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12 2021 | Spectrum | Volume 14 Number 9

Madurai: The City

That Never Sleeps

M KAVIN RAMNATH make this jasmine unique,
with it’s fragrance lasting for
Green fields, towering temples, 36 hours. A visit to Madurai is
rich culture and breathtakingly incomplete without digging into
delicious delicacies- Madurai, all the delicacies that it has to
the city that never sleeps, gives offer, starting with Jigarthanda,
its visitors a truly enchanting Prema vilas Halwa on a lotus
experience. The land of temples, leaf, Azhagar kovil fried dosai,
its main attraction is the world Parrotta and several other non-
famous Meenakshi Amman veg goodies. Konar mess Kari
Temple, around which the city dosai, for which people stand
was initially built in the shape of in long queues to relish is a
a lotus. Several other ravishing special mention.
temples also grace the city The Chithirai thiruvizha, that
including the Koodal Azhagar takes place during the Tamil
temple and Thiruppuramkundram.
month of Chithirai, is a grand Chithirai thiruvizha
Madurai is famous for its festival, exclusive to Madurai. It
“Malli” or jasmine flower. This celebrates the marriage ceremony marriage, departs from his temple back to his temple, without two thousand five hundred year
flower can be traced to the early of Lord Meenakshi Amman and and heads towards Meenakshi attending his sister’s marriage. old Madurai, often referred to
Sangam period, when King Pari Lord Sundareswarar, the rulers Amman temple. However, by Words can’t fully describe as Athens of the East, is one to
gave his chariot as a support of Madurai and also narrates the time he crosses the Vaigai this wonderful city. Experience, behold and bask in and should
for the jasmine climber. The the story of Kal Azhagar, who, River, the marriage ceremony is as they say, is the best teacher. be a must-visit destination for
soil and weather conditions on learning about his sister’s already over and hence, heads The beauty and sheen of the the travel-hungry.

Saying Goodbye to one of the most
influential Mangakas – Kentaro Miura

RITIK SHRIVASTAVA into a story that wasn’t afraid
of jumping into the darker and
The man behind the narrative murkier themes of graphic gore
of the painfully brutal and bleak and revelations that would make
world of the Dark Souls franchise. the readers easily uncomfortable.
The man who influenced the No authors and illustrators
twisted story of the Devil would ever fully embrace such
May Cry series and was the ideas, yet Miura made that one
very reason behind Cloud’s of the staple characteristics
ridiculously large sword from of the series, consequently
Final Fantasy 7. It’s Kentaro creating something devoid of
A silicon chip being manufactured. Miura, the creator, author, and any creative boundaries opening
Global Economy impacted by illustrator of the genre-defining up infinite possibilities. Every
manga, Berserk. Berserk, the
quiet detail in the narrative
series that brought Miura onto the
The Global Silicon Shortage scene and almost instantaneously would come together in panels
so incomprehensibly intricate
into the limelight of the manga
community started serialising in that one could be forgiven for
PRAKHAR BHARADWAJ COVID – 19 Pandemic had quickly spilled over to other 1989. Taking inspiration from thinking that it’s something
straight out of a classic adorning
already put enormous pressure industries, such as consumer classic series like Violence Jack
Semiconductors, also known on supply chains, especially for electronics and home appliances, and Fist of the North Star, Miura the walls of the Louvre. On
as microchips, are essential consumer electronics, as it forced which suddenly found themselves began crafting a meticulous tale the 6th of May, Kentaro Miura
components in every electronics people around the world to find unable to secure adequate that deeply delved into abstract succumbed to aortic dissection
product. Manufacturing a new ways to work and play. supplies to meet the increased subjects like destiny, morality, at the age of 54, leaving behind
microchip typically takes more Car manufacturers cancelled demand. Intel, the biggest chip and the fundamental reason for a legend forever incomplete and
than three months and involves chip orders after incorrectly manufacturer in the world, has humanity’s very existence. All a legacy forever expanding. Rest
giant factories, dust-free rooms, forecasting lower demand for predicted that this shortage of that was beautifully woven in peace Kentaro Miura Sensei.
multi-million-dollar machines, the rest of the year because of will last till the 4th Quarter
molten tin and lasers. The end the pandemic and lockdowns. of 2022. Due to this shortage
goal is to transform wafers of When car sales bounced back in chips, all industries will
silicon into transistors that form faster than expected in the third continue to underperform and
the basis of the circuitry that quarter last year and carmakers underproduce which will only
gives all electronics their crucial tried to ramp up production again, lead to a bigger hike in the
capabilities. While the chips chip factories could not respond prices of all electronics, cars,
themselves are resilient, made fast enough given the long computer parts and anything
to handle extreme conditions, lead times needed to schedule that uses a microchip. This will
the global semiconductor supply orders. Following the immense have a huge impact on the global
chain is relatively fragile, prone pressure put on chip manufactures economy and some economists
to disruptions from natural by the car companies, the predict that this could lead to a
and man-made shocks. The dearth of semiconductors then whole new recession.