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A nightmare faced by air hostesses quite often, other than hijacks and terrorist attacks are people who want to walk past the food trolley to the toilet when food is being served. I was talking to Anne a pretty young flight steward, and she swore people did it on purpose or out of habit.
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’Twas just three years ago, seventy-three voices, including mine, and an orchestra of thirty-one raised their voices, violins, violas, cellos, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, french horns, trumpets, trombones, and a timpani, making glorious music! There must have been a smile on Mozart’s face somewhere in the heavens as he heard Indians from Mumbai, Chennai and Sri Lanka, and musicians from the former states of the Soviet Union, soloists from Italy, all blending their talents together to form melodious harmony!
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It’s November again, and my mind goes to that Night of Terror twelve years ago, I was just a few feet away as hundreds died! The Press Club in Mumbai where I was spending that evening and finally the whole night, is situated a few hundred feet from both the CST station where innocents were mercilessly gunned down, and the Madam Cama hospital where others were ruthlessly shot point blank that night, and a kilometer from the Taj Hotel where mass executions took place. As gunshots receded, we heard the sound of the lone jeep which sped down the road outside, and which carried the three brave officers who became lifeless bodies in a few minutes.
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Mine did, just now!
“What’s happening?” asked my dusty brown pair, now looking almost black after being unused for the last eight months or so, “We used to be your source of pride! You even got a family member to bring special polish from New York, for us to retain the exact shade, and now your brush hasn’t touched us for months, nor your feet?”
“I’m sorry!” I said.
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- *Dr Sanjay Aggarwala
More number of young adults are experiencing knee pain in the capital, according to statistics stats As many as 1 in 3 young adults experience knee pain at some time or other commonly caused by the imbalances in the muscles adjoining the knee which have an effect on the kneecap. The most common reason for the rise in pain is attributed to poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle.
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