Use the following 5 questions to guess who the personality is.

1. She was the second woman of Indian Heritage and second person of Slovenian Heritage to be selected by NASA.

2. She holds the record of the longest spaceflight (195 days) for female space travelers.

3. She was awarded the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Vishwa Pratibha Award by the World Gujarati Society, the first Non Resident Indian to be presented the award.

4. Her father Dr.Deepak Pandya...

1. The 7 walls around this temple represent 7 worlds. 7 prakarams and 7 Veedhis ( streets) are also a part of the place where this temple is located.

2. 155 acres of land and 6 miles- that s the area of the temple

3. The gopuram is the biggest one in Asian Sub-Continent. It's called Raja Gopuram.

4. Except Mathirakavi Alwar, all the other eleven Alwars have done Mangalasasanam here.

5. The temple also has hall of 1000 pillars.

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Tamil director Balachander's favourite raga is Sahana. He loves it, probably because it merges well with the serial stories and is full of emotions and feelings.

The first on the list is from Rayil Sneham
Balachander's rayil sneham
( Try this with evening chai...The experience is beaaaauuuutiful).
The title song of serial "Sahana" also is set in the same raga. It can be found here
Tamil serial songs

A Thyagarajar song set in sahana is...

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They have a daughter and a younger son, both employed and well settled with their family and kids and way busy with their lives. The new members, their son-in-law and daughter-in-law...

There was a nice thought I came across while watching Oprah's Live web event about what religion to follow. I wanted to share it here with my fellow iLites.

For ages temples, vedas, churches decide on what should an individual born in this religion should and should not do. What is right and wrong for him/her. What should he/she seek in life. What procedures they should follow in day to day life etc etc.

In modern day, with so much exposure and interaction, we come across...