Keep in Touch!

I am a big zero when it comes to keeping in touch with people. Every new year i make this resolution, only not to apply it. But in those rare times when I do make the effort and reach out to my friends from another life, it feels so good. You can almost sense the [...]

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The Journey or the Destination?

They say the journey is more important than the destination!
 
But what should one do when the destination is known to be a dead end or just a figment of one’s imagination? Isn’t it plain stupid to embark on such journeys?
 
Or do some journeys in themselves have the power to turn sure dead ends into [...]

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The Difference between Winning and Whining!!

Heard this somewhere..
 
‘If you cant win the game, change the rules
If you cant change the rules, change the game!’
 
Pretty similar in spirit to a quote in an earlier post
 
‘To achieve what you haven’t
You have to be what you aren’t ‘
 
Interesting..!!

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Watch this..

I am extremely passionate about movies. I almost become someone else when I am talking about some of my favourite movies. Thought of listing some of my fav English movies here
 
Watch Braveheart /Gladiator – For the sheer passion of its protagonist and his pure love for his wife/family and his country
 
Watch The Dark [...]

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The Language of Signs!

I recently wrote a story, the main theme of which is surmised in its title ‘When the Universe Conspires…’. (link to the story here)

http://lipak.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/when-the-universe-conspires/

The basic premise is from a very famous book called ‘The Alchemist’ by Paulo Coelho, which states that the entire Universe conspires to help you achieve your dream. The dream could be [...]

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The Mumbai Rickshawala

 Just as the local trains are the lifeline of Mumbai, its Rickshaws are the red blood corpuscles of the suburbs! (they are everywhere). Mumbai rickshaws are the best that I have seen across cities. Yes, they may not be the best drivers in terms of observing traffic discipline and seem a nuisance to car wala [...]

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First Impressions…

I once read somewhere – ‘You never get a second chance to make a first impression’
 
Recently i was having a conversation with my friends on first impressions. It was telling how we felt about each other when we first met. It is actually not an easy task. Especially difficult for someone like me who is not [...]

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Your Dreams & You!!

I want to pose a question to the readers of this blog and i hope that your comments will give me and many others some much needed answers
 
More than 3 years ago, in the Australian summer of 2005, a guy called Marat Safin won the year’s first grand slam in tennis. Safin, a tennis player [...]

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Weekend Trek – Nerul

Today I went for a trek/picnic/outing with a motley set of people. And came back with a pretty cool bunch of friends!  I say ‘set of people’ because that’s the best description as most of the crowd were meeting each other for the first or second time. But there was one thing in common; a [...]

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Going Fast Nowhere

(Had written this story some years ago. Thought of publishing it on the blog)
 
 
There existed life, unknown to the inhabitants of Mother Earth, about a million light-years away from the Milky Way, in a galaxy called Balleria. Similar to the planets in our solar system, it had several round colorful celestial bodies floating in space, [...]

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