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Subho Mahalaya! - Mahalaya. Mahishashur Mardini on AIR with ma at early early am. Then what a great idea to go to Prinsep Ghat. Only so did a lot of others. Many many others...
16 hours ago
My Travelogue

Brussels Flower Carpet (Brussels - Belgium) - Earlier the plan was to visit Brussels in June. I was about to book the ticket too. Somehow by sheer luck I came to know of the Brussels Flower Carpet fest...
20 hours ago
Nishita's Rants and Raves

Hangover - Hangover on 12th Main Road in *Indra Nagar* celebrated its first anniversary recently, and they did it in style with a lovely printed invite to our house...
20 hours ago
~A Moment Please~

What's In A Comma ? - Punctuation, I am sure, has troubled all of us during our English examinations. Comma, the simple punctuation, would have been the second easiest of the ...
1 day ago
The Compulsive Confessor

Today in Photo - Saw this broken down old house on the way to lunch and thought I'd go all Secret Garden with it. Well.. It was a sort of secret garden, a large bird flutt...
2 days ago
Just a little Something!

Mammoth Lakes Adventure: The Walk - This picture pretty much sums up the challenge that lay ahead of us. The swim was done and I had survived the biking – it was now time for the final leg. A...
2 days ago
Modern Gypsy

What is the difference between Tarot and Oracle cards - This is a common question that many people ask when they’re starting out on an inner quest – Tarot Cards or Oracle Cards – which are better? How are they...
3 days ago
Abhijit Bhaduri

How digital is disrupting careers - Could a tsunami be nature’s way of warning us about massive changes? Look at the timing of the four tsunamis. 1782 and 1883 roughly coincide with the fir...
5 days ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

My 3 take-aways from Edgar Schein’s “Humble Consulting” - Prof. Edgar Schein’s book “Process consulting” was published in the year I was born – 1969. Since then he has been refining the concept over the past five...
5 days ago
Fit As Fiddle

Travel Diaries - Venice, Italy, Europe 2016 (4) - Travel Diaries - Venice, Italy, Europe 2016 (4) Here is a new post in continuation to my previous blogpost: Venice Diaries. I didn't want to make it too lo...
6 days ago
This Is My Truth

Photo story on Nizamuddin Basti Published in The Diplomat Magazine - Originally posted on Sanjukta Basu | Photography: I am very proud to share that two of my photos got published in The Diplomat magazine as part of a photo ...
6 days ago
Life Unlimited

Of Mumbai Rickshaws and a Few Good Men - My rather rocky relationship with Mumbai rickshaws goes back six years, ever since I stepped into Andheri West and realized that while Mumbai ricks are ...
1 week ago
John P Matthew on Writing and Life!

Book Review: Junkland Journeys, as Whacky as Ajith Pillai Can Get! - Junkland Journeys, Ajith Pillai, Author Upfront, Rs 325 Here’s an author, a former senior editor of Outlook, who can beat the s*** out of the dudelit ma...
1 week ago
Amreekandesi.com

Open Letter to PM Modi - Dear Modiji, Back in 2014 when India overwhelmingly voted for you, we voted in the belief that the aspirations of modern India would now be met. That we wo...
1 week ago
Soulful

#wow - She opened a blank notebook.. - She opened a blank notebook And started writing her story It was no fiction, nor a folklore Nor anecdotes of romantic glory Para after para, pages after p...
1 week ago
Miss_teerious

When Kids go Shopping... Alone! - Having a neighborhood stationery store means that more than 50% of your customers will be kids. School-going kids. Sometimes even just 4-year-olds. Shoppin...
1 week ago
Piccolo Posts

Lost (Haiku) - *Everything is so calm.Where are you? Come and whisper,Tell me where am I.* All is normal but still she feels like she is lost without him in sight. She ...
1 week ago
Anindita Sengupta

Tales and Poems of the Feminine Divine - A poem of mine, ‘Shakti’ which is also in City of Water, is in a new anthology published by Bibliotheca Alexandrina which is a library and cultural center ...
2 weeks ago
Life in Technicolor

Crimson - It came out of nowhere, Creeping about on the roofs & walls, They tried cutting it, to stop it from growing. But spread it did, entwining itself on the bra...
2 weeks ago
Aalayam Kanden

Nara Simham! - The Malluru Narasimha Swamy Temple EntranceIt was over two years ago, that a devout follower of Aalayam Kanden called me to speak about the Malluru Narasi...
2 weeks ago
typos, gravity and other mishaps

Book Blurbing - *First on Scroll. * Rumour has it that when Robert Frost was once asked, ‘What’s your poem about?’, he replied, ‘Read it.’ Not everyone has the luxury of b...
5 weeks ago
C'est La Vie

From The Heart - हमारा व्यवहार गणित के 'शून्य' की तरह होना चाहिये जो स्वयं कोई कीमत नहीं रखता लेकिन दूसरों के साथ जुड़नें पर, उसकी 'कीमत' बढ़ा देता है!:) सच्चाई वो दीया है...
1 month ago
Scrambled Egg

BackClock - The butterfly gave her colors away,And the bee forsake their sting the breeze lifted the dunes,and the lyrics set out to find their tunes. Roses drained th...
2 months ago
Akshiva's Blog

EU referendum - really that bad? Or something structurally wrong in the UK democratic methodology - Much has been said in the last couple of days about this topic.So my remit in this post is not to justify whether the events unfolding in the UK (It is sti...
3 months ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

Gayathri Venkataraghavan, Sri Rama Samaj - What was once an everyday affair has now become a rare occasion. Well, not exactly everyday, but, certainly it was close to every other. With changes in li...
3 months ago
Indian food, Andhra recipes

Broken wheat upma recipe - Broken wheat upma is a quick, tasty & easy breakfast or evening tiffin made with godhuma rava aka cracked wheat or dalia. How to make broken wheat upma rec...
3 months ago
The New Age Bard

Czy ekologicznesztachety Winylowe na ogrodzenie i furtkę ze sztachetek są wspaniale - Czy ekoplot PVC na plot i furtę ze sztachetek są doskonale Obecnie na czasie jest trend bycia eko, ale czy ten trend racjonalne wytłumaczenie w każdej dom...
4 months ago
I Like कला

Mughal painting for sale- Man and Woman on an Elephant Gouache Painting 10x10 - This gouache painting was done on wood. Its now on sale at the etsy shop It's 10in X 10in X 2In. Perfect for any room. Here is a close up of the painti...
4 months ago
The Yogi Zone

Is emptiness your toy? - Not the sea, nor the fair, No, not the missed stair; Not the fun, nor the sun, Not even her messed up hair; Not the talk, nor the shout, It isn't the whi...
4 months ago
Wannabauthor's Stories

Indian Mothers and their Love affair with Gold - Have you ever had a conversation with your Mom which turned into a full fledged Q&A about gold jewellery? Have you ever marveled at their astounding memor...
5 months ago
cribb.in : for a social cause | India

Vodafone 4G speed test - 4G in general is supposed to give more than 10 times the 3G speeds. Essentially in India, we should be getting anywhere from 20-40mbps of download speed on...
6 months ago
Weakest Link

A Weakest opinion for a strongest debate - Video: https://youtu.be/YEgN8piTg8A I started this post to socially share my opinion around the video but after seeing its sheer size I thought to blog i...
6 months ago
Death Ends Fun

The watch and the film star - The question I have is, should I blame the film star? I played tennis with him this evening. Good session, apart from two things. One, I can't get my mind ...
7 months ago
Epicgrammatic

Heart of Stone -
7 months ago
Wilderness

Koh Samui never aged ! - Koh Samui…is like that cool uncle who never aged… I first fell in love with Koh Samui when I was all but 18. At almost 30 now I can say, Koh Samui rather...
7 months ago
Sentimientos

The End - Ah. I was 20 when I started this blog. 4 years. It's hard to believe it's been that long because I feel the same old struggle when I come up here to expre...
7 months ago
Otiose Opinions

Marry me! - I have been hearing too many stories about bad marriages lately that relationships and marriages have began to scare me. I don't dream about a prince charm...
8 months ago
Monologue

5 Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Traveling - If Travel Was free, You'd Never See Me Again! - Anonymous, but could easily have been me. I did not travel much as a kid, but I loved the idea of going to ...
8 months ago
Priyashmita's Blog ...

Parenting…#7 - Catch my latest blog post at http://worldasisee.com/parenting7/Filed under: Conversations, Parenting, Personal, Uncategorized Tagged: burnol, dad, learning...
8 months ago
S&T in Developing Economies

ALL CLEAR: FeedMedic Alert for blogspot/BjjF - Your Source Feed, http://shurjo.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss, is now working fine. Carry on! We will let you know if anything bad happens in ...
9 months ago
Alka Dwivedi

Carry A Bag - One day, I was reading my Twitter timeline and saw one message retweeted by someone. It carried photographs of Prabhu Ghat of Varanasi, Prime Minister, N...
9 months ago
theindiaphile

Our Review of the Strangler Vine by M. J. Carter - For anyone yet to discover the superb The Strangler Vine: The Blake and Avery Mystery Series (Book 1) by M. J. Carter, this really is one of the best pie...
1 year ago
Roads

The one that stayed - The one that stayed! We lived in parallel worlds, on paths that seldom collide, It took us apart, in the orbits afar, for years we lived, with goodwill we ...
1 year ago
Confessions Of The Chocolate Obsessed

verylaterealization - I guess I should probably have left a note over here as well. CoCO has moved, lovelies.
1 year ago
Silverine - poomanam

Of Rice and Men - It was a Monday morning meeting and I was waiting in the conference room for the Senior Product Manager (PM) to make an arrival. He was usually punctual. I...
1 year ago
Blah..blah..blah...

He said yes. - It’s been a while since I wrote about the developments in my family, hasn't it? Well, here’s the gist. Cousin B got hitched a while back and it’s now Cousi...
1 year ago
Brown Penny

Zero Gravity - Standing at the same intersection of life, yet again, I see.. Hurtful memories come gushing back, weakening me in the knee. I am 7, I wake up with the soun...
1 year ago
Akshayapaatram

My DIY Spice Blend - Dear Foodies, Yet again its been a silent few months here though I most certainly promised myself it wouldn't be that way. I've still been cooking a lot fo...
1 year ago
2point6billion.com - Investment in Asia

Xiaomi Shipped 60 Million Smartphones in 2014 - Xiaomi’s rapid rise has recently been confirmed by the figures released by the company itself: it sold more than three times as many smartphones in 2014 as...
1 year ago
Reuters: Bollywood News

Global stocks shrug off Greek jitters - LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices were anchored near five-year lows and Germany's benchmark government bond yield fell to a record low on Wednesday as concerns...
1 year ago
Newsmericks

My Tryst with the Ice Bucket Challenge - "I've tagged you to pour on your head A bucket of ice," my pal said. I thought she was teasing, But --SPLASH-- I was freezing, And now I am laid up in bed!...
2 years ago
Aadab Hyderabad

I See You {Day 13} - At an attar stall outside the Mecca Masjid.
2 years ago
Ultra Violet (Feminism)

Feminist Interventions on Gender and South Asia: Conference Highlights - South Asia by the Bay: Graduate Conference 2014, UC Santa Cruz, May 2-3, 2014 Image by Sheba Chhachhi. A full program awaited attendees of this year’s ...
2 years ago
Chhaya Path

Gender Migration and Sexual Abuse and Exploitation - I find the commonly used term ‘migration’ highly political in nature. In humanitarian crisis parlance it refers to “the movements of refugees and internall...
2 years ago
Shwetal's Space

Standing the test of time - Colours of Love Pic Courtesy: Google Images He cradled me in his arms. I cooed. He threw me up in the air. I laughed. I knew he would catch me; never l...
2 years ago
Verbosity

Changes - One Mr. Narayan Shankar in a Bollywood blockbuster ‘Mohabattein’ emphatically declares – “I don’t like Changes” in 2001, I was a young 20-year-old guy then...
2 years ago
Clearing the clutter in the attic...

Why, amma, why ?! - My day began like any other day. After a good breakfast and a short nap, I dressed in new clothes and got ready for my daily walk. The weather was sunny an...
2 years ago
Within / Without

Thanks Madhu Menon! - A bad case of spam injection, and me unleashed on the ftp meant that pretty much everything in the blog was lost for a little bit. I struggled, read up thi...
4 years ago
Unruled Notebook

Madras Music Season Essay in The Hindu - The 2011 Madras Music Season throats; so does the reviews from critics. A breather on the light side of Carnatic music Of concert lists and rasikas’ quirks...
4 years ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

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