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 02:44 | 9/Jul/2008
HOME SWEET HOME
PEOPLE, I AM GOING HOME! AFTER 2 AND A HALF LOOOOOONG YEARS I AM GOING HOME :)) I CANNOT WAIT TILL I GET TO MY OWN SWEET PARADISE THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN. FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS AM GOING TO BE SHUTTLING BETWEEN NAGERCOIL AND TRIVANDRUM.   SO LONG AND FAREWELL TILL THEN. CATCH U ALL LATER :)) more...
 23:49 | 29/May/2008
Wedding Blues
It was yesterday when realization suddenly struck me. Barely a week to go, there’s a wedding in the family and what am I doing, stuck halfway across the world. It sinks in slowly that I will be missing the wedding. Though I knew right from day one when they fixed the date that I would be missing it, I guess I chose to ignore the fact. Veteran escap... more...
 23:50 | 25/Apr/2008
30 Questions Tag
BVN tagged me on this....1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER:Katha Parayumbol (I actually teared up at the end. Never thought I’d see the day when Mammootty could do that to me… but come to think of it, I’d rather give credit to Sreenivasan)2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ by Erich Maria Remarque for my bookclub. It’s a ... more...
 06:33 | 8/Apr/2008
Into the Scheme of Things
Into the Scheme of Things Funny how you make An infinitesimal blob In the middle of nowhere. Like moths drawn to their Fate Drawn to your useless ties. Dancing to the tunes of Maya As she dances to the cosmic drum. In the mad cavorting of life When you think you had a glimpse Of Eternity in another’s eyes Days when sleep eluded you And like the ill... more...
 07:01 | 13/Mar/2008
The Cry
Days of white heat and pouring rain,When the mountains cry in anguish;You float by, but hear no whimper.When the fury ebbs, the mountains sigh. Deep within, the earth roils;Her sweat pours forth A beautiful bloom,Borne in the prime of pain. As furrow by furrow, Man hacks throughIn search of gold,Of gold and lust. Lost amidst the days of yore,Some a... more...
 08:44 | 8/Mar/2008
Happy Women's Day
Happy Women’s Day to all those brave women out there taking life head on one day at a time:The career woman trying to shatter her way through a glass ceiling. The construction worker carrying bricks to build somebody’s concrete ceiling. The impoverished woman working her butt off to put food into her children’s mouth. The struggling woman hiding mo... more...
 02:26 | 12/Feb/2008
Date with Destiny
“Kanden Kaaliyai,” that was all he said. But in those two words was a sense of longing which was 35 years in the fulfilling. A hunger he had carried in his heart since he was 15, the longing to see his ishtadeivam, Kali, and not just any Kali mind you, but Sri Ramakrishna’s Kali, the Mother at  Dakshineshwar, She who had inspired him and set him of... more...
 18:20 | 12/Nov/2007
Another Diwali, Far From Home
I love Diwali. It is the only festival in our parts that sanctions non-vegetarian food. Dunno what the story behind that is, but whatever it is I have no complaints. Every other festival calls for an over dose of sathvik food. And a couple of days before the onset of the veggie festivals itself I go into pangs of anxiety. ‘Green Anxiety’ -a sudden ... more...
 21:54 | 29/Oct/2007
The Grand Old Man in the Closet
 Yup, he’s out. Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot and Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, better known as the dearly departed Headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is gay. His creator JK Rowling pushed him out of the closet just last week while answering questions at Carnegie Hall. Well, that was a... more...
 16:48 | 13/Sep/2007
Matters of Faith and Other Such Things
Go on, make your own statement. Never mind that it might hurt the sentiments of a billion plus people. After all, they are the punching bags. When they believe, it is superstition, when others believe, it is faith. When they protest it is stoking communal flames, when others protest, they are fighting for minority rights. Where are you oh breastbea... more...
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 Madhur bid | 10:25 | 8/Jul/2008
Friends: (168)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: networking; music...
Astro........
Hey!! do you beleive in astrology? Most of us do or atleast admit that we all have the habit of reading astrology posts in some way or other. When I looked at my friends list, I realized that I have friends from all sun signs and thought I will do an experiment. I am posting the prediction for Scorpio [no particular reason why I selected this sign]...  more...
 RAGHUPAT | 17:42 | 6/Jul/2008
Friends: (97)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: "I dare to dream"...
Immoral Desire
responce required:: hi friends plz respond to this post.Immoral DesireI Know I Can't Have You,I Know It Is Impossible,Yet The Smile On Your Lips,Makes Me Wicked.I Look At You Once Again And  Burn With Desire,I Want To Scream At The Top Of My Voice ThatI Want You,I Need You,I Lust You.I Know You Lust for Me Too, Yet You Resist,Your Morals Restrain Y...  more...
 Shivaja V | 10:06 | 5/Jul/2008
Friends: (73)  | City: Baroda  | Interests: Reading,writing,K...
Aestheticism and vulgarity........ 3rd July 08, Q n A at rediff.com was follows.  Some of the answers have you in splits. The nine comments are reproduced below as it is! Q. How do you differentiate the thin line between aestheticism and vulgarity? 1. If a person does not have belief in the concept of God he is aesthist. Vulgarity is obviously what...  more...
 Monalisa Smile | 10:35 | 5/Jul/2008
Friends: (144)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: Taking pleasure i...
So long....
Hello All, A very good day to all who visit my iLand, read some of the boring stuff I write,To top it up, write some excellent comments and some great GB entries...I am away for few weeks..well not literally away from my lappy...but there are certainpersonal commitments because of which my activity on the iLand will be prettyerratic. I may not be r...  more...
 Divyani | 08:00 | 11/Jun/2008
Friends: (222)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: bus yu he
Sarkar Raj And 3:10 to Yuma
Sarkar Raj And 3:10 to Yuma: One of my co-worker, who also has become a dear friend and brother, rushed to me on Friday afternoon and said “Sarkar Raj has got rave reviews….lets go Di…lets book the tickets online lest we reach theatre and the show is sold out”.  He was so excited and jumbing up and down that it kinda rubbed off on me as well.  So w...  more...
 Sameera Nandi | 12:25 | 4/Jul/2008
Friends: (424)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Enjoying the rain...
Sum of all losses
 Yesterday, when I went to a shop to get some stuff, I got the rude shock that my wallet was missing from my handbag. I searched at home and tried remembering when I had seen it last and realized that it was the day before. Finally, I reached the dreaded conclusion that my wallet must have got stolen. My nice new, Blue & Blues, Italian leather wall...  more...
 lonely | 01:47 | 28/Jun/2008
Friends: (323)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: sharing,observing...
A Great Move...
 Recently the state government of Andhra Pradesh has  taken a decision to introduce CBSE English medium syllabus in government schools through out the state. I felt really happy after listening this news through one of the news channels..  This is really a welcoming decision because it’s not only giving English medium education to the poor but it a...  more...
 saurabh lal | 17:06 | 17/May/2008
Friends: (38)  | City: Scranton  | Interests: reading,blogging,...
MALL-ed to death
Having a car and a girlfriend is the double whammy of highest order. I happen to have the misery of both. Last weekend we set off on a “long drive” excursion which she finds mysteriously romantic. To me, driving pointlessly to unknown is nothing but a schizophrenic activity. However this profound notion of mine didn’t urge me to argue with her. Her...  more...
 sohamswami | 09:12 | 24/Jun/2008
Friends: (771)  | City: HIMALAYAS  | Interests: TO OPEN THE EYES ...
BANOMALI AND THE GOD
Banomali can be fearless. He really can be fearless,when he is drunk. As the alcohol flows inside,it washes away all the grief,sadness and fear. Banomali ponda, at his level has nothing to loose but he fears death and he fears humiliation. He can remember vividly how he lost his entire family-his son,daughters and his wife Kamala, in that devastati...  more...
 BEST FRIEND | 06:55 | 3/Jul/2008
Friends: (481)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: meeting new, inte...
Travel Light to enjoy the journey of Lif...
HiThis is an article by Tia Paranjape which appeared in the Times of India newspaper yesterday and was worth sharing.I often wonder: Is it possible to love without attachment? We do have so much love to give, but is it the right kind of love? We tend to feel a kind of ownership over all that we love though we don"t own anything or anyone. It is ea...  more...
 Manu Nair | 20:53 | 7/Jul/2008
Friends: (556)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Writing,reading,s...
There are No Permanent Foes In Politics!...
It’s really strange that no political parties have openly discussed on the Nuclear deal on how it would benefit people. The CPI, the Congress and the BJP have kept silent on this issue. The SP too has several other plans up its sleeve, firstly to improve upon its performance in terms of the number of seats in UP as well as to launch a tirade agains...  more...
 chandresh kumar | 02:27 | 3/May/2008
Friends: (227)  | City: Varanasi  | Interests: LOVE AND LIFE ...
ONLY ONE CLICK
ONLY ONE CLICK AGAR AAP APNI AAMDANI BADANA CHAHTE HAI TO KEWAL 1 CLICK KARE AUR 1 FORM BHARE WO BHI FREE. www.systembusiness.net YAAR DOSTI KE LIYE 1 FORM BHAR DO. MY MO.NO. 9305341757  more...
 Ka Tvam | 11:21 | 16/Feb/2008
Friends: (29)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: Reading, Crosswords
Markatasya surapaanam
When Teddy Bear called to announce his arrival in Chennai, I was busy directing traffic around my car, in the middle of a busy ring road near Koramangala!  His call was a reminder that I had not posted a blog in a long while!  Inertia...ennui..whatever….!!! As I spoke to him letting him know of my predicament, I figured out that life was not going ...  more...
 Devil Prody | 16:49 | 29/May/2008
Friends: (154)  | City: devilz' land  | Interests: nothing...but som...
to name a few.....
What is the most saddest thing that a person has and would not like it to happen to others ???? Some one asked me this today while travelling.... I answered her...a child loosing parents at his/her early age.....She answered to some extent... Her answer was "A person not having any friends, relatives and leaving all alone...." What about parents lo...  more...
 Ranjan Sengupta | 15:25 | 24/May/2007
Friends: (39)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: music, reading no...
Physics and Music
Can we define music? Most of us may agree that it is bourn by a time series, jointly or independently, of amplitude, frequency and complexity, three fundamental well-known parameters used in physics. This time series is the objective reality, or the fictional reality of physics. But obviously all such time series pertaining to auditory sensation ar...  more...
 Think Tank | 22:29 | 1/Jul/2008
Friends: (576)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Eat healthy, Thin...
Let’s take a good Snap
PhotographyWhat is in a Picture? Photography is an art. And all of us don’t learn it in school. So we keep experimenting and on the way, create some very nice stories. I take better photographs than anyone who has laid hands on my camera so far. One of the mistakes that my friends do is to miss the big picture in an effort to seize the bigger pictu...  more...
 Prudent Indian | 21:57 | 8/May/2008
Friends: (218)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Fighting 'politic...
My Last Post .
Updated, on May,22nd,2008 @ 9.31PM ‘All Sikhs’ were ‘Murderers of Indira Gandhi’. Hence, 1984 is justified, implies Arjun Singh? May 22, 2008 by theprudentindian UPDATED, on May 14th, 2008 @ 12.03 PMDear ilanders, I am updating my last post in the wake of ‘serial bomb blasts’ in the city of Jaipur, Rajasthan. More than a Post, following u...  more...
 Tammanna | 17:28 | 7/Jul/2008
Friends: (442)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music and reading
Slavery or Artistry????
Slave to your artistry! So now you knowHow I feelSo what will it be?The noose or the guillotineKill me if you willFor I have come cleanAnd exposed your crime! It was high timeYou have stolen my peaceBreached my dreamsOffended my sentimentsBy sending a flower too manyI know what you meanYou don’t care a damnIf I am betrothed elsewhereFor your belief...  more...
 prashant | 10:10 | 25/Mar/2008
Friends: (34)  | City: Rajkot  | Interests: like to hear shaa...
want to earn money through internet??
Dear Friends, Are you interested to make Rs.2000 to Rs.5000 a Day? then give ur Email Id I will send u work detail. MY E MAIL ID IS prashant79797@hotmail.com Thanks  more...
 siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (561)  | City: OUTER SPACE  | Interests: travelling into t...
A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE
Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...  more...
 sunshine | 12:52 | 8/Jul/2008
Friends: (423)  | Interests: Its raining Billi...
THE WEDDING RING – A TRUE STORY!!
THE WEDDING RING – A TRUE STORY True Story from Houston Medical Center A man went to the hospital to have his wedding ring cut off from his “Ahem”. According to the Nurse attending, the patient's girl friend found the Ring in his pants pocket and she got so mad at him, she used petroleum jelly to slip the ring on his “ahem” while he was asleep (nak...  more...
 Insignifican... | 13:12 | 26/Jun/2008
Friends: (452)  | City: Chengdu  | Interests: We wish & aspire ...
Dirty Game~~तेल क...
तेल का खेल जबइस वर्ष की शुरुआत से ही लगभग पूरी दुनिया में ज़ë...  more...
 Joseph Antony | 00:06 | 4/Jul/2008
Friends: (509)  | City: Kottayam,Changanacherry  | Interests: reading,movies, f...
" FOR EVER "
I hereby Stops all my activities n iland.  And treat this as my apology -  If any of my posts or any comments hurt / wounded anybody.Thanks, Love & Regards to All my Friends.  HAVE  A  NICE DAY ............   No one is born happy... But all of us are born with the ability to create happiness...So....today, make others happy... Flash your sweetest s...  more...
 amar snh | 20:18 | 3/Apr/2008
Friends: (1230)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: travelling, makin...
Is it possible ?
Hi Friends,There are couple of Utopian ideas that keep taking twists and turns in my mind so very oftenI must admit these may sound totally outlandish or plain silly, specially to those of you with special bent of mind towards all things ScientificFirst of these is :-    Is it possible for man to develop some sort of wings, of course mechanically a...  more...
 shainy | 20:41 | 1/Aug/2007
Friends: (77)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: reading, eating, ...
Stolen moments of joyI want to be a child again so that I can be uncaring and notbothered with what the world might think.I remember some of stolen moments of joy. Some years ago, myoffice was nearby and I used to walk to office. Once it was noon time and I hadgone home for lunch. I take a shortcut that takes me through a playground. Noontime,it wa...  more...
 Priyan Rebello | 10:47 | 14/Nov/2007
Friends: (157)  | City: Thiruvananthapuram  | Interests: call me at 099955...
Anything white.....
The insignia I forgot, In this world whether I exist. Each time I look into my hands. They are white against darkness. I am white and I wish to disappear. But the world is dark and I appear. Anything white can't fade. .......................Priyan...........  more...
 News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007
Friends: (965)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
please income
SantaSingh got his promotion and became principal in colledge. To keep up with his status, he decided tospeak only in English to all his juniors. One morning, his peon peeped through the doorto see if his principal was busy. Santa Singh noticed him and shouted, 'Why areyou outstanding! Please in...  more...
 atul | 10:28 | 26/Jun/2007
Friends: (87)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: chatting
hi
visit my blog at blogs.ibibo/newthingsinlife and give your expert comments there  more...
 mini francis | 11:30 | 17/Apr/2008
Friends: (266)  | City: delhi  | Interests: Kids, Reading,
FRIENDS
A STORY OF TWO FRIENDSA story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.They kept on walking until they f...  more...
 lay pillay | 19:53 | 24/Apr/2007
Friends: (4)  | Interests: lays and pillays
ha ha ha aha
Weird Hollywood Things to learn from the movies:During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once.All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her.It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the...  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...
 Dhiman Bose | 22:32 | 8/Jul/2008
Friends: (774)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: music, making fri...
RE: MY LAST POST
Hi friendz...this post is in reply with ur valuable comments for "My last post". There is no exact reason behind leaving iland. I'm just tired and extremely weird nowadays. Most probably these days r the most critical in my life till date. I'm just trying to keep a balance between the good and the dark side of mine n it seems that the later will wi...  more...
 Sathya Sathya | 13:18 | 28/Jun/2008
Friends: (224)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Thinking
"Revisioning The Victimization of Males...
The report "The invisible boy" tries to talk about Opening the Door to Male Victims.  AA vvery authentic and great report to be read compulsorily by all male haters (Male haters would, as usual, prefer to skip reading and accepting the facts anyway!). Written by a professional and includes facts and figures (Just 7 web pages!). Here is...  more...
 chitra priya... | 13:30 | 2/Apr/2008
Friends: (422)  | City: ernakulam  | Interests: YOU CAME FROM NO ...
break your silence
 Hundred words do not give pain But a special persons silence Makes more tears in our heart …    This is a big true which I have experienced myself. I had a very special friend who was very much close to my heart we shared our feelings to each other he was really a gift for me and I loved him a lot ….. But one day every thing went wrong we fought  ...  more...
 sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007
Friends: (1045)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: theatre, journali...
‘Eating the Earth’!
 Eating meat, dairy and eggs threatens our planet.You use much less land and water if you eat crops directly. Animals use most of the protein they eat to live, not 'grow' meat. So eating meat adds to water shortages, forest clearing, soil damage, use of oil-based pesticides - and climate change. "By 2050 the world's livestock will be consuming as m...  more...
 Neelambari 07 | 22:44 | 20/Dec/2007
Friends: (16)  | City: Pennsylvania  | Interests: Music,painting,re...
And plus a glass of wine..
 Thoughts for the New Year.. A professor  stood before his philosophy class              with    some items on his desk in front of him.                    When the  class began, wordlessly,            he picked up  a very large and empty mayonnaise jar                and  proceeded to fill it with golf balls.             He then  asked the student...  more...
 john sudhakar | 20:58 | 23/May/2008
Friends: (124)  | City: goldenrockie  | Interests: [madam i'm adam]
JUST SALSA,JUST JALSA
 Just Salsa………………………..just jalsa This is my 3rd novella in the unmaking. The first one was really principled.BUT I drowned it in the bay of andipatty during my short semester tours in search of the MISSING KINK. Thw 2nd novella was a course on the river CHENAB.I started child-like pebbling on the CHENAB and so intoxicated was I that I took my 2nd n...  more...
 arun motwani | 19:26 | 11/May/2007
Friends: (191)  | Interests: reading (books on...
About the Life
          ABOUT THE LIFE : We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Life is just a Chance to grow a Soul. Life is like Onion, You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. You don’t get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you’re going to live Now. Life is like a Taxi. The Meter ...  more...
 Sachin Jaiswal | 13:03 | 8/Sep/2007
Friends: (19)  | Interests: loving
KInara
yun na har baat yaro se pucho jo baat raaz ki ho isharo se poocho lehro se khelna to samunder ka khel hai lagti hai chot kaise kinaro se pucho  more...
 Jessica Singh | 09:49 | 13/Sep/2007
Friends: (860)  | City: Ever heard of Nadir ?  | Interests: blogging ...and t...
Sleepless in ......
I have always been a dreamer.But, these days I am not even able to sleep properly. A constant irritation itches on in my mind and I know not where it comes from. As a child, our own Doctor Uncle used to point out that diagnosis was pivotal to medication. I somehow found a deeper meaning in those words in connection to our daily lives even when I wa...  more...
 Krishna Prasad | 14:53 | 14/Jun/2008
Friends: (1497)  | Interests: Reading, Writing,...
An Autobiography of a Goat!
An Autobiography of a Goat! Like other animals, after traversing through many r