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2point6billion.com - Investment in Asia

India Sets General Election Date as Political Tide Shifts - India’s electorate may choose to break its historical tendency to vote according to religious and caste affiliations as the BJP, AAP and Third Front seek b...
1 hour ago
S. Krishna's Books

Book Review: The Weight of Blood – Laura McHugh - Summary: Lucy Dane, not just a girl but not quite grown up yet at seventeen, lives in a small town in Mississippi. Her mother disappeared when she was yo...
9 hours ago
Abhijit Bhaduri

Upgrade the Detective - The petrol pump was located in Devanahalli just outside the city of Bangalore. It was a convenient spot for people to tank up as they would head out toward...
11 hours ago
Fit As Fiddle

Aspri Spirits association with Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014 - Aspri Spirits association with Lakme Fashion Week Summer/Resort 2014 I was invited to be a part of Aspri Spirits association with Lakme Fash...
11 hours ago
Wilderness

20 GREAT COLLECTIONS AND WAYS TO DISPLAY THEM - [image: DSCOLLECTIONS] While doing up our new home in a small town of Gujrat, Vapi - where Kunal's parents and childhood friends stay - I was thinking of wa...
18 hours ago
Nishita's Rants and Raves

Things Your Mother Never Told You About Love – My Thoughts - We all know that girls love boys who love girls, and then they turn into women who love men who love women. And no matter how much one would like to clutte...
1 day ago
Ultra Violet (Feminism)

A Day for Half the World - SO IT’S INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day. The world’s 103rd, if slightly differing records are to be believed. On this day, your neighbourhood beauty parlor wi...
2 days ago
cribb.in : for a social cause | India

Headless Horsemen!! - This is funny, i was driving behind this police van and saw this.. the way the guy was sleeping, his head was completely invisible.. made for a great pic!
3 days ago
theindiaphile

Indian inspired tunes for your Ipod: Our mix-tape - From the mystic chill out of Buddha Bar, via Bollywood dance numbers, the ethereal sitar melodies of Ravi Shankar, and on to Vedic Chanting from Benares,...
4 days ago
Modern Gypsy

The Kindness Revolution - Have you ever stopped and noticed the amount of negativity we are surrounded by? It’s in the media, movies, television…sometimes it comes from our family a...
4 days ago
Scrambled Egg

Magic - Call it magic, or call it you.Call it tragic, or call it you.Call it love,or call it you.Call it hate,or call it you. Call it life,with you.Call it strife,...
5 days ago
Aalayam Kanden

Bring Light to Nellikuppam Kailasanatha! - A view of the Nellikuppam Kailasanatha Temple that is currently being renovated The Kailasanatha Temple at Nellikuppam dates back to over 1400 years. Origi...
5 days ago
John P Matthew on Writing and Life!

Honoured to Be Felicitated by David Sassoon Library - I have only served in two managing committees so far: the church committee and David Sassoon Reading Room and Library (see pic), the iconic library in Kala...
5 days ago
typos, gravity and other mishaps

Bookish Friendship - *My next column for The Sunday Guardian.* The World Book Fair that just passed was a place for friendship: heads bent together over books, favourite quotes...
6 days ago
Just a little Something!

Far from the madding crowd - An account of our day out with the Chefs of JW Marriott, Bangalore at the First Agro Farm, Talakad. This is a guest blog post by Mukta Chakravorty, while t...
6 days ago
My Travelogue

Sarkhej Roza (Ahmedabad - Gujarat) - To begin with, here's Sarkhej Roza. Sarkhej Roza is group of monuments that include a tomb, a mosque and a huuuuge tank! Well, long ago, a sufi saint by th...
1 week ago
~A Moment Please~

The Russia Ukraine Crisis 2014 - A crisis is brewing in Eastern Europe. It has been just about a week since the conclusion of the Winter Olympics 2014 in Sochi, Russia. The Black Sea resor...
1 week ago
The Compulsive Confessor

I’m Falling In Love Again: But This Time, It’s With Delhi - Last night I dreamt I was in Bandra again. The pigeons were *coocoor-coo*ing on the AC, the shafts of sunlight were playing across the room, and the roa...
1 week ago
Akshayapaatram

Cauliflower Cutlets/Patties with Roasted Red Pepper Dip - Dear Foodies, We are finally seeing some much needed rains here this weekend. Its been overcast for the last few days with frequent bursts of rain and glim...
1 week ago
Utpal Vaishnav on Project Mgt

(Random) Never 12 - Never … Hand over an App to your client which is not tested well; Establish the expectation about who you are not, you’re not going to deliver it; Try to...
1 week ago
Otiose Opinions

Reading and all... - It has been nine months since my graduation day, but I still remember the university admission interview like yesterday. It was a stress interview and I wa...
1 week ago
Wannabauthor's Stories

The Fight Cubs - “So do they fight at home?”, most people who meet me for the first time ask me this question about R and S. Or at least a variant of this question. When I ...
1 week ago
Miss_teerious

Grapes-a-Lore - Remember those grapes that used to tempt *Yuvraj* so much once upon a time? Yes, yes... the very same ones that I blogged about here in *this post*! Look...
1 week ago
Death Ends Fun

Raptor Red - Does it say something that my favourite book of 2013 is one I read for the second time? (The first? When it was released, in 1996). "Raptor Red" is a delig...
2 weeks ago
Unruled Notebook

விஷ்ணுவின் மார்பைப் பிளந்து - விஷ்ணு நரசிம்ம அவதாரத்தில் ஹிரண்யகசிபுவின் குடலைக்கிழித்து மாலையாகப் போட்டுக்கொண்டார். லக்ஷ்மி பிராட்டியை தன் மார்ப்பில் ஏற்றுக்கொண்டுள்ளார். பிரம்மனை நாபி...
2 weeks 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 ...
2 weeks ago
Confessions Of The Chocolate Obsessed

Handmade By Carousel - Giveaway: Coz She's Cool Like That (: - Every day of our living, our existence, is filled with emotions, a plethora of them, that take us high, riding the crest of the wave some times while buryi...
3 weeks ago
Indian food, Andhra recipes

Puli Sevai ~ Tamarind flavored Idiyappam - Puli Sevai recipe is among easy tiffin recipes Indian style.Learn how to make South Indian tamarind sevai using Idiyappam, a popular breakfast of Tamil Nad...
3 weeks ago
Akshiva's Blog

[AAP ka vote]:The face of Delhi changing? I suppose yes! - Well, I have been thinking of writing for a very long time now, but the pressures of my workplace have been far too troublesome off late.Sundays generally ...
5 weeks ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

Eckhart Tolle’s “catch me if you can” experiment - Traditionally, spirituality is associated more with faith rather than experimentation. However, some spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle speak the l...
5 weeks ago
Life Unlimited

Band Baaja Baa...!!!! - I cannot believe it. This writer’s block seems to have absolutely no mood to go away. And it’s driving me insane. Insane enough that I didn’t even do the a...
1 month 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...
1 month 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...
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
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...
1 month 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 ...
2 months ago
C'est La Vie

चलो एक बार फिर से, अजनबी बन जाये हम दोनो - By Sahir Ludhianvi... चलो एक बार फिर से, अजनबी बन जाये हम दोनो ना मैं तुम से कोई उम्मीद रखू दिलनवाज़ी की न तुम मेरी तरफ देखो, ग़लत अंदाज़ नज़रों से न मेरे ...
2 months ago
Amreekandesi.com

Dhoom 3 – America, Trolled - I just got back from watching Dhoom 3, having heard mixed reactions about the movie, and i can confidently say that i feel sad for the people who weren’t a...
2 months ago
Anindita Sengupta

Gynac, what gynac? - I’m 35. I have a child. I don’t have a gynaecologist. I certainly did not have a ‘gynac’ when I was younger—and going by conversations with friends, I’m no...
2 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 months ago
The Yogi Zone

Are you MAN enough, then? - Google returns this pic when searching for 'masculine men' ... hmm?There hasn't really been a dearth of incidents in my life when I have been left fee...
4 months ago
Alka Dwivedi

Wedding Decorations and Dresses - This post was triggered by a TV program. I was surfing and just saw the last five minutes of it. Here people were sending wedding decor and dresses related...
4 months ago
Monologue

On Being (Slightly) Famous - So the book is out, it is getting good reviews so far - a few from celebrities like Gul Panag and other Twitter-celebs *(Stop the eye-roll, enough with th...
4 months ago
Aadab Hyderabad

Golconda Fort - It is said that Golconda gets its name from Golla Konda or Shepherd's hill. Discovered by a shepherd boy in the 13th century, a simple mud fort was built ...
4 months ago
Awesome Indian Cuisine

Tomato Dal Pachadi - Tomato Dal Pachadi
4 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...
5 months ago
I Like कला

A break from school work - I miss coffee filters soo much!!
5 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...
5 months ago
Notes from wherever I happen to be...

Krishna Janmashtami - Our apartment was redolent with the aroma of the frying 'taler - bora' or tal (palm sap) pakora, this rain soaked afternoon. Afterall it is Krishna Janmash...
6 months ago
This Is My Truth

Complan Tele Samman Awards – Actress Ankita Chakraborty - I have heard of many fashion faux pas, but Bengali TV actress Ankita Chakraborty’s awkward dress worn at the Complan Tele Samman Awards beats them all. It ...
6 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...
6 months ago
Roads

Little talks - Little talks! Those little talks we do, while our walk in this worldly fare, We tag them by fair, frank, and unfair. We do it with loved ones, we do it wit...
6 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...
7 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...
7 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 !
7 months ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

V Sumithra, Musiri Chambers - V Sumithra - Anayampatti Venkatasubramanian - Mannarikoil J Balaji Musiri Chambers 19 May 2013 slOkam on guru sAmi - kharaharapriya [varNam] vandhisidhavar...
9 months 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...
10 months ago
Weakest Link

Long Ago - Long Ago I met her, She was in her teens, so did I Charm & laughter did the magic Love kindled, feelings blossomed Several happy days & nights passed C...
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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years ago
Vinitha in my own words

Google Plus - WhaT IS SO BIG ABOUT Google Plus? (c) Vinitha 2009
2 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...
2 years ago
The Gone-Fishing Book

Comic 8 - Paper Mache -
2 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...
2 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...
2 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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