tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70968952012-02-16T06:09:51.537-08:00My view point on the various issues in society, religion, philosophy, sports, technology and other topics. Hopeful of making a difference both in my own life and that of others.Vivek Venugopal Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01668434360101922754noreply@blogger.comBlogger1451100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7096895.post-16331344399673651662011-05-07T10:47:00.000-07:002011-05-07T10:47:30.920-07:00

Ko is a thamizh movie that is loosely based on the events in the life of a photo journalist. The star cast includes the multi talented Jiiva (formerly Jeeva), Ajmal, Pia Bajpai and a debutant Karthika (daughter of yesteryears star Radha). The direction is handled by Ayan fame K V Anand, music by Harris Jeyraj, stunts by Peter Hein. So all in all it is quite a team that has been brought together

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In the last few days there has been a big hue and cry in the country against corruption under the leadership of the Gandhian Mr. Anna Hazare. Is this something sudden or have we just woken up to this stark reality recently? No, the fight has been going on for decades with a bill called the Lokpal bill like the Ombudsman in the UK and other countries tabled about 8 times with the first time being

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The one thing that I have noticed time and again is that I yearn for simpler times and simpler expectations. Life is getting so damn complex, hectic, competitive and unforgiving. These days even the minutest of mistakes are never forgiven or people find that they can ill afford to forgive. Sometimes I see the postman or the road repair worker and I cant but help myself to want to be them. When I

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Once again it has been quite a long time since I blogged. But I think this post will make up for the long hiatus since the content of this is a documentary which links mythology with history, culture and literature to the same time period(though this seems quite obvious, it is not so) and falsification of the theory of growth of a civilization for political gains. I think you must have already

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Listen to Arai En 305il Kadavul Audio Songs at MusicMazaa.com

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Endhiran, the most awaited Thamizh movie to date, costliest movie ever made in India and yes, it lives up to its hype to a large part thanks mainly to the vision of Shankar. It is a commercial movie on the basis of Artificial Intelligence. Disclaimer - I apologize for any spoilers. They are completely unintended. Even though it is touted as a Rajnikanth movie, I see it largely as a Shankar

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Madrasapattinam, the name transports a person to the pre-independence era and the movie, true to its name, is set in the colonial times. However, this movie is not another freedom struggle story, though it is not devoid of it either. If one can believe, it is a love story set in the Empire days. You might think that I am going against my policy and revealing the story but there is nothing else to

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The title of the post might be quite misleading in making one think that this is another post on Hinduism but it is not so. In fact, this has nothing to do with religion. This is about bringing in a new life to this world. I want to dwell on 2 aspects of becoming a parent from a father's perspective 1. The actual reason for a man beget a child 2. The impact of the child on the father To

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    Everybody knows the proverb "Change is the only constant in this world". Many of us want a change in our lives and we yearn and work for it. But when it finally comes, I am not sure how of us are really ready to embrace it. We are consumed by the fears of the unknown and the proverb "Known Devil is better than the Unknown" seems a lot more true. We try to figure out all the permutations and

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   Kacheri Arambam stars Jeeva or should I say Jiiva and Poonam Bajwa. The movie is an outright commercial movie. The story is very predictable and there is nothing new about it. But considering that a lot of the people who read dont like to be told the story I will not reveal the same. Then why am I writing this review. Is it that I am digressing from my principle of only writing positive

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   India is growing at a rapid pace for the past decade or so and it has made much strides but there is still a lot to be done in a lot of fields ranging from agriculture to infrastructure, from governance to law & order and so on.    The following is a short list of things that I would like to see happen in India. The following list is not a ordered set and hence has not been awarded any

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The following is a talk at the TED conference by David Cameron, leader of UK's Conservative Party, regarding future of Governance. Awesome E-Governance initiatives and thoughts.

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   The other day I was talking to a colleague in office and he had got a mail from another colleague to contact a person in India whose name is " 'name' P" and my colleague was confused as he thought that it was an incomplete name (since the surname was only an initial) as he did not know how to get in touch with " 'name' P". It was then that I explained to him that in South India, quite a few

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   After a pretty long hiatus, I am back with yet another movie review. This time it is the Selvaraghavan movie Aayirathil Oruvan. Remember your history books Cholas & Pandyas. If you don't, then this movie will definitely remind you of them as the movie is based on them. This movie is definitely a new genre in tamil movies and something that no one has attempted before. You also need to have a

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Does Grandeur convey beauty or is Simplicity synonymous with beauty? Ever thought about this. Most often than not grandeur seems gaudy. Whereas simplicity is most often confused with cheap. In my opinion, simplicity takes the cake. Take anything for example, in automobiles very few are not impressed with the design of Audi, Benz, Bentley etc, even though none of their car designs are over the top

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The above movie is not a classic or a masterpiece but it is definitely worth a watch. The movie a comedy (nothing like the Vadivelu comedy but more on the lines of Poi Solla Porom, but much better than that). There is no separate comedy track and the dialogues and situations are pretty fun to watch. Mouli is as usual his great self and he proves he cannot be otherwise. The other aspect of the

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We have always talked about the need for time travel. We have seen it in movies and we have always heard about the fabric of space-time continuum getting damaged or even destroyed. Is this true or is it figment of imagination from Hollywood. What would be the benefits or repercussions of time travel?People would say that if time travel was there then we could possibly stop World Wars, Apartheid,

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I was watching "Scrubs" on TV (a comedy series about a few doctors in a hospital) and there were a few episodes in which a long serving doctor decides to move to another hospital. This doctor wanted for people to feel his would be absence and unfortunately except for a couple of them everyone else cared a damn about him leaving. And this got me thinking. How will people feel if and when I left

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I am sure each one of you would have come across people or is one such person who remains unruffled and remains cool, calm, composed and level-headed in face of any adversity. Unfortunately, I am not one of those, though I have, am and will be trying to be one such person. What impresses me the most is their confidence & firm mind along with the usual cool as a cucumber. I have always wondered

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Remember the saying "All that goes up must come down". Similarly everything in this world has a beginning and end. For eg., take any great dynasty such as the Greeks, Egyptians, Romans, Persians. All the Dynasties began, reached its peak, and perished.Another example in modern days is Europe and now the USA. Even more common example is the birth and death of a living organism. Even planets and

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Achchamundu Achchamundu is a thamizh movie that deals with a concept that has been rarely dealt with on the silver screen. The story of the movie is basically a one liner but the treatment of the topic is brilliant. The theme of the movie is Paedophilia. But the movie actually portrays much more than that. It also shows the lives of the Thamizh NRI family. Prasanna, Sneha and John Shea are the

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Back after a long hiatus. This time I thought I would like to share my thoughts on Hinduism. Hinduism is defined in Wikipedia as "Hinduism does not have a "unified system of belief encoded in declaration of faith or a creed", but is rather an umbrella term comprising the plurality of religious phenomena originating and based on the Vedic Traditions." Why did I choose to talk on this now of

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It has been a long time since I have posted and I thought what better way that to write about something that I am completely obsessed with and your guess is right. It is about movies and in particular about tamizh movies. I know it has been some time that the AVM productions Ayan released and it probably makes not much sense to write a review about a movie that has been running successfully for

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Time and again we are taught the Aryan Invasion theory and relegated the Indian race to depths of cultural depravity. But for the past few years there has been a sign of rebellion against this controversial theory and now BBC (it was the British that promulgated this theory and BBC is British) carries an article refuting the theory. The link is as follows. http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/

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This Tamil movie as usual is superb on the technical aspects as most movies these days especially movies directed by Gautam Vasudeva Menon. Awesome photography, great picturization and some stunning locations. San Francisco, Berkeley, Jaipur, Kashmir, Delhi and even our Singara Chennai have been portrayed so beautifully. The songs are wonderful and melodious. 2 Songs are mediocre. Most songs

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Anger is often described as something that is really destructive not only to character but also to relationships and sometimes even to economics and legal status. But this is because anger has always been portrayed in the negative sense. Anger is not always bad. It is bad only in the way it is being channeled. When we turn the anger in us to a positive flow we can enjoy huge success. Usually the

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We have always been talking about IQ and now with Mensa we have a way to be certified that we have a very high IQ. But this is all based on tests carried out on certain topics like puzzles, pattern matching, vocabulary (in English) etc. But do these actually give a measure of a person's innate intelligence or does it just give a measure of acquired intelligence. These tests might give an somewhat

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We have always been told that life as is, is based on water and we are all hydro carbon based living matter and have generalized the fact that all life in the universe/multiverse (parallel universes) is based on water as we are all hydro carbon based. But why is that we are not thinking beyond this. I have no strong opinion or basis but cant we keep our mind open that we can start to think that

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I think everyone is now aware of the "Middle Class" in India, who are now becoming the largest consumer market in the world. But from the little experience I have, I have found that the middle path is nothing but trouble. It is not always the societal status but in every possible paradigm. For eg, being a mediocre in intelligence is always tough. One is never sure if one can perform a difficult

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The eternal search for mankind has been the gift of immortality (physical immortality). This has been a search that has been going since the evolution of the modern man. But coming to think about it, I am completely baffled as to why mankind would is so obsessed with being immortal. Just think about it. Let us say one such man is gifted with immortality, imagine the changes over the various

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In the Western society there is concept of a Godfather or Godmother for every child and it is the duty of this person to look into the welfare of the child in addition to the child's parents and the person who is the Godparent takes his/her role very seriously and sees to it that not only no harm comes to the child but also takes additional care to help the child succeed in life. We also need a

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Ever wondered how a technology that is a super hit in a particular country does not have any impact on another country. For eg. Answering Machines are a huge hit in the US while it is a dud in India. The reason for this is that is when people call up in India they would rather have the phone ring and have no one answer them rather than an answering machine greeting them. They seem it to be a

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The question that has been plaguing me is what is that I know that I know and I know that I dont know and similarly what is that I dont know that I know and I dont know that I dont know. Going deeper what is that I know that I dont want to know and I know that I want to know coupled with what is that I dont know that I dont want to know and I dont know that I want to know. The statement above

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As a child life seems so simple. All a child needs is food, toys, friends to play with, a family and few other insignificant things (enumerated in no particular order). But as one grows into adolescence life starts to become more complicated. One starts to begin to think about how one looks, marks at school, experimenting new avenues and if not then the fear of being judged as timid, coward etc.

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The other day I was having a conversation with my colleague on our post lunch walk back from the cafeteria back to our seats. I was wondering that though computers are supposed to make life easier I was seeing an increase in stress levels and hours of working. My colleague gave me a very convincing answer. He says that since computers raise productivity of all the organizations, there has to be

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I have returned after a very long time. I guess I have not missed much. Some one out there prove me wrong on this. :-) Hobby- The dictionary.com meaning is "an activity or interest pursued for pleasure or relaxation and not as a main occupation". This is obviously for the people who have the time/ability/resources to indulge in such activities. Very few of us have this leeway. At the same time

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I have been thinking about this quite a lot for a few days. We always say this is an "Award Winning" theatre, actor, software, restaurant, .... Isn't this a misnomer? How can something be winning an award. You either are going to win an award or you have already have won it. The only time that you are winning it is when you are physically receiving the award and after that you have been awarded

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I remember, vaguely though, the day that my I took my first trip on the city bus to my school, a couple of kilometers away. I was probably in my second/third standard and it was a big accomplishment for me as I could go such a long distance without an adult supervision. Then after a few trips it became normal. A few years later when I used to travel to Chennai with my parents I used to think that

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This is the second set of songs that are good to hear to. The Rap songs are from the group Chakrasonic while the other songs are from the Telemovies from Malaysia. The songs are too good.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er4JLbzh5jEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dDFye3N2OIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyoofRwp_iohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lj-iXEE9eghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJLhyE3w9_E (

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I never new that one could create such awesome rap with pure tamil. Rap genre has always has been known to have a mixture of languages and english being one of the default. But here this group Yogi B and Natchatraz have succeeded in creating some wonderful songs with only Tamil. Ofcourse they do have songs with the usual mix of languages. I think this is a must hear for all. This group is

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These are some different terminologies used for the same thing in the US and India. I shall list the terminology used in India and then the US1. SMS - text messaging2. petrol - gas3. ungeared/automatic transmission - automatic transmission4. geared - stick shift5. home loan - mortgage6. bill - receipt7. railways - railroad8. cell/mobile - mobileMore will follow as I get familiar with them. Kindly

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These songs are from the movie Morning Raga . The songs are awesome carnatic songs (south indian classical music genre) and here the fusion is created with western percussion and the omnipotent keyboard. The songs are sung by great carnatic living legends Sudha Ranganathan, Bombay Jayshree and Kalyani Menon. The first song shows the beautiful south indian country side and this is a really a dream

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Kids these days are really smart and learn really fast. They are the testament of the increasing intelligence in our genes and in absorbing information more. But sometimes their intelligence turns back on to their parents. The following is a true account. The kid is 5 years old and plays the clue games with her father every weekend. Till recently the father used to give clues about household

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This is a video clip of the protagonist training in the Indian Military Academy (IMA). The training is shown with a background song.

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This is one of the most realistic war movies ever taken in India. The movie is about the Kargil invasion and eventual defeat of the infiltrators by India. The movie in particular deals with the battle to regain control over the strategic peak Point 5179 looking over the Srinagar-Ladakh highway, which is the life line of Kashmir. The intruders where actually Pakistan Army officers and soldiers in

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Well the other day I was having lunch with my colleagues and the tv in our office cafeteria was on and I saw the add of an Instant Messenger and suddenly out of the blue I thought of something regarding IMs. As far as my knowledge goes, currently when you are text chatting with another person using an IM it is but mandatory that we use the same language for communication. But what if there was a

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This is a song from the movie Jillinnu Oru Kathal (JOK for short). Awesome composition from AR Rehman.

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The greatest cricketer that India ever produced, Anil Kumble retired from ODI cricket and with this an era of Indian cricket comes to an end. He was not only a great cricketer but also a superb human being. If you ever need a role model then you wont get a better person than him. Unfortunately he was never considered to be a great cricketer inspite of his great records and was always criticized

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This is a nice fast music and check out the sub titles. The meaning is awesome. Rehman is truly shown a great mix of western and indian music.This is one of the most melodious songs I have ever heard and this has also been pictured well. A latest addition to my all time favourites. Harris at his best.Another song from the same movie and also a very cosy song. Nicely shot.Very nicely pictured and

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If I were to be reborn but with a disorder and I could choose the ailment then I would choose Autism.

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Well, this dialogue is from a hindi movie, but is really a impactful one. "It is said that there are two types of men. One, who go to their deaths screaming and the other accept death in silence. But then I found another type, those who meet death with laughter."

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I was one day talking to my cousin and we were talking about wireless connectivity and then somehow the topic deviated to power supply to the laptops. At this point my usually dumb brain had a flash. I was thinking of a wireless power adapter. My idea of how this will work. The power adapter at the power switchboard will convert the electrical energy to radio waves, amplify it and generate radio

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A tamil saying - "When you are alive be like a banyan tree and after death you should be like a sandalwood tree". This saying means like a lot. A banyan tree has gives cover to a fast area thus providing a shade to a lot of people. Similarly when we are alive we should help as many people as possible. A sandalwood tree is worth more after it is felled, thus helping people even after its death and

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Music is truly a remarkable medium to emote, realize, & motivate and is capable of much more. Music can motivate us, make us feel better when we are down, relax, freak out, be religious, be sacriligeous, turn us into a rebel or even revolutionary. In the pre-Independence era, music was used rampantly to inculcate and grow the feeling to break free from the British colonialism. People say it is

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The following are some dialogues from a tamil movie titled 'E'. Awesome! "Politics is a war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed". "Politics start at the end of the barrel of the gun".

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A few years ago, we were, as individuals, were not bothered about world events and if we did it was purely to shown that we are intellectually superior or that we read more than the others. But today everybody is looking at world events as it is directly affecting us more than ever. If there is a recession in the USA then it affects our jobs directly, a conflict in the middle east can raise the

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Food has always interested me and that is one thing that I cannot resist. However ill I am, I am always game to a tasty snack or meal. Since I loved so much I decided that I should name my nominations for the "King of" the various categories of dishes.King of Pizza - Double CheeseKing of Juices - MangoKing of Indian Bread - Butter NaanKing of Paratha - Potato (Aloo)King of Vadas - Uddin VadaKing

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Well everyone has heard of the chocolates bounty, mars, milky way. Well, one of my friends had come back from his trip abroad and as per our team's and company's unwritten rule he brought some chocolates. He sent the whole team a mail to assemble at his desk to savour the delicacies. Well me and my other friend reached a bit late and by then all the bountys except for one had been gobbled up

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Life is a compromise. At no point does a person get what he wants. Even if he gets something that he wanted badly there would still be something missing or something he has to give up. Sometimes compromise is the consequence of the rules imposed on the person by the society. A person who can accept this will have lead a peaceful and happy life while it will be nothing but turmoil, discontent,

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I have begun to realise why people drink alcohol. People who are too shy to speak the truth or get away from all their troubles use this as a medium of escape or to gain that inner strength to speak their mind out. Alcohol lets you lose all your fears and the care of the world. You realize you are what you are, nothing more, nothing less. Is it justified is altogether a different question the

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I do not want to grow up. Leave me as I am.

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The other day I had gone to meet my dear friend after many months and we spoke for quite some time. Among the other things we had a conversation on he was talking about people not wanting to be predictable. They always want to be a mystery and do not want the others to know of their emotions and when they are predicted then they are extremely upset and try to negate the possibility that the other

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I have heard that a person who dies at an early age is most lucky as he is the Almighty loves him more and a person who dies at a ripe old age is considered a true sinner. Is this true I do not know? But in Hinduism we talk of Moksha which is to free oneself from the circle of life and death and it is also said that the more you sin the slimmer are your chances to free yourself from this vicious

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ஒறுத்த‌ரின் க‌ட‌ன்த‌ கால‌த்து சாத‌னைக‌ள் ம‌ற்றும் ந்ல்ல‌ பெய‌றை வைத்துகொன்டு அன்த‌ ம‌னித‌ர் வேலை அதெ பொல் ந‌ல்ல‌வித‌ம‌ய் செய்வாற் என்று என்ன‌ உறுதி?Translation - If a person has a great name and an equally great reputation in perfoming the task what is the gaurantee that he can perform the same job with the same quality and speed as before?Again, please those finding mistakes in my tamil point it

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திருவிளைய‌ட‌ல் த‌ருமி பொல் நான் புல‌ம்புகிரேன். என் புல‌ம்ப‌லை நிறுத்த‌ வ‌ழியை யாராவுது கூறுக‌ள். இப்ப‌டியெ போனால் மிக‌ விரைவில் என்னை வேரிட‌த்தில் க‌ண்பீற்.PS. - This is my first post using thamizh and there might be a lot of mistakes. Kindly point out if any.Corrected versionதிருவிளையாடல் தருமி போல நான் புலம்புகிறேன். என் புலம்பலை நிறுத்த வழி ஒன்றினை யாராவது கூறுங்கள். இப்படியே போனால் மிக

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How I wish I was a computer and nothing more? Ofcourse not one with an AI but rather a dumb one that just responds to the commands. Human Intelligence is a curse. Ignorance is bliss. I am beginning to agree and relate on a few blogs and thoughts of my friend suddenlee.

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A few days ago I was watching a vampire movie and suddenly I started thinking about the concept of devils, daemons and the undead in Hinduism. To my knowledge there is no concept of the undead in hinduism. Daemons are a tricky subject. If we say there is no concept of Devils or Daemons in hinduism people will immediately ask about Asuras. Well according to the Rig Veda, there were 2 different

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To bring discipline into the lives of people what would be the ideal way? Should it be forced upon thus trapping them in the web of fear or would it be better idea to bring the offenders to shame? In my sincere and humble opinion I feel that if we hit their ego and respect, we stand a better chance of bringing in discipline. This too might not be the optimal solution but atleast we will succeed

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It has been a very long time since the United States of America has been the seat of Economic power. Probably, recongnised as one of the super powers in the beginning of the previous century and later after the collapse of the Soviet reigned as the sole power till date. But like all things the fag end of the US as the sole super power is fast approaching. It is time that this moves to the next

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Being a Moderate in this world is probably the best approach to everything. For example, people do not like too cold or too hot places, similarly they also despise the extremeties in food (ofcourse, the range here is a bit larger, hot beverages and ice-creams forming the extremeties but here too no one likes a very hot coffee or a chilling ice cream). The same holds good for a person's

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Success is something that everybody in this world craves for. But how would you measure success? Who has the yardstick or do we create our own yardstick? Does success mean that we want nothing more or is it just a relative and transiet term. Sometimes the soceity enumerates the criteria based on which an individual's success is measured just as in India, rural if not in the urban. In other

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How often and about what does an average youth, who is supposed to have reached a certain level of maturity, get confused? I guess, it is not that often and certainly on a very few and limited topics. Well, I must say that I am definitely not in this majority.

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The title is very much a give away with regards to the topic in discussion. I am not going to talk about adoption being a noble thing and all such. I think everyone knows that or is at least aware that people name it as such even though they do not believe it. Everyday we see crimes on the rise and if we take a closer look a significant portion of the these crimes are committed by orphans. They

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I was fortunate to be able to have attended a convention of the topmost minds in the company I am working in. It was really awesome that I could even meet these living giants. Imagine, shaking hands and talking to the father of a computer language or the architects who have built the whole framework that you have been working on for your development. It was simply a dream come true. No I am not

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For any layman the smallest measurement of time is the second. But how do we know what a second is? What is the time measurement for a second. The educated people would immediately say that 1000 milliseconds is 1 second. Then the next question I would ask is how did you measure the millisecond. Again the answer would be that there are 1000 microseconds is 1 millisecond and so on. But this is a

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I hope someone will say "I missed your blog, man!" or is it that I have to dream yet again. The following is an incident in my life which is pretty amuzing if not hilarious. In my office there is a bunker which has about 4 beds so that people who do not feel well can take a small rest during office hours and then get back to work. I rarely have been to the bunker and the first time I went there

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Being idealistic in this current world is very very very difficult. Infact, it is far from practical and is just a waste of time. Especially, being idealistic is a curse more than anything else. The reason being that being idealistic we expect everyone else to be the same and when that does not happen and when we find that we have no way of enforcing the same you tend to get frustrated and

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In life we always have desires. We want some thing or the other all through our life. When we were kids we wanted to play all the time. During adolescent we always wanted to try out new things. When we are in college we want to freak out and have a girl by our side. When we get employed we want money and recognition. When we are old we want the company of our children and see them grow to great

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There can be numerous instances when a person tells you that you are indispensable. But is it really so. Are we really indispensable? Well in my opinion we all are dispensable. Infact, everything in this world is dispensable the biggest example of which is death. If indispensable was the underlying theme then there would not be a concept called death. Everything has an end and thus dispensable is

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Arranged marriages are a common feature in the India especially in India and this is incomplete without finding the percentage of compatibility of the horoscopes especially with the Hindus ( Horoscopes are the astronomical data which are compiled based on the day and time of birth. Horoscopes depict to a great degree the nature of the person). Why is the matching such an important concept? To

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In one of my earlier posts I wrote about the possibility of multiverse as compared to universe. Well, I found out that modern day physicists have a theory in support of this using the String Theory. Infact this theory not only talks of multiverse but is said to be a unifying theory which can explain the origin of the big bang all the way to the level of electrons or for that matter even quarks.

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The other day I was listening to some latest tamil movie songs and suddenly I became conscious of the genre of music I was listening too. I was pleasantly surprised. I was enjoying songs from the classical based songs like Katril Varum (Carnatic) from Oru Naal Oru Kanavu and Kanda Naal Mudhal (more in the category of World Music) from Kanda Naal Mudhal to the rock genre of Yakkai Thirai from

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Hope that nobody is offended from my previous post as at I would hate to have offended any of my friends. I just wanted to say that healthy competition is nice to have as it kindles the competitive spirit in us. But this should be void of any envy, hatred. There should sportsmanship. I am always thrilled to see my friends climb the ladder of success and I wish them many more greater success in

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Underestimating anybody in life is the most grave mistake one can do in his life and after that he is bound to fail in any "battle" against the other person. Once we have underestimated our opponent we tend to overlook their strengths and focus on their supposed weakness and then when the opponent hits we are not prepared and it spells doom for us. I have always tried to avoid this mistake but

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Though, I usually prefer to say less about myself, I will make one of those exceptions here (The Law of Exceptions at work here). I have always had, infact am having, this image of being a goody two shoes self. People consider or atleast appear, to consider that I have no evil side (read as naughty, corrupt). Whether it is I who has created this impression or they developed it on their own is

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I think most of us have some or the other person as our idol, if not all. We always have a tendency to look up to somebody, to give us hope, inspiration, motivation etc. Well, some of you might not subscribe to this but believe it or not we would be looking upto or admiring someone and at one point of time we would have felt (if not will feel) to be like him/her. As children our role models

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Problems are one reason why our life or project we are working on are made interesting, challenging and most times frustrating. I have been working on a project for quite some time now and in this process learnt a few lessons. The main is that every problem has a solution and the solution gives rise to another problem. There is no problem which has a fool proof solution. A solution is mainly a

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A lot of us have heard that in Hindu religion we fast on days such as Ekadasi, Amavasai (New Moon) and other such days. Well atleast some of the religious people still follow it mostly in the villages and in the towns if not in the Metros. Also the meaning of fasting has also been modified to suit us. Some of us in the name of fasting do not eat rice/rotis (this being the staple diet for Hindus).

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Well, here I am after a gap of almost a month. I do not know if you have missed me. If you have then I thank you. Anyways, let us get to the point of discussion. All through our life we have yearned for something or the other. If we are broke we yearn for money, if we are rich we yearn for fame and power. If we have given up all worldly desires we then yearn for the ultimate knowledge. Anyways,

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We all are aware of the great king Harishchandra who was known for his honesty. He would always say the truth and nothing but the truth. Our parents too have taught us to always be honest and to always say the truth. But, as we grow up we learn that being truthful at times be harmful and we either hide the truth by abstaining from the situation or we lie. On top of this we justify this by saying

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We all want to know what is in store for us in future. Astrology is a science which gets the closest to to foretell the future to us. But even astrology is based on what our current status is, such as the lines on our palm, our present deeds and so on. Ok let us get to the core of the this blog. What would happen if we knew the future? Would it help us in any to lead a better life or would it

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Kumble in my opinion is the finest cricketeer India has ever produced. I say say that for the following reasons1. A person who started off as a medium pacer took up spin when one of his rising deliveries injured a player and he took up spin so that he would not injure another player with his bowling.2. A Engineering graduate (and he passed with distinction too) along with his cricket3. He is also

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This is one other post that is inspired from a statement in a movie. This is getting to be a habit being influenced by movies. This probably gives an impression that I am weak minded but I am anything but that. Anyways let us get back to what this blog is supposed to be about. There is only a thin line between confidence and arrogance. A person who is confident will say "I can do it" while a

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All of us are born the same. We all have a mix of both good and bad. It is our environment and the weakness of our mind which makes us take the evil path more prominently. In essence we are a combination of ying and yan. Everything natural has both good and bad aspects. The sea for instance is very beautiful but it has its bad side in Tsunamis, and more frequently in storms. A rose is very

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An elderly man sought an apology from a much younger person for a mistake he comitted. The young person immediately told him that the he being an elderly person should not seek an apology. For this the man retorted saying it is not wrong for one to seek an apology from a younger person but the fact is that one is ready to accept that he has committed a mistake and is ready to apologise for the

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Ever wondered what is the actual meaning or significance of the Hindu word 'OM'. Well this is said to be the sound of the planets and stars rotating and revolving. It is said that when you are in deep penance and devoid of any thoughts or influence of the surrounding world the only sound you hear is that of 'OM'. It is also said that the time when this sound is no more heard it means the

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I have been going through a phase which I have never encountered in my life. First, I have this sense of emptiness, then an attack of blabber mouth and now I have fallen prey to a very offensive, argumentative attitude and a sense of disgust. This is going from bad to worse. Something is seriously wrong with me. One thing that is working in my favour is that I am realizing this even before

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Below are some of my thoughts and opnions consolidated.1. Mahatma Gandhi was truly a mahatma with his selfless deeds, but as he too was a mortal he was also cursed with a negative point. His big mistake was that he assumed every body else to be a mahatma just like him and took their thoughts to be devoid of any selfishness (at face value).2. We Indians consider our victories in some small battles

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