Visit to Kishtwar (on NH 1B)

I happen to Visit Kistwar in Sep 2009 due to death of my relative. Road from Batote to kishtwar is half part of NH 1B which is upto Khanbal and is 274 km long & Batote-Kishtwar is 110 kms. The part of Road from Jammu to Ramgarh was good but afterwards condition of the road deteriorated and till Kishtwar road is under toiling. Few important towns on road are Pul-Doda, Premnagar, Thatri, Shalimar etc.Due to time constraints I failed to visit other parts of the area.

Bus Stand Kishtwar



The Road

Snowfall in Shimla

So dear friends..my friends.. time has come what people had been waiting for ..."Snowing in Shimla"...Lots n Lots of people thronged Shimla in Later part of December during winter carnival from 25 Dec 2008-1 Jan 2009 and sorry they all left without seeing showfall. Now nights are getting cold and for last 2 days we are witnessing showfall in night. But today i feel its going to be heavy Showfall in Shimla as i can sense dropping temparatures since last 2 days. Lets hope tourists comming to shimla and aspiring for A Showfall get their hoped fulfilled.

...but to my dismay i feel it brings a lot of inconveniences to local population of Businessman, Students, Employees who cannt keep themselves locked are busy making Shimla move. Govt must see problems of its people and must do something to make life of people easy during winters.

"Atithi Devo Bhav"...Let Shimla welcome people with showy smile, even u are welcome.

Back to Shimla

BAck to shimla today after attending marriages of cousins. It was all fantastic except for some uninvited troubles.Drive bike for whole day on 26th before boarding bus, it was lovely moment.Left Jammu by Bus at 7.30pm and reached shimla after 14 hours due to bad JKSRTC services. Bus took nearly 3 hours to reach Jhalandar from Pathankote. At Jhalandhar we boarded another bus to reach ambala so late, this corporation had to be dragged in counsumer court but passangers find it difficult to approach courts in Jammu. Even daily commuters report everyday there are frequent problems with bus. Let me have sound sleep this night to overcome tiredness....

A Wonderful Mail Circulating in favour of RAJ Thackerey / Is it what Shivaji dreamt about their kingdom??

This is a wonderful mail circulating in favour of RAJ Thackerey have a look

We all should support Raj Thackeray and take his initiative ahead by doing more...

1. We should teach our kids that if he is second in class, don't study harder.. just beat up the student coming first and throw him out of the school
2. Parliament should have only Delhiites as it is located in Delhi
3. Prime-minister, president and all other leaders should only be from Delhi
4. No Hindi movie should be made in Bombay. Only Marathi.
5. At every state border, buses, trains, flights should be stopped and staff changed to local men
6. All Maharashtrians working abroad or in other states should be sent back as they are SNATCHING employment from Locals
7. Lord Shiv, Ganesha and Parvati should not be worshiped in our state as they belong to north (Himalayas)

8. Visits to Taj Mahal should be restricted to people from UP only
9. Relief for farmers in Maharashtra should not come from centre because that is the money collected as Tax from whole of India, so why should it be given to someone in Maharashtra?

10. Let's support kashmiri Militants because they are right to killing and injuring innocent people for benifit of there state and community... ...

11. Let's throw all MNCs out of Maharashtra, why should they earn from us? We will open our own Maharashtra Microsoft, MH Pepsi and MH Marutis of the world .

12. Let's stop using cellphones, emails, TV, foreign Movies and dramas. James Bond should speak Marathi
13. We should be ready to die hungry or buy food at 10 times higher price but should not accept imports from other states
14. We should not allow any industry to be setup in Maharashtra because all machinery comes from outside
15. We should STOP using local trains... Trains are not manufactured by Marathi manoos and Railway Minister is a Bihari
16. Ensure that all our children are born, grow, live and die without ever stepping out of Maharashtra, then they will become true Marathi's...

Trip to Jammu On Board HRTC On NH8 NH20 NH1A

Left for home on 4th Oct to attend marriage of Cousin sister. Left by Shimla-Katra Bus Service. It is one of very best bus service from here and reaches Jammu at around 5am, While as other services take u around 15 hours, even via Chandigarh. The bus goes almost slowly till hamirpur as road condition is pitiable till there and leaves Hamirpur at 11 pm. It touches Gaghas, Gumarwin, Hamirpur, Jwalaji, Ranitaal, Kangra, Mator on way on NH 88. From Mator it is on NH20 till Pathankote afterwards on NH1A.

Had nice time at home with Parents and 7717(my car)n 7799(my Bike)..Also went to Sunderbani to attend reception party which is about 75 kms form Jammu.Relaxed for few days and left for Shimla via Jammu-Rampur Service..(Takes around 16 hours)Bad service but no other alternative..It leaves Jammu and 3.30pm only to reach shimla at 7.30 am next morning. I pray HRTC to improve the service but drivers had their own point that it is 550km per side service and its liable to get late. God Bless us the Shuttlers..

Timings of JK SRTC are also very odd it leaves Jammu at 4.30 Am, and Departs Shimla at 3.20 Am..What a timing?timinggggggggggggggggggggggg

Life Goes on and on

After so many tragic incidents in Delhi and around and so many sacrifics of Officers like Insp.Sharma, looks there is no indication of shunning of terrorists attacks. I dont want to comment on approach of Govt towards these growing incidents but i want to add only that we must rise above petty politics and for few mischievous elements we should not blame whole community. Abrupt rise of these incidents in my opinion is instability in our Neighbourhood and also growing pressure of US forces, forcing them to escape to other places. There was no terrorrist attack (not even a small incident) in usa after 9/11 attack but looks as if we are accustomed to face/bear those attacks. Even the attack on our Indian Parliament was fair enough for govt to take stringent action.

One more threat which surfaced this year is regionalism with leaders(in true sense they are gundaz) like Raj Thackrey. I fail to understand that in this era of glogalisation why these people are poised towards sticking to Small entities. One tell them that all Indian languages, Races, religions are equal before our society and we must respect all races, languages and respect their traditions. A Super cop of mumbai rightly pointed out "Mumbai Kisi Ke Baap Ki nahi hai", very well rightly said sir but it could have came up few months back when outsiders were being targetted and were forces to leave mumbai. where is our sarkar? cannot they tell him to abide law. Ok admitted that there is job threat to locals but i feel that in this manner labour costs will rise as local put much pressure and tend to raise frivolous issues and work a little. i tell u simple example that a local labour will charge higher as compared to labour outside state say from Orissa,Bihar, Chattisgarh they will charge much less and will abide by your orders (but not local labour sir).We must prefer local but not at the cost of motive of Work for betterment of nation and society.

Sunny in Shimla

Today after 3-4 months of continous raining it was sunny, I remember we used to enjoy sun heat during winters in rajouri college by pointing out back towards sun while sitting on in open ground, really missed those good olden days.

Since March there was no sun to be seen, it was through foggy and lot of damages were done to properties of people and lives of people. Tree felling( naturally )is very common during rains and sarkar is so lathergic that it is not working to get trees fallen so that lives of common masses can be saved. On fateful saturday night many people lost their lives due to natural clamity created by sarkar and then they awoke and approached ministry. feeling sad to say people had already given applications to concerned departments anticipating that trees are threatening their lives. Very sad to note this is still hapenning in india.