WW Rainbow

It was a dull afternoon somewhere in mid-august of 2008. I peeped out of my kitchen window still sipping from my cup of foaming cofee when I saw part of this rainbow beckoning me from behind C building. In under one minute I was atop A-bldg trying to capture the entire version with my Sony DSC W60.

In the photo above, note the one-of-its-kind joint in the pillar which glues together B- and C-buildings. I don't know how pmc approves of such innovations but it has been a source of perennial problem of water leakage for those flats of C-Bldg who share the terraces on the left of this joint.

However hard I would try, the entire rainbow won't fit in the lens view. The one below is clicked atop A-bldg.

This is a snap from C-bldg terrace:

Heavy winds were blowing over Whispering Wind with no pun indended and it was a bit risky but finally I climbed the water tank on the terrace of B-bldg seen partially in the above two photos and managed a panoramic view using a different Nikon Coolpix as below:

If you are on IE, right-click and select 'open in new window' to marvel at the breathtaking view.

Views From Kumar Sahwas

Kumar Sahwas people are one step ahead of anyone at Whispering Wind. They ask the security to get the potholes on the road ouside their gates repaired. Security told me so. I generously gave a copy of the PMC letter to the security and within 4 hrs he got 22 signatures from the
residents.
Later today he gladly escorted me to the top of their water tank on the terrace and I clicked 360 views of the surrounding and felt like one big eye.

Perspective of Whispering Wind as it appears in their sales brochure. Right click the photo to download full-size view. For a 6 mPixel image, write to me at tushar.suradkar@gmail.com.

Nascent and naked MontVert Biarritz.

This photo taken just in the nick of time - Magnolia is all dressed up while Valenncia has not yet taken off. This view will never be the same again. Right click photo to download.

The famous turn near Kumar Sahwas. People from Whispering Wind have burnt more energy on getting this repaired than any other issue but without success as of 26-May-2009.

View of Crystal Garden coming up and full birds eye view of the road from Whispering Wind upto Pashan-Baner link road.

MontVert Finesse - All three buildings C, B and A visible in one view only for a limited time until kumar project comes up between Kumar Sahwas and them.

View of Buena Vista from atop Kumar Sahwas overhead water tank:

Birds eye view of the other part of Pashan-Baner link road upto Sus road:

Vast area of the original Sushant Coope Hsg society which was parted away for the sake of the 120 ft wide Pashan-Baner Link road and partly to MSEB. The stone-built structure in the top-left corner houses MSEB stuff.

Birds Plants and Worms

Plants are critical to our health. Not just because they purify the air or simply provide shade but because I realised that planting, watering and nurturing trees help burning more calories, produce more sweat and results in more streching than walking aimlessly around Whispering Wind.

This picture taken a week before the Ganesh Sthapana in Feb 2008 shows plants not more than a foot tall. I have been painstakingly watering and nurturing these for over a year now after the gardner was found absconding for not being paid the maintainance dues for several months by the builder.

When some residents were up in arms against letting these trees grow in this place and wanted them to be uprooted and planted elsewhere, only a timely intervention by me saved the trees from being uprooted in mid-summer and lost for ever.


I remember relocating trees when I lived in Bavdhan. We first made required pits at an alternate location nearby, added rich black soil, added manure, etc. and then proceeded to uproot the existing ones. Homework is a must when one assigns himself a task, especially a destructive one.






Sparrows taught me punctuality. It started one day in early april 2007 when I placed foodgrain and a water bowl in my terrace. Thereafter the sparrows and various other birds have been habitually picking grain and water from my terrace. I am reminded of the supplies being exhausted by their higher pitched chirping in the morning.


Lastly, my half dozen worms whom I handpicked from under the rajaram bridge in Karvenagar in June 2008 have not only survived over the year but have grown in numbers multifold creating rich manure all the while. I have been meticulously seggregating bio-waste from my home during entire last year.

Pune mayor was recently in news for visiting the neighbouring PCMC bio-wate treatment plant with a view to setup a similar facility for Pune. This was in wake of the agitation by residents of Uruli-Kanchan where most of the garbage from city is dumped.

Today I feel proud to be a worthy Puneite for having taken the right steps in the direction of saving our environment from degrading by treating the bio-waste from atleast my house in my backyard.