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 08:56 | 25/Mar/2008
Lake View
My fourth oil painting, and one of the reasons why I don"t blog regularly :-) more...
 20:49 | 7/Sep/2007
Sketch
This is me as I used to be... more...
 22:59 | 1/Sep/2007
Kiss to Build a Dream On
Sound familiar? more...
 00:18 | 19/Aug/2007
Shall We Dance?
She  loved to dance,  he loved to just listen to the music.The music  was moving up a notch from "foot tapping" to "lets hit the floor" .She was looking around for him, wondering what kind of a dancer he wouldturn out to be, IF he asked her to dance. He was standing by the bar, adrink in one hand and a cigarette in the other, talking to somefriends... more...
 23:07 | 15/Aug/2007
CAUTION: RETROBLOG AHEAD
I cant sing,but I can embed---music from You Tube---so be warned unwary Ilander,from now on this space is going to be "RETROBLOG". In case you didn"t know already, the video will run intermittently the first time you try to play it, so if you want to hear the song the way it should be heard, play it a second time. Anyway, enough said, here"s a gold... more...
 19:38 | 15/Aug/2007
Just an Illusion
One of my favourite 80"s tracks....Enjoy more...
 00:40 | 19/Feb/2007
One
In the still of the night, life is A bunch of clichésThe house is too neat,No shoes trip my feet,No wet towel on the bed,No papers spread on the table,No early morning alarm to curseNo you to nudge and shakeI am aloneWide awake so when you calledI said Hi, I am fine. Yeah, I managed to sleep at night. No didn’t cry , kept the bathroom light on an... more...
 20:59 | 9/Jan/2007
Name Tag
A while back, I had written apost which briefly touched on the touchy subject of married women and their names. In this post, I had put forth my view point, namely that I did not mind changing my surname post marriage. One of the interesting comments on that was from a lady, whose view point was a little different from mine. At the time, I was a qu... more...
 01:03 | 5/Jan/2007
Re-Beeing-The-Bee
We are finally back home after a month long vacation with both our families, which means there's a Dusty house to be cleaned Cockroaches to be chased Maid to be tackled Groceries to be restocked Meals to be cooked The blues to be chased away... An "Adult" me to be dug up out of somewhere.... and maybe an actual blog to be written sometime more...
 01:50 | 29/Dec/2006
HuH!!
WHY do all the big questions and revelations of life strike so late at night? Why do these same revelations and questions seem insignificant in the morning? WHAT am I going to wear to the New Years Eve Party? WHY AM I POSTING THIS? WHY am I up so late when I should be snuggling up in bed? more...
LATEST FROM MY FRIENDS
 medha N | 13:38 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (105)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Love music, paint...
Who is this? U? ME? HUM?
Who is this? U? ME? HUM?The day I saw this picture, I had some kind of thoughts. I have been thinking about this picture from then on. The specialty of this picture is that the half of it is always true with all of us, all the time and in all the situations.The left half of the picture is in no colour mood with tears rolling down the eyes. In contr...  more...
 Vish Iyer | 08:51 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (130)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading, Sports, ...
Do we really care enough ?
We will live a fast-paced world where self-interest and personal gain at every level is the most important metric of any relationship. This post has been inspired by a series of inputs that I have received in the last couple of weeks that have left me shocked, pained, humbled but most importantly better prepared for the future. Couple of real-life ...  more...
 Smiling Dolphin | 18:14 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (234)  | City: Gurgaon  | Interests: Reading, Travelling
Happy Holi
Wish you all a very happy Holi  more...
 Biswajit Roy | 18:30 | 8/Jun/2007
Friends: (51)  | City: RAIGANJ  | Interests: Music, Playing Vo...
Believe
Love all   Hate none      But,  believe a few.  more...
 Divyani | 18:27 | 13/Mar/2008
Friends: (202)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: bus yu he
Feminism
About my hip, unconventional friend:My friend S.C wrote in another of my friend’s blog:why woman’s day , why not humans day so that we learn to be more humane towards everybody . the talks of woman liberation , empowerment etc etc etc has been stretched a bit too far now . if woman are getting burnt , killed so also are the men , maybe in diffe...  more...
 indal kumar | 13:46 | 31/Dec/2007
Friends: (171)  | City: Gurgaon  | Interests: Friendship, Shaya...
WISHES (2008)
My Dear All Friend,         I wish you a very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2008.                   wishing you a great time with good things          happening, every moment glowing         with joy and laughter, and may each          fresh dawn bring good loock for all my friend                                        with best compliments          ...  more...
 Bajirao Naik | 15:18 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (79)  | City: Pune  | Interests: Reading,Listening...
Greetings
Dear Friends Here is wishing all of you a very happy holi festival  more...
 Vijit Vivek | 13:57 | 17/Mar/2008
Friends: (422)  | City: Patna  | Interests: Bio Medical Engin...
You could save a life
STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters... S.T.R .  If everyone can remember something this simple, we could save some folks. STROKE IDENTIFICATION: During a party , a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine and just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. (they offered to call ambulance) They got her c...  more...
 raj | 22:38 | 31/Dec/2007
Friends: (19)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY...
HAPPY NEW YEAR
TO MY  ALL FRIENDS  HAPPY NEW YEAR WITH ALL THE BEST WISHES AND PROSPEROUS HAPPY NEW YEAR MAY GOD FULFIL YOUR ALL WISHES . RAJ  more...
 Hardeep singh | 17:27 | 23/Mar/2008
Friends: (330)  | City: Ludhiana  | Interests: cricket,music,wri...
KIdnapping - pathan style
kidnapping by Pathan :There was a Pathan who was down on his luck. In order to raise some money he decided to kidnap a kid and hold him for ransom. He went to a playground, grabbed a kid, took him behind a tree, and told him, "I've kidnapped you."Pathan then wrote a note saying: "I've kidnapped your kid. Tomorrow morning, put Rs.2,00,000 in a paper...  more...
 rony | 14:21 | 25/Dec/2007
Friends: (39)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: painting : travel...
All about Santa Claus
Father ChristmasThe figure of Father Christmas (Santa Claus) is based on the patron saint of children, Saint Nicholas (270-310AD), who became one of the youngest bishops ever at age 17. At age 30 he became the Bishop of Myra, a port town on the Mediterranean Sea, that is part of modern-day Turkey. He hailed from a rich home and became well known fo...  more...
 ajay rana | 21:37 | 29/Jan/2008
Friends: (222)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: Reading, swimming...
Consciousness in the Single Neuron
Are the contents ofconscious perception tied to individual brain cells? Can we use singleneurons to determine someone’s subjective experience? A recent studiespublished in PNASsuggests otherwise: there are no specialized neuronsthat carry information about what enters awareness and what not. If oneholds the picture of a butterfly in front of one ey...  more...
 sathish | 14:24 | 22/Nov/2007
Friends: (23)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: chat with friends...
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 Think Tank | 11:05 | 24/Mar/2008
Friends: (489)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading and writing.
Lee Iacocca
BooksMen and leaders Where have all the leaders gone? I am a huge Iacocca fan. It happened when I read his autobiography (Iacocca: An Autobiography). This son of a migrant Italian family, which came to US with nothing but a hope, started humbly and went on to become the President of Ford Motor Company. He came out of his graduate engineering colleg...  more...
 Alwin | 18:41 | 31/Dec/2007
Friends: (283)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: CreatinG Internat...
Advance Happy New Year Dear FriendZ
Hi FrienDZ ..,   AdvancE HappY NeW YeaR .. AlwiN  more...
 Avijit Majumder | 13:12 | 22/Oct/2007
Friends: (10)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: Hacking
Rediff Bol Vulnerability
Rediff Bol is "an Instant message program". An ActiveX module of Rediff Bol can be used to expose the Windows' address book (WAB).DETAILS:Vulnerable Systems:* Rediff Bol version 7.0Rediff Bol's ActiveX control (Fetch.FetchContact.1 / Fetch.dll) allowsaweb pages to read the user's Windows Address Book (WAB) contacts usingthemethod of FullAddressBook...  more...
 ranjit singh | 21:43 | 23/Mar/2008
Friends: (168)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Writing, Reading,...
Land of Lions
    In the Land of Lions                         November 5, 2004. (Bhavnagar) **We( my younger brother Ranjit and I ) got up at 4.00 A.M. and left for Junagarh at 5.00 A.M. Driving our car on State Highway No. 25, we reached Songarh at 6.00 am. Situated at a distance of 30 kilometers from this place is Palitana. The temples of Palitana are conside...  more...
 NARENDER SINGH | 11:10 | 22/Feb/2008
Friends: (56)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: reading,music,
RAH  AASAAN HO GAYI HOGI, JAAN PAHCHAAN HO GAYI HOGI. PHIR NAZAR PALATT KAR NAHI AAYI, TUMPE KURBAAN HO GAYI HOGI. TERI ZULAFON KO CHHEDTI THI HAWA, KHUD PARESAAN HO GAYI HOGI. Dear friends this ghazal sung by Nusart Fathe Ali Khan. It is very nice...n..i just listen this..n...writing some line..i hope u will like.  more...
 kishore Navale | 12:43 | 23/Mar/2008
Friends: (172)  | City: Pune  | Interests: politics, reading...
advertisment
This is a hoarding Jet Airways put at a busy road in Mumbai SEE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT ......... AFTER A FEW DAYS ... and FINALLY ...      more...
 sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007
Friends: (1041)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: theatre, journali...
‘Eating the Earth’!
 Eating meat, dairy and eggs threatens our planet.You use much less land and water if you eat crops directly. Animals use most of the protein they eat to live, not 'grow' meat. So eating meat adds to water shortages, forest clearing, soil damage, use of oil-based pesticides - and climate change. "By 2050 the world's livestock will be consuming as m...  more...
 Noanee Kapadia | 19:46 | 26/Feb/2008
Friends: (385)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Indian Army,Himal...
Paraplegic Centre in Pune ,You act now.
Dear Friends ,I have written about Paraplegic Centre in Pune earlier..Some more on it , I visited the Centre yesterday in Pune ,DR.Col Jyoti ,who looks after them is God in human form .My request is to those who can, must visit the centre. if you can visit in the evening you can share some hours with the inmates ,they are free ,and are playing game...  more...
 samar | 07:41 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (71)  | City: Toronto  | Interests: Music,Reading,Wri...
Forlorn
Certain things in life are not meant to be,They do not turn out the way you want them to be. The more you cling to them, the more you get betrayed.They leave you with nothing but you wish they had stayed. There were moments of triumph; there were moments of glory, Those were the times but now are a different story. You are not the one I seek anymor...  more...
 DENSON JOSEPH | 21:21 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (691)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Fitness
Can we improve / mend our relationship?
Esc (Forget) the past mistakes & reStart afresh Delete the “I” from your dictionary & you will see miracle in your relationship today. Insert the “US” in everything that you do from today & you will see joy emanate in your relationship today. Replace “resistance/abeyance” in your daily life with “OBEDIENCE/complete submission” & you will find love ...  more...
 Chetna Gusani | 09:23 | 8/Sep/2007
Friends: (50)  | City: Rajkot  | Interests: Singing, Music, d...
Judgement of People
Yesterday I seen Saregamapa and Star voice of India. I feel very shoked when I knew the results. Priyani in Star Voice of India and Mauli in Saregamapa have been eliminated. To be very frank from the begining I oppose the way of judgement i.e. you can not judge the person's voice quality merely by voating by SMS. A common man who has no knowledge o...  more...
 Ramesh Singh | 12:13 | 1/Jan/2008
Friends: (182)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: Writing, Music, M...
NEW YEAR RESOLUTION
Welcome 2008..another year passed by and if you look back u recall the 1st of Jan'07, that too was a new year ...you made resolutions that u remembered till the very first month of year and as the time went by your commitment to your resolution weakened ... and then it vanished from your memory bank. yet another day has arrived to make resolutions ...  more...
 VirginatThirty | 11:54 | 20/Mar/2008
Friends: (118)  | City: Urban India  | Interests: Dreaming, dreamin...
Brides are no longer in season! (You can...
Finally after number 15, 16 was going to be last Sunday,  Now I climbed onto the scales and it was shocking, so I said to Dad, I am not coming! Man it was going to be hot, and humid. So all plans are on hold, until I feel I have the right frame of mind (and body) to get married. So the early morning brunch at an Andheri hotel was cancelled, reason,...  more...
 kartik shriv... | 18:09 | 9/Mar/2008
Friends: (477)  | City: Bhopal  | Interests: writing poetries ...
Salam Bhopal..............
Dec. 2-3, 1984-The Bhopal Gas Tragedy........One Of The Biggest Disasters in the World in Which More Than 20,000 People Were Killed and More Than 170,000 Were SEVERELYAFFECTED........It Has Been 23 Years Since Then But the Effect of thatDisaster is Still Continuing.......Here are Few Lines Dedicated to AllWho Were Affected by This Disaster...........  more...
 Writing Village | 21:08 | 11/Dec/2007
Friends: (465)  | City: Gerrards Cross  | Interests: Writing
Contemporary Indian Art from Raja Ravi V...
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...  more...
 rakesh gupta | 17:32 | 8/Sep/2007
Friends: (16)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: Music,Sports,Singing
Too Hype for Cricketing Event
There is so much hype created on Natwest Final at lords..The way cricketing event has taken centre stage again is detrimental to other games...after the world cup debacle there was silence all across..now it seems the old frenzy and unnecessary attention have started yet again..We must come out of this madness and encourage focus or credit which is...  more...
 abi | 17:50 | 14/Nov/2007
Friends: (105)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: photography, hiki...
Where management meets religion and myth...
Printed from //configuration OAS_url ='http://adstil.indiatimes.com/RealMedia/ads/'; OAS_listpos = 'Position1'; OAS_query = '?'; OAS_sitepage = 'www.economictimes.com/Innovation/index.html'; //end of configuration OAS_version = 10; OAS_rn = '001234567890'; OAS_rns = '1...  more...
 amarnath pandey | 17:55 | 7/Sep/2007
Friends: (20)  | City: Raipur  | Interests: music,photography
wonderful day
Happiness keeps you Sweet, Trial make you Strong, Sorrows keep you Human, Failure keeps you Humble, Successs keeps you Glowing And God keeps you Going! Have a wonderful day!  more...
 soloman will... | 23:51 | 18/Mar/2008
Friends: (244)  | City: Bhopal  | Interests: living life to th...
symbol of marriage!
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 Elisabeth | 14:19 | 22/Mar/2008
Friends: (337)  | City: Amsterdam  | Interests: painting,drawing,...
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1973, Oscar-nominated film adaptation of the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar, about the last weeks of the life of Jesus. The film was directed by Norman Jewison. Ted Neely and Carl Anderson were nominated for two 1974 Golden Globe Award for their portrayals of Jesus and Judas, respectively.Though it attracted criticism...  more...
 tarlochan azad | 21:33 | 24/Dec/2007
Friends: (26)  | City: Ludhiana  | Interests: reading writing
happy new year
hi all my friends wishing you very very happy new year  more...
 siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (554)  | City: OUTER SPACE  | Interests: travelling into t...
A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE
Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...  more...
 LovinSumFun | 15:50 | 23/Sep/2007
Friends: (53)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Fun Of course.......
How To Survive An Alien Attack - The Hol...
Hi all. Cldn't find enuf blogging time as classes are full in motion again and I'm heavy into projects and assignments. Here is one really awsome video which is done by some seniors of mine.  more...
 Mission Drea... | 04:19 | 4/Mar/2008
Friends: (172)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: http://dreamsindi...
Satya ki Kamai ke Saat Sau Rupaye
Ashok ki Satya ki Kamai ke Saat Sau Rupaye is sarkar se Satta chheen lenge...When I parked my 2 Wheeler (DL3S AW4500), outside of Krishna Apra Appt. Near Fun Cinema, Netaji Subhash Place, Delhi (on March 3rd 2008 at around 12:00 Noon)It is parking place for the building There is negligible traffic movement on the road It is almost secluded area Mor...  more...
 anjali gupta | 08:50 | 14/Mar/2008
Friends: (87)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: reading,dreaming,...
a story
i got ready & went to school.In the first period,our class teacher,who taught us English ,told us to take out our composition exercise books.I took out the mathematics copy book by misake.I repalced it quickly but the teacher,prhaps,had kept her gaze fixed on me. She shouted,''Come here with your copy-book,Anjali!'' I obeyed her but her angry looks...  more...
 Ranjan | 18:07 | 21/Aug/2007
Friends: (18)  | City: Pune  | Interests: My hobbies is to ...
blogfortoday
Franticaly look for a right friend preferably of age 25 to 32 yrs in Delhi, Bhopal, Pune, Chandigarh, Ludhiana, Jalandhar or nearby  more...
 Pravat | 18:39 | 15/Sep/2007
Friends: (57)  | City: Cuttack  | Interests: friendship,film,s...
jay SHREE GANESH
BEST WISHES TO ALL MY FRIENDS ......  more...
 ashok tiwari | 15:11 | 11/Dec/2007
Friends: (300)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: I am having keen ...
Morning Dew
Dear Islanders, Namaskaar! Bracing for the ensuing New Year, Great. Wish You all a very Happy and vibrant New Year, 2008. Friends , I , distinctly remember my tiny tot days when I used to play in a nearby playground in the morning. The playground was covered with a carpet of lush green grass and had majestic trees all over and a cobbled path surrou...  more...
 DrHarmeet Singh | 09:38 | 23/Mar/2008
Friends: