Quote of the week:
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Baratha boomi, pazhamperum boomi,
neerathan puthalvar; inninaivaga traatheer;
baratha naadu paarkelaam thilagam,
neerathan puthalvar; inninaivaga traatheer;
- Bharathiar
[Baratha(m) - India; boomi - land; pazham - old; perum - big; neer
- you; athan - its; puthalvar - son; inninaiv(u) - this thought;
agatraatheer - forget not; naadu - land; paar - world; thilagam -
kumkum or 'pottu' worn on forehead]
[India is old and famous; don't forget that you are her son;
India is like 'thilagam' to the world; never forget that you are her
son.]
{I'm sorry that i couldn't get the exact english equivalent of
'thilagam'. If anyone knows, let me know. }
Kural of the week:
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Idukkat padinum ilivandha seyyaar
nadukkatra kaatchi yavar.
[Idukka(n) - trouble; padinum - happen to face; ili - ; sey - do;
nadukka(m) - wavering; kaatchi - mind]
[Even when in troubles, those who have a strong mind (not wavering)
will never do bad things.]
Thought of the week:
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"I sometimes ask myself how it came about that I was the one to
develop the theory of relativity. The reason, I think, is that a normal
adult never stops to think about problems of space and time. There are
things which he has thought of as a child. But my intellecutal
development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about
space and time only when I had already grown up."
- Albert Einstein.
{I wish that one of us also have a retarded mind, that we can
complete the Grand Unified Theory. - Anbu.}
Site of the week:
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This week's site is by a person from England, who spent 27 years
in India and has found our rich treasures. See him talking about
Subramanyam Chandrasekar, Indian philosophy, physics, mathematics, his
small discoveries (or realisations ??).
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/stone_catend/
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the
good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
- Shakespeare
The writings and the translations were made with the little knowledge, I had then and hence may not be exact.
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