DreamingAway

You like spending time at the beach. Your friend plans one and on the way takes you to the movie. Though you don’t like watching movies, this one is fine and you felt wasted no time. But later you come to know that your friend actually planned for movie and included beach to ensure that he gets your nod, you might feel a sudden void in it. Have you seen this thing in politics? Mr. X is given a role and he is so happy about it. But when Mr. X knows that he is given the role to ensure that he is not in the way of Mr. Y getting the better role, he might see the new role as just a mess he hate. When your daughter shows the pink colour doll and says she likes it, you say that you also like the colour of it very much though you neither like it nor hate it. She might be happy. She might continue to get more pink colour things because you too like it. She finds, after several years, that you don't like pink much and then she would experience nothingness in her joy throughout all these ye...

தெய்வீக காதல்னு சொல்றாங்களே, அப்படி ஏதாவது இருக்கா? தெய்வீகம்னாலே எழுகின்ற வழக்கமான தேடல்தான். அப்படி எல்லாம் எதுவும் இல்லை என்றே நினைத்தாலும், இருந்தால் இப்படி இருக்குமோ என தோன்றும் சில விஷயங்கள் இப்பதிவில். நாளையைப் பற்றி கொஞ்சம் கூட சிந்திக்கத் தெரியாமல் ஒரு சில கணங்களுக்குள்ளே வாழ்ந்து மறைந்து உயிர் செல்லும் சில உணர்வுகள் மட்டுமே காதலென்று நம்பினால் அந்நம்பிக்கையில் தெய்வீகம் ஒளிந்திருக்கலாம். காதலுக்கான பொருள்களென பட்டியலிட்டு அதை செவ்வனே செய்து காதலுக்கு வலிமை சேர்க்க வேண்டுமென சிந்திக்க அறிந்திராத மனம், பிரிதலையும் பிரிதலென நோக்காமலிருக்கும் போது அது தெய்வீகமாகலாம். எந்த ஒரு காதலில் உண்மைகளும் பொய்களும் அர்த்தமற்றவையாகிக் கொண்டிருக்கிறதோ அது தெய்வீகத்தை நோக்கி பயணிக்கின்றதெனலாம். காதலின் உருவமென ஆயிரமாயிரம் முறை யோசித்து கற்பனைகள் செய்து வைத்த அத்தனைக்கும் விலகி அதிகாலை புல்லின் நுனி மீதிருக்கும் பனித்துளியை ரசிக்கும் போது அதன் பிம்பங்களை களைத்து மனதை இழுத்துச் செல்லும் ஒர் பிம்பம் கூட தெய்வீக காதலுக்கான வரையறைகளின் முற்றுப்புள்ளியாயிருக்கலாம்.

I find it difficult to get this reading order. And I guess it would be still harder to read them without changing the order. I may allow one or two new books to be included in this list, if required. Share book reviews and ratings with Kovil Pillai, and even join a book club on Goodreads.

You can listen and smile if someone poetically says that the cyclones, earthquakes, volcano eruptions, breezes and so on are just the giant nature’s way of expressing its moods like its anger, its calmness or just the reactions from its body. Of course, no harm in visualising the nature as an infinitely vast living thing and we are like monads playing somewhere on it. Well, that is just a fantasy. I feel this is real, that is, all our inventions as well as the way of living are greatly influenced and copied from the nature either directly or indirectly - fire, wheels, explosives… as well as life styles - all. Well, it is okay, you don’t have to agree with me. But I can tell you something more wonderful, more delightful which you yourself can observe and believe.  Here it is: the best of life, the life, can be achieved only after breaking something that feels impossible to break at first. Maybe, it is the Designer’s game. Surprisingly, we are given enough power to break ...

If you have read my previous year New Year resolution , you can skip reading this. Gained weight last year. I need to control it  Please don’t give me any suggestion   I need to learn at least 25 new English words (2 per month and 1 to make it round) and 365 non English I myself will get some resources Email forwards, Orkut, Facebook and now WhatsApp joins the list. So less time there and possibly will try to increase other modes of communication Your suggestions are welcome Clean up non-mandatory things... Will do this year too. Will try to get the photos organised - full year goal Thinking of online storage + hard disk. Do you have any good solution? Will increase the book reading time. I shall choose the books I wanted to read for next 10+ months by January 14, 2017. At least one from Amitav Ghosh,  Preeti Shenoy and few from Osho is for sure What are your favourite English non-fictions written by foreign authors? Will spend ...

My grand grandfather took my grandfather to the school which promised discipline as its focus. He later understood that neither the care for discipline nor anything was up to even the very basic level. My grandfather took my father to the school which promised quality education. Alas, quality is too relative and the promise and the delivered thing didn’t match. My father took me to the school which promised to facilitate sports activities apart from discipline and education. There was no space and budget for sports in the school. I took my son to the school which promised hi-tech setup for learning and collaboration. At the end, I had to spend all my money to get nothing of worthy. I think there will be a school again promising discipline oriented education and my grandson will go there. Okay, it is not about schools. It is about promises and hopes and disappointments. Generation after generation we vote and elect leaders. I hear hundreds of promises from our politicians in every ...

Preparing healthy food is not necessarily impossible but it is very hard to eat healthy food as long as you concentrate on taste and cleanliness and even otherwise! #sciencewillsucceed The urge to complete something and not to leave in between increases when you are about to take a break. At least one sentence, if not the current chapter or page or paragraph of a book. #inlifetoo It is not always easy to read the quotes/slogan/captions/… written on the t-shirt on the first attempt, even when you have bright day light. #mind Not all the movies are mere imagination. Not all the books are fictions. Not all the travels are only physically moving. Not all the people you meet are just another person. #lessonseverywhere Nature doesn’t bother about proper shapes for its design. Maybe, it got infinite space. #excellencegotnobarrier