Babbling Brooks

The year 2014 was a great year, marked by several milestones in our personal and professional lives. For the very first time, we joined a Toronto based Tamil forum, to celebrate Pongal Celebration this year and as our friends supported and encouraged, Unni Maya performed `Karagattam  - a Tamil folk dance form with a group of kids. This was very first stage dance performance (serious one). The winter this time was one of it’s kind. Not just since we immigrated to Canada but since the past 35 years reports say this this winter was the worst ever since. We experienced bone-chilling temperatures upto -45deg C and also witnessed a rare occurrence (so far) called an Ice rain. It left many parts of the GTA powerless and we had power gone for a day. It brought several trees down and costed the City and all the GTA municipalities millions of dollars to restore normalcy. As temperatures, dipped below -20Deg C in the nights, we experienced another phenomenon called  C ryo...

This is an Autobiography  by one of the India`s most celebrated scientists and leaders, who has a tremendous following across all different age groups especially India`s youngsters. It may lack the literary flamboyance   of   an eminent author; it may not meet the standards   that a literary critic would weigh in on , but it leaves you glued to the life   of  a boat owner’s son, his passion towards rocketry, science , his career struggle through the red-tape clad ladders   of   the Indian Bureaucracy which aligns itself with the journey   of   India's technology advancement and self-reliance in the field of Rocketry and nuclear defence capabilities. It draws you into an aura of amazement and wonder when you read through the indescribable sense   of   accomplishment at the peak period   of   Mr. Kalam’s life and sometime make you feel that they are your(reader’s) accomplishments and that`s the indisputable success fa...