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HERE’S WISHING ALL YOU FABULOUS ILANDERS A GREAT GREAT 2009… MAY THE LORD SHOWER YOU WITH ENDLESS JOY….MAY YOU ENJOY THE BEST OF HEALTH AND PROSPERITY…IN 2009 AND ALL THE YEARS TO COME…TED…

1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATRE: Kung Fu Panda. I am an animation movie buff. And now I am waiting for Madagascar II.2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?The Gods and Godmen of India…3.FAVOURITE BOARD GAME?Table Tennis if I can consider that a board game.4.FAVOURITE MAGAZINE?I do follow a few.. but for now let [...]

I wrote this during my college days in B’lore, when, sometimes living alone in a hostel, away from your loved ones, was extremely difficult. I stubmled upon this piece while rummaging through some old stuff. Hope you all like it. When I heard the “Taare Zameen Pe” song I remembered this piece.Thak gaya hoon zindagi ki [...]

Raju  :   “Abey Panda.. Rasgullaa”!   (Hey Panda.. “Rasgullaa”) Panda  :  “Muh mey hai be”! (I have them in my mouth) Rourkela had always been a cosmopolitan town; pardon me for using this word more in a national sense than international. Probably you wont associate cosmopolitanism with an Indian town, it has always been more of a “city” [...]

Reading VT’s latest blog reminded me of this incident. The Rex movie theater on Brigade road in Bangalore. A bunch of college lads rush through the gates, eager to occupy their seats. I was one among them. It doesn’t take us much time to settle down, after the usual yelling (at the top of our lungs), [...]

Pardon the gestation period for my blogs. They may soon beat the elephant at its own game. Well, continuing from where I left last time… Around 4:00pm in the afternoon, I got in touch with Maddy, to check if our date was still on. He confirmed a time between 5:00 and 5:15pm. Raghu (Maddy’s younger brother) [...]

Here comes a lot of LUV and a BIG BEAR HUG  to all my dear iLand Friends. For the past couple of months, I have been totally inactive on the iLand, from a contribution point. I am aware that quite a few missed me  and for some it was good probably riddance  but I am back again . Blame my absence on [...]

Hello iLanders…I am in Chennai on a Biz visit 26-28 Feb…staying at Park Sheraton…Pls let me know if anyone of you would have the spare time and patience to meet up with this friendly Bear.TED

Poetry, some say, is often created in moments of inspiration. Probably true. Here, I just wanted to talk on the interpretation of poems. I think, as readers, we often interpret a poem in various ways, sometimes not even remotely close to the original inspiration. Starting from my days at school, when teacher’s used to hammer their interpretation of the  poet’s [...]

Hey folks..i was rushed to Zurich on short notice..to catch an important workshop..and I did not complain..I was booked on to the train between Geneve and Zurich..the scenary was nothing but breathtaking..i am uploading some pics which include the wayside scenary along with pics of the Alps, the towns of Lausanne and Bern (capital of [...]