Radio Jhankaar is perhaps the best bollywood radio station out there! Today, it just kept playing my favorite tracks! Sample this — Pathshala from Rang De Basanti, title track of Dil Chahta Hai, Tumhi Dekho Na from KANK, Bum Bum Bole from Taare Zameen Par, Lamha Lamha from Ganster, O Re Piya from Aaja Nach Le, Khabar Nahi from Dostana… The list goes on!

Unlike some of my friends (read: Mohnish), I’ve grown up listening to bollywood music. I still have a formidable collection of audio cassettes to back this up! (Though with the advent of MP3, this collection is a little obsolete )

I’d heartily welcomed the private FM channels when they’d made an appearance in Delhi. However, these days they aren’t quite up to the mark. They provide us with mindless blabber, and have a habit of playing the same track fifteen times a day — so much so that after some days, even the little sound of that wretched track becomes a pain in the ass!

Radio Jhankaar is a different equation altogether. No Ads, No Blabber, No Chattering, and No Repitition. Their track selection is awesome… Not only do they play the latest hits, they also play the choicest songs from the byegone era (read: tracks older than a year or two). In short, listening to Jhankaar is a pleasant experience. 

Radio Jhankaar is available on Channel 46 on the WorldSpace Network, and they haven’t paid me to write this. 

After more than a month of cultivating the habit, I am proud to announce that I’ve set up a new online space where you can read my thoughts.

Rajat’s Diary

My previous attempt at starting a tumblog didn’t quite see the light of the day. I started it with much deliberation, but never really got the hang of it. So the next time I decided to start one, I made up my mind not to announce its existence as soon as it got overboard — so that I can get some time to breed a habit of frequent postings as required by such a means of expression.

Its been a month since I’ve started Rajat’s Diary, and it boasts of 40 posts already! Compare it with the 57 odd posts I’ve managed to come up after a year and a half of blogging here.

Though I’ll continue to post here once in a while, Rajat’s Diary will be my primary vehicle of self expression on the internet. I hope you enjoy it. 

Subscribe to the RSS Feed of Rajat’s Diary.

A very happy Ganesha Utsav to all my readers! On this occasion, I would like to share a very interesting article in Hindustan Times by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Without much ado, here is the link — http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleText.aspx?article=24_08_2009_011_007&kword=&mode=1

Food for thought!

[As far as my longer posts are concerned, I’m in process of writing a magnum-opus. So it will be a while before you see something posted in here. Stay tuned, though! ]

A tweet is for a small self-expression. A blog post is for a bigger one. What if that self expression is medium sized? Its called a tumble!

These days, I’m not in the mood of writing full sized blog posts. So I have started a tumblog — Talkin’ n Tumblin’ — for medium sized self expression. Tumblr is a blogging service with a flavour of twitter. You can follow other tumblogs. Plus, it doesn’t have a commenting feature (I think). It has been designed for quick, and random posting. Something that suits me!

Really! I appear to be blogging in spruts. When I don’t feel like writing, I don’t blog at all! But this can stop now. I can regularly manage to gather enough courage to write a short piece 

See you there! And yes, it offers an RSS Feed too!

Remember my nephew? He has been growing up a lot lately. Here’s the happiest baby I’ve ever seen!

Say hello to Aarav!