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 Sandeep Ohri | 06:31 | 5/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (366)
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| Higher Electricity Bills .. again ? |
| If you don't take action now .. you may end up paying higher electricity bills .. again !!Just a small reminder that there is a Public Hearing on Dec 6th at the YB Chavan Auditorium (Opp. Mantralaya), Mumbai - at 11 am. This is to hear public suggestions / comments on MSEDCL's petition to increase electricity tariff in lieu of imposing second "stag...
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| Meenal Johari | 18:17 | 12/Mar/2007 |
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| Email To My Loving Wife |
| A man checked into a hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife. However, he accidentally typed a wrong e-mail address, and without realizing his error, he sent the e-mail. Meanwhile....Somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned from her husband's funeral.The widow decided to check her e-mail, expectin...
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| Krishna Reddy | 23:42 | 2/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (295)
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| Art of Living friends from Pune |
| Clips from Pune trip Nov 2006 Pictures of myself ( Krishna Reddy ), Sunita and Art of Living Pune gang including Harshal Jadhav, Omkar Nissal and Archana. The trip included a visit to Okayama garden (Asia"s largest Japanese garden), Kadakwasla dam, Khanapur orphanage and Omkar"s birthday party.
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| Mahe R | 02:22 | 25/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (49)
| City: Hyderabad
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| Jai Jai Communists of India |
| Its been a long while since my last appearance on the Iland space, though unintentional.I could not resist, when I came across this piece of news that said : " five out of 17 nuclear power plants have been shut down for want of fuel", but say Jai Communism. Long live Communist party of India ( M), Communist party of India(a), Communist party of Ind...
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| Manoj Verma | 17:22 | 1/Mar/2007 |
| Friends: (51)
| City: Delhi
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| Ghalib - Humko maloom hai |
| husn-e-mah, garche ba_haNgaam-e-kamaal achcha haius'se mera mah-e-KHursheed-e-jamaal achcha hai [ husn-e-mah -> moon like beauty, mah = moon, KHursheed = sun, jamaal = beauty ] bosa dete naheeN aur dil pe hai har lahja nigaahjee meiN kehte haiN, muft aaye to maal achcha hai [ bosa = kiss ] unke dekhe se jo aa jaatee hai muNh par raunaqwoh samajhte ...
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| mark | 11:11 | 10/Apr/2006 |
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| SBI strike called off, staff to get more... |
| New Delhi, April 10 (PTI): The week-long strike by SBI employees was called off Sunday night following a settlement, which gives higher pension to 2.10 lakh staff of the country's largest commercial bank. Announcing the settlement after a marathon meeting lasting more than 10 hours between the Finance Ministry, striking workers and SBI management h...
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| Licensed Pirate | 07:16 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (290)
| City: kuala lumpur
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| E-Mail Error |
| It's wise to remember how easily e-mail can be misused, sometimes unintentionally, with serious consequences. Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his ...
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| Aamer Kapadia | 07:39 | 13/Apr/2006 |
| Friends: (4)
| City: Toronto
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| The Guitar Player of Yore |
| Hmm....just something that I wrote for an english assignment....Here goes....The Guitar Player of Yore...He plays so fast,Fingers skimming over the frets...You ask him to play something,He plays it without taking a breath...He plays rock, metal , country and moreThere's no such player like him now,He's the guitar player of yore...a bit squeaky...bu...
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| Magical Diva | 16:10 | 24/Apr/2006 |
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| Rang De Basanti - 1 |
| Ha! Can there be a better way to start a blog talking about one of the finest movie I’ve recently watched? I don’t think so.Mr MEHRA:Hmmmm… I don’t know from where he came, what he saw but definitely conquered a piece of me. It was interesting to note the kind of time (Over 10 freaking years) he devoted for his second baby to develop from idea phas...
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| Mumbai Eye | 19:50 | 27/Apr/2006 |
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| Taxi unfair |
| News of the imminent replacement of Mumbai’s fleet of ageing, sorry taxis must fill everyone with joy. For the vehicles are a disgrace to any city, let alone a city that prides itself on being international, India’s gateway etc, never mind such claims are far from the truth.And as someone condemned eternally to spend his commuting life in the backs...
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| Dominic Alapat | 20:23 | 7/Sep/2006 |
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| City: Mumbai
| Interests: poetry, literature
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| Poems |
| PoemThe poem had white-washed walls,and long, stately coconut leaves.On the poem's head were bright, redroof-tiles standing silently in the rain.The poem's walls were made of stoneand its thick pillars dreamt.You met me there, by its pillars,once long ago...Words held out their hands to the rain.Inside other thoughts hummed and s...
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| Nandan Newla... | 01:20 | 22/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (68)
| City: Cochin
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| SAND |
| im never myself and never for myselfand that was why i had dug down the sandfor some short messagesthe bucket was deepand the sand mostly dryi took it out one after otherbucket in hand i emptied my messagesand my world went tring tringno one knew where i had hidsuch was the load of unread messagesi was dog tiredbut i still tried and tried to keep t...
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| priya chobra | 14:08 | 1/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (247)
| City: Chandigarh
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| HANDWRITING TIPS!! |
| Your Handwriting Means If letters slant to the left: Indicates introspection and a lot of emotional control. If letter slant to the right: Reveals a person who's outgoing, friendly, impulsive, and emotionally open. If letters are straight up and down: The sign of someone who's ruled by the head, not the heart. Letters that slant in more than one ...
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| Mahesh Patwa... | 18:37 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| Where have all the record stores gone? |
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| The Web is full of "user generated nonsense" - is in a nutshell one of the conclusions of The Cult of the Amateur: How Today"s Internet is Killing Our Culture by Andrew Keen. Also more conclusions are that the second coming of the Web will destroy our moral fibre, it will be the downfall of organized Man as we know it, and completely drive every r...
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| praveen soma | 18:19 | 3/Sep/2007 |
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| City: Delhi
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| Dear Architects |
| Please Visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ associatearchitectshyd Please Visit: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ associatearchitectshyd
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| Prithviraj H... | 22:27 | 10/May/2006 |
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| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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| Gag, gag, gag! |
| What's with the BCCI?Virender Sehwag says he misses Ganguly, says the Indian team plays too much cricket, he is gagged. The BCCI warns him not to speak on such issues.Sachin Tendulkar has his first net in months. The media is not invited. When they land up they are asked to shoot for afar.So TV has a sideways angle of Sachin playing a few shots. So...
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| Ehtesham Khan | 01:03 | 12/Aug/2006 |
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| Men are like ....Placemats.They only show up when there"s food on the table. Men are like .....Mascara.They usually run at the first sign of emotion. Men are like .....Bike helmets.Handy in an emergency, but otherwise they just look silly.Men are like .....Government bonds.They take so long to mature. Men are like .....Copiers.You need them for rep...
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| Jahan Bakshi | 12:24 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| City: Sibsagar
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| Laaga Yashraj Ka Daag |
| [Originally published on PASSIONFORCINEMA.COM]Even the little droplets of hope that one had left after watching the decidedly bizarre promos of Laaga Chunari Main Daag are mercilessly dashed to the ground. The Yashraj stamp (or rather, stain) is so ostentatious and evident in Pradeep Sarkar"s second film that no amount of Surf Excel- or even Lux, w...
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| Rupali Nimkar | 11:15 | 19/Jul/2006 |
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| City: Thane
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| To Dear Home Minister |
| ToDear Mr. Shivraj PatilHome MinisterGovernment of IndiaFor past few years whenever I see you on the television a hundred questions come to my mind. This time again when you were on TV after the heinous Mumbai blasts the questions were back in my mind. It’s just that today I want to put them down and want you to answer them.After the Mumbai blasts ...
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| Siddharth Sa... | 02:01 | 19/May/2006 |
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| HIV Aids... Important Information... |
| Dear All, Kindly take a couple of minutes to go through this mail. This happened in Paris recently and may happen anywhere. A few weeks ago, in a film theatre, a person felt something poking from her seat. When she got up to see what it was, she found a needle sticking out of the seat with an attached note saying- "You have just been infected by ...
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| Shreyta B | 22:09 | 17/Jul/2007 |
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| Change........... |
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| ............................Iland is changed so much.............Where was I.... Why did I go... May be for the good......... or may be for the bad.....Change.... May be thats the word.. Life is a complete change after this one long year..... so much that I gained and so much that I lost.....Change... everthing changed around me...................O...
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| Nischal Thapa | 00:02 | 6/Nov/2007 |
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| ah! this one's a bit senti. thought i'll post something nice, specially when i'm celebrating my second year in iLand. q:well..i would like to thank every one in iLand. it's been a great two years!thanks rediff team for providing a great platform. i've certainly metsome really really fabulous people here. ((((((:and happy diwali to everyone! (:love ...
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 Ammaz Khan | 22:29 | 12/Feb/2006 |
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| NIFT Today 12th February, nift has organised its entrance test for admissions.
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| Priya Sridhar | 20:51 | 16/Feb/2006 |
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| Why granite? |
| Heard that Sachin is ordering a slab of granite so he can practice on it. Why?? What is he trying to do?
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| monu g | 22:58 | 10/Oct/2007 |
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| City: This Heavenly Planet
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| Of recognition & beyond |
| I remember the first time I wrote on this isle... I was sitting in the web-world at JBP, it was an autumn evening turning into night... my evenings used to be spent there as that was the only place in that big-village (as we used to call that city) where city-freaks like me could identify themselves with.. the multilights, teak round tables, cushio...
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| Balasubraman... | 21:56 | 1/Jan/2006 |
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| Zeno's Paradox |
| I must say, I did intend to complete a discussion of Accelaration and Newtons laws today, but in trying to figure out the principle of differentiation, I came across this pretty interesting one which is a sort of introduction to limits and infinity (and beyond too!).I promise that this will help while we discuss differentiation.This one is about th...
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| Chinmayee Ma... | 01:27 | 29/Jun/2006 |
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| reading, linking, holidaying |
| Not that I blog too frequently anyway, but do check out these links while I am gone for a week.My friend Leo's slightly strange but hugely entertaining blog. He's just become a respectable member of the working public by joining Time Out Mumbai, which, by the way, is also online now. Do check out to know what to do, where to go, what to eat, etc. A...
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| Oscar Blog | 18:56 | 5/Mar/2006 |
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| City: Mumbai
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| Last-minute Oscar predictions |
| The Oscars are a few hours away, and I'm giddy about the fact that I've seen all five nominated films, and a lot of the others. It's been a really interesting crop of relatively smaller films this year, and here's what I think: The Films: In descending order, my rating for the films this year are: Brokeback Mountain, Good Night, And Good Luck, Cras...
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| Raja Sen | 18:39 | 19/Nov/2007 |
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| Surreal lunacy with a fun filmmaker |
| When you write a negative review, there is almost always backlash. Most of you who have read me before do thus realise I'm not the most popular man in Bollywoodland -- to say nothing of Rediff's messageboards -- and there are filmmakers who loathe me, having taken a review too personally.Anyway, last week I wrote a column about Anurag Kashyap and h...
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| The Witch | 23:29 | 4/Jan/2006 |
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| City: Oz
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| My Stupid Suicide Plan - Chetan Bhagat |
| Last week, an IITian committed suicide. People who commit suicide do itwhen they feel there's no future. But wait, isn't IIT the one placewhere a bright and shining future is a foregone conclusion? It justdoesn't add up, does it? Why would a young, hardworking, bright studentwho has the world ahead of him do something like this? But the answer isth...
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| Wise Donkey | 12:08 | 6/Nov/2007 |
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| Until we meet again |
| He stood in the blazing sun, looked at the stone and read what had been inscribed on it."May the road rise up to meet you.May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon your face;the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,may God hold you in the palm of His hand."In the last seven years that would be the upmteenth...
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| Tinky Toinkers | 21:49 | 25/Oct/2006 |
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| Colours and light, joy to the spirit, heart of life..
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| Amit Agrawal | 23:11 | 6/Dec/2007 |
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| City: New Delhi
| Interests: hayaa aur hayaat
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| kahin koyi |
| kahin koyi manzil chhupi to hogikahin koyi aas dabi bhi hogikaise chudaoon apne haathon se lahoomere jurm ki panaah kahin to hogibaar baar hai beshumaar hai kehta hai dilhar baar dil ki sada tum tak pahunchi to hogidin guzar chuka hai raat bhi rawaan hogiis shabe gham ki bhi to koyi subah zaroor hogichalta jaaoonga jab talak na milegi mujhesaahil k...
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| Navneet Potti | 10:49 | 25/Nov/2005 |
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| I so want to be the rat, but I am so the pig .
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| janus janus | 18:03 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (259)
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| Bees saal baad |
| I think it’s the time for re-runs in my life! Last year I embarked on a road trip down south and visited places that I had not been to for 20-odd years. And in a week’s time, I will be visiting another country which I last saw 20years ago. A lot has changed in India in the meantime, and in life. I wonder what kind of changes have happened in a coun...
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