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 09:07 | 23/Apr/2008 |
| Just Between Friends (Short Story) | |
| Pushpa Saxena. Age 23, 5'5 in height, slender built, fair, attractive. I know a lot about Pushpa Saxena. Like her address, for example (#3003, 3rd Floor, Olympian Heights, Napean Sea Road, Mumbai). Or her cell number, both Vodafone as well as Airtel. Or her email address. I really know a lot about Pushpa Saxena. In fact, I think I know a lot more ...
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| 10:21 | 7/Apr/2008 |
| You Slipped Away Untold, Old Dream-Maker... | |
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| They say it takes only three words to convey life's biggest thoughts. The obvious ones apart, "I am sorry" surely is one such three-word set. "How are you" is another one. But for certain seven-year olds who chased an adventure filled childhood in a Cochin suburb years ago, there were some other three word sentences that were precursor to a world o...
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| 16:08 | 7/Feb/2008 |
| Once upon a time I had an animal crush o... | |
| Once upon a time I had an animal crush on Sheetal Mafatlal. Those were her pre-marriage days, when I was in college and she was still Sheetal Bhagat, the page 3 socialite with a dazzling smile and really lovely legs. Her photograph would regularly be splashed across the society pages of the newspaper I used to read those days - attending some high ...
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| 12:47 | 3/Feb/2008 |
| A Master Cook Tries Out Breakfast | |
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| Like the nutritionists keep saying, breakfast is the most important meal for man - a meal that is supposed to provide him with the most essential energy to see him through the rest of the day. What was that old school saying? 'Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dine like a pauper'. Something like that.Now when you have the most importa...
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| 23:23 | 9/Nov/2007 |
| Phataaack!!! | |
| Explosions everywhere. An otherwise dark sky is lit up in a grey haze. Some people run - some don't, choosing to stay and watch the explosions. Deafening noise all around, the kind that makes your heart leap to your throat. Sporadic gunfire - even little children know how to handle guns adroitly these days. A series of explosions go off somewhere t...
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| 08:24 | 4/Nov/2007 |
| You let me down, old hero... | |
| Lance Armstrong. I think it was in 2005 that I read the first installment of his autobiographical jottings ("It's Not About The Bike"). I had read the book while I was in rather emotionally trying times and ergo, the book is littered with underlined passages and notes that I had written to myself - random and arbitrary things that I felt while read...
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| 23:10 | 31/Oct/2007 |
| Some random thoughts. | |
| Ummm.. a minor slip disc makes it a lot convenient to lie down in bed just about doing nothing but stare at the ceiling and contemplate about the greater things in life. The following thoughts are in effect, the idle thoughts of an idle fellow. A moving aircraft, with passengers in disciplined rows inside. But look carefully! One of them is Superm...
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| 01:54 | 27/Oct/2007 |
| Can I have a pack of… uh, you know… | |
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| A pack of condoms. I mean, what is there to feel so embarrassed about that? Stride into the medical store, look the storekeeper in the eye, and boldly blurt out – “can I have a pack of condoms, please?”. Well, well, well, not everything in life is so simple. As Tushar & I learnt it first hand that day. It was in preparation for a colleague’s weddin...
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| 16:39 | 24/Oct/2007 |
| Lost in Translation | |
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| "Nee enne vittu pogum ennaano parayunne?" she asked him, her voice heavy with sadness. "Ellaam marannittu enne vittu pogumo?" He smiled at her, his eyes tender with fondness "I do not speak Malayalam, girlie. You'll have to repeat whatever you said in a more understandable language. "Njaan nammale patti ethra swapnangal kandu ennariyaamo? Hey I tho...
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| 00:07 | 30/Sep/2007 |
| By the walls of a Bhutanese monastery, I... | |
| Beside the walls of a nameless monastery in Bhutan, I sat and wept. May be it was the fresh crisp mountain air that caused it. Or may be it was the shy innocent smile of the little Bhutanese boy who posed for our cameras. Or may be it was the solemnity of the prayer flags, with prayers written on them in some indecipherable script that fluttered wo...
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| Dilip Bangthai | 15:57 | 9/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (61)
| City: Guwahati
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| Rongali Bihu |
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| RONGALI BIHU: SIGNATORY TO ASSAMESE CULTURE With luxuriant green stillness, diverse ecosystems, a home of rare one-horned rhinoceros and a place like Majuli, the world’s largest riverine island, Assam which is synonymous to fine and strong tea, is not only a beautiful abode of multi-ethnic societies with different spoken languages along the valley...
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| dilip krishnan | 21:32 | 28/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (240)
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| 30 Questions Tag!Alakananda (sowparnika.rediffiland.com) had tagged me twice before. This time, though, she was wiser, I guess! Nonetheless, I thought, why not try a third time – and may be surprise her! So, here I go…1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER? On my son's insistence, I went for Taare Zameen Par. I fell in love with Darsheel Safary and his...
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| amishi | 17:53 | 23/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (476)
| City: Delhi
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| Happy Earth Day
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| Ka Tvam | 11:21 | 16/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (29)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: Reading, Crosswords
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| Markatasya surapaanam |
| When Teddy Bear called to announce his arrival in Chennai, I was busy directing traffic around my car, in the middle of a busy ring road near Koramangala! His call was a reminder that I had not posted a blog in a long while! Inertia...ennui..whatever….!!! As I spoke to him letting him know of my predicament, I figured out that life was not going ...
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| saurabh upad... | 01:12 | 21/Mar/2008 |
| Friends: (433)
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| Hi. It's Holi-week and people are already in the mood to celebrate. Unfortunately, there are some who like to enjoy at the cost of others. There are experienced incidents where dirty-water (from gutters) balloons or acid balloons are thrown. This is specially done at passengers in buses or trains or at bikers as one cannot catch the culpri...
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| silversulfur | 18:50 | 21/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (228)
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| A CUP OF MY LOVE |
| A Cup of My Love When you're sad And feeling down, Don't you cry Or even frown. I'm here for you Now and forever. I'll care for you always And leave you never. So when you're lonely, Know it's you I'm thinking of. And if I could, I'd send to you A huge cup of my love!
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| DENSON JOSEPH | 16:22 | 10/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (703)
| City: Delhi
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| CAN WE STOP RAPE? |
| Can we stop RAPE ?We know that time & again unlawful miscreants keep on making a mockery of the law & its so called guardians.The problem is that our much boasted cultural values have deteriorated & the rot has now seeped so deep that even the young generation of today is not afraid of playing around with the life & dignity of a helpless being. Str...
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| Noanee Kapadia | 18:28 | 27/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (448)
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| real Life medal Shaurya Chakra |
| Shaurya Chakra in real life .My visitor this weekend is a young Indian Army officer,well, he is a family not a guest any longer .Young Officers see a different world when they are in militancy inflicted area , it is fight with death and so many things flicker between the few seconds ,the desicions of that moment make your and your jawans future t...
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| Hidden Aura | 05:02 | 24/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (81)
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| The first lesson I learnt !!! |
| For the past few weeks I's busy with my hectic schedule ,though found some time to read the blogs of friends,didn't find time to post something new.--*********************************************--Wh ile returing to hometoday to my room saw something that reminded me my childhood days. A young kid used some abusive language and immediately chased up...
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| hari kumar | 12:08 | 21/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (103)
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| Earth Day |
| It is apprehended that China has overtaken US as the no-1 CO2 emitter of the world. The term apprehended is used because we really don’t have any mechanism to measure CO2 of China and whatever we have is on the basis of Fossil fuel consumption. ( For example if the coal has 28 % fixed carbon, for every Kg of fuel you have 0.28 Kg of carbon which co...
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| chaitali rai | 22:18 | 25/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (595)
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| Modern Panchtantra Story [ IT HUMOR ] Once upon a time , there was a software engineer who used to develop programs on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday market. One day, while he was working...
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| vatsala joshi | 11:59 | 11/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (124)
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| GOTTU |
| Back in those days when I was still a pucca child,in other words,a primary-schooler, there roamed in the bylanes encircling our school, a madman we all called Gottu. “Gottu” in Kannada means “I know”.A peculiar name to give,I agree,but certainly in keeping with the time-honoured tradition of rechristening the mentally ill in view of their personal ...
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| Rinky Bansal | 04:00 | 5/Aug/2007 |
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| Dedicated to my bestest friend... Here's for you:I never thought that I would finda friend so great and a friend so fineI look up to you in every way'cause I learn something from you every day.Without you I don't know where I'd bebut you're still here, friends with meyou deserve so much more than I can givebut without you I wouldn't live.You've giv...
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| Prabhu Nair | 18:49 | 14/Oct/2007 |
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| BaCk tO tHoSe DaYs..Back to those days! Lying on the bare floor, absorbing the chill out of you; staring at the sky, and sipping you with my thirsty eyes; after years and days. Was in bondage and away from you; cried for you; yearned for you, and dreamt of you; many nights; don’t know how many times.Back to those corners, where I rested my hea...
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| A S | 13:44 | 25/Mar/2008 |
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| I PROMISE MYSELF |
| To be so strong that nothing can disturb my peace of mind.To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person I meet.To make all my friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.To look at the sunny side of everything and make my optimism come trueTo think only of the best, to work only for the bestand to expect only the best.To be j...
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| Sophia Roy | 00:22 | 6/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (207)
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| JOURNEY OF THE SOUL---5 |
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| FOR YOU on YOUR BIRTHDAY----6TH JULY 2007 “LIFE IS AS UNCOMPLICATED AS YOU MAKE IT” --- Capt Sameer Roy Choudhury Corps of Signals, 19 Assam RiflesToday for the first time in 27 years I cannot hear your voice as I wish you happy birthday…for you have crossed the boundaries of space and time…the final frontier has been left behind…you are a fr...
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| Madhavan PK | 15:25 | 18/Apr/2008 |
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| A test of love |
| She liked many things about him. She couldn’t wait to be with him be it sms, email, or in person. She would hate to admit it, but he was one person she liked better than anyone else and as much as she liked herself (to be truthful a little less than herself). He was cool. He loved her. He said he loved her more than anyone else in the wide whole wo...
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| Chitra Venka... | 14:49 | 9/Aug/2007 |
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| Dreams |
| Each one of us has been endowed with the innate capacity to dream. We begin dreaming very early in life as kids. All of us recollect those times in ourchildhood, can’t we, when we dreamed of wanting to excel in our studies or ofhaving that special toy and when it did materialize, what was it that we felt? A feeling of joy, ecstasy? A dream come t...
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| Trishna Mumbai | 09:44 | 18/Apr/2008 |
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| There are several types of love stories in this world. I had the opportunity to be witness to a simple, strong one - perhaps stuff that legends are made of - the love story of my parents which now remains as a warm memory with the passing away of my father in early April. My dad was 24yrs old when he was married, my mom was 18. He had a salary of R...
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| Sol Star | 08:14 | 17/Jan/2008 |
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| Kauchauri |
| This morning I felt like having hot kachauris with alu ki subzi. So I walked down to the sweet shop that sells it and bought five kachauris. While I was eating it, I dropped a couple of pieces of alu on the floor. I picked them up and threw them into the dustbin. However, while I was having my breakfast, I kept feeling bad that I missed out on thos...
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| Ash K | 23:42 | 6/Oct/2007 |
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| Althought my tryst with the world of words, prose, similes, metaphors, euphemisms and literature began with the advent of i-land, I also owe part of this passionate endeavour to the poem penned by William Wordsworth. The poem is plain and simple, yet has a style which is unique and one of its kind, hard to emulate kinds. Stumbled upon this poem on ...
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| Sandeep Ohri | 04:33 | 12/Mar/2008 |
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| REL changes its name to Reliance Infrast... |
| Don"t know how many of you saw the small news item .. but our good friends at REL have decided on another name change!So now the Mumbai Distribution License which didn"t get formally transfered to BSES Ltd .. and then which didn"t get formally transfered to REL .. will now (I guess) also NOT get formally transfered to Reliance Infrastructure... th...
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| Rathi S | 22:37 | 2/Aug/2007 |
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| Looks like I am back ! |
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| Aah its been so long...so long that i almost forgot my username and password....and when i login i see this endless list of comments, new friend requests and guestbook entries from old friends...askin if i was alright...oh thank u so much guys (esp.Ash, Rajesh, Cyril...)...Yes i'm doing fantastic and life is not the same anymore....I had a baby gal...
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| ajit balakri... | 19:35 | 27/Jan/2008 |
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| The Misguided Search for Excellence |
| For a word that has its origins in 14th century Anglo-French, “excellence” has done very well. One can hardly ever attend a meeting of top policy makers in business or education or science without somebody or the other raising the question, “Are we striving enough to achieve excellence in our field?” For policy makers, “excellence” is one of those ...
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| | 10:19 | 4/Nov/2006 |
| Friends: (17)
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| Science Takes Aim at Supernatural Myths |
| All this may seem obvious, but to physicist Costas Efthimiou and other scientists, the public often isn't as skeptical as you might think. Efthimiou points to National Science Foundation reports showing widespread belief in pseudosciences -- such as vampires, astrology and ESP. It may be the season for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, t...
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