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 18:35 | 2/May/2006 |
| The greatest salesman in the world | |
| Reproducing a blog of Bharat Chopra on the bestseller "The greatest Salesman in the world" by Og Madino.He has summarised it very well. Happy reading!Everyone, whether they realize it or not, is in sales. Not necessarily as a revenue chaser, but each of us are eternally trying to influence others and affect outcomes in favor of our causes. A few ye...
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| 12:03 | 7/Apr/2006 |
| Cricket and Life | |
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| Ganguly Vs. Sehwag Two reputed batsmen , Woefully out of form. Had their fair share of opportunity , Only to slide from misfortune to calamity. One was stripped of captaincy And banished . The other was given the captaincy By the selectors famished. In life, they say, You get what you deserve. In Indian cricket, Do you deserve what you get?
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| 18:57 | 5/Apr/2006 |
| Late night political humor | |
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| "Earlier today, in parts of the world, there was a total eclipse of the sun. President Bush said that the eclipse of the sun proves the unreliability of solar power." --David Letterman"The Democrats said they have a plan to find the leader of al Qaeda. Find the leader of al Qaeda? They don't even have a plan to find the leader of the Democrats." --...
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| 17:55 | 4/Apr/2006 |
| Fulghum philosophy | |
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| Rober Fulghum is one of my favourite writers. .His writing style is to keep it short , simple , lace it with humor and leave a subtle message for the reader to contemplate or get on with the next story! The most popular book of his , of course, is his masterpiece "All I really wanted to know , I learn't in kindergarten". For those of you who have...
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| 04:18 | 4/Apr/2006 |
| Simple yet profound ! | |
| Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up and knows that it will have to outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.And, every morning in Africa a lion wakes up and knows that it will have to outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.So, it doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle. When that sun comes up, you had better be...
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| 17:08 | 2/Apr/2006 |
| Do Morality and spirituality come as a p... | |
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| Am reproducing below an interesting blog of Shekar Kapur. This is just one example of the many contradictions that we need to deal with in our journey of life.Friends, do share your experience/views on this."In an amoral universe (is it ?) where does morality stand, and whose morality is it anyway ? Allow me to share a story.. Years ago, a strugg...
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| 18:32 | 25/Mar/2006 |
| Can spirituality be divorced of God? | |
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| What does "spirituality" really mean, how do we find it and what's God got to do with it? This was the question for which an answer was being sought in a programme in CNN titiled "The Quest for spirituality". Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and Dalai Lama amongst other personalities were interviewed. While no profound answers emerged in that short and edited ...
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| 04:26 | 24/Mar/2006 |
| Footprints | |
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| Footprints in the SandOne night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord. Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky. In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand. Sometimes there were two sets of footprints, other times there were one set of footprints. This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life, ...
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| 13:02 | 23/Mar/2006 |
| Think about it | |
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| Osho's epitaph : Never Born, Never Died--Only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and January 19,1990
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| Arindam Chat... | 11:19 | 1/Feb/2007 |
| Friends: (64)
| City: Serampore
| Interests: Life in itself.
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| Confessions - II |
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| Raju … is an old friend. If I can recall it right - I remember him from my days in a Nursery School called Sishu Aakash somewhere in South Calcutta. Hence, he was the person there whom I had known for the maximum numbers of years now. Not that we were the best of friends but somewhere we both were proud to know each other for such a long time now. ...
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| Licensed Pirate | 07:33 | 16/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (292)
| City: kuala lumpur
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| Wild Irish Catholic Girl |
| An Irish daughter had not been home for over five years. Upon her return, her father cursed her. Where have ye been all this time? Why did ye not write to us, not even a line? Why didn't ye call? Can ye not understand what ye put yer old mum thru? The girl, crying, replied, "Sniff, sniff... Dad... I became a prostitute..." "Ye what!!? Out of here, ...
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| Divya Sharma | 21:14 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (177)
| City: Ghaziabad n now Bangalore
| Interests: Reading, Listenin...
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| Good Ol' Days |
| It is something i received in my mail from a friend and I am putting it here as it is.I guess whatever is there holds true to almost to every one, may be less may be more but its touching and so very sweet :).....reading it one almost gets drifted to those old times which were just so good that u don't want to forget them............Read, ponder an...
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| Shweta Iyengar | 15:40 | 20/Feb/2007 |
| Friends: (75)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: knowing the diver...
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| to give or not to give |
| Psychology says people choose to be sick (this sure is not the same as pretend to be sick)...they hold on or attract certain sicknesses because if offers them preferential treatment...even logic and evidence based medicine recognises "psychosomatic illness"(the origin of the illness in the mind)Now which parent would yell at a sick child for low gr...
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| Raghavendran... | 21:14 | 16/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (48)
| City: Ahmedabad
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| Language Barrier |
| Om Shri Ganeshay Namah Om Shri Gurubhyo Namah Om Shri Hayagreevaay Namah Language Barrier In India there are so many languages! Yet the national language is “Hindi” and the other language is “English”! Even if there are some restrictions in some parts / places of India for the usage of these two languages! Government must plan to introd...
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| Jahan Bakshi | 12:05 | 15/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (174)
| City: Sibsagar
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| AIDS Jaago |
| Four short films on HIV AIDS by Mira Nair, Santosh Sivan, Farhan Akhtar and Vishal Bhardwaj BLOOD BROTHERS by Vishal Bhardwaj MIGRATION by Mira Nair POSITIVE by Farhan Akhtar PRARAMBHA by Santosh Sivan
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| Khushi A | 03:06 | 9/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (79)
| City: Michigan
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| Choices |
| You were so naïve at 4So could not have a sayDad signed you in that schoolTo study and play each dayAlmost out of teens You stepped out of that doorWas time to choose a careerAnd leap to rock the floorYour trodden path from hereWas not forced on you with glueYour first decision of lifeYour heart prompted this to doNot once but at zillion momentsYou...
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| chandra shekar | 12:00 | 23/Mar/2006 |
| Friends: (11)
| City: mandya
| Interests: watching cricket,...
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| Bhagat Singh, the LEGEND |
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| Today is the day, one of the great legends of our Motherland was hanged to death. The great Bhagat Singh along with his associates 'RajGuru' and 'Sukhdev' were hanged to death. Lets remember them atleast!!!!Questions pricking my mind:------------------------------ Why we don't remember much about Bhagat Singh, Netaji and other great legends much?- ...
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| Nandan Newla... | 01:20 | 22/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (68)
| City: Cochin
| Interests: read write arithmet
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| SAND |
| im never myself and never for myselfand that was why i had dug down the sandfor some short messagesthe bucket was deepand the sand mostly dryi took it out one after otherbucket in hand i emptied my messagesand my world went tring tringno one knew where i had hidsuch was the load of unread messagesi was dog tiredbut i still tried and tried to keep t...
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| shishir bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006 |
| Friends: (152)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Reading, writing,...
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| Are more H-1B visas good for India? |
| By the end of this month, if will be clear if the US Senate Immigration Reform Bill introduced to decide whether H-1B visa limit should be increased from 65,000 to 115,000 has been defeated or allowed to sail through successfully. Everyone says an increase in the H-1B visa limit will help Indians the most. Will it, really? But more on that in just ...
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| Krishna Reddy | 23:42 | 2/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (295)
| City: Mumbai
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| Art of Living friends from Pune |
| Clips from Pune trip Nov 2006 Pictures of myself ( Krishna Reddy ), Sunita and Art of Living Pune gang including Harshal Jadhav, Omkar Nissal and Archana. The trip included a visit to Okayama garden (Asia"s largest Japanese garden), Kadakwasla dam, Khanapur orphanage and Omkar"s birthday party.
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| Wise Donkey | 12:08 | 6/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (99)
| Interests: Blogging,Dancing,...
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| Until we meet again |
| He stood in the blazing sun, looked at the stone and read what had been inscribed on it."May the road rise up to meet you.May the wind be always at your back.May the sun shine warm upon your face;the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again,may God hold you in the palm of His hand."In the last seven years that would be the upmteenth...
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| shobha warrier | 08:20 | 16/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (53)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: People, Books, Mo...
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| Modern day heroes |
| It has been a week since the US warship USS Nimitz left the shores of Chennai but I am still disturbed. No, I am not thinking about the alleged nuclear emission or the shameful way with which India prostrated and still prostrates in front of the US. I am only thinking about what the sailors did in Chennai. What disturbed me the most was the hysteri...
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| Isha Cally | 11:50 | 20/Oct/2006 |
| Friends: (340)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Nothing,,,,,!
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| SHUBH DEEPAWALI |
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| WISHING ALL OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILY,,,,JOY, SPLENDOUR, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERTY ON THIS FUN FILLED OCCASION OF DIWALI,,,! MAY THIS FESTIVE OF LIGHT BRIGHTENS & BRING PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN LIFE... HAPPY DIWALI,,,!
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| Chinmayee Ma... | 01:27 | 29/Jun/2006 |
| Friends: (25)
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| reading, linking, holidaying |
| Not that I blog too frequently anyway, but do check out these links while I am gone for a week.My friend Leo's slightly strange but hugely entertaining blog. He's just become a respectable member of the working public by joining Time Out Mumbai, which, by the way, is also online now. Do check out to know what to do, where to go, what to eat, etc. A...
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| Amit Agrawal | 23:11 | 6/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (256)
| City: New Delhi
| Interests: hayaa aur hayaat
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| kahin koyi |
| kahin koyi manzil chhupi to hogikahin koyi aas dabi bhi hogikaise chudaoon apne haathon se lahoomere jurm ki panaah kahin to hogibaar baar hai beshumaar hai kehta hai dilhar baar dil ki sada tum tak pahunchi to hogidin guzar chuka hai raat bhi rawaan hogiis shabe gham ki bhi to koyi subah zaroor hogichalta jaaoonga jab talak na milegi mujhesaahil k...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (618)
| City: Bombay
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| The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution |
| Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...
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| Susan Fernandes | 10:07 | 24/May/2007 |
| Friends: (33)
| Interests: Love reading, wri...
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| Our Childhood Dream House |
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| A House of DreamsWasn’t itAt least I as a child grew up fantasizing about such a houseIt was the first house I learnt to drawSurprising all of us had the same house in our drawingsThe house would have triangle shape shelterA pole holding the shelterTwo windows and a doorSometimes there would be four I guess because we loved drawing windows.Let me t...
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| ganesh nadar | 04:36 | 1/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (54)
| City: Panickanadarkudieruppu
| Interests: writing, reading
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| annual day and temple festival |
| The village temple festival and the school annual day The quarterly exams were over but holidays were not declared. The school had to celebrate its annual day on October 4th. The children would be practicing dance and drama. At least the selected ones, the rest would just laze around and play games.They needed two chief guests for the annual show. ...
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| Dona K | 16:14 | 8/Apr/2006 |
| Friends: (6)
| City: Dubai
| Interests: Business, news, B...
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| Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez |
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| Singer-actress Jennifer Lopez will perform for the first time in India when she plays a concert in Mumbai on April 23 to promote her latest album.
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| anjuli dhiman | 12:37 | 28/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (84)
| City: dehradun
| Interests: Music, Reading
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| Love u bhaiya! |
| Its rakshabandhan today....I just love this day, just the way i love my brother.When i was a kid i used to eagerly wait for this day to come, we used to get up in the morning, do the teeka, tie rakhi to bhaiya, rob away whatever cash he used to have in his pockets and then straightaway used to head to the terrace for kite-flying...those were the da...
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| Sonu Katha | 18:15 | 28/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (515)
| City: Dubai
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| 'Talking too much' is top job-interview ... |
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| Talking too much is the most common interview mistake that job candidates make,according to 36 percent of recruiters who completed the ninth edition of the quarterly Executive Recruiter Index, released by Korn/Ferry International, the premier global provider of executive search, outsourced recruiting andleadership development solutions. Other commo...
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| Prithviraj H... | 22:27 | 10/May/2006 |
| Friends: (173)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
| Interests: Cricket and news
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| Gag, gag, gag! |
| What's with the BCCI?Virender Sehwag says he misses Ganguly, says the Indian team plays too much cricket, he is gagged. The BCCI warns him not to speak on such issues.Sachin Tendulkar has his first net in months. The media is not invited. When they land up they are asked to shoot for afar.So TV has a sideways angle of Sachin playing a few shots. So...
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| Rajesh iyer | 21:07 | 12/Feb/2006 |
| Friends: (119)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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| Prayer 2006 |
| Oh God Almighty!!May my password get acceptedAnd my explorer get connectedHelp me upload my data foreverNot let a hanged out serverKeep my floppies working in their driveGive me place to back up hard driveHelp send my emails fasterShield me from virus disasterScan my folders without failAnd filter out all junk mailGive my entire download a surgeSto...
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| velagapudi k... | 20:07 | 31/Mar/2006 |
| Friends: (8)
| City: detroit, u.s.a
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| Destiny ....or.... Journey |
| There are two aspects which are closely related Final Destiny and the Journey. Simply in my words........An aspiration has to go through some similar path like this....(Generally)Dreaming/Aiming Big/Small Good/BadThinking logically/illogically -- or -- Strategic/Blindly --- Passionately/MildlyMaking Efforts effectively/ineffectively ---OR --- Consi...
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| Siddharth Sa... | 02:01 | 19/May/2006 |
| Friends: (42)
| City: Chicago
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| HIV Aids... Important Information... |
| Dear All, Kindly take a couple of minutes to go through this mail. This happened in Paris recently and may happen anywhere. A few weeks ago, in a film theatre, a person felt something poking from her seat. When she got up to see what it was, she found a needle sticking out of the seat with an attached note saying- "You have just been infected by ...
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