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Some of the most beautiful women I've seen and some of the handsomest men I’ve met don't have fair skin and sharp features, do not possess great height and sensual bodies but as they walk and talk and stalk the earth their beauty is gazed upon with wonder and reverence!
How do they gain this beauty, without physical attributes contributing to their features?
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And as the New Year dawns and we Indians face another year like the rest of the world, let us realise that we are living not in isolation but with the Rest of the World.
In a country that believes in mentors and gurus, we seem to be moving away from the very concept that admonishments are not punishments but just a course correction, and we as a people are being misguided by national leaders that when developed nations across the seas issue course corrections to us, they are jealous and are trying to derail our economy.
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Today is the last day of the year, and as the year comes to an end I look around and see my bamboo flute stretched out on the grand piano in my sitting room.
I pick it up and place my mouth tenderly against the unpolished bamboo hole, and then from the bamboo shoot pours out my soul. My tune initially is sad for the dying year but suddenly my thoughts linger on the days gone, my face lights up and sad melodies are replaced by happier tunes, sadness by joy and fingers flit on the bamboo in gay abandon.
Ah! How my flute reflects my feelings!
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This is another adventure of Mowgli from Jungle Book, not written by Rudyard Kipling, but springing from my own vivid imagination.
So, Mowgli suddenly comes across a great divide, “What’s this?” he asks.
“It’s a Divide,” the animals tell him, “We all have to cross over!”
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In the good ole days, one did up his or her home, but kept the amount one had spent, a secret. But today I was soon to find out, people publicise the amount they are going to spend even before they start.
Since I've done nothing for my flat for the last few decades and still feel there's nothing I have to do, I was unpleasantly surprised to find a so-called interior designer at my doorstep. "You look very like the carpenter who did the downstairs flat three years ago," I said.