Day: March 1, 2024

Kovai’s Enterprising Entrepreneurs

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In the second part of ‘Kovai’s Enterprising Entrepreneurs’, Surya Harish elicits interesting info from Tamarai’s creative head and founder Swaroopa Muthusivan in a tete-a-tete on how she developed a passion for fashion designing thereby making it a profession. The interface details about her transition from fashion show to fashion designing. Tete-A-Tete With Swaroopa, The Creative Mind Behind Tamarai When and where did your passion for designing begin? Even as a child, I used to love nature and would spend hours admiring the beauty. This was fundamental in my growing interest…

Learn To Live A New Normal Lifestyle

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The perspective of life has changed drastically in the last few months for the entire world. The human thought of predicting the universe has given a tough time to researchers, scientists and astrologers. Things were way beyond our imagination and control. The days and nights seem to be the same. We are no different from any other living beings. Learned the new words pandemic, coronavirus or COVID19. Suddenly, the common man has become an expert in speaking about the virus, its virulence and the lethal effect on humans. Basic hygiene…

Tales From The Wild: Forests Were Home For V A Muthumanickkam

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“We are a forest civilization, an aaranyakshada. Our Upanishads, our vedas came out of the forests, out of the banks of rivers, the mountains. Unlike the Greeks, an urban based civilization, or the Islamic civilization, a desert based one, ours was a forest civilization. Our sages lived in the forests and that is why the Vedas are full of hymns to the trees, the forests, to all creatures. There is a 63 verse hymn in the Atharva Veda, which must go back at least 4000 years and represents one of…

Perur, The Heritage Village With A Hoary Past

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The Kongu country in the Coimbatore region is known for its hardy and creative people. Lack of sufficient rainfall and the nature of the soil have made people seek fresh methods. The forest soil, red soil and black cotton soil offer enormous diversity. Migratory birds, the sweet waters of the Noyyal were home to a River Noyyal Civilization. Perur is a village on the banks of River Noyyal and its Padithurai is really famous. The temples, choultries and mutts at Perur make it unique. Kachiappa Munivar wrote the Perur Puranam…