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Today I spent day with my grandmother walking down in hill slopes. The difference was that in these feilds once upon a time during my childhood she used to hold my hand and take me around, today I was holding her hand to climp up these foothills.
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Hauz Khas

I can nver forget the time I spend with friends when we used to visit the Hauz Khas village and roam around the this place in sunshine. Hauz Khas was a tank and serai built during Alauddin Khalji's time (early 14th c.), which Firoz Shah improved upon, and was also where he built a madrasa and his own tomb. The tomb is not very interesting (to me - though the interiors are quite nice), but the madrasa buildings are beautiful examples of Tughlaq architecture.Another of Delhi's urban villages grew around the madrasa buildings, though the madrasa itself is walled off and maintained by the ASI. However, much of Hauz Khas village has been taken up by wealthy owners and tenants and converted to hip (or at least once-hip) boutique stores and restaurants. As is evident from these photographs, the lack of propriety when it comes to maintaining a respectable distance from these ancient structures runs vertically through Delhi's social strata.

Lagos, Nigeria Visit

I was in Lagos, Nigeria for couple of days. I got an opportunity to speak in India-Africa Business Forum and conference conducted by ECOWAS-Africa and CII/FICCI-India. Lagos in local language means Port. It is one of the urban cities of Nigeria and is currently the 2nd most populous city in AfricaLagos is the former capital of Nigeria and now this is city is the economic and financial capital of Nigeria.

Nigeria is a Oil & Gas rich country, passion for films and footfall. The Vision 2020 is a grand agenda for Infrastructure firmed up by Govt. Federal government has 13-year plan of dramatic socio-economic transformation of the country. The goal of the vision is to transform the Nigerian economy to be in the league of the 20 most industrialized countries of the world. Nigeria Needs $100b Investment in Four Infrastructure Areas i.e power ($18-20 billion), rail tracks, ($8-17 billion), roads ($14 billion) and oil and gas ($60 billion). These infrastructure and related investments are critical to achieving 13 per cent annual growth rate of GDP set by the government and to make Nigeria one of the 20 largest economies in the world by 2020.

The Hope I had (Poem from one of my Lost Buddy)

The hope I had


It came like a fragrant zephyr,
Hauling me from the profound grief.
Invoking in me the ardor to live life,
To dream again & leave behind the gone by.
Of all things I loved the most
…the hope I had…the hope I lost!

Filling my days with complacence,
Adorning my nights with delirium.
As if the Divinity played a game,
Giving me moments of bliss and then,
The hardest truth I ever fought
…the hope I had…the hope I lost!

Hypnotizing my imagination,
Defeating my will, leaving me distraught,
The angelic rapture I was lost in was just a fancy
I realised when the deepest of my fears metamorphosed.
Stranding me again where I stood at nought,
…the hope I had…the hope I lost!

Visit to Moscow, Russia

I was on 6 day business trip in Moscow. Temperature was minus 20 degree, freezing cold, roads jammed and lot of snow but life was still moving on. Moscow pronounced in Russian as Москва is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a global city. It is also the seventh largest city proper in the world, a megacity. It is located by the Moskva River in the Central Federal District, in the European part of Russia. Great City, good place to do business, culturally rich, Great Night life.