With the Board exams just around the corner, this week’s column gives some common-sense advice to students on how best to prepare and organise themselves during study ‘hols’, a period that is deemed very important in the academic calendar, mainly because it allows schools to collect fees without having to teach the students anything. Before we start off, let me… Read more →
The Chennai Book Fair ended this week. Here are some personal notes on it: We had smartly chosen the evening of a weekday to avoid the mad congestion that is inevitable at such events on weekends. On our arrival at the YMCA Grounds in Nandanam, the venue of the Chennai Book Fair, we realise our smart thought has basically occurred… Read more →
It’s Pongal time, folks! It is that period of the year when the farming community takes its time off to thank Mother Nature, while we the city-dwellers just thank Mother Nature for the time off, in the form of rare four days of holidays. Here is a quick snapshot of the four-days of celebration as seen from the vantage point… Read more →
They are celebrating 20 years at the Chennai Open, which is currently on at the capacious Nungambakkam Tennis Stadium. This is a remarkable achievement, especially considering the fact that tennis is still an elite sport here and also it is actually only 19 years since the tournament started. Quite apparently, they are nominally tabulating the tournament held at New Delhi… Read more →
For parents whose children are currently in class 12, the feared examination season is still two months away. Right now those parents are enduring something that is even more dreaded: The application form-filling season. I kid not. Filling applications to the various engineering/medical colleges, from being a simple exercise of ticking and filling the prescribed boxes with relevant information, has… Read more →
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