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 →
(This is the second installment of the two-part year-end review. The first part appeared last week) April In the last throw of dice to salvage something out of the economy, the Congress-led UPA government plans curtailing of needless expenditure and calls for a five-year moratorium on general elections. Finance Minister P Chidambaram sets a personal example by not contesting the… Read more →
As 2014 slips into the ever-filling but ever-lengthening abyss of history, the one defining word to sum up the entire year would be: Happiness. Happy that it is ending. Happy that didn’t get any worse than it did. It was the year that Narendra Modi stormed to power at the Centre based on the sterling qualification that he was not… Read more →
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