"he Madras High Court has ordered Rs 1.2 lakh compensation each to the girl students of a government school who were sexually abused, allegedly by their headmaster." 

 Why why and a thousand why as to why this hasnt triggered a discussion on how to prevent this from happening next.
1. Educate kids as early as they can understand about what would be an abuse. 
2.  And also conducive environments for the children to raise up these sort of issues. 


Not to take anything away from the judgement but it is just peanuts to mamooth problem like this.

The Hindu vs Timesofindia

Hindu would actually win the worst website among all the news websites I browse. Yet....yet...

A small query on alexa shows,


 


If with that Website, Hindu can win the battle, how bad is timesofindia's content?

Caution: Skip norway if you have kids below 18 years of age

When the whole slew of news channels fb spam was talking about the Norwegian authorities taking away a 3 yr old and 5 month old from their Indian parents, I suspected there was more to the story. 

Authorities taking away Kids from their parents isnt an easy decision like us returning stuff in Walmart, right? -  Unless there are serious issues like sexual abuse/Physical abuse, common sense would say a child's best interest is in being with its parents.

But, here are all the details about the case (#25-32 and #46 is an instance where norway tried smuggling a turkish boy out of Turkey!), you get better picture.The elder kid had behavioral issues which doesnt seem to have been properly diagonsed till date. None of the instances seem to require the action the Norway govt. agency resorted to.

Seriously, you all know better than to schedule a connecting flight through even a Norway airport if you have kids.

PS1:  to me small babies being put in cribs of their own had always seemed cruel. Eastern countries should be taking away all the western babies from their Parents on this account alone.

kadhalil sodhapuvadu yeppadi

" Don't blame me if the movie turns bad", said the friend as she got into the car. Ironical, because that was exactly the words I wanted to say to her. I decided to go because heart was heavy and it has been quite a while since I hit theaters and this had good reviews. Friend had equally unimportant reasons.

I felt the movie wasn't bad, but my friend rated 5/10 saying there is no story. So that was the end to the short story.

Now about the movie... The director is 24. This is important very important, because the story covers pretty much every type one would meet in college - the ever fighting couple(fights would usually about not being loved:)), the two timing jerk, Propose to every gal he can find guy - I could recall every one of these people. 

The style is very different with  loads of talking to the camera by Siddarth, it is fun. Movie was funny too - Theater crowd laughed a lot.

But, anything wee bit beyond a college romance doesnt get handled very well in Indian Cinemas, no? So Suresh and his wife's track didnt register at all - I just took it as  something to end the movie. I was lot more disturbed when Pooja decided to go back to her boyfriend ( oh please dont expect me to put spoiler alert for these type of movies).

 

There is also the whole Men are from Mars  Women are from Venus type dialogues. These annoy me  because they somehow sounds as if  all women are just one woman and all Men are just one single Man. I mean if only life were that simple, unfortunately 0.001% DNA variation  stands in the way. 

Here, though the compare contrasting were with  points I agree on. Besides, considering the way women are usually treated in current day Tamil Cinema, this movie is such a relief. A girl can actually break up with a guy and guy reasons himself to it - doesnt sing "adida avalai, vetra avalai .. (beat her, axe her.. ) - Seriously doesnt that alone make the movie oscar worthy?

PS: As an aside, having lived beyond those college years - watching a movie with all this talk about love, made me really wonder, should people invest in a college relationship with all seriousness of a marriage during college? - life in college should be fun and all this relationship sentimentality seems a bit much, no?

I am not an animal lover

in any remote sense even but this picture made me almost cry.

Clearly, economically it might not be easy to provide them space and commercially it might not make sense.

But this is not a way any living being should be treated!

Top Tamil movie dialogues

There are so many list of world famous dialogues listing out the  top 10 hollywood dialogues, but  I have never come across something similar for our tamil movies... If you know of one let me know. For now, here are the few I thought of..

1." ஓடினால் ஓடினால் வாழ்கையின் எல்லைக்கே   ஓடினால் .."

" Odinaal Oodinaal Vazhakayin ellaikey odinaal"  - Parasakthi

2."என்  குல  பெண்களுக்கு  மஞ்சள்  அரைத்து   தந்தாயா   ..  எதற்கு  கட்ட  வேண்டும்  கப்பம் "

" En kula pengalaku manjaal araithu thanthaya..  Ethurku katta vendum kappam"

Kattabomman 

3. "பாடு சாந்தா  பாடு .. உன்  பாட்டை கேக்க  ஓடோடி  வந்தேன் "

"Padu Santha Padu.. Un pattai keka ododi vanthen"

Konjum Salangai

4. "நீ  நல்லவனா   கெட்டவனா?"

"Nee Nalavana Ketavan?"

- There are way too many epic dailogues from this movie but this one is it, right?

5. " ஆத்தா  ஆடு  வளர்த்த, கோழி வளர்த்த ... ஆனா  நாய் மட்டும்  வளக்கவே    இல்ல " Aatha Aadu valartha, Kozhi valartha... ana Nai matum vazhakave ella"

Padinaru vayathinile

6. " நாட்டமை  தீர்ப்ப மாத்தி சொல்லு "

"Nattamai thirpa mathi sollu"

Nattamai, ofcourse

7. " இது ஏப்டி இருக்கு"

Ethu epdi erku" - Thalaivar's dialogues would easily cross 20 so just listing out one iconic one.

How about you guys add yours as well?

Ps: I just killed Tamizh and will never try to do this again!!!

Independence

The North Indians never respect us, we said. They call us Kaali, ugly, Madrasis. They scream that our Autowallahs refuse to speak in Hindi without realising that Autowallah had found their own sophisticated cosmopolitan language(Naastha Thuniya). What is common anyway between the Chapathi eaters and us, We asked.

We were never ruled by the same rulers.

So with pride of Cheran, Chozhan and Pandian, we decided to seek Independence, so Tamil nadu was spun off.

Then Coimbatore and erode people complained. The Chennai people think highly of themselves. They think A R Rahman is god(!). When we get lost in the city, they give us wrong directions. They mock our slow and steady Tamil when they don't even speak Tamil.

They have all the software companies, Thirupur said. Chennai looks at us condescendingly for being scared to walk through Ranganathan street, the vecchurava veeran from Madurai said.

So Chennai was spun off.

Annanagar screamed we are way too cosmopolitan to be part of this old city. Mylapore Maamis look down on our lack of distinct culture. TNagar mocks at our new money while resting on their Old Money. So Annanagar was spun off.

And I, who was born in west mambalam and who has spent several summers in Royapettah, lived the rest of my life with the partition woes stacked away in the corner of my mind.