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t was raining events last week at School.
most campuses as companies Infosys, on the other hand, kicked
celebrated World Environment off a ‘Polythene bag-free commit-
Day (WED). ment’ across all Infosys campuses
Campuses were abuzz, with em- globally. The initiative sought to ban
ployees committing their time to do the use of polythene bags by Infosys
their bit to show that they care for a employees in an effort to reduce the
green Earth. UST Global’s Chennai consumption of non-biodegradable
centre took the occasion to do a fol- plastics.
low-up of their CSR initiative, Mitra, Cognizant celebrated the occasion
where they provide health care and with an array of events focused on
spread environmental awareness in the theme climate change and
Azhinjivakkam village in Thiruvallur healthy environment. Tree planta-
district. Around 200 educational kits tion, green walk, carpooling registra-
where distributed to children of Ja- tion drives, painting competition,
napanachathiram Corporation etc were conducted. ■
Employees of UST Global spend time with rural children
Wonders from
Some of the ’Junk Art’ on display waste
W hen was the last time your at-
tention held for quite a while
and you stood looking at a piece
rules and regulations. The Aju-
bans did all the work of junk art
right on the operations floor
who has shot several Wild life
documentaries for Discovery
Channel and The National Geo-
of art made of junk? You don’t amidst their normal work graphic.
remember? That is exactly what routine. It was a real feast for the eyes
happened on World Environ- The categories of award were with train and eagle made of torn
ment Day at Ajuba Solutions. ‘Most useful out of the most use- coke cans and eggs shells. The
Ajuba, apart from being a great less award’, ‘Most creative junk Zoo Zoo’s made of egg shell were
place to work, is also a great art award’ and ‘Best looking junk the in-thing. We had them in the
place for fun. They have a team art award’. Forty teams partici- form of cricketers playing IPL
called ICONS that organises pated across the three offices in (Rephrased as APL – Ajuba Pre-
events and games to keep the Chennai, using the most useless miere League), in the form of
zeal of the employees alive. items ranging from egg shells, cheergirls and as couples resting
This time, team ICONS orga- used batteries, bottles, fused on the beach. The highlight of
nised ‘Junk Art’ to kindle the cre- bulbs, coffee dregs, cassette the event was the raincoat made
ative urge of employees. What is tapes, rubber caps of used syr- of used milk covers, which could
junk art? For those who haven’t inge bottles, sawdust and water- any day beat the real ones – be it
heard, you could call it ‘Wonders melon seeds to name a few. in terms of the make or colour.
out of Waste’. The idea of the The judges for the event were The event was a reminder of how
game was to create new things Anuradha Pasupathy, founder of waste could be reused or recy-
out of things of no practical val- AP Textile Design Company and cled and how the world could be
ue. a guest faculty at NIFT, and Nish- a much better place to live in.
The teams were introduced to anth Purohit, an established cin- (Contributed by Shiva Ganesh,
the event two weeks ago with ematographer and cameraman Ajuba Solutions)
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
C
ocaine activity is on the well, is suspected to be oper-
rise in Chennai of late and ating cocaine cells in the city.
some city nightclubs and “The actress, who is a cocaine
colleges here have turned addict, had come in contact
key joints for peddlers. Reliable with the Nigerians to buy the
police sources reveal that an substance. Later she went into
upcoming cine actress is oper- a partnership with them and
ating cocaine cells here and started to buy and sell cocaine,”
stays elusive due to her high- said an investigating officer on
level connections. conditions of anonymity.
Cocaine, a semi-synthetic The actress, who is believed
drug that is banned in many to be a key supplier of cocaine
countries, including India, is to many Kollywood drug users,
primarily smuggled to Chennai still remains ‘unreachable’ for
from South American countries the police and drug control
like Columbia, Peru, Ecuador agencies due to her bigwig links
and Bolivia. Enroute to Chen- here.
nai, the contraband travels
through central Africa, Dubai Bartering drugs
and Mumbai. NCB sources also attribute
the rise of cocaine in Chennai
Cocaine rise to the bartering of the drug for
S. Davidson Devasirvatham, heroin, which is highly in de-
Zonal Director of Narcotics mand in European countries.
Control Bureau (NCB), said that Heroin is easily available here
cocaine activity has increased at Rs. 5 to Rs. 7 lakh per kilo-
in Chennai like never before gram, while its international
over the last one year. “A few market value is 10 times more.
months ago our team arrested Therefore, of late cocaine and
two Kenyan nationals in Chen- heroin are being bartered by
nai who were possessing close dealers who use ingenious ways
to 20 gms of cocaine. Upon in- to smuggle them in and out of
terrogation the two drug ped- Chennai. Sources also reveal
dlers revealed that a total of 10 that the points of barter are
cocaine cells are operating in mainly in Mannady and Thiru-
our city,” Davidson informed. votriyur.
He also said that drug ped-
dlers, mostly African nationals How cocaine comes here
in the city, run a heavily profit- Apart from conventional
able illegal cocaine business methods of drug smuggling via
mainly at parties, shopping airports and sea ports by swal-
CHENNAI’S malls, a few nightclubs, some lowing cocaine pills and bring-
college campuses and a few ing it in concealed packages,
railway stations in north smugglers have also resorted to
COCAINE
Chennai. using courier services. Drug
control agencies are keenly
Drug dealer actress watching this avenue as co-
With regard to the arrest of caine is believed to be increas-
CELLS
the Kenyan nationals, Zonal Di- ingly smuggled to Chennai
rector also talks about the in- using this modus operandi.
volvement of an upcoming The price here is reported to
Tamil movie actress. According be around Rs. 3,500 per gram. ■
‘‘
I consider the Pre to be potentially the
strongest rival to iPhone to date,
provided it attracts lots of third-party apps,
which it sorely lacks at launch
Wall Street Journal reviewer Walt Mossberg
Technology
snippets
sourced
from T3
magazine of
Infomedia18
Group
BRAVO, BRAVIA
Sony’s new telly is expensive, but exciting BUFFER ZONE
It’s irritating and outright stupid to travel
D
espite suffering a $1 billion loss this quarter, Sony’s on a rampage. It’s
with an Eee PC in the name of comfort, and
throwing up Bravias quicker than Johnny Lever
then lug along a DVD knapsack that is as big
on emetics. Its latest offering is the ZX Bravia. At 9.9mm in thickness,
as your backpack, just because the netbook
it’s (currently) the world’s thinnest LCD television. But there’s more to
makers decided not to cram in a DVD drive
this 40-incher than its girth. It can output 1080p footage in all its screaming
for a price so low. Commercially, they are
glory and sports a 10-bit colour depth, while conventional LCDs can only
right. You can’t expect a world tour at a price
manage 8-bit. The next breakthrough comes in the form of edge LED
of a Spicejet ticket!
technology, which implies deeper blacks as seen from the TV’s 20,000:1
Fret not, it’s Buffalo to the rescue with its slim
dynamic contrast ratio. It also features the award-winning Xross media bar
and stylish external DVD drive. No more than
and an integrated dual satellite/woofer setup.
your sweetheart’s clutch in size, it plugs into
Rs. 1,99,990, WWW.SONY.CO.IN
an available USB port and works on just 7.5W
of power. To go perfectly with your netbook,
the drive is made available in black or white.
Now that’s surely a deal’s deal. Phew, we take
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Rs. 6,300, WWW.BUFFALO-ASIA.COM
iPhone apps
1. Nexonia
Expenses AIR
It’s your company’s duty to
pay for the entire mini-bar, four LIFTED
club sandwiches and one cocktail. Wonder what makes
This business tool keeps track of Nike the last word
all your spend-on-the-job receipts in the galaxy of
and even lets you take photos of sports? It’s the
them and automatically converts it sport-biggie’s
into a PDF. formula. Nike has
So here’s your tool to get paid for found the key to
every extra hour of work you put in. everyone’s sporty feet
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
05
Job hunters turn to Twitter
Job hunters are now turning to Twitter in a bid to land new careers. With the dramatic rise of redundancies in the last year
due to the recession - with 7.1 per cent of the U.K. now unemployed - people are advertising their skills on social networking
sites. Twitter launched its own job site – Twitjobs and attracted 4,500 followers in a matter of days. The microblogging site
allows job hunters to spot and respond to vacancies instantly.
A
pple is expected to unveil Even if Snow Leopard’s re-
a next-generation iPhone lease is delayed, its features will
and possibly provide a be outlined because it is, after
glimpse at long-absent all, a software developers’ con-
chief executive Steve Jobs as it ference, according to Baker.
kicks off a software developers “Whether Apple ships it that
conference in San Francisco. day or a few months later is im-
“My gut tells me we are going material as long as they stand up
to see a next-generation iPhone and show what it can do,” Baker
and Snow Leopard be the two said of Snow Leopard.
stars of the announcements,” The third-generation iPhone is
Gartner analyst Van Baker said, expected to have improved
referring to Apple’s smartphone processor, camera and video ca-
and a new Mac operating sys- pabilities and to allow users to
tem. run multiple applications simul-
“Steve may do a cameo, taneously.
maybe, because there is strong The ability to run multiple pro-
evidence from multiple sources grams at once is the much-tout-
he is getting back to good ed feature of the Palm Pre
health,” he said. smartphone, which went on sale
However, “it wouldn’t sur- in the United States on Saturday
prise me if he didn’t show up; he and has been praised by review-
doesn’t want to upstage Phil ers as a worthy competitor to
(Schiller),” Baker added. the iPhone.
Schiller is a senior vice-presi- There has also been uncon-
dent of worldwide product mar- firmed speculation that Apple is
keting at Apple. working on a low-price iPhone.
Talk that Apple might delay “I would be pleasantly sur-
the release of Snow Leopard has prised if I actually saw a line of
heightened speculation that iPhones,” Baker said. “They need
Jobs might make a keynote ap- a span of low to high-end mod-
pearance to divert attention els.” ■
from the setback. AFP
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t’s now cheap and easy to that gaming fans check out
create virtual worlds or MilkShape, which costs 25 thing to make Vista more secure;
animated figures for com- dollars (http://chumba- so long as the user is already cur-
puter games. lum.swissquake.ch). It can rent with the automated updates
While plenty of profession- create 3D objects in more offered by Microsoft and has in-
al-grade 3D software is avail- than 70 file formats for import stalled all security patches.
able, the free or low-cost into popular games like One way to avoid having to do
software is usually a better Quake, Warcraft or The Sims. a huge download is to retrieve
choice for newcomers to the ■ Service Pack 2 via the computer’s
field. A review by Hanover- DPA
automatic update function. That
allows it to fetch only the compo-
nents it is missing. ■
DPA
PHOTOS: AFP
06 VILLAGE ERGO Tuesday, June 9, 2009
O
ften compared to Bol- Her first feature film as
lywood star Aishwarya producer-director, Koi Tujh
Rai because of her Sa Kahan (No one is like you),
striking beauty, Reema was shot in Malaysia in 2005.
Khan, a big name in Pakis- It was the most successful
tan’s film industry, is shoot- film that year and went on to
ing her second film in win Best Film at the Lux Style
Malaysia. In this movie, she is Awards 2006.
emulating another Bolly- Reema is here till end-June
wood star, Shah Rukh Khan. to direct her second feature
Reema has performed on film, entitled Kitni Haseen
stage with Bollywood mega- Hai Zindagi (Life Is So Beauti-
stars, SRK and Preity Zinta ful).
and has often matched their A romance, it has a full Pa-
steps but says she has turned kistani cast with Reema play-
down countless offers to act ing the lead alongside
in Bollywood movies. popular Pakistani actor
“I can’t do kissing scenes or Muammar Rana. Shooting lo-
wear a short skirt or a bikini. cations include Putrajaya,
I’m a Muslim first, and my re- Langkawi, Malacca and Ca-
ligion and culture do not al- meron Highlands.
low me to do so.” “I feel very comfortable
“If I had taken up the offers and I have a sense of belong-
I might have got more expo- ing here. But it’s not just the
sure, but it’s not how I want beauty, it is the warmth of
to be known.” the people that makes me
PHOTO: V.V.KRISHNAN
With 200 film roles in her want to come back,” she said,
kitty since 1993, Reema is also adding that she considered
an acknowledged film pro- Malaysia her second home. ■
ducer and director. . IANS
FedExpress chugs on
쒀 This combo image shows Swiss Roger Federer holding his 14 Grand Slam trophies, (From L to R) Wimbledon 2003, Australian Open
2004, Wimbledon 2004, US Open 2004, Wimbledon 2005, US Open 2005, Australian Open 2006, Wimbledon 2006, US Open 2006,
Australian Open 2007, Wimbledon 2007, US Open 2007, US Open 2008 and French Open 2009. PHOTO: AFP
08 SPORT ERGO Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Battle
HOTS Though the fancied sides are out of
T
he wait is over and without much P. C. Riju (left) of Tamil
fanfare four sides have booked Nadu shows his silken
their berth in the semi-finals of touch. PHOTO: K. PICHUMANI
the 63rd Santosh Trophy for the
national football championships. Al-
though defending champions Punjab
and possibly the tournament’s best
side Manipur, with a bunch of I-
League players, have already boarded
the train home, the four contenders the I-League players are reluctant to lothungan and goalie V. P. Satish, the selection of our squad shows that. All
are not to be taken lightly. play this meet. But it opens up oppor- side has shown a flair for goals, scor- the players, even after the long sea-
Leading the line-up will be the rec- tunities for others. It’s still a national ing heavily in the earlier group stage son, were geared up to win this for
ord 29-time champions Bengal, who stage and a good performance can before suddenly losing it during the the state,” coach Mario Diazo says.
had last lifted the Cup in Chennai it- give you a lucrative club contract.” quarterfinals league. However, in the “The commitment level is tremen-
self a good decade ago. Change of Exuding confidence, he adds. “We last match Muthu’s hattrick against dous. It’s not just another tournament
rules and reluctance of big names to have a good balance and are confi- favourites Manipur opened the flood- for us.”
play in the illustrious but motley tour- dent of breaking the jinx.” gates again and also that elusive vic- The Services have looked, by far, the
nament have added to Bengal’s woes. Influential forward Lalawmpuia, tory. Facing four-time winners Goa most compact side with players mostly
With the inception of the national who has scored in all three games, may not be the easiest of tasks but from the Army XI taking advantage of
league in 1996, the Santosh Trophy, agrees. “We have to win this. The buoyed by home support the team is their years of playing together.
named after the late Maharaja Sir team spirit is on a high after the win planning to go one better this time “There we have an advantage,” coach
Manmatha Nath Roy Chowdhary of against Punjab and we are gelling round. T.V. Ravi echoes. “Most of our boys
Santosh (now in Bangladesh), has lost well. If we play to our potential, lift- Goa too is no muck in the pond. have played for years together for Ar-
its citadel and has been left to fend ing the trophy should not be that And with India internationals Mahesh my XI. So we don’t have the problem
for itself. This year too, Bengal has a difficult.” Gawli and Climax Lawrence in their of finding the right combination at
side full of rookies, with most of the Hosts Tamil Nadu, who had only re- ranks they will be a tough nut to short notice.”
top players from Mohun Bagan and ached the final once in 1972-73, are crack. There has been certain abun- Their lone title win had come way
East Bengal giving the tournament a also hoping for a change of fortune. dance in their game and the free- back in 1960-61 and banking on their
miss. Former national footballer and Mostly consisting of home-grown tal- flowing nature has been a treat to sleek counter-attacking game they
Bengal manager Prasun Banerjee says: ents and backed by a few I-League watch in the otherwise mediocre tour- are ready to poop the party of their
“No doubt after a long tiring season professionals like skipper Kalia Ku- nament. “We are here to win and the much fancied rivals. ■
‘‘
At present the way I see it all the teams are just going with the flow and Twenty20 cricket
is only about luck and taking chances. There is no science or planning in how the teams
play this format of the game. One can’t make predictions in the present state of things because any
team can win on its day. Everyone is just taking chances and if it pays off it looks good.
Imran Khan
Indian
pugilists impress
Jitender in Asian Championships’ quarterfinals
R
ounding off a second succes- found to be tied even after the able to draw from my experience
sive all-win day for India, count-back. It was such a relief when and get past him,” Jai said.
Olympian Jitender Kumar judges declared me winner for being On Tuesday, Olympic bronze med-
(54kg) and Jai Bhagwan (60kg) a better boxer,” a relieved Jitender allist Vijender Singh will open his
advanced to the quarterfinals with said from Zhuhai. campaign in the event against Uz-
contrasting wins at the Asian Boxing The 22-year-old Haryana-boxer bekistan’s Atoev Abbos. Abbos was
Championships in Zhuhai, China on now takes on Enkhjargal Iderkhu in a light heavy weight boxer and won
Monday. the quarterfinals on Wednesday in the gold medal at the 2007 World
Jitender was the first to take the what would be his first bout against Championships in Chicago. Youth
ring and the Beijing Olympic quar- the Mongolian. “I have not seen this world champion Thokchom Nanao
terfinalist defeated Thailand’s guy. The coaches are keeping an eye Singh (48kg), who got a bye in the
Chatchai Butdee in a thrilling con- on his bouts and will formulate a first round, will also compete for a
test. The two boxers were tied 4-4 strategy accordingly,” said Jitender. place in the semi-finals. Chhote Lal
after the regulation three rounds Meanwhile in lightweight catego- Yadav (57kg) and Jagat Singh (69kg)
and were locked 4-4 even on count- ry, Jai Bhagwan thumped Thailand’s will also start their campaign on
back but Jitender won after three of Adi Sailom 7-0 in a lopsided bout. Tuesday. ■
the five judges officiating the bout The Indian now takes on local favou- PTI
declared him as the better of the rite Hu Qian Xun in the quarterfinals
two boxers. on Wednesday. “Don’t go by the
“I was leading in the first two scoreline, he was a tough customer,”
rounds but he became very aggres- Jai said after his bout. “Next up is a
sive in the final round and equalised. Chinese. He will have the home ad-
I was very tense after we were vantage but hopefully I would be
Peace Brooke-er
Brooke Shields has finally settled her dispute with the
bosses of U.S. tabloid National Enquirer after she
threatened to sue them over taking her elderly mother
Teri, who suffers from dementia, from her assisted
living centre in New Jersey for lunch.
Anurag Kashyap to direct Kay Kay Menon and John Abraham in ‘Bombay Velvet’
S
till riding high on the success underworld nexus.
of his last venture Dev D, his Kashyap, who started his career
career’s commercial best till as a writer, says he was inspired by
date, director Anurag Kash- English novelist Virginia Woolf.
yap says he would like to team up “Virginia Woolf has been an in-
again with the film’s lead actor, spiration for my writing. In fact,
Abhay Deol. when I was working with Rajit Ka-
“I’d love to repeat Abhay Deol in pur for his stage play Who’s Afraid
a film, but then I should also have of Virginia Woolf, I saw it so many
a role that suits him. I feel Abhay times both backstage and from the
has a very urban feel and you real- front that it sank into me and I
ly have to think before casting learnt the intricacies of writing,”
him,” Kashyap says. he said.
Dev D was a contemporary take But the director credits himself
on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s more for his forte at wielding the
Devdas and starred Mahi Gill and megaphone than the pen.
Kalki Koechlin apart from Abhay. “I’m a 70 per cent director, a 10
“I love to repeat actors, but it per cent writer and a 20 per cent
depends upon the role. For that manipulator of emotions. As a
matter, I think Kay Kay Menon is filmmaker, you know what you
the most repeated actor in my want, but you have to manipulate
films because he just gets into any everyone to get the same... wheth-
character’s skin,” the director add- er it’s the actress in terms of the
ed. role or the producer in terms of the
Kay Kay was seen in Kashyap’s money,” he said.
Black Friday, Paanch and Gulal. Kashyap is also finicky about
Now Kashyap is teaming up choosing music for his films.
again with Kay Kay and his No “I am always on the lookout for
Smoking (2007) actor John Abra- a new sound. Once I’ve used a cer-
ham for a thriller titled Bombay tain kind of music in a film, I don’t
Velvet, a film based in Mumbai. feel like repeating it. Music of my
‘I’d love to
“I’m fascinated with this city films comes from listening. I am so-
(Mumbai). I collect old pictures of meone who loves watching mo-
Mumbai to see what it was earlier vies, reading books and listening
and how has it changed. I have al- to music,” he said.
ways felt some connection with Apart from Bombay Velvet, his
the place since I came here in 1993.
And it comes out in my films,” said
the 36-year-old.
Kashyap’s directorial debut
Black Friday (2004) dealt with the
future projects include Udaan,
Happy Ending and Doga. He has
also forayed into television as the
host of documentary series True
Stories, which will be aired on Fox
repeat Abhay
1993 Mumbai serial blasts, while
Satya (1998), which was scripted
by him, revolved around the city’s
History & Entertainment from June
11 onwards. ■
IANS Deol in a film’
‘We’re all together’ ‘I always kept my
K atie Holmes has lashed out at “spiteful”
rumours claiming that her marriage to clothes’
Tom Cruise is on the rocks, insisting that
“enough is enough”.
The 30-year-old actress declared: “Some
H ollywood’s comeback star Mickey
Rourke has revealed he never
stopped wearing designer clothes even
of the stuff people have said is absolutely when he was broke.
horrible. It is so disgusting and uncalled The US actor, who recently made a
for.” comeback in the Oscar-nominated The
Last week, Hollywood rumour mill went Wrestler after his initial career stalled in
into overdrive after an American magazine the 1990s, said even at his lowest ebb
and Internet stories claimed that the two- he never gave up his wardrobe and
and-a-half year marriage is in turmoil and always looked good, reports
the couple are heading for divorce, reports celebritygossip.ie. “I wasn’t making s**t
The Daily Express. for over 15 years. I was living in a $600
However, Katie – who has just finished a a month flat. But I always kept my
new film, a comedy called The Extra Man clothes, y’know. Or I’d do something so I
and her stint in New York – is now back could keep dressing,” said the 55-year-
home in the couple’s Beverly Hills mansion old actor.
with Cruise (46) and Suri. “I have a really good relationship with
In a rare interview Katie told US women’s a lot of designers. I get a lot of custom
magazine Glamour: “We’re all together. We leather stuff made. In fact I’m re-
like to be together, so Tom and I even use designing my wardrobe right now,” he
the house for our business meetings.” ■ added. ■
ANI IANS
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
11
Favourite Movie Moment
The clothes shop scene from the movie Pretty Woman
featuring Julia Roberts is ‘Brits’ Favourite Movie Moment’.
In the scene, Roberts as prostitute Vivian Ward takes
revenge on staff at a posh store where they had earlier
refused to serve her, reports the Daily Star.
Cine City
Enough and
Moore
D
emi Moore’s collection of 3,000 dolls is giving husband Ashton
Kutcher nightmares.
The 30-year-old actor says that his wife’s bizarre voodoo-style
doll collection is freaking him out.
Kutcher admits that he is begging Moore to open a museum so he can
get them out of the house.
“Spent the day going through wifey’s insane doll collection – 3,000
contemporary art dolls all staring at U. I’m gonna have nightmares,” the
Daily Star quoted Ashton as saying on his Twitter page.
“I’m trying to convince wifey to open a doll museum. She also has
thousands of Barbies and original GI Joes,” he added. Actor Jeyam Ravi’s wedding reception took
Moore is said to have devoted one of her homes to the entire collec- place on Sunday at Adyar. The big day that
tion, which includes realistic dolls by top artistes. began with an array of Kollywood stars
The 46-year-old started collecting them when she was still married to pouring in, turned a bit annoying for the star
Bruce Willis (54). bridegroom towards the end as a huge
Her collection has an insurance of 1.5 million pounds. ■ crowd had gathered at the venue to get a
ANI glimpse of the couple. Insiders revealed that
the bride’s party had invited a bigger bunch.
12 ERGO Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Monday’s query:
Who is your favourite author
and why?
■Mark Twain for the Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Deepak Vasudevan, Verizon
■Thiruvalluvar because the whole world is there
in the book Thirukkural
Hemu, Wipro
■Shakespeare for Othello& Macbeth
Ramesh Thevar, Allsec
■Wayne Dyer - his book Your Erroneous Zones
is one of the best psychology books ever written
Sridhar R, STG
■Sujatha. We can get humour, science fiction,
romance and everything from his work
Vasanth, Softeon, Rashmi, TCS, Syed, STG
■Robin Cook - spine chilling combination of
medical truth and crime thriller
Aslam, Midas
Pradheep Ayyanar of Applied Development has nominated his friends as Partners in Crime.
■Tagore his writings are of social orientation This photo was taken in Ooty.
Shanavas, Allsec
■Bakshi else would have been difficult to clear
my engineering papers
Shantha Kumar, Infosys, Saravanan, Allsec
■Osho. Because his writings showed up that the
most beautiful and intense way to live and
grow is through love, celebration of deep
acceptance of self and others
Gavaskar E, Hexaware
■Rajesh Kumar. Because he is one of the best in
writing thriller stories
Dhananjayan, Scope International, Diwahar, Wipro
■Ken Follet for wonderful story n excellent
narration, one would never feel like putting d
book down until you complete d last chapter
Soumya, HCL
■Kalki. I gained knowledge on our Tamil
kingdoms by reading his novels like Ponniyin
Selvan, Sivakamiyin Sabatham, Parthiban Kanavu
G. Sudha, Cognizant
■J.R.R.Tolkien. He leaves nothing to be
imagined. His works simply come to life in ur Balaraju Chinthakindi of Cognizant Technology Solutions has nominated his “training
mind when you read them mates” as Partners in Crime. Now these people are working in different locations and
Shiva, CSS Balaraju hopes they remember each other after seeing this picture.
■Eric Segal. All his books, love story in
particular, are masterpieces for their sheer
simplicity and elegance
Ahalya, TCS
■Robin Sharma is my favourite. He has helped
me in my difficult times. His books are my
inspiration for me
Prakash, CTS
■Dan Brown his novels are much erudite with
jaw dropping facts and history
Premganesh D, Wipro
Today’s query:
Everybody is on a quest to
enter the Limca/Guinness
Book of Records. One quirky
way you would make your
entry. Purushothaman from TCS E-serve Ltd. has nominated his friends as Partners in Crime. The
picture was clicked at Varadha Palayam.
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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No more clichés
A British TV channel is offering to
donate money to charity if its sports
commentators can keep from using
cliches during soccer matches.
sudoku
Shyam Prasad
from Wipro
Technologies
shot this picture
at Alleppey
using a Canon
S5 camera.
Hobbies:
photography
and trekking
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B.C
NADAL TAKES
HIS GIRLFRIEND
FOR JET SKIING
T
ennis star Rafael
Nadal may have
failed to win the
French Open but
that did not stop the
player from enjoying
some water sport with
his girlfriend.
The six-time Grand
Slam winner and his
girlfriend Maria Fran-
cisca Perello enjoyed a
day of jet skiing in Ma-
jorca. The silver and
black Seadog was re-
portedly a gift for Na-
dal who celebrated his
birthday on Wednes-
day, the Daily Mail
reported.
The couple donned
matching black life
jackets before taking
to the sea for an exhil-
arating high-speed
ride.
Maria, 20, known as
Xisca among friends is
currently studying
business in Majorca.
The couple have
been dating for four
years, but usually
avoid being in public
eye. ■
PTI