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A Nightmare

Sometimes, the mind is a dangerous place to get lost in.it is a place where time & space are elastic and past, present and future co-exist without any issue.And it is even more scary when that manifests itself as an almost lifelike, real event.
Amma had a nightmare a few days ago. She, appa and [...]

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Unexplained Stuff

stuff i have no answers to …
a) what is it about the male of the species and their fascination for nose snort, ear wax and other assorted stuff … a few days ago i overheard two building boys having an animated conversation about how much goo they sneezed out… JD tells me that it tastes [...]

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Gems from Students – 2009

It is that time of the year again. i trudge down to Kalina and correct papers. The students who finish this course go on to become journalists .. and they come up with some gems. .
The University is still in the last century. Rows of table and plastic chairs, high ceilings and background chatter. It [...]

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we miss you

I got a mail today. There is nothing unusual about that – i get mails on most days…It’s the content of the mail that cracked me up :
with a subject matter that read we miss you, the mail read as follows :
We hope you have had many memorable moments using your xxxxx Bank Credit Card.
However, [...]

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Eye of the Beholder !

Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
– thomas gray – elegy written in a country church yard

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Freedom….

standing at the edge of the ocean, dancing…
that woman was….
I wish sometimes that i can drop all caution and just do mad stuff –
not necessarily dance at the edge of the ocean …
but ….

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The Crow !

and here is something surreal to go with it : Ted Hughes on why the Crow is Black futility
The Crow’s Fall
When Crow was white he decided the sun was too white.
He decided it glared much too whitely.
He decided to attack it and defeat it.
He got his strength up flush and in full glitter.
He [...]

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memories ….

Memories are funny things…
here I am at home, recovering from a mild sun stroke. (It doesn’t seem very mild – yesterday, i thought that i was dying … today it seems like i may not after all die of the sunstroke ). i have been in and out of deep slumber. the slumber has [...]

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Stalked by Advertising

HyperActiveX – came up with that title on a conversatin thread on FB.
And, this was in context of Mr.Advani – the leader of the BJP – who has decided to use the net to reach out to audiences that extensively use the net. (‘younger audiences’
In typical desi style, they have gone in for [...]

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A small break

was in sawantwadi over X’mas. nice place. great beaches. wonderful food. just relaxed and destressed. can take on the world now

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