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,

" Enjoying what you do" is what sprang up my mind when I happened to watch the Food program on Podigai TV this Sunday . Mr Damodharan was demonstrating very simple and common food like Puliodharai , Potato fry, Coconut rice, etc. What was impressing all of us ( mind you the whole family which includes my mother in law , my husband and my younger daughter and our cook) were fascinated to watch him perform. No nothing great about the items that he was demonstrating, which all of us know. But the obvious pleasure he had in making these items and the relish with which he was talking about the various combinations that will make this meal a fantastic one - was what was worth watching. It was forenoon and we happened to watch this program - but when a person is involved and excited in what he does, then that spirit catches on to the viewers was the conclusion that we all came. What a fantastic host. Great work Damo .

India is known in the world till the recent times as the most competitive country for outsourcing due to currency and labour arbitrage. But how long can we sustain this advantage is the key question that I have today. Today India is fired by the passion of Entrepreneurship, which is a good sign of the growth for the society as more and more jobs are created and people become employed sooner. Lets see below the scenario one such entrepreneur faces. I had a visitor today whose cousin is having a manufacturing ancillary unit for automobiles and this person was sharing the how his cousin's entrepreneurial venture is going. This young man has lot of orders and he has his customers - all leading brands - picking his company for specialized services that they require. Oh! what a enviable position - was the first thought I had. I wish I could be in his shoes - here I run or rather fly ( already crossed 100,000 miles with Lufthansa since this year beginning) burning up a lot of air travel

When I joined Rotary Club of Chennai Thiruvanmiyur , I didnt understand what changes a club can make to somebody unknown. Our club had taken up Adult Literacy program in a very remote village near Pondi , which is quite far away from our city. While the project objectives were good, the distance and the way the then President had taken this project unilaterally, made all of us not to think too much of it. But a Project is a Project done with a Goodness. This is a such a remote village, where the main occupation of the people is fishing in the nearby Pondi reservoir . That is also halted when the Krishna waters comes into the reservoir . When the program was started it was with reluctance that the people joined. The President came up with the idea to give one kg of rice to the people who are attending the program, whenever he visited them. That became the great motivator as for people who dont know when their next meal will be or where it will come from - it became a boon