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 19:48 | 25/Aug/2008 |
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| WOH man or WOE man,….. neither is she…… …….just a WOMAN ! Can you read a woman?I ask, can you really, man?Born out of herAs her desirefor a mate,or by fate?or just hate? You venerate your mother;How many do really bother?To thinkMaa bhi ek aurath haiHar aurath ek maa hai!Is she a book to be read?or just an item to be spread?...
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| 11:13 | 7/Aug/2008 |
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| Adam, I am madam………. Am enjoying a one month vacation at KL where my hubby is working now. Early morn as he leaves for work I go to the gym. Yesterday when I was back, I saw three ‘missed calls’ from hubby dear, and that too within an hour of reaching office. Worried, I called back immediately. “Congrats” he tells me. Huh? I wonder, there is noth...
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| 10:06 | 5/Jul/2008 |
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| Aestheticism and vulgarity........ 3rd July 08, Q n A at rediff.com was follows. Some of the answers have you in splits. The nine comments are reproduced below as it is! Q. How do you differentiate the thin line between aestheticism and vulgarity? 1. If a person does not have belief in the concept of God he is aesthist. Vulgarity is obviously what...
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| 09:52 | 5/Jul/2008 |
| KB the greatest........ | |
| KB the greatestFull of zestMessaged me to write….."pronto”Like the one he did on Dodo?? Why not I doOne on Voodoo?Oh no!Will he blinkAnd thinkAs the glasses clinkWhen filled with a drink. That I am a witchOr a bitch?Neither of whichAm ISigh!But a cutie pieWho keeps her head held high. OhLook at my plightAs I sit down to write‘Reading’ glasses for ...
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| 23:06 | 29/Jun/2008 |
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| Jab they met…………… Two old pictures from my collection. Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, with Ms.Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest, a t a seminar on Himalayan conservation in New Delhi (some years back). Cricket legend Sir Don Bradman celebrates his 90th birthday with Shan...
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| 23:20 | 19/Jun/2008 |
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| Ye andar ki baat hai……….. Prologue This probably will be my last blog !!!!!!! Either my son will kill me (but I doubt whether he is capable of matricide, because he takes after his Dad and loves me!) or he will pull out all the hair on his head in frustration! In all truth, I assure you, he will laugh it off and say “Amma is weird” in his inimitab...
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| 22:13 | 18/Jun/2008 |
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| Happiness of my soul....... A smile lights up my faceAm smiling to my hearts content……I will keep smiling……………..Just like you wanted me to…………..Thanks for the courage you gave me,Thanks for the strength you showed me,Thanks for making me confident…….I wont ever let you down !Never will I weep again!I smile.......And keep on smiling..In all advers...
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| 13:37 | 17/Jun/2008 |
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| Sometimes….. - Pritish Nandy Sometimes when everyone is farwayAnd I have taken all the masks off my faceI feel the evening closing in. All the fires burn in the sky All the fevers of the heart are still All my griefs have set asail All I remember then, is just you…. What hurts are the simple loves we shar...
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| 15:38 | 15/Jun/2008 |
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| A Pure Veg Tee shirt…………. This tag on the T shirt I purchased recently seems very innovative…………. “With this T-shirt on dip thyself gently in the holy waters of Ganges to cleanse thy mind body and soul”Wow! I never knew washing away your sins was so easy………..…Ganga Mayya….…..here I come………….. “Do not use soap or detergent on Karmic Garment, Try...
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| 10:51 | 9/Jun/2008 |
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| My boyfriend…………... I wondered why he slowed down the car near ICICI ATM, when I had already told him HDFC ATM. “HDFC” I gently reminded looking at him. He had a smug expression. “Where is he?”, he asked me smiling. “Your new boyfriend. You mentioned he hangs out here.” “Oh yeah” I said as I looked around for him. “He isn’t seen around ...
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| KB | 09:49 | 26/Aug/2008 |
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| May Be I Am |
| May be I amThe dustThe dull mistOr just soft siltCurling and eddyingI feel gentle breathWithout trepidations May be I amThe ocean sandCrystal waterfallThe shadow of TimeA slow-moving cloudAn underground riverBelow dry earth May be I amA nomadic autumn leafRustlingTrampledIn a heapIn defiant gaspsRasping hymnsStalemated thoughtsOn checkered heartsIn...
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| kishore gupta | 10:09 | 8/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (274)
| City: Nagpur
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| Software engineer and his wife Husband - hey dear, I am logged in.Wife - would you like to have some snacks?Husband - hard disk full.Wife - have you brought the saree.Husband - Bad command or file name.Wife - but I told you about it in morningHusband - erroneous syntax, abort, retry, cancel.Wife - hae bhagwan !forget it where's your salary.Husband...
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| shobha warrier | 09:53 | 31/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (52)
| City: Chennai
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| 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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| hariharan iyer | 14:03 | 24/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (34)
| City: Cochin
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| THREE FORTUNES |
| Acharya Shankara Bhagavathpada has written a thoughtful book titled VIVEKACHOODAMANI which means CREST JEWEL OF DESCRIMINATION. Here Descrimination should be understood as the unique quality of Human beings to differentiate between the real and unreal, truth and untruth, senseful and senseless etc., etc.,In one of the beginning verses, Acharya tell...
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| mini francis | 11:30 | 17/Apr/2008 |
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| FRIENDS |
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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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| Madhavan PK | 17:15 | 11/Aug/2008 |
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| Counting Sheep |
| I count sleep, the ability to hit the bed and doze off for upwards of seven hours as one of my foremost blessings. And I can do this on a train or bus, in a new or old environment, head facing east or west. May be I counted my blessings too soon. There is nothing more blissful than a dreamless sleep. You are fresh next morning ready to tilt your a...
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| Lakshmi | 12:59 | 21/Jul/2008 |
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| City: smewer between reality n imagination !!
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| sun signs n discipline |
| Sun Signs & discipline Find out who follow, bend and flout rules so you can set them accordingly. Aries: Arians believe we are not made for rules. Instead rules are made for you, for our comfort. So should a rule infringe on their comfort zone, they are ready to say two hoots to it. That’s not to say they flout the rules. They just don’t follow stu...
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| Prabod kumar | 14:20 | 31/Jul/2008 |
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| WORK , GUILT AND ME |
| It is another busy day. Leaving my wife at 730 am, to spend the next twelve hours alone in the flat, far away from home, in Malaysia.I was feeling very bad about not being able to spend time for her. To take some time out. Bunk work, go traipsing across the hills and dales of beautiful Malaysia, to savour the multiple wares of food from all over th...
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| sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007 |
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| 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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| muralidhar p... | 16:45 | 30/Jul/2008 |
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| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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| TAKEN FOR GRANTED.....In the course of life...we take few things/prople for granted..I shall delve little on this....On birth, we take our mothers for granted..When we are kids, we take our fathers for granted(to fulfill whtever we require.)While growing up, we take ourparents for granted (our wants get bigger in proportions..)Once employed, we t...
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| Jissy Thomas | 13:44 | 15/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (118)
| City: Baroda
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| Are We Free? |
| Another Independence Day has come. Should we be happy or sad? Of course happy if we think of Independence Day just in terms of years. After all, 61 years of free India isn't a small achievement. Neither is the scientific development that has taken place during this time. But is this what is meant by freedom? We can call ourselves free only if eac...
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| shiva r | 21:25 | 12/Aug/2008 |
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| drinks..... |
| A guy was in New York on a business trip and decided tohead to a local bar for a drink. Standing outside the barwas a nunholding a tin cup.As the man threw a few bucks into her cup the nun launchedinto a long tirade about the evils of alcohol. She went onand on abouthow alcohol was tearing apart the fabric of society and howit was the root of all t...
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| AAMEEN KHAN | 12:25 | 25/Aug/2008 |
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| City: zelon
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| VOH!!!!! |
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| Barso se voh merey deel main basati haiPhir bhi aur jyada nazdik aneka prayas karati haiChchoti chchoti baato se voh ruuth jaati haiManaata hoon uuse to aur ruuth jaati haiJab chali jaati hai; andhera chcha jaata haiManaake vaapas laata hoon to dhadkan badhati haiDuuniya ki parva kiye been voh jaam pyar ke pilati haiVafa ke naam par apana ssarvaswa...
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| SOVAN BANDYO... | 11:34 | 6/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (128)
| City: Kolkata
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| The Healing Power Of Love |
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| Today I got a fantastic writing on Love in my mail box which was an enjoyable reading. I thought to share the same with my friends in iland. The piece goes like this,-"In praise of love, lift your gaze and open your heart.In service to love, open your hands and let go of your burden.In a world that lives by the motto, “Seeing is believing,” how do ...
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| jack jai | 19:04 | 25/Aug/2008 |
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| City: Chennai
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| BE YOURSELF... GOD OZONE |
| BE YOUR SELF Puppet show , Strings pulled, Left right , Up down , Sit stand , Dance around, People laugh : Enjoying the fun…. Humans in life , Do the same , Forbear giving excuses lame. If you savor some shame , Put a stop to this game .. GOD OZONE Dare to st...
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| sunshine | 00:14 | 21/Aug/2008 |
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| Interests: Olympics !!! WOW!!!
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| ENCOUNTERS – BRUTUS!!! |
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| ENCOUNTERS – BRUTUS!!! A few years back I was at a party and since I am not much of a drinker I held on to a glass of “Pissky” (whisky) and circulated amongst the folks present, like I always do on such occasions. That way no body would force me to drink more “for company” (which is a boorish alcohol drinking Indian behaviour). It was a party hos...
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| aravind das | 17:01 | 22/Aug/2008 |
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| City: Vishakapatnam
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| HAPPY JANMASTAMI |
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| HAPPY JANMASTAMI TO ALL ILANDERS.......... HOPE LORD KRISHNA WILL BRING PEACE & HAPPINESS TO MY FRIENDS. ARAVIND
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| The Phoenix | 11:14 | 22/Aug/2008 |
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| City: nomansland
| Interests: at last I am ME.....
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| BLIND |
| I see you yetsee you not You break my faith!I try hard to unlearn cruel lessonsYou teach me once againTo replace- trust with doubtFaith with suspicionInnocence with sinnosanceWords with sighs! You affirmConfirm.What mothers teach And pulpits preachAnd the world does screech! I writhe.Blame myselfSelf flagellation? I deserveFools who will believe i...
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| kavita ganguly | 22:50 | 20/Aug/2008 |
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| City: Calcutta
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| On the 15th of August this year I had a tryst with destiny. I had vowed to myself, the previous day that I would try my hand at making the delicious but tricky Dosa. Now, the Dosa is my favourite snack and often doubles up as my lunch as well. But a deep rooted fear in me keeps me from preparing the Indian pancake, although I have been known to gaz...
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| Shyama Menon | 13:12 | 28/Apr/2008 |
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| Sree-Bhajji and a few reactions... |
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| 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...
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| dilip krishnan | 15:19 | 14/Aug/2008 |
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| The Great Australian Sale!When it comes to competitive selling, it appears as if there is none to beat the quintessential Aussie. And what better medium than the ‘great seller’ e-Bay!Last year, to be precise on 25th January 2007, I had posted “Life on Auction” featuring the enterprising Nicael Holt who put his young soul on sale: e-Bay, naturally, ...
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| Binu Abraham | 16:15 | 29/Jun/2008 |
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| City: Cochin
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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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| vchennai | 17:38 | 11/Aug/2008 |
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| Thoughts |
| Our thoughts are very powerful. If we believe good things would happen, only good things would happen to us. If we entertain fears in our minds, the negative event would eventualy happen. So, we need to stay positive, strong and focussed in our thoughts.Few do's for healthy thoughts & good life1) Whatever happens (good or seemingly bad) , happens w...
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| alakananda s | 02:44 | 9/Jul/2008 |
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| 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 :))
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| PGR NAIR | 12:46 | 4/Jul/2008 |
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| City: Cochin
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| HALF A DAY |
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| Half a Day: Naguib MahfouzIntroductionEvery now and then one encounters a story that leaves an indelible impression long after it is read. I read this short short story written by Naguib Mahfouz shortly after his winning the Nobel Prize for literature. I was enamoured by its rich and ornate style, its narrative technique, universal theme and dramat...
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| Piyush Philip | 08:18 | 18/Aug/2008 |
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| Three Trees |
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| Three TreesHi friends.Its been a long time since my last post.Now this one is a story i got in an email forward.Many of you may be familiar with this.But it is inspirational and the moral of this story is worth repeating if possible a hundred times...Read on. Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods. Theywere discussing their hopes and dr...
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| Think Tank | 00:34 | 25/Aug/2008 |
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| Last letter |
| Dear Naina, I don’t even know why I am taking the pain to write this to you, because I have been seeing how inconsequential this discussion always turns out to be. The way things have been developing, I doubt whether you would even care to read this. But still if it doesn’t hurt much, extract five minutes from your precious time to hear me out. Y...
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| Rishie | 16:46 | 30/May/2008 |
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| "kash humein peene ki adat hoti... ...to tujhe bhi apna dil sunate" - Rishie
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| Smiling Dolphin | 19:12 | 9/Aug/2008 |
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| The Gods of Indian Cricket need to say b... |
| The Gods of Indian Cricket need to say bye. They can still play good cricket. But why go through all the humiliation when they know they are past their prime and are making mistakes.They should spare us and themselves. They should look to the Australians who retire when they are at their best. That is the difference between Indians and Australians....
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| Krishna Prasad | 13:42 | 27/Jul/2008 |
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| Food Wastage |
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| FOOD SHORTAGE Preface: I heard in BBC Radio one day morning that Somalia is suffering with acute food shortage. There was an interview with an unknown woman of Somalia village that she used to take maize powder and some times she used to take Animal Feed in order to subside the hunger. This is a horrific situation. Also, she told that when she e...
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| amar snh | 17:54 | 18/Aug/2008 |
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| seeking divine help |
| Fellow IlandersI seek divine help as well as blessings and best wishes from all of you. A very important task is getting roadblocks for quite a while.And time is running out !Would it be successful??Only time will tell !!It reminds me of a 'doha' from Sant Kabir-Dukh mein sumiran sab karein, sukh mein karey na koey Jo sukh mein sumiran karein to d...
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| amit goel | 05:59 | 26/Aug/2008 |
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| Young Achievers |
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| New Charters for Barters JDISCLAIMER The Photo used is NOT that of Stephanie Gerson. It is lifted from a random search on Google Images, and is used just as a marketing tool for the story. This story is completely lifted, verbatim, from the CNN site. The Link is http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/perso nal/08/25/sex.for.stuff/index.html?iref= m...
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| Devi | 20:29 | 13/Aug/2008 |
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| The Last Letter |
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| His Last Letter to his parents Moments before the final assault Capt. Vijyant Thapar (Robin) left this letter at the war front base, to be handed over to his family. AND AFTER THAT HE CAME BACK HOME WITH TRI COLOR DRAPED aye mere vatan ke logon zara aankh mein bhar lo paani jo shaheed hue hain unki zara yaad karo qurbaani
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| Arun Ramkumar | 13:08 | 7/Nov/2007 |
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| Chronicles of a reluctant shopper |
| I recently went shopping to get newclothes for Diwali.For starters let me tellya that I hate shopping.Iabsolutely HATE shopping,especially for clothes.And whenever itsfestival time I try and avoid getting asked to "come and pick some newclothes".Sometimes I successfully manage to avoid it and tell mydad(who strangely is a shopping junkie) to pick u...
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| greengrass | 19:21 | 24/Aug/2008 |
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| Who is that ? - hahahah |
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| From www.manakkudiyan.com : Ramu Perumal: hahahahahah Again … it is our great Deva Gowda ji! Hahahah.Paraman: He is great, he slip into the sleep just between the bell gap ( mani adikkara gap la!). It is Devagowda –okay. Did u see the other person who is trying to awaken Gowda – he looks like Ila.Ganesan of BJP. ( Devuda .. Devudaaa.. Thoongum De...
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| daniel ribero | 16:33 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| Affiliate Programs Are Wonderlands Of Op... |
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| It has been said that affiliate programs are the easiest ways to online riches. There is a lot of truth in that statement, though it must be remembered that affiliate marketing is still a job, albeit one which you could do in the comforts of your own home, hence, you cannot make the most out of it without exerting some effort.Even if you are not fa...
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