Interview with Suranga Date aka Ugich Konitari

At the time when the ladies are busy watching the Balika Vadhu, Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata hai and what not, there are some of them who spend their time blogging and make use of their free time to engage in wonderful discussions. She is a Masters in Physics, used to work for what is now one of India’s biggest IT company, TCS and India’s most sought after college, IIT Mumbai.

She is fondly known as Ugich Konitari (means ‘someone just like that’) and blogs at Gappa. She manages multiple blogs and is a contributor to Limerickwala as well. Let us welcome Mrs. Suranga Date, 60 years of age, one of India’s senior most and respected blogger to our Adda for this very inspirational interview. For the first time, she reveals her photo in an exclusive with BlogAdda. The stocks of Balaji Telefilms would crash once this interview goes live as people will start blogging taking cue from Mrs. Suranga. Here is Mrs. Suranga Date unplugged for you.



Update: Part 2 now live!

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BlogAdda’s Tangy Tuesday Picks – Feb. 16, ’10

Tangy Tuesday PicksWhat is the role of an intelligence agency in the country? According to Wikipedia ‘India has a number of intelligence agencies  of which the best known are the Research and Analysis Wing, India’s external intelligence agency and the Intelligence Bureau, the internal intelligence agency.’ Do you think the Indian Intelligence is doing their duty properly? The latest from the Pune blasts probe suggest that ‘foreign hand’ was involved in the blasts. Is it something new? No! In other news, the Master and the Blaster scored centuries yesterday to take India to a respectable position and maybe help them retain the ranking. Is there any doubt that #sachinisgod of cricket ?

There are some more very important issues and happenings in Indian Blogging Community and Indian Bloggers have their opinion on the same. The best among the lot find a place in our Tangy Tuesday Picks. Here are the best from this week. Continue reading “BlogAdda’s Tangy Tuesday Picks – Feb. 16, ’10”

Perky Tweets – Feb. 15, ‘10

BlogAdda's perky TweetsDoes any religion preach terrorism? Which Religion preaches to kill innocent people? Cross border terrorism comes back to India at a time when the Prime minister offers the olive branch to the Pakistani PM. Vir Sanghvi has this very interesting article which asks ‘Can we stop being obsessed with Pakistan while Pakistan is still obsessed with us?’. Let us all live in peace and stay happy always.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared, quotes Buddha. We are here to share happiness with you via #perkytweets – Tweets that make you ROFL. Here are this week’s #perkytweets

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BlogAdda’s Spicy Saturday Picks – Feb. 13, ’10

Spicy SaturdayWhat is love? Albert Einstein wondered ‘How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?‘. Someone quotes ‘Never try to define love. Once defined love is confined. Once confined — It dies‘. What do you all think? Some of the bloggers have some wonderful posts on love alongwith the blogposts on the current happenings. BTW, we do not need a special day to show love. Every day is an opportunity to shower love on your loved ones.

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Interview with Jamshed Rajan – Part 2

Last week we had gone back 34 years when one of India’s funniest blogger was born. The first part of his interview gave us some glimpses on his prowess and why he is different from others. In the second part, you will know about Jammy’s two timing prowess, his predictions for 2050 and much more. Let us once again enter the world of Jamshed Rajan aka Jammy.

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BlogAdda’s Tangy Tuesday Picks – Feb. 09, ’10

Tangy Tuesday PicksTuesday is here! Today is the day when lot of interestingness will happen at the NASSCOM Leadership Forum 2010 which has some of the best speakers from around the world. Our team is covering the event live and you can follow us @liveadda or visit the Dashboard to get all the live updates from the event.

To make the Tangy Tuesdays this week more interesting, We have picked the posts for you but will not say why they are Tangy, because we want our readers to say this week on why they feel the posts are Tangy. The best descriptions will fill the blank spaces left by us. So are we readdddddyyyy? Here are the picks.

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