Trip to Mahabaleshwar, Pune

A hill station located 100 kms away from Pune. It has got around 14 points for tourists to visit and enjoy. you will find lot of yummy strawberry's around this place and lot of hills around. Krishna river, which serves Maharashtra and Andhra originates here. This place has got a historic Mahabaleshwar temple (a must watch, but didn't watch :( ). Before i visited, i read in web that it is a summer capital. But after visiting this station in core summer, i seriously disagree the statement. Left one is the picture i got in web before visit and right one is the picture i took during visit.

Then visited Pratap Gad, the place where afzal khan was slayed by Chatrapathi Shivaji. This place is a sort of relief to me out of whole trip after travelling Mahabaleshwar under burning sun.

April 30th 2008 - I was said that bus will be reaching secunderabad at 7 PM. Seems, i am the only punctual person around. Bus was very late and it left hyd at 10 PM.

5/1/08 8 AM - bloody bus dropped me at Pune (The horrible travels i am referring to is kesineni travels, mark it as a final alternative for your travel any time).

8:15 AM - i reached my home, beautiful and safe pune, took me in 15 minutes. Nischal (My brothers child, 2 years). I am surprised to see him talking more and more.

9 Am - Siva and Srinu reached my place with a tavera.

9:15AM- we started at viman nagar

10:30 AM - Had Maharastra special Pav Bhajji at Home for Pav Bhajji. This Pav Bhajji was great, but smirn off sucks at that time in hot summer

12 PM: we reached Mahabaleshwar, Siva boasted a lot about parachutes and beaches in Mahabaleshwar. But to my surprise, we could not find anything more than dry hills there.

1 Pm: we stopped at Macro garden where lot of strawberry's were found. we purchased strawberry milk shake and mixed fruit jam and left that family garden.

2 Pm - we were taken to few points where we can see dry hills from the top. that was a good view.

2:30 Pm- we were taken to other point, where we can see dry hill again, but this time a little of krishna dam covered.

2:45 - monkey point, few monkeys and again hills.

3:15 Pm - again hills. this really frustrated me. Mahabaleshwar has got around 14 points, around 10 points has got similar scenic view.

we thought that this is not a right choice for summer.

we thought of moving to Pratap Gad and then watch Sun set point and leave this Mahabaleswar. Sun slowly stepped down for that day and we had good journey to Pratap gad. we reached Pratap gad at 6:00 PM. we have decided to take a guide to this historic place.

Guide started with entrance and explained about Maharaj Shivaji starting with assasination of Afzal Khan. He has show us the place where Afzal Khan was slayed by Shivaji. Ofcourse that place is not open to visit now because Govt has stopped visitors to that place keeping in mind that communal differences, that may arouse.

We have shown lot of interest in listening to history lecture by this old guide. Later we saw Bhavani Mandir, where Saaligrama of Shiva and Sword of his senapathy can be found. We stood surprised to see the weapons used to break stones after hearing that fact that those weapons weigh 40 Kilo's.

Later we saw punishment point and Shivaji's Idol. we came to know that Britishers destroyed maximum part of the fort after assasination of Shivaji, which is sucking.

Seenu boasted a lot of Maharaja's and stood there thinking himself as Maharaj for some place in his previous janam.

Siva , seenu and me. we reached pune at around 10 PM. This is our last photograph after have good long day under sun.

Mothers day - To my Mom

My father use to spend most of the time at work place. Like all other's mother, my Mom took complete responsibility of our studies. She is a perfectionist. She is not as educated as we are, but her common sense and patience mad her a good teacher to us. we always had schedules in home. After coming back from school at 5 PM, we should take snacks and then play and then come back at 7 PM, fresh up and start doing home work and all till 9 PM. if tutions were there, we had different timings, but rarely we went to tutions. we never dare to skip schedules :-). To my knowledge, we rarely use to waste rice items in house by throwing them out. Like, My Mom's estimates on cooking rice was too good. This helped my father a lot in handling financial things properly. My Mom never left us free during our schooling, but gave enough freedom, while we completed schooling. with all these, we have grown up as matured boys and took responsibilities very soon.
I cannot give anything to her on this day and explain her, what she has given to us. I have seen her feeling proud when people talk good about us. I have seen her feeling bad, when some body in my circle points us out wrongly.
what else i can expect from God, such a wonderful family...

Che Guevara

To outline about Che, Che was a marxist, Politician, Author, Medico and guerilla leader during 1950's. Che is Medico by profession transformed into combatant during the confrontation where more than 60 out 0f 82 in Gueara's army were attacked and executed. Che played a vital role in Cuban revolution under the leadership of Fidel Castro against imperialism of United States. Castro appointed Guevara as chief official at the National Institute of Agrarian Reform INRA and later President of the National Bank of Cuba BNC, while allowing him to retain his military rank. Later Guevara lead Congo's revolution and aimed to export Cuban Revolution by instructing local Simba fighters in marxist ideology and foco theory strategies of guerrilla warfare. he cites the incompetence, intransigence and infighting of the local Congolese forces as key reasons for the revolt's failure. Later that year, ill with dysentery, suffering from asthma, and disheartened after seven months of frustrations, Guevara left the Congo with the Cuban survivors. (Six members of his column had died.) At one point Guevara considered sending the wounded back to Cuba, and fighting alone until the end in the Congo, as a revolutionary example; however, after being urged by his comrades and pressed by two emissaries sent by Castro, at the last moment he reluctantly agreed to retreat. A few weeks later, when writing the preface to the diary he kept during the Congo venture, he began: "This is the history of a failure."
Guevara was reluctant to return to Cuba, because Castro had made public Guevara's "farewell letter" —a letter intended to only be revealed in the case of his death—wherein he severed all ties in order to devote himself to revolution throughout the world.

Later Guevara trained bolivian military army secretly and later his capture and execution happend in Bolivia.

Few impressive things about Guevara are -

1. His tour to latin-america during his studies, where he witnessed poverity and later responded

2. His vast knowledge by reading numerous books. It was said that in adolescent age, his house contained 3000 books.

3. His brutality and ruthlessness and harsh disciplinary treatment. During the guerrilla campaign, Guevara was also responsible for the execution of a number of men accused of being informers, deserters or spies.

4. His tours to various countries to export marxism and help revolutions.

Few things to be doubted are -

why did Cuba exiles community oppose Guevara? Exiles inturn helped CIA in finding Guevara. This leads to a doubt about what this brutal boy did in Cuba after revolution...

Abovephotograph of Guevara is termed as "Most famous photograph of the world"