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~A Moment Please~

The Art Of Persuasion - Read this interesting article today in The Economic Times. ~~~ *Effective persuasion involves four steps. * *First, effective persuaders establish credibil...
1 hour ago
S. Krishna's Books

Book Review: The Vacationers – Emma Straub - Title: The Vacationers Author: Emma Straub ISBN: 9781594631573 Pages: 304 Release Date: May 29, 2014 Publisher: Riverhead Books Genre: Contemporary Fict...
4 hours ago
Nishita's Rants and Raves

Top Ten Tuesdays: Ten Authors I’ve Read the Most - Today, the bloggers at The Broke and the Bookish have asked us to list ten authors we own the most books of. I don’t...
4 hours ago
Life Unlimited

Manic Monsoon - She heard the whistle, and the muttered words, and felt the lusting eyes on her as she passed him on the street. She clutched her umbrella and marched o...
12 hours ago
John P Matthew on Writing and Life!

Today's Maid: a Case of Reverse Exploitation - This is something I am writing with great reluctance. Cases of people abusing/overworking their maids are many. But our maid has been abusing us and taking...
1 day ago
Confessions Of The Chocolate Obsessed

Lack of Lustre - I washed the clothes. I did the dishes. I scrubbed the kitchen floor to a shine. And I picked up the groceries. Then I sat down and riffled through the stac...
1 day ago
Monologue

Black Magic - I have a love affair with the word desire. And the color black is my lifeline. Black is modest and arrogant at the same time, Black is lazy and easy...
3 days ago
My Travelogue

Armenian Church (Chennai - Tamil Nadu) - Long back when I was designing a tee depicting 6 different icons of Chennai, like expanding an abbreviation i.e 'MADRAS'. And to depict one of the 'A', I d...
3 days ago
2point6billion.com - Investment in Asia

Corporate Governance Challenges in Asia-Pacific - Regulatory compliance issues and a lack of secure business communication processes are among the key challenges in corporate governance faced by companies ...
3 days ago
Indian food, Andhra recipes

Coconut Sevai - Coconut sevai recipe aka thengai sevai is one of the tastiest easy tiffin recipes among the many South Indian breakfast menu items.Coconut Idiyappam recipe...
5 days ago
typos, gravity and other mishaps

Ophelia as Fulcrum - *My next column for The Sunday Guardian.* I wrote, in my last column, of the relationship between Hamlet and Gertrude. I am an old fan of the prince of Den...
5 days ago
C'est La Vie

Very True -
5 days ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

Rama Ravi, DKJ Foundation & Nada Inbam - Rama Ravi & Nandita Ravi - RK Shriram Kumar - J Vaidhyanathan 19th July 2014, Raga Sudha Hall DKJ Foundation & Nada Inbam intha mODi - sArangA varNam muddu...
5 days ago
Akshayapaatram

Summer Breakfast Parfait - Dear Foodies, I will forever be envious of those who can pause in the morning to make themselves a good breakfast before getting started with their day. I ...
6 days ago
Unruled Notebook

பேராசிரியத்துவம் - நாளைக்கு ஒரு கிளாஸ் எடுப்பியா? அப்பறம் ஃப்ரீதானே, போரடிக்காதா? இப்பதான் செமஸ்டர் முடிஞ்சிருத்தே, ஃப்ரீதானே, தினம் என்ன பண்ணுவ? கிளாஸும் கெடயாது, சும்மாதானே...
1 week ago
Fit As Fiddle

India Couture Week 2014 - Day 3 Highlights - The India Couture week 2014 – Day 3 India Couture Week presented by Shree Raj Mahal Jewelers has started with a bang and left us spellbound with the dra...
1 week ago
Just a little Something!

Forays into the forest: Here’s why I love it! - I look forward to opportunities to travel to the different jungles and reserves in India whenever I can. We don’t realise it but we’re really lucky – there...
1 week ago
Aadab Hyderabad

I See You {Day 13} - At an attar stall outside the Mecca Masjid.
1 week ago
I Like कला

ETSY - I am on Etsy again https://www.etsy.com/shop/KalakarShop and I have Polymer Clay jewelry on sale
1 week ago
Wilderness

Off the Charts - These prints from Pop Chart Lab are a lot of fun and surprisingly informative. There are diagrams of all kinds of things, from pop star haircuts to varieti...
2 weeks ago
Otiose Opinions

Crushing - I left halfway through an article on my friends and their broken relationships to write this. I have had way too many crushes and that’s reason enough to d...
2 weeks ago
Utpal Vaishnav on Project Mgt

Impatient Opportunist - Impatient opportunist only cares about what’s “trending” today. He impatiently reads the startup news, studies the technology trends, bookmarks the stori...
2 weeks ago
Abhijit Bhaduri

Three people to work with before you self-publish - Self-publishing is really coming of age. There is more money to be made in it. You can control the look and feel of the book. You do not need to prod the...
2 weeks ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

Three practices from Eckhart Tolle’s teaching that I find useful - On Guru Poornima, I would like to reflect upon three practices from Eckhart Tolle’s teaching that I find useful. First, let’s note that the domain of spir...
2 weeks ago
Aalayam Kanden

Shattered Splendour! - Idols in front of the Shenbageswarar Temple at Natham ParameswaramangalamNatham Parameswaramangalam - The name might ring a bell to history and heritage en...
2 weeks ago
The Compulsive Confessor

for william - who scratches who has a black spot on his head and another deeper, by his tail who is soft and full of purrs and kitten dreams who is warrior with crooked...
3 weeks ago
Wannabauthor's Stories

There’s a Magic Dust Moment in Every Day - I always knew from the beginning I’d be blessed with two darling angels to take care of. Others would have screaming, whining, getting-up-at-odd hours chil...
3 weeks ago
Notes from wherever I happen to be...

The Perfect Lunch - Perfect weather, beautiful place, striking people and then just the lunch waiting for us in quiet Rupkona village. The menu - rice, dal, sag, kundru's sabz...
3 weeks ago
Akshiva's Blog

Test - testing from support [...]
4 weeks ago
Weakest Link

Will-o'-The-Wisp - We sing on HIS music [image: http://morerealitymusings.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/the_matrix_wwwdan_dareorg.jpg] Dance on HIS tune Walk on HIS road & La...
5 weeks ago
Anindita Sengupta

- Reboot.
5 weeks ago
Scrambled Egg

Patience - Sultan Mastana might not have been his real name,but nobody questioned it.Though he got shot from a distance,the bullets did enough damage to puncture his ...
1 month ago
This Is My Truth

Environment rules to be diluted by NDA govt and dissenting voices of civil societies likely to be crushed - News is in that NDA govt is going to dilute the environment rules for projects and in another news, foreign aided NGOs are being labelled as anti developme...
1 month ago
Modern Gypsy

Book Review: Sita’s Curse – The Language of Desire by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu - From the back cover: Trapped for 15 years in the stranglehold of a dead marriage and soulless household domesticity, the beautiful, full-bodied and passion...
1 month ago
Miss_teerious

Walking Away - With every passing day, I find myself a little more disconnected with Indians and their shallowness... a little more drawn within myself. I do not wish t...
1 month 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 ...
1 month ago
theindiaphile

David Vaala’s ‘Ladakh’ - Many books have been published on the high altitude snow kingdom of Ladakh, but few as wonderful as this new tome by photographer David Vaala, whose 5 ye...
2 months ago
Alka Dwivedi

A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words - Salute to a Mother On Mother’s Day. Image Source: rediff The post A Picture is Worth A Thousand Words appeared first on Alka Dwivedi.
2 months 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 months ago
cribb.in : for a social cause | India

The Clean Indian? - Although i don’t think this is a solution to such a problem but well.. this could be one of the solutions
2 months ago
Amreekandesi.com

An Open Letter to Priyanka Gandhi - Dear Mrs Vadra, You are amazing. Just look at you. That nice cotton saree. Glowing complexion. Skin so white that you could be in a Fair and Lovely ad. You...
3 months ago
Death Ends Fun

Your vote tomorrow - A note I sent out to my friends in Bombay today, April 23 2014. --- Dear friend and fellow-citizen of this vast fascinating maddening incredible city: T...
3 months ago
The Yogi Zone

Happiness. - Cradled in his arms, she seemed so tiny that YogiMan was almost afraid that he might hurt her. But then she smiled in her dreams, and YogiMan's heart felt...
3 months ago
Roads

Shadows and the Sea! - Shadows and the Sea! The blue star shines in the east, the summers are here it seems Your shadow still remains, remains of memories in my heart For I am ju...
3 months ago
Newsmericks

On Sweet Talking - A fellow would frequently knock, On a woman's door trying to sweet talk. On a fine day they wed, And since then, it is said, He's gone mum -- she yaps round ...
5 months ago
Sentimientos

Little of Looking Back, More of Looking Ahead.. - I am not writing this because I feel it has been long since I wrote something. This is not because I think it is a good thing to update your blog every onc...
6 months ago
Queen's Quill

Learn to write for online audience - [image: web browsing] The perspective of online audience towards the information on the web is very different from the regular readers’ of books, magazin...
6 months ago
Priyashmita's Blog ...

An open letter to Arvind Kejriwal and AAP - Catch my open letter to Arvind Kejriwal http://worldasisee.com/an-open-letter-to-arvind-kejriwal-and-aap/Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: AAM AADMI party...
6 months ago
Within / Without

Poem: A swirl of one’s own - In the ten days since you arrived, We’ve heard you are like us. Her father’s chin, her mother’s ears. When she’s angry, she fits right in, On the maternal ...
6 months 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...
7 months 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...
8 months ago
Brown Penny

When The Distance Matters.. - Well, this time of the year has always been my most favorite, with Diwali around the corner, there’s this different feel in the air (or was) that gives you...
9 months 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 months ago
Awesome Indian Cuisine

Tomato Dal Pachadi - Tomato Dal Pachadi
9 months 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...
9 months ago
Reuters: Bollywood News

Born to Bollywood royalty, Ranbir Kapoor makes new film a family affair - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bollywood heartthrob Ranbir Kapoor is one of Indian cinema's most bankable young stars, and his latest film, "Besharam," which also st...
9 months ago
Blah..blah..blah...

I Jumped Over A Puddle - In the past couple of weeks, I’ve had this irresistible urge to write. I’ve filled about ten pages of my notebook with incoherent, abstract stuff. I could...
11 months ago
The New Age Bard

BABBAR DA DHABA - chEAT EATS!!! -2 - As they were about to make an exit - *Arya Babbar* escorts the media persons and provides them with *a collage* that can be published in tomorrow's news p...
11 months ago
Silverine - poomanam

Frandship forever - Today is International Friendship Day. A day to remember friends and commemorate friendships. Friendship is not be mistaken for "Frandship”, a word that took...
11 months ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

Hello world! - WordPress へようこそ。これは最初の投稿です。編集もしくは削除してブログを始めてください !
1 year ago
The Indian World

Products of Illusion - *Re-sharing an article by Rishi Gangoly of The Zeitgeist Movement:* *We use the word ‘product’ to describe tangible commodities we can own. But let’s be cl...
1 year ago
Everyone's Blog Posts - Materialia Indica

looking for books on Titania Nano Tubes - Hello everyone I am 3rd year undergraduate student and looking for good books on titania nano tubes. Can anybody please suggest me???
1 year ago
Conversations with Dina

A Special Day - For our parents – Drs Roshan and Homi Dastur: Happy 50th, Dearest Mum and Dad! Thank you for always opening up possibilities. For giving us wings and teach...
1 year ago
Desi Diaries

An Inch in Their Shoes - Being a Punjabi here in Brampton is totally different than what it is in Australia. People are more accepting and less judging coz of the turban. Even tho...
1 year ago
Have Your Share Of Honey...

Colourblocking with handbags - Runways around the world have been busy this summer, showcasing hot trends in solid blocks of colour. For those of youwho love the bright boldness of ...
2 years ago
Confessions of a Confused Soul

Journey is the Destination: Introducing my self… - I joined my company on 8th May, 2012 in Pune for induction and then moved to Chennai for final posting. All the new joinees were asked to write about thems...
2 years ago
Veni, Vidi, Vetti

Kumaravyasa on Current Affairs - (The sage Nārada has just arrived at King Yudhiṣṭhira's court (before the Rājasuya and the subsequent dice-game), and the poet makes this an avenue for his...
2 years ago
Lifestory and Me

Nobody cares how much you care… - The Corporate world in itself presents a carnivorous ecosystem that asks people to be merciless and cunning at the same time. You need to be merciless with...
2 years ago
Back to LiFe !

New Year Eve at Life ! Village art ! -
2 years ago
LOOKING FOR MAYA - A radio DJ's Blog

In which we realize IT'S A SHAME - It's really a shame when last few posts on the blog begin with ''Its been long I have posted ,but promise I will do more often here on''.From almost-conver...
2 years ago
MINISTRY OF SPORTS UNOFFICIAL

babu-like contest - through delphi method, the following babu's have been shortlisted to compete in the prestigious babu-like contest. all the contestants are the results of k...
2 years ago
makeSplash !

Give me a number - You don't have to be a rocket scientist to see that such large outpourings of support for Anna Hazare is basically a demand for a phone number, viz 101, wh...
2 years ago
Dejavu

High Fiction - Dreams That Won't Die In Oblivion - I started blogging in the year 2006, things changed, many things evolved, I wrote things that fascinated my soul, I have found paradise in my blog. Suddenl...
3 years ago
Catch the asteroid

The blog has moved! - Hello people My blog has now moved to my own website for better usability and integration with the other parts of the website. You can access the blog he...
3 years ago
A Time To Reflect

Vote in the name of love - This appeared recently in the WSJ India Real Time blog as Indian Political Party’s Unique Platform: Love *** Kumar Sri Sri, whose beaming face is still pla...
3 years ago
Vinitha in my own words

Google Plus - WhaT IS SO BIG ABOUT Google Plus? (c) Vinitha 2009
3 years ago
Alai Vani

Where on earth is 'The Real Africa'? - What constitutes 'the real Africa', 'the real Kenya' or the 'real' aspects of any country? Do we base our experience on visiting another country based on...
3 years ago
The Gone-Fishing Book

Comic 8 - Paper Mache -
3 years ago
Corruption Free India - No Bribe | No Scam

Why is everyone gunning for Anna Hazare? - Since his moral victory in forcing the government to form a joint panel for drafting the long pending Lokpal Bill, Anna Hazare has been facing sniper attac...
3 years ago
QAspire Blog - Quality, Management, Leadership & Life!

Drucker’s Err – The Purpose of Business - Drucker got it wrong. Drucker famously wrote that “the purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” I’m as much a fan of Drucker’s as any managem...
3 years ago
scan man's notes

A Parable Of Rigidity - … Note: This is a true incident. Though all characters in the story are anonymized, they are recognizable to the knowledgeable based on the events portraye...
3 years ago

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