The Great Hunt has begun. Any hope?

Oookey… its official then. The great hunt has begun.
I am not talking about the Robert Jordan book. Me talks about the hunt for the person who will have to suffer me for the rest of her life. (Take a joke, ok?) But guess what the trouble is!!!? There are hardly any girls who fall within [...]

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 [...]

I hate SMS!

It might seem ironical.
But I really, really am beginning to hate SMS. Don’t get me wrong. I love the utility part… where in if you don’t want to speak to someone, you can just use a template and shoot a message.
What I do hate about SMS is the fact that people begin to replace a [...]

Few things I would like to do…

Enforce a rule saying all new bore-wells should be dug bottom-up… not top down. Too many children make it to the news because of such things!!
Decree that any school that does not enough space to park at least 500 cars in their grounds should be shifted out of city limits.
Convince the city corporation to gather [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Road trip

So, after a very long time, we decided to take our Santro and hit the road for a 200KM drive to a temple town. I have traveled that particular highway several times before 2003 but I was pleasantly surprised by the 4-lane roads, which were in excellent condition. It was completely divided by a median [...]

Shut your horn!

I have been thinking… may be I should make out a poster that reads “Only fools blow their horn at a traffic signal” and put it on the rear window of my car.
Nothing… and I mean Nothing… irritates me more than an idiot blaring his/her vehicle’s horn when waiting for a traffic signal to turn [...]

Statues causing trouble

Ambedkar statue defiled. Tensions grip Bhopal
Hey, I have something to say to all those people who get angry because of their favorite leaders’ statue (not just Ambedkar’s) being defiled.
Please gather funds and build a watch tower near each statue. Appoint a watchman, a hunter with a gun and an umbrella holder. The watchman will be [...]

Indian cricket… but whose money?

I am no hardcore fan of cricket. I do not follow any match schedules, I don’t sit glued to the TV every time a match is on. But I do like to see the Indian cricket team win, now and then.
So, India won the twenty20. Great! Wonderful! It sure should feel good to win the [...]

Learning to live?

People are attracted towards yoga programs and self-proclaimed spiritual retreats for several reasons. For many, its a just a matter of faith. For some its the “feel good” and “brand” factors. But for a very few people, it has to be a matter of the credible aspect of truths about life that a particular person [...]

iProtest

http://www.indianexpress.com/story/220763.html
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200709242238.htm
For whatever its worth…
I strongly protest against this bandh that has been called for by the ruling party and its cronies in TamilNadu on Oct 01, 2007.
To me, this simply looks as an arrogant stunt to divert attention of people away from comments made by MK on Rama and the violence that ensued. And [...]

Tamil obsessed…

Tamil world, Tamilian esteem, Tamilian values… a language has become the campaigning slogan for many ‘dravidian’ parties in this state. Sure, I like tamil for its depth and antiquity… but, I can never understand how some of the tamil ‘leaders’ think that propagating tamil would add boost to people’s esteem or value to someone’s life.
It [...]

Reservation and self respect, social justice… whatever that means

The wordings used by the Supreme Court in slapping a stay on the reservation for OBCs are pretty strong. And they are right… it happens only in India… that communities line-up for being labeled as “backward”. So much for self-respect and sense of identity!
India’s hall of shame… the likes of V.P Singh, Arjun Singh, Ramadoss, [...]

Cricket fever… cured?

I am just amazed at how people can be so… so… emotional about this stupid game. The funnier part is they bring in patriotism to justify all the craze.
So the Team from India lost the game. Boohoo! Your lives are going to end! You have to walk with your head down in shame ! You [...]

Stupidity and Fame

I sometimes wonder why some people can be so famous as an intellectual and yet can be so stupid. I guess becoming famous makes them want to cling on to it no matter what, even if it means simply ceasing to think.
Mr. M. Karunanidhi is one. “Free color TVs for poor households”. Stupid. Enough said.

Office of profit bill… a disgrace!

The seemingly pointed and speedy execution of the process to send the “Office of Profit Bill” again to the President’s assent has clearly shown that this spineless ‘Congress et al’ government has nothing more than its own political interests as its priority.Instead of coming up with a comprehensive solution as suggested by Dr. Kalam, the [...]

Shut your horn!

If there is one thing I absolutely hate about living in the middle of Chennai… it has to be the incessant honking from the vehicles on the roads. Starts early morning… goes on and on till night.Its driving me crazy!