Whats in the name !!

Sometime back I acompanied my brother-in-law to a doctors clinic. The clinic was named "Ravi Diagnostic Center". On our turn my Brother-in-law was called in by the doctor and I went in with him. The Doctor was a nice man. After He had finished examining my brother-in-law, I casually asked about the unusual name of the clinic "Ravi". He said "you see, my son's name is Ravi and I love him very much, So I named the clinic 'Ravi' as well".
I asked furter "And who named your son Ravi". "Ofcourse me, who else", he replied.
"And what does, Ravi mean", I asked. "The Sun", he replied.

I now wonder how we humans associate meanings with things.
Was the clinic named after The Sun ??
Moreover if you uttered "Ravi" before the Doctor, would he have thought about his clinic, his son or about Ravi-The Sun.
Doctor named his clinic after his son...but who had named his son in first place?? He himself !! So was naming the clinic "Ravi" really concerned with his son or the fact that he liked the name "Ravi" ??
Or was it that meaning of the word "Ravi" changed for the doctor with time. Intially it meant "The Sun"..later its was the name of his son and now its the name of his clinic.......

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Gulmarg temple

  

Dal and srinagar

 
Dal Lake as it appears from Pari Mahal 

Women of Dal

  

Gulmarg again

  

Boats On Dal

 

I didn't ride any of those boats..ain't that a shame..I wish one day I'd own one...my very own shikara...and I'd take you for a long ride...we ride hand in had..on the gentle waves of the Dal..someday...someday for sure 

Barista at The Metro gurgaon

  

Gulmarg Kashmir

  

Dad Says I have grown Up!!

  

Book Shop

Yesterday I went to a book shop in one of the malls here...gurgaon has some fine malls you see. There was a sale going on so it was a bit crowded. I was browsing through on title when I heard a female voice saying "pick that one". I looked around and saw no one. Again I heard the voice "no no, pick that one". Well I now realised that the voice was comming from other side of the store. Again I heard " this not a good one, it won't be of much use to you, pick the other one". I went to the other side of the store and saw a layd in here late twenties telling her son, which book to pick up. The child should have been aged four or so. He seemed intrested in some cartoon book while her mother insisted that it won't do him any good. She wanted him to read "Alice in Wonderlan" instead as she thought that it was a good one. Not to say that "Alice in wonderland" is not a good book, but what possible good would it do to a four year old was beyound my ken. Anyway I went ahead with my own browsing and after sometime stumbled on "The kitchen God's wife" by Amy Tan. I picked the book and after paying for it, was on my way out of the mall when I saw the same mother-son standing at a nearby ice cream parlour. The kid was demanding chocolate flavour but the mother insisted that he should have strawberry instead as chocolate was not good for him. Suddenly I found the connection between what I was seeing now and what I saw in the book shop. The mother was just moulding the child into what she thought was "Good" afterall it was her child and she knew what was goodfor her child, beit books or be it icecream. The cartoon book was just another form of chocolate icecream. The mother was just selecting the right baby feed in the book store !!!

You Were a Lynx

You are a great knower and keeper of secrets. A bit psychic, you can bring out hidden truths.

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Why do we have saturdays

I am bored...totally bored since I woke up this morning....there is nothing to do except to sleep and eat....I am wasting my life away...why do we have weekends at all. I kindda like being at work..at least your mind is occupied with something..now I am not a workolic or anything...but days pass on so quickly that when you realize that its..shit Friday!!, saturday is already looking you in face..a long lifeless day. I must say that sundays are not this diffcult to pass....sundays have traditionally been sundays!!! thats granted I mean that you don't work on a sunday...but why saturdays.

Actually there are a hell lot of things I want to do...I want to paint ..which I have not done for sometime now...then go out and see places...go out for trekking..and take neat photographs...but then these things require time...more than just a weekend....and that means weekends end up as nothing days. I sometimes wonderd if I could bundel all weekends of the month together and go for a long holiday...but then I know thats not possible and to add insult to injury..or salt to tea...I know that things are gonna be like this probably for rest of my life...unless I seek an escape.