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• Velaikaran Fly ~ Bee Causes De Kock's Missed Stumping at Johannesburg Test

  

  Ragupathi s/0 Gajapathi s/o Valayapathi, spake Rajnikant in Velaikaran movie. Rajni hitting the villains black and blue in the garb of hitting a big fly was a... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2018 SOCIETY

• What is IMO Number ? ~ Heavy Load Carrier Vessel

  

  코렉스 에스피비 2호 ~ you may never be able to decipher what this is ?; yet the topic of the day is interesting... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 SOCIETY

• Coffee Vendors Must Carry Cancer Warnings ~ Rules Los Angeles Judge

  

  Coffee is one of the most widely consumed drinks in the world, with two billion cups drunk worldwide every day. Brewers from every continent have developed a... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 SOCIETY

• Death of Sudan ~ Curtains for Northern White Rhinoceros (Ceratotherium Simum...

  

  It was named Sudan, aged around 45 and in Kenya, rangers had risked their lives to keep the ageing rhino safe ...... Rohit Sharma once stood by him, as did Masa... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2018 SOCIETY

• Suicides Are to Be Hailed If Only Thy Were That of Srirangam Vellayi ;...

  

  For Sri Vaishnavaites, Srirangam venerated as “Kovil” is the most reverred temple. The history of the Srirangam temple is closely related to the development of... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Stallions ~ Race, Breeding and Pedigree !!

  

  Even for those who get lured to horses racing, it would be a different kind out there – Gallops of Morocca, is a desert endurance challenge where riders of the... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Google Green Doodle on Dr Anandi Gopal Joshi ~ a Tragic Story !!!

  

  As is usual, today too started with Google search page ~ lured by the green doodle. It is an Indian woman, Anandi Gopal Joshi who is honoured with a Google... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Crimes & Punishments ~ and Misplaced Sympathies !!!

  

  Often there could misplaced sympathies !!! There are times when people sympathise with the perpetrator of a crime, totally forgetting the torment of the innocen... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Aussies Ball Tampering ! the Other Effects ..

  

  To those following Cricket regularly – can you name the Indian Openers during the Indian tour of South Africa ~ more specifically that 1st One dayer at... Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Language Problem ... Not Humans This Time !!!

  

  There are thousands of languages – Our Nation has hundreds of languages with Hindi in Devanagari script being the principal official language. Read more

  Posted on 28 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Remington Files Chap 11 Bankruptcy !

  

  In good old days, in Tamil movies, a rich man would suffer a great set back (mostly with the ship carrying his stock sinking ! Read more

  Posted on 27 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Salute to Those Great Martyrs Who Fought for Our Freedom ~ Gopinath Saha

  

  Indian history has a cliché ~ Gandhi got us freedom; Indian freedom was gotten without spilling blood. Far away from truth – for there were thousands of... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Chipko Movement is Google Doodle of the Day

  

  Most days start with our search on Google on Bancroft’s sandpaper episode or something else .. .. .. today read that - originally expected to last just two... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Aussie Pride-fade Moment ! Loses Test by 322 After Ball Tampering Incident

  

  Read the word ‘Schadenfreude’ meaning the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures,... Read more

  Posted on 25 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Cameron Bancroft Admits Ball-tampering ~ and Did Steve Smith Knew It ??

  

  In Cricket – shortleg is a specialist position, yet it is an unwritten rule that the man donning that position would be the junior in the team or the opener ! .... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Afghan Qualifies ~ Stuie Broad Takes 400; Morne Morkel 300 ..

  

  At Auckland – England had the ignominy of being bowled out for paltry 58 – yet there was something to succor .. Stuart Broad becoming the youngest fast bowler t... Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Remembering Martyrs : Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar & Shivaram Rajguru

  

  A bomb was thrown "to make the deaf hear and to give the headless a timely warning" ~ the perpetrators did not run away – but like our own Veera Vanchinathan,... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Parliament Passes Payment of Gratuity (Amendment) Bill 2018

  

  ‘Gratuity’ ~ the dictionary meaning is : a tip given to a waiter, taxi driver, etc. It also means : sum of money paid to an employee at the end of a period of... Read more

  Posted on 23 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Boult and Southee Skittle out England for 58 - Auckland Test

  

  In 8 balls Dinesh Karthik’s career has changed ~ now perhaps he has more fans than ever before ! ~ Test Cricket is no slambang – no T20 this, yet .. Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 SOCIETY

• Google Honours Woman Researcher on Radioactivity on Seawater with a Doodle

  

  Most days begin with Google and today Google is honouring a woman scientist who did pioneering work in her field – and then inspired many more like herself to d... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2018 SOCIETY