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 01:27 | 29/Jun/2006 |
| reading, linking, holidaying | |
| Not that I blog too frequently anyway, but do check out these links while I am gone for a week.My friend Leo's slightly strange but hugely entertaining blog. He's just become a respectable member of the working public by joining Time Out Mumbai, which, by the way, is also online now. Do check out to know what to do, where to go, what to eat, etc. A...
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| 19:37 | 19/Jun/2006 |
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| Am I a feminist? Ever since I've formally joined the Blank Noise Project, this has become a very preodminant question in my life. As I have moved from providing backroom support for my friend Jasmeen into a more concrete role of planning interventions, chalking out strategies and having to deal, every single day, with a million questions about wome...
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| 02:27 | 31/May/2006 |
| Kabhi kabhi.... | |
| This is not from the Bollywood song. It's the poem by Sahir Ludhianvi. I had to clarify.Magar yeh ho na saka aur ab ye aalam hainKi tu nahin, tera gham, teri justjoo bhi nahinGuzar rahi hain kuchh iss tarah zindagi jaise, Isse kisi ke sahare ki aarzoo bhi nahinNa koi raah, na manzil, na roshni ka suraagBhatak rahin hai andheron main zindagi meriInh...
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| 23:51 | 27/May/2006 |
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| So it's been a bit of a blogging hiatus. Too much happening, both within and without. There's the reservation ruckus, about which it is indeed very difficult to form an opinion. Because on the one hand, it seems a terrible idea to allow in a certain amount of people without even considering their credentials, their capacities and their intelligence...
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| 11:55 | 16/May/2006 |
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| I LOVE Jeanette Winterson. Her books are absolutely delicious with their wonderful writing and delectable ambiguity about the gender of the protagonist. Written on the body is one of her finest and here's my favourite passage from it:Why is the measure of love loss? It hasn't rained for three months. The trees are prospecting underground, sending r...
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| 13:23 | 15/May/2006 |
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| This is a bit late to blog about the closure of the Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited. That happened on December 31, 2005. But I am reminded of it because around this time last year, I was in Kudremukh, a bit incognito, to write about the pollution caused by the mining activities. A year later, it's heartening to know that slurry no longer flows i...
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| 10:50 | 13/May/2006 |
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| "Where are you from?"I never know what to say when asked this question. And I get asked it all the time. Like the other one - "What caste are you?" Or, "You are South Indian? How come you don't look like one?"And in between irritation at being asked my 'caste' in this day and age and remorse at not being dressed in a langa-dhavni with mallige in my...
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| 21:24 | 2/May/2006 |
| the little baby doll | |
| Her name is Meagan Sitara Bouvier. And she's quite the beauty with the rockstar parents. Can't wait to see her and be cool aunt! :-)
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| 19:51 | 30/Apr/2006 |
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| What is it about this ghazal that just captivates? The essence, perhaps, so eternal in this fleeting world. Or, just Farida Khanum's voice. Or, the sheer beauty of wondrous words set to a touching tune. Aaj jaane ki zid na karoAaj jaane ki zid na karo Yunhi pehloo mein baithe raho Aaj jaane ki zid na karoHai mar jaayenge, hum to lut jaayengeAisi ba...
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| S Ramakrishnan | 21:56 | 10/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (90)
| City: Bangalore
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| Presenting manners |
| Having lived in both India and the US, I have observed the following differences when people present gifts to one another.1. No "thank you" notes. In India this concept doesn't seem to exist.2. People open presents only after the occasion is over. In the US, the person to whom the gift is presented opens it almost immedaitely, in front of everyone ...
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| Sanjeev Verma | 14:23 | 31/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (122)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Film, Western Cla...
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| Why Style Matters |
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| By Sanjeev Verma A few years ago I put together a style guide gleaned from all that I have learnt and read in a long and abiding affair with English language. Quite a voluminous guide it turned out to be too and, while I didn't particularly want to inflict that guide on you, I thought this sneak preview to what the guide contains might get some of ...
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| shahid akhtar | 23:45 | 13/Jul/2006 |
| Friends: (106)
| City: Gaya
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| MY DEAR FRIEND...HERE ARE SOME THINGS EVEN U DONT KNOW ABOUT URSELFFacts of life:1. At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would dieforyou.2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, e...
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| kishore lakk... | 15:21 | 20/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (273)
| 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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| Arjun Khanna | 12:08 | 17/Jul/2006 |
| Friends: (33)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Bollywood Movies,...
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| Workshop on Film Making |
| Institute of Moving Imagespresents Workshop on Film-Making Now you candare to make your own Movies… You havean inclination,You haveimaginations,You havean interesting storyto share. But always wondered -what it takes to makea beautiful, slick & entertaining filmof your own,which you can proudly showto your audience and start an exciting career in...
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| Anil Goel | 12:28 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (749)
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| Can Maruti make car bombs? |
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| Brainstorming exercise for fiction writers.Can someone stop Maruti Udyog if they decide to manufacture car bombs? Here's the thought... We go through security checks at airport or at important places where too technology and people are able to scan us for 'known' threats...in most cases electronic items are usual suspects as are metallic devices an...
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| Amit Agrawal | 23:11 | 6/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (255)
| City: New Delhi
| Interests: hayaa aur hayaat
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| kahin koyi |
| kahin koyi manzil chhupi to hogikahin koyi aas dabi bhi hogikaise chudaoon apne haathon se lahoomere jurm ki panaah kahin to hogibaar baar hai beshumaar hai kehta hai dilhar baar dil ki sada tum tak pahunchi to hogidin guzar chuka hai raat bhi rawaan hogiis shabe gham ki bhi to koyi subah zaroor hogichalta jaaoonga jab talak na milegi mujhesaahil k...
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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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| Magical Diva | 16:10 | 24/Apr/2006 |
| Friends: (15)
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| Rang De Basanti - 1 |
| Ha! Can there be a better way to start a blog talking about one of the finest movie I’ve recently watched? I don’t think so.Mr MEHRA:Hmmmm… I don’t know from where he came, what he saw but definitely conquered a piece of me. It was interesting to note the kind of time (Over 10 freaking years) he devoted for his second baby to develop from idea phas...
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| Dominic Alapat | 20:23 | 7/Sep/2006 |
| Friends: (5)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: poetry, literature
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| Poems |
| PoemThe poem had white-washed walls,and long, stately coconut leaves.On the poem's head were bright, redroof-tiles standing silently in the rain.The poem's walls were made of stoneand its thick pillars dreamt.You met me there, by its pillars,once long ago...Words held out their hands to the rain.Inside other thoughts hummed and s...
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| Jahan Bakshi | 12:24 | 13/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (174)
| City: Sibsagar
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| Laaga Yashraj Ka Daag |
| [Originally published on PASSIONFORCINEMA.COM]Even the little droplets of hope that one had left after watching the decidedly bizarre promos of Laaga Chunari Main Daag are mercilessly dashed to the ground. The Yashraj stamp (or rather, stain) is so ostentatious and evident in Pradeep Sarkar"s second film that no amount of Surf Excel- or even Lux, w...
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| Krishna Reddy | 23:42 | 2/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (295)
| 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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| Kumar Krishnan | 18:35 | 2/May/2006 |
| Friends: (29)
| 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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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (618)
| City: Bombay
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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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| shishir bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006 |
| Friends: (152)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Reading, writing,...
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| Are more H-1B visas good for India? |
| By the end of this month, if will be clear if the US Senate Immigration Reform Bill introduced to decide whether H-1B visa limit should be increased from 65,000 to 115,000 has been defeated or allowed to sail through successfully. Everyone says an increase in the H-1B visa limit will help Indians the most. Will it, really? But more on that in just ...
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| Rupali Nimkar | 11:15 | 19/Jul/2006 |
| Friends: (21)
| 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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| uday kiran | 21:08 | 17/May/2006 |
| Friends: (5)
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| Brouhaha over the Code... |
| Its been a while - but then i thought i'll quickly put my two cents worth of whatever on this Da Vinci Code thing...so much brouhaha on so less..Spare a thought for all the docs and medical students who've been valiantly putting their eveything into the anti-reservation protests - and what do they get to see - all the prime time news hijacked by th...
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 Vijayendra M... | 13:46 | 24/Jan/2007 |
| Friends: (42)
| City: Mumbai
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| Am watching Power Rangers. First SPD and now Mystic Force. Kind of addictive.
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| janus janus | 18:03 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (259)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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| Bees saal baad |
| I think it’s the time for re-runs in my life! Last year I embarked on a road trip down south and visited places that I had not been to for 20-odd years. And in a week’s time, I will be visiting another country which I last saw 20years ago. A lot has changed in India in the meantime, and in life. I wonder what kind of changes have happened in a coun...
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| Prithviraj H... | 22:27 | 10/May/2006 |
| Friends: (173)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
| Interests: Cricket and news
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| Gag, gag, gag! |
| What's with the BCCI?Virender Sehwag says he misses Ganguly, says the Indian team plays too much cricket, he is gagged. The BCCI warns him not to speak on such issues.Sachin Tendulkar has his first net in months. The media is not invited. When they land up they are asked to shoot for afar.So TV has a sideways angle of Sachin playing a few shots. So...
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| Archana Masih | 09:38 | 25/Oct/2006 |
| Friends: (3)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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| Sigh! Don ko dekhna namumkin hai |
| I like Farhan Akhtar. His last two movies. His attitude, which seems super cool. His casual style of dressing. And I also like his wife's funky salon -- B Blunt.In the current crop of directors, Farhan on the back of both his previous films -- Dil Chahta Hai and Lakshya -- gave us some great cinema and made us expect – in Hindi film lingo – more ha...
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| Raja Sen | 18:39 | 19/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (59)
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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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