The short story format originated from Europe. The Tamil world believes that the short stories in Tamil can be traced back to the seventeenth century to ‘Paramartha Kurunkathai’ a transition from the classical Tamil poetry. V.V.S. Iyer started a new trend in the 1880s giving the short stories its profound form. Pudumaipithan started the next stage of Tamil short stories and many other writers came out with brilliant stories in Tamil. Pudumaipithan, Ku.Pa. Ra and P.S.Ramaiya and their contemporaries have written many stories that is today popular format with the Tamil literary...

Catamarans have become very popular lately among people going for sailing vacations. Their biggest plus point is their size and wide berth, which makes it possible for large groups to be accommodated. Families, office staff and groups of students prefer catamarans for their sailing vacations as they offer them more space on board along with speed and stability.The word ‘catamaran’ is the Anglicization of the Tamil word ‘kattumaram’, which literally means ‘logs joined together side by side’. Tamil Nadu is a southern state of India, where this craft was originally used by fishermen and river rac...

Chennai was known as Madras formerly, and is India's fourth largest metropolitan city and also the capital city of Tamil Nadu. It is situated on the Bay of Bengal's Coromandel Coast .Chennai's population was 4.2 million in the 2001. Today it has an estimated population over 8 million. Chennai has a broad industrial base in the automobile, technology, hardware manufacturing, and healthcare industries. Its a home to many of India's automobile industry and is the second-largest software exporter, information technology, and information-technology-enabled services. It accounts for country’s...

BPO Asia is a promising outsourced contact center having deep experience in telemarketing and customer support processes for local enterprises and call centers in Malaysia. The major challenges BPO Asia was facing were linguistic and agent skills management. Malaysia being a multi-cultural and multi-linguistic society includes English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil speaking locals. In addition the agent workforce is also segmented based on their command on the language. Senior team of technology professionals at BPO Asia evaluated multiple contact center communication solutions. They were ...

Medical and engineering are passe. Todays youth are looking for new and exciting careers. One such field that is rising these days is media and mass communication. Although, journalism has always been around but with a sudden spurt in the number of news channels and newspapers, the demand for mass communication experts has increased manifold. A lot of students are looking to pursue courses in mass communication and acquire skill sets that will help them make a career in this field. Apart from journalism, advertising, modeling, acting, jockeying etc also fall under the same category and are ga...