31st.30th and 29th May.

29th May
Completed morning program. Visited CGHS. Spent the day reorganizing things at home to restart routine life after visit to Sikkim and gap of 8 days
Retired to sleep at about 10.30 pm.
30th May
Completed morning program. Visited Safdarjung hospital, SBI and CGHS. Read newspapers and magazines. Watched Shri Jaitly's show in Apki Adalat.
Retired to sleep at about 11 pm.
31st May
Completed morning program. Spent the day reading magazines and newspapers.
Quotable Quotes : "I did not get an opportunity to die for the country, but i have opportunity to live for the country" Modi, PM of India
Retired to sleep at about 10.30 pm

Note : Blogs dated 20th to 28th May covering Sikkim visit are being completed with photographs and will be published shortly.


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19th May

Completed morning program. Pilku/Ruchi were engaged today  in 1996, about 2 decades back. We bless them for a long happy married life. Packed for journey to Gangtok next day.
Quotable Quotes : " Family quarrels are like splits in the skin that won't heal. because there is not enough material." F.Scott Fitzerald

18th May

Completed morning program. In the Supreme court from about 12 to 3,30 pm.
Quotable Quotes : " Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin
 Amolikaa and the Westside Wimbledon Tennis Club Girls 10U team won their Aegon 10&U league match on Sunday. A couple of photos  taken after the victory may be seen :

17th May

Completed morning program. Venita went to attend Alaynah's Mundan ceremony. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazines.
Quotable Quotes :" Happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Leo Tolstoy
Retired to sleep at about 11 pm.

16th May

Completed morning program. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazines.
Quotable Quotes : "Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or loose. " Lyndon B. Johnson
Retired to sleep at 11 pm.

15th May

Completed morning program. As i was not too well yesterday on return from the court, i took off today and rested
Quotable Quotes :" I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."  Napoleon Bonaparte
Retired to sleep at about 11 pm.

14th May

Completed morning program. Visited CSOI. Met Sagars. In the Supreme court from about 2 to 3.30 pm. Held a conference with a client at Taj Mansingh.
Quotable Quotes :"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing." Napoleon Bonaparte

Retired to sleep at about 10.30 pm.

13th May

Completed morning program. Met Pravesh. In the Supreme court from 2 to 3.30 pm
Quotable Quotes. " The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law." Jeremy Bentham
Retired to sleep at about 10 pm.

12th May

Completed morning program. Visited IIPA. In the Supreme court from 2 to 3 pm. Mr. Justice T.S. Thakur, Judge, Supreme Court of India dedicated the newly and comprehensively spruced up e-Libraries to the Members of the Bar in a function at Library no.1 today.
Quotable Quotes:" Hope is a waking dream."Aristotle
Retired to sleep at about 10 pm.

11th May

Completed morning program. Visited CSOI. In the Supreme court from about 2 to 4 pm.
Abhishree was away for the weekend playing a netball tournament. Netball is an English version of basketball played by girls. Abhishree lost in the semis. She returned home last night upset at having lost.

Quotable Quotes :"Opportunity knocks at the door only once." Chinese proverb
Retired to sleep at about 11 pm.

10th May

Completed morning program. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazines,
Quotable Quotes :"Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." Aristotle
Retired to sleep at about 10.30 pm.

9th May

Completed morning program. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazines.
Quotable Quotes :" Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British." John Le Carre
Retired to sleep at about 10.45 pm.

8th May

Completed morning program.
Attended AIS batch lunch at CSOI. 10 batchmates of IAS,IPS,IFS and IRS joined in. Introduced Advocate Vikas Pahva, who happened to be there for lunch along with a group of his friends, to the batchmates. Salman's release on bail was a hot subject of discussion. Some days back i had circulated a note on pendency of cases in courts  and reasons therefor. It was also discussed.
Organised a visit to Gangtok on 20th May for a week.The Supreme court is closing from 16th May to 30th June for summer holidays. I also plan to attend a yoga shivir at Gurumaa Ashram, Gannaur, 18 kms. away from Delhi from 10 to 14th June.
Britain's Conservative party won a clear majority in House of Commons. British Indian candidates of the Conservative party have also won 10 seats so far. May win more when the results of remaining constituencies are declared. 'Phir ek bar Cameron Sarkar. 'Indian PM Modi tweeted.
                                   Akshat grew this tomato.

Quotable Quotes :" If you get down and quarrel every day, you're saying prayers to the devil, i say ."Bob Marley
Retired to sleep at about 11 pm.

7th May

Completed morning program. Visited IIPA. In the Supreme court from about 2  to 3.30 pm.
Quotable Quotes :" We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. " Aristotle

Retired to sleep at about 10.30 pm.

6th May

Completed morning program. Visited CSOI. In the Supreme court from about 2 to 3.30 pm. Salman Khan is convicted and sentenced to 5 year imprisonment in the hit and run case by a Mumbai court. Great Britain goes to polls tomorrow. Neck to neck fight is likely between labour and conservatives.
Quotable Quotes :"We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin
Retired to sleep at about 10 pm.

5th May

Completed morning program. Visited CGHS. In the Supreme court from about 2 to 5 pm. Joined the lecture on three pathfinders in law by Justice RF Nariman of the Supreme court. He referred to the judgments of Justices Madison and John Marshal of USA and Justice Mukherjee of India. A brilliant and rare exposition of law.
Quotable Quotes :"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things and small people talk about wine." Fran Labowitz
Retired to sleep at about 10.30 pm..

4th May

Completed morning program. Buddha Purnima  is celebrated today.  It is a Buddhist festival that marks Gautama Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death.
Quotable Quotes :"It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living." F.Scott Fitzgerald, American author.

3rd May

Completed morning program.  Attended a talk by M.J. Akbar on his books 1.Tinder Box: the past and future of Pakistan 2. Notes on fractured decade (a review of this book is published in the Indian Express today) at CSOI in the evening. He mainly spoke on the first book. It was enlightening.
Quotable Quotes :"History will be kind to me for i intend to write it." Winston Churchill
Retired to sleep at about 10.30 pm.

2nd May

Completed morning program. Venita went to Gurgaon. She returned in the evening after meeting children and her sister. Spent the day reading newspapers and magazines.
Quotable Quotes :"Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins." Aldous Huxley.
Retired to sleep at about 10 pm.

1st May

Completed morning program. Visited CGHS. In the Supreme court from about 2.30 to 4 pm.
'Noroviruses, a group of viruses responsible for over half of global gastroenteritis cases, can spread by air up to several metres from an infected person, warns a new study.' 
Quotable Quotes : "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain!"
Retired to sleep at about 10.30 pm.