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The Director's blog: Two Dogs & Hindi
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Friday, April 09, 2010. Two Dogs and Hindi. Having set the platform right, I should tell about my latest inglorious tryst with language chauvinists. I use the term Chauvinist because they are so. Who else will find a guy like me who bats for his mother tongue as a Chauvinist? A fundamental thing like me slipping into Tamizh while I speak or arguing against the fact that Hindi is our national language makes me appear so to them. Well didn’t I tell that I deal with ignoramuses! In one of my earlier posts.
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The Director's blog: Whom to vote for ?
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Saturday, April 12, 2014. Whom to vote for? So either it is Congress or BJP. I have a huge laundry list of reasons on why one should not vote for Congress. Weak Leaders (There was a time Congress was still left with leaders who had self-respect. Indira Gandhi effectively killed it. No wonder D.K. Barooah said India is Indira, Indira is India). Not many achievements to boast about (A departure from Nehruvian economy is what changed this country and we should credit the current PM in his capacity as an eco...
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The Director's blog: Pericope Adulterae
http://afterdark-afterdark.blogspot.com/2010/03/pericope-adulterae.html
Friday, March 12, 2010. It has been bugging me for a week now! This collective fascination about pornography we have as a tribe in Tamizh Nadu! I am surprised that educated people fall for such con artists. One may get into some pop psychology and blame the fast paced life that we have and our penchant for instant gratification in a fast-food world. But why such Godmen? If I ever get motivated to learn these 3 disciplines, the first thing I am going to do is become a Swamiji like this! And if someone was...
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The Director's blog: Victim of Chauvinism
http://afterdark-afterdark.blogspot.com/2007/05/victim-of-chauvinism.html
Wednesday, May 23, 2007. Some of my views have been extremely chauvinistic. I typecast people sometimes based on where they come from or what language they speak. There is this easy generalization about how one will behave just because where he comes from or what language he talks. I had my turn today. But contrary to curing my chauvinism, it has only accentuated it. And attitude was their preserve with or without actual cause ). I was flabbergasted and it ensued in a fight between, not because I was hol...
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The Director's blog: Srilankan Tamizh Struggle
http://afterdark-afterdark.blogspot.com/2009/05/srilankan-tamizh-struggle.html
Wednesday, May 27, 2009. I don’t know whether it is still sedition in this country if I eulogize about the armed struggle of the Tamizhs and their leader Prabhakaran! But in the current mood I don’t think I would mind if I am charged so. It is a shameful thing to realize that how people are capable of seeing the same stuff in the way that suits their fancy. The Srilankan story is one such phenomenon. The Tamizhs and Sinhalese were two distinct kingdoms and the Portuguese, Dutch before the British and als...
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The Director's blog: I am back
http://afterdark-afterdark.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-back.html
Thursday, November 06, 2008. Come to think of it, this is really an addiction. With no defined withdrawal symptoms or a detox program! I was into too much reading and some of them real good ones. And maybe I wanted to drop the pretense of ‘I also write something’. And every time something strikes my fancy, I always felt that it has been written about in the previous blogs or just plain indifference took over. Come to think of it , maybe there is a lot to write. I am back! Welcome back, Maams! The Rise an...
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The Director's blog: Shame on us
http://afterdark-afterdark.blogspot.com/2008/11/shame-on-us.html
Thursday, November 27, 2008. A country of a billion people! Claiming to be a new power in the world! Boasting endlessly on what all we can achieve in the next 20 years! Maybe I should add ‘If we are alive’. If you are in any of the Metro’s save Chennai, can you honestly say that you are not running the risk of getting killed any day? It just doesn’t sink on us. The famed Indian tolerance comes to our rescue here. So does our Karmic philosophy. If you gotta go, you gotta go! Because you are an Indian and ...
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The Director's blog: No Smoking
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Monday, May 31, 2010. There are certain things that never cease to amaze me. I feel it is not an exclusive thought. Guess everyone thinks so. In fact one of the many questions that Yama asks Yudhishtra is ‘what is the most surprising thing of all’ and his reply that pleases Yama was, ‘When people die everyday, each one believes that they would live forever’. For each, there is some surprise! There are plenty of answers to that. But a couple of them are relevant to this subject. No 2 is that, please try t...
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The Director's blog: Keep Walking?
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Friday, December 20, 2013. If I only had I known a morning walk can give a lot of material to write I would have started it long time back. It is just an hour in a lonely stretch of 250 meters doing laps after laps. If this can give add so much humor to life, I will be soon moving to beach walks and enhance the experience multifold. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Chennai, TamilNadu, India. View my complete profile. Blogs that I frequent. Sugar, Spice and Everything Nice. Me, Myself and Mine only.
