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The Cell Phone Shunners

Posted on Jul 14 2008

What does it take for you to get away from this world? Withdraw into anonymity and solitude?

Mind it!

Posted on Jun 4 2008

There are two easy ways to go to Chennai from Mumbai. Go to SantaCruz and board a plane. Alternative

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The Cellphone Casualties

Posted on May 16 2008

What is it that has changed your life dramatically, say in the last four years. The question has no

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Bombay Times

Posted on May 7 2008

You can’t escape Bombay. Bombay will find you. Especially so, if you have got anything to

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It's stand up time!

Posted on Mar 20 2008

I very rarely go to movies these days. Imagine coughing up 150 bucks for a movie like Black&Whit

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It is always fascinating to follow the media campaigns of national political parties. Be it 'India Shining' or the symbolism of usage of the hand or the red color. Equally interesting are the hoardings put up by local politicians.

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The Plight of a Madrasi from Hyderabad

Posted on Oct 3 2007

If you are a north indian, chances are that you wouldn't even have understood the intended sarcasm in the heading. Or maybe you would if you had seen Chak De in the recent past.

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Stereotyping Gujarat

Posted on Sep 15 2007

My encounters with our friendly neighbourhood gujarati investor

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Our Lady President

Posted on Jun 14 2007

who is going to be our next president? A woman.

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Alvida Times

Posted on May 29 2007

Rohit and Preethi. Came in their lives the beautiful ugly time that every love stuck pair have to experience. Parting. The fangs of fate, upon them, they were sitting in the park, for the one last time, of course, last time for an year at least. Rohi

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Facing up to the Challenge-One more time

Posted on Feb 22 2007

My musings on my nocturnal ways

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In-your-Face, 24*7

Posted on Jan 12 2007

My life has taken a revolutionary turn in the last one year. I never thought I would be so fortunate as to get to know Amitabh Bachans family personally.

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The Baraka of a Bicycle II

Posted on Dec 6 2006

I ended my last post on a dramatic note. It sounded as if a thief had stolen my cycle and returned it back to its rightful owner after careful afterthought. Things though, were far more dramatic than this. It wasn't a thief who stole my cycle. It was

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The Baraka of a Bicycle

Posted on Dec 3 2006

The first question which needs to be answered is what exactly is baraka. Wikipedia will lead us to a movie by the same name. Although I haven't seen the movie, I do know about it. Baraka, we are told, means 'blessing' in many languages. Majority of t

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