Sampathkumar Sampath

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• 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

• the Little Marmoset Landing in Chennai .....

  

  In Marina beach, one would find group of vagabonds [kuravas] and they keep some chirpy monkeys tied alongside… not bigger ones, but small, they jump, dance and... Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Chaos, Confusion and Anarchism in the Elections of World's Biggest Democracy

  

  Indian economy is the best economy …… those of us who see Tamil cinema regularly know this dialogue too well…. ‘India is the biggest democracy and Indian... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Google Launches 'Shelfie' on All Fools Day ...

  

  1st April is a different day … it heralds the starts of Financial year (I started my career with the present company 11 years ago) … for strange reasons, it is... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• the English View of 'doosra' - Some Spinners Who Suffered !!!

  

  Subash Gupte, VV Kumar, BS Chandrasekhar, MV Narasimha Rao, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Narendra Hirwani, Anil Kumble, Amit Mishra, Piyush Chawla ……….all leg... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY

• Statue of First CM of Andhra Pradesh Stands in Esplanade, Chennai

  

  Ozymandias is a sonnet written by the PB Shelly and published in 1818 ~ its central theme is the inevitable decline of all leaders and of the empires they... Read more

  Posted on 01 April 2014 SOCIETY