Superstition was disinherited when science revealed the laws of the universe and put man in his place.Man saw his fate in the clouds,his happiness or misery announced in the flight of birds and referred every phenomenon of life to the soothsayers and...
Superstition was disinherited when science revealed the laws of the universe and put man in his place.Man saw his fate in the clouds,his happiness or misery announced in the flight of birds and referred every phenomenon of life to the soothsayers and...
Clubbable man said Samuel Johnson for a good fellow!
We would not have misbecome the lips of those ethereal beings whom he saw with that inner eye,which no calamity could darken,flinging down on the jasper pavements their crowns of amaranth and gold! quoted Maculay about Milton in his grandiloquent way...
A Conversation is to inform,to be informed,to please or to persuade:Cobden of House of Commons who have changed a decision in Parliament by a speech! He was able to do because of his extraordinarily persuasive manner,he kept the minds of his hearers receptive...
Cicero while in his 50s began to idealise himself as an old man and wrote his De Senectute exalting the pleasures of old age…
Man doesnt sleep any better because he has a choice of 40 Bedrooms in his house.He can only take one ride even though he has 50 Motor cars.He cannot get more joy out of the sunshine than you or I can.The birds sing and the buds swell for all of us and...
Fish and Chips,English national dish is not originally english at all,fried fish is jewish and chips are Irish!
Polo was not english,but Persian!
Morris dancing came from moorish spain!
Cheroot,Cushy,Juggle,Curry,Blightly are from Indian languages!
Rabindranath Tagores grandfather Dwarakanath Tagore founded Indias first calcutta union bank in 1829
Wycliffe Tyndale translated Bible into english,for this sin he was hounded and his persecution even years after his death,dug up his body and burnt it…
600 years ago China and india accounted for about 75% of global GDP.Europe was insignificant,America undiscovered-Deng Xiapong in his book To get Rich is Glorious.
Habits should be a stick that we use,not a crutch to lean on.We ought to make them for our convenience or enjoyment and occassionally break them to assert our independence.We ought to be able to employ them,without being discomposed when we cannot employ...
Foundation Members of Doon School in 1936 are
1)Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiar
2)M Ct. Muthiah Chettiar
3)RK Shanmugam Chettiar
4)Sir CP Ramaswamy Iyer
5) Dr P Subbarayan-Zamindar of Kumaramangalam
Donors for Doon School in 1936 are
1)Raja Sir Annamalai...
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...
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...
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...
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,American...
I pay no attention to what critics say.There has never been a statue set up in honour of a critic! John Sibelius-Composer
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!
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...
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