Perceptions by Gokul Rajagopal

Hello Readers! I extend my warm greeting to every one of you. After a short lull, I am delighted to connect with you all through this Blog - The Shola Bungalow . If you haven't gone through the other blogs of mine, you can swiftly have a glance by clicking the link . "Covid" "Corona" "Sanitizer" "Pandemic" "Quarantine" "New Normal" "Social Distancing"

Every life, born in this Motherland fulfills some cycle knowingly or unknowingly. Let me dig out some of your schooling memories. Everyone of us would have come across Ecosystems and bio-diversity in our syllabus. If you observe keenly, every action happens unknowingly, but for a reason. Image Source: Freepik Similarly, in our day to day life we do many things and activities unknowingly. Those activities benefited few living beings. Imagine the benefits that you have contributed unknowingly for so long years. Kudos to everyone. Tap on your back and be proud of yourself. * What if you get a chance to help someone or fulfill some cycle knowingly? * What if you get a chance to bring a tremendous change in the life of a person? Image Source: Freepik Sounds interesting right. Let me share you one such interesting activity. By any chance if you feel interesting or you feel like being part of this good cause, then click on the below link and register yourself. Yesabled

Bonjour Quarantine , Boredom & Corona - These are the most hatred word among plenty of us in the recent days. This Quarantine changed the mindset of every common person from  " I want leave !" " I badly need a break !" " I should enjoy my holiday " to " Allow me to do my work from my office " " Reopen schools & colleges shortly " " I want to go out " " I want to eat outside " and lots more. To that extend, Quarantine has created boredom in everyone's day to day life. To kill this boredom, people do plenty of things and try to keep them engaged. This article picks the Top 5 activities that most Indians did during the months of April & May (the Covid-19 quarantine period) . This article also speaks about the Top issues during Quarantine with a note that every coin has two sides. (The article is not intended to promote anything, any product or service or mislead anyone or comment on anyone

Bonjour In 1870s, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay had written a poem for his novel Anandamath . The Novel was published during 1882. It was one of the leading selling Novel during that period in Bengal state. The poem was completely a religious based song that was penned to praise Mother Durga and it had more than 10 verses (stanza). " Vande Mataram " means " I Bow to Thee Mother " In 1896, Rabindra Nath Tagore used the first two verses of that poem in the Bengal Independent movement rally. He was treating the Mother Nation as equal to a Goddess. Thus the meaning of " Vande Mataram " was understood as "I Bow to Thee Motherland" instead of "I Bow to Thee Mother". " Vande Mataram " soon gained an identity among all freedom movements that was taking place in India during that time. It became an important lynchpin in the history of Indian freedom struggle. Most regional language poet's started to translate Vande Mat

Sila Manidargal - A blog to recognize, identify some of the great legends who remarkably changed the society. "Agriculture and Industry should be complemented to each other and it should be aligned to unrivaled Indian culture" Today in Sila Manidargal, we will see about Dr.Tiruppur Subrahmanya Avinashilingam Chettiar. He was a Lawyer by Profession and later, he joined the Independence Movement. He was a strong follower of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. He served as the Education Minister of TamilNadu during 1946 - 1949. During his reign, he brought in many reforms and responsible for the below notable achievements: • He was the reformer who introduced Tamil as the medium of instruction in schools • He was the legend who created encyclopedia for kids in Tamil • He was the one who nationalized Bharathiyar Poems • He was the person who mandatorily included the Thirukkural in Primary and Secondary school syllabus Avinashilingam also established few institutions to serve th

Sila Manidargal - A blog to recognize, identify some of the great legends who remarkably changed the society. Today in Sila Manidargal, we will see about Mr. Khan Sahib who was a brave and a ferocious warrior . He was born in Panaiyur in a Hindu family. He married a Christian girl and followed Islam. Due to caste based murders in his local area, he escaped to Pondicherry. Later he moved to Tanjore and joined British forces as " Sepoy " (In earlier days, Sepoy was considered as least military force) He swiftly learnt different languages, and military defense. Due to his ability and military intelligence, he was promoted as Commandant of East India Company's Sepoys. He was asked to move to Nellore and work under Mohammed Kamal. A few days later he was asked to work for Chanda Sahib as TAX Collector. In 1750s, Chanda Sahib was the ruler of Madurai and Khan Sahib was appointed as one of the TAX collector of Madurai and Tirunelveli. Khan Sahib and Chanda Sahib both t