Category: Opinion
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Agra
We took the 19’666′ Udaipur-Khajuraho express to Agra from Gandhinagar railway station Jaipur. It came right behind the double decker express to Delhi. We took general tickets and later upgraded to sleeper tickets from the train and got allotted the same empty seats we were sleeping in after getting on. Outside Agra Cantonment railway station,…
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Pink City
Jaisalmer Delhi express reaches Jaipur by 5 in the morning. Even if it is late at Jodhpur Junction by an hour. Maybe we were too fascinated by the consummation of train 14660 (ours) by 14662 (Malani express) to think about how trains can run fast and catch up on lost time. It works like this.…
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Golden City
The Jodhpur Jaisalmer express is perfect for traveling from Jodhpur to Jaisalmer (duh) overnight. It leaves from Jodhpur junction itself which is large, colorfully lit, and has an escalator. And you reach Jaisalmer railway station around 6 in the morning which is cold enough to warrant monkey cap, gloves, jacket, and shoes to be worn…
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Blue City
Jodhpur Express left Bangalore City Junction at ten to ten in the night of 27th. It would take about 43 hours to reach Bhagat Ki Kothi (which is to Jodhpur Junction what Yeshwantpur railway station is to SBC.) When I woke up in the morning, we were near Hubli. And when I woke up again,…
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Why Do Children Fall Ill?
I had lunch and finished packing my bags at 3. Then I spent 5 minutes saying goodbye to my roommate which is when I told him that I'm going to North India for a trip. Of course I had to tell him at the last moment, because apparently last month he had gone to the…
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The Reason Why You Cannot Convince Anyone To Switch To FOSS
How many times have you talked about your favorite free software to a friend and they appeared totally convinced about how cool it is, but just won’t stop using their proprietary tool? Firefox is cool. But Chrome’s market share keeps increasing. XMPP and IRC are both cool. But they’re both dying. LibreOffice can do everything…
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[jog-journal] Running With A Smile
I went jogging in the evening today. My main goal today was to run slow with a smile on the face. To look at others and show my smile. I remember reading a long article earlier today about what goes inside the mind of a runner. I know what goes through. “Is my heart beating…
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Who is Killing Our Bloggers?
How do you discover content to read, on the Web? Do you have a specific set of websites that you visit every day? Do you have a single website that you visit every day and people there fill you in with links? Do the pages that you read online mostly come from your friends? Do…
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[jog-journal] I Woke Up Early Today. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next
My professor had last day told the story of his friend who finished MBBS, Post Graduation, and some specialty, got married, had a kid, and at the age of 30 something, when everything was “settled” got a myocardial infarction. Don’t put health behind anything else, he said. And don’t go running from the next day,…
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Mozilla Kerala Community Meetup ’15
I left for Kochi from Mysore on Oct 1 (the same day I received email from the participation team inviting me to participation leadership cohort and passed third year subjects). After about 8 hours of sleep I woke up at 4 in the bus to be involved in a very active discussion about misogyny/nitpicking in…