked it in the Ass. Yes, exactly there.Cancer often hits women at places it hurts more and she had it both the times in those organs. She got one of her breasts amputated this time and called me the very next day of her surgery. Sounding as cheerful as ever. Her husband and two adult sons taking care of her very well, I decided to visit her when she might need my kinda help. So when I went to have a chat with her a(...)'

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Zomato Restaurant Guide 2012

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 7/9/2012 6:21:00 PM

'Who needs a restaurant guide for the city?In a printed form that is. May be some tourists who are not connected to the internet all the time or someone who actually wants it offline. The internet is there otherwise.Zomato has quite a good online presence and this print version could have been a nice way to explore some of the possibilities around restaurants and fine dining establishments offline. But this print version in my hands has failed to deliver to a person who wan(...)'

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Bobby Abraham, an artist par excellence...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 6/20/2012 9:30:00 AM

'Here is an artist who can connect with a pure soul instantly. And permeates that connection to you too when you see his portraits.It was a painting and sculptures exhibition held at the Palm court, India habitat center. It was inaugurated yesterday (19th June) and will be up till 24th of June. Go take a look if you want a breather from the Delhi heat. Inauguration was done by the eminent artist Vijendra Sharma and the collection is curated by Radhe Shyam.Invitation to(...)'

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Containers, Bowls, Baskets whatever....

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 6/8/2012 3:39:00 PM

'Clicked this picture yesterday thinking I'll post it on the blog and ask for suggestions. Suggestions for balancing this little container of coconut shell that I used for planting this beautiful Jade plant. I love little plants in cute little containers around the house. Wish I had more space for all my plants. Most of them are outdoors, a few twigs find their way into small cute containers now and then.So this coconut shell broke into two unequal halves. The bigger half h(...)'

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The Devotion of Suspect X , a review...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 5/30/2012 6:32:00 PM

'I had never ever read a Japanese author and that is a shame because the Japanese culture has always been fascinating for me. A few travelogues and stories about japan written by Indian authors is all I remember reading here and there. So when this book was up for review on Blogadda, I was curious about it.Reading the introduction, I knew it was a suspense thriller and must be little to do about Japanese culture. I picked up the book for review because it had been a long time I read (...)'

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A new bird spotted : Indian black Ibis...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 5/21/2012 7:49:00 PM

'Yesterday I decided to go for a morning walk cum bird watch walk with my friend Sukanya Dutta. She is an avid birder too and we started with our camera in hands at around 7 AM.IARI campus at Pusa institute is a green place with huge old trees and a trained staff to maintain trees and the fauna around. We spotted many bird boxes hung over the trees for House Sparrows. But sadly there were no sparrows in sight, though we see few in our vicinity. The boxes were inha(...)'

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Disciplining ourselves, knowing more..bird stories....

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 5/5/2012 4:35:00 PM

' We do a few things out of habit. Like I used to when I would just break a leftover roti into pieces and keep it into the bird feeder. The usuial Bajra and other millets were kept on a regular basis too, the leftover breads were also put into the same feeder. Last year I even used to make some corn bread only for the birds and the squirrels around. I will not be doing it again.After reading this information at the NBRI botanical garden I would never keep any cooked food in(...)'

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The other world of dreams...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 4/29/2012 8:35:00 AM

'The blue of the skyreflects in my heartas ifyou are looking into my eyesfrom the world above....I woke up drenched in sweat. In a winter's night.Felt like someone was talking to me and it snapped within a fraction of second. I was not able to recollect what it was about. But it seemed very pleasant and comforting.And slowly it started pouring into my head like a recollection of some snippets of real life.This is something from the days when I was exasperated about Mithi's condition.(...)'

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about not being a feminist and still working for the cause...

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 4/25/2012 12:14:00 PM

'It's wonderful sometimes how we are introduced to some friends. In the age of the internet the coincidences have taken a new meaning. It was by chance that my attention was drawn towards a facebook status update by Dhiren. He had shared about a group called The Purple Pact and the description said it is about Fibromyalgia and chronic pain. I clicked the like button and as I was checking the details I got a message in my inbox saying thanks for joining this group.This girl was tellin(...)'

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A change for sure. But how?

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 4/9/2012 7:09:00 PM

'Looking at the mindset of policemen in our country It looks like they just have garbed themselves as the law keepers and haven't come out of the societal mold they were brought up in. I am sure there are fewer of them in the force. After all we have seen good cops too.Still it is a sad situation. I am talking about those crooked minds in the police force.They know they are the law keepers, they practice it in their own ways but probably find themselves fit for citing the skewed, coc(...)'

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Caught in a wrong warp of time ?

Author : sangeeta      Blog : homealone      Date : 3/13/2012 11:13:00 AM

'I felt so guilty for saying no to a lady who ringed my bell just ten minutes back.She asked me if I needed some pads, when I said no she asked if I needed some lipsticks. My voice raised a bit and I said no I do not want it. Please go.And then my heart just sank. I saw the lady returning , she had a slight limp, the way arthritis makes older people walk. The lady was about fifty five I noticed. My immediate thought was why is she doing it? She could have done something better. In a (...)'

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