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According to general belief, the name of Coromandel coast is derived from the Tamil “ Cholamandalam” or “land of Cholas”.   Wikipedia s...

Dr. Rev John W Dulles, a Christian missionary, set out from America one day in the year 1850 and arrived in Madras 130 days later. H...

“The Leisure Hour” in its issue of  June 16, 1853 (page 385) has this charming description of a “Madras Hawker” and how he manages to...

As I’ve said before, the Olympic motto of “Citius, Altius, Fortius” was not written keeping Indians in mind, and we shouldn’t make asses ...

The Scrinium, in two volumes, by Rebecca Edridge,  published in the year 1822, has the following anecdote on Page 336 , about a Brahmin w...

According to this report in The Daily Mail, UK, a real-life Rapunzel girl cut her hair for the first time to earn $ 5000 to give her fami...

A favourite theme of e-mail forwards is that ‘money isn’t everything’ and ‘do what you love doing, answer your calling, money is secondary...

“ 12 Angry Men” , a film starring Henry Fonda is considered a classic. It tells the story of a jury made up of 12 men as they deliberate the...

As I had noted in an earlier post , different methods have been adopted in different countries in ancient times, to move large objects. The...

In the short story,“ The Amazing Hat Mystery”, P.G.Wodehouse describes a hat-maker called Bodin’s who made the most perfect hats possible. ...

Sitting on the sands of the Marina Beach in Chennai at night (sadly such occasions are getting to be less frequent ) I like to stare into th...

Have you ever wondered why they make you remove the laptops before you push your bag into the X-ray machine at Airport Security? As every se...

The thing about the IPL is that it promotes a new form of tribalism. Members drawn from different parts of India and different countries get...

According to a report in The Hindu : Sachin Tendulkar made it clear on Sunday that he does not intend to retire anytime soon, and left op...

By the 1850s, Courts in India already had native lawyers and native judges at the lower level. The Appelate Court and the District Court wer...