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Vijay Narayanan on April 20th, 2009

The satellite ISRO launched into space yesterday carries a micro-satellite called ANUSAT, that was designed by Anna University, my alma mater. ANUSAT is the first satellite developed by an Indian university (Anna University), which would demonstrate the technologies related to message storing and forward operations. University sources said scores of students and faculty from different streams [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 19th, 2008

A few months ago, I had posted the links to Suryan FM’s live stream. A few readers have commented that the stream no longer works. This is true. I checked Suriyan FM’s website, and I see that their live online stream is “under process“. So it is possible that the folks at Sun Network are [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on October 14th, 2008

(Warning: Lotsa brackets, like this one.) Back in 2001-02 (ah, the good ol’ days), when the stock markets recoiled after the dotcom bust and thousands of people found themselves out of a job in Silicon Valley, thousands of miles across the face of the earth, the impact was felt in Chennai. The great Indian IT [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 21st, 2008

… is the greatest city in the world. But isn’t that as obvious as stating that paruppusili is the greatest food item ever?

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Vijay Narayanan on June 27th, 2008

It was from a friend’s status message on Google Talk (“Chennaiyil oru bhookamba kaalam”) that I came to know that Chennai had felt the aftershocks of an earthquake that rocked the Andamans. Was glad to know that there was no damage reported to either life or property. This is the fouth reported earthquake to hit [...]

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