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As the days get hotter and the winds get warmer, my sweat gets stickier and my jean gets wetter. I know summer is here and there is no escape, For the next month or so, all we can do is gape! Each new day brings on a stronger wave They call it ‘heat’ while I [...]


  Every once in a while You are presented with An opportunity of a lifetime. One time when you can be The You That Nobody Knows!   Do you know who that is? Or are you also in the dark As to who you really can be? Once you know it, you know the lid [...]


“I have a raw wound,

You can’t see it, I can’t show you.”


“I am no longer looking for the perfect partner. I am my own perfect partner.“ This was sent to me as part of an astrological mailing list I’m part of and it set me thinking. Being a single female in her 30′s and having been on several matrimonial sites unsuccessfully for a while now, it [...]


I still can’t believe MJ is no longer with us in this world. As I listened to all my old time favorites of the genius, nostalgic memories of my childhood came to me. Right from Bad to Black or White to Billie Jean to Thriller to Dangerous to Remember the Time and so on and [...]


Dear Mr. L, Greetings !! Let me begin by saying that I admire your work and am in complete awe of you and your life experiences. That was how I began my mail in response to an Ad in Craigslist.com for an internship with a very well renowned world traveling artist, photojournalist, director, writer  & [...]


Finally we were on the plane to Tokyo. After all the speculation and confusion, it was the four of us who had made it to this stage. A senior Ph.D student, a lecturer and two of us from the 2nd yr Criminology Dept. It was August 1999 and all of us were euphoric! It all [...]


It happened on a rainy chilly winter night in New York City. I was attending a panel discussion about the culture of the Indo Caribbean communities in New York City and beyond, organized by the members of SAJA (South Asian Journalists Association). It was one of the first events I went for and this invitation [...]


Why is it so difficult to do the right thing? Why is it that sometimes the answer is so obvious but we don’t want to acknowledge it? Why is it that when you finally know what you want, you also realize that its not gonna happen? Why is it that you are so tempted to [...]


Sitting across me he waxed eloquent on Shakespeare and his unforgettable works. I could see the professor in him come alive as we discussed the amazing ability of the Bard to bring his every character to life in so vivid a manner that the reader could never forget even the most insignificant character in any [...]



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