Shantham January 2010

Shantham Educational Service

Tamil-English bilingual webmagazine dedicated to education of the masses through E-books, articles, worldwide informations, Slideshows, Presentations on various subjects, photographs and images, moral and objective oriented stories and Lectures including audio and video


Penning down my thoughts

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Sugarless Coffee

This is the eighth of the series on the subject. The sugarless coffee is not a drink, but a metaphor, with the message how the core values are pushed to the background retaining only the likable, favourably taken as advantageous to the moments.


ஐ.ஐ.டி.யில் சிறப்பு எம்.ஏ.

சென்னை, கோவை, மதுரை, திருச்சி, பெங்களூர், மும்பை, ஹைதராபாத், கொச்சி, திருவனந்தபுரம், கொல்கத்தா, டெல்லி, ஆகிய மையங்களில் நுழைவுத் தேர்வு நடத்தப்படும்.


திருக்குறளும் என் குறளு(லு)ம்

ஓருதவி செய்யா ஒருவனுக்குச் செய்யுதவிக்(கு) ஈருலகும் ஈடாகா திங்குணர் - பாரினில் செய்யாமல் செய்த உதவிக்கு வையகமும் வானகமும் ஆற்றல் அரிது


NUTS - Eating is HEALTHY

Cashew nuts are rich in mono-saturated fats that protect the heart.They are a good source of potassium and vitamin B complex. They contain healthy amounts of phosphorous and magnesium that the body needs in small amounts.


Foods to avoid

The resin linings of tin cans contain bisphenol-A, a synthetic estrogen that has been linked to ailments ranging from reproductive problems to heart disease, diabetes, and obesity. Acidity - a prominent characteristic of tomatoes -- causes BPA to leach into your food.


Pranayama scores over a jog

Hyderabad, Sept. 18: Jogging along Tank Bund does help, but doing pranayama for thirty minutes every day in the serenity of your home is far more beneficial for your heart and lungs. Now, there is scientific proof for it.


Kitchen Tips and some Tricks

One get expertise and become more knowledgeable through experience and aging. This process can be hastened, by reading what an experienced says.


A PARENT'S LIFE

Is there a magic cutoff period when Offspring become accountable for their own Actions? Is there a wonderful moment when Parents can become detached spectators in The lives of their children and shrug, 'It's Their life,' and feel nothing?


Helpful Tips

For icy door steps in freezing temperatures: get warm water and put Dawn dish washing liquid in it. Pour it all over the steps. They won't Refreeze. (wish I had known this for the last 40 years!)


Who are you? know your self

When a man wants to see a high dignitary does he not send his card first? I will place your card in the hands of God I am sure He will see you.” The prince thought the request was quite reasonable, quite in order to cpmply with. So he took a piece of paper and wrote his name “ Sri
Gajpati Raju”. The Swami read it.


சீனர்கள் வணங்கும் முனீஸ்வரன்

சமீபத்தில் எனக்கு சிங்கப்பூர் போகும் வாய்ப்பு கிடைத்தது, அதுவும் அங்குச் சில மாதங்கள் தங்கியதால் பல கோயில்கள் பார்க்கும் பாக்கியமும் கிடைத்தது. உலகத்தில் பலநாடுகள், எதாவது ஒரு பிரச்சனை, பகை, தீவிரவாதம் என்று அமைதி இழந்து தவிக்க, சிங்கப்பூர் மட்டும் அமைதிப் பூங்காவாகி அதில் பல மதங்களின் பூச்செடிகள் பூத்துக்குலுங்க, அதை எல்லாம் சேர்த்து அழகான கதம்ப மாலையாக்கி மகிழ் வைத்தருகிறது அந்த அரசு


சூரசம்ஹாரம் பின் முருகன்

முருகன் இந்தத் தலத்திற்கு வந்து தன் வேலை ஊன்ற, அந்த இடத்திலிருந்து புனிதநீர் பீச்சியது, அதுவே தீர்த்தமானது. அந்த தீர்த்தத்தில் நீராடி, பின் தியானத்தில் அமர்ந்தார். பிரண்வமே ஓதிய அழகன் தானே தியானத்தில் இருக்கிறார், அப்போதும் சூரசம்ஹாரக் காட்சிகள் அவர் தியானத்தைக் கலைத்தனவாம்.


Are you judgemental? nice story

One day when he was returning from the river, the prostitute, to tease him asked, " Baba, Khare ho ya Khote?-(are you pure or impure) The Saadhu(hermit) does not answer.


Shiva Temple - Coimbatore

For your eyes only


Questions & Answers

Three questions for all


7 ways to achieve inner peace

This year, let the devotion flower to its fullest and give it a chance to work. Our love, faith & belief should be deep rooted, and then everything else moves on its own.


Study of Vedas

Just because the internet has opened the floodgates to information and we can even learn how to make bombs and concoct deadly poisons from household reagents in the privacy of our homes, do we not understand that flawed learning of Veda and this knowledge in the wrong hands could be disastrous?


Connect With God.

God is always with us. There is a beautiful story of a young toddler playing in a sandbox. As the young boy shoveled and dug and built in the box, he came upon a large rock in the sand. No matter how much he tried to dig around it, the rock would not dislodge.


Oxymorons

Here you will find the top 45 oxymorons. An oxymoron is a combination of two words that are completely opposite in meaning. You've probably heard many of these before but didn't realize that they fall within this category. Read to the end.


walmart interview

Jennifer, a manager at Wal-Mart, had the task of hiring someone to fill a job opening. After sorting through a stack of 20 resumes she found four people who were equally qualified. Jennifer decided to call the four in and ask them only one question.


Think Different.. Really Interesting

Below are the Interview Questions, which were asked in HR Round..... No one will GET second chance to impress.... Very very Impressive Questions and Answers..... ...


Simple, yet very expressive snaps!

If God is great, (Amma, Aai, Amme, Ma, Mom, Mummy ... is also great!)


LPG gas cylinder's expiry date

Do you know that there is an expiry date (physical life) for LPG cylinders? Expired Cylinders are not safe for use and may cause accidents. In this regard, please be cautious at the time of accepting any LPG cylinder from the vendor.


What U Know About INDIA

Land Area:- 1,147,949 sq mi (2,973,190 sq km) Total Area: 1,269,338 sq mi (3,287,590 sq km) Population: 1,132,446,000


What’s in a glass of milk?

Milk is a rich source of several nutrients including proteins, calcium, magnesium and B-vitamins. But it becomes unsafe for consumption when it is adulterated with urea, cheap fat, soaps, detergents, starch, baking soda and antibiotics.


Amazing Clock

This is one of the coolest clocks! Open the link below... or click the above image.


You Are Unique!

So why waste time and energy trying to fit into a mould? To be like someone else? You are unique, and thus radically different, no matter what you think and no matter what you do.


Kailash Manasarovar Yatra

The selection of Yatris will be done by Ministry of External Affairs of India through a computer-generated random gender-balanced selection process.


30 Second Speech By Bryan Dyson

But The Other Four Balls - Family, Health, Friends And Spirit - Are Made of Glass. If You Drop One of These; They Will Be Irrevocably Scuffed, Marked, Nicked, Damaged or Even Shattered.


Indian Brain

Instead use available public transport, whatever may be its status! It will better than, your children suffering tomorrow with less of resources


Time management

And yet, during the course of each day most people let these things eat away at time that could otherwise be focused in more positive directions. Think about it. Does that make any sense at all?


New Year Message from Warren Buffet

Every new year, I adopt a couple of old maxims as my beacons to guide my future. This self-prescribed therapy has ensured that with each passing year, I grow wiser and not older.


An absolutely Brilliant Joke

A Woman was out golfing one day when she hit the ball into the woods. She went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap.


CARTOON OF THE YEAR

Seeing is proof enough


VEG CHICKEN

Each Friday night after work, Sardar would fire up his outdoor grill and cook a tandoori chicken and some meat kebabs. But, all of his neighbors were strict Catholics ... and since it was Lent, they were forbidden from eating chicken and meat on a Friday.


COMPLEX ISSUES SIMPLE EXPLANATIONS

The issue was this. Human experience—so well captured in Muyphy’s law—tells us that when you drop a slice of bread to the floor it is the buttered side that hits the dusty floor but on this occasion IT WAS THE NON- BUTTERED SIDE THAT HIT THE GRIMY FLOOR.


Never Mess with Old People

The auditor said, 'Well, sir, you have an extravagant lifestyle and no full-time employment, Which you explain by saying that you win money gambling. I'm not sure Revenue Canada finds that believable.'


perception is reality

And the other person says: 'So what are you up to?' What kind of question is that? At that point, I'm thinking this is too bizarre so I say: 'Uhhh, I'm like you, just traveling!'


IAS Officer

அன்பு வேண்டுகோள், கீழே பதிந்துள்ள ஒவ்வொரு வார்த்தைகளையும் கூர்ந்து வாசியுங்கள், இந்த தேசத்தின் மீதான மிகப் பெரிய நம்பிக்கை அதில் பொதிந்து கிடக்கிறது


Christmas message

No matter what has happened to us, we are worthy of love and whatever pain we have been through has been part of our own healing, and that of those we connect with.


A voice of criticism from a very young age

Parents are our Gods during those early years, and Gods speak the truth. So we believe them, and not only shape our self image around what they tell us about ourselves, but their voices remain in our heads, in our subconscious minds for years to come.


Life's #1 Rule is..

But my father was my hero. He taught me many things, but at the top of the list, he taught me to treat people with love and respect...to live the Golden Rule. I remember one particular instance of him teaching this "life lesson" as if it were yesterday.


Before (முன்)

Will it hurt anyone? இதனால் பிறர் மனம் புண்படுமா? Will it improve on the silence? மௌனத்தை கலைக்குமா?


Disengaging from Negative Energy

The more we work on ourselves and heal our psychic wounds, the less likely we are to be affected by surrounding negative energy. Until we're strong and healed, we need to be very aware and careful of the energies surrounding us.


கலியுக வசுதேவர்

See for yourself


Do it now

She would worry all night long, getting up to walk around, then returning to her empty bed, turning the thoughts over and over in her mind like a dog gnawing an old bone. She did it so much that finally her fear turned into wisdom.


The Elephant Who Lost An Eye

The elephant felt a little ashamed and took the frog's advice. He stopped moving his trunk around, and soon the water became clearer as the sand sank to the bottom. And there in the stream lay his eye. He reached for it with his trunk and popped it back into its socket. And then he thanked the frog.


About Saint Tiruvalluvar

Tiruvalluvar was a saint who lived in Tamil Nadu over two thousand years ago. Very little is known of him. He lived in Mylapore, which today is a part of the city of Chennai (Madras). Many stories have been written about his greatness. However, most scholars today find it rather difficult to sift out fact from fiction.


Honest men

One day, while a woodcutter was cutting a branch of a tree above a river, his axe fell into the river. When he cried out, the Lord appeared and asked, Why are you crying?


Silly little advice-greatly beneficial

So he gave Schwab a sheet of paper and told him to write down the six most important things he had to do the next day. Schwab wrote them down. Then Lee told him to number them in order of importance. Schwab numbered them.


எது கடவுளின் குரல்?

ஒரு சன்யாசி படகில் போய்க்கொண்டிருந்தார். அவர் உடையும் அவர் முடியும் அநதப்படகில் அமர்ந்திருந்த சில விஷமிகளுக்குப் பிடிக்கவில்லை. அவரைப்பார்த்து கேலி செய்தனர், கிண்டல் செய்தனர்.


Desire and want

Three beggars thought of approaching him for help. The first man went to the millionaire and said: "O Lord! I want five rupees. Please give me." The millionaire was taken aback at this man's impudence.


The Fork

There was a woman who had been diagnosed with a terminal illness and had been given three months to live. So as she was getting her things "in order", she contacted her pastor and had him come to her house to discuss certain aspects of her final wishes.


Renunciation or Attachment

He requested his deputy many times to introduce one such sanyasi to him. The minister still did not take take the request seriously.


The Seven Jars

Long ago there lived in Northern India a merchant whose wife had died and who went daily from his lonely house in the foothills to the town below, for buying and selling.


How to fill your empty glass

The next day the farmer drove up and said, "Sorry Rajji, but I have some bad news, the donkey died while I was bringing him here.


Unconditional Love

A story is told about a soldier who was finally coming home after having fought in Vietnam. He called his parents from San Francisco.


A Small Story

A boy and a girl were playing together. The boy had a collection of marbles. The girl had some sweets with her. The boy told the girl that he will give her all his marbles in exchange for her sweets. The girl agreed.


Where are you Now (Little Camel Story)

Doubts of a little Camel


Oddest Stories of 2009

In Virginia's Northern Neck, on a random Monday morning, a 6-year-old boy drove his mother's Ford Taurus for more than 10 miles, weaving in and out of oncoming traffic, to finally slam into a utility pole, no one got hurt.


The Art of Living

The birthday of a gallant knight of Rome was being celebrated with great pomp and show. Different types of recipes were being prepared in the kitchen. Lots of friends and relatives had been invited.


MEETING GOD

As it began to grow dark, the boy realized how tired he was and wanted to go home. He got up to leave but before he had gone no more than a few steps...


The Faith of an Atheist

But I don't have doubts," the atheist cried.I have only certainties. For example, I can assure you that God has nothing to do with the ache in your knee, and that He doesn't care in the least how you feel.


Real-life Superheroes

With so many superhero movies around, such as Spiderman or Hulk, we are used to see people with special abilities in fiction. But people with amazing abilities actually do exist in real life; here's a list of 10 of the most amazing of these people!


Touching Moments of Father with their kids

Very cute pictures of fathers with their children. It is something usual to see a mother with her child on a picture, but when you see a father so loving and caring, it is someway even cuter.


New Year 2010 around the world

two millions people observe fireworks from Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to celebrate the beginning of New Year’s Day early in January 1, 20


Amazing statues from around the world

The lady is fearlessly counting her money in an area of Brussels that is famous for its pickpockets. She even teases them with her unsnatchable bronze wallet!


The decade in news photographs

The plane crashed shortly after take-off, killing all the 109 people aboard and four others on the ground.


அறிந்ததும் அறியாததும்

மேற்கண்ட பழமொழி ஊருக்கு ஊர் இனத்துக்கு இனம் வெவ்வேறு வார்த்தைகளால் பிணைத்து பயன்படுத்தப் படுகிறது. எங்கள் ஊர் வழக்கில் 'அதிகம் படிச்ச நாய் வேட்டைக்கு உதவாது' என்பார்கள்


THE MEMORABLE QUOTES

நான் மழையில் நடக்க விரும்புகிறேன், ஏன் தெரியுமா? அப்பொழுதுதான் என் கண்ணீரை யாரும் கவனிக்க மாட்டார்கள்


கவனம் குவி, ஒரு நிலைப் படுத்து

ஓரமாய் அமர்ந்திருந்த பார்வையற்ற அவனின் இதழோரம் தோன்றியதோர் கீற்றுப் புன்னகை…