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Nishita's Rants and Raves

A great day in Udaipur - In late July, I had a work trip to Noida. After a hard but exciting week of meetings, my friend and I decided a weekend break in Udaipur was necessary to...
5 days ago
The Compulsive Confessor

The Internet Personified: All The Tourism I Did With My Mother In Berlin RANKED! - Delicious doughnuts (or, as they’re known here: *pfannkuchens*, which translates into “pancakes” which is not a very descriptive word for a doughnut), M...
5 days ago
Newsmericks

India's Moon Landing - 23/08/2023 - The feat held us all captivated,Our eyes on our screens, we all waited...And then -- what a boon,We’re there on the moon!A witness, to history created.On ...
3 weeks ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

Tracing mindfulness word to its Pali/Sanskrit counterparts: Sati and Vipassanā - In my workshops on mindfulness, it is common to get the question, “How is the mindfulness you teach related to Buddhist practices?” So far, my answer has...
3 weeks ago
Soulful

What's in the name? Tell me about it. - ‘Ram’, I suddenly called my colleague in a group call as I struggled recalling his preferred name. I confess I am poor with remembering names and worse ...
1 month ago
My Travelogue

Top 5 Indoor activities to do in Brussels in Summer 2023 with kids - This article first appeared in My Travelogue by Bhushavali Quite amusingly, after a very short 2-week-long Spring Season, this year's hot summer existed fo...
1 month ago
This Is My Truth

My Work On The Questions of Gender And Space, Women and Public Space and Spatial Justice - My work on Gender and Space (the travel and photography project I did in five Indian Metro Cities which was published by Firstpost) was mentioned in an EPW...
2 months ago
Aalayam Kanden

Nepal Yathra - Part III - Temples of Pokhara - Our next stop was Pokhara . It was our base station before we set out to Jomsom and from there to Muktinath. Pokhara is the capital of the Gandaki Provin...
2 months ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

Seetha Narayanan, Nada Inbam - Seetha Narayanan - Usha Rajagopalan - J Vaidhyanathan - G Ravichandran Nada Inbam, Ragasudha Hall 14 Jan 2023, 6:15 pm Tamil New Year concert sadAsi...
5 months ago
Scrambled Egg

Sands of time - The scorching sun follows me Hot dunes burn my feet I know you are waiting for me As I leave the last oasis. A grain of sand tears my skin The mi...
10 months ago
Wilderness

Morocco - Have u ever been to a place that you only visited – but then decided to make it your home like British singer Raisa Kelly did ? Morocco’s the kind of pl...
11 months ago
Notes from wherever I happen to be...

A suitably (heavy) book - Standout event of 1993 was possibly Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy! I was still a student and my pockets weren't that deep. All the world was a buzz with the...
11 months ago
Wannabauthor's Stories

The Dilemma - Way back in 1984, Cochin airport was located within the Cochin Naval Base premises. Indian Airlines operated an international flight from Sharjah to Cochin...
2 years ago
Modern Gypsy

Book review: In A Deep Dark Wood by Tina Pritchard - What she saw in the wood would change her life forever... While walking her dog Buddy in the woods behind her house, Fran stumbles upon a scene that will c...
2 years ago
Anindita Sengupta

Poems online - Hi. Here are some poems of mine published in journals and available to read online. Please click on the links to read. In most cases,…
2 years ago
Otiose Opinions

Book Blitz - Bewitched by Ruchi Singh - *Genre*: Contemporary Romance, Mythology, Folklore *Blurb*: *The eternal dance of attraction, lust and love has been going on since time immemorial. *...
2 years ago
Abhijit Bhaduri

Types, Fonts, Rifts and Charts – Issue No 20 - Pro tip: After you make the charts, pause to annotate them. Think of them as a whisper in the ear of the decision maker. The post Types, Fonts, Rifts and...
2 years ago
Death Ends Fun

Song of the Dodo, Resident of the Moon - So I just finished David Quammen’s *The Song of the Dodo*. An intricate, fascinating, sweeping book on many different levels that I highly recommend. My...
3 years ago
Silverine - poomanam

The Covidiot Managers -
3 years ago
Piccolo Posts

Work From Home and The Boss - It would not be wrong to say that Work from home is the new buzzword in the town. Most of us in the IT sector are doing this and yes, it's quite comfort...
3 years ago
typos, gravity and other mishaps

'As Popular As Pin-Up Girls' - First published in *Scroll*. *By definition, world-changing events change the world, but we don’t necessarily see the shape of these changes until we are e...
3 years ago
Clearing the clutter in the attic...

Can you save everyone ? - I am tired.... tired of funerals.... tired of hospitals.... tired of flying home with a pit in my stomach.... But I don't have the time or luxury to feel so...
3 years ago
The Yogi Zone

Of Woke Liberalism, and other such maladies - Remember the time when being liberal meant you were more tolerant, accepting, rational, and empathetic? Me neither. While that is what exactly it means in...
3 years ago
Miss_teerious

How To Choose The Best Blogging Platform | Wordpress Vs. Blogger Compared - One of the biggest challenges in starting a blog is, perhaps, deciding which blogging platform to choose. There are many options available: Wordpress, Blog...
3 years ago
Ultra Violet (Feminism)

Hello world - Welcome to wiki This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
3 years ago
theindiaphile

Discover Exquisite Attaritative Girls For You - You will find beautiful Attaritative girls suitable for you online. Web based Deliver Buy Wedding brides is very simple to get. Actually it is typically ...
4 years ago
Reuters: Bollywood News

Movie Review: Chhichhore - “Chhichhore” opens with a group of men running to playfully douse each other with water in what is supposed to be an initiation ritual of sorts. The men lo...
4 years ago
cribb.in : for a social cause | India

Best biotin tablets in India - There are a plethora of brands from whom you can buy biotin in India, however not all brands are cut from the same cloth and not all biotin supplements are...
4 years ago
Life in Technicolor

A Reminiscence: Part 1 - Sometimes, it just takes a trigger for nostalgia to hit you hard. A couple of days back, a song I heard made me quite emotional- the lyrics, they seemed ...
4 years 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 ...
4 years 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 ...
4 years 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...
4 years 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...
5 years 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...
5 years 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...
5 years 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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 ...
7 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 ...
8 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.
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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...
8 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 internal...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
Epicgrammatic

Chineese Toast For Breakfast - Everyone loves good French toast, goodness knows we do. But sometimes a little bit of Oriental ingredients can add that extra zing to your breakfast. Chi...
10 years ago
Aadab Hyderabad

Hazrat Syed Moosa Shah Qadri Dargah - Walking along the Hussaini Alam road, you will spot this huge gateway: Behind it, stands the beautiful dargah of Sufi saint Hazrat Syed Moosa Shah Qadri. ...
10 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...
11 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...
11 years ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

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Utpal Vaishnav on Project Mgt

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Sentimientos

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S&T in Developing Economies

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Queen's Quill

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Alka Dwivedi

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S. Krishna's Books

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Awesome Indian Cuisine

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