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Celebrating Indira Gandhi’s birthday

Today is late Smt. Indira Gandhi’s 94th birthday. I come to know this through a news item displayed on google news. The news item also carries Indira Gandhi’s black and white portrait, with pallu of her printed saree covering her head. This reminded me of our childhood association with her.  
When we were in school, my [...]


Happy Rakhi

Days It means a lot!    Someone sent me this message: “I am Rakhee how you you?” (her name changed :). I thought there was some grammatical error! Now I know there was none! And I am loving it, when I say:  I have 7 Rakhees, how are you? :)  From the childhood, the more number of [...]


Happy Father’s Day!

DaysSmoking desires…   In offices, working for long hours without a break becomes boring. And that we were allowed to have tea and coffee in our cubicles, it didn’t feel good to have group-tea sessions four times a day. So we, the office colleagues started looking at our rescuers: the smokers :) Only one of us [...]


Happy Women’s Day

Days Today is International Women’s Day. To mark the occasion, here are some very relevant writings by some of my favourite writers on Rediff Ilanders, (not in any particular order):  The woman in your life, Ideal Indian Woman, The Second Sex, BETIYAN, BETI, Woman,


30 January

  We remember the immortal Mahatma.


Pic-Blog 2

Today is Children’s Day! This picture remains one of my favourites. Because it shows one element of childhood that matters most: “Hope“