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| I was waiting for my turn to come with that card in my hand. I somehow felt proud of myself (only few times I felt so!). I had a feeling that I should have done this earlier itself. I But I wanted to do this at least once if not more. When a circular was there on our notice board declaring that there will be a blood donation cam...
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| 10:43 | 13/Jul/2008 |
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| Dont let someone become a priority in your life, when you are just an option in their life.............. Ahhhh..........I recently realized this !!!!! Though a little late, the best lesson I learned was: Relationships work best when they are balanced. When our office recently lost an office attendant, I remembered that I owed him a "Thanks...
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| 17:29 | 26/Jun/2008 |
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| "Now it is your turn" said my cousin Shree. She was younger to me, a very bubbly, lively character and we two bonded nicely. We were playing snake and ladder during one of our summer vacations at my grandma's home. It was my vacation after my 8th standard. The others were Shree's elder brother Manu and Mohanettan, our neighbor who was the el...
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| 18:06 | 12/Jun/2008 |
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| Mrs. Apte was sitting next to me today. Usually, it was the place for Taayi....Whomever knows her calls her Taayi....I too called her so.....She was almost 61 I believe.....never missed this train or seat as far as I can remember. I greeted her every morning and was always welcomed with a pleasant smile. She always had a small prayer b...
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| 16:55 | 4/Jun/2008 |
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| These were my random thoughts.....Many times we cannot be what we want to be......we cannot do what we want to...we cannot say what we want to....bound by the compulsions, the limited freedom, the society rules, the values, the morals, common sense, life's unsaid rules....then...we act beautifully.. when our innerself was cryi...
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| 18:37 | 29/May/2008 |
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| When I see these children going to school, extra classes, hobby classes, coaching classes even during their vacation, I think of my days as a kid, the best days of my summer vacations.... Even before the exams are over, we start discussing the places we will be going........grandma's tharavadu(ancestoral home), aunt's and Uncle's place...then i...
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| 20:36 | 25/May/2008 |
| Thank You Lord | |
| I landed here(iland) with all enthusiasm to read, write, to meet friends, learn more and for many more....Soon after making a page for me....we had to shift our house to a new place. Lots of disturbances to the routine and it took a while to get back to the normal. Then something else kept me from coming back. One day while I was returning fr...
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| 21:12 | 24/May/2008 |
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| my first blog........wanted to post something for long......missed out in the run for life........would come back soon.........
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| Sandeep Ohri | 07:10 | 13/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (431)
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| Oct 2006-Jul 2008: It's been a long stru... |
| It was in October 2006, I used to run a small scale unit in Mumbai and I received my first escalated electricity bill from Reliance Energy.(For those who came in late... my bill went from Rs. 210 for 11 units to Rs. 10,800 for 14 units!!)It was then that I woke up and smelt the coffee .. oops .. the mud, about how Reliance Energy had been hoodwinki...
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| Aneesh Kumar | 17:06 | 17/Mar/2008 |
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| Jodha Akbar's Review by Aneeshk |
| Jodha AkbarFilm Critics -- Aneesh KumarLet's get one thing straight: You haven't watched anything so opulent, so magnificent like this in a long, long time on the Hindi screen. It's not just body beautiful, but there's soul as well.It requires courage, prowess, patience, aptitude, knowledge, passion and of course, loads of currency to attempt a mov...
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| nitha Mohan | 19:04 | 13/Jul/2008 |
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| Sonubai |
| SonabaiI am Sonabai a girl of ten year from Ranpur village, of Rajasthan. I am the eldest daughter of my parents who has got four more daughters younger to me. Being a girl the duty assigned to me is to help my mother and bring water from the public well way away in the desert encircled by rising dunes of golden sands and chocolate mountains. I w...
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| yellowflower | 19:43 | 8/Jul/2008 |
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| Precious Gift |
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| When you came into my lifeThe whole world changed for me…The bond we shared when you were bornIs a bond that can never be tornYou added colors to my lifeYou were the rainbow of my eyes...When I held you close to my bosomI felt the warmth of our relationship….When you smiled at meMy joy knew no bound…When I heard you calling meNo other ...
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| Pradeep | 00:18 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Something about love |
| Silly thing about love...when u get a little, u want more...when u get more, U desire even more.....But when u lose it, you realise 'little' which was lost was infact 'More'.....How far you agree or disagree ???
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| tamilini A | 13:40 | 21/Jul/2008 |
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| SOULMATES |
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| A soul within a soulA heart within a heartThe quench ever persistsSeperate identities hardly existsIrresistible and irrevocableAll enchanted and mesmerizedSoothing mind, body and soulMaking both their lives wholeWhere sharing is the best wayWithout togetherness joys nayLove is the way of lifeWithout a single strifeRemaining anchor for the otherIn t...
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| mohan | 15:51 | 19/Jul/2008 |
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| Achievers!! |
| Dear friends, I am very proud to share an article which came in The Hindu last month. Sheela Basrur is the only daughter of Dr.Parvathi Basrur and Dr.Basrur. Dr.Parvathi Basrur is from a Namboodri family from Calicut, Kerala. She is the first veterinary doctor from Guelph university, Canada. Dr. Basurur is a cancer specialist fr...
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| Sameera Nandi | 16:35 | 22/Jul/2008 |
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| I was so sure I had a “post” in me on Sunday. Unfortunately I was nowhere near a computer at that time and so I lost that post. Yesterday, I opened a blank word document and well, it remained just that …a blank word document. Maybe this is what they call writer’s block. Although I am not conceited enough to think I am a writer or anything. So, ye...
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| YedhuKrishna... | 16:02 | 29/Jun/2008 |
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| RSS NEW STRATEGY |
| WORK IN PROGRESS BY RSSITS A BLOG BY YK MENON FROM DELHI TO ACT AGAINST THIS INDECENT ACTIVITY,]I HEARD MR.VAIDYA SAYING "RSS REPRESNTS EACH & EVERY SECTION SOCIETY" I WAS ACTIVE MEMBER OF RSS A FEW YEARS BACK BUT JUST RESIGNED FROM IT BECAZ I THINK IT WAS POPULARISING RELIGIOUS TERRORISM I TOO TRIED TO IMPLEMENT THIS NIGHT SHAKA IN RSS , AND AS A...
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| janus janus | 15:05 | 15/Jul/2008 |
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| Love and longing in Chennai |
| The city of my birth always fills me with a sense of nostalgia, wistfulness, longing. This time, too, was no different. A quick visit of a few days, is not enough to take in all the pleasures and joys of a city that the rest of the country still prefers to underrate, but to me life in the southern sector is a very different kind of life. Chennai is...
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| rajesh vora | 17:09 | 10/Jun/2008 |
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| Artificial Intelligence |
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| TheYear : 2020 AD Iam a 30-something old guy. (yes, I will be 30 then too and I will be 30 in 2030and thereafter too….). Coming back to the year 2020, a lot has changed in thisworld. Web 2.0 has become passé. The world has advanced much more than whatpeople had envisaged in the year 2008. Internet too has evolved so much thatbroadband, wi fi, wi m...
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| kishore gupta | 09:29 | 13/Jun/2008 |
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| If you kiss her, you are not a gentlemanIf you don't, you are not a manIf you praise her, she thinks you are lyingIf you don't, you are good for nothingIf you agree to all her likes, you are a wimpIf you don't, you do not understandIf you visit her often, she thinks it is boringIf you don't, she accuses you of double-crossingIf you are well dressed...
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| krishna veni | 13:20 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Life begins when we start breathing for the first time and ends when we stop breathing. Ones life is controlled by the way our nostrils works; which control our breath. At a time air flows freely only through one of the two nostrils, it being left or right nostril. In a healthy person it changes from one nostril to the other in one and a half hour....
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| Madhavan PK | 16:43 | 11/Jul/2008 |
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| The Song of Hiawatha |
| The song of Hiwatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is perhaps his best work.This one given below is chapter 10 detailing Hiwatha's Wooing of Minnehaha. Written in 1855, the poem is poignant. Have things changed from then to now. Read on. It is long but worth your while. The bold typeface highlight and the headings are mine. Love SickAs unto the bow...
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| AdityaDas Menon | 19:37 | 26/Jun/2008 |
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| HANDS OF LOVE - PART -20-"TERELIYE" |
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| HANDS OF LOVE - PART - 20 - "TERELIYE"Dedication to : All the readers of my blogs..........., The Majestic performing art - Kathakali“Kamdev,you are the GOD of cores of feelings, and emotions…Can u tell me, among all these, which one is perennial…..?” One day Narada asked his younger brother……… The question prompted Kamadev to think for a while….T...
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| Renuka Asnani | 16:06 | 10/Jul/2008 |
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| does love die?????? |
| DOES LOVE DIE????????? One Question that has always been on my mind....Can Love die??????????????ofcourse the person you love or who loves u can dieBut does love dieA couple seem so happy in love, both gal and guy love each other, but one day if he cheats on her,they break up but will the love diei mean can she really hate him....afterall wasnt he ...
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| ps sarkar | 10:26 | 25/Jun/2008 |
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| god's wife |
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| Gods' Wife An Eye Witness Account from New York City, on a cold day in December: A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, "My little fellow, why are you looking so earnestly in that window?" "I was asking God...
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| sunshine | 20:05 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Cars and Comps |
| Cars and Comps So Bill Gates and the chairman of GM are arguing over which company is better. Bill Gates boast, "If cars grew in technology as fast as computers did, we would be driving v-32 instead of v-8, our cars would get 5000 miles to the gallon, the top speed would be mach seven. Anyway the sticker price for a car would be 50 dollars." And w...
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| Jaya Raj | 15:15 | 3/May/2008 |
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| Another Morning |
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| ‘Will you take us to school today in car, Acha (dad)?’ My elder daughter asked me while brushing her teeth in the morning.Sometimes they like to go to school in car, though their school is just 10 minutes walk away. For a change from usual routine walking. Other occasion in which I have to take them to school is when my wife gets up late disreg...
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| dilip krishnan | 13:01 | 17/Jul/2008 |
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| The State of the Nation: Some Irreverent Thoughts The nation waits with bated breath,So too Uncle Sam, NSG and the IAEAAs the world's largest functioning anarchyTurns its wheels of democracy.Hastinapura gets ready for another MahabharataBugles are sounded, conches are blown,Flags aflutter, soldiers march on,We shall fight, we shall win.In the corr...
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| vchennai | 16:55 | 18/Jul/2008 |
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| Contrasts |
| Each and every human being is unique. We all have different perspectives, beliefs and experiences in our lives.Let me try to explain my thinking process (assuming there is process in my thinking).Whenever I see rain, I think of sunshine. Without rains, we wont be appreciating sunshine and vice versa. Whenever we have powercuts, I realise how depend...
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| Joseph Antony | 00:06 | 4/Jul/2008 |
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| " FOR EVER " |
| I hereby Stops all my activities n iland. And treat this as my apology - If any of my posts or any comments hurt / wounded anybody.Thanks, Love & Regards to All my Friends. HAVE A NICE DAY ............ No one is born happy... But all of us are born with the ability to create happiness...So....today, make others happy... Flash your sweetest s...
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| Amiya Lahiri | 15:08 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| BRITISH RULE IN INDIA Today I am going to write something controversial about ‘British Rule in India’. I know that many of my friends will not share my opinion. I can assure that there is no intention to offend anyone’s sentiment. It is purely my viewpoint. You are at liberty to express your opinion freely. Every good event has also a darker side...
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| Moe M | 00:40 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| And Now Its Mona Lisa |
| Where is Mona LisaFirst it was the Frozen one who disappeared and then resurfaced and now it seems it is Z Mona Lisa who seems to have done a Houdini act.A search mission planned - the Wise One of iland the Don was approached - but then he said he is in the process of moving though I have a feeling he is headed to his Ashram retreat and his Gur...
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| Ranjan Sengupta | 15:25 | 24/May/2007 |
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| Physics and Music |
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| Can we define music? Most of us may agree that it is bourn by a time series, jointly or independently, of amplitude, frequency and complexity, three fundamental well-known parameters used in physics. This time series is the objective reality, or the fictional reality of physics. But obviously all such time series pertaining to auditory sensation ar...
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| Frozen Sun | 23:33 | 9/Jul/2008 |
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| Say NO to iLand |
| [For a change, this is going to be a serious blog in my iland. For a reason]I have been blogging here and there for more than a year now. I have posted some 50 odd blogs on some amazingly lackluster topics. From the chemical relationship between Biriyani & God to some weird psycho poems on love. When I started, I didn’t know what to write. So I had...
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| soloman will... | 23:01 | 22/Jul/2008 |
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| The fiasco that is.. |
| ek hi ullu kaafi hai,barbaad gulistaan karne ko,har shaakh pe ullu baitha hai,anjamein gulistan kya hoga! bas doston yahi to scene hai hamare Indian leadership ka, ya yon kahen ki contemporary Leadership ka.Tamasha laga rehta hai....issues and non issues, aur jo issues rehte hain wo bhi manmohan singh ki tarah non existant hote hain.mahine bhar ke...
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| sunil bhat | 17:25 | 5/Jul/2008 |
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| Martand SunGod Temple,Kashmir |
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| Martand Sun temple :-The Martand Sun temple is situated on top of a plateau, near the town of Anantnag located at about 5 miles from the town of Anantnag, {Kashmir, India}. The temple is dedicated to Bhaskar {surya}, the Sun God. It dates back to the 7th - 8th century and was consecrated by King Laitaditya Muktapida. King Lalitaditya, a Kshatriya o...
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| vivek keserwani | 02:45 | 28/Mar/2008 |
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| how was your HOLI friends |
| Hi Friends, Nobody told me howz their HOLI? What masti you did and How did you clebrate it. Some of you might have remained inside of your house in fear of colours while some of you might have played a very colourful and wet Holi. To tell you the truth, I love playing holi but only when it is played in decency. In my locality people are so bad that...
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| San | 16:37 | 25/Apr/2008 |
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| Lawyer Joke10 Husbands, Still a VirginA lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced ten husbands. On their wedding night, she told her new husband, "Please be gentle, I'm still a virgin." "What?" said the puzzled groom. "How can that be if you've been married ten times?" "Well, Husband #1 was a sales representative: he kept telling me how gr...
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| Sensible Joker | 20:15 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Experiences in a Mid-week Tour: Part I |
| Day 1Evening was approaching. We were resting on the seawall behind the calm beach after a lengthy stroll over it. The beach was calm because the local boys, who were playing on it, were leaving by then; …and it was off-season, moreover mid-week, not weekend, so the number of tourists was also not very impressive. We got up and started walking towa...
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| anil verma | 03:14 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| Sai Baba open one-eye ?Jul 18, 2008. Bangalore: It was blind belief, but people came with their eyes wide open, all for a glimpse of the one-eyed Sai Baba. A one-foot high idol of Sai Baba attracted a huge crowd as well as huge donations all through Friday, when word spread fast that Sai Baba had come to bless one and all by opening one eye on Guru...
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| vijayaram reddy | 12:11 | 16/Jul/2008 |
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| నువ్వĺ 3;నా ! ఎలా వున్నĹ 4;వ్ ? నన్ను తలుచుĵ 3;ోటాని 093;ి కూడా వీలు కాన...
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| SUNIL PAL | 18:12 | 29/Jan/2008 |
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| keshav singhal | 14:46 | 15/Jul/2008 |
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| नींद न देखे टूटी खाट, भूख न देखे झूठा भात,प्याì 0; न देखे धोबी-घाé...
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| nitin bhatnagar | 20:24 | 25/Jun/2008 |
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| Let's Laugh..... |
| Prescription for cyanide A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I would like to buy some cyanide." The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?" The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband." Please click here to read the full post
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| hardhitter h... | 20:42 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Everybody Cheats-VII |
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| Everybody Cheats-VII ..’ Jalne main kya mazah hai…’ this line of hers still haunts me. To get burnt in her philo was supposed to be divine, kind of bliss. I will come to that later.I have been receiving number of mails, calls, messages from readers of iland that sometimes they do not relate who is who[ I understand this, for obvious reasons, I can ...
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| shalinitandon | 17:56 | 22/Jul/2008 |
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| Politically Ignorant |
| When it comes to Politics, I don’t mind calling myself as cent percent politically ill-literate. I seriously don’t understand the art of becoming a minister, chief minister or for that matter even PM. From the little I know or what I have observed stronger the criminal background bigger is your chance to get a seat as MLA or MP. Such are the heroes...
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