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 21:10 | 5/Oct/2008
Mumbai...Shanghai or Goodbye!
 Quite a thoughtful article. The nerve centres of world markets are likely to be more distributed and interconnected now By Praveen Suthrum Two weeks ago, at my B-school’s alumni party, I ran into a New Yorker who has moved to Mumbai. When I asked him why he chose Mumbai, he said, “Well, the word on Wall Street is Mumbai, Dubai, Shanghai or goodbye... more...
 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007
The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution
Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a... more...
 13:48 | 23/Sep/2007
Exotic French Cuisine
Ratatouille French pronunciation: [ʁata'tuj] is a traditional French Provençal stewed vegetable dish, originating in County of Nice. The full name of the dish is ratatouille niçoise.Ratatouille is a 2007 animated feature film produced by Pixar and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures. It tells the story of Rémy, a rat living in Paris who wants ... more...
 16:05 | 23/Jul/2007
Banking: Have You Been Cheated?
Banking Ombudsman SchemeThe modern use of the term began in Sweden, with the Swedish Parliamentary Ombudsman instituted in 1809, to safeguard the rights of citizens by establishing a supervisory agency independent of the executive branch. For Banking complaints and related help please contact The Reserve Bank of India:http://www.bankingombudsman.rb... more...
 12:20 | 16/Jul/2007
Socrates 470-399 BC
Socrates born May 20th 470–399 BC was an ancient Greek philosopher who is widely credited for laying the foundation for Western philosophy.Perhaps his most important contribution to Western thought is his dialectic method of inquiry, known as the Socratic Method or method of elenchos, which he largely applied to the examination of key moral concept... more...
 14:18 | 22/Jun/2007
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates 1991
The two were together on the cover of Fortune Magazine in August 1991, as seen here in a copy on display in the Microsoft Visitor Center museum. Credits: Ina Fried, CNET more...
 14:42 | 15/Jun/2007
The Star-Spangled Banner
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the U.S.A., with lyrics written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key. Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote them as a poem after seeing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland, by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812.The poem, titled "Defence of Fort McHenry,"... more...
 17:40 | 2/Jun/2007
A Quote by Frank Outlaw
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." more...
 13:20 | 31/May/2007
From euphony to a noise
Commentary by Fuzail Jafferey, 1997There is nothing new about the controversy over the use of microphones for giving the azaan, or the Muslims's call to prayer. Time and again, people in different parts of India, have objected to the use of microphones for azaan. But most state governments have evaded taking a stand on the issue, not wanting to dis... more...
 16:26 | 21/May/2007
Management by Design
Richard FarsonWhy designers need to become leaders, and leaders need to become designers.Have you ever noticed the difference between a meeting held at a long rectangular table and one held at a round table? The time spent, the agenda, and the participants may be exactly the same, but the meetings are completely different. The discussion at the rou... more...
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 vira | 08:29 | 4/Oct/2008
Friends: (1669)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: music,photography...
  Kali Pooja in BengalThe much celebrated Kali Pooja of West Bengal coincides with the Diwali Festival. Gusto and enthusiasm for Kali Puja in West Bengal is same as seen for Diwali in rest of India. The only apparent difference one can see is that while rest of India worships Goddess Lakshmi on this day, in West Bengal Goddess Kali is the chief dei...  more...
 Nitin Nawar | 12:58 | 15/Dec/2007
Friends: (59)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Loves to travel.....
"You Can Call It Gratitude"-- by Sudha M...
 There are two photographs that hang on my office wall. Everyday when I enter my office, I look at them before starting my day. They are pictures of two old people. One is of a gentleman in a blue suit and the other is a black and white image of a man with dreamy eyes and a white beard.People have often asked me if the people in the photographs are...  more...
 Noanee Kapadia | 09:30 | 25/Sep/2008
Friends: (572)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Indian Army,Himal...
Looking towards EAST
Brought up by Jack and Jill in the Queens English ,we always are looking West ward ,world history to us is always that of Europe and US.  a bit about Hiroshima to end it finally.I in Hanoi  in Vietnam ,little wiser than about the country than earlier ,about it;s history in short is that they were under Chinese for thousand years ,and they fought on...  more...
 gizmer boy | 03:42 | 11/Sep/2007
Friends: (11)  | City: Vellore  | Interests: look for gizmos a...
skype worms
Skype users are comng for some bad times from a new worm which spreads through the peer-to-peer Internet phone application's chat feature. This attack starts when the user receives an instant msg having a link from someone in their contact list or some unknown Skype user  more...
 Alok Ranjan ... | 15:24 | 31/Dec/2007
Friends: (541)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: News Reporting,Ma...
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008
Dear Rediffland Bloggers   BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008. ALOK RANJAN PRADHAN.  more...
 ARUN JOSHI | 10:01 | 17/Sep/2008
Friends: (333)  | City: KOTA  | Interests: Reading,watching ...
मोहम्ë...
अबुजा। नाइजीरिय ;ा में पुलिस ने एक मुस्लिम उपदेशक को निकाह स...  more...
 siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (562)  | City: OUTER SPACE  | Interests: travelling into t...
A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE
Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...  more...
 Pramathesh G... | 14:14 | 27/Sep/2007
Friends: (106)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music~~Movies~~Na...
Clever Lady
A woman and a man are involved ina car accident. It's a bad one. Both oftheir cars are totally demolished butamazingly neither of them are hurt.After they crawl out of their cars, the woman says, "So you're a man,that's interesting. I'm a woman. Wow, just look at our cars! There'snothing left but fortunately we are unhurt. This must be a sign fromG...  more...
 Ramesh Singh | 12:13 | 1/Jan/2008
Friends: (185)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: Writing, Music, M...
NEW YEAR RESOLUTION
Welcome 2008..another year passed by and if you look back u recall the 1st of Jan'07, that too was a new year ...you made resolutions that u remembered till the very first month of year and as the time went by your commitment to your resolution weakened ... and then it vanished from your memory bank. yet another day has arrived to make resolutions ...  more...
 DrHarmeet Singh | 10:38 | 4/Oct/2008
Friends: (1420)  | City: Birmingham  | Interests: Having a good laugh
China Joking
Fed up with an almost constant diet of bad news about quality and safety problems, some Chinese are taking out their frustrations with biting jokes on the internet about the seemingly never-ending scandals.In the latest health scare, thousands of Chinese babies have fallen ill and three have died after drinking contaminated milk formula, prompting ...  more...
 Somnath Das | 18:27 | 28/Jun/2008
Friends: (273)  | City: Ranaghat  | Interests: TEACHING, READING...
Online Form Filling Job
 "Online Form Filling Job" Earn Rs.10- Rs.30/Form Filling! Would you like to be your own boss and work directly from home? What if I told you that I have a system that runs virtually on autopilot where you could Make RS.250-RS.500+ per day working only 60 minutes?. Sound to good to be true? No experience or special skills are required! All you wil...  more...
 Current Boll... | 18:20 | 24/Apr/2008
Friends: (437)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: blogging,making f...
How Kareena Kapoor toiled for 'Tashan'!
For the first time in her acting career Kareena Kapoor had to train for eight to nine months for her role in a movie.And that movie is Yashraj Films presentation Tashan which is set to hit the theatres on coming Friday.The film has Kareena in a full-on action role for the first time. Before the shooting began, producer Aditya Chopra , director Vija...  more...
 Abhiroop Bha... | 07:12 | 21/Sep/2008
Friends: (201)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: computer,internet...
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            ROCK ON        A GENRAL BLOG ,TALKS ABOUT MAKING MONEY                  TECH REVIEW        A TECH BLOG,ALSO GIVES SOFTWARE,AND HARDWARE ENFORMATION                  BLOGGING BIBLE        A BLOG ABOUT BLOGGING,TIPS TO MAKE A BETTER BLOG                  MAKE MONEY ON WEB        A MONEY MAKING BLOG                  GARDENING        A BLOG...  more...
 Make Money | 22:39 | 25/Aug/2008
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Work at Home Data Entry
Online data entry is an excellent career to consider if you want to work at home. The equipment needed for this type of job is very minimal. You only need a computer with an Internet connection, a table and a comfortable chair. Data entry duties include the inputting of correspondence, reports, and spreadsheets into a home computer and then transmi...  more...
 Insignifican... | 19:23 | 16/Sep/2008
Friends: (459)  | City: Chengdu  | Interests: We wish & aspire ...
DOG LOGIC
Even if u dont go along good with DOG's ; u'd like the wordings (So dont forget to read them) DOG LOGIC    The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.- Anonymous      There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.- Ben Williams    A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more t...  more...
 Dwaipayan Adhya | 17:12 | 30/Sep/2008
Friends: (96)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: I tread the water...
The 'NATA MANO' Project
Talk about Durga Pujo themes... here we are with the plaster of paris replica of the Tata Nano being assembled at the Santosh Mitra Square Puja Pandel, taking the industry debate to the masses? Avoiding any controversies. Photo Courtesy: The Telegraph  more...
 Lissome Lady | 20:44 | 2/Oct/2008
Friends: (308)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Life, people, lit...
AN OVERLOAD OF JUSTICE, A DEARTH OF COMP...
In our world it appears that, if the end is moral idealism every means is justified. Thus violence, wars, anger, hate – all negatives that are independently seen as ‘evils’, become armed like glorious soldiers when the  fight is  for a perceived positive like religion, democracy, outraged morality, honour, izzat, citizenry, culture, language, decen...  more...
 Srikant Sree... | 16:10 | 17/Sep/2008
Friends: (22)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Technology, Scien...
wikiCalc: A Web 2.0 Spreadsheet
I came across Dan Bricklin’s new wikiCalc – a wiki based online spreadsheet. For those who don’t know their computing history, Dan Bricklin was one of the original authors of VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program. VisiCalc is often credited to be the single software application that turned the microcomputer from a hobbyist tool to a tool ...  more...
 Kumar Rahul | 16:55 | 5/Oct/2008
Friends: (659)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Eat healthy, Thin...
'The Open-Book Experience'
Books V3 ‘The Open-Book Experience - Lessons from over 100 companies who successfully transformed themselves’ John CasePerseus Books; Amazon [A] Open-Book management is a new approach to management – the term being coined by the author John Case who is an author of 4 business books including Open-Book Management: the coming business revolution. The...  more...
 Arul Selvan | 09:17 | 8/Jul/2007
Friends: (56)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: news,photography,...
interacting
I want to share ideas with friends and thus improve knowledges.  more...
 amar snh | 07:48 | 24/Sep/2008
Friends: (1245)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: travelling, makin...
TaggedIts not exactly my cup of tea still am going through it! give it a try, man!!!1. LAST MOVIE YOU SAW IN A THEATER??Will have to ask my partner as it was quite a while ago2. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING?Book of my life. as I read more pages more are left unread3. FAVOURITE BOARD GAME?Latin to me4. FAVOURITE MAGAZINE?None since the time internet ha...  more...
 Mission Drea... | 12:46 | 24/Jul/2008
Friends: (323)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: http://openmedia....
Private Banks ki naak mein nakel
A Letter to Reserve Bank of IndiaDear Sir / Ma'am, This is to request your kind attention towards my complaint no. 2801 lodged with The Banking Ombudsman during the financial year 2006-07, against ICICI Bank. The complaint was closed neither with a resolution nor a consent from me. But I have not closed the complaint. I had been regularly following...  more...
 greengrass | 01:23 | 2/Oct/2008
Friends: (549)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Swimming, Dance, ...
Eid Mubarak - I didn’t know I was a musl...
From www.manakkudiyan.com:    Eid Mubarak - I didn’t know I was a muslim… Every morning is a special morning for me. That morning was even more special. I was getting ready for work when Sudipthaa, my daughter, came running to me and said, “ Appa, it is a holiday for us. Don’t you have holiday today?” I told her that it was not holiday for me and g...  more...
 tanmay bhargava | 13:12 | 24/Jun/2007
Friends: (49)  | City: Agra  | Interests: recently blogging
“______________________________________________________ _______________”This is how my mind works when I have to answer this question…Ive never figured out what the answer should be, even though this question has been hurled at me X no of times…but never while working out at the gym.  “ Why do you love me BD…tell me na baby??” she asked again..“Why…...  more...
 urja bari | 11:34 | 27/Jun/2007
Friends: (23)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Laptops. I am alw...
New technology has really helped me find...
I gonna make you all really jealous with my new PC. My quest for new technology has really helped me find my dream PC. It all started with need of new graphic card to enable me to play latest games and  for 3D animation work. I have done lot of research and always wanted to have latest and best technology. Then I  heard about water cooling system f...  more...
 Aditya Chandok | 10:36 | 16/Apr/2008
Friends: (39)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Gaming
tokyo drift  more...
 ajit balakri... | 03:53 | 21/Aug/2008
Friends: (48)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: People, history, ...
"Rani Comes Safe Out of the Ruins"
One of the pleasanter outcomes of the ongoing newspaper wars in Bombay triggerered off by the launch of Hindustan Times, Bombay Edition and DNA has been the dramatic flight to quality of all including the incumbent, Times Of India. "The Mumbai Mirror" is a something  the Times now distributes free with the main paper and good , hard, well reported ...  more...
 Tinky Toinkers | 21:49 | 25/Oct/2006
Friends: (74)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: I am Jack. All wo...
Colours and light, joy to the spirit, heart of life..  more...
 Zaki Ansari | 13:43 | 13/Sep/2005
Friends: (1)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Jazz, Media, Scie...
Analogy is the key
People take a shot of midday coffee. Ashok takes a puzzle.A few days ago he called: “Zaki, if you are going to lock your documents in a box with a padlock and get a boy to take it to your lawyer, how will he open it if you never send the key?”The answer is quite interesting...The lawyer puts his own padlock on top of your padlock, retains his key, ...  more...
 blossom menezes | 15:58 | 6/Feb/2006
Friends: (33)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading
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 Uday Sodhi | 13:29 | 23/Jun/2008
Friends: (259)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Internet, Travel,...
Lonely on an island....
Once upon a time, a man decided to vacation on a cruise shipin the Caribbean. It was wonderful--the experience of his life! He was waited upon hand and foot. But, alas, it didnot last. A hurricane came up suddenly and the ship wentdown. The man found himself, he knew not how, swept up on the shore of an island. There was nothing else anywhere...  more...
 Mahesh Patwa... | 13:00 | 29/Jun/2008
Friends: (234)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: film, photography...
Euro fever
How much does the game actually capture the imagination of our public? Apart from pockets in the country, like Kolkatta and Kerala, does it really fire up people in other parts of the nation? You can see kids kicking a football around with great enthusiasm but does it really equal the maniacal craze that the game of cricket generates? No.. but stil...  more...
 jeevanandan ... | 11:57 | 31/Jul/2008
Friends: (16)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Social computing,...
Jake: Do u have a book called 'Man, The Master of Women'? Salesgirl: The fiction deptt is on the other side, Sir.  more...
 Rakshita Verma | 13:48 | 5/Oct/2008
Friends: (714)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: jokes, poetry, pu...
Unsaid...
 Somethings are best unsaid. (So I thought of writing them down.) Unsaid is the attraction, our awareness of each other. I wouldn’t term it sexual already. But there is something I do not understand. We react the same way. Look… look away. Turn your gaze. Turn again to check. Is it a game… or is it something way beyond? Trying to look… but never ho...  more...
 Amit Agrawal | 03:15 | 13/Aug/2008
Friends: (299)  | City: New Delhi  | Interests: hayaa aur hayaat
success in life
Get a good educationget a good job change to a better job ----do we really understand why job is being done for money most of the time and more often than not we are probably not looking at ways to get rid of money-dependence and its impact on our time pressures? Thoughts/Comments?  more...
 ratna rajaiah | 20:48 | 28/Aug/2008
Friends: (426)  | Interests: reading, writing,...
A Butterfly in Waiting
Night I lie softly curled In my mosquito-net cocoonWatchingThe shaman-witch windWeaving a shadow playWith the light from the street lampAnd the leaves of the parijata treeOn my soft cobwebbed walls It’s an enthralling taleSung, not told In voices that only I hearOf how it will be To have gaily painted wingsTo flit and floatAnd sip fromFlowersMore g...  more...
 Salil Chandra | 16:27 | 15/Feb/2006
Friends: (11)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music, cars
MBA in the US
Coming to AmericaIf you’re reading this either you’re a fresh graduate looking to enhance your body of knowledge or a seasoned professional looking to enhance his prospects. Either way deciding to study abroad is a huge step. A step that requires strong mental, emotional and financial commitment.Studying Abroad:Where to begin?First make an honest a...  more...
 jasmeet singh | 09:49 | 12/Jun/2008
Friends: (37)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: swimming, wrting
Re_locate
Dream, reality...nightmare? The grime under his chipped fingernail is inky black as he points in the direction he wants me to take. "Sirji aap gol chakar se dahiney haath mud jao, phir ring road se outer ring road ko ho lena...bas." He has a belly that I can rest my breakfast tray on, a handlebar moustache that coils funnily at the tips and a dark ...  more...
 Prem Panicker | 10:49 | 7/Jun/2007
Friends: (75)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Cricket, Books, M...
Transition
While Ruchir maintains the daily updates, am working on migrating him, and other colleagues on this blog, to the new site. Will take a week, tops. In the meantime, Ruchir, Manish and others will be found here; I meanwhile have as of today begun posting, on cricket and all else, here .  more...
 monu g | 22:10 | 31/Aug/2008
Friends: (199)  | City: This Heavenly Planet  | Interests: To Live Life To I...
A NIGHT TO REMEMBER...
Have u ever thought about the most memorable moments of Ur Life??? Have u ever thought what makes them so special and close to Ur heart?? It’s usually the FIRST time u feel or find something U’ve never felt or found before… And what IF something soooooooooo hilarious makes it even more memorable………. Hehehehehehehe…. There was this lovely couple who...  more...
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