Ganeshpooja 2016

Festival season has started now.India has lovely celebrations to add happiness to souls sinked in daily routine.I have woken up the happy kid in me to bring in the rituals at my new home.As ganapathi statue was not available in the streets of Noida,we tried to manage with chota ganpath at home.

I tried out fried mothak which is a maharashtian receipe along with moong sundal.There is a happiness quotient when we offer for our neighbors.That's a cool joy of giving.

Parshar lake trek

We were able to finally complete our long waited parshar lake trek at Himachal Pradesh.I should convey my thanks to Indiahikes trek leads as well as trek members who made the trek less difficult one.we started our trek from Bagging village which is at 4000 ft high from Mandi.The ascend was moderate with steep routes in 4-5 spots.It would be better to go with trekkung shoes as it's mandatory in slippery grounds.After 6 hours of trek,we reached the view point at an altitude of 7000 ft.Vow! Such an insane beauty.

   As the weather was helping us,we were able to complete the trek without any injury.There comes a hidden history to parshar lake.Parshar rishi ,guru of pandavas while they were in Himalayas for self realization and the son of vyasar meditates here and so the temple.There is an grassy island in the center of lake which keeps moving in the lake through out the year and the depth of lake remains unknown till this date.

  We learnt to make tent and we could witness rain followed by stars. 

 When I asked about trekking experience with trek members each had their own experience to say.As such trek won't give us a cup of joy ,but accomplishment raises our bar to face tough situations in a carefree style.

Here goes few pictures from parshar 

Geography of bliss

Been a longtime I sat with a gripping book.I recently got this book recommendation"Geography of bliss" by my friend.I have to say it as a gripping book as it involves factual data,realtime experiences and author's experiment on happiness quotient at different geographical locations of the world.Eric, the author has tried motley colored experiences starting from country of pleasure"Netherlands" to country of misery "Moldova" .This book in short is a research on happiness,but a lovable research fits for every human in the world.I liked the word he coined for each blissful country he visited.Its a not a book which speaks about superficial happiness but touches the depth to it and as a reader we can realise it when he traveled to county of sadness "Moldova".Again happiness is a subjective thing always to talk about.

As a whole it's worth a read.Great job by Eric.