Recently CNN-IBN ran an interview with Chess world champion Vishwanathan Anand (Vishy). I didn’t catch this on TV, but ,thanks to IBN-Live, found them in their site. The show is split in to 5 parts. Click on the following links to open them in a new window. The site needs no registration to view the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘chennai’
The great “Indian” attitude!
This happened during my Chennai visit. When we landed in Chennai, as there were no gates available immediately, we had to wait for ~5 minutes. There was this person sitting 3 rows in front of me, along with his wife and a kid, who also stood up to collect his things. When it took sometime [...]
Limousines in India?
Yesterday I had to go to Chennai, on an official work. The plan was to go there in the morning and return back by night. Morning flight was uneventful, thought the same cannot be said about the returning flight. I saw the above car when I came out of the airport. Interesting! I have never [...]
Sin-”bad” Adventures!
This happened last month (March). March 25th was a holiday (Good Friday), so I bought a KSRTC ticket to Chennai, for Thursday night (March 24th), or at least that was what I thought I did! I actually had bought a ticket for Friday night (March 25) and I did not even notice that mistake until [...]
Tidbits
Here are some things that caught my attention lately. Since I don’t think these things deserve separate posts, here we go. 1) First, this Science-based story by Jeyamohan. I didn’t know Jeyamohan writes these kinda stories too!! The basic story is about how different our Siddha Medicinal system is from Alopathy and how the system [...]
We need more Ilangos!
Mr.Ilango is a Chemical Engineer by profession. What he has done to his birth village – “Kuthambaakkam” – is really appreciable & impressive. Click here to read an article in Vikatan to know more.. Can you believe the village shown in this picture is only 30Kms off Chennai? Link to this post!
