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 10:39 | 25/Nov/2008
redrawn pakistan amd middle east
this redrawn map is giving lot of headache to pakistan and middle east....... more...
 10:45 | 13/Nov/2008
religions---made by man?
Religions-The other perspective Light can not be without darkness, Happiness can not be without sorrow, Good can not be without Bad…Everything has  a different side, which we often try to oversee and neglect…God and religions is also one such thing.All the religions have their base on social injustice and violence. Jesus Christ was crucified on a c... more...
 10:13 | 7/Nov/2008
kashmiri pandits demand a home land
  The year is 1492. King Ferdinand of Spain has given the Jews of Spain a choice - either convert to Christianity or leave the country. Some 200,000 Jews flee for their lives. Half a world away, in Kashmir, the Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) are faring no better. Update of the essay originally written in 1993. The year is 1492. King Ferdinand of Spain has ... more...
 09:52 | 5/Nov/2008
Are hindus terrorists?
Is there such a thing as 'Hindu terrorism', as the arrest of Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur for the recent Malegaon blasts may tend to prove? Well, I guess I was asked to write this column because I am one of that rare breed of foreign correspondents—a lover of Hindus! A born Frenchman, Catholic-educated and non-Hindu, I do hope I'll be given some cred... more...
 09:37 | 1/Nov/2008
Kashmiri pandits--not refugees said U.N
NEW DELHI: United Nations (UN) has rejected demand from a section of Kashmiri Pandits to declare them as "internally displaced people (IDP)". In response to a memorandum submitted by various Pandit organizations here on eve of the visit of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, the UN mission clarified that it had no role with IDPs in India. "By man... more...
 09:39 | 30/Oct/2008
FACTS ABOUT JAMMU REGION
The voice of division of Jammu and Kashmir State was raised first by the Kashmiri Muslims in 1924 who launched an agitation demanding scraping of Amritsar Treaty. The  ‘Quit Kashmir Movement’ against Dogras and Dogra Ruler, Mahraja Hari Singh was also aimed at separating Kashmir Valley from other parts of the state. Now if Jammu Province and Ladakh... more...
 09:54 | 16/Oct/2008
MALAYSIA BANS HINDU ORGANISATION
Hindu rights action force(HINDRAF) has been banned by Malaysian government which is predominantly muslim.(more than 60% population is muslim)Hindraf came into international focus after it organized a massive rally on November 25 last year to protest alleged marginalisation of the ethnic Indian minority in this country.Malaysian home minister Datuk ... more...
 10:03 | 15/Oct/2008
Letter to Prime Minister from P.O.K
Balawaristan National Front’s letter to Indian Prime Minister (November 27th 2001)Ref: BN/4-14/1His ExcellencyMr Atal Behari VajpayeePrime Minister of IndiaNew Delhi Sub: ReminderDear Sir,I have the honour to draw your kind attention towards my earlier petition (Sub: “Include Gilgit Baltistan in J&K (Jammu and Kashmir) dialogue” dated December 18, ... more...
 10:17 | 10/Oct/2008
125 youths disappears in doda,join milit...
JAMMU, Oct 9: Nearly 125 youths including a number of students have disappeared from a number of villages in remote and upper reaches of Doda district and were reported to have joined militancy during past three to four months.According to official sources, Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) chief for Doda Abu Kasha and his deputy Iqbal Malik were reported to h... more...
 17:05 | 22/Sep/2008
conversions threaten way of life
Francois Gautier(www.francoisgautier.com) writes to Dr John Dayal, member, National Integration Council, in response to the letter he wrote Prime Minister Manmohan Singh : Dear John Dayal, I am a Westerner and a born Christian. I was mainly brought up in Catholic schools, my uncle Father Guy Gautier a gem of a man, was the parish head of the beauti... more...
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 harsha bhat | 09:59 | 13/Nov/2008
Friends: (35)  | City: dharwad  | Interests: blogging, composi...
Akhil Babu's letter to INDIAN RAILWAYS!!...
Friends,Communiction has no barriers.I realised it when i went to TamilNadu.I knew nothing of TAMIL and they dint know a bit of either english,hindi or kannada...So i was using all my dumb charades skills to communicate.I was really frustrated with them...Trust me u'll go crazy....And one day while i was checking my mail..This is what i saw....Go a...  more...
 sumne | 14:13 | 25/Nov/2008
Friends: (12)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: music, cricket, r...
don't red
hi sabhiko pranaam, mekoyi lekhak nahi hu muje liknanahi atha isliye mera blog cali padahe. Apke apadkar jarur muje galiya denge kunki meri hindi our english ootni achii nahihe pls mariye mat ok.   I am going on work u? lette see on next blog ok den bay. seeu leater gays  more...
 nirdosh kapoor | 21:16 | 9/Nov/2008
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Tech Crazy
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 Rakshita Verma | 16:45 | 7/Nov/2008
Friends: (741)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: jokes, poetry, pu...
What is holding you back?
Have attempted a song. I know it is sort of incomplete without the tune... but still worth sharingI am taking a run up to fly My arms all spread upWaiting to meet the sky What’s wrong nowWhy you look so shy             Hey you! What is holding you back?           Let’s begin from the start            Yes you, what is holding you back?   Look me in ...  more...
 prasanna sri... | 20:06 | 29/Jul/2008
Friends: (553)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: in everything
Just Laugh
  Huge Pause A bearwalks into a bar and says, "I want a bourbon and............... coke"The bartender asks "what's with the huge pause?"The bear says, "I've had them all my life."  An Old Fart Oneevening, a family brings their frail, elderly mother to a nursing home andleaves her, hoping she will be well cared for. The next morning, the nursesbathe...  more...
 Nischalson C... | 17:16 | 25/Nov/2008
Friends: (402)  | City: iland  | Interests: i am not that tal...
"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!"
"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!"Th e metal detector sounded off as the security guy in Calcutta airport brought the detector next to my shoes. I was flying back home via Calcutta after two years."Yeh kya hai?", he asked."Shoelace tie karne ki jaga”, I replied in my not so perfect hindi.“Par yeh kya hai?”, he asked again and took...  more...
 K B | 09:01 | 24/Nov/2008
Friends: (33)  | City: ...  | Interests: bread board bed a...
duck, for all it is worth, louse!
"What may I do?" at length I cried, Tired of the painful task.The fairy quietly replied,And said, "You must not ask."- Lewis Carroll Congratulations to Team India for winning the ODI Cricket series, and sorry seeing England lose it too- Mr D/L to blame, twice over! "England washed out by Mr Duckworth Lewis, the dhobi of Pom cricket!"  AN ODE TO DUC...  more...
 Nandhi Varman | 08:46 | 1/Nov/2008
Friends: (55)  | City: Pondicherry  | Interests: Tamil, Poetry, En...
TERROR TALE
Back to Story - Help - Print Story'174 terror groups operating across India' Indo Asian News ServiceFri, Oct 31 09:37 PM New Delhi, Oct 31 (IANS) A staggering 174 terrorist, insurgent and extremist groups, many of them little known, are operating across India, figures compiled by a terror watch portal show.The maximum number - 40 - operate in Manip...  more...
 Srinivasan P... | 06:15 | 21/Nov/2008
Friends: (130)  | City: Trichy  | Interests: Human Resource De...
Plight of Working Women
I already posted a blog on Working Woman long ago. I want to share my personal experience recently.The sixth pay commission work was an uphill task. Our IT centre had lost many talented prople who worked for 5th PC. Most of them went abroad. I am new to the place - with 4 years experience and though I am some what creative, my programming skills ar...  more...
 febin joy | 07:48 | 9/Oct/2008
Friends: (482)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Phtography, Drawi...
The Big Empty
Thanks everyone for the support u have showered on my posts. Here is another picture from me. I don't think this one needs a description. Enjoy.... Febin  more...
 Sanjib Karmee | 17:45 | 5/Jan/2008
Friends: (14)  | City: Aachen,Germany  | Interests: Politics
Who are Bharat Ratnas????......Bollywood...
Indeed this award can be conferred to a sportsman or a film star, but we need to access theother side of his/her image; what they have done for the people of India, apart from entertainment. Do they have opened hospitals and educational-institutions for poor and shirtless of millions of Indians or they are helping the street-children of India to be...  more...
 Jahan Bakshi | 14:38 | 22/Nov/2008
Friends: (202)  | City: Sibsagar  | Interests: Cinema, reading, ...
Review: Yuvvraaj
Yuvvraaj sees Subhash Ghai go for a sixOriginally published on NOWRUNNING.COM How the mighty have fallen. Really. I sincerely hope Yuvvraaj is the last film we see from Subhash Ghai. While it almost seems cruel to write off the ‘showman’ in such a callous, even seemingly casual fashion, my words, I assure you aren’t without reason. Ghai may not hav...  more...
 RAGHU IYER | 00:21 | 26/Nov/2008
Friends: (156)  | City: UNIVERSE  | Interests: .......
dard e daasthaan
Breaking away from the story time a little bit, did not want the readers to be sad after reading this stuff, what to do, aadat se majboor...bus…kuch apne dil ki hi baathein likh dhi… Aye dost mubaarak ho tumhe,Ye duniya ye jahaan,Hame parchaai na samajnaa,Ham tho naa rahenge yahaan ya wahaan,Ab jo chal diye,Tho doondthe rehna,Na ham rehenge naa ham...  more...
 Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007
Friends: (345)  | Interests: cricket, movies, ...
The Bourne Series...... download now!!
The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...  more...
 Baldeo Pandey | 23:43 | 9/Nov/2008
Friends: (1267)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: You 0981...
'देशद्...
कमाल खान बधाई के पात्र है, 'देशद्रोì 1;ी' फ़िल्म एक अमानवीय सोच प...  more...
 Rajneesh Anand | 17:27 | 20/Sep/2006
Friends: (11)  | City: jammu  | Interests: Trekking, Music, ...
Religion
I am Hindu by birth. But I can also say that I follow no religion in particular. I do not pray and am a sort of non-beleiver. If there is an all powerful God, I don't think he requires our prayers to fulfill our wishes. He is supposed to be all knowing and guiding us all the time. So why pray? We treat him the way we treat other fellow humans. But ...  more...
 Sunil K | 00:59 | 26/Nov/2008
Friends: (535)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: sleeping, watchin...
How to catch a lion..
How to catch a lion.. Indian Police Method:Catch any animal and interrogate it & torture it to accept that its a lion.Rajnikanth Method :Keep warning the lion that u may come and attack anytime.The lion will live in fear and die soon in fear itself.Jayalalitha Method:Send Police commissioner Muthukaruppan around 2AM and kill it, while it's sleeping...  more...
 Vibhuti | 16:08 | 25/Nov/2008
Friends: (496)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Living life fulle...
Time Pass
THE OLDER YOU ARE THE EASIER IT IS...   KIDS DON'T HAVE THE PATIENCE FOR IT...Can you find the B (there are 2B's)!  DON'T skip or your wish wont come true.... RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRBRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRBRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...  more...
 Dinesh Gupta | 12:21 | 28/Oct/2008
Friends: (17)  | City: Alwar  | Interests: I Interest to mak...
Happy Diwali
May This Diwali be as bright as ever.May this Diwali bring joy, health and wealth to you.May the festival of lights brighten up you and your near and dear oneslives.May this Diwali bring in u the most brightest and choicest happiness andlove you have ever Wished for.May this Diwali bring you the utmost in peace and prosperity.May lights triumph ove...  more...
 raj kumar | 12:17 | 8/Mar/2008
Friends: (13)  | City: ottappalam  | Interests: general reading
THE VOMIT IN THE BUS...........
AFTER THE DAYS WORK I WAS GOING BACK......MY MIND WAS TOO PREOCCUPIED WITH THE CONCEPT OF "ALLAH CAN CREATE ANYTHING FROM NOTHING"  BY BILAL PHILIP, THE ARTICLE (WHY WE WERE CREATED?),  WHICH I HAPPENED TO READ.THE BUS CAME, IT WAS CROWDED IN A MOMENT... I MADE UP MY MIND TO GET INTO THE BUS.  I GOT HUDDLED TO ONE CORNER NEAR THE BACK OF THE BUS. I...  more...
 Seeniraj Siv... | 10:47 | 12/Aug/2008
Friends: (87)  | City: Tuticorin-628005  | Interests: www.shivamaha.com
அச்சதĮ...
அவர் தலையில் முகம் பார்க்கு ;ம் வசதி உண்(டு)அத 16;ச் சொன்னால் ; ĩ...  more...
 Reshma Thakkar | 14:55 | 7/Nov/2008
Friends: (2438)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Enjoying life as ...
NEW VERSIONS OF A QUOTE
THE ORIGINAL QUOTE     If you love someone, Set her free... If she comes back, she's yours, If she doesn't, she never was....       THE NEW VERSIONS  ARE .....       Pessimist: If you love someone, Set her free ... If she ever comes back, she's yours, If she doesn't, as expected, she never was     Optimist: If you love someone, Set her free ... Don...  more...
 Kumar Ahuja | 18:03 | 25/Nov/2008
Friends: (454)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: I luv Making Frndz..
Predict Your IDOL
Try this...!!! It's really different. This Maths Test Can Predict Your IDOL.. Try it without looking at the Answer! 1. Pick 1 Favorite Number from 1-9 2. Then Use that no. & Multiply by 3. 3. Then again Add 3, then 4. Again Multiply by 3 ..  You'll get a 2 digit no. or a 3 digit. Add the digits.  Now See Who Your IDOL is from the List below with th...  more...
 Shivaja V | 12:23 | 26/Nov/2008
Friends: (85)  | City: Baroda  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
The story of an SMS……… (This happened in 2006) Winter had just started. My hubby and I were enjoying a serene walk in the park. 24 hours and he would be off to Sharjah to join his new job. I sighed as I thought of how much I would miss him again. I gently weaved my fingers through his and he clasped it. A thousand words spoken!   I smiled at him wi...  more...
 Tumble Weed | 11:18 | 22/Nov/2008
Friends: (458)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Soch ko Badlo, Si...
End of the Innocence
A child peers deep through the skyA twinkle gleams across his eyeDire ambition lost in a stareWhere even imagination wouldn't dareA world, his own to perceiveSuddenly seems more than just make believeOf trees and flowers, sands and starsColors and shapes and candy bars. A realization the first fatal step persistsAcknowledgment that life itself exis...  more...
 muralidhar p... | 12:01 | 20/Sep/2008
Friends: (35)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Poetry, Current A...
Why we deposit in America??
Dear Friends,I have ben nurturing a doubt for quite long and hence thought that I should share this with you all to seek answer for this nagging issue..Every country in the world has reserves in U.S. why? Do we get any returns on the trillions of dollars India has as reseves in U.S.of A?If we minutely analyse, America is living on the reserves form...  more...
 Hellz Angel | 02:50 | 18/Oct/2008
Friends: (437)  | City: The other side of heaven  | Interests: getin fuckin was...
131008...
     tum mujhe yu.n .. bhula na pao.ge…haan tum mujhe yu.n .. bhula na pao.ge…jab kabhi bhi sunoge geet mere…sang-sang tum .. bhi gun-gunao.ge…haan tum mujhe yu.n .. bhula na pao.ge…ho tum mujhe yu.n…woh baharein woh chandani raatein…humne ki thi woh pyaar ki baatein…woh baharein woh chandani raatein…humne ki thi  woh pyaar ki baatein…un nazaron ki...  more...
 Namrata Sriv... | 21:12 | 4/Oct/2008
Friends: (315)  | City: Kanpur  | Interests: interested in alm...
ciao
I do not blog here any more... ... have spoken a lot, all through my life.. now want to be quiet for sometime. thanks a lot to all known and unknown people, who became a part of this writer's journey and gave me some memorable experiences. .. take care and enjoy the life. :)  more...
 shiv bhargava | 19:19 | 23/Sep/2008
Friends: (42)  | City: Kanpur  | Interests: travelling,photog...
THOUGHT
LIFE-Have you even thought - which moment of life you lived,is more beautiful and memorable.My view is that - when the life is on moove, when you innovate the things . You stop and the life will stop. The air, view,people,things and conditions if become static then the life will be static. The change in all these factors is important, if you want t...  more...
 dinesh niduvani | 16:19 | 6/Sep/2008
Friends: (213)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: travelling,playin...
Is India Secular?
Yes,We Can say so because by giving money you can convert peoples from one religion to another religion.and even some mens of minority people can kill a swamiji of majority people.muslim terrorists will not be hanged even if they attack on parliment! reason for all these incidents is that we have great politicians?Some MP/MLA' s Are sold here.Polit...  more...
 J G | 23:38 | 15/Sep/2008
Friends: (549)  | City: Noida  | Interests: Reading, Music, K...
George Bush was sitting in his office wondering whom to invade next when his telephone rang. "Hello, Mr. Bush!" a heavily accented voice said, "This is Gurmukh from Phagwara, District Kapurthala, Punjab .. I am ringing to inform you that we are officially declaring the war on you!" "Well, Gurmukh," Bush replied, "This is indeed important news! How ...  more...
 beena john | 12:29 | 4/Nov/2008
Friends: (591)  | City: Nagpur, Kerala  | Interests: MOVIES, MUSIC, SH...
Jokes
A cabbie picks up a nun.She gets into the cab, and notices that the very handsome cab driver won’t stop staring at her.She asks him why he is staring. He replies: “I have a question to ask you, but I don’t want to offend you.”She answers, “My son, you cannot offend me. When you’re as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have, you get a chan...  more...
 shashi tahil... | 16:17 | 15/Nov/2008
Friends: (565)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: Making friends,Su...
WOH BAARISH
WOH BAARISHChhaa Gayee Hai Mere Dil Mein Chaahat Ki Jhankaar,Is Bheegee Barsaat Ki Raat Mein........Jab Saawan Rimjhim Barastaa Hai,Tab Mera Rom Rom Khil Uthtaa Hai......Sochtee Hoon Kahoon Tumse Kyaa,Aa Jaati Hai Aankhon Mein Hayaa......Har Saans Ko Geela Kar Jaati Hai Yeh Barsaat,Arz Karoon Main Kaun Sa Khayal Bheege Dil Se Kya Sawaal,Mere Paas T...  more...
 Mainak Mazumder | 13:30 | 6/Nov/2008
Friends: (673)  | City: GREEN PLANET  | Interests: Disaster Manageme...
DONATE AND HELP US: MAINAKSWORLD
MAINAKSWORLD invites you to the new look of www.mainaksworld.comIncase, you want to help us by 1$, please go to the www.mainaksworld.com link and click on the paypal link. If you are kind enough to do that, please also send us an message with the detailed amount you have donated at admin@mainaksworld.com Our contact details are admin@mainaksworld.c...  more...
 vikas yadav | 03:45 | 26/Jul/2008
Friends: (15)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: talking to people...
Truth hurts sometimes
Truth hurts sometime and this is life`s bitter reality and we all can never run from it. I always feel that this is the palce where you can speak from your heart as nobody is watching . You can let your inner fears out, share things or incidents which bothers you time n time again. Today, I came to know that my dear friend has just got engage. I ca...  more...
 shivraj dhumal | 09:50 | 18/Jan/2008
Friends: (346)  | Interests: business networki...
WHO DRIVES YOU?
Have you ever started your day waking up late and then thinking that 'today's day is going to be unlucky'. Then going throughout the day and coming home back and then remember all that happened on the entire day. You might have noticed that the day happened to be just as you thought it to be.I would like you to follow this experiment. I would like ...  more...
 neetha nair | 23:08 | 20/Oct/2008
Friends: (53)  | City: everywhere  | Interests: not sure
OF safety issues, Men & Women
The Sunday newspaper had a special edition on the security scenario for the working women. There was specific mention about the TV journalist who got killed on the Delhi road at midnight few days back . The write-up was almost like a reaction to the Delhi CM’s comment saying something about  women being adventurous. I was feeling sad about the whol...  more...
 hindu icon | 01:26 | 22/Sep/2008
Friends: (124)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: hindutva
An Intellectual debate
The intellectual scene in Post-independence IndiaA speech of S. Gurumurthy given to IIT Chennai... Defeat and anger go together. Abuse and defeat go together. So, it is in this norm and with this understanding of what an intellectual debate means, I would like to place before you some of my thoughts today. Some of may find it provocative. I am conf...  more...
 Clayton Desouza | 13:44 | 23/Apr/2008
Friends: (10)  | City: Pune  | Interests: Travelling , Wild...
Poem -- Growing old
The Twilight years . They say that these are the golden years Why  I am not so sure Bcos With my new aches and painsIts certainly no pleasure .Walking,  talking ,  are not easy  Even if they are Who is there to talk to ? Where do I walk to ? No salt ,nosugar ,no taste no apetitite What can I eat ? How do I eat it ? When it comes to causing trouble ...  more...
 Kush A | 18:56 | 22/Nov/2008
Friends: (178)  | City: BLR  | Interests: Football, books, ...
Mujhe pado
मेरी इन रचनाओं में खुद ही को तुम पाओगेतनह ;ाई में मुझे याद करो&#...  more...