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 18:30 | 28/Aug/2008 |
| In defence of the Marathi manoos | |
| Twenty-three years ago, soon after I landed up at the crowded Dadar station in north-central Mumbai hoping to make this incredibly high-energy city home and went about the task earnestly, one thing struck me as odd.It was the absence of Marathi around me.I found it odd because in the city I considered home till then, Chennai, Tamil, the local langu...
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| 17:41 | 27/Aug/2008 |
| Home Alone | |
| Was Shabana Azmi correct when she said Muslims cannot buy flats of their choice in Mumbai? Based on my own experience, yes, I think she’s right; a lot of existing housing societies, even flat-owners looking to sell out, are not keen on selling their flats to Muslim buyers, screw the money. It’s happened to me. Managing committees of housing societi...
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| 18:43 | 26/Aug/2008 |
| Telugu Bidda | |
| Andhra Pradesh is where the Congress citadel first started cracking, in 1983, when N T Rama Rao rocked it with his Telugu Desam Party. Of course, no one took NTR seriously then, but in a few months he delivered the KO to the Congress which never imagined it could lose the southern state. NTR, of course, had delusions of grandeur, he next set his si...
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| 19:25 | 12/Aug/2008 |
| As the worm turns | |
| The ongoing agitation in both Jammu and Kashmir, even if it is “solved” by the government and its all-party meetings, will only be a temporary truce; the fact is, this agitation has made it clear that there is no Jammu and Kashmir. There is Jammu, there is Kashmir. Together, they don’t make a whole. What Jammu wants (land transfer for Amarnath pilg...
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| 18:55 | 11/Aug/2008 |
| Amazing way to kill! | |
| I loved Anil Kumble’s aggro posturing before the third, and crucial, Test match against Sri Lanka. Flush with the victory in the second Test match that even diehard India fans did not expect, he crowed that India will go for the kill in the clincher. Sceptics may be excused for laughing into their sleeve at this bravado, and they were proved right ...
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| 17:47 | 5/Aug/2008 |
| Rajni, lost and found | |
| He is not your run-of-the-mill superstar. In fact, he is not like your other superstars, and I am not talking only of him outstripping the others in the number of crores earned per film.You see the other superstars stepping out in style, their off-screen appearance a replica of what you see onscreen. The senior ones won't show their balding pate or...
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| 18:29 | 30/Jul/2008 |
| Silence | |
| Sometimes one wonders what one can say that has not been said before. Such as now, over the bomb blasts in Bengaluru and Ahmedabad. Everyone knows this government is not serious about fighting terrorism; sometimes I even think this government doesn’t see terrorism as one of the biggest challenges to our nationhood. You won’t find political parties ...
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| 19:15 | 23/Jul/2008 |
| CPM’s constitution above Indian Constitu... | |
| I must admit that I was not one of those who believed that the Communist Party of India-Marxist will expel Speaker Somnath Chatterjee. For, if you think about it, there was nothing “anti-party” that Somnathda really did. It was not as if he went around campaigning for the BJP or the Congress during the trust vote. It was not as if he had bad-mouthe...
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| 21:24 | 22/Jul/2008 |
| Singh is King! | |
| When friends turn foes, the resulting acrimony merits an R rating. And watching the debate in the Lok Sabha over the government’s motion of confidence, I often felt what did we, the people of India, do to deserve such a shameful display? Is this the best our elected representatives can be? Then how much more terrible must their worst be. For the la...
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| 17:51 | 18/Jul/2008 |
| Down to the wire | |
| Yes, the likeness to cricket, especially the IPL finals, is uncanny. Which way will the trust vote on July 22 go? Will India’s first Sikh PM be thrown a lifeline through abstention by the Akali MPs? Will the Samajwadi Party realise that between the promise and delivery, falls an especially long shadow? Interestingly, the BJP says yesterday said ele...
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| exquisite | 17:49 | 30/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (54)
| City: Lucknow
| Interests: Poetry, Fiction, ...
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| WHY I AM PUNISHED |
| Why I am punishedWherever I see everything is vanquished.I did say is the false what was the fancy.I did say is the sin what was the shabby.I did say is the theft what was the indecency.I did is the stale what was the lethargy.What did I say the bad If I addressed some one’s legacy?How is the way of the lover that it has the negligee?Why I am puni...
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| Vibhakar | 21:37 | 23/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (48)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Adhyatma, Dnyanes...
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| why write |
| not feeling like writing a blog.iam letting friends know.what's there worth telling others that may be new to them?and in which i am interested?mere discussions do not lead much.friends who post lengthy blogs do not get much readership.who has the time for that?once yr friends increase beyond a limit, u can't get enough time to even skim through th...
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| Sandeep Ohri | 07:25 | 16/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (481)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Reading non-ficti...
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| 62nd I-Day after 61 years, right? |
| Every time there is a festival or an occasion and we have a barrage of emails/sms-es that we are 'spammed' with (by the way, should we still call it 'spam' - when we're bombarded with unwanted and unwarranted sms-es??). In fact, this year, instead of being a mute spectator and at the the 'receiving end'; I decided to initiate a message and 'spam' e...
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| Sandeep Nigam | 19:57 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (29)
| City: Lucknow
| Interests: trade union urdu ...
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| just good three one |
| 1.Hum aisi sab kitaboN ko kabil-e- jabti samanhte haiN JinheN pad kar bete baap ko khabti samajhte haiN. 2 Ai raastoN kahaN gaye woh log jo aate jaate Meri tasleem pe kaha karte the ki jite rahiye, jeete rahiye 3. Humne unhe bhi dekha hai sunahare libas mien JinhoN ne kitab bhi na kabhi kholi kilas mein .
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| Anil Goel | 21:40 | 5/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (776)
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| If you're good... (Education!) |
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| Gasp!!!?Guys...this is shot from my Nokia just last week...Its a classroom desk....St. Andrews, Bandra, Class IV to be precise... (Yeah I 'have feet, will dance')And yeah, its been there for a while now...What did Julius Caesar say to Brutus as he breathed his last?Who cares a whatever....No, he didn't say that, he of course said "Et tu Brute"....b...
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| sandeep koul | 10:34 | 21/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (304)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Photography,Trave...
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| jail bharo Aandolan & civil disobedience... |
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| On second day(19th Aug) of ‘jail bharo andolan’, when only women were scheduled to court arrest, a virtually sea of humanity including men, women, youths, children, elders and Sadhu Samaj outnumbering yesterday’s estimated figure of two lakh, turned out in every nook and corner of Jammu region and offered themselves for arrest. Even the Government ...
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| Meera Warrier | 20:04 | 23/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (54)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Let us live so th...
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| I was waiting for my turn to come with that card in my hand. I somehow felt proud of myself (only few times I felt so!). I had a feeling that I should have done this earlier itself. I But I wanted to do this at least once if not more. When a circular was there on our notice board declaring that there will be a blood donation cam...
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| Divyani | 20:29 | 13/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (240)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: bus yu he
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| The Last Letter |
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| His Last Letter to his parents Moments before the final assault Capt. Vijyant Thapar (Robin) left this letter at the war front base, to be handed over to his family. AND AFTER THAT HE CAME BACK HOME WITH TRI COLOR DRAPED aye mere vatan ke logon zara aankh mein bhar lo paani jo shaheed hue hain unki zara yaad karo qurbaani
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| narendra shah | 21:14 | 25/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (479)
| City: Ahmedabad
| Interests: music-classical,r...
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| BE CREATIVE, DO SMALL ACTS WITH LOVE |
| Cleaning a floor can be a tremondously creative act. Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness. Whatever you do can become creative if you know what creativity means.Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love. Are you thinking tha...
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| Narendran | 10:00 | 16/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (4)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: Fun
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| Revealing a funny mind... |
| The trip back from Calcutta to Bokaro was dull and boring. Occassionaly Paranjpe livened up the trip with a lot of sardarji jokes. The train chugged along. In great strain. One of the most interesting moments of criss - crossing Bihar in a train is the sheer acceptance of the great Indian democracy. Every gaze through the window would leave you...
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| sun comp | 16:53 | 12/May/2008 |
| Friends: (73)
| City: Pune
| Interests: cricket
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| Hi Friends! A journey to thousand miles always begins with the first step and it is this step that is of maximum importance. Cricket is a beautiful game and the chance to play in England is an opportunity of a lifetime. As a part of our development activity, every year our club organizes a cricket tour to England in the months of July & ...
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| Madhavan PK | 16:15 | 26/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (412)
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| Corps or Corpse |
| While at school, I was part of the NCC unit for two years. I was in the naval wing and so they taught us knots, signals, parade, salute, and firing. I also remember a visit to a submarine, walking inside it, machines, shafts et al and coming within 10 metres of the torpedo room. My biggest disappointment was I didn’t get to see the periscope. As a...
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| ganesh nadar | 04:36 | 1/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (57)
| City: Panickanadarkudieruppu
| Interests: writing, reading
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| annual day and temple festival |
| The village temple festival and the school annual day The quarterly exams were over but holidays were not declared. The school had to celebrate its annual day on October 4th. The children would be practicing dance and drama. At least the selected ones, the rest would just laze around and play games.They needed two chief guests for the annual show. ...
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| Shishir Bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006 |
| Friends: (161)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Reading, writing,...
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| Are more H-1B visas good for India? |
| By the end of this month, if will be clear if the US Senate Immigration Reform Bill introduced to decide whether H-1B visa limit should be increased from 65,000 to 115,000 has been defeated or allowed to sail through successfully. Everyone says an increase in the H-1B visa limit will help Indians the most. Will it, really? But more on that in just ...
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| Sameera Nandi | 21:15 | 23/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (545)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: I wonder what I'...
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| Mumbai Meri Jaan |
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| I am back in iland (never really left it :-)). Much sooner than expected. The thing is that in the first week of all that cultural activity , I was so overwhelmed and swamped that I thought its is going to be a proper break from blogging. But now, 3 weeks into it , I have finally managed to (hopefully) gain some perspective. Equanimity. I am trying...
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| fantasy | 12:01 | 11/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (90)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: fantasize
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| Everyone does it.... |
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| A fantasy….Everyone fantasizesEveryone does but they do it in private. I have had many people asking me about my fantasies…I don’t blame them. With a name like this they expect …Anyway here are my fantasies. 1. Floating on a cloudy magic carpet with soft music and thou beside me… 2. Living off compliments and soft couplets… 3. Winning...
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| janus janus | 17:16 | 1/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (326)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
| Interests: Yoga, music, cook...
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| Weekend laughs |
| It suddenly dawned on me today that I have not been doing something that's an intrinsic part of my nature -- share the jokes I know. I just love jokes, and can be counted upon to rattle them off in sleep. So here goes my latest instalment of jokes, unfortunately none that I can lay intellectual ownershp of...*****"Guess what I heard today?" a man s...
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