Tamil Nadu Farmer Grow Dates in his Farm

(pic) Map of Deccan region showing Mysore kingdom in 1792 (Art) Battle of Malavalli (March 1799) Seringapatam;  Seize of Tipu Tultan Fort by George Harris (British East India Company)   Hyder Ali                     Tipu Sultan  The 4th battle of Mysore kingdom commanded by Tipu Sultan against…

Chingiz Aitmatov’s Cassandra’s Mark   A.Charumati Ramdas   Chingiz Torekulevich Aitmatov, author of Cassandra’s Mark was special in so many ways. Ever since he started writing, he always tried to give something new in each of his works. The beginning was made in the late 50’s with short stories (Stories of Mountains and Steppes); in 60’s appeared his…

A RE-WRITE FROM A PUBLICATION BY Dr TREVOR ENGLISH  Mobius Strips: So Simple to Create, So Hard to Fathom (pic) Möbius strips are both simple and mystifying at the same time. Dimitri Otis/Getty Images The mathematics of otherwise simple-looking objects can be surprisingly perplexing. There’s likely no greater example of this than the Möbius strip.…

THE ALBATROSS   Bhaiya, Bhaiya, here’s  the telegram your first posting”,- Seema ran in shouting  at the top of her voice. I hurriedly got  up from the bed. With nothing to do, I used to spend most of my waking hours in the bed.  I knew I had been selected for IPS and was waiting…

During his West Asia Tour of UAE and OMAN in 2015, PM Modi had laid the foundation stone for the BAPS Swaminarayan Hindu temple in Abu Dhabi. Abu Dhabi has large number of expats from Gujarat and Kerala. UAE has contributed over 95 billion FDI for projects in India.  UAE Arabs express solidarity with India;…

When I was in Merchant Navy, I used to be away from home for long periods. I had started my career with The Shipping Corporation of India. It being an Indian Company the Signing On and Off was done when the ships visited the Indian Ports. Since the Company primarily dealt with the Imports and…

लेखक: राजगुरू द. आगरकर अनुवाद: आ. चारुमति रामदास   उस    दिन    गुरु    ने    मुम्बई    बेस    से    आए    हुए    दो    सन्देश    देखे    और    उसका    माथा    ठनका। पहला   सन्देश   था – ”Ten officers arriving by Bombay Central Mail. Request arrange reception.” दूसरा    सन्देश    था – ”Five Ratings despatched by train.” ‘कहते हैं Ratings Despatched –  अरे     डिस्पैच    …

EXCERPTS from Suraksha P, DHNS, Bengaluru, Jan 08 2021, 22:01 ist updated: Jan 09 2021, 03:12 ist The very objective of Covid-19 vaccination drive run is to give health workers an experience of Covid Vaccine Intelligence Network (Co-WIN) platform – uploading details of beneficiaries, session sites and to identify the challenges thereon. But the exercise…

Photo  I got over WhatsApp. The little girl at bottom right is likely to be Kamala when she visited her grandparents in Chennai with her mother, then a civil rights activist from Chennai (at left) [HOPE I AM CORRECT here… this picture is a Whatsapp forward] Campaigning is on in USA for  next President of…

लेखिका: वेरा पनोवा अनुवाद: आ. चारुमति रामदास खल्मागोरी   खल्मागोरी. मम्मा से करस्तिल्योव  की बातचीत में यह शब्द सिर्योझा अक्सर सुनता है. “ तुमने खल्मागोरी में ख़त लिखा?” “शायद खल्मागोरी में इतना व्यस्त नहीं रहूँगा, तब मैं राजनीतिक-अर्थशास्त्र की परीक्षा पास कर लूँगा.” “मुझे खल्मागोरी से जवाब आया है. लड़कियों के स्कूल में नौकरी दे…