tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6863762589550516912024-03-13T19:16:58.746-07:00Writers DenWritersden-jay is a treasure trove of fascinating articles that arrests human interest. Articles on writersden-jay tease you. Stimulate your thinking. Make you proactive. Writersden-jay unravels the world the way it is. And why it is. Human Interest Features, Fiction, Jokes, Health & Lifestyle, Science & Spiritual and many more takes you into the world of mysteries and reality. I would be more humbled if you would enrich writersden-jay with your wise comments and healthy criticism.Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14075180873111085997noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-686376258955051691.post-67323773640496784722020-12-12T05:57:00.002-08:002020-12-12T07:56:28.132-08:00Riders Of The Ghost Bike<p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> On
a silent chilly night, all alone in my room reading "Far from the Madding
Crowd" I involuntarily switched on the tape. Slowly Kishore Kumar's melody
in the melancholic number </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zindagi ka
safar / Hai yeh kaisa safar / Koi samjhaa nahin / Koi Jaanaa nahin...</i><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> filled my
room.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> This
song virtually opened the floodgates of my memory. A million thoughts rushed and swirled in my
mind trying to gush out. One single thought connected to a recent incident made
its way out and onto a blank white sheet. Yes, I would not be writing this if I
hadn’t persuaded my friend for an extended trip.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> One
of my friends bought a motorcycle. It was dream come true for him. For the last
couple of years, he was yearning to own a bike. And as brick and brick make a
building, every buck and pie he saved served to that end - buying his
dream-bike. Caressing his bike, he said to me, "Yaar, let's go to Tirupati
and thank the Lord for this long-cherished wonderful gift". I agreed
enthusiastically.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> For
both of us, it was a first trip to the Hills and we decided to make it a joyous
one on his new bike. With a small kit of travelling accessories hanging on our
backs through our shoulders and with a little bit of extra fittings to our
bike, off we went to the Hills. We rode in turns, sometimes dropping our
breakneck speed a little and negotiating tactfully the threat of lorries which
we nearly rammed into twice. We gave ourselves small periods of rest in
between, allowing the cute bike to cool off.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> We
reached Tirumala Hills and had a good <i>darshan</i>
of Lord Balaji. Well, it's really a treat to watch the Lord of the Hills
bedecked with jewels, well enshrined in HIS Sanctum Sanctorum and presiding as
many <i>darshans </i>as we had. In our
ecstasy, we did not forget our bike. We had arranged a grand <i>pooja</i> for it and sought the Lord's
blessings.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> After
enjoying the trip to the Hills, He suggested to me that we pay a visit to his
only brother staying in Chennai. I was reluctant and disagreed. "Look,"
he said, "we have come this far, let's go a bit further. It makes no
difference. With him, we threesome could have fun. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US"> H</span>e
also reasoned that the visit to Chennai would also help us have a feel of
things with him – like how's he doing all alone over there with his wife
sitting pretty at her mother's place to be delivered of a child.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> I
was disdainful as if having a foreboding of the things to come. Yet I agreed
somewhat reluctantly. So we, with a kick-start zoomed off to Chennai. Just as
we entered into the city, our bike broke down and refused to budge.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> Nevertheless,
we doggedly pulled the bike along to our destination. We were tired. But his
brother's child-like happiness banished all our exhaustion. The welcome was
warm and very much affectionate.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> After
exchanging embraces and pleasantries for a couple of hours, we got down to
business – that of getting the bike repaired first. His brother immediately
took our bike to a nearby workshop.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> That
was the end of it. For a couple of days we had a jolly good time in Chennai.
But our bike didn't turn up for some reason or the other. We cursed the
mechanic. His brother assured us to send it back by any means he could get at
as soon as possible. We agreed as there was no other alternative.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> But
then on the third day of our reaching Hyderabad, my friend received a telegram
from Chennai. It said in effect that one person died in a road accident while
riding a bike with a registration mark of Hyderabad. The bike was so badly
mangled that the victim died on the spot. Rush immediately. It screamed.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> The
news shook him badly. He was silently sobbing. He cursed himself. He had
purchased the bike and took it all along to Chennai. It did the rest. Killed
him instantly – his only brother. Fate! What about his wife and his yet to be
born child. All these thoughts sank him in utter sorrow. His voice trailed off.
He was still sobbing silently.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"> 'Easy
friend, it all happened with Lord's connivance. For we humans cannot see the
death's sting. Neither can we read Lord's thoughts. We really had a death-ride
all the way to Chennai. Yet we were not stumped'. I trembled with a guilty
conscience not knowing what to say further... </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14075180873111085997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-686376258955051691.post-89397952011649125512014-11-07T20:09:00.006-08:002020-12-11T10:18:26.898-08:00An Insatiable Actor, Kamal Haasan!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Kamal
Haasan! The name has become synonym with cinema. Kamal is cinema and cinema is
Kamal. Such is his life. Kamal lived on films and films thrived on Kamal
Haasan. Since he started walking as a kid he straight away walked onto the
celluloid at the age of five. Ever since, there was no turning back for him. He
has been entertaining the world of audiences for the last 55 years and is still
on the scene going as strong as ever giving a tough competition to his
youngsters and inspiring them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Kamal
Haasan is not just an actor. He is a producer, director, screenwriter, singer, lyricist
all rolled into one. Above all, he is perfectionist to the core. Whatever he
does he does it in style and with elegance taking care of even the minutest
details. Especially his obsession for makeup to transform himself into roles is
well known. His infinite patience to sit on the makeup table for hours together
is just amazing. But for others Kamal looks maverick and out of place in Indian
cinema. His obsession with films has made him don different kind of roles that
warrants complete change in physical form via makeup that nobody dared
experiment like Kamal Haasan did. </span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VkhhtlIA3rY/VF2W755crJI/AAAAAAAAAnw/h8pqFoyoG08/s1600/Kamal%2BHaasan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VkhhtlIA3rY/VF2W755crJI/AAAAAAAAAnw/h8pqFoyoG08/s1600/Kamal%2BHaasan.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">He played
the role of a lame guy in 16 Vayathinile in 1977, a blind man in Raja Paarvai
in 1981, a dwarf in Apoorva agodharargal in 1989, a potbellied buck-teethed
middle-aged guy in Indrudu Chandrudu in 1989, four unique different roles in
Michael Madana Kama Rajan in 1990, an utterly looking ugly man in Guna in 1991,
a woman in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Avvai Shanmugi in 1996, a
70-year old man with wrinkles writ large all over in the movie Indian in 1996,
and above all his portrayal of ten different roles in Dashavatharam has become
a crowning feather in his cap. Looking at the way Kamal metamorphoses into
roles via makeup is extra-ordinary and unmatched in the film industry. Taking
cue from him several actors today have been going in for metamorphic roles via
makeup. </span>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Well, to
describe his histrionic talents one has to invent superlatives and adjectives.
There are no superlatives left in English or for that matter in any language to
eulogize Kamal's acting talents. One has to watch his movies with mouths agape
in awe and amazement. Look at his amazing performances; a dreaded psychopath
killer in Bharathiraja's Sigappu Rojakkal in 1978, a notorious smuggler in
Nayakan in 1987, a dumb guy in Pushpaka Vimana in 1987, his role as a
pot-bellied mayor in Indran Chandran in 1990, his role of a blind guy in Raja
Paarvai in 1981, a dwarf in
Apoorva agodharargal in 1989, entirely four different roles in Michael Madana
Kama Rajan in 1990, an ugly innocent man in Guna in 1991, a woman in Avvai
Shanmugi in 1996, a 70 year-old wrinkled man in Indian in 1996, and 10
different characters when coming face to face in Dasavathaaram in 2008 really
makes you feel they are different and not a one-man donned roles. His sterling
performance in Nayakan in 1987 has been acclaimed and applauded worldwide. And
the movie has been included by the TIME magazine in its list of "All-Time
100 Best Films". </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Kamal
Haasan is not only an actor but a promoter of arts in movies. He has also
promoted arts showcasing them beautifully in his movies. In 'Anbe Sivam' he
showcased street theatre, in 'Dasavatharam' he promoted shadow-puppetry, and
now his 'Uthama Villain' showcases Villu Pattu, Kalari, Koothu, and Theyyam,
Bharata Natyam and other classical dances in Sagara Sangamam, bamboo-stick
fighting in Thevar Magan and leather puppetry in 'Indian'. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Kamal
Haasan has received the President's Gold Medal for Best Child Actor for his
debut film, Kalathur Kannamma in 1961; Kalaimamani Award from the government of
Tamil Nadu in 1979. Padma Shri in 1990; a National Film Award for Best Feature
Film in Tamil for producing the 1992 Tamil film, Thevar Magan; Best Asian film
award in 2004 for Virumaandi; Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in
Indian Cinema in 2006; a honorary doctorate in 2005; Living Legend Award in
2007 from FICCI; four awards for his performance in Dasavathaaram in 2010; Padma
Bhushan in 2014 for his contribution to Indian Cinema; 19 Filmfare Awards in
five language movies; Kerala Government honouring him for his 50 years in
Indian cinema; Other honours include Tamil Nadu State Film Awards, Nandi
Awards, Screen and Vijay Awards and several more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Besides
awards and honours, Kamal Haasan's histrionic talents have won worldwide
appreciation. Yet his insatiableness for perfection in his work is still burning
within him. He is not satisfied and sitting complacent. He says in one of his
interviews, "I want to give everything I have to this medium."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">Yes Kamal
Haasan is capable of giving everything to Indian Cinema; 'cause Kamal Haasan
has many more years of life ahead of him and he has to carve several milestones
in his cinematic career. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , "sans-serif";">I Wish this Greatest
Indian Actor a Glorious Super Duper Birthday !! </span></b></div>
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Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14075180873111085997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-686376258955051691.post-28767699041437294132013-11-11T07:54:00.001-08:002020-12-11T09:52:06.640-08:00Benchmarking Leadership<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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and restructuring them to scale new heights is the most difficult task. Very
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Not many are cutout for this task, which is why most people, lay desolate with their talents, strengths and resources. They
are lost in the wilderness of obscurity. Leadership is an attitude to life and
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to achieve optimum results in what he does. And this gigantic task of
restructuring resources falls under the domain of Human Resource Development. As
a result every company and individual has to focus on this aspect of Human
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> The most critical component of a person is
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be courageous to surmount challenges, build confidence and trust among
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> He should create paradigms for growth in a
competitive environment. He should be able to build teams and motivate them to accomplish the impossible with spectacular results.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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with a commitment to introspection and self-development. This is only possible
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Have
you ever visualized yourself with a bald pate that glows to the sun? You would
shudder at the mention of it, no! So do I. How do you stop yourself from going
bald? How do you see that your hair grows longer and lustrous? Finally How do
you take care of your hair? Here are some hair-raising tips that help make your
hair grow silky, shiny, lustrous, hale and healthy.</b></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> -:o0o:-<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>-:o0o:-</span></b></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_eBFwD27Mrk/UnOAI9vfuSI/AAAAAAAAAko/Z8AiOgQDI-8/s1600/Hair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_eBFwD27Mrk/UnOAI9vfuSI/AAAAAAAAAko/Z8AiOgQDI-8/s1600/Hair.jpg" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One fine morning, I woke up and standing
before the mirror I ran my fingers through my hair. I was so taken aback that I
felt the world swirling before me. For, I haven’t noticed for long how my hair
is thinning at a rapid rate. I trembled at the thought of going bald at so
early an age. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Hair
has been my constant worry. Because, I believe the lush crop enhances ones
personality and gives a dash of charismatic appeal to ones figure. Now it’s
time to preserve my present crop intact and I take numerous precautions.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come join me for an intriguing ride into the
world of hair-care hitherto the domain of womenfolk. Which of the two women you
train your sights on admirably... a woman with a near-balding pate? Or a woman with
long lustrous flowing tresses that swings graciously on her…? Obviously the
latter of course. Well, have you ever visualized yourself with a bald pate that
glows to the sun? </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You would shudder at the mention of it, no! So
do I. That goes to prove how hair influences or enhances ones physical
features; and how it gives you a dash of youthfulness. Isn’t it time we take
care of it now? </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTj-EOJsYJo/UnOA7kT6d6I/AAAAAAAAAkw/hrrlG8QKyfM/s1600/Rajni.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZTj-EOJsYJo/UnOA7kT6d6I/AAAAAAAAAkw/hrrlG8QKyfM/s1600/Rajni.jpg" /></a></div>
Here are some hair-raising tips. The factors
that contribute to hair loss are chiefly dandruff the dangerous, deficiency of
vitamins, iron, iodine and above all depression apart from malfunctioning of
thyroid and pituitary glands. These can be rectified if you take a little bit
of extra care while the glands malfunction can be taken care of by your qualified
physician. <br />
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s take dandruff the dangerous first, the
common malady afflicting us all.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Solution #1</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Take
a lemon and squeeze it. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Add
a few drops of warmly heated coconut oil or warm water to the juice and gently
massage your hair with it down to the roots. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">After
a while you feel like scratching your head with vengeance. This itching
sensation is nothing but the work of lime over dandruff. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">But
do not scratch go on massaging gently with your finger-tips avoiding nails. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Let
it dry for fifteen to thirty minutes and then take a head bath. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For
head baths prefer <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shikak</i>ai or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rita</i> or a shampoo prescribed by your
beautician or physician. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Do
it once or twice a week. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Dandruff
disappears with each such wash leaving your hair shiny and silky. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
lime or lemon apart from being effective dandruff deterrent is also an
excellent preventive of hair-loss. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Solution #2</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">If
your hair-fall is at an alarming rate the first chief remedy is... </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">The
less you bother about it the better. Maintain your cool. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Now
soak a handful of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">meth</i>i or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">menthulu</i> for a night and pestle it to a
fine paste. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Add
two eggs to it {only the white content and not the yolk for it give out a foul
smell}. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Then
gently massage the paste on your head reaching out to the roots. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Let
it dry for an hour. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">If
you wish you can also apply lemon juice for sheen on this paste after it is
dried. Then wash with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shikakai</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rita. </i></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">You
can use your favorite shampoo for a second wash to give off a heady smell. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Do
it once or twice a week. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Solution #3<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Another
method is that...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Take
some gruel, the water or extracted from cooking rice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Add
a few hibiscus {<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mandaram </i>in Telugu<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">}</i> leaves or flowers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Used
tea leaves can be added. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">If
you heat it to a boiling point it is better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Finally
add <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shikakai</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rita</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Stir
the mixture thoroughly and wash your hair. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">You
could use your favorite shampoo for a second wash to give off a heady smell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">By
this method you can at least preserve your present crop. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Solution #4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Further
if you wish to turn your hair into a lustrous and silky, try this. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Take
eight to ten gooseberries, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">avlas</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">usirikai</i>. You can also take avla powder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Take
half a glass of milk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Boil
avlas {or avla powder} in the milk like you boil potatoes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Next
remove the seeds and make a paste of the pulp thoroughly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Apply
it to your hair massaging well into the roots. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Let
it dry for an hour or so. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Then
have a head bath. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">This
is also an effective way of protecting your hair silky, shiny, lustrous, hale and
healthy. Use of avla prevents hair-fall and also blackens your hair.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Solution #5<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">How
to turn your grey hair into jet black </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Collect
some Mehendi Leaves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Grind
them into a fine paste.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Take
rose water, sour curd, used or boiled tea-leaves, some hot water, lemon juice
and a pinch of salt. Take all in the right proportion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Stir
the mixture and make it like a paste. The mixture should be thick like gum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">And
leave it for eight to ten hours. Better prepare the mixture during nights to
have the required time-gap before use. Then sieve it as you cannot filter the
paste.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Apply
the paste gently to your hair reaching out to the roots. Wait for 4 hours. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Then
take a head bath as suggested above. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-family: Wingdings; mso-fareast-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">v<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Repeat
this procedure whenever you have sufficient time. Since this is a natural
solution it does work out well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Though
this writer cannot guarantee that it is a "Lasting" solution for
turning grey into black; but still it is the best alternative to chemical dyes
and sprays that's flooding the market these days. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some Precautions for Your Hair Care</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Apart
from deficiency of vitamins depression is the main culprit that turns your hair
grey. If you are hair-conscious it depresses further your already-depressed
mind. The best remedy is to fight depression with a weapon called cheerfulness.
</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">For
total hair-care irrespective of your hair style and class of which it belongs,
whether dry, oily or brittle. I suggest... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Do
not worry much about your hair. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Find
out with your doctor if possible for any malfunctioning of your pituitary or
thyroid glands. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Let
your food consists of rich in all vitamins A B C D E, iron and iodine. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Do
not expose your head too much to the sun. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Keep
your scalp dirt-free. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Apply
pure coconut oil at least two hours before head bath. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Regular
head bath is preferable to rather once in a week. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Use
pure <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">shikakai </i>or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rita</i> or a shampoo suggested by your physician or beautician. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraph" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.4in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.4in;">
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">If you still prefer to use one, then
keep the blowers at a distance in a way that emanating hot-air may not affect
your hair roots. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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can, for this will help in good blood circulation underneath your scalp
strengthening your hair roots. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Remember combing is not scratching.
So select your combs with a not too sharp teeth but brushes gently. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Do not use combs used by others as
you may get infected with their hair problem. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.4in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.4in;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">See that your hair is not split at
the ends. Split-ends stop the growth of your hair. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.4in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.4in;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Go for regular haircuts. Regular
haircuts cutoff the split-ended hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.4in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.4in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 0.4in; text-align: justify; text-indent: -0.4in;">
<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-fareast-font-family: Verdana;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">18.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Lastly and finally I suggest use
pure coconut oil. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Hope
this article solves your hair problems. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> *****</span></b>
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their lives all through the year. Being romantic in life doesn't mean to get
physical in romance, mind you !!! It is just to be, to be plain romantic going
around and pleasing people, making them happy, bringing smiles on their faces,
recreating the ambience of warmth around, charming people with disarming
traits. That's the essence and meaning of true Valentine's Day ! </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How Valentine's Day has Come into Existence</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Valentine's Day is the second most celebrated holiday around the world
after New Year's Day. It is celebrated as an event in several countries,
especially Europe and around the world. Valentine's Day is actually associated
with Christian Faith and the Church. People began to celebrate his martyrdom as
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Valentine was born as Valentinus somewhere around in the early 200 AD in
Rome. He was a devout Christian who lived amidst the brutal persecution of
Christians by the then Roman Emperor Claudius II. Valentine was a preacher and
clung to his Christian beliefs. He secretly encouraged and performed marriages
for Roman soldiers which act was forbidden by the Roman Emperor for soldiers.
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Meantime while in prison, he is supposed to have performed a miracle
healing the jailor's daughter of her blindness. The jailor Asterius thought
that Valentine was a learned man. So he sent his blind daughter to gain wisdom
and knowledge from him. Valentine taught her everything including Jesus Christ.
She was impressed and a strong inner urge began to develop to see the world
with her eyes and everything that Valentine taught. So the legend goes that
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">How come Valentine's Day is celebrated as
Day of Romance?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Until it turned out to be a Day of Romance, Valentine's Day was earlier
celebrated as the Day of Feast. The first reference for the Day of Romance on
Valentine's Day was attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), the renowned
poet of the middle-ages, who associated romance in his poems to Valentine's
Day. In one of his works "Parlement of Foules" (written in 1382), he
writes 'For this was on Saint Valentine's Day, when every bird cometh there to choose
his mate.' </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ever since every poet worth his salt seems to have associated
Valentine's Day to love, romance, courtship and marriage as well. William
Shakespeare (1564 -1616) is not left behind. He too has caught the fancy of
Valentine's Day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Look what he said in his tragic play Hamlet (written around 1600) Act
IV, Scene 5 The character was Ophelia. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To-morrow is Saint Valentine's
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All in the morning betime,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be your Valentine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Never departed more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Besides poetry it is also believed by many that since Valentine
performed secret marriages of the Roman soldiers it was thought it fit to
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Feb, the day of his martyrdom. </span></div>
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Valentine, the Valentine's Day should suppose to be celebrated as a Day of
Wedding Anniversary by the world in accordance with other major events like New
Year's Day.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reporter too Intelligent </span></b></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">A smart reporter has
once joined a local newspaper as an editor. To discover her talent the paper
assigned her a first job to cover the activities of a small church in the
neighborhood.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The small church lacked
funds. The preacher wanted to raise money for his church. Someone told him that
horse racing was the best bet to raise fast money. He then went to buy a horse
and as the price was so high that he ended up buying a donkey instead. He
entered his donkey in the races leaving the results in the Hand of God.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The next day the
smart reporter carried the headline in the local paper: "PREACHER'S ASS
SHOWS"</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The preacher was
delighted with the donkey’s performance that he entered it in the race again,
and this time it won.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The smart reporter's
headline in the paper read as:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>PREACHER'S ASS OUT IN FRONT</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The Bishop was so
upset with this kind of publicity and immediately ordered the preacher not to
enter the donkey in the race again.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">Next Day the smart
reporter wrote:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BISHOP SCRATCHES
PREACHER'S ASS</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">Bishop was so upset
again that he ordered the preacher to get rid of the donkey. The preacher
decided to give it to a nun in a nearby convent.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">Next day the paper
headline read:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NUN HAS THE BEST ASS IN
TOWN</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The Bishop this time
fainted. He immediately informed the nun to get rid of the donkey. The nun then
sold it to a farmer for Rs.15/-.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">Next day the headline
read:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>NUN SELLS ASS FOR Rs.15/-.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The Bishop seething
in anger over the publicity asked the nun to buy back the donkey and let loose
it in the wilderness to make it run wild and free.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">Next day, the smart
reporter wrote:<b> </b>NUN ANNOUNCES HER ASS IS WILD AND FREE.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">Next day the bishop
died of shock and was buried the following day.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">**********</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding Jesus</span></b></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">A drunk on a Sunday
afternoon stumbles along a Baptismal Service taking place down by the river.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">He proceeds to walk
down into the water and stand next to the Preacher. The Preacher turns and
notices the old drunk and says, "Mister, Are you ready to find
Jesus?"</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;">
<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The drunk looks back
and says, "Yes, Preacher. I sure am."</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The Preacher then
dunks the fellow under the water and pulls him right back up. "Have you
found Jesus?" the preacher asked.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">"No, I
didn't!" said the drunk.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The Preacher then
dunks him under for quite a bit longer, brings him up and says, "Now,
brother, have you found Jesus?"</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">"No, I did not
Reverend."</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The Preacher in
disgust holds the man under for at least 30 seconds this time brings him out of
the water and says in a harsh tone, "My God, have you found Jesus
yet?"</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">The drunk wipes his
eyes and says to the Preacher, "Are you sure this is where HE fell
in?"</span><br />
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif""> **********</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
<b><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">3. A Man of Mighty Faith </span></b>
<br />
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"">Once there lived a
man of mighty faith. His faith was such that he commands God to do his bidding.
Once there was a mighty flood that submerged his city. His neighbor invited him
into his boat, <span style="color: black;">"Come with me I'll take you to
the safe place."</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black;">The man
politely refused saying, "I have faith in the Lord, and He will save
me." </span><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif""></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black;">Two hours
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offering to take him to a safe place. </span></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black;">Again he
refused saying, "I have faith in the Lord, and He will save me." </span></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black;">Four
hours passed. The man clung to the chimney, trying to avoid the rising
water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A helicopter hovering overhead
threw down a ladder "Climb up. We take you to a safe place!" The
pilot said. </span></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black;">Again he
refused saying, "I have faith in the Lord, and He will save me." </span></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black;">After
that no one came and he met his fate in the watery grave. Standing before God,
the man said, "Lord I believed in you, my faith was strong and unwavering
and You let me drown!" </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="color: black;">Looking
at him God replied, "I sent a boat first, then a raft, and finally a
helicopter. What more did you want from me!"</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Was Christ really born on 25th of December? What does the Bible say on Christ’s birth? What does other customs and traditions (other than Christian) has to do with the celebration of the birth of Christ? Read on... here are the facts dug out from the pages of ancient history. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">"…behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be unto all people. For unto you is born this day… a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Luke 2 : 10 & 11.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Its indeed good news that Christ the Lord, "…died for our sins… and buried; and rose again on the third day…" <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Corinthians 15 : 3 & 4</i>. So that whosoever believeth on Him should have everlasting life…" <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">John 3 : 36</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> What isn’t good news is that the way the Christmas – supposed to be birthday of Lord Jesus Christ – is being celebrated. It has become a ritualistic festival with many pagan (non-Christian) customs being observed as a tradition on that day, thereby diluting the very essence of Christ’s birth and His mission on this earth. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Peter 2 : 24; Colossians 1 : 14; and Isaiah 53 : 5 & 6</i>.</span></div>
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</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Even the ardent believer whose faith in the Word of God is unshakable seems to have fallen victim to the ritualistic celebrations, which is indeed abhorrence to Lord God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> For Christmas does not mean the birth of Christ. The word is made up of Christ + Mass which means Christ’s Mass. The Mass is a much-sanctified religious service of the Roman Catholic Church, the performance of the sacrament of the Eucharist, i.e. ceremony performing Lord’s Supper. And Mass is a Latin Word meaning dismiss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Further, there is no precedence in the Bible where Christ’s birth was celebrated. But the Lord did ask His people to remember His death. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Luke 22 : 19 & 20</i>; and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I Corinthians 11 : 24 to 26</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b> No one can dispute the fact about Christ’s birth. </b> But it was definitely not on 25th December as believed by Christians throughout the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> There is possible evidence to believe that Christ was born during the Feast of Tabernacles, which falls in the intervening months of September\October. Of course, one only has to study the Scriptures diligently and relate all the Old Testament prophecies concerning Jesus Christ and place all the feasts of the Lord in proper perspective in relationship to the Savior, (like Passover is related to His crucifixion and First fruits to His resurrection etc.) and interpret it correctly in the light of the Gospels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Well, as of December and 25th; it is written in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Luke 2 : 8 to 11</i> that …shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night were told by the Angels of the Lord about Christ’s birth. But this incident couldn’t have happened in December. In Judea, at that time December was cold and at that a rainy season, which is most unlikely that shepherds were out in the field by night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Also in verse 1 of the same chapter Luke says, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that the entire world should be taxed or registered for census purposes; and in subsequent verses 3 to 6, “all went to be taxed… Joseph also went up… to be taxed with Mary. This incident also cannot be traced to the month of December because middle of the winter was not fitting for such a business, especially for women with child, and children to travel in those days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Even Christ has warned his disciples. "But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter." <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mathew 24 : 20</i>. If winter was so bad (like hell) even to flee, then it was certainly not fit time for shepherds to be in the fields nor for women and children to travel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Thus in the light of this argument we could well say, that Christ’s birth and the occurrences of the events in Luke Chapter 2, could not have taken place during winter or more precisely in the month of December as was believed by Christians throughout the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Then how come December 25th<sup></sup> has come into wide acceptance as the day of the birth of Christ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> To get at the root of this, one should go back to the ancient times and have a look at their customs and traditions that has unique relationship with the day of 25th<sup></sup> December.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">*</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> December 25th was the day on which was celebrated the accouchement of the Queen of Heaven, the celestial Virgin, and the birth of her child, the sun-god. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">*</span></b> <span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Savior of Greeks, Bacchus or Dionysus was born of a Virgin on the 25th of December. </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">* </span></b><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In Rome, the day of winter solstice December 25th was celebrated as the birthday of the unconquered Sun; and it was the birthday of Mithra, the Persian sun-god, whose worship spread far and wide in the Roman Empire.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">* </span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Even in Hinduism, from time immemorial and to this day, Sun is worshipped as God. Yet Hinduism did not influence in fixing the Birth of Christ like other customs of the nations across Europe and West Asia did.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">*</span></b><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font: 7pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In Rome, there was another festival called Saturnalia in honor of Saturn, the god of seedtime and harvest. This festival was celebrated with much gaiety and revelry for a weeklong period during the end of December at winter solstice. It was just a kind of Christmas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> This is how the day of Mithraic feast of sun god; festival of Saturnalia; and the Yuletide feast; including the veneration of the Queen of Heaven followed by celebration in Egypt, Greek and other parts of the world under Roman Empire strongly influenced the day of Christ’s birth, which came to be the 25th of December. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> But not all fell in line and upright men like Tertullian (230 A D) protested and lamented. They blamed the Disciples of Christ in this respect and demanded they keep themselves away from world’s idolatrous corruption. They couldn’t stem the tide and gradually the church was submerged under pagan superstition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> John Chrysostom, an Antioch born zealous pastor and archbishop of Constantinople writing in Antioch about 380 A D says, "The birth of our Lord was unknown on the very borders of the Holy Land where He was born; but was made known in all the European regions of the west, from Thrace even to Spain…" </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> It is quite clear from the above statement that in those days itself the birth of Christ was unknown in a land where He was born.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> To this effect, there went out an official decree to all to observe the festival of Christmas on 25th<sup></sup> of December, for it gave them, they believed, a chance to put Jesus Christ, the “Sun of Righteousness” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">( Malachi 4 : 2 )</i> in peoples’ hearts in place of the sun god Mithra. Yes, David also proclaimed in his Psalms 84:11 as “For the LORD God is a sun and shield…”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Thus, gradually by the year 450 A D and to this day, the 25th<sup></sup> of December came to be observed as Christmas, the birth of Christ, throughout the Christian world.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> Who is Sherlock Holmes? Is he a mere character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Has Holmes ever existed? If so who is he?</b></div>
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“…The idea amused me. What should I call the fellow?” thought Conan Doyle. Of course, he called him Sherlock Holmes after an English Cricketer, and Oliver Wendell Holmes {1809-1894}, an American physician, professor, and author.</div>
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A young man intending to be a doctor took his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881 and set up his practice as an eye-specialist in suburb of Portsmouth and waited for patients. Six years later, this struggling doctor was still waiting. Without patients and utterly in need of money he decided to try his hand at writing.</div>
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He then vividly went back to his student days at Edinburgh University to recollect events and anecdotes, and then contemplated looking at the photograph of his teacher which he kept on the mantelpiece of his study. Something struck him. He took up the pen and sharpened his wits. That’s it.<br />
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Thus was born Sherlock Holmes. And the young doctor was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930). The rest is history. Sherlock Holmes attained immortality – a sort of legendary cult-figure with a famous address behind him. 221 B Baker Street. It is believed, thousands of people have addressed their problems to this fictitious address desperately seeking solutions.</div>
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But sadly what is not history and what is buried under the debris of history of literature is, is the life and times of real Sherlock Holmes. Yes, he is none other than the creator’s own teacher at Edinburgh University. He is Dr. Joseph Bell.<br />
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“Dr. Bell would sit in his receiving room,” Doyle once told an interview, “with a face like a Red Indian, and diagnose people as they came in. Before they even opened their mouth he would tell them their symptoms and give them the details of their past life; and hardly ever would he make a mistake. With a woman especially, the observant doctor can often tell by noticing her exactly what part of her body she is going to talk about.” Doyle concluded. </div>
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Once, a laborer with a spinal complaint has come to meet Dr. Bell. “Your back must ache badly, but carrying a load of bricks won’t improve it.” The laborer was stunned and asked Dr. Bell to tell as to how he guessed that he was a bricklayer by trade. And Dr. Bell replied by pointing to the laborer’s peculiar rough horny hands.</div>
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Upon seeing another newcomer, Dr. Bell remarked, “A cobbler, I see.” When his students put quizzical faces he explained, “that the inside of the knee of the man’s trouser was worn; that was where the man had rested the lap-stone, a peculiarity only found in cobblers. </div>
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On another occasion, a tall weather-beaten patient entered the ward. Dr. Bell looked at him and turning to his students said, “Gentlemen, a fisherman.” Before the students could react, Dr. Bell smilingly explained, “It is a very hot summer’s day, yet the patient is wearing top boots. No one but a sailor would wear them in this season. The shade of his tan shows him to be a coast sailor; a knife scabbard too beneath his coat, the kind used by fishermen. To prove the correctness of these deductions, I noticed several minute fish scales adhering to his clothes and hands.” Dr Bell ended leaving his students stunned. </div>
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One particular feat made a lasting impression on his ever-stunned students. Once Dr. Bell was seated at his desk with his internees and dresser, an old lady with a handbag hanging on her arm entered. Dr. Bell gave a quick glance and to the amazement of his students said to the woman, “Where is your cutty pipe?” </div>
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Her bag was on her left arm and instinctively she grasped it with her right hand. This act did not pass unnoticed by Dr. Bell. “Don’t mind the students”, said Bell to the embarrassed woman, “Show me the pipe.” After a few minutes she put her hand into the bag and produced an odd short-stemmed much-used clay pipe. </div>
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“Did you notice the ulcer on her lower lip and the glossy scar on her left cheek indicating a superficial burn? All marks of a shot-stemmed clay pipe held close to the cheek while smoking – the characteristic attitude of peasant woman smoking clay pipe as she sits by her fireside.” Dr. Bell explained smilingly. </div>
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No doubt every one of his students was impressed at these feats. But of all the Edinburgh University undergraduates, it was Conan Doyle who was the most deeply impressed by his incredible mentor and his deductive prowess; and the profound influence it had on him came to the fore when he decided to take up writing. </div>
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“I thought of my old teacher Joe Bell, of his eagle face, of his curious ways, of his eerie trick of spotting details,” Doyle recollected in his autobiography. “If he were a detective he would surely reduce this fascinating but unrecognized business to something nearer to an exact science. It was surely possible in real life, so why should I not make it possible in fiction. It is all very well to say that a man is clever, but the reader wants to see examples of it – such examples as Dr. Bell gave us everyday in the wards. The idea amused me. What should I call the fellow?”</div>
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Of course, he called him Sherlock Holmes after an English Cricketer, and Oliver Wendell Holmes {1809-1894}, an American physician, professor, and author. Now to give features and a face Conan Doyle again remembered his old mentor. Dr. Bell was forty-four when Doyle saw him last. “He was thin, wiry, and dark, with high-nosed acute face, penetrating grey eyes, angular shoulders and a jerky way of walking. His voice was high and discordant.” With this as his model, Sherlock Holmes became the familiar, tall, stooped, hawk-faced, intense and inscrutable human bloodhound.<br />
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And Sherlock Holmes, solving baffling crimes in story after story with his deductive and analytical acrobatics went on to become a fictional cult-figure. Thanks to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The success of Sherlock Holmes only too pleased Dr. Bell. But very often an Edinburgh graduate would recognize who Sherlock Holmes was. </div>
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And Sir Arthur Conan Doyle too gladly confessed to the enquirers, the press and the world that the prototype for Sherlock Holmes was indeed Dr. Joseph Bell; and went on to give graphic examples of his teacher’s “intuitive powers {which} were simply marvelous.”</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> “Darling today is Reema’s birthday and I am going to make some sweets experimenting with eggs. So get everything on this list and that includes eggs. Hurry Up”. It was a command with a command with no room for argument. The Commander-in-Chief was none other than Reema’s mother and the command was delivered to Mr. Bewakoofchand, Reema’s father. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> The poor creature went sulking to the market and purchased everything but eggs. He was naturally sent right back to the market after being offered outrageous compliments for his absentmindedness. This time he bought as many as twelve eggs. He handled them with all the care necessary for this kind of eggy thing; and with a beaming smile placed them down gently as if he had successfully completed the Operation Egg-Star.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Mrs. Bewakoofchand yelled at him pointing towards the eggs, “Look you misfit! The eggs are as empty as your head. There is nothing in them. Not even a minute particle of dust that contains your brain, leave alone the yolk!”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Mr. Bewakoofchand slowly bent on his knees and picked up the broken shells and examined them closely to make sure that they were egg shells. No doubt, they were egg shells. Still confused, he picked up all the broken shells and went to the grocer and mustering up the courage threw all the pieces on the grocer’s table and shouted at him as to why he had to cheat his customers in such a clumsy manner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Unprepared for the onslaught, the grocer with a Socratic patience offered him a seat and a glass of water and politely enquired what it was all about. Calming down, Mr. Bewakoofchand explained everything in detail. At this, the grocer too now dumb-struck took an egg and broke it. Knitting his brows into a fearsome frown, he took another egg and another egg… egging egg after egg till he was exhausted of all eggs. The grocer froze, dazed and confused with his head in hands and his elbows resting on the table. And before he recovered his senses, a fat lady, another of his customers with the same case threw the empty eggshells on his head cursing with a fluency that would have made a seller envious. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> The fat lady moved menacingly towards him, took an egg and hit him on his forehead. The manager tried to wipe the wetness off his forehead, but to his surprise there was nothing to wipe! Stunned, the manager took an egg and broke it, still puzzled, he cracked another and another till he broke the last egg and found to his dismay every egg shell was empty. Amused and confused at this egg shell phenomena, he ordered a high level committee to immediately summon the great veterinarian Dr. Pagal Varma. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> My eyes rested on something which was marvelous. I was stunned. For just in front of me, a few yards away, I saw a lady soaking the muddy floor in front of her house with water mixed in cow dung to draw colorful <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rangolis </i>over it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> No, it was not the act that caught me but her beauty. If one cares to look at her from a particular angle, one can trace a sort of defiance in her beauty that instantly provokes one to pull her cheeks in a lighter vein exclaiming ‘Ha My Sweet’! If one views her from another angle one can see the Einsteinian in her beauty. That is, if one keeps looking at her for one’s whole life, it would just seem to be a second. Such is her beauty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Then it struck me that Sankranthi season is on and there is bound to be a sort of competition in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rangolis</i> among the womenfolk. Yes, </span> <span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">r</i></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">angolis </i>acquire much more beauty when drawn on a mud-floor coated with cow dung.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> What is spoonerism? Who is this Spooner? How has he enriched the English language? Read on and learn about a great legend and his famous rib-tickling utterances. </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Once a wayfaring stranger stopped a reverend in the street and enquired of him about a certain route. Pat came the reply, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Just go down by Town Drain!” </b>He is actually supposed to say,<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> “Just go down by Down Train”</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> The wayfaring stranger stood still with an apoplectic expression on his face, looking at the figure walking off majestically. Obviously he was not aware that he talked to a legend just then. And this very legend had the audacity to shock and enrage Her Majesty by addressing the Queen as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Our Queer Old Dean’</b> instead of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Our Dear Old Queen’</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Later when someone appreciated his survival from implications for his discourteous remark to Her Majesty, he is supposed to have remarked to the bewilderment of the questioner, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘The Lord indeed is shoving leopard.’</b> For he meant, of course, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘the Lord indeed is a loving shepherd’…</b> to have shepherded him from crisis. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> In 19<sup>th</sup> century, there lived a gentleman called Dr. Rev. William Archibald Spooner {1844-1930}, a distinguished Anglican clergyman and a warden of New College at Oxford. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Spoonerism is what an accidental or intentional transposition of sounds or letters in a spoken sentence in a way the sense completely gets changed often acquiring hilarious undertones, other than the intended one. In other words spoonerism is simply metathesis. It is generally committed by the slip of the tongue. And this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘tip of the lung’</b> err… <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘slip of the tongue’ </b>was a natural phenomena with Dr. Rev. William Archibald Spooner, which catapulted him to the dizzying heights of fame thus making him a legend in his own lifetime. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> One day, a lady was occupying Dr. Spooner’s pew in the church. He came. He saw and said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Lady you are peccupewing my pie”</b>. Actually he was supposed to say, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Lady you are occupying my pew”</b>. The dazed lady of course vacated the pew throwing nervous side glances at him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Once a student missed his history lectures. Dr. Spooner irked at his absence shouted, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“You hissed my mystery lectures, why?”</b> {He wanted to say, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“You missed my history lectures?”</b>}. The student didn’t know whether to laugh or sulk. On another occasion the church reverberated with suppressed laughter, when Rev Spooner, in the course of conducting a choir in the church solemnly said, “All rise and let us sing, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Kinkering Congs their titles take’ </b>{the hymn actually is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“Conquering Kings their titles take”</b>}.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Rev Dr Spooner while conducting a marriage, he simply said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘It is now kisstomary to cuss the bride’ </b>{he actually wanted to say <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘It is now customary to kiss the bride’</b>}<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>to the shocking dismay of many, himself having the last laugh. While lecturing the class he once said, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"He was killed by a blushing crow"</b>. Whereas Dr Spooner meant to say, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"He was killed by a crushing blow</b>.<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">"</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> On another occasion, Rev Spooner was escorting a nasty bigwig to the church. Upon entering the premises, the others reported to have heard him say, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Let me sew you to your sheet’</b>. {He is supposed to say, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘Let me see you to your seat’</b>}<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>The bigwig simply glared at Dr Spooner. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Was he malicious digging at others and himself having the last laugh. Was he so mean? No, he was a good scholar and a good teacher. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> As for his ‘slip of the tongue’, it comes very naturally to him. In fact, Julian Huxley puts it on record saying, “Dr. Spooner was not conscious of any of his actual lapses at the time he made them. It was this involuntary action that has to do “something a little wrong with some of the association centers in his brain.” That explains the phenomena of his scoring “last laughs” at others; and at times himself became a victim of his own lapses. Sir Julian Sorell Huxley, the renowned biologist and scholar, who worked under him as a Fellow of New College when Dr. Spooner was the Don of that ancient Foundation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> With all these peculiarities it sounds incredible that he became famous. He endeared himself to one and all becoming a legend in his own lifetime with his kind of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">‘kink’</b>erring utterances called spoonerisms. Some say Spooner rarely committed spoonerisms. Many of his spoonerisms are alleged to have invented by unknown motley faces and attributing them onto Dr Spooner.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Indeed Dr. Rev. William Archibald Spooner was quite aware and knew of his reputation. In one of the College meetings, Dr. Spooner concluded his wonderful little speech with “And now I suppose I would better sit down, or I might be saying… err… one of those things.”</span></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif""> A doctor is a person who diagnoses the illness in a patient and prescribes medicines to heal and cure them. The doctors help humankind; and their services are very much required to the society. The doctor profession is the noblest of all because they save the lives of people and thus are treated like gods in the society. </span></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif""> The role of doctor is to save the patient from dying or illness. The doctor should treat his patients like a mother treats her children. Patients should be handled with love and care. Every doctor has to take an oath to work for 24 hours and seven days a week. And that they shall treat their patients with love and care. </span></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif""> But please, you all have to wait ten more years to avail medical care for your babies from me.</span></div>
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Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14075180873111085997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-686376258955051691.post-70783146501834119032012-01-28T20:07:00.002-08:002020-12-11T10:04:55.333-08:00Cosmic Effect on Living Spaces – The Vaastu Way<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Vaastushastra is an ancient science that has laid down in architectural forms the principles of building a structure, be it a dwelling place or a palace or a temple or a fort or even a one-room tenement. It is widely believed that any structure deemed to be a living space should obtain the ambience of peace, joy and harmony. To construct or obtain such an edifice one ought to go by the principles of Vaastushastra, so argue the believers and experts in Vaastushastra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> It is strongly believed that energy fields govern the earth, water, fire, air and space – the five elements or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Panchabhutas</i>. These energy fields permeating the five elements is said to flow through structures or edifices or dwelling places in a positive or negative manner obtaining either harmonious or turbulent conditions leaving an impact on the lives of those who use it. And Vaastushastra is nothing but integrating these energy fields in a congruous and symmetrical manner to generate a positive and a harmonious ambience in a living space.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Vaastushastra isn’t just channelizing energy fields in a structure or a dwelling place but itself a science in existence since Vedic times or since the five elements has come into being. Vishwakarma, the celestial architect and the foremost builder for all the Hindu Gods is said to have perfected this art into a science. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Vaastu is derived from a Sanskrit verb called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Vasati”</i> which means, “to dwell”. In order to channelize the energy fields in structures or dwelling places in a positive and a harmonious manner Vaastushastra has laid down the principles of architecture for constructing living spaces. In fact, Vaastu has become the basic principles of geometry in constructing living spaces. And these principles of geometry are represented symbolically by Vaastu Purush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> But then, do magnetic fields really govern our lives for good or worse? Does a building constructed not conforming to the Vaastushastra really play havoc with our lives? Has this Vaastushastra stood the test of efficacy scientifically? It is still a moot point. The debate is raging on. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Yet the skeptics and non-believers who questioned its very basis are happily following the very basic tenets of Vaastu in constructing their living spaces. Even in this technologically advanced world the popularity of Vaastushastra is soaring to great heights. Do People really feel the impact and its cosmic effect on living spaces? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> The energy fields activated by the five elements may not be consciously felt by us. But they do seem to pass in us impacting our lives having a direct effect on our health and happiness; because our body too possesses the microcosm of energy – the seven energy centers or chakras<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Kundalini </i>at the base to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sahasrara to </i>the top of the head. Further, the energy within us blends with the energy emanating from the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Panchabhutas</i> – the macrocosm of the universe. This is how the macrocosm of the universe is blended into the microcosm of man creating a direct impact on our lives either positively or negatively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Similarly, each building space and built structure has a potential time, space and elemental configuration that has its own dynamism and must be planned to create a harmonious and positive energy field. Yes, Vaastushastra deal with energy and elemental forces that underlie all things. But has this science of Vaastu stood the test of scientific efficacy? What do the researchers say? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> But what about the rituals and rites performed to appease the elemental forces when a living space is not in conformation to the Vaastu principles? Does not the unvaastuly built living spaces portend evil to the residents? Can the rituals and rites performed thus diminish the impact of such ominous negative forces? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Every year, the Nobel Prizes are awarded. But one cannot understand the hype it generates. Is it because the laureates created a work of distinction that supposedly confer ‘the greatest benefit to mankind’? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> If so the members of the Nobel Prize Committee must be endowed with godly wisdom so as to decide what constitutes the ‘greatest work’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> If a curious mind penetrates behind the scene, he will learn that the Judges or Members of the Selection Committee of the Nobel Prizes are mere mortals filled with high-flying vanities, prejudices, petty rivalries, frailties all perfectly blended with intelligence, honesty, wisdom and courage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Alfred Bernhard Nobel {1833-1896} virtually opened the floodgates of controversies and congratulations by unintentionally [or deliberately?] omitting in his <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">will </span>the yardsticks to measure what constitutes ‘the greatest work’. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> On 10th December 1901, the first crowning ceremony started off with a bang with five distinguished persons winning the Prize, but the bang did emanate some jarring notes that was to be heard for many long years to come. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> When Sully Prudhomme {1839-1907}, a French poet was selected and awarded the Nobel Prize by Swedish Academy for his literary works that interpreted the conflict between emotions and reason, the world opinion protested. Not because Prudhomme got the Prize, but Tolstoy was ignored; and to this effect 42 scientists and artists signed a tribute to the slighted celebrity {Tolstoy} in protest against the Academy’s indifference to Tolstoy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Yet the Swedish Academy did not consider him even for 1902 Literary Prize. Thanks to Swede’s only literary expert of the time, Carl David af Wirsen {1842-1912 the Academy’s Permanent Secretary and Chairman, Nobel Committee for literature whose verdict put out all hopes of Tolstoy ever winning the Prize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Why was it the famous classic writers were denied the Nobel Prize in Literature when they truly deserved? Why is it William Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene and James Joyce were denied the Prize? Is it because their works are inferior and did not possess literary merits? Is it because they did not produce the most distinguished works of idealistic tendency, which Alfred Nobel clearly stipulated as a criterion in his <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">will? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> If one peeps behind the scenes and read between the lines, he will learn that the judges or members of the Selection Committee of the Nobel Prizes are mere mortals filled with high-flying vanities, prejudices, petty rivalries, frailties all mixed up with intelligence, honesty, wisdom and courage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Hedin, on of the powerful judges on the Nobel Committee with his shortsightedness delivered his judgment on William Somerset Maugham as ‘Too popular and undistinguished’. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">When questioned about James Joyce (1882-1941}, Hedin reportedly remarked, ‘Who is he’?</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Such a soul-stirring semi-autobiographical classic ‘Of Human Bondage’ © 1915; the story revolves around a club-footed youth who genuinely falls in love with a beautiful girl. He then goes beyond his means to give anything in this world to win her. In return, he often finds himself being snubbed by her derisively and ruthlessly exploited suffering humiliation in the process. Yet he takes everything in his stride. And the way this club-footed youth reasons with his soul and justifies his actions and indulgences makes the novel a more moving classic. This is also in a way a semi-autobiography. Truly a masterpiece that is full of literary merit ‘Of Human Bondage’ that deserved the Prize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Why was it, the all-time famous classic writer was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature when he truly deserved? Why is it H G Wells, was denied the Prize? Is it because his works are inferior and did not possess literary merits? Is it because he did not produce the most distinguished works of idealistic tendency, which Nobel clearly stipulated as a criterion in his <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">will? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> If one peeps behind the scene and read between the lines, he will learn that the Judges or Members of the Selection Committee of the Nobel Prizes are mere mortals filled with high-flying vanities, prejudices, petty rivalries, frailties all mixed up with intelligence, honesty, wisdom and courage.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Herbert George Wells who was born in 1866 in Bromley, in the country of Kent was a prolific English writer writing in many genres like history, politics, social commentaries, text books, novels and science fiction. In fact, H G Wells is best known for his works in the genre of science fiction. He is popularly referred to as "The Father of Science Fiction" along with Hugo Gernsback and Jules Verne. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Indeed H G Wells was a dreamer who foresaw things well in advance that would shape the world. It has aptly been reflected in his many a books, such as 'The Time Machine' {©1895}, 'The First Men in the Moon' {©1901}, 'The War in the Air' {©1908}, and 'Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought' {©1901} and many more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> But these people do not know that H G Wells was a dreamer who dreamt of flying machines {Time Machine © 1895} long before Wright Brothers came on the scene with their Airplanes, which are in fact, inferior when compared to that of Wells’ imaginary 4th dimensional plane. And Wells dreamt of men in the moon long before the first man set his foot on the moon in 1969. Sadly, the Nobel Prize in Literature eluded this dreamer. May be the Nobel Prize Committee on literature might have thought that this dreamer, H G Wells corpus lacked literary merit worth the Prize. </span></div>
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Jayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14075180873111085997noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-686376258955051691.post-10171398183815984202012-01-27T11:34:00.007-08:002020-12-11T06:35:58.497-08:00The Only Politician Who Rejected Peace Prize But Got One in Literature ! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> Today, the tinsel world of cinema is in deplorable condition. It can be likened to that of Samson, the Biblical legendary who, while bringing down his own death killed thousands of spectators pulling down the pillars on to them to which he was tied with his enormous God-given strength. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> If one sees and reads between the lines one can understand what is what – the difference between formula and art movies. In order to promote the concept… the concept of art cinema, I lectured my friends and acquaintances on art movies and suggested them to see a movie which was then released, that depicts the life of a woman in the gutter. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> After performing the feat for the nth time, he gave up and sought me out. He decided to confide in me the feelings that kept lurking in his mind. He said, “You see, there is one scene…” He plunged into narration keeping me on tenterhooks, “...a railway track, at the backdrop a beautiful landscape, a mountain and at the foot of it there are trees and huts scattered like stars across the lake…’ </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> What makes Isaac Asimov the greatest science fiction writer? Why this iconic sci-fi writer was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature? </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Is he not worth the Prize?</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> No doubt, the Nobel Committee has truly honoured the most eminent people whose contribution has ennobled the world and bettered the lives of the entire mankind. </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;">Great scientists like Roentgen, Einstein, Raman, Fleming Curie-couple, Teresa, Tutu and Tagore have all been honoured and awarded the prestigious Nobel Prize. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> But it is also a fact, that history of Nobel Prizes is also a history of inexplicable sins of omission with many people left out who rightly deserved the Prize - Edison, Wright Brothers, James Joyce, Tolstoy, H G Wells, Maugham, Greene and so on and especially Sir Isaac Asimov too. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Yes, Sir Isaac Asimov truly deserved the Nobel Prize in Literature.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> The author of more than 400 books, Isaac Asimov born in Russia in 1920, soon migrated to United States at the age of three. An exceptional student, Asimov soon proved that he was a born writer. In 1934, Asimov published his first story in his school's newspaper. Asimov received a doctorate in biochemistry from Columbia University in 1948 and since 1949 has been a professor of biochemistry at Boston University until he retired in 1958. Soon after his retirement, Asimov became a full time writer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Asimov has produced classics such as ‘I, Robot’, ‘The Naked Sun’, and ‘The Caves of Steel’, ‘The Foundation’ trilogy have all won him the respect for science fiction. His stories too ‘Nightfall’ and ‘The Bicentennial Man’, and novels such as ‘The Gods Themselves’, and ‘Foundation's Edge’ have been recognized as the best science fiction ever written earning him numerous honors and accolades. It is believed that Sir Isaac Asimov is associated with the invention and coinage of a word Robotics, when he used the word is his Robot series. Asimov has also written popular essays on science and technology in several magazines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Presenting the complexities of science in a simple and arresting manner is the hallmark of Asimov's genre. His simple arresting genre earned him the nickname 'The Great Explainer'. Any student or children who are found to be wary of science must be presented Asimov's books’ for they would soon discover how wonderful and interesting the science is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Until his death in 1992, Asimov’s zestfulness has not died. He was full of energy and on fire. Always ready to explain things to laymen. Asimov commented before his death, "I'm on fire to explain, and happiest when it's something reasonably intricate which I can make clear step by step. It's the easiest way I can clarify things in my own mind."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Yet if Sir Isaac Asimov had been awarded the Prize in literature it still would have been too small a gesture when compared to his works in the field of literature. But unfortunately, to the dismay of his millions of fans, who understood science in his language, Sir Isaac Asimov was denied the Nobel Prize in Literature. No one knows the reason why.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> The ratio being equal; a member who developed a sickening aversion to current events around the nation posed as to why the corruption has grown out of proportions in India and beyond redemption. He growled, “What makes them stink in corruption? Why can’t they be honest? What is there contribution in curbing violence, stirs and agitations around us? Are they rather not igniting them for their own ends? Who is behind unemployment? And what they have done? Just look around you!” He stretched his hands in desperation and sighed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"> He said that he is going to write to the Chief Election Commissioner and other concerned authorities to introduce a feasible '<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">call back policy'</span> under which the people of the constituency has a right to force the resignation and call back their elected representatives – erring MPs or MLAs. The smoker jotted down the notes and dragging on his cigarette he invited other members to add suggestions to that effect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Every year, the Nobel Prizes are awarded. But it generates a lot of hype. Is it because the laureates create a work of distinction that supposedly confer ‘the greatest benefit to mankind’? If so the members of the Nobel Prize Committee must be endowed with godly wisdom so as to decide what constitutes the ‘greatest work’.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Are they? May be! But here are some of the famous cases dug up from history that suggest otherwise. The Nobel judges or members of the Selection Committee of the Nobel Prizes are mere mortals filled with high-flying vanities, prejudices, petty rivalries, frailties all mixed up with intelligence, honesty wisdom and courage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Alfred Bernhard Nobel {1833-1896} might have unintentionally [or deliberately?] omitted in his <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">will </span>the yardsticks to measure what constitutes ‘the greatest work’ and who that ‘most deserving’ is. Nobel’s <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">will</span> says, ‘No consideration whatsoever shall be paid to nationality of the candidate… the most deserving be awarded the Prize’!</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> In 1905, Albert Einstein was working in Bern, Switzerland as a patent clerk. While working here he published his most famous four research papers, which include his “Special Theory of Relativity” that contain the now famous equation <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">e=mc2, </b>which threw open the floodgates to the mysteries of this Universe hitherto unknown to the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> Albert Einstein, the most eminent iconic scientist was reportedly denied the Prize in 1915. He was kept at abeyance for 7 long years before he was finally awarded the Prize in 1921 which he received it in the following year 1922. This Nobel Prize too was not for his greatest find ‘Theory of Relativity’ but for his work on photoelectric effect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt;"> The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was jointly awarded to Saul Perlmutter, Brian P. Schmidt Adam G. Riess "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae". The Prize has been shared with one half going to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess. All the three scientists hail from United States of America.</span><br />
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Heidenstam wrote, “I read them with deep emotion and I cannot recall having seen for decades anything comparable in lyric poetry… and if ever a poet may be said to possess the qualities which entitle him to a Nobel Prize, He is precisely the man… we should not pass him by… the privilege has been granted us to discover a great name before it has time to be paraded for years up and down the columns of the daily newspapers. If this discovery is to utilized we must not delay and lose our chance by waiting another year.”</span></div>
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<span face=""Verdana","sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> This statement, evidently won enthusiastic support from hesitant members of the Committee, which, eventually won him the Prize in 1913 for his Gitanjali. His citation speaks, ‘his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of literature of the West.’</span><br />
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Indeed, writing is not something, which 'teach yourself books' and the likes can teach. No one can teach another how to become a writer. The one who wishes to become a writer should have the instinct in him first. But mere instinct will take him nowhere unless he should have an itching to read.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Long years of close reading in this manner surely build up the writer’s equipment. "Thoughts and language are to the artist instruments of art and vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art." Said Oscar Wilde. [Oscar Wilde was charged at the trial that only a depraved monster could have written it… no not these words, but a book called 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' which was largely responsible for his imprisonment and ruin.]</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> The next important trait for a writer is, he should always keep his eyes and ears open and closely read the life around him with a keen sense of observance grasping the various forms of emotions and moods - happy, sad, harsh, cheerful poignant, excitement and ecstatic; because every feeling leaves its mark on the mind in varying degrees. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> He should then allow these feelings to simmer and gestate, and the ones with the higher degree of its mark will keep bouncing back on to his itching nerves thereby stimulating him to write. But do not put these feelings as it is on paper for it becomes a mere matter-of-fact piece of journalism. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Add a few ideas here and reject a few there to give it a form… a dramatic touch that's always found in ones favorite authors' fiction or a novel or a piece of essay. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Further, in order to make a good copy or a good book one has to be harsh on oneself and contain his words to be as racy as he can. Of course, some novelists write a long and detailed description of scenes from the entertainment point of view, whereas a line may also give the reader a more vivid picture than a page. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> It’s all in the genre and how you express your ideas. Too much explanation also mars the readers’ interests. A good writer always leaves something for his readers' imagination.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> As for the subject, remember life does not have a same theme to offer everyone everything everyday. It might be same love, same anger, same hatred, same death and same hunger and pain. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Yet, it differs on the plane of emotions each according to his mind, its susceptibility, the times, and the circumstances because no two persons think alike, act alike for each ones imagination is different. Hence every writer differs in style and genre.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> To catch such emotions and imaginations on paper, a writer ought to flex his mind and present it to the readers in the best possible form. For it is indeed a natural desire on the part of a writer that he be read by as wide a circle of readers as possible.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> But then, it doesn't mean he can churn out anything and throw it on the readers face. In such a case, there is every possibility of a writer running the risk of their wrath. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> You may win some and loose some. Therefore to win all, a writer should concentrate on his style of presentation, lest he may ruin a good subject by his bad presentation. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> On the contrary, even a dull subject finds a better place in the readers' hearts if the presentation is good. Thus, it is better to cultivate ones own style – distinct from others – in a manner that every piece of writing should resemble a work of architecture, where every individual piece aesthetically fits into the other as a whole. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> This has been the hallmark of every famous writer down the ages and right down to present day writers, for instance, R.K. Narayan. [One never forgets to mention him.]</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> An aspiring writer before taking up his pen should remember that readers do not exist for the sake of literature to give him name and fame. On the contrary, literature exists for the sake of the people – the readers - to hearten the downcast; to console the sad and condemned; to refresh the weary and listless; to further increase their interest in the world around them; to increase the joy of living; and finally ennoble their lives.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Only such convictions lay the strong foundation for aspiring writers to produce the best in literature, which in turn bring him name and fame.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> Now to decide what is best and what is not in literature one has to question ones own self, because this itself is a big subject, just like creativity, one can write any number of volumes on it. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> But nevertheless in his quest for creating the best in literature, a writer is very much influenced by fashion and romanticism notwithstanding the live issues involved in social conflicts, like sex education, women's rights, corruption and other things that torment human life. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> But every aspiring writer should be aware that a piece of writing aimed at live issues could be as explosive as a nuke. For it may either edifice or arouse; inflame or influence; excite or instigate the people one way or the other for better or for worse.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> So, therefore, it is in the writers' own interest to make sure of his convictions and wield his pen in that direction where the interests of the people and readers lay; for the peoples service is noble, vital, complex and permanent of human life.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> "So far as the reader is concerned it is a work that purports to offer him intelligent entertainment", Said William Somerset Maugham. Keeping this in mind one can produce any number of good works. </span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> It is by good works alone that a writer justifies his right to a place under the sun.</span></div>
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<span face=""verdana" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt;"> But first check yourself whether you have these qualities. An aspiring writer needs a bit of creativity, a keen sense of observation – observing the body language of people, observing situations, analytical skills to assess the situation, a sensitive heart to other peoples’ feelings and concerns, irresistible urge to read and read, and above all the constant itching to write and write and write… Just keep writing. </span></div>
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