Want To Go Back To Your Schooling Days?
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 [...]
Indian Sports – An Eternal Nightmare
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 [...]
Heavy Rains Lash Ahmedabad, Cool Down Tempers!
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 [...]
Gujarati Movie Songs (Praful Dave And Usha Mangeshkar)
Image Courtesy of Exotic India Online Art Store Gujarati Movie Songs No Longer Available We are updating links to meet with Google’s AdSense Terms and Conditions, and since none of the following songs are listed with the official partners of Google Music, viz. Saavn.com, Saregama.com and In.com, we will not be able to provide any links to the [...]
Kishen Karve – The Lonely Hockey Warrior No More!
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 [...]
Praful Dave – The Lord Of Gujarati Cinema And Folk Music!
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 [...]
It’s The New Year In Gujarat! The Most Auspicious Time To Start Publishing!
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 [...]
