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Modern Gypsy

My depth year: planning my framework - Last week, I spoke about the idea of a depth year, and promised to share my depth year framework once it was ready. If you’re wondering what in heavens...
8 hours ago
Nishita's Rants and Raves

Secret Diary of an Incurable Romantic - I really like epistolary (diary-style) novels. One of my all-time fave such books are the Bridget Jones books by Helen Fielding. Another fave is the clas...
1 day ago
Aalayam Kanden

Arutperumjothi - A journey through the life of Ramalinga Vallalar! - Arutprakasa Ramalinga Vallalar Thai Poosam - the day when Poosam star falls on a full moon day in the Tamil month of Thai, is not only celebrated by the fo...
1 day ago
Abhijit Bhaduri

How to be a Futurist - Futurists are experts in systems thinking. They look at socio-economic-political shifts and combine it with technology to create possible scenarios. With...
2 days ago
Miss_teerious

Book Review: Awareness - The Key to Living in Balance by Osho - Awareness - The Key to Living in Balance, by Osho, is the very first book of this great mystic that I have read. For a less-than-200-page read, this book c...
2 days ago
Reuters: Bollywood News

Movie Review: Why Cheat India - Soumik Sen’s drama starring Emraan Hashmi is a rough-at-the-edges but surprisingly perceptive look at the dysfunctional education system in India and the l...
3 days ago
My Travelogue

UNESCO Sites of Antwerp (Flanders - Belgium) - Antwerp boasts 3 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, 1 on its own and 2 shared with other locations. *1. Plantin Moretus Museum: *This museum is a printing and pub...
3 days ago
The Compulsive Confessor

Today in Photo - Table cat (do do do doo) table cat... In other news, today is totally going to be the day I get back to Real Work. New people to create, new stories to pl...
5 days ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

Rama Ravi, Nada Inbam - Rama Ravi - Vocal Nanditha Ravi - Vocal support RK Shriram Kumar - Fiddle K Arun Prakash - Mrudangam 1 Jan 2019, 6:15 pm Nada Inbam, Ragasudha hall inta mO...
1 week ago
Fit As Fiddle

Indian Lifestyle Blog - #UnBurdenYourHealth This Holiday Season - Indian Lifestyle Blog - #UnBurdenYourHealth This Holiday Season We are so caught up in day-to-day life that we tend to take our body for granted while chas...
3 weeks ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

Confession of a fake guru: A soliloquy from “Tujhe aahe tujpashi” - Any teacher, especially a spiritual teacher needs to be alert about the process of self-deception. Hence, as a facilitator of mindfulness workshops, I fin...
4 weeks 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 ...
1 month ago
Life in Technicolor

The Drive - *A long journey it was,* *As the hills rolled past us,* *Covered with green shrubs & tall trees,* *The monkeys leaping merrily,* *While a Koel called out fro...
1 month ago
Clearing the clutter in the attic...

What's in a name ? - The alarm goes off and I sleepily try to snooze, when I notice that its 6:30 already and jump out of bed. I have to be out the door at 7:30. 30 minutes lat...
1 month ago
Scrambled Egg

Mismatch - It's 5AM and the clock is late, the rush to dress up and change my fate, but the wrinkle is annoying the mane, and the greys are flaying the vein, I carry ...
1 month ago
This Is My Truth

Pujarini by Tagore – Tells The Story of Ajatshatru’s Buddhist Persecution and Killing of Srimati - Thanks to BJP we are learning new history everyday. Tipu Sultan was a hero, a patriot when I was young. Now he is anti-national. Inspired by one of Amit Sh...
1 month ago
Just a little Something!

Thanksgiving and what I’m thankful for! - I’ve been meaning to write more, but right now life has turned a bit topsy turvy again. Plans have gone out of the window. But life kind of tends to be tha...
1 month 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 months ago
theindiaphile

The Insider Secrets for Hello World - The Insider Secrets for Hello World You will carry on to let it operate since you stop by this next report. Nothing might have assisted them longer. Yes,...
2 months ago
Soulful

A Butterfly with a #Blindlist - Have you ever imagined a life like that of a caterpillar who always stayed in its cocoon? Protected and sheltered from the outside world. Spending its days...
3 months ago
Anindita Sengupta

Orphan Black (S5): Cosima and Rachel - I was late in the game with Orphan Black but I’m finally on the last few episodes and the last season’s focus on Cosima and Rachel is fascinating. Ok, fai...
4 months ago
Wilderness

7 days in Malta - When Kunal and I promised ourselves to each other – we always knew we are going to keep up with our love for travelling - baby on board or not ! So the fi...
6 months 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...
6 months 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...
8 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...
1 year 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 ...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
1 year 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 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...
2 years 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 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 ...
3 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.
3 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...
4 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!...
4 years ago
Aadab Hyderabad

I See You {Day 13} - At an attar stall outside the Mecca Masjid.
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
7 years ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

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