Trip to Vandalur zoo
Last Sunday I went with my son to Vandalur zoo (Arignar Anna Zoological park) near Chennai. It is about 25Kms from Chennai city on the NH45 national highway (the same…
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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
I have never been into reading poetry, poems or other forms of heavy literature. I have only read Shakespeare’s works in few chapters in English textbooks and seeing the plays…
கி.மு. கி.பி. – மதன்
கி.மு. கி.பி., இது மதன் அவர்கள் எழுதி குமுதத்தில் வெளியான ஜாலியான சரித்திரத் தொடர். எனது நண்பர் பத்ரி ஸேஷாத்ரி அவர்களின் கிழக்கு பதிப்பகம் இதைப் புத்தகமாக வெளியிட்டுள்ளது. நான் இந்தப் புத்தகத்தைக் காசுப் போட்டு வாங்கவில்லை, போன வருடம் கேசவன்…
World Trade Center (2006)
World Trade Center (2006), starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña is an important film, not because it was great, but for its perspective on one of the most significant happenings…
Vikram Sarabhai – by Amrita Shah
Few years back when I read a book about Tatas I realized that we know little about Indian Achievers, I got interested in reading more such books. Recently I bought…
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
The movie (The Last King of Scotland) was about the Late Uganda Military Ruler Idi Amin and the friendship with a young Scotland doctor who comes to Uganda to help…
Cash came from Tamil Kaasu
Today in the supplement of one the Tamil newspapers carried a piece that the English word “Cash” came from Tamil “Kaasu”. “Kaasu” means smaller money – coins. European merchants travelling…
Video Essay on Tamil
Today’s “The Hindu” carried an article about a work of Archaeology Channel on a Video Essay on Tamil. In a very professionally done research work by two scholars M.V. Bhaskar…