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 14:49 | 1/Jul/2008 |
| Dummy Police | |
| Traffic Police marking roads with maximum speed limit and using cameras and other equipment to apprehend speeding motorists is common in other parts of the world, and even in nearby gulf states. However, back here in Mumbai the Traffic police are warming up to this old idea. Wonder whether it is due to paucity of manpower or equipments, they came u...
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| 14:46 | 1/Jul/2008 |
| Ecofriendly Tenmala | |
| During my last visit to Kerala we went to the ecofriendly Tenmala. This hill resort is managed by the KTDC and is by far quite neat and clean, hilly, with a lake and ample greenery. Tenmala is about 70 kms from Trivandrum, and also accessible from other parts of Kerala and Tamilnadu. We went on a long trek around a natural deer park.There is also f...
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| 16:20 | 18/Jan/2007 |
| Unique ways to propitiate the Gods | |
| Down South, our Gods are offered, amoung other things, 'Vada Mala', or garland of Medu Vadas, which may sound unique. Sometimes, they are smeared with white butter. Most of them are offered sliced banana with sugar, or payasam made out of jaggery with a dash of scraped coconuts, or even sauted rice powder with sugar and coconuts pieces. Up North l...
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| 15:51 | 18/Jan/2007 |
| Legal or illegal? | |
| Recent press reports regarding one of the Judges of the Gujarat High Court bashing up his colleague is not only sad, but does not auger well. Sometime ago another report stated how two Judges of the lower court had one two many, and bashed up each other at a party. Such news items erode the faith of the common man has in our lofty legal institution...
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| 16:24 | 8/Jan/2007 |
| The Cave of freedom | |
| My cousin, Mr. Radhakrishnan who is an architect by profession, has a written a book entitled the 'Cave of Freedom'. The book deals with materialism Vs. Spiritualism etc. and makes interesting reading for those seeking answers regarding the search into the self etc. The book was written by him in a spark of enthusiasm, but the efforts that he had t...
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| 14:55 | 4/Jan/2007 |
| Breakfast in Kerala | |
| In the North of India, breakfast generally consists of Parathas or Chappatis. But down south, the spread gets varied. In Kerala, you certainly will encounter idli and dosa, but these items apart, you can ask for Parota with egg curry, Puttu, Nool Puttu or Idiappam, Appam, Pathiri, Kozhukatta, and Orotti. Rice flour is an itegral part of the Kerala ...
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| 16:49 | 2/Jan/2007 |
| Bosses | |
| Bosses Bosses are a unique species and come in all shapes, sizes, colours and of course, sex. The female of the species are called ball- breakers. I consider myself a reasonable one though my subordinates find me unpredictable. One of my ex-bosses was an Indian MBA from the U.S. He could never write an ordinary letter. All that he would dictate wa...
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| Rediff Edit | 18:54 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| Farah Khan is funny |
| Just check out the transcript of the Om Shanti Om director's chat with rediff readers. :) Quite a blast. Oh, and are you set for December"s biggest release ?
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| AdityaDas Menon | 19:37 | 26/Jun/2008 |
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| HANDS OF LOVE - PART -20-"TERELIYE" |
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| HANDS OF LOVE - PART - 20 - "TERELIYE"Dedication to : All the readers of my blogs..........., The Majestic performing art - Kathakali“Kamdev,you are the GOD of cores of feelings, and emotions…Can u tell me, among all these, which one is perennial…..?” One day Narada asked his younger brother……… The question prompted Kamadev to think for a while….T...
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