Variety is the spice of life

Over population has always been a topic of debate for a long time. In fact, during my school days in one of the subjects, it was mentioned as a critical area to be focused on coming years. Population has always been a ticking time bomb that has been largely unprioritized. I would use the term specifically as unprioritized because even though it has been touched upon briefly time and again, it has never been addressed on a war footing, simply because, it is not an issue that can be managed without raising ethical, cultural, and religious ramifications. People world over have always been divided in opinion over birth control. While there are increasing instances of fertility clinics and orphanages and people displaced due to natural/man-made calamities, the rate of increase in population has been so high that, it has outgrown and is rapidly overcompensating for any deficit that can be claimed by such disasters. No way I am stating that wiping out entire populations as a reasonable respon...

Another attempt at shameless self peethals of India. Apdi ipdi nu oru vazhia have posted 1300 times in this space. Ithanaikum moola,thiruvona,pooratathi matrum inna pala natchathira Karanam, thalai Ramesh, for continuously encouraging and supporting the contents with his comments. His comments carry more weight and meaning than the actual posts is my thozhil ragasiyam that is known to all. Aduthabadia Athivasi madam. Tamizhla poorvakudi nu solra mathiri intha blogspotoda poorva kudi ivanga thaan. Blogspot thondri wordpress thondra kaalam munne, post poata moothha kudiyai sernthavanga. Ivanga solra pala karuthukalal dark theme posts kooda velupaaga marina vishayam naam arinthathay. Aprum triple g enapadum g3. Eppo kedaikum epdi kedaikum nu signal kedaikatha spectrum 3G pola, epo comment poduvanga epo padikaranga nu theriatiyum appo appo ullen aiya solli comment sectionsa karai ethara puniyavangalil ivarum oruvar. Aprum mister mages. Avar theerthadanam poraro illaio, inga attendance podr...

“Did you know WHO has mentioned about Chola era spreading!! “ “Moodevi…adhu cholera spreading nu concern post. WHO edhukuda Ponniyin selvan padatha pathi pesaporaanga!!” Ever since that movie was in the making, Ponniyin selvan has been the talk of the town. Adhukaga Cholera va chola era nu padikara alavuku makkal aagirupangannu I didn’t realize!! The book being the boon of Book fairs and possibly the one sure shot super hit sale item on every book fair ever since such fairs have been in existence, has vertically split the movie watching group into those who had read the book and those who hadn’t. Obviously, when a book, that too as famous as Kalki’s creation, is being made into a movie, there would be lot of criticism on whether the movie adaption has justified the written version. Harry Potter had its moments and personally I consider Lord of the Rings as the best movie ever, adapted from a book. Ponniyin selvan as a book itself is quite voluminous running into 5 parts. The essence of...

Ever since Junior started learning tamil in school, it has been a tough time and home. While consciously or otherwise, we are particular in knowing the right spelling and at times even the pronunciation of the English language, tamil being the mother tongue is taken for granted. And worse of the list being, the way it is being taught in school. During his first standard, his tamil teacher did her absolute best in ensuring the essence of the language was destroyed in its bud and the language was introduced more as a fractal symbol and shape rather than actual alphabets. The immediate challenge for us at that time was to unlearn the way in which we were writing the Uyir and Mei ezhuthukkal and adapt to how it was being taught, which was actually the correct way of writing those alphabets. When they moved on to words the challenge became multifold with pronunciations coming into the picture. Tamil, a language that is so close to my heart that it pains to type this sentence, for want of be...

Junior has been given a holiday assignment in school – to write a small story of their own. Ever since he could understand, he has been fascinated by Ganesha, especially the story of his birth. He has literally read and re-read that Amar Chitra katha book into shreds. I believe his own devotion level love for his mother stems from the story!! When he talked about the assignment, I gave him suggestions to come up with a mokka story about dinosaurs or the “megabaratha” play of us. He had already made up his mind on the topic. They were to write a 2-page story in their 3 lined notebook. Junior sat and wrote an 8 pager in under half hour and showed it to us for proof correction. Except for few spellings, we didn’t touch the story at all. I’ve posted the same verbatim as presented by Junior.  Possibly the one post am super proud of amongst the 1296 posted in this space 😊 😊 😊 Ganesha’s birth – Authored by Junior When Parvati was going to bath she had told nandi to not let any of shiva...