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  1. Thrilling moments

    Posted by
    / March 25, 2012 / 1 Comment
    All of us go through the inevitable ups and downs in our lives. We have our happiest moments, saddest moments, and memorable moments. When someone asks you about the thrilling moments of your life, what would be your response? Is a thrilling moment any way different from a memorable or...

  2. What kind of a guest are you?

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    / March 21, 2012 / 3 Comments
    Wedding receptions are a lively affair and the dinner part evokes certain humorous situations. The moment the announcement is made regarding the serving of dinner, there is a 100 metre dash to the venue. In the process we sometimes witness trip and fall situations. The whole scene makes one feel...

  3. Something In the Way She Smiles…

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    / March 16, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Yeah, yeah, we’ve all heard that: a guy who gushes about his grandchild. This is different. I had the most amazing opportunity of spending four days with my granddaughter Kiara at our house, Imagine, in Goa. It rang true to its name. Imagine: Goa had a cool Spring; even in...
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    Tagged baby, goa, grandchild, granddaughter, grandparent, immortality, rajiv desai,

  4. Chameleon-like Jeans !

    Posted by
    / March 12, 2012 / 1 Comment
    This summer, if you find girls wearing jeans that change colours, it is time to get jealous ! Yes, literally so. Jealous 21, has introduced a range of denims for women, called `Magic Jeans’ that changes colours as soon as you wear them. This happens because the denim fibre has...

  5. Posted by
    / March 2, 2012 /
    Matches are made in Heaven they say but making the weddings go global requires creative effort and Youtube. What could have ended up as a limited edition `Dilip weds Mohana’ event, a Tamil wedding in Singapore, has become a mini-global phenomenon in the last couple of weeks because the couple planned innovatively, took the effort to get it shot...

  6. Posted by
    / February 27, 2012 /
    So my aunt calls my mother and says “Wow, Nivedita has grown up to be such a beautiful girl.”  My mother finds that comment odd. Though Nivedita is a beloved and smart kid in the immediate family, “such a beautiful” is probably a stretch!  “Where did you meet her?” asks...

  7. A tribute to my father

    Posted by
    / February 26, 2012 / 1 Comment
    It is said that no man is hero to his valet. Perhaps no man is hero to his son also. It is not easy being friends with your father, particularly in those days when all the elders were respected and therefore so remote. Like many fathers and sons, we expressed...

  8. Jana Gana Mana Adhinayaka Who?

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    / February 26, 2012 / 4 Comments
    In Maharashtra, it is mandatory to sing the National Anthem before and after cinema performances. When one has attended a fairly nondescript movie, it is the fairly rousing anthem that one remembers. But who is the ‘jana-gana-mana-adhinayaka’ to whom our national anthem is a paean? Have you given thought to...

  9. A divine number with extensive links

    Posted by Navin Chandra Joshi
    / February 23, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The other day, in a TV programme, I was watching an eminent numerologist predicting to a film celebrity as to how his forthcoming film would fare at the box office. He based his prediction on the number derived as a sum of all the digits of the actor’s date of...
    Posted in Personal
    Tagged number, numerology

  10. Tum ko Hindi aata kya?

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    / February 21, 2012 / 1 Comment
    My daughter, who is a senior at New York University, recently signed up for a Hindi class. When asked what motivated her to learn the Indian language, she replied, “I want to be able to watch Hindi movies without sub-titles”. The trouble began when she assumed that I was a...

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