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| You can choose the Winning Novel! | |
| Power in your hands! You can choose the Winning Novel! 5000 hopefuls from 22 different countries have entered the ongoing Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. On January 15/16, a list of the Top Thousand will be declared. Log on to www.amazon.com/abna on January 15 and help choose the winner! ‘To:God@Heaven.com’ by Veena Nagpal is an entry f...
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| 16:00 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| My novel ‘To:God@Heaven.com’ is competin... | |
| I have seen the heart ache and utter hopelessness of growing old alone. I have also seen the vulnerability and moral confusion of a child growing up in an alien land, amid an alien culture, of being caught in a tangled skein of conflicting identities… These twin experiences are what inspired me to write ‘To:God@Heaven.com’, a tale that cuts across...
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| 18:59 | 4/Dec/2007 |
| Helping prevent Global Warming through '... | |
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| A 'Green' Book for Children‘Garbie Garbyhog - The Worm That Wanted to Fly,’ by Veena Nagpal, is a lively and inspiring tale of the adventures of a composter worm named Garbie Garbyhog. Listening to his best friend Cathy Butterfly chatter about the wonderful world that lies beyond the garbage heap where Garbie lives, he is extremely unhappy about w...
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| 11:53 | 29/Nov/2007 |
| seeking Amazon.com Customers | |
| Are there any Amazon.com customers out ther? Have you bought books - or any other products - on line from them? What has been your experience? Do any of you do customer reviews for Amazon.com?
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| sohamswami | 07:12 | 14/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (242)
| City: HIMALAYAS
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| WHILE IN SUNDARBAN |
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| I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO AMAZONBUT I HAVE SEEN IT IN MY DREAMS.I KNOW IT IS LIKE THIS,I KNEW, IT WILL BE LIKE THIS..!!AS MY BOAT ENTERS THE CREEK,GREEN PLANTS SURROUNDS WITH BATHING MANGROVES.CREEPERS AND TREES HOVEROVER THE HEAD TO GIVESHELTER FROM SCORCHING SUN.THE QUICK SANDS AROUNDREMINDS ME OF MY THOUGHTS. A SALTY BREEZE GENTLY FLOWS OVERSIGNALING...
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| Anil Goel | 13:57 | 12/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (757)
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| "I had trouble putting down your book!" |
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| Thank You folks for writing in :-) The initial feedback is VERY ENCOURAGING and I am glad so many people from different backgrounds are liking it - from a college student studying management to the founder of a design firm; from an author breaking new ground with children's fiction to a manager working in one of the hottest industries in India toda...
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| Think Tank | 11:32 | 14/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (407)
| City: Mumbai
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| Jab I learnt flying Patang... |
| MemoriesJab I learnt flying Patang... As Makar Sankranti has come, kites are ruling the Mumbai sky. Kites are hanging from every tree and are making the otherwise dull power cables beautiful. Slum children can be seen running after the kites which come down drifting. Kites are of all colours, shapes and sizes. They are even selling beautiful small ...
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| Madhavan PK | 17:28 | 14/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (339)
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| The Great Indian Dream |
| First of all, I want to thank all my iland friends for sharing their views on Indianness. Some like Dilip Krishnan and Budhoose Kanjoose have separate posts on the topic, both must-reads. The common thread in defining the indefinable is the ‘unity in diversity’ theme. Like some of you said, the concept of Indianness is so imbibed and internalized t...
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| Sunil Meshram | 15:22 | 8/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (272)
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| Most Honourable OCCUPATION !!! |
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| IF SANITATION work in India brings with it untouchability, disease and death, why then do the Dalits not just give it up? At the least, why can’t they go on strike and ask for better working conditions? It is not that they did not try. In Delhi’s Balmiki Bara in Aryapura, Rajinder Kumar, a Delhi Jal Board sewer worker, offers us some non-textbook h...
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| surya s | 07:45 | 13/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (76)
| City: Helsinki
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| Like the opening lines of a joke.... |
| A Finn, an American, A Russian, an Estonian, a Bangladeshi, a Swede, a Romanian, an Iranian and a few Indians walked into a bar on Friday. Actually it was the American"s idea, but what started as a friendly, after salsa class discussion turned into two consecutive night-outs with living it up in Helsinki.Notes from the parties:Friday night saw one ...
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| Kiran Raivad... | 10:58 | 26/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (151)
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| STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART...FOR THE HEART. (Posting it as it may be useful/kr) A chat with Dr.Devi Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Specialist) Bangalore was arranged by WIPRO for its employees . The transcript of the chat is given below. Useful for everyone. Qn: What are the thumb rules for a layman to take care of his heart? Ans:1. Diet - Less ...
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| Shyama Menon | 10:28 | 1/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (454)
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| Sporting me! |
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| You know how it is, one fine day, you end up playing some sport and realize how fit you really are. It may be a company sports event or maybe a club sports day that lets you know your fitness level. For me it's our building association’s fancy sounding “Winter Olympics”! So there I was participating in all sorts of things these last two weeks and d...
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| ok | 10:23 | 8/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (96)
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| Message from an humble pencil |
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| 5 important lessons to learn from a humble pencil. 1. It tells you that everything you do will always leave a Mark . 2. You can always correct the mistake you make .. 3. The important thing in life is what you are from inside and not from out side . 4. In life you will undergo painful sharpening which will make you better in whatever you do .. 5. F...
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| alpana | 22:22 | 14/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (243)
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| as the sun dipped low into the horizonless sky flaming and hot ,a ball of chrome yellow i sighed and wished you had been close so i could have shared thsi view with you over a thermos of cinnamon tea and coco cookies! the sun lending to the waters its shimmer and gleam and the birds that sing by the water's edge perforated dreams come alive as the...
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| Noanee Kapadia | 21:02 | 1/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (673)
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| Important in Life ---Food |
| New Year , New Ideas , New Goals ------------------------------------same old Goals folks ,Food for thought ,food for soul ,no it is food where it belongs , to good old stomach to reduce the pound of flesh ,so then back to diet fads ,sweating out gyms ------------------no no no----------------------------- this year it is going to be change of phi...
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| bhaskar sharma | 21:00 | 8/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (63)
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| khushi stories---5 |
| Khushi came near me and said," see this nanaji."I saw she had a piece of paper in her hand and a full page was covered with pencil dots." Tell me what is this?"" Dots and dots," I told her." no no, this is rain." she said and went away.After some time she came again and said, "see, this is sun."I asked her, " your sun is rising or setting down?"" r...
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| Brian Antao | 11:50 | 23/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (15)
| City: Goa
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| Wishing you all a merry season |
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| To all my Friends here on Rediff iLAND and to all the bloggers on Rediff iLAND.... from the sun and the surf and the lovely beaches of Goa, Here is Wishing you a very Happy Holiday Season ... To one and all a Very Merry Christmas and a Very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2008... that may bring all your wishes come true in the New Year !!!
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