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Journal : Jan 01, 2012 : 9.00 AM : Digest & Movie Review
Woke up to some warmth in the morning. It was warmer than had been over the past some days. But then it rained at places and the sky remained overcast. There were friends of the younger son who had...
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Journal : May 03, 2012 : Guru Teg Bahadur
There is much work in queue to occupy. But the one least happy and most needed is to reach the elusive reader of a work as wayward as Kalinjar Fort. It keeps you stuck to something that’s past. It’s no...
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When Kalkaji Temple was demolished … in 1667 !
3 September 1667 Emperor Aurangzeb issued a decree for demolishing the Kalka Temple, dedicated to the Mother Goddess. It’s what he wrote that is revealing of a senselessness that continues till date...
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Journal : June 05, 2012
People believe what THEY want to believe… not what science says. Call them modern, post modern… whatever. In fact, I find all such divides as polemic and fake. It makes no difference, for instance, to...
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Journal : The Indian Media Is A Bitch
How the Media is a Public Relations bitch ? http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/getimage.dll?path=CAP/2012/08/20/1/Img/Pg001.png It takes 20% of print area on Frontpage @timesofindia of this day...
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Journal : My Recent Musings
How exactly do you specify that ? Being Human, that is… Put aside the biologist telling you of your classification or the scientist detailing the features… What exactly tells that you are a human...
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Journal : Musings
There’s nothing special about today. It just indelibly seems so, and that has my whole-hearted support. #Govts need to acknowledge that allowing speculation is inflationery … a -ve in terms of public...
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Journal : The River Sarasvati And Its People
Part I : The Saga Of The Quest http://www.slideshare.net/jannap/vedic-river-sarasvati The Saga of the Quest for the River Sarasvati : M.A. Jayashree, M.A. Narasimhan and Haribhau Vaze There has been...
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Journal : Musings
The year rolls in anew … There is a countenance in my view when I write … it is always sad and hopeful, looking intently at me. I am wagering the rest of my lifetime to see her one day skipping on the...
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Journal : Indians in North-East
The festering wounds of #NorthEast … You can be skeptical, dismiss it with disbelief, ignore it with a shrug or pass on with a sense of helplessness … nothing will make the burn in people’s hearts go...
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Journal : Thoughts In Homage …
This day completes 150th year of Swami Vivekananda‘s advent – the Vedanta incarnate. There isn’t much I have to say that isn’t already available online. I feel less of fervour than the light I merged...
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Journal : Alternate History
The British called its battles of 1857 in the Indian sub-continent, waged by native people, as “Sepoy Mutiny” or terms as dismissive, more or less : rebellion, revolt, uprising or subaltern war ( by...
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Journal : June 20, 2013
It’s a depressing morning. The colossal calamity due Nature’s fury in Uttarakhand is heart wrenching and the global despair I read in outpourings of minds aware dumps me in darkness. In the celestial...
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Paan, My Love
Ha – ah – ha … love them both : the man and the outlet ! No one can make a great paan except with love. Shot in winter time, rather dark evening. There is a queue, if did not notice. Ah, Paan, my love...
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New India : Happy India
On the eve of Independence Day — 2014… The daily I read is a Congress Party mouthpiece, spiritedly in opposition to the ruling National Democratic Alliance. However, going through it today left me...
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Journal : Weather, Labour, Capital…India
It was cool yesterday, the air comfortably crisp. I shut off the bedside fan but did not opt for the thin cover resting on the backrest of foldable chair. In the morning, even the overhead fan was...
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Muse Betwixt The Extremes
It was one of the most beautiful of mornings : breeze on the other side of the glass wall, cozily warmed of sun obliquely on the back, and bright ambience cool through the innerwear and a half-sleeve...
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