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Think or sink!

Blast from the past (which must be remembered at All Times!!!)

ALL truths are NOT to be told. :nono:

Truths are not to be told to ALL. :nono:

All truths are not to be told to ALL! :tape:
 
Satisfaction is a highly personal matter.

Siva is very easily pleased.

Vishnu is the most difficult to please!

But Brahma is the real trouble-maker!

He is the easiest to be pleased.
He also does as he pleases. :high5:

Though He is the creator, He thinks of neither the past nor the future

and grants all kinds of weird boons to the asuras. :heh:

Vishnu has to feign to be asleep :sleep:

in order to keep alert and secretly plan
how to undo what Brahma has done! :moony:

Siva saves all the others - putting his own self at personal risks!
 




இது எப்படி இருக்கு???

When the two horoscopes matched well, the father of the boy contacted the mother of the girl on phone. :phone:

(Apparently the father of the girl was NOT allowed to answer the incoming phone calls or to take important decisions) :tape:

Before the boy's father could ask her whether the girl was willing to relocate after the wedding, the mother of the girl asked the father of the boy the same question about his son!!:dizzy: :faint:​
 
இது எப்படி இருக்கு???

The man worked hard in a gulf country.

Money poured into India like a shower.

An exquisite bungalow was constructed.

His Wife and the children got used to the

luxurious lazy life of the stinking rich.

After many years the man decided

to call it a day and returned to India.

He was shocked beyond words to see

his wife and kids sleep till very late.

He did not relish the way they squandered

his hard earned money.

He found it revolting the way his kids especially

his daughters dressed up.

Whenever he gave them a piece of his mind,

they ganged up and confronted him.

One fine day they told him point blank to

go back to where he had come from.

The reason....???

They had lived peacefully before he returned to India.

The former peace can return only if

he returned to where he had come from!

They ALL wanted only his money but NOT him!!!

THAT IS CALLED HUMAN LIFE!!!
 
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30. Mauveine




Mauveine was discovered in 1856, by an eighteen year old boy named William Henry Perkin. He was trying to synthesize Quinine-the anti Malarial drug.

In one of his attempts he oxidized Aniline using Potassium Dichromate. It produced a dark colored solid-a very common product formed in any organic synthesis that had failed.

While cleaning his flask, Perkin noticed that a portion of the dark colored solid dissolved in alcohol giving a rich purple colored solution. This solution was able to dye silk and many other fabrics!

Perkin patented his dye and started manufacturing it under the name Tyrian Purple-the name of the ancient natural dye obtained from mollusk. The name Mauve was given to the color in 1859. The chemists called it Mauveine.

Mauve became highly fashionable in 1862, when Queen Victoria appeared at the Royal Exhibition in a mauve silk gown!

Mauve fell out of fashion in late 1860s. By then Perkin had made a fortune. The synthetic chemical industry was launched. Many new synthetic colors were discovered.

Mauve is one of the permitted food colors since early 20th Century.

Visalakshi Ramani

https://visalakshiramani.wordpress.com/articles/xii-lucky-accidents/7-mauveine/
 
Small VS The Big!!!

Small house is always orderly, clean and neat.
It has to be so- to make it possible to live in it!

A big house on the other hand may be orderly or disorderly...
since there is plenty of space to waste and litter or ignore!

A small fortune/ allowance makes the person spend every dime wisely.
A big fortune allows the person to sqaander and spend money on worthless things!

A small serving of food keeps the person slim, agile and healthy.
A BIG serving of food makes the person obese, lazy and unhealthy.

Moral:

Anything Small need not essentially be useless or worthless!!!
 
Some people use the bathroom and the washbasin in such a way that no one will be able to use them after they use - without cringing in disgust.

They flood the floor unnecessarily. The make entire sink and its outside dripping wet.

Small wonder we need reminders like

"Keep the bathroom floor dry and clean"

"Wipe the washbasin and leave it clean for the next person!"

In India we find this notice above the washbasin in some restaurants.

"Ingu thalai seevaatheergaL!" :nono:

Untold message conveyed here is
"Ingu neengal thalai seevinaal, naangal ungal thalaiyai seevi viduvom!" :scared:

No reminder will help UNLESS all the people develop a civic sense! :(
 
Sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed,
must be interrupted occasionally!
(Can we add dinner / lunch also to this list???)

Men make houses.
Women make homes.
(Together they make babies to live in the home)

No one can preach better than an ant...
and yet it SAYS nothing!
(Do you till have a doubt about how actions speak louder than words?)

Add to the golden rules this iron rule:
Don't do to others something that
they won't care to do for themselves.
(anonymous means he / she can be anyone of us!)

Humanity is an ocean.
If a few drops become dirty,
the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi.​
 
I thank the readers for the spike in the traffic of all my threads - especially this one (~3200) and "A Poem a day..." thread in Literature section (~2300) yesterday. :pray2:

Only this kind of indirect encouragement keeps me striving on and on. All the friends of the forum, kith and kin have stopped communicating! :hand:

Periya purANam is coming up very well.

I have completed the poems on 60 out of 63 nAyamArgaL.
The only three remaining are the Supreme trio Appar, Sundarar and Sambandhar.

All the poems written (and to be written ) are yet to be typed and translated into English, before I will be able to post them in my blogs and this forum.

Wish me Godspeed that I will be blessed to complete this epic venture at the earliest by the grace of Siva - the real hero of the Periya purANam!

P.S

I visited a Devi temple during my stay in Chennai with my sister. We had missed the Sannadhi of Siva by oversight.

The priest had a sense of humor and called out to us,
"Inge vanthuttu herovaip paakkaamal pOrELE!" :laugh:
 
The art of teaching is nothing but
the art of assisting discovery.

Laugh a little more at your own troubles
and a little less a your neighbor's.
Mark Twain.

Some of the world's best quotations are by anonymous persons- not less great, but less well known, as their names do not ring a bell!

A friend told me one day,
"All the nice quotations are by Mr. Anon!
Wonder who was that great guy!" :wacko:

The essence of knowledge is having it to apply it;
not having it to confess your ignorance.(Confucius):peace:


Education is
an ornament in Prosperity:couch2:
and a refuge in adversity.:typing:
Aristotle.​
 
Truth does not hurt, unless it is ought to. :ballchain:

There is so much of difference
between the Popular beliefs of life
and the unpopular facts of life. :confused:

Anger is never without a reason-
but seldom with a good one! :mad:


Half the miseries and mistakes
we commit in our lives arise from
feeling where we ought to think, :drama:
and thinking where we ought to feel. :nerd:

He who considers too much
will perform too little. :playball:


When little men cast long shadows
know that the Sun is setting. :flame:


The great goal in life is not
mere knowledge but action. :couch2:​
 
Pi Day - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day

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Pi Day is an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi). Pi Day is observed on March 14 since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant digits of π. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported the designation of Pi Day. Pi Approximation Day is observed on July 22 (22/7 in the day/month format), ...
 

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