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• Chennai MTC Bus on Route 27D Catches Fire - Luckily None Injured

  

  Time alone can tell whether Metro rail, MRTS (and Monorail) will change the way people commute in Chennai….. in roads bustling with traffic, there are millions... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Broken Bat .... Iron-woman Behind the White-wash (Ashes)

  

  In Mark Twain’s famous novel - Tom Sawyer lived with his Aunt Polly and his half-brother, Sid. Tom dirties his clothes in a fight and is made to whitewash the... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Rajnikant (Billa) Jumped in to Coovum; Cobden Man Jumps in to Grey River

  

  Chase by police cops often are the climax of many a films… if the hero is the Police Officer, the villain and his gang would somehow get caught or die trying... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Woes of Long Name and the Happiness of Hawaiian Women....

  

  English is a foreign language and native speakers often get confused …. ‘hypocrisy is of course different than hypocorism’…….. Hypocrisy is the state of... Read more

  Posted on 05 January 2014 SOCIETY

• England Plunging for a White-wash.... Guess the Sydney Bowler ??

  

  In the popular Shankar film “Indian” – one of the hit songs was ‘telephone manipol sirippaval ivala – Melbourne malarpol melliya magala” – though the lyrical... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Samaikya : the United Andhra and the Giraffe at Indira Zoo Vizag

  

  This is a post about “Samaikya” …… !!… We go to Zoos and see happily animals which you do not otherwise get to see…… Giraffe is an African even-toed ungulate... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Delhi Fails to Qualify; Cricketers Are Routed in DDCA Elections

  

  Do you know that Gursharan Singh debuted at Hamilton, New Zealandin a match against Australia!All is not well with Delhi Cricket….. Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 SOCIETY

• First Ticket in Cinema ~ Not the Mannan Type (first Commercial Cinema)

  

  In the start of the 1980s, the hi-class ticket (at Devi Paradise, Saffire, Satyam etc.,) was Rs.2.90….but one had to stand in serpentine queues unsure of gettin... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2014 SOCIETY

• New Ranji Format- Tamil Nadu Beaten... J&K Scrapes Through by 0.001...

  

  Can you identify this bowler ? - Tamilians now know him better. ..If you know somebody reeling out statistics of the game and is above 40 at least and you feel... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Legacy of New Year .... Revellry of Drunken Youth

  

  How a tense a person are you … relaxed or carrying some burden all the time… how free are you when you walk or drive on the road ? – do you care to see things... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Millions of CFL Bulbs.............. No Light at the Tunnel ... !!

  

  In the recent Assembly elections in Rajasthan, Congress was drubbed – BJP won absolute majority securing 162 seats as against 21 of Congress ~ in the outgoing... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Pressure of Success and ... Wearing a Mask in Life... Martin Crowe

  

  He was once dismissed for 299 in a Test - I had watched and admired his ease of picking up runs of the hip ~ he was in Chennai but could not bat a single... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Hyosung Aquila Pro 650cc Spotted at Express Avenue Mall

  

  On a web search read this news : ‘Deputy Commissioner under section 144 Cr.PC has imposed ban on plying of unregistered without number plates motorcycles as wel... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2014 SOCIETY

• Indian Team for New Zealand Tour Announced - Ishwar Pandey, Stuart Binny, Varun...

  

  After the present tour of SA, India is to tour Kiwiland – playing 5 One dayers and 2 tests. The One dayers are on Jan 19th; 22nd; 25th; 28th and 31st …. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 SOCIETY

• India Loses at Durban and When Janine Danced........

  

  A loss (of the Test and the Series) - Alviro Petersen and Graeme Smith needed only 48 minutes and 11.4 overs to knock off the runs. Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Goldwinner - SYMA Childfest 2013-2014 at NKT Girls High School

  

  Dear Student(s) Parent(s) ….Welcome to : Goldwinner – SYMA Child Fest 2013-2014 SYMA Childfest - is the grand Inter-school competitions being organized by... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2013 SOCIETY

• AC Coach of Bengaluru Nanded Express Catches Fire - 26 Feared Dead

  

  The Nanda Dynasty originated from the region of Magadha in ancient India during the 4th century BC. At its greatest extent, the Nanda Dynasty extended from... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Stray Thoughts - Placid Pitch Scorer ... Prices of CNG & PNG

  Its mad crowds everywhere. ,….. but before you read something on the record attendance at Melbourne and something on a cinema (yes Movie preview !!) read the... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Sale Attracts Huge Crowds .... and Record Attendance at Melbourne

  

  This started to be a post on ‘crustaceans’ ~ somehow slipped away to be this…. I had posted on Pongal Test at Chepauk drawing parallel to Boxing day test at... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2013 SOCIETY

• Indian Railways Introduces 'dynamically Priced' Train : 22913 / 14 Mumbai - Delhi

  

  ‘old order changeth .. yielding place to new’ the immortal words of Le Morte d’arthur. Life has changed a lot… if there is one Organisation (a State run one at... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2013 SOCIETY