Murphy’s Law

I had left my TVS 50 in Railway Station two weeks ago. Due to various programmes (few of which were unscheduled), I could not get that from the Station 2 wheeler stand.
I reached the station at 11 PM yesterday night…..
When I went in to the stand, I was totally surprised to see that the air in the tyres was full…. and then it started in the [...]

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Honesty…..

My Son was baptised today, and after the mass we had a dinner….
At about 3 PM, when the crowd was dispersing, the guy who had been handling the sound system (that means, a mike, tape recorder, 2 speakers and an amplifier) came to me, gave a gold chain (about 20 grams) and said that he [...]

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Banana Stew: Deconstructing Blogger Beta HTML Template Editing

Deconstructing Blogger Beta HTML Template Editing

You are reading a Blog Post from “Reflections” Thoughts about Medicine, Community, India, Tamil Nadu, Exams, Computers by Dr.Bruno

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Srirangam, Pillayarpatti and Avudaiyaarkoil

Srirangam, Pillayarpatti and Avudaiyaarkoil…. are the temples visited by our team on the past two days….
More about this later

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Identity this Flower

Identity this Flower
This is also called as the

Dhak,
Parrot Tree
Bastard Teak

And more commonly as the The Flame of the Forest or Palash….
The name Pâlāshi literally means a grove of the red flower Pâlāsh that flowers in the spring (Bangla: পলাশ – Butea frondosa or, Butea monosperma; Common name in English: Flame of the Forest or Bastard [...]

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Identity this Flower

Identity this Flower
This is also called as the

Dhak,
Parrot Tree
Bastard Teak

And more commonly as the The Flame of the Forest or Palash….
The name Pâlāshi literally means a grove of the red flower Pâlāsh that flowers in the spring (Bangla: পলাশ – Butea frondosa or, Butea monosperma; Common name in English: Flame of the Forest or Bastard [...]

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Uttar Pradesh declares revised medical entrance results

Lucknow, June 21 – The Uttar Pradesh government Thursday declared revised results of the medical entrance examinations even as a university vice chancellor announced his resignation in the wake of violent statewide protests that led a youth to commit suicide.
Taking a serious note of the plight of thousands of candidates following serious anomalies in the [...]

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மணற்கேணி: ஜாதி என்ன?

Prabhu Rajadurai in his blog post மணற்கேணி: ஜாதி என்ன? gives us a very useful piece of information
ஆயினும், எந்தப் பள்ளியிலாவது, குழந்தையின் ஜாதி, மதம் போன்றவற்றை குறிப்பிட கட்டாயப்படுத்தினால் அவர்களிடம் ‘தமிழக அரசு இந்தப் பிரச்னை குறித்து வெளியிட்ட அரசாணை எண்.1210 தேதி 02.07.73’ஐ சுட்டிக்காட்டவும். இந்த அரசாணையின்படி பள்ளிச் சான்றிதழ்களில் ஜாதி, மதம் போன்ற இடங்களை காலியாக விடவோ அல்லது இல்லை என்று குறிப்பிடவோ உரிமை உண்டு என்று அரசு [...]

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Why Privatisation (Globalisation) may not work for India

The Lawyer from Madurai dissects the problem in his blog
Though the entire article is full of gems, I quote one para which sums it upi beautifully
பத்தாண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னர் முப்பது ரூபாய்க்கு சாதாரண செருப்பினை வாங்கியவர்கள் இன்று மூவாயிரம் ரூபாய்க்கு ரீபோக் ஷூ வாங்குகிறார்கள். ஆனால், ரீபோக் கடையில் வேலை செய்யும் சிப்பந்தியின் சம்பளத்தை கேட்டுப் பார்த்தால், அது பண வீக்கத்திற்கு நிகரான முன்னேற்றமே அடைந்திருக்கும். ஒரு ஷூ [...]

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How Reservations work in Tamil Nadu

Answer to Reality Check
Question
The question is why hasn’t this happened in TN in so many years (other than the Vanniar agitation)? Why is it that other OBCs are tolerating the Mudaliar/Nadar/Thevar/Kaunder stranglehold on OBC benefits?
Answer
Because NO SINGLE GROUP is marginalised in Tamil Nadu…..
It does not mean that EVERY ONE is affluent, but if you take [...]

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