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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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Where heart lies: Wajahat Habibullah has not left J&K in heart and mind though the IAS officer had moved away in 1994 | Read
SLIDESHOW
Winners all
With dance performances by Salman Khan, Kareena Kapoor and Rakhi Sawant, the entertainment quotient was well taken care of.
ASTROLOGY
CAPRICORN (Dec 23 - Jan 20)
This is quite a good time to retreat off to have a little bit of peace and quiet. You want privacy, to get away from the outside world. Self-protective and sensitive, you want to cling on to loved ones or familiar surroundings. Very definitely keen to keep up an appearance of good humour and success, you’ll soon be more confident in manner than usual. Let your flamboyant side rip. Just watch a tendency to over indulgence.
The pumpkin bomb scare
Just before I moved to Mumbai I wangled my elder sister into taking me along on one of her tours to Nagaland, (a state in the northeast India — just in case one thought it was in China).
Rituals for national pride
I will be so happy when this Independence weekend is over. Relax, dear reader, I am not about to embark on yet another fiery speech on why India’s freedom is meaningless lecture.
Myth versus facts
For some time now, I have become irritated whenever I see a mention of the Ram Sethu.
Reconstruct old cessed buildings
The building that collapsed at Bhendi Bazaar was an old cessed building and had surpassed its safe service life. There are a number of such buildings in Kalbadevi, Girgaum, Bhendi Bazaar.
‘Amarnath was a symbol of secularism’
CIC Wajahat Habibullah has not left Jammu and Kashmir in heart and mind though the J&K cadre IAS officer had moved away physically since the near-fatal accident he had in 1994.
Wedding fevers and aunty fears
I got the call. Finally, it was happening. “Hey Ani, guess what, I’m getting married?” “Whoa, but dude, we are like, just out of school man!”
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