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| The Bridges to Someplace Else | |
| This has been triggered by The Bridges of Madison County. The movie had been recommended by two close friends and, one workday afternoon, I decided that even if caused the collapse of my empire I must watch it.The movie is about a middle-aged houswife and an itinerant photographer finding love during their four day tryst. The meeting does not last ...
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| 07:31 | 21/May/2007 |
| If You Are Facing A Deluge... | |
| Are you forever facing a deluge of 'forwards' and other unsolicited stuff from those who should really not be called friends? I was scouring del.icio.us for something entirely different when I came across this link. http://www.fuckoffimbusy.com/ Send it to your tormentors. Then bolt the door and unplug the phone. Check insurance. Smile.
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| 06:56 | 21/May/2007 |
| Attitude, Altitude | |
| It is all about attitude, Sparky!After reading a zillion self-help books - that is the scale on which I need it! - I was pulled out of a growing quaigmire by two vistors to my blog. Aditi Shukla Fozdar and Trishna Mumbai. They are the ones who switched on the torch that pierced through the fog. It is about 'attitude', period.I read about a famous c...
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| 06:54 | 4/May/2007 |
| Loneliness.... or some such thing | |
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| It is loneliness that has driven me to blog. No mistake about that. How will blogging cure it though? Is this a headlong and desperate plunge, looking for connecting with someone.. anyone?Is it mid-life crisis? Or is it genuine dissatisfaction at the way I am handling my life?I am convinced that it is the latter.I have little doubt that I have allo...
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| 22:07 | 7/Oct/2006 |
| Bacchus and I, and an Impending Divorce | |
| In hindsight, had I been attentive to His message, that coitus interruptus would have been my saviour.Dulli is a hamlet. In fact I am not even sure if it is one. Maybe it is a liquor shop with a village around it. All that Ajit and I knew is that Dulli has a solitary liquor shop that sits on the Kalka-Simla road, perched exactly astride the inter...
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| 20:53 | 4/Oct/2006 |
| In Praise of the 'Forward' Attitude | |
| I love the guys and gals who, while pittering-pottering in their inbox, never fail to fling a "forward" or two at their unsuspecting friends. They have taken the onerous responsibility of amusing, entertaining and educating (did I forget spiritual uplifting?) of their friends upon their slender shoulders and will not rest till their aforementioned ...
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| 16:58 | 29/Aug/2006 |
| Home Truths | |
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| In Steven Spielberg's Munich, there is a sequence in which a group of Israeli assassins accidentally run into - and share a room with - Arab terrorists. (Before someone suspects me of tilting this way or that and energetically catches me by the scruff of my neck, let me hasten to add that the words 'assassins' and 'terrorists' are entirely intercha...
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| 08:38 | 13/Aug/2006 |
| Looking for God | |
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| Ivan D, who has free-rented a small attic in my Inbox after we made acquaintance on Rediffiland, has got me worried.Last night, when I staggered home past midnight after paying a great deal of respect and attention to Old Monk ("Always respect age", my Mama had taught me), I found a mail from Ivan the Terrestrial (he has such wisdom)."Are you relig...
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| 13:05 | 9/Aug/2006 |
| The Underlying Enemy | |
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| Can someone please ask Israel to take a commercial break while the rubble can be shifted?Perhaps Israel needs to take more than a short commercial break. So does Hezbollah; though I suspect that when they finish scrapping the bottom of the barrel for that last Katyusha that had been saved for a rainy day, they will stop anyway.Israel, and their pat...
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| 14:01 | 26/Jul/2006 |
| Death by 4000 Words | |
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| When I watch televised press conferences and interviews, I am struck by the loquacityof our media-men. There are a few - a truly endangered species - that can ask a question in a few well chosen words. For the rest of the tribe, armed with a well-labelled microphone, it is an occasion to run amok with words. This is the brood who, having reached t...
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| bhavna patole | 20:46 | 3/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (10)
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| The reason it hurts so much to seperate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand...
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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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| dew | 16:05 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| Coconut Crab |
| This species is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. It is a rare and endangered animal. The claws are so powerful that they can lift objects like vegetation or rocks weighing upto 28kgs. Courtesy : The Internet
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| Ever Changing | 14:28 | 9/Jun/2007 |
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| Mera kuch samaan lauta do |
| मेरा कुछ समान लौटा दोThis beautiful lyrical song of a tormented soul mourning for lost love has been a favorite of the Indian psyche. Sinces ages unknown our beloved FM channels have been playing them every thursaday evening, on every rainy day, an...
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| amrinder tiwana | 09:38 | 23/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (38)
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| spiritual tips |
| Spiritual Tips Having a sharp tongue can cut your own throat.If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.Of all the things you wear, your _expression is the most important.The best vitamin for making friends.... B1.The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.The happiness of...
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| sunita som | 11:46 | 25/May/2007 |
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| Aashiyana |
| One of my frens on the Iland (Neetha Nair) suggested that i write something about my new home....i was seriously thinking on those lines when the Radio FM played this wonderful song from yesteryear.....this song says it all....it is from the movie Saath Saath released in 1982 with Farooq Shaik and Deepti Naval playing the lead roles....a timeless m...
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| Vineesh Kris... | 16:44 | 7/Aug/2007 |
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| A Weird Dream |
| Stan waited for the office bus at the place were he regularly waited. The junction where the narrow road leading to the too low subway joined the highway. It was dusty and hot as usual. The construction of a flyover to counter the hour-long traffic jams had begun and Stan had crossed the road with difficulty because he had to negotiate the tin she...
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| GirlWid Curls | 21:24 | 29/Jul/2007 |
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| Come true |
| Some one once told that me there are two angels on both our shoulders that hear our thoughts & find ways of communicating it to the universe. I dont know how true this is , but I was reading this book called the Secret that said exactly the same thing. It specifically said that the universe does our bidding. It will give us what we want & exactly ...
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| vatsala joshi | 18:38 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| Ek choti si love story-3 |
| Trisha jolted out of her thoughts abruptly.The college gate seemed to have loomed up out of nowhere.She hastily dropped a few notes into the auto-driver's hand, and clambered out. The weather seemed uncertain;fickle in it's loyalty, to the purple rainclouds, or the sun sulking behind them.It seemed to mirror Trisha's current state of b...
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| bronzegoddes... | 07:38 | 5/Dec/2007 |
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| Hey!! Wassup? |
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| “Hey! Wassup?”“Hey! How’s it going?”These are the most common questions that are asked to us and these are the most questions that we ask people every other day.Analyzing these, they are the most meaningless questions and we give such bullshit as replies.And even when we ask these questions how many times do we really mean it from our bottom of our...
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| anya dsouza | 12:09 | 26/Jul/2007 |
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| Break on through to the other side |
| I’m back once again and hopefully I will be posting my often outdated and vague streams of thought more often. Two different individuals can co exist in what outwardly seems, to be one single innocuous human being. Two different sets of wants, of dreams, of likes and dislikes, of idiosyncrasies. One of these two individual personas, was forward lo...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution |
| Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...
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| Sandhya Suri | 17:36 | 29/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (628)
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| Asleep on the Road |
| Ironically this post is under the 'Life' category...this is anything but life.I normally say my prayers early morning in transit to work. On my way, last morning, I saw a man, lying dead on the dusty median. He was stiff, still, as only a dead person can be. He had been beaten to death, sometime between the day before and last morning. My heart utt...
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