For your Friday Night 🕺💃
Here's a glimpse of what we call...
'The Raaja Trance' 💥💥
Your weekend is gonna get better !
#Muthumani music video from 12 pm tomorrow, Aug 29th.
Maestro @ilaiyaraaja sir ��🔥
#RaajaTrance
#Dorothy
A pizza spot got prank called for an $300 order, leaving them with 18 pizzas and no one to pick them up. Instead of getting mad, they donated all of it to a local hospital
Some of the best responses to getting scammed just involve turning it into something good instead 🥹
At 3:20 AM in India, history has been written. Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is the Champion of Grand Chess Tour 2026 - and he is the first Indian player to do so! Pragg defeated Fabiano Caruana 15-13 in the Grand Chess Tour Finals at USA.
Praggnanandhaa's name should be synonymous with perseverence at this point. Its been close to a month since Pragg has been playing at the Saint Louis Chess Club in USA - first winning the Saint Louis Rapid and Blitz, then finishing 2nd at the Sinquefield, and now winning the GCT finals to win Grand Chess Tour 2026!
The road to the Championship was certainly not easy. Pragg lost the first classical game, and drew the second one - he had to cover a 6 point deficit. And he did - he won both the Rapid games to take back the lead, and kept his nerve in the Blitz. A draw in the final game was enough, and thats what Pragg did to secure the Grand Chess Tour title.
A huge congratulations to Praggnanandhaa, his team and his family for this incredible achievement - Pragg takes home USD 200,000!
Graphic: Anmol Bhargav
#chess #chessbaseindia #praggnanandhaa #grandchesstour
🏆 PRAGGNANANDHAA IS THE 2026 GRAND CHESS TOUR CHAMPION! 🏆♟️
Congratulations to Praggnanandhaa on winning his first-ever Grand Chess Tour title! 🎉
Pragg defeats Fabiano Caruana in a thrilling final match to cap off an incredible season and claim the GCT crown for the first time in his career! 👑
What a comeback, what a fight, and what a way to become champion!
#grandchesstour #Praggnanandhaa
These visuals from the floods in Rasuwa, Nepal are absolutely horrific. The scale of the destruction looks unreal, almost like a scene from a disaster movie.The entire Himalayan belt needs to seriously work on better early warning systems for such flash floods. Prayers for everyone affected. 🙏
His father is a truck driver. He failed every subject in college. He then launched India's first reusable hybrid rocket and built a company now valued at ₹800 crore.
Here is how it happened.
Anand Megalingam grew up in Tamil Nadu, walking six kilometres to school every day. When he joined college to study Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he failed every single subject in his first semester. Every single one.
His love of sports saved him. It earned him a seat at a private college where, almost by accident, he enrolled in Aeronautical Engineering. The subject took over his life. He competed. He won. And when he had enough prizes and enough conviction, he founded Space Zone India in December 2021.
Before he built a rocket, he did one more thing. He made his father a co-founder and 50% stakeholder of the company.
"My dad has been there from the beginning, supporting me through every challenge," he said.
Work on RHUMI-1 began in January 2023. Tight deadlines. Limited funding. The first prototypes did not work. Regulatory hurdles piled up. The team triple-checked everything until the last minute.
On August 24, 2024, at the coastal village of Thiruvidandhai in Tamil Nadu, Anand pressed the ignition button.
Nothing happened for four seconds.
"These four seconds were probably the longest four seconds of my life," he said. "I remember that the entire year, my team, the government, and everyone's hopes flashed before my eyes."
Then RHUMI-1 lifted off. India's first reusable hybrid rocket, powered by a combination of solid fuel and liquid oxidizer, rose from a mobile launch pad, reaching suborbital space and carrying three cube satellites and 50 PICO satellites for atmospheric climate research.
The boy who once failed every subject launched India's first reusable rocket from a beach in Tamil Nadu.
And his father's name is on the company. That was Anand's first decision; Before the rocket, before the launch and before any of it.
இசைஞானி இளையராஜா கொடுத்த "கல்யாண விருந்து" பாடலை ஒரு பக்கம் கொண்டாடிக்கக் கொண்டிருக்க, அதற்கு ��ேர்மாறாக இதுக்கு முன்னமே எவ்வளவு நல்லது கொடுத்திருக்கிறாரே என்ற விமர்சனங்கள் வரத் தொடங்கி இருக்கின்றன.
சமூக வலைத்தளத்தில் எனக்கு
70களை மட்டும் ரசிக்கும் ராஜா வெறியர்கள்,
80களே போதும் என்று கொண்டாடும் ராஜா ரசிகர்,
90களில் ராஜா கொடுத்ததை விடவா இன்னும் சிறப்பு வேண்டும் என்று அலசி ஆராயும் ரசிகர்,
ஏன் 2000 களில் என்னவெல்லாம் செய்திருக்கிறார் என்று யூடியூபில் ஆதாரம் சேகரிக்கும் ரசிகர்
என்றெல்லாம் அந்தந்தக் காலத்தைக் கொண்டாடும் ரசிகர்கள் இருக்கிறார்கள்.
"கல்யாண விருந்து" பாடலைக் கொண்டாடக் காரணம், புதுமை அல்ல, இளையராஜாவின் அடிநாதமாக இருக்கும் அந்த வடிவத்தை அவர் மீளக் கொண்டு வந்து காட்டியது தான். அதிலும் இன்னும் கவனிக்கவேண்டியதை நானும் சுட்டியிருந்தேன்.
இன்று சக்கு சக்கு பக்கு பக்கு என்று கொடுக்கும் இசை மாந்தர்களுக்கு மத்தியில் ராஜாவால் மீண்டும் தன் பாணியில் ��ரு மாயாஜாலம் நிகழ்த்த முடியும் என்பதற்காகவே கொண்டாடுகிறோம்.