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 23:46 | 19/Dec/2007
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 00:06 | 12/Dec/2007
My Salute for Taslima
 She is as mighty a shipLost in the seas of lifeAmid the tempest she strivesIn scrutiny for an island But the tumult though religious  Strikes, unearthing her rootsTormenting and Scrunching her spirits The minds so darkestBargain her headBrands her evil And terribly nefarious  In all these scrupleShe – a gallant mindImpelled to leave abodeIn futile... more...
 20:15 | 29/Nov/2007
Tears - For Daniel Pearl
In the darkness of chilling Black Death,Alien to my pen scribbling this lamentation,keeping down his head ,sits Daniel Pearlin the shadow of the grueling terror.'The torturer'-who aimed the barrel at PearlKneels down to pray -with gun at the knees!Blind in his heart and blind in his faithAnd he- the torturer-nothing except eyes uncovered !'The blac... more...
 21:08 | 26/Nov/2007
The Dog of Panskura
          It was a chilly cold morning of a December. The train Sambaleshwari Express dropped me in the platform of Panskura railway station. The early morning sun was yet to peep. But there was visibility as any where in an Eastern Indian morning. Many men and women were flocked in the platform. They included vendors of fresh fish and vegetables. ... more...
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 daniel ribero | 18:42 | 5/Jul/2008
Friends: (531)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Business Networki...
Easy Ways To Make Money
Easy Ways To Make MoneyToday, there are umpteen easy ways to make money effortlessly. These avenues may be legitimate or illegitimate, but they share the common trend of providing easy money. However, it must be said right now that "easy money" is just a euphemism for a way to make money in a non-traditional way. There is no such thing is truly eas...  more...
 indal kumar | 13:46 | 31/Dec/2007
Friends: (260)  | City: Gurgaon  | Interests: Friendship, Shaya...
WISHES (2008)
My Dear All Friend,         I wish you a very Happy & Prosperous New Year 2008.                   wishing you a great time with good things          happening, every moment glowing         with joy and laughter, and may each          fresh dawn bring good loock for all my friend                                        with best compliments          ...  more...
 Alwin | 18:41 | 31/Dec/2007
Friends: (290)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: CreatinG Internat...
Advance Happy New Year Dear FriendZ
Hi FrienDZ ..,   AdvancE HappY NeW YeaR .. AlwiN  more...
 datanentrygo | 07:49 | 19/Mar/2008
Friends: (318)  | City: Ranchi  | Interests: computerjobs
Jobs of editorial proofreading.
Jobs of editorial proofreading. Editorial proofreaders they can also recommend changes in word choice or inappropriate punctuation. Jobs of editorial proofreading. http://jobcenter.webs.com/pr.htm  more...
 Amitabh Dasg... | 19:20 | 10/Apr/2008
Friends: (335)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: Reading books,Spe...
Shopping for Marriage
Marriage is an event for a lifetime. Every youth wishes to make that special moment a memorable event not only for him/her but for all those who become a part of it. Today wedding ceremonies have become a status symbol for all therefore the marketing aspect plays a very significant role in the whole celebration.Of the several aspects that come up o...  more...
 Joseph Antony | 00:06 | 4/Jul/2008
Friends: (510)  | City: Kottayam,Changanacherry  | Interests: reading,movies, f...
" FOR EVER "
I hereby Stops all my activities n iland.  And treat this as my apology -  If any of my posts or any comments hurt / wounded anybody.Thanks, Love & Regards to All my Friends.  HAVE  A  NICE DAY ............   No one is born happy... But all of us are born with the ability to create happiness...So....today, make others happy... Flash your sweetest s...  more...
 Prithvi | 19:33 | 9/Jan/2008
Friends: (44)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: EVERYTHIN...
Nadir
I feel I can hear the thunder, Have I made a costly blunder.I've been wrong for so many days, I feel its time to mend old ways.Staring beneath this stark gloom, What is the probability that I'll bloom.For I shall leave no matter on to you now, I know I must do it how.Do i look crestfallen, Dare you say that coz I have not yet fallen....  more...
 AR Ramanathan | 15:44 | 27/Dec/2007
Friends: (21)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Homeopathy, Garde...
Har shaakh pey ulloo baithha hai...
Aboutfour years ago, the then Defence Minister of India, George Fernandes,who was on an official visit to Washington, was "strip-searched" by theU.S. security at the airport. In response, the usually thunderousFernandes behaved like a scared puppy, and stomached his humiliationquietly without telling a soul. A year later, Strobe Talbott, theformer ...  more...
 anil verma | 00:12 | 18/Jul/2008
Friends: (712)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: wrighting, readin...
REAL FACTS OF LIFE
REATY-1.     Difficulties in your life do not come to distroy you,      but to help to realize your hidden potential       let the difficulties know that you are more difficult!!!!!!!!!!!!2.     Life is not a Rehearsal,         each day ia a New show, No repeat,           No rewind,         So give best shot in all your worthy acts      as the show...  more...
 greengrass | 16:00 | 12/Jul/2008
Friends: (544)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Swimming, Dance, ...
சேச்சĬ...
From www.manakkudiyan.com : From Ananda Vikatan, By Amarar Sujatha:சேச் 70;ாஆர்.ச& #3015;ஷாத்ர ;ிநாதன 21; என்ற பெயர் எஸ்.எஸ 21;.எல...  more...
 ajay rana | 21:37 | 29/Jan/2008
Friends: (238)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: Reading, swimming...
Consciousness in the Single Neuron
Are the contents ofconscious perception tied to individual brain cells? Can we use singleneurons to determine someone’s subjective experience? A recent studiespublished in PNASsuggests otherwise: there are no specialized neuronsthat carry information about what enters awareness and what not. If oneholds the picture of a butterfly in front of one ey...  more...
 priyanka kur... | 10:37 | 14/Dec/2007
Friends: (56)  | City: Thiruvananthapuram  | Interests: Music, Writing ar...
A Tragic Love story!
LIFE HAD TURNED OUT TO BE A BIG DISASTER UNTIL I MET YOU.YOU BROUGHT BACK ALL THE LOST COLOURS OF MY LIFE.I WAS BEING SQUEEZED WITH MANY PROBLEMS AND THEN ONE DAY YOU CAME AND RELEASED ME OUT OF ALL MY CHAINS.NOW I TASTE THE VARIOUS DELICASIES OF LIFE.YOU TAUGHT ME TO EMBRACE LIFE WITH A SMILE AND NOW I HAVE STARTED LOVING MY LIFE JUST BECAUSE OF Y...  more...
 Janam Tapit... | 14:41 | 16/Jul/2008
Friends: (71)  | City: Bareilly  | Interests: Writing for the h...
3 Finalists or 5?
I was seeing one of the reality shows on TV the other day and the final episode was in progress. There were three contestants who were left in the finals. All three were equally proficient and anyone of them could easily have won.  It was just a question of who gets more votes that would decide the fate of these three.                 The evening w...  more...
 Vibhuti | 10:50 | 11/Jun/2008
Friends: (460)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Living life fulle...
Mother Earth
Dear Friends,Reading many things on Global Warming on iLand so here is little contribution from my side…it’s simply and even we all can do it……….yes or no??Reduce your Carbon Footprints:22 ways to make a DifferenceAT HOME:1.          Use Energy Saving Light Bulbs2.          Take a re-usable bag when you go shopping.3.          Use public transport ...  more...
 24by7 | 18:27 | 10/May/2008
Friends: (138)  | City: Mumbai Mere Jaan  | Interests: everything & anyt...
Mothers Day
"Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible."     more...
 vivek keserwani | 02:45 | 28/Mar/2008
Friends: (153)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: music, meditation...
how was your HOLI friends
Hi Friends, Nobody told me howz their HOLI? What masti you did and How did you clebrate it. Some of you might have remained inside of your house in fear of colours while some of you might have played a very colourful and wet Holi. To tell you the truth, I love playing holi but only when it is played in decency. In my locality people are so bad that...  more...
 Kainaat Crea... | 19:36 | 16/Jul/2008
Friends: (1397)  | City: Birmingham  | Interests: Having a good laugh
Drivers!
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 Ashwini | 17:01 | 7/Mar/2008
Friends: (103)  | City: Pune  | Interests: Music,Reading,Tra...
The 4Life Opportunity A Foundation For A...
The 4Life Opportunity A Foundation For A Better LifeWhen you choose to partner with 4Life, you have the opportunity to:Pursue an unrivaled level of physical health and wellbeing for yourself and your family.Make a personally meaningful contribution by sharing 4Life with others.Enjoy a portion of the entire company’s earnings through the Power Pool....  more...
 Sunil Meshram | 15:22 | 8/Jan/2008
Friends: (318)  | City: Raipur  | Interests: everything that m...
Most Honourable OCCUPATION !!!
IF SANITATION work in India brings with it untouchability, disease and death, why then do the Dalits not just give it up? At the least, why can’t they go on strike and ask for better working conditions? It is not that they did not try. In Delhi’s Balmiki Bara in Aryapura, Rajinder Kumar, a Delhi Jal Board sewer worker, offers us some non-textbook h...  more...
 saurabh upad... | 01:12 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (433)  | City: dream land  | Interests: photography,sport...
        Hi. It's Holi-week and people are already in the mood to celebrate. Unfortunately, there are some who like to enjoy at the cost of others. There are experienced incidents where dirty-water (from gutters) balloons or acid balloons are thrown. This is specially done at passengers in buses or trains or at bikers as one cannot catch the culpri...  more...
 JACOB VARGHESE | 12:37 | 9/Jun/2008
Friends: (14)  | City: Dehradun  | Interests: Reading,music, wr...
LEADERSHIP & POWER
LEADERSHIP & POWER- A RETROSPECTION Have you ever experienced one of ‘those’ days when you just do not seem to be motivated to do much of any thing? You do not feel like doing your office work or the house hold work or are not even bothered to catch up with friends. One of such days, I sat down to write an article for a magazine, but as I started I...  more...
 Ramesh R | 10:29 | 13/Jul/2008
Friends: (117)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Traveling,Good Fo...
My visit to Bangkok and Chiang Mai
It was after 6 long years that I went back to Thailand on a holiday. Sitting inside the Kochi airport, I could already recollect the smell of Kao Pat Kai and Tom Yam Kung that I had so long ago. It even got my mouth watering. This time I had planned not to spend my time just in Bangkok alone but also to go to some part of Thailand that I had never ...  more...
 Pierre Francis | 14:52 | 22/Jan/2008
Friends: (16)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Writing, movies, ...
Hussein And The Freedom Of Expression
Years ago I saw a public service television spot dealing with the subject of censorship, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins as the censor. The film went something like this: it opens with a lone ballerina on stage doing her thing. Then Hopkins enters the auditorium, observes her for a while, and begins restricting her movements till she is barely able to...  more...
 thomas jacob | 16:49 | 17/Jan/2008
Friends: (27)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: reading,writing,a...
Inheritance
"I am not a selfmade man.For, generations have livedIn the planes I live.Their foot prints I trampleIn the roads they made.Their fire I preserve in my hearth.yet these I do not own.Only have use and leave.Death hall never thriveFor life is passed to posterityAn unbrocken chain of inheritance.To them I leave my rights.The vallies and planes to till....  more...
 Mahen Mishra | 11:10 | 1/Jul/2008
Friends: (279)  | City: Rourkela  | Interests: being in and arou...
My First Annivarsary...
1st July is the D-DayYes, its my Wedding Day....Being this my first annivarsery,It seems to be a love story...I have my love of live so it makes more special,Who always make every day  lively and effortless...Indeed she is not perfect,As nobody in this world...Nor me nor any body,I don"t even like to have,better than her or worse than her....I feel...  more...
 Hardeep singh | 20:34 | 7/Apr/2008
Friends: (424)  | City: Ludhiana  | Interests: cricket,music,wri...
COME HOME EARLY
COME HOME EARLY……..Son: "Daddy, may I ask you a question"Daddy: "Yeah sure, what it is?" Son: "Dad, how much do you make an hour" Daddy: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?" Son: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?" Daddy: "I make Rs. 500 an hour" "Oh", the little boy replied, with his head do...  more...
 mohan | 15:51 | 19/Jul/2008
Friends: (62)  | City: Trissur  | Interests: friendship, paint...
Achievers!!
Dear friends,                    I am very proud to share an article which came in The Hindu last month. Sheela Basrur is the only daughter of Dr.Parvathi Basrur and Dr.Basrur.  Dr.Parvathi Basrur is from a Namboodri family from Calicut, Kerala. She is the first veterinary doctor from Guelph university, Canada. Dr. Basurur is a cancer specialist fr...  more...
 friendly ghost | 12:02 | 9/May/2008
Friends: (351)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Our economists & ...
Our world is coming unravelled
I'm continually amazed by a kind of public blindness to the obvious realities around us. I don't want to go into details, arguments, justifications etc. because they obscure the big picture. I don't want to talk about global warming, unsustainable growth, extinction of species etc. because they seem like distant theoretical stuff to us.I'm stating ...  more...
 Madhavan PK | 16:43 | 11/Jul/2008
Friends: (398)  | Interests: Books, crossword,...
The Song of Hiawatha
The song of Hiwatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is perhaps his best work.This one given below is chapter 10 detailing Hiwatha's Wooing of Minnehaha. Written in 1855, the poem is poignant. Have things changed from then to now. Read on. It is long but worth your while. The bold typeface highlight and the headings are mine.  Love SickAs unto the bow...  more...
 ramesh m | 08:38 | 6/May/2008
Friends: (158)  | City: iland  | Interests: making others happy
A Leader Should Know How to Manage Failu...
(Former President of India APJ Abdul Kalam at Wharton India Economic forum, Philadelphia , March 22,2008) Question : Could you give an example, from your own experience, of how leaders should manage failure? Kalam : Let me tell you about my experience. In 1973 I became the project director of India 's satellite launch vehicle program, commonly called the SLV-3. Our goal was to put India 's "Rohini" satellite into orbit by 1980. I was given funds and human resources -- but was told clearly that by 1980 we had to launch the satellite into space. Thousands of people wo rk ed together in scientific and technical teams towards that goal. By 1979 -- I think the month was August -- we thought we were ready. As the project director, I went to the control center for the launch. At four minutes before the satellite launch, the computer began to go through the checklist of items that needed to be checked. One minute later, the computer program put the launch on hold; the display showed that some control components were not in order. My experts -- I had four or five of them with me -- told me not to worry; they had done their calculations and there was enough reserve fuel. So I bypassed the computer, switched to manual mode, and launched the rocket. In the first stage, everything wo rk ed fine. In the second stage, a problem developed. Instead of the satellite going into orbit, the whole rocket system plunged into the Bay of Bengal . It was a big failure. That day, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization, Prof. Satish Dhawan , had called a press conference. The launch was at 7:00 am, and the press conference -- where journalists from around the world were present -- was at 7:45 am at ISRO's satellite launch range in Sriharikota [in Andhra Pradesh in southern India ]. Prof. Dhawan , the leader of the organization, conducted the press conference himself. He took responsibility for the failure -- he said that the team had wo rk ed very hard, but that it needed more technological support. He assured the media that in another year, the team would definitely succeed. Now, I was the project director, and it was my failure, but instead, he took responsibility for the failure as chairman of the organization. The next year, in July 1980, we tried again to launch the satellite – and this time we succeeded. The whole nation was jubilant. Again, there was a press conference. Prof. Dhawan called me aside and told me, "You conduct the press conference today." I learned a very important lesson that day. When failure occurred, the leader of the organization owned that failure. When success came, he gave it to his team. The best management lesson I have learned did not come to me from reading a book; it came from that experience.    more...
 Navita | 11:55 | 3/Jun/2008
Friends: (320)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: I keep traveling ...
Gambling in Macau,Hong Kong Part IV
One can get a serviceable manicure, pedicure and massage in any town. For true Hong Kong style pampering and pummeling reflexology is the word. Reflexogy booths abound but the best and largest outfits are Happy Foot, just by the Mid Levels Escalator that carries intense – faced locals up and down the vertiginous streets. When I entered I thought it...  more...
 narayana har... | 13:49 | 12/Mar/2008
Friends: (4)  | City: Tiruchirapalli  | Interests: Music, painting, ...
education
King Bhoja asked Mahakavi Kalidasa Upto what age a man can read? (What is the time that a man can read?) For this Kalidasa immediately replied the distance between the two breasts.All the people in the court were surprised and they wanted the king should punish Kalidasa.When asked by the King, Kalidasa replied "Yes what I said is correct. You have ...  more...
 Suresh Praja... | 12:39 | 30/May/2008
Friends: (264)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Having a Discus...
Welcome to Civilisation
Hello , family. Recently i have started on more book, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL by Tony Martin. I have found a very interesting page in this book. I would like to share it with you. Author has taken it from somewhere which is mentioned at the end.   The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways , bu...  more...
 K B | 00:04 | 19/Jul/2008
Friends: (39)  | City: ...  | Interests: chili or chilly?
Feel Flea!
Let It Be! The flea in a fleeting momentRaised the pleaIf a flea can flee,Would it be free?Don’t flay the flea, It wants to beFree-(Finally, or Exactly...)In symbiosis(Something amiss?)From the canine-(Do you mind?)That wants to be free from the flea…That wants to beAn artiste, a potent one,(Am I done?)At a flea circusFor only a free flea may discu...  more...
 hariharan iyer | 14:03 | 24/Apr/2007
Friends: (34)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: reading, singing,...
THREE FORTUNES
Acharya Shankara Bhagavathpada has written a thoughtful book titled VIVEKACHOODAMANI which means CREST JEWEL OF DESCRIMINATION. Here Descrimination should be understood as the unique quality of Human beings to differentiate between the real and unreal, truth and untruth, senseful and senseless etc., etc.,In one of the beginning verses, Acharya tell...  more...
 ARUN JOSHI | 09:00 | 19/Jul/2008
Friends: (333)  | City: KOTA  | Interests: Reading,watching ...
white Lion cubs for my friends
white Lion cubs for my friends  more...
 sunil sachdeva | 18:33 | 25/Dec/2007
Friends: (270)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: writing,freindshi...
MY WEALTH MY GRIEF
O’ LordI’ll gladly share \My wealth and happinessWith one and allBut my griefWith none at allThose are treasured momentsOf my strifeLocked with gifted memories Of lifeWhen morns golden rays blackedAll colorsNights silvery octopus tentaclesSqueezed lifeHot lyrical gem talks melteddown ears, When doors slammedAt sightTurning colors of hopeBlack or wh...  more...