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 00:07 | 18/Aug/2008 |
| The End of the Beginning | |
| I wanted to have a Coke. It was 3 months since I had one. I never wanted it till then. I guess such gaps kindle desires one never expects to have. I did not buy it; I fought the temptation for 10 minutes pacing outside the shop displaying it. I would not have it for 3 more months. My reason in a friend’s words, “If my parents left me 50000, and van...
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| 22:59 | 5/Aug/2008 |
| India’s Greatest Sportsmen | |
| Here are (my) India’s five greatest sportsmen. As always, such lists are subjective. Viswanathan Anand – Chess was invented in India. However, till the advent of Anand, Chess in popular culture was only a hobby. Not many aspired for recognition in the game as they did not know how. Anand’s greatness is not so much in his achievements, which compare...
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| 02:34 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| The Breaking Point | |
| A chill ran down my spine. So this is how it feels, I thought. I never felt it again. It was a rope of ice pulled along my spine and held for a split second longer at the lowest point. In my numbness, I noticed the floor boy happily waving me out. I knew the psychology of his happiness. It wasn’t worth the effort to verbalize it. I was just refused...
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| 07:45 | 8/Jul/2008 |
| Theory and Practice | |
| “Stranded! Please help. Have to get to California” We passed by the board. There was a girl of around 20-25 under it, relatively clean for a person usually found under such boards. We were talking something else and though I told Santhi immediately, we walked around 30 yards by the time she understood what I was saying. We decided to help. We walke...
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| 06:50 | 4/Jul/2008 |
| The Making of I | |
| Motivation: No word or feeling is more sacrileged than “love”; I won’t use it for what I feel for her. Within two weeks of knowing her, I knew I would ask her if she would marry me. I had no choice. If ever something was destined in my life, it was this. I won’t describe her. For me, she was simply the best there can be. And, she deserved the best ...
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| 03:53 | 27/Jun/2008 |
| My Key Events in Indian Cinema | |
| Cinema in India is the most effective mass message carrier. It promises to retain it’s pre-eminence for a few decades longer. Here I list what I consider are the significant events in Indian cinema in my years of cinema watching. Of course, this is a subjective list. Rangeela – Nudity was mostly equated with declining values. That changed when Mili...
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| 23:33 | 14/Jun/2008 |
| You’ve got to Back Yourself | |
| My number was on the list. I couldn’t believe it. At first I thought, “I am misreading it”. I took a walk and came back. It was there. There was no escaping it. I thought, “If I can get it, this must be an easy exam”. It was March 31, 1999, at IIT-Madras, and GATE results. Six months earlier, I was listening to a lecturer, Krishna Rao, a graduate f...
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| 02:29 | 1/Jun/2008 |
| Me? I Was Fine | |
| “They are suspecting that you may be HIV positive?” It did not register, probably because I was hungry. I was in my 2nd year, BE. “So?” I smiled weakly. “What do you want me to do?” “It is not confirmed. You will have to get a test.” The Principal was obviously trying to be concerned. But I just did not need any. “Ok. I will do that. Can I leave?”...
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| 22:28 | 26/May/2008 |
| Rights, Duties, and the Right to Offend | |
| Homosapiens are among the weakest species, physically, on the planet. We can’t survive a summer heat, a winter cold, or a rain in our nakedness like the other species. In physical strength, we probably have the lowest strength to body weight ratio. However, mankind survived, despite its physical limitations, because we were united against extra-spe...
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| 17:21 | 22/May/2008 |
| The Right to Offend | |
| Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Salman Rushdie, Taslima Nasreen, Irshad Manji, Ibn Warraq and many others live under death threats for expressing certain ideas as they offended a group of people. Thus, the question arises, should freedom of ex-pression include a right to offend? I come across people, in print and conversations, say “I support freedom of ex-pressi...
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| RAJEEV GARG | 06:18 | 16/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (651)
| City: HARYANA
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| RAKSHABANDHAN RAKSHA BANDHAN IS A HINDU FESTIVALWHICH IS MEANT FOR SISTERS AND BROTHERS.BUTI FEEL DISAPPOINTED ON THIS DAY BECAUSE NEITHER I HAVE ANY REAL SISTERS ,NOR I HAVE ANY REAL DAUGHTERS,SO MY TWO SON`S ALSO FEEL BAD ON THIS DAY. SOME OF THE RELATIVES,FRIENDS...
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| Bidisha Mahanta | 18:42 | 15/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (13)
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| FREEDOM |
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| Freedom has so many meanings – Liberty, Autonomy, Lack of restrictions, Free will, Independence, Sovereignty and many more definitions and explanations. To me at an elementary and individual level, “Freedom” is having Faith in the self while treading on the Road called life, Enjoying the beauty of the creation to derive that divine Energy require...
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| MuntajibKhan... | 17:03 | 24/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (116)
| City: Delhi
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| Urdu shayari |
| Jiski qurbat mein qarar bahut thaUska milna dushwar bahut thaJo na tha mere hathon ki lakeeron meinUss shaqs se mujhe pyar bahut thaJiss ko na tha mera hal-e-dil maloomUss shaqs ka mujhko intezaar bahut thaNa chahte huve bhi bhula diya usay humneKya karte iss baat pe uska israar bahut tha English translation:Whose proximity was such soothingYet, a ...
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| sheela rachel | 20:02 | 15/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (77)
| City: Cochin
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| which is bad?verbal wound or physical wo... |
| Let me share a story I read a few days ago.There once was a little boy who had bad temper.His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper,he must hammer a nail into the back of a fence.On the first day,the little boy hammered more than forty nails.The number of nails gradually dwindled down over the next few weeks...
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| Anuja Goel | 05:21 | 2/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (61)
| City: Mumbai
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| meri history:) or herstory or mystory..(... |
| College time was fun, but when it was actually happenning I hated it. I hated college and it put me off studying. i hated my professors, and the college ka public, and thought everyone was selfish and shallow and really damn irritating. I was known among my friends as one of the sweetest, most smiling and affable person they had ever seen - the kin...
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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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| KESHAV DAYAL | 12:20 | 8/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (53)
| City: NOIDA
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| VEGETARIANISM vs. NON-VEGETARIANISM: THE... |
| The article to follow is not religion specific because of the simple reason that I believe in peace and co-existence of all religions. Any reference to any religion has been made to support the logic given in the article. I request readers of this article for applying their logic. I don’t want to thrust upon them my own decision. Therefore, I, de...
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| sanjay | 14:53 | 22/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (25)
| City: Secunderabad
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| BLAME GAME – THEORY!! |
| BLAME GAME – THEORY!! I wonder how many of you know this theory? But it certainly is thought provoking. It was told to me by one of my ‘instructor’, during a study/course I was doing at our ‘Alma mater’. ‘Blame game’ is - incase something (anything) goes wrong or is not going correctly, as envisaged or as per your expectations, just simply blame it...
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| sasmita | 16:51 | 25/Jul/2008 |
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| "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. "
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| vidushi chau... | 17:05 | 13/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (65)
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| Managing or Exploring possibilities? |
| R is one of the most endearing, eccentric characters to have made my acquaintance. He came to work with me when he was eight, primarily because school was a huge struggle for him. He hated writing, it was hard for him and his work was covered with smudges. His best effort would produce illegible writing. He would willingly trade his soul with the...
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| vivek | 23:30 | 14/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (156)
| City: Baroda
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| independance? |
| on the eve of independance day , i read an article in the newspaper that the recent ahmedabad toll has reached 57(????crazy guy me, writing about blast on an eve of independance day,,,,,can't i write about some good stuff). Sunil Kakde , a rickshaw driver, who helped victims of blast to reach hospital ,and himself got 80% burns in the process , suc...
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| Lissome Lady | 12:21 | 17/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (293)
| City: Mumbai
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| IDEAS FOR THE RELUCTANT CHILD WRITER |
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| I have had so much negative crap in the last two days that I need to heal. And the only way to heal is to give. Let me share with you all something that I had devised recently to help the reluctant child writer. Those of you who have children or know of people who have children, might want to use some of these ideas. This, after all, is who I rea...
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| Divyani | 20:29 | 13/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (236)
| City: Mumbai
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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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| Neelima Talwar | 12:03 | 26/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (38)
| City: Bangalore
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| In the Borders of Our Life... |
| I am re-publishing this piece of writing, as a blog, years after it was awarded a prize in "Soul Space" in the Deccan Chronicle.Last month my middle aged father died unexpectedly. He was an excellentdoctor but could not get adequate attention in his time of need. When Isaw his body after his death, he looked calm and peaceful, as if in adeep slumbe...
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| sheik maideen | 12:11 | 11/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (105)
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| The Big Breaking News! India's ace shooter Abhinav Bindra created history by winning the first ever individual Olympic Gold Medal for the country. It's Abhinav Bindra, Abhinav Bindra all over the Beijing shooting range. Abhinav won the gold in 10m Air Rifle event. Abhinav Bindra scored 700.5 points in the final. Although India had won 8 gold medals...
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| Subhransu | 11:33 | 27/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (188)
| City: Tokyo
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| Stupid! |
| Musharraf calls Bush on 11th Sept:Musharraf: Mr President, I would like to express my condolences to you.It is a real tragedy. So many people, such great building... I wouldlike to ensure that we had nothing in connection with that...Bush: What buildings? What people??Musharraf: Oh, and what time is it in America now?Bush: It's Eight in the morning...
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| Prototype X | 22:39 | 4/Aug/2008 |
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| City: Bangalore
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| My Pink Shirt |
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| ________________________________________ ____________________________________Evol ution has rendered us with many acute skills to survive in this world we live in. It has suited us with defenses against the dark perils of nature, but nothing has prepared us for a new threat that looms around on our heads…. the new age woman !Does anyone truly have th...
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| Jus Curious | 16:02 | 27/Apr/2008 |
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| A BRIEF INTRODUCTION |
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| "Give me to learn each secret cause;Let number's, figure's motion's lawsRevealed before me stand;These to great Nature's scene apply,And round the Globe,and through the sky,Disclose her working hand."- Mark Akenside 1721-1770 ( Hymn to Science in works of the English Poets, ed S Johnson 1779)Hi all ! If anything that can be singly unique to humans,...
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| diwakar sharma | 13:37 | 14/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (86)
| City: Hyderabad
| Interests: Literature,music
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| Management Story |
| It's a fine sunny day in the forest and a rabbit is sitting outside his burrow, tippy-tapping on his typewriter. Along comes a fox, out for a walk.Fox: "What are you working on?"Rabbit: "My thesis."Fox: "Hmm... What is it about?"Rabbit: "Oh, I'm writing about how rabbits eat foxes."Fox: "That's ridiculous ! Any fool knows that rabbits don't eat fox...
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| Ranjan Sengupta | 15:25 | 24/May/2007 |
| Friends: (1024)
| City: Kolkata
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| Physics and Music |
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| Can we define music? Most of us may agree that it is bourn by a time series, jointly or independently, of amplitude, frequency and complexity, three fundamental well-known parameters used in physics. This time series is the objective reality, or the fictional reality of physics. But obviously all such time series pertaining to auditory sensation ar...
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| Sahiti Bhara... | 15:09 | 2/Jul/2008 |
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| What does a man fear more, death or life... |
| Lot of people (including yours truly) are struck with a profession which is not their passion. It is not what they love to do. They still do it because it gives "job security" or "good pay" or both.I love kids and i enjoy teaching. Teaching kids would have been my ideal profession or starting a school my dream.What prevents me from going after my d...
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| Apratim Shaw | 17:20 | 15/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (139)
| City: Boulder,CO
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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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| Prachi Dublay | 13:16 | 23/May/2008 |
| Friends: (240)
| City: Mind n Music!
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| You Said! |
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| Oh My Lord…You said… “Now may every living thing,Young or old, Weak or strong, Living near or far, Known or unknown, Living or departed or yet unborn….May every living thing… Be full of bliss…” Oh Lord….You also lead us towards Freedom… Freedom from Hatred…Freedom from Guilt…Freedom from Slavery… from Illwill… from Vengeance… And You fill our hea...
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| r | 16:13 | 19/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (29)
| City: Pune
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| THE PERFUME |
| THE PERFUMEAs she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. Mrs. Thompson...
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| Rakhee | 16:43 | 1/Aug/2008 |
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| City: Jaipur
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| MY WISH |
| Oh my all friends how are you? Last week I was in the Dream land with my SWEETOOO, what a lovely experience enjoyed there but my little friends and Kalicharan daily called me for return back. I am compelled to return. Perhaps it may be possible to keep away all the greedy desires in this world. But it is never possible to ignore the call of de...
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| ThoughtWorks | 11:13 | 3/Jul/2008 |
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| City: Bangalore
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| Our obsession with formlessness |
| Our obsession with formlessnessThere has always been a trend in the thinking of intellectuals. Intellectuals here as per my definition are people who are well-read in the worldly sense and have formed opinions based on careful reasoning, deep thinking and are reasonably open and rational. These people are not fundamentalists but refuse to believe a...
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| Vish Iyer | 00:32 | 16/Aug/2008 |
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| Wisdom only comes the hard way |
| I want to share a few of his words with you-on the subject of optimism and dealing with life's trials elegantly and with grace. As a young psychologist, his newborn son died. That event devastated him and plunged him into dark despair. In the book he writes of his lessons and that through his challenges "I learned what optimism really is: it's know...
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| Arpit A | 20:12 | 17/May/2008 |
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| City: Delhi
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| Nice Experince |
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| Hey Friends, Long time since I scribbled something here. Was way too busy with my own office chores but I regularly used to visit most of ur blogs and commented to them too frequently. Well , had a real nice experience abt 10 days back. The main power supply of our office had some problem that day and somehow huge flames of fire started coming out...
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| JustAnotherC... | 23:17 | 7/Aug/2008 |
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| Surprise |
| We get surprises when we expect them least. We plan something only to discover a while later that destiny had a different plan altogether. Now this is what I can say as pure destiny – me appearing on homepage. I was wondering the day I joined the iland as to how a blog features on the home page, and before I could figure it out, lo! here I am. Al...
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| SHANKAR N | 18:12 | 4/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (215)
| City: KOMARAPALAYAM
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| Afraid of Share Market investments ? |
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| Are you afraid of investing when the market is volatile or unable to make a decision in buy/sell when the market is bullish or bearish. Learn the various techniques and utilise the Free tools (Pivot point Calculator and FREE TRIAL VERSION of CAPTECH software.) given in our site to assist in your decision making and increase your chances of making p...
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| Suvas Dutt | 22:22 | 15/Aug/2008 |
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| City: Guwahati
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| Compliments |
| Dear Friends, Wish you all, "Happy Independence Day" JAI HIND JAI HIND JAI HIND
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| agshaya | 11:11 | 29/Mar/2008 |
| Friends: (73)
| City: Tiruchirapalli
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| Our Destiny??? |
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| Gone are the days when ten rupees is good enough to have a decent food outside.Today, Money is gradually losing its value.Economists cite it as an Inflationary trend.Thanks God, for it's far better than countries like Zimbabwe. "India is Shining" and this feel good factor is certainly there.Asian Market is emerging with China and India as...
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| Dheeraj bansal | 12:51 | 12/Mar/2008 |
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| life |
| It is a Mystery,an unsolved history,sometimes, full of sorrow, sometimes full of joyMaking you feel on top of the world,Like the stars or shining pearlsSometimes, shun you downLike a king's snatched crowns.Life forces you to think!It makes you fool just in an eye blink,It makes you to wonderIs your life worth living or its quist a blunder!wh...
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| Nandita Chak... | 19:06 | 7/Jul/2008 |
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| City: Kolkata
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| Tomorrow's Child |
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| I am yet to be born but I feel my Maker's fear, trauma of past sins,anguish of today's battles, Tomorrow's pains. It's evening now, I can tell by the bloating of the body to...
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| A M Daniel | 17:35 | 21/May/2008 |
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| BE A RIGHT PERSON |
| When the Person Is RightOne rainy Sunday afternoon, a little boy was bored and his father was sleepy. The father decided to create an activity to keep the kid busy. So, he found in the morning newspaper a large map of the world. He took scissors and cut it into a good many irregular shapes like a jigsaw puzzle. Then he said to his son, "See if you ...
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| lucille iaco... | 10:44 | 29/Jul/2008 |
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| Foraging Wild Mushrooms |
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| Lucille Iacovelli When I first moved to Cape Cod in 1991, I was struck by the stunted growth of the trees. Growing in sand and ravaged by coastal winds, trees do not grow as tall as their inland relatives. At first, I missed the majestic hardwood forests of my former home, but soon learned to appreciate the many natural wonders which can be f...
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