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		<title>&#8230;&#8230;to driving.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 01:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is the second and concluding part for you Kirti, as promised. 

Continued from the first part:  &#8220;From cycling…. &#8221;
Exactly ten years later at 39, a special someone entered my life changing it forever. Oh I was married alright and a mother twice over. What has that got to do with it anyway?? Special [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny and sad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[


Here is something that happened during my college days. The year was 1979 and the place, St. Teresa’s College, Ernakulam. One fine day as the classes in the college were in full swing, some boys from some nearby colleges barged in, pushing aside the lone security guard at the gate. This was a rare and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From cycling&#8230;..</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post  is for you Kirti as promised.
I was all of a very young 29 when my Lord and Master decided to teach me to ride a bicycle. I don’t remember how exactly this came about, what turn of which conversation led to this enthusiastic decision on his part. I was all for it, feeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pink Panther magic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 07:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure I am doing the right thing by making this matter public. Till now he was all mine (and why the hell does MS Word think I should use ‘mines’ instead of ‘mine’ here??!), my very own Lord and Master. Sigh, all that will have to change once this little matter which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sardarjis (continued)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(….. continued from here)
 
While at Ferozepur, I had frequent attacks of malaria while the others mysteriously enough were unaffected. Once on hearing that I was down with ague yet again Major Jaswant Singh jocularly asked the Lord and Master of mine, whether this was a bi-annual or quarterly feature. My first-born was not even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sardarjis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 11:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have come looking for Sardarji jokes, let me tell you, this is the wrong place. This blog is about Sardarjis all right… but it is about some among the brave troops of my husband’s battalion (Sikh Regiment) who came into our family’s life as sahayaks (helpers/orderlies) and enriched our lives in their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye Mom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey Mom!! Whaddya know Mom, lots of carrots here Mom. You know how I love carrots Mom. I found boiled potatoes and oranges too Mom. Yippeeeeee. You know how much I love oranges Mom. Hey Mom, don’t be shocked.  They have plenty of chocolates too and don’t mind us doggies gorging on them too.
It’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the net (dis)connects&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it rains it pours and how!
My woes started with the modem going kaput. What can be as disastrous as that for a blog addict?? I did not go into shock immediately that happened because my buddy Airtel gprs connection on my cell phone was there as standby while the BSNL people got their act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goofy (revisited)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 06:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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I woke up to a beautiful morning today. There was a nip in the air. Once I was done with preparing breakfast I walked out to the front yard and looked up at the sky. The clouds looked like fluffy cotton wool against the beautiful blue sky. I decided to get my camera and take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shail</dc:creator>
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&#8216;The Nuts&#8217; was what we called ourselves, the &#8216;we&#8217; here referring not to some teen under graduates or school students, which erroneous conclusion you might have been tempted to jump to, but post graduates, studying in the prestigious Kariavattom University, which lay about 16 kilometers outside the capital city of Trivandrum. The ‘we’ consisted of [...]]]></description>
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