Diwali Rangoli

दिवाळी म्हटलं की रांगोळी आलीच! या वर्षीच्या दिवाळीत आईने काढलेल्या काही रांगोळ्या...

Bachelor Days!

While cleaning up my hard-disk, I came across a photo from 2007. I lived as a bachelor then, and the photo makes it amply clear!


This was the only table in my spartan room, and it fulfilled a number of functions.. my study table, dining table, laptop table, bookshelf, place to keep the article of daily use... so on and so forth. 


It may look like a mess, but it was a great place to keep things handy.  I don't remember ever cleaning it up, except the time when my parents came to visit. And even then, all I did was to take all the stuff from the table- top and push it in the shelf below.

Here are Gautam's Three Laws of a Bachelor Room:

1. The useless stuff in a bachelor's room can neither be cleaned nor dumped; it can only be moved from one corner to the another.
2. Getting rid of one useless thing in a bachelor's room leads to addition of two even more useless things.
3. The amount of mess in a bachelor's room rises exponentially prior to a parent visit.

PS! Just in case you have some wrong ideas.... the bottle in the right-corner is that of Appy Fizz.

Birthday, 2010

Birthday Celebration at house of Deshpande aajoba 
(Nagpur, 2010)

Diwali Delights

Diwali, also called as Deepawali, is the festival of lights celebrated across India.
Here are some photos of our Diwali in 2010...

Earthen diyas lit up the veranda.. More than the dazzling series of electric lights, it is more pleasing to see a row of these diyas burning steadily

Huge raangoLi drawn on the floor of Reception hall of our office

To add to the festive mood, our project client got some delicious goodies... an assortment of chocolates wrapped in a beautiful package!

Navratri in Goa

गोव्यातील प्रमुख हिंदू सण म्हणजे गणेश-उत्सव. परंतू नवरात्रीही तेवढ्याच जोमात साजर्या केल्या जातात.
गोव्यातील नवरात्री उत्सवाचं वैशिष्ट्य म्हणजे इथल्या मंदिरांमधील "मखरोत्सव."

माझं आजोळ असलेल्या शिरोडा येथील श्री शिवनाथ मंदिरातील मखरोत्सवाची काही क्षणचित्रें...

 ॥ श्री शिवनाथ ॥

मखर

Posing with Weapons!

खड्गनवमी अर्थात खंडेनवमी.. या दिवशी शस्त्र-पूजा करतात. कालमानानुसार हातातील कुदळ जाऊन कलमदान आले, किंबहुना तेही जाऊन  Keyboard आला. तरी या ’शस्त्रांची" खुमारी काही निराळीच!

तळकट-सिंधुदुर्ग येथे अस्मादिक

Mahalaxmi

कोकणस्थांत महालक्ष्मीपूजन व जागरण करण्याची परंपरा आहे. या वर्षी आमच्याकडे हा योग आला.
तळकट-सिंधुदुर्ग इथे संपन्न झालेल्या महालक्ष्मी पूजेचे काही फोटो...

पूजेची तयारी

तुलसी-पूजन

पिठाचे दिवे

रांगोळी... "समिती"-स्टाईल!

महिला-वर्ग.... पुरूष-मंडळींना बाहेर बसविण्यात आले होते!

Navratri in Nagpur - 2010

Earlier, I has posted photos of Navratri in Nagpur from the year 2009. 

Here are the photos of 2010!

 

Abhyankar Nagar

Chandelier at Abhyankar Nagar... It was pretty huge!

Ujjawal Nagar

 

Ujjwal Nagar

Akhand Jyoti at Durga Mandir

Hong Kong

Arti, my (much) better half, was in Hong Kong for a medical conference. 

Here are some photos from her visit.

 

View from Marriott Sky City Hotel

Tung Chung Station.... The idea of fountains is superb!

Fantabulous lobby of Tung Chung Station 

 

Cable Car... I wouldn't have dared step into one! 

 

Hong Kong International Airport, as seen from Cable Car

 

Hong Kong City

Hong Kong City as seen from the Peak Point

 

The Peak Point

Traditional day

Last week, we celebrated traditional day at Infospectrum. Here are photos of two teams I am a part of:
the Tech Writers team and the Newsletter team.

Technical Writers team

Newsletter Team

Sonegaon and Futala lakes

Like all major cities, Nagpur too has a number of lakes in and around the city. Apart from providing the much-needed drinking water to the residents, the lakes also serve as important meeting points for all kinds of people, from love-birds and newsly married couples to senior citizens out for some fresh air.

Here are some views of Sonegaon and Futala lakes in the midst of monsoon...

घन ओथंबून येती....

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