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Are you a left-wing or a right-wing?
This article is about labeling people as "left" or "right". The author argues that there are more than on interpretation to this simple categorization. Worth a look.
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Top searches on Wikipedia
This article is about the top searches on Wikipedia. The author laments how sex, comics, and Harry Potter rules the root, and there's no mention of writers or writing. Worth a look!
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Stagflation, eh? 2008-03-11 22:52:14 They are digging up the roads everywhere. Just beside my house is this huge trench where they are laying cables, outside my office a huge hydraulic excavator is digging away, extracting mounds of...
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The Sea, Poetry and Bhel Puri! 2008-03-10 00:45:15 Imagine this: the sea reflecting myriad rays of the setting sun, a terrace so beautifully adorned with flowers, bougainvilleas, the rays of the setting sun caressing your skin, the gentle wind on...
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Hey You B******, Don’t You Have Eyes, Train Animal? 2008-03-06 21:55:58 This is quite common for all commuters of Bombay: just as the train is about to stop at a station there is a jostling crowd is waiting to get in, pushing, shoving, trembling, shaking all over. You...
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It’s hot; and the Power of the Subconscious Mind 2008-03-13 23:09:20 The heat is here. I felt it’s sting in the train yesterday, the swelter, the feeling as if the skin is erupting into a hundred rashes, the clothes soaks in sweat, and the air is filled with a kind of...
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Kitab 2008 and a Case of “Ulta Chor Kotwal Ko Dathe” 2008-03-15 06:44:37 I don’t know why I am going on and on about Kitab 2008 but I want to get this off my chest, at least, so that I can breathe easy. The whole thing seemed to me an unsavoury reflection of the very...
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On Writing a Novel! 2008-03-21 09:55:09 A few chapters into my second novel, I think writing a novel, or even attempting one is a great act of faith. The very prospect of developing a story, so many characters, so many situations are...
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Live Blogging Right Here! 2008-03-20 11:10:21 Almost lost touch with the online world, as my laptop gave me a lot of trouble. And the Nokia E61i, sort of, blackberry, wasn’t any good either. But got it all fixed. Increased the RAM of my laptop...
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Our Fears Are Abnormal, So Says Joseph Murphy 2008-03-24 23:07:47 Groggy? Yes. Sleepy? Yes. Go to work? Yes. I don’t feel like it. I guess to be sick is a blessing given by God. And I had the blessing of God for a week, when I was laid down with unforeseen fear of...
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This Video Touched Me, So Watch! 2008-03-24 00:06:09 This video is so heartrending that I saw it again, and again, and again.... It makes us wonder why we are like that only, without a little patience, a wee bit of forbearance, and a lot of tolerance....
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Taslima from Somewhere in Europe... I Want to Come Back! 2008-03-27 23:06:52 "Speaking from a hospital bed somewhere in Europe
, Taslima said: "I cannot tell you where I am because for the first time the world thinks that I am a dangerous person, thanks to the Indian...
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Taslima Goes Back to the West 2008-03-25 23:08:15 Persecuted, traumatised, ignored, maligned, pilloried, Taslima Nasreen, author of “Shame” has been forced to flee to the West for her own good and her health. She was even denied medical care that...
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Old Lady, What Ails Thou? 2008-03-29 23:45:28 Well, India’s leading newspaper has done the forbidden thing, which I couldn’t have imagined any newspaper doing. I have been observing it for a few days now. My favourite newspaper has headlines in...
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The Gucci Life 2008-04-04 06:59:51 This is what Pablo Ganguli writes in an article in Guardian "The Gucci
Life."
Most educated, well-to-do and savvy people I know in India cannot afford a holiday in Europe and have absolutely no...
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My second mobile blog 2008-04-03 20:52:48 This is my second mobile blog. I didn't get a seat today, though i
tried my best, ran from one corner to the other, got hit and almost
fell down, and was left standing like a fool, while my...
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My first mobile blog 2008-04-03 11:13:53 Hi, this is my first mobile blog, hopefully. A big thanks goes to my
Nokia E61i and Blogger.com. I am in the train going to my workplace,
hey guys stop pushing me!
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I am starting mobile blogging 2008-03-03 22:25:21 This is my first mobile blog.
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Stop This Frivolity, This Decadence in the Media 2008-04-06 04:13:27 Anywhere I look there are laugher shows, the great Indian laughter challenge, laughter champion, comedy circus, etc. Either it’s a laugher show or a music show, with celebrity judges. I am not saying...
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Am wearing shalwar kurta today 2008-04-04 22:44:36 I am wearing
shalwar kurta today, and there are a few stares and appreciative looks. The Shakespeareans are meeting at their usual haunt of tea centre, and that's why - am sporting the 'writer' look,...
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Feedback on article on frivolity in new media 2008-04-08 03:25:05 Receiving good feedback on my article on frivolity in news media
which appears here. First to appreciate was Vasudev Murthy and then Ashish Gorde. I am so happy I wrote it. then, I couldn't turn a...
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We Indians dress like this only! And Indra Sinha's Animal's People 2008-04-07 23:05:25 Didn't I say here that we Indians
don't have a dress
sense. A new neighbour moves in, he washes his scooty every day. Nothing wrong with that, but that he is wearing aloudly checked pajama and a...
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My post on frivolity in the AV media 2008-04-07 22:45:05 I am onthe way to work. A few rays of errant sunshine filters through people and fall on me. I have sent my essay on frivolity in the AV media
to Tehelka magazine. Hope they publish it.
a few more...
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Went shopping for fruits yesterday 2008-04-09 03:34:35 The post-prandial fruit was out of stock, so wifey suggested I take a walk and buy some fruit. Ah, well, I think, I don't mind a periodic check of prices, since I blogged about stagflation here....
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Persistence doesn't pay 2008-04-10 23:04:26 There is this software giant that is so keen on employing me that there are persistent calls to me by a sweet sounding lady, at all times of the day. Guess they need my services badly. But this giant...
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Another morning... Few more thoughts.... 2008-04-10 22:59:34 I guess, dear reader, the problem with us is that we are hoarding our money and not spending enough. I am not making excuses for my profligacy, which I am accused by my family, but all I am saying is...
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Boys night out... times that were.... 2008-04-09 22:53:24 Posting from the train on the way to work. A man just got up and I got a place to park my behind and do some blogging. Recently, a few days back, I passed Night Cravers, a fave joint of my NRI bosses...
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Prelude to madness 2008-04-12 06:57:36 I have been seeing this man in trains, platforms, at Chembur, touching
both cheeks, joining both hands and praying to some unknown god. In
the first class compartment that he travelled he would...
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Drunk gets beaten up, coupla' other things 2008-04-14 22:50:05 I wait eagerly, Imust say, to blog on the train everyday, time passes fast, I am not still comfortable with the qwerty keyboard. But anyway I am making progress, I use my thumbs to enter text, and it...
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Writing for lonely planet 2008-04-15 23:08:40 If you are one of those with tongues hanging out to write for Lonely Planet, you better read this.
“DO TRAVEL Writers Go To Hell?” is Thomas Kohnstamm’s book bout his experiences writing for Lonely...
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