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 11:21 | 16/Feb/2008 |
| Markatasya surapaanam | |
| When Teddy Bear called to announce his arrival in Chennai, I was busy directing traffic around my car, in the middle of a busy ring road near Koramangala! His call was a reminder that I had not posted a blog in a long while! Inertia...ennui..whatever….!!! As I spoke to him letting him know of my predicament, I figured out that life was not going ...
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| 13:42 | 18/Dec/2007 |
| English is a funny language | |
| A man wanting to get rid of snakes in his garden decided to buy a mongoose. He went to a pet shop where he saw two of them, put up for sale. He was quite confused – should he ask for two mongooses (that didn’t sound quite right) or two mongeese (after all, the plural of goose is geese). He opted to take the safe way out. He told the shop keeper...
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| 14:30 | 23/Nov/2007 |
| Aloo paratha in Aappam Land | |
| Refrigerated butter melting on hot Aloo paratha triggered memories of Saturday afternoons in BITS Pilani! In many ways, my recent trip to Trivandrum brought back a flood of memories from college days! It seems rather strange that after almost twenty years I get to eat Aaloo paratha with butter! This rather exotic combination was something I used...
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| 12:39 | 15/Nov/2007 |
| Work placidly amidst the haste... | |
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| “Please fasten your seatbelts…” droned the monotonic voice of the stewardess as the Indian Airlines flight to Trivandrum started its preparation for landing. Looking out of the window I was amazed to see a vast expanse of greenery…stretching as far as the eye could see! It almost looked like we were in some jungle; the airport and what looked like...
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| 11:47 | 11/Nov/2007 |
| The naughty forties... | |
| "Now I know why I like seeing you....you're good for my ego"!!! My brother had this quote painted on a disused LP record and hung prominently in his room during his college days. He claimed to have picked up this beautiful line from some JHC (or was it Harrold Robbins) book...whatever. Anyway, the intension of the quote eluded for quite a long ti...
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| 12:00 | 29/Oct/2007 |
| The face that launched a thousand ships.... | |
| "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss." Thus wrote Christopher Marlowe many many years ago, describing Helen of Troy, which launched the Trojan wars in ancient Greece. This blog seems to be starting like one of S Ve Shekhar's plays "Kaattile mazhe". In the...
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| 12:15 | 27/Oct/2007 |
| Ka Tvam Balah | |
| Thinking of a name for my blog space, I was reminded of the first poemI learnt in Sanskrit (and probably the only one I can remember). It goes like this:Ka Tvam BalaaKanchanamalaKasya putriKanakalatayahKim te hasteThalipatramKa va rekhaKa Kha Ga Gha ngaIt is believed that Kalidasa was once asked to write a poem which endedwith the first five alphab...
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| datanentrygo | 06:06 | 13/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (593)
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| Taj Mahal of India |
| Taj Mahal of India The Taj Mahal is considered as the best example of Mughal architecture a technique that combines elements from Persian, Turkish, Indian, and Islamic architectural techniques. Visit : http://indiavisit.webs.com/tm.htm
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| Gloria Aurora | 13:42 | 27/Dec/2007 |
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| WHAT A JOB!!!!! |
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| A must read notice. Think what if this happens in ur company?? HARD NOTICE OF A COMPANY TO ALL EMPLOYEES [A circular was found in one of the office notice boards] Dear STAFF , Please be advised that these are NEW rules and regulations implemented to raise the efficiency of our firm. ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ __...
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| shilpa agarwal | 12:23 | 15/Jan/2008 |
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| FactsThe first kind of PENCIL was a bunch of GRAPHITE sticks held together by string. Then someone decided it would be better to push the graphite into the inside of a hollow wooden stick.JOSEPH RECHENDORFER was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber onto the top of a pencil which makes it real easy to rub out mistakes.Did you know ...
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| Rajiv Rajago... | 17:26 | 13/Feb/2007 |
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| I am sure you all would have noticed the above words or some variations of it behind almost all the transport vehicles that ply through the length and breadth of the great Indian nation.My daughter keeps observing these trucks, as we drive around Mumbai, and points out every time she sees a difference – whether misspelt or if the OK is missing in b...
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| Sunil Meshram | 15:22 | 8/Jan/2008 |
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| Most Honourable OCCUPATION !!! |
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| IF SANITATION work in India brings with it untouchability, disease and death, why then do the Dalits not just give it up? At the least, why can’t they go on strike and ask for better working conditions? It is not that they did not try. In Delhi’s Balmiki Bara in Aryapura, Rajinder Kumar, a Delhi Jal Board sewer worker, offers us some non-textbook h...
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| greengrass | 15:14 | 14/Feb/2008 |
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| If Vijay Mallya gets into LPG Gas distri... |
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| From www.manakkudiyan.com : Vijay Mallya … King of King Fisher. Whether it is the year calendar or Airlines, where ever he goes he keeps some set of glamorous things. (In fact, it was he who brought Deepika Padukone to the world through KF calendars). If he steps into LPG Gas distribution, what will happen to the operations, how will it be ?… A ...
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| vira | 09:26 | 18/Feb/2008 |
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| A TRUE LOVE STORYA real story happens to a girl in chennai recently.. must readHer name was Priya. She was hit by a lorry. She is working in a call centre. She has a boy friend named Shankar. Both of them are true lovers. They always hang on the phone. You can never see her without her handphone. In fact she also changed her phone from Airtel to ...
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| PGR NAIR | 19:22 | 24/Jan/2008 |
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| A CLEAN WELL-LIGHTED PLACE |
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| Introduction"You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant cafe. It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves." An old man sits alone in a clean, well-lighted cafe. It is late, long after midnight, and he sips his drink with no sense of urgency, no thought of home. Who is h...
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| Think Tank | 13:21 | 17/Feb/2008 |
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| Launching Kavi Kumar (KK) |
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| PoetryIt doesn’t matter… You may not see, You may not feel, The way I do. But it doesn’t matter… You may laugh, You may be happy, While I am sad. But it doesn’t matter… You may be untouched, You may be unaware, While a hell breaking inside me. But it doesn’t matter… I have deceived myself enough, I have coerced myself enough, All I have to do ...
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| V T | 08:47 | 15/Feb/2008 |
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| The Avatar and the Living Room |
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| They did it again. Put me on the home page, that is. Now, I will not say I love or hate that. Just that I am bit curious about the criteria part of it. How do they decide what goes to the home page? If the quality of a post is the sole criteria then I think I need to redefine my quality parameters. Sigh! Anyways, here is yet another post about my ...
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| alakananda s | 02:26 | 12/Feb/2008 |
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| Date with Destiny |
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| “Kanden Kaaliyai,” that was all he said. But in those two words was a sense of longing which was 35 years in the fulfilling. A hunger he had carried in his heart since he was 15, the longing to see his ishtadeivam, Kali, and not just any Kali mind you, but Sri Ramakrishna’s Kali, the Mother at Dakshineshwar, She who had inspired him and set him of...
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| Shivaja V | 13:47 | 16/Feb/2008 |
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| 1) A five digit number is represented by ABCDE. If we add the number 1 in front of ABCDE, then times 3, the result number will be ABCDE appended by the number 1 (as shown in the figure). What is this five digit number? 1ABCDEX 3ABCDE1 2) Find the value of A and C to make the following equation. A and C are single digit numbers....
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| saurabh upad... | 02:31 | 25/Dec/2007 |
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| Dear All, I would like to wish you A Wonderful, Happy , Healthy & Properous Year Ahead ….. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 May God Bless You !
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| ekantapadhika | 01:35 | 16/Feb/2008 |
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| Vipassana Meditation |
| Sometimes, there comes a stage in life, when one feels pushed against the wall, when the bulwark of faith , hope and optimism comes crumbling down, smothering you in the debris. Everything around you is dismally dark and it then seems that the tunnel will just go on and on, that the claustrophobia will only get worse and that there never w...
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| dilip krishnan | 12:36 | 21/Jan/2008 |
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| Headline Hunters II: Today’s NewsI am a bad leader…I will not quit politics even though things haven’t been easy for me: Govinda [Whoever quits politics! Govinda is certainly not a bad actor, nor for that matter a bad politico: see how well he learned the tricks of the trade!]One striking feature of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi is that unlike most Indian poli...
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| Suresh Praja... | 01:55 | 25/Nov/2007 |
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| Hey.. pls help needed |
| Hey this is for everyone.. who are there in my frnd list.. this is my first blog. So let me start with something which is very important to me.now the problem is , my communication skill, i am not that much fluent in speaking , but i m not bad too. Mean if i speak slowly and take time before saying, then there won;t be any mistake. But by this i ca...
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| friendly ghost | 21:59 | 11/Feb/2008 |
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| Channa God |
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| Channa God There is much that I am learning from my son, my spirit friend, my guru Sri Sri Gattu Swami. Early in 2007, he coined a new word, “channa”. Channa initially meant ‘cute animal’ -- like a kitten, puppy or a pet rat. “Eyy-yy, what a channa anee-muhl! It is so tutti-tutti!” Gattu and his sister would say in an ecstacy as they handled a cut...
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| silversulfur | 00:40 | 16/Nov/2007 |
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| I WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR YOU. |
| I give you a piece of my heartTo remind you I'm here for you...No matter if we are far apart,Our love will always be true. I give you a piece of my soul,A part of me reserved for you...Hold it dearly and don't let it go,No matter what you do! Whether it's a bright and happy dayOr you're troubled and struggling to smile...Remembe...
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| Shyama Menon | 10:28 | 1/Dec/2007 |
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| Sporting me! |
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| You know how it is, one fine day, you end up playing some sport and realize how fit you really are. It may be a company sports event or maybe a club sports day that lets you know your fitness level. For me it's our building association’s fancy sounding “Winter Olympics”! So there I was participating in all sorts of things these last two weeks and d...
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| mi ni | 11:38 | 18/Aug/2007 |
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| LUNCH WITH GOD |
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| hi, friends, a forward just come to my way, thot to share with u.A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, just staring...
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| siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE |
| Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...
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| Cyril Paul | 16:08 | 7/Feb/2008 |
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| 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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| Madhavan PK | 13:07 | 13/Feb/2008 |
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| Pages from the past |
| Folks: This was written in 1993 when I shifted to Delhi and was still finding my feet there. “There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from” My desideratum after shifting to Delhi could obviously run into pages. Of course I miss my parents, my brother, my sister, my friends of 20 plus years, my favourite haunts, the general familiar...
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| Teddy Bear | 09:54 | 9/Nov/2007 |
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| Scribbles from the past - Great minds th... |
| Raju : “Abey Panda.. Rasgullaa”! (Hey Panda.. “Rasgullaa”) Panda : “Muh mey hai be”! (I have them in my mouth) Rourkela had always been a cosmopolitan town; pardon me for using this word more in a national sense than international. Probably you wont associate cosmopolitanism with an Indian town, it has always been more of a “city” term. But ...
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| santhanam se... | 10:40 | 24/Oct/2007 |
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| Hai, I had been expecting a response from my friends whom I had requesed to add me as their friend. Please do respond.
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