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| A simple tale | |
| I recently bought a DVD for my kid. It was about Tenali Raman tales. When we put the DVD, my kid was sleeping and I and my wife ended up watching it ! The simple tales are engrossing even for us, and I thought I'd share one of them here.-------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------One day the king was discussing some...
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| 16:28 | 12/Aug/2007 |
| city2surf run | |
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| The City 2 Surf is a 14 km run (walk for some) from Sydney city (William Street) to the beaches of Bondi - Sydney's best known beach. It has been an annual event for the last 37 years and there are a fair number of "regulars". This year, the run was also an opportunity to raise funds for various charities.I was a "first-timer" this year and was loo...
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| 18:08 | 2/Aug/2007 |
| A day in the Snow | |
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| "The Snowy Mountains (known for short as the Snowies) are the highest Australian mountain range and contain the Australian mainland's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, which reaches 2228 metres AHD. They are located in southern New South Wales and are part of the larger Australian Alps and the Great Dividing Range" - WikipediaI had the opportunit...
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| 17:22 | 24/Jul/2007 |
| Yoga | |
| I was introduced to Yoga at during my stay in Hyderabad, where I found a convenient Yoga class near my house. I was lucky enough to have a fairly good teacher and I do practise Yoga occasionally.I have to say that I am not a regular or advanced practitioner of Yoga. I am one of those who make some sincere attempts, but still find it reasonably diff...
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| 15:29 | 7/Jul/2007 |
| Docs arrested | |
| I was shocked to see the Indian Muslim doctors named as being involved in the terrorist conspiracy in Britain.One doctor has been arrested in Australia as well.At least 4 more doctors are being questioned in Australia, though they might be innocent.I just fail to understand how firstly, doctors, who have taken an oath to cure disease and help other...
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| 17:35 | 3/Jul/2007 |
| Holding On | |
| I read this very interesting book "Holding On" by Jo Gambi recently.The book is all about Jo and her husband, Rob (who has had cancer twice) and how they leave their jobs and in an attempt to complete the "Seven Summits" mountaineering campaign, and also spend much of their living moments together doing what they loved. The "Seven Summits" campaign...
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| 09:37 | 30/Jun/2007 |
| An Ode to Shopping | |
| What is it about shopping ???For my wife (and probably for a lot of women, I daresay), the "S" word brings out smiles, eyes light up and she becomes all excited. For me, the same word conjures up images of incessant, mind numbing loitering around aisles and escalators amid throngs of people similarly wandering around. And let's just put one more in...
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| 15:39 | 20/Jun/2007 |
| comic relief.... | |
| This is to provide some comic relief........ You just can't stop laughing for every single sentence in the letter below. Take a bit of a break to read it ! ;) In the days when you couldn't count on a public toilet facility, an English woman was planning a trip to India. She was registered to stay in a small guest house owned by the local schoolma...
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| 17:31 | 19/Jun/2007 |
| Ghosts - 2 | |
| This is a continuation of my previous post about my friend's experiences with....GHOSTS!The second incident he related happened in high tech Singapore - a modern city where he used to work. We were actually colleagues at the time, though I worked at a different office. He used to work at a remote site, surrounded by thick vegetation - literally the...
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| 16:09 | 19/Jun/2007 |
| GHOSTS | |
| Recently, I went to a birthday party at a friends house. We somehow started talking about horror movies and someone mentioned the movie called "Bhoot" and how scary it was. One of my friends had been quiet till then. I was just thinking how come he is so quiet today, when he remarked that he wanted to share 2 real life experiences he had of ghosts!...
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| Kumar Rahul | 10:38 | 14/Dec/2007 |
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| Customer Relationship Management (CRM) i... |
| ReligionCustomer Relationship Management (CRM) in Temples Have you ever wondered why there are two different queues in the biggest and busiest temples like Tirupati? In one of them, aam aadami queues up for hours to get to see their God and in the other, it gets over much quicker if you can afford to loose some bigger currencies. Is it unfair? Is i...
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| Kainaat Crea... | 20:29 | 11/Dec/2007 |
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| Very Hot |
| A Zen master visiting London City goes up to a hot dog vendor (Indian of course) and says, "Make me one with everything."The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the Zen master, who pays with a €20 note.The vendor puts the bill in the cashbox and closes it. "Excuse me, but where’s my change?" asks the Zen master.The vendor responds, "Chan...
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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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| Saniya | 14:49 | 29/Sep/2007 |
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| You CAN ,yes only you CAN .... |
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| The only thing You CAN do is.... You say, “I wish I could do that. But I can’t.” Sometimes the thing you desire seems most evasive and elusive to you. You may seem to think that you need money or something else that is external to you for you to be able to achieve your desire. And because this external thing is away from you and you don’t have it, ...
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| mukul goyal | 23:08 | 21/Nov/2007 |
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| dear friends, i m back in these day i m started a new group on yahoo.com its name is desifunda_india.radha-krishna this is very interesting group because if you want hatkey (rear)in your life pls join it and take life plesure with indian fundas applied in your life. and share your momment with group,s member. ok byee i want to see you here your,s
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| mohammed samed | 21:31 | 16/Sep/2007 |
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| FASTEST WAY TO EARN THOUSANADS |
| HELLO FRIENDS, EARN IN THOUSANDS JUST BY DOING JOB ON INTERNET BY SITTING AT HOME VISIT THE FOLLOWING LINK TO HAVE DETAILS http://www.mail2earn.com/cmd.asp?af=646165 YOURS BEST FRIEND
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| kishor Jagirdar | 13:09 | 7/Nov/2007 |
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| Happy Diwali |
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| WISHING ALL MY FRIENDS AND FELLOW BLOGGERS ON ILAND A " HAPPY DIWALI "May the lord almighty bestow on all of you and your families peace , happiness and prosperity BRING ALIVE THE FESTIVITY AND TRADITION - Enjoy the festival of lights but please remember this is not a festival to increase pollution by crackers and also dont forget the weak and the...
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| mohan chinnaiah | 11:28 | 22/Oct/2007 |
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| Nice Quote |
| Work like you don't need money, Love like you have never been hurt, Dance like nobody is watching you..
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| Tanisha | 11:07 | 21/Nov/2007 |
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| (author unknown) A young man learns what's most important in life from the guy next door.It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the pa...
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| Amba R | 15:35 | 28/Aug/2007 |
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| this is an interesting email that i received :- (Wait Till You See The Last One)!!! FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE When You Rearrange The Letters:FLIT ON CHEERING ANGEL >>>>>> >>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >> >> DILIP VENGSARKAR When You Rearrange The Letters:SPARKLI...
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| Pramathesh G... | 14:14 | 27/Sep/2007 |
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| Clever Lady |
| A woman and a man are involved ina car accident. It's a bad one. Both oftheir cars are totally demolished butamazingly neither of them are hurt.After they crawl out of their cars, the woman says, "So you're a man,that's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There'snothing left but fortunately we are unhurt. This must be a sign fromG...
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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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| Current Boll... | 19:48 | 20/Oct/2007 |
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| Aaja Nachle Title Track EXCLUSIVE |
| Hey guys this is the exclusive song from the movie AAJA NACHLE This movie marks the comeback of great actress MADHURI DIXIT So this song is for all her fans desperately waiting for the release of her movie ENJOY !!!!
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| Abhijeet | 12:35 | 18/Aug/2007 |
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| My Share Trading Experience. |
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| To all my friends who are into share trading, I would like to share my experience with you. I have been trading since last three years. Initially I was just visiting sites like Moneycontrol and sort off, where I was busy searching most prolific boarders post and try to get something out of it. I managed quite well to get some good i...
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| J G | 22:51 | 27/Nov/2007 |
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| This is a forwarded msg. hope worth sharing with you all...If you have a function/party at your home and if there is excess food available at the end, don't hesitate to call 1098 (only in India) - child helpline. They will come and collect the food. Please circulate this message which can help feed many children. PLEASE, DON'T BREAK THIS CHAIN, "He...
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| cute guy | 11:42 | 30/Sep/2007 |
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| hiiiiiiiiiiiiii 2 allllllllllll |
| 000000000_____000000____00000_00000___000000_____00000 0___0000000000000 Make a friend... it´s a gift!___000000_____000000____00000000000 Have a friend... it´s a grace!___000000_____000000______0000000 Keep a friend... it´s a virtue!___000000_____000000________000 But being a friend... is a HONOR!........Wanna try..___000000_____000000_________0___...
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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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| Krishnaswamy... | 21:56 | 7/Dec/2007 |
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| DRUNK EPISODE |
| Woman knocks husband out with potatoThursday, December 6, 2007The potato was later mashedAll couples have their arguments, but usually vegetables aren"t used as weapons.When things got heated between a husband and wife in Nicholson, Georgia, she reached for the first thing that came to hand - a spud.When her partner called her by a rude word, she...
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| chitra priya... | 19:58 | 21/Oct/2007 |
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| School memories Last bench chatting… silly fights Under bench munching Those yawned teachers Naughty pranks … out stood classes School uniforms … school trees Deep friendship … game period Lunch time … special classes Your lab galattas … b’ day treats Exam hall … beating from teachers Those never written postponed tests Last minute preparations …Fi...
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| ClubFreedom ... | 20:38 | 20/Apr/2007 |
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| Sabeer Ki Arzoo |
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| ~ : `Arzoo' :~Sabeer B hatia has relaunched A rzoo.Arzoo.com is a one-stop travel shop and is re-launched with vision, ‘To be your preferred travel partner for India’. It caters to different consumer segments including families planning for vacations, business travelers and individuals.Arzoo.com offers its customers the ability to book domestic and...
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| Bad Angel | 13:30 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| Words Fiesta - A compilation of my favou... |
| Words Fiesta! A compilation of my favourite poems on iLand. “Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” - Carl Sandburg To My LoveIf ...
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| Beyond Horizon | 11:48 | 15/Nov/2007 |
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| I am really sick of the open drains of Noida and the real estate prices!It just keeps getting stinkier and obnoxious day by day! Picture this:A beautiful 2 bedroom flat that they say costs 50 lakhs... and that asset worth 50 lakhs is located right next to a big big open drain... that stinks to its hearts content... and not just that.. there is a la...
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| Sanghamitra ... | 22:14 | 19/May/2007 |
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| Major Som nath Sharma , The first recipient of Param Vir Chakra ..Disclaimer : The contents have been borrowed from reliable sources ---------------------------------------- -------------------------Major Somnath Sharma, son of Major General Amarnath Sharma, was born on 31 January 1923, in Himachal Pradesh District Kangra. He was commissioned in the...
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| Mari Vin | 12:20 | 17/Jul/2007 |
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| ECLIPSE |
| E C L I P S E This to my 50 friends … ’ THANK YOU ‘ Thanks specially to my 30 friends for your comments on my posts… Thanks in particular to my faithful friends who commented in appreciation on all my posts from the beginning till the end. E .P, E B...
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| Indu Vohra | 11:26 | 22/Jan/2007 |
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| How to beat the blues |
| Most of us suffer from Monday blues for the first half of the day, including me. As the sunday night approaches, I cannot but help wishing if the day was a little longer I could do a bit more, no no no a lot more!Well we all will have 24 hours always and will always try to pack in as much as possible. So the fight is eternal. I have started a few s...
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| L Kini | 13:52 | 6/Dec/2007 |
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| Funny Equations |
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| I hope everybody remember about A Rasna cooldrink advertisement in our school days. One cute little girl in that advertisement always telling that "I LOVE YOU RASNA" Want to see her now Obviously Scroll down =========================Funny Equations!Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoyDonkey = eat + sleepTherefore,Human = Donkey + wor...
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| Nilesh Gore | 10:06 | 14/Dec/2007 |
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| Today is yesterday's tomorrow |
| I love to share a little experience of mine i.e. is related to everybody.A little boy, a friend of mine - was waiting for his mother to pick him, but his mother was late. I saw his anxious face and decided to spend some time with him. I asked him," your mom is not arrived yet?" he replied," No, but yesterday she was on time". I understood the uncer...
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| Rajeev S | 14:46 | 1/Aug/2007 |
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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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| Meera Krishn... | 09:20 | 6/Mar/2007 |
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| Tremor and Trembles |
| Its a long time since I blogged, and the few seconds prior to writing this piece gave me enough inspiration to break the self-imposed silence. So whats so special about the last few seconds that just went by? Well, I experienced mild tremors, an earthquake ! I am in Singapore now, and I was just entering the bathroom for a nice hot oil-bath, when t...
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| neetha nair | 22:31 | 23/Nov/2007 |
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| jab THEY met !!! |
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| phoolan devi (one and only one), rekha ( filmi) and medha patkar (Narmada) going for a picnic to chambal “gardens”! the following lead to the above unimaginable episode of their lives…. Phoolan was as usual roaming on the outskirts ( not in skirts but in a salwar )of her garden , hunting for some deer, she was scared of leopards …..but had her gu...
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| shyama menon | 10:28 | 1/Dec/2007 |
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| Sporting me! |
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| You know how it is, one fine day, you end up playing some sport and realize how fit you really are. It may be a company sports event or maybe a club sports day that lets you know your fitness level. For me it's our building association’s fancy sounding “Winter Olympics”! So there I was participating in all sorts of things these last two weeks and d...
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| Star Trekker | 19:10 | 12/Dec/2007 |
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| startrekker's calender 2008 |
| startrekker's calender 2008 launchDear friends!I am so glad to have completed an year on the iland and I thank all of you for the love and support you have shown me.I launch the startrekker's 2008 calender made with my digital art by me...it almost feels like launching the Kingfisher's calender..hahahah..(i'm inspired by Vijay Mallya) hehehe..The c...
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| Saakshee I | 19:28 | 7/Nov/2007 |
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| There's a minefield out there... |
| I'm surfing Iland these days incognito - no new post and not enough time to comment, so I’m busy favoriting Ilands, intending to go back to comment! However, I am incognito mainly becasue of them err... Youtubers! Oh yes you've seen them - Iland is being taken over by them Youtubers! You must be blind if you did not notice them song-and-dance post...
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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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| Edwin | 14:49 | 23/Mar/2007 |
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| My inadequacies & GOD's Love & fullness. |
| Every day morning I send my son to play school, since my wife leaves early for work. While I bathe him, he always wants to play in water. Sometimes I pull the mug out of his hand, but he looks at me with a smiling face, he points to the mug (his looks tell me : please pa!! let me have the mug for some more time). Though I don't want him to play ...
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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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