Praveen Shivashankar

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  1. A Pain called Indian Passport Office! — 41 comments
  2. Soulful Songs for Soul – Bhaavageete – II — 29 comments
  3. Bhaavageete: Soulful songs for hearfelt emotions – 1 — 28 comments
  4. Bhavani Ashtakam – An Ode to the Universal Mother! — 13 comments
  5. Favorite Kannada poetic numbers in movies! — 11 comments

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I own my life…

And its very much my own. 🙂 I have never considered myself capable enough of owning anybody else’s.  The general belief has been that somewhere around the time that you reach 10 years of your career life, you begin to question the whole cosmic world of Career.  The question becomes existential, much like the quintessential …

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Such a Long Journey: Rohinton Mistry

Such a Long Journey

If ever there would be a prize for being self-centered, I guess I would win that – hands down! In the past few months, I’ve only ranted on and on about myself and how frustrating the circumstances around me can get.  Well, I thought my non-existent readers deserved a good break from my narcissisim (I’ll …

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Superman and Limits…

I have a superman ego! Not that I have the ego of superman, but an ego that has staunchly convinced me of my superhuman abilities, and that too without having to wear my underwear on my pants or ridiculously colored clothes with a long cape to prove it! Although there is one problem to this, in …

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Dejected & Depressed

I have started to hate myself and my posts off late! If anyone out there is still visiting this website and actually still reading my posts, well, my condolences to your common sense and my “Ha Ha” on your optimism! 5 hours of journey – 15 hours of work. 4 hours of productivity, 11 hours …

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Ek lamha

Ek lamha – dastak de raha tha sehma sa, ghabraya sa – ek lamha. Jaise maut ka saaya uske paas khada ho; Mere darwaze pe khada, woh lamha dasktak de raha tha! pukaar raha tha jaise apna ne ke liye – lamha jo keh raha tha, ke woh mera hai! main jo uljha raha mere …

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Crap On Air….

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Call me old school or plain archaic but gone are the days when the Radio was considered a pleasant companion for a rainy day or a cool evening.  Songs played on it had become tender parts of our memories that would gush back everytime we’d hear those songs.  The moonlit night when mom fed us morsels …

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