When I grew up, I was always surrounded with cousins, uncles, brothers and sisters. I was afraid when little V would miss that kind of an environment. Making him feel home, is not just putting a roof over his head or parent him and pamper him. It is impossible for two people to play all …
Rangan never understood the fascination of his younger son with rubber bands. He was sitting on a bench in the railway station. It doesn’t matter which railway station or waiting for which train, he was just in a railway station looking at the empty rails and the cleaners sweeping the railway station before the next …
Happy International Men’s day to everyone. This year’s theme for the Men’s day is Better health for Men and Boys. We are living in unprecedented times. One can proudly say that we are in one of the pivotal moments of the history. We are not affected as badly as the generation which fought world wars …
It was around 2004-2005 when I came across the word blogging. I was working in a browsing center and had a lot of time to check emails. I was part of numerous yahoo groups which shared jokes and beautiful pictures. After a point of time, I got comfortable reading long paragraphs and decided I should …
May 9, 2020. There was a common scene in news channel. The camera pans to the queues of people who are maintaining social distancing to buy liquor in the TASMAC in Tamilnadu. What accompanies is the songs which were written especially for the bar sequence. Add some more people who hide their faces, run when …
I am a sucker of sentiment movies. When “Namma Veetu Pillai” album released in Saavn and I listened to the songs, I know for sure I am not going for the movie. Particularly “Un koodave porakkanum” song tugged my heart even though I had to resist Sid Sriram’s voice. This is that time of the …
Close your eyes for a minute. Imagine or say aloud the word “Success.” How does that make you feel? In a normal world, it should have made you feel good. But do you know that this is the main reason for people to feel stressed out day in and day out in their job? Sad, …
The following content has heavy spoilers about the recently released Tamil movie “Super Deluxe”. Read on only if you have watched the film and if you have not watched the film yet, please do. I loved Super Deluxe. Given how the director’s previous movie was analyzed left, right and center for eight years, this movie …
I have wondered why there are no hit albums but only hit numbers in music scene these days. In Hindi it was Aashiqui 2 long back and in tamil, recently I can only think of Kaatru Veliyidai. In fact when we talk about Mani Ratnam films, nothing is just stand alone. It all comes together …
Once a person told me to always go for the radio and not playlists when you are lost, down in mood or depressed. Because, she said, that way we will find new songs that would lift our mood and somewhere some song which was written by somebody who may not be alive today or lives …