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• Even VIPs Are Common Man .... Not Here but in USA (Obama Example)

  Everyone of us for sure would have experienced this …… in a long queue, someone just walks through – overtakes priority and has his work completed (could be a... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Cocoa Bean - Ghana .... Price of Chocolates Likely to Go up !!!

  

  Sure you know of Cocoa bean……..almost all of us are addicted to chocolates. They are made of cocoa bean.... the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Sir James Simpson, the Man Behind Anaesthetic Chloroform

  

  We have seen it in many cinemas ~ group of people [villain gang] would suddenly surround the good looking heroine, whip out a kerchief soaked with concentrated... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 SOCIETY

• the Self-destructing Hard Drives and the Highest Capacity Memory Card !

  

  Technology improvement dazzles ….. what sells most now-a-days is ‘memory cards’ - hundreds of manufacturers market thousands of memory cards and devices built t... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Landmarks of Chennai - Walltax Road (VOC Salai) - Padmanabha Theatre

  

  The other day, travelling on Walltax road – saw this old building – which looked like a religious place at first sight – it is not to be – and the whole area... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Read Receipt and the One That Was Deleted Without Being Read... !!

  Dear(s) In this beautiful ‘e-World’ – most of the correspondence is by e-mail. Another matter that modern day youngsters would spend their lives sending SMS, ms... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Warren M Anderson is No More .... Ghosts of Bhopal Haunt Still !!

  

  His death, which was not announced by his family, was confirmed from public records – that brings no tears miles away in India – for that ghastly incident that... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Game Changing 'vanishing Spray' Technology in Football

  

  Games certainly have changed from the way they have been played a century ago – though Sachin Tendulkar was dubbed as Modern Bradman – I have always felt that... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Tunnel to Bank Locker - the Precision Work of Small Group !!

  

  Part of Chennai moves on arterial Anna Salai (Mount Road) ~ the city has choked many a times whenever political agitation or a show of strength by any leader... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Central Zone Lifts Duleep; India Wins ............. and Misbah Ul Haq Scores...

  Do you follow Indian domestic Cricket ? At Delhi, the Duleep Trophy finals is on…… the Duleep Trophy is a domestic first-class cricket competition played in... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Digging Tunnel to Bank Locker - Old Idea Still Works !!!

  

  Palavakkam is now a posh area – it is around 6 kms south of Adyar located on East Coast Road. Old timers would fondly recall the PC game ‘Digger’ – which was a... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2014 SOCIETY

• McDonald ... Stella Liebeck and ... Hot Coffee Liability ...

  

  Way back in January 1977, in a series otherwise marred by the ‘vaseline incident’ of John Lever – the 3rd test was played at Chepauk. Tony Greig, Bob Woolmer,... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 SOCIETY

• Primate Cognition .... Will Tommy the Chimp Be Recognised as a Person ?

  

  Tommy is 26. He lives alone behind a trailer sales park in upstate New York. His hobbies include watching cartoons ~ and he is involved in a court case, which... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Bharathi Salai in Triplicane .... the Pycrofts Road

  

  The man who was to become an iconoclastic freedom fighter was born in a small village called Ettayapuram. He, by his songs and concerted actions reached to the... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Super Mario and the Pit of Despair - Chilean Mining Accident ...

  

  Super Mario Bros. is a 1985 platform video game internally developed by Nintendo EAD. Mario is a fictional character in the Mario video game franchise, created... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• When MS Dhoni Ushered at National Scene ~ Best Thing That Occurred

  

  Lankans are here - as replacement for West Indies who abandoned the tour. Yesterday, in the practice match, with Sri Lanka deciding to give all fifteen members... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2014 SOCIETY

• “Ouagadougou” - Capital of Burkina Faso in Turmoil...

  

  Before you mistake these three colours for something else – it is river – the Volta River, a stream primarily in Ghana that drains into the Gulf of Guinea and... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Google Doodle on Jonas Edward Salk's 100th Birthday ....

  

  I am one impressed by Google doodles ~ and post on them too… today saw one and tried keeping away ….in the closing hours of the day – seeing the doodle again –... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 SOCIETY

• the Most Powerful Women in Football !

  

  Angela Merkel, Janet Yellen, Melinda Gates, Dilma Rousseff, Christine Lagarde ……….the toppers of most powerful women list according to Forbes. Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 SOCIETY

• Aavin Hikes Milk Price - How Does It Compare with Neighbours !!!

  

  The Tamil Nadu government on Saturday announced a hike in Aavin (Tamil Nadu Co-operative Milk Producers Federation) milk price by Rs.10/- per litre. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 SOCIETY