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 It was 5th of Feb. I knew that there was a chess competition arranged by a local shop, I did register for it. But on the competition day, no proper timings were shared about the competition. I waited till 5 in the evening to get any kind of update about it and later on lost the track of time.  At 7 O'clock, I opened my Instagram and to my surprise, the first story was a live about the chess competition. I checked the time. It was 25 minutes ago! I took my bag and rushed to the venue. Meanwhile, fingers crossed 🤞🏻.  Finally, when I reach the spot, a match was just ended and surprisingly not much of participants were there. As soon as I reached, and inquired about the competition, a man holding a notebook in his hand asked me to seat and play the game. In  the hurry, I passed my bag to my friend who was accidentally and luckily, present there  only.  My opponent, I did not even asked for his name! So fool of me. We did a hand shake and started the match- a...

 मला फिरायला खूप आवडतं. माझा दुसरा ब्लॉग वाचला असेल तर माहिती असेल तुम्हाला. भटकत राहावं नेहमी. इकडून तिकडे, तिकडून पुन्हा भलतीकडे. पायाला भिंगरी असल्यासारखं. सध्या तरी हे फार शक्य नाही होत. पण जमेल तेव्हा मी एका पायावर तयार असते. या वेळेस दिवाळीच्या सुट्टीत महाबळेश्वर दौरा केला. तस महाबळेश्वर काही नवीन नाही, पण अजून एक फेरी सही. पोलादपूर पासून पुढे महाबळेश्वर पर्यंत घाटच- अंबेनळी घाट. जातानाचा प्रवास छान झाला. परतताना मात्र महाबळेश्वर मध्ये एवढं traffic जाम होत संध्याकाळी; बस स्टँड च्या आसपास फक्त ४-५ किलोमीटर साठी आम्हाला १ ते १:३० तास वेळ गेला. दुतर्फा जवळपास हजार गाड्या अडकल्या असतील तेव्हा तिथे. आणि महाबळेश्वर मधले रस्ते इवलुसे. एका वेळी दोनच गाड्या बसणार रस्तावर. एक जाणारी आणि दुसरी येणारी. मग यात जर कुणाला त्याची गाडी इकडे तिकडे वळवायची आहे किंवा U टर्न घ्यायचा आहे तर मग बाकीच्या गाड्यांना जरा थांबून त्यांना जागा द्यावी लागते. पण मग यात कधी कधी लोक भयंकर गडबड करतात, चिडचिड करतात आणि उडतो तो निव्वळ गोंधळ. त्या बिचाऱ्या एका गाडीवाल्याला जेरीस आणतात. कधी कधी जागा च नाही देत. आय...

 We were on our way back to home from Delhi. Our train was passing through Madhya Pradesh. We had our confirmed seats, tickets booked almost 3 months ago, just to not have to travel with RACs .   I like window seats. Peeking out of the window and watching the passing by terrains! One of my friends was sitting beside me, and the other passenger on our side of seat, the lower birth. Exactly opposite to us were sitting two boys, 16-17 years of age, and beside them was our another friend. Total 6. My friend was listening to music on her phone, leaning her head on my shoulder. Our friend, seated next, was busy with his phone. I was busy looking out of the window.  Suddenly one from the two boys sitting next, he tapped on my knee and asked - "Didi, can we seat in the window seat for a while? This window pane at our side is not opening..." I looked at him for a while. My friend sitted beside me looked at me. She raised her eyebrows to ask what happened as she could not hear...