Parangipettai – Birth Place Of Mahavatar Babaji

Parangipettai(or Port Novo) is a small village near the Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India. This village is the birth place of the highly enlightened master, Mahavatar Babaji. In Fact, great devotees of Babaji were also very unaware of this place. Yogiyar S.A.A Ramaiah, a great devotee of Babaji, tried to find the birth place and early days of Babaji. But he could never found. One day while he was traveling in car, the driver without his knowledge went the village of Parangippettai. Yogiar asked the driver to stop the car, as it was the time for meditation. During meditation, Babaji revealed his birth place and his early days. Yogiar built temple for Babaji, exactly in the place, where Babaji born.

Pollution

The human beings life is getting reduced by the increase pollution. The emission from factories, motor vehicles, and cutting down of trees has increased the pollution to great extent. The motor vehicle emits the gas, carbon monoxide which has high affinity towards the hemoglobin. This causes various breathing problems and reduces the disease resistance of the human body. Apart from this, noise pollution also holds a major part for pollution. The sound from factories and motor vehicles affects the hearing. The sound pollution can also cause mental stress. People are advised to wear mask protecting from bad gas and ear muffs to get away from noise pollution.

Stapedotomy

Stapedotomy is a surgery performed in the bone of middle ear. It is a delicate operation done to overcome the hearing loss due to conduction. This operation is performed on a tiny bone of the middle ear called staped. This bone is responsible for conducting the sounds from air drum. This bone is movable. When the bone becomes rigid, the conduction of sound is reduced and thus resulting in hearing loss. In the stapedotomy operation, the surgeon makes a small hole in the staped bone, thus ensuring good conduction of sound. This is a minor surgery and may cost around 30,000 rupees in India.

Success of Kishore Kumar

Hindi music lovers cannot live without Kishore Kumar songs. Still 23 years after his death, his songs are immortal and a person remains incomplete with out hearing Kishore kumar songs. The reason for Kishore kumar’s success is he is not a trained singer. And moreover he is a popular and successful actor too. So he was able to easily bring out the emotion and the feelings of common man, which can be enjoyed by every people, who is a layman in music too. He was the first person to prove that formal/classical music training is not necessary to sing in film songs. He was the first singer to bring yodeling style in Hindi cinema. He changed his voice according to the actor; one can hear the thin voice in “Jeevan se Bhari” singing for Rajesh Khanna and thick voice of Kishore in song “Manzile apni” for Amitabh.

Tanpura

Tanpura is the important musical instrument in Indian classical music. This is mainly an assistive instrument for singers. Almost every classical singer will have a Tanpura. This instrument helps singer to maintain the scale and pitch by taking the reference from the sound of Tanpura. The pitch is set and singer plays it by plucking the strings of the instrument. The sound of the Tanpura is very vibrative and enhances a divine feeling. Nowadays electronic Tanpura are available in the market, which has the sounds of Tanpura in different pitch. The instrument is very compact and it is very handy and can be accessed easily.

Terrific Combo

Ilayaraja-SPB is a terrific combo of Tamil music industry. They both paired to give wonderful and unforgettable Tamil songs. Many of them don’t know the fact that both Ilayaraja and SPB were great friends, before both were reaching the peak of their career. Ilayaraja was a harmonium player in SPB’s music troupe from 1970. Though SPB became popular singer during 70’s, he continued his business with his band. Then in 1977, Ilayaraja made his debut in Tamil cinema and became very busy with success. And SPB became his main singer, and then everybody knows what happened.

Unexpected Break

The great pair Gautham and Harris Jeyaraj broke and they decided not to work together anymore. This made the Tamil music fans to shock. Both Gautham and Harris made their debut in film called “Minnale” starring Madhavan and Reema sen, was an outstanding musical hit in Tamil music history. It was Gautham who spotted Harris Jeyaraj and insisted to work as music director in his film. Earlier Harris was keyboard player, playing for top musicians like A.R Rahman, Vidyasagar etc. After their debut film both worked in many movies like “Kakka Kakka”, “Vettaiyaadu Vilayadu”, “Pachai Kili Muthucharam” and “Vaaranam Aayiram”. And all these films are musical hit. After the release of their latest project, Harris jeyaraj decided not to work with Gautham anymore. The reason is still unknown. But it is great loss for fans.

Yuvraj’s Reply – Six Sixes In An Over

The game cricket gained more popularity after the invention of twenty-20 game format. The twenty-20 format gives more entertainment than other forms of cricket. And a player hitting six in all balls of an over is highly imaginable, until Yuvraj smashed six sixes in an over, in the inaugural world twenty-20 held in South Africa in the year 2007. It is said that Flintoff’s words which heated Yuvraj Singh to thrash six sixes. Yuvraj singh flied the ball in all the directions of the ground and the bowler was helpless.

Michigan

Michigan is a state in the United States situated in the Midwest part of the country. Lansing is the capital of the state and Detroit is the largest city in the state. English is the official language spoken in this state. It is the eleventh largest states in the US with total area of 97,990 square miles. It is the eight largest populated state with population of 10,071,822. It was the twenty sixth state admitted to the union on January 26, 1837.

Minnesota

Minnesota is a state in the United States situated in the Midwest part of the country. Saint Paul is the capital of the state and Minneapolis is the largest city in the state. English is the official language spoken in this state. It is the twelfth largest states in the US with total area of 87,017 square miles. It is the twenty first largest populated state with population of 5,197,621. It was the thirty second state admitted to the union on May 11, 1858.