The Bangalore International Wine Festival

A very new entrant to the field of wine, but very passionate to study the intricacies of wine making.

Attended the International Wine Festival 2014 at Bangalore which concluded on July 27,2014 and realized that there is a lot to know on the basics and the intricacies of the Process of Wine Making. Also realized how passionate I was about Wine. Would love to take to studying the process of wine making and at a later stage grow my passion into my profession.

During the visit and the time spent at the International Wine Festival 2014, met a few professional wine makers from India, with whom I discussed the advantages of growing my passion into my profession. Though many of them suggested that it is not feasible or suggested that those who are passionate about wine in India can majorly set foot into Wine Marketing (read sales) Industry, I was not keen on entering what they call the Wine Marketing Industry. When I discussed this topic and further my passion about wine, with a friend of mine, who is by profession an oenologist (a Wine Maker), he suggested that if I am very keen on learning about Wine and the process of making it, then it would be better if I take up the study in France which if I am not wrong is called the Winemakers' Paradise.

A precap to all the above, I became a member of the Wine Society of India and came in contact with a few people in the Wine industry. Further when I contacted my friend, he suggested me to visit the International Wine Festival 2014 at Bangalore which spanned over a period of three tiring days and concluded on July 27,2014

On the whole the day was a memorable one.

Would like to conclude this write up as they say Home is where Heart is and I found mine as being a part of the Wine Industry as an Oenologist would give me more happiness than anything else.

Remember: Follow your heart but also give the required prominence to your brain which allows you to rationalize your ideas

Mumbai blasts - Cruelty of the Dark Men

Mumbai - The commercial hub of India has been attacked again. This has been the second time in a span of three years that the commercial hub of India has been attacked by terrorists(the dark man).
    The first in three year span was under siege by the dark side on the Taj Mahal Palace, the Oberoi Trident and Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus ( Three Most Crowded Areas in Mumbai).
    The commercial hub had just recovered - even though not completely from the attacks of the dark men recently (2008 - Mumbai Blasts). It has been attacked again on July 13, 2011. This time in a different area but again three of the most crowded areas of  The :Business Hub was under siege (2011 - Mumbai Blasts).
   I do not understand why men are plotting against their kin. I do not understand what pleasure (sadistic pleasure) they have (get) when they see their own people suffering.

Here are some of the photographs of the attacks:

On 26.11.2008:

On 13.07. 2011:

I do not understand why men are all daggers drawn with their kin.

Will there really be a day when the Preamble of Our Constitution will come true????
For those who have forgotten the Preamble of Our Constitution. Here it is:

WE, THE PEOPLE OF INDIA, having solemnly resolved to constitute India into a SOVEREIGN SOCIALIST SECULAR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC and to secure to all its citizens:

JUSTICE, social, economic and political;

LIBERTY of thought, expression, belief, faith and worship;

EQUALITY of status and of opportunity;

and to promote among them all

FRATERNITY assuring the dignity of the individual and the unity and integrity of the Nation;

IN OUR CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY this twenty-sixth day of November, 1949, do HEREBY ADOPT, ENACT AND GIVE TO OURSELVES THIS CONSTITUTION. 




Do the people  really know what FRATERNITY means??

FRATERNITY means BROTHERHOOD.




My condolences to all those people who lost their near and dear ones in  the Mumbai Blasts of 2008 and 2011.




I sign this blog post off expressing my doubts on whether the people of  the world will live up to the preamble of  Longest Written Constitution of any Sovereign Country in the World.  

My College Journal and Me

I started writing articles for my college magazine on the request of my faculty when I was in my first year of degree. My faculty asked me to write articles for the college journal based on my command on the English Language. My first write up for the college magazine was about the Premier Hockey League which started in 2005. I was very fascinated with the game of hockey and therefore I covered both the editions of Premier Hockey League. This article was published in March 2006.

My second article was about accessing Broadband through domestic power lines. This was published in my annual college magazine under the title Watt a Byte. This article was an adaptation of the article which appeared in the Times of India dated 02.02.2006.I wrote this for my college magazine because I wanted people of my college know that there are other domestic companies coming up with new technologies aimed at further developing Bangalore, the IT hub of India into a much more technology aware city.

I am now working on the third article titled The inspirational force behind Sherlock Holmes which is yet to be published, I am also working on my fourth article titled The inspirational force behind Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I like writing articles and will continue to write them till I am able to do so.

I am able to do all this because there has always been a driving force behind me asking me to do all the work I do - my parents and my faculty.

Pen Aligner and me

I started writing at a very young age, but not on a large scale. When I was in my first year of graduation, my faculty asked me to write articles for the college journal based on my command on the English Language. My first write up for the college magazine was about the Premier Hockey League which started in 2005. Later when Pen Aligner was stopped, I felt like having lost a good friend, I then started writing my own collections.
I started to think about what could be done next, then one day I was called up to write for my College's Annual Magazine. This is when I found a new person in me, a writer who was very much in me but hidden from view of the public.




 My write ups and I who were like strangers till 2005, developed a liking towards one another and are now inseparable.


I am still writing many things and will continue.


Express yourself and you will find new friends

My First Biking Experience

I was in my first year of graduation when I first rode a bike. This was my first on hand experience with a bike. Till then I had just seen some one riding it.When I first started to ride a bike I thought that it might be a difficult task. But the bike actually seemed to like me the way a mother loves her child. The bike and I started to live like friends who never desert each other.


He liked me very much and was very helpful in guiding me through the rough terrains of Bangalore. He used to make me feel very comfortable and energizes me so that I can have full control of him. He ensures that I do not fall. But, one day he was caught napping and he felt sorry for the mistake he committed.


That was the only day that even my parents got angry for riding him. This has not stopped me from riding my bike but has just encouraged me to be a better rider. The instructor even appreciated me saying that the bike was very kind and helpful to me. He added that he had never seen a bike that was so kind to its rider in the sense that it had real human qualities and it never let the rider down in any aspect.


Be it riding the bike or doing a stunt on the bike. I love my bike and he loves me from the bottom of his heart.


I would like to conclude by saying:
"Be kind to people and things around you and they will repay your kindness in one form or another."

Dreams are a way of life

I hear people say "Do not sit idle", when they see young minds like you and me sitting without doing any "worthwhile" work. These type of people are those who do not know what dream is all about. For them "worthwhile" work refers to that work which involves physical  powers .

                           When we sit idle, it is just that our physical body is resting but our mind keeps working.  

We young minds dream about many things that goes beyond the purview of an old mind.

Our brain is a super computer but needs rest during processes that it carries out.This is the time that the brain goes into a sub-conscious state and hibernates itself for a short span of time. It is during this period of hibernation that we dream. 

        Dreams can be attributed to various things. It can be "viruses" that affect the "Super Computer", they can be "screen savers" that stay for a short duration, they can be "backgrounds" that form a part of the "desktop" of the "Super Computer" or they can be "applications" that stay on to help us achieve our goals.

Dreams are something that should form a part of each and everyone's life. Let dreams help in achieving our goals.

Dreams make the place we live in a better place. 

My dream is  to be a part of that world which has no nagging people.

Let dream be a way of life than it becoming the life all by itself.