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 09:53 | 31/Dec/2007 |
| Modi, a hero | |
| Though I also operate within the realms of Indian English media, though I am aware of its “pseudo-secular” credentials, I was baffled by the kind of lop-sided, anti-Modi coverage of the Gujarat elections, especially in the electronic media. The English newspapers and news channels declare themselves as “unbiased and secular” while they act as if th...
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| 08:20 | 16/Jul/2007 |
| Modern day heroes | |
| It has been a week since the US warship USS Nimitz left the shores of Chennai but I am still disturbed. No, I am not thinking about the alleged nuclear emission or the shameful way with which India prostrated and still prostrates in front of the US. I am only thinking about what the sailors did in Chennai. What disturbed me the most was the hysteri...
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| 22:48 | 25/Jun/2007 |
| Che Guevara- cool dude? | |
| It was by accident that I chanced upon a beautiful book titled “My Father’s Notebook”. The book was written by Iranian author Kader Abdolah in Dutch and translated wonderfully into English by Susan Massotty, whose most famous translation is “The Diary of Anne Frank”. Kader Abdolah is not the author’s real name; the book says it is a pen name create...
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| 23:19 | 28/May/2007 |
| Rajni, the enigma | |
| Till I came to Chennai from Kerala, I had only heard of the kind of hysteria Rajnikanth generates among the public but when I really saw it, I found it quite puzzling. I could only look at the unadulterated, unabashed admiration, love and worship of a film actor with surprise. But despite my repeated efforts, I have not been able to interview him s...
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| 23:38 | 22/Feb/2007 |
| Of Cabbages and Men | |
| One afternoon about two years ago, when I saw Pandian, a handicapped vegetable vendor, he was almost in tears. His small wooden booth, straddling the pavement was full of fresh, bright vegetables. Unsold vegetables. Until then, his shop used to be almost empty by afternoon. On his two-wheeler, Pandian used to ride to the main market at Koyambedu ea...
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| 08:50 | 7/Feb/2007 |
| The Sun never sets | |
| I love the sea, the waves, the sand and the beach in their entirety. It is bewildering to look at the sea as it makes me feel very small but it also makes me inexplicably happy. I think I am passionately in love with the vastness and the complexity of the sea. I am also scared of it. Still, I love playing with the waves and staring at them for hour...
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| 14:08 | 14/Jan/2007 |
| Whose land is this anyway? | |
| It was in the early eighties that I first visited the North East of India. I had the good fortune to spend a few days in Guwahati too then. As a youngster, that visit was a kind of an eye opener to me; a bit of shock too. The first shock I received was from a co-passenger in the Tinsukia mail, an Assamese working in a bank. That was the time dissen...
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| 22:59 | 16/Oct/2006 |
| Growing up with "Swami and Friends" | |
| “It was Monday morning. Swaminathan was reluctant to open his eyes. He considered Monday specially unpleasant in the calendar. After the delicious freedom of Saturday and Sunday, it was difficult to get into the Monday mood of work and discipline. He shuddered at the thought of school; that dismal yellow building; the fire-eyed Vedanayagam, his cla...
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| 10:12 | 12/Oct/2006 |
| Homsexuality, a crime? | |
| A friend of mine and I had an argument recently. It all started with a letter drafted and signed by people like Amartya Sen, Vikram Seth, etc. It was a signature campaign to repeal Article 377 of Indian Penal Code that makes homosexuality a crime. The man who drafted the letter wrote in a paper, “As a gay Indian one always feels like an outsider, o...
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| 10:28 | 19/Sep/2006 |
| Ram temple and jobs | |
| In the span of two days, I was at two conferences which were totally different from each other; in fact, they were a study in contrast. The first one was Connect 2006 where the top guns from the IT industry like Ramadorai of the TCS, Shiv Nadar of the HCL technologies, Kiran Karnik of NASSCOM, Anil Ambani of Ralinace Communications, Lakshmi Narayan...
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| satyendra sahoo | 22:38 | 9/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (194)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Music,cricket,bus...
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| Beware of Airlines!! |
| Lufthansa Airlines Passengers on a Lufthansa flight heard this announcement from the captain:"Ladies and Gentlemen, I am sorry to inform you that we have lost power to all of our engines and will shor...
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| jiya jiya | 15:57 | 10/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (39)
| City: Ahmedabad
| Interests: writing
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| The mystry of vibes .......?anser me |
| I was talking to a guy for the marriage,and looking at his pic i experienced somekind of an emotional thing andi told him , i am experincing thisvibe from you which makes me say " that you are a a happy/honest/loving soul " an Godwill bless you....???"""That guy actually blurted out "I don't know what am I looking for"what the ...
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| Shivaja V | 17:23 | 29/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (50)
| City: Baroda
| Interests: Reading,writing,K...
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| A beautiful poem of Rabrindranath Tagore........... "Where have I come from, where did you pick me up?"the baby asked its mother.She answered half crying, half laughing,and clasping the baby to her breast, "You were hidden in my heart as its desire, my darling.You were in the dolls of my childhood's games; and when with clay I made the image o...
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| sunil | 05:22 | 21/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (116)
| City: Delhi
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| KASAM Main peeta tha , usne chhuda di apni kasam dekar, Mahfil me baitha to yaroon ne pila di uski kasam dekar. SWEET SMILE...............
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| megs k | 20:27 | 25/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (17)
| City: Bangalore
| Interests: Music, Photograph...
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| Merry Christmas |
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| Today DEc 25th 2007 , yet another Christmas Season The Season of of Cakes,Santa Claus, Christmas trees, Love and Joy and peace! Everyone's in a celebrating mood..... but has anyone thought about what we are celebrating? Often we find reasons to celebrate , to go out for dinner or to party! but do we always celebrate what we are ought to? Today at c...
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| Mukesh Soni | 16:55 | 7/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (3)
| City: Jaipur
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| Bigge Honth Older version |
| Hi, Friendswhat is happening in these days that if you have songs which has good sound and track but the lyrics are not such that you sing it in the exact manner the songs is be. so here is my new creation to all of you who has problem in singing Emran Hashmi Song :"Bigge Honth Tere" you might have heard the song"chandan sa badan chanchal chitawan...
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| vivek | 08:00 | 7/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (57)
| City: Baroda
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| DENTS |
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| THE traffic in city has become a constant headache to drive through, this is what i feared most about the city life before , and i spent a good number of years in village blissfully. It is so difficult to protect ur car from dents , everyday is an extreme test of ur driving skills . Initially when i purchased my car , i would take care that not eve...
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| Writing Village | 21:08 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (464)
| City: Gerrards Cross
| Interests: Writing
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| Contemporary Indian Art from Raja Ravi V... |
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| This is the first part of the three articles to be published on this subject.What is contemporary Indian art? This is a question that has gnawed at the global literary consciousness time and again. Indian art has its roots in myriad folk styles and traditions and has also fed on the social and political ethos of not only India but also of the world...
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| SHAKTI | 12:13 | 3/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (16)
| City: Cuttack
| Interests: music,playing
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| GANDHIJI |
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| GANDHIHe is the pride of our nation.He is one and only the father of our nation.He was always tried to removed our country from the cruel forigners.He was always told us for peace of our country.We don't forget them because he has taken a mezor part of our freedom.We always proud for him.RAGHUPATI RAGHAB RAJA RAM,PATITPABA SITA RAM.ISWAR ALLA TERE ...
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| saravanan | 12:47 | 9/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (19)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: Reading,Poetry wr...
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| "Kiranawala" Vs Reliance Retail and Walm... |
| We now know that Reliance retail has shelved for the time being opening of retail stores in TN,WB,UP and other states.The Wal-Mart Bharthi tie up is also facing some lockjam from the govt agencies and moreover the whole MNC interest in the future retail expansion in the Indian shores is being re-thinked.Why the controversy?.Who is the loser and who...
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| Neeraj Sonwani | 13:05 | 13/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (4)
| City: Kanpur
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| Tere dar se hoke majboor |
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| Chah ke bhi hum tumhein na bhul payenge, Har waqt khwabon mein aakar tumhein satayenge, Agar karoge koshish bhulane ki to Tumhari kasam ..... Tumhari baahon mein hi "ZEHER" khayenge.......
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| kishore gupta | 11:12 | 30/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (193)
| City: Nagpur
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| Farewell 2007-Welcome 2008 !!! |
| Dear all Ilander Friends, Wishing with you Good Bye 2007! Let the coming year be the Harbinger of more HAPPINESS and better HEALTH & Harvest promising HOPE and path-breaking HAPPENINGS for all. Wishing you a Great Bliss 2008! SMILE a little bit more in 2008 than 2007…a resolution I recommend??? Cheers Kishore
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| Payal Mehra | 18:10 | 15/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (611)
| City: Baroda
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| Yesterday Today & Tomorrow |
| There are two days in every week we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in theworld cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act wepe...
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| kishor Jagirdar | 15:00 | 20/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (106)
| City: Bangalore
| Interests: adventure sports,...
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| May Fly - An Ephemeral Life |
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| This was written in 1989 , during the rainy season this incident caught my attention and I penned my first poem. Thus, an amateur poet was born . I saw a may fly one day,Attracting my attention away,Flying and flapping his wings,Full of joy and melody, Following him were his friends, Who were dodging each other playfully,...
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| Ashok Kumar | 16:19 | 20/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (75)
| City: Bangalore
| Interests: Watching TV,Music
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| Very Witty |
| A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet Dachshund dog along for company. One day, the dachshund starts chasing butterflies and before long the dachshund discovers that he is lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch. The dachshund think...
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| siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (544)
| City: OUTER SPACE
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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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| Dr Namrata | 12:37 | 10/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (25)
| City: Delhi
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| The "DATE RAPE" |
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| Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault(WARNING AND DISCLAIMER: The readers are advised to apply their common sense after reading this article and behave responsibly. However, I am not responsible if someone picks a tip from the article and uses it with criminal intentions. Care has been taken to keep some portions and the names of the drugs ambiguous, to ...
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| anuvij | 21:57 | 17/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (15)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Life as a whole
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| Hugs |
| When you feel a gentle breezeCaress you when you sighIt's a hug sent from HeavenFrom a loved one way up high.If a soft and tender raindropLands upon your noseThey've added a small kissAs fragile as a rose.If a song you hear fills youWith a feeling of sweet loveIt's a hug sent from HeavenFrom someone special up above.If you awaken in the morningTo...
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| ansul sahu | 22:16 | 29/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (157)
| City: Raipur
| Interests: Alwayes MASTI.
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| Taj Mahal - The Symbol of Love & Beauty |
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| If there is any monument associated with love, passion and glory, it is undoubtedly the "Taj Mahal". Taj Mahal is not only the pride of a nation with more than one billion people, but also it highlights the glory of Mogul art and architecture. Above all, it is regarded as the symbol of love.Shah Jahan, the fifth Mogul emperor, built Taj Mahal in me...
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| Prabhjot Suri | 15:43 | 2/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (26)
| City: Delhi
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| Television and Children |
| I think that television is entertaining and a brain killer and also an educator at the same time.Everything has its two sides so i go with the statement that tv has pros and cons.TV IS THE MOST WONDERFUL THING INVENTED AND YES IT HAS ITS PROS AND CONS.Television, our most precious and valued thing that we rush over to when we get home has turned in...
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| Rishi Sharma | 09:37 | 22/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (19)
| City: Agra
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| Headless Chicken |
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| HEADLESS CHICKEN..........................Ronen Sen used this term for the members of the parliament who are opposing the 123 AGREEMENT for the sake of OPPOSING only. You know what, if today the ruling party says that Sun rises from the east then Opposition party will start their march towards the seat of the speaker demanding VOTE on the matter an...
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| greengrass | 18:23 | 31/Dec/2007 |
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| I promise... |
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| From www.manakkudiyan.com : Since from yesterday evening, my inbox receives greetings or wishes for every five minutes. My mobile keep displaying “No space for incoming messages”. It is filled with messages. When I go for morning jog or post dinner night walks, there are attractive boards and hoardings at some shops. New Year wishes… Everywhere an...
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| Rinky Bansal | 04:00 | 5/Aug/2007 |
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| Dedicated to my bestest friend... Here's for you:I never thought that I would finda friend so great and a friend so fineI look up to you in every way'cause I learn something from you every day.Without you I don't know where I'd bebut you're still here, friends with meyou deserve so much more than I can givebut without you I wouldn't live.You've giv...
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| Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (332)
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| The Bourne Series...... download now!! |
| The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...
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| suresh sugav... | 14:49 | 27/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (158)
| City: Chennai
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| joke |
| Presidential Critter A woman went on a tour of the White House. As the guide led her down one of the historic halls, a door burst open and a large aquatic sea mammal, balancing a beach ball on its nose, scurried past. "My, what was that?" exclaimed the woman. "Oh, that's just the Presidential Seal," replied the guide.
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| kishore lakk... | 15:21 | 20/Apr/2007 |
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| City: Hyderabad
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| GOOD WIFES |
| Hello friends after a long long long time iam back to you all. I missed u all aloooot but conditions are like that for me.This blog is a general blog and especially women should not take it as a serious one because i just read this one from one of the newspaper.How to get a nice wife! There are times in a person's life when he needs to take crucia...
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| Gurmeetsingh... | 13:19 | 26/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (238)
| City: Mumbai
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| Success in Interviews - II |
| Wednesday, August 21, 2007Success in Interviews - part II Friends,Thank you for your kind words. I feel motivated to keep sharing. I also feel fortunate that at this young age of 36, I can devote so much of my time for the benefit of deserving people. Do share the messages to your other friends, as well, so that they also benefit. I shall also past...
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| Jahan Bakshi | 03:00 | 22/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (180)
| City: Sibsagar
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| Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star |
| Taare Zameen Par is quite likeable, and thankfully does not employ the above-mentioned nursery rhyme as background music at any instance Okay, okay. Even as ecstatic reviews continue to pour in steadily, I confess that I am far from bowled over by Taare Zameen Par. Maybe it’s because while Aamir Khan has ‘controversially’ gone on record expressing ...
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| Kumar Krishnan | 18:35 | 2/May/2006 |
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| City: Manila
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| The greatest salesman in the world |
| Reproducing a blog of Bharat Chopra on the bestseller "The greatest Salesman in the world" by Og Madino.He has summarised it very well. Happy reading!Everyone, whether they realize it or not, is in sales. Not necessarily as a revenue chaser, but each of us are eternally trying to influence others and affect outcomes in favor of our causes. A few ye...
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| janus janus | 17:15 | 31/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (265)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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| A new year’s eve |
| As the mind boggles at the exorbitant rates being charged for new year’s eve celebrations by hotels and pubs across the city (Rs 20,000 said one, can you beat that!!!) this year and at the thought that there are people willing/able to shell out this kind of money, as the city prepares for its annual date with the calendar, my mind goes back to a ne...
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| Rupali Nimkar | 11:15 | 19/Jul/2006 |
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| City: Thane
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| To Dear Home Minister |
| ToDear Mr. Shivraj PatilHome MinisterGovernment of IndiaFor past few years whenever I see you on the television a hundred questions come to my mind. This time again when you were on TV after the heinous Mumbai blasts the questions were back in my mind. It’s just that today I want to put them down and want you to answer them.After the Mumbai blasts ...
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| K.R.Karthik | 02:40 | 12/Aug/2007 |
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| City: Chidambaram
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| Aadavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule |
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| Whats that?? Atleast the title is not tamil, hindi or english?? Its thelatest (i saw it two days back but was released 100 odd days back)telugu movie directed by Selvaraghavan (our own tamil director) knownas Sri Raghava in Andhra.. Venkatesh, Trisha, Srikanth have performedin the movie.. Whats so special to write abt that movie??Selvaraghavan's mo...
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| Krishna Reddy | 23:42 | 2/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (296)
| City: Mumbai
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| Art of Living friends from Pune |
| Clips from Pune trip Nov 2006 Pictures of myself ( Krishna Reddy ), Sunita and Art of Living Pune gang including Harshal Jadhav, Omkar Nissal and Archana. The trip included a visit to Okayama garden (Asia"s largest Japanese garden), Kadakwasla dam, Khanapur orphanage and Omkar"s birthday party.
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| Sonu Katha | 18:15 | 28/Oct/2007 |
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| City: Dubai
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| 'Talking too much' is top job-interview ... |
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| Talking too much is the most common interview mistake that job candidates make,according to 36 percent of recruiters who completed the ninth edition of the quarterly Executive Recruiter Index, released by Korn/Ferry International, the premier global provider of executive search, outsourced recruiting andleadership development solutions. Other commo...
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| Sabarinath Nair | 12:54 | 28/Nov/2007 |
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| Pics of Hogenakkal |
| Rediff somehow doesnt allow more than one pic - or I havent found out yet. So posting a link to my other blog http://cacafonix.blogspot.com/2007/11/kavery-hogenakkal .html
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| Nandan Newla... | 01:20 | 22/Aug/2007 |
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| City: Cochin
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| SAND |
| im never myself and never for myselfand that was why i had dug down the sandfor some short messagesthe bucket was deepand the sand mostly dryi took it out one after otherbucket in hand i emptied my messagesand my world went tring tringno one knew where i had hidsuch was the load of unread messagesi was dog tiredbut i still tried and tried to keep t...
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| | 04:36 | 1/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (54)
| City: Panickanadarkudieruppu
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| annual day and temple festival |
| The village temple festival and the school annual day The quarterly exams were over but holidays were not declared. The school had to celebrate its annual day on October 4th. The children would be practicing dance and drama. At least the selected ones, the rest would just laze around and play games.They needed two chief guests for the annual show. ...
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