#4 Rainy days & Thursdays
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The skies were cloudy, clouds growing blacker from their lighter whites and
greys tones, yesterday. But it began to rain early this morning, still
continue...
horoscopes zodiac sign for April 8, 2025
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Below are the horoscopes for each zodiac sign for April 8, 2025.
Aries (March 21 - April 19)
With Mercury retrograde wrapping up yesterday, you’re ready to...
Stage-Managed Spirituality
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The trees have not changed. The animals have not changed. Humans have not
changed, either. Only technology has changed. Spirituality is essentially
about...
Bhakti: Mirabai's Greatest Wealth
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Many of us make the mistake of being 'part time devotees' - of course, we
are busy, we have important work, personal commitments and we are too
exhausted b...
Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
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Anil Seth I have to confess, I will need to read this again. I also want
to. For two reasons. First, the subject is something I feel is important –
underst...
Astronauts Back to Earth
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NASA launched the Crew-9 Mission last September with just 2 Astronauts.
Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. Their mission was supposed to last for 8
days on...
India' Problematic Law and Order Condition
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Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India's ex-PM and a legendary poet has penned these
beautiful lines in his poem "Kaurav koun, koun Pandav"-कौरव कौन कौन पांडव,
टेढ़ा ...
Minesweeper’s time
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Recently, at work, there was a chat around the PC games of the old days and
one of my colleagues mentioned how she never came across understanding
Mineswee...
Will I ever be able to write a letter?
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For a while, after the colonisation of emails, WhatsApp and the like, I
tried my best to write and receive letters. I did that for a while knowing
fully...
A child's plan
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* This post was long over due. I intended to post it last month but work
and life came in the way. *
*Pumpki's birthday was in December. Last year she to...
Thin Threads, Silky Strands, and Fragile Filaments
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‘और लिये जा, और पीये जा, …’ This line kept looping like a litany in my
head, unable to find the escape velocity to complete the line. I knew where
it was f...
My First Watch
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My first watch was made in Switzerland! And I hated it with the
short-sighted stupidity only a teenager is capable of!
Turning 13 in 1993, I think I was...
Introducing my newsletter
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I’ll keep this brief: I’ve been thinking for a while now about starting a
newsletter on Substack. But like the gent in the image above pictured
reading a n...
Ajanta Ellora
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Last week we made a trip to Aurangabad. We had a direct flight from
here.we stayed in Lemon tree hotel and liked it. It’s totally value for
m...
Diabetes – Normal Range for Blood Sugar
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Now that we have covered the basic understanding of Diabetes in the
previous post, let us now understand the numbers that define normal or
impaired diabeti...
Do you want more wisdom? Here is an idea
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This is a post from 2009. I have been reading the book of Proverbs lately
and I thought of reposting this story. Thanks for reading. Of course
comments a...
Our anchors
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How do you grieve the loss of a loved one? Of your first hero? Of the man
who laid the foundation of the family you loved and grew up in? How do you
grieve...
Corona Diaries: The Evolution of Education
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[image: Image Courtesy: Here]
When my nine year old attends online classes, my spouse and I are also
participants of the class, albeit not by choice. He ...
That awful moment of parity between the religions
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I've covered the ground in this essay before, but two things: 1) It bears
repeating, it bears repeating, because the myth it seeks to debunk keeps
getting...
On this National Girl Child Day …
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… and every other day alike, I salute girls like Shipra (a student
herself), who travels to this village near Greater Noida daily, to teach
children from C...
Is cleaning fun for you?
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I feel most of my friends and family back home has about one to three
different house helps to keep their homes in order 🙂 but I also feel their
pain and ...
And You Shot Them Dead
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She did not call you first, because she did not have confidence in you.
She knew you would not believe her. Or help her. You would question her
character ...
Being there and turning up...
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*Cavorting around the Scottish Highlands*
Wake up the kids at dawn,
Muffle sleepy protests,
Scramble up breakfast,
Pack lunch boxes,
Hunt for the missing...
New Trend Setting Wedding Venues
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It is always beautiful when you hear stories of two people finding each
other and deciding to spend their life together as a couple. Be it love or
arranged...
Breathtaking blooms
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Since I posted a 'bird' post after a long time, I thought let me go ahead
and show off my garden a bit too. I doubt there are followers of this blog
who ar...
they make the clouds here!
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. ~ an invisible bird tweets, rubbing my eyes, stumbling to the balcony, I
step out, it was dawn finally, the night was dark and angry, it thundered
and it...
Love in the O.T.
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I am lying on a narrow table wearing a skimpy hospital gown. I have a tube
fitted into my bladder and that makes me uncomfortable. On one hand I am
being...
Just because
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Stereotypes... I tell you
They box a person inside a cage, tend to define them based on some
assumptions !!
But I truly believe every person is unique in t...
Cancer up close and Personal!
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Cancer is one of the most dreaded word in recent times. I came face to
face with it when a senior of mine was diagnosed with it some 25 years
back. She ho...
Book Review: Eleventh Hour by S. Hussain Zaidi
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*Title:* Eleventh Hour
*Author:* S. Hussain Zaidi
*Publisher: *Harper Collins
*Type:* Paperback
*Price:* INR 299
Eleventh Hour Book Cover - Source: Am...
Visual treat
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Summer in Bangalore is a visual treat. Though it brings heat, the array of
colors from the city's blooming trees brings a refreshing coolness. During
the B...
Agentgreenglass grew up. And grew a lump.
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This blog started because I was going through a phase of not knowing what I
wanted to do with my life.
And somewhere, along the way, as the blog g...
A Blessed 2018 To You and Yours
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As the year 2017 comes to a close, I want to wish my dear ones, my
friends, and every *shraddhavan*( one who believes in God) a year filled
with greater d...
Outside, Inside.....Cattle memories ....
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My friend Alka Gurha who blogs at this wonderful place Freebird
recently did a great post titled Joy of Flying which was all about short
airplane...
End of Ramadan
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For the uninitiated, Ramadan is one of the 5 pillars of Islam. We fast from
dawn to dusk, in hope of pleasing the lord almighty and attaining our
ultimate ...
Sneaking
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The non- sneakers buying their tickets The other day I was taking the tram
back home when the controllers entered the tram and started checking
everyone ...
Dress Code for Women in Indonesia
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I often try to do a quick web search about the dress code for women if I am
heading to a country for the first time. But I could not do it for
Indonesia....
Vote for your BAT 58 Favorites
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Voting ends at 23:59 hrs (IST) on November 13, 2016. Remember, that means
time stamp of your comment can be at most 23:59 on November 13, 2016 and
not 00:0...
Indian Grey Hornbill—the seed dispersers
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There are about 54 species of hornbills in the world, out of which 9 occur
in India. The hornbill pictured here is the Indian Grey Hornbill, which is
commo...
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Madras 21: Going to School
*Day 1*
*Reet: Mom again i have to got to apl school. *
*Day 2: *
*Reet: Mom i don't want to go apl school one more time. *
*Day...
Age aint no number..
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Wife turned 42 today.
She seems ok with it. But you should have seen her when she was hitting 40!
She made the day look as if they had declared Trump as...
The Model Student
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Teen Blunt was in Class 10. For the uniformed, the Class 10 exams are a
major milestone in the Indian student life. One is expected to score good
marks th...
Self-realization happened. And it wasn't pretty.
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Living, vicariously, through stories, people...life that surrounds you, is
what inspires the storyteller bone in me. Or should I say, that it used to,
at l...
Graphic Wisdom to Begin 2016
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*By three methods we may learn wisdom: *
*First, by reflection, which is noblest; *
*Second, by imitation, which is easiest; *
*and third by experience, wh...
It's still me...I hope...
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And it rains
And it gladdens my senses
It reminds me of that young boy
Who sought it's full onslaught
Determined to brave it
Exploring it's violence
Discove...
Never again
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Yesterday was my first and last time attending triathlon. Never again. I
wasn’t even participating. Just watching and trying to cheer up for
Konstantin. I...
FM Radio
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Ever since the launch of FM radio in India, circa 2002, I've come to have
a love-hate relationship with it:
- When it first began in Mumbai I loved the...
Permanent Roommates
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This post has been published by me as a part of the *Blog-a-Ton 50*; the
fiftieth edition of the online marathon of Bloggers; where we decide and we
wri...
Life support
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It is so easy to not think about something, and then neglect any action on
it for months, years together! And then it is doubly hard to get back into
the t...
Thank You and Good Bye
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It has been a wonderful 8 years of blogging. Yes, Eight!
Am going to continue to record important milestones and Anushims and
Adittys for their reference ...
देर है पर अन्देर नही !
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Wow! There's no other way to express myself on the 2014 Lok Sabha election
results. After a few decades this nation has now stood together in
delivering ...
Yes
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Yes. It has been a long time. I think it's time to let off some mental
steam. It's time to regroup with my various passing thoughts. I think I
need y...
Hello
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Thank you for all the caring/enquiring/helpful/threatening/wonderful mails
and comments that you all wrote to me. I know I’m a terrible, horrible
person to...
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*Topic at Thursday Book Club meeting on 27th Mar 2014 was to write on an
incident in my life from the viewpoint of my grandmother. I wrote this .
Part fic...
Fifty Funniest Tweets
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Here are 50 of my humour tweets that I posted on Twitter in recent days.
Now in a blogpost. Married man’s idea of foreplay: half an hour of applying
balm o...
You are reaching for my Gun!
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(US Trip Chapter 1). 22nd July, 2013.
The best thing about the Etihad flight from Mumbai to Chicago is that it is
very cost effective. The worst thing? Tak...
On the beach , with my girls….
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I was holding the small tender hands of Sera and started walking through
the shore of beach .Sera was visibly getting irritated at the stinking
smell and t...
Art Expo
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When we moved here more than a year ago, I didn't find a job as easily as
I assumed I would. In the meantime, I merely concentrated on spending my
time do...
The Siddiqui Inheritance.
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I used to tutor kids for pocket money during my university days. Once, as
fate would have it, my student's exams and my own mid terms fell on the
same dat...
Voted
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Voted for the first time in US. It was a smooth process and took about 20
mins for the entire process to complete, including the walk to / from local
schoo...
The unexpected visitor
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"Oh yes, you see the mice set up the whole Earth business, as an epic
experiment in behavioural psychology; a ten-million year program
That's a famous...
Top five business ventures in India
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The nineties have ushered in a new era in the history of the Indian
business market. The new economic policies, introduced in the year July
1991 completely...
Assam's Jadav Payeng : The Man Who Made A Forest
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"My folks had been telling me for long to do stories on the Northeast. Good
stories can be found in plenty over there. But when the Sunday Times editor
h...
Ah!
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You know you’ve grown when you don’t know where to hide your face while
going through some old diary entries and posts!
Oh well, but that's life!
Father of the Bride
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I havent explicitly said here on my site that I take up
wedding/events/portrait photography assignments. But, I do. I have been
updating my Facebook photog...
Suddenly, One Day.
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At the Pragati Maidan Metro Station, two people waited.. One was a young
woman not more than twenty, dressed in black like most of the people her
age. Ev...
AN ODE TO MODERN POETRY
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“MY COLORLESS SOLITUDE” As my skeptical mind wonders How many out there can
really write poetry Versus how many think they can And make you and me
believe ...
My first post from a phone-Blackberry rocks!
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Until about a month back I never thought I would be so nuts over a
phone.Blackberry has made a big fan out of me. For someone who has used a
Nokia all hi...
Voices and slingshots
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sheets of gold drape fleeting time into their fold; eternity teases urgent
scurrying life. its fleeting flight forever one glance ahead; forever one
step e...
She will live forever in our hearts…
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Rest in Peace, Tejaswee Rao, the daughter of one of this blog founder
members, Indian Homemaker. Below is a re-post from Indian Homemaker’s
sharing of the ...
Politics of India
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This post has also been published on an e-magazine called N-zine
It was great to be a part of this lovely magazine as one of the
contributors!!
The post...
Enlightenment
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Strange are the ways of men.They spend the first many years of their lives
looking ahead, to a bright, glittering future, unaware of the fetters that
the m...
How to achieve Zero figure with minimal fuss
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What's with all this fuss about zero figures and such, H and I often wonder
with amazement. Zero figure? Pshaw! Easily achieved, especially if you have
a...
Journal: High School
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Blog of the Day Awards for Tuesday July 28, 2009
A Blog of the Day Award goes to Journal: High School
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The other day when I was driving back from the grocery store, I saw one of
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drive...