DFCCIL at KALYANI

Photographer Kiran Manchekar With loads of works in office, I was not getting the mood to write for months.  But this had to be written.  I could not let the emotions drift away and settle as memories.  This is about the picnic we had with our office colleagues on 7th January, 2023.  This was the …

Government Jobs

I will be completing 29 years this August, working for Indian Railways.  I still remember the day when I had just received my graduation result in one hand and the appointment letter of Railways in another.  Within a span of days, I received appointment letters from Staff Selection Commission as well as from Union Bank …

Corona Diary

(Image courtesy: Google) With so many things going on in life, this blog has suffered a lot. It has been neglected and now seems unnecessary to post it, but I decided to publish it anyways. You may read 😊. It all started on 1st of October, 2020. Husband had some bout of perspiration and uneasiness …

The New Us

Illustration by Pratiksha (My daughter) What is the new thing you tried in the Covid lockdown days? I have friends who have started singing, painting, writing poetries, cooking, etc. No other option other than to encourage and praise them, in turn expecting the same for my ventures. Alongwith new hobbies, people have started or ended …

Lockdown

Illustration by my son, Pratik  When 'Go, Corona, Go' slogan was raised by a Minister of India in March, 2020, we should have realised then that we do not have any solution to this Corona pandemic except for singing, dancing, cooking, reading, writing, watching, cleaning, gaming and working from home.  We are jailed inside our …

My Whatsapp Life of 2016

(I had written these pages on 'Whatsapp' for another blogging site in 2016, which has abandoned its structure.  So, am reproducing the same pages as it had appeared in 2016.  Surprisingly, even after 4 years, it is prevalent) Whatsapp is the most popular messaging application founded by Mr. Brian Acton and Mr. Jan Koum in …

Rail Tales….No Reservations

"Railway Coach" The Classic Illustration : by Yours truly  (No offence meant to anyone, this is only to improve my working and writing.  Please read with a sarcastic tone for full effect) Thought of letting you all know about my profession, what type of work I do exactly. Larger part of my job time goes …

My 2019

(My 2019 was beautiful, tried to write about it in a different way here) "Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them..." Leo Rosten At the age of my adult children Gave many a shock I took a step brazen And again entered into the state of wedlock All happened in …

Walk at Night

“What hath night to do with sleep?" says the great English poet, John Milton. True. Night has other appealing things, like walk at night. When I was diagnosed with diabetes few years back, walking became a de rigueur routine in my life. I used to go for walk early in the morning. As years passed …