Saturday, March 15, 2008

Trip to Old Delhi - I

Last week me, Harish & Sudhir went to Old Delhi. We took Delhi Metro to get to Chandni Chowk, the heart of Old Delhi. The idea was to visit weekly book market in Dariyaganj & Paratha (a kind of Indian bread stuffed with different vegetables & stuffings)shops in Parathe Waali Gali.
After getting out of metro station, we took one 'Rickshaw' to get to Dariyaganj.

This book market in Dariyaganj is very old & famous for its street book shops. This market has been there for more than 100 years I guess. Here you could find almost all kinds of books that you can think of & books that you cant even think of. Though I could not find anything for myself in the limited time that we had. Though I had nothing specific in my mind, but I did make a concious effort to find a book on Urdu Poet "Meer Taqi Meer". Just to mention here Meer is one the greatest Urdu poet of all times, he was from Delhi & lived here in late seventeenth century. Even the greatest Urdu poet ever lived, "Mirza Ghalib" kept a very high regard for Meer & once wrote,

रेखते के तुम्ही उस्ताद नहीं हो ग़ालिब
कहते हैं अगले ज़माने में कोई मीर भी था !!

(you are not the only master of Urdu poetry 'Ghalib', they say that in past, there lived some 'Meer' as well).

Coming back to our spree, after browsing through various book shops it was time to have lunch. So we headed towards parathe waali gali, we went in a famous shop that has been there since 1889. They are very famous & various photographs (showing some very big politicians, movie stars, bureaucrats ) & news paper cuttings posted on the walls only amplify this fact. As far as food is concerned, they make paratha almost out of every vegetable thing. They have around 30 different kinds of parathas on the menu. We had some 5-6 different types of them coupled with lassi (sweetened curd).

Food was good & then it was time for some roaming around....

To be continued............

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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken.


~~ William Shakespeare in "Romeo & Juliet"~~

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

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Suffer or triumph; be the hammer or the anvil.

~~ Goethe ~~

Sunday, March 9, 2008

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"There is magic in fighting battles beyond endurance."

~~ Morgan Freeman in 'Million Dollar Baby' ~~

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Hurray, India beat Australia in the first of best of three finals at SCG today. And as always it was a pleasure to see little master batting like a champion.

There was something else too & not so pleasing, my PC's Windows crashed last night [:(]. I was actually updating my IE from ver. 6 to 7, that caused something to crash my Windows Explorer. Now since I'll be busy till friday due to my work, it seems that only on next weekend I'll be able to bring my system back to life.

Saturday, March 1, 2008

PicLens For Firefox

I found this excellent add-on Firefox called "PicLens", its an add-on for online image viewing. Images are displayed in a 3-D wall interface that lets you zoom, drag & click through the pictures. It works for many image search engines like google, flickr, Photobucket etc.
I must say its an excellent offering from its makers, online image viewing will never be the same again. Thats why I love Firefox, it gives me so much freedom, so much to choose from. Firefox rocks... :)

This add-on can be found at

Install PicLens for Firefox

Some screen shots ;)