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तीन ताल के सभी साथियों को जय हो, जय हो, जय हो!  छः संख्या भारतीय मिथकों में पूरापन और संतुलन का निशान मानी जाती है। तीन ताल की छटा छः ऋतुओं  से बनती है जिसे ये छह महानुभाव बनाते हैं - कमलेश ताऊ, कुलदीप सरदार, आसिफ़ खान चा, पाणिनि बाबा, जमशेद भाई और संयोजक अतुल जी| इन सभी को मेरा नमन!   तीन ताल क्यों सुने ? नए श्रोता लोगों से बस कहना चाहूंगा कि तीन ताल का भौकाल एकदम टाइट है क्यूंकि जिस ज़माने में जुबान और उसूल की कोई कीमत नहीं रही, वहां तीन ताल उसी ज़माने की छोटी-छोटी परेशानियों, समाज, राजनीति, और निजी अनुभवों पर खुलकर और दिलचस्पी से बातचीत करता है! ये चिठ्ठी पीर बाबा के दमके हुए पानी का लाइट मोड अर्थात बीयर पीकर लिख रहा हूं, जो लिखूंगा वह सच लिखूंगा, सच के सिवा कुछ नहीं  लिखूंगा। खबर ड्रोन की तरह उड़ते उड़ते पता चली की  लखनऊ की धरती  पर  तीन  ताल  के  महारथी  लोगों  का  ज़मावड़ा  होने वाला है ! लखनऊ की  जनता  की  किस्मत  से  रस्क  करते  करते, उनको  बहुत  बधाई. फिर मन...

We were 5 friends in Kanpur, 'paanch', and the core of 'triad' co-exists inside it. Sanjay Bose, Vivek Vikram Singh, Gaurav Diwedi, Himanshu Chaudhary, and me. All of us stood together in 10+2 and coaching years. We form the quintet at the front benches in the 1st year and the last benches in the 2nd year. We roam mainly in Coaching mandi, but our favorite market is Rahmani market in Kanpur till today. Internet : I went to the Internet to surf for web counseling of AIEEE with Sanjay for the first time. The most surprising thing was the emails and pop-ups about a million-dollar lottery prize. I knew that it was a hoax. But the surprise does not end here. The faces of white Caucasian females on the screen amazed me. The underline heading was 'Make friends with beautiful girls in Kanpur'. I was completely taken aback by the question, "Where the hell are these girls, even if they exist in my city? " Till today, I have no clue about them. Crush Story : Th...

This is an aspirational information-gathering article. Don't consider it an inspirational or nostalgic write-up for the land of the leather industry, Kanpur. Kanpur is a big city rich in history. The summarized details are available on Wikipedia and the unofficial Kanpur  website. For highly irrational opinions, take a joy ride with me . Tourism: Places of Interest in Kanpur. For more queries, contact: Official blog page of the District Magistrate, Kanpur Nagar . Hotels and Food: A lot of hotels are established to cater to thousands of guests yearly. The Landmark Hotel, Kanpur with Mehak Restaurant serves authentic Chinese and traditional Indian dishes. The names are like this--Angithi Restaurant, Little Chet Restaurant, Chung Fa Restaurant. One person has taken a taste & reviewed nearly all of them. FYI, it's not me. Reviews are at --- My experience with Restaurants in Kanpur. Cuisine: Dish name: Kanpur Chapathi. The processing Technique is explained with photos here . S...

Every city has a character, a pulse of its own. Kanpur as a city is infamous for its uneven roads, irregular traffic and heaps of garbage. But its people love the city. They add color and spice to this city. They love to live here, no matter how bizarre their ways! This post is all about searching colors of life in this city in the images through the images taken by a foreign tourist. Business: Elgin Mill, Kanpur’s oldest textile mill, J K Cotton Mill, Pulse mills, J K Jute Mills, Kanpur Unnao Leather Development Company (KLC), Ghari detergent & Duncan Fertilizers were all part of the industrial culture of Kanpur. The city may have been robbed of its historic smoking chimneys and requisite infrastructure, threatening the expansion of existing industries, but Kanpur still remains a commercial hub for traders. For more, Why Kanpur is still UNDEVELOPED? Pollution & Traffic: There is nothing more for me to say about the Pollution of Kanpur. Kanpur has topped the list as the most po...

Music: Indians are exposed to a lot of rural folk, bollywood music, pop albums and bhakti songs. Few of us also ventures into Indian classical and Carnatic music also. The unique amalgam of traditional music and popular cinema sounds, being performed by musicians on stages and arenas, depicting the cultural lifestyle of Indian. I am here giving you links of street music of Indian. You may have heard thousand of western classical, rock, jazz and blues but I insist for giving attention to our own musical heritage: Street Music of India. Samosa: Kanpurites has good sense of business sense and one of the example is here.Its a story of branding and marketing Samosa in recent times of Lokshabha election. " The sweet shop in focus is Satya Sweet House's one-rupee 'samosa' and rightly naming it as 'Nano Samosa'. It is the current hot favourite with the political workers of the various political parties. To ensure the smooth sale of samosas to field workers of political...

Once upon a time, Kanpur was called the land of swine and auto-rickshaws, speaking in English: pigs and Vikram auto only. It was a popular idiom among citizens that beware while driving Vikram and the pigs. They can stop, run and take unpredictable turns on the road. And in fighting, you can't win from their masters. Kanpur is without a doubt one of the most polluted and chaotic cities. Today the world is hit by swine flu, I recall the old days when private pig farms proliferated in the city without any monitoring. Kanpur was the center of bristle trade for the whole of India under colonialism mainly done by Khatiks. After the decline of the bristle trade, the Khatik switched over to public pig rearing which became a menace to the whole of Kanpur. The brief rides on the “Vikrams” for roaming in the city can invariably be left an outsider tired, irritable, and generally sick. Still, People prefer Vikrams to crammed buses for their mobility and fast service inside the jammed road of ...

10 years of living in Kanpur has make me adaptable to long power cuts. I had also felt the summers heat without electricity for 3 continuous days with the grace of KESCO 's lethargy for repairing a transformer. Forgetting to mention the regular load off for 4 to 6 hours per day in Kanpur will be sin of hiding the truth. BUT, I give thanks to God due to hyper optimistic nature, that I don't live in Chamanganj or Bekanganj where electricity may not come for 1 week. Also I will not tell faltu story of people replacing transformer oil with water !!! Power Theft: Do anyone know about the term Katiya (read: illegal power connection).Check image below for clear depiction and all electrical engineers can apply Kirchoff's law in practical condition. Situation had come to such a pass that whenever attempts have been made by the powermen to detect ‘katiya’ connections they have been confronted by a hostile reception by the locals. FORGET the line losses through Katiya, Defaulters have...

For previous article on Kanpur coaching mandi, go through this label of Kanpur Series . Hot News:  IIT Entrance Examination (JEE) of the seven teachers together to prepare a joint platform sigma - IIT JEE is made. Students will get a place to preparing for the three subjects without straying around and meet all the facilities. In addition, due to the joint will reduce the fees too. Sigma of the joint forum of the physics teacher Anish Srivastava and Raj Kushwaha, Ashish Bishnoi and Anurag Bishnoi of mathematics and chemistry of Pankaj Agarwal, Nirmal Singh and Sanjay Chauhan's. Small - small batch (one hundred to two hundred) in the three subjects under the same roof will get a chance to prepare for. Three different subjects to students before a total of 51,300 rupees to pay the fees now total 45,000 fees will be charged. Sigma's head office 117 / N / 581 Raniganj (Kakadev) will be. Old Time:  Even after paying Rs 8,000 for each of the three different JEE subjects, most of the...

Memories of coaching days at Kanpur are inseparable from me. I have done a separate post on Kanpur coaching mandi only. The most remembered image of my coaching days was the advertisement of Ankush Bhatia by Pran classes, and it was pasted on each wall of Kanpur. His photo was spread at distant corners of the city, showing All India Rank 51. Never seen any local marketing campaign like this. Sometimes, I recall the rush of students from one coaching center to another for seat capture, xerox copying of assignments, and 'out-of-course' study material. The JEE course was never completed on time in the Kanpur coaching mandi. At the end of March, the mad rush to complete the course began with various test series taking place simultaneously. I could not forget that pressure till now. I will never forgive Anish, Pankaj, and Vishnoi sir for combining their individual treats into 1 party for JEE-qualified students. For information on the pre-2000 AD days of coaching mandi, check this l...

Within a radius of one kilometer, Kakadeo is the hub of the coaching mandi for JEE, MBA, Medical, etc having at least 20-30 coaching institutes. The classes are run by individuals teaching a single subject with a completely one-man show. Few people object to the name ' mandi ' but it's like a fish market only. Coaching Mandi is the perfect name for it because the teachers are earning the butter, not bread for them. When you go for admissions, people try to admit you to their institute with false advertisements and lucrative trial offers. It's altogether a mandi in which every teacher just wants students' admission, not in JEE, but in their institute. It was an urban legend that girls were used to seduce boys for admission in a few coaching centers. I and my friends tried in vain to find such lethal hunting beauties. My encounter with coaching mandi begins with JEE preparation. Nalanda Hotel, Pamela Restaurant, Agra sweet house were my favorite places there. For othe...

The search about city of Kanpur has taken me to unexplored portion of Internet. It is really hard to find these web pages in google search. Yet somehow, I managed to bring brilliant post written in Hindi about this city. You only require knowledge of Hindi and Hindi [Devnagari] font for reading it. If you do not have fonts, download it from above website . 1 - कानपुर तेरे कितने नाम… 2- झाड़े रहो कलट्टरगंज, मण्डी खुली बजाजा बंद 3- १८५७ के पन्ने: मदाम एन्जेलो की डायरी Enjoy the Kanpur series on this blog and if you do not know Hindi,then read loosely translated version of articles 1 , 2 & 3 .

I was searching for an article about Kanpur and found this gem. I am presenting here a paragraph taken from  "A Tale of Many Cities - A Tale of Just One City" . It is a point of view from the girl's side, a rare feat in blogland. You know you are in Kanpur when 1. You go to a mall, the city’s best and biggest, itching to spend some money, and the only stuff you find to spend it on is some really oily dosa and half-boiled corn. 2. A walk on the main road at 2 in the afternoon is punctuated by vulgar comments and some really vulgar comments. 3. No transport looks palatable, except if you want to make your journey with some suspicious-looking characters in ten-seater tempo vans. I dare you, especially after having had a sufficient dosage of the afore-mentioned vulgar comments. 4. Every T, D, and H (and by that I do not mean Tall, Dark, and Handsome) dons a leather jacket. 5. On the subject of leather, you see carts and trucks piled with leather shavings. You see towering tan...

Those who are interested in reading the article series of: Wah Kanpur, Ahh Kanpur!  Please find their weblinks - 1st and 2nd . They were on the funny side of life at Kanpur, this one on the reality side... This is an edited compilation of discussions on an online forum.; " Kanpur is a microcosm of what most of India is like in a nutshell; The vast majority of people are too caught up with making with their economic and caste problems and a little time to realize the importance of basic civic sense (keeping the city clean, obeying the law, etc.). The solution to the problem, like the rest of India lies in uplifting the poorest sections of society(which also form most of the population!) through education and health careIt'sts sorry to, say but the most educated residents of city for don't pay tax or electricity bill, etc but still Kanpur belongs to one of the largest revenue generating cities of India. Shamefully amazing.... No city in India, however big, is completely f...

What's in the name? Really, if you agree, then read further from the  previous post about Kanpur ... The turning point in the history of Kanpur came when it was made one of the most important military stations of British India. It was declared a district on 24 March 1803. South of were the British infantry lines and the Parmat parade grounds. Indian infantry occupied the space from the present Chunniganj to the Christ Church College. The Company Bagh  was laid in 1847, and the construction of the Ganga canal was commenced in 1854. In 1862, the  British built a church called All Souls' Cathedral in memory of those killed in the 1857 mutiny; renamed the Kanpur Memorial Church, it still stands at what was the north-east corner of Wheeler’s entrenchment. The marble Gothic screen with the famous `mournful seraph’ was transferred to the churchyard after independence in 1947, and in its place, a bust of Tantya Topewas  installed at NanaRao Park . The British contributed...

I had not taken birth on the land of Kanpur but my heart belongs to here for ever. I have fist arrived on the soil of Kanpur on 9th July,1994. I was on the verge of completing 9 years of my life. Half of the previous life was passed in the hills, Nanital and remaining half was spent in the small town, Salempur. Kanpur was contrast to them in all ways... Kanpur is shown in the films very few times despite its metro nature in Hindi heartland. I had watched ' Bunty and Babli ' just because it has 5-10 scenes filmed in the Kanpur. And in the ' Dhadak Dhadak ' song,when AB jr. is standing on the train top at the background of railway bridge on Ganga river, the cult movie become ' paisa vasool ' for me. I recall with this scene about the train on narrow gauge (now converted into broad gauge) piercing Kanpur through middle and Doodhiyaas both in and out of train rushing back to kannuj, farukhabad.... And now on screen has come the clincher - Tashan . No film has us...