Pain Management

This is the most heard term in the recent past. Especially if you are an IT employee it is something as famous as client calls but easily ignored until unless there is a sharp pain in neck, unable to turn with the usual 'Takku' when a colleague calls; when not able to bend swiftly and...

The Routine and the Pause

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you." - Leo Tolstoy. The Routine and the Pause are the way of life. There are numerous quotes on routine and pause. Leave quotes, in the walking life there is a tug of war on a daily basis whether to stick to...

Happy Birthday Madras!

The streets of Chennai It has been almost 4 years with this city. During school days many would have visited this place for short stints mostly for annual vacations year after year. Theme parks always give the feel ‘Once more polama’ in childhood days. For few, this place is ‘Porandham’ call it ‘Porandha veedu’. For...

The Standard Conditions of Temperature and Pressure

There are few situations that are repeatedly observed these days. All related to people management and how people perceive things as per their own wish and understand the so called ‘rule book’ with their view and try to apply it to all for all conditions. The first one, to put in a better way, to...

A Tale of Queries

Once upon a time there lived Neha Mami. Nay. Lived, lives, living. Why the name Neha Mami? Thenmozhi, Kanimozhi lam vaaika varappula irukanum nu illa, same to Neha. Thenmozhi, Kanimozhi or Neha all likely to become old sometime in life. Purinjavanga Pistha. So what Neha Mami does? She has a gun loaded with tracer bullets...

Harassment and being street smart

Seems one of my friends was offended on telling being street smart at the time of harassment. Questions like, ‘why guys are so?’, ‘Why not we fight against it?’, ‘Why only girls have to face this?’, ‘Why can’t superman come and save us?’, ‘Why not girls manhandle guys during such moments and expose the real...

இது பேறு காலம் இல்லா கர்பமா ?

A bird’s eye view of mental health awareness in Tamil cinema. Anniyan is just another movie in ‘Yezhuthu Rakshasar’ Sujatha Rengaranjan – Creative Director Shankar combo. But this one isn’t a review exactly. A shift in perspective. The movie was released in the year 2005. The movie cannot be put in the usual category ‘Good...