Nice toon

This toon represents the current economic situation very well.



Courtesy: THE HINDU

P.S: One year completion of my blogging :)

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Amish, Followers of Jesus

இந்த வார ஆனந்த விகடனில் வெளியாகியிருக்கும் "ஓ! பக்கங்கள்" கட்டுரையில் அமிஷ் மக்களைப் பற்றி ஞானி எழுதியுள்ளார். இப்படியும் மக்கள் உள்ளனர் என்று அறியும் பொழுது மகிழ்ச்சியாக உள்ளது. அற்புதமான சம்பவம்!! நன்றி..

இந்த சம்பவத்தை ஆங்கிலத்தில் படிக்க, இங்கு செல்லவும் http://www.800padutch.com/amishshooting.shtml

அமிஷ் மக்களை பற்றி தெரிந்துக் கொள்ள, இங்கு செல்லவும். http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish

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Adieu, Schumi..

I'm watching Formula 1 racing from my college days. At those times, I didn't watch it keenly as of now. But I can remember some names and the one I could not forget is "Schumacher"...Earlier I thought how his name spelled, whether it is "shoemaker" or so.

As most of us knew, he made his debut with Jordan, then moved to Benetton with whom he won 2 championships and finally to Ferrari.The period which he won championship consecutively (2000-2004) is "Golden period" for him, which brought back Ferrari to command.

During the last season (2005), the car is not quite good as Renault. So the competition is not as close as this season. Alonso won this year's championship, but not comfortably as his earlier one. Schumi was at his best when retiring out. Thanks Schumi for the enjoyment and fun you provided. We miss you.

Let us watch Kimi in action next season.

P.S:
Links to know about Schumi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Schumacher
http://www.mschumacher.com/

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Human Touch

Nice ad. from Toyota..




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கிருஷ்ணா கிருஷ்ணா

Recently, I read this book "Krishnaa.. Krishnaa" by Indira Parthasarathy . I came to know about this from my uncle and I got this book after a long time.

In this book, the author explains the mission and ideals of Krishna.He embodies Krishna as a political strategist, management guru who made the entire epic a game. Krishna is the mastermind of all the events took place without whom nothing would have happened.The author uses Narada as a narrator. Narada introduces himself as World's First ever Journalist (Information broadcasting) in this. Interesting point of view!!

The book starts with the event of Krishna getting a hit from the arrow of the hunter Jara. Before his (planned) death, Krishna started telling Jara about the events that took place and the role he played in each event. He explains Jara how he planned to make the war to happen, whom he loved etc. Couple of incidents for example are below:

While Jara asked him (as others) "Why did you follow adharma in some cases in the war? , Krishna replied him "Till 9th day, everything went according to the rules.Then the opponents didn't follow dharma.So I also changed my rules accordingly. Unless you change the gamestyle, you cannot win." In many places he hints that the "Change is the only constant thing"

Krishna gave a hint to Beema to kill Dhuryodhana by hitting him in his thigh (Hitting below the waist is not a rule).Then Beema kills him in that way as he made a vow in the palace earlier. When Balarama questioned about this to Krishna, he said "Was the rule followed while 6 Maharadhi's (Dhuryodhana, Karna, Dhrona..) killed Abhimanyu who didn't have any weapon?" for which Balarama could not answer.

It has some interesting events known/unknown to us and gives a new dimension of Krishna. In Krishna's words, "Krishna himself is the mission of Krishna avatara" which is not in the case of other avataras. Dont hold or stick to any rule constantly and Change according to the environment as needed.

P.S. To say about the author Indira Parthasarathy, he worked as a Tamil Professor in Delhi university, Warsaw(Poland), Pondicherry. He wrote around 15 novels, 4 short novels, 6 small story collections, 10 dramas and 2 essays.He won "Saraswathi samman" award for his drama "Ramanujar". He also won "Sangeeth natak" award and "Sahithya academy" award(for "Kuruthippunal" novel). He is the only tamil writer to do so.

For buying the english version of this book, go here. Though I suggest you to read it in Tamil. ISBN எண்: 81-8368-080-1


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