Stephen Hawking has penned a thoughtful appeal for post-Brexit Britain to reconsider the role that wealth plays in society, warning that isolationism and envy could even lead to the end of the human species, Mashable reports. In a Guardian essay, the world-renowned physicist made the case for a more comprehensive and generous definition of wealth "to include knowledge, natural resources and human capacity." ... ....
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas DarlingLike the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001, almost everyone remembers where they were and how they felt when Barack Obama was elected president. Indeed, after centuries of slavery and segregation, including institutional racism and lynching, the night of Nov. 4, 2008 will forever be seared in the memory of those who voted for the first black president of the United States of America ... 153. ....
North Korea's top diplomat for U.S. affairs said Thursday that Washington "crossed the red line" and effectively declared war by putting leader Kim Jong Un on its list of sanctioned individuals, and said a vicious showdown could erupt if the U.S. and South Korea hold annual war games as planned... ....
A European spacecraft spearheading a trail-blazing search for life on Mars is on track to reach the Red Planet in October. ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), launched on March 14, has already completed more than half of its 500 million km (310.6 million mile) journey through space ... ....
The Tamil film industry has many examples of those who turned their careers as heroes around to play villains, and vice versa. Here are a few of those. Heroes who turned villains. Even MGR and Sivaji Ganesan were not averse to playing negative roles during their peak days. MGR in Ninaithathai Mudippavan (dual role) and Sivaji in Or Iravu... He played the lead role in award-winning movies such as Kizhakku Seemayilae and Anthi Mantharai....
Devotees with Rs ... to 2 a.m. on December 21. They would not be allowed to enter through Kizhakku Vasal (Vellai Gopuram) and Vadakku Vasal before the opening of the ‘Paramapadha Vaasal’, a police press release said. Regulations after Paramapadha vaasal opens ... 100 ticket wanting “Muthangi Sevai” darshan would be allowed through the barricade set up on the southern side of the “Kizhakku Vaasal” ... ....
Making a Hollywood film from India and selling it in an international market is no cakewalk. HariharanPrabhakaran, the grandson of actor MR Radha is collaborating with musician Yuvan Shankar Raja, writer Dhivya Venugopal and editor Praveen KL for a Hollywood animation film, titled Woolfell. The makers will launch the teaser soon in India ... For instance, Rahman's compositions in KizhakkuCheemayile and Indian are completely different ... ....
Comedy, they say, is either a sword or a shield. An interaction with actor Chinni Jayanth left me wondering which was the case with him. Though famous for his mimicry, he has played serious roles (Kizhakku Vasal) in many films. He has even acted in roles with negative shades ... This led us to the concept of this photo shoot ... We jumped at the idea....
COIMBATORE. Chennai-based Geetham Publications often finds it hard to convince agents from big bookshops to place their Tamil books on their shelves ... These left out books get some display only during such book fairs ... They claim that it does not sell enough," he said ... Also, Legends bookstores in Nilgiris and R S Puram and Brookefields also display our books," said, V R Ramachandran, regional manager (Coimbatore) of Kizhakku Padhpagam ... ....
By S Gopalakrishnan. CHENNAI. One of the biggest challenges for writers who specialize in "secular" topics - subjects that are knowledge-oriented and not pertaining specifically to Tamil life - is creating Tamil equivalents for technical terms ... For the word balloon he uses "uppi" - denoting the capacity to bulge ... Publisher and writer Badri Seshadri, whose Kizhakku Padhippakam has brought out many titles on history, says ... ....
By S Gopalakrishnan. CHENNAI. Through its political thrust in the field of education, decades of Dravidian rule has achieved a key demo graphic goal - and created a vast, literate population that thinks, reads and writes in Tamil... Senthilnathan, for instance, says only 5% of the market has been tapped.Badri Seshadri of Kizhakku Pathippagam says there is a dearth of writers who could do justice to the topics ... Illustration ... ....
Every time the song “Muthamizhe, Muthamizhe…,” from the movie Raman Abdullah is played, apart from the mellifluous voice of S.P ... When his own project did not take off, he joined Bharathiraja as an assistant in Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu and Kizhakku Cheemaiyile ... Poet Meera, lyricist, Arivumathi, fame, Raman Abdullah, song literary, Pudhu Nellu Pudhu Naathu, Kizhakku Cheemaiyile. ....
Salem city and other parts of the district experienced widespread sharp showers late Friday evening and in the early hours of Saturday ... All the main roads and the causeways on the Edappadi — Poolampatti road overflowed affecting the free flow of vehicles. The rainfall also submerged the fields in the surrounding villages ... About 15 sheeps were charred to death when lightening struck in Kizhakku Olaipatti village near Mecheri ... ....