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 18:59 | 1/Dec/2008 |
| Aise ek-add Haadse | |
| As I write this, Mumbai, India and the rest of the world is reeling in shock with the incidents of the last couple of days.As almost everyone must know by now, Mumbai was attacked by a group of terrorists and two of its landmarks were badly damaged. Almost 300 people were killed and 600 odd injured. As I write this we have just recd. news that Mr. ...
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| 15:31 | 20/Nov/2008 |
| Marathi Manoos | |
| Folks, I had initially thought I would write this week about my travels in North India. However, the amount of responses I have recd on last weeks article on Raj T has forced me to re-write this article to clarify the issue as I see it.Its a long post and if manage to read all of it without falling asleep, please do write in and tell me what you fe...
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| 23:14 | 13/Nov/2008 |
| Heavy Heart | |
| Folks, thanks for all the mails asking why I had stopped writing. As me and my friends have a habit of saying "life gets in the way". I am writing to you today with a heavy heart upon seeing the Raj Thakeray issue on television. Time has come for me to open my mouth once more+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++...
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| 22:27 | 21/Aug/2008 |
| Swabhiman | |
| +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++First of all, let me thank the readers for all the letters they send in. Some of them are very encouraging and the others , oh well , it takes all kinds to make this world. One of them from a nice little Nair boy in response to my article " whose land is it anyways " w...
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| 12:09 | 3/Aug/2008 |
| Whos land is it anyway ? | |
| On 2nd June 2008, there was an incident in Mumbai which will perhaps be a landmark in Mumbai's history in so many ways. since it allows me to show so many facets of Mumbai life to you clearly. This incident was what is now popularly known as the Perriera Wadi incident. ( http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE 9JTS8yMDA4LzA2LzA1I0Fy...
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| 14:17 | 5/Jul/2008 |
| Idiot Box | |
| ======================================================= ============================Folks, I have been flooded with mails telling me that my review of Sarkar raj was not what was expected from me. That I have become too trivial. I have realised that my readers are now expecting a much higher level of writing from me and I do apologise for letting th...
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| 12:45 | 2/Jul/2008 |
| Sarkar Raj | |
| Folks, I finally saw Sarkar Raj, maybe I'm seeing conspiracies where they don't exist but does anyone notice the Freudian slip of attaching Raj to the end of the Sarkar name. Now as the movie itself, before I get mobbed with readers who scream at me saying I'm a nasty so and so for always picking on the Bachchan family, let me clarify that the acti...
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| 10:21 | 12/Jun/2008 |
| Mumbai to Shanghai | |
| Folks, this week I am visiting Hong Kong and its been 9 years since I came here last. My last trip was in 1999 when Hongkong had just recently reverted to China and the difference needs to be seen.I can sincerely say that our dear CM should forget about making Mumbai into Shanghai and concentrate on making it into a Hong Kong. They have similar pro...
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| 23:48 | 9/May/2008 |
| IPL | |
| Folks almost everyone is writing about the IPL fiasco so I thought it was time that I put my 2 bits in.First of all, lets look at the whole concept of dividing India into bits. as we all know the idea was to form 8 teams to compete against each other but god alone knows which joker came up with the idea of dividing India into bits.Its nuts, here we...
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| 11:56 | 27/Apr/2008 |
| Mixed Bag | |
| Its been quite a few days since I wrote anything, so I decided to write a few ideas which are currently running across my mind. By the way even by the time I publish this, its going to be quite out of date but the thoughts in it definitely need to be shared.The first is about one of my favorite people, Mr. Amitabh Bachhan. Today there was an articl...
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| nivia | 10:08 | 1/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (514)
| City: Dehradun
| Interests: trying to SATISFY...
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| tanha dil se tanhai mai, tanwangi ne ye socha, tarap rahi hai wo jiske liy kya wo uska kabhi hoga?
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| bandra | 23:20 | 25/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (231)
| City: Mumbai
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| Slumdog Millionaire - Anil Kapoor starre... |
| Slumdog Millionaire is an “Indian Film” or a international film with an Indian Flavour. As per IMDB,the story of Jamal Malik (Patel), an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on Indi...
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| infyteena | 16:24 | 22/Oct/2008 |
| Friends: (156)
| City: Aurangabad
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| positions |
| hi, what are the different positions used by partners in intercourse? is there any position related for specific condition... what are the best positions>>?
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| arpit srivas... | 15:41 | 26/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (56)
| City: Kanpur
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| Pain of a Married Man ...!!A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in bed. She goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffe...
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| Binu Abraham | 16:15 | 29/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (333)
| City: Cochin
| Interests: Reading
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| 5 Minutes for Poor |
| Welcome to 5 Minutes for PoorAre you willing to spare 5 minutes for the poorAre you willing to spare 5 minutes a day for the poor. If so, you can help hundreds of poor/orphan children with food, clothing & education. Most of us have good education and enjoy good food every day. But there are millions of children who are deprived of both good food a...
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| praveen sharma | 15:26 | 19/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (972)
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| THE LOVE |
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| "The name that can be named is not the eternal Name. The unnamable is the eternally real," . So, if you focus on the name, then you are likely to lose the actual substance and essence of it.Basically “LOVE” is a unique feeling that can’t be defined if we really live it. On the contrary it can be defined with all its technicalities for all other pur...
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| sun comp | 16:53 | 12/May/2008 |
| Friends: (74)
| City: Pune
| Interests: cricket
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| Hi Friends! A journey to thousand miles always begins with the first step and it is this step that is of maximum importance. Cricket is a beautiful game and the chance to play in England is an opportunity of a lifetime. As a part of our development activity, every year our club organizes a cricket tour to England in the months of July & ...
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| Vijit Vivek | 18:48 | 30/Oct/2008 |
| Friends: (799)
| City: Patna
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| Mumbai police are facing a strange case of rape in which the victim has not even seen the criminal. There is a new way to rape women. The victim left the office after work and saw a little child crying on the road. Feeling pity for the child, she went and asked what happened. The child said, "I am lost can you take me home please?" Then the child g...
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| shakeel ahamed | 17:36 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (2)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: photos,music
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| shakeel |
| my name is shakeel ahamed.i am 14years old.i know only english.i want friends please add me in your friends list.
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| Subrata Mukh... | 22:39 | 4/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (4)
| City: Kolkata
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| Our Relationship |
| When we said HelloEncouragement was in the BreezeWarnings Caressed our Every DecisionPast held LonelinessPresent held PleasureFuture held UncertaintyCommunication was our FoundationFriendship grew with TimeTrust Developed with ExperienceLove became the Means of LifeNow when we say HelloEncouragement dances in our MistWarnings have ScatteredPast is ...
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| Kiran Raivad... | 10:58 | 26/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (186)
| City: Calcutta
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| STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART...FOR THE HEART. (Posting it as it may be useful/kr) A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees . The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone. Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart? Ans:1. Diet - Less ...
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| Vaidehi | 16:51 | 19/Jul/2008 |
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| City: Mumbai
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| OOPS |
| Well, something shocking has happened!!!Apparently, someone hacked into my ILand blog and deleted all my friends list and blogs. Luckily, I managed to change my password pronto and did the damage control but i still lost my posts and my 400 odd friends. It's so funny and hilarious. I had heard abt security flaws on ILand but didnt expect anyone to ...
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| ice candy | 08:25 | 1/Dec/2008 |
| Friends: (138)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Observing
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| The Real Son - 3 |
| 1 day earlierG Mukherjee : We have got all the information we need. We know it is not a random killing. There was nothing missing from the house. So it's not a case of a burglary gone wrong. GM : Lets play a game. A Bajaj : Great, we got a murder to solve here and you want to play games. Are you nuts?GM : Listen to me first. I ask you some question...
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| K B | 00:05 | 1/Dec/2008 |
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| Terror |
| This blog was deleted by the powers that be... twice! I have lost the comments of Bonsaian, Lata Ojha and Jim's too, because of the "hijacking"!Terror!Way back in 1971, I was a young officer of the IA, i.e., the Indian Army, who had fondly remembered the Nark & Chandal Forces as they existed on sandmodel and other battlefields in IMA, hoping to be ...
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| kartik shriv... | 18:09 | 9/Mar/2008 |
| Friends: (496)
| City: Bhopal
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| Salam Bhopal.............. |
| Dec. 2-3, 1984-The Bhopal Gas Tragedy........One Of The Biggest Disasters in the World in Which More Than 20,000 People Were Killed and More Than 170,000 Were SEVERELYAFFECTED........It Has Been 23 Years Since Then But the Effect of thatDisaster is Still Continuing.......Here are Few Lines Dedicated to AllWho Were Affected by This Disaster...........
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| mini francis | 11:30 | 17/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (272)
| City: delhi
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| 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...
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| amarnath pandey | 17:55 | 7/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (21)
| City: Raipur
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| wonderful day |
| Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trial make you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failure keeps you Humble, Successs keeps you Glowing And God keeps you Going! Have a wonderful day!
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| DrHarmeet Singh | 15:13 | 23/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (1472)
| City: Birmingham
| Interests: Having a good laugh
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| Working in Australia |
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| Friends, Australia is the current job fad in India...but do you know exactly how they work in Australia? Interesting Anecdotes
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| Mission Drea... | 12:46 | 24/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (332)
| City: Delhi
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| Private Banks ki naak mein nakel |
| A Letter to Reserve Bank of IndiaDear Sir / Ma'am, This is to request your kind attention towards my complaint no. 2801 lodged with The Banking Ombudsman during the financial year 2006-07, against ICICI Bank. The complaint was closed neither with a resolution nor a consent from me. But I have not closed the complaint. I had been regularly following...
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| Thohe Pou | 12:09 | 28/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (874)
| City: Pune
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| The Naga: Clash of Ideology and Principl... |
| Today we see another clash of ideology and principle when the NSCN-U was formed by Sumi group to bring unification and reconciliation in Nagalim. Why the NSCN-U was formed is the main question that asked today by many Naga thinkers and other Naga leaders. Does the NSCN-U was formed because of the NSCN-IM cannot bring unification of the Naga people...
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| Shweta Pal | 19:55 | 1/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (0)
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| IRRESPONSIBLE TRP's |
| In today's world the idiot boxes are living up to its name religiously & even more. The reason being that even journalism is rapidly moving towards the showbiz. Earlier media used to inform people about it but now it is a part of showbiz. It’s all a TRP game now. And it seems it's ages before when serious journalism was all about the power of kala...
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| I Am | 18:26 | 30/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (120)
| City: Mumbai
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| A Second life.. (Part 4) |
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| It was Sunday morning. Tara left for the market to buy some supplies for Aashram. Ladies of Aashram did small businesses like preparing & selling chutneys, papad, pickles, hand embroidered bedsheets & cushion covers, etc. She bought lot of things & her hand was full of plastic packets. She walked back slowly. She stopped as she found someone standi...
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| Lissome Lady | 23:13 | 28/Nov/2008 |
| Friends: (312)
| City: Mumbai
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| PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE |
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| The Mumbai blasts provided more salacious space for the media to celebrate some more "breaking" stories. This time it was live cover - drama for 48 hours. They had not had such an ongoing performance since little Prince fell down that tube well a couple of years ago. Except that, this was a dedication of unbelievable AK 47 totting, impeccably trai...
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| News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (971)
| City: Chandigarh
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| SantaSingh got his promotion and became principal in colledge. To keep up with his status, he decided tospeak only in English to all his juniors. One morning, his peon peeped through the doorto see if his principal was busy. Santa Singh noticed him and shouted, 'Why areyou outstanding! Please in...
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| DV Bhartiya | 12:37 | 10/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (970)
| City: Delhi
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| PDS Godowns Loot In West Bengal |
| I am watching a news on TV since last two days that in some districts of West Bengal people have started to loot the godowns of PDS grain holders. All these people seems to be the general pubic. I was trying to understand the reasons prompting the people to take such horrible steps despite the presence of police behind them and legal punishment. On...
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| jayesh | 19:56 | 15/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (60)
| City: Hyderabad
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| Comparing Men and Women at the ATM |
| Instructions for the guys:1. Pull up to ATM2. Insert Card3. Enter PIN4. Take cash, card and receipt5. Drive awayInstructions for the Gals:1. Pull up to ATM2. Back up and pull forward to get closer3. Shut off engine4. Put keys in purse5. Get out of car because you're too far from machine6. Hunt for card in purse7. Insert card8. Hunt in purse for gro...
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| Seena Vincent | 21:01 | 22/Sep/2008 |
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| Interests: Internet Money
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| 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...
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| sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (1056)
| City: Delhi
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| ‘Eating the Earth’! |
| Eating meat, dairy and eggs threatens our planet.You use much less land and water if you eat crops directly. Animals use most of the protein they eat to live, not 'grow' meat. So eating meat adds to water shortages, forest clearing, soil damage, use of oil-based pesticides - and climate change. "By 2050 the world's livestock will be consuming as m...
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