Sampathkumar Sampath

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• the Alarming Accident Rate of Chennai ... How Safe Are the Roads !!

  

  With the increased incidence of travelling, there is more to see ~ and one does get unnerved by the way vehicles fly past, the attitude of drivers, the callous... Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Gautam Adani, the Baron to Watch to ~ When Narendra Modi Becomes the PM of Bharat

  

  Gujarat with so many ports is a Mariner’s delight….there lies the Kutch district covering vast area, literally meaning something which intermittently becomes we... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 SOCIETY

• the Rain-rule in Cricket - BCCI Adopts VJD (Jayadevan) Method (no...

  

  The T20 WC is over –Yuvi’s 21 ball struggle in the finals made him the villain – and in a week from now, IPL version 7 will be on – there is hope for... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Hospitalist - Who; Some History of Govt General Hospital, Madras

  

  Read the word ‘Hospitalist’ ……… and learnt its meaning !! ~ English is a foreign language and often, the meaning of words could be far different than what we... Read more

  Posted on 10 April 2014 SOCIETY

• of Coaches - Farbrace; Nobbs; Terry Walsh ... David Moyes - How Much Value Do...

  

  The T20 WC is over as people look forward to IPL….even as Sri Lanka expertly shepherded by Kumar Sangakkara in his last T20 international, carried off the... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Premonition ~ Nooravathu Naal; Iyer, the Great and ... Man Dreamt of Killing Wife

  

  On a day when thoughts wandered, - ‘hunting elephants’ came to mind… a search revealed that ‘Hunting Elephants’ is not about killing the pachyderm, but is a 201... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 SOCIETY

• INS Vikrant, the Glorious Ship Sold and to Be Scrapped ... !!

  

  Alang is a small town in Bhavnagar district in Gujarat….it is on the coast and is known Worldwide for its yards, not exceptionally state of art, mostly manual... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Kalamkari Art...... Srikakulam Not the One Near Vizag...

  

  In a first look, perhaps you would not notice anything other than sheets of water in this photo which appeared in The Hindu ~ on a closer look, one might observ... Read more

  Posted on 09 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Microsoft Withdraws Support to Windows XP ...

  

  Do you have grey hair ? ~ are you above 40 years of age ? did you use Computer in mid 1980s ? ….. [did you at some point of time say – no formal education in... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 SOCIETY

• AC Buses on OMR as City Commuters Ask for More...

  

  15B; 17D; 17M; 19B; 1B; 219A; 21G; 21H; 29C; 500; 500C; 568C; 570; 599; A51; D70; E 18……… Can you tell what connects these ? Chennaites do well know, that... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Ganga Kaveri Express - Running with a Lone Passenger in Reserved Coach

  

  Train journey is most enjoyable as one can spend time leisurely eating the choicest delicacies looking through the window at the different culture, fields,... Read more

  Posted on 08 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Danger of Dogs .... and Dangerous Dog Law... !!

  

  Heard of ~ Cynophobia ! Dogs - one of the most adored pets – the domestic dog in all likelihood is the first of the animals to be domesticated and used as... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Australia and Sri Lanka Are the New T20 Champions....

  

  T20 WC is over…….. not the finals that we looked forward to … perhaps not the result that we wished …. In the end Lanka won…. Actually they won from the start.... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 SOCIETY

• T20 WC Finals ~ the Google Doodle ~ and the 'bowl-out'

  

  India – Sri Lanka finals ……………. Looks so familiar …… and the hype is that this is Mahela’s last match ! - among the clichés evoked by Jayawardene's T20 success... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 SOCIETY

• How Much You Shop ... How Much Time and How Many You See (and Discard) .....

  

  Wearing a new dress no doubt lifts one’s spirits – when you are out to buy one, you think of that perfect dress – matching your thinking, likes and more. There... Read more

  Posted on 06 April 2014 SOCIETY

• the Inflationary Alphonso ..... No Longer 'aam Admi'.....

  

  As the mercury shoots up and as people start predicting that ‘this year summer is going to be more hot’ …. People start thinking of delicious mango season. Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2014 SOCIETY

• India Through to Finals ! ~ SA Choke Again...

  The happy news is that India has chased a good score and has won convincingly storming in to the finals, keeping their ‘no loss’ in tact. Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Names .... Naming Pattern and the Names Banned ?!?! - Heard of Passau

  

  Passau, is a town in Lower Bavaria, Germany. It is also known as the Dreiflüssestadt or "City of Three Rivers," because the Danube is joined at Passau by the In... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Fruit Cargo Theory ... Mangosteen (Mangustan) Link to Missing Malaysian Airline...

  

  On 17 August 1988 the VVIP flight, Pak One, took off from Bahawalpur airport with 31 people on board including the US Ambassador, the chief of the US military... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Consumer Forum Asks Axis Bank to Compensate Dipika Pallikal

  

  In Sept. 2013, I had posted on ‘failure of card swipe’ – Diplika Pallikal suing bank and bank stating that it was ‘AOG” ……… Straight drive; boast; volley; lob;... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2014 SOCIETY