My Personal Blog - Sarada Ramani

Admitting frankly that I am not the originator for the material given below and in the table. I have sincerely copied and pasted it since IPL is in the news for all the wrong reasons. The Indian Premier League (often abbreviated as IPL), is a Twenty20 cricket competition initiated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and supervised by BCCI Vice President Lalit Modi, chairman & commissioner for IPL, and CEO, Sundar Raman. It presently includes 8 teams (franchises) consisting of players from different countries. It was started after altercation between the BCCI and the Indian Cricket League. It was the first sporting event ever to be broadcast live on the popular video sharing website Youtube.[4] The Indian Premier League's brand value was estimated to be around $4.13 billion (over Rs 18,000 crore) in 2010.According to global sports salaries review, IPL is the second highest-paid league, based on first-team salaries on a pro-rata basis, second only to the NBA leagu...

This time I am going to write about a temple which is far away from Madras. I had been to Neyveli in connection with a family function this weekend. So on saturday , due to the insistence of my brotherinlaw we went to this temple after having visited Vallar's place of Siddhithi . I write about it separately in my next blog. Srimushnam , which has the temple of Bhuvaraghava Perumal , a Vishnu temple, is located just 20 kms from Virudhachalam where from you get lot of buses coming into the town. To list the importance of the place one by one here it is This is one of the 108 Divya (sacred places) Sthalams for the Vaishnavities one of the eight Vaishavas shrines where the idol is Swayambu (found as such) The idol represents the Varaha Avatar ( the 3rd avatar of the 10 avatars of Vishnu). It represents the Boar form. The body is that of a man and the head is of boar form While the temple itself is so huge, the main idol of the Lord is such a small one. It is believed...

It is so funny that in Tamil Nadu , we celebrate the Telugu New year, Malayala New Year etc during the month of April, while the Original Tamil New Year, which was celebrated on Chitirai 1st, has been shifted to January 16 th because that is when, according to the Party which is running the government of Tamil Nadu says is the beginning of Tamil New Year. So what does this make of chitirai and other tamil months to be - are they all different tamil months. What gives the right for a party to change the practice of majority of the poeple . Dont the people have a say on all these things. It is not just the declaration of holiday on the Old Tamil Years day, but also stopping the practice of special puja on that in the temples. When someone who says openly that they dont believe in God, and then goes ahead and changes things in the temples because it is under the H R& CE, what does it mean. No every channel and papers are careful not to utter the word Tamil New Year,...