Encounter with Wild Elephant at Baralikaadu

 

This new year 2022 is very special As I was driving my Tiago Car into the Baralikadu forest area, a wild elephant gave us her wild blessing. At about 10.00 a.m. on 1 Jan 2022, we were moving into the forest area, while the wild elephant was walking in the opposite direction towards us on the narrow forest ghat road. I made a U turn. As I was driving away slowly for safety of my family, the wild elephant gave us a wild Tata Bye Bye following us to push us away from her adobe. We were chased for nearly 1.5 kms. My son clicked the memorable photo and video from inside of the car. ... A rarest of the rare opportunity to sight this mammoth beast in the wild. Greatest ever new year celebrations

My Tiago car Ghat Road Driving First time experience on Kolli Hills

Kolli 70 hair pin bend Hill Road driving thrill

I am a first timer for car driving and having bought my Tiago car in Jan 2018, I was getting used to this steed.

The big challenge was driving it on our public roads. Little by little I was getting used to it. All these were done with a safety precaution of sticking a L sticker on the vehicle, so that others know the real driver in me on the public roads. It helped me in getting used to the public traffic. After clocking 6000 kms it's time to GROW UP.

After checking with multiple ghat options from experienced motorists I zeroed in on the 70 hair pin bend road up the Kolli Hills.

We started the Tiago trip with my family at 5.30 a.m. from my home (Cuddalore) on 30 Sept'18 and reached the foot hill of Kolli at 10.00 a.m.

Now it's a butterfly in stomach moment. Stopped for a few minutes and started the hill drive.

With the confidence of the Guardian Angel all along being with me in all my past road trips on bikes, I punched my Tiago's throttle and it was a thrill and also a challenge to complete it safely that too with family.

First few hair pin bends were boggling me. Few minutes into the ghat roads up the hill, the fear on the steep road got snuffed down. The helpful things were; traffic is very miniscule and the hill road is butter smooth.

Then it seemed to be another milestone crossed past. We reach the top in 50 minutes.

The next one and half days were spent on sight seeing many of the places in this hills.

Kolli hill is a not so prominent place on tourist destinations, but the less crowd, humbleness of the polite local people is a good experience not to missed of having a trip up this ghat. We bought pristine honey (₹350/Ltr), fruits and spices and drove down the hill the next day afternoon.

One more bucket list of driving the car on ghat section has been ticked off.

The car performed well and I could well feel it only when it was driven on such a steep uphill road. So far in the past nine months, as I was driving on plains, engine has been breathing below 2000 RPM, wherein it seems to be a normal experience. But on the ghats, I needed to maintain the engine RPM at 2500 or 3000 on lower gear to maintain the climb without knocking the engine. That's where I felt the technology that had gone in the engine inside the car. The engine is so smooth and I felt like it to be a usual drive.

Some captivating moments of the nature as I clicked on my mobile phone camera.....

Having gained confidence of driving my Tiago on such challenging ghat, now it's time to remove the L stickers off my car.

Thanks a TON to all my well wishers for all necessary guidance to push my confidence to do my first ever ghat drive on my car.

Ofcourse one of #TheBlindList has got ticked in my life time itinerary and this is a moment to #SayYesToTheWorld

Bulleteering Memories - fertile paddy fields

The fertile paddy fields and the ripe grains ready for the harvest are a beauty to be adorned while riding to office on my RedBull to my office.

6.20 a.m.
23 Sept 2018
RedmiNote4 Mobile phone camera
#Bulleteering Memories
#Royal Enfield
Royal Enfield - Owners
Royal Enfield

Peeping Puppy on the window

Cute puppy peeping through the window...

Good morning shot.
22 Sep 2018
6.15 a.m.
Camera: Redmi Note 4 Mobile

River Water Fishing - Photography

River water fishing in Then Pennaiyaar river in Cuddalore.
Good morning shot of the rising Sun God in the cool morning.

6.30 a.m.
20 September 2018
RedmiNote#4Mobile Phone

Vinayaka Chathurthi festival

Driving Lord Ganesha in my Tata Tiago for the festive moments at home...

Bulleteering moment

Thumps that keep my spirit go high.
#RedBull stories
Royalenfield

Cosmetic change to my RedBull.

The new logo design on my Redbull's fuel tank was a boring one for me. So, decided to switch it to the old logo design.

This is new logo design which was pasted 1.5 years ago. This was not matching to the temperament of my steed.

So, its getting removed.

And the charm of my steed is upped with the old type logo adoring the tank of my redbull

Healer's Baskar Sir's One Day symposium on Home Education system

 
We attended this one day symposium on 4th Feb 2017.
Banu Self Education is a module being developed by Healer Baskar Sir. There are so far 14 videos available on the youtube regarding this topic. These videos are speeches done by Healer Baskar as well as video coverage of the discussions related to education. The speakers in these videos are eminent persons who are really working to improve the education system that has got ruined over the past six decades. Videos can be viewed at http://selfeducationathome.com/video.html . Watch them one by one and get enlightened on how we have been ruined of our knowledge; get an idea on what can be done to safeguard our next generation.

India was the knowledge / cultural superpower in the world some 4 centuries ago. During those time, English was nowhere near us. All our ancestors learned by mother tongue. As the colonial power landed in our shores, our culture was ruined and we were conned to believe that English is a superior language than our mother tongue. Slowly our ancient wisdom was eclipsed by a useless Macaulay system through which we were made to believe as if we got into a elevated level.
I am sure that you have questions propping out. I have one question to you now. Many years ago, there were Indians who made waves to be known around the world; namely Mathematician (Srinivasa Ramanujam),  Physicist Sir CV Raman.,, etc., Our country was a rich one.
But after some time, there has been a blank. Why no  Indians propped out as a shining star to the world? Why is our country now stamped as a "Developing nation" ?

Nowadays, people are good slaves. They take instructions and execute what was told. Otherwise, they pass on instruction to make others work. The cause of this is that, those eminent people in ancient times got their education in their mother tongue and people of nowadays got educated in English. The education system has made them to memorize and vomit their answers without understanding anything. Students do not know how rice is grown. The top scorer of the recent time has proved to be best slave in this modern world. He / she does what was instructed and never tried to be an intellectual. 

 
To prevent further devastation, its important for us to get educated in the same language as our mother tongue. i.e. the language which was spoken by the mother when we were in the womb. But since our culture was designed to be doomed, we were made to stick to the fallacy that English is the language that we should stick to. Our children are just memorising their text books and then doing copy and pasting routine. Its time to realize this and make our next generation to realize this. Learn by experiencing rather than memorizing.

I had a great experience attending this symposium along with my wife and kids. My kids got a change in their thinking of their education as well their schooling system.
All the discussions and important points are being recorded and being made available on youtube. So do not fret of being unable to attend this symposium. Just watch this video below to get a brush of what we experienced while attending the symposium.

All the videos are available here at http://selfeducationathome.com/video.html, please watch sequentially and get enlightened.
Lets make our society a rich one in terms of knowledge rather than continuing to be a slavery kinda.

At the sea...

Few moments with my bull and my kids at the Cuddalore sea.
Enchanting place in Cuddalore where the fishing boats make their odyssey into the sea for catching the sea food.