Surprising (or because of it) for a person born and brought up on the banks of Koovum in Chennai, I retain a very strong love for rivers, especially when they are brimming with water. As a Tamil, the river Cauvery is very special to me and my heart bleeds to see the dry sands of [...]

MTC, Chennai (former Pallavan) has launched their brand new web site http://www.mtcbus.org/, of course with Amma’s photo in the home page. Relatively speaking, its not bad for a government web site, especially Tamilnadu government. They provides fairly detailed route information by bus number and the proposed route map does look promising if it does [...]

Continuing with more London Photos.
River Thames is the lifeline of London, just like Ganga is for Varanasi or Cauvery for Trichy. It is what made London a maritime city and much of London’s history has flown by along the river. Unlike Indian cities, however, there are numerous bridges across the river to make crossing the [...]

Ever since it was installed for the Y2K millenium, London Eye has come to become the top tourist attarction in London. A slow moving giant ferris-wheel (like), with glass capsules, it rises over 400 Ft at the top and provides a 360. view of London. The journey or the flight as they call it (bcos [...]

For a supposed non entity, the DMK media organs are spending reams of newsprint on Vijayakanth. Reading Tamil Murasu, it looks as though the coming election is between DMK and VK. One wonders why? If he is such a non player, why cant they ignore him like they have done of Vaiko.

As the TN assembly [...]

The top burning issue in Europe these days is a controversial cartoon published by a Danish newspaper. Not only it published a caricature of Mohammed, the Prophet, it was also ridiculing him(and Muslims). That by a right wing paper (sort of Bajrang Dal) in a country yet to come to terms with Muslim immigrants has [...]