Sampathkumar Sampath

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• Hate (e)mails ~ the Angry Response and Employer Apologising !!

  

  Unemployment was the theme of many films - When we were in school, there was some talk about Balachandar and Barathiraja – both taking film on same subject -... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Mother Cow Index ~ Quantitative Vs Qualitative Analysis

  

  How chill is vanilla ice-cream to strawberry – while one can feel the difference in chillness and measure the degree of cold – there are things which are... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Worst Wildfire in Greece ~ Govt Owns Responsibility

  

  The worst wildfire to hit Greece in over a decade tore through a small resort town near Athens this week, killing at least 74 people, injuring almost 200 and... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2018 SOCIETY

• What Connects Mehul Choksi and Andy Roberts ..

  

  Any reference to Test No. 752 will flood memories of that classy knock of Gundappa Viswanath - great bowling of Andy Roberts and the defeat (100 runs at that)... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Longest Lunar Eclipse ~ Blood Moon Today - 2018

  

  The longest total lunar eclipse of the century will be today. While the full eclipse will be over 6 hours, the total lunar eclipse 2018 - when the moon will be... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Carriage of Horse ~ Liability When Truck Broke Down - Insurer's Liablity

  

  Subrogation is the act of one party acquiring the legal rights of another after one has reimbursed them for the losses. Subrogation occurs in property/casualty... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Cricketer Imran Khan Set to Win Paki Elections 2018

  

  We will improve tax culture. People will pay taxes because they will see that their taxes are being spent on them. We will help farmers, the business community... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Big Salute ~ Remembering Heroes of Kargil War 1999

  

  We have seen Cine heroes donning role of Army Jawans and applaud them too – In our history books, we have read about 3 battles of Panipat, Plassey, Arcot and... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Sergio Marchionne Who Turned Fiat's Fortunes is No More

  

  It was my school days (may be 1978 !) ~ I was standing in front of my house – a Premier Padmini car passed by (those were the days when automobiles were scarce... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Gory EMU Train Accident ~ Could It Have Been Averted ?!?

  

  Can you imagine what these are ? These are hanging concrete balls installed in Indonesian Capital of Jakarta. Why would somebody put these big sized concrete... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Indian Wicket Keepers ~ Seriousness of Saha's Injury !?!

  

  To the Cricket fan with unquenching desire to know more and more of the game. Way back in Feb 1976, India played New Zealand in ODI no. Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2018 SOCIETY

• 4 Workers Found to Be Illegal on Board Tanker 'Rise Dignity' at Chennai Port

  

  Kharg is a continental island in the Persian Gulf belonging to Iran. The island is located 25 km (16 mi) off the coast of Iran and 483 km (300 mi) northwest of... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Wallace, the Mule, Beats Horses in Dressage

  

  Did you find anything different in this photo of a winner of a dressage event ? Dressage a French term, most commonly translated to mean "training" is a highly... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Planning One's Retirement - Speculation on MS Dhoni Retiring !!

  

  If you are over 50 – feel stressed in job; family reasonably well-settled, perhaps would have pondered on this already ! – and for such people this post may mak... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2018 SOCIETY

• School Admission ~ Trauma of Parents Waiting !!

  

  More than 130 parents at a primary school queued from 3am in a bid to secure their child a place at a breakfast club in the new school term reads an article in... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Russian Warship Dimitrii Donskoi, Claimed to Have Been Spotted for Salvage !

  

  A South Korean salvage team has discovered the wreck of Russian warship Dimitrii Donskoi, 113 years after it sank. In law, abandonment is the relinquishment,... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Novak Djokovic, the Serb Relishes Grass at Wimbledon - 2018

  

  “It tastes very, very good this year, he said after with a laugh. “It’s a little tradition obviously. As a kid I was dreaming of winning Wimbledon, so, like... Read more

  Posted on 18 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Winners of Wimbledon 2018 and Something Interesting !

  

  Wimbledon 2018 is over ~ not many would have guessed its winners ! Epic semifinals, marathon matches, the return of the legends, World Cup drama -- Wimbledon... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Sunil Gavaskar Criticises Dhoni for Playing Slow !!

  

  MS Dhoni walked a single to third man to reach 10,000 ODI runs, but there was barely a clap heard at Lord's. Even the Indian dressing room was glum. Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2018 SOCIETY

• Croatia to Play France in FIFA 2018 Finals ~ Something on President Kolinda...

  

  Tomislav was the first King of Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, on the Adriatic Sea. Its capital is Zagreb. The Croats reportedly arrived in the are... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2018 SOCIETY