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Dec 24, 2012
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If you have ever browsed through the HT weekly magazine 'Brunch' and flipped over to the last page dedicated to the column "Personal Agenda" given
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Nov 13, 2011
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The other day while reading the Daily, my attention was caught by a fancy phrase, rather article, which speculated on the arrival of the
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Posted on
Sep 28, 2011
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It was another ordinary day when a Mahendra Bolero innocuously drew up to a toll booth on the Gurgaon expressway. The young boy manning
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Posted on
Sep 11, 2011
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I observe the person almost every day taking the metro at a particular station and getting down at my stop. To be very honest
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Posted on
Aug 19, 2011
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I should have written about this incident long, long time back in one of the Puja musing series last year. But somehow it skipped
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Posted on
Jul 31, 2011
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I am a little taken aback when the dealer addresses my nephew as ‘sir’. The addressee, of age four and twenty and a little
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Posted on
Jun 19, 2011
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Whatever the motivational gurus may blare with additional garnish and sprinkle, one must at times count one’s failures, not to get depressed and overpowered by
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Posted on
May 17, 2011
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It is weird but it is there and it seems nobody can help about it. I am talking of the inherent human instinct of judging
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Posted on
Apr 28, 2011
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We often meet in the Metro. She is a young girl of five and twenty. Lovely to look at. Smartly dressed. Western formals. Sometimes elegant
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Apr 21, 2011
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I had known Babu Ramji Ram, my illustrious neighbour, for the past twenty five years of my working career. But it seemed to me as
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Apr 12, 2011
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It is strange and sad that we often tend to view age with jaundiced eyes. Aging is a natural process and should be taken in
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Apr 09, 2011
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As I enter the premise, a gust of dank, damp air assaults my nostrils making me claustrophobic. The building looks ill maintained wanting repair and
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Posted on
Mar 23, 2011
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He walked with a purposeful stride. A lean, lithe, tall, dark figure! As he glided in with beaming confidence and surprising agility, in a well
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Feb 23, 2011
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Having lived all my childhood and youth in rented accommodation, the first thing that I wanted to possess soon after I started earning a secure
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Posted on
Feb 07, 2011
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" Ek rupaye kilo aaloo................Do rupaye kilo pyaanz.................Panch rupaye kilo tamatar.............Chaar rupaye kilo phool gobhi...............Chaar rupaye kilo band gobhi.................". Hollers the aged man, well dressed in a
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Posted on
Dec 11, 2010
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I am slow to technological or for that matter any change whatsoever. Be it net surfing, cyber networking or cellular communication, I have taken to
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Posted on
Dec 03, 2010
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I bump into her at odd times of the working hours. Before or after lunch break, in the lift in the early mornings or
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Posted on
Nov 30, 2010
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I return with a heavy heart. Heavy here has a different connotation altogether which as you read on you shall grasp. For quite sometime I was
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Oct 29, 2010
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It was Maha Ashtami. The most important day during the Pujas. We reached on time at the pandaal to attend the aarati. It is customary
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Posted on
Oct 24, 2010
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Bengalis celebrate the Kojagari Luxmi Puja on Kojagari Purnima,which falls on the chaturdashi or the fourth day from
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Oct 17, 2010
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It was Maha Saptami. The second day of Durga Puja. It is customary for us, Bengalis, to visit the PujaPandaal and be part of
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Posted on
Sep 29, 2010
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The language that we now use to communicate with our fellow beings and express our thoughts and feelings can at best be called a khichdi
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Posted on
Sep 24, 2010
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It is customary to profusely thank the Hon’ble Judge, the Editorial Board and the Site (for giving byte space) after winning a contest. That is
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Posted on
Sep 07, 2010
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There is a saying in Bengali “ jekhaane baagher bhoy shekhaane shondhye hoy”which if transliterated will read as where the tiger is feared to roam
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Posted on
Aug 07, 2010
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My mother is an octogenarian. Though otherwise very active, she is predominantly confined to the four walls of home and spends most
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