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Auto rickshaws or autos — the 3-wheeled marvel, is used by a common man in India as a mode of travel. It is my son’s favorite toy model, and he can sacrifice any fancy car model to get his hand on one :). Autos in Bangalore are a menace. The…

Continuing from my previous post https://www.rachnaparmar.com/2010/06/passport-renewal-woes.html I wrote to the RPO as well as the Ministry of External Affairs. I received a reply from an MEA person asking the Passport office to take adequate action. In the interim, I called up the Police Station once again, and the person asked…

Madam Railway Minister is so busy trying to be the CM of Bengal that she is an absentee Union Railway Minister. Apparently, she is guilty of missing the maximum Cabinet meetings, and there are almost 80 K vacancies in Railway jobs. Not filled because the effort to fill them has…

I have been living in Bangalore for 6 years now. Though, I am able to manage in Hindi and English; I always wanted to learn Kannada. For most of the ladies in my age group within my community, the language of communication is mostly English and sometimes Hindi. Ours is…

My company, Tranquil Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. is launching its first Web Application called Parentnet.in. This application is aimed at parents. It is a wonderful social networking platform for parents whose children study in the same class in the same school. You might have noticed that as parents, we would…

Gautam and Sid’s cousins were visiting our home. They were here just for a day. And, they had an early morning flight to catch today. In the morning, when Gautam woke up, he looked in the bedroom downstairs where the kids were sleeping and said, “Mummy, they are gone!” I…

I was very keen to meet Gautam’s teacher this year and was eagerly awaiting the first PTI. Gautam, as was mentioned in an earlier post, was unable to even hold the pencil the entire last year in Pre Kg. I taught him how to hold pencil during the summer vacations,…

T3 or Terminal 3, a swanky new terminal was inaugurated at the Delhi International Airport. It is supposed to be the fifth largest terminal in the world and is impressive by any given standards. Of course, why is Delhi getting beautified so rapidly is in preparation for the foreign guests…

My son, Gautam, fell sick with terrible cough and cold right on Sunday. This entire week, he has been unwell and has missed school. He has this horrible-sounding nagging cough, which goes on and on. It is especially worse at night. He is on a cough syrup prescribed by the…

Siddharth has got the soccer fever, of late. Every evening, he takes his football and goes out to find boys to play with. There are 3 groups of boys who play football in our community. Two are groups of older boys and one group is his age group. For some…