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 00:21 | 26/May/2008
Words are all we have
 I suppose when all else fails, when everyone else leaves, when friends part, when work begins to get to you (i.e. in crude lingo, life sucks), pouring your heart out is an option that is within easy reach, is inexpensive and is as efficient a pain killer as any known to humankind. For some reason, it remains a friend I reach out to only when I can... more...
 22:35 | 8/Jan/2008
Genius Does What It Must !
Aamir Khan - An appreciation !No amount of preparation can ready you for it.  Aamir Khan’s Taare Zameen Pe isn’t just a film. It’s a statement. It says that simple stories told simply can work miracles. It’s the conviction of a man in his own ability, his own perfection.  We’ve always known him to be a shade different from others of his ilk, if ind... more...
 20:16 | 30/Dec/2007
Moving On ......
It’s been on my mind for a while now. Of making a return. I even promised a fellow blogger and a much loved inspiration that I’d be back by a particular date. I didn’t. That’s life I guess. Things happen when they have to rather than when they ought to.  A lot has happened since I last wrote. I have had a change of jobs, a change of cities, have fa... more...
 15:25 | 2/Apr/2007
Our World In a Cup
Of Greg & Rahul, but most of all, of Sachin  First things first. Let’s accept we are a mediocre cricket team. It’s no more a blemish on a nation of a billion souls than it is to attribute the loss to the foreign coach and his apparently foreign methods. Of course they are foreign methods. He should have known we are Indians, the descendents of the ... more...
 18:45 | 7/Feb/2007
Some memories won't go ..... they just w...
“In a word then”, he commanded. “Mesmerizing” … I said… “Elaborate”! He ordered… “When you are looking into her eyes and she into yours, you feel stronger (pause!) …… and weaker, at the same time ………… both excited … and … and terrified, a feeling of having reached the unreachable, having attained the impossible. Her eyes ask a simple question ‘how ... more...
 06:41 | 8/Dec/2006
Comprehending Pa !
Why do I do this to myself? Why do I set upon such ridiculous journeys knowing full well that the destination would remain out of reach simply because it was always likely to be a mirage? Mind you, it’s not the failure that bothers me for it was always going to be a tall order. What irks me is this unrivalled, enormous, relentlessly unceasing feeli... more...
 15:20 | 7/Oct/2006
Of Life & Death
What do you say to a 24 year-old whose mother died 15 hours ago? Or more specifically, who cremated his mother barely half a dozen hours ago? That it’s part of life and that pain will go with time. That life hands such cards every now and again and that it was merely his chance this time. That it’s okay to cry as long as he remembers that there is ... more...
 11:06 | 29/Sep/2006
The Writer's Block
It’s a strange feeling. I am suffering from an acute shortage of words. Only when I plant my lazy ass to write something down, that is. When I lie down, and sleep is a difficult commodity to come by, thoughts come in torrents & storm the mind, bring to forefront the feelings that hitherto lay in the deep recesses of the heart, and words take defini... more...
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 narendra shah | 23:14 | 25/May/2008
Friends: (121)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: music-classical,r...
Quotable Quotes
# BEFORE  Everything  Else, Getting ready is the Secret  of  Success.# If  you  Surrender completely to the moments as they pass, You live more Richly those moments.# Celebrate what you want to see more of.# The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his        attitudes of mind. # I have learned th...  more...
 Vaidehi | 17:57 | 23/May/2008
Friends: (268)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music, internet, ...
Ancient Lessons
This post is coming after a break..which wasnt really a planned or deliberate break.I guess I didn't know what to post about! Coming back to what I have been doing all these days, well I was just getting my life back on track. Can't claim that suddenly miracles happened and everything fell in place in a moment. It's a slow, one-step-at-a-time proce...  more...
 CrazyCraft | 13:33 | 3/Aug/2007
Friends: (110)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Metal Art
Crazy Craft
Crazy Craft creates metal art sculptures and figures that depict movie characters and automobiles. Each metal art piece captures your attention from the most serious to the humorous. Each figure is unique because each one tells it's own story and no two are exactly same.Crazy Craft also creates non-mobile replicas of tankers, choppers, dozers, trac...  more...
 Tammanna | 22:56 | 22/May/2008
Friends: (386)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music and reading
Bleeding Dreams
Bleeding dreamsRhyme and reason lost in her headTossing and turning in the bedDreams buried under the pillowVacantly staring into spaceDesires dancing to a remote beatYearning to feel the heatShe lies like dead meat Come on, if you dareKiss her moist foreheadCaress her pale cheeksSend a ripple down her spineResuscitate her back to life She is not r...  more...
 sohamswami | 14:28 | 14/May/2008
Friends: (669)  | City: HIMALAYAS  | Interests: TO OPEN THE EYES ...
ONLY FOR TRINA
Neel was furious.He said-' you can not just hoodwink me.You will have to tell me today-Who is this Trina? I know definitely somebody is there.You are just plainly hiding. How can you write so passionately about somebody yet do not know her. All bakwas.'I just laughed.' No,no,you can not get away today just by showing your teeth '- He said agitatedl...  more...
 DENSON JOSEPH | 16:45 | 15/May/2008
Friends: (712)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Fitness
Bangloreans - great nation lovers
Hi Friends,On the 10th of May 2008, when elections were on its full swing in Bangalore. A group of responsible Bangaloreans made it a point to vote & then attend the first ever JAGO PARTYmeet in the state of Karnataka.It was overwhelming for me to see that every individual gathered here was not only passionate about the cause of the nation but also...  more...
 Sanghamitra ... | 22:14 | 19/May/2007
Friends: (405)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Writing , Reading...
Major Som nath Sharma , The first recipi...
Major Som nath Sharma , The first recipient of Param Vir Chakra ..Disclaimer : The contents have been borrowed from reliable sources ---------------------------------------- -------------------------Major Somnath Sharma, son of Major General Amarnath Sharma, was born on 31 January 1923, in Himachal Pradesh District Kangra. He was commissioned in the...  more...
 richa bhagwat | 12:56 | 19/Jun/2007
Friends: (134)  | Interests: paintin
m coming home
  I wana go back homeTo d place I belongLong lasting memoriesThat I always carry with meI have moved too farFrom my home, d place I belongMy aims where big& my dreams where biggerFor me, then, my home seemed smallerSo I left my home, all aloneIt’s been a lonely journeyIn search of pleasures And lots of moneyMy hunger alas my greedHas bought me here...  more...
 Namrata Hari... | 10:20 | 6/Mar/2008
Friends: (457)  | City: Bhubaneshwar  | Interests: JILL OF ALL TRADE...
Good For Nothing
                                        GOOD FOR NOTHING-15              That was an unusual quiet day in terms of workload.I was on night duty with ‘my’ staff busy in their respective duties. I had a rather unwritten agreement with the hospital management to provide me with my chosen set of nurses, ward boys and other paramedics during my night du...  more...
 Indigo Iris | 11:17 | 7/May/2008
Friends: (62)  | City: terra firma  | Interests: poems,country mus...
Mute Stones...
Mute Stones,What tales you hidein your chasmfrom days bygone?Ever so calmEver so graveDoes it pain youto treasure thusthe secrets untold?In your deep marrowwhat intrigues grow?The cracks that open your sideWhat painful miseries do they hide?Muffled though you soundyet I hear the distant heart poundThose images you arouse, bedazzle my sensesThey tel...  more...
 Deepa | 18:29 | 12/May/2008
Friends: (81)  | Interests: reading, being wi...
Who am I?
I come to you when there's no one aroundbut I can haunt you even when there's everyone aroundIf you are happy, I can't touch youIf you are sad, I can break youYou shun me, you curse meyou break away from mego to the movies or get friends togetheror go out on a hike and say I don't botherBut I would come back when there's no one aroundand I can even...  more...
 nishant shah | 13:10 | 9/May/2008
Friends: (522)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music Rock Meta...
Adage
                AdageSeveral fervors run through my mind,but the masquerade of hope still dwells in my sight.I peek in my seared eyes and blow air around my parched lipsBut the mannequin still was stranded in that same candid lane.Then I moved close to herand asked the reason of being marooned in that laneShe replied with the contemplated voice,"Th...  more...
 Trishna Mumbai | 09:44 | 18/Apr/2008
Friends: (9)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: ...
Daddy...
There are several types of love stories in this world. I had the opportunity to be witness to a simple, strong one - perhaps stuff that legends are made of - the love story of my parents which now remains as a warm memory with the passing away of my father in early April. My dad was 24yrs old when he was married, my mom was 18. He had a salary of R...  more...
 soft zephyr | 15:28 | 14/Dec/2006
Friends: (42)  | Interests: reading, writing,...
Adieu...
I came here a little over a month ago & loved every minute of it. Believe me , it felt like another home to me, where I met fellow writers who thought like I did ( well, almost ). I was hungry for conversations on various issues & let me assure you, I got more than my fill, at least the one-way kinds. I posted some old poems that had been written y...  more...
 Sudhir Chauhan | 07:40 | 10/Jan/2007
Friends: (166)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Delhi,Music,frien...
Personality Plus
Hi friends,Here goes the second one...Personality Plus by Florence Littauer *************************************An amazing book..that reveals "personality profile" self-test and Littauer's valuable guidance &  helps readers better understand themselves and others..A must read for everyone who wants to be loved and accepted..by others..The book tal...  more...
 Reshma Thakkar | 21:11 | 26/Mar/2008
Friends: (2161)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Enjoying life as ...
SHOULD WE
 Should we build our surroundings --or thoughts?Should we seek pleasure --or happiness?Should we progress materially --or spiritually?Should we nurse our ego --or ability?Should we fear death --or disease?Should we be worthy of praise from man --Or God?Should we be intelligent --Or wise?Should we attempt to win --Or achieve?Should we envy –Or admir...  more...