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 11:24 | 23/Mar/2008 |
| This is awesome!! | |
| I have been spending the last few days soaking up this wealth. Do click on the link below to read about the migration of humans and various sects across the human history https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/globe.h tml#/index/
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| 12:52 | 27/Jan/2008 |
| Some links | |
| Friends,Do visit this link for the pre historic time line. From the birth of the planet to the present times. 2. For photography lovers, please visit the following links for some stunning photos: (a) History of Photography(b) Milestones in Wildlife photography(c) Milestones in Underwater photography(d) Milestones in Space photography(e) Miles...
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| 11:49 | 26/Jan/2008 |
| Photographs from a trip... | |
| Hi Friends, Recently had a great trip up north that included Amritsar, Delhi, Dalhousie(5 day trek) and Agra past week. Still couldn't get over it. Uploading some photos from that journey.
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| 19:25 | 30/Dec/2007 |
| A very happy 2008 to all here | |
| The year 2007 is coming to an end. Best wishes for 2008 to all my friends on the iland. One of the most eagerly awaited launches/events of the year2008 has to be the People’s Car by Tata motors. We have been privy to a lot of speculations in the media. (A cynic like me will tell you the leaks are all carefully orchestrated). It has been in the news...
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| 11:45 | 24/Dec/2007 |
| Gujarat, Moditva and religion | |
| Yesterday morning, as I switched on the TV to catch up onGujarat election results, Congress seemed to be doing quite well. Trends for around 80 seats were available then, with BJP leading in around 40 and congress doing a respectable 35. The channels were predicting the possibility of a hung assembly and one even went to suggest that if cong can ba...
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| 19:07 | 8/Dec/2007 |
| Of Robert Hawkins, Animation movies and ... | |
| Robert Hawkins A few days ago, in the US, Robert Hawkins walked into a mall, killed eight shoppers before killing himself. Isolation and depression are problems that seem to have become symptomatic with the US teenagers. Such shootouts are becoming a regular feature there. I wonder what President Bush will do, given his penchant for raiding a natio...
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| 19:30 | 24/Nov/2007 |
| On Global Warming, Supreme Court to the ... | |
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| Some articles that I felt I could share with fellow bloggers today: 1) A topic that seems to have exploded on the scene in the real as well as the virtual world: Global warming Contributions to accelerating atmospheric CO2 growth from economic activity, carbon intensity, and efficiency of natural sinks 2) And subsequent to it, In India, Supreme C...
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| 11:38 | 19/Nov/2007 |
| Some interesting links | |
| >This is the link to an article that appeared in some papers yesterday. An interesting, eye-opening article. “A blanket of smog hanging over India means the country is getting less and less sunlight, warn researchers. But this phenomenon, known as “solar dimming” may also protect against global warning…” For more, click the link below. http://en...
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| 18:37 | 7/Nov/2007 |
| Ravanayana | |
| Pre script: While searching for a file on my laptop, I came across this one. (Incidentally, ever wondered why searching for a file on your PC takes much much longer on a 80 GB hard disk than what Google will take to scan millions of GB space with billions of pages?)This was a play I had written for an inter-collegiate festival. The topic was ‘Rewr...
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| 10:58 | 6/Nov/2007 |
| Some Amazing Photographs | |
| A scrim of seawater rises from blowholes along the coast of Tongatapu—one of 36 inhabited islands in the 170-island archipelago that is Tonga. First settled more than 3,000 years ago, this chain became the anchor for a not-so-pacific domain that by the 13th century may have stretched as far as Samoa and Fiji. In the 1600s, European explorers arrive...
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| kamalesh | 07:42 | 12/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (339)
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| online earnings only for indians |
| Dear friends, All of you listen me. easy way online earning business in india for indians only. my earning growth starts from January.Rs.140/=only is your investment it gives life long income.If you like visit:www.skamarajan.cash2all.com
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| Anuja Goel | 22:31 | 12/Mar/2008 |
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| Superstition podcast |
| This is a very interesting podcast from bbc radio 4's website about superstition and various aspects related. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/podcasts/belief/
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| datanentrygo | 07:49 | 19/Mar/2008 |
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| Jobs of editorial proofreading. |
| Jobs of editorial proofreading. Editorial proofreaders they can also recommend changes in word choice or inappropriate punctuation. Jobs of editorial proofreading. http://jobcenter.webs.com/pr.htm
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| ajay rana | 21:37 | 29/Jan/2008 |
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| Consciousness in the Single Neuron |
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| Are the contents ofconscious perception tied to individual brain cells? Can we use singleneurons to determine someone’s subjective experience? A recent studiespublished in PNASsuggests otherwise: there are no specialized neuronsthat carry information about what enters awareness and what not. If oneholds the picture of a butterfly in front of one ey...
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| Dharmesh Paul | 16:33 | 5/Feb/2008 |
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| Information on brain stroke |
| Hi friends, The below message is a beautiful piece of medical fact. It might take u 2 mins to read the entire passage but it is really worth it. I wish i had go this information before 2nd june 2007, so that i could have recongnised when my mom had a stroke. We mistakenly thought she was suffering from low blood pressure and hence the dizziness. It...
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| Vinod Bansal | 17:44 | 28/Nov/2007 |
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| Book Better Tomorrow |
| Comments are invitedBook Better Tomorrow - it is a futuristic book, not connected with astrology and astronomy and other speculative and predictive phobias, but based on natural laws of evolution of nature, the underswtanding of that will lead to a Better Tomorrow, for health, wealth, prosperity, abundance and ultimate MOKSHA - the aim of human li...
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| ekantapadhika | 00:09 | 16/Mar/2008 |
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| For a musical evening |
| Dear Friends, "Many a gem of the purest ray serene , The deep unfathomed caves of ocean bear Many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air" The above lines by the poet Thomas gray, is what comes to mind as i write this. And the reason is that, while bloghopping at this late hour, i came across s...
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| vira | 15:38 | 21/Mar/2008 |
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| Holi Hai........ Holi - The most colorful of the Hindu festivals will be celebrated this year on March 3rd and 4th. There are various legends to explain the meaning of this word. Some of them are that of demon king Hiranyakashyap, Legend of Lord Krishna and the legend of Shiva and Kaamadeva . All depict triumph of good over evil. Happy Holi !
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| amit goel | 22:53 | 19/Mar/2008 |
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| Duniya Rang Birangi |
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| Who says that Reality Shows have no reality and are only for entertainment! South Korea recently selected its first astronauts from a televised reality show where 36000 participated. The first stage was a Marathon, where 26000 were discarded. The remaining 10000 underwent a series of physical- and later- mental tests- all of them televised- before ...
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| Krishna Raj | 14:34 | 23/Jan/2008 |
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| Sowing the seeds of a future society |
| By Ken Whitehead, Growth is MadnessCivilisation as we know it will no longer exist within 30 years. This bleak conclusion is not one I have arrived at lightly. However, wherever I look the evidence suggests that we are heading towards a major ecological breakdown which the majority of us are unlikely to survive. A number of critical environmental p...
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| MANOHAR | 11:58 | 19/Mar/2008 |
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| Ajanabee - 1974 Super Star Rajesh Khanna |
| Rajesh Khanna hasn’t been one of my favorites, partly because his characters are often chest-beating male chauvinist types. Here too he portrays a struggling young man who is attracted to and marries a strong-willed, high-spirited heiress, only to resent her for missing the comforts of her former life and wishing for some success of her own. This e...
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| Prithvi | 19:33 | 9/Jan/2008 |
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| Nadir |
| I feel I can hear the thunder, Have I made a costly blunder.I've been wrong for so many days, I feel its time to mend old ways.Staring beneath this stark gloom, What is the probability that I'll bloom.For I shall leave no matter on to you now, I know I must do it how.Do i look crestfallen, Dare you say that coz I have not yet fallen....
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| dilip krishnan | 18:31 | 19/Mar/2008 |
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| Fiction – and Fact: Hues of LifeIt is trite to say that life – a fact – is stranger than fiction. When one reads newspapers or watches television, and when events unfold, one notices that what the Hollywood or Bollywood shows pales into insignificance before reality: as they say, reel life as opposed to real life. Increasingly, one realizes that hu...
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| Lissome Lady | 07:21 | 21/Mar/2008 |
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| MANAGING CHANGE |
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| “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man,” said wise old Heraclitus, Greek philosopher from 500 B.C. He was, ofcourse, talking of time and its flow and the inevitable changes wrought by the movements in growth. If water is the medium for analogies, the one more suitable to change, is Char...
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| Madhavan PK | 15:34 | 15/Mar/2008 |
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| Sloshed |
| The first time I met her, I was not original. But then have I ever been with girls. I told her, “ Hi! That’s a beautiful body your dress is wearing”. It was a line I had picked up from a James Hadley Chase book. That was my first ever interaction with her. She was quiet. She didn’t say anything then and anyway I had moved away. She had quite a rep...
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| Kush A | 22:30 | 10/Mar/2008 |
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| Kiska rasta dekhe... |
| Present Day He sat by Hedvi beach and looked at the reflection of the neon lights of the city that rippled on the water surface. Something similarly hazy within him felt oddly at home and so he let himself be, permitting himself the comfort of the moment. The evening sky overhead was a haphazard blend of different soft lights and hues, and yet, som...
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| shivani narula | 15:44 | 19/Feb/2008 |
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| THE WITCH OF PORTOBELLO-PART II |
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| A witch is a woman who is capable of letting her intuition guide her actions, one who communes with her environment, who isn’t afraid of facing challenges. I wanted to talk about the prejudice that modern witches face in modern society” - Paulo Coelho Athena brought to surface the immensely rich world we carry in our souls without realizing that ...
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| Writing Village | 21:08 | 11/Dec/2007 |
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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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| Sujay Kodagali | 10:59 | 8/Feb/2008 |
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| Reva - a New Begining |
| This is dedicated to my Niece, she came heralding a new morning, a new beginning in all our lives. A little bundle of joy, a little pie of happiness, she is just the most wonderful thing to have happened in a long long time, even counting the big bang! J Herez to Reva....woh saahil per pehli leher,woh saaqib kirano mein dhuli,satrangi muskaan saath...
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| bulbultuk bu... | 17:18 | 8/Feb/2008 |
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| BULBUL CRAWLS |
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| BULBUL CRAWLS In the tumultous whirlpool of abject middle class travails,your cute little skinny bulbul,fed by a meagre supply ofMOTHERS WHITE GOLD(milk in simpler terms)after all managed to crawl one fine day,dragging himself slowly,maybe a foot or two.With an innocent smile he raised his head and looked up at mom as if asking to be applauded for...
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| Kainaat Crea... | 09:38 | 23/Mar/2008 |
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| Campus Placement |
| At the end of a job interview, the head of MNC human resources asks the young MBA fresh out of IIM-Ahmedabad, "What starting salary were you looking for?"The MBA decides to shoot for the moon. "I’m thinking in the range of $500,000 a year or so, depending on the benefits package.""Hmm," says the interviewer. "Well, what would you say to five weeks’...
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| Kainaat Crea... | 22:47 | 16/Oct/2007 |
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| Dream Weave Walk |
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| Dream Weave Walk is the brand of Kainaat Creations. Kainaat Creations has several blogs on different topics. Dream Weave Walk provides resource links to all the Kainaat Creation websites.How to use the links:The links lead to all the sites on the topic.The RSS/Atom feeds from those sites are linked on these pages, as a result the content is contino...
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| Sincere Citizen | 14:23 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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| Where Eagles Dare |
| Its not the power, neither the force,nor the guns nor swords, neither weapons of any sort.Courage lies in the heart,when you just stand upfor what you feel is rightfor the causes that you believeagainst the worlds might.Nor the king, nor the ministernot the general nor the priestno one has prerogative or a default claim on courageit comes to the ho...
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| VirginatThirty | 11:54 | 20/Mar/2008 |
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| Finally after number 15, 16 was going to be last Sunday, Now I climbed onto the scales and it was shocking, so I said to Dad, I am not coming! Man it was going to be hot, and humid. So all plans are on hold, until I feel I have the right frame of mind (and body) to get married. So the early morning brunch at an Andheri hotel was cancelled, reason,...
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| ice candy | 11:11 | 15/Mar/2008 |
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| Why people do what they do |
| Geetanjali Krishna: Why people do what they doColumn - PEOPLE LIKE THEMGeetanjali Krishna / New Delhi March 15, 2008Why people do what they do is something I rarely understand. Maybe I’m just plain dense. Maybe I fall prey to the commonest mistake that people-watchers make, and ascribe my own feelings and motivations to others. I don’t really know....
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| V T | 11:42 | 19/Mar/2008 |
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| Public Service Announcement |
| To my friends who enjoy a glass of wine (or beer, tequila, rum, whisky, etc.) and those who don't. As Benjamin Franklin said, “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria.” In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 liter of water each day, at the end of the year we...
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| aravind das | 17:41 | 17/Mar/2008 |
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| T-SEX....THE THIRD FRONT |
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| T-SEX...????sounds like T-REX ?But now it is official...The third sex, that is " the trasexuals"are now recognised by the Tamilnadu govt as individual...a welcome step first time by any indian state to support these marginalised people. now they can fill up the gender column as "T"...not as "M" or "F". Previously known as hijrras, now these third ...
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