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 20:28 | 8/Sep/2008
In search of God
शोधीसी मì 6;नवा राहु 344;ी आंतरी - मूहमाद रê 7;ीShodhisi Manva Rahuni Antari - Muhhmad RafeeGet this widget |Track details |eSnips Social DNA I think the creator  means, the ... more...
 18:47 | 12/Aug/2008
Online Reference
  Online ReferenceDictionary, Encyclopedia & moreWord:Look in:#boxsource_td A {color:#0033FF;text-decoration:none}#boxsource_td INPUT {height:12pt}Dictionary & thesaurusMedical DictionaryLegal DictionaryFinancial DictionaryAcronymsIdiomsEncyclopediaWikipediaSpanish DictionaryGerman DictionaryFrench DictionaryItalian DictionaryPeriodicalsLiteratureb... more...
 18:41 | 12/Aug/2008
Todays Special For You
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 18:30 | 12/Aug/2008
Quote of the Day
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 01:04 | 31/May/2008
Prayer
आता विश्वì 6;त्मके देवे येणे वागयदê 4;े तोषावí 5; तॉशोवê 4;ी मज द्याव... more...
 16:44 | 16/May/2008
Koi Deewana Kahta Hai - by Dr Kumar Vish...
कोई दीवाना कहता है कोई पागल समझता हैमगर धरती की बेचैनी को बस &... more...
 00:59 | 25/Mar/2008
Another Love Story
Once upon a time there was a happily married couple living along with their kid. As usual the couple used to fight with each other, argue for nonsense, used to care each other a lot and used to love a lot....Abhiram X software techie, now he is a full time professor of Mathematics in a College and part time gardener in their nursery which was devel... more...
 16:28 | 21/Mar/2008
Holika Dahan...
Best wishes of holi Purnima ..(Purnima means the day on which you see a full moon in the sky) and holika dahan..!Today is the last festival of the year on which we burn all our bad things in us..this is why holi and holika dahan is important festival...Those who wanted to know much about todays festival may browse following link...http://www.thecol... more...
 20:37 | 20/Mar/2008
Waren Buffet's Investment Mantra
The persons present in this picture are from left to right Mr. Bill Gates, Mr. Narayan Moorti, Mr. Waren Bufet.Sharing few lines of Waren Bufet with you about Money Matters, may be useful in volatile stock market and fragile economic situtations.There was a one hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffet, the richest man who has donated $31 billion t... more...
 20:25 | 18/Mar/2008
Shri Ram Panchaytan
The Picture is called Shri Ram Panchayatan.In which Hanuman,Laxman, Bharat, Shaturghana are present along with Ram and Sita.Ram and Bharat were exactly identical as far as their physical apperance is concerned where as the same case was with Laxman and Shatrughana.If you read proprely Ramayan and related stuff, you will find that Ram hardly ordered... more...
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 manu | 18:16 | 19/Sep/2008
Friends: (444)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: drawing. writting
encounter
 I wish you should not have seen me with frozen eye’s ……….frozen to catch some thing  You might not have heard anything what you said  with minors of detail as you were not  aware of your own act ….. but your eyes were Speaking volumes about your state of being  by tha  way  this act of hiding your feelings With innocence is your specialty . You we...  more...
 sheeba | 14:16 | 5/Sep/2008
Friends: (95)  | City: Aurangabad  | Interests: 20-yrs. college ...
Exercise and Health
Exercise & HealthExercise can be an important tool for managing everything from stress and depression to healing injuries and preventing disease.    exercise is any type of physical exertion we perform in an effort to improve our health, shape our bodies and boost performance. Obviously that covers a broad range of activities and, luckily, there ar...  more...
 ananthrao | 23:11 | 16/Sep/2008
Friends: (57)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: making friendship...
OLD GENT
ITS RAINING .RAINING THROUGHT THE EVENING .Every one is coming to bus shelter  ,heavy rush and hundreds of passengers,,,  but only 2 or 3 buses are coming and all of us want to go at a time ...Bus stopped as usual after 20 yards from bus stop .All of them are pushing with eachother children ,old people ,ladies and ofcourse young men&women and Gents...  more...
 sandhyakapoor | 18:15 | 21/Jul/2008
Friends: (222)  | City: Uzbekistan  | Interests: mother from uzbek...
EVERY FRIEND IS IMPORTANT FOR ME
 EVERY FRIEND IS IMPORTANT FOR ME i am from uzbekistan. i mean mother uzbekistan and father from Punjab India. i am n.r.i. i know languages of russian, uzbek, kyrgyz, english, hindi and punjabi. all languages little bit because i spent few years in indian hostle therefore i have some command in hindi and punjabi, i can read hindi and punjabi if wri...  more...
 vijayaram reddy | 17:41 | 23/Aug/2008
Friends: (996)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Music, Poetry, ma...
IIT
IIT-PATNAMost recently I went to Patna (Bihar) to join my friend’s son in IIT. We went to IIT Administration Office to complete the registration formalities. They told us to adjust for 2 or 3 days for mess facilities as it is a newly started IIT.  The facilities are naturally less when you compare with the existing IITs like Kanpur, Kharagpur, Bomb...  more...
 Subhransu | 11:33 | 27/Jul/2008
Friends: (191)  | City: Tokyo  | Interests: Computer
Stupid!
Musharraf calls Bush on 11th Sept:Musharraf: Mr President, I would like to express my condolences to you.It is a real tragedy. So many people, such great building... I wouldlike to ensure that we had nothing in connection with that...Bush: What buildings? What people??Musharraf: Oh, and what time is it in America now?Bush: It's Eight in the morning...  more...
 Rakhee | 14:40 | 29/Aug/2008
Friends: (75)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: DONE MY WORK ** D...
CHUPI CHUPI
HEY  AAMAR  PUB  AAKASHER   BHALO LAGA  BHELPURIWALA   KEMON  AACHHO ?  TOMAR  SATHE   ANEKDIN  KATHA BALA  HAI  NA ,  ROJ  TOMAI  DUR  THEKE   DEKHI  BHALO LAAGE   KINTU   GATA  KAAL  TOMAKE   EKTU  ANYA  RAKAM  DEKHALO  KENO BALO  TO ?  CHUPI  CHUPI  PREM  KORLE  TAAI  .TOMAI  ROJ  MANE  HOTO   JENO   NIJHUM  PAHARER  EKTA   JHARNA  ,  JENO   HAL...  more...
 Vish Iyer | 18:52 | 14/Sep/2008
Friends: (215)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading, Sports, ...
What can I do to make my WiFi Network Se...
In the light of recent wireless hackings in the acts of terror its imperative that all "responsible citizen's in India who have a WiFi network at home/office"  spend few extra minutes to configure  the security features on our wireless routers or access points to make your Wireless networks more secure. Have tried to make it as simple as possible, ...  more...
 Krishna Prasad | 13:42 | 27/Jul/2008
Friends: (1514)  | Interests: Reading, Writing,...
Food Wastage
FOOD SHORTAGE Preface: I heard in BBC Radio one day morning that Somalia is suffering with acute food shortage.  There was an interview with an unknown woman of Somalia village that she used to take maize powder and some times she used to take Animal Feed in order to subside the hunger.   This is a horrific situation. Also, she told that when she e...  more...
 Vaidehi | 16:51 | 19/Jul/2008
Friends: (0)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music, internet, ...
OOPS
Well, something shocking has happened!!!Apparently, someone hacked into my ILand blog and deleted all my friends list and blogs. Luckily, I managed to change my password pronto and did the damage control but i still lost my posts and my 400 odd friends. It's so funny and hilarious. I had heard abt security flaws on ILand but didnt expect anyone to ...  more...
 medha N | 16:28 | 31/Jul/2008
Friends: (207)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Love music, paint...
Hello friends!
Hello friends! I have recently started another blog on blogspot and would like to invite you to read my posts on the same. I would also continue posting some interesting articles here in iland afterall this is my first love. Here is my url/hyperlink. See you soon. Bye. http://likecasualjeans.blogspot.com/  more...
 Anuja Goel | 16:10 | 30/Aug/2008
Friends: (72)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: music, singing, r...
A weird story
Again this is something I had written a few years back, I dont remember when exactly.. Since nowadays my inspiraton has totally run dry and am writing posts like the last few ones, have decided to put up past efforts that are atleast acceptable if not good..  She got up in the fairly early in the morning with the sunlight flooding her room with whi...  more...
 ekantapadhika | 00:49 | 23/Sep/2008
Friends: (223)  | City: NOIDA  | Interests: sab kuchh aur kuc...
Welcome to sajjanpur
           Mahadev, the hero of the film, “Welcome to Sajjanpur”, gives us a short introduction about his village, at the beginning of the film. It used to be called “Durjanpur” at one time, he explains and it was  Pandit Nehru, who, after his visit there, ordered that it should be changed.       As the film progressed , one realized that there was...  more...
 ratul banerjee | 23:50 | 27/Sep/2008
Friends: (96)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: writing, listenin...
THE DESERTED HIGHWAY-------- NOSTALGIA
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 rani mukerjee | 18:53 | 3/Mar/2008
Friends: (156)  | City: Allahabad  | Interests: reading,travelling
bye
bye guys.i m leaving this iland.thanks for your support.bye.  more...
 Indigo Iris | 14:46 | 2/Sep/2008
Friends: (69)  | City: terra firma  | Interests: poems,country mus...
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Long have I lookedin the corner and the nooks,in places far and widecalling all, besidesSpoke in humble tonesfeeling quaintly aloneto distant voices unknownTroubled by a thoughtat every vacant spotAre they all surrealor are they a crooked lot ?Haunted day and nightby notions strange and wildof times hazy aheadof things undone, unsaidSuch twirling i...  more...
 Solidus | 12:46 | 24/Jul/2008
Friends: (319)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: http://openmedia....
Private Banks ki naak mein nakel
A Letter to Reserve Bank of IndiaDear Sir / Ma'am, This is to request your kind attention towards my complaint no. 2801 lodged with The Banking Ombudsman during the financial year 2006-07, against ICICI Bank. The complaint was closed neither with a resolution nor a consent from me. But I have not closed the complaint. I had been regularly following...  more...
 Adithi Pandit | 00:10 | 6/Apr/2008
Friends: (35)  | City: Auckland  | Interests: relationships, ps...
Taking the rest of my life off...
Following on from my incredible holiday in Rarotonga, I have been contemplating "normal life" - which for me involves a 50 hour week at work, commuting between two cities on a weekly basis and various minor excitements, stresses and joys. And the familiar rhetoric occurred to me - "A holiday is made more enjoyable because you have to work". And clo...  more...
 Devidas Dhage | 14:15 | 21/Apr/2008
Friends: (62)  | City: Parbhani  | Interests: Music
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 amit goel | 22:51 | 28/Sep/2008
Friends: (15)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: BBC (blah, boo, ...
We are the best !
A Chinese astronaut has become the first in his country's history to take a walk in space. Zhai Zhigang, 42, stayed outside the capsule for 15 minutes while his two fellow astronauts stayed in the spacecraft. The exercise is seen as key to China's ambition to build an orbiting station in the next few years. Zhang Jianqi, one of the chief engineers ...  more...
 Dr Namrata | 12:37 | 10/Dec/2007
Friends: (31)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: with you....for y...
The "DATE RAPE"
Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault(WARNING AND DISCLAIMER: The readers are advised to apply their common sense after reading this article and behave responsibly. However, I am not responsible if someone picks a tip from the article and uses it with criminal intentions. Care has been taken to keep some portions and the names of the drugs ambiguous, to ...  more...
 sandeep koul | 17:05 | 22/Sep/2008
Friends: (310)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Photography,Trave...
conversions threaten way of life
Francois Gautier(www.francoisgautier.com) writes to Dr John Dayal, member, National Integration Council, in response to the letter he wrote Prime Minister Manmohan Singh : Dear John Dayal, I am a Westerner and a born Christian. I was mainly brought up in Catholic schools, my uncle Father Guy Gautier a gem of a man, was the parish head of the beauti...  more...
 Freedom Unbound | 22:59 | 21/Sep/2008
Friends: (24)  | City: India  | Interests: Varied
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Here is some brilliant outstanding guitar work by blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. The guy is profusely talented. During live shows, as in this one, he often plays portions of this song behind his back, arousing an enthusiastic crowd response. Stylistically, "Texas Flood" is structured around the common three chord blues progression. The lyrics ...  more...
 A M Daniel | 17:35 | 21/May/2008
Friends: (492)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: reading, viewing ...
BE A RIGHT PERSON
When the Person Is RightOne rainy Sunday afternoon, a little boy was bored and his father was sleepy. The father decided to create an activity to keep the kid busy. So, he found in the morning newspaper a large map of the world. He took scissors and cut it into a good many irregular shapes like a jigsaw puzzle. Then he said to his son, "See if you ...  more...
 Sensible Joker | 13:25 | 29/Aug/2008
Friends: (337)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: Everything that m...
LOVE; Against All Odds: Shattered Dreams
She is a grown up woman, and a child, too. And she is a Princess. Lives in a castle, an impenetrable one… or in a golden cage? But she is a Princess nevertheless… and maybe she was proud of it. After all, she had been treated this way. She had almost everything… almost every toy. And she was happy with it… like a kid. But, she was no more a kid… at...  more...
 psychologist... | 18:56 | 28/Sep/2008
Friends: (52)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: India-- Behind th...
PGB-Happy Daughter's Day!
PGB, heres wishing you a very Happy Daughter's Day........Daughter....a flower in the garden, Sun in the sky, Creator's vehicle for replication, delicate, innocent, beautiful........knowing, telling, guiding.........present as a proof......PGB, a song for you:Do for dear, a female dear Ray for drop of golden sunMe a name a call myself.................  more...
 hakotiankar ... | 13:50 | 3/Aug/2008
Friends: (61)  | City: Aligarh  | Interests: writing, spiritua...
Seven stages of enlightenment
  We have written this as per our own understanding. Most of the points are from the book supreme yoga / yoga vasistha, by swami venkateshananda. A disiple of swami sivananda very enlightened modern time sage. This book was recommended by my sister. We recommend it to all the serious seekers, this book is written as a dialogue between lord Rama and...  more...
 RENUKADAS KA... | 14:04 | 21/Apr/2008
Friends: (180)  | City: Aurangabad  | Interests: music, photograph...
1= I like you
1= I like you2= I love you3= You're funny4= You're cool5= I don't really care for your personality6= I wanna be you7= You're sexy8= You have a nice body9= I love you10= You're boring11= your r the most trustable person i have ever met12= You have an awesome personality13= I want a metting with u14= I wanna be your best friend15= I want to go out wi...  more...
 rama kishore | 19:03 | 31/Oct/2007
Friends: (100)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: nature,poetry,vis...
I am your reflection
Where ever u go,i follow.As long as your heart is pure,u will see me following you.we both maintained a distance,and only through this distance,we know each other"s importance,we derive strength from each other,we both are one,splitted into two.And at the end of the journey,when u cross the lake of illusion,i will become one with you in truth,i am ...  more...
 el amor | 15:36 | 15/Aug/2008
Friends: (251)  | City: London  | Interests: painting, travelling
Externalities
The rate of raw material consumption has rocketed over the last decade as in direct proportion to the rate of increase in consumption and population. But how come such a civilized bunch of people have no control over sustainability and welfare of the environment? Then what is the difference between a bushman and a civilized man? Both are the same I...  more...
 meenakshi sh... | 22:16 | 26/Sep/2008
Friends: (303)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: reading, writing,...
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 Think Tank | 10:34 | 28/Sep/2008
Friends: (653)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Eat healthy, Thin...
Ramayana
Researchers find everything mentioned in the Ramayana to be factually correct. One, all the dates and astronomical references made in the Ramayana are correct. Secondly, memorials are found in exact locations and memorials are built for great human beings and not for fictitious characters. Read on:  ReligionSetu SamudramBorrowed A real life hero, n...  more...
 Prudent Indian | 21:03 | 28/Sep/2008
Friends: (227)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Fighting 'politic...
My Tribute to ‘Mahendra Kapoor The Great...
Sept 27, 2008 Mahendra Kapoor ‘The Great’ passed away in Mumbai. May God rest his soul in peace. Amen! I markedly remember the very first film I saw on Theater – way back in 72 or 73 – with my Dad, that movie was ‘Purab or Paschim’. That film left an ‘indelible’ impression on my mind and the song ‘Jab Zero Diya mere Bharat Ne…’ became like an Anthe...  more...
 kavita ganguly | 22:52 | 5/Sep/2008
Friends: (339)  | City: Calcutta  | Interests: Reading, Net Surf...
When u lose a friend
Here they come again,Harder than ever beforeTears streaming down my faceMy heart becomes soreThese tears are more than just water They carry more than just hurtThey fill up my eyes,And make my vision a blurMy heart yearns to let its guard fallBut that has become my greatest fear of allFor everyone I once loved and did so much forAre drifting away, ...  more...
 Sethuraj Nair | 21:35 | 6/Jan/2008
Friends: (94)  | City: Alleppey  | Interests: Reading, Writing,...
Moony Memoir
Friends -Long time! I thank each of you who has been kind enough to notice my absence in iLand and bothered to drop a word or two in my guestbook or inbox. Thought of scribbling something. I am giving Swami a break for the moment as I don’t wish to start the New Year with a heavy post…Here is a quasi-fictional account of one my nostalgic trips on t...  more...
 Vikas Vij | 15:53 | 6/Sep/2008
Friends: (531)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Everything
God Complex
Narendra Modi's State Department of Education has issued a circular to all schools in Gujarat to watch Modi's "Teacher's Day" live address on television. The principals are warned in the circular that non-compliance due to any reason will not be tolerated. There will be surprise checks and inspections in schools to ensure that all students and teac...  more...
 Lissome Lady | 00:03 | 29/Sep/2008
Friends: (305)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Life, people, lit...
ANCHORING THE TV BANSHEE
It is almost as if the media has suddenly found its voice. And ofcourse, there is always something to screech about. After decades of fear of political backlash in the form of newsprint quotas and advertising cuts or other forms of punitive measures doled out to less than subservient reporting,  they have now found a new freedom in the glamour of g...  more...
 friendly ghost | 12:02 | 9/May/2008
Friends: (351)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Our economists & ...
Our world is coming unravelled
I'm continually amazed by a kind of public blindness to the obvious realities around us. I don't want to go into details, arguments, justifications etc. because they obscure the big picture. I don't want to talk about global warming, unsustainable growth, extinction of species etc. because they seem like distant theoretical stuff to us.I'm stating ...  more...
 PGR NAIR | 14:01 | 19/Sep/2008
Friends: (180