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I am a proud father

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Though it took me around 10 days to write this important event on my blog. I think its better late than never. On 15.03.2008 I was blessed with a healthy , handsome baby. I have named him Chandradittya... Is he not cute??

My Santa Is My Owner And She Lets Me Write Down My Wishes This Christmas

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When I first heard Audrey Hepburn sing “These are a few of my favorite things” in the evergreen movie “ My fair Lady”, I never thought I’d have an occasion to present my own list some day. But you know what they say, “Every dog ahs his day”, and I got mine too. This Christmas, my dear owner in my eyes, is no less beautiful than Audrey. Hepburn herself, has asked me for a list of 10 things that I want. And God! I can’t wait to get started. To read more articles written by Babu Banik Please visit my article site

Saurav Ganguly now 20th in the ICC list

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Dubai: Sourav Ganguly, following his outstanding performances against Pakistan, entered the top-20 of the ICC Test rankings for batsmen for the first time in seven years. The left-hander, who won the ‘man of the series’ award, jumped four places to 20th in the ICC list. However, Sachin Tendulkar dropped a rung to 19th. On the bowling front, Indian captain Anil Kumble moved up two places to fifth in the bowlers’ list. Irfan Pathan’s maiden Test hundred pushed him to the sixth spot in the all-rounders’ rankings behind Sri Lanka’s Chaminda Vaas. — PTI

A Ray of Hope: prison children of Jharkhand

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On a usually relaxed March morning at the Ranchi Zoo the visitors suddenly got to see an unusually enthusiastic crowd of juveniles, cheering at every animal, and more unusually, at even the most ordinary of snacks, like peanuts and corns. They did not look like the normal excursion teams from schools. Neither did they look like destitute orphans from remote homes. They looked like as if from some different world… Thy actually were children from a different world. A mundane, melancholy world that survives in absolute seclusion. They were children of the inmates imprisoned in the jails of Jharkhand. These children have been refused refuge everywhere else, and have no other option but to live in the jails with either of their parents, or both. Some of them were even born inside the jails, and have been spending their childhood ever since in a way most of us would be terrified even to imagine about ourselves, or our own children. But, as a matter of fact, the only difference between them a...