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unantha: Cluenatic is back.
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Nama Sutra: Say it with flowers
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Thursday, February 26, 2015. Say it with flowers. All of us are guilty of reducing flowers to the level of the Facebook ‘like’. It’s become the default placeholder reaction when you have pretty much nothing to say. Let me attempt to change things around by serving you some dew fresh trivia that will hopefully make your conversations more flowery. For every sunflower you’ve chanced upon, there’s a moonflower. Belonging to the Primrose family. Sometimes shapes influence the moniker. 'Dandelion'. Is derived...
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Nama Sutra: Two of a kind.
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Thursday, May 14, 2015. Two of a kind. Try visualising twins. Most people of my vintage are likely to imagine a bowler hatted, walking stick wielding, black suit wearing, moustachioed imagery of two comic detectives who go by the names Thomson and Thompson. Now here’s the kicker: although they appear identical and have near-similar names, the fictional fact is, they aren’t at all twins! Can you see the games the mind plays? A cursory look at Bollywood and Kollywood will reveal the extent of predictabilit...
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Nama Sutra: Panty And Friends
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Thursday, March 19, 2015. Panty is a very coy word. At least in India. It’s not to be bandied about in public. But if you’ve ever been to any of the IITs, chances are you’d have heard the boys talking about Panty excitedly as if it’s their chaddi-buddy. That’s because anyone with the surname ‘Pant’ is often addressed with this nickname! Another chap had a hairdo that resembled a porcupine which incidentally sounds like ‘Porukki Payan’ (or rascal in Tamil). From that day, his hostel mates ...A Gem of a St...
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Nama Sutra: Origin of Languages
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Thursday, June 18, 2015. A 1965 movie ‘Panchavarna Kili’. Is still etched in the minds of millions of Doordarshan viewers. Who can forget the epic sequence of KR Vijaya’s quivering lips over-emoting the ‘Tamizhukkum amudhendru per'. Number penned by poet Bharathidasan. Along with a liberal glimpse of the actress’s rubbery jaw and her pearly-pearlies, the song also gave us a hint of the meaning of ‘Tamil’. There are at least 770 more dialects to cover. If you lend me your ears, will be glad to leave y...
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Nama Sutra: Rotten Apple Syndrome
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Thursday, May 28, 2015. What comes to your mind when you think of Veerappan? That sandalwood smuggler with the handlebar mousch, right? And what visuals fill your head when you imagine ‘Lewinsky’? Most hot-blooded men are likely to see a ‘buxom intern’ and ‘Bill Clinton’s cigar’. Let’s take one more question. If you travelled with a bloke named ‘Godse’, which historic incident is likely to cloud your worldview? The assassination of a much loved old man, no? Don’t you get what I am alluding to? Fortunatel...
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Nama Sutra: The Gender Benders
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Thursday, July 2, 2015. Bruce Jenner was the ultimate male icon. At least during the 1976 Montreal Olympics. He bested the Soviets in Decathlon and was celebrated as an American Hero and even billed as ‘the world’s greatest athlete’. Cut to 1 June 2015. Jenner smashed another record. This time as a woman. She became the fastest to clock one million followers on twitter (FYI: 4 hours and 3 minutes)! Ramesh Venkatesan would have been yet another web designer had he overlooked his urge to start dressing as ...
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Nama Sutra: Being Poles Apart
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Friday, June 5, 2015. Every time someone tells you they know nothing about Poland, point them to the word ‘Schmuck’. The pejorative for a douchebag cum moron is derived from Yiddish word for the male genital organ which in turn comes from the Old Polish word ‘smok’ (meaning: grass snake). To be fair to the Poles, there’s a lot more to them than Schmucks and the stale old Polish Joke Books. The Wachowskis are a great advertisement for the country. The creators of The Matrix. The Polish language is widely ...
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Nama Sutra: Being bird brained.
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Thursday, April 23, 2015. Kingfisher is the beer that made the Mallyas rich. Eagle is the handy thermos flask you carry to hospitals. Dove is the soap that claims it isn’t a soap. Penguin is the publisher of books you never cared to read. Crane is that paaku thool. Betel nut) with that irritating jingle. A top-of-mind-awareness test of bird names is likely to throw up such learned responses from the smartest of city dwellers. That’s how much we know about the winged creatures. Appearances and plumage als...
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Nama Sutra: What's the Code Word?
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. What's the Code Word? MBAs hide behind their pretentious jargon. Likewise, spies get by with their khufia. Everybody knows that POTUS is the President of the United States and his aircraft is the Air Force One. But do you know what the CIA calls Air Force One? Bill Clinton was labelled ‘Eagle’. Not sure if it was inspired by his love for golf. Barack Obama was handed out ‘Renegade’ which might have been a dig at his supposed conversion from Christ...Even first ladies were assign...
