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Vol. XXXI No. 9, August 16-31, 2021
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Our Readers Write
Covid Poser No longer do I go for my morning walks in open air. Instead, I plod through my flat like an aged tiger incarcerated in a cramped cage at the zoo. It has been almost a year since I showed my face to the outside world barring the visits to my cardiologist who attends […]
Quizzin’ with Ram’nan
Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s first 10 questions are on current affairs and the next 10 are on Tokyo 2020. 1. India’s first indigenous aircraft carrier recently conducted its maiden sea trials. What is it called? 2. In which Russian city was INDRA-21, a 13-day mega military exercise between the Indian and Russian armies held from August […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
– (Wo)MMM
Deadpan Handyman The Woman from Madras Musings once read a lovely story that featured a galaxy of gurus with delightfully specific tasks. There was a saint who loved travellers, one who supervised the churning of butter, one who took woodcutters under her wing, another who saw to the welfare of salmon and so on. You […]
Quizzin’ with Ram’nan
Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s first 10 questions are on current affairs and the next 10 are on water bodies 1. Name the temple in Telangana that has become India’s 39th UNESCO World Heritage Site? 2. Novak Djokovic joined Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal for the most number of singles Grand Slams (20) by winning Wimbledon. But […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
In which MMM renews his driving licence The Man from Madras Musings has now reached that age when renewals of driving licences are more frequently required. And he does not look forward to it. By that he means he does not look forward to the renewal process as much as he does not to the […]
Quizzin’ with Ram’nan
Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s first 10 questions are on current affairs and the next 10 are on the Modern Summer Olympics (non-India). 1. What was the christened name of thespian Dilip Kumar who passed away recently? 2. The prototype of which form of transport, created by Prof Stefan Klein, had a 35-minute maiden run between Nitra […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
(Wo)MMM
Taming tornados The Woman from Madras Musings is at that age where many friends have progressed to taking on the mantle of parenthood. On listening to their stories, (Wo)MMM has a new respect for parents – especially young parents – these days. Entertaining a child under normal circumstances is hard enough; keeping them occupied in […]
Quizzin’ with Ram’nan
Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s first 10 questions are on current affairs and the next 10 are on India and Indians at the Summer Olympics. 1. In one of the toughest rulings for a law-enforcement officer in the US, for what action was former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin sentenced to 22.5 years in prison? 2. Which […]
Short ‘N’ Snappy
- MMM
To Lockdown or not to Lockdown The Man from Madras Musings has nothing but sympathy for the head that wears the er… crown (now what did you think MMM meant?) in our state. We all know he had to wait long to be entrusted with the responsibility. Some had even written this as an impossibility. […]
Quizzin’ with Ram’nan
Quizmaster V.V. Ramanan’s first 10 questions are on current affairs and the next 10 are on The Adventures of Tintin. 1. Who recently became the eighth in line to the British throne? 2. Which US billionaire has announced that he and his brother will make a spaceflight on July 20? 3. What Greek alphabet has […]
In the latest Issue
- Yet another Government-run Museum in city – with no creative plans for making it relevant
- More loss of green cover: Chennai District Green Committee approves NHAI Port-Maduravoyal Expressway project
- Heritage Watch: Another landmark to vanish
- History of recording climate change on the Coromandel Coast*
- Lost Landmarks of Chennai
- Look at me… Now!
- When Olympians blessed a Madras stadium
- Short ‘N’ Snappy
- Our Readers Write
