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Unfriend, block and report Sri Lanka, says Tamilnadu 27 Mar 2013 | 12:57 pm
In Facebook parlance, it will be called `unfriend’, `block and report’ an offensive person. That’s the treatment the Tamilnadu assembly wants to be meted out to Sri Lanka. Not only does it want India ...
Using Holi as the medium 27 Mar 2013 | 09:34 am
It is that time of the year when many south Indians living in the north demand `special status’ and exemption from the forcible playing of Holi. No wonder, the latest Idea Cellular ad thinks it is “wh...
Growing up in Coimbatore 27 Mar 2013 | 08:15 am
When we were young, the world was a bit different. At least, the little world that we lived in. But, I guess that was a long long time ago. In a small town, where everyone knew everybody’s names. It m...
Assembly Line 27 Mar 2013 | 07:59 am
Ok… this is something a lot of people might identify with. The last 3 days, I have been trying to teach my daughter Ananya some stuff she has been learning at school – about ‘Assembly Lines’. Yes, yo...
DMK – then and now ! 21 Mar 2013 | 03:55 pm
These are photographs sent to `The South Reports’ of a DMK delegation with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse. We are told the photographs are shot in June 2010, just 13 months after the war in Sr...
Rise for the sparrow 19 Mar 2013 | 08:21 am
At a recent bird-watching event in Hyderabad, 12-year-old Suraj, who accompanied his dad, said he had never seen a house sparrow in his life, reflecting the sentiments of 90% of his peers. This statem...
For the love of Kaapi 19 Mar 2013 | 08:06 am
My earliest memories of coffee are waking up to the smell of it, as it permeated the house at about 5 in the morning. As Amma offered her cup of love to get Appa’s day going, he would roll it back and...
We need `Positive’ bars 16 Mar 2013 | 07:34 am
The air that we breathe contains 78 % Nitrogen, 21 % oxygen, only 0.0314 % carbon dioxide and small percentages of neon and methane. When people become very sick, oxygen is administered through a c...
Something’s rotten in the state of Andhra Pradesh 16 Mar 2013 | 07:24 am
Statutory warning : This is a deeply DISTRESSING story and proof that something is terribly wrong in our country. Three months ago, Jehangir demanded his money – all of 34000 rupees – back from a cou...
Visaka ensures Hyderabad gets to host IPL 16 Mar 2013 | 06:35 am
For a moment it looked like the sun will rise in the East for Sunrisers Hyderabad. And ironically, a company called Visaka Industries would have caused the shifting of the home matches of the Indian P...
