Looking to buy something cool to gift this Valentine’s day? Well from Chandigarh has something fresh to offer. He suggests you buy a ‘hearty’, a hand crafted pin-up made from jute and waste cloth by local women empowerment groups. How cool is that?
Each hearty represents a unique mood as well. There are four different colors, black, red, purple and green (or lemonish, I can’t make out clearly). All four colors stand for separate meanings. Like the black one is for those who’re sick of eve-teasing, red is for national integrity and more.
What’s even cooler is that each hearty costs just Rs.10 each. And (open your eyes for this one), in case you’re so stuck up in debt (of course due to your girlfriend’s gift purchases) that you can’t afford one, you can drop these guys a mail and they’ll buy you one!
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I have had prior experience of travelling in the Chandigarh-New Delhi Jan Shatabdi Express train. Both the times the train was more than two hours behind schedule. It is not a big deal for the Indian Railways but for a 4-5 hour journey even a delay of half an hour makes a difference, to the passengers of course and not the Railways. I prefer the Kalka-New Delhi Shatabdi Express which has been by far the most comfortable experience while travelling from New Delhi to Chandigarh and vice versa. It’s the next best thing to travelling in your own car. Taking the aerial route isn’t always a good choice except for when you’ve got to get there quick because of both cost as well as the location of the airport (and mostly it’s present state). So Jan Shatabdi is like super ultra cheap mode to travel from New Delhi to Chandigarh. A seat in the second sitting class costs Rs. 107 which is even cheaper than a bus ride for the same trip. Apart from the cost things aren’t on the greener side for obvious reasons.
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