Mumbai Under Construction!

I came to Bombay around 2 years ago. The day I landed in Vashi, I saw road construction in progress. Today, after two years, nothing has changed. Road construction is still in progress. I am not talking entire Vashi, I am talking about a small stretch of 5 kms that I need to commute on weekends. NMMC (Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation) or whoever is responsible for the construction is taking its own sweet time to finish the work.

What a non-sense system we have. One constructs and the other destructs. Cycle of constructions and destructions seems to be never-ending.

There are a lots of chaos because of this. Long, unnecessary traffic-jams, honking vehicles, frustrated people. Sometimes you feel like dying. Air-conditioned, music-filled environment inside of the car just doesn’t sooth you.

You cannot guarantee a time for reaching somewhere, no matter howsoever short distance you are considering. Past night, when I left for office, everything was usual but while coming back from office, I took 15 minutes. I would have traveled this distance in less than five minutes if I was on foot.

It is not the case with Vashi only. You name a place in Bombay where there is no road construction work going on. Forget place, you can’t even suggest a 2 kms stretch. It seems entire Bombay is under construction! When will I see a developed Bombay? As of now, there doesn’t seem to be an end to the problem.

Web presence of engineering colleges of Bhopal

CarWale.com have started a campaign/contest for finding talent in automotive journalism world. It’s about writing an article on anything related to car. Winners will be offered job from CarWale.com and the best writer will get a prize worth 50,000 rupees. Here is the link to the contest.

I remember in my engineering days, I used to go to net-cafes and find technical conferences, paper-presentations. If I found a good conference, I made sure that I write a paper as per theme and always wished that my paper makes it. The enthusiasm was just irresistible.

Thought of passing this contest’s information to a few engineering colleges in Bhopal. Finding email addresses of my college i.e. OIST and LNCT was a few seconds’ job. But that’s all, I couldn’t find email address of any college. Found MANIT’s site but there was no email address mentioned. To my horror, RGPV UIT doesn’t seem to have any website!

The world is making Internet its home and the most technically advanced places in M.P. don’t have web presence at all. They don’t even have email addresses.

Anyways, came across a nice blog on MANIT.

Halla Bol - A Message

Watched Halla Bol yesterday morning. Youths, rights awareness, patriotism. Nothing new. Still, I liked it. There are a plenty of movies more or less on the same plot but I still liked it. This movie too, like other similar movies, transpires a message. Fight for your rights, fight for truth.

I like such movies. I like them because they make my blood boil. I like them because they make me feel like becoming one of those protagonists. I like them because maybe I am one of the uncountable scared people who can’t come ahead and fight for our rights. I see truth being killed but I just take my eyes off thinking this is the way world lives. Nobody is bothered, why should I? I do something because everybody else is doing. These kind of movies wake my inner-self.

Halla Bol is all about a person like me who is lost. He is not bothered about what is right and what is wrong. He has accepted that what everybody does is right. This guy is just like anybody else. But someday somebody comes and provokes the hero within this person. He fights and wins. I am not a hero, I might not have enough guts to sacrifice my career, my life for nation. More precisely, I might not become the first person to do that. But I might be one of the many who will be standing beside the hero. I need a hero whom I can follow. The country is full of people like me. Everybody needs a hero.

Clean Permalinks in WordPress

I came across a beautiful article on ‘How to write clean urls for WordPress’ today. I have configured it myself and it works great. If you are wondering why didn’t I use it for my own blog then I must tell you that I have a shared hosting.

The article can be read here.