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Siachen: New Tourist Destination

Yesha — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:34:38 +0000

Siachen glacier, more commonly known as the highest battlefield in the world, is soon to become a tourist destination. The initiative has been started by the Indian army which is in plans to take the tourists to this disputed glacier.
Siachen Glacier is in the eastern Karakoram Range of the Himalayan Mountains. It is the longest glacier in the Karakoram range and second longest in the world’s non-polar areas. It occupies a strategic location on the disputed Indo-Pak border.

As per Army spokesman S.K. Sakhuja, the first group of trekkers would be setting off towards the latter end of this month. The glacier is known for claiming more lives due to its harsh weather conditions and high altitude than actual combat.

This first group of tourists will consist of 20 people which would have eight to nine Indian civilians, as per the reports.

If this expedition to the mountain is successful, then it can become a major tourist attraction. People are forever looking for new adventurous places, and Siachen could well be such place. Initially, out of the range for tourists due to security purposes, this step of opening the forbidden glacier will definitely attract the interest of lots of trekkers and mountaineers all across the globe.

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What's Next: Magical Imagination

Yesha — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:51:09 +0000

Hats off to JK Rowling...she is a woman who taught the world to imagine in these past few years... she set our ideas rolling... our imagination taking on new dimensions as she made us travel the world of wizardry with herself and her characters. It is hard to think that Harry Potter book series which I had now been following religiously for the past 7 years or more ended this July.
Through her books, Rowling brought a place full of possibilities, courage, adventure, and values in a soup of magic to our minds that in turn made our life sparkle with liveliness, excitement. Life itself seemed so bright when one was reading her books.
Muggles, wizards, dementors, wands, owls, potions etc have become a thing of everyday life vocabulary for all of us. In fact, a great way to revive interest in a lot of mythology both Greek and Indian amongst children who so fast are losing interest in the same in today’s fast paced world. Harry Potter did manage to bring the children back to our great mythology past. Whether the availability of the proper literature books on the topic were able to retain their interest or not, that’s another point as the onus for holding the interest of the customer now lied on the publishers of Indian mythology books.

Harry Potter knew one charm for sure by heart... that is the Glue Charm...No task was more important than reading Harry Potter. I remember how I couldn’t leave the book till it wasn’t finished and there was always the question ‘What Next?’
After this July, the question remains the same with only in a different context, now all over the world the readers are curios to know as to what Rowling has to write next. What superb magical ideas and lands are we taken to or is it magic again at all or not? ... you a Harry Potter fan? Then you know what am talking about. Right!

Review: Movie Ratatouille

Yesha — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:01:16 +0000

Ratatouille

An animation movie, currently showing only at Satyam and PVR Saket cinema halls of Delhi. After hearing houseful for two weeks, I finally watched the movie a few days back.
And so how was it? It was great; a lot of people think animation movies to be just for kids, as was no surprise when I saw the hall filled with mothers who were showing their kids the movie over the weekend.
However, for me it was a movie which made you sit back and think for a while about defying your limits.... sounds cliche! Well it isn’t...
The movie was about a young rat who aspires to become a chef! And the task isn’t easy he wants to be a chef in PARIS!!!!
So what’s the big deal about Paris?
Well it’s said that the best food on the planet is made in France (being a proud Indian I do not second that...anycase as per the movie)
and in France it is made in the particular restaurant that this rat wants to work...now the irony is that if you and me see a rat in our kitchen we shout, scream, clean up the place... and what would happen if we see a rat cooking the food... whew!!!! We wouldn’t like it at all... well the characters in the movie thought the same they didn’t like it very much too!
And that’s the story of this rat who fights his own race, the human race to realize his dream.
The speech on critics in the end by the character of food critic Anton Ego in the movie is thought provoking... and interesting
So what would I say in the end? If the movie isn’t on at a hall near you, grab its CD, download from net.. and tell me too if you find it .. as it happens I need to burn a CD for a friend of mine for this movie :)

Short Weekend Trip

Yesha — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 11:57:26 +0000

A trip to Mcleodganj

Around 450 kms away from Delhi, takes about 12 13 hrs by bus... a trip one can take over the weekend... when one is wary of office.. tired of Delhi traffic and noise... it’s a welcome relief to go on to a quiet place and spend a few days there,...
Me and my friend, we went for a two day trip and came back with a bagful of memories, lockets, junk jewellery, clothes  yes all we did was shop there....
We reached the place at 6 in the evening, by the time we took time to find a hotel that was within our budget, eat and stuff.. it was 8 and we two girls, nicely dressed, all set to see the new town .. stepped out to find only darkness outside.. hey! It was nice and bright when we were looking for hotels just in an hour why has the whole town packed up! Well as it happens...the town shuts at 8, but the relief is that it opens early by 7 in morn.. so we two city bred people went to bed at 9 in the night (mind you on a trip!) just because we didn’t want to miss a thing the next day...
And boy was it fun..!! Dalai lama monastery, the small shops there, the people there, the weather.. all kind of settles inside you and you never feel like leaving the place.. you just want to spend all your life there like the natives staying there... open a small cafe, read a book, look at the mountains, enjoy a peaceful and lovable life...it was a fight for both me and my friend to come back to the daily grind of our routines in Delhi, the noise, the smoke, rush, etc... Even today whenever we sit together, we cannot push Mcleodganj out of minds... and may be souls...