Tar Road named Story Book of Tadoba!

 

                                           

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“Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.” ― Amit Ray

 “The road that leads to nowhere for others might just be the road that leads to somewhere for you!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

 "I envy roads in the forest, it's so much of wildlife they got to see every day"…Me

 Well, Amit Ray must not have definitely been to tadoba or else he would have said there is an exception for the road he was referring in his quote as here there are no bends or ups & down, straight patch of tar which starts from forest & merges in the forest, whether you look ahead or rear! And Mehmet, I agree with him, as on this road I am not worried about the destination as to travel on this road in itself is a destination for me! Well, if you are confused then this sharing is about wildlife & it is about tadoba (not exactly) rather roads in & around tadoba & one particular road about which I myself wonder how I have forgotten to share till now! Maybe there is a right time for everything so be this for my tribute to this road, here it is…

 Tar Road of Tadoba!

Very few forests have got a tar road (डांबरी सडक) in their core area & Tadoba is one such. This road starts right from Moharli gate from Chandrapur side & ends at centre of tadoba core i.e. Tadoba Lake. Just a decade back there was a State Transport bus which used to pass from this road to Chimur from Kolara gate & I have ridden on it in monsoon when the core is closed for tourism. We always used to envy this bus’s driver as for free the guy gets to experience the wilderness of tadoba every day as this bus has been needed to stop quite a number of times as tigers roam freely on the tar road especially during non-tourism times! The famous & heritage monuments, “Tadoba Pillars” are aligned along this road which are nearly three to four hundred years old built brick masonry structures & their purpose is still a misery, though many of them now are in dilapidated condition yet they tell the story of Dynasties which ruled these jungles & are witness of so many wildlife of stories, which are untold! The tar road cuts through the entire core (and buffers also) with bamboo forest on both sides for major part & runs through plains & hills for a small section displaying wonderful habitats of tadoba & you can witness every animal which frequents this road & the breathtaking view it offers. For years tigers have inhabited this road as part of their kingdom & queendom too, Madhuri, Sonam, Lara, Roma & presently Collerwali along with C3 are few queens who have dominated this road! Baghdoh, Bajrang, Chota Dadhial are the names of kings (male tigers) who have also ruled this road! On the right side of the road while going to Tadoba centre, most area is bamboo forest & beyond that runs a parallel road also known as Fireline Road which connects Telia dam & meets Tar Road up ahead & there are two cross lanes which connects these two roads are one way. These lanes once had a wonderful canopy of green bamboo & to watch any animal under the canopy is something you won’t ever forget. Unfortunately, for fire hazards the canopy has been cut by the forest dept as well we will need to make more such cross lanes as  there is large forest in between these two roads rather three roads as the third road Known as Waghdoh Road which runs on extreme edge of Moharli range & parallel to Andhari river which is border between Kolsa range & Moharli range, & one an animal cross any of these main roads & gets merged inside then its difficult to sight it , so few cross lanes can be made & these will help for patrolling as well for controlling fire also. As this entire stretch is with bamboo which carries fire-like packs of paper & such lanes can act as fire lines as well, making it easy for patrolling & tourists to connect all these roads for a better experience of safari. And anyway this area is open to tourism so you are not violating norms of 20% restriction (which is a joke, with due respect to the Hon Court & needed to be rethought but that's a separate story)!

One the left-hand side of Tar Road while you travel towards Tadoba, there is a very small stretch which is open for tourism & has some wonderful water holes which ensures the sighting of many wild animals. Tigers, leopards, sloth bears often cross the tar road in search of water, food from one side to another & this is the thrill of travelling on the tar road as you don’t know who will give you darshan 9sighting & when! As, because of dense bamboo unless the animal comes out of thickest & on road it's impossible to sight it & in summers the yellow grey bamboo & grass just melts animals like tiger & leopard in it! If the right side of tar road is of bamboo forest, then the left side has varied landscape with mixed trees & water bodies making it a perfect place for resting for wild animals. Here as the other end is non-tourism zones the lanes which cut in these parts turn back from water bodies or are barricaded at some distance so you have to turn back. These lanes are like forest trails & here you can suddenly encounter a sloth bear walking in its mood or a shy leopard trying to find some food! After witnessing such a thrill, you are back on tar road & move ahead where you come across Khatoda gate which used to be the second entry gate (don’t ask why second entry was necessary) & now it’s a check post as well, here you can have breakfast & use washrooms! To freshen up! Here at Khatoda gate two roads also meet tar road, one comes from Khutwanda gate & another from kolasa & Palasgaon villages which have been now relocated from core.  A decade back you could go to kolsa range from moharli but now that road has been closed making it mandatory for you to go out of park, take entry from zari or pangadi & then enter in kolsa range, again a not tourism friendly move!   Like Kanaha where you can enter in any zone from any gate, why can’t we keep the option open to enter in kolsa zone from tar road (moharli gate) is something only forest dept can answer, so be it, hope someone will read this & think & take right steps!

After khatoda the tar road heads straight ahead & now the bamboo forest gets replaced by mix forest with tall trees, creepers hanging on them & suddenly the landscape changes. Here also one road diverts right after khatoda gate known as Gosekhanar road & meets tar road near centre of tadoba which is end of tar road. This Gosekhanar road was ruled by legendary tigress Choti tara & other end of tar road was ruled by none other than Maya! Nearly for eight years these two tigresses were inseparable part of these two roads giving tourists best of their wildlife memories & sadly now both of them have departed from tadoba, due to age & hardships of wildlife! Now these two roads are ruled by daughters of Choti tara, gosekhanar road is with Bijli & tar road is by Roma.

I have many wonderful memories of travelling on this Tar Road but one is carved on my mind (though most of them are), it was nearly two decades back & that was not era of Insta or FB, I was working on water management for forest dept & we were returning from kolsa to tadoba centre at night. Suddenly the driver saw a huge male tiger walking ahead on tar road, right in the centre of the road which was one fourth of the present road width. We drove silently behind him to wait for getting side but he was walking in own mood & showed no sign of getting down from the road. Just as some signal, I looked back, it was dark yet in moon light I saw a female tiger walking behind our gypsy, the pair must be in mating & we were in between them, today it feels thrilling but in the darkness of night, knowing you are alone in the forest & caught between two tigers, suddenly the Tar Road seemed not that existing. Fortunately, the male tiger went into the forest adjoining & we zoomed past leaving the mating pair on their own! Later, in the daytime I had wonderful encounters with many animals on the tar road but that night one I will remember forever! I have been fortunate to watch Maya walk on Tar Road & I am sure the road also must be missing Maya & her walk very much.

The beauty of Tar Road keeps changing in every season, in winter the entire road is clad in all shades of greens but I love Tar Road most in early summers, where Palash & Amaltash flowers paint it in red & yellow while the fresh leaves of Mahua, Tendu, Jamun, Behada, & many such tress paint the surrounding with every known shade of colours & the Tar Road passes through like a magical land!

And if this is about a portion of road in core then the road’s part out moharli gate which leads to Chandrapur is now part of buffer forest & is equally happening with tigers sighting in day time also on the road! And here not only tourists as the locals also use this road, encounters (take it in right spirit) of wild animals & humans are common on this road & the road is a living example of coexistence, as tigers & humans both use this road, giving each other respect & space! That way every road in & around tadoba are lie story books & its very easy to stay in our safe concrete jungles with all security & safety but imagine about people who has to walk on feet or on cycle without any protection & the same road is being used by a tiger, sloth bear or India gaur, and you will understand how brave the people living around these roads are!

Agreed, life in the forest is most practical, it doesn’t have any sorrows but just live by the present day yet if the road could speak, I am sure the Tar Road would have been the best storyteller of all the roads! The Tar Road of tadoba is not mere some road taking people from one place to another, it’s a very special wildlife story book of tadoba where every safari has a new story & an adventure; every time I leave tadoba, I only wish to be back on the tar road as soon as I can & I think that’s the best tribute I can give to it, adios with this note!!

 Here are a few of the stories I witnessed on the Tar Road of Tadoba, check the link...

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Dhurandhar's Journey, Ramgarh to Lihari !!

 

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"Kitne aadmi the?"…

 "Basanti, in kutton ke saamne mat naachna"…

 “Ghayal hoon isliye ghatak hoon.” …

“Rehman Dakait ki di hui maut, badi kasainuma hoti hai.” …

"Hum mard hai… ladna hamara kartavya hai"…

Jay, Veeru, Gabbar, Thakur, Ramgarh, Hamza Ali, Jaskirat, Sanyal, Jamal Jamali, Raheman Dakait & yes, Lihari !!

All above Hindi lines are not quotes (rare for my sharing) but are dialogues & even the Gen Z knows first two lines though they were said nearly fifty years & next three lines even the senior’s generation which is over fifty years of age (like mine) knows & the names along are the characters & two imaginary places, yet all these feels very much part of real life, this common link between two generations which covers span of five decades, is subject of my sharing! And after long it’s about movies & rather its more about one movie as about the other one a lot has been already shared & I won’t strain your mind much, first lines are from Sholay (plz don’t goggle for it) & last three lines are from Dhrandhar (again plz don’t google), as if you don’t know about these two then no point in reading ahead though you can read just to understand about movies in general, the way most of us read life coach’s words (sarcasm)! Sholay was released exactly fifty-one years back & made history rather still making after re-re-release while Dhurandhar (part one &two) is re-writing history of Bollywood! Though when Sholay released there was no concept like Pan India Cinema or OTT & the only way you can know about movie was watching it & reading reviews in newspapers & some privileged people as access to movie tabloids like Start Dust or Filmfare & such, that’s all! While today you already know everything about a movie the day it gets released & with Wi-Fi & smart phones everybody is a critic & by the last show start running on the release day, most of the world has decided fate of the movie already! It’s a boon as well curse as on one side if there is too much info available then people do lose interest in going to movie in theatre (read as multiplex) which is a costly affair & when you know in a month or two you can watch it practically free in your home or anywhere! But at the same time in India people still love real world experience as the vibe & emotions matters a lot while you watch a movie or a sport (read as cricket) & people are ready to spend time & money for that, after all we watch movies to forget our daily grind, & for that, going in theatre & feeling that mahoul is more important, isn’t it?!

Ohk, first the reason for writing about Dhurandhar, many will say FOMO (plz google) & I won’t object as writing on social media just to show that you have seen that movie & you have your opinion is everybody’s right but one I share my views not to judge the movie, definitely not in the week when it’s been released but what is my take from the movie & I write in length which only a real reader take efforts to read & not for insta of fb users, so be it (just a disclaimer)! About Dhurandhar (prat 1 & 2), everybody know by now the figures it has earned etc etc & those figures does mean as this is not a documentary or art film which has been made for knowledge or something (many will say it’s a propaganda film, but about that aspect later) but it’s a commercial film which means it has to make money then only you can call it a successful film & on that scale it’s a topper, no two minds about it! And this is my first aspect, as when you make any product, a movie or a car or a book then if your purpose is clear that you must make money with it then stick to that purpose. Full marks to Aditya Dhar for sticking to basics, he didn’t give any patriotic interviews or made such claims about the movie, but it’s a commercial movie, spy thriller & that’s all! Once you as a producer (or as a businessman) are so clear about the product then you can focus in a right way on your product the way Aditya has been with Dhurandhar, right from first frame to ending it in the way which people (read as viewers) has liked it, he has done a professional commercial job! Here is where I can’t stop comparing Dhurandhar with Sholay & agreed, there was no 100-crore club thing when Sholay was made but had it been then also it would have been on top for sure as then going to theatre was the only way to watch any movie, means more revenue! And Ramesh Sippy also has made a perfect commercial film professionally! Here are two films which has everything a Indian movie watcher wants to see, it has action, it has emotions, it has romance (though in background) as focus is action, it has sacrifice, it has betrayal, it has pain, it has loss, it has patriotism & it has a tight script which binds all these things in place! Here is a product which is going to be a hit ninety-nine times out of hundred, which they eventually did!

And agreed, in India it’s very difficult to predict which movie will get hit & which politician will get elected but then there are producers & directors who has given repeatedly hit films & there are politicians who keeps getting elected from same constituency for years & this means there is success formula for both! Problem is, finding that success formula & using it in right way & this is what we too have to learn as in every field there are lesser successful people & more losers but had it not been so then there wouldn’t have been any value or respect for success, right? This is where the comparison scale between Sholay & Dhurandhar again comes in my mind, which is reason of this sharing! Let’s start from the script, both films have got lead characters which are criminals i.e. wrong men in the eyes of law & both are shown morally right. Though I admire Sippy as he didn’t wasted time in showing why Jay & Veeru (plz don’t google) become thieves in the first place & yet they have shown men with character & value. In Sholay Jay & Veeru are inseparable friends & balances each other for wrong & right, which in Dhurandhar are Jaskirat & Hamza Ali (again plz don’t google), both of them exists in lead role. If Jaskirat is a simple boy from a mediocre village family & good heart, then Hamza Ail is hard man who understand only one thing, his survival & his mission & can go to any level to achieve it! Both movies are very long on time duration scale, Sholay even with cuts was three & half hours which still was nearly forty-five minutes bigger than the movies being made then. While Dhurandhar I admire most on this front as it needs courage, guts & confidence to make movies of three hours forty-five minutes in era viewer’s interest can wash away in mere twenty seconds! Yet it’s the script & its flow which make viewers forget the time they are spending in watching the movie!

Then comes the action (read as violence) part, both movies are action movies & if I remember the then sensor board has held the certificate for Sholay for too much violence in it. Today watching Dhurandhar that wasn’t an issue but fifty years back chopping hands of a person on screen was as big a taboo as showing bold love scene & yet crowd loved the violence aspect then also & today! This shows somewhere deep within all of us, the darkness rules, we do get silent kick when Thakur thrash Gabbar with shoes having nails & we do get high when Jay shoots Dakus’ through their head. And today also when Jaskirat kills entire family of an MLA for raping his sister, we love it & doesn’t mind the brutality of those killings. I admit, Dhurandhar does made me sick for the way people are killed (or murdered), where heads are chopped & kicked like a football, todays sensor board may allow it but if we like to watch such display under name of action then somewhere as a society we are moving backward & not forward for sure & yet the makers have been successful to hit this bulls eye of viewers dark side make them watch it with ease because they blended violence with emotions! We justified Thakurs & Veeru-Jay’s violence as answer to Gabbar’s cruelty & today we justify Jaskirat’s violence as that’s the only way left to him to avenge his family & Hamza Ali’s violence we justify under patriotism, well, it means we accept that violence is the only solution to every wrong doing, isn’t it?

One more similarity in Sholay & Dhurandhar is, people have stopped believing in the system (read as govt or justice) so they accept only wrong can be used to stop more wrong! In Sholay, a dedicated Inspector Baldevsing Thakur tried to stop Gabbar & in return lost his hands along with entire family in Sholay! In Dhurandhar, a dedicated defence man Sanyal tries to stop Pakistani terrorists & in return lost his pride though not hands or any family loss! And both of them decides to fight their war with the wrong thing by placing another wrong person in place, isn’t it bit depressing? As why can’t the then Thakur took help of Police force of which he himself was part to nail down Gabbar & free the Ramgarh from his terror & why can’t Mr.Sanyal uses his all authority to demolish terrorism network which is supposedly run by the local politicians in our own country which allows flow of duplicate currency, drugs & weapons from outside of our border! Why the might of govt itself needs to take help of some petty thieves or a X-Military killer to fight with enemy of country or society, isn’t we accepting failure of our system by making these movies hit, think over!

Last but not least, about the tag of propaganda movie, which fortunately wasn’t said about Sholay but Dhurandhar has been released in era where social media rules our life & everything is judged here! I will say rather Dhuradndhar commercially used the happenings in our country very smartly to take ahead script of the movie, especially the demonetization of currency part! And this has been repeatedly done successfully in many hit Hollywood movies so why not accept it the way it is & then if using present PM’s speech is propaganda then let’s not forget that it’s the very same govt’s era in which an innocent Jaskirat has been forced to become Hamza Ali by depriving his family justice it deserved, right? So, lets focus on the success of Dhurandhar & apply the logic to become ourself successful for whatever mission we have undertaken as sure there will be more Dhurandhars’ coming to meet us but are we going to learn anything from them or just waste our four hours with money spent on popcorn & coke; choice is ours, adios with this concluding note!

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Team India & Winning T20 World Cup 2026!

 

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“Champions have different mentality; they have a stronger self-belief.”
― Sandeep Kakkar

“Don't aim to break records, aim to shatter them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

Pressure of being Champion is, whenever & wherever you play, people expect you to always win __ Me

Sandeep Kakkar is a highly successful Motivator and a Life Architect. He has authored the world's first self-help Novel “7 Buckets of Life”. Matshona Dhliwayo is a Canadian based Philosopher, Entrepreneur, and author of books such as The Little Book of Inspiration, 50-Lessons Every Wise Mother Teaches Her Son & many such. And I am a guy who tries to learn from all such names & use their wisdom in the best possible way I can, such as to start my sharing! Well, this is not about tadoba, not about wildlife, not about city or real estate but about sports & though it is about cricket yet it's more about characteristics of champions & how it helps us in our day-to-day life! I am not motivator or Life Guru but sports does teach us a lot, especially game like cricket where 22 players are in one game & this is era of modern days so you have to compete with not just payers on the ground but support staff & technology they use to stop you from performing & then there is media, fans & when you are defending champion then there is weight of expectations on your shoulder which is bigger than Mount Everest, & if you are part of Team India & the tournament is in India then suddenly you are carrying more than one “Mount Everest on your shoulders wala”, feel you get & my sharing is about how you perform with this burden!

Actually, this sharing I wanted to write last month only & most people have even forgot that we won T20 (plz google) ICC World Cup & while doing that we have broken many records (and jinx) & such in professional or say ease team India has done it that the usual thrill of winning a world title wasn’t there & people forget success which comes easily, though this success hasn’t come easily for sure however easy it may look on face! Ok, by now most of you know yet I will recite some records broken not from figures’ context but for pressure aspect about which I will elaborate later. Team India is the first team to win back-to-back titles in the T20 ICC world cup. Team India is the first country to win the T20 title as host. In two back-to-back world cups of T20 team India has lost only one match out of all the matches it has played, The final which team India won in 2026 is with the maximum runs margin in any of the finals played till now; there are many other firsts & records yet these few are very special & are important to understand the mindset of a champion as well becomes the hurdle for champions so I mentioned it specifically. Now let’s see what so special in achieving above feats while team India won this back-to-back T20 trophy, no team from 2007 when first T20 world cup has been played was able to retain this trophy, even most dominant team in white ball cricket i.e. Aussies also couldn’t do it & reason is, unpredictability of this format. The entire game gets done in mere forty overs (plz google for rules or don’t read if you don’t know, lol) & anything can happen during these limited time, one player, one catch, one over can change the fate of the game such is speed & uncertainty of this format. And uncertainty is the biggest hurdle in achieving consistency in winning as you don’t know on a day who will be your nemesis as when you know him then you are prepared, here it can be anybody & how you deal with an opponent player whom you don’t know & it’s his day that day, answer is, you don’t & usually you lose on such day! Like, in the semifinal with England, one young Bethel, twenty two years old, has nearly snatched away the game from Team India even they have made a biggest score to defend in any qualifier till now, yet such was the flurry of this Bethel’s game that suddenly all the Indian bowlers & fielders looked helpless to stop him & it took some extraordinary effort & planning to stop Bethel which is keep him away from strike & get other batsmen out, which India did, & that’s what champions do, adopt to the situation! This is why winning the T20 World Cup in succession is special as in this format of the game where any player can take away the game from you, winning consistently needs super efforts, which team India did!

At the same time another aspect is beating burden of past as on the very stadium where the final is being played nearly two years back the team has lost one day world cup final to Aussies & a country which live on beliefs as good omens & bad omens & blind faith (Andhshradha) this is something considered as bad open i.e. venue. And in the background of the present political social media war this aspect was being debated fiercely from both sides as to why the same venue has been selected when the ground isn’t lucky for us for finals. Actually, all over the world whatever you say is right or wrong yet even the champions have their own belief about some omens is a fact & I am not a judge for it! But a true champion believes only in his game, above everything as that’s what is going to make you win the game finally & not things like from which gate you enter in the stadium or which number’s jerky you wear or what room number has been allotted to you & this list is endless! Yet somewhere in the back of mind because we are humans & we have emotions, the past always keeps haunting us & the past of team India on this venue for finals wasn’t on our side & yet our team was able to put aside burden of the past & rewrote the history by winning the final, this is why the win is special! And a lot to learn from this aspect of team India for each of us, as every day is a new match & it throws new challenges on us & unless we raise ourselves above the burden of our past which may be of failures we won't even become champions of our life! Many of us crib for so many things as suddenly we point a finger at only when we try to justify our failure, I should not have taken this assignment on Tuesday as it’s not my lucky day or I should have avoided black shirt for interview & many such which in reality, are coverup just to shield our false ego of not accepting the fact that I failed because I didn’t perform, that’s it!

Third & most difficult aspect of this T20 championship was no team has won it as a host i.e. on home ground & that’s interesting as in many other tournaments the home team does get leverage of playing in front of home-crowd as well you have upper edge of knowing the ground conditions better than any other team, whichever the sport may be! But, but not in India as there are few differentiations here, first, India is a big country by size also & with big diversity on geographic conditions too! For e.g. look at the three venues where last three matches have been played by team India, decider with W Indies was in Kolkata in W Bengal, semifinal was in Mumbai in Maharashtra & final was in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. All these locations are totally different on weather as well ground conditions from each other like playing in some different countries & that’s not the case in most other countries where playing conditions are nearly similar all over. As well players from team India also come from different parts of the country for most of them any ground barring the two or three local players the venue is totally unknown just like foreign players! So, practically there is no such advantage of knowing ground or weather conditions & yet team India won the trophy is special. At the same time the cheering from the home crowd, if it is a boon then the same home crowd can boo you & who better than team India knows it (plz recall memory of loss from Sri Lanka in Kolkata in world cup)! And then when you play a final in a country like India you are carrying the expectation of a must win feel from one fifty plus crores of Indians & trust me, that pressure most of us even can’t imagine, leave apart carrying & that’s why winning the T20 world cup as host team is special for team India!

Last but most important the way team India played in entire tournament, super professionally as there was a major setback, in the form of big defeat from S Africa in super eight stage which nearly blocked our entry to semis’, but champions don’t get defeated by one loss, is something this team India has learned & proved it that they have learned the lesson well! They took this defeat as eye opener & then the next three matches they played with the intent to show other teams that they have learned & not lost from a big defeat, that is something to be learned from this team India. As in our life also when we are doing fairly well there comes a day, a job, a deal which hits us badly & how we digest that blow only defines what we are & team India showed that they are champion stuff! And then the most important lesson I learned for this tournament win of team India is, the team wasn’t depending on one person yet every time some one person came forward & did the job. May it be Sanju Samson, Ishant Ksihen, Bumrah or Axar Patel or Dubey (plz google), we have a new hero in every match that’s what makes you a champion team as this team is not depending (read as mentally) on one or two names but every player believes that he can change the game for the team & that’s how we must look at our respective team even at our work! Such was the perfectness of team India (with due respect, barring some real poor catching) winning this T20 world cup that we just didn’t feel the thrill of winning it, i.e. no adrenaline rush, no till last ball nail-biting, no prayers, nothing, but a cold-blooded murder of opponent team (sorry but that’s only phrase came to my mind) by performance & dominance! This T20 team is the new team India, she is brutal & confident & ruthless when it comes to winning, this is the team which plays only for winning & has the attitude of a champion!   A champion team is the one where every team member thinks & acts like a champion & take lead when times comes, thanks a lot team India not for just winning T20 world cup but teaching me so many lessons in the process & expecting many such ahead is all I can say, adios with this thankyou note!

*The final of the T20 World Cup 2026 reminded me of a scene in Amitabh Bachhan’s movie Deewar. When Bachhan retrieves a looted cargo of his gang from the rival gang & gets reward from his boss for the job & was shown relaxing in his cabin, his boss tells to his deputy, “iss ladke ko dekh rahe ho, muze iss baat ka achraj nahi hai isne akele ye kaam kar dikhaya, muze iss baat ka achraj hai ki isse ye malum thaa ki ye wo kaam pura karega, akele!” Plz google for the English translation as I may translate the words but I won't be able to convey the feelings for those words, & this T20 team India fits in to Bahcchan’s role, is all I can say!

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https://visonoflife.blogspot.com/2025/12/pune-real-estate-in-2026.html

https://jivnachadrushtikon.blogspot.com/2024/12/2025.html

Creating Togetherness; team Sanjeevani Way (Click link below) 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65629150@N06/albums/72157627904681345

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www.punecorporation.org

Think Green, Think Life

www.sanjeevanideve.com / https://junglebelles.