Another Children's day

Its another beautiful "Children's day" celebrations I had in my office. I think this is one good thing happening in my company and hope this will continue in future. They organised for children's day celebrations with the participants from three humanity organisations viz.

1. F.A.M.E. India
2. Samarthanam
3. Parikrma

Children from F.A.M.E sung a hindi song with good lyrics. Ofcourse they had a good voice.Then two girls from Samarthanam (having visual impairment) danced for a carnatic song (Bharatanatyam). Final program is from Parikrma in which a group of children sung a english song with good musical background. Couple of things I noticed are:
- They don't have no fear in expressing themselves.
- They are confident and happy in what they're doing.

The above is about the cultural program that took place. Coming to the motto of the program, these organizations are helping the community in their own ways.

F.A.M.E. India is helping out disabled (physically and mentally) people to learn education and other arts (like painting). Samarthanam is helping the children from low economy background, having visual impairment to continue their education in schools and they have good records in that. Parikrma is helping the children from slums to continue their school education in ICSE medium. These people have their own school (I think till 10th) and are going to bring Junior college(12th) soon (2008).

In a way, they are doing great service to our society. They are seeking not only our economical help but also our physical help (being present in their places to help them). Though I did the first one, I've to do the later one soon.

You can visit them and donate them to continue their service.
www.fameindia.org
www.samarthanam.org
www.parikrmafoundation.org

- NSR.

S.Ramakrishnan's writings

Most of tamil readers would have come across (or heard about) writer S.Ramakrishnan's writings. He is one of the best contemporary writer who has a unique style in writing. I came to know about him through Ananda vikatan (AV). He started with his first writing "Thunai ezhuthu (துணையெழுத்து)" in AV, then came up with "Kathavilaasam(கதாவிலாசம்)".

The first one is a kind of biographical, with several themes of life. In the second one he narrates some incident happened and making that coherent with some novel / story of a writer. He talked about several writers who are unknown to us and their writings. Both writings were impressive.

Then he started his third series, "Desandhiri (தேசாந்திரி). This time he wrote his "Travelogues" to different places. He narrated those experiences beautifully. He is a good story teller indeed. This article got over 2 weeks back.

Already, AV published his earlier writings in book form and I hope they will do it for this one too. If so, Go for it!! You can purchase their publications Vikatan online.

- NSR.

Nice toon

This toon represents the current economic situation very well.



Courtesy: THE HINDU

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

- NSR.

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

- NSR.

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/

- NSR.