Charles Dickens signature was like a rolling road,a reeling road,it is like a road made by a man in Drink! Coleridge,Wordsworth,Gibbon were indubitable and intolerable bore in person! A pen is to me what his sword was to D Artagnan or his umbrella was t ...
NOTE: 2011-05-10T14:37:01+05:30
General Richard Mathews is recorded in a tamil history of the period as praying to a Hindu deity at a temple in Takkkolam(Near Arakkonam) in order to be cured of some crippling stomach aches and he was cured and gave lot to the temple!James Grant gave a b ...
NOTE: 2011-05-10T14:37:01+05:30
General Richard Mathews is recorded in a tamil history of the period as praying to a Hindu deity at a temple in Takkkolam(Near Arakkonam) in order to be cured of some crippling stomach aches and he was cured and gave lot to the temple!James Grant gave a ...
POST: 2011-05-10T14:25:25+05:30
We are creatures of memory and we have to use the apparatus of memory precisely.Everything we do and see and hear is touched with a 1000 influences which we cannot catalogue,but which constitute our veritable selves. Macaulay could recite Paradise lost,Am ...
POST: 2011-05-09T16:37:54+05:30
I pay no attention to what critics say.There has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic! John Sibelius-Composer
POST: 2011-05-09T16:36:37+05:30
The first ever reference to a love affair between an englishman and an indian girl is in a letter dated 29th Feb,1626 by one John!
POST: 2011-05-09T16:31:09+05:30
Aristotle said that a man ought to marry at 37 years,I think he said it because he himself married at 37 years,Whatever we do or whatever we are,we have a deep rooted conviction that we are right,and it is well that it should be so.Without this innocent s ...
POST: 2011-05-06T15:42:23+05:30
Koh-I-noor(Mountain of light) was reputed to bring disaster on all its male owners.It was taken from Mughal India by Nadir Shah who was assassinated less than a decade after seizing the diamond and many were dethroned and the diamond was given to Queen Vi ...
POST: 2011-05-06T15:35:31+05:30
Lord William Bentinck hatched a plan to demolish the Tajmahal and ship its marble to england for sale and re use.It is said this plan was only shelved at the 11th hour when the london auction price for marble suddenly and fortuitously collapsed....
POST: 2011-05-06T15:32:29+05:30
Britans First Indian restaurant is Norris Street Coffee House,opened in 1773,in Haymarket