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 01:04 | 31/May/2008
Prayer
आता विश्वì 6;त्मके देवे येणे वागयदê 4;े तोषावí 5; तॉशोवê 4;ी मज द्याë... 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...
 16:02 | 7/Mar/2008
Another Story..
http://ibnlive.com/news/displaced-kerala -adivasis-vow-fight-to-finish/60665-3.ht mlAm going to share a different story..not going to re-produce the same news..mean while you may browse this link..am facing the problem with the clip...First of all, the picture in this blog post is that of Mr. Om Puri might be from the film 'Ardhasatya', I liked the f... more...
 19:34 | 5/Mar/2008
Salute to you Sir...
I am re-producing the news (without the permission of CNNIBN.COM)which I just read on www.ibnlive.com which is present on the following link.I could not stop myself cause the fellow and villegers has saved nearly 80,000 trees (approx cost 300 INR *80000=240 Crores).Congratualtions to Mr. Darbal and all those unknown faces who has achieved this goal... more...
 16:08 | 29/Feb/2008
Sandwitch Part 4..Tea and Tea Time in be...
Then...I stopped sandwitch and sandwitching others...Hmmmm...and now talking about tea......credit goes to partners, you and me ofcourse...and slowly going to share what I experience in due course..from sandwithch to tea and again from tea to sandwitch...so enjoy the tea and tea time at the moment..The Tea - now universal drink..That once upon a ti... more...
 19:04 | 23/Jan/2008
Do you know Gangan and his friends
Hi Friends,Do you know what is meant by Gangan, where it is, how does it look like :-)Yes... Good..:-)Gagan means sky...blue sky...blue..blue...The blue umberalla made by the God for all of us..:-)Birds and aeroplane flies in the sky..!!No..Gagan means a natural shower for rain, sunlight, moonlight...!!!But..we can search our image in the sky using... more...
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 Subhransu | 09:06 | 15/Jun/2008
Friends: (145)  | City: Tokyo  | Interests: Computer
Hilario...
Banta has a cross-eyed bull that keeps bumping into things. He calls up to vet to try to remedy the problem.The vet says, "I think the best thing is to stick a pipe up his ass and blow real hard and the bulls' eyes will straighten out."The vet - a 70 year old man - inserts the pipe and blows. The bulls'eyes begin to straighten, but the vet soon loo...  more...
 Rakhee | 12:56 | 21/Jun/2008
Friends: (64)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: music ,film,danc...
AYAKAAKI
RAATRI NISITHE, ANDHAKAARE DHUSAR PRAANTARE ,  OOEE                                               KE   GO  TUMI  AYKAA  DAARIYE KAAR PRATIKHYAI , KISER AASAY , KON KAAMONAI,                                                 ROYECHHO  TUMI DU HAAT  BAARIYE DRISTI  TOMAAR  SUDUR PANE , DURE  OOEE  AAKASHE                                    JETHAAI  MIS...  more...
 Vish Iyer | 09:28 | 5/Jun/2008
Friends: (201)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading, Sports, ...
11 things you won't learn in school
Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school.  He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it! Rule 2: The world...  more...
 Krishna Prasad | 14:53 | 14/Jun/2008
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An Autobiography of a Goat!
An Autobiography of a Goat! Like other animals, after traversing through many rebirths, when, after living in my mother’s womb for five months, I took birth, I found world, a nice and pleasant place to live in. Man and his little children treated me with all kindness and affection, held me in their laps and fed me with their hands with tender green...  more...
 Vaidehi | 01:44 | 16/Jun/2008
Friends: (349)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music, internet, ...
Adjustment versus Attitude
Months ago, I had written about a friend trapped in a miserable marriage and how much I feel sorry for her etc.If you remember that post and ever wondered what happened to her..well she continues to live with her husband and continues to go through the torture. Recently, she reached a point of break-down due to all the mental stress and tried to ki...  more...
 medha N | 19:29 | 23/Apr/2008
Friends: (196)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Love music, paint...
I, Me, Mine! Why?
My dad always told-"there is just a hairline difference between a genius and a mad" and both of them actually never realized that they were one of these. The best part is that all others out their thought themselves either to be a genius or a mad. Now if they really realize that they are either of these then I bet they are actually nothing.I am wri...  more...
 Anuja Goel | 16:02 | 18/Apr/2008
Friends: (41)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: music, singing, r...
A Child in Jaipur
This is something I had written a few years back, dont remember exactly when in my diary. Since I am feeling too lazy to write anything new, I thought Id keep my posting active by adding some old stuff:)                                                      A child in JaipurSince the only thing I have done enough to write home about is travel, I am t...  more...
 ekantapadhika | 16:34 | 1/Jun/2008
Friends: (158)  | City: NOIDA  | Interests: sab kuchh aur kuc...
Come, walk with me in the mountains
      There is something about the abiding beauty and grandeur of the Himalayas that makes you addicted to it , having even once seen any of its ranges. That is what goaded me once again to enroll for the KedarKanta trek organised by the Youth Hostel Association of India, in spite of my lingering apprehensions about my aging knees and blood pressur...  more...
 ratul banerjee | 00:30 | 15/Jun/2008
Friends: (93)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: writing, listenin...
I OWE U SOMETHING ...
   I  owe u something , if not everything in life    Lest be vanquished, and perished beneath the pressures of stressful life    Lest destiny does ourselves apart    I wanna say that I owe u something ….      To u, my friend , I owe u love    I owe u respect and faith    Coz whenever I sought a little help and asked u for it    U enveloped me in ur...  more...
 rani mukerjee | 18:53 | 3/Mar/2008
Friends: (144)  | City: Allahabad  | Interests: reading,travelling
bye
bye guys.i m leaving this iland.thanks for your support.bye.  more...
 Indigo Iris | 11:32 | 9/Jun/2008
Friends: (63)  | City: terra firma  | Interests: poems,country mus...
Come Hither....
Little by little they moved awayEvery single of them who were in the fraySome of them whizzed swiftly pastA harried look I saw them castNot so long ago they had sweetly ambled hereWith a smile  at hand, without a fearThen came those nights of dizzying heightsWhere thoughts took one to fancy flightsDid you reach the stars in your dreams so gay?I'd n...  more...
 Solidus | 17:58 | 18/Jun/2008
Friends: (260)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: http://openmedia....
Law of Nature
In the editing phase yet...The natural cycle is a wonderful process. The Nature would recycle each and every element or object and set everything at its place whatever is disturbed by US HUMAN BEINGS.Since ages, exploitation of the environmental resources has been highly in excess. By excavation, mining, movement of dense matter i.e. cement, rocks,...  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: (57)  | City: Parbhani  | Interests: Music
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 amit goel | 16:15 | 20/Jun/2008
Friends: (50)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: BBC (blah, boo, ...
Need for a New Religion
Religion is the universal tool for explaining things which we do not understand in the context of the physical world. From the earliest known evidence of human beings around 100,000 years ago to the present day, religion continues to be a very influential aspect of human lives. There are numerous challenges and problems specific to location and soc...  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 | 10:56 | 9/Jun/2008
Friends: (286)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Photography,Trave...
Kashmir shaivism(trikha philosophy)
Kashmir Shaivism(trika philosophy) "Let Shiva, who is my Self, let Shiva do pranam (bow down) to his real nature – to Universal Shiva, by his own Shakti, for removing the bondage and limitation, which is Shiva." BY Swami laksmanjoo"Trika philosophy is situated in the heart of that supreme energy of God consciousness. It teaches you to realize that ...  more...
 Freedom Unbound | 16:52 | 19/Apr/2008
Friends: (18)  | City: India  | Interests: Varied
Formal Worship
 (These extracts are from a lecture delivered by Vivekananda  in San Francisco on, April 10, 1900. I dedicate this post to my dear friends Lissome Lady, Jolly Jacob and Prachi Dublay who will find some of their thoughts being echoed here)All of you who are students of the Bible . . . .understand that the whole [of] Jewish history and Jewish" though...  more...
 A M Daniel | 17:35 | 21/May/2008
Friends: (481)  | 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 | 09:34 | 14/Jun/2008
Friends: (284)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: Everything that m...
What do you understand from this???
} Friendship does not happen with Special People…     …People become Special after becoming Friends… ~         …Right???         What do you understand from this???   …   …   …   …   …   You were born Ordinary …     … I made you Special .           … Bas yaar , thanks dene ki zarurat nehi hai … J  more...
 psychologist... | 14:59 | 18/Jun/2008
Friends: (50)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: India-- Behind th...
PGB, India and "Confusion"
Confusion....exists world wide...........in India, its more.....Why? PGB Bonks "Where relationships supply oxygen, theres bound to be more confusion..BPD, Codependence and the Dance of Schizophrenia"..............I want you but when I get u I dont want you, when you go away I again want you.............Cycle of birth and rebirth goes on in India as...  more...
 hakotiankar ... | 18:45 | 15/Jun/2008
Friends: (60)  | City: Aligarh  | Interests: writing, spiritua...
Meditative state “Turiya” continued 2.
 One of the stages we may experience in dawning of meditationMany of us may experience this and other, revealed by enlightened persons but they are not necessarily a requirement as per any universal rule. Many of us will experience this after reading this article as we will anticipate this, this is natural. Reading experiences written or heard of o...  more...
 RENUKADAS KA... | 14:04 | 21/Apr/2008
Friends: (179)  | 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: (99)  | 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 | 13:44 | 3/Jun/2008
Friends: (247)  | City: London  | Interests: painting, travelling
June 5th
As you all know June 5th is World Environment Day, I guess I should be doing something, rather than wait for things to happen! I would want to urge everyone to stop using ‘PLASTIC BAGS’, I know many of you would be responding by saying “What?”, its hard and I am not asking you to stop using them all of a sudden, anything and everything takes time t...  more...
 meenakshi sh... | 17:47 | 30/Apr/2008
Friends: (241)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: reading, writing,...
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 Think Tank | 20:58 | 19/Jun/2008
Friends: (570)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Eat healthy, Thin...
Make the glass fu!!
Life V2Happy Puppies :)  The locality where I live in is a mini-Gujarat; it has a large population of Gujaratis and Jains. I love it :) OK, I love to see the men in dhotis going to the temples in the early mornings (and some times their young kids in cute little dhotis too), their beautiful temples, and the best: their dairy shops! As such, many of...  more...
 Prudent Indian | 21:57 | 8/May/2008
Friends: (218)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Fighting 'politic...
My Last Post .
Updated, on May,22nd,2008 @ 9.31PM ‘All Sikhs’ were ‘Murderers of Indira Gandhi’. Hence, 1984 is justified, implies Arjun Singh? May 22, 2008 by theprudentindian UPDATED, on May 14th, 2008 @ 12.03 PMDear ilanders, I am updating my last post in the wake of ‘serial bomb blasts’ in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan. More than a Post, following u...  more...
 kavita ganguly | 21:38 | 19/Jun/2008
Friends: (314)  | City: Calcutta  | Interests: Reading, Net Surf...
A walk in the Rain
Monsoons have arrived in Kerala, I informed my Mom. Time to get our monsoon gear ready. Oh it will take at least 3 days to reach us, my mother assured me, firmly convinced that the monsoon will be boarding the Howrah-Trivandrum Express. Thus assuaged, I went off to sleep with no rainy thoughts clouding my brain.   I lay, slumbering peacefully, lull...  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...
 Divyani | 08:00 | 11/Jun/2008
Friends: (221)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: bus yu he
Sarkar Raj And 3:10 to Yuma
Sarkar Raj And 3:10 to Yuma: One of my co-worker, who also has become a dear friend and brother, rushed to me on Friday afternoon and said “Sarkar Raj has got rave reviews….lets go Di…lets book the tickets online lest we reach theatre and the show is sold out”.  He was so excited and jumbing up and down that it kinda rubbed off on me as well.  So w...  more...
 Vikas Vij | 14:41 | 17/May/2008
Friends: (526)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Everything
Of a Happy Life
[Written in context of the various criticisms that Amitabh Bachchan has been facing ever since he became a fellow-blogger.]OF A HAPPY LIFEFacing personal vilification and condemnation is the exclusive privilege of men of eminence. They thrive on it, and it only makes their positions stronger.  Whether it is the timeless heroes like Socrates or Jesu...  more...
 Lissome Lady | 23:10 | 17/Jun/2008
Friends: (269)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Life, people, lit...
ARRESTING THE LAW
 Crime and law are partners bound by vigorous handcuffs. They are two sides of the same coin – opposites, linked so inextricably, that the boundaries seem to blur and like Orwell’s pig and man one cannot tell which is which.  Nowhere is this seamless blending more true than in India where the seats of administration and thereby law are densely occu...  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 | 02:25 | 19/Jun/2008
Friends: (174)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Literature, Cinem...
GARDEN IN THE SKY
    (This blog is an elaboration based on more information gathered from web on a blog on the same subject posted by Amit Goel Saab (Refer: http://hexa6.rediffiland.com/scr ipts/xanadu_home_view.php). His blog is very succinct and more effective. Being a Speaker, elaboration comes natural to my tongue and my pen. His blog deeply impressed me . As we...  more...
 V T | 11:10 | 30/May/2008
Friends: (169)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Hoi Polloi & Riff...
Oh Rajni!
Sorry folks, a bit tied up these days; work, travel and all. Nothing new to post, just an old mail forward. It’s a humble tribute to the great Rajnikant. Hats off the true Rajni fan who complied this list of His achievements.• There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of creatures Rajnikant has allowed to live.• Outer space exists because it's a...  more...
 DrHarmeet Singh | 11:15 | 21/Jun/2008
Friends: (1320)  | City: Birmingham  | Interests: Having a good laugh