http://ajayjain.com Your Weekend Read Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:54:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This will be understood only by those literate in Hindi, and you cannot do justice to the translation. So here goes... Click on image for a larger view http://ajayjain.com/2009/10/02/international-literacy-day-being-marked-in-india/ Sometimes a forward comes your way that you must share with others. This is one (portions in Hindi have been translated in brackets) If Columbus had been married he might never have discovered America because of the following: Where are you going? With whom? Why? How are you going? To discover what? Why you? What do I do, ... http://ajayjain.com/2009/10/02/if-christopher-columbus-had-been-married-would-he-have-discovered-america/ Kunzum Gallery now has a bricks and mortar presence in Delhi's fashion district of Hauz Khas Village. The gallery is currently displaying a collection of Ajay Jain's travel photographs from Ladakh, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Prices start from a modest Rs. 750 and go up to Rs. 25,000 for select ... http://ajayjain.com/2009/09/24/kunzum-gallery-now-open-at-hauz-khas-village-delhi/ I am pleased to announce the launch of my new book, Postcards from Ladakh. A pictorial travelogue on Ladakh, it will be available in stores soon. Click here to know more about it including reading some sample chapters and getting ordering info. http://ajayjain.com/2009/09/05/postcards-from-ladakh-my-new-book-is-out/ It is not very often that one gets an opportunity to meet someone of the stature of His Holiness, the Twelfth Gyalwang Drukpa, head of the 800 year old Drukpa lineage. I did for an exclusive one-on-one chat on the eve of his pad yatra from Manali to Leh starting ... http://ajayjain.com/2009/05/23/interview-with-his-holiness-the-twelfth-gyalwang-drukpa/ If the performance of the Congress (I) led UPA Government had been no more than average over the past five years, it had a bagful of excuses to blame it on. With not enough seats on its own, India’s Grand Old Party had to depend on other parties for support. ... http://ajayjain.com/2009/05/19/no-excuses-for-the-congress-this-time/ One wonders what a man like LK Advani is going through when having dinner the evening before what could be the most important day of his political career. I was having coffee at Delhi’s Oberoi Hotel when Mr. Advani walked in with his family for dinner at around 11 pm. In ... http://ajayjain.com/2009/05/19/lk-advani%e2%80%99s-last-supper/ Would you like to win a copy of Ajay Jain's Peep Peep Don't Sleep, a collection of funny road signs seen in India? All you have to do is send in a recommendation or a review for a book for BookWag.com, the book club. And if yours is selected as ... http://ajayjain.com/2009/03/20/recommend-a-book-on-bookwagcom-win-a-prize/ The above is a clip from a feature on CNN IBN, a leading television news channel in India set up in partnership with CNN on March 2, 2009. Click here to read the text version of the story. Enjoy!! http://ajayjain.com/2009/03/20/interview-on-cnn-ibn/ [caption id="attachment_113" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mr. Vijay Mallya, owner of Kingfisher Airlines, in the centre"][/caption] I hate flying. I know I am a travel writer, but I have consciously chosen my car as the vehicle to take me around for the purpose. Flights and I don’t endorse each other’s company. What I do ... http://ajayjain.com/2009/03/19/low-cost-airline-indigo-on-time-not-kingfisher/