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The Art of Writing a Fictional Novel

The Art of Writing a Fictional Novel I was once asked a very important and pertinent question in an interview I gave. The question was this: Are you a seat-of-the-pants writer or do you first design the details of the plot and write as per its demands? The answer to this question encompasses one of […]

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Financing a new business venture – All you need to know

Financing a new business – All you need to know There are many people who are teeming with innovative business ideas in their minds, but do not know where to gather the capital necessary for putting these ideas into action. Very often we find that beginning a start-up is a very attractive proposition even for extremely […]

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The Story Of The 84 YO Man Who Single-Handedly Ended His Village’s Water Woes – #WATWB

The Story Of The 84 YO Man Who Single Handedly Ended His Village’s Water Woes – #WATWB Eighty-four-year-old Kaamegowda digs ponds. You might be surprised but digging ponds is this Octogenarian’s passion in life. He is a small-time shepherd and farmer from the Daasanadoddi village of Karnataka’s Mandya district. Thanks to this man’s single-handed efforts […]

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The Story of Sindhutai Sapkal – A Mother To Orphaned Children – #WATWB

The Story of Sindhutai Sapkal – A Mother To Orphaned Children – #WATWB The story of Sindhutai Sapkal is truly inspiring. She was married off when she was a mere ten years old and was abandoned at the age of twenty. She became a mother at twenty and had nowhere to go. The poor woman […]

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Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #3 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #3 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan Well folks, you have read two instalments of guest posts in the random ramblings series by my sister Sudha Somanathan. Thanks to you readers the posts have been phenomenally successful and I am sure all of you agree with me that Sudha possesses great […]

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Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #2 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #2 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan This is the second guest post by my sister Sudha Somanathan in the Random Ramblings series. I am sure you would have enjoyed the Random Ramblings I presented last week. This week she speaks of festivals and what friendships mean to us as children […]

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Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #1 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan

Random Ramblings Series: Guest Post #1 By My Sister Sudha Somanathan About the author Sudha Somanathan: My sister Sudha Somanathan works as an Ophthalmologist in the National Health Services in UK. She has recently been dabbling in writing a series of Facebook posts she refers to as the ‘Random Ramblings’! She is a very talented […]

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The Decade Gone By

The Decade Gone By From what I gather, most of the bloggers participating in this bloghop were in their twenties or thirties at the beginning of the last decade. I on the other hand was forty-four. I married very late, when I was forty and my daughter entered our household when I was forty one. […]

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How To Choose A Camera – #MyFriendAlexa

How To Choose A Camera – #MyFriendAlexa Let us say a situation arises suddenly wherein you want to buy a camera at very short notice. The reasons for wanting to invest in a camera could be many. Maybe you are a college student who has been smitten by the itch to become a photographer and […]

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Musical Memories Down The Lane – #MyFriendAlexa

Musical Memories Down The Lane I think all of us would agree that as a rule, human beings have a powerful attachment to their childhood experiences. By the same token, we would probably agree that we would be strongly attached to the kind of music we grew up on. During my childhood days, when it […]