Two-friends

Two-friends:

"Good Morning Class, Today we have a new student among us, her name is Samyuktha” announced the class teacher “Samyuktha come here, introduce yourself to the class”

Samyuktha a 12 year old girl, with fair complexion skin and a neatly pleated hair on either side of her head was sitting in the one corner of the class. She slowly got up from her seat. Each one of the student in class started staring at her. With all those stares, new faces, new city, new school, she was scared to death. She moved slowly to where her teacher was standing and faced the class with lowered head as if it were a punishment.

“Samyuktha introduce yourself to class. Why are you lowering your head? Stand straight up. Don’t waste the time of the class” said teacher somewhat sternly.

“My name is Samyuktha..I..I…I know no English much..i..i..” said samyuktha with a very feeble voice.The whole class started giggling and started hush-hushing comments on Samyuktha. The teacher asked Samyuktha to go back to her seat hearing the commotion in the class and asked the class to be quite. Samyuktha almost had tears in her eyes. She was lost in her own world for the rest of the class.

During Interval she sat alone at her desk, looking at her book but not looking at the words but thinking about the world she left back in her small town, Varanasi. “Hi” said a voice. Samyuktha looked up to see a girl standing there. She was slightly dark complexioned, with a smiling face, and had hair exactly like Samyuktha’s.

“I am Prachi, your classmate. Why are you not having lunch?” said prachi.

Ponniyin Selvan PDF

 பொன்னியின் செல்வன் 

Ponniyin Selvan is a famous 2400 page 20th-century Tamil historical novel written by Kalki Krishnamurthy. Written in 5 volumes, this narrates the story of Arulmozhivarman (later crowned as Rajaraja Chola – one of the Greatest Kings in Tamil history who ruled in the 10th – 11th century AD).
Ponniyin Selvan is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written in Tamil. It deals with the fortunes of the Chola empire during the 10th century. It was serialised in the Tamil periodical Kalki. The serialisation went on for three and a half years and every week its publication was awaited with great interest.
This novel was first published, as chapters in the Tamil weekly Kalki for about 3.5 years during the 1950s. Considering the huge popularity of the book and the author this novel was Nationalized by the Government of Tamil Nadu.

பொன்னியின் செல்வன்

பொன்னியின் செல்வன், கல்கி எழுதிய புகழ் பெற்ற தமிழ் புதினமாகும். 1950 - 1955 ஆண்டு வரை கல்கி வார இதழில் தொடர்கதையாக வெளியிடப்பட்டது. இப் புதினத்துக்குக் கிடைத்த மக்கள் ஆதரவு காரணமாகத் தொடர்ந்தும் பல்வேறு காலகட்டங்களில் இதே புதினத்தைக் கல்கி இதழ் தொடராக வெளியிட்டது. தவிர தனி நூலாகவும் வெளியிடப்பட்டுப் பல பதிப்புக்களைக் கண்டுள்ளது. கி.பி. 1000 ஆம் ஆண்டு வாக்கில் இருந்த சோழப் பேரரசை அடிப்படையாகக் கொண்டு இந்த வரலாற்றுப் புதினம் எழுதப்பட்டிருக்கிறது. பொன்னியின் செல்வன், பல்வேறு நாடகக் குழுக்களால் நாடகமாகவும் அரங்கேற்றப்பட்டுள்ளது.
இப் புதினம், புது வெள்ளம், சுழல்காற்று, கொலைவாள், மணிமகுடம், தியாக சிகரம் என 5 பாகங்களாகப் பிரிக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது. மொத்தமாக 300க்கு மேற்பட்ட அத்தியாயங்களைக் கொண்டது.

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The 'myth' about Sachin ton and India losing

The 'myth' about Sachin's ton and India losing

Sachin Tendulkar gets to yet another century but India end up on the losing side - How many times have we seen that? Even in this World Cup, the batting legend went past 100 on two occasions but neither facilitated an Indian win. However, it is not the fault of the great cricketer that India ended up on the losing side yet again.

While there would be the Tendulkar bashers and critics who say that India lose a match whenever Sachin scores a century, the statistics prove otherwise. Of the 48 ODI centuries that Tendulkar has scored so far, only 13 such three-figure scores have ended up in a losing cause for India, while in 33 matches, where the batting maestro has gone past 100, India have emerged victors. One match against England in July 2002 saw a Sachin ton yield no result while the recently concluded match against the same side resulted in a tied game.

Here's a look at Sachin's ODI hundreds in losing causes:

Runs	4s	6s	Strike Rate	Innings	Against	Venue	Date
137	8	5	100.00	1	Sri Lanka	Delhi	2-Mar-96
100	9	1	90.09	1	Pakistan	Singapore	5-Apr-96
110	5	1	79.71	1	Sri Lanka	Colombo	28-Aug-96
143	9	5	109.16	2	Australia	Sharjah	22-Apr-98
101	3	1	72.14	1	Sri Lanka	Sharjah	20-Oct-00
146	15	2	95.42	1	Zimbabwe	Jodhpur	8-Dec-00
101	9	0	78.29	1	South Africa	Johannesburg	5-Oct-01
141	17	1	104.44	2	Pakistan	Rawalpindi	16-Mar-04
123	12	2	94.61	1	Pakistan	Ahmedabad	12-Apr-05
100	10	1	88.49	1	Pakistan	Peshawar	6-Feb-06
141*	13	5	95.27	1	West Indies	Kuala Lumpur	14-Sep-06
175	19	4	124.11	2	Australia	Hyderabad	5-Nov-09
111	8	3	109.90	1	South Africa	Nagpur	12-Mar-11

Now that the statistics prove Sachin's hundreds have yielded more wins than losses for India, let us see what the maestro has done for India's cause when he has gone past 50 but not a ton. 

 

Out of the 93 times Sachin Tendulkar has scored a fifty, India have secured 56 wins while ending up on the losing side 35 times. Two games yielded no results. Digging deeper, India has won 28 times whenever Sachin has scored between 70 to 99.

The next question that will come up on peoples' minds is "Who has scored the maximum number of tons in winning causes for their respective teams?" Once again, Tendulkar's critics will have their mouths tightly shut because the master tops the chart with most number of tons resulting in a team's win. He also has stayed unbeaten the most number of times while leading a team's win.  

Here is the list:

Player	Country	Hundreds	Not-outs	Highest
Sachin Tendulkar	India	33	13	200*
Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	24	5	189
Ricky Ponting	Australia	25	8	145
Sourav Ganguly	India	18	10	183
Brian Lara	West Indies	16	3	169
Adam Gilchrist	Australia	16	1	172
Desmond Haynes	West Indies	16	10	152*
Saeed Anwar	Pakistan	16	6	194
Mark Waugh	Australia	15	4	173
Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	15	1	175

To add to all these, Sachin Tendulkar has the most number of 'Man of the Match' and 'Man of the series' awards than any other cricketer in ODIs - evidence to the fact that Tendulkar is a major contributor in Indian wins.

To conclude, Sachin's contribution to the game and to India, regardless of what people say, is undoubted and he has more often than not provided joy than agony to the cricket fan. The South Africa match was another instance of the legend putting up his hand and giving his all to the team while the others failed, but can Tendulkar be blamed for his teammates not performing?