Welcome November!

Hercules with the hanging stone @ Mawlynnong, Meghalaya

Free flow

In the Gorge

A quiet gorge

Colors@Meghalaya

Waterfalls@Cherrapunji

Serene!

Through the Valley

Mumbling water

Waterfalls@Cherrapunji

Mawsmai Caves, Cherapunji

Down the stairs

Alone!

Saina! An inspiration

Did you manage to witness a legend being born yesterday?

I did. Early morning yesterday, the gold medal match between Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu took place. I think it was one of the best game I have seen in Badminton. Before the game I expected Sindhu to be the clear winner. But once the game started, I realized, Saina is in some different mood today. It felt as if she has decided to play this game as a do or die situation. The strength put into her every smash was terrific. The way she was moving in the court was maddening. It was clear that it is not just a game for medal, but something bigger to prove for Saina.

     Two years back in Olympics, when Saina had to be content with Bronze while Sindhu went ahead to play for Gold, peoples attitude towards Saina suddenly changed. People went to the extent of saying that there is no more need of Saina anymore, they have Sindhu to look up to now. That must have hurt. She had an operation on Knee. In between all this, she started talking about the uncertainity about her career. Just before Olymics I guess, she had to leave Gopichand's guidance and look for another coach.

In between all this Sindhu kept on rising high. There might not be any direct revelry between the two, but somewhere the conditions made them stand infront of each other. In between, during Indian internal competition, Sindhu had easily defeated Saina. So, the words of Saina's career being over became more prominent.

All these emotions must have come together and must have made Saina's game that brutal. I guess, Sindhu was not 100% fit to play the game with full potential. But still, the way Saina played, it was clear, no matter what is the situation, Saina would have prevailed over it.

The above emotion is a reflection of how she had put her whole heart out in the game and wanted to win it finally. She has proved that she really is good and no one should challenge her game. She may loose in a game or a competition, but she is the reference for Women's Badminton in India. She brought his game to a level in India, and that should always be remembered. She is a legend and a person worth following.

I salute her dedication and passion for the game. 

Saina, you are the best

Common wealth games, 2018 @ Gold Coast, Australia

Commonwealth Games are starting today at Gold Coast, Australia today.
This event is getting pretty silent treatment in India at least.  Hardly anybody is aware of it, forget talking about it. If I am not wrong, after Olympics and Asian games, this is the third biggest event with many countries participating in various range of games over a period of roughly 2 weeks.
India has sent a big group of nearly 327 sports-persons, who would participate across different games. But there is hardly any word shared across media about them.
Very recently, we started hearing about these games. But not because of the sports or the players, but because of other issues. Like, how Saina and Sindhu's parents are not allowed to live with them, or probably event objected to travel with them. Most recently, we were caught in an embarrassing situation, when syringe needles were found near our players living place. Initially we denied owning them, then our doctor changed the stance saying it was used for giving Vitamin B to a player. This issue jeopardized our participation in boxing matches. Fortunately, all the players have been cleared of doping charges and the doctor (Indian) received a written intimation about following rules properly.
There is also news that the matches for the boxing and badminton teams are rather easy and we can surely expect some medals in these games. Also, Mery Com who is participating in Common wealth for the first time, has to win only one match to grab a medal.
All in all, there is surety of some good performance from the team. I will be looking forward to some events from athletics. Our women's 400 X 4 relay team apparently may perform good. So, I will be looking forward to it. Similarly, the shooting team has raised some hopes.
Apart from that, I hardly have any information about the preparation of our players, their scheduled performances and all. I guess there is a need to put some focus on such events, so that these other games will also get highlighted apart from Cricket.
Lets hope, our all the players do awesome, and all we hear about them are accolades and no bad news of doping and other ridiculous stuff.
Good Luck India

IPL 2018

PC: http://www.india.com/sports/ipl-2018-full-squads-check-complete-payers-list-of-ipl-11-teams-2867446/

Indian Premier league is back with the latest version 11 in 2018. This version, I believe would be different bringing new refreshing look. This is not because of any rule changes in the game play, but because of a significant change in every teams composition. Though, I was expecting an overall makeover, but these teams find out a way to retain some key players with themselves. Anyway, if not full at least 80% of the team composition is changed and we will get to some new equations being formed.
I have mentioned earlier too, that I prefer IPL like formats over the "between countries" matches. The country wise matches bring with them concepts like pride, honor, country before self etc. Its not that I don't have such feelings. But in present context, where these games are mainly governed by media and companies sponsoring the event, all these feelings are basically used to exploit people and make them watch the game with all the emotions. The concept where sports used to be the means of bring different countries together is far gone and it is all governed by the money making marketing strategies.
On the other side, events like IPL doesn't erupt such emotions. Though, in earlier days, people used to go berserk to support a particular team, but now the viewers have also matured. They watch the games only with the intent of a mere sports. They have a liking for a particular player, but mostly, it is not to the extent of going mad for them.
Besides, it has so many advantages. It has helped India create a  pool of talented players who are ready to play in any high tension situation. It has removed the restrictions of money flow to certain players only and  instead made many a players financially stable, who otherwise probably would not get chance to play for the country.

I am really looking forward for this event to begin. Details of the plan are available at
http://www.india.com/sports/ipl-2018-full-squads-check-complete-payers-list-of-ipl-11-teams-2867446/

The sky beneath !

So, there is this small restaurant called "Idli House" at the King's circle. Very famous. Known for all different types of south indian dishes. Many of them are generally unheard like "Khotto". But among us, it is famous for the south Indian filter coffee. We religiously visit Idli house to drink this coffee. Once in a week, we need it to keep us recharged for the week. Now, for such a famous restaurant, waiting is inevitable. Though, for coffee you don't have to wait in queue. Just order at the counter and wait for it to be served outside the shop. One of those while waiting on the chair kept outside, I just felt like seeing above. The sky is at it awesome state and the tree in between created such a beautiful image, I couldn't resist from taking this snap.
So, if visit Idli house one of these days, do sit on outside chair and see above. A beautiful view is waiting for you.

The Game of Scrabbles !

I don't know, how I was unaware of this game till date. Recently bought and started playing. Just made me realize how slow the mind has become in connecting odd letters and making a sensible word. Mostly we end up making only 3 letter word to get through our turn. It takes time to start realizing the possibility of big words.

Also a realization: There are hardly any word in English  starting with "q" and not followed by "u". Any word that is known like Qatar, Iraq are all derived from other languages mostly Middle east, Chinese, Indian and all.
Makes me wonder, is there any real need of this letter "q". I found it replaceable everywhere.

Sridevi - Khwabon ki Shahjadi!!

The week has begun on a very sad and shocking note. Can you believe it?

Sridevi is no more.That's really unimaginable.

Some of her movie have played a big role in grooming my childhood. I remember watching her song from Nagina on chitrahar. I must be hardly 8-10 years back then. But she made me believe that such thing as woman and snake in one, exist. While I went to my uncle's place and movies were brought in to see on VCR, I fought with everyone to watch this movie, because everyone else had seen the movie already except me. 

This song, I supported Sridevi like anything and I wanted to beat Amrishpuri personally for trying to use her to get Naagmani. I was living the movie.

Then, came the other movie, Mr. India. Her role as the reporter, tenant, Charlie Chaplin, Hawa Hawai, every thing I enjoyed to the fullest. Though, it was all Anil Kapoor's movie, but I totally felt that Sridevi's character played a major role.  I was young enough to not understand the song Kate nahi katate back then. Was just wondering, why she is dancing in rain, dark and moving like this ? Except that, she was the best.

I liked her movies more than that of Madhuri's. Though her movies with Jitandra were little difficult to watch for me (because of him). Her movie Chalbaaz, I found more entertaining than the original Sita aur Gita.

Her Bollywood career is more closely associated with my childhood and those are the things which you miss the most. She was the best and she will ever live in my memories as a legendary actress.

Witnessing Europe in Mumbai !

Last weekend was amazing. Beautiful weather, slight chill and fantastic environment in Mumbai. While in Five Garden, Matunga, for a moment, I forgot that I am in Mumbai and felt like being somewhere in Europe. Do visit a park early morning in Mumbai over the week end. The weather is awesome here atpresent.

The 3-D effect !

Last week, the sky was amazing on Saturday. I got to see the blue sky, rarely seen here and one I witnessed frequently in Europe.A combination of this white cloud filled blue sky with greenery upfront gives an unusual 3-D effect to the picture. Not to forget the flying birds add a new dimension to it.

Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj

Today is the birth anniversary of the beloved king of Maharashtra Shri Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
On this occasion, sharing a picture of Shivaji Maharaj's statue present in  the Shivaji Chowk in Badlapur.

Shivaji Maharaj ki Jai!

Greenery

Mumbai is blessed to have many parks in its surroundings. Thanks to that, we get to see some greenery around us. One such picture taken in Matunga.

Decorations at Hiranandani, Thane

A diwali like decorations on the streets of Hiranandani, Thane for Half marathon event.

Hiranandani half marathon, Thane

Yesterday, we went to participate in the Hiranandani Half marathon at Thane. I participated through someone, so I had no direct connection with the participation process. Whatever the mediator person was saying, I was accordingly following. We were supposed to report at 4.45 a.m. apparently, when our run was to start at 7.00 a.m. It made no sense and it was just not possible by any means for us to reach there at that time. We decided, we will reach by 6.00 a.m. and will see if still we can run.

 When we reached, the atmosphere was electrifying. The place was decorated as if it is Diwali. Not to forget, there were fire crackers too. In fact too noisy ones. I wonder, how this doesn't add to pollution when Diwali crackers do! We were not able to stand there, it was so smoky. Imagine people who were running through it. How much of those poisonous gases must have entered their lungs.

Anyways, the atmosphere was really good. All enthusiastic people moving around. A bhangada Dhol playing in the background. Different troops running through the track. Some people were complaining as the parking was little far away from the starting point, but that could not be helped. Overall, a good energetic beginning of the week.

Seashell museum of Mahabalipuram

In one of my visits to IGCAR, Kalapakkam, with some free time in hand, we decided to give a visit to a near by museum in Mahabalipuram, made exclusively for sea shells. It is a wonderful place and worth giving visit. The fascinating part begins from its entry itself that shows a huge, wild octopus keeping control on the  entry of the museum. 

As always is the case with such places, the museum received a visit from school picnic, where are students are least interested about the place and more about running around here and there. So, that kind of cut our visit short.

A heart touching TV Commercial of Samsung India Service

 

PC: https://news.samsung.com/in/samsung-customer-service-campaign-is-the-most-watched-video-globally-on-youtube-in-2017

Samsung India service came up with this TV commercial which apparently is one of the most watched commercial of 2017. It indeed is good.Somewhere it plucks the chord and would surely make your eyes wet. The story slowly builds up where a blind girl wants to avail the service of Samsung India service to repair a TV in her home in a very remote hilly area. The kind of efforts this person from Samsung India service takes to reach her home and then having a sudden realization about the background of this requirement of urgent service to be provided makes this commercial reside in mind even after it is over. No wonder this is the most watched commercial, if the claims are to be considered true. I felt a need to share it with all here.

VC: Samsung India

The Insides of Vir Savarkar Sabhagrah, Dadar

I wanted to visit Vir Savarkar Sabhagrah since the time I used to go to Shivaji Park, Dadar for jogging. If you measure the distance through outside road around Shivaji Park, it comes out to be around 1.2 kms. I used to begin my run from the side where the hospital Shushrusha is located. So, when I had just started running here, and I was not in practise, by the time I would reach the other side, i.e. around 800-900 mts run, I generally used to be exhausted. And I would mostly be struggling to complete one round. Many a times I could drag myself to get going, but then there used to be days, when throwing any more steps was just impossible. This used to be times when I would stop right infront of the entry to Vir Savarkar Sabhagrah.  Back then I had no idea what it is. I thought it is some kind of museum. That initiated my interest to go in there someday. It though never happened. Last week, I got a chance to visit the place to attend a programme in the theater. The insides of the theater is really good and immediately takes the grip of the person. A huge curtain in the center and two very beautiful sculptures on either sides of the curtain. The first one I could understand partially that depicts art, religion, spirituality, the defending strength, the growth (agriculture) strength, all associated with India. But the second I could not deduce.

I am not sure if the two sculptures are just associated with Indian way of life or does it go more specific towards the identity at the center of the name of the Theater, Vir Savarkar. These things need to be deduced. Are you aware of it? Do share then.

Still the curtain is down !

There is anticipation on one side and anxiety on the other.There is curiosity on one side and excitement on the other. Only thing that separates the two sides is this curtain. As long as it is down, all these feelings exist. As the curtain goes up, they all converge to one, expectation of a good performance.

Super Blue Blood Moon - one minute summary

 PC: https://thenortheasttoday.com/are-you-ready-to-witness-the-super-blue-blood-moon-2018/

 It was an interesting astronomical phenomena of Super Blue Blood Moon, that we witnessed yesterday here in India. But as obvious it is, many people might not have been able to monitor the whole sequence of the phenomena, considering the time schedule of 4 hours needed to witness it. So, some enthusiasts came up with the idea of shrinking the time slot of 4 hours into 1 minute. These 4 hours have been nicely captures and squeezed into a one minute video that has already started making rounds among people through Facebook, Whatsapp and Youtube. I also saw it first on Whatsapp and wondered who must have made this video. That's why I started searching it on Youtube. But realized many people have uploaded it there. So, the name of original maker is unknown. That is a pity. Credit should go to the owner. Now, I am embedding here one of those videos probably uploaded by a person name Avinash R.P. I am not sure, it belongs to him or not. But the credit goes to the owner. ( I hope it is Avinash).

Have an experience of this unusual phenomena where the Moon turns Blood red for some time. It is wonderful. Hats off to the video maker. Great work.

 

Blood Moon, Super moon and Blue moon

Today seem to be a great day for astronomy enthusiast. A once in a life time opportunity ( considering ones life time is less than 150 years) has arrived today. Four events are going to take place today. Every where they are saying three, but I am calling it four. As in the video they say three phenomena are occurring today. But I guess, one is just an artifact of calculations, one is merely an observation and one is a real phenomena. And which is the fourth event, not explicitly discussed?

Lets go one by one

1) Total Lunar eclipse: An event where Earth comes in between the Sun and the Moon. The shadow of earth falls on moon, cutting out all the light completely coming from Sun. This is the event not explicitly discussed around. Focus is only on how the Moon will look like today.

2) Blue Moon: Now this is not a phenomena. It is just a case that when two full moons occur in english calender month. So, no phenomena here but just a game of calculations. Since having two full moons in one month is a rare care, thats why the use of words " Once in a blue moon".

3) Supermoon: An event where the Moon appears relatively bigger in size. All because, during its revolution around earth, it has come at a relatively closer distance than the rest of the time. So, an observation that a bigger size moon will be observed.

4) Blood Moon: Now this could be called as a phenomena, I guess. So, when the Lunar eclipse takes,  while all the direct light  from the Sun reaching out to the Moon has been obstructed by the Earth, some amount of light purges through the atmosphere and falls on the Moon. As a result of the distilling of light by the atmosphere, the light that reaches the Moon, results in yielding it a red color, thereby making it look like a shade of blood red color.  I am not sure how really it would be looking. But surely would be great chance to experience it. Do watch this embedded short video to know more about it.

A route to the happiness

Recently, I got a chance to visit a sugarcane field. It was such an amazing experience. As you take the route to the field, you slowly enter into another world. A relaxed, tension free place, where there is no binding on what to do, how to do and all. You also realize that you can just pick up vegetables and fruits just like that without bargaining and surprisingly all the fruits will taste sweet and all the vegetables absolutely fresh.  You end up spending enormous amount of time, enjoy to fullest and still realize that it was just an hour we spent in the field. To, all the fellows, which have spent all their time in cities or abroad, this is must do exercise, just to realize that there is another style of living life, that exist on this earth.

Indigodeli, RCity mall

Indigodeli, RCITY mall is one of my favorite places to have a quiet, wonderful time with awesome treat of tastes. What I like the most about it is the environment created. Once inside, you enter into an altogether different world. Ofcourse, once full of people, this place also started buzzing, but it surely is not disturbing like other places. The sitting arrangement is awesome and you can get the feeling of not being in restaurant full of people. The food is obvious and I have written about it earlier.
The reason to put this post today is, recently I visited its another branch, the one in Phoenix mall, Worli. Believe me, it is no match to this branch in RCITY mall. While they have tried to create the same environment, because of the location of this branch in the Phoenix mall, it just ends up looking just dark and little sad. Ofcourse the service is good here too. The food I tried here was a little let down for me. All the time, I was thinking and unknowingly comparing with the experience in RCITY mall branch and kept appreciating it.
So, if you plan to try INDIGODELI anytime, I would recommend the RCITY Mall branch. But that doesn't mean, Phoenix mall branch is bad. Afterall INDIGODELI is INDIGODELI.

Mumbai local: Mumbai's own adventurous sport

PC: https://thelogicalindian.com/news/13-people-died-mumbai-local-in-2017/

Are you interested in experiencing an adventurous sport, but you don't want to spend lot of money or travel to long places to do that? We have a solution for you here in Mumbai. Mumbaikars daily play this adventurous sport which hardly cost anything and you doesn't need to travel far away from home to experience it. It is called Mumbai local train.

I don't travel by local train in Mumbai. Although, I am here for some good time now, but my experience with this travelling mode is almost zero. I was just a listener of all the horror stories of Mumbai local train traveling. Whenever I use to cross over the Tilak bridge of Dadar, I used to wonder, how would all these people fit in one train, which already arrives mostly occupied? 

PC: http://www.india.com/news/india/mumbai-local-train-status-mega-block-on-central-and-harbour-lines-on-january-14-passengers-advised-to-avoid-overcrowded-local-trains-2842041/

But then, something unimaginable happened yesterday. For some reason, I had to go to Badlapur. I thought of taking out car, but then others ( who are used to this train traveling) insisted and we ended up taking a train. I thought it is Sunday, and early morning time and it shouldn't be  that big crowd going in opposite direction. We ended up standing on Dadar station's platform for 8.11 a.m. CSMT-Badlapur train. We went little early, so I thought my conjecture is turning right. But then as soon as the time was 8.06 or so, from somewhere, people started gathering and very I realized I am myself a part of the scene I used to see from Tilak bridge. I was given courage and suggestions on what to do and whatnot to do at those fine moments of boarding the train. Fortunately, it did not turn out to be that difficult to catch the train. For next couple of stations it was pretty ok to even stand in the boggie. There was crowd, but comfortable. But then the train arrived at the Thane station and I got the first glimpse of what crowd really is? I was initially standing in one of the corners near the first seat. But once the train started, I realized my body parts are in all different directions. The two legs were far apart. Hands were holding at two different places and I was literally doing  some kind of Yoga pose. By the next station, I was thrown deep inside the boggie with pretty much change in the standing stance I had taken.

If some one is thinking that stay deep inside for the whole journey and just come in the most crowded probably during the time you want to get down. But that is the grave mistake you would do. Because by the time you may reach the gates, you would have crossed 2-3 stations beyond your destination.

Luckily our station was the last one. So, I thought getting down would be easy, as every one would want to get down  here. But, that is wrong thinking. Even the last station is crowded and every one standing on the platform wants to board the train for the return journey. The unwritten rule in these places says that, who ever wants to enter, let them inside first. Once the rush is over, then all those who want to get down may proceed. If you attempt an early stepping down process, the influx would force you return to your place and you may get physically hurt. Interesting thing, nobody would bother to look after you but instead abuse you for trying to break the unwritten rule.

The return journey was equally adventurous. But now I had get the inkling of what to expect. So, I survived.

I took this experience yesterday for the first time. In spite that it was a holiday and early morning time. I can only imagine, what people must be experiencing on working days, when the need to board the train and reach destination in time very much important. I feel pity for some of my colleagues who travel from places known for gathering maximum crowd. Probably, I traveled on route which has some humanity. Because there are other routes where some other unwritten rules have to be followed. For example: You can not board travel going to Virar if you have to get down at Borivali. There are places fixed for people to stand, sit in every boggie. And it has resulted in forming groups. Either you be a part of this ( if they accommodate you) or you face the music. In worst case scenario, you may can even get thrown out of the running train.

So, this local train travel has kinds of components that make it an adventurous sport. Come and try this fantastic ride and I hope you survive through it every day.

Colorful Makar Sankranti celebrations of Alandi

Yesterday, I happen to visit Aalandi, near Pune, Maharashtra. A place known for Sant Nynaneshwar.

Coincidentally, it was Makar Sankranti. It was wonderful to experience the celebration mode on the occassion. In City areas like Mumbai or Pune, the celebration is not evident. Basically, at these places, celebrations are only through Whatsapp. In Maharashtra, we have a tradition to give sweets made out of Sesame and Jaggary called as TilgooL (TilGud). While giving it we say, "TilGooL ghya, goad goad bola". Means Have TilgooL and as its taste is sweet, keep speaking to us sweet for the rest of the year. As I mentioned, in city areas, celebration is through Whatsapp, so, we give only virtual TilgooL to people and expect them to speak sweet.

So, I was really impressed when I happen to be at this place Aalandi. I could experience the feel of the celebration mode here. It was one of colorful days, I witnessed. People dressed in colored clothes, getting ready to visit the temple, to enjoy in a fair, shopping colorful things, buying colorful flowers to offer to the God. Everything was just colorful. It was a different kind of experience for me.

Just Colorful!

Through the skeleton

Life changes dramatically. Some days are the best ones, but then unknowingly, things change and we get to witness the other extreme too. One thing that beautifully depicts this changes is a tree. It shows all kinds of color in a very short span. There are days when a tree is all covered in greenery. It gives us shade, fruits, flowers and what not. A tree with a good shade is something that a trekker really loves. After walking for a long time under the Sun, as soon as you get to see a tree with a good shade, you have to stay under it for some time. The coolness offered by the tree at such a time is the best thing one can experience.

But then days change. A point come when one can not see a single leaf on the tree. And the skeletons of the tree are out to visible eyes. Interestingly, during such times, nobody even bother to look at such trees, forget waiting under it for rest. Such times represent the mirror. Though, it is the tree that turns skeletal, but it reflects the real us who change priority towards others as per our convenience.

Route to Sudhagadh fort - an interesting story to tell.

One of the recently attempted trek to Fort Sudhagadh. Near Pune. Perfect location and fantastic route. Unfortunately we could not beyond a point. The point shown above. There is an interesting story about it. We started our trek little late and reached the base of the fort pretty much at time when nobody wants to climb. Yes, sharp at 12 o'clock. Without wasting any further time, we started climbing. It was not a difficult climb to begin with. But with a big gap in trekking, even simple climbs become difficult. Anyway, we kept climbing. After almost one hour of climb, we finally found a tree which was giving a good shade. So, decided to take a halt. Some people lied down, some started clicking around.

Soon, one of us started asking, if anybody is hearing noise as if a truck is coming. Initially we said no, but sooner every body heard the noise. That was interesting, because there is no chance of getting a truck at this height. So, we started checking out, and while started checking the path, we were about to take, it suddenly turned scary. Just at a distance of 100 meters, there was a big bunch of bees, which were coming towards us. It turned the whole path dark. The noise was increasing at a faster rate, that means bees were traveling pretty fast. It was a do or die situation. Within seconds, everybody got up and started running downhill with all the luggage on back. Now it seems difficult to believe, but the distance we took 1 hr to climb up, we covered the same distance with in 10 minutes. By 1.15 p.m. we were back at the place from where we started. It was pointless to try again the uphill task, not knowing the current situation. Another group had just started climbing up and they asked us why we ran down. We told the whole scenario. Soon, they also started contemplating what to do. Not sure, what they did,because we had started our return journey without wasting any time.

A Whisper in the ear

Poem courtesy : https://www.pinterest.com/explore/atticus-quotes/

I said to him, 

"You are not strong enough to withstand the Storm" .
He whispered in my ears,
" I am the Storm".

Maharashtra Bandha: What exactly is achieved?

PC: http://indianexpress.com/article/india/maharashtra-bandh-live-updates-mumbai-pune-dalits-marathas-bhim-koregaon-5009428/

After a long long time, we all Maharashtrians experienced a  "Bandha" that halted Maharashtra for a day. Frankly speaking I only faintly remember coming across the name "Bhima-Koregaon" till day before yesterday. That is why, when I read some news about "rail roko aandolan" in Chembur on 2nd January marking a protest for Bhima-Koregaon incident, I got no clue. I thought it is just minor issue which will be resolved by the time,we head back to home. But over the time, it started getting more and more ambitious. By the evening, it reached a level of giving sigh of relief for every member reaching home safely. 

It was a compulsory holiday next day. Apparently it was supposed to be a peaceful bandh. But as is experience, it never is peaceful. Repercussions observed in all parts of Maharashtra and quite a lot in Mumbai. I really could not understand what is achieved out of this Bandha? Why did they start it and why it was withdrawn suddenly? Surprisingly, within minutes of withdrawing Bandha call, everything got regularized with in minutes. Does it mean, all the anger people had in mind got evaporated suddenly?

I got no clue. I never understand such tactics. I am just wondering how long will such Bandhs be allowed to take place in India, that achieves nothing but destroys everything around.