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 00:20 | 29/Jan/2007 |
| 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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| 04:59 | 19/Dec/2006 |
| Rang De, Omkara: Great movies, bad subti... | |
| I loved Rang De Basanti and Omkara to death. But I have a serious grudge against the guy who writes the subtitles of the DVDs of these films.Both films are excellent in every aspect – technical and creative. When it comes to this detail, however, they slack big time. And that’s quite a shame considering how hard-hitting the dialogues of both these ...
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| 12:44 | 4/Dec/2006 |
| Hrithik machaye Dhoom! Happy Feet rocks!... | |
| I was in Singapore recently. It’s a vibrant city with lots to see and lots to do. But that’s a different blog. While I was at it, I made sure I’ll catch some movies. The theatres were playing some really interesting films like Colic and Little Red Flowers. Unfortunately my companions were more inclined to watch Casino Royale. Let me admit, like mos...
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| 04:37 | 27/Oct/2006 |
| Fardeen's ultimate qurbani for Saif! | |
| Twenty eight years ago, Amitabh Bachchan was the face of Don, a film that didn’t bear the weight of any expectations. Now Shah Rukh Khan is the face of Don, a film only surrounded by heavy-duty expectations. Fifteen years ago, Rekha breathed life in the poetry and pathos of Umrao Jaan. Next week, Aishwarya Rai’s attempt as/at the same will hit the...
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| 02:25 | 12/Oct/2006 |
| Honey, I've misplaced the kids! | |
| Have you ever come across the newly turned mall-obsessed parent? Sometimes, they are so engrossed in picking pickles and peanut butter that they show complete disregard for the tiny tot accompanying them. Lately, I have noticed a huge number of careless Mums and Dads losing their kids in the malls. I, myself, have on more than one occasion handed o...
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| 00:55 | 25/Sep/2006 |
| Of Rishikesh, Munnabhai and Umrao Jaan! | |
| In case you are wondering what happened to Thought Express, well it went on a vacation. And thanks for missing me, some of you. :-)So, yippee, I just got back from a refreshing holiday to Rishikesh and Haridwar. Though Haridwar was a disappointment of capital proportions, Rishikesh still maintains its sanctity and freshness.If you happen to head to...
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| 10:59 | 24/Aug/2006 |
| Don and Munnabhai make Dhoom! | |
| If there is one movie I have no views to share on, it's Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna. Contrary to what the title begs, I prefer to do just the opposite. And for good. Why? All I'll say is you expect to see a Hailey's comet and end up watching an inflated balloon in the sky.Yeah so what if it has all these fantastic actors, gorgeous locations, dressy sets,...
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| 20:25 | 5/Aug/2006 |
| The aftermath of Omkara | |
| I used to think there's just one Peter Jackson who defines reverence and understands tribute. And then Vishal Bhardwaj comes along.He really seems to know his Shakespeare. And more than that, he really knows his art.The magnitude of Omkara's impact is so potent. It’s almost severe. It's like having two-dozen machine guns fired at you. And you die w...
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| 01:11 | 26/Jul/2006 |
| Shyamalan's bedtime tales! | |
| I am curious about Lady in the Water. I have my reasons. When I saw the trailer of Lady in the Water a few months ago, I wasn’t particularly thrilled. It didn’t grab me. Usually Manoj Night Shyamalan’s films bear a creepy air about them. Somehow Lady in the Water appeared to be quite watered down (pun unintended) in that sense. Of course this is a ...
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| 00:02 | 21/Jul/2006 |
| Absurd but adorable...why Bollywood rock... | |
| Yesterday I was watching Ram Lakhan. It’s one of my favourite masala potboilers. An all out entertainer, Subhash Ghai’s multi-starrer has action, comedy, romance and drama rolled in one. As I enjoyed the implausibility of it all, I couldn’t help make note of certain traits that Bollywood narrative religiously follows. Here are a few examples:# Noti...
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| sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (1020)
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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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| DENSON JOSEPH | 12:00 | 7/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (619)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Fitness
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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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| d varma | 23:26 | 26/Jan/2007 |
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| Todays Republic Day of Our India |
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| The Constitution of India was formally adopted by the Parliament, and India declared itself as a “Republic” on January 26, 1950, a date thereafter celebrated annually as Republic Day in India. The Constitution had been prepared by the Constituent Assembly which was set up upon India gaining its independence from the British in 1947. This, in fact, ...
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| pradeep kumar | 13:26 | 17/Jan/2007 |
| Friends: (7)
| City: mandi
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| hi friends, Hope this year some who missed/lost dam thing might get a noew one and those who had already they might be one step ahead
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| Haritha Reddy | 19:36 | 27/Mar/2007 |
| Friends: (84)
| City: London
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| Story of an Ant and the Grasshopper |
| CLASSIC VERSION... The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.The grasshopper thinks he's a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold. -----------------------...
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| gaurav atri | 16:05 | 13/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (260)
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| Its not a laughing matter, after all we are standing at the highest point in Mahabaleshwar (Maharashtra).
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| Binu G | 22:20 | 17/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (77)
| City: Thiruvananthapuram
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| Study: Chinese Herbs May Be Best at Reli... |
| Australia-based a study involving nearly 3,500 women in several countries suggests Chinese herbs may be more effective in relieving menstrual cramps than drugs, acupuncture or heat compression."All available measures of effectiveness confirmed the overall superiority of Chinese herbal medicine to placebo, no treatment, NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-in...
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| ShivSundar S... | 15:55 | 20/Feb/2007 |
| Friends: (79)
| City: Cochin
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| What's that I have?? |
| I have a 'thing', which consists of few letters.If I take one letter out, it remains the same. If I take two letters out, it remains the same!! If I take three letters out, it still remains the same!!! If I take four letters out, I'm telling you, it remains the same!!!! And If I take all letters out, trust me, yet it remains the same!!!!!Can anyone...
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| Sandeep Ohri | 06:31 | 5/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (367)
| City: Mumbai
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| Higher Electricity Bills .. again ? |
| If you don't take action now .. you may end up paying higher electricity bills .. again !!Just a small reminder that there is a Public Hearing on Dec 6th at the YB Chavan Auditorium (Opp. Mantralaya), Mumbai - at 11 am. This is to hear public suggestions / comments on MSEDCL's petition to increase electricity tariff in lieu of imposing second "stag...
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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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| Bole Toh | 16:42 | 9/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (289)
| City: alien city
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| Munna..... Kidhar se wapas tapka? |
| Kya mamu log..... maze mein? Kya aanti log......... kaisa chal rahela hai? Blog-giri mast chal rahela hai ki nahi?Ae Circuit, tu kya udhar-ich ko-ne mein khada rahega? Arre! kam se kam haal-chaal toh poochna mangta hai na!Circuit: "Bhai, apun ko sharam aa rahela hai. idhar ladki log bahut aati hai na..... apun ki toh ladki log ke saamne ek-dum tigh...
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| naresh khatter | 21:27 | 26/Sep/2006 |
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| SET YOUR PRIORITIES.... |
| A beautiful story with the great meaning :A professor stood before his Philosophy 101 class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was. So the professor the...
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| Barmy Sagacity | 21:19 | 19/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (32)
| City: Boston
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| 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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| prasanna sri... | 21:38 | 3/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (444)
| City: Bangalore
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| Hamburger Restaurant A rather attractive woman goes up to the register in an upscale hamburger establishment. She gestures alluringly to a large man who comes over immediately. When he arrives, she seductively signals that he should bring his face close to hers. When he does so, she begins to gently caress is cheek, which is slowly turning a crimso...
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| Anamika Gupta | 21:52 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (65)
| City: Manchester
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| What I can say.....Part 2 |
| It was almost evening and i was curiously waiting, gone far from the memory lane I just made a comback .. thanks to my Mobile phone.. Its was Raghav..."Hey u still there....i am sorry.. keep u waiting.." I replied.. " No problem....but where r u ?"" Please turn ..around...." I disconnected the phone and just looked back.I was quite surprised to se...
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| nish c | 20:06 | 2/Mar/2007 |
| Friends: (11)
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| The First Kiss |
| The First Kiss“I don’t believe it” screamed Sheila when all of us present in the room sat upright and tried to follow what was happening to her. At last one among us managed to ask her what the matter was. When she coyly started replied “I’ve been kissed!!!!!” For a minute we had expected to hear something terrible but her answer brought laughter a...
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| sandeep kumar | 14:38 | 10/Feb/2007 |
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| allright, this one's again, not my brainchild, but good to give a glance...murphy's laws---1. whenever i find the key to success, someone changes the lock;2.to err is human, to forgive is NOT a company's policy;3.the road to success...is always under construction;4.alcohol does'nt solve problems, but if u think, neither does milk;5.in order to get ...
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| sunshine | 20:27 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| STRAY THOUGHTS IN MUMBAI ON 10.12.07 |
| STRAY THOUGHTS IN MUMBAI ON 10.12.07 This week many a thoughts crowded my peanut brain leading to utter confusion on many issues. The unabated rise in the share prices is giving me sleepless nights. I have seen three crashes in the past two decades of my life. I have also seen blue chips being sold like peanuts… and have also escorted some people t...
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| suresh sugav... | 12:04 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| programme |
| http://www.clixsense.com/?2176683 anybody interested can join above programme regards suresh
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| Aniruddha Ray | 09:19 | 11/Jul/2006 |
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| 5 Must Reads...Before You Die |
| They say there is a Novel inside all of us waiting to take birth someday... Everybody dreams about it through a protagonist (like a mirror to themselves) and look at the world through their eyes...Everyone writes a story ...a hundred times in their minds..(and only some of them see the light of the publishers day..but then thats a separate story)As...
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| ramana rao | 21:10 | 31/Aug/2006 |
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| Software professionals - help others |
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| As a software professional you might be drawing very high salaries and financialy good. My sincere advice to u is, kindly help the unemployees. There are many ways for this. I suggest one of the best way. As u are working on some platform, like java,oracle etc., .. to grow in this profession u need to upgrade ur skills. Many times u will not find t...
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| seeniraj siv... | 20:59 | 3/Dec/2007 |
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| குசேலĪ 5;ாக இருந்Ī 0;ாலும் குபேரĪ 5;ாக இருந்Ī 0;ாலும் சந்தோī 9;மாக வா&#...
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| tripurari ti... | 05:28 | 20/Oct/2007 |
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| neend ne kar di sahar aaj aate aate . jaane kyuin huyi bekhabar aaj aate aate , pee liyaa koyi jaam ya nasha kud ho gayi .. ladkhada ladkhada ke aayi aaj aate aate neend ne kar di sahar aaj aate aate
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| anshul banga... | 18:21 | 5/Aug/2007 |
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| the magic of kissing |
| the magic of kissing.........Kissing is one natural ex-pression of humankind which has been there since times immemorial....it could be out of love,out of passion,out of care,out of lust,out of warmth and so on....but i will speak or rather write about the kissing done out of passion and love...Kissing between two opposite sexes is common to all na...
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| Joy Kaidharath | 09:07 | 21/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (1459)
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| This MAY BE LAST POST FROM ME, IT ALL WI... |
| This may be my last post, depending on the out come of the decision of Justice Radhakrishnan and Justice Dalvi at 2.30 p.m. Case detail is given in the image which is given at the end.If this is the last post, then see you in the next world (if what the religions teach is truth). If not, then it does not make any difference, because then, we will...
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| Reshma Thakkar | 20:33 | 1/Dec/2007 |
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| HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS |
| Happiness and success are two concepts intertwined with one another. These are two of the most important ingredients that would eventually define a person’s life. If one would think about it, happiness and success are two things that are relative to a person’s point of view since these are dependent on one’s ideologies. Happiness and success relate...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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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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| Neel Pradhan | 13:50 | 6/Jul/2006 |
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| Sporting extravaganza |
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| The months of June and July have been a bonanza for sports fans. While the football world cup has been the most watched and discussed event, there have been plenty of other sporting events and some memorable moments that have been overshadowed by it. Surprisingly the biggest casualty has been Cricket. Even the historic series win in the West Indies...
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| Sanjeev Verma | 14:23 | 31/Jul/2007 |
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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 |
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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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| koms kapur | 12:24 | 25/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (62)
| City: Bangalore
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| what i miss about my college days |
| Ok i know i have posted a blog since december last year... for two reasons:i had a continuous strech of the exam bhoot again and well i was jussst tooo busy enjoying the last few months of college life......well now in retrospect , theres more i couldve enjoyed this last semester........ ok well i studied in mount carmel college, one of baga...
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| Ashamary Thomas | 15:07 | 30/Nov/2007 |
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| Life's a-changing ... all the time! |
| I am at a place that believes firmly in the policy of monitoring, restricting, and denying access to anything remotely enjoyable on the Net. Although, to be fair to them, they are paying us to work and not to enjoy ourselves at their expense. However, happy people are more productive at work and a little music goes a long way in improving productiv...
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| kishore lakk... | 15:21 | 20/Apr/2007 |
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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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| 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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| Anil Goel | 12:28 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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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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| Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007 |
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| The Bourne Series...... download now!! |
| The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...
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| Pramod Laksh... | 18:54 | 2/May/2006 |
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| Is Love Conditional? |
| Is love conditional? Does it Need to be conditional? Can it be unconditional at all?Everyday our relationships are in a state of constant flux with pre defined roles and conventions. Every moment relationships are redefined, dying a new death and taking new births.Our own lives are changing.Lifestyles alien to us have crept in.Time spent togethe...
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| Mahe R | 02:22 | 25/Oct/2007 |
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| Jai Jai Communists of India |
| Its been a long while since my last appearance on the Iland space, though unintentional.I could not resist, when I came across this piece of news that said : " five out of 17 nuclear power plants have been shut down for want of fuel", but say Jai Communism. Long live Communist party of India ( M), Communist party of India(a), Communist party of Ind...
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| Krishna Reddy | 23:42 | 2/Sep/2007 |
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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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| rajan kr | 16:57 | 10/Apr/2006 |
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| hi dis is me. new kid on the block.. talk to me for nething and everything.. cheers guys. bye
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