…::::The Vada Pav Chronicle::::::……

What do you do when you have lots of time to spare.

Well I read this and now my Ubuntu Hardy Heron desktop looks like this

Have read many reviews about movies, but this one is …dunno what word to use…freaky would be right. Its not a review but an analogy has been drawn here.

Read it.

I’m not a music person, I can’t differentiate between two singers/bands. I’m a total zero when it comes to music (and lot of other things too).

Heard the new song Bilkis by Rabbi.

Nice thought provoking song. He talks about Bilkis Bano, Satyendra Dubey, Manjunath and Navleen Kumar.

Issues which would cease to exist in a couple of years, till some one else with balls dies and the story continues.

Saw it yesterday night.

Though the story is a cliched Hindi movie love story which ends with the hero on a horse at the airport you would still love it. The script is extremely good which doesn’t bore you even a bit, at some places the second half seems to be little drag but its maaf.

When the movie ends you are guranteed to have a silly smile on your face…its got the feel good factor not like the BJP one but much better.

Its placed itself quite high in the all time cult of the chocolate boy romances like QSQT,MPK and DDLJ.

Posting it late had been to Phansad wildlife sanctuary two weekends ago.

Phansad lies between Alibaug and Murud.

To visit you need to register with the forest conservation office in Thane.

Since we were traveling for the first time we took ST buses and had to hire a 6 seater rickshaw. Ideally driving down would had been the better option.

If traveling by bus from Mumbai , then take the ST bus to Murud and get down at Ursauli naka, from there take a six seater or take Manmad bus which goes thru Roha route, it would drop you at the sanctuary’s entrance.

There are two guest houses there with basic amenities and you can get food from the nearby village.
The forest guards took us thru one of the many trails in the forest, unfortunately for us the regular forest guard was on leave and two other guards from a nearby forest escorted us.

The forest was very dense, I really dunno how our government can take care of such beautiful forests with hardly any manpower. These forest guards don’t even have walkie talkies !!!

The trail which we took was called the Chikalgaan trail, it lead us to a watering hole . The trail was very good untouched by any human presence, no water bottles or gutka packets lying around. It was a very refreshing walk in the jungle.

Since we were visiting during the monsoons we couldn’t see any wildlife other than one monkey.  Saw a good number of insects which the sanctuary is also known for.

The guards told us that the best time to visit is during the summers and if you are patient enough you can see a lot of wild animals including leopards.

They took us to one of their watch towers; the view from the watch tower was amazing. On one side you had the Arabian Sea and on the other the dense jungle

When it rained in there it was simply magic, you need to experience it.

On the way back we visited Murud Janjira would post about that trip later.

I forgot to charge my camera so couldn’t take any snaps, here are some taken by my friend’s camera. Click on them for a better view.

This is the Arabian Sea from the tower

The dense jungle as far as the eyes can see

This is the Chikalgaan trail, it looks straight out of some creepy Hollywood movie set.

This is the watering hole at the end of the trail.

I somehow liked this dude, posing for a photograph. Look at his camouflage.

It happens only in our mahaan country,this set pulled out a really good prank and all the leading newspapers took the bait.