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[11 May 2009 | 2 Comments | 756 views]

This one was practiced several times by us in 1997. I can’t even remember the name of the song, but because I sang this one so many times, I do remember the lyrics fairly well. Here is how it went…(well almost)
Next to my home in a lonely house,
There lived a boy who’s name was Kurt,
More than any other thing, he used to play Guitar,
And I knew there and then, he is gonna be a star
Then one day I met him down the street,
His face was blue and spirits green,
I asked …

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[27 Feb 2009 | 3 Comments | 1,392 views]

I understand this might be old news to many of you, but I found this to interesting so I thought I would share this article:
The two main child actors from “Slumdog Millionaire” are to receive new homes from the authorities after the small-budget movie swept the Oscars, winning eight Academy Awards.
The Mumbai homes will go to Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail, who played the young roles of the movie’s central characters, Latika and Salim, in the rags-to-riches romance about a poor Indian boy competing for love and money on a …

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[23 Feb 2009 | 12 Comments | 516 views]
San Marino

It was an uneventful day full of result less meetings in Rimini. We were a bunch of businessmen from East Euope, Russia & India, representing our countries for a business event. Things were starting to get on to us, meeting loud Italian men and snooty Italian women. It was then someone floated an idea of arranging a visit to a place called “San Marino”. Even though I have been to Italy often, San Marino sounded like an unauthentic Italian Restaurant in middle lanes of Khan Market. But the idea of …

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[9 Feb 2009 | 6 Comments | 478 views]
Mumbai 26/11, what are we doing about it?

Just a few months ago, our neighbors send a team to India, of few men armed with weapons, trained to kill, live to hate and born to die. These men held hostage the Indian financial capital for 3 days, killing the elite, ending the poor, and devastating the mind of every reasonable citizen in the country. Every other blog in this country wrote a painful story of death, the cliche story of the spirit of mumbai residents, and the hatred story of our politicians. Easy crap to write I tell …

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[1 Feb 2009 | 13 Comments | 1,004 views]
Few all time weird things!

Life keeps us so engaged, occupied, thrilled and exhausted that we tend to overlook the greatest weirdest mysteries that surround us.  Lets take a peek at a few of them.
1) Mosquitoes - Honestly, the most ghastly mystery of nature and also the most powerful. Man has digg’ed deep to find natural resources, reached the outer space to explore, developed vaccines to tackle some deadly diseases and took communication efficiencies to a new level. But what about dealing with a little mosquito? No final answer yet. The repellents, stun guns and …