Three Cups of Tea

23Jun08

I thought (and argued) Life could never be as interesting as fiction. But after reading Three Cups of Tea, I’m afraid I’d have to say I was wrong. It describes how a single person can change the world, yes that isn’t an overstatement. How a single person can change the world.
It’s about Greg Mortenson, a [...]

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Tags: Books, CAI, central asia institute, education, greg mortenson, pakistan, Review, three cups of tea

Sex and the Soaps

13Jun08

When I wrote about my childhood writing fits, an interesting topic came up – The way we used to sneak out and watch those supposedly sexy shows on the just arrived Star network in India. I realized this could make a post in itself and for the number of times it would have the word [...]

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Tags: baywatch, pamela anderson, Sex, the bold and the beautiful, TV shows

Halves and Halves

04Jun08

I flipped over that page in the book
And realized the book that was more than half unread is now more than half read
And wondered if Life could be divided
into Halves
and Halves
Can something as simple as a flip of a page
could take it into the other half ?
Thought on a summer sunday evening in Borders Book [...]

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Tags: book, halves, Life