The story of Kannaki is a real-life drama that starts with a romantic note and ends with a message. The heroine of the first epic poem in the Tamil language Sila-pathi-karam
After my retirement I bought a house next door, spending all the money the government gave me for my forty years of service, just to accommodate my entire collection of world literature and history. I would like to say of two real great minds who made me a sniffer dog.
“A disobedient son is to be stoned to death,” says ‘The Mosaic Code’ (c. 1000 B.C.). So was the woman of easy virtue. Not only people were stoned; an ox that had killed a man experienced the same fate.
Lady Corona, in spite of the curses she has brought on herself, magnanimously blessed writers like me. After the lockdown, I felt incarcerated for no
People will not succumb to fear and panic once they test the truth of the matter, which they rarely do.
Lady Corona brought a big lockdown on me, thereby making me run short of raw material. I strongly believe in the saying: “If Mohammed can’t go to the mountain, then the mountain would go to Mohammed”.
A nice place to spend your evening in Pondicherry is the promenade of its beach. You can stroll from one end to the other within
A mildly alcoholic beverage, beer has a gentle sedative action, which tends to relieve the stresses of everyday existence. The most common aperitif in European countries is the ‘Sherry’. A small glass of dry sherry, served cold, makes a good aperitif. Read on…
Women play multiple roles in their journey from cradle to grave. In the kitchen, they are happy and content cooks unwilling to leave the place
Who is lucky? Who is unlucky? What doubting Thomases are we, always trying to find out beforehand what is in store for us? How many of us do not seek the advice of astrologers, the first-rate cheats, who predict our future for a few bucks with no knowledge of their own future?
This happened in a store in the US. A buyer asked for a half kilogram of butter. A young man in charge of sales said
Name the Seven Wonders of the World. I asked my granddaughter, Ranji Sant. Like a parrot, she repeated all that she had learnt from history
