Judging things for their monetary value and not usefulness

Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/26/stories/2006122605951100.htm) says
those poor who were not affected by the tsunami are the have nots.
This phenomenon is not unique to Tsunami alone. Often we tend to care a little more for a person / group “more” affected that in the end it is those who are “little” affected who “wrongly assume” that they are the [...]

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Chennai and sympathy

From http://www.kiruba.com/2006/12/hidden-heart-real-life-tsunami-related.html
“In such little acts of humanism are life’s biggest lessons learnt. I remember an instance, two years ago, when the tsunami struck and I had to rush to Nagapattinam to cover it for my newspaper.
From Virugambakkam (where I lived) to the Koyambedu bus stand, it would normally have cost me Rs 35 in auto [...]

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Thamizhnadu or TamilNadu, the story is the same

The fundamentals
Manpower: Highest annual turnout of technical manpower: 252 engineering colleges and 230 polytechnics churn out 1,00,000 engineering graduates and 63,000 diploma holders, not to mention 1,13,000 ITI trained workers every year.
Wages: Wage costs are cheaper than other Indian metros and, in NPV terms, at least 11 per cent cheaper than China, according to a [...]

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Personal Loan in Prime Bank

Date: Monday 23 August 2004. Time 5.00 pm. Dr Ram Naresh Mehra, a B-school professor, was in his office looking visibly tense and in a very pensive mood. He had just returned from Prime Bank’s Chennai office, where he has gone to foreclose a personal loan which he had taken six months ago.
He had taken [...]

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Intersexuality, 9 , Hermaphroditism, Intersex

Following the “Medal Withdrawn” Controversy, it seems that there is an increase demand from the common public to know about these conditions.
I will write a series of articles about this on the following topics.
But before that, have you ever realised the the column on the application forms with regard to Sex can have so many [...]

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Examination and Cultivation – Expanding Chennai Central

Just trying to expand Thennavan’s List
After Deep Consideration

Comtemplation

And consultation

I came to a conclusion

That Matriculation

Examination

Is a botheration

To the student population

Of Indian nation

Whose main occupation

Is cultivation

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Shanthi Given 15 Lakhs by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister

Unfazed by the Controversy, the Government of Tamil Nadu today went ahead and gave the cash prize of 15 lakhs to Shanthi

For the related story, read Medal Withdrawn for No Fault of the Individual
And here are the other prize winners

You are reading a Blog Post from “Reflections” Thoughts about Medicine, Community, India, Tamil Nadu, [...]

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Intersex, 9, hermaphroditism,

An intersexual or intersex person (or organism of any unisexual species) is one who is born with genitalia and/or secondary sex characteristics determined as neither exclusively male nor female, or which combine features of the male and female sexes. The terms hermaphrodite and pseudohermaphrodite, introduced in the 19th century, are now considered antiquated, misleading and [...]

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Cricket – Sreesanth Dancing After his Six

Siddhartha Vaidyanathan in “The Bulletin” of South Africa v India, 1st Test, Jo’burg, 3rd day on December 16, 2006 (http://content-ind.cricinfo.com/rsavind/content/current/story/273074.html) says
Sreesanth decided to match Nel antic for antic – returning glares and sledges. Nel’s aggressive salvo was met with a charge down the track, with the ball disappearing for six, but Sreesanth followed that up [...]

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Medal withdrawn for a different reason other than doping

Hindu (http://www.hindu.com/2006/12/18/stories/2006121809971900.htm) reports
Indian athletics plunged into further gloom and embarrassment as news came through on Sunday that S. Santhi, who won the silver medal in the women’s 800 metres in the Asian Games, had failed a `gender test’ at Doha.
The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) has decided to withdraw the medal from the Indian [...]

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