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 20:32 | 30/Nov/2008 |
| The political fallout | |
| Politics has been and will be always about winning the heartshare (as opposed to mindshare or walletshare) in a democracy. Politicians will try and find issues that excite the electorate, fan smoke into huge fires thereby enticing the people (at least the majority) to vote for them and come to power. We can’t deny them that, it’s their job. Just li...
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| 19:34 | 27/Nov/2008 |
| May Peace prevail… | |
| In dwindling light at dusk, a few speedboats dismount from their mothership and land on Mumbai coast. The occupants descend on the city with their sophisticated ammunitions and grenades and other explosives and spread havoc and ravage the great city of Mumbai…This sadly is not a script from a B-grade Bollywood potboiler. In fact, it would have been...
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| 20:03 | 6/Nov/2008 |
| Our Barack Obama Moment | |
| I admit I have been following Barack Obama and his campaign for some time now. I have keenly watched him slug it out with Hillary Clinton during the primaries. I expected Hillary to win but that was not the case. I also watched with growing awe how he took on John McCain and his nasty jibes in his stride. Yesterday, I saw on news channels rapturous...
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| 18:48 | 2/Nov/2008 |
| Terror & Religion | |
| Terrorism has no religion. Much before Pragya Thakur and others were arrested, there were organizations like LTTE or at home Naxalites and even ULFA that were primarily non-Muslim, yet definitively terrorists by any standards.However, the canard spread around by polarizing forces has now come home to roost. Consider this, Advani on one end calls fo...
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| 12:11 | 16/Oct/2008 |
| Economic Downturn and Me... | |
| Today, the auto-rickshaw wallahs are on strike. And as I do not have any other form of transport and can’t walk through to the office as well, I am home unenjoying a forceful holiday. Yawning away, flipping through channels. As today is no weekend or public holiday, no interesting movies are currently playing. I wrack through my collection of DVDs....
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| 23:33 | 17/Aug/2008 |
| 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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| linesagency | 12:56 | 9/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (70)
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| STD DLX AMOUNT 16161 18181 EXTRA ADULT 4999 4999 EXTRA CHILD ( 4 - 10 YRS) 3999 3999 PACKAGES INCLUDES: To & Fro Non AC Transfers from the nearest Railway Station or Airport. Welcome drink on arrival. Stay in well appoint...
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| RAGHUPAT | 18:46 | 13/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (125)
| City: Hyderabad
| Interests: "I dare to dream"...
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| OUR LOVE |
| To speak of our loveI just need to see you in the eyeand find that sparkthat shines in the bottom of them. To be comfortable ....I just needclose Barnaand your image ....fills my thoughtsand my soul. Our essencesare intertwined,narrow andcommunicate freely. There are no bordersnor past .....our livesstarted the daywe discovered.the day he was bornt...
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| vijayaram reddy | 10:10 | 10/Oct/2008 |
| Friends: (1063)
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| VIJAYADASAMI |
| VIJAYA DASAMI V ijayam I shtakamyardha siddhi J ayam A bhayam Y bhavam A ishvaryam D hanam A rogyam S neham A drushtam M amakaram I kamathyam……….. Wish you and your family a very happy “Dussera” - V I J A Y A R A M R E D D Y
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| bandra | 23:20 | 25/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (231)
| City: Mumbai
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| Slumdog Millionaire - Anil Kapoor starre... |
| Slumdog Millionaire is an “Indian Film” or a international film with an Indian Flavour. As per IMDB,the story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on Indi...
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| manu | 14:12 | 7/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (507)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: drawing. writting
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| You were stranger to me in this world Now I am feeling stranger to my self in this worldWorld seems to be a alien place for me …….please Toxic ate my world with your light my moon light Waiting for the day when you will descend in my courtyard from the haven in accompany of stars and sun showing you the way to my courtyard .........................
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| TheSwats Omn... | 10:08 | 2/Dec/2007 |
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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... | 18:58 | 3/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (108)
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| Happy being Nothing |
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| Who am I? I am a grain of salt I am a floating lullaby A bubble in the ocean A dream Nothing at all Forgive me my insolence To think my life is of consequence It is You and only You Everything I do Takes me One more step Closer to You
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| Rinku Thomas | 16:02 | 3/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (30)
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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 | 09:10 | 16/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (68)
| City: terra firma
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| A Reason... |
| Does the moon happily shinejust as brighton your rooftopas in mine ?Do the stars wink at youplayfully donningthe role of a chumbefore bidding you adieu ?And the wind ever so mildat times brazen,does it ever whisper'Come,for a change,let's be wild' ?Do you hear the violin playslicing across the lonely shoresto make you dancein abandon gay ?Despite t...
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| Kush A | 18:56 | 22/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (179)
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| Mujhe pado |
| मेरी इन रचनाओं में खुद ही को तुम पाओगेतनह ;ाई में मुझे याद करो&#...
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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... | 15:54 | 8/Sep/2008 |
| Friends: (100)
| City: Bangalore
| Interests: A tru-blu romantic!!
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| THE BEST PART OF MY DREAM |
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| The best part of my dream Sleeps like a child.He has dreams.His toes twitch,He shrugs his nose,He shudders as thoughHe had been caressedBy a gist of a cold wind.Oh! Yes!He looks beautiful Even in the mornings. I tell myself to stop staring.My mind succeeded just onceBut my heart won twice over.He sleeps like a childThe best part of my dream!I’m no...
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| L KINI | 12:05 | 25/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (940)
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| AMAZING ARTS |
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| AMAZING ARTS Julian Beaver is an English artist who’s famous for his art on the pavement of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. Beaver gives to his drawings an amazing 3D illusion! Remember, as you view theM, these are all done on level walkways! Girl in swimming pool (Remember, both his feet, in reality, are flat on the pa...
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| V T | 12:00 | 24/Nov/2008 |
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| Cool Auto |
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| Cool Autowala in saddi Dilli.
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| dilip krishnan | 14:27 | 28/Nov/2008 |
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| The Earthen Lamp, and the Neem TreeThe small temple in the green belt has been special to me for the last three years since I shifted to my present residence. Every day, I take my walk through the green belt around 730 pm. I stop by the temple with the earthen lamp for a few minutes – and as I write once before, it is godly. The silence, the gentle...
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| Pavement Freud | 10:05 | 21/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (298)
| 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 | 16:38 | 27/Oct/2008 |
| Friends: (160)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: READING
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| EPISODES.. |
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| EPISODES.. Episodes…..Her head was heavy with pain as she movedin the bed. Her eyes blinded by the bright day lights as she tried to open them.A faint recollection of the moments of the recent past came flooding to her. She felt strange as never before. Everythinghad happened unexpectedly and had adream like quality. Despite her hangover st...
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