Ah the equalities of Gossip

It is quite impossible really to stay out of the mass interest events in out offices how much ever one would like to avoid them in general.
So here i was surrounded by the latest news and arguments about the Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi’s daughters elopement. The girl has hurt the great man deeply is the common [...]

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Tagore ’s Chitrangada and Lipika over the weekend

Have been reading Chitrangada by Tagore this weekend.
It about another of those princesses smitten by Arjuna though Tagore models this drama in a very sensitive and different way and herein the warrior princess is the equal of Arjuna at least thats the way the drama’s written . It ends by some very strong proposal by [...]

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You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel as if you’ve lost a friend.

I just loved this wallpaper and feel i dont need to add more words for it.

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Degeneration methinks…

Fame however unwanted i think if forced upon
people adjust but then it
might be very difficult to get over.
That is the only reason i can think of
why Rowling has done what she did.
To again become front page material
now that the last book mania is calming down.
I have nothing against her revelation about Dumbledore being gay(except a [...]

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Pomegranate

The most impassioned of all trees,
The home of three intensities;
Gnarled trunk, dark concentrated leaf,
And flowers that burn in love and grief.
These are part of those haunting lines by Vikram Seth  and
 i really dig them too much and they kind of get imprinted on the mind.
This was a small draft i saved somewhere  and i just [...]

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A bit of nostalgia

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
~Doug Larson
Last fortnight i can recall two things which made me very nostalgic.
One was a movie which was a glossed out fairytale of a college life i have never seen anyone living (forget being part of it myself ).
Its not that i [...]

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Weekend with the Google Story

This weekend with nothing better to google than the complications of wisdom tooth extraction(if doctors are a pain ….what the heck  do you call dentists…they are  a bloody damn pain and i am living with it for nearly a month and a half) i just cuddled up with ‘ The Google Story ‘  by David [...]

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