Sampathkumar Sampath

LATEST ARTICLES ( 5617 )

• 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

• Lanka Beats WI in Rain Curtailed Semis ... Will SA Choke Again Tomorrow ???

  There was much expectation in the air as we sat before the TV sets …. WI has reached Semis in style – the six hitting madness it has been…. The familiar sight o... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SOCIETY

• the Man of Many Symbols - This Time in 'Hand' at Ramanathapuram....

  

  Almost all my posts are my own thoughts ….there are some which get influenced by the newspaper articles and this one … totally influenced (almost reproduction o... Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SOCIETY

• T20 WC at Bangladesh : Line-up in Men and Women Too...

  

  Krish Srikkanth captained India in that tour to Pak when Sachin Tendulkar made his debut … Cheeka had Kapil Dev, Vengsarkar, Ravi Shastri – playing under him. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SOCIETY

• 'if Name is Easy to Pronounce' - People Are More Likely to Trust.... ?!?!

  

  What is in a name … a rose by any other name would smell as sweet - the names of things do not matter, only what things are !! ~ but perceptions do matter …. Read more

  Posted on 03 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Depositing Cheque in a Bank.... the Day in News - Rakhi Sawant Claims Illiterate

  

  A star worth several crores of rupees entering election fray has declared that she is an illiterate………till a few years ago, even literates were not too confiden... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Golf Balls Lights up When Hit ... Play the Game Colourfully

  

  At a time when so much of IPL happened in Court and on a day when Indiais playing Bangla, one may not read anything else …. Still I read the news of Virender... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 SOCIETY