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 14:19 | 29/Oct/2007
Brave Heart
A couple of years back, an article was published in the TOI - 'A Soldier's Father' by one Mr. Venki Iyer. I am sharing the same with fellow rediffilanders. The helicopter appeared over the late morning horizon. We were to receive Mr. Lachhmansingh Rathore who was visiting our fighter base to perform the last rites of his son, Flg. Offr. Vikramsingh... more...
 17:27 | 12/Oct/2007
The Mystery Behind Israel’s Air Strike o...
There has been speculation of sorts as to what happened in northern Syria on 6th September 2007. Reports emanating from Syria suggested that on 6th September 2007, aircraft belonging to the Israeli Air Force (Hel HaAvir) penetrated Syrian air defenses and dropped some ordnance in a deserted area some where in the north of the country. The aircraft ... more...
 10:12 | 14/Sep/2007
LEST WE FORGET
On my trip to the Kumaon and Garhwal Himalayas in March 2007, I had the occasion to visit the Kumaon Regimental Centre at Ranikhet and chat up with the soldiers of this brave regiment. I also had the good fortune of meeting soldiers of 13 Kumaon, whose unit in the Battle of Chushul on 18th Novemeber 1962 fought the numerically superior and better e... more...
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 Binu Abraham | 16:15 | 29/Jun/2008
Friends: (329)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Reading
5 Minutes for Poor
Welcome to 5 Minutes for PoorAre you willing to spare 5 minutes for the poorAre you willing to spare 5 minutes a day for the poor. If so, you can help hundreds of poor/orphan children with food, clothing & education. Most of us have good education and enjoy good food every day. But there are millions of children who are deprived of both good food a...  more...
 ajay rana | 10:56 | 30/Dec/2007
Friends: (240)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: Reading, swimming...
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008
HAPPY NEEW YEAR 2008  more...
 datanentrygo | 07:49 | 19/Mar/2008
Friends: (327)  | City: Ranchi  | Interests: computerjobs
Jobs of editorial proofreading.
Jobs of editorial proofreading. Editorial proofreaders they can also recommend changes in word choice or inappropriate punctuation. Jobs of editorial proofreading. http://jobcenter.webs.com/pr.htm  more...
 Tammanna | 14:50 | 6/Oct/2008
Friends: (580)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music and reading
Once upon a festive time....
Something reminds me of youThe chill in the airAnd the onset of festive seasonHow we met serendipitouslyAt Durga puja pandalsAnd our eyes communicatedOver the din of drums and loudspeakersLater we bumped into each otherAt dandiya nightsAnd danced in rhythmic abandonTo the beat of the musicKissing in the back-seat of a friend’s carI lost some of my ...  more...
 sonu chandla | 16:03 | 28/May/2008
Friends: (315)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Music, Dance, rea...
Show the world what you can do
 Talent Trove Inc. (www.talenttrove.com) is building the largest online talent community in the world, making it the preferred destination for people of all ages to showcase their diverse creative abilities.   We are looking for talented individuals of all kinds to join our community and get a shot at being discovered.  We provide the ideal platfor...  more...
 Suresh Praja... | 12:39 | 30/May/2008
Friends: (273)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Having a Discus...
Welcome to Civilisation
Hello , family. Recently i have started on more book, LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL by Tony Martin. I have found a very interesting page in this book. I would like to share it with you. Author has taken it from somewhere which is mentioned at the end.   The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways , bu...  more...
 vira | 09:26 | 7/Oct/2008
Friends: (1670)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: music,photography...
 When it hurts to look back & you'rescared to look ahead, you can look besideyou & your best friend will be there....Unknown.The difference between a friend and anacquaintance is that a friend helps; anacquaintance merely advises....Bob Edwards.We are all travelers in the wilderness of thisworld, and the best that we find in ourtravels is an honest...  more...
 srinivas ek | 15:58 | 25/Apr/2008
Friends: (28)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: cricket,
2 American Presidents
History Mystery   Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can. Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. Both wives lost their children whi...  more...
 katrina | 01:09 | 8/Nov/2007
Friends: (21)  | City: london  | Interests: music!!
The colours of frendship
Once upon a time the colors of the world started to quarrel. All claimed that they were the best. The most important. The most useful. The favorite. Green said:"Clearly I am the most important. I am the sign of life and of hope. I was chosen for grass, trees and leaves. Without me, all animals would die. Look over the countryside and you will see t...  more...
 Saakshee I | 17:43 | 5/Aug/2008
Friends: (987)  | City: Close to u!  | Interests: This is the real ...
Sensual times beckons...
Guys its been some time now and my life it seems is the most boring one on the planet I meet guys I lose guys, I lose interest they hate my guts. Well that’s about it all now the same charade continues maybe I can shock myself into a new me. I realize that my perfect guy would be as lethargic as me, would love swinging... Hey hey hey lemme put the ...  more...
 sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007
Friends: (1051)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: theatre, journali...
‘Eating the Earth’!
 Eating meat, dairy and eggs threatens our planet.You use much less land and water if you eat crops directly. Animals use most of the protein they eat to live, not 'grow' meat. So eating meat adds to water shortages, forest clearing, soil damage, use of oil-based pesticides - and climate change. "By 2050 the world's livestock will be consuming as m...  more...
 Insignifican... | 20:21 | 5/Sep/2008
Friends: (62)  | City: DreamLand  | Interests: dis's de story of...
best song of the years from 1983 to 2008
Please wait 30 second to buffering the play list.... it's depend on your internet speed... thanks Best song of the years from 1983 to 2008 Please if you like any of them jsut leave your comment here or ping me if you need any song form this list..............  more...
 Kusum Mohapatra | 10:15 | 21/Nov/2007
Friends: (76)  | City: keonjhar  | Interests: Music, writing, p...
The Swan Song!!!
Hello everyone..I'm today writing my last post here..Thank you all for all your constructive comments and feedbacks and trust me, it has been huge..That is not to say i'm stopping writing altogether..but this point forward i'll be blogging on:http://disruptiveharmony.blogspot.com.(i've already transferred most of my blogs there...and some others, i...  more...
 Elisabeth | 16:01 | 6/Oct/2008
Friends: (534)  | City: Amsterdam  | Interests: art,painting,huma...
AUTUMN - SPIDER
While watering my flowers this morning, this spider web was illuminated by the sun and water droplets. If y ou see man y we b s in y our garden and nature ( in t h is part of t h e world), autumn h as start for sure!! In summer t h ere are spiders too, b ut now t h e y make b ig spider we b s to catc h t h eir pr e y . T h e y more...
 sheila das | 11:06 | 9/Jun/2008
Friends: (194)  | City: ....  | Interests: nothing
CBSE results: A mother's night ma...
Today the summer vacation ends and classes for standard 11 starts.  For us, the most important event during the vacation was the CBSE results for 10th .   Vacation started off with my daughter asking:   “ My teachers think that I will be national topper. Do u think so?”  I wanted to box their ears for making her tense and spoiling her vacation .   ...  more...
 Tanisha | 11:07 | 21/Nov/2007
Friends: (245)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading, Listenin...
Time
(author unknown) A young man learns what's most important in life from the guy next door.It had been some time since Jack had seen the old man. College, girls, career, and life itself got in the way. In fact, Jack moved clear across the country in pursuit of his dreams. There, in the rush of his busy life, Jack had little time to think about the pa...  more...
 siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (562)  | City: OUTER SPACE  | Interests: travelling into t...
A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE
Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...  more...
 vivek keserwani | 02:45 | 28/Mar/2008
Friends: (154)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: music, meditation...
how was your HOLI friends
Hi Friends, Nobody told me howz their HOLI? What masti you did and How did you clebrate it. Some of you might have remained inside of your house in fear of colours while some of you might have played a very colourful and wet Holi. To tell you the truth, I love playing holi but only when it is played in decency. In my locality people are so bad that...  more...
 sonali sengupta | 17:06 | 27/Jan/2008
Friends: (61)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: music,reading,cha...
Travel to Rajgir, Nalanda and Bodhgaya-P...
I forgot to mention a slight scare that we had on day-1. On our return journey, the horse pulling our tonga went crazy, slided down from the main road to the side-land and had it not been for my friends, I would have been badly injured (they balanced the tonga at the right moment and shouted me to jump down (I was still sitting alone on the tonga, ...  more...
 ramuK hsemaR | 09:11 | 11/Oct/2007
Friends: (53)  | City: Goa  | Interests: abcdefjhijklmnopq...
Random Thoughts
I have been away from iLand for a long time. Hence I have decided to go about this one in a random fashion. Life is going great and I'm damnest busy for the past few months, first with my summer project then came the placement season, next came GRE and finally after all, the mother of all exams CAT. I couldn't juggle with all these and so screwed u...  more...
 anshuman | 13:12 | 13/Nov/2007
Friends: (26)  | City: Allahabad  | Interests: Photography,compu...
92.7 Fm in Allahabad
92.7 Fm starts in allahabad in october last week. starting this radio channal in allahabad is not a big news but its a next step of a growing metro city.  more...
 saurabh upad... | 01:12 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (444)  | City: dream land  | Interests: photography,sport...
        Hi. It's Holi-week and people are already in the mood to celebrate. Unfortunately, there are some who like to enjoy at the cost of others. There are experienced incidents where dirty-water (from gutters) balloons or acid balloons are thrown. This is specially done at passengers in buses or trains or at bikers as one cannot catch the culpri...  more...
 swati rohatgi | 23:18 | 29/Jul/2008
Friends: (457)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: to have fun, shar...
Terminator- 34
Ok ok, thats the training batch ID to which I belonged T34. No there were not 34 of us from whichever end or middle you might count. I was off to the other end of India for the training. The executive hostel where we stayed had no wi-fi so after a long break of 19 days amback to civilisation. From initial furtive steps to Charlie"s Angels, Chomu an...  more...
 Baldeo Pandey | 08:33 | 7/Sep/2008
Friends: (1246)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: You 0981...
Loving Soul
One may assess her eagerness,Restlessness,Desperation,Sense of possession….Although she lives far away,In a concrete jungle,Surrounded by earthy ideas and objects,Still she nourishes the soft feelings,Yes, she is you…No need to ask about her credentials,Just feel it,Fit oneself in to it…..One will find herself emerging from misty surroundings…Knowi...  more...
 Misty Bella | 16:26 | 23/Nov/2007
Friends: (35)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: SEEKING MY NEW SE...
Jab We Met
Jab We Met Never in my entire life had I felt such a strong urge to get away by myself somewhere, anywhere, far from the daily grind. I realized that I badly needed a break if I were to be able to function normally without the bitterness and the grouses. Something else that had been brewing up for a while, suddenly failed to materialize, and I felt...  more...
 Payal Mehra | 18:10 | 15/Nov/2007
Friends: (743)  | City: Baroda  | Interests: Reading, Bollywoo...
Yesterday Today & Tomorrow
There are two days in every week we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control. All the money in theworld cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act wepe...  more...
 Noanee Kapadia | 09:30 | 25/Sep/2008
Friends: (572)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Indian Army,Himal...
Looking towards EAST
Brought up by Jack and Jill in the Queens English ,we always are looking West ward ,world history to us is always that of Europe and US.  a bit about Hiroshima to end it finally.I in Hanoi  in Vietnam ,little wiser than about the country than earlier ,about it;s history in short is that they were under Chinese for thousand years ,and they fought on...  more...