http://gauravatri.rediffiland.com/Diary of gaurhavH atrien-us]]>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:05:38 +0530http://GauravAtri.rediffiland.com/blogs/2007/04/13/Photos.htmlI had this dream about being among the Tigers (getting applaused for bringing forth, soft corners of their nature) this was after the death of Sheru, and this is how it happened. I think this happened with me because i love animals.]]>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:07:58 +0530http://GauravAtri.rediffiland.com/blogs/2006/12/17/TATA-Sheru.html]]>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:46:41 +0530http://GauravAtri.rediffiland.com/blogs/2006/10/17/Me-and.html
I remember the day when I first came here
And smelt the sweet Abbottabad air
The trees and ground covered with snow
Gave us indeed a brilliant white glow
To me place seemed like a dream
And far ran a lonesome stream
The wind hissed as if welcoming us
The pine swayed creating a lot of fuss
And the tiny cuckoo sang it away
A song very melodious and gay
I adored the place from the first sight
And was happy that my coming here was right
And eight good years here passed very soon
And we leave our perhaps on a sunny day
Oh! Abbottabad we are leaving you now
To your natural beauty do I bow
Perhaps your wind's sound will never reach my ear
My gift for you is a tear
I bid you farewell with a heavy heart
Never from my mind will your memories thwart.


Abbott---is his name
abad---place of living.



Note: Major James Abbott's House is still there in Abbottabad, it has been kept really well by its occupant.
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Tag game

Here is a game to get to know me fun game....be a sport and keep it going
here what you need yo do..cut and paste this entire blog(yep..no copyright) and answer the questionsand paste it on your page...at the end name the person you want to tag and leave a message with yr link on his/her guestbook page..the next tag you replace the previous persons answer with or own and tag someone else and follow the same process again...don't break this ....check out what others have to say....





here it goes..



1-how tall are you barefoot?
5 feet 8 inches

2-have you ever smoke before?
yes, many times during college.


3-do you own a gun?
hee hee, no


4-if you had a mental disorder what would it be?
I will go on all four n play with street dogs


5-how many letters are in your crush name?
that was a Crash


6-what your favourite silly song?
jungle jungle pata chala hai, chaddi pehan ke phool


7-what is your secret weapon to lure in the opposite sex???
Its soooo secret even i dont know



8-do you own a knife?
Yes, in Kitchen


9-name three thoughts at the moment?
To fill in these questionare,
to answer the mis-cal, ye le my answer.

10-name the last thing you bought today?
a book by V.P.P


11-name 5 drinks you regularly drink?
Water, tea, milk, coffee and lassi

12-what time did you wake up today?
7.00 AM


13-what song did you want to be played on your funeral?
Jaane-waale ho sake toh laut ke aanaa....


14-what song did you last hear?
pal pal pal, ye pal

15-favourite place(s) to be?
Rajasthan, M.P. and Mountains, i also like Chandigarh and Dehradun



16-least favourite place(s) to be?
Noida


17-do you own a slippers?
Yes, i have three, lost one from the second pair.



18-where do you think you'll be ten years?
Working with Walt Disney.



19-do you burn or tan?
Both


20-yellow or blue?
both...


21-what song do you sing in the shower?
Bhagwaaan, sun dard bharey mere naale....


22-what did you fear was going to get you at night?
That black-storm on Kanchanji's blog


23-what in your pocket right now?
hankerchief and Rs.1340.50


24-Last thing that made you laugh?
Bully Kutta of Pakistan


25-best bed sheet you has as a child?
i dont remember sachchi...



26-worst injury you ever had?
...Twisted my Ankle playing hockey



27-do you wish on stars?
yes, shootin star



28-what were you doing 1AM last night?
watching skin deep on reality tv


Harmanjit Tagged me .., Theek hai bachchu, i will see u!!


I tag............Pooja Verma, Saileshji.









]]>Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:19:51 +0530http://GauravAtri.rediffiland.com/blogs/2006/09/20/Tag-game-it-reached-my.html Bahadur Shah Zafar tried his best to ensure that after his death Zeenat Mahal and Prince Jawan Bakht would not be treated badly. The English reassured him that they would be looked after, however, due to the ugly events in aftermath of the first war of Independence these undertakings were no longer upheld and Zeenat Mahal and her son both died and were buried in Mayanmar(Burma).
The last King of Delhi along with his wife and son were buried far away from the land of their ancestors The Great Mughals.


lagataa nahii.n hai jii meraa uja.De dayaar me.n
kis kii banii hai aalam-e-naa_paayedaar me.n

ham ko hai baaG_baa.N se na sayyaad se gilaa
qismat me.n qaid thii likhii fasl-e-bahaar me.n

kah do in hasarato.n se kahii.n aur jaa base.n
itanii jagah kahaa.N hai dil-e-daaG_daar me.n

umr-e-daraaz maa.Ng kar laaye the chaar din
do aarazuu me.n kaT gaye do intazaar me.n

kitanaa hai badanasiib 'Zafar' dafn ke liye
do gaz zamiin bhii na milii kuu-e-yaar me.n


----Bahadur Shah Zafar

]]>Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:57:03 +0530http://GauravAtri.rediffiland.com/blogs/2006/09/15/The-Queen-of-the-Last.html I was sitting in the back row of my class and chupke chupke opened my comic and start reading it for the third time since last night, suddenly someone shouted," what are you reading, come here, bring it, the teacher Mrs. Saxena(name changed) snatched it from my hands and read the title," Hari Singh Nalwa", who is he and when i am teaching you about the rise of Brahmo-Samaj, how dare you read a comic that too in my class, keep your hands above your head and stand there in the corner. I felt insulted not for myself but for Hari Singh Nalwa, he was suddenly at the top of my list of Heroes, with tears in my eyes i start to visualise the scene where Afghani mothers from Kabul to Peshawar were telling their naughty children,"Chup kero, Haria Ai! {Keep quite and go to sleep, otherwise Hari Singh Nalwa will come}. Suddenly the bell rang and the Social Studies class was over, Mrs. Saxena came upto me and gave me the comic back and said,"This is "Amar Chitra Katha", cover it in plastic and never read these stories here in your history class, OK". I will never read the stories that were not told, i promise, but i couldn't keep my promise.
Hari Singh Nalwa (A.D.1791-1837) was the Commander in Chief of Maharaja Ranjit Singh. Known as Nalua Sardar, Hari Singh Nalwa never lost a battle and won Kasur, Sialkot, Kashmir, Multan and Peshawar from Afghans, in A.D.1837, He became the first General to march ahead of an Army from India upto the Khyber pass since the time of Aurangzeb. He blocked this wellknown pass through which Conquerors used to invade India since time immemorial and put an end to the invasions of India. He is still remembered by the story-tellers in Peshawar. The samadhi of this Great Sardar is inside Jamrud Fort which he built and there was a memorial to him in Peshawar town but now no-one knows about its existence. British historians of 19th century compared Nalua Sardar's exploits with Nepoleon Bonaparte. The story of "The Murat of Khalsa" should be told or we already have Sikhs too many in our history text books.
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