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Review of Executive Lounges at New Delhi Railway Station (NDLS)

During my recent trip to Uttarakhand , I was faced with a problem I had never encountered before. We were passing through Delhi, but we had hardly any time in the city. On earlier visits when I have had to change trains/flights at Delhi, I have always arrived in the morning and left again at night, visiting relatives in between. This time, I was arriving in the city at night, and leaving again early in the morning. There was hardly any time to visit people. I would only have a couple of hours with them before I’d have to leave again. For the first time, we considered booking a hotel, but there again, we were hesitant about the actual hotels, the costs involved, and the logistics of getting from the airport to the railway station and then back again from the station to the airport.  That’s when we remembered reading something about a corporate-managed lounge at Delhi station. We soon figured out that we could book online and pay by the hour. Besides, we also learnt that there wasn’t ju

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What do you think these junglefowl are saying to each other?



Are they even saying anything? They stayed this way for quite a while allowing me to capture them with ease!   Nice of them, don't you think? So, any idea what they are up to?


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  1. "Listen you. This is the marker. Right side your place, left side my place. In case of dire consequences next time, don't tell me I didn't warn you."...:-)

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    1. Wonderful, Atula!!! thats really quite probable, considering where and how they are standing!!!

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  2. :)
    Whoever moves first makes the dinner!

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    1. grt thought, Indrani!!! a battle of wills to decide who gets to do the chores?

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  3. Awesome click!

    www.rajniranjandas.blogspot.in

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  4. Thats what I would think too, if only they opened their mouths.. or rather, beaks! but they just stood still... as they were, not a squeak out of them!

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  5. She came
    pensively
    and confused
    to meet her aunt,
    who just stood
    with her lips pursed
    in great disapproval.

    The beauty parlour trip
    gone wrong,
    a mess of colors
    in the hair,
    trickling on to the body,
    and she wailed'
    "All my efforts
    coming to naught -
    what will I do now
    at the
    L'oreal Miss Hen International ?"

    "Hmm"
    said the elderly aunt,
    "Its the influence
    of that Rooster
    you met on FB ....."

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    1. That was fantastic, Suranga!!!!Thanks so much for these wonderful lines.. been laughing and laughing!

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  6. Actually, you said "Statue" and they just stood where they were ! :-P

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    1. probably they were already playing 'statue' when I found them?

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