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Nishita's Rants and Raves

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - I read this book in November last year, sandwiched between two unforgettable reads – The Luminaries and A Suitable Boy. So, now, while I am.. The post E...
2 days ago
The Compulsive Confessor

What I'm Reading - Have you read Melissa Bank? She hasn't written a new book in years which is very sad but the two she has (The Girl's Guide To Hunting And Fishing and this...
4 days ago
My Travelogue

Hotel Le Vieux - Best of Durbuy Hotels (Wallonia - Belgium) - This article first appeared in My Travelogue by Bhushavali First of all, Durbuy being the smallest city in the world, is an over-night stay at Durbuy eve...
1 week ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

No man can walk out on his own story - I watched this scene from one of my favorite animation films “Rango” perhaps for the 15th time (see the video clip below). The scene ends with Rango get...
3 weeks 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 months ago
This Is My Truth

An Open Letter To Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel On His Brand New Statue - An edited version of this letter was first published on Daily O. Dear Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Congratulations, you’ve got your own statue now. It is the ...
2 months ago
Modern Gypsy

Need a mindful break? - Original article from Modern Gypsy - Travels through a journey called life Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind. – Ami...
2 months 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 months 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 months ago
Notes from wherever I happen to be...

A library closed down - My book haul! Usually a thing of enormous delight. Not so this time. Ekta library bondho hoi gelo. Aar kichu diner modhe, the owner D.P George will pull ...
4 months ago
Aalayam Kanden

Amazing Temples Video Series - Episode 1 - Hello everyone! This August, Aalayam Kanden completes ten years as a blog. To commemorate this, we are trying a different approach of introducing short vid...
5 months ago
Scrambled Egg

Invisibility - “Stop staring at me! Stupid cab, didn’t see the puddle. Now please, eat baby, don’t fuss,” said June pushing the tray. Just then Constantine appeared, “Sor...
6 months ago
Silverine - poomanam

The Covidiot Managers -
7 months 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 comforta...
8 months 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...
8 months ago
Clearing the clutter in the attic...

Can you save everyone ? - I am tried.... 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...
11 months ago
Wilderness

Cambodia - A collision of the Ancient and the Modern World - While traveling for 10 days in Cambodia, we felt like we were constantly smiling. There is a certain sense of calmness which is almost second nature to ...
11 months ago
Anindita Sengupta

LA County Museum, Los Angeles - A child plays while her mother watches during summer jazz nights at LACMA, Los Angeles | 2019
1 year ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

Neela Ramgopal, Nada Inbam - Neela Ramgopal - V Sanjeev - Guru Raghavendra - BS Purushottaman Nada Inbam Raga Sudha Hall 4 Jan 2020 6:15 pm slOkam in asAvEri E paNikO - asAvEri - T (S)...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Soulful

Sounds of Quiet - #poem - Whirling waves in the heart of oceans, Trembling thunders in the dust of clouds , Violent volcanoes in the depth of mountains, And yet, surrendered all sound...
1 year 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...
1 year ago
Ultra Violet (Feminism)

Hello world - Welcome to wiki This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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 ...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 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 ...
5 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.
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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!...
6 years ago
Aadab Hyderabad

I See You {Day 13} - At an attar stall outside the Mecca Masjid.
6 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
8 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...
9 years ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

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