Mamallapuram is just 14 km from my brother, Nellai's place, Tirupporur. Both of us are early risers and, at every opportunity, we go to Mamallapuram in the early mornings to enjoy sea breeze and feast our eyes on the wonderful statues of yore as well as the present, lying along the streets.
Yes, Mamallapuram is full of sculptors, bringing life to images hidden in stones. As I went along a road full of sculptures lying about for sale and sculptors chiseling stones, I came across this statue of Lord Buddha, whom I always love. I clicked it with my Canon Powershot A590 IS digital camera.
My friends, Mr.M.Ramakrishnan and Mr.C.Srividyarajagopalan, who have been doing a wonderful job as in charge of the Infrastructure Committee of the Karaikudi Book Festivals.
Photo taken by Suri with his Canon Powershot A590 IS digital camera inside the venue of the Book Festival.
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning - Gloria Steinem, American feminist, journalist, and social and political activist.
Inaugural Function of the Second Karaikudi Book Festival -
Prof.Dr.'Vetri' Meyyappan, Valampuri John,
Dr.M.Raghavan (the then Director of CECRI),
Vice Chancellor and Dr V Sundaram, the then President of FASOHD
Ariyakkudi Arulmigu Thiruvengadamudaiyaan Thirukkovil.
Photo by Suri with his Canon Powershot A590 IS digital camaera.
Prof.AL.Chidambaram, a former professor from Annamalai University, is delivering a lecture at CECRI Auditorium, Karaikudi, for FASOHD. He is fine gentleman, whose kindness I cherish very much. Even after losing contact, he used to send me New Year Greetings (containing a lot of wonderful quotations) every year which I loved. Unfortunately, I have lost his contact completely now.
Love truth, and pardon error - Voltaire, French Writer, Historian, Philosopher and Playwright
A biographical sketch of Voltaire from Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire
Links to Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary (9 Vol)(English Translation) from Project Gutenberg:- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 1 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 2 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 3 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 4 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 6 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 7 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 8 (English) (as Author)
- A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 9 (English) (as Author)
Grateful thanks to Project Gutenberg and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
This is another news item which I came across in the same section of the paper of the same day. It is reported that researchers claim that a drug used to treat certain types of cancer, VORINOSTA or vorinostat, is able to dislodge hidden virus in HIV patients. Lab experiments measuring active HIV levels in CD4 + T cells, which are specialized white blood cells that the virus uses to replicate, showed that this drug unmasked the hidden virus in these cells. It is a major breakthrough in the treatment of AIDS.
Grateful thanks to The Times of India and MedicineNet.
I came across this news item in the Chennai edition of The Times of India of July 27, 2012 under the section, TIMES TRENDS, which I would like to share here. Scientists have discovered the first exoplanetary system which has planets lined up in aligned orbits similar to those in our solar system. At the centre of this system is Kepler 30, a star as bright and as massive as our sun.
For more on this topic:
On the Same Plane by Sid Perkins (July 25, 2012)
Science Now, News.ScienceMag.Org
Grateful thanks to The Times of India and Science Now.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit - Harry Truman, 33rd President of the USA
Some Important events during his Presidency:
1. Dropping of Atom Bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki2. Formation of the UNO3. Recognition of Israel4. Berlin Airlift5. Formation of NATO6. Chinese Civil War7. Korean War
Biographical sketch of Harry Truman from Wikipedia:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman
Grateful thanks to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Grateful thanks to Karthik for providing the photo
All I'm saying is simply this, that all life is interrelated, that somehow we're caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that - Martin Luther King Jr.
Biographical sketch Dr Martin Luther King Jr from Wikipedia:
Full Text of his famous speech, "I have a dream" from Chicago Tribune:
Grateful thanks to Chicago Tribune and Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
