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| 'Quotas' & the private sector | |
| An interesting article pertinent to the issue of reservations in private sector, and the divergence between not just what people say and what they do, but between what people believe they do and what they actually do. http://www.livemint.com/2007/10/25235224/And-your-fathe r-does.htmlRaises a number of issues that I believe are under-explored in the...
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| 00:21 | 17/Oct/2007 |
| Success, guaranteed...! | |
| While I've always believed that managing expectations is vital to 'happiness', I came across its logical extreme recently, as usual doing the email rounds. It goes like this... My goal in life is to be a failure. If I'm a failure, I've succeeded. And if I've failed in my goal, I'm a success! Took my breath away...!
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| 00:15 | 11/Oct/2007 |
| Hilarious exchange: from the net... | |
| Advice for woman seeking $500k+ earning man What am I doing wrong?Okay, I¹m tired of beating around the bush. I¹m a beautiful (spectacularlybeautiful) 25 year old girl. I¹m articulate and classy. I¹m not from NewYork. I¹m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a millio...
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| 00:03 | 10/Oct/2007 |
| On the importance of luck... | |
| Let's begin with a cliche: Napoleon's s'posed to have a preference for lucky, rather than brave/able, generals for fighting his battles. Did he really think that ability counted for nothing, or was he mocking those who attributed successful campaigns to sheer luck? We'll never know, but his statement does give a sense of how long this debate of 'ab...
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| 20:16 | 6/Oct/2007 |
| Life's mushkil choices... | |
| Unlike what Amar Chitra Kathas and most Hindi movies would like us to believe, choices in real life almost never come in black and white. Recognizing this inconvenient aspect of life, I believe, is critical to growing up, as is realizing that unlike mathematical/engineering problems, there may be no right answers to choices one needs to make (which...
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| 19:35 | 5/Oct/2007 |
| Atheist=Agnostic...! | |
| Happy that a misconception I shared with many others (including Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert!) got cleared up. All this while, I'd understood atheists as those who're convinced that God doesn't exist. Based on this understanding, I'd take pains to clarify that I'm an agnostic, 'cos while I'm not convinced that God exists, I'm not convinced she d...
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| 02:29 | 3/Oct/2007 |
| Great restroom graffiti | |
| No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sickand tired of putting up with her shit. --Men's Room,Linda's Bar and Grill. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.--Written in the dust on the back of a bus. Wickenburg,Arizona. Make love, not war.--Hell, do both, get married! --Women's restroom, T...
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| 19:23 | 28/Sep/2007 |
| Advice on advising | |
| Ever come across compulsive advisers? Especially as we Indians get older? Is it because the Indian (perhaps Orientals in general) tradition associates age with wisdom that we feel obligated to impart so much of it? Well, why not, some of you may ask. What's wrong with sharing the fruits of our experience with the not-so-fortunate ones? After all, i...
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| 18:59 | 20/Sep/2007 |
| Serendipity | |
| My wonderful girlfriend and I had been dating for over a year, andso we decided to get married. There was only one little thing bothering me. It was her beautifulyounger sister. My prospective sister-in-law was twenty-two, wore verytight miniskirts, and generally went braless. She would regularly benddown when she was near me, and I always got mor...
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| 23:20 | 13/Sep/2007 |
| Bengali Gem | |
| After Lissome Lady scolded me (lucky this is blogland; teacher that she seems to be, real life hota to shayad murga bana deti..!) for admitting my inability to fathom poetry, I've been searching hard for a poem that even I could understand. Finally found one doing the email rounds...LL was right, it transported my soul and gave me much joy. Enjoy.....
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| V T | 17:59 | 29/Nov/2007 |
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| Laal Salaam |
| लाल सलामएक ज़माना थाबहुत गुस्सा आता थादिल करता था के धूआँ उ...
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| siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE |
| Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...
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| Ardra Vamshi | 11:42 | 3/Dec/2007 |
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| Something Lost Something Missing |
| Far away in my villageA tree fellStaked out from its rootsVerdant Guardian since centuriesSimply down to dustIn a singular moment!Steady, sturdy presenceEssence of the village personaNow no more?It came down with a deafening noiseBreaking thru the silenceShook the villagersThe sight that met their eyeOf the Glory now prostrateChilled their heartsAn...
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| kartik shriv... | 11:02 | 5/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (390)
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| वो बचपन के दीन जब याद आते हैं,ये पल ये लम्हे मासूम से हो जाते ह...
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| celina dawson | 22:20 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (58)
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| can u hold love....? |
| Heard somewhere that, love just touches, live briefly and then vanishes, leaving behind sweetness that lingers in our breath ....for lifetime…so very true...and I got this beautiful feeling with him…during those walks, those tiny raindrops, those sunsets, those trail with orange and brown leaves( all so virtual though)…. I am too scared to let it g...
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| DENSON JOSEPH | 12:00 | 7/Dec/2007 |
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| NRI's & NANDIGRAM |
| 74 NRIs, belonging to a diverse group of academics, professionals, lawyers, activists and students, many of them volunteers and supporters of the organization - Association for India's Development – have filed a collective Right to Information application at the Indian Embassy in Washington DC. The Questions raised are the following:ü Have d...
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| ayesha afri | 16:02 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| why |
| There are no moonlight, no sunlight The earth is so dark… No wind to take breath. There are no flowers No color The earth is colorless There are no bird, no butterfly No song, no color, no light… No love, no humanity The earth is so dark…so… Why life?
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| daniel ribero | 02:03 | 4/Dec/2007 |
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| 100% Free Money Online for you friends |
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| Hello Friends, I don't know about how many of you are in search of making REAL MONEY on the Internet. But if you are one of them I would really like you to follow the link below.I have tried myself with it and am earning quite a good sum of amount doing almost nothing.Yes. This is 100% Free program and it takes only 5 minutes to complete the proces...
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| Adithi Pandit | 09:07 | 12/Oct/2007 |
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| Possession |
| A friend asked me recently... 'why do people get so upset when their partners leave them?'. Poor guy, he wasn't quite ready for the speech I launched into! :) But I do have a pretty strong opinion on the topic - and since I shared it with one individual, I thought I'd share it with all.We as human beings love to own things, to possess them. As chil...
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| Writing Village | 21:08 | 11/Dec/2007 |
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| Contemporary Indian Art from Raja Ravi V... |
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| This is the first part of the three articles to be published on this subject.What is contemporary Indian art? This is a question that has gnawed at the global literary consciousness time and again. Indian art has its roots in myriad folk styles and traditions and has also fed on the social and political ethos of not only India but also of the world...
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| ramnath rajaram | 06:17 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| GOOD MORNING- POLARIZATION |
| GOOD MORNING POLARIZATIONThe philosophy that I live by is that everything in life, eve life itself, takes but five minutes. That my childhood dayshad all been but five minutes, my high school years had gone in five minutes, the Bachelor degree that I had earned had been accomplished in five minutes, and when I find myself, God willing, on my deathb...
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| kavita ganguly | 21:37 | 14/Dec/2007 |
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| Cordon-Bleu |
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| I realized suddenly how inept I was in the cookery department. My mom opened my eyes to this fact when she finally rebelled after tasting insipid dal chawal for a week. She relented after I promised her that I would try and master the culinary skills. Eureka! I cried the very next morning when I scanned the TV programmes and came across a cookery s...
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| PGR NAIR | 15:24 | 14/Dec/2007 |
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| Musings On The Millennium |
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| (I delivered this speech in December 1999, on the eve of the new Millennium, in a special meeting of Jubail Toastmasters Club. My pessimism in this rambling still holds good and I thought of posting it as a New year message. I am on vacation till 03rd January. Happy New Year to all my Buddies in the iland) MUSINGS ON THE MILLENNIUM Turni...
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| Jolly Jacob | 12:22 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| My Lord calls to me |
| My Lord calls to mein the early morning light‘kuhu-kuhu’ she singsin joyous dulcet tones.My Lord enfolds mein the early morning mist,ethereal and uplifting,a mother's embrace.My Lord sings to mefrom the violin’s bow,gliding on the stringsin heartrending melody.My Lord looks at mefrom beggar-child eyesin desperate hope,for alms, for love.My Lord com...
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| DrHarmeet Singh | 17:18 | 14/Dec/2007 |
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| Marry with care |
| Three men were sitting together bragging about how they had given their new wives dutiesThe first man had married a Bengali girl, and bragged that he had told his wife she was going to do all the dishes and house cleaning. He said it took a couple days but on the third day he came home to a clean house and the dishes were done. The second man had m...
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| Sandhya Suri | 17:36 | 29/Nov/2007 |
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| Asleep on the Road |
| Ironically this post is under the 'Life' category...this is anything but life.I normally say my prayers early morning in transit to work. On my way, last morning, I saw a man, lying dead on the dusty median. He was stiff, still, as only a dead person can be. He had been beaten to death, sometime between the day before and last morning. My heart utt...
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| ND Lama | 12:01 | 9/Dec/2007 |
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| Accept life as it comes |
| Those living on the highest levels of life have learned to accept life on its own terms. There are some realities about life that we must accept. This is the key to living joyfully in communion with the heavenly while abiding here on earth. Life, no matter how we choose to look at it, is a challenge. It is the beginning of a struggle that continues...
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| Uday Sodhi | 10:16 | 22/Nov/2007 |
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| Letter to Bill Gates |
| Dear Mr. Bill Gatesa, This letter is from Banta Singh from Punjab. We have bought a computer forour home and we found problems, which I want to bring to your notice.1. After connecting to internet we planned to open e-mail account andwhenever we fill the form in Hotmail in the password column, only ******appears, but in the rest of the fields what...
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| Vikas Vij | 02:38 | 24/Nov/2007 |
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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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| nocturnal cr... | 10:03 | 4/Oct/2007 |
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| fast life |
| There are songs that come from the blue-eyed grass,From the dust of a thousand country roads,From footprints in white sand.Aboriginals call it 'songlines'-Mapping steps through the silk route of time.If only, we could pause,And hear the songs around.The one on our shoulder,The one on autumn's last leaf.On monsoon's first rain drop—Riding on a butte...
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| poornima k | 16:32 | 14/Dec/2007 |
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| Creation - God or the Big Bang |
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| After having read through Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and loving every bit of it I decided to read his prequel novel, Angels & Demons, another thriller that depicts secret societies and apocryphal mysteries from Renaissance church history. Its theology may be controversial, but it presents an opportunity for pastors and people alike to engage in ...
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| dilip krishnan | 16:20 | 27/Nov/2007 |
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| An Evening in ChanakyaIn the late seventies and early eighties, the government-run Chanakya Cinema was one of the very theatres in Delhi that regularly screened English films. Once in a while, Chanakya also hosted foreign film festivals. The Nirula’s had set up shop nearby and their pizzas and ice creams were indeed a treat those days when there wa...
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| dee vine | 12:45 | 5/Aug/2007 |
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| ;-) a friend with weed is a friend indeed .... and a friend in need is a pest ... LOL .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305vRNoofr8
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| friendly ghost | 07:42 | 15/Dec/2007 |
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| Quick update on What I'm upto |
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| Sahiti Bharadwaj writes:Hey FG, how have you been. It has been quite sometime since i visited the iland...i see that you are still with your new found passion..at full steam.. :o) Hope it translates into sth in real life too.. Lage raho...all the best cheers sahiti Dear Sahiti,My passion about Global Warming is indeed translating onto my real life...
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| meena sundar | 23:15 | 3/Dec/2007 |
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| Current … Wind….Life !? |
| Every time a word is utteredIt creates a specific meaning! Life is a boat, it swaysBecause of current- current due to wind. Current moves along with the Wind’s direction.That is the nature of current. We also move with the words of airLike the boat. Surviving everything…That ...
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| savi savi | 19:58 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| am i a coward??????? |
| I got a threat in my GB that 'we will not stop at words "and I buckled under. I spose I am a coward The threat comes from a dear friend.So it hurt a lot anyway....no point in running away or living behind closed doors! Jo hoga dekhenge !! so on with the blogs and a challenge to the person to harm me if he has the guts! I refuse to bow before anyon...
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| shweta singh | 11:31 | 15/Dec/2007 |
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| Ek Khat |
| एक ख़त तुम्हारे ; ख़त का आनाजैसेभ ;ीगना रिमझिम बरसात में,बिखर...
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| chaitali rai | 12:24 | 29/Nov/2007 |
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| Around the corner I have a friend,In this great city that has no end,Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,And before I know it, a year is gone.And I never see my old friends face,For life is a swift and terrible race,He knows I like him just as well,As in the days when I rang his bell.And he rang mine but we were younger then,And now we are busy, t...
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| Samprati Me | 18:53 | 14/Dec/2007 |
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| Dhanyawaad!! :O) |
| Thank you friends… Thank you Rediff… Yeh kaise ho gayaa rey Bawaa? :O) Me & Moojik On Top? I always thought that Blog is primarily a writer’s medium… And me toh no way a writer babah and also… a So So English waalaah – So! Sab Problem!! Me - A Secondary Citizen in Blogger’s World…?!?!? ;O) He he! Aaah… but I knew one language… Language of Moojik…...
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| Padmanabhan | 17:50 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| Smiling tree |
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| Smiling TreeDear friend, ever seena laughing tree?Wondered ever how,its smile would be?ever heard howits laughter echos?imagined ever howdeep, its dimple goes?No!Then drop that AXEfrom you handsand clear your mind ofall evil strandswith a smiling facewhen you seeYes there it isthe smiling tree.Note : This poem is another one (first one I had posted...
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| Lissome Lady | 18:24 | 12/Dec/2007 |
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| THE RAVA IDLI SAGA |
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| This was my first post on iland on 17 July 2007 at 10 am.. I am a few days away from being 5 months old on this blog. I feel I've been here forever. No time to write anything new... in a recklessly busy state now..so if you dont hear from me for a while you know I have succumbed to work pressure.. and gone to a valiant end. After all the theme thes...
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| S V | 17:05 | 2/Sep/2007 |
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| I Once Was an Only Child You wouldn't know it by looking at me now, but I was once an only child. Pampered, adored, and completely secure, my parents treated me like the little princess I was. Even though the light dimmed in my kingdom when the interloper arrived, six months after my third birthday, I still recall those wonderful years when I was ...
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