There has been a recent Kannada film industry enforced moratorium on releasing new movies of other languages in Karnataka. It was initially set to 7 weeks, later reduced to 3 weeks. I understand the Supreme court has stayed if not revoked it but due to violent protests, not many new movies are getting released. A [...]

Yesterday, as I was watching will & Grace, I fell asleep. Suddenly I woke up a little after 11 and as per habit, started changing channels in remote before switching it off. In SCV was a song from Thappu thalangal (Panneer Pushpangaley), I stopped to watch it, it was followed by ‘Deivam thandha veedu’ from [...]

Comedy Actor Vadivelu’ is writing an article in Vikatan about his life and experiences. I have always liked his Madurai accent, although I belong to Chennai. The article is as interesting in the native Madurai Tamil and I could literally imagine him speaking those words. Good luck to Vadivelu.
Today, I made a bike trip to [...]

The arrest of Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, the seer of Kanchi mutt is the hottest news of the day here. It came as a big surprise as somehow, I was not aware of this issue till I saw news yesterday. As someone who is not very particularly enamoured of gurus and acharyas, I am not feeling [...]

After several delays, I was at last able to make the trip to Tirupathi. I took a packaged tour run by Greenline travels that left on 5/11 around 10 PM and came back home 6/11 6:30. The trip was wonderful, had to wait only 2 hours in the queue for the darshan. The service provided [...]

The Road often travelled:
This is a view of the newly laid NH46 between Krishnagiri and Vellore. This has become a kind of my favorite haunt in recent times. I had made this trip on the Ayudha Pooja day to have some Tamil food in Krishnagiri. It is always a pleasure to drive on this road. [...]