"Land Of Tigers", Bandhavgarh!

 “Tigers, except when wounded or when man-eaters, are on the whole very good-tempered...Occasionally a tiger will object to too close an approach to its cubs or to a kill that it is guarding. The objection invariably takes the form of growling, and if this does not prove effective then it is followed by short rushes accompanied by terrifying roars. If these warnings are disregarded, the blame for any injury inflicted rests entirely with the intruder"… Jim Corbet

No need to introduce the author as the name though an Englishman but so much merged with wild life lover in India that we named our first project tiger by his name! And these are the very first words I have read about the tiger (though in Marathi) when I was some ten years old & had not seen a tiger even in a zoo’ but the words made me curious since then about the tiger. And later on when I started seeing them in forest I started realizing that if I like the tigers then I should like the forests first as it’s there where the tiger can be seen at its best! Agreed tiger is one of the best creatures to see in forest though there are competitors for the honor, for e.g. I myself will rate equal to a full grown Barsingha (swamp dear) flaunting its horns & walking with head high in the grass lands of kanha, yet tiger remains brand ambassador of the Indian forests & a major attraction to visit the same. But very few knows a little about the tiger nor have observed its pattern of living or moving around in its kingdom, all we are happy is to get just a sight of it, click the snaps in whatever way we can & share it on FB, that’s all. Here many will say it’s already so difficult to even have one glimpse of the animal then how we can observe a tiger to know more about it? Well what I meant is there is difference in seeing a tiger & observing it; we observe a tiger whenever we get a chance to see one & that’s a difference in common tourist & a true wild lifer.

Coming back to the topic of bandhavgarh, best known as “Land of Tigers’, it was on my agenda but somehow couldn’t make in last few years. Two reasons, from Pune i.e. where I live its bit difficult to travel as even by flight which one has to take from Mumbai, it’s a day long journey & my last experience of the place wasn’t much nice. We have to left the tour half way as park was closed due to death of a tigress, which forest dept claimed that because of tourist vehicles while the guides & gypsy drivers claimed its due to a forest vehicles itself! In that dispute most the park was closed for tourists & we have to curtail our trip. This time I inquired about all the park situation & this is something I will like to share with those who goes to forest for any particular purpose i.e. for tiger sighting or for bird watching or for a peculiar specie say some migratory birds or expect to see some unique animals. You must inquire about particulars forests flora & fauna as well weather over there before you leave for the destination.  For e.g. I will share a classic example I witnessed, at our bandhavgarh trip we were staying at a resort & some other guests whom we came across  at dinner, shared their annoyance for not being able to see the tiger at all when they have been told that no one gets without seeing a tiger from bandhavgarh! And they were surprised to know that we were able to see at least six tigers on day of forest itself & that was their third day without tiger! Here I asked which zone they have gone to. As in Bandhavgarh, the entire forest has been divided in three zones, Tala, Magdhi, Khataoli & there is a buffer zone too. The Tala zone in fact is a premium zone as it has more biodiversity & in past more tiger sightings. They have booked all Tala zones but unfortunately this summer somehow due to a male tigers dominance who killed few cubs & a tigress in the Tala zone & has drove out two more male tigers suddenly there want any tiger sighting in tala zone. And one more female tigress with cub has migrated to Magdhi i.e. adjoin zone, so rather the sighting was more at magdhi & khatouli zones. That’s the reason the poor fellows even being in for three days in best tiger sighting season, couldn’t have a single sighting of the tiger!

I have inquired before starting for Bandhavgarh & though I myself also have first asked for Tala zones booking but after speaking to personnel over there changed myself to magdhi zones & other one. And that proved so right that this trip became like a tiger den trip! Usually when I come back from forest approximately 30% of total snaps are of tigers & rests are of birds, other animals & landscape. This time it was reverse case with 70% snaps of tigers only & all size & shape! Most importantly I got to see tigers a lot closer & could focus on their behavior patter a very interesting thing to do. Agreed by now tigers have been studied a lot than Jim Corbet days & yet after all tiger is one of the rare species & two things whatever you have read about the tiger to see it happening in front of you as well see something new happening, nothing more exciting than that in a forest!

To start with its hot summer in bandhavgarh & by 5.30 am day light is enough & yes one more thing there is lots of dust, so much that it surrounds everything including your camera, which has to be considered. Even while photographing a tigress which is standing close to the road side, the dust is clear in every frame making it difficult to shoot the clear image! So, one need to be prepared for such extreme weather & local conditions while visiting the forests. And while travelling in the forest your driver as well guide should be smart enough to avoid a path where already a gypsy ahead of you covering you in dust bath! That way bandhavgarh forest department is doing great job along with the guides & drivers. Best part was while the car awaits at gate to enter the forest guard herself (well to my surprise as magdhi gate there was a lady forest guard story of her will come ahead) used to come to the gypsy’s in queue for tourists verification instead all the people making crowd at gate. This practice can be followed by other parks, it does saves time too & much convenient for the tourists. Another best thing I observed amongst the gypsy’s is the way they were co-operating to maintain the distance between the vehicles as well allow every tourist to get a clear sight whenever there is a tiger around, so instead all blocking each other’s way & making a mess, a little patience & understanding does help; a lesson kanha & tadoba guides & drivers should take. The forest patrolling staff also was more hostile & friendly & instead in punishing mode all the time were more keen to have every tourist gets a glimpse of the tiger as that’s what they have come at bandhavgarh! There is no fuss about rules like taking a U turn or reversing vehicle on same track as such things hardly matters, what’s most important is self discipline; lets understand all park managements that extreme harsh rules to monitor the traffic won’t work but to take guides & gypsy drivers in confidence & let themselves manage the decorum of the forest is what works & bandhavgarh is a classic example for the same!

So finally we entered, May sun is already up in sky & our gypsy rolled through the gate of Magdhi zone on dusty ride. Soon the mercury is rising as the sun rises & the forest started displaying its colors with all shades of yellow & on its background moves the tiger! It’s not nearly 22 tigers in seven safaris which has made the trip special, it’s the entire landscape & the excitement of chasing it by pug marks in dust & with alarm calls is what makes the sighting a real fun, that's the way you get to know jungle as you learn to see many details in forest as well listen finest of the sounds like difference in calls of jungle fowl & even identify the essence also as if there is a kill around your nose starts picking its scent! Most importantly you learn to become patient as in jungle you are in no control not even that of a tiny orange throated thrush also, leave apart the tiger! All one can do is get immersed in the surrounding & get rejuvenated with the nature; that's the best way to be in the jungle! We saw a tigress not only marking her territory but in tussle with her own four years daughter which has been now separated & shoo her out of her territory! In one of the evening safari within distance of hardly one kilometer we saw three tigress & last one I will never forget as it taught me a lesson again that till you don’t get out of forest never consider safari has ended; in one evening ride at bandhavgarh, when all gypsy's where happily had sighting of nearly seven tigers, suddenly we saw a tigress laying low in open field & obviously we stopped! And to my surprise tigress is unaware of us but fully focused on a male chital grazing some fifty feet ahead, we realized she is behind the kill & suddenly all cameras are at alert & in typical Discovery Channel type movement the tigress inched towards the chital which was unaware of its presence! I have never seen any tiger attempting a kill in so open as there was not an inch of grass or any cover for her! When she was just about to make final leap suddenly a languor gave alarm call & chital sprang away! The tigress gave a frustrated look & walked straight towards us & then in head on shot I realized her empty stomach, sure she was very very hungry that’s why she made such desperate attempt which she has nearly succeeded! I was wondering whether to be happy for escape of chital or be sad for poor tigress being hungry & will need another effort on empty stomach! Whatever it may be I have witnessed wonderful display of nature in wilderness!

So many such moments with tigers I witnessed, the way it moves silently through the yellow grass & dried forest & get comaflauged rather merged is proper word, that many a time all you see is a yellow black striped wave silently moving on the surface of the ocean of same color, is what the effect! One more interesting thing I witnessed, during a safari I saw a gypsy wit kids in it & a volunteer with them. Those kids were surely not the usual tourists or with groups like pugmark or foliage type but poor village kids. I asked to my guide whether forest dept has arranged them to show the jungle. He said no, there is one gentleman Nitin Nagare from Mumbai who from his pocket makes all the expense & arrange to show the jungle to all the village boys in neighborhood, it includes their food also! Such people are around & I will say they have really understood the forests & true wild lifer!

Lastly on one morning ride when we started from the ticketing office, after collecting entry form a lady forest guard with her one year old baby girl requested that can she come till the gate which is nearly five kilometer away from booking office. Life of a forest guard is very hard & specially when u are a lady & have a small kid to look after! Daughter’s name was Tanvi & Namita , who was a forest guard at magdhi gate of bandhavgarh forest in MP. Each morning at 5.30 am Namita has to be at gate to check the vehicles entry, at village tala there is no crèche where she can keep Tanvi so she carries Tanvi with her at forest gate & the kid keeps playing alone at forest gate in extreme summer which goes to 43 degrees & come back with her mom when she finishes her duty! Its women like namita who makes entire forest dept proud! Wild life is not just tigers but personalities like Namita too, so let’s think what we can do to make their life better! Then only I always say we have earned our forest trip.

One more thing while visiting any forest place do try to cover in your travel itinerary places around the forest or nearby like we visited Khajuraho temples which are some 200 km away & if forests are natural wonders then monuments like khajuraho are man-made wonders. For ages khajuaraho is considered as just sex figures but that myth, yes there are sculptures covering erotic poses but the entire architecture, the philosophy of life carved in those temples is sign of how wise & matured our ancestors where & somewhere in the time river we have lost all those wisdom & knowledge! About the khjuraho temples will share sometime later, just wanted to mention that along with forest do try to cover such places which are equally important in understanding not just forest but entire life cycle.

After all why I go to forests is something always asked to me by many & even I also try to analyze it! Though yet to find the perfect answer but it’s a journey towards understanding nature is all I will say & this is a journey which is beautiful than merely reaching to the destination; so go on, find you own path & just follow those pugmarks in the dust!

At link below you can see most of the forest moments I captured…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65629150@N06/albums/72157667581330300

Sanjay Deshpande 

Sanjeevani Dev.

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Visitors With Wings!

“Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain”… Douglas Coupland

Douglas Coupland is a Canadian novelist and artist. His fiction is complemented by recognized works in design and visual art arising from his early formal training. And though Douglas is a fiction writer in his above quote there is no fiction but a plain simple observation of an artist as simplicity is the base of any art & what better form can be there than birds when it’s an art! In a way every specie on the earth is creation of the artist whom we may call God, Christ or Allah yet birds are ahead in line when it comes to looks & beauty! Sure most of the bird watchers would agree with me! Off late bird watching is a recent buzz on social media & say fashion, many wont like the term fashion but that’s what I feel when I read or see the posts on FB or go through the images on whats-app, usually forward. Then there is a class which feels they are bird lovers as they also forward posts about keep a bowl on your terrace its summer types, though how many of them does that by themselves is a question no one answers. But always forwards, rarely I have come across a post saying he or she has done something for the birds at their homes or offices! Agreed there are many who take efforts at their end but numbers of such people is very less in compare to those who keeps on sharing or forwarding the posts about birds, especially in city area!

In rural or villages or even in towns, there are still lots of open spaces, farms & fields along with trees for the birds’ survival; it’s in cities like Pune the problem is grave. As buildings are replacing trees & green cover is getting reduced fast along with the food avenues available for the birds. On such background every single effort is welcome & in such vein we have tried something not so unique but different in the homes we build. We give a water bowl along with grain bowl & a bird nest in the attached terrace of every flat. All the flat holder has to do is keeping the bowls full with water & grains as well keep some dry grass in the nest. The nest is specially designed keeping in mind size of birds which can use it i.e. bulbul or sparrow & with small feeders attached to it. We advise flat holders to have some greenery around the nest as it makes the birds a bit comfortable is what my own experience. Many people initially have complained about the nests are not being used by the birds but the reason is there should be less human moment in the terrace, agreed you can’t stop using the terrace but try to make less noise & unnecessary use or poking continuously in the nest so the birds can have their privacy. Also as the building is new it takes time for the birds to get used to its surrounding as well it depends a lot on what kind of trees are existing around & has been planted newly. But over the period of time most flat holders have experienced moment of birds in their terrace & shared their experiences with me; I think that’s the best thing I could do for my clients as well for the birds!

To start with I have got a small attached terrace of hardly 60sft to my office room, where I tried the nests as well water bowl. I am fortunate to have my building adjoin to a small stream with a bit of vegetation around & my first floor terrace overlooks an open space where I have planted trees like mango, jack fruit & a huge rain tree shadows most of the surrounding. There were birds like bulbul, maina, sparrows & yes robin too around the building. When I planted flowering plants as well creepers around the railing of my terrace & then kept water /grain trees & hung two nests immediately birds started coming in, especially in summer noon. To my surprise it’s not just above mentioned birds but grey pigeons, scaled muniys, white eye & koyals also become regular visitors along with squirrels. The only disturbance is domestic pigeons & crows as they are big in size & aggressive making other birds shoo off. But soon I learned that there is a fixed pattern of my visitors with wings, as they knew what time pigeons & crows comes at water & avoids those timings. To watch these visitors of mine has become a relaxing hobby for me as it makes me sitting at water hole in forest of my own! It teaches me many things that because of scarcity of grass around birds like sparrows have difficulty in making the bed in the nest so I myself put some paper grass along with dry leafs & some cotton in the nest & it does helped. One more observation was if the nest is too low at height then the birds don’t occupy it as they feel unsafe, so it must be hang at some 6’ to 7’ height & better if it’s surrounded by creepers.  

Another observation is birds like robin or bulbul don’t eat grains much instead they make their own kills for food & it includes small insects, even lizard infants as well worms. And this is very important aspect as if the particular food is not around then these birds won’t be able to make your terrace as their home. And to make insects, worms & lizards survive one has to have open spaces, exposed soil cover & lots of vegetation around, an important aspect to remember for all the architects as well developers while we make our projects!

After all the setup was in place to my happiness both the nests were soon occupied by sparrows. Over the period I used watch sparrows modifying the nests interior with their limited resources & once the breeding period is over the nest used to be empty. Suddenly one day I say a robin male inspecting one of the nests the bigger one. I was curious as I used to think that birds especially smaller birds doesn’t encroach on other birds’ nests, also they don’t use once occupied nests by other birds. Then the female robin came & that day both of them keep visiting the nest many times. Later slowly they added some real grass as well leafs in the nest & then in next few days the robin couple took possession of the nest totally. As I guessed female robin was pregnant & soon she seldom used to leave the nest & the male all day long keeps collection food & drop it at the mouth of the nest & I could see female eating from the parceled food. Then it become my best time pass to listen various sounds the robin couple used to communicate with each other & guess their next move. Soon the robin female laid eggs which again I guessed as she started moving out at least for a while. Once the chicks are out of the eggs, the robin couple become very busy, ferrying to & fro & collecting more food which surely is a problem in city. They didn’t touched the grain bowl even once & I could see from the type of prey base right from small lizards to cockroaches to worms to few very uncommon insects which I didn’t even knew exists around!

The pattern of their food carrying was also very peculiar, first the male or female whoever is carrying the food used to sit on railing of terrace & then from there after checking the surrounding used to flew & sit on my window grill & from there go to the nest! I think its forest habits as not to lead any predators directly to the nest where chick are there & it was a fun to watch them doing so. Then whenever any crow or pigeon visits the water bowl the robin couple used to call very loudly & shoo away crow or pigeon with their full force. One morning I hear robin couples calling very strong & continuous so curiously I went to see what has happened; I saw one of the chick fall down in a planter below the nest & was calling from there & both robins were helplessly jumping around. I asked my peon to lift the chic wrapped in towel & keep it again in nest; fortunately the chick wasn’t injured. In my childhood I have believed that if you touch a bird chick then other birds won’t take him back in flock or nest. I saw my myth vanishing as the robin couple happily accepted the chick back in nest & immediately started feeding it! Now the chicks have grown up & I can see that in some days they will be on their own!

About the entire episode one may laugh at as what’s big deal in it & have I don’t got any important work to do than to watch a robin couple going through their routine! But friends its such small things happening around which makes life more interesting as watching the robins I learned so many things about birds behavior! As well I am happy that in the city where on one side even sighting of sparrows is getting rare I am lucky to witness lifecycle of a bird like robin. I could give them space to grow & more than that privacy too; that’s what makes my buildings complete! I feel success as a developer is not the concrete walls we build, human families occupying those walls & the money we make by constructing our buildings but if we can build an environment where every specie, like the robin has its space & all of them grow together, that is what I call real success of being a developer! 

In our fast moving life we have forgotten the simplicity which Douglas has mentioned in the quote. We have learned to fly high & fast but have lost the joy of flying & look around the sky& the greens. All we know is just to fly higher & faster but in the process we left the charm of flying on ground itself, then what’s difference between the airplane which is just a machine & us, the so called humans! It’s only when we create & conserve spaces for robins around then that realization of what we have lost comes back & then we start actually living our life! As being able to make out few minutes to watch a robin feed its chic, you won’t understand the pleasure unless you do it by yourself!  

All I will say to conclude is, thanks a lot robins, you have made my life a shade more wonderful by being my guest!

Have clicked various moments of robin episode & you can watch them at link below…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/65629150@N06/albums/72157666205261194

Sanjay Deshpande

Sanjeevani Dev.

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Does Green Buildings Makes Business Sense?

“Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man”… Stewart Udall

Stewart Lee Udall was an American politician and later, a federal government official. After serving three terms as a congressman from Arizona, he served as Secretary of the Interior from 1961 to 1969 & sure the guy has understood importance of green buildings even then when the building industry or call it real estate, was a toddler industry! Well that’s why USA is way ahead of the entire world especially in thinking about future if not implementing it; leave the sarcastic part as that’s inherent Puneites characteristic, though I am a Nagpurian but have adopted some of it!  On the back ground of our beloved PMC i.e. Pune Municipal Corporation i.e. governing local body of this city has adopted or approved or join hands with GRIHA, a green building rating system, I thought above quote is most apt for the situation! What is GRIHA & how it will rate a green building that we will discuss later eventually; the title of this write-up is what makes it more interesting as in the awareness program conducted jointly by GRIHA & PMC team I have been honored to speak as an engineer & topic was  “Does Green Buildings Makes Business Sense?”. 

At first while standing on the dais I was bit confused as in what capacity I should speak? Because if I speak as a environmentalist then my fellow developers won’t be liking it neither my PMC friends, if I speak a friend of PMC guys then also I am rubbing wrongly to the environmentalists’ around & if I speak as a builder then its biggest crime in itself to be a builder in this city & on top of it speaking something about green issue then you had it! But fortunately I got introduced as an engineer so that made my task easy as it’s my profession which I should stick & comment on what I feel about the subject, that’s all!

That way green buildings popularly known as eco housing is now well known term though I doubt how much, many actually knows about it. But before knowing more about Griha or green buildings, let’s have a look as why suddenly we started needing green buildings around. Back in 1970’s when real estate started in this city, the buildings were more open in planning & low rise i.e. hardly four storied. Parking wasn’t an issue & there was lots of open spaces around the buildings also driveways were of shahabad stone laid with open joints to percolate rain water in the ground. In many cases drive ways  were of just water bound macadam paving & no trimix concrete like today around the buildings, allwaoing most rain water to percolate in ground. There was no use of glass facades no alucobond cladding. The passages & staircases too were kept open with ample of light & ventilation so no need of artificial light & ventilation to common areas was there. Basement parking was unheard of & as landscape architecture wasn’t in picture, all what people used to plant was big growing native trees like mango & jack fruit & many such, giving ample shade as well greens for various species of birds as their habitats! Most important population was less & the public transport then was able enough to take care needs of the citizens of the city & yes there were cycles still on the roads so no issue was there of any vehicular exhausts pollution! As the population was less so was the water demand of the city. The water consuming amenities like zacussy or sauna & swimming pools weren’t demanded by the residents of the projects; appliances like washing machines in the homes were absent! In so many ways while entering in to twentieth century we have eroded the nature right from extensive use of natural resources like sand & soil to water that finally the terms like global warming & urban heat island came in existence! And then we started feeling need of balancing the damage to the nature which we only have done! Here is where terms like eco friendly homes or green building came in existence & obviously we need to define exactly how we are going to call a building eco friendly, so that’s why a rating system for green building is required!

Earlier eco friendly homes were like an elephant defined by the blinds in a folk story i.e. the blind who touched elephant’s tail described it as a rope, then who touched his legs described it as pillar, the one who touched his tusk, described it as a banana tree steam while the one who touched his ear said it’s like Sup (an instrument which is used to segregate grain from dirt & shell) & so on but nobody could describe the elephant in totality just because they were not been able to see it in complete form! Let’s understand that to define some object we should be able to understand the full form of the object in holistic manner & that’s what GRIHA, which is arm of TERI & Renewable Energy Ministry, does for green buildings. It’s a rating system which first defines different aspect of the building on its green fronts & then measures it on scale its efficiency for the same! In short, to define success of any technology, first we must be able to measure it on some scale & that’s where GRIHA comes in when it’s green building. Simplifying more, for example when we say some tap is water efficient then what we mean? So first we have to decide how much water quantity is ideal for every action i.e. say hand wash. Then what flow rate should the tap have to allow that much flow of water per hand wash & then we have to check how much water flows through the tap per second & then we can say a particular tap is water efficient or not. Similarly when we say a particular building is energy efficient then we must be in position to know how much energy is essential ideally for that building & then we can analyze the electric appliances used in that building & only after counting their output we can decide its energy efficiency quotient! So when we call a particular building a green building then only after measuring all such aspects we can decide its success & this too has a scale as even green has shade! I using this term to make common people understand what is rating of green building as it’s not like black & white i.e. its not either a building is green or its not; on various parameters the building is rated that how much really green it is!

To decide the green rating of any building there are six to seven basic criteria’s such as energy efficiency, water conservation, greenery & biodiversity, land use, construction materials, safety & welfare of construction workers involved. All these criteria’s are then divided on finer points such as use of technology & how much saving in energy or conservation actually is happening at site due to use of that particular technology. Means if there are existing trees on the site then are they needed to cut or the planning is such that they he existing tree cover has been preserved. If they are needed to cut then is their effort made to relocate & replant them? All these things have different marks or points. Also if there are no existing trees at site then these points are neither added nor deducted from the tally. Such hundred points total are given to every aspect & on basis of how much points a project has got for its all above aspects decided the final rating of the building. It starts from fifty points which is one star category & then it goes to five star level if the project gets above ninety points. On top of all above aspects special points are given for innovation in technology or efforts to make the stake holders aware about the green buildings & its aim.

Now days a lots of end users i.e. the people who will be living in the new building are aware about the green aspect of the home they will be living in. But to be aware is first step & to know is the home you are living is really green & up to what level, one must know its finer details. And that’s why unless & until not only the builders or the architects but the common man also gains this knowledge & demands such green homes, then only the green buildings will make business sense! For this every segment right from the developer to PMC officials should try to advertise the green rating systems & there is a lot to do. In many ways we can make people aware about their homes on green front, one of the easiest ways is printing such slogans on property tax bills which go to every property in the city.  Agreed PMC has offered nearly fifteen percent discount in property tax for the residents of five star rated projects as well same percentage rebate has been given to the developers in their premiums which PMC charges yet these doesn’t compensate the expenses involved for making a building green. So a balanced ratio of how much exact discount can be offered to the developers as well to the end users needed to be worked out. Let’s understand that green buildings is an ever evolving science & entire our policies must be made in such way that they will be green oriented & not just FSI or parking focused as then only we will be able to make more & more green buildings. For that we have to form a Green Cell with representative of every stake holder at PMC, which will take cognizance of new issues & clear them with positive mindset!

Along with Griha, PMC also has tied up with IGBC i.e. International Green Building Code, which also is a rating system for green building, so the developer can choose any one of the two systems to rate their green buildings. At the same time developers & the architects also should accept that green buildings & getting them rated is their moral & social responsibility too, along with making some money! As one may be an engineer or a builder or PMC official but before that he is citizen of this city & each of us has a duty towards the city we live in.  

For years we have been part to the sin of damaging the city by some or other way, directly or indirectly, but by making more & more green buildings we can undo the damage, at least some of it! There only lies future of our generations next or all we will be leaving behind is a concrete jungle & pollution & a history written with SHAME in front of our name!

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Sanjay Deshpande

Sanjeevani Dev.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=1415&v=blgni8HSfDU

Please do visit my blogs to know about our philosophy at Sanjeevani ! (Click the links below)

http://visonoflife.blogspot.in/2015/06/agreement-ho-gaya-rabba-rabba-permanent.html


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