The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

I know many of my readers don't know why I have kept the title of my travel blog as "Munchausen Adventures." As a child I saw a movie which stayed with me till date. It was about the adventures of a German BaronKarl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen (11 May 1720 – 22 February 1797) (often spelled Munchausen in English) was a...

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Party games - a variation of passing the parcel

At Pooja's party yesterday she made us play a different sort of passing the parcel. The theme of the party was flowers. We passed a pillow and when the music stopped the person with the pillow, picked a chit from a bunch, in which names of different flowers were written. then the flower's name was spelled out. The person on whom the last letter of the flower came. He/She has to sing a song which has the words फूल, कलि, or names...

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Parenting - Kids are dogs, Teens are cats

While young children are dogs ... loyal and affectionate ... teenagers are cats.It's so easy to be a dog owner. You feed it, train it, boss it around. Itputs its head on your knee and gazes at you as if you were a Rembrandtpainting. It bounds indoors with enthusiasm when you call it.Then around age 13, your adoring little puppy turns into a big old cat.When you tell it to come inside, it looks amazed, as if wondering whodied and...

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Vaccination against Cervical cancer - all women between 10 -45 yrs should get it.

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of death in women in India. Till now we only had screening of patients with papsmear and of late HPV ( Human Papilloma Virus)infection detection, to control the disease. The presence of a vaccine would definitely lead to a greater control of the disease.The trick is to become vaccinated before exposure...

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Starting a blog on blogger

I am sure the better platform to start a blog is blogger. Go to blogger.com and sign in with your gmail account.Assuming that you have decided on a template for your blog. Which can be the one of the most difficult decisions to make. Blogger templates are 2 column ones, but as you start blogging you feel a lot of space is blank on the screen...

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Blogger vs Wordpress

The idea to start another blog came to me on 3rd March o9, on my birthday despite having a travel blog and a medical blog I still felt the need to share certain things which fell in neither categories. So I decided to start another one. I would call it a personal blog. When Shaleen saw me starting another one last night his instant reaction...

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