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7 1/2 Things you probably don’t know about me for sure..

Thursday, July 6, 2006

1. I don’t get a daily newspaper. I’m sadly out of touch with the real world except for my hour at the gym where I watch the “Alert” headlines on a 24X7 News channel. And we all know how perfectly useless those are.
2. I don’t get sleazy jokes in Hindi. I usually just nod along [...]

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Begnadigen Sie mein Deutsche

Monday, June 12, 2006

It was a Tuesday, I distinctly remember. All the strange things in life usually happen on Tuesdays don’t they? On this particular Tuesday, I was idly flipping through a course catalog trying to pick courses for this term.
Have you noticed how things sound a lot more profound in a foreign language? Well, I have. You [...]

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This is not the First Random post (or the Last)

Friday, May 12, 2006

The good is rightly thought to be that at which all things aim. That was Aristotle by the way, not me. But if I asked you what you were aiming at, what would you say? Happiness? Identity?
What defines happiness?
What defines you?
Or are they answers to the same question?
All of the above, as I found myself [...]

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