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| An article by Swaminathan Iyer in today'... | |
| This is an amazing article. At the cost of sounding ‘anti-national’, I want to say I have been harbouring similar ideas about final resolution of the vexing Kashmir problem. I also produce the entire article here.RegardsBC.Independence day for KashmirBy Swaminathan A aiyar On August 15, India celebrated independence from the British Raj. But Kashmi...
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| 18:36 | 17/Aug/2008 |
| Olympics Ahoy!! | |
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| There is a valid theory that the state of the nation depends on the state of its sports. The argument being sportspeople are healthier, the nation that does better at sports has more people who have better healthcare facilities, educational facilities and nutritional levels . If that is the case, we have a lot to worry about. As a sport we know one...
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| 19:44 | 11/Aug/2008 |
| Rains and other ramblers... | |
| It’s raining again. As I write this, it is now only a drizzle. But it’s very dark outside, signs are ominous. It’s going to rain again heavily after a brief respite – much like what the stock market analysts say – the markets will bounce back after creating new lows. This spell was not unexpected. Over the past few days, rains have been very heavy ...
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| 21:51 | 7/Aug/2008 |
| Stop Press | |
| Haha! Look what I found?! Our once prolific and among the most loved blogger Pavement freud is still blogging very prolifically somewhere else. And his latest posts are those that he never posted in iland. Without his permission, I am pasting the link here. http://pavementfreud.sulekha.com/default.htm BC
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| 22:14 | 6/Aug/2008 |
| Silly Rhymes... | |
| Here’s me trying to get into some sort of blogform. I am trying to see if what is true for out of form batsmen is true for me as well. Spend some time on the pitch and the feet will start moving. Lets see if my fingers start moving as well. Had quite heavy rains in Mumbai today. Kindof inspired this silly rhyme. No reflection on the quality of poem...
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| 21:54 | 3/Aug/2008 |
| For no rhyme or reason | |
| Hi Friends,Have been out of action lately. Actually what transpired was first my laptop crashed. Then when it was repaired, the internet connection malfunctioned. The broadband provider said it was my lan card problem. I had it checked, the person said the lan card worked fine. I scratched my head and got the laptop home. Had almost decided to buy ...
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| 13:26 | 25/May/2008 |
| Sanctity of the Dead. | |
| Being denied the right to live is pitiable enough. However, what makes me churn inside is the way in which the dead, or rather the killed, are being slandered. I wish, at least in these cases, there was more sanctity to their death. My point of reference is the ‘sensational’ Arushi killing. Being killed by her own father is bad; that she had not b...
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| 11:52 | 19/May/2008 |
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| Holla!! People write to celebrate anniversaries of blogging. I contemplated, the least I could do is write to celebrate one year of absence! Hehe.Thanks to all for your concern but being the arrogant fool that I am, I did not respond to anybody’s GB entries. That I was physically indisposed was another matter and of course an excuse.Ok, here is th...
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| 11:59 | 14/Jul/2007 |
| Super Prez!! | |
| There was a time when boxing federations were many, for eg., WBC, EBC, etc, etc, each having its own championship. (I have stoppd following them now, so I wouldn't know the current status.) Some great boxer would come along and win all these titles merging the championship in one person. The same thing seems to be happening in Indian polity now. Ju...
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| 11:32 | 10/Jul/2007 |
| The smell | |
| What is that smell in the air?Is that the smell of the malt from my favourite whisky? Or the smell of the burning tobacco of my cigarette? No it's stronger, older, older than me, older than our race.Is it the smell of a freshly killed carcass? No, now I know, its the smell of the prey that is running away.Yeah, its the smell of the age-old gameBetw...
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| TheSwats Omn... | 10:08 | 2/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (8)
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| Leave me alone |
| Leave me alone here,Where the shadows of the sun tickle my feet,Where sequestered moons of my twenty years, They rub their silver scales against lonely wounds. Here, where the night skies wallow in my smallness.I will worship my own godsI will fight my own demonsHere, the evening prayer chants carry my soulHere, the temple’s inner sanctum beckonsOh...
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| anasua chatt... | 20:38 | 2/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (98)
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| Happiness is a choice |
| Are we all messed up inside? The older I get the more convinced I am that there is nothing termed as a "normal" person. "Normal" should be deleted from all languages. Normal is such a vague term, I grew up thinking that the journey of life would be just so, but I found out that the road was so convoluted and there were so many exits, so many crazy ...
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| Rinku Thomas | 16:02 | 3/Jun/2008 |
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| Then and now |
| It was my birthday on the 31st of May. A lot on candles on a birthday cake that never was. This is the second birthday in a row, where I did not have the usual cake and candles deal. Maybe I have got too old for that kind of thing. This year, my birthday celebration was pretty laidback. Just a quiet dinner with family. A few friends called in to wi...
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| Mari Vin | 12:20 | 17/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (50)
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| ECLIPSE |
| E C L I P S E This to my 50 friends … ’ THANK YOU ‘ Thanks specially to my 30 friends for your comments on my posts… Thanks in particular to my faithful friends who commented in appreciation on all my posts from the beginning till the end. E .P, E B...
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| Indigo Iris | 10:59 | 9/Aug/2008 |
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| Far In The Distance... |
| Far in the distancewhere the vision palesa murmur beginsas high wind ralesYet all around a stillness gnawsover clods and rillsvast meads across And the tall pines softly sorely sighto see the late day sadly dieOne faint exotic star alonepeers through the woolly veilto tell me not all is lost,a bright spot could be found stillif you could see, if yo...
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| Kush A | 18:17 | 16/Aug/2008 |
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| A blues poem/song |
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| Well, listening so much to Billie Holiday all this weekend. I kinda wrote down this song, which at two places refers to two of her different songs. I have tried to write down the kind of song/poem she used to sing in her satin voice. I have titled it:When you come to my memory When you come to my memoryI conjure up a storyA delightful storyOf a sum...
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| Stylish Gal | 01:10 | 12/Sep/2007 |
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| Flame Part 3 |
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| Do you rememberWhen we first met... in that cold december I shivered in my blue Cashmere pulloverYes! The one with exact shade of my eyesn how we instantly felt those strong vibes Do you rememberThe way we waited to catch a glimpseTime stood still, the world in an eclipseAnd when we met our eyes were lockedchoking with emotions the mind was blocke...
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| bronzegoddes... | 15:19 | 14/Jul/2008 |
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| Mazala Salza - Introducing Anil Thekepar... |
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| ANIL THEKEPARAMBIL, 39Anil Thekeparambil woke up with a start. He could not remember the name of the woman whom he had brought home last night. The woman had left early and that brought over him a sense of relief. He didn’t have to put up an act of “how great last night was or that they should get back real soon.” She was a lousy fuck anyway. Mich...
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| L KINI | 09:59 | 28/Mar/2008 |
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| 18 things for successful LIFE |
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| On the left side is the ILLUSIONARY IMAGE 18 things to make LIFE successful 1. Pursue Achievable 2. Keep Genuine Smiles 3. Share with Others 4. Help Thy Neighbors 5.Maintain a Youthful Spirit 6. Get Along with the Rich, the Poor,the Beautiful, &the Ugly 7. Keep Cool Under Pressure 8. Lighten the Atmosphere with Humor 9. Forgive the...
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| V T | 11:10 | 30/May/2008 |
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| Oh Rajni! |
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| Sorry folks, a bit tied up these days; work, travel and all. Nothing new to post, just an old mail forward. It’s a humble tribute to the great Rajnikant. Hats off the true Rajni fan who complied this list of His achievements.• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Rajnikant has allowed to live.• Outer space exists because it's a...
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| dilip krishnan | 15:19 | 14/Aug/2008 |
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| The Great Australian Sale!When it comes to competitive selling, it appears as if there is none to beat the quintessential Aussie. And what better medium than the ‘great seller’ e-Bay!Last year, to be precise on 25th January 2007, I had posted “Life on Auction” featuring the enterprising Nicael Holt who put his young soul on sale: e-Bay, naturally, ...
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| Pavement Freud | 10:05 | 21/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (286)
| City: Vasai, Maharashtra.
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| The Landlady: Concluding Episode |
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| For Fountainahas the night before Good Friday was a watershed in its rather uneventful history; many years after that fateful night, women in the neighborhood would habitually use it as a point of reference to establish facts: so-and-so’s age for example. ‘Oh! Don’t you remember? She was almost knee high that Good Friday!’ That night as Maggie lay ...
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| maidn india | 17:22 | 8/Mar/2008 |
| Friends: (73)
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| Monkey Business in March......? |
| The merry month of March is a a week gone now, and my newfound mantra * (read last blog), seems to have run into something of a snag.. I got smacked by a monkey!!Let me start at the begining. I was ALL 'gung ho' with the said mantra in action. The do-gooding ..., followed by rewarding myself with a plethora of FUN things... It was in this me...
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| shivani narula | 14:34 | 5/Aug/2008 |
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| I am not dead.... |
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| For some one special......I am not dead….pink Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah There"s all these cracks Crack of sunlight Crack in the mirror on your lips It"s the moment of a sunset Friday When our conversations twist It"s the fifth day of ice on a new tattoo But the ice should be on our heads We only spun the wheel to catch ourselves So we weren"t left f...
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