Ooty Train

Ooty train is popularly known as 'toy train', moving across the beautiful hills, and plains, making the journey a memorable experience. Ooty's train runs at a maximum speed of 33 km. per hour, crossing 16 long and short tunnels and 250 bridges. The Queen of hill stations, Ooty is connected by rail through a narrow guage line from Mettupalayam, which is the nearest broad gauge railway station. The nearest broad gauge railway junction is Coimbatore....

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Pigeons on the roof

Early morning, Paramadayanpatti-Mangulam, 6:44 AM. Slowly the village get awakened. Mothers first task is doing the dishes as Tamil families have dinner rather late at around 20:30 evening ... too dark then. Her daughter helps to get more water from the lake. All seems so peaceful here but later on we heard the sad news hanging as a doom over the village: next door son of 30 years old was murdered a few days before ... his brother told me later the...

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V.N. Jagannathan has so far distributed over 30 lakh flags

V.N.Jagannathan, fondly called ’Kodi Thatha,’ being honoured by District Collector Neeraj Mittal in the city on Saturday. – COIMBATORE: Not a single Independence Day or Republic Day is celebrated in Coimbatore without Kodi Thatha’s flags. This year too, he did not break the tradition. On the eve of Republic Day, his paper-flags reached offices promptly. V.N. Jagannathan, fondly called ‘Kodi Thatha,’ has been continuing this patriotic gesture for...

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