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The most common ones used to be ‘It was out of syllabus’ or “the teacher showed partiality… So and so has been given full marks …and she has cut my marks though I have written the same answer…” We even used to try the time-tested one, ‘ The paper was too lengthy and there...

Last night was a girls night out , so the girls of the family(Mom, myself and my daughter Neiv) went out to dinner. At some point our talks do center around IL. She asked me how things are going with IL and then requested me to put in a post . About what I wondered. I saw her looking around and replying, "About Mobiles".
What about Mobiles ,I wondered. As if reading my thoughts Mummy said,"I hate Mobiles". Goodness!!! what brought about such hatred . She ennumerated,...

I am saddened to hear about the Supreme Court approval for the demolition of Appu Ghar. There is a twinge somewhere inside my heart… Not that I had a close association with the place. I think I might have been there twice. The first time in my teens, when I was visiting cousins… <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p>
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In my shady past I have had the temerity of representing the Kerala...

A simple question " How do you manage your sudden energy burst due to anger/ disappointment ? "






Some of the steps that I have come across so far are
1. 'Close the door, hit a pillow hard, real hard to vent the negative energy out'. I think it works.

2. Next method is to 'Clean the house', using up all the energy. Or do some pending physical work,...

Imagine two eye balls on your computer watching everything you do. As we all know e-businesses thrive on the time they lock with the users. The more the time you are on a particular site or the more you use it, the more the money that goes into the pockets of these businesses.

Now it's eerie sometimes. Yahoo or Google knows where I stay, what I do, what are my needs, what do I look for when I am on the internet and what is my objective, my likes and dislikes.

The adaptive...