I love lazy Sunday mornings, like many of you. The best part for me is that there are no alarm bells to wake you up, and you get up from the bed when lying down feels like the worst activity in the world, and your body yearns to move and your limbs are tired of […]
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“Welcome Harsh, so what’s up? How is italics doing? Doing well, Uh?” That’s a typical statement that comes from my clients when they meet me.
What’s Up? – I have come to meet you sir, so that’s up?
How is italics doing? – I send you a newsletter every month. Now, I know that you don’t care […]
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It was about a month back when I was driving down the Ring Road and saw a few beggars at a traffic signal…err not beggars actually, but a few young beggar-like children selling all kinds of magazines and flowers at the Hyatt Crossing. You must have seen that crossing, which takes you towards the AIIMS […]
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I got a call today at around 2:30 PM from WSNY, a New York based radio channel. The Objective of calling: they wanted to interview me on Air in the evening at around 6:30. Topic: Outsourcing of copyediting in India. My instinctive reaction was that one of my friends may be playing a prank […]
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What do you have to say about a country which in its past hundred years has lost 30% of its land, has been governed by a single foreign ruler for the majority of time, has the largest population of poor, has produced the richest man in the world (albeit for a day), has people of […]
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Mumbai is a place Delhiites generally don’t like to travel. Heavy traffic logs, un-warmly behavior of people, and dearth of good-looking girls often are the major grievances of those who have been bred in Delhi or North India (disclaimer: I don’t want to instigate the North India-West India divide issue here). On my second trip […]
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Remember, Red. Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things and no good thing ever dies.
These famous words were said by Tim Robbins to Morgan Freeman in the 1994 classic The Shawshank Redemption. These words are engraved in my mind and soul like a small baby clings to the mother’s chest. Hope […]
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I have been inspired to write this post because I have suddenly realized something, and I believe I need to speak it out to 200-odd people who visit Mantrablogs everyday. I was going thru the list of Times Influential Personalities under the section “Heroes and Pioneers” and realized that most of the personalities listed there […]
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For those that don’t know him, Major General Peter Cosgrove is an ‘Australian treasure!’
General Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently. You’ll love his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you gotta love this! This is one of […]
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I have always maintained an opinion that one needs to be nice to everyone. By doing that, we practice humbleness and if you believe in the law of karma, what you give is what you get. So, being nice to everyone – your parents, spouse, siblings, friends, acquaintances and even strangers – is something I […]
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