Ben's Corner #8: Royal Enfield's flagship in the offing

Recently a video surfaced on Youtube where a KTM Duke 390 rider was chasing a test bike supposed to be the upcoming Royal Enfield Continental GT 750 somewhere near Salem. While there were many such videos on the internet, this one went viral because even at speeds in the ball park of 155 Kmph, the Duke rider was not able to chase the bike on test. Not only that, at one part of the video, the gap even widened further between the two. With this video at hand, it is very clear that the test bike is capable of going past 155 Kmph.

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Tamil and African cattle belong to same bloodline

It is going to be a film with thousands of heroes but, without heroism says, filmmaker Santhosh, who has made such movie, named after the legendary bull embracing sport Jallikattu. His movie 'Jallikattu, 5 - 23rd Jan 2017' is based on the 2017 youngsters uprising at the Marina beach in Chennai. According to Santhosh, this is the single largest peaceful, non-political, leaderless movement taken forward by youngsters in the past century.

Ben's Corner #7: Fingers crossed for Fazer 250

At a time when one of the highly advanced affordable bikes, Bajaj Dominar is doing dismissal numbers in India, Yamaha's latest kid on the block FZ 25 is already on a flying start with a healthy sales of more than 2,000 units a month. Riding on its success, Yamaha is going to launch the faired version of the FZ 25 coming Monday (21 August). Christened as the Fazer 250, the spy-shots of the bike are already going rounds on the internet. So, will the Fazer strike the right chord? Let's find out.

Whether your weather, man-made?

It's not natural as we think, but an international conspiracy that is being run by the US government. There is a hypothesis that the failure of monsoon and the severe drought occurred in Tamil Nadu in 2016-17 is a man made one. All I say is one acronym, HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program), a technology developed by the USA for modifying the weather artificially. It is said that one of the stations of HAARP is located in mountain range adjacent to Tirupati that caused the drought in Tamil Nadu.

You will even hate Taramani but, won't be disappointed: Ram

With his daughter's crayon arts welcoming the visitors, the drawing hall of Director Ram's office reminds us of the memories of his Thangameenkal, that runs in our minds. Carrying those memories, Soundarya and I entered the room where Ram was waiting for us to interview him. This was one of the dream moments for me, coming true. Though I had already interviewed a lot of celebrities before, I was always having a separate list of special-personalities to meet and interact. And, Ram being one of them, it's like a check box crossed in my bucket list.

GATT opened the Gate - Could be why you lose your ration card

What started as a clash finally ended in peace. In the recent times, people of Tamil Nadu are witnessing some of the never seen before double standards taken up by the State government, especially in the case of various projects and reforms of the central government. UDAY, NEET and GST are some of the hotly contested issues in the State with the latest addition to the list, regulations on PDS joining the bandwagon.