Mother India
Posted on May 17 2008This is not about the Hindi movie, but about a majority of the Indian mothers - the kind like that o
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60 Glorious Years of Indian Independence?!
Posted on Aug 8 2007Channels and print media are seeing green! Overzealous opportunity to go for an advertising Blitzkrieg – make some big billing on this great Indian Milestone, by the way write something superfluous about the nations achievement. Where are we at the e
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Step out for a Walk – Country men and City Councilors!
Posted on Jul 25 2007Working for a construction major, I know that the site construction manager is responsible for every thing in that project-area. The stretch can be some hundred acres wide! He is accountable for the timely project completion, quality, safety, health
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An Eye For an Eye - Will make all Drivers Turn Blind
Posted on Jul 24 2007Fast swanky new cars; with duel powerful headlights and fog lights. It really looks like every car manufacturers and drivers are so very keen to drive past sunset hours, with full-beam lights! So powerful that we could all go blind or turn blind into
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Birth Centenary of an Indian Industrialist of Danish Origin
Posted on Jun 29 2007Mr. Henning Holck-Larsen.
4th July 2007 is the birth centenary of Mr. Henning Holck-Larsen, industrialist and co-founder of the Rs.18,000 cr. L&T conglomerate, which he co-founded along with his schoolmate Mr. Søren Kristian Toubro. Perhaps there co
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Demise of the Ranbaxy doyen
Posted on Jun 29 2007Ranbaxy was one of my 7 career-experience that not only reflects in my CV, but is also engraved in my heart!
BHAI MOHAN SINGH, the man who saw the germination of Ranbaxy as the tiny acorn that grew into a mighty oak, was born in 1917 at the Nareli
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Taming the Stately-Drivers of White Amby.
Posted on Jun 2 2007Sight of Monday morning traffic on the Chennai’s Anna Salai or Taramani or even Santhome Road will reveal a hysterical peak-hour rush.
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Helmets and Seat belt wearing - now mandatory
Posted on Jun 1 2007From today - 1stJ une, Chennai-ites must wear this. Drive to office this morning revealed many callous souls, who are still unmindful about the 'law'. Is it definable as 'ignorance', 'indifference' of 'arrgonant anti-establishment'.
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Namma India - Namma Chennai
Posted on May 30 2007NOTHING IS IN THEIR RIGHT PLACES HERE!
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A Treasure House of Heritage
Posted on May 29 2007The festive mood was still in the air! The Pongal pot boiled over and folks in Tamil Nadu went glee with “Pongal-O- Pongal!” renting the air. The fun had not ceased for people in PRSI. Families set out on 15th January to continue with their joy an
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Mother of all Mela’s – The Surajkund Mela
Posted on May 29 2007White herons wait patiently for a catch in the serene Surajkund lake, surrounded by dense trees and foliage. Peacocks carelessly meander the place. Groups of monkeys keep busy with their pranks. Come 1st February every year, the hamlet in Haryana wo
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Almaty – The Apple City
Posted on May 29 2007Alma-Aty in Kazhak means ‘Apple City’. “Raj Kapoor…film…we love it” they would exclaim. The local drivers and shop owners hum RK’s old numbers and its tune at the very drop of a hat! (Their traditional hat is known as Chalma). Jawahar Lal Nehru a
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A Chartered Train Trip to Goa
Posted on May 28 2007The ECC Recreation Club (comprising the staff members of L&T – ECC, the Construction arm of Larsen & Toubro Limited, Chennai) chartered a special train for its 700 picnic-frenzy members, to undertake a 5-day outing at Goa. V S Ramana recount their c
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Revisiting Varakur - Varakur Srinivasan Ramana
Posted on May 28 2007TRUE PERSONAL STORY - What do you attribute to, when one connects back with an ancestral village that for generations, one has had no links at all - leave alone the knowledge of its place or location.
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The Great Libyan Jamahiriya - Ghadaffi’s own Libya
Posted on May 28 2007The Great Libyan Jamahiriya has been shut in for many decades, and is now opening doors to the world. It stands as the crown of Africa. To the Libyans, the resultant change will be a new chapter in their life. A large coastline – about 2500 kms of t
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Bhutan - A Kingdom in the sky
Posted on May 28 2007That is was it truly means – Bhu – Uttan…meaning ‘The Highland’. Located along the eastern bed of the Himalayan range, also known as ‘the mountain kingdom’ Bhutan lies at an altitude of nearly 7600 feet above sea level. Druk Yul, the thunder dragons
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The Buddha Trail - 6 days to a good Sri Lanka Trip
Posted on May 28 2007For the 23-member team from Public Relations Society of India (Chennai Chapter) , it was a moment of reckoning
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Revisiting Rangoon and Yangon – It is a matter of 63 years travel, back in time!
Posted on May 28 2007The writer, V S Ramana – is a PR professional who undertook a unique journey, while participating in a ‘Made in India Show’ at Myanmar during February 2004.
As the first in his family to revisit Rangoon and the small colony, ‘Bhak Htaw’, where hi
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Leptis Magna - ‘Rome’s Barn’ in Tripolitania
Posted on May 28 2007This complete Roman city in the heartland of Libya is a Heritage City, uncovered first in 1920. It dates back to the 6th Century B.C. but yet modern in many ways – with a harbour, market, royal bath, the Doric Temple, Jupiter and Liber Pater Temples
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