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• Futuristic Ship Designs ... .. Getting Back to Wood !!

  

  Of the various effects of lockdown following Corona, is closure of Marina beach – that has denied watching the Bay of Bengal, its waves, the big majestic ships... Read more

  Posted on 25 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Cyclone Nivar Brings Rains to Chennai - Floods Washed Through Mars 4 Billion...

  

  It is raining heavily now ! in Chennai and in social media messages of an impending cyclone and what one should do, including stocking of food is ripe ! Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Novavax Vaccine Trials Successful in Monkeys !

  

  2020 has kept humans worrying all along .. .. now the count of Corona globally is : 5,56,24,562. The dynamics in India has been changing. Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Game of Chess in Spotlight !

  

  For a month or so till 10th of November 2020, it was exciting to watch IPL matches – and now we look forward to Indians downunder .. .. Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Global Cases of Covid 19 Go up .. .. Some Products Claim to Kill 99.5% of Germs...

  

  As the World struggles to grapple with Covid 19 crisis, some companies have had their sales going up by advertising that their products kill 99% germs and... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Animals in Tinseldom ~ AWBI Issues Showcause Notice to 'Eeswaran' !

  

  In Victorian era Britain, Dr. John Dolittle is a Welsh veterinarian with the ability to communicate with animals. After his wife, Lily, dies at sea, Dolittle... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Kannankottai-Therovy Kandigai Reservoir to Be Declared Open by Home Minister Mr...

  

  நீர்இன்று அமையாது... Read more

  Posted on 21 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Innocence of Man ~ "ஆண் பாவம் !"

  

  "ஆண் பாவம் !" (அய்யோ பாவம் ஆண்... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Taking Leave .. .. - 'parental Leave' !!

  

  Long before the invention and usage of templates – there were specialists who used to tutor writing a leave application - ‘as I am suffering from fever’ .. . Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Admiral Nelson Statue Removed in Barbados !

  

  The Battle of Trafalgar (21 Oct 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies durin... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2020 SOCIETY

• from Champaran to Becoming Dy CM of Bihar ..

  

  The Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 was the first Satyagraha movement led by Gandhi in India and is considered a historically important revolt in the Indian... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Covid - Perceptions, Statistics and Hopes .. ... Moderna Vaccine

  

  Year 2021 dawned normally .. .. but after a couple of months life turned turtle. In early months, people would read Covid 19 statistics with fear and anxiety –... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Kākāpō, the World's Fattest Parrot, Named New Zealand's Bird of the Year

  

  Parrots are very attractive, shy, Green in colour, chirpy, fly fast ! Ka Ka Ka Po is a 2016 comedy film written and directed by P. S. Vijay. Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Asparagus ... Puurs in Belgium - Holding Hope for Mankind !!

  

  The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has risen by 657,312 within the past 24 hours marking the largest daily increase since the outbreak of the... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Bowled Over by the Belle from Kankrej !

  

  One of the good things learnt during lockdown is patience, appreciating things around ~ the other day, on the streets of Thiruvallikkeni, on the banks of... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Remembering Freedom Fighter, Tribal Warrior from Jharkhand - Birsa Munda

  

  There was a time when famous Airports were Meenambakkam, Palam, Dum Dum, Santacruz and the like .. .. later they have been named after famous Indian... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2020 SOCIETY

• PM Shri Modiji Celebrates Deepavali with Soldiers at Longewala - Some History !

  

  The festival of lights ‘Deepavali’ was grandly celebrated across the Nation and many parts of the globe. Deepavali generally would see lakhs of people travellin... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Celebrating Deepavali 2020 - with Sweets, New Clothes and Crackers - Happy Diwali

  

  3 decades ago came Mani Ratnam’s ‘Nayakan’ – story of an Underworld don – even before the film was released, the songs became a super hit – there was this old... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Golden Statue for Alabai Dog in the Centre of the Road !!

  

  Sure have heard of or have used the idiom ‘It's a dog's life’ ~ something you say which means that life is hard and unpleasant. Dogs often are related to hard... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2020 SOCIETY

• Rains in Chennai .. ! .. . ....... Cyclones Battering Philippines

  

  The grand festival of Deepavali brings rains alongside .. it has been raining and it rained well in Chennai today .. making Chennai residents happy. Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2020 SOCIETY