Sampathkumar Sampath

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• Appalling Driving by an Indian on a New Zealand Road.....

  

  In OMR – vehicles of all hues drive fast….that is the rule of the road ! ~ are we, Indians, setting a bad example elsewhere too ?!?! Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 SOCIETY

• McCullum Completes 300 ~ India Struggling at 10/2

  The debate whether the Indian bowling is toothless or its batsmen consistently fail abroad would flow unabated !Away at Dubai International Stadium, India beat... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2014 SOCIETY

• McCullum Stands Tall at Basin Reserve.... Will He Declare ? ~will India Survive...

  

  A man aware of the records and yet chose to…. Played for a decade = 104 Tests made 7525 runs ~ that was Mark Taylor….. one would ever remember that test in... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Advertisements and People Falling for Them.... When People Are Ready to Be...

  

  Decades ago, we used to see players using bats like Slazenger, G M, Grey Nicholls, SG, SS, BDM and the like….. now you see bats without brand name explicit but... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Bloomer of Richard Madley Pinches Mallaya... Makes Yuvi Richer.. !!

  

  Professionals get more money ! .. in this age of commercialism, everyone tries to maximize their revenues, things are outsourced and experts command a premium... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Indian Star Tortoises - Imported and Exported ~ Not Through Proper Channel !!

  

  Long ago, Mambalam mosquitoes were famous … now you find them everywhere ~ lambasting theories that ‘mosquitoes won’t fly high’ and ‘areas closer to seashore,... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Rice is (not An) Agricultural Product...... Strange Are the Ways !! Service Tax...

  

  Oryza sativa is most common here; Oryza glaberrima elsewhere and there are 23 species more…… guess what ? Google search on Samba – could throw many results…... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Google Doodle ~ Birth Anniversary of Kavikuyil Sarojini Naidu

  

  She was the first Governor of free ‘United Provinces’………. You need not scroll down to the last to see what it was ! ~ the United Provinces of British India, mor... Read more

  Posted on 13 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Freddie, the Great Dane Standing at 7ft 4in ... Tallest One !!

  

  What About Bob? ~ is a 1991 comedy film directed by Frank Oz, starring Bill Murray and Richard Dreyfuss. It is a dog’s life… and there are dogs like the... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2014 ANIMALS & WILDLIFE, SOCIETY

• Grand Opening Ceremony at Sochi Winter Olympics and the Glitch .. !!

  

  I have posted earlier on the Parade of Nations and Indian anguish at Winter Olympics – officially the XXII Olympic Winter Games, or the 22nd Winter Olympics, no... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 SOCIETY

• India Back in Olympic Fold... IOC Readmits IOA After Elections... !!

  IPL and controversies ….. version 7 of IPL is to steamroll with the all important IPL auctions……… which will go ahead as scheduled on Wednesday at Bangalore, th... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Singaravelar and Marie Freeman-Thomas (aka Lady Willingdon) - at Triplicane

  Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Sochi Witner Olympics - India as 'Independent Country'

  

  There are three Independent Olympic participants competing in three different sports at Sochi, guess who ??... Ever heard of Luge …. but before that India’s hou... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Kevin Pietersen Dropped .... Team Meeting - Feedback and Opinion Giver.

  

  Kevin Peter Pietersen, was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal Province, South Africa. He made his first-class debut for Natal in 1997 before moving to England,... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Registration of Vehicles and the Craze for Fancy Numbers !

  

  We own vehicles and possess valid Driving License to drive them too…. honestly, how many of us underwent the process, passed the test and obtained License in th... Read more

  Posted on 10 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Shikhar Dhawan's 4th Innings Ton in Vain as India Goes Down Fighting

  

  The odds were stacked heavily against…. Yet it produced a thriller… this Test started on a holiday !! The Treaty of Waitangi was signed by representatives of th... Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 SOCIETY, SPORTS

• What is Piracy and the Insurance Angle !

  

  Dear (s) Pirates for long were thought of as ‘one eyed jacks, colourful vagabonds’ who would strike at will and capture mercantile boats carrying cargo. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2014 SOCIETY

• Diabetes - Blood Glucose Monitoring - Google Smart Contact Lens

  

  One need to adapt a controlled way of living …. Sounds simple – when practised – life will be normal, especially for those affected by a disease [it is stated t... Read more

  Posted on 08 February 2014 SOCIETY, TECH

• Understanding IPL 7 Auction - Season 2014 - Icon and Marquee Players

  

  At Auckland, Indiahas played so badly …. In SA, the team performed poorly and in the previous tours of England and Australia too.. the performance was... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 SOCIETY

• the Indian Leggie ~ Bowling to Indians ... Ish Sodhi

  

  At Auckland, Indiais in tatters…. On a pitch which seemingly had nothing for the bowlers…. Kiwis scored 500+ - but when it was our turn, the batsmen faltered…... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2014 SOCIETY