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Nishita's Rants and Raves

A New Obsession: Reality TV - Until this year, I had never watched a single reality show. I had this elitist I am above all this attitude toward them. I guess pride comes before a fal...
2 days ago
My Travelogue

24 hours in Chartres, France - UNESCO Chartres Cathedral, Lumieres, Maison Picassiette & more - *A trip to visit CHARTRES CATHEDRAL * *One of the UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES in FRANCE & more!* Thanks to Chartres Cathedral being a UNESCO World Heritag...
3 days ago
This Is My Truth

Twitter Shutting Down Would Be Like Losing An Entire Civilization To An Extinction Level Event - Around 20k people from across the globe including from non-first-world countries such as India, Ghana, Mexico etc. gathered this morning (India time) on a ...
1 week ago
The Compulsive Confessor

The Internet Personified: Things I Really Like This Month - Glorious marigolds, I thought for about five seconds last week that I should maybe make an OFFSET of this newsletter where I send you RECOMMENDATIONS ONC...
2 weeks ago
Scrambled Egg

Sands of time - The scorching sun follows me Hot dunes burn my feet I know you are waiting for me As I leave the last oasis. A grain of sand tears my skin The mira...
2 weeks ago
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation

Nāgārjuna’s śūnyatā through Mūlamadhyamakakārikā verses - “Reality is unknown and unknowable” is one of the hypotheses I explore in my book “Mindfulness: connecting with the real you” (2019). Over the past year,...
5 weeks ago
Wilderness

Morocco - Have u ever been to a place that you only visited – but then decided to make it your home like British singer Raisa Kelly did ? Morocco’s the kind of pl...
1 month ago
Notes from wherever I happen to be...

A suitably (heavy) book - Standout event of 1993 was possibly Vikram Seth's A Suitable Boy! I was still a student and my pockets weren't that deep. All the world was a buzz with the...
1 month ago
Trying to Learn Music (Karnatic)

Rama Ravi, Rukmani Arts & Music Trust - Rama Ravi & Nanditha Ravi - RK Shriram Kumar - K Arun Prakash Rukmani Arts & Music Trust Ragasudha Hall 31 Jul 2022 6:15 pm sAmi daya jUDa - kEdaragauLa - ...
3 months ago
Aalayam Kanden

Murugeeswarar Temple, Thaiyur - *The entrance to the Murugeeswarar Temple, Thaiyur* I had been invited to visit the Murugeeswarar temple at Thaiyur by Kaushik, a long-time volunteer of t...
7 months ago
Wannabauthor's Stories

The Dilemma - Way back in 1984, Cochin airport was located within the Cochin Naval Base premises. Indian Airlines operated an international flight from Sharjah to Cochin...
1 year ago
Modern Gypsy

Book review: In A Deep Dark Wood by Tina Pritchard - What she saw in the wood would change her life forever... While walking her dog Buddy in the woods behind her house, Fran stumbles upon a scene that will c...
1 year ago
Anindita Sengupta

Poems online - Hi. Here are some poems of mine published in journals and available to read online. Please click on the links to read. In most cases,…
1 year 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 years 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 years 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...
2 years ago
Silverine - poomanam

The Covidiot Managers -
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
2 years ago
Clearing the clutter in the attic...

Can you save everyone ? - I am tired.... 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...
2 years 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...
2 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years ago
Ultra Violet (Feminism)

Hello world - Welcome to wiki This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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...
3 years 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...
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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 ...
3 years 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 ...
3 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...
4 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...
4 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...
4 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
5 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
6 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 ...
7 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.
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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...
7 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!...
8 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 internal...
8 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago
Aadab Hyderabad

Hazrat Syed Moosa Shah Qadri Dargah - Walking along the Hussaini Alam road, you will spot this huge gateway: Behind it, stands the beautiful dargah of Sufi saint Hazrat Syed Moosa Shah Qadri. ...
9 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...
10 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...
10 years ago
Sulmoz - Puja's Blog

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