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 21:19 | 19/Jun/2007 |
| Thou shalt not ramble on | |
| Okay, I agree I don’t have real content here to talk about. But then, I don’t make sense most of the times anyways and that has never stopped me from blabbering. So I ramble on….. I work in the IT industry and needless to say I have to deal with a lot of desis. Now, that has lots of perks. You get to hang out with buddies and fellow Indians. You ge...
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| 07:10 | 18/Apr/2007 |
| Its better in Goa | |
| If you have visited Goa in the 80s and early 90s, you will know what I am talking about. Yes, its definitely better in Goa but what I am talking about are the white T-shirts sold on the beach, with an orange sun and coconut palms in the background and proudly announcing “Its better in Goa”. So what, if the T-shirts shurnk after one wash. What was i...
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| 01:35 | 19/Nov/2006 |
| My Experiments with Truth | |
| If Greg Chappel ever writes an autobiography, thats what it should be called. After all, we have been subjected to more experiments with our cricket team in the last one year than what I ever did in the chemistry lab. Okay, so now you'll say here's another guy who thinks he knows more about crikcet that the players or coach of the Indian team. But ...
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| 08:27 | 8/Nov/2006 |
| Guns, Roses and appetite for destruction | |
| Finally got tickets for the Guns n Roses concert. Come to think of it now, its been a long wait. My first memories of MTV in India are those of some freaks with lots of style making collective noise which was, apparently, music. There was a dude with a cigarette perenially sticking to his lips playing guitar and another guy with a pony tail screami...
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| 07:57 | 27/Oct/2006 |
| Departed - Ten on Ten | |
| I have never written a review on movies before. The closest thing which comes to that is writing a critique on a research paper in school. And believe me, this is much more fun than that. For one, its something which I am not doing for a grade. And when I watch a movie, I have an opinion. Hell ya, I do!!!!Contrary to the norm, there were comparativ...
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| 10:35 | 26/Oct/2006 |
| Entropy, Life & God | |
| For any process to occur spontaneously, the entropy in the universe has to increase - second law of thermodynamics. Put in simple words, when a naturally occuring process takes place, everything goes from the state of order to disorder. While physics applies this at the microscopic levels to atoms and molecules, life has its own way of applying thi...
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| 06:56 | 25/Oct/2006 |
| Gravity is a myth...the earth sucks | |
| G = 9.8 m/sec sq. Okay, so we all know physics and everyone knows that when apple falls from a tree, it has to land. But what if we make the height of the tree a small matter of 10000 feet and instead of apple, let choose something else to fall...err...what about you? Thats precisely what happened when my friends and I decided to have an adventure ...
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| 06:50 | 25/Oct/2006 |
| Barmy Sagacity | |
| Blogging has been around for quite some time and I must admit I am not someone who has had the time to read blogs by others. That brings up the the question. Then why follow the herd? Everyone has an alter ego (or at least, everyone wants to have one). Not everyone may want to be in the shoes of Peter Parker or Clark Kent. Nor, do I think, that any...
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| Vikas Vij | 02:38 | 24/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (505)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Everything
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| Har shaakh pey ulloo baithha hai... |
| About four years ago, the then Defence Minister of India, George Fernandes, who was on an official visit to Washington, was "strip-searched" by the U.S. security at the airport. In response, the usually thunderous Fernandes behaved like a scared puppy, and stomached his humiliation quietly without telling a soul. A year later, Strobe Talbott, the f...
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| Sandil Srini... | 21:50 | 25/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (98)
| City: Bangalore
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| Voting abuse |
| C ouldn't find any other word to describe it. How can Chang possibly be voted out, ahead of Prashant and Ankita? Whoever voted for those two is fucking deaf. Here is the dentist's blog again, Buddha Soliloques . Atleast, that's a consolation - he'll be back to dentistry and blogging soon. Here's a video about him A star anyway, no?
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| Ranjan Sengupta | 15:25 | 24/May/2007 |
| Friends: (698)
| City: Kolkata
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| Physics and Music |
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| Can we define music? Most of us may agree that it is bourn by a time series, jointly or independently, of amplitude, frequency and complexity, three fundamental well-known parameters used in physics. This time series is the objective reality, or the fictional reality of physics. But obviously all such time series pertaining to auditory sensation ar...
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| News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (946)
| 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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| Vinay choubey | 14:20 | 24/Oct/2007 |
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| Earthquake resistant Buildings in Seismi... |
| Earthquakes occur due to movements along faults that have evolved through geological and tectonic processes. Often they occur without any prior warning and are, therefore, unpredictable. The large area of India is prone to earthquake. The construction of earthquake resistant building is the only solution for safeguarding our urban centres from the...
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| Sanghamitra ... | 22:14 | 19/May/2007 |
| Friends: (404)
| City: Bangalore
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| Major Som nath Sharma , The first recipi... |
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| Major Som nath Sharma , The first recipient of Param Vir Chakra ..Disclaimer : The contents have been borrowed from reliable sources ---------------------------------------- -------------------------Major Somnath Sharma, son of Major General Amarnath Sharma, was born on 31 January 1923, in Himachal Pradesh District Kangra. He was commissioned in the...
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| Meera Krishna | 16:49 | 23/May/2007 |
| Friends: (91)
| City: Ahmedabad
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| Pyaar Diwana Hota Hain |
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| Pyaar Deewana hota hain, mastaana hota hainHar khushi se har gham se begaana hota hainShama kahe parwane se pare chala jaaMeri tarah jal jaayega yahan nahin aaWho nahin suntan usko jal jaana hota hainHar khushi se har gham se begaana hota hain Rahe koi sau pardo mein dare sharam seNazar ahi laakh churaye koi sanam seAa hi jaata hain jispe dil aana ...
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| S M | 14:17 | 4/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (196)
| City: Delhi
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| The Future Redefined |
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| The Future Redefined The books are way of life and the collection of books that we keep is our knowledge source often. It will be crazy idea to keep a collection of books handy while on the move or going for work for any book worm. When is the last time you bought a newspaper on the news stand to keep abreast with the latest happening. Have you eve...
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| Baldeo Pandey | 20:35 | 31/Oct/2007 |
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| पूरी र... |
| बांछें खिल गई थी,दरवाजí 5; पर खड़े देवदूत,भë 2;पेट भोजन का निमंत्र...
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| seema shaikh | 13:30 | 9/Dec/2006 |
| Friends: (53)
| City: Goa
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| A tribute.......... |
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| On October 27, 1980 Kalpana Chawla wrote a poem to her friend, which she titled 'Toward the Goal'............. D ive deep down An aim awaits Pearls peep For your hands to reach Just yours For years, decades and ages A door lies locked A pearl in the shell A secret in the brain Open it Break it Reveal it Fly high
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| Hardeep Singh | 11:55 | 9/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (374)
| City: Ludhiana
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| HAPPY DIWALI |
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| THIS DEEPAWALI ,LET'S LIGHT THE LAMP OF HAPPINESS TO SPREAD HAPPINESS & PEACE ALL AROND THE WORLD. MAY THIS DEEPAWALI BRING PEACE,JOY & HAPPINESS IN YOUR LIFE WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY & CHEERFUL DEEPAWALI.
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| sumit sharma | 17:50 | 9/Aug/2007 |
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| Female deadlier than the male? |
| AS A RESULT of biological, technological and economic influences, a great socio-psychological gender-shift is taking place in our society. Sex is emerging as the dominant factor and the female of the species is gradually emerging as the winner in this evolutionary sweepstakes. The evolution, as propounded by Charles Darwin, has not stopped with the evolution of some apes into Homo sapiens (human beings). Though man’s mastery of science and his tampering with the natural process seemed to put an end to the evolutionary process, evolution is still taking place in subtle ways. And the animal that is coming out on top of this evolutionary sweepstakes is the female of the Homo sapiens, i.e. the woman. Since evolution, the female of all species, except human beings, has always remained deadlier than its male counterpart. These females are independent, strong and lead life on their own terms. They can perform all the chores – be it hunting for food or taking care of themselves or their young ones; they are not dependent on the males. In fact, the female of these species does not need the male for anything except mating during the rutting season. Some of these females are, in fact, literally ‘deadly’. If the male praying mantis fails to promptly quit after mating, the female would eat him up. It is the same with scorpions too. However, unlike the female of other species, the female of the Homo sapiens did not evolve into a deadly or for that matter, even an independent creature; or more precisely, it was not allowed to evolve so by its male counterpart. Men have always used religion and customs, directly and indirectly, to arrest the evolution of women so the women will remain subservient to them. But you cannot stop something that is as natural as evolution from evolving. The evolutionary process has also been assuming other subtle forms; as a result, the female of the human beings is slowly and steadily evolving into independent beings capable of fending for themselves. Aggression and ambition are the traits that are essential to survive and come out on top in the evolutionary game. Belligerence and a desire to reign at the top catapults one to the top of the heap. And, women, through natural selection and progressive adaptation (i.e. acquiring education, securing a job leading to financial independence), have become aggressive and ambitious. Even as women are on the ascent, men have started relinquishing their dominant role and are being relegated to a secondary status. In other words, men are becoming soft, tender, emotional and self-conscious – traits that were once considered feminine. While women are becoming aggressive, career-oriented and independent, men are evolving into “metrosexuals”. The trend is subtle and yet noticeable all over the world. As with every evolutionary change, this change is also gradual and unhurried. This has unnerved the patriarchal religions and societies which have fallen upon the time-tested method of misusing and abusing religion to suppress women; the female’s need for the male of the species is increasingly becoming just biological or sexual as is the case with other species. To a modern woman, man is nothing but a provider of sex and sperm. Worse still, a woman can opt to fertilize herself without having a man around. She can choose just the sperm and reject its owner. Sperm banks have made it easier for women even to select the physical and mental attributes of their babies. As cloning technology makes further progress, women may not even need sperm (or man) for reproduction. These changes are already perceptible and it is only a matter of time before women emerge as the dominant species on the evolutionary scale. The age ahead is, no doubt, the Age of Women.
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| Pooja Nagpal | 07:58 | 14/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (114)
| City: Land of colours and pride
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| My Little Monster |
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| I stay with a monster at home, my little monster. He calls me devil at times and I couldn’t christen him better than “monster ”. Although he is near to his mid twenties yet he would always be the little younger brother for me. As we stay away from parents and family, I feel he is my responsibility and also feel a sense of concern for him. At time...
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| neetha nair | 22:31 | 23/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (336)
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| jab THEY met !!! |
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| phoolan devi (one and only one), rekha ( filmi) and medha patkar (Narmada) going for a picnic to chambal “gardens”! the following lead to the above unimaginable episode of their lives…. Phoolan was as usual roaming on the outskirts ( not in skirts but in a salwar )of her garden , hunting for some deer, she was scared of leopards …..but had her gu...
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| Pavement Freud | 14:48 | 22/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (249)
| City: Vasai, Maharashtra.
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| The Sunday Paper (Complete Version) |
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| As Sorabjee made his way down the wooden stairs, he took extreme care to do it as noiselessly as possible. With his left palm firmly on the banister, he placed his feet very carefully on the rungs, much like one blows softly into a lover’s eye. He descended the stairs in steps of ones and twos, halting after every six rungs to catch some breath, a...
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| Sumit Arya | 13:39 | 25/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (229)
| City: Gurgaon
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| That one Minute.... |
| Once a smart Sales Executive and His Manager were traveling towards Ooty in a train.Just Opposite to their seat, a beautiful girl was sitting along with her grand ma.With in some time, Eye-Eye interactions started between Our S/W engineer & that girl.After some minutes, train started moving in to a tunnel and it was very dark.Suddenly, every body h...
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| Saakshee I | 19:28 | 7/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (647)
| City: I live close 2 u!
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| There's a minefield out there... |
| I'm surfing Iland these days incognito - no new post and not enough time to comment, so I’m busy favoriting Ilands, intending to go back to comment! However, I am incognito mainly becasue of them err... Youtubers! Oh yes you've seen them - Iland is being taken over by them Youtubers! You must be blind if you did not notice them song-and-dance post...
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| Madhavan PK | 19:30 | 27/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (327)
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| The lure of the land |
| I was traveling in a chartered bus in Delhi, when a young thing, a girl distinctly Delhi bred sitting next to me was talking to her friend beside her about a fabulous place, her native place, she had visited in the summer. I couldn’t help eavesdropping on the conversation. She was waxing eloquent about the greenery, the rivers, the food, the peopl...
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| manoj singhania | 10:55 | 24/Jul/2007 |
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| Jindagai Ka Safar |
| Safar Jindagai Ka to Har koi Tay KArata Hai; Koi Yun Hi Mit Jata Hai ,Kisi Ka Nam Amit ho Jata Hai.
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| deepti bhat | 20:30 | 21/Dec/2006 |
| Friends: (78)
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| Innocence |
| I want… To run away from the Cosmo sex tips And the frantic jiggling of the item girls The dead eyes of the model in the perfume ad And those of the girl in the porn movie….. I want… To walk together with you, naked, through a green field Make love beneath the shadow of a tree Till the grass and the sun and your skin Melt into gold inside of me.
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| Mana Andrews | 15:41 | 22/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (57)
| City: Mumbai
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| That's what we are!! |
| Anytime tea-coffee in a day, B’day bumps, Accentuated English, Dashing clothes, Onsite customers, FM in buses/mobiles, Late night parties, Those sleepy weekends, Crush on HR/colleagues, Fight for appraisals, Die-hard friendships, Tears for love, So much money, but so li’l time, Nothing missing, everything fine, People call it CORPORATE……!!! We call...
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| sunshine sun... | 23:16 | 23/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (58)
| City: Hyderabad
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| HOW INNOCENT !!!!!!!!! |
| For the first time,a young moth leaves the nest and his mother warns him about people.After he gets back,he tells his mother,"you have exaggerated about the people.They arent so bad.The moment they saw me,they started to clap their hands."
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| Tania A | 22:38 | 14/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (76)
| City: Chandigarh
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| Good girls r jus like this |
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| hello everyone well m back after mnths!! nice to c u all here well today i jus wanted to post this pic its true n nice ciao tc
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| Raja Sen | 18:39 | 19/Nov/2007 |
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| Surreal lunacy with a fun filmmaker |
| When you write a negative review, there is almost always backlash. Most of you who have read me before do thus realise I'm not the most popular man in Bollywoodland -- to say nothing of Rediff's messageboards -- and there are filmmakers who loathe me, having taken a review too personally.Anyway, last week I wrote a column about Anurag Kashyap and h...
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| Sukanya Verma | 00:20 | 29/Jan/2007 |
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| Enough on Abhishek-Ash! |
| The New Year kick started with news – breaking news, but of course. The world and its living room is occupied betting Shilpa Shetty’s chances of winning Big Brother, even though most of us haven’t even seen the program. Not to mention how, now, even the most ignorant fellow-around-the-corner has an opinion about the Abhishek-Ash match. Indeed, we h...
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| Kanchan Bhat... | 23:49 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (116)
| City: Jabalpur
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| Randomized |
| Randomized You women lie Kneeling and praying Dancing in endgames Praying as life ebbs To the Goddess of stupid things, Just nothingness Rejoicing in my death Forever A blindfold through The stakes Kill me Would you Or rather, Wont you? © kanchan 12 Dec 2007
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| ZEUS ZEUS | 00:51 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (552)
| City: Kolkata
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| The Tea-shop girl |
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| The corner shop that serves us teaAnd houses all furore.From rising price to falling starsIn voices shrill and sore.A pair of eyes does follow themLook askance at their dinWhen closing shop with little handsOr washing strainers clean.A simple riddle troubles her,At times, does make her smileHow grown up men have silly fightsKnowing all the whileTha...
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| Udayan Roy | 09:45 | 24/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (192)
| City: Kolkata
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| Loose to gain |
| It's better to loose your EGO to the one you LOVE, than to loose the one you LOVE because of EGO . -------- John Keats.
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| Angel Eyez | 12:39 | 18/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (81)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: POETRY n MUSIC
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| To my alarm clock |
| Every morning I lie there innocently sleepingWhen the peace is ruptured by a horrible beeping.My serenity ripped asunder, sudden and drasticBy this evil, demonic, red-eyed piece of plastic.I roll over in pain and pound on the snooze,Groaning, moaning, thinking 'What's there to lose?''Don't make me get up, just nine minutes more.'The same thing I've...
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