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Archive for August, 2007

an entertaining book

I have been, reading a book which I am not sure what to call. A history book? travel book ? memoirs? or may be all of these and some more.
Its an entertaining book by William Dalrymple and the title of the book is City Of Djinns. Its about Delhi and its past. History [...]

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Note: quite a few years back I read this article in a Pakistani newspaper and saved it for future reads.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the most outstanding personalities the west has produced during the modern times. He was a poet, a philosopher and a scientist who had excelled in botany, biology [...]

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tooth fairy

My six years old granddaughter calls me from Toronto to tell me that one of her tooth is getting loose.
Its good to know that her growing up is good and on right track but what would you do to comfort a grandmother’s heart that this precious thing in her life, might sometimes have a toothache [...]

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