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 Sanjeev Verma | 14:23 | 31/Jul/2007 |
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| City: Delhi
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| Why Style Matters |
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| By Sanjeev Verma A few years ago I put together a style guide gleaned from all that I have learnt and read in a long and abiding affair with English language. Quite a voluminous guide it turned out to be too and, while I didn't particularly want to inflict that guide on you, I thought this sneak preview to what the guide contains might get some of ...
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| Sudipta Sarkar | 02:13 | 25/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (436)
| City: Kolkata
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| Separation and Travel |
| Traveling to distant places is perhaps one of the most exciting things that could happen to me. I enjoy traveling and visiting places. It has always been my dream and I coveted a job that would include travel once in a while. But strange how motherhood changes everything. I have to travel to USA for work, and whenever I have this opportunity, I st...
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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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| Khushi A | 03:06 | 9/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (79)
| City: Michigan
| Interests: Poetry, blog writ...
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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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| kian Artnamus | 19:59 | 24/May/2006 |
| Friends: (27)
| City: Bangalore
| Interests: ETC
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| ETC: What’s the obsession? |
| ETC: What’s the obsession?Three wildly readingly unread bogs and a great hiatus later……this seemingly dreamy early monsoonal evening in bangalore has got me pondering on the ETC.....and these variegated responses that it has managed to invoke (from my fellow bloggers):Are you stupid or am I?What is the eternal obsession with ETC…?Can’t you write ab...
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| charanjeet c... | 13:31 | 5/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (14)
| City: Delhi
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| relationships |
| I believe, it is a very difficult task to build and nurture relationships.It requires lots of patience,love and care,mutual understanding and respect and a loving heart.What do you say?
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| pandharish c... | 15:10 | 2/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (57)
| City: malkapur
| Interests: creative writing,...
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| Real jokes |
| Real jokes These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of keeping a straight face while these exchanges were actually taking place. ATTORNEY: Are you sexually active? WITNESS: No, I just lie there. ___...
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| Tamanna Chau... | 16:58 | 18/May/2006 |
| Friends: (9)
| City: Bhavnagar
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| Success |
| If you want success inLife achieving all the goals youHave set, then simply Do your very best and make sureYou don’t forget… That sometimes youWill be bound to feel life doesn’tSeem worthwhile,And it will then be difficult toEven raise a smile… It’s during these mostTrying times when your spirits areSo low, that you must findHope within your heart ...
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| Sandhya Suri | 17:36 | 29/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (628)
| City: Jaipur
| Interests: Life
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| Asleep on the Road |
| Ironically this post is under the 'Life' category...this is anything but life.I normally say my prayers early morning in transit to work. On my way, last morning, I saw a man, lying dead on the dusty median. He was stiff, still, as only a dead person can be. He had been beaten to death, sometime between the day before and last morning. My heart utt...
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| klaass typog... | 11:06 | 4/Jun/2006 |
| Friends: (5)
| City: Chandigarh
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| RESERVATION- R V FOOLS |
| govt. is thinking of implementing the reservation in higher educational and medical institutes. and we the people, dont have the guts and character to say a word.how about reservation in making money for a single person?how about reservation in the number of houses one person can own?how about a reservation on how many members of a family can ente...
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| Esha Adhikary | 10:36 | 8/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (14)
| City: Bolpur
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| DOCTORS |
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| I live in Kolkata. Can anyone please tell me where I can get the book Doctors by Eric Segal? I have already searched book-shops like OXFORD, CROSSWORDS, but did not get the book. Please help me
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| archana sharma | 12:21 | 7/Mar/2007 |
| Friends: (9)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Makin friends,pai...
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| How safe ur microwave is....! |
| microwave ovens hav become vry popular.Wen there is no time 4 a sit down meal,a microwave seems like a boon.They r handy 4 a quick meal.The oven uses electromagnatic microwave energy to cook or heat food.This causes molecules in d food 2 vibrate,which causes friction.This in turn produces heat,which cooks or warms the food. ...
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| sunil varma | 17:54 | 11/Oct/2006 |
| Friends: (32)
| City: Bangalore
| Interests: Writing
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| The Search |
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| For long time it seemed to me That life is yet to beLife I would Say…..Just ‘round the corner, it layBut for this small, Debt to payThere is no more traverse en-way.Blissful Gloss.. amorous wayBright and Shining, no cold dayLife is like the leafy swayNo more tempests, just the breezy bayLife would begin I would say,Just around the corner it lay,But...
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| betsy christina | 00:31 | 31/May/2006 |
| Friends: (22)
| City: Salem
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| da vinci code |
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| hi, do any 1of u know about the da vinci code if so pleaseshare it with me.i like finding things mainly creepy stuf.i love the way i live my life & do love to get to know about others.it's great to always have a good no. of friends to whome we can share our thoughts.keep going never giveup friends make life the way you want it to be.stop woring & ...
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| DrVertika ku... | 15:37 | 14/Oct/2006 |
| Friends: (46)
| City: sidhi
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| naming the new born |
| A BIHARI WAS WORKING IN MUMBAI, AND DID NOT MEET HIS wife for four (4) years while his wife was in Patna ( Bihar). At the end of 4 years he distributed sweets to hiscolleagues in office stating that his wife had delivered a son. His colleagues were quite shocked and they asked how this "Happyevent" happened when he had not seen his wife for four y...
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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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| Lakshmi K | 08:48 | 10/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (54)
| City: Bangalore
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| Your Name |
| Some beautiful...wordings that I got. Would like to share with myRediffIland friends... Just words....Your Name....I wrote your name in the SKY,but the wind blew it.I wrote your name in the SAND,but the waves washed it away.I wrote your name in my HEART.and it will forever stay... - Jessica BladeMe too will complete my 1 year at Iland on 15.04.07.....
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| Divya Sharma | 21:14 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (177)
| City: Ghaziabad n now Bangalore
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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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| Ajitha Nair | 14:00 | 12/May/2006 |
| Friends: (25)
| Interests: reading
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| Mother |
| Once upon a time, there lived two sparrows-Bonny and the gorgeous Linny.They were in love. Love flourished and Linny got towards expecting with one egg.Once there was a storm, heavy .Bonny was stuck while out collecting food. Linny sheltered herself in their nest with worried searches. Bonny lost the food he was carrying.he did not want to return w...
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| febin joy | 19:58 | 8/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (381)
| City: Cochin
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| Reading between lines |
| Hi..... As it was a holiday... I was in my usual Saturday syndrome... (Sleeping) Later tried reading for a while and then the idea of this frame flashed my mind... Hope u guys will like it... :) febs
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| Lesliey Tripaty | 06:26 | 12/Dec/2006 |
| Friends: (159)
| City: Bhubaneshwar
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| WELL DIS IS A CLIP OF INTERVIEW OF MINE FEATURED IN AN ORIYA MAGAZINE
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| Mahe R | 02:22 | 25/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (49)
| City: Hyderabad
| Interests: INDIA-politics , ...
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| Jai Jai Communists of India |
| Its been a long while since my last appearance on the Iland space, though unintentional.I could not resist, when I came across this piece of news that said : " five out of 17 nuclear power plants have been shut down for want of fuel", but say Jai Communism. Long live Communist party of India ( M), Communist party of India(a), Communist party of Ind...
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| Param Sites | 00:06 | 9/Jun/2006 |
| Friends: (19)
| City: Chandigarh
| Interests: MUSIC IS PARAM & ...
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| HOLOCAUST ..........the inhuman tale of ... |
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| Holocaustby Barbara SonekWe played, we laughedwe were loved.We were ripped from the arms of ourparents and thrown into the fire.We were nothing more than children.We had a future. We were going to be lawyers, rabbis, wives, teachers, mothers. We had dreams, then we had no hope. We were taken away in the dead of night like cattle in cars, no air to ...
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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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