Variety is the spice of life

There are certain movies that leave an invisible mark in your mind that you, even without realizing your mind keep going back to things that struck you when you first saw the movie and possibly over repeat watches as well. 2012, Final destination are two such movies that have literally scared the wits out of me and even though the scenes are quite familiar, they keep haunting the mind, whenever i come across any news or event that are remotely related. When 2012 was launched, the doomsday-end of the world-apocalypse news items were quite popular and that December was supposed to be the end of the world as predicted or left unmentioned per Mayan calendar. In the movie, even though the graphics are quite low level as compared to what we have now and what we had even then, the tsunamis that engulf the regions, the violent land slides and volcanic explosions and earth quakes all scared me with nightmares for several months to follow. I often get dreams about me surrounded by flood water an...

The rate at which days move past, even before you could say Merry and complete it with Christmas, you are facing New year’s eve and before you could contemplate switching over to writing 2018 instead of 2017, you are already into the first weekend of the next year. Travelling within such superfast time period wonder for how long the fixation on the first date of the first month will continue as against specific cultural celebrations of new year, be it Vishu, Utkal, Gudi padva, Tamil new year or the lunar cycle of the Chinese. With ever increasing commercialization, anything that doesn’t have its roots in the right place is bound to get displaced. That applies to rituals and festivals and customs as well. 2017 ended with Rajini announcing his arrival into political scene. Nothing could’ve been more sensational and confusingly stupid as that declaration. He claims his arrival was due to the imminent nature of the present situation in TN. But its crystal clear that he finally relented t...

Makkalay..yaavarum nalama. Thirakkavay thirakaatha kadainu almost naanay decide pannirunthen. Not for want of ideas or time. Facebook has eaten up almost all of my free hours..which is quite a lot of time actually :) Solra karuthu karumaanthiramlaam angeye solidrathala athukapramum inga vanthu vada suda maavu missing. Ippo post poda vanthathulenthay terinjirukkum..as usual..i the kambeni changed. Enna kaetta, kekalainaalum solluven..still, five years once kambeni change pannikanum..ila atleast benchla konja naal irukanum. Projectla irukarapo..kooda irukara team members or at the worst/max saga employees kooda mattum thaan pesi pazhagara chance irukku. Benchla irukarapo thaan it gives a totally new meaning to people interaction. Naaliku enga entha projectla yaar kitta velaipaakanumo..entha oorla poduvaanongara bayam kalantha anticipation helps to gel relations. Aprum project senthu palanaal kazhichi paathukarapo..Boss engira baskaranla arrearls meet pannikara makku pasanga mathiri......