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| India V2New Hindu growth rate – Same old folly When you hate someone immensely, but can’t do anything to harm him/her, what do you do? You call one name? Giving insulting terms/names to people or things is a way through which we vent our extreme feelings. Some times, pretty innocent words become fierce, insulting and demeaning ones. For example, if...
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| 20:01 | 13/May/2008 |
| Your suggestions please | |
| Personal V2Turning point? I am editing this post afterwards. Through this post, I had invited your suggestions regarding my choice for ‘majors’, from (1) Operations and Supply Chain Management or (2) HR Management. Simultaneously, I had asked some of my seniors, ex-colleagues and professors for the same. I have received some very good points. I ...
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| 21:10 | 12/May/2008 |
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| India V2From Flowers to Cauliflowers The other day I was walking my way to the college. There was a small gathering by the side of the road. It was the portion of the road where vegetable vendors make melees to make our meals possible. Curiously, I took a glimpse and moved on. There was a foreigner gentleman trying hard to capture something in his...
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| 16:37 | 10/May/2008 |
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| Personal My Mother’s Mother Tomorrow is mothers’ day. I want to write about my nani - my mother’s mother. Some days back, she didn’t get up in the morning. She was around 83. She was a very very strong woman. The fact that she had lost her husband early, and had raised her three children mostly herself proves this to some extent. Her eldest son wa...
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| 15:10 | 10/May/2008 |
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| Business Reliance shuts petrol stations Reliance Industries (RIL) has decided to close all its 1432 petrol pumps. It is because the subsidies given to the public sector oil retailing companies were making its business economically unviable. The company hasn’t sold off its stations – but is waiting for any favourable move by the government to extend...
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| 20:32 | 7/May/2008 |
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| Indian Companies Indians know how to play game! Few Indian companies have the size and the might that can give global firms a shiver. This incident gives a change. Mahindra & Mahindra is World's third largest tractor manufacturer. The # 1 is John Deere from the US. John Deere is considered one of the flag bearers of American industrial success. ...
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| 20:20 | 7/May/2008 |
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| Books V2Self helpThe Coward’s guide to conflict This book has a very interesting topic. It claims to have “empowering solutions for those who would rather run than fight and win”. And it starts with a quote from Ken Blanchard, “If you are a coward like me when it comes to conflict, then this book would be perfect for you. I now appreciate the need ...
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| 20:22 | 6/May/2008 |
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| Books V2SpiritualMessages from the masters Dr. Brian Weiss’ first book ‘Many lives many masters’ was an eye opener. I had written about it once. Dr. Brian, through his scientific finds came to know and prove that we all are souls who take re-births. This book is also in the series and goes one step further. I will just put some excerpts from the bo...
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| 19:24 | 5/May/2008 |
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| BooksBusiness / Management Key Business Concepts – a concise guide When I had started the category Terms and Fundas , I had in mind explaining the terms which are more frequently used in business management and which non-professionals find difficult to understand. This book intended to do exactly that. It says, “Key Business Concepts provides a cle...
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| 20:56 | 4/May/2008 |
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| BooksBusiness / Leadership Men of Steel Vir Sanghvi is one of the most famous contemporary journalists in India. When HT’s Mumbai edition was launched in 2005, Vir carried out a leadership series of articles covering India’s great business leaders talking about their personal life. This book covers eleven such Men of Steel, namely, Ratan Tata, Nand...
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| krishna veni | 17:15 | 11/May/2008 |
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| Sometimes in life it is hard to accept things, the way they are. People should realize the reality and admit it, that it is the fact, because life is not a dream its a reality ,one has to live life. Sometimes due to some reasons the way one lives life changes and this cannot be accepted easily because of the way they lived earlier , When ...
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| Movie review | 13:05 | 13/May/2008 |
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| Movie Name : Iron Man Lead cast: As Robert Downey Jr. Iron Man(Tony Shark) Terrence Howard Rhodey Gwyneth Paltrow Pepper Potts ...
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| Shreya Tiwari | 12:45 | 14/May/2008 |
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| This for Her !! |
| Mai Chahta Hun Unse Nazdikiyan Badhana,Dil Muskura ke lute, Chahe na paas aana....1- Pahali nazar me hi vo chura le gayi dil ko,Naam liya bus uska sanjh, savere din ko,Jab bhi nazar milayee, galon pe surkhiyan thi,Sharmayee kuchh lazayee naino ki putliya thi,Milne ko kaise bolu, kya me karu bahana...Me chahta hun unse nazdikiya badhana.2- Kali ghat...
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| Raut Vilas | 16:49 | 13/May/2008 |
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| “ I AM NOT ALONE ,GOD WITH ME” |
| “ I AM NOT ALONE ,GOD WITH ME” One of the surest ways to succeed in your life isto practice the presence of god in your daily life!.............................. Make thish a habit; think of him while you work,Even as you think of worldly matters when you pray,Connect to god as often as you can. reserve just one Minute for god, once every hour, ...
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| ajit balakri... | 19:35 | 27/Jan/2008 |
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| The Misguided Search for Excellence |
| For a word that has its origins in 14th century Anglo-French, “excellence” has done very well. One can hardly ever attend a meeting of top policy makers in business or education or science without somebody or the other raising the question, “Are we striving enough to achieve excellence in our field?” For policy makers, “excellence” is one of those ...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution |
| Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...
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| Rakshita Verma | 20:23 | 23/Mar/2008 |
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| Time... |
| The sun sets and risesAmidst this grindThere are answers That I do not findTime has stolenMy peace of mindThe honest personThat I was once Am seeking childhood In its virtual absence Time has stolen My innocence My love nest isNothing but wilderness I have lots of energy That I cannot harnessTime has stolen My hopefulness From far off I get A w...
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| prasanna sri... | 21:49 | 1/Mar/2008 |
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| Stewed Tomatoes A guy isgoing on an ocean cruise, and he tells his doctor that he's worry about gettingseasick.The doctor suggests, ''Eat two pounds of stewedtomatoes before you leave the dock.''The guy replies, ''Would that keep me fromgetting sick, Doc?''The doctor says, ''No, but it'll look realpretty in the water.''Respectfully Cheating Jack an...
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| ratna rajaiah | 20:52 | 9/Mar/2008 |
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| Penguins dancing to Raga Desh |
| .....or maybe not, but whatever raga they are dancing to, it's the cutest animation I have seen in a long time...cuter than Happy Feet? Pigloo - Le Raga des Pingouins Uploaded by Iplus
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| Nischalson C... | 01:13 | 12/Apr/2008 |
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| i found this one too funny... i know.. i know.. i created it but i always have a good laugh everytime i create a strip. if it doesn't make me laugh.. then it's not worth posting it. i guess, it's like that quote - "laugh and the world laughs with you".. ok.. or was that "smile and the..."?anway, hope everyone liked the strip. do leave me a nice com...
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| ahsan ghori | 15:11 | 27/Jan/2008 |
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| Educate them first 25 January 2008I THINK the best way to create awareness about the dangers of jaywalking is to first educate the people about its consequences. Jaywalkers endanger their own life as well as those of others, especially surprised motorists.Once awareness is created then fines and penalties can be imposed if people continue breaking ...
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| Poornima K | 13:13 | 31/Dec/2007 |
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| Hello Everyone, Wish you all a very very happy and prosperous new year........ May all your wishes come true this year. Poorni
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| rekha kumar | 09:36 | 19/Apr/2008 |
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| Dreams are the images, thoughts and feelings experienced while asleep, particularly strongly associated with rapid eye movement sleep. I have been constantly dreaming of children or just babies playing. I mentioned it to my fiancé and he simply asked me the usual question “! @#$ %^&*! ?”However, what appeared of my amazing search is that it signifi...
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| kishore gupta | 11:12 | 30/Dec/2007 |
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| Farewell 2007-Welcome 2008 !!! |
| Dear all Ilander Friends, Wishing with you Good Bye 2007! Let the coming year be the Harbinger of more HAPPINESS and better HEALTH & Harvest promising HOPE and path-breaking HAPPENINGS for all. Wishing you a Great Bliss 2008! SMILE a little bit more in 2008 than 2007…a resolution I recommend??? Cheers Kishore
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| febin joy | 17:45 | 26/Apr/2008 |
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| Flowers from my garden |
| I've been on a lazy mood concerning iland and was on a break when i felt I'm getting addicted to it. Well i'm back after the break and here is 2 snaps of flowers from my garden through my lens for u guys to review. Kindly lemme know how it is
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| Krishnaswamy... | 11:34 | 22/Jan/2008 |
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| A true life story, best told by the person himself in his own words: My name is Brian Boyle, and I am living proof that miracles happen.A month after I graduated high school in 2004, I was coming home from swim practice and was involved in a near fatal car accident with a dump truck. The impact of the crash violently ripped my heart across my chest...
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| Neeraj Jain | 22:46 | 11/Mar/2008 |
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| Hi Guyz, If you have still not traveled in Delhi Metro feeder buses, you are missingsomething. Believe me! Traveling in Delhi Metro feeder buses is a uniqueexperience. It is very different from the experience that you get whiletraveling in rickety RTVs.Some of the good points about Delhi Metro feeder buses are:They are operated by Delhi Metro. ...
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| RAGHU IYER | 23:32 | 15/May/2008 |
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| Silent Words of My Mystic |
| Silent Words of My Mystic These many years…I will achieve this … I will achieve that… okay… at least… I have continued my life… I have always told me… yeah! Be optimistic! Be positive! But then, now, its so mechanical… yeah! I am lazy indeed! Very lazy as I am known! But I am also a hard worker with a “never say die” attitude! But then… everything...
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| anjeneyan an... | 17:14 | 19/Mar/2008 |
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| WORKING WOMEN & PARENTING |
| Working women and parentingMy mother was a homemaker (to use a modern terminology). I do not recall a time in my childhood when Ireturned to an empty home and made my own snacks or lunch/dinner. I grew up taking for granted that mothers are always at home to receive their children. The outside reality slowly sunk in and I realized that women who...
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| Baldeo Pandey | 00:47 | 14/Apr/2008 |
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| Bhod Gyalo! |
| At Jantar Mantar….Rising fists…. Bhod Gyalo! Bhod Gyalo!Manju Ka Tila…..Dreaming eyes….. Rangzen! Rangzen!Fort Kochi...‘Torch of Shame without flame’,Hey! Sino Monsters! Bodies could be butchered,Not souls….Frightened sinners,Blood licking beasts…Frustrated to see…Sons and daughters of soil committed for ultimate sacrifices…In Amdo, Kham, Machu, Pa...
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| Ash K | 23:42 | 6/Oct/2007 |
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| Althought my tryst with the world of words, prose, similes, metaphors, euphemisms and literature began with the advent of i-land, I also owe part of this passionate endeavour to the poem penned by William Wordsworth. The poem is plain and simple, yet has a style which is unique and one of its kind, hard to emulate kinds. Stumbled upon this poem on ...
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| Anil Goel | 13:50 | 8/May/2008 |
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| I recently came across an email (A printed copy I had saved in an old diary :)) I had sent to Planetasia circa March 20, 1999 while cleaning out my cupboard at home this week. Two years into the IT industry, I was working as a code jock for TCS at a client in North America. I was allegedly already an expert in MSFT technologies and was working at a...
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| Apurba Sen | 18:27 | 29/Apr/2008 |
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| Sardar fir se champion |
| Dont get foxed by the title - it has nothing to do with "bhajji".Its funny but real story.My sardar friend "Happy Singh" [name changed] is in Canada on deputation from a leading Indian software company.He wanted to gift me something from Canada.My MS office 2007 trial version expired.I thought what will be best gift other than a "Pirated Office 200...
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| Sandhya Suri | 21:47 | 21/Jan/2008 |
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| Wandering…The dark alleys of the mind’s deepest corridorsResounding… Crying…Grasping the folds of the silken shawl of memoriesSearching… Seeking…Truths too bitter to tell, too smattered with the bloodSpreading… Covering…Hiding the realities, the ignorant bliss of a heartless mindSalvaging… Begging…For redemption from the knowledge that defies the s...
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| pandharish c... | 20:24 | 31/Mar/2008 |
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| Cracked pot..? A water bearer in China had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water. At the end of the long walk from the stream to the House, the cra...
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| Manoj Pandey | 19:39 | 6/Sep/2007 |
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| Namaskar Doston...!Sabse pehle aap sabhi ko Rakshabandhan or Teej (popula rajasthani festival) ki dheron badhaiyan !Parampita parmeshwar se sar jhuka kar yahi ardast hai ki wo isi tarah shanti or sohadra se hamare desh ko pragati ke path per agrasar karte rahein.Doston jaisa ki aap jantein hai ki hamare bharat desh gaono ka desh hai or jab tak gaon...
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| Sue | 02:13 | 25/Jul/2007 |
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| Traveling to distant places is perhaps one of the most exciting things that could happen to me. I enjoy traveling and visiting places. It has always been my dream and I coveted a job that would include travel once in a while. But strange how motherhood changes everything. I have to travel to USA for work, and whenever I have this opportunity, I st...
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| friendly ghost | 12:02 | 9/May/2008 |
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| Our world is coming unravelled |
| I'm continually amazed by a kind of public blindness to the obvious realities around us. I don't want to go into details, arguments, justifications etc. because they obscure the big picture. I don't want to talk about global warming, unsustainable growth, extinction of species etc. because they seem like distant theoretical stuff to us.I'm stating ...
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| sree nair | 19:19 | 4/May/2008 |
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| THE MEADOW |
| MEADOWS ARE GREEN WHERE ALL ARE JEALOUSMETERING THE LENGTH AND BREADTH OF FABULOUSMELLOWING BUDS OR INFATUATION OF GLAMOROUSMUTE THOUGHTS JUST FLOWING AS GLORIOUS. GLORIOUS MUST BE THE TOUGHTFUL WAYSGROWING EACH DAY IN CONFIDENCE OF RAYSGREYING NEVER TO FEEL THE YOUNG HEART SAYSGLWOING ARDENT SUBLIME MELTING AND PAYS. PAYING THE HEIGHT OF TRIBUTES ...
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| Madhavan PK | 16:24 | 13/May/2008 |
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| Frozy! (my country cousin from Cherpallacherry), you inspired this post. “Sir, you certainly are a shining wit”. I am sure you noticed the spoonerism. (Do forgive me, this is just in jest). Your post “ Loose Motion” had me in splits. And coincidentally I was reading this book, “ Eats, shites and leaves”. The author is A Parody, and his book a paro...
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| Vibhuti | 18:01 | 22/Apr/2008 |
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| How to deal with our emotions? Big problem! Although we have grown older - beyond the 'teenage', we more often fail to grow beyond 'teenage' mentally. You know, our body grows in a particular sequence. In the first seven years, the physical body grows but the intellect does not grow; then up to fourteen years, the intellect grows. The period from 1...
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| Monishikha R... | 08:56 | 25/Mar/2008 |
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| sai narayan | 14:54 | 19/Aug/2007 |
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| I recently bought a DVD for my kid. It was about Tenali Raman tales. When we put the DVD, my kid was sleeping and I and my wife ended up watching it ! The simple tales are engrossing even for us, and I thought I'd share one of them here.-------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------One day the king was discussing some...
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| Seeniraj Siv... | 18:24 | 14/Mar/2008 |
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| gaurav atri | 16:05 | 13/Apr/2007 |
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| AdityaDas Menon | 13:54 | 9/May/2008 |
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| Wait for me-coz I need you.............. |
| Loving friend...This is in reply to many of my friends querries about my continuous absence from iland.Infact I was on a long travel from one continental to another related to work...I do realize that its the high time to publish another episode " Hands Of Love".Pls wait for me.....ok?......... promise?.............LoveYour.....................adit. ..
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| Reshma Thakkar | 21:11 | 26/Mar/2008 |
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