Sampathkumar Sampath
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Sampspeak - the thoughts of an Insurer
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a Blog on Insurance especially Marine Insurance, Sports and Current Affairs
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Forget Cinema ~ Get to Know Real Heroes : Rolex Award Winner Sonam Wangchuk
Ladakh is a trans-Himalayan mountain desert in the extreme north of India with villages located at 2,700m to 4,000m altitudes. Read more
Posted on 03 October 2017 SOCIETY -
Remembering Perunthalaivar Kamaraj ~ the Man Who Fed the Poor Students !
2nd October ~ Nation should be remembering this simple man, who stood for poor. It is 42 years since he passed away ! Known for his integrity and his modesty... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2017 SOCIETY -
India Makes It 4-1; 1st Player from Jharkhand ... and Aussie Tour of 1984
There is no other place that garbage can be, other than the dust bin, said Virat Kohli supporting Indian Prime Minister Modiji’s call ~ Swachhata Hi Seva,... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2017 SOCIETY -
Hurricane Irma Struck St Maarten; Looters Took Over Stealing Rare Animals Too !!
Humans are often crude, cruel and ugly !! Hurricane Irma, an extremely powerful and catastrophic Cape Verde-type hurricane, the strongest observed in the... Read more
Posted on 01 October 2017 SOCIETY -
ICC New Rules ~ Marnus Labuschagne Claim to Fame !!
Fielding for the Bulls in their one-day cup clash against the Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane on Friday, Labuschagne dived and then shaped to throw without... Read more
Posted on 30 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Madras High Court on Petition of Movie Makers ~ Famous Internet Database...
Even regular follower of Court cases may not have memory of the order given in C.S.No. 601 of 2017 C.S.Ho.601 of 2017 in High Court of Judicature, Madras and... Read more
Posted on 29 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Claim on Owner as Donkey Causes Damage to Car
‘Equus africanus asinus’, a domesticated member of the horse family, Equidae – is also found in the city…. In villages, it could be a common sight – nearer... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Picking up Mates ~ Steve Smith Criticised; Days When India Was Dominated by !!!
Statistics can often be misleading ! ~ yet they are always interesting !! On the day when India plays Australia at Bangalore, BCCI informs that Dr M.V. Read more
Posted on 28 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Wyoming Women Hunting ~ Mass Die-off and .... Saiga Antelope
Newsreports state that a 41-year-old Wyoming man has survived an encounter with a grizzly bear in which he was twice mauled but still managed to ride on... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Meet Vijay Parsana, the Ideal Gau-rakshak
Even before I could google ~ my mind hit one and my search too led me to Dhiraj Parsana who debuted at Madras .. can you tell the other debutant in that Pongal... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Pak Fake Picture ~ India Shows Real Image at UN General Assembly
In optics, a real image is an image which is located in the plane of convergence for the light rays that originate from a given object. Read more
Posted on 26 September 2017 SOCIETY -
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons.
There are days and there are days designed to celebrate or remember things in particular ~ 26th Sept. is another one ~ this time different !! “International... Read more
Posted on 26 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Statue of Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov Had to Be Tampered ... for It Shows...
In most parts of Tamil Nadu, you can find statues; more so on Marina beach in Capital Chennai … elsewhere, the monument in the heart of Moscow was supposed to b... Read more
Posted on 25 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Pak Diplomat Brandishes Lie at UN ~ Shows Fake Photo - Responding to Articulatio...
Pakistan received criticism from all quarters on Sunday after the country's envoy to the United Nations Maleeha Lodhi’s riposte to the speech of Sushma Swaraj. Read more
Posted on 25 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Booking Train Tickets ~ the Way IRCTC Revolutionised Booking Concept
Travelling by train is enjoyable ~ booking a ticket even in this e-age may not be – perhaps we are spoilt by aplenty of choices – for my recent travel – I had... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Google Doodle Honours Indian Woman for Her Chemical Science Contributions !
On a hectic Navrathri day, just about the time to retire, saw this Google doodle and I felt missed out since morning ! ~ a doodle celebrating what would have... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Genocide in Nagorno-Karabakh ~ President Daughter Indulges in Selfie !!
People of behave strange ! ~ Taking ‘selfies’ is a mania !! ~ when people spot celebrities – they whip out their camera, head strikes a posture, hands extend... Read more
Posted on 22 September 2017 SOCIETY -
All About Hat-tricks ~ Kuldeep Yadav's Feat at Kolkatta
Do you know, who was the 1st bowler to take a hat-trick in ODI and in Tests ? At Eden Gardens, India defended an ordinary total with ease to go up 2-0. Read more
Posted on 21 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Collision at Kamarajar Port, Chennai ~ BW Maple Being Allowed to Sail out !!
For sure the technology has changed the way sailors navigate ~ yet accidents and more specifically collisions do occur ! On that fateful day, when dawn broke... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2017 SOCIETY -
Celebrating #Ma Durga Puja ** at Kolkatta
The festival of “Navarathri” is about to begin in South India. This comes at the ascendence of moon in the month of Purattasi. This year, Mahalaya Amavasai was... Read more
Posted on 20 September 2017 SOCIETY