Thursday, January 21, 2010

Get stuck in our youth style - Coimbatore Style - Coimbatore Youth

I was realizing today, that most of the times we get stuck to the style we know when we were youngsters. If you think about it, can you re-look at your style you have.

That is your dressing, your hair style, your mannerisms, what you like etc., Try to think about your dad. Does he follow your style? If he follows your style, then he really is young! Anyway, I am talking about most of the folks and not just the few.

I was watching a song in YouTube and it was a Punnagai Mannan's song - starring Kamal and Revathi. When I saw Revathi, her style kind of reminded one of my manager, who is around 6 years elder to me. Then, I realized - folks get stuck to the style which was enjoyed by them to the core in their college days.

Yeah - we get stuck to the style of our college times. Do you agree? Look around and find out. However, if you are following the latest trends, then you are really really young!! Be proud...:)

Coimbatore Jeweller - Thangamayil Jewellery/Jewellry going public - IPO

I am really glad to hear such news about a Coimbatore Gold Jewellery retailer.

YES!! Coimbatore based Gold Jewellery retailer, Thangamayil Jewellery is going public in market and issued IPO for almost rupees 29 crores.

It is one of the leading jewellery retailers in Coimbatore and trades in Gold Jewellery, Diamond and Platinum jewels. It has introduced the Hallmarking practice for the first time in Coimbatore.

For the year ended March 31, 2009, it has reported 10% jump in its net sales.

The price band for the issue has fixed at Rs 70-75 per equity share.

The company intends to use issue proceeds for expansion of existing business by establishing retail outlets at Tuticorin, Dindigul, Theni, Nagercoil, Tirunelveli, Kovilpatti and Sivakasi, and for renovation of the existing outlet at Coimbatore.

Considering the increase of Gold prices and profits these companies make - it is a good idea to think about these companies for investment. Disclaimer - I am NO financial adviser.

Dot Com Infoway, a Coimbatore Software Company to host TWIT-MADURAI

Dot Com Infoway, the leading software and mobile applications developer announced that it will be the Host and Technology sponsor, the Coimbatore�s first-ever �Twitter Camp� on February 21, 2010.

Dot Com Infoway, India�s leading custom software and mobile application developer headquartered in Chennai with development center in Coimbatore has announced that it will be hosting the Coimbatore�s first-ever �Twitter Camp� Titled �Twitcovai� on Sunday, February 21, 2010. The event will be organized by Galatta Media, while Dot Com Infoway will be the Host and Technology sponsor. This Twit camp is expected to attract participants from and around the Temple city and will allow the Tweeps of Coimbatore to discuss and share information using 140 characters.

Read more here...

Aimpon Jewellery/Jewelry - Five Metals - Coimbatore Jewellery

My wife bought aimpon anklet from Coimbatore last time from a Coimbatore jewellery shop when we visited Coimbatore. Aimpon was very cheap and it was around Rs.200 to Rs.300 only approximately. It was completely gold in color, but it is not actually gold. It actually looked good. But, after couple of days of use - it lost its color and it is not even like the gold covering jewelry. The anklet became completely like dark copper metal now.

I became curious and was checking out what does this metal contain. Yes, as the name says - it is Five Metals composition. Gold, Silver, Copper, Brass and Here is the description -

?????? (aimpon)

the five kinds of metals:

???? � gold
?????? � silver
?????? � copper
??????? � brass
???? � lead

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Is Coimbatore Alanganallur Jallikattu a good sport still?

As a pure Coimbatoreite and being from Tamil Nadu, I always like about this sport for its roots back to the old traditional sport. Yes - I am talking about Jallikattu sport in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India. This Jallikattu sport has been there for more than thousands of years ago.

To know offtrack about Coimbatore Jallikattu - check out Wikipedia article for Jallikattu.

There is a great collection by a tourist photographer oochappan, about whom I have written more about in a previous article. Check out his photos about Alanganallur photos for jallikattu. You will get every snapshot of it. Check out oochappan's Jallikattu coverage.

Another blog-mate has written an article about Jallikattu, which gives the blogger's experience about Jallikattu. That is true, even many average Coimbatoreite might not have seen Jallikattu in Alanganallur.

I have seen personally only once in Alanganallur inside the village. It was an awesome and scary experience. Also, my coimbatore brother has written about our experience previously.
Also, my coimbatore brother has written about our Coimbatore Pongal experience in our Coimbatore Home.

The point I am getting to is related to the video from NDTV. Media is all over being against Jallikattu and trying to stop this sport. I know this Jallikattu sport angers lot of Animal Lovers.

There are many foreigners coming to Coimbatore to view this sport. There is good revenue out of this sport to this village and to Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu and to India.

On top of all these, this is a very old tradition being continued and being practised for thousands of years. These are some of the actions which will take away the real flavour of Coimbatore. Do we want to loose the tradition of Coimbatore?

Every sport is dangerous and risky - do we stop playing those? There are even more adventurous and dangerous sports than this. Do we stop those sports? We still play those right?

I know one or two persons get killed and 30 or so people get injured. We cannot stop the sport for that. In fact, these days for getting the prize in this game has been eased out. If you hang with the bull in the bull fight, that is good enough. You don't have to completely bring down the bull.

Still it is being played in some parts of Spain and Mexico. Do they stop it? Some developed countries are still following adventurous sports and following tradition. Why do we go away from our tradition and adapt to western culture! Let us stick to our originality, we can reach top!!

Please do not stop this sport and that means you are taking away the flavor of Coimbatore and its tradition. I am thinking stopping/banning Jallikattu sport is equivalent to the fact of bringing down Coimbatore Meenakshi Temple, thinking that you can use the space in a better way in the centre of the town. Would you agree for that?

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Coimbatore as Green City, rather than Singapore

Coimbatore MP and Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers, Mr.M.K. Alagiri, had promised to turn the constituency greener in his election manifesto. On that note, here is a previous article about Greener Coimbatore.

Today, He planted 1 lakh saplings around the Mariamman Teppakulam. In this way, Mr.Azhagiri fulfills one of the election manifesto items.

In this function, he also mentioned that he would like to make Coimbatore a greener city, than promising to make it as Singapore.

This is only a coimbatore news item.

Darker businesses of Coimbatore - Coimbatore Sex

I have written an article before relating to prostitution in Coimbatore.

When I was analyzing the keywords for which Coimbatore was being searched for in internet and what is the top most search about Coimbatore - I was surprised by a fact that "coimbatore sex" was one of the important keywords around it.

There are lot of folks searching for it and trying to find about Coimbatore 'Sex' in internet. There is definitely something fishy about this fact in Coimbatore, that is why people are searching for and trying to find how they can achieve this in coimbatore.

Is still Coimbatore being famous/notorious for prostitution? Are there many agents and functionaries functioning for prostitution in Coimbatore? Are even people (tourists) looking for sex tourism or massage in Coimbatore?

This is definitely a darker side of Coimbatore, given that Coimbatore is a night city and there is lot of floating population and not to forget it is a tourist destination for even people in India (that is other parts of the country).

I know this busienss feeds lot of families, and it is ok to some extent in a society, but this should not be too much and a flourishing business.

I came to know to this fact, only by the number of people searching for this particular fact in Internet.

Overall - the affected ones are youngsters and even girls are sexually abused, due to their poverty.

I am wishing this business does not flourish and the youngsters go in right path in life, especially the girl folks!