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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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| 16:31 | 13/Feb/2007 |
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| After spending so many years in research and discovering(or rediscovering?) new laws I happened to chance upon some wierd stories and photographs of one guy from that mystical country called India that surprised me. My very existence was at stake because his actions knowingly or unknowingly questioned my so called valuable contribution to world of ...
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| 12:10 | 5/Feb/2007 |
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| Of late I have been noticing people proudly declaring themselves as “Agnostic”. But what I fail to understand is that even though they claim to part of the free thinking world of which unobtrusively this idea had sprouted, they seem to be firm believers in their own faiths handed down to them since childhood.Now is that possible or is that the “in-...
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| 17:27 | 28/Jan/2007 |
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| It seemed a perfect winter morning, the Sun rays trying to peep through the mild mist. The air fresh from the fragrance of the dew spotted Roses and Chrysanthemums. What an irony, he thought. How he loved all this and yet despised winter. He carefully let his rickety bicycle roll along the paved walkway. He grumbled as he heard the clanging sound o...
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| 17:18 | 17/Jan/2007 |
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| Well, once again I have drifted into my spiritual moods and these are just some thoughts that try to sail through the choppy brain waves within me. Though asked umpteen times to myself and one of the most sought after questions since mankind’s existence, it still insists on asking the same, what is Elightenment? Enlightenment (spiritual) has always...
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| 13:13 | 27/Dec/2006 |
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| Wishing all my iLand friends a very Happy New Year 2007!! Guess what dear friends, I got one of best surprise gift for a new year......I will be happy at home for two weeks, sleeping, eating, watching movies(got to catch up a lot). For one time my wife won't complain, I hope so..:) because .... ..........." I Have Got Chicken Pox!! "
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| 12:42 | 23/Dec/2006 |
| The Real Lunatic | |
| This post is a token for my dear friend here on iLand, Budhoose Kanjoose. I am glad that he was inspired to write about a lunatic he had seen in Kochi after reading my recent story “The Lunatic”. Thanks BK, in fact my story itself was inspired from a true life incident one of my friends narrated, in a lighter vein though, a far cry from the grim on...
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| 14:05 | 20/Dec/2006 |
| The Lunatic | |
| It was hot and sultry outside, the Sun nonchalantly beaming down its scorching rays even though it was way past afternoon. The black barrister’s robe swayed around in repeated rhythmic dance from the clothes stand placed at a handy distance from the door.Swaminathan looked at it as it went on with its hypnotic sway. He had never understood who had ...
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| 17:52 | 9/Dec/2006 |
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| There is a longing & fiery passion. You feel the need to want & know more; to delve into those unknown yet not knowing what exactly it is that you are searching. There is aggressiveness coupled with love and understanding as you cling on to it hoping to melt & absorb into it so that you will become one only. Strange are the ways of nature, don’t yo...
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| 13:06 | 6/Dec/2006 |
| Destiny’s Ball | |
| Umesh, beta please wake up……….Savithri’s hands ran through his thick curly hairs. Her son is an angel, she thought as she gave that warm motherly kiss on his forehead. The wheatish sharp features of his face rugged by nasty acnes & pitted scars albeit possessed a deadly charm. Umesh, beta, wake up please….Please Ma, let me sleep.You got the whole ...
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| Sunil Meshram | 12:54 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| Devloping INDIA .......? really |
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| Nearly 836 million people in India live on less than Rs 20 a day, according to the findings of the Arjun Sengupta report on the Conditions of Work and Promotion of Livelihood in the unorganized sector. Technically, a large chunk of these 836 million Indians 77 per cent of the country's population are above the poverty line i.e. at Rs 12 per day.Bu...
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| Venu Gopal | 22:45 | 8/Nov/2007 |
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| Upright Rama or Unjust Rama? |
| [One of our bloggers Mr. Vikas Vij, who writes very well, had written a blog titled Trial by Fire, which I have taken the liberty to quote in full below. His views, according to me, appeared to be misleading and I have given here below my view on the subject, which I had also posted at his blogsite.]Trial by Fire By Vikas VijTrial by FireWhen Sita ...
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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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| karunakaran ... | 14:14 | 4/Oct/2007 |
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| $$$$ EVERY ONE MAKE MONEY $$$$ |
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| Karuna sanghvi | 07:52 | 13/Sep/2007 |
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| Daily Affirmation |
| Daily Affirmation September 13, 2007 "I'm never down; I am either up or getting up." To practice your affirmation, release your thought patterns. Go beyond what you have been thinking for years.
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| cute guy | 11:42 | 30/Sep/2007 |
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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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| Make Money | 12:15 | 7/Dec/2007 |
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| Youmay have seen the ads promoting work at home data entry programs. Many of theseprograms are scams and simply ask for your money and provide you with anoutdated list of companies that don't really need your services. Othercompanies provide you with a blueprint that involves data entry, but not in thetraditional sense. The following report will he...
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| lucille iaco... | 20:57 | 8/Sep/2007 |
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| My dear iLand friends... I apologize for leaving the conclusion of my hummingbird story up in the air and hope you will forgive me. The sad truth is, I have been in a state of physical distress which has not allowed my mind to transcend to that touching experience, or any other pleasant memory. Please know that my connection with everyone her...
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| jayabalan ma... | 23:20 | 6/Sep/2007 |
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| Reincarnation 2 Naadi Astrology |
| In my earlier blog I had mentioned about a baby's smile and cry being attributed to its remembrances of its previous birth.This is a matter of faith and I do not want to offend any one's feelings. The cry may be regarded as the only language the baby can use to communicate with the outside world; more over it is the expression of instinct. It is qu...
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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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| Jayalakshmi ... | 19:16 | 12/Dec/2007 |
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| Life Without Sports (Is Anyone Listening... |
| Not entirely, perhaps...with the ICC working overtime, life cannot really be without sports. (I am strictly talking about television here, any suggestion of active sport is out.) But with action on the motorsport circuit, in my view, having long ended for the season, the weekends are pretty dreary. There is no hint of scarlet to brighten my Sunday ...
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| hari kumar | 12:42 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| Invitation card |
| (What prompted me to write this blog is aninvitation for a marriage I received yesterday.)It was an invitation card for the marriage of the daughter of my wife's distant relative. I just scanned it. Karishma wed Alex. Wedding ceremony at some church. I asked my wife who this karishma and alex are. She told me karishma is the daughter of her distant...
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| News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007 |
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| SantaSingh got his promotion and became principal in colledge. To keep up with his status, he decided tospeak only in English to all his juniors. One morning, his peon peeped through the doorto see if his principal was busy. Santa Singh noticed him and shouted, 'Why areyou outstanding! Please in...
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| hakotiankar ... | 12:03 | 9/Dec/2007 |
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| Birth Of The Initial Memory Or Comic Mem... |
| Birth Of The Initial Memory Or Comic MemoryWhere did the memory come from, for the first birth that took place? How did the impulse start in the very beginning? This is a question asked by all seekers and is of interest to most. This leads to introspection and contemplation. Let us start from the physical level of existence and build an argument sp...
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| anjeneyan an... | 13:57 | 10/Oct/2007 |
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| The silent treatement and others. |
| A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM...
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| Seeyash | 17:10 | 1/Nov/2007 |
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| Ramm ka letter sita ke liye punjabi me...... Pyari Sitta, Main itthe raji khushi han and hope ke tu v theek thaak hovengi, Laxman tannu bahut yaad karda si. Main is Bandar de hath tannu chitthi bhej reha haan,Tu bilkul tension na layi main bahut jaldi tenu ravan kolo chura lavanga. Main AIRTEL da postpaid le liya si, RAVAN nu main mobile te bhot GAALIYAAN kadiya te SAALE ne phone katt ditta, Chal koi ni maine aana ta hai hi. Taan KUTUNGA saale KANJAR nu. Main ais bander naal bhi ek AIRTEL da prepaid bhej riya si usme 1500 SMS free wali scheme ha, Tu roz mainu SMS kari. Chinta na kari, jad bhi gal karne noo ji kare, ek miss call mar diyo. Main call kar levenga. Tu Mere bill di chinta na kari, Sugreev nu payment da jimma de ditta si. Accha OK See Uuuu. With Luv Dashrath da Vadda Puttar
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| shabdika Sharma | 18:23 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| Awake India |
| Today i m going to share golden words of a young 22 yrs boy and a great patriot of our land who sacreficed his life boldly for his motherland." MADAN LAL DHINGRA ".He was born in Amritsar,punjab.After passing BA he went to london for higher studies of law,where he came under the influence of great guru of freedom fighters Sh .Vir Sawarkar Ji. In t...
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| angel a | 16:09 | 15/Nov/2007 |
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| Celebrating Children’s Day! |
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| While coming back from an official trip a few days back, my driver stopped the car for a cup of tea in one of the small dhabas that spring up like mushrooms on the highways. As soon as I settled down on a chair close to the window and ordered tea, I noticed a small boy of about 8 years old, bubbling with energy running errands, taking orders, servi...
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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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| simran | 16:45 | 15/Apr/2007 |
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| Somewhere thers someone who dreams of your smile and finds in your presence that life is worthwile, So when you are lonely remember this is true, somebody somewhere is thinking of you.
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| Kush A | 19:51 | 14/Dec/2007 |
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| Was 9/11 an inside job? |
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| False flag operations: Covert operations conducted by governments, corporations or other organizations which are designed to appear as though they were carried out by other entities. The term is derived from the military practice of flying flags of nations not their own in order to mislead. As an example, in 1939, when Hitler had under control Czec...
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| Sophia Roy | 00:22 | 6/Jul/2007 |
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| JOURNEY OF THE SOUL---5 |
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| FOR YOU on YOUR BIRTHDAY----6TH JULY 2007 “LIFE IS AS UNCOMPLICATED AS YOU MAKE IT” --- Capt Sameer Roy Choudhury Corps of Signals, 19 Assam RiflesToday for the first time in 27 years I cannot hear your voice as I wish you happy birthday…for you have crossed the boundaries of space and time…the final frontier has been left behind…you are a fr...
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| Jessica Singh | 09:49 | 13/Sep/2007 |
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| Sleepless in ...... |
| I have always been a dreamer.But, these days I am not even able to sleep properly. A constant irritation itches on in my mind and I know not where it comes from. As a child, our own Doctor Uncle used to point out that diagnosis was pivotal to medication. I somehow found a deeper meaning in those words in connection to our daily lives even when I wa...
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| shyma sudhee... | 02:52 | 17/Jul/2007 |
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| Building your House |
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| An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a more leisurely life with his wife and njoi his extended family. He would miss the paycheck each week, but he wanted to retire. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go & asked if he could build just one more house a...
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| laidback rebel | 12:16 | 11/Apr/2007 |
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| Climate Of Repression |
| Maharahstra's decision to ban sex education in schools, to some extent explains why the state has come out tops in the survey on child abuse recently conducted across the nation. (Maharashtra followed by A.P. and M.P). Not that all abuse is entirely sexual in nature but what is apparent is the low level of awareness in general, and that includes t...
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| shailesh S | 17:12 | 8/Jun/2007 |
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| Ever You Wonder ………(Some stray thoughts…... |
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| Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?Why, any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner? If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight? Why 'abbreviated' is such a long word?How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why, when you change...
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| suhas kardile | 19:52 | 10/May/2007 |
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| A REAL SHAME ON CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES |
| recently i heard the news that three men including one woman got converted as christians.this happened in my own colony.one shop owner,one rickshaw driver and a woman from well family who divorced her husband who is an executive.she was offered a three room kitchen flat and 250000 rs.,the rickshawalla who have 3 daughters to be married was sufferin...
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| Preposterix ... | 10:25 | 26/Jun/2007 |
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| Whats in a sexual identity? |
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| I first learnt about them when I was 13 years old. My cousins, were referring to them in vulgar terms and cracking jokes. I was naive(then) and asked my mom what those terms meant. She patiently explained them to me. By them, I mean the sexual minorities. Male and Female are the sexual majorities, the transgenders, the minorities.(For an explanatio...
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| jalu j | 19:05 | 11/Jul/2007 |
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| Rainbow |
| Rainbow was like that beauty I first met Like that dream I first saw Howmany years I've awaited for a second sight! ..... Now the icecream fancies melted out; And only I can see in you, rainbow, Sickened colours shivering in dullness.
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| illustrator ... | 22:33 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| fellow bloggers |
| hi fellow bloggers ..... am so sorry .....but in due time have realised that the misfit am in here ...... so all i can do is bid you goodbye................... cheers and have all the fun you came here for. may my soul get ....raped in piece's ..... (r.i.p.)
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| Aham Aham | 14:37 | 24/Jul/2007 |
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| Practical Spirituality – Part III |
| Self Realization From previous posts in this series, we have seen that the ultimate goal of our life is to attain eternal happiness. Pragmatically, in a smaller scale, the purpose of our day-to-day activities also is nothing else but to be happy by fulfilling our desires. At the same time, as we have discussed, happiness is not something to be “ga...
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| Ramchandran ... | 00:35 | 15/Aug/2007 |
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| HAPPY BIRTHDAY |
| REJOICE INDIA REJOICE!!! WE ARE SIXTY OLD. ON the eve of our collective birthday ..with SRK leading us to another DO IT what caught my EYE is another small report on the BUSINESS PAGE.of TOISome statistics:The POOR and vulnerable of Us INDIANS are made by 79% of unorganised workers,88%of SC/STs 80% of OBC and 84% of Muslims.Our SHINING(BJP) and POI...
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| Avik DattaGupta | 12:18 | 25/Oct/2007 |
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| MY STORY…. Well ,that’s my little story…the moment of truths..The scruples of time…the hounds of glory Did you ever see my dark side?..Would you ever see my bleeding heart?Falling into a haze below..heading for another start! Didn’t think that it would be so..when I started out all aloneStaring head on to the glaring light..of a delicate life of my...
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| Seena Vincent | 21:11 | 9/Dec/2007 |
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| priya saivasan | 11:41 | 12/Feb/2007 |
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| Outsourcing Syndrome – A boon to the middle class?Sonu, my neighbour, a management graduate, drove home his new car, one of posh cars in the market. Wow!! Must have cost him a bomb! was the first expression. But later, it was established based on consensus in the neighbourhood that he earned pretty well. He works at one of the well-paying BPO, so h...
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| vienna special | 20:48 | 20/Sep/2007 |
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| Nainital...a jewel .. |
| my recent visit of nainital made me realise how much ourplanet has got to offer for us to enjoy.. it was a great journey ... with flowers ,waterfalls ,cherries and apples ..its like a mini heaven ...blessed in aesthetic beauty .. friends do visit nainital atleast once in ur life time ...its simply great ..awesome and heavenly...
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