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How to buy sandalwood

2010-03-13T07:14:00-07:00

Here is Veerappan explaining how to buy sandalwood... !Sandalwood has unique natural properties and widely used for skin/acne care ...So, I was searching for Sandalwood billet to buy. And here goes how I got it.

Every state in India has its own rules on how much sandalwood individual can possess/have. Sandalwood is classified as scheduled timber (I don't have any idea what they mean by calling scheduled timber). Sandalwood was smuggled and so, its movement, cultivation, sale - everything is monitored by government as per the state rules.

Legal purchase can be made from state / government owned handicrafts store Like Poombukar (Tamilnadu Handicrafts), Lepakshi, Khadi Gramodyog, etc., Buying from government is good since they sell original sandalwood. The current price of sandalwood is Rs.12000 to Rs.13000 INR per kg + tax. Sandalwood is sold as small chips / billet. Less expensive sandalwood is also available and its not advised to buy these, since after extracting Sandalwood oil they sell dead wood (No therapeutic uses) with some fragrance.

You can also buy figures carved out of sandalwood, this can be used for decoration / showcase. For using sandalwood you need to buy only chips/ billet of the wood.

If you have any questions, let me know...

Tamil New Year - Puthandu

2009-08-30T00:59:00-07:00

Bill on new Tamil Nadu Tamil New Year Day - IS it logical ? Note: I am not against any party or religion or caste or language !To know about Tamil new year, study this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puthandu , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_calendar

I got a FW mail from someone, I did create a gif (to easily embed in my blog) from those images....

WE HAVE TO FOLLOW & LIVE WITH NATURE,
POLITICAL OR THE RULERS ARE SECONDARY,
WE SHOULD NOT MISGUIDE OUR NEXT GENERATIONS....

Indian Political Scrap !

2009-08-29T23:52:00-07:00

I am pasting the text of a FW mail i got on Indian Political Scrap !.... Note: I am not against any party or religion or caste or language !Extract of the mail --

At the very beginning of his book, 'The Nehru Dynasty', Astrologer K.N. Rao mentions the names of Jawaharlal's father and grandfather.

Jawaharlal's father was believed to be Motilal and Motilal's father was one Gangadhar Nehru. We all know that Jawaharlal's only daughter was Indira Priyadarshini Nehru; Kamala Nehru was her mother, who died in Switzerland of tuberculosis. She was totally against Indira's proposed marriage with Feroze. Why? No one tells us that!

Now, who is this Feroze? We are told by many that he was the son of the family grocer. The grocer supplied wines, etc... to Anand Bhavan (previously known as Ishrat Manzil) .

What was the family grocer's name?

One frequently hears that Rajiv Gandhi's grandfather was Pandit Nehru. But then we all know that everyone has two grandfathers, the paternal and the maternal grandfathers. In fact, the paternal grandfather is deemed to be the more important grandfather in most societies.

Why is it then, nowhere, we find Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather’s name? It appears that the reason is simply. Rajiv Gandhi's paternal grandfather was a Muslim gentleman from the Junagadh area of Gujarat . This Muslim grocer by the name of Nawab Khan had married a Parsi woman after converting her to Islam. This is the source where from the myth of Rajiv being a Parsi was derived. Rajiv's father Feroze, was Feroze Khan before he married Indira, against Kamala Nehru's wishes.

Feroze's mother's family name was Ghandy, often associated with Parsis and this was changed to Gandhi, sometime before his wedding with Indira, by an affidavit.

The fact of the matter is that (and this fact can be found in many writings) Indira was very lonely. Chased out of the Shantiniketan University by Guru Dev Rabindranath himself for misdemeanour, the lonely girl was all by herself, while father Jawaharlal was busy with politics, pretty women and illicit sex, the mother was in hospital.

Feroze Khan, the grocer's son was then in England and he was quite sympathetic to Indira and soon enough she changed her religion, became a Muslim woman and married Feroze Khan in a London mosque. Nehru was not happy; Kamala was dead already or dying. The news of this marriage eventually reached Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (better known as Mahatma Gandhi) .

Gandhi urgently called Nehru and practically ordered him to ask the young man to change his name from Khan to Gandhi. It had nothing to do with change of religion, from Islam to Hinduism for instance. It was just a case of a change of name by an affidavit. And so Feroze Khan became Feroze Gandhi. The surprising thing is that the apostle of truth, the old man soon to be declared India ’s Mahatma and the 'Father of the Nation' didn't mention this game of his in the famous book, 'My Experiments with Truth'. Why?

When they returned to India , a mock 'Vedic marriage' was instituted for public consumption. On this subject, writes M.O. Mathai (a long-time Private Secretary of Nehru) in his renowned (but now suppressed by the GOI!) 'Reminiscences of the Nehru Age' on page 94, second paragraph: ' For some inexplicable reason, Nehru allowed the marriage to be performed according to Vedic rites in 1942. An inter-religious and inter-caste marriage under Vedic rites at that time was not valid in law. To be legal, it had to be a civil marriage.'

It's a known fact that after Rajiv's birth Indira and Feroze lived separately, but they were not divorced. Feroze used to harass Nehru frequently for money and also interfere in Nehru's political activities. Nehru got fed up and left instructions not to allow him into the Prime Minister's residence Trimurthi Bhavan.

Mathai writes that the death of Feroze came as a relief to Nehru and Indira. The death of Feroze in 1960 before he could consolidate his own political forces is itself a mystery. Feroze had even planned to remarry.

Those who try to keep tabs on our leaders in spite of all the suppressions and deliberate misinformation, are aware of the fact that the second son of Indira (or Mrs .Feroze Khan) known as Sanjay Gandhi was not the son of Feroze. He was the son of another Muslim gentleman, Mohammad Yunus.

Here in passing, we might mention that the second son was originally named Sanjiv. It rhymed with Rajiv, the elder brother's name. It was changed to Sanjay when he was arrested by the British police in England and his passport impounded, for having stolen a car. Krishna Menon was then India ’s High Commissioner in London . He offered to issue another passport to the felon who changed his name to Sanjay. Incidentally, Sanjay's marriage with the Sikh girl Menaka (now they call her Maneka for Indira Gandhi found the name of mythological Lord Indra's Court dancer rather offensive!!) took place quite surprisingly in Mohammad Yunus's house in New Delhi .

The marriage with Menaka who was a model (She had modeled for Bombay Dyeing wearing just a towel) was not so ordinary either. Sanjay was notorious in getting unwed young women pregnant. Menaka too was rendered pregnant by Sanjay.

It was then that her father, Colonel Anand, threatened Sanjay with dire consequences if he did not marry her daughter and that did the trick.

Sanjay married Menaka. It was widely reported in Delhi at the time that Mohammad Yunus was unhappy at the marriage of Sanjay with Menaka. Apparently he had wanted to get him married with a Muslim girl of his choice. It was Mohammad Yunus who cried the most when Sanjay died in the plane accident.

In Yunus's book, 'Persons, Passions & Politics' one discovers that baby Sanjay had been circumcised following Islamic custom, although the reason stated was phimosis. It was always believed that Sanjay used to blackmail Indira Gandhi and due to this she used to turn a blind eye when Sanjay Gandhi started to run the country as though it were his personal freedom. Was he black mailing her with the secret of who his real father was? When the news of Sanjay's death reached Indira Gandhi, the first thing she wanted to know was about the bunch of keys which Sanjay had with him.

Nehru was no less a player in producing bastards.

At least one case is very graphically described by M.O. Mathai in his 'Reminiscences of the Nehru Age', page 206.

Mathai writes: 'In the autumn of 1948 a young woman from Benares arrived in New Delhi as a sanyasini named Shraddha Mata (an assumed and not a real name). She was a Sanskrit scholar well versed in the ancient Indian scriptures and mythology. People, including MPs, thronged to her to hear her discourses. One day S.D. Upadhyaya, Nehru's old employee, brought a letter in Hindi from Shraddha Mata. Nehru gave her an interview in the PM's house. As she departed, I noticed (Mathai is speaking here) that she was young, shapely and beautiful. Meetings of Nehru with her became rather frequent, mostly after he finished his work at night. During one of Nehru's visits to Lucknow , Shraddha Mata turned up there and Upadhyaya brought a letter from her as usual. Nehru sent her the reply and she visited Nehru at midnight...' Suddenly Shraddha Mata disappeared.

In November 1949 a convent in Bangalore sent a decent looking person to Delhi with a bundle of letters. He said that a young woman from northern India arrived at the convent a few months ago and gave birth to a baby boy. She refused to divulge her name or give any particulars about herself. She left the convent as soon as she was well enough to move out but left the child behind. She however forgot to take with her a small cloth bundle in which, among other things, several letters in Hindi were found. The Mother Superior, who was a foreigner, had the letters examined and was told they were from the Prime Minister.

The person who brought the letters surrendered them...'I (Mathai) made discreet inquiries repeatedly about the boy but failed to get a clue about his whereabouts. Convents in such matters are extremely tight-lipped and secretive.

Had I succeeded in locating the boy, I would have adopted him. He must have grown up as a Catholic Christian blissfully ignorant of who his father was.'

Coming back to Rajiv Gandhi, we all know now that he changed his so called Parsi religion to become a Catholic to marry Sania Maino of Turin , Italy . Rajiv became Roberto. His daughter's name is Bianca and son's name is Raul. Quite cleverly the same names are presented to the people of India as Priyanka and Rahul.

What is amazing is the extent of our people's ignorance in such matters. The press conference that Rajiv Gandhi gave in London after taking over as Prime minister of India was very informative. In this press conference, Rajiv boasted that he was NOT a Hindu but a Parsi. Mind you, speaking of the Parsi religion, he had no Parsi ancestor at all.

His grandmother (father's mother) had turned Muslim after having abandoned the Parsi religion to marry Nawab Khan.

It is the western press that waged a blitz of misinformation on behalf of Rajiv. From the New York Times to the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post, the big guns raised Rajiv to heaven. The children's encyclopedias recorded that Rajiv was a qualified Mechanical Engineer from the revered University of Cambridge . No doubt US kids are among the most misinformed in the world today! The reality is that in all three years of his tenure at that University Rajiv had not passed a single exam. He had therefore to leave Cambridge without a certificate.

Sonia too had the same benevolent treatment. She was stated to be a student in Cambridge . Such a description is calculated to mislead Indians. She was a student in Cambridge all right, but not of the University of Cambridge , but of one of those fly by night language schools where foreign students come to learn English. Sonia was working as an 'au pair' girl in Cambridge and trying to learn English at the same time. And surprise of surprises, Rajiv was even cremated as per Vedic rites in full view of India 's public.

This is the Nehru dynasty that India worships and now a foreigner leads a prestigious national party because of just one qualification being married into the Nehru family. Maneka Gandhi, though Indian, herself is being accepted by the non-Congress parties not because she was a former model or an animal lover, but for her links to the Nehru family.

Saying that an Italian (or any foreigner) should not lead India will amount to narrow mindedness, but if Sania Maino (now Sonia) had served India like, say, Mother Teresa or Annie Besant, i.e. in any way on her own rights, then all Indians should be proud of her just as how proud we are of Mother Teresa.

OR

Saying that any other party which comes to rule India is again equally worse.

The point is Indians who nominate the people to stand in these elections; and the people who vote their rulers (i.e. the authorities) must know that truth eventually come out some day. Don’t allow the famous land of India (our motherland) to be looked down by others.

JAI HIND

மறைக்கப்பட்ட உண்மை

2009-08-29T23:40:00-07:00

I got this from some anonymous person... ! Do you guys have any answer for this ? OR What does he try to explain in his message ?அன்புசார் தமிழ்ப் பெருமக்களே, இன்றுவரை நம்மை மயக்கத்தில் ஆழ்த்தி வைத்திருந்த ஓர் மாயைத்திரையை உங்களுக்குக் கோடுகாட்ட விரும்புகின்றேன்.

1.தமிழ் தோன்றியது எப்போது?

2.தமிழுக்கு ஆசான் யார்?

3.உண்மையான இறை அறிதல் எது?

4.சாகாக்கலையை போதிப்பது யார்?

மேற்கூறிய வினாக்களுக்கு -- இப்போதுள்ள குருமார்கள் -- யாராவது சரியான பதிலைத்தந்துள்ளார்களா?. இதற்குச்சரியான விடை அளிப்பவரால் மட்டுமே மறைக்கப்பட்ட பல உண்மைகளை வெளிக்கொணரமுடியும்.

திருமந்திரம் என்ற உலகின் முதல் வேதம் என்ன கூறுகிறது?, இவ்வேதம் ஏன், யாரால் மறைக்கப்பட்டது?, பின் எங்கிருந்து யாரால் காட்டப்பட்டது?, மீண்டும் இப்பொழுது ஏன் மறைத்து வைக்கப்பட்டிருக்கிறது?, என்ற அனைத்திற்கும் பதிலைத்தேடுங்கள்.

உலகம் முழுதும் தீவிரவாதம் தாண்டவமாடக் காரணம் எந்த ஒரு மார்க்கமும் உண்மையான இறைக்கொள்கையைக் கடைப்பிடிக்காததேயாகும். ஓரிறைக்கொள்கை என்பது முதன் முதலில் தமிழில் பல கோடி வருடங்களுக்கு முன்பே திருமூலரால் சொல்லப்பட்டது. ஆனால் சிலர் தங்களது சுய நலத்துக்காக மறைக்கப்போய் பொய்மையே உண்மைபோல் தோற்றமளிப்பதால்தான், இத்தனை கலகம். மதமாற்றம் நடந்த,-நடக்கின்ற காரணமும், இதுவேயாம். திருமூலரின் கூற்று வெளிப்பட்டாலன்றி, உலகம் உய்ய வழியில்லை. உருவ வழிபாட்டை நீக்கினாலன்றிச் சித்தியடைய முடியாது. இல்லறத்துன்பத்தையும் வெல்ல முடியாது.இதை நான் கூறவில்லை. தமிழ் வேதம் கூறுகிறது.

இறைவனை எங்கு காண்பது என்பதற்கு, சித்தர் பாடல்களில் இருந்து மாதிரிக்கு ஒன்று மட்டும் காட்டுகிறேன்.

கோவிலாவ தேதடா குளங்களாவ தேதடா

கோவிலும் குளங்களும் கும்பிடும் குலாமரே

கோவிலும் மனத்துளே குளங்களும் மனத்துளே

ஆவதும் அழிவதும் இல்லையில்லை இல்லையே.

அடுத்தபடியாக கயவர்களால் மறைக்கப்பட்ட திருமந்திரத்தில் இருந்து-

பதிபல வாயது பண்டிவ் வுலகம்

விதிபல செய்தொன்று மெய்ம்மை உணரார்

துதிபல தோத்திரம் சொல்ல வல்லாரும்

மதியிலர் நெஞ்சினுள் வாடுகின் றாரே.

மற்றுமோர் மந்திரம்

வாழ்த்தவல் லார்மனத் துள்ளுறு சோதியைத்

தீர்த்தனை அங்கே திளைக்கின்ற தேவனை

ஏத்தியும் எம்பெரு மானென் றிறைஞ்சியும்

ஆத்தஞ்செய் தீசன் அருள்பெற லாமே

கற்றிருந்தும் சிந்திக்க வலிமையற்றோர், சிந்திக்கத்தொடங்குவீர்களா?

Tamil entertainment across globe

2009-02-15T04:24:00-07:00

I am surprised about how new Tamil tv channels are growing out across the globe....For Example

In Singapore - Vasantham TV Singapore

In Dubai - Sangamam TV

For a full list, check out

List_of_Tamil_language_television_channels

It would be great, If you could update the list :)

Lessons from the toddler on Faithfulness Vs Honesty !

2008-03-19T23:44:00-07:00

Self learnt scrap !Whether be it a corporate or family, only faithfulness wins but honesty pays for the whole.

For example, open source can be compared to honesty Vs commercial products can be to faithfulness.

You need support (i.e. network, faithful, loyal) ! that brings you raw money, Commercial products / service goes by faithfulness,

So, what exactly is faithfulness, dictionaries can tell it means loyalty.

Other names for faithfulness :

1)Chicken
2)சோப்பு போடுறன் (Soap poduran)
3)காக்கா பிடிக்குறான்
4)ஜால்ரா போடுறன் / அடிக்கிறாங்க
5)ஒத்து உதூரன்
6)Talking sweet , soft, smart

So, is faithfulness wrong ? Honesty would say so !

So, What is honesty ? Honesty is presenting truth even if it hurts.

Honesty will benefit everyone. Honesty is for everyone where is faithfulness is for self !

The top and the bottom creams are honest when compared to the in-betweens.

Faithfulness can multiply your profits and divide your happiness.

Honesty can multiply your happiness and divide your profits.

So, which is good ?

The Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence !

You cant get money and happiness completely !

timesheet for dotproject

2008-03-19T22:32:00-07:00

timesheet4dp project management software releasedI have been using dotproject for sometime now, and felt the need of timesheet plugin.

In case if you are looking for the same, here you go..

http://timesheet4dp.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/timesheet4dp

You need dotProject to use this timesheet application http://www.dotproject.net

Tamil Anthem by Manonmaniam Sundaram Pillai

2008-01-28T06:21:00-07:00

I was searching for the audio / mp3 of Tamil Anthem for a long time and found out...! If you guys are looking out for this, here you go....தமிழ் தாய் வாழ்த்து, மனோன்மணீயம் பெ. சுந்தரம் பிள்ளை

நீராடும் கடல் உடுத்த நில மடந்தைக் கெழிலொழுகும்
சீராரும் வதனமென திகழ் பரத கண்டமிதில்
தெக்கணமும் அதிற் சிறந்த திராவிட நல் திருநாடும்
தக்க சிறு பிறை நுதலும் தரித்த நறும் திலகமுமே!
அத் திலக வாசனை போல் அனைத்துலகும் இன்பமுற,
எத் திசையும் புகழ் மணக்க இருந்த பெரும் தமிழணங்கே! தமிழணங்கே!
நின் சீரிளமைத் திறம் வியந்து செயல் மறந்து வாழ்த்துதுமே! வாழ்த்துதுமே! வாழ்த்துதுமே!

You can download the audio at http://www.qsl.net/vu2sdu/tamil1.html

tags - Niraarum Kadal Kudutha, Neerarum Kadaludutha, udutha, தேசிய கீதம்

School Pledge

2007-08-29T09:16:00-07:00

Here is what most of the Indian school pledge look like !India is my country.

All Indians are my brothers and sisters.
I love my country, and I am proud of its rich and varied heritage.
I shall always strive to be worthy of it.
I shall give my parents, teachers and all elders respect and treat everyone with courtesy.
To my country and my people, I pledge my devotion.
In their well being and prosperity alone lies my happiness.

Jai Hind!

If you get a tamil version - do let me know :)

My Home page

2004-10-23T01:08:00-07:00

Muthu Veerappan Home page

http://www.periyakaruppan.com

Testing Tool

2004-04-15T01:32:00-07:00

Test Director 8.0

Global Test Management
http://www.mercuryinteractive.com/products/testdirector/

My Bookmarks / Favourites web destination

2004-01-30T21:25:00-07:00

Below are the few Links that i found to be interesting. Let me share it with you.

Music - http://www.musicalnirvana.com
Internet Sacred Text Archive - http://www.sacred-texts.com
Geek - http://www.geek.com
Network World Fusion - http://nwfusion.com
NewsForge - http://www.newsforge.com
Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/popsci
Indian Tech Samachar - http://www.samachar.com/tech
MIT Technology Review - http://www.techreview.com
Webmonkey Web Developer's Resource - http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey
Wired Magazine - http://www.wired.com/wired/current.html
ZDNetIndia - http://www.zdnetindia.com/
TechWeb - http://www.techweb.com
Color Match - http://www.colormatch.dk & http://color.twysted.net/
OpenBERG - http://openberg.sourceforge.net
Gutenberg - http://www.gutenberg.net
DinaKaran - http://www.dinakaran.com
DinaMalar - http://www.dinamalar.com
DinaMani - http://www.dinamani.com
DailyThanthi - http://www.dailythanthi.com