Holi, etc.
'Vasant' comes from the word 'spring' as this festival (Vasant/Basant Panchami, also: Shree Panchami or Sarasvati Puja) heralds the beginning of the spring season. New leaves and blossoms appear in the...
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Been There Bungled That by Paddy Rangappa
Been There Bungled Thatis a fictionalized autobiographical story stretched across almost 300 pages. They endeavour to put together snippets and anecdotes from the protagonist Jagannath Srinivasan's...
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Train To Delhi
A Note on the author:Shiv K. Kumar (born August 16, 1921) is a distinguished poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, translator, academic and critic. He has published thirteen volumes of...
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[There has never been an Aryan Invasion. ~ A humble endeavour: Notes on Sri Krishn, the Mahabharata ('The Great History of the Bharatas'), etc ~ do read the post in its entirety... to grasp its scope...
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The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
"But man is not made for defeat,"he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated."- Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.Great quote.Born (to Clarence and Grace Hemingway) on July 21, 1899, in...
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Ghanta College: The Art of Topping College Life by Clyde D'Souza
Ghanta College: The Art of Topping College Life is (author) Clyde D'Souza's (somewhat cumourously-titled, that's a portmanteau made from 'curious' and 'humourous') second offering. It's not a book of...
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Happy Birthday! by Meghna Pant
A financial journalist with NDTV Profit and Bloomberg-UTV,Meghna Pant inhabits two worlds: the quantitative world of finance and the creative world of storytelling. She has reported from the New York...
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Amreekandesi: Master’s Of America by Atulya Mahajan
Atulya Mahajan's debut novel Amreekandesi: Master's Of America is a decent one-time fun read. Choc-a-bloc with all the clichés one can think of about a middle-class Indian boy's journey to the "land of...
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Shubho Janmashtami !!
|| karmaṇy evādhikāras temā phaleṣu kadācanamā karma-phala-hetur bhūrmā te sańgo 'stv akarmaṇi ||Do your duty to the best of your ability. Overcome your limitations. Concentrate on your...
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The Good Little Ceylonese Girl by Ashok Ferry
After Colpetty People (2003) come The Good Little Ceylonese Girl (2006),Ashok Ferry's second collection, and his own take on Sri Lankan life (at home and abroad). Witty, frank, conversational, slightly...
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Random 6.0
This week the moon helps sky-watchers catch some celestial fish and trawl the night sky for the most distant worlds in our solar system. Besides: while planets parade from dusk to dawn, and some...
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Colpetty People by Ashok Ferry
I have never read Ashok Ferry before, never even heard of him. But Colpetty People (the name, that is) piqued my interest sufficiently enough to want to sample Sri Lankan lit. Sri Lanka, as we all...
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Random 5.0
|| ॐ नमो भगवते वासुदेवाय नम: |||| Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya Namah ||Translation:Om, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, O Vasudeva, O all-pervading Eternal Spirit, I offer my respectful obeisance unto You.Meaning:[Om or...
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Truly, Madly, Deeply by Faraaz Kazi
"Truly Madly Deeply" is a song by Australian pop band Savage Garden, released as a single in March 1997. But here we are referring to debutant author, Faraaz Kazi's "Truly, Madly, Deeply ... Memoirs of...
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1. || Jagannatha Swaminayana pata gaminayana pata gamibhava tu may ||Translated:|| O Lord of the Universe kindly be visiblekindly be visibleunto me ||2.Night Light:Like a celestial pipe organ in a...
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Reclaiming our History | Decoding the Ramayana: The *real* Shri Ram: Whether...
Author's Note:Please visit -The 'Real' Ramayana/ Ram-Rajya- to read the other parts of this series, so as to be able to fully understand or grasp the contents of this one.Continuing with our...
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1. The Emperor tamarin: Mr. Moonch. A species of tamarin allegedly named for its resemblance to the German emperor Wilhelm II. It lives in the southwest Amazon Basin, in east Peru, north Bolivia and in...
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Birds of Sirpur, Indore by Bhalu Mondhe | Abhilash Khandekar | Kaustubh Rishi
Birds of Sirpur,Indoreauthored by Bhalu Mondhe (freelance artist/sculptor and photographer), Abhilash Khandekar (professional journalist of 30 years standing in print media + a wildlife and nature...
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Random 2.0
1.Dewdrops or raindrops?2. Ahh...Bliss!3.Byangoma: 4. Great Barrier Reef:A marine scientist admires a garden of stony corals:5. Cape parrot flying low over a wild plum tree. Africa's most endangered...
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Random 1.0
1.Triple Planet Huddle:Like the tip of a cosmic arrow pointing toward the heavens, three bright, star-like planets form a distinct triangular pattern in the darkening skies above the Himalayas in the...
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