Ramblings of a Pahadi

Things that are crossing my mind- no particular thoughts or ideas, just stuff to write and share

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Guptkashi soap factory!

Our entrepreneur Satesingh Negi seems all set to start repaying black the loan! Fingers crossed!

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ALS, icebucket challenge and…

#Icebucket challenge is a master stroke on how to create a powerful campaign on social media. Its fun, its doable and it has the thing about asking others to do it. And if you got founders of Facebook and Microsoft doing it then it has got some meat.

As usual there are always people who love to criticise and do nothing else. Oh you are wasting too much of water or only  so much percentage of people actually donate to ALS foundation.

Guys, take a break. Do you now that every day you flush 40-100 litres of potable water down the toilet.

So either dig a hole or come out with a better challenge. 

Chill.

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The Great Indian Riot list.

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Some Faiz

Ab kyun oss din ki fiker kero, jab dil tokray tokray hojaiga, or saray gham mit jaingay, tum khof o khatar say der guzer kero, jo hona hay so hona hay, hasna hay tou hasna hay, ger rona hay tou rona hay, tum apni kerni ker guzero, jo hoga dekha jaiga.

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# 3 Beat the Delhi Heat :  

Just Party but remember :) Check the picture.

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#2 Beat Delhi Heat

Aap ke paas A.C nahin hain, hamare paas bhee A.C nahin hai ( Our A.C is alternating current) 

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# 1 Creative ways to beat Delhi Heat 

Pretend that you are hot ( literally ) and on fire. Ask someone to dial 101. Call the firemen ( do they make firemen in woman ?) 

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Come and see this movie and come face to face with a burning issue that is facing our society.

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A cup of tea that stumped me

On a learning expedition to Leh, the capital of Ladakh in the remote mountainous region of the J&K, a kid asked one of the participants

"how much water is needed to make a cup of tea"

hmm... well may be 8/10th after some scratching of head replies Akansha. 

Wrong answer Didi ( sister), it takes 27 cups of water to make one cup of tea. You need water to grow tea leaves, then sugar cane takes quite a bit of water, cow also drinks water before giving milk etc etc. Now you add all that up and it comes to 27 cups of water.

Ohh... a new insight to foot print of seemingly innocuous things like " cup of tea" 

So this is what my learning expeditions are- learning and expeditions. When they happen you are stumped for life.

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why guys like me like motorcycles

Well it started with the macho feeling- but then I was 18. Another 2 decades gone and my share of ups and down, motorcycling is one love that has stayed on. The other is love for the mountains. So when ever I get to combine both- I just go ahead and do it.

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IRIS

While playing this puzzle created by IIM Indore students  I learned the IRIS is the roman Goddess of Rainbow. Quite cool actually, this game I mean. Its quite easy to get hooked. I'm now at level 4. Slow brain I guess 

Here is the game. http://www.ahvan.in/iris/irising/klueless/guess.asp 

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The scariest thought is waking up one day realizing that there is no purpose to life and someone played a big hoax.

Rahul Nainwal-2013

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Well so this is all set to Tumbl

My first day on a micro-blogging site. The moment I type these words the spell check shows an error. There is no word as microblogging.. hmm I split it up and it works. Phew

So true to the title of the blog, I'm going to share the ramblings of a pahadi mind. The usual stuff....why the sun rises in the east and then it does it again. so got the wind right.

So for the un-initiated  ( or un-shaved) pahadi is hindi for someone who comes from  mountains. Though it literally means the mountain. Baba is your usual guy who has left everything and now roams freely. I mean a true baba and not a pretentious person like the writer of this blog.

More later. Keep reading.