history in the making
Originally uploaded by common man. It felt like I was watching the Pyramids in progress… as I explored this massive structure the Global Pagoda under construction in Mumbai.
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victory over a fruity battle
This might look very silly, but one rather peculiar aspect of me: a lifelong VERY STRONG aversion to fruits. Any kind of fruit, tomatoes and lemons being the only exceptions (though my friends would say that it proves that tomato is a vegetable and not a fruit! ) Right from childhood days. It seems my…
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of comments and posts
Not sure about the general rules of blogging, but in this blog, even comments are more or less like posts. Consequently, anybody who comments here are also bloggers irrespective of whether they have their own blog or not 8) I think some consider it bad blogtiquette to reply to one’s own posts, but here a…
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face to face… with myself
“Life is a joy… a celebration… there is nowhere to go… nothing to do”… there is plenty of literature available like this nowadays. And such words may be good to read/hear, may give one optimism, or maybe some kind of relief from any other difficulties that one may be facing. However, the past couple of…
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the world will not come to an end
All my life I’ve lived for someone, taken care of one particular person. Every decision, every action, taken with that person’s interest and welfare in mind. I have a good impression of that person that the person is like this and like that, has these likings, dislikes so and so, etc. But still I hardly…
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take time to smell the roses…
PA280042 Originally uploaded by common man. …but take care as roses might have thorns… and spiders as well…
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nothing much to say
Though many friends have encouraged me to keep writing, I doubt how many people regularly read this site. Anyway assuming that there might be some, you might’ve noticed the slow updates to this site so I’m giving an explanation…
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who is successful?
Recently I came across an article about a Police Inspector, who had received quite a few medals in his name from his office, had a family – wife and kids, and a nice big house. All signs of what we conventionally consider as success. The article said that after some altercation with his wife, he’d…
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the colors of malleswaram 8th cross
baNNa… nanna olavina baNNa! Originally uploaded by common man. There’s a lovely Kannada song “ille swarga ille naraka, berenilla suLLu” (right here is heaven, right here is hell, anything else is a lie) …and one can really experience that in Malleswaram 8th Cross esp during any festival season.
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jaanapada jaatre photos
DSC01449 Originally uploaded by Prashanth Reddy. There was a folk dance festival in Bangalore and though I missed the event, I’m glad I didn’t miss these brilliant photos by Prashanth Reddy (thanks to Veena for this link! 🙂 )