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 13:12 | 30/Jul/2007 |
| 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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| 01:56 | 29/Jul/2007 |
| Blog on break | |
| ... until further notice. I"ll be blogging live at Mutiny.in
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| 16:14 | 28/Jul/2007 |
| BCB4 Pix -- Day 1 | |
| IIM is quite far from home. Pushed the rickshaw meter to the maximum fare. Folks, no fare on manual meters gets more than this. 50 paise short of a century. ... more pix here
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| 15:44 | 28/Jul/2007 |
| BCB4 -- Lunch and Tea | |
| Just had lunch here @ BCB4 at the IIM campus, not much -- a few puris, daal and rice. Still, we're pretty filled up with the stuff happening here. Lots to talk bout.Jerry just popped in with tea -- 'here you go' he says, -- thanks bro :-)AJ was kind enough to give a session on microblogging. It's an interesting concept for those who don't really ha...
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| 13:47 | 28/Jul/2007 |
| BCB4 -- Events Bangalore | |
| How many of us keep visiting this website -- www.eventsbangalore.net ? I met the creator of this blog here, who"s featuring it. He"s talking about how he publishes events, how many events he gets, etc. He"s planning to start a video show :-) Perhaps he might start off with BarCamp Bangalore. And the name's Tejesh.
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| 13:44 | 28/Jul/2007 |
| Ambigrams @ BCB4 | |
| Just met this brilliant guy who's into mouse-art, and specifically -- ambigrams. Anand is genius at this, and a poet too. This is one link you ought to look at: http://anandborarnc.googlepages.com/ambigrams More abount Anand here .
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| 13:07 | 28/Jul/2007 |
| BCB4 -- Late Noon update | |
| Been here for a couple of hours -- my first BarCamp -- and I can already see why they"re so successful, because there"s a lot of sharing in an informal casual environment.I"m at the Blogger"s Collective right now, and we"re talking widgets now -- the whats, the whys and hows. There"s an ongoing discussion about the different widgets available, and ...
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| 12:41 | 28/Jul/2007 |
| I'm at BCB4 | |
| Okay folks, this is me reporting live from BCB4 ... the Blogger's Collective. Keep watching this space for the happenings here.
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| 20:41 | 26/Jul/2007 |
| No power, no responsibility | |
| It's about time we get our priorities in place, because Bangalore is quickly embracing the limelight, when in reality the city remains in the dark for most of the time. And literally.Par example, the last two nights - no power where yours truly lives. Uncle Ben gave us wisdom - 'with great power comes great responsibility'. And I tell BESCOM this -...
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| 12:59 | 23/Jul/2007 |
| of aid, fake-wars and techwaste | |
| Call us developing, call us transforming -- or just call us an inexplicable phenomenon, but it's one hell of a challenge to find a single foreign conglomerate that isn't showing interest in India. Blame it on the cost advantage, the cheaper skills or anything that comes to mind, but it's impossible to deny that every significant milestone that the ...
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| chaitali rai | 12:24 | 29/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (483)
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| Around the corner I have a friend,In this great city that has no end,Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,And before I know it, a year is gone.And I never see my old friends face,For life is a swift and terrible race,He knows I like him just as well,As in the days when I rang his bell.And he rang mine but we were younger then,And now we are busy, t...
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| Dwaipayan Adhya | 17:15 | 19/Aug/2007 |
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| ROI V: TramThe Exteriors: A slick rendition of the modern-day train fit for Indian roads. Full-metal body covering the two compartments. On the nose is a 60W lamp of headlight. Very airy and has low ground clearance.The Interiors: Passengers travel in retro-style is the theme of the interiors with moulded wooden seats, D.C. fans adorning th...
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| monsoon flower | 12:37 | 1/Sep/2007 |
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| fingers of my hand restless as desire wanting to paint and create on the empty canvas my soul that lies bereft of the pain and sorrow once etched deep with the chisel of time that clicked away in an hour glass made of yesterday.......
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| shubhangi kadbe | 11:28 | 18/Jul/2007 |
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| Full glass of milk |
| One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house.However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water.She thought he looked hungry so...
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| Tinkerbell | 14:49 | 5/Dec/2007 |
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| Ay ay ay... ay ay mi amor |
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| Antonio Banderas sings the famous Mariachi song from the movie Desperado! Need I say more? ;) Smoking hot AB and Salma Hayek and the music it takes you to Latin land straight away! Note: Translation on the left of each line! Antonio croons with the Los Lobos band of La bamba fame! Soy un hombre muy honrado -I’m an honest manQue me gusta lo major … ...
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| Keya | 12:15 | 24/Sep/2007 |
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| Hi friends,After long break I am here again with some of my thoughts. We all have read/hear this thought and somewhat way we appreciated it also…“Measuring our life by, what others do for us, may disappoint us. But if measured by, what we do for others, will add meaning to it. Make difference in others life.”Have we ever think more than our expecta...
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| Ramesh chordia | 23:07 | 5/Jul/2007 |
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| Male or Female? |
| You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female. Here are some examples: FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them. PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again. They are an effective repro...
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| Rakshita Verma | 16:08 | 19/Sep/2007 |
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| Sab kuchh apne saath le aayi hunKuchh yun zindagi baant aayi hun Ek mutthi hansi, ek katra aansuEk naya chehra maang laayi hun Kuch tukde khayaalon ke samet keHar fikra se bekhayaal ho aayi hun Rishton ke tokre se is baarPhir apna naam chhaant laayi hun Zameen se thokar kha ke mainAb ek parat aasmaan laayi hun Ek dibbi bhar ke khushi seGham k...
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| prasanna sri... | 21:38 | 3/Nov/2007 |
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| Hamburger Restaurant A rather attractive woman goes up to the register in an upscale hamburger establishment. She gestures alluringly to a large man who comes over immediately. When he arrives, she seductively signals that he should bring his face close to hers. When he does so, she begins to gently caress is cheek, which is slowly turning a crimso...
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| ansul sahu | 22:16 | 29/Jul/2007 |
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| Taj Mahal - The Symbol of Love & Beauty |
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| If there is any monument associated with love, passion and glory, it is undoubtedly the "Taj Mahal". Taj Mahal is not only the pride of a nation with more than one billion people, but also it highlights the glory of Mogul art and architecture. Above all, it is regarded as the symbol of love.Shah Jahan, the fifth Mogul emperor, built Taj Mahal in me...
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| kuldeep chou... | 10:36 | 12/Jul/2007 |
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| Aisa nhi ke hum ko mohabbt nhi milihaan jaise chahte the wo qurbat nhi miliMilne ko zindagi mein kaye humsafar mileLekin tabiyaton se tabiyat nhi miliChehroon ke har hajooom mein hum dhoondte raheSurat nhi mili kabhi seeerat nhi miliWo yak bayak mila to bohat deer tak humenAlfaaz dhoondne ki bhi mohlat nhi miliIs ko gila raha ke tawaja na di useLek...
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| PREETI BOSE | 20:09 | 3/Dec/2007 |
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| A glass of milk. |
| One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his way through school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry. He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost his nerve when a lovely young woman opened the door. Instead of a meal he asked ...
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| Silent Tears | 00:01 | 6/Dec/2007 |
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| SHE~~*~~The meaning of my Life |
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| She May be the face I can"t forget The trace of pleasure or regret May be my treasure or the price I have to pay She May be the song that summer sings May be the chill that autumn brings May be a hundred different things Within the measure of a dayShe May be the beauty or the beast May be the famine or the feast May turn each day into a heaven or ...
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| friendly ghost | 10:19 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| Stop Credit Cards & Consumer LoansToday, we have an affluent economy, with only a small fraction of our economies' output devoted to basic needs. Environmentalists say that we are reaching the limits of growth due to ecological constraints. Here in our cities, we have not only reached the limits of human needs but overshot them many times over. Wha...
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| lucille iaco... | 20:57 | 8/Sep/2007 |
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| My sincere apology... |
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| My dear iLand friends... I apologize for leaving the conclusion of my hummingbird story up in the air and hope you will forgive me. The sad truth is, I have been in a state of physical distress which has not allowed my mind to transcend to that touching experience, or any other pleasant memory. Please know that my connection with everyone her...
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| ZEUS ZEUS | 00:51 | 11/Dec/2007 |
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| The Tea-shop girl |
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| The corner shop that serves us teaAnd houses all furore.From rising price to falling starsIn voices shrill and sore.A pair of eyes does follow themLook askance at their dinWhen closing shop with little handsOr washing strainers clean.A simple riddle troubles her,At times, does make her smileHow grown up men have silly fightsKnowing all the whileTha...
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| Vikas Vij | 02:38 | 24/Nov/2007 |
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| Har shaakh pey ulloo baithha hai... |
| About four years ago, the then Defence Minister of India, George Fernandes, who was on an official visit to Washington, was "strip-searched" by the U.S. security at the airport. In response, the usually thunderous Fernandes behaved like a scared puppy, and stomached his humiliation quietly without telling a soul. A year later, Strobe Talbott, the f...
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| yellowflower | 20:59 | 29/Nov/2007 |
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| Little Moments Of Joy - by Barry KingsleyTwenty years ago, I drove a cab for a living. It was a cowboy’s life, a life for someone who wanted no boss. What I didn’t realize was that it was also a ministry.Because I drove the night shift, my cab became a moving confessional. Passengers climbed in, sat ...
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| Ramesh | 18:11 | 10/Jul/2007 |
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| Mysterious Smuggler! |
| Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle.He's got two large bags over his shoulders.The guard stops him and says,"What's in the bags?""Sand," answers Juan.The guard says, "We'll just see about that ~get off the bike."The guard takes the bags and rips them apart;he empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.He detains Juan overnig...
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| Krishnaswamy... | 21:56 | 7/Dec/2007 |
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| DRUNK EPISODE |
| Woman knocks husband out with potatoThursday, December 6, 2007The potato was later mashedAll couples have their arguments, but usually vegetables aren"t used as weapons.When things got heated between a husband and wife in Nicholson, Georgia, she reached for the first thing that came to hand - a spud.When her partner called her by a rude word, she...
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| Sandeep Ohri | 06:31 | 5/Dec/2007 |
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| Higher Electricity Bills .. again ? |
| If you don't take action now .. you may end up paying higher electricity bills .. again !!Just a small reminder that there is a Public Hearing on Dec 6th at the YB Chavan Auditorium (Opp. Mantralaya), Mumbai - at 11 am. This is to hear public suggestions / comments on MSEDCL's petition to increase electricity tariff in lieu of imposing second "stag...
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| rajitha nara... | 14:40 | 26/Jun/2007 |
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| It was as usual a boring lecture and that took about one and half hour, we all where frustrated and where making all kind of sounds, actions that could make our professor understand that we got enough knowledge for that day.Don’t know whether our performance or his referred notes that made him to say “rest ill take on tomorrow”.We all thanked for ...
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| Ranjan Sengupta | 15:25 | 24/May/2007 |
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| Can we define music? Most of us may agree that it is bourn by a time series, jointly or independently, of amplitude, frequency and complexity, three fundamental well-known parameters used in physics. This time series is the objective reality, or the fictional reality of physics. But obviously all such time series pertaining to auditory sensation ar...
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| DV Bhartiya | 12:37 | 10/Oct/2007 |
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| PDS Godowns Loot In West Bengal |
| I am watching a news on TV since last two days that in some districts of West Bengal people have started to loot the godowns of PDS grain holders. All these people seems to be the general pubic. I was trying to understand the reasons prompting the people to take such horrible steps despite the presence of police behind them and legal punishment. On...
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| Kusum Mohapatra | 10:15 | 21/Nov/2007 |
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| The Swan Song!!! |
| Hello everyone..I'm today writing my last post here..Thank you all for all your constructive comments and feedbacks and trust me, it has been huge..That is not to say i'm stopping writing altogether..but this point forward i'll be blogging on:http://disruptiveharmony.blogspot.com.(i've already transferred most of my blogs there...and some others, i...
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| Bad Angel | 13:30 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| Words Fiesta - A compilation of my favou... |
| Words Fiesta! A compilation of my favourite poems on iLand. “Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” - Carl Sandburg To My LoveIf ...
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| SHASHANK SINGH | 00:38 | 27/Nov/2007 |
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| Food for thought |
| Whats the best food?.. the one which satisfies hunger or the one which sparks the nerve endings of our taste buds and kick starts a fire dance of taste to our brains resulting in a flooded mouth and a nose which instantly turns into south pole of a magnet with north pole fallen in food. I know people would have different answers for it. For all the...
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| Ever Changing | 14:28 | 9/Jun/2007 |
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| Mera kuch samaan lauta do |
| मेरा कुछ समान लौटा दोThis beautiful lyrical song of a tormented soul mourning for lost love has been a favorite of the Indian psyche. Sinces ages unknown our beloved FM channels have been playing them every thursaday evening, on every rainy day, an...
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| aravind das | 17:28 | 26/Nov/2007 |
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| CHEERS FOR TEAM INDIA |
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| Three cheers for ANIL " THE JUMBO" & his men in blue.By defeating pak in the opening test anil kumble has opened his account on a winning note & pushed vigour into the team to aim for 3-0 win.Another person to be congratulated is our 10dulkar...By surpassing allan border's runs he is now standing next to LARA.Hope he will be numero-uno by next ye...
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| MAD BRO | 12:38 | 17/Oct/2007 |
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| Mad Bro |
| I had my reservations about how I would enjoy the blogging experience when I opened my iland with the strangest and least glamorous of all id’s. I was not exactly prejudiced against blogs but I wondered if blogging could just be a frivolous activity for many. I was pleasantly surprised to find it is not so and I have seen many caring souls and shar...
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| Shruti | 18:15 | 17/Sep/2007 |
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| Missing you all.. |
| Dear Friends,Sincere apologies for not been able to keep in touch with you all for a long time now. Just came back to say Hi to all my friends.Off late, been very busy with my work and personal engagements, guys……….don’t get ideas not settling down with someone, ( u see abhi meri umar hi kya hai J).But needless to say I miss you all a lot, don’t kn...
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| A S | 10:11 | 5/Nov/2007 |
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| Why God allows pain |
| This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen... A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barb...
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| ashwini bhat | 12:40 | 20/Jun/2007 |
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| This is one more reason why we have to thank God for the food that we can have easily.But in the otherhand....ironicly, we still waste the food that we buyI feel very GRATEFUL for what I have today.......We are so blessed for the wonderful works of God's hand in our life today, just think of this.............."I felt very fortunate to live in this ...
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| laidback rebel | 12:16 | 11/Apr/2007 |
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| Climate Of Repression |
| Maharahstra's decision to ban sex education in schools, to some extent explains why the state has come out tops in the survey on child abuse recently conducted across the nation. (Maharashtra followed by A.P. and M.P). Not that all abuse is entirely sexual in nature but what is apparent is the low level of awareness in general, and that includes t...
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| thirdman2007... | 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... | 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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| Mohan jadeja | 20:51 | 7/Nov/2007 |
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| Wish you all the Best Laxmi |
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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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