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| For some questions, you just can't find ... | |
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| I guess there are certain chapters in the History of Life that one just cannot fathom, no matter how much ever one would love to get to the bottom of things, to the unfiltered truth. Like the story behind the lost continent of Atlantis, for instance. Or the mysterious crop circles, for that matter. Or the engineering marvel behind the construction ...
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| 11:00 | 3/Jan/2009 |
| Economic Recession and The Chai-wallah C... | |
| There is only one chai-walla inside the Kamala Mills Compound, an area in South Bombay where I work. There are several of them dotting the streets in and around the compound, but he remains the only 'in-house Kamala Mills Compound' chai-walla. Situated at the corner of the parking lot adjacent to the DNA-newspaper offices, he is a cheerful guy who ...
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| 22:08 | 30/Dec/2008 |
| A Lost Brother and a Barbarian | |
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| OH BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?This is the name of a very offbeat George Clooney movie that I caught on DVD last night (Ambani might not rate very high on my list of admired people, but I sure love him for setting up BigFlix - I get to borrow a DVD almost every alternate day, hee hee). Set during the Great American Depression of 1930s, the film narrat...
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| 22:32 | 28/Dec/2008 |
| Dream a Little Nightmare For Me | |
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| A dark room with just a candle flickering at the centre. Outside, the rain beats against the walls of the room, and the wind howls menacingly. The walls of the room are made of straw, they might not last the fury of the storm. The floor is caked mud – damp, musty. The room is small, just enough for a six footer like me to contain myself. I might f...
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| 18:12 | 18/Sep/2008 |
| My Obscene Brush with MS-Excel | |
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| I guess MS-Excel is a tool that has had many a finance professional scratch his head repeatedly, marvelling at the hitherto complex functions that it now performed at a mere click. VLOOKUP, for one. Or Pivot Tables. Or any of the other tools - ranging from the "oh they're so commonplace now" filters to the more complicated macros that checked and b...
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| 16:27 | 4/Sep/2008 |
| ALPHABET SOUP: ‘M’ IS FOR MEMORIES, ‘N’ ... | |
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| Mom looks back at the 1980s and says that those were the best days for us. And I tell her - hey mom, these are the best days for us, two successful children, a relaxed retired life, good health... this would be a life that many long to live. But I know what she means. The 80s were very different times. Us living in a lovely Cochin suburb, great fr...
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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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| 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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| Apratim Shaw | 17:20 | 15/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (154)
| City: Boulder,CO
| Interests: Anything unusual
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| To Thank A City |
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| The city has given me a lot to be thankful for - a job, a home, a weather so wonderful it feels like paradise. And yet, among all the things that have been gifted to me by this city, what I value the most is its people. Before I bid this city goodbye, I feel the need to thank all those I haven't thanked before - Oh yes, I wanted to; but never had t...
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| dilip krishnan | 18:40 | 23/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (271)
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| “And we are back”, says Google!I first met Google some three months back. As I walked into my relative’s house that evening, I found him all bouncy and excited. He was just about six months old, I was told, but he was a bundle of energy for all I can recall now. He came to every guest of the day, made friends, expressed interest, and even disagreed...
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| hari kumar | 15:37 | 7/Jan/2009 |
| Friends: (108)
| City: Noida
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| Just a Blog for the sake of blogging |
| This is just for the sake of blogging- just to keep my page alive. It is almost two months since I last blogged and due to a reasonably busy schedule at office with lot of outstation tours and an element of laziness that seems to have crept into me, blogging took a backseat. And since around new year I was away, I could not wish my Iland friends a ...
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| chaitali rai | 08:27 | 25/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (661)
| City: in my sweet little world
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| So next time when u go for an inteview be prepared for this question.... Story IE: Do u have a boyfriend? C: I have. E: Is he working Locally? C: No. He is working Overseas. E: Sorry, my company cannot employ u! C: Why? E: U will not be able to settle down here permanently. And my Company don't want to pay extra expenses on the Overseas calls just...
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| vatsala joshi | 11:59 | 11/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (145)
| City: Bangalore
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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 | 16:44 | 6/Sep/2008 |
| Friends: (93)
| City: Mumbai
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| Hey, folks...returned to iland after a lonnnnnnnng break. Here's some of my creation in an idle state :)....you should know by nowhow fragile I feel without u not around.As I lay in this hospital bedFeeling lonely even with all the friends aroundDon't know feel lostWithout your caring touch, your soft looksyou should know by nowI’m sick of feeling ...
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| Prabhu Nair | 12:31 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (65)
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| karkkidakam* The blue darkness unfurled,Wind flew shattering the doors,Trees swayed in the gust,Clouds roared the rageThe rain of Karkkidakam,Its again at my sky The saddles of the skies,The river of heaven,The oceans hid in clouds,The Ganges of Gods,The rain of Karkkidakam,...
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| A S | 00:29 | 5/Oct/2008 |
| Friends: (508)
| City: Pune
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| Why do we hate each other |
| Why do we Indians hate each other so much? We are we killing one another on one pretext or the other. We were a country known for its culture, heritage and traditions? We are also so very proud when we talk about our traditions. But is this what our culture is? Hate!! Is it our culture to destroy everyone who is different from us? Is ‘Hate’...
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| Sophia Roy | 17:07 | 14/Sep/2008 |
| Friends: (223)
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| JOURNEY OF THE SOUL -- 6 TO BE LIKE A RIVER FLOWING Thank you dear friends for your love and support the whole of last year. Many of you visited my page and left messages through out. I was unable to thank you or write back but sent loving energies your way ------ Many new friends ...
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| Madhavan PK | 12:02 | 3/Jan/2009 |
| Friends: (423)
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| Blame it on December |
| I blame it on December. I mean the month not any new girl friend. It is quite another matter that the December flower, flowers in February or March these days. I can see you are warming up to my theme, or are you globally confused. I gave up on New Year resolutions years ago. Sure, December is a month for introspection, of sins of omission and com...
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| Chitra Venka... | 14:49 | 9/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (176)
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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 | 23:56 | 14/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (6)
| City: Mumbai
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| Alleys of my Mind.. |
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| In the deep crevices of my mindI hear you call out my nameIt’s a faint echoBut my inside is so tuned to itMy being moves towards the alleyIts dimly lit, I can hear footsteps shuffling awayI strain to see youI catch a fleeting glimpse of your shadow before its goneI don’t like these alleys any moreThey leave me far desolate than enrichedWhy do you c...
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| Sol Star | 08:14 | 17/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (92)
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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 | 00:16 | 9/Jun/2008 |
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| Book Review: Keep Off The Grass - By Kar... |
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| The novel has an honest attempt - to make you laugh till your sides ache. The book is replete with humor, laughter and funny one-liners which keep you on the edgeto the last word read. Certainly this one tickles your funny bone. The novel's protagonist Samrat Ratan, son of second generation US immigrantschooses to leave hot shot investment banking,...
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| Sandeep Ohri | 17:59 | 27/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (614)
| City: Mumbai
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| Only Indian Citizens can represent India |
| Here's a new law, but its applicableonly to sports-persons. Just think if it were to apply to other spheresof life....like Hindi movies...only those who were Indian citizens (andIndian passport holders) would be eligible for Indian awards....Here's another thought ....onlyIndian Passport holders would be eligible to get Income Tax breaks asper Indi...
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| Rathi S | 07:35 | 12/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (33)
| City: Denver
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| 51 things about me! |
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| My best friend did this on her blog and asked me to do the same quite a while ago; i thought now would be the right time to take my mind off a few things...jus sit down , relax and jot down a few things about me from the top of my head....it was a fun experience. I think everyone should try doing this!I think every single dimension of life is simpl...
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| ajit balakri... | 17:14 | 7/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (49)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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| The World Financial Crisis: Part 3- Ban... |
| Till roughly 10,000 BC, humans subsisted in small wandering groups that hunted and gathered food for survival. Then, in the Neolithic age the Sumerian civilization of the Middle East domesticated animals and plants, settled in one place, founded villages and started farming. A similar evolution is underway in the financial services worl...
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| | 10:19 | 4/Nov/2006 |
| Friends: (18)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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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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