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2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 150,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 8 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
Click here to see the complete report.
Oh my god! January is already ending and I have not posted a single post this year! Even when WordPress itself provides us bloggers with this ready-made post every year-end. 
I have not even wished my dear readers on new year! But then I guess we can wish till January is not over 
So, my dear readers and visitors
Happy New Year!! Have A Great 2013!!
My 10 days semester end vacation at work is starting from tomorrow! Yayy! And we are traveling to Kolkatta to visit my in-laws. My first travel of 2013! We wanted to go to Sunderbans but not enough time. But then a vacation is a vacation only when one goes to one’s parents’ home
WordPress report tells me “Some of your most popular posts were written before 2012. Your writing has staying power! Consider writing about those topics again.” Sigh!! 
Why oh why am I not getting inspiration to blog? Actually I think it is the laziness to type which is a more deterrent reason than lack of inspiration. Sometimes so many thoughts and blog post ideas pop in my head on some incident or other and I want to blog them but I don’t get around to doing it. Albus Dumbledore had a Pensieve and he said “I use the Pensieve. One simply siphons the excess thoughts from one’s mind, pours them into the basin, and examines them at one’s leisure”. How I wish there was a Pensieve type of device which could download my thoughts and words in my head and transfer them into written text on my blog(s) and post the blogpost!
Imagine I am sightseeing some tourist place and I could live blog my views, feelings and tips simultaneously!! How cool would that be!! 
I would never have any backlog. As soon I think about a topic..as soon as I form the words in my mind, its ready to be posted! It would have a spelling and grammar checker too. Maybe I should give my students this device as a project! 
*Wishful thinking ends*
Off on vacation now! Hope to blog from there!
The Post Tag
It has been a long time since I did any tag on my blog. And before the year ends, I should post on my dearest but highly neglected blog. In fact there are three more things I need to do on my blog like all other bloggers before year ends – write a protected post, invite another blogger to do a guest post and take up a NaBloPoMo challenge and flood the inbox-es/ Google readers etc of my blog followers!! Maybe I will make these my new year blog resolutions
Freedom in a free country
This is a poem by R.N.Tagore, that is relevant even today, and I relate to it a lot when defining what freedom means to me. Especially the first line itself.
Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo
(where the mind is without fear)
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments…
A post on Freedom and Indian Women
Ahmedabad Chronicle Part 3
Continued from here. This last post in the Ahmedabad Chronicle Series is all about the excursions we went on from Ahmedabad and shopping in Ahemdabad which is one of the important aspects of my trips :) Actually Adalaj Vav should have been included in this post.
# Akshardham Temple : It is located in Gandhinagar around 30 kms from Ahmedabad. Akshardham temple is a spiritual and cultural complex built over an area of 23 acres.
All about the excursions we went on from Ahmedabad and shopping in Ahemdabad
The Fifth Stage
Ahmedabad Chronicle Part 2
Continued from here
The next day and the day after that, D and I decided to go sight seeing on our own using my SIL's two wheeler. The weather was as hot as the inside of a furnace! Still we being the ghumakkars that we are, we decided to go exploring the city anyway. I had shortlisted the must see places of the Heritage city.
The sequel to my trip to Ahmedabad
