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I should admit, admit with no shame, just like many of my friends, that I am one of those who are yet to understand the RIGHTs and WRONGs that crosses my life everyday. Anyway, I thought I can share you few things I contemplated and ended up in finding nothing out of it. First of all, I understand it is hard to accept something as RIGHT universally. Everyone, every country, every culture, every religion,… every… got their own definition and justification. I thought it would be safe and fine to start from within and then go outer. So, the RIGHT is what my heart feels comfortable in doing.It then goes to the next circle, includes my family and friends. It goes on like my society, my state and so on to all the higher circles.Of course, I totally agree it is not this way and this easy. In fact, at some point, I myself was thinking back and forth, connecting more things only to fail to comprehend any further. So, now I am staying with this: I can only “sense” something as RIGHT. It is h

“This birth is only for Kalagnar Karunanidhi” is the statement from his personal assistant Shanmuganathan after Karunanidhi ’s demise. Do you sense the heaviness of it? He had spent nearly 50 years with Karunanidhi. Yes, that is a prime part of one’s life and it truly means one life time. I was thinking whether I remember anything similar to this. Though not exactly, I immediately got reminded of Engles . If you read about Karl Marx, you will know how much is the contribution of Engles in Marx’s life. That is no lesser than Jenny ’s dedication. Thinking a little deeper, I feel there are too many people like this. That is, people who give their entire life to someone else. Of course, one life time is not a small thing. Some people spend their entire life for some cause, some for their work, some for their people. Some give their physical presence and some give their whole thinking and some both. Giving the whole life for a single person, physically and mentally, with zero expectatio

Tuesday was a holiday but I decided to come to office. I need to walk from home for about five minutes and then take bus to reach office. It was a very hot. Of course, it was almost noon. I heard a chime like bike horn sound from the behind, for a moment I thought I was about to get lift to the bus stop. He revved up the engine and drove off in few seconds. That was okay. Perhaps he doesn’t know that everyone in the world needs some help from someone at any moment. You can always help if you know how to see it. It was an empty bus and I took the seat at front so that I could watch the road and enjoy the travel. There was a car at the traffic signal and bus driver wanted him to go as there was no one crossing the road. He signaled his intentions by continuous honking. The car was not moved. It was fair enough. He was obeying the traffic rules. When the signal turned green, he paused for few seconds - just a few seconds - to hint the bus driver that he was annoyed. Was it a right thing

I got a call from the online shopping delivery agent in the morning. I had some work and I told him that I would pick it up in the afternoon as he would be available till 14:00 hrs in the office premises. My mom used to give rice water to the cows. She would keep the rice water vessel near the gate and some cow would drink it. She is still doing it, though now and then she has to buy a new vessel.  It is not unusual for me to forget to pick the order at the main gate while coming in the morning. Either I get reminded of it later or it got delivered at the mail room. That is okay. Isn’t?  I wonder where she learnt the practice of giving tea/coffee as well as some money to the electricity service person/gas delivery boy/… I usually tell her that they get salary for their service and ask her whether it is a kind of bribing. It is amazing to see the volume of packages delivered everyday in the campus. It is because of the increase in the employees count as well as the ease of onlin

எலிமென்டரி ஸ்கூல் படிக்கிற வயசில ஒரு சின்ன சாக்லெட்ட நமக்குத் தெரியாம ஒளிச்சி வச்சி தனியா சாப்பிட்டா, நம்ம ப்ரண்டு மேல ஒரு கோபம் வந்திருக்கும் (சிலருக்கு இப்போதும் கூட!). கண்டிப்பா அதையே பதிலுக்குச் செஞ்சி மனச தேத்திக்குவோம். மன்னிக்கத் தோணாத வயசு அது. கூட்டி கழிச்சி பார்த்தா, பெரும்பாலும் அதுதான் நட்பில் முதல் துரோகம். என்ன, அது அப்ப துரோகமாவும் தெரியாது, இப்ப அதெல்லாம் துரோகம்ன்னு ஒத்துக் கொள்ளவும் முடியாது.  எக்ஸாமுக்கு முந்தைய நைட்டுதான் நாலு பேரும் ஒரு ரெண்டு மணி நேரம் படிச்சிருப்பீங்க. அடுத்த நாள், மூனு பேரு அரை மணி நேரத்திலேயே எக்ஸாம் எழுதி முடிச்சிட்டு உட்கார்ந்து இருந்தா, ஒருத்தர் மட்டும் ரெண்டு மணி நேரம் எழுதினா அது நட்புக்குச் செய்கிற மாபெரும் துரோகம் இல்லையா? இருந்தாலும் மதியம் படத்துக்கு நாலு பேரும்தான் போவீங்க. நாலு பேருக்கும் அரியர்ன்னு ரிசல்ட் வரும் போதுதான், துரோகத்தைப் பெருந்தன்மையோடு முழுமையா மன்னிக்கிறதில கிடைக்கிற மனநிறைவை புரிந்துக் கொள்ள முடியும். அப்படி ஒரு மனப்பக்குவமெல்லாம் ஆண்டவன் கொடுக்கிற வரம். ப்ரண்டோட ப்ரண்டோட… ப்ரண்ட அறிமுகம் மட்டும் படுத்தச் சொன்னா

I am grown up, grown up from the one who asked “why God created these people?” to the one who is curious to know “when will God show the divineness hidden in these people?” - never in a position to drop God from the context and now that attempt fails faster than ever before. Religious places are where we first meet these people, at least in India, as they occupy the entrance, praying God that we would be merciful to them. I wasn’t. I always wanted them to go away, faraway, to the heaven or hell. Regardless of whether it was physical or mental disability, I never felt that they got any meaning in life. When I first heard the Beethoven story - composing his masterpiece when he was completely deaf or John Milton’s Paradise Lost which he wrote when he was almost blind, I was dismissive of it rather than feeling inspired. I was arguing that we would be okay without them. After all, this world has got millions of great works buried in it which we will never get to know. There were time

It is very “rare” and hence you are very lucky if you already had a chance to meet someone, including self, who suffers Monday Blues ​​I wonder whether long weekends can help you to get a sweeter Monday or not! So, how is it with other vacations? How about the summer holidays? Summer holidays is the April - May school holidays and you are in a new class after the holidays. I don’t know whether it is universal or not. It is hard to find any other happiest day in the year when you consider the last exam day before the summer holidays. It is still the same feel when you wear the parents’ hat. Isn’t?  For me, even if I don’t have calendars, there are three regular indicators to say that the summer has arrived. The shops in the market are filled with mounds of mangoes - the king of summer fruits - at the price that is too less for the magic they do on your taste buds. The Nungu fruits are the next seasonal fruit that is seen everywhere. I guess you love to scoop out the jelly part wit

You may love pets but usually it is people at home who take care of them a lot than you. They too love them, of course, caring can’t stay away from love for a long. My mother, aged over 60 now, never asked for any pet animals or birds but we always get one or more at home and she loves them. Now we got two green parrots. They wake up very early and start chattering. My mom would be preparing morning coffee and she would be having a “hey, don’t make noise, keep quite” kind of conversations. Now and then all three would forget each other and let the morning quietness return. The parrots take bath almost everyday. They always try to run and hide when it is time for bath. I wonder how they know it! We put them in the bucket and turn on the tap. They like it that way. They will be in deep calm for at least 1/2 hour after the bath as if a great saint in a deep meditation. My mom keeps one parrot on her shoulder most of the time during her morning chores. She keeps talking to them and

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world ― Emerson She has joined the team two years ago as a project trainee and now she is one of the top rated performer in her team. Her formula to success is simple and well proven, though not many do it. She started like every other trainee and started exploring more than what was asked from her. That means, she had to dedicate all her time in learning and be determined to take up the challenges. She did that successfully. She then started contributing to the team and that was on par or even better than many of the senior members in the team. Well, she truly deserves all her success so far and I am sure she will continue to astonish everyone. I was reading an article on creativity last week and suddenly I felt like taking this girl’s success and see what really is behind her success. Is it her creativity? This question itself turns out to be so dangerous as it let me doubt ab

I didn’t die, thankfully, because it was not poisonous. I promise, I didn’t know then that an ounce of poison would be enough to kill a person. I plucked the fruit from the (False) Ashoka tree and ate it so cautiously, little by little and I survived. Now I can say that this fruit is edible but not tasty. It had all happened in my school days. We had a very old park behind our school and that was our lunchtime play area. It got place for all the games and we mostly played the run and catch (Tag) game. We took rest on the branches of the Ashoka trees when the catcher is not good at climbing the trees. That was actually unfair but we had no rules to stop it. These old trees got too much of fruits - in bunches like the grape cluster, and we couldn’t resist plucking them and throwing, after all, what else you would do as a kid? I perfectly remember the old mango tree in one of our schoolmates home. It was great pleasure spending time under that tree. We used play Marble and Top game

Love is Blind. I am sure those who believe in this will never attempt to define what love is. And those who never believe in love won’t be interested in defining it either. Let me take an exception and try to get the definition of love, love in the context of men and women. It is an absolute trouble to be in between and try to define it. Anyway, no harm in giving it a try. What is love? Let me share few of my friends’ love stories and try to extract some insights that can enlighten me a bit. D and C were in love. Their parents didn’t approve of it. C is so religious. She was waiting for God’s mercy instead of a register marriage and made D too wait. She got married to someone else (God’s will!) and then D too married another girl. They both are leading a happy life of their own now. Thought: Can’t there be anything else superior than love, like C’s belief in God? Can the love turn into hatred? J and R’s marriage is a love marriage. They got a lovely daughter now and I am sure they

★★★★☆ Self-help books are easier to read. It becomes simplest if you keep reading many of them. About 100 pages long, I was happy the moment I got book “Life is Tremendous” since I felt I would finish reading this book in few hours. That was indeed done. But what surprised me is the spark of inspiration found in the book here and there and powerful enough. Major portion of the book deals with the 7 laws of leadership and the rest is to discuss about the three significant decisions that we need to take in our life time — “Who is your life long partner?, What is going to be in your life?, and what is your life for?”. I am still not in a position to have my personal answers but these decisions make sense. Here are the 7 Laws of Leadership mentioned in the book: You must get excited about your work  If you don’t use something you have, you will eventually lose it.  Get your work to perfection  Give and you will get more  Allow yourself to experience more  Fixed plans don’t wo

★★☆☆☆ I chose this book because I wanted to read all of Preeti Shenoy’s books. Since I have already read couple of her books, I can say that this book doesn’t have her touch. It is a bunch of articles written for Financial Chronicles column Sex and The City. The books talks about various love — relationship issues. It is obvious that the author has spent a lot of time on researching for this book. This book let you know of various problems that exist in love relationships. As the book covers so many sections in so few pages, I think the author doesn’t have space to give in-depth explanations and solutions. After reading few chapters, I thought I would pick the movies and books mentioned in this book and share. There are quite a number of mentions about songs, research papers, arts but they are little alien to me :) I don’t have any takeaway from this book apart from knowing there tons of issues exist. Books The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

I find it really challenging and interesting to read books in the predefined order. I tried it with my first list and I completed them successfully. Here is the second list of books. Of course, no promise that I will read them in the order. If I get some interesting new book I may start reading it. If I do so, I shall update it here in this post. 1984 George Orwell ★★★★☆  my note Why We Love The Way We Do Preeti Shenoy ★★☆☆☆  my note Life is Tremendous Charlie “Tremendous” Jones ★★★★☆  my note Great Stories for Children Ruskin Bond பிறகு பூமணி To be decided later -1 The Pillars of Consciousness Osho Standing on an Apple Box: The Story of a Girl among the Stars Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush Paper Towns John Green To be decided later -2 The Room on the Roof Ruskin Bond The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate: Viewer Guide Gary Chapman சர்வம் ஸ்டாலின் மயம் மருதன் Delivering Happiness : A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

★★★★☆ How about the past tense of “run” is “runned” and “drink” is “drinked”? And opposite of “Good” is “Ungood” and that of “Cold” is “Uncold”? I love it. How can I “unlove” it? 😜 This was what they were doing for the Newspeak language mentioned in the book 1984 by George Orwell. War is Peace Freedom is Slavery  Ignorance is Strength  I can find the above slogans throughout book. Of course, that is what the book is explains. You can find a note on the slogans here . 1984 is written around World War II time, warns about the totalitarianism . It is really scary to imagine a life in the totalitarianism society. George Orwell wonderfully captures it through his protagonist Winston Smith. After reading the book, I watched the movie version of it directed by Michael Anderson. It is a good film to watch after reading the book. I think it would be little hard to appreciate the movie without prior reading of the book as the movie sequences are little faster to follo

As usual nothing unusual here :) I never thought I would get a chance to see a book like “ The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up ”.  I had gone through it. Interestingly I don’t find anything new in it for me! Of course, after all, I have been doing this tidying up work for several years now. My current challenge is in the form of digital contents. Yeah, I look like a mad person in this regard. Here are the things I wanted to do Clear WhatsApp images/videos/text Delete similar and common photos, basically if I don’t have time to rename them, they can be deleted. Remove screenshots that are not necessary Go through the songs and movies collections and reduce ruthlessly ;) It is really hard to say whether social networks are addictive or not. Oh, no no… it is easy to tell they are addictive. Last year, I thought I would check Facebook once in a week. But I was less frequent than that. I wanted to be more active this year. I hope I won’t get addicted. I didn’t read group chats

Is there anyone still appreciating the stamp and coin collecting hobbies? I used to collect stamps in my school days, competing with one of my classmates. One day, I found it no longer worth continuing it. I stopped collecting stamps. I used to take photos of small insects, plants, flowers, etc. with my old Cannon camera. Of course, I concentrated on various focal lengths, natural/artificial lights, precise moments, blah blah to get nice photos. One day, it all looked so ridiculous. I stopped taking photos of this sort. My drawing kit had only Camlin/camel sketch pens and pencils. I guess the brand is still famous. Just like every kid, I used to draw mountain, river, trees… One day, I felt it as a mere time waster. I stopped drawing. I was startled when my classmate bought two packs of stamps. I was amazed at the quality and the perfection of DSLR photos. I could find thousands of great photos on the internet. There were so many tools for drawing and lots of people draw far bett