Name: Sujatha Bagal
Weblog: blogpourri.blogspot.com
Articles: 39
First Published: Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Last Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Currently listing articles 39-1:
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Book Review: The Little Man in the Map by E. Andrew Martonyi, Illustrated by Ed Olson— Books like Martonyi's, written for children with an intimate understanding of what captivates their attention, are much-needed agents of change.
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Book Review: Eats, Shoots & Leaves and The Girl's Like Spaghetti by Lynne Truss; Illustrator Bonnie Timmons— As you flip through the pages, you may begin to wonder if children should be the only beneficiaries of these wonderful books.
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Book Review: Lulu.com's Self-Published Children's Literature— Perhaps because these are self-published books, I get the feeling that we, the readers, are privy to a little bit more of the authors' personalities.
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Software Review: Knowledge Adventure Books by You For Children— If your child is into reading and has the creative urge, Books by You is a wonderful way to spark the desire to write.
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Book Review: On The Road to Kandahar - Travels Through Conflict in the Islamic World by Jason Burke— Equally fascinating and uplifting, and the most attractive parts of the book, are Burke's accounts of his meeting with many people over the years.
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An Immigrant's Super Bowl Ruminations— What's not to love about a game in which you can watch tight ends to your heart's content?
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The Power of the Pickle— A spoonful of pickle, as they say, makes life go down easy.
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Book Review: Not On The Level by Michael V. Maddaloni— Things are not what they seem or should be, and decidedly not on the level in this engrossing coming-of-age story of a first-generation Italian-American.
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Falling On The Tummy Is Serious Business— Watching child development: It took her a couple of weeks to figure out that the top part of her body needed to move too.
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Entrepreneurship: Alive and Kicking in Bangalore— I wouldn't be surprised if the number of entrepreneurs per thousand in India is the largest in the world.
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Watching The Chronicles of Narnia on Christmas Day— Were movie theatres open on Christmas Day? We could not remember, but we were going to find out.
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Crying At The Movies— I never cried at movies and would stare, fascinated, at anyone who did.
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You Really Should Not Read Bill Bryson in Public Places— Bryson's books exist in that rarefied atmosphere reserved for wildly successful and popular writers of travel memoirs.
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9/11 Remembered— Within a few seconds a second plane rammed into the other tower. A ball of fire followed by an inferno, black smoke.
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Travel Photo Essay: Dreaming of Rajasthan, India— Amber Palace in Jaipur, Rajasthan, is a wonderful combination of brute strength and delicate beauty.
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Career Women's Houses Are Dirty, and Other Male Delusions— Just in case the men reading his essay are horrified and are thinking they will never ever tie the knot, Noer exhorts men to marry.
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Book Review: Hitchhiker by Vinod George Joseph— At the bottom of it all, Hitchhiker is a simple and well-told story of unrequited love and of carefully laid plans going haywire...
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Anatomy of a Miscarriage— Whatever it was that had grown in my body for six weeks, that thing that was going to be my baby, came out in a
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Indian Blogs Slam TV Coverage of Mumbai Blasts— When does television coverage cross the line and become too much?
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Just Let Zidane Be— Quite frankly, I don't understand what the fuss is all about.
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Desicritics on the Mumbai Train Blasts— The rudest city? They don't hold doors, but they aided each other when it was needed. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!
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World Wide Help Blog: A Go-To Site for Disaster Help and Information
— Humanity, compassion, empathy. In the end, that is what World Wide Help is all about.
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Will Ignoring Your Spouse's Undesirable Behavior Fix It?— Most human relationships, fortunately or unfortunately, do not thrive on material rewards alone.
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World Cup 2006, The Semi Finals: Penalty Shoot-outs Are Not For the Fainthearted— My approach to the penalty shoot-out changed drastically as I watched the duel at midnight between England and Portugal.
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Book Review: Hippo Eats Dwarf, A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S. by Alex Boese— How to survive "in an insane world in which the line between truth and fiction has completely blurred."
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Memories of Pedda Chacha (Big Uncle)— The family stuck together against tremendous odds, forsaking cushy lives in relatives' houses so they would not be obligated to anybody.
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Book Review: Sleeping on Potatoes by Carl Nomura— A story of determination, perseverance, kindness, love and good humor getting the better of adversity.
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Lessons in Parenting From Life is Beautiful— It is in those moments when I can see myself being a monster that I remember the movie Life is Beautiful.
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Bangalore: The Insider/Outsider Debate— Instead of looking outward for the sources of our problems, we would do well to look inward.
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Indian Engineer Abducted by Taliban Found Dead in Kandahar— Taliban claims responsibility for Indian engineer's death in Kandahar.
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Living Through Hurricane Isabel— This was the first big natural disaster of our 13 years here.
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Half-way Around the World With a Toddler in Tow— It suddenly struck me that sitting next to two absolute brats on a long plane ride might not be bad after all.
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Identity: The Quest for Comfort within Our Skins— Do we really ever succeed in shaking off any of our multiple identities? Should we even want to?
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Streets of Philadelphia— My whole perspective of the city changed when I stood at the entrance to the Italian Market in South Philly and looked in.
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Caesarean Deliveries: Scientific Progress Gone Boink— The rising trend in the use of C-Sections for delivering babies is not unique to India.
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Travel Essay: Prague - A Little City With A Big Heart— If anything vies with the cleanliness of the city for my admiration, it is the fact that this little country produced so many luminaries.
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Life in Bangalore: Garbage Crisis— Lack of infrastructure and residents' attitude to cleanliness are to blame for the severe shortage of civic sense.
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Book Reviews: Horton Hatches The Egg and Horton Hears a Who— Sticking by your word. Sticking up for the small guy. Healthy seeds to plant in young, fertile minds. But how?
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Bringing Up Mother: Nothing Prepares You to Be One— I sat there and bawled. I was the baby and I was the one that needed consoling.
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