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 20:14 | 26/Oct/2008
Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya
From Darkness, lead me to Light!Diwali, the festival of lights, is believed to be based on this philosophy.  There are several mythological tales and folklore associated with this festival; but curiously enough Kerala is one state where this festival is pretty low key.  The stories I have heard as a child have associated Diwali to the triumphant re... more...
 15:42 | 15/Oct/2008
Fish spa - estilo el campo
Austin, Texas recently banned the use of carp fish pedicures citing safety concerns.  Funnily enough, it claimed that there was no way to clean the fish before having the next customer in for a fish pedicure!!! However, what interested me most was the cost of a fish pedicure - $22 for a one-hour sitting!  I had just returned from a visit to Kerala.... more...
 07:22 | 13/Oct/2008
Anakatti and the Nifty
 Achuettan must have been a worried man.  Protocol demanded that he too invite Ratanji to God's Own Country, but then, given the track record of industrial and labour relations in the state, he stood a good chance of being rebuffed.  “Well, anyway I don't have 1000 acres of contiguous land in any case”, he consoled himself.  And it was quite unlike... more...
 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 ... more...
 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... more...
 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... more...
 12:39 | 15/Nov/2007
Work placidly amidst the haste...
“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... more...
 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... more...
 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... more...
 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... more...
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 Seena Vincent | 21:01 | 22/Sep/2008
Friends: (1044)  | Interests: Internet Money
100 Ways to help others
On many occasions we have surprised by the mercy of our fellow beings. This is one simple reason why man kind is still there on the top of other animals and creatures. Men help women, women help children, the strong help the week, the rich help the poor and the society help the members. This isone good circular helping pattern that is benefited fro...  more...
 indal kumar | 15:56 | 25/Oct/2008
Friends: (278)  | City: Gurgaon  | Interests: Friendship, Shaya...
Diwali Wishes
My Dear All Friend, May This Light of  Happiness Light up Your Life May This Dowali be the most Sparking and Lightening This Sight and Sound Filling up Your Heart with Joy and Happiness Wishing You and Your Family A very Very Happy Diwali.   With Best Compliments Indal Kumar  more...
 datanentrygo | 07:49 | 19/Mar/2008
Friends: (328)  | City: Ranchi  | Interests: computerjobs
Jobs of editorial proofreading.
Jobs of editorial proofreading. Editorial proofreaders they can also recommend changes in word choice or inappropriate punctuation. Jobs of editorial proofreading. http://jobcenter.webs.com/pr.htm  more...
 Gloria Aurora | 15:04 | 27/May/2008
Friends: (588)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: In almost everyth...
Height of...........
HEIGHT OF MY FRIENDSHIP  I always mail, u don't . HEIGHT OF ISOLATION: Two persons sitting side-by-side using emails to communicate with each other. HEIGHT OF COWARDICE: Two persons fighting through emails.HEIGHT OF HELPLESSNESS: Receiving no emails for a week. HEIGHT OF FRUSTRATION: The email server being down.HEIGHT OF CARELESSNESS: Writing a lov...  more...
 Yogesh Bhavsar | 17:03 | 21/May/2008
Friends: (17)  | City: Pune  | Interests: Music,cricket,bad...
Reservation
Hi Friends! Have a look at this! How convincingly an intelligent man speaks out his  heart at the no-sense move made by Indian politicians. I hope that strikes  them somewhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PASS IT ON……..! Wipro chairman Mr. Azim Premji's comment on reservation: I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely  support the ...  more...
 amusing muse | 02:20 | 30/Oct/2007
Friends: (156)  | City: Los Angeles  | Interests: People, Books, Mu...
Seva Ram!
“I don’t want it short; I want to make a ponytail” the little girl declared. I watched with interest as the six something girl explained to her mother and the hair dresser just how long she wanted her hair to be and how much hair she wanted in the front. Reminded me of Seva Ram…Seva Ram, in his loose white pajamas, a dull coloured shirt and a Nehru...  more...
 nicky | 11:27 | 7/Jun/2008
Friends: (66)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: dancing, music, l...
its my life
I am going through a different kind of feeling these days. I am out of my last relationship a long time back. Remember, I have written about a boy who is non Punjabi but after all my friend’s comments and a lot of thinking I accepted his offer of marriage. I even talked about him at my home. My brothers met him, my mother met him but he bastard, he...  more...
 ramnath rajaram | 02:18 | 18/Oct/2008
Friends: (1764)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: HEALTH AWARENESS,...
Evolution of the symbolisms of the autos...
  Evolution of the symbolisms of the autos-producer     Alfa Romeo   Audi   Aston Martin   BMW Buick Cadillac Fiat      Ford Mazda Mercedes-Benz Mitsubishi   Peugeot   Renault   Saab   Volkswagen    more...
 shilpa agarwal | 11:49 | 21/Oct/2008
Friends: (64)  | City: meerut  | Interests: writing,reading, ...
Education goes off bounds
Education goes off bounds  Educating the children in the present times has become an expensive affair. The school reputation, facilities offered and high fees have become more of a status symbol! It is clearly evident that the education industry is reaping leapfrog profits but is it fair enough to extort profits from the parents who wish to provide...  more...
 Rajiv Rajago... | 17:26 | 13/Feb/2007
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Horn OK Please
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...  more...
 Sunil Meshram | 15:22 | 8/Jan/2008
Friends: (322)  | City: Raipur  | Interests: everything that m...
Most Honourable OCCUPATION !!!
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...  more...
 greengrass | 01:02 | 24/Oct/2008
Friends: (550)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Swimming, Dance, ...
Why Indian Cricket is Improving
  From www.manakkudiyan.com :   Why Indian Cricket is Improving   : Source – Ramu Perumal. :   Category - Humor  |   www.manakkudiyan.com      ß Previous entries of Humor                                                                                                                                                            Back to Main Page       more...
 vira | 12:36 | 24/Oct/2008
Friends: (1672)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: music,photography...
      Love Quotes - Wallpapers    more...
 PGR NAIR | 14:01 | 19/Sep/2008
Friends: (183)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Literature, Cinem...
LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION
LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION Often in our childhood, we have heard this silly question bombarded on us by all folks and relatives we encounter–“Who do you love more -your father or mother?”  I have no hesitation even today to proclaim that I love my father more.  This is not due to the specific fact that my mother had to board the boat of Charon when I...  more...
 Think Tank | 00:00 | 20/Oct/2008
Friends: (671)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Eat healthy, Thin...
They and us...
 कभी देखा है? एक गिलहरì 8; को दूसरी गिलहरì 8; से भीख माँगतí 5;?या एक मुर...  more...
 V T | 00:22 | 17/Oct/2008
Friends: (169)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Hoi Polloi & Riff...
Random Muse on the go.
A very sloshed post on the go! But I think I could write a separate post about each one of them… butt... what the hell! 1)    Just 2 hours to reach IGI Airport. Heck,  got drunk again! Shouldn’t have had that last Patiala.  2)    The cabbie wants to chat about the smoking ban. He says bans never work. I agree and share a bidi with him. It’s really ...  more...
 alakananda s | 02:44 | 9/Jul/2008
Friends: (74)  | City: Morrisville  | Interests: Reading,writing
HOME SWEET HOME
PEOPLE, I AM GOING HOME! AFTER 2 AND A HALF LOOOOOONG YEARS I AM GOING HOME :)) I CANNOT WAIT TILL I GET TO MY OWN SWEET PARADISE THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN. FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AM GOING TO BE SHUTTLING BETWEEN NAGERCOIL AND TRIVANDRUM.   SO LONG AND FAREWELL TILL THEN. CATCH U ALL LATER :))  more...
 Shivaja V | 12:45 | 23/Oct/2008
Friends: (84)  | City: Baroda  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
This is a very old song from the malayalam movie "Bhaktha Kuchela"  (1961).  Another of my favourites.  An English translation is given below  for my friends who cannot follow the language.                   In this world, to man, thoughts of God are the only eternal thing. It blesses anyone in this world and other world. (Life and after death). Th...  more...
 saurabh upad... | 01:12 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (445)  | City: dream land  | Interests: photography,sport...
        Hi. It's Holi-week and people are already in the mood to celebrate. Unfortunately, there are some who like to enjoy at the cost of others. There are experienced incidents where dirty-water (from gutters) balloons or acid balloons are thrown. This is specially done at passengers in buses or trains or at bikers as one cannot catch the culpri...  more...
 Alwin | 18:41 | 31/Dec/2007
Friends: (294)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: CreatinG Internat...
Advance Happy New Year Dear FriendZ
Hi FrienDZ ..,   AdvancE HappY NeW YeaR .. AlwiN  more...
 ekantapadhika | 23:50 | 24/Oct/2008
Friends: (233)  | City: NOIDA  | Interests: sab kuchh aur kuc...
A mother's love
This is an  e-mail forward. The pictures say it all.   Baby monkey hit by a bike (Jaipur)    more...
 dilip krishnan | 13:33 | 25/Oct/2008
Friends: (266)  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
Supreme Court and JNU Students’ Union ElectionsToday’s newspapers report that the Supreme Court has stayed elections to the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Students’ Union (JNUSU) that are scheduled for 3rd November 2008. The apex court has fixed the hearing for the matter now on 8th December. Besides, the court has issued notice to the vice-chan...  more...
 Suresh Praja... | 12:39 | 30/May/2008
Friends: (286)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Having a Discus...
Welcome to Civilisation
Hello , family. Recently i have started on more book, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL by Tony Martin. I have found a very interesting page in this book. I would like to share it with you. Author has taken it from somewhere which is mentioned at the end.   The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways , bu...  more...
 friendly ghost | 12:02 | 9/May/2008
Friends: (372)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Our economists & ...
Our world is coming unravelled
I'm continually amazed by a kind of public blindness to the obvious realities around us. I don't want to go into details, arguments, justifications etc. because they obscure the big picture. I don't want to talk about global warming, unsustainable growth, extinction of species etc. because they seem like distant theoretical stuff to us.I'm stating ...  more...
 silversulfur | 18:50 | 21/Feb/2008
Friends: (228)  | City: SULFUR LAND  | Interests: BLOGING,SINGING,E...
A CUP OF MY LOVE
    A Cup of My Love When you're sad And feeling down, Don't you cry Or even frown. I'm here for you Now and forever. I'll care for you always And leave you never. So when you're lonely, Know it's you I'm thinking of. And if I could, I'd send to you A huge cup of my love!  more...
 Shyama Menon | 13:12 | 28/Apr/2008
Friends: (612)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Finding the real ...
Sree-Bhajji and a few reactions...
The mallus today are a confused lot! The men in particular are perplexed, dumbfounded even to see their poster boy of aggression, Sreesanth, weep like a baby on the IPL ground. I suspect some of them feel exposed ...a little emasculated collectively, maybe. Now don’t kill me guys I’m nothing but an observer! :D Is this the real macho mallu? A sobbi...  more...
 mi ni | 11:30 | 17/Apr/2008
Friends: (271)  | City: delhi  | Interests: Kids, Reading,
FRIENDS
A STORY OF TWO FRIENDSA story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.They kept on walking until they f...  more...
 siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (562)  | City: OUTER SPACE  | Interests: travelling into t...
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...  more...
 Cyril Paul | 18:12 | 18/Sep/2008
Friends: (19)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Whoa...! Music/ M...
My Obscene Brush with MS-Excel
I guess MS-Excel is a tool that has had many a finance professional scratch his head repeatedly, marvelling at the hitherto complex functions that it now performed at a mere click. VLOOKUP, for one. Or Pivot Tables. Or any of the other tools - ranging from the "oh they're so commonplace now" filters to the more complicated macros that checked and b...  more...
 Madhavan PK | 16:40 | 8/Oct/2008
Friends: (417)  | Interests: Books, crossword,...
Adulation and fall from grace
I was talking to a sports adminsitrator based in Malaysia and he very poignantly said, there is more politics in sport than in politics per se. I couldnt agree with him more. I have been pondering over this. But the fact that Dada has announced his retirement and the others of the fab five are ready to hang up their boots soon is not a comforting t...  more...
 Teddy Bear | 08:36 | 11/Oct/2008
Friends: (232)  | City: In her heart...in yours too...  | Interests: Pampering her...
TAGGED
1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATRE: Kung Fu Panda. I am an animation movie buff. And now I am waiting for Madagascar II.2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?The Gods and Godmen of India…3.FAVOURITE BOARD GAME?Table Tennis if I can consider that a board game.4.FAVOURITE MAGAZINE?I do follow a few.. but for now let us keep to Harvard Biz Review, Men’s Health...  more...
 santhanam se... | 10:40 | 24/Oct/2007
Friends: (10)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: CDs Music,Sports,...
Friends
Hai,       I had been expecting a response from my friends  whom I had requesed to add me as their friend.  Please do respond.  more...