My travel Pics

My dear readers, please note that I am on tour of Miami, USA. You may go through some of my travel photos at this link .

Beach Season is on in USA. This is Hollywood Beach visited on 25th May 2012. This Beach is said to be a family beach where mwn women of all ages shed their clothes and jump to the Atlantic Ocean. We the Indians/ Asians (with full clothes on) looks like alliens from some other planet. In fact the purpose of their visit differs from ours. We went to see the beach but they had gone there to swim and get cooled.

Bengali New Year – Poila Boishakh

 

On New Year’s day at City Centre, Salt Lake, Kolkata

On 14th April 2012, Bengalis all over the world welcomed their New Year and celebrated it in many ways.

One message to the Bengalis all over the world should not go un-noticed. First Time, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton sent a message to the Bengali Community on this occassion. Message is reproduced below :

Press Statement

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State

Washington, DC

April 12, 2012

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“On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to send best wishes to Bengali communities worldwide as you celebrate the Bengali New Year.

This is a time for Bengalis to honor their rich cultural traditions, from song and dance, food and film to internationally renowned literature and poetry. Americans have been influenced by the strong traditions of Bengal, spread through a dynamic diaspora community, that have shaped our culture for years. Bengalis of all faiths and nationalities are coming together to bridge national and religious divisions in honor of a shared history and promising future.

As you celebrate this New Year, know that the United States is a partner and friend. Best wishes for a year of peace, prosperity, health and happiness. Shubho Nobo Borsho!”

 For Mamata Government too this New Year was first NewYear. New Year messages of CM Mamata came through  all medias including Mobile ( SMS) & Radio but these were most disgusting to the civil society on that particular day because previous day, people of West Bengal seen how a innocent JU professor was arrested and harrassed  just for forwarding a mail to his friends  and he was thrown behind the bar by her police. The cartoon in question was not new,  it is a well circulated cartoon within the Facebook community. It was not made by the professor. It should have been taken in a true spirit and the brain behind this cartoon should be honored for such a brilliant creation.

Civil Society is now afraid and losing faith on her. People have seen in many occassions that her talks and acts are not the same. All these acts and talks of her / her administration resulted her first New Year wish as CM  to be sour and civil society could not be pleased with her messages.

Boss should speak first

A junior manager, a senior manager and their boss are on their way to a meeting. On their way through a park, they come across a wonder lamp.

They rub the lamp and a ghost appears. The Ghost says, “Normally one is granted three wishes but as you are three, I will allow one wish each”.

So the eager senior manager shouted, I want the first wish. I want to be in the Bahamas, on a fast boat and have no worries. “Tathastu”, and he was gone.

Now the junior manager could not keep quiet and shouted “I want to be in Florida with beautiful girls, plenty of food and cocktails. “Tathastu”, and he was also gone.

The boss calmly said, “I want these two idiots back in the office after lunch “.

MORAL OF THE STORY: Always allow the boss to speak first

Do you know?

If you leaveTokyoby plane  at 7:00 Am, you will arrive in Honolulu (US) at approximately 4:30 PM the previous day.

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned because his wife and mother both were deaf.

“I am” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.

 “Bookkeeper” is the only word in English language with three consecutive double letters.

The sentence quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” use all letter (A to Z) of English language.

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur after about 10 days without sleep, while  starvation takes a few weeks.

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

River Rhine & people of Basel, Switzerland

Today in a Bengali daily (Kolkata based)  there is a news about the bank of River Hoogly (part of Ganges) to be made like the banks of Thames in London , Rhine in Basel, Switzerland and like some more. The daily has published the pictures of those river banks too but pics are too small and hard to make out how beautiful they are.

 River Rhine, Basel, Switzerland. Behind ‘Ramada Plaza’ the tallest building of Basel.

Recently I have returned from Basel Switzerland after living there (in Basel city) for more than a month. I have many pictures of Basel and the River Rhine, out of which few are posted here which shows the Bank of the river of Rhine, the road along the Bank etc. In the evening people usually sit there on the steps and pass time. They drinks and eats but they are very conscious about cleanliness and I have not seen anybody throwing any plastic or paper or anything on the bank or in the river or even on the road or public places. Of course sufficient numbers of dustbins are placed everywhere, even in the buses, trams and trains. People just use them. There sun sets at about 0930 -0945 45 Pm  ( in Jun) thats why most of the time people like to spend the evening on the bank of the river.

Between the Bank and the Houses, there is a beautiful cleaned road which can not be seen in this picture.The same has been shown below. They grow the tress beautifully to make a beautiful avenue.They take care of trees individually for each tree after plantation. .

The Road between the houses and the river bank.

Chief Minister of West Bengal is talking about beautification of the Bank / ghats of  river Hoogly of city Kolkata. We should welcome the idea and the positive attitude of the new Chief Minister of the state. In Europe, I think,  every city has got one river or other way we should say every city has grown up on the banks of a river. Every city is proud of their river and all monuments and developments, infrastructure for tourism have come up on the banks of the rivers. They make everything possible for the people of the city and for tourist attractions. We should also be considered lucky to have our Hoogly (Ganges) river but unfortunately nothing has been done for its beautification so far. Nobody has thought of this previously. I am sure, to some extend it can be changed but  that can not be compared with Rhine (at Basel Switzerland) because people of this country has to be changed and that is can not be done overnight.

Rhine water is crystal clear (see above pic).and close up of steps are shown in this picture.

Lake Geneva is 72 KM long and there are cities on its both banks. I have visited Geneva, Montraux and Vevey where the banks are so beautiful that you can not forget in your life time. First of all it is guarded with railings and there are gardens, seating arrangements, and very limited small restaurants. It is needless to say that there are sufficient trees throughout the bank which enhanced the beauty of the banks.

From my Europe diary

Let me post some of the beautiful pictures captured during my Europe tour. It is difficult to select pictures out of thousands. In my opinion, whole Europe is beautiful, well maintained and people are disciplined rule abiding and tourist friendly.  This is concluded as a result of my observations during my stay at Switzerland over a month. Some of the beautiful pictures of those beautiful countries are placed here so that you can see how beautiful they are.

 London to Paris by road

This is the standard roads (Highways) of Europe and it is noticed that there is no road is crossing the highway. All crossings are avoided by overbridges so there is  no interuption of traffic on the Highway. We travelled smoothly 600 to 800 Kms per day but never felt tireness because of the smooth highways and also may be the climatic conditions.

Copyright Anilm 2011.  Photographed by Anilm at Casino Garden, Interlaken West, Switzerland on 11 Jul 2011. Interlaken is the place which connects Jungfraujoch (top of Europe) and many other tourist spots and also Golden Pass Express can be availed from that place (Interlaken West or Interlaken OST (East)).Interlaken itself is a beautiful tourist place where lot many Hotels, Indian Restaurants are available.

Copyright Anilm 2011. Photographed by anilm at Thun Lake on 02 Jul 2011.

Famous International village of Switzerland – Gstaad where Film like DDLJ and Bengali Film Paglu were shot. The village was visited on 03 Jul 2011. To know more about this star village, read my post ‘Gstaad – Switzerland’s most famous village’  At background Glacier 3000 is seen.

Copyright Anilm.  Photographed by Anil m at Swarovski, Austria during my Europe tour in Jun 2011. Swarovski Crystals are world famous. This beautiful fountain is created and maintained by Swarovski in their campus where a beautiful Crystal Museum “World of Swarovski Crystals” is available to be explored by the tourists.

The great big Fork of Vevey, Switzerland. Photographed by Anil m at Vevey on 03 Jul 2011. Vevey is the town on the bank of Lake Geneva, Switzerland, where the world HQ of Nestle is situated and the Fork has been installed by Nestle and it has become the symbol of the town Vevey.

No, it is not a manipulated picture. Its a true picture taken on 3 Jul 2011 by me at Vevey town of Switzerland. Chairs are permanently fixed on the rocks of the Lake shore which can be used by anyone. See carefully, at your left, some more chirs are occupied by some beautiful ladies, It their way of life. The lady is reading a book on the lake side and other ladies seems to be interested in chit chatting to pass their time at this beautiful atmoshphere.

On Europe tour

I will be on Europe tour from 31st May 2011 for about one and half month. For my discoveries through lens and my own eyes will be shared with you all with the help of another Blog “My Europe tour“.

Raja topped the list

Former Telecom Minister A Raja, at the centre of  the 2G Spectrum allocation scam , has earned the   dubious distinction of figuring in the list of Time Magazine’s “an ignominious club of privileged leaders who stepped too far”.

The 2G scam is ranked No 2 in the list of scandals and scams in the all-time Top 10 Abuses of Power, only next to ex-American President Richard Nixon’s ‘Plumbers’, a secret unit tasked with digging up dirt on Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg.

Raja, who is cooling his heels in New Delhi’s Tihar jail, has beaten some tough contenders to be ranked second and be ahead of Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi, North Korean autocratic leader Kim Jong-II and skirt-chasing Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi.
Source : PTI via SiliconIndia News

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a concert. This blog was viewed about 61,000 times in 2010. If it were a concert at Madison Square Garden, it would have performed about 3 times.

 

In 2010, there were 50 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 151 posts. There were 129 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 19mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was November 4th with 511 views. The most popular post that day was Darker side of ‘Festival of lights’.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were search.conduit.com, blogs.oneindia.in, indiblogger.in, en.wordpress.com, and topblogarea.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for radha krishna, krishna, rome italy, radha krishna pictures, and durga.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Darker side of ‘Festival of lights’ November 2007
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2

Oneday at ISKCON July 2007
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3

New 7 wonders of the world July 2007
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4

Indian Dress : Saaree March 2009
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5

My India May 2008
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Vote for Sundarbans

At an international tiger conservation summit in Russia`s St Petersburg , attended by leaders such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Weng Jiabao, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called the world to vote for the Sundarbans and so help to protect the Bengal Tiger.

Sundarbans is one of the 28 Finalists in the Official New7Wonders of Nature, share by Bangladesh and India, and is one of the world`s biggest  tiger habitats. Sundarbans has already been declared a Natural World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

“Each vote will help selecting the Sundarbans as a new wonder and consequently lend a hand to save the forest and its trees and animals”, said Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina who, together with 13 other tiger range countries, took part in the international tiger conservation summit in St Petersburg.

Being the largest mangrove forest in the world, the Sundarbans spread on a total area of 6,017 square kilometers, and with their unique bio-climatic zone  give home to 440 Bengal Tigers.

Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is all set to front a campaign to get the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, enlisted as one of the Seven Wonders of the World with a live performance with Rani  and others from Bollywood in Dhaka on 10^th Dec 2010.