By admin on July 12, 2009
Rain gods please on Amdavadis finally!
Posted in Gujarati Matters, Nature | Tagged ahmedabad, amdavad, Gujarat, live videos, photographs, rain
By admin on September 18, 2008
Date: 9/18/2008 Time: 01:14:47
Ha! Just watched an overturned car next to my home. Huge dragging sound and a couple of loud thumps. Past midnight, very few around, rushed to help the victims out. But they made it on their own. Car front destroyed due to its sheer tumbling, yet the windscreen stayed together, saving lives. [...]
Posted in Gujarati Matters, Indian Society | Tagged accident, ahmedabad, amdavad, car crash, flee, insurance, police, rash driving, run away, tumble
By admin on August 28, 2008
Somebody forwarded the following jpg in Gujarati tonight. It was fun reading through, but so did come along mixed emotions. I don’t know what the basic schooling reminds to you or not, but my early days at the Baherampura Hindi Prathmik Shala run by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (mid 70s-1981) came back calling to my [...]
Posted in General, Gujarati Matters, Indian Society | Tagged ahmedabad, childhood, children, fantasy, fun, government-run, Gujarat, india, kids, Poor, primary, school, tragedy
By admin on August 11, 2008
I write this in the backdrop of the latest slump by Indian cricket, and the controversies involving two Indian athletes – Monica Devi and Sania Mirza – at the Beijing Olympics 2008.
Indian sports – not only cricket – has been like this only since we gained independence. I recently had a chat with some sportsmen [...]
Posted in Cricket, Indian Sports | Tagged ahmedabad, beijing olympics 2008, Controversies, Cricket, gca, Gujarat, gujarat cricket association, hockey, india, indian cricket, Indian Sports, mismanagement, monica devi, sania mirza
By Outspoken Gujarati on July 29, 2008
Ahmedabad’s sky was heavily overcast since the early morning today. It rained uninterruptedly until late in the afternoon. While Modi government’s prime concern was a looming drought until the late Saturday afternoon, the focus sharply shifted towards the serial blasts by midnight. The terror strike left behind a trail of injuries and destruction. It rained [...]
Posted in Gujarati Matters, Indian Politics, Nature | Tagged ahmedabad, amdavad, BJP, blasts, bomb, drought, Gujarat, gujarati, heavy rain, Hindutva, irrigation, monsoon, muslim, Narendra Modi, photographs, violence
By admin on March 7, 2008
Kishen Karve, the lonely Hockey warrior from Gujarat, is no more. He passed away recently, after being ill briefly in Ahmedabad at the age of 84. I had met him several times last year while trying to do my own research on why Indian sports lagged behind at most international meets. My aim was to [...]
Posted in Indian Sports | Tagged ahmedabad, dhyan chand, Gujarat, hockey coach, india, Indian Sports, kishen karve, manna singh
By admin on March 4, 2008
Praful Dave – The Pride Of Gujarat!
Last night I happened to be at Praful Dave’s live Dayro (the Gujarati way of telling folklores) program at the Town Hall, Ahmedabad. Though, I had no definite info if he was performing there or not, I decided to have a chance and was handsomely rewarded in the due [...]
Posted in Cinema (Other), Gujarati Folk Music, Praful Dave | Tagged ahmedabad, cinema, dayro, Gujarat, Gujarati Folk Music, india, playback singer, Praful Dave
By admin on December 30, 2007
Narendra Modi registers an impressive victory in the Dec 2007 Gujarat Assembly Polls amidst all odds.
Posted in Gujarati Matters, Indian Politics, Indian Society | Tagged 2007 Assembly Polls, ahmedabad, BJP, Congress, Hindutva, landslide win, Narendra Modi, pseudo-secularist
By admin on December 17, 2007
The phrase pro-audience carries two correlated meanings. The first one is to look out for the like minded people to share one’s ideas. Unless you had a group of people willing to listen to you, it would be futile to speak your heart out. More than futile, it would be intruding and intimidating in [...]
Posted in General, Theater | Tagged ahmedabad, Entertainment, Proaudience Theater, Stage
By admin on November 10, 2007
It’s the first day after Deepawali in Gujarat today, which goes in tandem with the new year in the Gujarati tradition. Proaudience.com couldn’t have dreamed up of having a better launch as against this. Let us finally start speaking out to the outside world with these first few lines. While Gujarat celebrates the festival of [...]
Posted in General | Tagged ahmedabad, blog, Gujarat, weblog
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