By the Ganges at The Taj Gateway Hotel, Varanasi

One travels long distances not solely for large gatherings, but for something more intangible. There is a kind of magic about going far away and then coming back all changed. Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you, in several ways. But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting.

Nothing had prepared me for The Taj Gateway Hotel, Ganges at Varanasi. The Taj@Varanasi has all the hallmarks of a Taj property with their trademark hospitality which is their most striking feature and next is their administration. It splendidly provides a calming experience, away from the hustles and bustles of the city. The smiling and the calm faces, amazingly humble and courteous staff and an efficient concierge made the experience fulfilling. The dining room experience was first grade and the services there was top notch.

It was an experience of a lifetime for me to live by the river Ganges and enjoy the serene views of the sunset and sunrise. I reached the Taj Gateway Ganges Varanasi as a guest but later left as a family member. Apart from the superlative services at the hotel, the staff there did everything within their power to take care of my smallest wishes, which made my stay quite pleasant and memorable. I will carry the memory of this trip for a lifetime.

The luxury stay in the beautiful holy city was a mesmerising experience in itself and the scenes from the room are quite spell bound. The smell of the Ganges river, the blowing wind holding the calmness, the aura in the city is quite a thing to be cherished for lifetime. The traveling to other places near by got comfortable with the stay at this hotel which made the trip and the journey comfortable and favoured in jotting down the memories.

“I am blogging about my luxury stay experience for an activity at BlogAdda in association with MakeMyTrip“

The magic of the magical stories!

#colgatemagicalstories

When was the last time your child told you a story? It’s time to unlock their imagination.

The new Colgate Strong Teeth packs come with interesting sea creatures & some trivia inside them. There are 4 different packs. Kids can cut, play & learn. What’s more? They could do the story telling this time by weaving their imagination together.

This came as an amazing surprise for me as it led to the amazing innovations of the ideas at my place where my kid and his friends had fun with the four packs the colgate had sent few days ago. The children had lots of fun in cutting the characters and pictures from the packs of colgate strong teeth packs and started narrating and having fun around the characters. 

Along side, I joined the kids in listening to the stories that were weaving around one after the other. It was amazing as to see how amazingly the kids went on to discover best from the characters and framed different pictures and scenes from the characters on the packs. I prepared them coffee and snacks and it added to the fun that the kids were having. It was getting a great together for the kids, and by the evening even more kids joined the fun of story telling. The event of story telling around the four themes got even more interesting with the treasure hunt stories, magical mermaid stories, coral reefs and sea world characters. They even formed teams when there were several kids assembled at the house and it got even better. I became the host for the event and even organised a small competition for the kids where there awards for different categories of the story making. With this there was even more excitement and it also made the evening even more exciting and amazing. It not only helped me to build amazing memories but also helped kids to learn and come up with their talent of story telling. 

The kids went on to learn the art of team spirit, working together, weaving stories in unison and groups and saying out loud and putting themselves into the competitive spirit. It was great to see children learning these great qualities at an early age itself, which would help them in the later stages of life of presenting themselves at a higher level. It also brought in them the confidence and management ability, and also the excitement and fun that they were having during the activity. It was a pleasant surprise to see the amazing stories being built up with the characters on the table. 

Here, I came to learn how such group activities and such creative activities come as a great learning for the children along with the loads of fun that they had. It is important for the parents to realize that such creative activities should become the order of the day as it would help in the process of learning, growth and all around development of the child. It would lead to the habit of innovations and discoveries within the children at the early age. 

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The choice of the great! Datsun REDI-GO!

The choice of fun, freedom and confidence comes up with the launch of the new motor vehicle by NISSAN i.e DATSUN REDI-GO. The car is ready to go anywhere and serve the needs of any individual with the great sitting pattern ready offering beautiful interiors alongwith first class exteriors. There are lots of features and things that an individual keeps in mind while booking and going for a car. It should satisfy and meet the requirements so that an individual makes up one's mind and take decisions that would make a great choice for the person.

While growing through the site about the features and luxuries that the car has to offer, the three main features that appealed the most to me are the exteriors, safety and performance features.

The exteriors of the car give it one of the most amazing look comprising the best of two worlds i.e the crossover and hatchback, with a sleek model giving it a splendid and robust appearance. The dynamic side character lines on the outside are amazing and catch up anyone's attention and would give a great plus point when viewed through any side. The cutting radius of the car kept the minimum is amazing as it would aid largely in beating the urban driving blues and giving huge amount of parking and driving benefits. The map positioning on the frontal as well as at the tail end equipped with latest technology give it the best look on the exteriors and also sorts the indicators and lightening issues.

The interiors of the car giving quality and quantity benefits both are a pure delight making it a 5 seater car with quality spacing for everyone and also for luggage carrying for the touring purposes in the compact and sleek car. The interiors have placed the air-conditioner and dashboard with quality being maintained at each step. The seats promise quality comfort and give sporty appearance. The power windows options being provided at a location where it would be convenient for the driver as well as the co-driver. 

Thirdly going by the performance of the car, it promises a mileage of 25.17 km/lit which is cost efficient and fuel efficient, making it eco- friendly and user- friendly simultaneously. The i-sat engine with the latest technology gives car an added edge over all the other competitors in the market. It enhances the performance of the car to a large extent and seems to give knock-free performance for the driver.

While coming to take the test drive, I would love to take it out in the busy traffic zones which would give the actual performance test. Also, a drive to the nearby hill station could also tell a lot about the performance of the car give an idea about the performance levels and fuel efficiency levels of the car. The major concern while driving the car is safety and performance, and I would love to test REDI-GO on the same lines, as safety always comes first. 

This would help in driving out the urban blues with its amazing blend of features that the car has on the list, making it fuel efficient, giving less burden on the pockets, and also for designing pattern, especially made for the Indian roads keeping the stances and cut-grille in mind.

Fun. Freedom. Confidence. The ultimate Urban Cross - Datsun redi-GO - the capability of a crossover with the convenience of a hatchback.

Towards Gold Mornings!

The best way to turn good mornings into gold mornings is to plan and proceed the day on a pleasant note like going for a morning walk, taking the pet out for a walk, a jog in the park, workout at the gym, gardening and taking care of plants, and through several other ways that would make the day start on a happy and joyous note. 

I go around fulfilling all of these tasks at some of part of the day by dividing them according to the time limits available. I begin my day with a "Colgate 360 Charcoal Gold ToothBrush" that sets the beginning of the day with pleasant #Colgate360GoldMornings. It is followed by a walk with my pet in the near-by park, followed by gardening in my lawn. This makes me, my pet and my plants happier, all at the same time. Also, this leads to a fresh start of the day.

This is followed by the freshening up of myself and going for a healthy breakfast by heading to the kitchen and serving myself the delicacies that would satisfy my hunger. After taking up my breakfast, I head to my clinic for my morning shift and try to give my best. This keeps me fully committed to the work and the profession I practice.

Mornings are a great way to decide, plan and begin the day on a pleasant and happier note as this leads to the pleasant day ahead. A gold morning leads to a gold day. Mornings are the pleasant surprise that we wake up to every morning and it is one of the best blessings that one be bestowed upon to begin with a new day and new hopes to carry further. The early mornings are infact too strong to handle out giving out the positivity in life and thus one largely needs to look towards them by blending in charms and excitement of varied variety which would keep the spark maintained in life.

A little dose of coffee every now and then in the morning works wonders for me in carrying out the day's activities with high spirits. This is how I turn my good mornings into the gold mornings by doing and taking up the things that fill me with joy, happiness and enthusiasm that keep me lively throughout the day. It is important to take up the things that makes one mentally happy and brings joys and excitement in life. Mornings are a great way to serve oneself a treat which would keep one going for the rest part of the day.

 

 

#KnowYourRights - Report against sexual violence!

Why is there a negligence in reporting the sexual violence problem in India?

The question that comes to mind is that is it because there aren’t enough police to protect the citizens or is it because of the sluggish court system?

In recent days, Indian politicians have put forward potential remedies for India’s sexual violence problem. Sadly, violence in India is widespread and has deep roots. Moreover, people don’t know the law that needs to be followed.

Reporting about the sexual violence cases enables the victim to gain emotional, physical and social strength in the society. This brings in the confidence to the victim enabling them to come forward and report as to thinking it as a crime and instead of taking blame on their part. It is important to relieve the victims of the fear and the torture they feel on their parts, and instead help in getting the criminal arrested for the heinous crime that they commit. The criminals should not be let free as this will lead to increased violence. Thus, it is essential that such cases are being reported without any second thought and hesitation. It should be a moral duty of the victim to report the case against the criminal so that any such case should not happen further and criminal is punished.

It is important to report the cases of sexual violence as it leads to increment in the social awareness among the people. The cases of sexual violence and related cases should be reported without considering it a taboo on the victim and family. This is important as it will aid in getting the person committing crime to be punished and shall enable the effective steps to be taken to prevent the acts further. Also, strict and stringent laws can be framed in regard to the crime being committed. This would lead to increase in the awareness among people and shall give the confidence to the victim to report the case without any hesitation. The laws should be framed so as to provide emotional strength and stability to the person and the concerned family. 

The individuals who face the harassment should report such cases in order to get justice and make the criminal punished so that a stop is being put on such violent acts. It is important to report so that the organisations working on helping such issues bring more awareness among the people and such acts can be minimised and stopped. Also, the reports and cases will not go unnoticed and awareness in proper way shall unite and bring people together to fight the evil in the society.

“I’m writing this blog post to support Amnesty International’s #KnowYourRights campaign at BlogAdda. You can also contribute to the cause by donating or spreading the word.”

#KnowYourRights - Report Sexual Violence!

Sexual violence is defined as any sexual act or an attempt to obtain a sexual act by violence or coercion, acts to traffic a person or acts directed against a person's sexuality, unwanted sexual comments or advances, regardless of the relationship to the victim.

3 reasons why I think it is important to encourage reporting sexual violence.

It is important that the cases of sexual violence and related cases should be reported without considering it a taboo on the victim and family. This is important as it will aid in getting the person committing crime to be punished and shall enable the effective steps to be taken to prevent the acts further. Also, strict and stringent laws can be framed in regard to the crime being committed. This would lead to increase in the awareness among people and shall give the confidence to the victim to report the case without any hesitation. The laws should be framed so as to provide emotional strength and stability to the person and the concerned family. 

Reporting about the sexual violence cases enables the victim to gain emotional, physical and social strength in the society. This brings in the confidence to the victim enabling them to come forward and report as to thinking it as a crime and instead of taking blame on their part. It is important to relieve the victims of the fear and the torture they feel on their parts, and instead help in getting the criminal arrested for the heinous crime that they commit. The criminals should not be let free as this will lead to increased violence. Thus, it is essential that such cases are being reported without any second thought and hesitation. It should be a moral duty of the victim to report the case against the criminal so that any such case should not happen further and criminal is punished.

The individuals who face the harassment should report such cases in order to get justice and make the criminal punished so that a stop is being put on such violent acts. It is important to report so that the organisations working on helping such issues bring more awareness among the people and such acts can be minimised and stopped. Also, the reports and cases will not go unnoticed and awareness in proper way shall unite and bring people together to fight the evil in the society.

Thus, it is important duty of the victim, or the family, or the people to report of any such act of sexual violence so that the justice is served and criminals do not roam around freely in the market.

“I’m writing this blog post to support Amnesty International’s#KnowYourRights campaign at BlogAdda. You can also contribute to the cause by donating or spreading the word.”

The lanes of Chandigarh - Design, drive and connect!

Drive. Design and Connect! #MadeOfGreat

The beautiful capital city of the two states, the amazing union territory, planned and developed, is enough to allow others to make the guesses of the city I am talking about. The  Living in this beautiful city and growing up here to make the beautiful memories across all this while is a journey worth narrating and making it count as an experience of lifetime is a beautiful one. Though  due to the professional life requirements I have moved and stayed in several cities, Chandigarh, my home town is my favourite place till date that holds a lot of memories of mine. I have grown up into this beautiful union territory which is a very lively place.

DESIGN:

In great cities such as this Chandigarh, spaces as well as places are designed and built with proper planning and structuring: walking down the streets, witnessing the city grow, being in the public, are as much part of the design and purpose as is being inside to eat, sleep, travel, make shoes or music or the memories. There are fashions in town planning and building of this beautiful city, Chandigarh. Behind the fashions lie economic and technological reasons, and these fashions exclude all but a few genuinely different possibilities in city dwelling construction at any one time. The market structure is also properly planned and developed. One of the major shopping centres is Sector- 17 which has branded outlets and offers good places to dine with family and friends. 

DRIVE:

The driving experience into this city is peaceful and amazing. There are no traffic haults and jams. The traffic flows smoothly. The traveling through this city is quite a rememberable experience. Through the weekends, one can drive to famous city's destinations such Rock Garden, Rose Garden, Sukhna Lake, Pinjore Garden, Leisure Valley and also to nearby hill stations have a good connectivity through this town such as Kasauli, Shimla, Dharamshalla, and others. So it comes as a treat for the people who love long drives can definitely enjoy the roads to these amazing places. And with the great weather that this city has, being blissful and pleasant round the clock, the drive is pleasurable too.

CONNECT:

The city is very well connected through roads, railways and airways. The roads are very well maintained and properly structured all around the city. The city is very well connected to other major places and towns. The railways come under Northern Railways and offer good connectivity to other places in the country through several luxury trains such as Shatabdi express, Rajdhani express and others. Also, there is an airport in the city which connects it other major towns and cities in the country at a very quick pace. The bus services also offer good inter-state connectivity and one can travel to neighbouring states and places as per one's convenience without much worries and hassles. 

Thus, these amazing prospects DESIGN- DRIVE- CONNECT of the city Chandigarh put it largely on a global map and make it counted as one of the green and clean cities.

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