Heres a bunch :) - by Anu Nagarajan

A poem written by my friend and also some of the photographs (as title to the poetry) taken by her attached to the poetry.
Anu deserves an applause.

Waking up ever so late
I hurried like a hamster cursing my fate
What have I done to deserve this life!
Nothing to look forward to..thats right!

Gulping down an urgent cup of coffee
I made a dash to the gate
Catching me off guard they stood there
In even rows of eight

Unprepared unguarded I took in the sight
Instantly forgetting my plight
Making my heart ever so light

The army of tall beauties by now was smiling at me
Whose only purpose seemed to be to fight the darkness in me
Filled with renewed spirit and joy
I couldn't help but smile at passersby

So here they are the invincible bunch
From my land to yours, to help you
Give em all a knockout punch!

Anu

If by Rudyard Kipling

[IF]

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream--and not make dreams your master, If you can think--and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools: If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!" If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings--nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much, If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds' worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And--which is more--you'll be a Man, my son! --Rudyard Kipling

I made this Toon today!

The Story of India

Scrumtrulescent is what can be described about this video, "The Story of India" by Michael Wood from BBC. on first look I was enthralled by the title and my curosity deepend within a few minutes of viewing it, and suddenly all those curosity transformed into excitement when one of my professor Dr Pichappan under whose tutelage we studied Immunology and molecular biology at the school of biological sciences, Madurai Kamaraj University, India cropped up in the video!. In the year 2001, almost serendipitiously Prof Pichappan discovered that a person by name virumandi in a remote village in the southern part of Tamilnadu had a gene ( a type of HLA marker) that gives direct evidence to the ancestral origin of the human species to africa and that there is a mere 2000 generation gap between an eskimo and an african, these were published in Nature genetics and was a big news at that time. Watching this my eyes gleamed with pride for few minutes.
This video is well narrated and deserves a commendation. It depicts the culture, and innocence of the people in the country, though there are certain discrepancy about hinduism as such this I think, can be excused for ignorance. The producers have tried hard to somehow give a glimse into the richness of the 10,000 year old civilisation in this brief story of India a must watch for all those who appreciates 'history as history' and not the histroy that is always been written (dictated) and taught by those who win.

Watch this video here



The rest of the parts here
from google videos
Story 2
Story 3
Story 4
Story 5

Maharajapuram santhanam - Songs

These are my collections of Maharajapuram Santhanam.

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