So, you have heard about Farrukhnagar Fort, right? A lot of travel sites show it as one of the very few visiting places around Gurgaon. They say it’s a great weekend outing and offers historical delight to the tourists. They all simply lie. It’s like they are giving trash of an information. There is not […]
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Well, more often than not, you will notice funny spellings on shops, carts and other selling points. More often than not, these spellings are in English or the words are taken from English language and written in Hindi or any other regional language. But it is so shocking to see Hindi words written wrongly in
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I was visiting Farrukhnagar Fort (which actually is not a fort) when I clicked this photo. People often confuse the spellings of Sanctuary with Century and it is quite funny to know that the officials have also made the same mistake. It would be better if they can give the name if Hindi
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Well, Hindi is not standardized in its original form and this is what leads to various types of interpretations and spellings variations, which of course cause a lot of confusion. I recently was visiting my home town Nabha riding a Haryana Roadways Volvo bus from Gurgaon to Ambala when we had a pit stop at
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Well, I thought about this idea while discussing various things with a musician from USA. He was visiting India and we discussed a lot of things at length. Some of them was about starting a new website for artists where we can offer them almost everything. While going through lots of ideas and checking various
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In the past few days, I have been talking to some musicians. I consider it as a huge privilege to be among some of the finest musicians you will ever no. However, there are many things that I feel they need to do in order to promote their music. It’s like they don’t have an
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So, it is not that you are a foreigner and you don’t understand Hindi so well that you will end up making grammatical mistakes in Hindi language. Due to non-standardized use of Hindi and using non-expert translators, natives also make mistakes that are glaring. I live in Gurgaon and often various parts of Delhi NCR.
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So, I recently bought Motorola’s much talked about Moto G (8GB). In India, the mobile phone is in vogue and is offered only through Flipkart. In my office itself, 3-4 people have already bought it. Overall, the phone is good. However, there are certain things that I don’t like in it: 5 things I don’t
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Traditional media was considered as the fourth estate. Any print piece that got readership could earn money from brands as well as from individuals who wanted to advertise. The scene has changed quite a bit. With the advent of social media, the pages and brands can target the audience directly instead of paying money to
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I have recently tried singing some Sanskrit mantras that I know by heart. Undoubtedly, when I sing them, it gives me peace and calmness. Though the number of these mantras are limited and I can’t sing every mantra in a tune, I feel very happy to even sing a single or two stanzas from a
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Recently, I have come across various individuals, consultants and small scale entrepreneurs who have very holistic ideas as their ventures. These ideas usually revolve around the concept of healing, meditation, yoga, and music, etc. Across the world, people look and seek the help of consultants and experts who can provide guidance in any of these:
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Same meaning words on synonyms in Hindi are called prayayvachi shabd. I present a list of few of these same meanings words in Hindi. Hindi Word Same Meaning Words in Hindi अहंकार दम्भ, गर्व, अभिमान, दर्प, मद, घमण्ड अमृत सुधा, अमिय, पीयूष, सोम, मधु, अमी असुर दैत्य, दानव, राक्षस, निशाचर, रजनीचर, दनुज, रात्रिचर अतिथि अभ्यागत,
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Recently, I got different tastes of customer care, social media interaction and the reviews posted on the websites for different companies dealing with various products and services. All of them gave me different experiences and so I decided to compile them. I hope entrepreneurs and business owners will be able to learn something from these.
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Last Saturday I went to the Rosewood Apartments of Mayur Vihar in Delhi. I was traveling from Gurgaon and so I took a metro, got down at Mayur Vihar Extension and walked to the place. I was going for a devotional music concert in the house where my friend John Wubbenhorst had invited me. He
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As Maha Shivratri is approaching, I was thinking of Lord Shiva, who is a maverick, industrious, enterprising and unique in his approach that we can learn a lot from him. Entrepreneurs can, in fact, adopt some qualities or traits that he possesses. Okay, here’s why Lord Shiva makes an excellent example of an entrepreneur: He
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So, I am starting with this series where I would be providing audio guide to learn Hindi alphabet by providing some examples from English language. The main idea of this audio guide is to help foreigners learn some finer nuances of Hindi letters so that they can pronounce them in a better way. Before you
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The websites are trying to catch the Hindi audience by providing them a Hindi version of the e-commerce website. However, the casual approach towards Hindi lands them with wrong translation or spelling mistakes. I have written about it earlier too but with recent focus on capturing Hindi customers, websites are trying to enter the market
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It will act as a good screen guard I recently bought Moto G phone launched by Motorola, a Google company. In India, it is available with Flipkart only. I have written earlier how they committed an awful mistake in writing Hindi text. But this is after I have used it for good 4-5 days. There
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Well, it is not easy to learn Hindi on your own and more so if you are not from India. However, if you really are up to it, you can learn it slowly and steadily. Hindi is a beautiful language and foreigners love it. If you are visiting India and the Northern part of it,
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कल मेरी बेटी जो कि दो वर्ष से भी छोटी उमर की है, एक काले पैन्न के साथ मेरे हाथ तथा बाजू पर रेखायें खींच रही थी। वो कागज़ के पन्नों पर भी ऐसा ही कुछ करती रहती है। उसको ये तो ज्ञान नहीं है कि कितने बल से उस पैन्न को चलाना है तो
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