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Modern Gypsy

#MondayMusings: Remembering the soft animal of my body - For someone who has generally enjoyed good health, these last few years haven’t been kind. Ever since I developed a dust and pollen allergy, I’ve fallen ...
13 hours ago
Abhijit Bhaduri

Unethical behavior of a colleague – should I report it? - I have been working abroad as an IT specialist for 20 years. Under my stewardship, one of the projects, which was outsourced to an Indian company, faced ...
3 days ago
Reuters: Bollywood News

Movie Review: De De Pyaar De - Akiv Ali’s “De De Pyaar De” (Give me Love) tackles rather unusual topics for a Bollywood romantic comedy, including remarriage and a love story between an ...
3 days ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

MoT-chat #1: Interview with Zunder Lekshmanan, CTO, OpenTurf Technologies - I am teaching a course at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore starting next month titled “Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation”. Th...
3 days ago
Nishita's Rants and Raves

The Three Body Problem - I would never expect a science-fiction novel to start in 1967 in the middle of the Cultural Revolution in China. But that’s how this book..
3 days ago
My Travelogue

Mycenae & Tiryns (Peloponnese - Greece) - As I mentioned in the last post, during our WithLocals private tour, our initial stops were at Mount Lycabettus and Corinth Canal for a few moments to clic...
4 days ago
This Is My Truth

My Interview on Counter Currents - Interview with Sanjukta Basu, feminist writer and polymath I was recently approached by one Pitambar Kaushik, who wished to interview me for Feminism in In...
1 week ago
Fit As Fiddle

Indian Lifestyle Blog - Did you say Vitamin E? - Indian Lifestyle Blog - Did you say Vitamin E? Hey guys, how you all doing? I am back at writing blogs regularly. Today, I am going to talk about another ...
2 weeks ago
theindiaphile

The Insider Secret on Please Help Me Write My Essay Exposed - The Insider Secret on Please Help Me Write My Essay Exposed Please Help Me Write My Essay Explained What whatever you will require is having the the assi...
2 weeks ago
Miss_teerious

10 Zen Takeaways from Albus Dumbledore | Most Inspiring Quotes By Professor Dumbledore - I don't understand why so many people have written-off the Harry Potter books as "kiddie fiction" without even reading them! I personally find these books ...
2 weeks ago
Anindita Sengupta

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2 weeks ago
The Compulsive Confessor

Today in Photo - Me with my massive parcel from Book Chor this morning. I love used books. Books are also consuming my house, so I'm going to use their sell books option p...
3 weeks ago
Just a little Something!

Coping with life changes and enjoying the seasons - My initial emotions when contemplating yet another life changing shift was equal parts anticipation and depression/anxiety. And probably, now that I think ...
5 weeks ago
Soulful

Internet - A parent's dilemma #ChroniclesOfAnITmomma - I think it was just a year before my high school when I became curious about Internet. We didn't have it at home. We didn't have even a computer at home th...
1 month ago
Silverine - poomanam

Outsourcing - John was a colleague in the US. He was a good graphic designer. We worked together a lot and shared a lot of laughter over Zoom and beer when he came down ...
1 month ago
Life in Technicolor

Hues - *A new painting everyday,* *Hues of orange, yellow and gold,* *On the same vast blue canvas,* *As dusk falls.* [image: Related image]
2 months ago
Wilderness

Lebanon - The Paris of the Middle East - When Kunal and I first decided to go to Lebanon, we heard a few times things like – its war torn – Gaddafi land, why the middle east … Ah well, to put thi...
2 months ago
Death Ends Fun

Srinivasa Ramanujan: The 1729 Man - A math column I wrote in December 2012 for Mint, reprised here. *** What I've been doing all morning is, I've been trying to come up with some numericall...
3 months ago
Aalayam Kanden

Arutperumjothi - A journey through the life of Ramalinga Vallalar! - Arutprakasa Ramalinga Vallalar Thai Poosam - the day when Poosam star falls on a full moon day in the Tamil month of Thai, is not only celebrated by the fo...
4 months ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

Rama Ravi, Nada Inbam - Rama Ravi - Vocal Nanditha Ravi - Vocal support RK Shriram Kumar - Fiddle K Arun Prakash - Mrudangam 1 Jan 2019, 6:15 pm Nada Inbam, Ragasudha hall inta mO...
4 months ago
Alka Dwivedi

Senorita! - I can’t help smiling whenever I hear this word, senorita. Last year, I was in Rome along with my sister. We had to catch a flight back to saadi Dilli in ...
5 months ago
Clearing the clutter in the attic...

What's in a name ? - The alarm goes off and I sleepily try to snooze, when I notice that its 6:30 already and jump out of bed. I have to be out the door at 7:30. 30 minutes lat...
5 months ago
Scrambled Egg

Mismatch - It's 5AM and the clock is late, the rush to dress up and change my fate, but the wrinkle is annoying the mane, and the greys are flaying the vein, I carry ...
5 months ago
Indian food, Andhra recipes

Paal poli recipe - Paal poli recipe, a traditional South Indian sweet made during diwali, Tamil new year, Avani avittam & Krishnashtami. Deep fried pooris are soaked in reduc...
6 months ago
~A Moment Please~

FIFA Football World Cup Knockouts 2018 - It has been a fortnight since the Football World Cup 2018 commenced in Russia. 32 teams from across the world played some scintillating football in the gro...
10 months ago
Life Unlimited

Of Life & Wake Up Calls - “Writers are pretentious fucks!” He spat this at me. Right in the middle of an outrageous fight. And I laughed. “Just because you’re insecure doesn’t ma...
1 year ago
Priyashmita's Blog ...

3 sides to a story- A short story - Today’s story: Karan was unwell for quite some time. His ailing health was a matter of extreme worry for both his wife Rani and his daughter Radhika. He h...
1 year ago
Piccolo Posts

Madhya Pradesh: A Hearty Affair - This post might be the happiest thing in the world today because this post was in draft mode for more than an year now. But I didn’t give up on it because ...
1 year ago
Akshiva's Blog

CT2017 - Ind v/s Pak - Pak wins match, loses respect - A snapshot from my Facebook post :Last night the hype got better of me & I ended up paying a very large amount (by my standards) for a ticket to watch toda...
1 year ago
typos, gravity and other mishaps

The Political Is Personal - *First on the Wire.* In *Between the World and Me*, Ta-Nehisi Coates writes, 'All our phrasing – race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profil...
1 year ago
The Yogi Zone

Water, water, everywhere... - *…. and I don’t know how to fucking swim!* I am sure it’s quite normal to have nightmares of dying a gruesome death. I am not sure, though, if such nightm...
2 years ago
Wannabauthor's Stories

The Mall - The dog is looking at me. His eyes, they seem to see right into my soul. I am not great at prolonged eye contact even with humans. So a dog, a menacing loo...
2 years ago
John P Matthew on Writing and Life!

Book Review: I Dreamt a Horse Fell Through the Sky by Adil Jussawala - When I was in college (oh! Those mis-spent days!) I had a free supply of magazines through a friend’s dad who worked in G. Claridge & Co., the press that...
2 years ago
Notes from wherever I happen to be...

A house in Gola - The wall art - fabulous to me, mundane, routine at Gola. Don't miss the happy (drunk I think) elephant!
2 years ago
I Like कला

Christmas Ornament Cards - [image: Handmade, Christmas Cards, Holiday Cards, Greeting cards, Blank Christmas Cards set, Christmas Ornament Cards, with Envelopes - SET OF 4] On my Ets...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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 ...
3 years ago
Confessions Of The Chocolate Obsessed

verylaterealization - I guess I should probably have left a note over here as well. CoCO has moved, lovelies.
3 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years 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...
4 years 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!...
4 years ago
Aadab Hyderabad

I See You {Day 13} - At an attar stall outside the Mecca Masjid.
4 years ago
Epicgrammatic

I Am Not Pregnant - An Open Letter - Dear Concerned Friends, (Does not concern family) It's been less than two years since the white dress, tiered cake and the rest of the typical Goan Catho...
4 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 ...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
7 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...
7 years ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

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Queen's Quill

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S. Krishna's Books

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