Tsunami (su-naa-mi - Tamil for Death by waves)
This is a little late and too little. The biggest disaster of our times happened at the tail end of this year 2004. Over 125,000 lives lost including 10000+ in India. My state TamilNadu the worst affected in India with over 7000 deaths and millions homeless. It was [...]

PV Narasimha Rao, former Prime Minister and the prime architect of India’s economic liberalisation died. The man whose autobiography is named “The Insider” is actually an outsider and the first real non-Nehru family PM (LB Shastri was there for a short time only). An intellectual and a linguist, he made history by being the first minority [...]

At last it is going to happen. A direct flight to Us from Chennai. Delta has announced a flight between Chennai - New York via Paris starting May 2005. Rediff link The long wait is over now. Hope many more airlines come to Chennai soon. I dont think Air-India is really focussing much on South [...]

Hats off to Anil Kumble for becoming the highest wicket taker for India. He is the most under appreciated cricketer but has proved all critics wrong and showed that theory is no match for performance.
Once again my greetings and wishes for completing 500 wickets soon.

This was another movie that got a good press and was a commercial success, but I was still disappointed with the movie. The first half was Ok but the second was intolerable. Too much sentiment and the hero Ravi, shouts a lot. I would still rate him ahead of both Dhanush and Simbu though. Songs [...]

Yes, you have read correctly, its not a typo for China, it is Chennai only. On my recent visit to Chennai, I saw on many of the bigger roads the existing medians (dividers) being replaced by what looks almost like half a wall (Kutti chuvar!!). It seems, people rarely give respect to medians and so [...]