Archive for the ‘Astrology’ Category
Monday, September 8th, 2008
Apologies for the delay. Reasons are many - some selfishness, some tiredness and some helplessness. One of the selfish reasons is the urge to see the comments on the my last post swell in number :-D Thanks very much to all of you. I would blame the flu for the physical ...
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Saturday, August 16th, 2008
The meet was to start at 3 p.m. I, who take pride in always being punctual, was there bang on time, only to learn that the others had already arrived, and were seated. Such was the enthusiasm of the bloggers. Waiting for me at the head of the staircase was ...
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Friends, after my last post, I did try to look up the origins of some dance forms. I need not tell you that there are innumerable dance forms and their origins curious as well as controversial. During the course of my “research,” I came across the lyrics of the song, ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
It’s a place where all buses stop and that includes my office bus. Because the buses stop there, auto-rickshaws queue up by the side of the road to ferry passengers across the narrow lanes. Eager to grab a piece of the pie, taxis too pile up behind the autos. Often ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
It appears from the comments on my last post that I have been misunderstood by some. Indeed, I love wearing the saree, as do most women. On certain occasions my (female) colleagues and I ‘conspire’ to wear the saree and even if 50% of us manage to wear it on ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
This happens almost every morning: for a fleeting moment I consider wearing a saree to office. I even think about which one to wear and smile at the thought of the exclamations from my colleagues and then, courage fails me. (Fortunately, my mother doesn’t read blogs; if she did, ...
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Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Hi everybody,I had to be away from Ibibo for quite sometime, but Ibibo was never away from my thoughts. Whenever I could spare a minute, I took a peep. Yet, I missed a lot, I guess. Hope to catch up with all the interesting blogs, soon.In the Mandrake stories of ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
The leaves fall and litter you neighbour’s courtyard. Stop the daily quarrels; cut down your tree for peace in the neighbourhood. The branches are a threat to the overhead electric cables. Cut them down for safety’s sake. You nurtured it lovingly for so many years. The first blossoms made ...
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
I hate early morning flights, because it means losing several hours of sleep. That morning I was particularly tired and determined to get two full hours of sleep during the flight to Kolkata from Delhi. I did not carry a book and deliberately refused a window seat so as ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
In the very last biology class that we had in school, we learnt about different food chains and their importance in their respective ecosystems. The teacher took up several examples, such as crows, fishes and algae and explained how extinction of each would affect the environmental balance. That evening, on ...
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