O Domine, miserere nobis

Father abuses daughter for 24 years
What more horrors will this world face in the years to come?

Sad state of affairs

Students commiting suicide
News like the one above makes me very, very sad. Committing suicide in fear of exams? What must have driven those young minds to take such terrible, desperate steps? What kind of stress those kids must have been going through before coming to such a disastrous decision? And here we are, complaining about [...]

Need to get attention?

What a waste of resources and time!
So now that the government has decreed that the pongal day that begins the month of “Thai” will be celebrated as the Tamil New Year, everyone will start doing so? Hardly!!
Only the “Kalaignar TV” channel’s news reporters will be able to find such celebrations. How? Anywhere people celebrate pongal, [...]

Oneness… yeah right!

I don’t read tamil magazines a lot, but for the last couple of months I keep seeing in them advertisements endorsing what I believe to be the most dubious, nonsensical and probably the least appealing ‘divine couple’. Nicknamed as “Amma Bhagavan” , the male half has been around for a longer time in the name [...]

The 600 crore Shakti Amma

I have absolutely zero tolerance for the new age gurus who claim themselves and/or everybody to be God. Thirty-one year old Mr. Shakti Amma seems to be the latest addition to the list.
Claiming himself to be an ‘avatar’ (divine incarnation) of the ‘Narayani’ aspect, he has built a Rs.600 crore ($153 million) temple for Mahalakshmi [...]

Obnoxiously obsessed

I don’t usually watch much of the regional cable channels (thanks to Discovery, NatGeo, HBO, CNN etc…), but while browsing through the channels yesterday evening, the “Makkal” TV caught my attention. There was this guy singing in a voice that would rival any bulldozer and his troupe was playing some really horrible music, if I [...]

Its official!

Deve Gowda pulls the plug on BJP
Deve Gowda has proved himself to be a politician who has given in to nepotism. So, he and his family can now join the elite club with so many veteran (read: shameless) ‘political families’.
Oh and shame on the BJP too, for falling in to this  crap. Its strange how [...]

Indian Politics’ Hall of shame

Deve Gowda has BJP on Tenterhooks in Karnataka

Politicians cause nuisance

“You should not let these men (politician) to come out”

Call it judicial activism or whatever… its extremely nice to see remarks like the one made by the Honorable Judge in the above link.
Problem is, or rather the fact is, our VIPs are mostly pachyderms who will never feel shamed by such comments. Want proof of [...]