Month: September 2011

New Beginning

~ Akshay ~ Leave a comment

I have recently moved to a new organization. It was difficult to say good bye to the team members and colleagues at my previous organization, since I have worked with them for such a long time. But as they say, all good things come to an end. My association with my previous Organization has also come to an end. Well my current organization is very different compared to my previous organization, starting from the culture to the nature of business to the way of dressing.. everything is different. While different isn’t bad, adapting to changes all across can get a bit challenging. However, so far, I feel I am doing alright. My team members are really nice and helpful. They have been setting up meetings for me with different people who have offered valuable insights into how this place operates.

Personally, I feel I have been given a gift of time. May be that feeling will change once I get involved with work here. In my previous organization, due to workload, I was really starved for time. Working 6 days a week, didn’t leave me with much time to do anything else. However, with 2 weekly off’s I feel I will be able to pursue some of things I didn’t have chance to pursue earlier. Earlier, a lot of my time used to go in traveling – may be approx. 4 hours a day. With my new job, the travel time has been reduced to almost 40 mins both ways. That has ended up saving a lot of time. I have already started going to the gym and the next thing I am looking to do is work on my writing – add new posts, write short stories, work on things I am really passionate about.  So I am looking forward to a lot of things. I hope I am able to work on the same.

Visit to Lalbaugcha Raja

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It all started with a phone call from a colleague of mine. I had told her a few days ago that I wanted to go and see Lalbaugcha Raja. So she called me last night asking “Do you want to go and see Lalbaugcha Raja? Can you come tomorrow morning at 7am?” I replied in affirmative and was feeling happy that finally my wish to visit Lalbaugcha Raja was going to be fulfilled. As agreed with my colleague, I reached the destination at 7am. On reaching there, I was amazed looking at the number of people who were over there. I heard the announcements that “mukh darshan” will take approx. 15 minutes.

I stood there, not knowing what to do and where to go. I just followed the crowd who were heading to the darshan. My colleague called me and asked me where I was, I told her I am in the crowd and don’t really know which way to go. She was like come towards a particular building, where she was waiting with the volunteers from mandal itself. I asked a couple of people where this place was, however, no receiving no specific directions, I decided I was better off sticking with the groups of people and following them. So I kept following the people and ended up in the line for the mukh darshan.

The line for the darshan was not very long and it took approx. 40mins for us to reach near the mandap. In the “mukh darshan” you can come upto 30 feet of the idol. Inspite of all the jostling of people around me, I got a very good darshan and enjoyed every minute of my stay over there.

On a side note, inspite of blasts happening in delhi just 2 days ago, security at the mandal was very lax. I was carrying a back pack with my laptop etc and it was not checked even once. There were a lot of security personnel, but most of them were just standing/ sitting and idling their time. I am not sure why they were even standing there, if they were not checking anything. Such things make me worry, whether there is anyone really in charge or are we left to fend for ourselves?