"My troublesome travelling companion" (title of a school English book chapter/story)

a fellow traveller on my trip to London.

She actually was posing for my shots.

(sorry, to upload the same without your permissions)

First solid food @ 3 months, 18 days

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daughter dear took the first bite of solid food as per our local custom.

in the grace of our local dress, she looked the darling, she is.

Just Missed

In this photo taken at Agra , the camera I was carrying got jammed. When it got free, the lady had just finished taking the snap of the man in the yellow turban.
I had wanted to take the picture of the lady while taking his picture.


How many times in life have we 'just missed' those moments and it pained us no end?

baby's pee pee ~ as explained by a media professional

(video taken on 7th March, 2006)

......in this video interview by me, a colleague of mine explains the intricacy involve (or not of it) with baby's pee pee.

with all the gyan hold-stock-barrel in tow she explains - even taking help of "harmonic frequency" ;-)

[oh ! and the physics classes come handy at long-last ;) ]

home in the rains

photo taken on 10th of April, 2005 @ home (turn up the volume to listen to the rains)

.... have this special connection with the rains and what better way than the same @ my own home.

that day, i had just woken up and found that it was dark and raining heavily and couldn't resist grabbing my phone and filming it.

the rains has this thing over me - always.

whenever i feel bad, i see this and come back home.

3 months, 1 day

photo taken on 31st of Mar'08 (@ delhi)

final name : rasika konsam

meaning : A rasika is one who can enjoy the rasa [aesthetic emotion] brought about in any created work. A rasika has the same spark of genius as the artist herself, only the degrees might vary. If that is the case then a rasika is herself a kalakar [artist], its just that she has not polished his art to the extent of a fine art!
http://www.boloji.com/perspective/095.htm
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few of the semi-final (!) names from which the final one was selected :

• Arunima (glow of dawn),
• Dristi (eyesight),
• Lavanya (grace),
• Maya (illusion),
• Meghana (cloud),
• Mridula (soft),
• Niyati (fate),
• Rasika (connoisseur/ aesthetic),
• Riddhi (good fortune),
• Rashika (ray of light).

was a tough choice (for whatever reasons) but finally decided to stick with "r" starters as all the ladies in my family are/turned out to be (!).

daughter dear, here's hoping you'd like it when you could understand one day soon.

Angel arrived on 30th Dec, 2007

time : 1214 hrs
date: 30th Dec, 2007
weight: 3.3 Kgs
gender: feminine ;)

with the initial 2 days' hiccup, we almost lost ourselves but glad that everything's ok now.