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 22:58 | 22/Jun/2008 |
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| The Return of the Cactus I remember that the landscape of north Tamil Nadu, mainly the untrodden vast stretches of wasteland ( or are they Chasteland, simply because they remain untrodden ?) used to be overgrown with cactus – the thorny flat pulpy light green shrub, some fifty years ago. They were generally useless but for the purpose of...
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| 13:20 | 9/May/2008 |
| A Musing Morning Walk | |
| A Musing Morning Walk After a long spell of physical inactivity owing to certain other commitments, a few days ago I strolled out for my morning walk. It was past seven and already getting warm. As I turned back to walk home down the slight slope I saw a man , perhaps in his middle fifties, wearing a saffron dhoti and towel round his shoulders,...
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| 23:20 | 6/Sep/2007 |
| Reincarnation 2 Naadi Astrology | |
| In my earlier blog I had mentioned about a baby's smile and cry being attributed to its remembrances of its previous birth.This is a matter of faith and I do not want to offend any one's feelings. The cry may be regarded as the only language the baby can use to communicate with the outside world; more over it is the expression of instinct. It is qu...
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| 18:37 | 18/Aug/2007 |
| Reincarnation | |
| Rebirth. . .?Let me narrate a few common incidents which everybody experiences at one time or another in their lives.Some instances are:i. a baby's cry during sleep attributed to visions of previous birth, or dreams in which fox frightens.ii. meeting someone for the first time but there is a persisting belief that you had already met him /her somew...
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| 20:18 | 17/Aug/2007 |
| The Toad | |
| The ToadThe toad 's, p'haps, the oldestof forms the boldestand the coldest.It was with the WordThen by Mrs Adam heardas the Sibyl voice of the rebel herd.It hops, ftops; and with a starefrom its bulbous eyes like the hippo'sIt flies through the airquite close to your nose.With two little humps on backit leaps and jumpsfrom the wall for a spring-boa...
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| 23:28 | 6/Aug/2007 |
| Good Bye Good Bye | |
| Good -Bye, Good-Bye"Are you the son of So and So?"came asking me a man."Yes, Sir, please go in and sit,"so saying in I ran. He was old, his head was bald,translucent glasses worn;torn out clothes , and worn out smileThey marked a man all torn. I had seen such lots of themwho come oft here and say"It is a long time since we met,with you I'm gonna to...
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| 11:59 | 29/Jun/2007 |
| My First Flight | |
| Years after having seen aircrafts fly in the sky, I had the wonderful opportunity of taking my first flight to Mumbai. To fly in the sky at such a great height for an hour or more had been my dream. When we were seated and the seat belts were tied around the engione gathered momentum and we were on the gradient and while the plane took a turn at an...
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| 13:01 | 30/May/2007 |
| The New Year | |
| The New Yeardates have lost their daysand weeks their monthsbut friendly reminders of "Happy New Year"punctuate the passage of Timewith a dot and a capmarking an ending and a beginningand wake me into a regionof no-light- and -no -darknessI ope' mine eyes and look around to findthe new-born sloughof the old Time Snake, wily,vilely, hanging from a f...
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| 22:41 | 12/May/2007 |
| For a change | |
| For a change I thought I could insert a few of my verses, particularly after reading some by Zeus.Potter's Wheel?For me the Wheel of Fortune turnshorizontallyno dunes or downsno rise or fallbut a whirl of monotonythe level career of a sandwiched tierof socio-economy*****ConsubstantiationTo those--that eat of my dirty fleshand drink of my sordid blo...
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| 20:25 | 11/May/2007 |
| copying in exams | |
| Never ever copy, either intentionally or even unintentionally during exams. All teachers have been saying this repeatedly, but I wonder if students take this advice seriously. Let me tell you of my experience.I was really not interested in copying, for one thing my father, himself a teacher had always advised me; and I also feared that I might be ...
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| Joseph Antony | 17:36 | 22/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (508)
| City: Kottayam,Changanacherry
| Interests: reading,movies, f...
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| " Need a Ticket " |
| " Maldives " Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, is an island nation consisting of a group of atolls in the Indian Ocean, south of Lakshadweep group of islands of India, about seven hundred kilometers (435 mi) south-west of Sri Lanka. The twenty-six atolls encompass a territory featuring 1,192 islets, roughly two hundred of which are inh...
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| SHANKAR N | 19:27 | 14/May/2008 |
| Friends: (150)
| City: KOMARAPALAYAM
| Interests: making friends, s...
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| Kainaat Crea... | 11:15 | 21/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (1321)
| City: Birmingham
| Interests: Having a good laugh
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| Living it Backwards |
| Subject: "Next Life" by Woody Allen In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. ...
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| J G | 19:06 | 21/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (527)
| City: Noida
| Interests: Reading, Music, K...
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| Have you Ever?Have you ever climbed up in a tree and sat there for no apparent reason? I still remember the joy it brought me.I didn’t know at the time why I had the urge to climb the tree, a mature May Flower tree whose heavy lower limbs were a good eight feet off the ground in the near by hill. It had been 19 years or so since I was in a tree for...
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| Current Boll... | 18:20 | 24/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (436)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: blogging,making f...
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| How Kareena Kapoor toiled for 'Tashan'! |
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| For the first time in her acting career Kareena Kapoor had to train for eight to nine months for her role in a movie.And that movie is Yashraj Films presentation Tashan which is set to hit the theatres on coming Friday.The film has Kareena in a full-on action role for the first time. Before the shooting began, producer Aditya Chopra , director Vija...
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| Anil Goel | 13:50 | 8/May/2008 |
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| A code jock emails from USA in '99 |
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| I recently came across an email (A printed copy I had saved in an old diary :)) I had sent to Planetasia circa March 20, 1999 while cleaning out my cupboard at home this week. Two years into the IT industry, I was working as a code jock for TCS at a client in North America. I was allegedly already an expert in MSFT technologies and was working at a...
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| kala Subrama... | 11:42 | 6/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (53)
| City: Siliguri
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| Happy friendship day!!! |
| "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." -- Pietro Aretino (1537) Happy Friendship Day to all my iland friends!!!
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| Arul Selvan | 09:17 | 8/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (56)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: news,photography,...
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| interacting |
| I want to share ideas with friends and thus improve knowledges.
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| Vikas Vij | 14:41 | 17/May/2008 |
| Friends: (526)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Everything
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| Of a Happy Life |
| [Written in context of the various criticisms that Amitabh Bachchan has been facing ever since he became a fellow-blogger.]OF A HAPPY LIFEFacing personal vilification and condemnation is the exclusive privilege of men of eminence. They thrive on it, and it only makes their positions stronger. Whether it is the timeless heroes like Socrates or Jesu...
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| Rajeev S | 14:46 | 1/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (120)
| City: The Present
| Interests: Reading, Writing
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| Spiritual Freelancing |
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| Call it spiritual discord or spiritual detachment. This is what is creeping into the minds of youth these days. We see a growing spiritual crisis in the world today. There is devotion to indulgence of pleasure in the objects of sensual desire, which is inferior, low, vulgar, ignoble, and leads to no good; and there is devotion to self torment, whic...
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| Matthew Schn... | 15:47 | 5/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (66)
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| On the trail with Anita Desai |
| To read Anita Desai is to know her genius. It is plainly evident in works such as Fire on the Mountain and Voices in the City. The characters she crafts, the strands of narration she weaves and the issues she explores in-depth are her hallmarks. To meet Anita is to see her brilliance shine brighter. It’s exhilarating to interact with such a dynamic...
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| News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (965)
| 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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| deepak jairath | 23:21 | 30/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (85)
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| why we r so mad abt money and sex
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| Ronak Trivedi | 20:51 | 6/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (48)
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| WHAT IT MEANS TO BE YOUNG |
| WHAT IT MEANS TO BE YOUNG Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of emotion; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means the predominance of courage over timidity, of adven...
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| Jayalakshmi ... | 18:11 | 16/May/2008 |
| Friends: (151)
| City: Vishakapatnam
| Interests: Spirituality, Spi...
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| Books and Retirements |
| Mila 18 is one of the most marvellous books I have read in a while. Set in the Warsaw Ghetto, it is an engaging story of Jews standing up to the Nazis. Leon Uris describes in a compelling fashion the trials of the Jews as they withstood the onslaught of heavily armed Nazi attacks with their ragged armies formed by ordinary people. With extreme dete...
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| bably | 16:02 | 9/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (34)
| City: Thiruvananthapuram
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| Hai friends we are getting lot of offers from industries nationwide for dioxin testing.Since ours is the only lab in India carrying out dioxin research.Kindly contact us if any industries need dioxin analysis. Email : bablov@rediffmail.com anbumunusamy@hotmail.com Phone : 0471 2515340
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| Seeniraj Siv... | 18:24 | 14/Mar/2008 |
| Friends: (86)
| City: Tuticorin-628005
| Interests: www.shivamaha.com
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| முன்கĬ 9;றிப்ப 009;: நினைவĬ 7;ல் நிற்கĬ 9;ம் இரண்டĬ 9; முயற்ĩ 0;ிகள்:1. த ;ிருĪ...
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| ZEUS ZEUS | 22:23 | 9/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (570)
| City: Kolkata
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| 'Away From Her' - A Review |
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| An aged wife tells her husband,“You could have just driven away without a care in the worldfor me, and forsaken me”With a pause pregnant with unsaid emotions he whispers,“Not a chance.”Inthese two lines which appear to be so unambiguously banal in content at first glance there might lay the ultimate test and triumph of an alliance forged over a li...
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| Ganesan VG | 21:49 | 25/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (418)
| City: Chennai(Madras)
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| R - DAY WISHES - 2008 |
| R - DAY WISHES - 2008DEAR ILAND FRNDS;LET US ALL SALUTE THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR FREEDOM AND THE NATION ON THIS AUSPICIOUS DAYSMALL REQUEST - IF TIME PERMITS, TRY TO ATTEND A SMALL GATHERING OF FLAG HOISTING CEREMONY (AS I USED TO IN THE PARK IN OUR COLONY IN CHENNAI/WATCH IN TV/ATTEND IN OFFICES)THANKS & REGARDSYOUR LOVING ILAND FRND...
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| Anjali shahi | 09:47 | 28/Mar/2007 |
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| Looking good |
| We all want to look good , but in our teenage due to hormonal changes , pollution , exam. stress ,often this seems virtually impossible to achieve. Nearly 80% of the teenagers get some degree of Acne (Pimple/Zits) . Acne - combination of blackheads, whiteheads & a variety of imflamed lesions, which appears in the form of pustules , bumps or la...
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