1. Royal century.
Rama Varma Kochaniyan Thampuran of the Kochi royal family is celebrating his 100th birthday today. The connected ceremonies were conducted with elan. What makes it more meaningful is that his wife is also an active participant in the celebrations. It's an example of them having led a good life as the couple remain active even now, on their turf.
Here's me wishing the centurion many happy returns and all that he wishes for! Further, it's a tribute to the simple and clean lifestyle that he's followed.
My take.
A point that needs to be taken by all of us to ensure that one's faculties are intact till death to avoid the requirement of a nurse or prolonged palliative care!
2. A lifetime treat from Venus.
It was a treat for all the celestial enthusiasts to watch the movement of the planet Venus past the Sun today. It happens once in a lifetime of a human being as the frequency of the celestial happening is once in 105 years. The thought that you'll not be seeing it ever again is intriguing just as what life's all about and reiterates the fact that one's too small in the universe's scheme of things!
It must be understood that it was from this phenomenon that Johann Kepler had calculated the interplanetary distances and the distance between the sun and the earth accurately!
Seeing Venus as a small dot on the Sun reminded me of the 'bindi' on a girl's forehead. For, us Malayalees, the celestial feast, however, was of a short duration thanks to the dense cloud packs of the monsoon.
Rama Varma Kochaniyan Thampuran of the Kochi royal family is celebrating his 100th birthday today. The connected ceremonies were conducted with elan. What makes it more meaningful is that his wife is also an active participant in the celebrations. It's an example of them having led a good life as the couple remain active even now, on their turf.
Here's me wishing the centurion many happy returns and all that he wishes for! Further, it's a tribute to the simple and clean lifestyle that he's followed.
My take.
A point that needs to be taken by all of us to ensure that one's faculties are intact till death to avoid the requirement of a nurse or prolonged palliative care!
2. A lifetime treat from Venus.
It was a treat for all the celestial enthusiasts to watch the movement of the planet Venus past the Sun today. It happens once in a lifetime of a human being as the frequency of the celestial happening is once in 105 years. The thought that you'll not be seeing it ever again is intriguing just as what life's all about and reiterates the fact that one's too small in the universe's scheme of things!
It must be understood that it was from this phenomenon that Johann Kepler had calculated the interplanetary distances and the distance between the sun and the earth accurately!
Seeing Venus as a small dot on the Sun reminded me of the 'bindi' on a girl's forehead. For, us Malayalees, the celestial feast, however, was of a short duration thanks to the dense cloud packs of the monsoon.
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