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Daily Archives: 29 April 2006

Posted on 29 April 2006 by churumuri
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URGENT: Please send your best wishes to Y.S.R.

An Indian engineer (Suryanarayan) lies kidnapped by the Taliban somewhere in Afghanistan. They threaten to kill him in the next 24 hours if Indians working in Afghanistan do not leave the …

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On the other hand, as Rahul Dravid would say…

On a day when it has been revealed that the Prime Minister's Office knew all along the extent of the displacement caused by the Narmada dam but yet put the onus …

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SARASWATHIPURAM ANDAVA: cuppu, conu, ballsu

SUNAAD RAGHURAM writes: Musing over our childhood days in Saraswathipuram, my mind goes to the time when bicycles were a vital mode of transport, among the young and the elderly. Which meant …

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CHURUMURI POLL: Are Indian Muslims better off?

Actor, producer, director Feroze Khan has kicked off a major storm in Pakistan with his comment that Muslims in India are better off than Muslims in Pakistan. "I am a proud Indian. …

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MADAGOO! Once upon a time in CFTRI School

From Washington D.C., Alfred Satish Jones writes of the happiest day of his life: being selected for the CFTRI school cricket team. “After I’d put on the abdomen guard, the …

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Are ‘Ruthless Asian Babes’ getting too ruthless?

The author William Dalrymple put a totally new spin to the Kaavya Viswanathan disgrace last night. He was saying on television that Kaavya was just another example of 'Ruthless Asian Babes' who would do …

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Joke of the Week #5

The late Sri Lankan foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar had a fine and refined sense of humour. At an after-dinner speech to felicitate the Sri Lankan cricket team in London last …

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Posted on 29 April 2006 by churumuri
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THIS JUST IN: My name is Ram, K. Shivram

Churumuri is pleased to take note the following advertisement which appears on page 6 of the Mysore Edition of The Hindu today. “CHANGE OF NAME: I, K. Shivaramu (former name), …

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