Showing posts with label cultural. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cultural. Show all posts

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Chanakya - A Great Ancient Indian Guru

A few of Chanakya's quotes
An ancient Indian politician, strategist and writer
350-275 BC

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"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and
Honest people are screwed first."

DO U HATE SOMEONE - Then You should know how rotten your heart is...?

A Nice story with a good moral. Please go through.

A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game.

The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Happy Pongal - A Short History (from my mailbox message extract)



Pongal 2010 is on January 14, Thursday 

Harvest festival of Pongal falls falls in the month of January after the winter solstice. The date of the festival is derived from Solar Calendar hence it usually remains same. For Hindus the date of Pongal is extremely auspicious and astronomically significant. Around January 14, every year sun begins its six-months-long journey northwards or in Uttarayan  and moves into the zodiac Capricorn or Makaram Rashi.