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Clarity is action: My favorite mindfulness principle - “Clarity is action” is currently my favorite principle depicting the essence of mindfulness. It is counterintuitive and quite different from what we exper...
7 hours ago
~A Moment Please~

Loudmouths - Mark Twain once said, "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Well, the inabilit...
1 day ago
Reuters: Bollywood News

Corrected - Actor Sushant Singh Rajput bets on VR with new venture - (Corrects figure in 4th paragraph to 30 billion rupees from 300 billion rupees)
2 days ago
My Travelogue

Hotel Dream, Mons - A Review (Wallonia - Belgium) - Mons is Magical!!! Its a lesser known gem of Belgium!!! I just kept wondering how it isn't as popular as Bruges or Antwerp. Its the paradise for any herita...
3 days ago
Life in Technicolor

The Book - *I found a book lying on the seat,* *On the Express Train.* *An old tattered one,* *Bookmarked with dog eared pages.* *I waited for someone to notice it too,...
3 days ago
The Compulsive Confessor

Newsletter: Making a cup of memory tea - (This week's fresh newsletter goes out TOMORROW to subscribers. Here's where you can sign up.) *This week in mysteries*: My staycation would be nothing ...
3 days ago
Nishita's Rants and Raves

Elizabeth 1 - I have heard a great deal about Margaret George's historicals, and it was only a matter of time before I picked one to read. The Tudors always make for e...
4 days ago
Indian food, Andhra recipes

Gutti dondakaya recipe – Andhra style stuffed tindora fry - Gutti dondakaya recipe, a delicious Andhra style stuffed tindora (ivy gourd). Roasted lentils, & dry coconut powder form the kura podi aka stuffing The pos...
4 days ago
Abhijit Bhaduri

Reverse Mentoring: The 12 Year Old I Learn From - Have you tried reverse mentoring? Learning from someone younger in age and experience. I have. I learn from a 12 year old. There is something new to lear...
5 days ago
Scrambled Egg

Indefinitely Yours - Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE ... Special invite to read Gyanban's latest.
6 days ago
Modern Gypsy

In pursuit of passion: India’s first DIY woodworking instructor - I have written before against the popular trend towards quitting your day job to follow your passion, and about defining success on your own terms. But b...
6 days ago
This Is My Truth

Women With Tattoos – Be A Part Of This Incredible Photography Project - The Woman with Tattoos – A photographic project to demystify her By Sanjukta Basu A search for the ‘self’ behind the tattoo, to demystify the identity of a...
1 week ago
Aalayam Kanden

Manavur Karkadeswara - The Karkadeswarar Temple at Manavur While I was involved in the mapping of temples along the river Cooum, the Koova Puranam served as the main source of re...
2 weeks ago
Fit As Fiddle

Indian Lifestyle Blog - Keeping the Sneakers game strong! - Indian Lifestyle Blog - Keeping the Sneakers game strong! Hey guys, how are you all doing? Finally, I am back here drafting another fashion post for you gu...
2 weeks 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...
3 weeks ago
Anindita Sengupta

norse mythology and coffee - Reading Neil Gaiman’s book on Norse Mythology. Also, Ada Limon. Seriously get hold of her books. It’s been hard to function over the last few days because...
4 weeks ago
Alka Dwivedi

क्या आप एक उदारवादी हिन्दू हैं ? - पता नहीं कितने साल पहले एक उदारवादी हिन्दू को नापने का पैमाना इज़ाद किया गया था, लेकिन आज हमारे पास आप के उदारवादी होने के मापदंड बहुत स्पष्ट है. हम एक एक...
4 weeks ago
Soulful

The Objective of Positivity - It is going to be almost a year since I updated my blog. But here I am today at it again - with some profound thoughts. Some pleasant thoughts arising from...
5 weeks ago
Miss_teerious

Book Review: The Immortality Trigger by Douglas Misquita - The Immortality Trigger Author: Douglas Misquita ISBN: 978-1973285373 Buy from: Flipkart Amazon.in Amazon.com The Immortality Trigger, by Douglas Misquita,...
1 month ago
theindiaphile

How to Start an Essay Options - How to Start an Essay Options In case you’ve basically ready an article, in addition to a fantastic deal of ladies and guys have, you know just how hard ...
2 months ago
Just a little Something!

Starry nights and the glamping experience with Under Canvas, Utah - A road trip covering four national parks – Canyonlands, Arches, Bryce and Zion – gave us the opportunity to go “glamping” in Utah and we found the perfec...
6 months 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...
7 months 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 ...
8 months ago
Wilderness

Zambia ... Rivers Safaris and Family - Zambia beckoned me after 5 years … The country that made me my own person ! It was exciting for me especially because I went there with Kunal for the very ...
9 months 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...
11 months 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...
11 months ago
Silverine - poomanam

The evolution of the political vermin - The political worm or more popularly known as the political vermin (PV) is an interesting parasite. Among all the parasites out there, this is the only cre...
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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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!
1 year 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...
1 year 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 year 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 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 years 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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 ...
2 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 ...
2 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 ...
2 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.
2 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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!...
3 years ago
Aadab Hyderabad

I See You {Day 13} - At an attar stall outside the Mecca Masjid.
3 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...
3 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 ...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
6 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...
6 years ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

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Utpal Vaishnav on Project Mgt

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Queen's Quill

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S. Krishna's Books

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