FW: Humour - Fishing ?!

2012-07-23 Thread partha_padma devarajan
A fellow was walking through Park and was astonished to see an old man, fishing rod in hand, fishing over a beautiful bed of lilies."Tch Tch!" said the passer-by to himself. "What a sad sight. That poor old man is fishing over a bed of flowers. I'll see if I can help."So the kind fellow w

Rajesh Khanna, the man who brought super stardom

2012-07-23 Thread Vanakkam Subbu
Rajesh Khanna, the man who brought super-stardom - Times of India * Rajesh Khanna, whose romantic persona in songs like ‘Mere sapno ki raani’, ‘O mere dil ke chain’ and ‘Roop tera mastana’ made many a young woman's heart skip a beat, was Hindi film world's first actor to attain superstar status. H

Re: Avani avitta manthras for year 2012 - Multilingual PDFs

2012-07-23 Thread Ramabhadran N.K.
Dear Sri. Raman, This is really a wonderful job. Nobody can refrain from saying "hats off to you". Nicely done with swara notations. Please try to insert this missing line in all "Deva Tharpanams" : “விஷ்ணும் தர்பயாமி” after 'Govindam Tharpayami' and before 'Madhusoodanam Tharpayami' Thanks an

Jungle of Misfortune - Devdutt Pattanaik

2012-07-23 Thread Vanakkam Subbu
Jungle of Misfortune * * It is curious that the forest-exile is central to both the Ramayana and Mahabharata, the twin epics of India. In the Ramayana, Ram goes into exile so that his father can keep his word to his step-mother, Kaikeyi. In the Mahabharata, the Pandavas go into exile following