My Toastmaster Journey

  This is my gold chain and I am not going to give it to you…. Two men try to snatch her gold chain from her neck.   She fights like warrior but three strong men are too much for her to tackle.   They push her and she falls out of the open door of her train compartment.   Floating out of her train compartment, she fell onto the adjacent train tracks.   Before she could recover from her fall, she sees a train coming on from the other direction.   She tries getting up but before she can do that, the train runs over her leg.   The only thing that goes in her mind whole night when she was coming in and out of consciousness is --- Have Faith… That faith is what keeps her sane all night.   Early morning some locals pick her, take her to the hospital.   Try as much they want, she loses her leg from above the knee.   Almost two years later, she becomes the first woman amputee to scale the mount Everest.   Yes, ladies and gentlemen we are talking about Arunima Sinha.   That one fateful night

  Today we will travel from Bangalore to lanes of old delhi.   My speech today is dedicated to food and the famous spots in old Delhi combined with some fun activities in that area.   One early Sunday morning we decide to visit the old delhi temples.   Wake up get ready and catch a metro to ISBT at 7:30 am.   Once you reach ISBT, take a rickshaw and reach Red Fort.   This is the side of the fort where the Prime minister addresses the nation on Independence Day.   Everyone knows this but not many people know that just across the red fort, there is red temple (laal mandir) which is one of the oldest Digambar Jain temples in delhi.   After paying your respects, you go to their bird hospital.   This temple also runs a huge 5 floor bird hospital where all sorts of birds across the area are brought over to be treated and released.   Once you get out of the Red temple, just next door is Gauri shankar temple.   Being a family where one spouse is a hindu and the other is a Jain, we visit both