Yesterday as I was walking in Vashi on the way to meet a friend. While on the way I saw this machine, now obviously surprised since I hadnt seen this before. This machine is manually operated, with more than 95% of the machine being wood. The center peice crushes the Canes inbetween and extracts the [...]
Sugar Cane Juice – the old way
Posted by Hemal Shah on October 31, 2010
http://hemalshah.net/blogs/2010/10/sugar-cane-juice-the-old-way/
Not so Meter Jam!
I had read in the Mumbai Mirror about this initiative called Meter Jam. Because strikes need a strike back! We’re tired of meter that always reads more than it should, drivers who refuse to ply and demand return fare whenever they want. And if all that wasn’t enough, now we have to deal with strikes [...]
Posted by Hemal Shah on August 12, 2010
http://hemalshah.net/blogs/2010/08/not-so-meter-jam/
Linguistic Divide
Its been some years now that we are facing this linguistic divide. Tamil Nadu being the first state to give its regional language more importance than the National Language. This still consider that Tamil should have been India’s national language as against Hindi. However atleast in the name of their language, they had not beaten [...]
Posted by Hemal Shah on February 5, 2010
http://hemalshah.net/blogs/2010/02/linguistic-divide/
A Noble prize for Filth
Well, this isnt what the Noble prize committee saying… but our own Environment Minister Mr. Jairam Ramesh’s words. He is right when he says that our municipality do not have proper mechanism for cleaning the garbage left behind by the citizens. Now how does that explain the efficiency? I have a slightly different opinion on [...]
Posted by Hemal Shah on November 21, 2009
http://hemalshah.net/blogs/2009/11/a-noble-prize-for-filth/







