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 22:27 | 10/May/2006
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...
 23:15 | 4/May/2006
Contract blues
The BCCI has handed contracts to Sreesanth and Raina. That’s good. These guys are great prospects and deserve the contracts. But look at the list. There are only 17 guys there. Why not more people? Like Munaf Patel, Ramesh Powar. Maybe Robin Uthappa. Even Shikar Dhawan. That kid is good.May be they should have a grade 4 and give Rs 10 lakh contract... more...
 16:39 | 4/May/2006
Agarkar's angst
Ajit Agarkar in an interview to DNA, Mumbai, says that he is disappointed that he has never got a regular place in the Indian team.Quite frankly, I DON'T think the man has done enough to be on the team in the first place.But I agree with him on this:"Look at Anil Kumble who has 500 Test wickets," Agarkar says. "Personally, I think he is India's gre... more...
 11:38 | 25/Apr/2006
Chuck cluck
An unusual column  in Cricinfo. The writer was obviously a bowler in his playing days. He has some refreshing views on the LBW laws. But I cannot fathom his argument for bowlers with suspect actions. What is the man trying to say? That we make chucking legal? more...
 11:44 | 24/Apr/2006
Sachin, Sachin!
The Maestro turns 33 today. One of his great rivals Wasim Akram launches a passionate defence of Sachin Tendulkar. Calling him one of the 'unbowlable' batsmen of his era with Viv Richards and Sunil Gavaskar, Akram goes on to shame those who booed him in Mumbai. Way to go Wasimbhai, some people just don't know how to treat a genius and a national icon. more...
 11:59 | 22/Apr/2006
Out in the cold
Sourav Ganguly is refusing to give up on his cricketing career.The former captain says he will continue to play domestic cricket. He also expressed his disappointment at not being picked in the team for the West Indies.Another story in the Indian Express says that Ganguly and V V S Laxman do not feature in India's World Cup plans. But it says there... more...
 23:10 | 20/Apr/2006
Something fishy in the desert
Can someone please tell me what the point was of the two-match series with Pakistan?A series played for charity, that pays the hosting association $1 million (about Rs 4.5 crore) and has a 45 kg precious stone-encrusted trophy makes my eyebrows go up.I don't know about you, but this overdose of Indo-Pakistan matches is making interest levels go dow... more...
 23:08 | 20/Apr/2006
Break ke baad
Back from a well deserved break, which saw me in Banglore when madness engulfed it after Dr Rajkumar's death. Regular service should hopefully resume, in a manner of speaking. more...
 16:05 | 7/Apr/2006
Agarkar again
In my previous post on Agarkar, I was surprised at the number of supportive comments that the fast bowler got.So I did a bit of digging. The last time Agarkar took 5 wickets was against Sri Lanka when they were here last time. (BTW the man has taken 5 wickets in an innings only twice in a career of 157 matches, proves my point that he is not a matc... more...
 10:14 | 7/Apr/2006
What's with Agarkar?
I can't figure the curious case of Ajit Agarkar.The man has an extremely modest ODI record in recent times. I really cannot remember the last time he won us a match. He's pushing 30 and so isn't really a prospect for the future. His batting too hasn't really helped the team. Yet brilliant prospects like Munaf Patel are sat on the bench, while our m... more...
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 rajith r | 15:47 | 1/May/2006
Friends: (5)  | Interests: cricket, bike rid...
CCD
HEY HI 2 EVRY1................IT WAS SATURDAY NITE..........ND DAT MEANS....CHILLIN OUT.........V VER OUT 4 CCD.....AS USUAL THE HOOKHA...............MY FAVORITE.............ND THS TIME I TASTED MY ALL TIME FAVOURITE CAPPACHINO ND CHERRY FLAVOURS.....IT WAS GREAT.....AFTR DAT IT WAS BAK HOME ON THE ROOF...........AT MIDNIGHT.............IT WAS SPEC...  more...
 sudipto das | 17:53 | 6/Jun/2006
Friends: (10)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: playing cricket
Nice Quotes
We may not always realiseThat every thing we do,Affects not only our livesBut touches others tooIt takes only a minute to get a crush on someone,an hour to like someone,and a day to love someone,but it takes a life timetime to forget someoneIts true that we dont know what we'vegot until we loose it,but its also truethat we dont know what we've been...  more...
 Mitul Shah | 18:59 | 22/Dec/2006
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The Power of 11
This is how devil's mind work for power of 111) New York City has 11 letters2) Afghanistan has 11 letters.3) Ramsin Yuseb (The terrorist who threatened to destroy the Twin Towers in 1993) has 11  letters. 4) George W Bush has 11 letters.  This could be a mere coincidence, but this gets more interesting:1) New York is the 11th state.2) The first pla...  more...
 sasi mohan | 08:42 | 4/May/2006
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Hi I am going to my home place today..  more...
 vikram ram | 19:14 | 28/May/2006
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confusion
a confusion has confused my mindwhich is already confused with some confusion. i dont know whythis confusion had confused my confused mind which was not confused till now.if my confusionhad confused your mind then try to gat a solution for my confusionto rectify my confused mind .if my confused message didnt confuse u then be happy thinking that a ...  more...
 Anil Goel | 12:28 | 13/Dec/2007
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Can Maruti make car bombs?
Brainstorming exercise for fiction writers.Can someone stop Maruti Udyog if they decide to manufacture car bombs? Here's the thought... We go through security checks at airport or at important places where too technology and people are able to scan us for 'known' threats...in most cases electronic items are usual suspects as are metallic devices an...  more...
 Sachin HC | 21:25 | 2/Nov/2006
Friends: (10)  | City: Mangalore  | Interests: Watching movies a...
Shammi Kapoor turns 75!
A couple of weeks ago, Oct 21st to be precise, Shammi Kapoor turned 75. Shammi Kapoor is and always will be my all-time favourite, so what if he had long moved into character roles by the time I was born! There are others whom I like a lot be it Amitabh or Dharmendra or Sunny Deol or Govinda or Aamir or Hrithik but no one comes even near to him. Sh...  more...
 venkata kand... | 21:23 | 23/Apr/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Vishakapatnam  | Interests: CRICKET,YOGA,HOT ...
College Life
I recollect an incidence that took place about couple of decades back while I was at Engg.college. Usually, after our classes in the evenings, we used to sit at a tea stall just outside the university campus.In those days in the engineering campus there used to be Basketball coaching for the university team.One day, while we were chating at the te...  more...
 Trim Pershad | 23:37 | 13/Apr/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: newark  | Interests: Cricket
Ponting the best
Ricky Ponting has done it again against Bangladesh by scoring a match winning century. He won the match which seemed lost and the way he batted till the end shows his greatness once again. That he has he scored 9 hundreds in last 14 tests and most of them either match winning or match saving ones puts beyond doubt that he is the best in the world c...  more...
 Ayush Luthra | 12:56 | 11/May/2006
Friends: (5)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: cricket,skating
wats rong wid BCCI
why doesnt bcci give a straight forward answer.yesterday dere was a check up of sachin, but dey didint tell nething abt wether or not he would b available for test series with west indies.n how dare dey gag at sehwag for sayin dat he misses ganguly. india is a democratic country n everybody is free to pass his/her comments.d whole world is talkin a...  more...
 Shah Prashant | 11:18 | 5/Jul/2006
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Work for Leaving
Dear Reader,Everybody goes through a cycle in their life.... And almost everybody do not like the present and think that past was better. A kid cannot think hence he does not bother. Once he starts going to school he wishes he was still a toddler and never required to go to school. Once he is in high school and pressure increases, he wishes he w...  more...
 Amit Limaye | 14:36 | 15/Jun/2006
Friends: (8)  | City: Solapur  | Interests: CricketSocial Iss...
Another Trick to Annoy
Are you witnessing the the new IT return form drama? This is another example of insane minds governing at the Centre in India. Why the hell they want to know how I spent my hard earned money once I earn it dutifully and pay all my taxes? Is work not tiring enough for us that the government now wants us to meticulously keep each and every details of...  more...
 m r | 11:11 | 10/Apr/2006
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SBI strike called off, staff to get more...
New Delhi, April 10 (PTI): The week-long strike by SBI employees was called off Sunday night following a settlement, which gives higher pension to 2.10 lakh staff of the country's largest commercial bank. Announcing the settlement after a marathon meeting lasting more than 10 hours between the Finance Ministry, striking workers and SBI management h...  more...
 satyajit mitra | 01:30 | 31/Aug/2006
Friends: (4)  | City: San Diego  | Interests: Cricket
Upward Bound
What makes a clock tick? What makes a winning horse? What constitutes a winning team?One can look at this from a minimalist viewpoint and say the quality of parts used by the Swiss, or thorough and fine breeding or simply great individual talent. But what is it that makes the horse go that extra yard in the last moments or makes ordinary people do ...  more...
 dheer rajpoot | 11:26 | 31/Aug/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: cricket,songs
hi
i think ricky ponting is best crickter  more...
 Sourav Mukhe... | 05:55 | 5/Apr/2006
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Bong versus India?
That Sourav can not find a place in the team in the absence of Tendulkar and the much publicized bad forms of Sehwag, Gambhir and Kaif is shameful to him. Agreed that Sourav has not helped his cause by his woeful performance in Deodhar and just above average in the Ranji. But is it on the basis of form that he is being disincluded? It does not seem...  more...
 anusha subra... | 15:23 | 1/Feb/2007
Friends: (7)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: adventure sports,...
Voting: Essential or Waste of Time
I think most of Mumbai youngsters who have the right to vote have not voted in the current Civic elections. For most it is waste of time. Having exercised my right to vote ever since I turned 18, I diligently went this morning as well to vote. I was taken aback at the turnout of people at the voting booth. We were precisely around seven or eight vo...  more...
 Kathik Venka... | 20:50 | 4/Apr/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Calcutta  | Interests: Quizzing, Reading...
Time to go
This is my first post. Where shall I start? Should I wallow in existential angst or go for the bindaas who gives a damn kinda style. Decisions....decisions.....  more...
 suryakanth m | 13:20 | 22/Jan/2007
Friends: (106)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Reading,Writing,W...
Aashiq marte nahi....
Aashiq marte nahi,     Dafnaye jaate hai... Kabr khod kar dekho,     Apne mehbooba ke intezaar me paaye jaate he... Hindu kehte he ise jala do,     Musalman kehte he ise dafna do... Magar is bedard zamane me koi ye nahi kehta,     Isko iski mehbooba se mila do...  more...
 priya chobra | 14:08 | 1/Sep/2007
Friends: (247)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Hot Hot N Mast Ma...
HANDWRITING TIPS!!
Your Handwriting Means  If letters slant to the left: Indicates introspection and a lot of emotional control. If letter slant to the right: Reveals a person who's outgoing, friendly, impulsive, and emotionally open. If letters are straight up and down: The sign of someone who's ruled by the head, not the heart. Letters that slant in more than one ...  more...
 Fasih Baig | 00:09 | 3/Mar/2006
Friends: (2)  | City: San Ramon  | Interests: cricket
The enigma of Jaffer's arrival
Dileep Premachandran posted a nice article on Cricinfo.com about the return of Wasim Jaffer.....enjoy. http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/indveng/content/current /story/239329.html  more...
 manoj kumar | 15:22 | 19/Mar/2006
Friends: (3)  | City: BANGALORE  | Interests: Chess,cricket,wat...
Anything can happen
Yesterday night. That was saturday. Yes, it was saturday night. On this night , everybody plans to go out for dinner. Me too. I was roaming in hostel n asking everybody for dinner. Some guys were busy in having bathe.In other room, an argument was going on regarding Cricket.Cricket captain was looking outrageous, as everyone in his team has argumen...  more...
 Praveen Soma | 18:19 | 3/Sep/2007
Friends: (53)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Beautiful interio...
Dear Architects
Please Visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ associatearchitectshyd   Please Visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ associatearchitectshyd  more...
 shishir bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006
Friends: (152)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
Are more H-1B visas good for India?
By the end of this month, if will be clear if the US Senate Immigration Reform Bill introduced to decide whether H-1B visa limit should be increased from 65,000 to 115,000 has been defeated or allowed to sail through successfully. Everyone says an increase in the H-1B visa limit will help Indians the most. Will it, really? But more on that in just ...  more...
 Raja Sen | 18:39 | 19/Nov/2007
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Surreal lunacy with a fun filmmaker
When you write a negative review, there is almost always backlash. Most of you who have read me before do thus realise I'm not the most popular man in Bollywoodland -- to say nothing of Rediff's messageboards -- and there are filmmakers who loathe me, having taken a review too personally.Anyway, last week I wrote a column about Anurag Kashyap and h...  more...
 Vijayendra M... | 13:46 | 24/Jan/2007
Friends: (42)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: comics, reading, ...
Am watching Power Rangers. First SPD and now Mystic Force. Kind of addictive.  more...
 Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007
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The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution
Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...  more...
 ganesh nadar | 04:36 | 1/Oct/2007
Friends: (54)  | City: Panickanadarkudieruppu  | Interests: writing, reading
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...
 venkatesh ra... | 12:03 | 26/Mar/2006
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Prevention is better than cure…………………….....
Prevention is better than cure……………………..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  more...
 Dilip Saha | 00:59 | 13/Mar/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Calcutta  | Interests: Journalism on Cri...
Wake Up call for Indian Selectors
It is high time that Indian Selectors should be more rational about selecting the Cricket Team for World Cup'07. It should be good balance between experience and young blood.Here I will highly recommend Sourav Ganguly.He is such a sensational one day player that I can not think of the team without Sourav.This I am telling not because I am a die-har...  more...
 Shakeel Abedi | 08:25 | 20/Mar/2006
Friends: (6)  | City: Kluang  | Interests: WritingReadingCri...
We Are A Fan
We are a fan!  A wrong sentence certainly, one that my grammar teacher would have a fit over, but precisely the sentiment. We don’t care if you have spent a decade and a half giving to cricket what no one before you have done. We don’t care because we have given you in return even more than that. We gave you sleepless nights watching you play at al...  more...
 Arjun Swarup | 19:43 | 16/May/2006
Friends: (5)  | City: West Lafayette  | Interests: Blogging,Travelli...
Cricinfo Agenda
I like Cricinfo. I really do. They have a good bunch of correspondents. Amit Varma is good, so is Siddhartha Vaidyanathan. Rahul Bhattacharya and Sambit Bal are super.  Yet, http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/246445 .html">this latest piece, by Dileep Premachandran, is kick-worthy.  My grouse ? This particular line (which he has used b...  more...
 Dinesh Nambisan | 03:02 | 9/May/2007
Friends: (25)  | City: Fremont, CA  | Interests: Cricket. Technolo...
Muck raking
It had to happen sooner or later, with "stings" being in vogue in Indian media it was just a matter of time before one of them focused on cricket (Come to think of it, if memory serves me right, it all started with cricket: The first widely-known "sting" operation conducted by the media was by Aniruddha Bahal (then Tehelka) with the help of Manoj P...  more...
 Ruchir Joshi | 19:04 | 7/Jun/2007
Friends: (21)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: IT
Daily Roundup (June-07-2007)
Vaughan and Flint. That the hot news in English cricket, it seems. Vaughan said that Fredalo wrecked English World Cup plans by his drinking."We arrived at the World Cup in a positive frame of mind," Vaughan told The Guardian. "But unfortunately incidents happened which affected the team. You have to be honest, the 'Fredalo' incident did affect the...  more...
 janus janus | 18:03 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (259)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Music, cooking, t...
Bees saal baad
I think it’s the time for re-runs in my life! Last year I embarked on a road trip down south and visited places that I had not been to for 20-odd years. And in a week’s time, I will be visiting another country which I last saw 20years ago. A lot has changed in India in the meantime, and in life. I wonder what kind of changes have happened in a coun...  more...
 Prem Panicker | 10:49 | 7/Jun/2007
Friends: (71)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Cricket, Books, M...
Transition
While Ruchir maintains the daily updates, am working on migrating him, and other colleagues on this blog, to the new site. Will take a week, tops. In the meantime, Ruchir, Manish and others will be found here; I meanwhile have as of today begun posting, on cricket and all else, here .  more...
 Jaimin Chokshi | 10:10 | 1/Apr/2006
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Hello....!
Hello....! I m Jaimin Chokshi. I have completed my graduation recently. (waiting for results) & now i m prepering for my masters. my hobbies are playing music, sports, traveling & making friends. my goal is to become entreprenuer. so thats it for now. if u wnt more info abt me just send me friend request.  Jaimin....  more...
 Tushar Chande | 10:19 | 4/Nov/2006
Friends: (17)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Mumbai, Music, mo...
Science Takes Aim at Supernatural Myths
All this may seem obvious, but to physicist Costas Efthimiou and other scientists, the public often isn't as skeptical as you might think. Efthimiou points to National Science Foundation reports showing widespread belief in pseudosciences -- such as vampires, astrology and ESP. It may be the season for vampires, ghosts and zombies. Just remember, t...  more...
 Aamer Kapadia | 07:39 | 13/Apr/2006
Friends: (4)  | City: Toronto  | Interests: Cricket,Photograp...
The Guitar Player of Yore
Hmm....just something that I wrote for an english assignment....Here goes....The Guitar Player of Yore...He plays so fast,Fingers skimming over the frets...You ask him to play something,He plays it without taking a breath...He plays rock, metal , country and moreThere's no such player like him now,He's the guitar player of yore...a bit squeaky...bu...  more...
 rajeev warathe | 03:25 | 18/Apr/2006
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narmada bachao andolan
Hi all .Dont u all think that we all hav a bigger role to play in the society then to just live for our own personal cause . In India with sensex touching new heights and Big IT firms declaring their Q4 profits making people happy , no body is their to bother about the farmers who lost their land and and were kicked off from their land on the name ...  more...
 vivek mayinkar | 11:48 | 28/Jun/2006
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June 28th 2006
hmmm... after my official visit to melbourne ..now here i am back in Blore ...my home-town ....i wasnt a tech saavy guy but just to let everyone know that i am also in this category i bought a 8 megapixel digicam from aus ....and bought a couple of electronic gadgets from banagalore itself ....i spend almost half a day in the office and now spendin...  more...
 TUSHAR DESHMUKH | 13:14 | 31/Mar/2006
Friends: (3)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: CRICKET,TECHNOLOGY
DOMESTIC CRICKET STRUCTURE
DOMESTIC CRICKET STRUCTUREFIRST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGISE FOR ANY SPELLING AND GRAMATICAL  MISTAKE WHICH I WILL MAKE WRITING THIS BLOG. ITS MY FIRST BLOG AND CRITISISM OR HELP IS WELCOME.            To begin i will confess that I am a big cricket fan. With the way indian team has been playing in recent times makes me happy and sad all at sam...  more...
 shuvajyoti g... | 14:45 | 31/Mar/2006
Friends: (5)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: music,sports,acad...
can any body explain the meaning of the song---'shine on your crazy diamond' by pink floyd ? does it refer to excesses and hallucinations????  more...
 Amrutaa Chan... | 22:20 | 21/Jul/2006
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Setting the records straight....
I am very glad the Indian team physios have spoken out in defence of SachinTendulkar in lieu of the atrocious allegations made by Mr.Manjrekar in his now infamous article. It was surprising that being a close friend of Sachin's he would have come out with such an article. Nevertheless, i hope the physios have cleared any misocnceptions harboured by...  more...
 Nataraj TR | 12:26 | 21/Apr/2006
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Things Leaders Do
When GE's CEO Jeff Immelt teaches up-and-coming leaders at the company's famed management-development center, he runs through a checklist of what he calls "Things Leaders Do." In an interview with Fast Company, Immelt reveals his own leadership checklist.1. Personal Responsibility."Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and t...  more...
 Akhil Chandran | 22:01 | 28/Nov/2007
Friends: (54)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Cricket, Music, D...
Oru Chempaneer poovu (A Red Rose)
Happend to hear the melodious song "Oru chembaneer pooviruthu" after such a long time. It touched me a lot. One guy in Amrita TV program sang this. Extremely great feeling. I happend to hear this song for the first time in 2003-2004, I was doing my final year B.Tech that time. This song tells something about an untold love by a guy to his beloved. ...  more...
 timmy gulati | 18:10 | 30/Mar/2006
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 siddharth das | 10:58 | 9/Sep/2006
Friends: (7)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: CRICKET, GAMES, T...
Udaipur
I like this Place . You must visit UDAIPUR.  more...
 theyear1973@... | 18:38 | 6/Apr/2006
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Thursday April5, 2006
Two interesting articles in Cricinfo for all you domestic cricket buffs UP's surge, mystery teams and the Ganguly factor High Five  more...
 Binoy KL | 04:01 | 10/Jun/2006
Friends: (2)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Internet; Cricket...
Information Governance
Hey, If someone is interested in Information Security,  I have some interesting articles for you at http://igmentor.com Do let me know your concerns and feed back  more...
 venkat karthik | 12:26 | 28/Mar/2006
Friends: (3)  | City: tirupati  | Interests: cricket,skating,r...
There she is....
   There she is.....She gets in touch after two very long years to my surprise. Just the thought of talking with her again excites me. Thoughts of those days when i first saw her, just cross my mind in a flash. Life has been quite different in these two years, me turning into an individual moving ahead in life, leaving behind all the rough weathers...  more...
 Pankaj Lamture | 11:41 | 31/Mar/2006
Friends: (5)  | City: Pune  | Interests: Personal Block,Mo...
BPOs take care of your career too
What happens when an Alok joins a BPO? He becomes Alex and acquires an accent, not so American, not Indian either. Then he changes the way he dresses, the way he carries himself and then the way he lives. Yes, Alex is really Alok, but it isn’t about personality change but rather about self empowerment and belief. The general perception of a phone r...  more...
 Mahesh Gopal... | 17:06 | 5/Dec/2006
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The noise of ARR and other current music...
We might assume that it is possible to distinguish between musical sound and noise in acoustic terms: musical sound results from regular,periodic vibrations and noise results from non-periodic vibrations.Today, in India, music has become a noise.It creates headache. Well,A.R. Rahman,is one of those who disappointed a lot after showing lots of promi...  more...
 Mumbai Eye | 19:50 | 27/Apr/2006
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Taxi unfair
News of the imminent replacement of Mumbai’s fleet of ageing, sorry taxis must fill everyone with joy. For the vehicles are a disgrace to any city, let alone a city that prides itself on being international, India’s gateway etc, never mind such claims are far from the truth.And as someone condemned eternally to spend his commuting life in the backs...  more...
 News Junkie | 19:27 | 5/Apr/2006
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A tale of two Indias
Says this article in the Guardian, London.'A gated development for the subcontinent's super-rich ... and a funeral for a cotton farmer, forced into suicide because of spiralling poverty. India's economic growth is dazzling but, in the new, globalised era, its inequalities are becoming even more polarised, discovers Randeep Ramesh,' the intro says....  more...
 Dominic Alapat | 20:23 | 7/Sep/2006
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Poems
                   PoemThe poem had white-washed walls,and long, stately coconut leaves.On the poem's head were bright, redroof-tiles standing silently in the rain.The poem's walls were made of stoneand its thick pillars dreamt.You met me there, by its pillars,once long ago...Words held out their hands to the rain.Inside other thoughts hummed and s...  more...
 Mohan jadeja | 20:51 | 7/Nov/2007
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Wish you all the Best Laxmi
In everyday news of politics and terrorism there was pleasant surprise to see a little multi limbed girl from Bihar being brought to Banglore for very complicated operation.As for now operation is succes. Lets wish her a very healthy and warm recovery. Also hatsoff to medical staff who has operated her free of charge, A total Dr Munnabhai style tre...  more...
 r b | 21:51 | 6/Apr/2006
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VEGAS WIRELESS SCORCHERS HERE
NEW DELHI: The biggest wireless jamboree - CTIA Wireless 2006 (short for Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association) kicks off at Las Vegas Convention Centre on April 5. For next three days, over 1,000 companies will showcase the very best in wireless arena – from technologies, to products and their latest research – with mobile operators...  more...
 Satish Gadi | 05:34 | 18/Jul/2007
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The Price of War
I am back after a long time!Check this link from a leftist liberal site.The US is currently spending close to $12 billion per month, with a cumulative expenditure of over $600 billion. Over $9 billion US taxpayer's money is reportedly lost and unaccounted for.Currently 160,000 US troops are deployed in Iraq alongside 8,524 from other countries. 361...  more...
 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...  more...
 vishal shah | 14:10 | 27/May/2006
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What a SCAM !!!
If true, it is probably the greatest scam in history!! But, can we believe ANYTHING these days?Subject: "Bird Flu"Do you know that 'bird flu' was discovered in Vietnam 9 years ago?   Do you know that barely 100 people have died in the whole world in all  that time?   Do you know that it was the Americans who alerted us to the efficacy of the human ...  more...
 Shivkumar Iyer | 14:46 | 27/Mar/2006
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Life as a Career
How would you like your life as a career? I have asked myself this question several times. It would be fun if we could get paid for running, walking sleeping or just our daily routine. But as we all know we wont and we should not expect. Which brings us to this question, if we dont get paid for our personal time then why are we expected to sacrific...  more...
 ravikant rao | 18:09 | 10/Jul/2006
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Role for Sachin in the new scenario
The One day scenario is changing with the still active ICC making  lots of new rules and thus attempting to make it more  eventful, but Test Cricket is still a more positive and exciting form of cricket even without the Colorful clothing.   I have always considered myself luckier than the Joshis and Raos in the neighbourhood, having been born on th...  more...
 Ratnakar Sad... | 13:07 | 7/Apr/2006
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Another Series Win by India
"The way England is going about professionally, i wont be surprised even if we get beaten 7-0 in ODI series".That was a quote by yours truly, when i witnessed India putting up a dismal batting show at Kotla in first ODI.Well at times i dont mind being made to eat my words and looking a total fool, and this is one of those occassions.India is really...  more...
 Ravi Kethe | 04:17 | 14/Apr/2006
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WHO WILL BE THE NEXT INDIAN IDOL?
 The two final contestants :   1. Sandeep Acharya    2. NC Karunya  ======================================= === Indian Idol is essentially about an overall package, however it goes without saying that the basic requirement is 'good' singing. Karunya fits the bill perfectly and most of the people are voting for Karunya ..!  I think KARUNYA deserve to...  more...
 Sai Hari | 02:53 | 13/Nov/2006
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Comments on Sania Mirza in rediff
Somthin i saw on rediff news.. Click link below for the news, http://ia.rediff.com/sports/2006/nov/09c eleb.htm?q=tp&file=.htm I don't know why there is this stupid discussion. Look at the number of posts/comments for the photos. She's a celebrity....thats it..thats why her foto is posted. I wonder about this hype and craze for celebrities and I gu...  more...
 TRINATH APPALLA | 15:57 | 22/Apr/2007
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A moment before it's going to rain
After every day of hectic work, getting bored artificial beauties, I wait hoping for the sky to turn black. I reside in the south-east regions of the sub continent, wherein, the South-West monsoons too don't favour most of the areas. The monsoons start in May, at the tip of Kerala, dumping all of their moisture all along the west coast, and while t...  more...
 Pramod Reddy | 00:39 | 24/Mar/2006
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Castrated Teams and National Manhood: A ...
“That a castrated English team ultimately shared the Test honours with our best on our home soil should compel us to hang our head in shame”. So starts an article by Mr. Arvind Lavakare. “Castrated”? I thought the choice of words is very interesting – because it gives an insight into this occasional gadfly on the cricket scene in India. Apparently,...  more...
 Niks Ping | 06:18 | 29/Mar/2006
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Third test disease for Team India
Hooray.. Team India (The men in Blue.. not white !!) pulled off a remarkable win. Although I would say that England lost their nerve and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory....But....Whats with the Team India (the men in White, this time). They seem to have contracted the Third-Test-of-a-Series bug. For the last three series with 3 tests in th...  more...
 kriparam man... | 14:17 | 15/Apr/2006
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Sachin Vs Bradman
this was another topic on which i would like to know opinions about.well everywhere sachin , lara and bradman are compared and finally say that sachin is on par with bradman. My view would be that sachin and lara are even better than bradman or anybody whose ever been on that stage.the have played in 25 and odd grounds and don had played in just 4...  more...
 chandra shekar | 12:00 | 23/Mar/2006
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Bhagat Singh, the LEGEND
Today is the day, one of the great legends of our Motherland was hanged to death. The great Bhagat Singh along with his associates 'RajGuru' and 'Sukhdev' were hanged to death. Lets remember them atleast!!!!Questions pricking my mind:------------------------------ Why we don't remember much about Bhagat Singh, Netaji and other great legends much?- ...  more...
 Raghunath P | 18:42 | 16/May/2006
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Old Wine in New Bottle
First I apologize for bringing up a regional topic here. This is regarding the new CPM led government which is set to take the office in a couple of days in the state of Kerala. Though the scenario mentioned here is purely regional ,I believe the term 'politics' has the same meaning in the universe .Hence this blog.Soon after romping home with the ...  more...
 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...  more...
 Dileep | 11:47 | 5/Jun/2006
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I love Test Cricket
Ah, what a beautiful game cricket is. Imagine this. Fidel Edwards charging in at Sehwag with a leg slip and a close in fielder on the leg side. A ploy set up by Lara to test the much publicised weakness in Sehwag's technique for raising deliveries on to his body in leg stump line.First ball, perfectly balled as per the plan, Sehwag intinctively pro...  more...
 Mitul Shah | 10:12 | 10/Apr/2006
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Quota in IITs & IIMs
Ridiculous.. that was my first reaction when I heard the OBC quota being increased (proposed) in premium institutes like IITs, IIMs and now, top medical colleges of this country. The ghost of quota system I experienced 10 years before is back. Meanwhile, I’m out of the education system and might not require to visit any of these institute, but hear...  more...
 Karun Karuna... | 12:31 | 13/Apr/2006
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Money minded?
What’s with Chappel? This is the second time he has talked about a player and his monetary needs. First it was the One-who-must-not-be-named (not Voldemort), when he insinuated that captaincy was required to maintain the player’s finances. Now he says, while expressing desire that Tendulkar will return and play a crucial role (emphasis mine): “"Kno...  more...
 SARANG SANGA... | 07:44 | 6/Apr/2006
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IITs & Reservations
 Is this some kind of a JOKE?? I’m really amused about these  brainless  politicians who  in greed  of staying  in power have implemented   such a  stupid “MANDAL FORMULA”. How would  one feel when he /she makes  95 %  in a junior college, gets a healthy rank in IIT and  is still not sure whether he will make it to the IIT of his choice and , gets ...  more...
 Dhanraj Chak... | 09:41 | 20/Mar/2006
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Hello friends
The problem has been shorted out, i was angry what happened with me and i understood that u can't judge all by one mad guy's behaviour.  more...
 Ravi Kaushik | 11:00 | 23/Mar/2006
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Friends
I like music and dancing. When i am with my friends, I listen music and enjoy total MASTI. I like my friends very much. My friends r my life.  more...
 shankar srin... | 14:21 | 20/Mar/2006
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Hai
Hai guys & gals Just wanna wish everyone here in the iland  more...
 ashok Iam | 16:14 | 7/Feb/2007
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Rocky Balboa - Watched it finally
More than a month late but finally it was released in India. I was there the first day, of course. The movie does work. For fans like me who refuse to acknowledge that there ever was a Rocky V, this was not that bad. In my opinion the first hour was a little too slow. I know he was trying to establish that Rocky was alone and trying to find a purpo...  more...
 balaji ramam... | 14:53 | 27/Mar/2007
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Fun
There was a couple married for quite some time and they had a boy of 5-6 years old. Their relationship was turning sour. So finally it reached such a stage that they thought it was better for them to be divorced than carry on such a relationship. So they consulted a lawyer. But the big question was who would have the kid. In the hearing in the cour...  more...
 Amit Agrawal | 23:11 | 6/Dec/2007
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kahin koyi
kahin koyi manzil chhupi to hogikahin koyi aas dabi bhi hogikaise chudaoon apne haathon se lahoomere jurm ki panaah kahin to hogibaar baar hai beshumaar hai kehta hai dilhar baar dil ki sada tum tak pahunchi to hogidin guzar chuka hai raat bhi rawaan hogiis shabe gham ki bhi to koyi subah zaroor hogichalta jaaoonga jab talak na milegi mujhesaahil k...  more...