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| Modern-day corporate slavery. | |
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| Several major Indian corporations, even those that claim to be very patriotic, use corporate bonds to retain employees. A corporate bond is nothing but a different name given to 'bonded labour'. This is very similar to the indentured labour used by the British government to employ workers in plantations around the world several decades ago.Enginee...
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| 01:49 | 28/Aug/2006 |
| Dowry - A thing for Spineless Men | |
| Dowry is an ancient practice in India where a Bride's family pays (money, jewels, house hold items....) the Groom's family when they get married. It was all started by the rich to display their wealth, and it slowly caught on to every part of the society to the point where every guy started demanding it, shamelessly. It varies from state-to-state ...
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| 04:19 | 27/Jul/2006 |
| Vaasthu Shastra - The Height of Stupidit... | |
| Vassthu Shastra or Vaasthu is the Indian equivalent of Feng Shui where one believes that certain arrangements in a building or a house can bring in "positive Energy" which in turn brings wealth or good luck..... A similar system was used in the ancient days for designing houses mainly to allow proper natural lighting and ventilation, as there wa...
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| ravi kumar | 18:57 | 31/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (7)
| City: Hyderabad
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| Great Women |
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| Friends......Today i am Remembering a great lady once again.Kalpana Chawla: (7 March 1962 – 1 February 2003), was an Indian-born American astronaut and space shuttle mission specialist. She was one of seven crewmembers lost aboard Space Shuttle Columbia during mission STS-107 when the shuttle disintegrated upon reentry into the Earth's atmosphere. ...
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| Anil Goel | 12:28 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| Can Maruti make car bombs? |
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| Brainstorming exercise for fiction writers.Can someone stop Maruti Udyog if they decide to manufacture car bombs? Here's the thought... We go through security checks at airport or at important places where too technology and people are able to scan us for 'known' threats...in most cases electronic items are usual suspects as are metallic devices an...
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| anjeneyan a | 13:57 | 10/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (61)
| City: Mumbai
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| The silent treatement and others. |
| A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment. Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM...
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| Ramesh | 23:09 | 19/Jun/2007 |
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| BestOfIndya |
| Here I am going to write about Features, Roadmap and other documentation related to my site http://www.bestofindya.com.Currently I have published couple of announcements at http://bestofindya.blogspot.com/. From now on I will regularly update information here. Until them checkout what people are saying about BestOfIndyaDesiBaba's Blogging with Desi...
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| News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (946)
| City: Chandigarh
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| SantaSingh got his promotion and became principal in colledge. To keep up with his status, he decided tospeak only in English to all his juniors. One morning, his peon peeped through the doorto see if his principal was busy. Santa Singh noticed him and shouted, 'Why areyou outstanding! Please in...
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| meena sundar | 23:15 | 3/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (508)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: Life
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| Current … Wind….Life !? |
| Every time a word is utteredIt creates a specific meaning! Life is a boat, it swaysBecause of current- current due to wind. Current moves along with the Wind’s direction.That is the nature of current. We also move with the words of airLike the boat. Surviving everything…That ...
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| Tinkerbell | 14:49 | 5/Dec/2007 |
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| Ay ay ay... ay ay mi amor |
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| Antonio Banderas sings the famous Mariachi song from the movie Desperado! Need I say more? ;) Smoking hot AB and Salma Hayek and the music it takes you to Latin land straight away! Note: Translation on the left of each line! Antonio croons with the Los Lobos band of La bamba fame! Soy un hombre muy honrado -I’m an honest manQue me gusta lo major … ...
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| Ramesh | 18:11 | 10/Jul/2007 |
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| Mysterious Smuggler! |
| Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle.He's got two large bags over his shoulders.The guard stops him and says,"What's in the bags?""Sand," answers Juan.The guard says, "We'll just see about that ~get off the bike."The guard takes the bags and rips them apart;he empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.He detains Juan overnig...
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| Ranjan Sengupta | 15:25 | 24/May/2007 |
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| Physics and Music |
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| Can we define music? Most of us may agree that it is bourn by a time series, jointly or independently, of amplitude, frequency and complexity, three fundamental well-known parameters used in physics. This time series is the objective reality, or the fictional reality of physics. But obviously all such time series pertaining to auditory sensation ar...
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| Misty Bella | 16:26 | 23/Nov/2007 |
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| Jab We Met |
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| Jab We Met Never in my entire life had I felt such a strong urge to get away by myself somewhere, anywhere, far from the daily grind. I realized that I badly needed a break if I were to be able to function normally without the bitterness and the grouses. Something else that had been brewing up for a while, suddenly failed to materialize, and I felt...
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| P Nayak | 15:37 | 20/Jun/2007 |
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| Wanderings of my mind |
| Today I read an interesting peice in TOI. The writer says we begin by blaming the others for any problems. i.e. "You" are responsible. Then as we grow spiritually we start saying "I" am responsible and as we evolve we say "No one is to blame" ! Interesting, right? I am sure it must be right, there must be a deeper meaning of the self, ego et al. My...
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| friendly ghost | 10:19 | 10/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (327)
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| Stop Credit Cards & Consumer Loans |
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| Stop Credit Cards & Consumer LoansToday, we have an affluent economy, with only a small fraction of our economies' output devoted to basic needs. Environmentalists say that we are reaching the limits of growth due to ecological constraints. Here in our cities, we have not only reached the limits of human needs but overshot them many times over. Wha...
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| Anitha kaveri | 13:34 | 23/Sep/2007 |
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| MY WISHESIf I could have my wishesAnd if wishes did come trueI would ask for nothing elseBut to see a genuine smileWhich would make my heart soar If I could have my wishesAnd if wishes did come trueI would ask for just a dayWhere love would not just beMerely Bits and BytesAnd signals that threaten to break away If I could have my wishesAnd if wishe...
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| angel a | 16:09 | 15/Nov/2007 |
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| Celebrating Children’s Day! |
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| While coming back from an official trip a few days back, my driver stopped the car for a cup of tea in one of the small dhabas that spring up like mushrooms on the highways. As soon as I settled down on a chair close to the window and ordered tea, I noticed a small boy of about 8 years old, bubbling with energy running errands, taking orders, servi...
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| Mari Vin | 12:20 | 17/Jul/2007 |
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| ECLIPSE |
| E C L I P S E This to my 50 friends … ’ THANK YOU ‘ Thanks specially to my 30 friends for your comments on my posts… Thanks in particular to my faithful friends who commented in appreciation on all my posts from the beginning till the end. E .P, E B...
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| Reshma Thakkar | 20:33 | 1/Dec/2007 |
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| HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS |
| Happiness and success are two concepts intertwined with one another. These are two of the most important ingredients that would eventually define a person’s life. If one would think about it, happiness and success are two things that are relative to a person’s point of view since these are dependent on one’s ideologies. Happiness and success relate...
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| ganesh nadar | 04:36 | 1/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (54)
| City: Panickanadarkudieruppu
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| annual day and temple festival |
| The village temple festival and the school annual day The quarterly exams were over but holidays were not declared. The school had to celebrate its annual day on October 4th. The children would be practicing dance and drama. At least the selected ones, the rest would just laze around and play games.They needed two chief guests for the annual show. ...
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