Monsoon
[Tamil poet from Pre-Christian Sangham era]
- Translated By Eelam Tamil Scholar Rev Fr. Xavier Thaninayagam
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to Restore Tamil
Rights
From sprawling urban areas to rural counties, racial and ethnic minorities outnumber
whites in more parts of the country, according to 2003 Census estimates out today.
It means more Americans may have to ask: Who's a minority?
Scientific tests on a range of traditional remedies have shown they have "real
benefits", researchers say.
Experts from King's College London said the treatments from around the world had
properties which may help treat conditions such as diabetes and cancer.
The remedies included India's curry leaf tree, reputed to treat diabetes.
It’s a billion dollar puzzle that the Karnataka government wants to crack desperately.
How come frontline IT firms are logging out Bangalore from their investment map and
heading to Chennai: Infosys, Wipro, TCS, HCL Technologies, Patni Computer
Systems (PCS), Satyam and MNC’s like Covansys, Cognizant Technology Solutions
(Cognizant), Xansa have all announced big plans for the city.
Nanotechnology has been the darling of the science world for a while now. With the
prospect of stronger materials, smarter drugs and smaller, faster computers looming
large, everyone wants to jump on the nanotechnology bandwagon, with only the
foggiest notion of what it is.
To understand nanotechnology, take a walk in the park.
Swatting houseflies is almost a national sport in India. Quite frustrating it was to
watch those bugs fly away each time I wanted to swat them. As a child, I was
convinced they were psychic. Now, as both scientist and adult, I realise that these
creatures must have tiny sensors that quickly detect changes in air pressure – a
neat way of avoiding the swatter.
A small group of impoverished villages not far from the Nepalese capital,
Kathmandu, have recently become an epicentre for the selling of kidneys.
Kidney donation in Nepal is illegal, except from a close relative. But middlemen have
persuaded impoverished villagers to sell a kidney for cash or land.
This is a crucial time for Bollywood in Hollywood. Mira Nair has just come out with a
BIG film Vanity Fair which has opened to a mixed critical response. Gurinder Chadha’
s hefty colourful homge to Bollywood Bride & Prejudice makes its appearance in the
UK next month and the US for Christmas. And Deepa Mehta is all set to release her
Water about Hindu widows, at year-end.
In the past few years, unemployed workers from developing nations have traveled to
the Middle East to find jobs and higher wages. NPR's Philip Reeves visited a
northern Indian village to speak to one job-seeker, who worked for a transport
company in Iraq and ended up being kidnapped.
"Balle balle, Hadippa," the chorus chants breathlessly, as the sweaty and bouncing
group of New Yorkers moves to the rhythm of the latest workout in aerobics exercise.
They are performing bhangra, the Indian rural dance from the northern state of
Punjab.
While we in the United States agonize over touch screens and paper trails, India
managed to quietly hold an all-electronic vote. In May, 380 million Indians cast their
votes on more than 1 million machines. It was the world's largest experiment in
electronic voting to date and, while far from perfect, is widely considered a success.
How can an impoverished nation like India, where cows roam the streets of the capital
and most people's idea of high-tech is a flush toilet, succeed where we have not?
Over the past several years, textile export has helped to lift Bangladesh out of its
grinding poverty. But changing trade rules now threaten to take away those tools of
enrichment. This drastic shift signals a major transition for the country's economic
and social structure. How Bangladesh copes with this latest challenge will not only
determine the country's future, but will also offer an example for other developing
countries caught in globalization's shifting winds.
Majority of paddy fields in Thenmaradchchi division in Jaffna district cannot be
cultivated during the forthcoming season as several channels located inside the high
security zones are blocked by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA), preventing water flow into
the sea, farmers told government officials who attended a meeting at Usan
Ramanathan Vidiyalayam School held Sunday.
Politically Sethusamudram project could be beneficial, but before implementing the
project the ecological and environmental problems should be taken into account.
The economy of the country should be considered in the project. Human aspects are
more important than money. Further, this project also involves Sri Lankan territorial
waters.
says Lankan Tamil geographer [Hindustan Times]
Amidst loud protests in Sri Lanka over India's plan to dig a shipping channel through
the Palk Strait, a Tamil geographer of Jaffna University has come to its defence
saying that the project will be a boon rather than a bane for the war-shattered
economy of Jaffna.
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