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 22:11 | 3/Aug/2008
Waiting for you
Let me first give a small intro about this work.At the age of 25 I have already come across multiple extra marital relationships...friends,friends of friends. What could be the root cause of all this?Unhappy marriages? The after effect of an ill-fit "arranged" marriage?Or that people just get plain bored with their boring old lives and want some fu... more...
 00:23 | 21/Jul/2008
Intervention
(Title based on a documentary by that name which inspired this work)She started preparing a glass of hot chocolate for her daughter.Maybe some easy-on-the-stomach sandwiches too.No meat. Would the hot chocolate be too heavy for her daughter's weak stomach? She impulsively threw the hot chocolate into the sink and kept a big glass of milk into the m... more...
 07:50 | 4/Jun/2008
Take Me Away
Relationships kind of stabilise with age.Mellow up and strengthen in such a way that everybody knows where they stand.Love turns to friendship...friendship turns to love...and everything is built to last.Not just for a day or a couple of days...but for an eternity.She saw him online after a long time....They chatted and laughed in mirth for quite s... more...
 02:31 | 28/May/2008
Love Beneath....
"Goodbye, Hope. (Goodbye for a moment, you bastard, but after this I'm never letting you out of my sight. The next time I see you will be the beginning of the rest of our lives.)Every night for years, I replayed that shouted dialogue in my head, and now I think this may be what it means. Maybe Goodbye really was the never-to-be-completed beginning ... more...
 09:53 | 16/Apr/2008
Depth
She was a thoughtful young girl of 10.She looked silent and observant from outside. But the colours in her mind were so vivid and deep. The smells so strongly registered and the sights so distinctly lodged in her memory…she would not forget them for years to come. She was on her way to school that day with her grandpa. They were in an auto and she ... more...
 09:08 | 12/Apr/2008
My online diary
Well here i am. Its the end of a long day.Work,shopping,gym. I did it all today. But maybe one more feat to accomplish by this night. I want to get started on this.There have been so many times in the past when a passing thought or an inspiring idea has prompted me to write.But i never had the means to.Or at least i never took the effort to find th... more...
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 ANANTH | 20:05 | 16/Jul/2008
Friends: (219)  | City: Vishakapatnam  | Interests: Music,Friendship,...
Earn money
. Invitation to join RupeeMail! Hi , I have something interesting for you, RupeeMail!It’s really amazing! You get paid to open & read the contents of RupeeMail. You receive promotional offers & special discounts in RupeeMail. Interestingly RupeeMails will reach you based on the preference list you opted for.Create your RupeeMail Account & refer you...  more...
 neavy | 17:25 | 3/Aug/2008
Friends: (68)  | City: Dehradun  | Interests: music, READING, B...
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 ujjwal gangele | 10:44 | 31/Jul/2008
Friends: (126)  | City: Bhopal  | Interests: music,photography...
parentomania
i dont know whether this is a word in oxford dictionary ornot.or am i the inventor of a new word. :--)this is a problem which modern parents are facing. i thnkmost of you will agree to it once you read this blog..these days parents are taking more care of children thanrequired.they are trying to be the best parents. for that they are after therechi...  more...
 neelima | 17:32 | 2/Aug/2008
Friends: (77)  | City: Dehradun  | Interests: music,cooking, re...
 happy  friend ship day  more...
 madan sharma | 12:51 | 2/Aug/2008
Friends: (44)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: new thought,music...
Let Me LOVE You
Let Me LOVE You  Once upon a time, there was once a guy who was very much in love with this girl. This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of papercranes as a gift to his girl. Although, at that time he was just a small executive in his company, his future doesn't seemed too bright, they were very happy together. Until one day, his girl told him she w...  more...
 VirginatThirty | 23:02 | 17/Jul/2008
Friends: (165)  | City: Urban India  | Interests: Back in the rat r...
The penniless VAT (Long post)
It was going to happen someday and it did today. I have to write it out when the wound is raw. I am learning to get back into mainstream society, and today was an excellent lesson, Murphy, life, or god, taught me.  Yesterday night, I saw Bruce Lee documentary on Star Movies, learned that he was a teetoller.  He’s my fitness ideal so I thought aaj s...  more...
 manav Shetty | 09:39 | 2/Aug/2008
Friends: (36)  | City: Mangalore  | Interests: books, drama, tr...
Faces
 Faces                    there is more than you see...  Yet again the mirror mocksat my ordinary facethe way it doeseveryday... The plain black eyescheeks with no trace of rosesa so simple a nosethat nobody bothers to noticemake it really no more than an ordinary face... How often did I seeit  failed the heart...for everytime the heart went after ...  more...
 Zebunissa | 14:11 | 24/Jul/2008
Friends: (91)  | City: Pune  | Interests: physocology
WORDS
LoveEnchantedMysticalMagicalSereneEnigmaOceanicSome of the beautiful words... words have a power of their own…A negative word breaks heartA broken heart a broken soulA broken soul a broken life Gloom all around!!A beautiful wordA smileA new hopeA fresh vigor A lease of optimismHappiness all round!!Such is the power of words that we use everyday…The...  more...
 karuna ghatge | 11:35 | 1/Aug/2008
Friends: (51)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: watching movies,r...
thank u from the bottom of my heart
thank u friends for the flurry of response to my blog.i felt so helpless and enraged at the senseless violence and didnt know what 2 do.then i thought of my blog world and i just dashed out a few lines.U ALL HAVE REJUVENATED MY FAITH IN THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTRY.I TAKE BACK MY WORDS.WE R NOT DESENSITISEDYET.THERE IS HOPE!tjhank u and lots of lov...  more...
 lonelyheart | 07:50 | 31/Jul/2008
Friends: (2)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: reading, writing,...
He's back!
I gave in to my urge and contacted my friend. To my greatest delight and happiness he contacted me right back and not only did he ocntact me he spent the next three days talking to me. Everyday I talk to him , everyday he buzzes me . We have a little bit of reserve now but that might wash away with time.  It took just one mail ...just one small mai...  more...
 dilip krishnan | 13:01 | 17/Jul/2008
Friends: (254)  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
The State of the Nation: Some Irreverent Thoughts  The nation waits with bated breath,So too Uncle Sam, NSG and the IAEAAs the world's largest functioning anarchyTurns its wheels of democracy.Hastinapura gets ready for another MahabharataBugles are sounded, conches are blown,Flags aflutter, soldiers march on,We shall fight, we shall win.In the corr...  more...
 navinbhai pa... | 16:38 | 21/Jul/2008
Friends: (44)  | City: patan  | Interests: general
PYAR
NA JANE AISA KYOO HATA HAI,DIL KE KARIB RAH KE BHI AP DOOR LAGATI HO,APKO BAR BAR DEKH NE PAR BHI JI NAHI BHARATA BUS YOOHIN APKO DEKHATA RAHOON SAYAD MUJE AISA LAGATA HAI KI APSE MERA AGLE JANAM KA RISTA HAIKYA ISE PYAR KAHTE HAI , TO APSE MUJE PYAR HAITERA MUJSE HAI PAHALE SE NATA KOIYOOHIN NAHI DIL LOOBHATA KOIJANE TU YA JANE NA MUJE MERA DIL YE...  more...
 Naina | 16:55 | 31/Jul/2008
Friends: (537)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: reading,music
DEAF,DUMB AND BLIND!
Deaf, dumb and blind! I heard people died in bomb blasts. I tch…tched and forgot all about it. I did wonder why they planted a bomb near a hospital. I was most disturbed by the thought the victims were three- a husband, wife and their unborn baby. Yet all I did was tch…tch and move ahead. So what was I supposed to do? Blog about it? Well, that’s wh...  more...
 Sandeep Ohri | 08:02 | 27/Jul/2008
Friends: (450)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading non-ficti...
Electricity from Nuclear Power – A layma...
Ok .. so the government won the Trust Vote (amidst accusations, mayhem and a general mockery of the Indian democratic system) - but what does that mean to you and me and the rest of the (unsuspecting) masses?According to me there are 3 main issues .. 1. Is the cost of electricity from a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) really cheaper? 2. Is Nuclear Power ...  more...
 Shailesh Soni | 16:03 | 28/Jul/2008
Friends: (390)  | City: Surat  | Interests: Friendship, music...
Lost In Your Eyes
I remember our very first dateI held your hand for the first timeI took a wrong turn, it was getting lateOne a.m. according to the local church chimeI drove like a madman, trying to get you homeYou said" Don`t drive so fast, everything will be fine"I pulled over to the side of the roadYour calm voice relieved my worried mindI took your face in my t...  more...
 moushumi moo... | 14:40 | 20/Jun/2008
Friends: (110)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: music, reading bo...
Not for allonly for my flyhigh friend Dont think the other person is always ungrateful, people have certain obligations/problems for what they cant communicate with others when and where they wanted. before commenting try to see their problems and first & foremost this it try to that person well, without knowing him/her if you comment something it ...  more...
 sonal | 07:20 | 1/Aug/2008
Friends: (65)  | City: Gandhinagar  | Interests: touring,Book read...
god......please let us be together soon....
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 kuldip gupta | 08:55 | 28/Jul/2008
Friends: (155)  | City: Bhubaneshwar  | Interests: Reading, Writting...
India and Terrorism
भारत और आतंकवादक ;ल बैंगलुरू ; आज अहमदाबाद ; कल पता नहीं कहां। त...  more...
 Meera | 20:57 | 1/Aug/2008
Friends: (73)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: photography, musi...
Me, My Confessions and the Priest
I am no pious Catholic. Neither I am a preacher nor do I go to Church regularly / weekends. I am an Outstanding Catholic if I ever go to Church…Rather for almost 6 years now I have been going to Church 6 times a year viz. 24th Dec Mid night Christmas mass and on the important days of Lent - Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday a...  more...
 vidushi chau... | 18:24 | 11/Jul/2008
Friends: (61)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Books, kids, conv...
Solace
SolaceOmnipresent, ever- potent,You lie before me- majestic, strong.The skies darken, and your wild is free,The wicked streak ensnares as it slays.Mesmerized eyes follow, lives falter,You stay You, fiercely You.The clouds sail in- puffy, white, innocent, against a clear blue sky,And you murmur in approval like a lazy beast sprawled replete,Charming...  more...
 krishna agarwal | 07:34 | 5/Jul/2008
Friends: (350)  | City: Bhubaneshwar  | Interests: travelling,making...
General Knowledge
Can You Give You Woman A Deeper Orgasm?Author: Jerry LeungAs a man, you will probably want to learn more ways to give your lady deeper orgasms. Yet, the fact is that no many people can really do that. In fact, there are some methods you can use in order to give your lady a deeper orgasm. Here are some tips for you to do so.At this point, some of th...  more...
 Bharath Kumar | 16:01 | 31/Jul/2008
Friends: (128)  | City: Coimbatore  | Interests: Music,Cricket
Mountain Story
"A son and his father were walking on the mountains.Suddenly, his son falls, hurts himself and screams: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"To his surprise, he hears the voice repeating, somewhere in the mountain: "AAAhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"Curious, he yells: "Who are you?"He receives the answer: "Who are you?"And then he screams to the mountain: "I admire you!"The voice a...  more...
 musu | 20:17 | 1/Aug/2008
Friends: (31)  | City: Bhopal  | Interests: reading,poem,list...
ye pal anmol....
   ye pal anmol he jab tum ho sathna ho sapna kanhi ye ahsastute na rishta jo he khas banake apna naho bichadne ka ahsasye safar ho lamba jo kate tumhare sathaankho me terte rahe ye zazbatkoi na kahe ye pal gujar jayegar ho jaye hum kabhi zudabadalo ke paar milne ki aas hohar saas pe bas tera hi naam homil jaye jab tu to sari duniya mere paas hoye ...  more...
 vaishali jene | 15:34 | 24/Jul/2008
Friends: (52)  | City: Bhopal  | Interests: student.18yrs. vi...
personal
I wear a size 32D bra. I have real good body and nice size breast How do you keep   breasts from bouncing while joging? Seriously, I need some suggestions for this. I wear a sports bra but as a full breasted girl they still are bouncing around ehile jogging..  Pls any advice would help!    more...
 diwakar sharma | 10:19 | 13/Jun/2008
Friends: (70)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: Literature,music
The Seed --- Don't Miss
THE SEED--DONT MISS A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing one of  his directors or his children, he decided to do something different.He called all the young executives in his company together. 'It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO,' he s...  more...
 shihab | 15:46 | 1/Jul/2008
Friends: (8)  | City: Mysore  | Interests: reading, writing,...
TO BED OR NOT TO BED
EVERY TIME I THINK OF WRITING ABOUT SOMETHING, I FAIL TO  DECIDE THE SUBJECT   I WISH TO BEGAN, THOUGH MY INTEREST ALWAYS BEEN POLITICS AND FILMS,, LATELY I BEEN KEENLY FOLLOWING ON HUMAN BEHAVIOUR, PARTICULARLY ABOUT FEMALES AND THEIR SEXUAL ATTITUDE.IN OUR COUNTRY WOMEN HAVE CHANGED THEMSELVES EXTERNALLY BY BORROWING THE WESTERN DRESS CULTURE, BE...  more...
 sandy raj | 13:20 | 13/Jun/2008
Friends: (70)  | City: Pune  | Interests: music,travelling,...
Hand Of Hope.........
  Amazing photo !!! A picture began circulating in January. It should be "The Picture of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." The picture is that of a 21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner. The Baby was diagnosed with Spina Bifida and would not survive if removed f...  more...
 Arindam | 14:47 | 3/Aug/2008
Friends: (62)  | City: Thane  | Interests: Writing,Movies,No...
The Soup
The Soup As I sat, on the table, my friend’s over enthusiastic mother started to keep dining plates in front of me and my friend Abhijeet. Abhijeet’s mother had invited me for a lunch this Sunday. I had very well accepted the invitation as my Dad had gone out and no one was there at my place. So spending the afternoon at my friend’s place was a wel...  more...
 Shreya Tiwari | 12:12 | 31/Jul/2008
Friends: (281)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Writing Hindi Poe...
Where is my INDIA ?
मेरा भारत कहाँ गया मै ढूंढ़ रहा बाज़ारों में ,वतन बेचने वाले ब&...  more...
 rani | 16:22 | 30/Jul/2008
Friends: (82)  | City: Raipur  | Interests: music,painting ,w...
Shyari
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 Laughing Stock | 08:31 | 3/Aug/2008
Friends: (74)  | City: Bareilly  | Interests: Writing for the h...
Happy Friendship DAy
On friendship day, let me wish all my friends a fun filled day and thank them for being such lovely friends.  Always keep smiling and stay cheerful.  more...
 Trishna Mumbai | 22:39 | 25/Jul/2008
Friends: (10)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Life in all its o...
Drench Yourself
"No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with arms wide open Today is where your book begins The rest is still unwritten" - Natasha Bedingfield  more...
 raj phad | 13:10 | 28/Jul/2008
Friends: (132)  | City: Pune  | Interests: music literature....
no words
no words................................... ..., my heart is crying for the innocent people ,those who are injured or dead in current bomb blast series  for those  sufferers who  are not at all concerned .  the fight for existance{?} continue within the masses, communities, and then u and me. when it is going to stop?    more...
 Madhur bid | 10:44 | 9/Jul/2008
Friends: (227)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: networking; music...
Memory.........
Memory is often used to recollect bad experiences, feelings rather than using it to recall / remember good expereinces or feelings; In most cases, left to itself, our mind tries to recollect bad experiences/feelings and never, as a rule, recollects experiences that had positive effect on us. I had this experience recently when I casually advised on...  more...
 Krishna Mateti | 22:23 | 19/Jun/2008
Friends: (2)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: Playing & Watchin...
Never Give Up
Hi All, Never ever give up in your life. I will start my first blog with my favorite quotation Arise, Awake, and Stop not till your goal/objective is reached. I am the disciple of the  Swami Vivekananda and it is one of the powerful/inspiring quotation under his belt. Have great time and positive approach ahead.  more...
 venkatesh pa... | 23:44 | 2/Aug/2008
Friends: (13)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Sports, reading, ...
The word "Love"
today will touch a beautiful and sensitive topic.. a word called "Love".  A question which comes to my mind is 'does love exist nowadays, i mean pure love'. everyone has become so self centered in the current world, does a word called real love exists.  i still feel love does exists, it exists in the hearts , because hearts are where god resides an...  more...
 hope | 18:12 | 6/Jun/2008
Friends: (3)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: music, movies
today
Today I was in a mood for old Hindi songs. Listened to a lot of Kishore Kumar, Mohammmed Rafi ,and Lata Mangeshkar and a few of Mukesh. There is so much poetry there.   more...
 Ritesh Aswaney | 13:37 | 14/Jul/2008
Friends: (5)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Music, Reading, T...
The power of LIVE (The Untitled - workin...
All my other posts have been when something moved me enough to write. Writing, for me, is cathartic. When the cup of feelings and emotions overflows, it somehow turns to ink. But today is totally unlike that, I am sat in a train to London Kings Cross, the weather"s behaving, and I don"t really know what to do for the remainder of this journey, 2 ho...  more...
 abhay sudhakar | 10:31 | 29/Jul/2008
Friends: (84)  | City: Bhilai  | Interests: watching cricket,...
make up
           Whats the difference between train & a lady?            The train if running late can make up  but.....           a lady takes lot of time for her make up & gets late.  more...
 Ashwini Cha... | 20:58 | 3/Aug/2008
Friends: (6)  | City: NOIDA  | Interests: Safai - tan, man ...
After a long time
Apologies for writing after a gap of almost a month and a half!I was traveling to remote Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. The trip was emotionally draining since I was interacting with People living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) and Victims of Commerical Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking (VOCSET). This was to understand the impact of HIV/AIDS and their occupati...  more...
 sunil bhat | 17:25 | 5/Jul/2008
Friends: (66)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: music,reading boo...
Martand SunGod Temple,Kashmir
Martand Sun temple :-The Martand Sun temple is situated on top of a plateau, near the town of Anantnag located at about 5 miles from the town of Anantnag, {Kashmir, India}. The temple is dedicated to Bhaskar {surya}, the Sun God. It dates back to the 7th - 8th century and was consecrated by King Laitaditya Muktapida. King Lalitaditya, a Kshatriya o...  more...
 dev singh | 18:39 | 28/Jul/2008
Friends: (16)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Reading,writing,a...
WHAT IS A BLOG !
Easy to express,easy to convey,our hidden/open feelings,we want to say ! We talk about our darkest nights ,and our days in the hay,We exchange, we communicate and share ...if you may! From so far away, so different...yet so similar,our thoughts and feelings...somehow bring us near. Each prose instilling understanding...so clear,confirming our colle...  more...
 kishore gupta | 19:43 | 29/Jul/2008
Friends: (255)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: hell...Nothing
Priyanka
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 parthasarath... | 01:27 | 2/Aug/2008
Friends: (145)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: poetry & literature
The lady with a veil is she a dream !
The lady with a veil is she a dream!Said stop calling me – my throat stopped!My heart has become louder and louder!Why and what is this bond?Intangible is the word written on the paper,That is our relation called,But what I do, my tears and sweat is true!!She smiled and patted me on the back,I don’t know how many horsepower I got,I am ready, I shal...  more...