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| Love...the much talked about term..A stage in a relationship comes when his happiness naturally spills in to become hers, when his sorrow is something she will go the extra mile to lessen, and when her joy becomes his priority too. When they are in a state of 'oneness'- each step, every move and experience being uniquely lived by this 'one' being t...
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| 08:23 | 3/Nov/2007 |
| Abstract | |
| There are times when you feel an irrepressable energy within yourself- to do-so many things- to express yourself- each dream and every urge and thought- uninhibited, not in words but in the form of action.......to be on the drivers seat, perhaps simultaneously, on all the vehicles concerning your life and of the world around you..Just so many plans...
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| 13:56 | 30/Oct/2007 |
| Benefits of Karvachauth | |
| After much thinking and reflecting, the only benefit I can see of observing Karvachauth is as follows-Giving up food for a day by majority of the country's women would go on to save a huge amount of food........and be a substantial help in the foodgrain shortage problem of the country.The Government should make a couple of Karvachauths in a year m...
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| 20:38 | 23/Oct/2007 |
| She didn't think it'd go like that.. | |
| She was strong headed. She was independent. She liked to live life on her own terms. She damn cared about 'what people think'. So when she moved into the new colony, this 27 yr old just loved one thing apart from her boyfriend- her independence. So much that she didn't care to acquaint herself with, leave alone befriend, anyone in the colony. She l...
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| 21:58 | 15/Oct/2007 |
| Alone in the city | |
| When I have a couple of things in my mind that I'd like to write about, I don't get the time to log in. And whilst I'm logged in today, my mind goes blank. But ab yahan tak pahunch gaye hain to kuchh to likhenge hi. Hey friends, Have u ever got the feeling of being, or feeling 'alone' in life? Of having nobody around to talk to, to share things wit...
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| 15:32 | 11/Oct/2007 |
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| If you can keep your head when all about youAre losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt youBut make allowance for their doubting too,If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If ...
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| 10:53 | 30/Sep/2007 |
| Jadoo ki Jhappi to all Indian Muslims | |
| Dear Indian Muslims,I'd like to introduce myself as a Hindu girl born and brought up in India. I belong to the growing educated Indian middle class.I often hear reports and views of people today who look at you as a community that has empathy for, or even support anti-national activity, terrorism or just a cricket match played by Pakistan against I...
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| 10:20 | 12/Sep/2007 |
| Keeping Blog Business Alive | |
| Want to keep the blog business going- not to post my views on a so-and-so topic as much to keep in touch with my fellow ilanders, whose presence in my life i value...what they say about man (and woman) being a social animal..Ok, I give myself 5 minutes to pen something down. Quite pressed on time, like everybody else now-a-days. Sometimes makes me ...
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| nocturnal cr... | 10:03 | 4/Oct/2007 |
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| fast life |
| There are songs that come from the blue-eyed grass,From the dust of a thousand country roads,From footprints in white sand.Aboriginals call it 'songlines'-Mapping steps through the silk route of time.If only, we could pause,And hear the songs around.The one on our shoulder,The one on autumn's last leaf.On monsoon's first rain drop—Riding on a butte...
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| DENSON JOSEPH | 11:26 | 1/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (637)
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| Who killed - BENAZIR BHUTTO ? |
| Could it be the Al Qaida?.... No, I don’t think so. Then who could it be....? I wonder what’s this mess about & why so? Let's not talk about possibilities instead let us analyze a bit & follow the sequence of events - I think the answer is written quite clearly on the wall. The question therefore is who wants to see it ?1. First Prez Musharraf...
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| Shabbir Ahmed | 00:33 | 18/Dec/2007 |
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| BUSS YUNHI |
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| BUSS YUNHI...Dharti ka gum choopane ke liye gagan hota hai, dil ka gum choppane ke liye badan hota hai,Marr ke bhi choopane honge gum, shaayad isliye har laash pe ek kafan hota hai, SHE WALKS She walks in beauty, like the nightOf cloudless clim...
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| harsh tripathi | 23:17 | 31/Dec/2007 |
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| जैसी घटनाएं साल भर घटती रहती हैं उसी समय अगर वो सब उसी तरह से ग...
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| ashok tiwari | 15:11 | 11/Dec/2007 |
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| Morning Dew |
| Dear Islanders, Namaskaar! Bracing for the ensuing New Year, Great. Wish You all a very Happy and vibrant New Year, 2008. Friends , I , distinctly remember my tiny tot days when I used to play in a nearby playground in the morning. The playground was covered with a carpet of lush green grass and had majestic trees all over and a cobbled path surrou...
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| Sanzeev Yadav | 00:01 | 6/Dec/2007 |
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| SHE~~*~~The meaning of my Life |
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| She May be the face I can"t forget The trace of pleasure or regret May be my treasure or the price I have to pay She May be the song that summer sings May be the chill that autumn brings May be a hundred different things Within the measure of a dayShe May be the beauty or the beast May be the famine or the feast May turn each day into a heaven or ...
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| siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| 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...
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| Joseph Antony | 00:17 | 2/Jan/2008 |
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| " LOVE " |
| I Dream of Unrequited Love I search to find the one I lovetwo gentle arms to guide meI seek assurance from abovethat love won't be denied me.For wealth I care not, only lovemy heart will yearn foreverI'll take the blow which seals my fatewhen loving ties we sever.I see no moon up in the skythe night is foreign to mehere is the night we say goodby...
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| DrHarmeet Singh | 20:05 | 22/Dec/2007 |
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| An accidental Lawyer |
| A very successful lawyer parks his brand-new Lexus in front of his office, ready to show it off to his colleagues. As he gets out, a truck passes too closely and completely rips off the door on the driver's side.The lawyer immediately grabs his cell phone, dials 911, and within minutes a policeman pulls up. Before the officer has a chance to ask an...
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| Sumeet Kabra | 15:08 | 26/Aug/2007 |
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| Ask not what your country can do for you... |
| Famous words by a man of grit!Do they apply today to our current situation in India?Yes, in my opinion. I write today because I am deeply grieved by the twin blasts in Hyderabad. It is an abominable act. Dozens dead! :(( Many families disturbed. So many dreams shattered. All innocent. We all condemn it. We are quick to blame our government & intell...
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| Karuna sanghvi | 07:52 | 13/Sep/2007 |
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| Daily Affirmation |
| Daily Affirmation September 13, 2007 "I'm never down; I am either up or getting up." To practice your affirmation, release your thought patterns. Go beyond what you have been thinking for years.
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| 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...
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| amol prabhud... | 00:36 | 26/May/2007 |
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| Success in Life |
| The founder of a highly successful company was asked what it took to achieve success in life. He replied: “The same thing it tool to get started; a sense of urgency about getting things done.” Success in life should be determined by contributions, not accumulations.
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| Neeraj Jain | 14:23 | 26/Dec/2007 |
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| The Changing Winter in Delhi |
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| Neeraj Jain, December 26, 2007Hey friends,It feels great to write on rediffiland after such a loooooooong time. Well, now December is about to end and winter has not really set its foot in Delhi. The season of winter has changed a lot in Delhi. Around 4-5 years back winter used to arrive in the middle of November. There used to be a really dense fo...
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| abhijeet ris... | 15:02 | 16/Dec/2007 |
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| Proud to be an Indian |
| Golden TelephoneA Writer decided to write a book about famous churches around the World.So he bought a plane ticket and took a trip to China.On his first day he was inside a church taking photographs when he Noticed a golden telephone mounted on the wall with a sign that read " $10,000 per call".The Writer, being intrigued, asked a priest who was s...
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| Yogesh Gandhi | 19:27 | 9/Aug/2007 |
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| Reference Object-Theory of Familiarity |
| I wonder is it too much of stress or just another phenomenon that happens, though one can't realy explain why.7pm.It's been ages, should hit the gym.The place hasn't been more crowded than this before.Happens.Things look different if too much time has passed.There's this guy who comes by while i am on the stepper.A hi is mandatory baba.I know him, ...
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| AdityaDas Menon | 17:01 | 1/Jan/2008 |
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| I need your Love again...... |
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| Dear Ilander......I have resigned from the world's best Media Corporate......I will be joining as the Deputy Head - Business Operations with another Giant mainly to manage the Asia-Pacific operations.....And I will be posted away from the home country to far West....At this juncture....I thank You...........For offering the fabulous feelings..........
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| poornima k | 17:00 | 31/Dec/2007 |
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| How to Flirt? |
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| Some psychologists suggest that a woman cannot help flirting with a man when she first meets him, even if she's not interested. This is not strictly true. Yes, some women are flirtatious with all men, probably because they fear rejection, but the majority of us aren't. You can usually assess a man within the first few minutes of meeting him and kno...
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| Jolly Jacob | 04:34 | 1/Jan/2008 |
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| A New Year story |
| This is to wish all my friends a year where every moment comes alive with sparkling possibility. May you find peace in distress, strength in difficulty and love to keep you compassionate. And below is a story I wrote just for the occasion.The 36th Diary“It is the first of January again.” Ratan Singh thinks sitting up in bed, eyelids heavy with uns...
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| ZEUS ZEUS | 00:48 | 23/Dec/2007 |
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| Taare Zameen Par- A review |
| ‘It’s easy to point out problems in this world. It’s difficult to offer solutions.’ The maiden directorial venture by Aamir Khan does ‘that’ difficult part with aplomb. ‘TaareZameen Par’ revolves around the stifling pressures that a dyslexicchild faces in our society, in our times. Ishaan Avasti ( DarsheelSafery) is like any fun loving k...
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| Hardeep Singh | 11:55 | 9/Nov/2007 |
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| HAPPY DIWALI |
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| THIS DEEPAWALI ,LET'S LIGHT THE LAMP OF HAPPINESS TO SPREAD HAPPINESS & PEACE ALL AROND THE WORLD. MAY THIS DEEPAWALI BRING PEACE,JOY & HAPPINESS IN YOUR LIFE WISHING YOU A VERY HAPPY & CHEERFUL DEEPAWALI.
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| sunil B | 12:58 | 8/Jul/2007 |
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| Hyderabad Blues-1 |
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| Hi All,Folks, with this new series i would like to share and relive my hyderabad days ,when i was a student there. Those were the golden days of my life.Today all of us are well settled in life and work for some of the biggest multinationals, and everytime i talk to my roommates over the phone we always remember those good-ol-days.And for a change ...
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| Shree Sharma | 09:38 | 25/Jun/2007 |
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| Whose dreams? |
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| Whose life and dream we are living?From childhood person lives up a dream of becoming somethingThis original dream gets modified by parental pressure, peer pressure, money, good life, compromises............Person grows up loves somebody but doesn't decide to live forever together/marriage because in comparsion to someone else this person is not go...
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| deepak jairath | 23:21 | 30/Jul/2007 |
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| why we r so mad abt money and sex
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| GAUTAM VERMA | 22:58 | 1/Nov/2007 |
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| Missing and Absent.... |
| it's quite simple and plain... i need not explain.....first, work took me to lands of no internet... on return, loss of father was the fate...i met...still working around with life without him...coming to terms slowly...in darkness and in dim..jotting down few lines again.... of some dreams and some pain...hope i will last to continue... taking m...
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| j m | 13:57 | 8/Nov/2007 |
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| Cheeni Kum / Happy Diwali |
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| I hope everyone of you had seen CHEENI KUM , if not then here is a chance of you all people to have the visual treat of it. WISHING EVERYONE HERE A VERY HAPPY, PROSPEROUS , SPARKLING, FRUITFUL DIWALI. DDHHHHHOOOMMMMMMMM!
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| Prudent Indian | 11:54 | 25/Dec/2007 |
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| Veni, Vidi, Vici: Narendra Modi. |
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| Veni, Vidi, Vici: Narendra Modi.(I came, I saw, I conquered. Narrendra Modi) If ever an election which was ever fought and observed not only in India but also ‘for’ India, it is this 2007 Gujarat elections. Deservingly, ‘India’ won and Won hands down. Reconfirming my belief “That India is Invincible”, India had always been and shall always be “Invi...
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| Ravindra Dixit | 16:35 | 19/Sep/2007 |
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| A Cry from the Heart |
| A Cry From the Heart It was hot, humid and miserable, I was late for the meeting and my mood, as bad as it could get. Reached the office block, to find the lift out of order, I now had to walk up 18 floors. Cursing my luck I started the trek up the unending staircase. By the 5th flight I was panting, sweating by the 7th, I felt palpitations by the ...
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| Giftson SJ | 16:37 | 16/Dec/2007 |
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| Key to Happy Marriage..!!! |
| Hi My Sweet Iland Mates... Its no wonder, one fine day our very own "FG" caught me flirting around in this lovely iland of ours. You know what....the day since i read this article i cant resist from "Flirting"..... all for Good..!!! and i feel...my habit of "flirting" is.........Justified..!!!!!!!! Btw, the lovely ladies of dis irresistable Iland....
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| Sahiti Bhara... | 18:00 | 21/Dec/2007 |
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| That's it friends! |
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| That's it for this year! Am on vacation from tomm till Jan 1st and would have only limited/no access to the net. Dear friends, Merry Chrismas and And Happy New Year. cy all in the new year! Cheers Sahiti
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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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| Ramesh chordia | 23:07 | 5/Jul/2007 |
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| Male or Female? |
| You might not have known this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female. Here are some examples: FREEZER BAGS: They are male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them. PHOTOCOPIERS: These are female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again. They are an effective repro...
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| L KINI | 14:53 | 1/Jan/2008 |
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| I Wish All my ILAND friends Happy New Year====================Laugh a whileAn Indian, a German and a Pakistani got arrested consuming alcohol which is a severe offense in Saudi Arabia, so for the terrible crime they are all sentenced 20 lashes each of the whip. As they were preparing for their punishment, the Sheik announced: "It...
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| Joe Average | 18:59 | 14/Oct/2007 |
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| Hi Again... |
| Hi... this is comin after a looong time. really wanted to write something but havent had the time to gather my thoughts and refine them.. Recently i saw the movie Dil Dosti Etc.. wont be reviewing it for u nor wud i disclose the story, just that the story made me ponder quite a lot on many issues. The most pertinent one being -"Can you love someone...
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| Riddhi Aswani | 14:12 | 31/Dec/2007 |
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| Happy New Year |
| The Tiger and the Dragon sit watching each other in a symphony of varied emotions. It is the destiny of one to extinguish and the fate of another to destroy. It is the birth of one that leads to the death of another. Welcome, to the New Year. The New year entry last year, it seems, said it all. So this year, I dedicate my poem to everyone out there...
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| PULAK MANDAL | 23:28 | 15/Jul/2007 |
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| Rainy Day |
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| This picture is dedicated to my rain-loving friend Jayalakshmi Srinivasan. Though I too have affection for rain, I am not that spirited to get drenched like her. So I took this photo from the comfort of the inside of a car.
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| kishor Jagirdar | 15:00 | 20/Dec/2007 |
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| May Fly - An Ephemeral Life |
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| This was written in 1989 , during the rainy season this incident caught my attention and I penned my first poem. Thus, an amateur poet was born . I saw a may fly one day,Attracting my attention away,Flying and flapping his wings,Full of joy and melody, Following him were his friends, Who were dodging each other playfully,...
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