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 04:36 | 1/Oct/2007
annual day and temple festival
The village temple festival and the school annual day The quarterly exams were over but holidays were not declared. The school had to celebrate its annual day on October 4th. The children would be practicing dance and drama. At least the selected ones, the rest would just laze around and play games.They needed two chief guests for the annual show. ... more...
 10:57 | 27/Aug/2007
coast guard
today i visited the coast guard station in mandapam. there is a very friendly commaniding officer. his name is janardhanan. he says that he is not concerned with LTTE orrefugees. any one found in the sea without a valid reason which means fishing only. they are checked bodily and handed over to the local police. if they see any suspicious activity ... more...
 05:07 | 4/Aug/2007
lady president and lady councilor
33% reservation in the village panchayat Prabhakaran had been panchayat President, then Murugesan. They were followed by Rajarathinam. Then the Government decided to give women 33% reservation at the Panchayat level. They had failed to do that at the assembly and parliament levels.  So my village was to have a lady as panchayat president and a lady... more...
 12:29 | 17/Jul/2007
The Holy month of Aadi
hi folks am sorry that have not been blogging regularly. Was out of sorts. Now back in action. Will update every week and you can know how life in a village goes on. Like last week Prabhakaran, Selvam and a few boys from the village went house to house collecting money. The occassion was the coming of the holy month 'Aadi' which starts on July 17th... more...
 18:19 | 18/Dec/2006
A Month of Bhajans
The Tamil month of Margazhi falls between December 15th and January 15th. It is a religious month for Tamilians. In my village two changes take place unique to this month. In the morning women in the village sweep the street in front of their homes and sprinkle it with water. A few old timers mix cow dung in that water. This happens throughout the ... more...
 16:18 | 21/Jul/2006
A Village sweetmeat
Every state in India has its favorite sweetmeat and every village has its own special dish. In my village its murrukku or chakli in Hindi. Any hour of the day if you land up at somebody’s house they will serve you with murrukku. Not only is it easy to make but it does not need to be kept in a fridge. All you need to do is to keep it in an airtight ... more...
 11:38 | 12/Jun/2006
The Cauvery won't come to Tamil Nadu
For twenty years the borewell near the dhobhi ghat had supplied water to Panickanadarkudieruppu. It was near the red sand desert that bordered the village. The water was very tasty. Many villagers said that it was as good as the drinking water in Mumbai.There were taps at regular intervals on all the roads and even in the small by lanes. 10% of the... more...
 20:02 | 22/May/2006
The Village shop
Panickanadarkudieruppu is a small village in the Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu. Like most small villages it is self sufficient in its own way. Today let us visit a shop that supplies most of the people with almost everything that they require for their day to day needs.Mohan runs the village shop. He was working in a shop in Mumbai for Seventeen... more...
 17:15 | 16/May/2006
A temple festival in the village
There is a Murugan temple in the village hospital compound. Murugan is the second son of Lord Shiva, younger brother of the Elephant God – Ganesa. This temple’s yearly festival was to be held on the 13th of May, 2006. The village Doctor Das took charge of everything as the temple was within his area. He first arranged for the painters. The painters... more...
 12:02 | 26/Apr/2006
The River and an ATM
There had been water in the river for the last two years. Everyone was very happy with this but there was a problem. Weeds had crowded most of the river. Usually for three to four months the river used to go dry. The weeds used to dry up. The villagers decided to do something about this. There were three bridges over the river within the village li... more...
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 Ganesh Nadar | 09:15 | 18/Dec/2007
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Travelling to New Zealand
Day one On the way to the airport in Tuticorin the road was very bad. Air Deccan called to say that the flight was advanced by half an hour. I was shocked, I had never heard about a flight being advanced but then Air Deccan is known to be different.  I told my cabbie to hurry up. He gave me a dirty look which said ‘Look at the road man, you want to...  more...
 ILA-The Farmer | 22:14 | 19/Jul/2007
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Hindi and Tamilnadu
I studied Hindi in my earlier schoolings for 4 yrs, so I can read and write Hindi, however I can’t speak in Hindi at that time (2004). Though I worked in North India, I was unable to learn Hindi at that time, because of the Tamil guys who around me for all the 11 months. And I never bother to learn at that time, now also. All matter of communicatio...  more...
 SHASHANK SINGH | 21:28 | 10/Jan/2008
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Victory
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 Binu Abraham | 17:54 | 9/Nov/2007
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This is what True Love is all about:
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 sajita krishnan | 11:46 | 11/Sep/2007
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Bhagvad Gita as Dharma Shastra???
Just read in the TOI today that a High Court Judge has recommended that the Bhagvad Gita be made the national dharma shastra.I am not a scholar of the Gita, and I have only given it a cursory read. Even so, I accept that all the concepts in the Gita are entirely great and inspiring. But I wonder... the Bhagvad Gita is essentially seen as a Hindu bo...  more...
 Anamika Gupta | 18:40 | 14/Dec/2007
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what I can say.. part 3
I speak.....Raghav and I were together for really long time now... means when I joined this company as a fresher and really liked working along with his team but i had this feeling that this is not really i desire from my professional career and so I decided to make a shift ....ya I was thinking to going abroad. I had couple of offers from good uni...  more...
 black dronser | 11:17 | 18/Oct/2006
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best wishes
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 Jahan Bakshi | 13:44 | 19/Jan/2008
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Lame Lame but Different
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 Madhavan PK | 17:28 | 14/Jan/2008
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The Great Indian Dream
First of all, I want to thank all my iland friends for sharing their views on Indianness. My friends Dilip Krishnan and Budhoose Kanjoose have separate posts on the topic, both must-reads. The common thread in defining the indefinable is the ‘unity in diversity’ theme. Like some of you have said, the concept of Indianness is so imbibed and internal...  more...
 Kick Boxer | 00:51 | 16/Jun/2007
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Modern-day corporate slavery.
Several major Indian corporations, even those that claim to be very patriotic, use corporate bonds to retain employees. A corporate bond is nothing but a different name given to 'bonded labour'.  This is very similar to the indentured labour used by the British government to employ workers in plantations around the world several decades ago.Enginee...  more...
 Chethna Shenoy | 11:18 | 21/Feb/2007
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Mera Dil
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 Sudipta Sarkar | 02:13 | 25/Jul/2007
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Separation and Travel
 Traveling to distant places is perhaps one of the most exciting things that could happen to me. I enjoy traveling and visiting places. It has always been my dream and I coveted a job that would include travel once in a while. But strange how motherhood changes everything. I have to travel to USA for work, and whenever I have this opportunity, I st...  more...
 debashree roy | 12:12 | 13/Nov/2006
Friends: (192)  | City: Calcutta  | Interests: painting, reading...
Did you know them all?
Have you ever faced questions related to your religion and did you know the answers to all of them? Could you really defend and support the religion you follow and be proud of  being who you are? Recently I came across some questions related to Hinduism and found the answers to them. Would like to share them in my blog.What is the significance of t...  more...
 seeniraj siv... | 17:27 | 20/Jan/2008
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மேரி க...
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 Sanjib Karmee | 17:45 | 5/Jan/2008
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Who are Bharat Ratnas????......Bollywood...
Indeed this award can be conferred to a sportsman or a film star, but we need to access theother side of his/her image; what they have done for the people of India, apart from entertainment. Do they have opened hospitals and educational-institutions for poor and shirtless of millions of Indians or they are helping the street-children of India to be...  more...
 India Sixty | 11:41 | 23/Aug/2006
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India, a million mutinies, still
Nine years ago, when India celebrated 50 years of independence, I joined hundreds of other girls from Sophia College, where I was studying then, and dressed in the tricolour, we marched from Breach Candy to Azad Maidan, carrying flags, singing patriotic songs and revelling in the spirit of freedom. When I look back, it's possibly the best morning I...  more...
 rajani bhat | 20:05 | 15/Oct/2006
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An antidote to all ills
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 sunil nair | 20:06 | 15/Jul/2006
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astroteller
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 tinni sen | 19:06 | 16/Jun/2006
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JUST A THOUGHT
we are three, not alone we are not even company my echo my shadow and me......  People when they are lonely or in a dark phase of their life they often say thay have their shadows to accompany them but have you ever realized that shadows are formed only when there is a ray or a flicker of light.  more...
 Saurin Parikh | 16:48 | 11/Apr/2007
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The Male Ego & Women’s Liberation
My wife got a job that pays her more than what I earn. I was telling a friend about it and she asked me if my ego would get in the way of my wife’s progress. She didn’t ask me in a harsh way, but it was the most obviously apparent question to that piece of information. For long, our society has been male dominated. And it still is; but in parts. Th...  more...
 Reshma Thakkar | 16:01 | 24/Jan/2008
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!!! 21st Century !!!
 Our communication - WirelessOur dress - Topless Our telephone - CordlessOur cooking - FirelessOur youth - Jobless Our food - FatlessOur labour - EffortlessOur conduct - WorthlessOur relation - LovelessOur attitude - Careless Our feelings - HeartlessOur politics - ShamelessOur education - ValuelessOur follies - CountlessOur arguments - BaselessOur ...  more...
 Venkatesh Kr... | 21:43 | 25/Dec/2007
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India Emerging
All forecasts of economic prosperity and India's soft power bring us to the cusp of a revolution. India is different from when it was 20 years ago. Globalization has lent a new vigour to the economy. The success of IT services industry has brought a new promise. The BPOs and KPOs in existence are showcasing India's well-connected education system. ...  more...
 Merich Rodri... | 09:59 | 5/Apr/2007
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Summmma
Ah it's been a while since I have last blogged thanks to busy schedules, sheer laziness and excuses, excuses, excuses. Summer has slowly approached and I still havent figured out how hot is hot thanks to air conditioning, what a blessing to mankind. As a wedding gift my office gifted us an AC and life have never been better. Summer's suddenly great...  more...
 UDITA DEVROY | 23:47 | 21/Apr/2007
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THE ABHI-ASH WEDDING
                       THE ABHI-ASH WEDDING HAPPILY THE WEDDINH OF ABHISHEK AND ASHWARIYA IS OVER . NOW THEY ARE MAN AND WIFE .IT IS A GOOD NEWS TO EVETYONE . AFTER A MANY DAYS OF AFFAIR FINALLY THEY HAVE SEYYLED DOWN .                LETS WISH THEM A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE...........  more...
 Joy Kaidharath | 09:07 | 21/Nov/2007
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This MAY BE LAST POST FROM ME, IT ALL WI...
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 Baldeo Pandey | 21:51 | 23/Jan/2008
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My First Love
When I saw her smiling,She was a stranger for me....Quite tender and innocent....I started creeping towards her....Now she was my destination,My thirst and hunger.....My days and nights...Her arms were my gateways...I lived her every moment....She was mine....It might be one way traffic,I loved her......Her rosy lips invited me.....I kised her,Bles...  more...
 Coomi Selod | 13:49 | 24/Aug/2006
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My thoughts on Vande Mataram controversy
I am fiercely patriotic and will willingly die for my country's safety,as my forefathers did in the past, but my patriotism cannot be gauged by singing a song or not...Vande Mataranm is merely a bhajan to me.... why it should take on such a grand proportion is baffling.   The freedom fighters sang many other songs too, with equal warmth & gusto...S...  more...
 Rajeev P | 11:13 | 19/Apr/2006
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The Year that was 2005 - Dave Barry
Wilma, Rita, Katrina: No matter how you stack it up, 2005 blewIt was the Year of the Woman. But not in a good way.Oh, I'm not saying that men did nothing stupid or despicable in 2005. Of course they did! That's why we call them ''men.''But women are supposed to be better than men. Women are the backbone of civilization: They keep families together,...  more...
 ram menon | 07:22 | 9/Aug/2007
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Cuisine..Indian
We were three. One can prepare only Rasam and the other 2 only Sambar.  And all the three are vegetarians.  And imagine in a country where meat is for breakfast and well..for dinner too.  The nearest Indian grocery is 15 miles where you get vegetables  and it gets rotten by the time you reach the place where you live.  This is the place where we st...  more...
 Prithviraj H... | 22:27 | 10/May/2006
Friends: (173)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Cricket and news
Gag, gag, gag!
What's with the BCCI?Virender Sehwag says he misses Ganguly, says the Indian team plays too much cricket, he is gagged. The BCCI warns him not to speak on such issues.Sachin Tendulkar has his first net in months. The media is not invited. When they land up they are asked to shoot for afar.So TV has a sideways angle of Sachin playing a few shots. So...  more...
 nml agrico | 15:36 | 16/Mar/2006
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Holi celebration at NML Agrico
Festival of Colours, the Holi was celebrated colourfully at NML Agrico yesterday. All age groups participated in the occassion and enjoyed with colours. Holi Milan was also organised in the late evening with light music and dinner.  more...
 janus janus | 19:33 | 23/Jan/2008
Friends: (289)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Yoga, music, cook...
10 rules for life
A group email was going around on 50 facts of life or somesuch, and with each recipient adding his/her own, by the time it came to me I realised that one, I had to add my own rules to it and two, all the previous recipients had more or less covered all the bases. That meant I had to do some hard thinking on beliefs I hold true.  So here they are, 1...  more...
 Rupali Nimkar | 11:15 | 19/Jul/2006
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To Dear Home Minister
ToDear Mr. Shivraj PatilHome MinisterGovernment of IndiaFor past few years whenever I see you on the television a hundred questions come to my mind. This time again when you were on TV after the heinous Mumbai blasts the questions were back in my mind. It’s just that today I want to put them down and want you to answer them.After the Mumbai blasts ...  more...
 Priyanka Jain | 21:00 | 15/Sep/2007
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Buddha has come
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 Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007
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The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution
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 Krishna Reddy | 02:06 | 8/Jan/2008
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Some kewl Art of Living links!!!!
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 Kumar Krishnan | 18:35 | 2/May/2006
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The greatest salesman in the world
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 Sonu Katha | 18:15 | 28/Oct/2007
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 Shishir Bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006
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Are more H-1B visas good for India?
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 Nandan Newla... | 01:20 | 22/Aug/2007
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SAND
im never myself and never for myselfand that was why i had dug down the sandfor some short messagesthe bucket was deepand the sand mostly dryi took it out one after otherbucket in hand i emptied my messagesand my world went tring tringno one knew where i had hidsuch was the load of unread messagesi was dog tiredbut i still tried and tried to keep t...  more...
 shobha warrier | 09:53 | 31/Dec/2007
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