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| How to win over Array!!! | |
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| BlogsYou can do it! Array can't kill your comments... When it first happened to two of my posts, I was surprised at his name: Array! What an exotic name :) Then an array of thoughts came running… The comments page was left looking like ruined. Let me do some experiments! And when Monalisa got angry, I had to do something… :) (P.S.: One round of th...
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| 23:58 | 5/Aug/2008 |
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| MBANo more fun please… These are times of boundary less world. These are also times of our obsession with the ‘less’. On one hand, we are trying to fill the gap by addressing sensitive issues in course curriculum, and on the other hand, we keep loosing it because of changes happening where we least expect. The changing profile and attitude of teac...
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| 13:12 | 1/Aug/2008 |
| Majority Minority | |
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| Setu Samudram The selective noise... Hearing from the horse’s mouth always helps. Therefore I believed it when my professor said: “Judges in the Supreme Court are no fools. They know very well which cases to delay and for how long. For example, the Ayodhya's Babri dispute will never be solved; because a verdict on either side will result in riots.”...
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| 12:23 | 30/Jul/2008 |
| The invalid law | |
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| MysterySurvival of the fittest? I was startled to see the statistics on the survivors of the tragic sinking of Titanic. We already know that women and children were sent back safely, since there were lesser numbers of rescue boats than people on board. But what statistics are these? See the table attached. First there is an ‘age bias’, then a ‘ge...
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| 11:54 | 28/Jul/2008 |
| My Bad Guy | |
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| Life V2Better a loser than a runaway I don’t like bad guys from the movies because of some obvious reasons. But there is one of them whom I can’t have enough. Vivek Oberoi as Maya – in Shootout at Lokhandwala! Is Vivek really a bad guy? I am not sure. But yes, negative characters with some flesh and blood appear very comfortable on him. He is May...
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| 22:32 | 26/Jul/2008 |
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| BooksChurchill on Leadership Winston Churchill gave this world the "V" sign for victory. Prime Minister of United Kingdom during the World War II, Churchill was a self made man who made the history the way we read and repeat today. This book tries to point out leadership traits from this great political leader, as applicable to the business world. ...
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| 20:24 | 23/Jul/2008 |
| Rama | |
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| Smaller Gods One Rama in my Life... The day before, someone asked me, “Who cooks up food for you?”. I told him that each meal of the day was prepared by someone different :) V T will say how lucky I am :) :) Yes, I am lucky, not for those who prepare food for me, but for that I get my food when I want :) Here, I will tell you about my break-fast wa...
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| 13:15 | 18/Jul/2008 |
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| Books V2The old man & his GodThis one from Sudha Murthy is just another book from her. And she is a genius – for her nobleness and honesty packaged in her simplicity. It tells stories of the common Indians – painting all their beautiful and ugly faces. All are real life stories. Like the man who ‘used’ his cancerous son to beg and made lakhs of rup...
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| 12:51 | 18/Jul/2008 |
| The way I learned | |
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| Personal V2Riding Motorcycle! Father taught me riding motorbike when I was passing out of the high school. And I learnt that comfortably. But the problem came when I had to make someone sit as the pillion driver. I was not able to balance it. And then I did something brave and stupid... I made my younger sister sit on the backseat and I took her fo...
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| 12:06 | 18/Jul/2008 |
| The Girl on the bicycle | |
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| Personal V2Run boy – run!I grew up as a studious boy who would avoid girls. And what a better example than this: While in +2, I used to go for Chemistry tuitions. I noticed that there were two girls in the class; and of course I didn’t see their faces. I used to go there on my red bicycle, attended the class, and came back – on the same road – ever...
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| saurav sharma | 12:42 | 16/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (15)
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| Juvenility |
| Juvenility The Juvenility in my life is immense…But what I have to choose for me is always suspense!! So many colors of life are there to be initiated…So many phases are waiting to be palpated!!Though attempts were there to figure this out…They were there for a while…but then altogether wasted!! As a kid I used to explore every corner to get the be...
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| Namrata Prashar | 17:34 | 6/Aug/2008 |
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| Final Inspection |
| The Final Inspection One of the most beautiful poems I have come across .... The soldier stood and faced God,Which must always come to pass,He hoped his shoes were shining,Just as brightly as his brass."Step forward now, you soldier,How shall I deal with you?Have you always turned the other cheek?To My Church have you been true?"The soldier squared...
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| Amrut patil | 17:07 | 26/Jul/2008 |
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| BILLO BARBER |
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| BILLO BARBERActually i never thought that I would be writing on the topic like this....(Females pls excuse me as they dont have the luxury to keep a beard and they wont like to keep one..!!!!So they wont understand the parody of to shave or not to shave.!!Alaa...Shavesphere!)As I am sporting a french beard now a days not because I am stylo types b...
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| StudentOf VIHE | 07:35 | 4/Aug/2008 |
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| - An Extract from Karma Yoga by Swami Vivekananda The goal of mankind is knowledge. That is the one ideal placed before us by Eastern philosophy. Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness come to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world...
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| Renu Ayyar | 19:15 | 1/Aug/2008 |
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| TEASE… She is so full of oomph…That you cannot help; but fall for her!Her dreamy eyes could leave you; Dazed, sedated & hypnotized…Worse than ‘Opium’ of any measure! She is so very sensuous...That your existence could be close to dubious.You could get lost in her lustrous locks; like a house-fly Mercilessly, entwined in a cob-web..!And finding your...
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| nikita prashar | 18:22 | 7/Aug/2008 |
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| Be a reason of smile on someone’s face!! J Life’s so unpredictable; we don’t know what would happen the next second! People leaving the home in the morning never know whether they would return back in one piece or not? We don’t have hold on time and things that we would face but definitely we have command on our actions and tongue, we should use ...
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| arpit srivas... | 15:41 | 26/Jul/2008 |
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| Pain of a Married Man ...!!A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband was not in bed. She goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffe...
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| somya | 20:43 | 25/Jul/2008 |
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| present and future i am watching Mahabharat on T.V . in maha bharat i undersatand that Bhism ( hindi hi achhi hai) pratigya lete hai ki aajeewan kunwra rahuga knyoki unke pita Shantnu ko shadi karni thi. aur uske bete ke liye ,vichitra viray paida hota hai aur uske liye Amba ,Ambika aur ambalika ko swamvar se utha lata hai unak bhavishay banane ke...
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| neelima | 07:49 | 7/Aug/2008 |
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| EVERY ACT OF LOVE |
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| +With every act of love you do today,you weave one more golden thread in the blanket that will warm you tomorrow.
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| Srinivasan P... | 20:06 | 4/Aug/2008 |
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| Something to fallback on, Suffer you may , but not alone, Everlasting bond of trust, Enduring relationship, Grows on love , not on wealth, Comes with you until death, A bond between Captain and Ship, To put in a word it's Friendship .
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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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| Uday Sodhi | 13:29 | 23/Jun/2008 |
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| Lonely on an island.... |
| Once upon a time, a man decided to vacation on a cruise shipin the Caribbean. It was wonderful--the experience of his life! He was waited upon hand and foot. But, alas, it didnot last. A hurricane came up suddenly and the ship wentdown. The man found himself, he knew not how, swept up on the shore of an island. There was nothing else anywhere...
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| Rakshita Verma | 16:49 | 4/Aug/2008 |
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| Haathon ki lakeerein jod rahe theyKadam milaate milaateTere saaye mein khoya mera saayaYun hi kareeb aate aate Phir ek baar teri nazron ne kahaJee behlaane ko ye khayaal achha hai Nazrein churaane meinJo lafz gir jaate hain aksarAaine mein bikharti hunUnhe samet ke is baar Phir jhukti palkon ne bataayaJee behlaane ko ye ...
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| prasanna sri... | 20:06 | 29/Jul/2008 |
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| Just Laugh |
| Huge Pause A bearwalks into a bar and says, "I want a bourbon and............... coke"The bartender asks "what's with the huge pause?"The bear says, "I've had them all my life." An Old Fart Oneevening, a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home andleaves her, hoping she will be well cared for. The next morning, the nursesbathe...
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| ratna rajaiah | 22:09 | 24/Jul/2008 |
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| The Art of Having a Crush |
| “The Guide says that there is an art to flying,” said Ford, “or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and missing.” The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GalaxyCome to think of it, there is an art to everything. Pouring exactly 32.5 sips of tea into your teacup every morning. (Barring Sundays and Flashers Unite Day,...
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| Nischalson C... | 02:09 | 5/Aug/2008 |
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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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| Wish |
| 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 | 01:35 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| Hi frens!I had to log back in to ask you all a favour .... I have this hindi song lyric, I am looking for.I can't seem to find it. Please help!!'....saathi milamushkil se...sapne mein bhi socha na thaapna koi ban jayega...'Any one, just the name of the movie or some hint to help me remember anything about the movie or the song, i would appreciate i...
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| krishna veni | 17:25 | 2/Aug/2008 |
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| I would like to thank you all for the support you have given in writing all these blogs….. I am taking a break for sometime .......wish to blog again on the iland .....
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| febin joy | 08:37 | 30/Jul/2008 |
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| It's me |
| Hey friends, It's me... with my new gear.. Nikon D80 and Sigma 70-300mm tele lens. Photo by my friend Suresh KG(aka "My exposure", his flickr id). He grabbed this wen I was taking the previous picture of that spidy.... have a nice time.. take care.... Febz
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| Krishnaswamy... | 11:34 | 22/Jan/2008 |
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| MIRACLES DO HAPPEN |
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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 | 16:54 | 11/Jul/2008 |
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| Dismal state of Bollywood |
| What is happening in Bollywood? I am unable to understand. What is happening to the film quality and the duration? Earlier, almost all the films used to be of 3 hrs duration or even more. Now all the films are being chopped off to earn big bucks in quick time. As a result, you have not even come to understanding the film and its characters when yo...
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| RAGHU IYER | 22:11 | 5/Aug/2008 |
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| These are three short poems… 1 Tiny li’l sproutWatered that I, to growThe li’l bud of greenWill have various colours brightThe bloomThe blossomingThe beautyAnd shall I see her growAdoredMy li’l beautyO! the slender oneO! how am I to care for you now? 2 grasping my hand,she shouted loud,the ecstasy,the shrill moan,fragrant sweat of her naked soul,Br...
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| anjeneyan an... | 19:55 | 25/May/2008 |
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| Open Office |
| Tomorrow onwards I start working in an open office. During renovation, the old traditional layout is being changed from a cabin (large rooms equal to or bigger than a living room) to medium sized cubicles and work stations. It looks impressive since the office is renovated. But it is only partially complete and the full looks with atrium and all ot...
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| myna mg | 10:44 | 17/Jun/2008 |
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| HAPPY? |
| Happiness Is Not Comforts ‘Does Happiness depend upon comfort? ’ Happiness lies in not comforts alone! Happiness is not a static quality of the human mind, body and soul. All can’t remain happy all the time. It would be foolishness to wish for a life, filled with happiness alone; Happiness is more when woes come in-between. Happiness is just a feel...
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| Baldeo Pandey | 14:33 | 7/Aug/2008 |
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| Never Alone |
| Inhaling aroma of her presence,Feeling her touch with cool breeze,With closed eyes,Peacefully accepting her existence….Tears start rolling on cheeks….Midnight,When entire world sleeps…She creeps in the life,Days of laughter,Day dreaming,Vanishing in one-another….Time strands for a while,Letting her memory to reflect on the canvas….Never alone,She,H...
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| Ash K | 00:16 | 9/Jun/2008 |
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| Book Review: Keep Off The Grass - By Kar... |
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| The novel has an honest attempt - to make you laugh till your sides ache. The book is replete with humor, laughter and funny one-liners which keep you on the edgeto the last word read. Certainly this one tickles your funny bone. The novel's protagonist Samrat Ratan, son of second generation US immigrantschooses to leave hot shot investment banking,...
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| Anil Goel | 21:40 | 5/Aug/2008 |
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| If you're good... (Education!) |
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| Gasp!!!?Guys...this is shot from my Nokia just last week...Its a classroom desk....St. Andrews, Bandra, Class IV to be precise... (Yeah I 'have feet, will dance')And yeah, its been there for a while now...What did Julius Caesar say to Brutus as he breathed his last?Who cares a whatever....No, he didn't say that, he of course said "Et tu Brute"....b...
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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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| Smirk |
| 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 |
| 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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