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Let them fish!!
July 22, 2009 – 10:51 pm | 3 Comments | 28 views
Let them fish!!

” WE will not give a fish in their hands, we will give them a fishing rod, Let them fish themselves”. These are words of the  Principal of my daughter’s school. These were spoken during a parent …

Need of sex education in India
July 22, 2009 – 8:06 am | One Comment | 30 views
Need of sex education in India

Sex education in India is one of the least taught and most debated topics. There have been many cases regarding AIDS,  pre marital pregnancies , abortions, sexually transmitted diseases, loss of social respect in society, …

Some cookery tips
July 22, 2009 – 7:59 am | One Comment | 30 views

Hi!!I have a passion for food. Here are a few tips that I hope everybody finds interesting:

To make a quick dosa for your little  hungry ones take 4 tbsp of rawa, add 1 tbsp of maida …

How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories
July 21, 2009 – 9:18 pm | One Comment | 27 views
How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories

Book Review of “How I Taught My Grandmother To Read And Other Stories” by Sudha Murty

You have to become An Engineer
July 20, 2009 – 4:21 pm | One Comment | 23 views
You have to become An Engineer

“Purani jeans or guitar ladak pan ke woh din or mere yaar”
College days are supposed to be the days, you really wish to relive them.  Does this always hold true? I don’t know is …

The Deadly Sneeze
July 20, 2009 – 4:05 pm | 3 Comments | 44 views
The Deadly Sneeze

Who does not know about Adolf Hitler; he was one of the best dictator of colonalization period and he had developed an impact about his dictatorship and ruling across the world. Finding humor out of …

Coincidence
July 20, 2009 – 4:01 pm | 3 Comments | 66 views
Coincidence

As I ordered for two take away hot cappuccino I observed the lady from a distance.  I didn’t even know her till about an hour but now she seemed like a friend. The board which showed the flight …

colleges-money making machines
July 20, 2009 – 3:48 pm | 2 Comments | 51 views
colleges-money making machines

Now a days education has reached its heights and the awareness and importance of education has been know to every nook and corners of the world.In recent days around 80-90% of people are given primary …

Bal Vivah in India: Social Crime
July 20, 2009 – 3:42 pm | 2 Comments | 1,547 views
Bal Vivah in India: Social Crime

You must have seen many women around having kids at an age of just 15 to 16 years; neither it’s right from the health’s perspective nor is it good for the society. But, you will …

Please let me enjoy my childhood
July 19, 2009 – 12:14 am | One Comment | 6,755 views
Please let me enjoy my childhood

How many times have you seen poor children around you working for few bucks a day at a very young and tender age? If we look at the legal perspective, it’s not at all acceptable …

The Stratagem
July 18, 2009 – 10:12 pm | 4 Comments | 63 views
The Stratagem

How do you manufacture chance? The two very words, “manufacture” and “chance”, occurring side by side is an oxymoron. Yet that was the very idea that struck my teen mind that day in 1992, when …

I never had a girlfriend!
July 18, 2009 – 10:44 am | One Comment | 34 views
I never had a girlfriend!

If not for the Indian cultural system where the parents start searching for a bride for the boy as soon as he starts earning and gets into the late twenties… I would have been still …

Love Marriage vs. Arranged Marriage: Thoughts rearranged!
July 17, 2009 – 11:56 pm | 2 Comments | 252 views
Love Marriage vs. Arranged Marriage: Thoughts rearranged!

One of my Australian friends attended my marriage last year; when I called him to invite, he asked me the first question whether or not it’s going to be an arranged marriage. He had never …

Waiting for you once again on 16th of July
July 17, 2009 – 10:29 pm | 4 Comments | 99 views
Waiting for you once again on 16th of July

It was heavily raining outside and i knew i would get half drenched on the walk from the parking place to the gate of the art gallery. I considered sitting a while inside my car, …

gone away ?
July 17, 2009 – 10:28 pm | One Comment | 32 views
gone away ?

I don’t remember how I got hurt. All I remember is that it was raining heavily and I was watching the beautiful rain drops on the leaves of the mango tree. Something fell on my …

Sense of Using Solar Energy
July 17, 2009 – 10:22 pm | 4 Comments | 28 views
Sense of Using Solar Energy

During last few decades, a lot of discussions have started regarding limited sources of carbon fuels, which are the main energy sources for us. Industries as well as industries all over the world are switching …

Ever young
July 17, 2009 – 10:20 pm | No Comment | 18 views

Ceaselessly the time wheel ran ahead,
Twenties thirties forties the age too sped,
This though, yet not frozen my life’s morn,
Similar tendencies sprout when the same hues adorn,
Still the sunshine pumps up every nerve,
Same is the zest …

Climate Change and Human Health
July 16, 2009 – 9:32 pm | 15 Comments | 245 views
Climate Change and Human Health

We say we are developing, but the repercussions are that we are taming several health hazards as a cost of industrialization and development. When man came on earth, he was supposed to live with in …

Rains
July 16, 2009 – 9:22 pm | 7 Comments | 151 views
Rains

It’s raining. A sheer misty curtain made of tiny droplets stands between my window and the world. If I look hard enough, I can almost see past the ugly buildings and the far-away hills into …

Confessions of a Cleanaholic
July 16, 2009 – 9:15 pm | 5 Comments | 94 views
Confessions of a Cleanaholic

I haven’t yet seen the movie “Confessions of a shopaholic” but the day I heard the name… it rang some bells in my mind. I am not an avid shopper… so I don’t think I …