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| Being more Chinese than China | |
| Officially, the five rings of the Olympics stand for the five contintents, but in India it could very well mean the five tiers of security that was in place for the Indian leg of the Olympic Torch Relay. Some of the norms, were infact almost that for those of a visiting head of state. From IBNLive. The Government on Wednesday issued an advisory for...
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| 11:23 | 17/Apr/2008 |
| The Reservation Conundrum | |
| In one massive stroke, last week’s Supreme Court judgement upholding 27% reservation for OBCs in institutions of higher learning, bringing the number of people who will be educated on merit to about 50% and condemning lakhs of students of the so called forward communities to a dark future. I wonder if the judge broke the nib of the pen after the j...
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| 07:25 | 10/Apr/2008 |
| The World’s Largest Experiment | |
| Today’s news report from The Age describes the Worlds largest experiment, aiming to simulate the Big Bang using the Worlds largest particle accelerator called the Large Hadron Collider in an aim to understand what the Universe is made up of. The Large Hadron Collider is aiming to unlock the secrets of how the universe began. Scientists will use it ...
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| 12:14 | 31/Mar/2008 |
| The Million Dollar Arm | |
| The chances that an Indian could play in the Baseball leagues in the US would probably be next to zero, but thanks to the Indian leg of ‘The Million dollar Arm’, the son of a UP truck driver and village ‘loafer’ Rinku Singh might just do that. He chanced his arm and threw down a 140 kmph sizzler in the contest to pocket Rs. 40,00,000 and book a sp...
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| 05:19 | 25/Mar/2008 |
| Bayern Munich to play in India | |
| I still dont believe this to be completely true, but in what could be a dream come true for millions of football fans across India the Bundesliga champion team Bayern Munich will take on domestic football club Mohun Bagan at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkatta later this year. Sify reports: International football stars, including Brazilians Lucio and...
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| 06:48 | 18/Mar/2008 |
| The 2008 Formula1 Season Preview | |
| The 2008 season of the Formula 1 Grand Prix starts with this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne albeit in slightly unusual circumstances with all driving aids removed and as usual the scarlet cars from Italy are the firm favourites with both the 2008 car and 2008 champion Kimi Raikkonen seemingly getting better during the off season. Add...
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| 11:15 | 14/Mar/2008 |
| The National Sport reaches its nadir | |
| Much like the Dream Team lined up by the USA in Basketball the past decade, there used to be a time when Indian hockey players lined up for a Gold Medal at every Olympics. Starting from 1928, for 36 years, the Indian Team won every Olympic Men’s hockey gold medal except one where they finished second. Led by that great wizard Dhyan Chand, India in...
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| 12:30 | 10/May/2007 |
| Innovations in Cricket | |
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| Tennis was once a sport played with a wooden racquet on grass court with men in trousers and on natural grass courts. Today’s game is played with graphite racquets with professional athletes in sweat absorbing T shirts and on astro turf. Comparitively, cricket has stayed the test of time better, with introduction of pyjama cricket being a limited a...
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| 23:54 | 6/May/2007 |
| What’s in a name? | |
| So, where are you from, Munnuswamy? You don’t have to be Einstein to figure that one out, Tamil Nadu, of course. Accha, the new girl’s name is Tejinder Kaur! Punjabi obviously. Just like every state has its own language, culinary habits, so too does every state have its own peculiar proper names. If you have been in India long enough you will not o...
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| Uma Nair | 11:01 | 22/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (31)
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| Superstition ? Yawn |
| A greek legend says that a yawn may be a sign that one is afflicted by the evil eye. According to an equally bizarre estonian myth, if you don't cover your mouth while yawning, then the devil will come and rob your soul !Scientifically what makes you yawn?When you yawn, or when you see somebody else do so, it is a sign of great need. That need is f...
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| Dhiman Bose | 00:23 | 11/Mar/2008 |
| Friends: (622)
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| Bye Forever.. |
| I met neha for the first time in mid 2007, she was my first friend on the internet. Then I was in my first job in ites sector, I offered her to come to Calcutta for a better treatment. Some things I need to tell u here. She came from a rich background. Her father was a businessman. When she was 21 he died in accident (the incident took place in the...
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| Dinesh Nambisan | 03:02 | 9/May/2007 |
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| Muck raking |
| It had to happen sooner or later, with "stings" being in vogue in Indian media it was just a matter of time before one of them focused on cricket (Come to think of it, if memory serves me right, it all started with cricket: The first widely-known "sting" operation conducted by the media was by Aniruddha Bahal (then Tehelka) with the help of Manoj P...
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| Manish Varma | 11:25 | 25/May/2007 |
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| Since its 'that time' of the year/two-year phase....when we hunt for a coach...and obviously tv channels would have a field day making news for us throughout the hour..
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| Sandil Srini... | 11:24 | 30/Apr/2007 |
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| Finito |
| F inally, done, isn't it? Got so much to write about, curses to be flushed, the horrible ICC that's murdered my sweet little game. But then, why bother, when Sambit Bal and Sir Richard Hadlee took the words outa my mouth and pasted them all over the internet?
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| Sandil Srini... | 13:12 | 30/Jul/2007 |
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| This Blog ends here |
| It's been nice blogging here folks, and it's time to bid adieu. I loved the exposure here at rediff iLAND but it's time to shut down this blog for good -- I will be blogging more often at Mutiny.inand hope to see you there sometime.... and I am retaining Showbizia :-)The prime reason to have suspended blogging is because I want to focus on completi...
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| Sandil Srini... | 21:50 | 25/Aug/2007 |
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| Voting abuse |
| C ouldn't find any other word to describe it. How can Chang possibly be voted out, ahead of Prashant and Ankita? Whoever voted for those two is fucking deaf. Here is the dentist's blog again, Buddha Soliloques . Atleast, that's a consolation - he'll be back to dentistry and blogging soon. Here's a video about him A star anyway, no?
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| richa bhagwat | 12:56 | 19/Jun/2007 |
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| m coming home |
| I wana go back homeTo d place I belongLong lasting memoriesThat I always carry with meI have moved too farFrom my home, d place I belongMy aims where big& my dreams where biggerFor me, then, my home seemed smallerSo I left my home, all aloneIt’s been a lonely journeyIn search of pleasures And lots of moneyMy hunger alas my greedHas bought me here...
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| Mohan jadeja | 20:51 | 7/Nov/2007 |
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| In everyday news of politics and terrorism there was pleasant surprise to see a little multi limbed girl from Bihar being brought to Banglore for very complicated operation.As for now operation is succes. Lets wish her a very healthy and warm recovery. Also hatsoff to medical staff who has operated her free of charge, A total Dr Munnabhai style tre...
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| nishant shah | 21:04 | 13/Apr/2008 |
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| Refrainment/Unreform |
| RefrainmentEveryday, I seek redemption, At the of altars of death.And again at some sacred sacrament,He summons for the bleak oblation.Oh Satan!!dont ruin my vestal soul,for I have baptize myself fromthe hollow truths you have preached.ablution of mind I have seek.Like the wilt on the maize,You were harnessing my body.the symbiosis of your deeds an...
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| shailesh S | 17:12 | 8/Jun/2007 |
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| Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?Why, any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner? If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight? Why 'abbreviated' is such a long word?How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why, when you change...
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| Prem Panicker | 10:49 | 7/Jun/2007 |
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| Transition |
| While Ruchir maintains the daily updates, am working on migrating him, and other colleagues on this blog, to the new site. Will take a week, tops. In the meantime, Ruchir, Manish and others will be found here; I meanwhile have as of today begun posting, on cricket and all else, here .
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| crazy dollarman | 17:21 | 23/Oct/2007 |
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| crazy goes crazy!!!!!! |
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| Can Bald people have Hairline fractures? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? If you pamper a cow, do you get spoiled milk? Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet? What happens if you get a paper cut from a Get Well card? Crazy welcomes more friends ..........
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| aravind das | 11:00 | 23/Apr/2008 |
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| KALKI AVTAR |
| Another GODMAN & another stampede. The latest being the "KALKI BHAGWAN" aka Mr vijaya kumar( an ex LIC clerk) & his wife "BHAGAWATI AMMA" alias v.padmavati has invited lakhs of devotees across the county & arround the world to witness the opening ceremony of GODMAN'S "openess university " at vatadayapalem in chittor dist of andhra pradesh.People s...
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| Shankar V | 12:30 | 9/May/2007 |
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| Revisiting: Sachin Tendulkar is V/C? |
| I had posted this before the announcement of the team to the world cup - Sachin Tendulkar is Vice-Captain?I was questioning the sinister move by Vengsarkar to name Tendulkar as the V/C and I wondered whether it was to place a check on Dravid as the captain. I now feel that it was probably also to assuage the captaincy ambitions of our one-time capt...
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| Krishna Prasad | 20:08 | 13/Apr/2008 |
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| THOUGHTS ON A VISHU* DAY |
| THOUGHTS ON A VISHU* DAY I don"t know why my mind is wanderingGoing deep until I reachYears behind there I saw meAs a small kid We wait for Vishu alwaysSince we could play with CrackersMy father tell us to buy crackersFrom a shop known to him He knows my father very wellSo he will not sell anything harmfulI will ask him to give big onesShop guy nev...
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