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The book was first published by The Vyjayanti Press, Egmore, Madras in 1897 under the title From Colombo to Almora. [6] The introductory note of the book was written by Henrietta Muller, a friend and disciple of Vivekananda. [7] Subsequent editions included lectures by Swami Vivekananda at Sialkot, Lahore, Khetri and Dhaka. [citation needed]
Conjunctivitis, also known as pink eye or Madras eye, [4] [5] is inflammation of the conjunctiva and the inner surface of the eyelid. [6] It makes the eye appear pink or reddish. [1] Pain, burning, scratchiness, or itchiness may occur. [1] The affected eye may have increased tears or be "stuck shut" in the morning. [1] Swelling of the sclera ...
According to Heffer, the book both harks back to Huxley's early satires and links to the more serious and philosophical concerns of his later novels. Formally, the novel uses a modernist stream of consciousness but based in fact, unlike the novels of Woolf , Proust and Joyce , whose narrators' memories are unreliable.
In 2004, Madras on Rainy Days received the Rona Jaffe Foundation Award in Fiction. [1] The book also was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award in 2005, [2] and was awarded the Prix Premier Roman Étranger 2005 Award in France. [3] In July 2004, the book was chosen as a best debut novel of the year by Poets & Writers magazine. The ...
The film's release also attracted rumours that the use of 3D glasses was spreading conjunctivitis, which was dubbed "Madras Eye". These rumours prompted the makers to add footage before the film began with prominent actors Prem Nazir , Amitabh Bachchan , Jeetendra , Rajinikanth , Chiranjeevi and others explaining that the glasses were ...
It was 160 pages long and priced at Rs. 10. The second edition of Madras Discovered, 286 pages long was published in 1987 followed by the third edition in 1993, 363 pages long, which was augmented by a supplement titled "Once Upon a City". The fourth edition which came in 1999 was titled Madras Rediscovered. The fifth edition which came in 2004 ...
Aravind Adiga was born in Madras (now Chennai) on 23 October 1974 to Dr. K. Madhava Adiga and Usha Adiga from Mangalore.His paternal grandfather was K. Suryanarayana Adiga, former chairman of Karnataka Bank, [6] [7] and maternal great-grandfather, U. Rama Rao, was a popular medical practitioner and Congress politician from Madras.
Pillai stressed analysis of historicity of tradition in the study of ancient Tamil history. In his 1932 book, Chronology of the Ancient Tamils, he wrote, "...venerable as the Sangam tradition in the Tamil land first put into shape by the commentator on [Iraiyanar Akapporul] and sedulously propagated by later commentators, we have to examine it closely and satisfy ourselves first about its ...