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Readers Write In #694: One Nation One Election- a leftist perspective/rant

May 12, 2024

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By G Waugh It sometimes pains me to think that most people, a majority of us, laymen and the educated alike, while assuming that we are socially conscious citizens, often care very less about what exactly needs to be cared the most – the economy. When I say economy, I hate to use terms that […]

Readers Write In #693: Can ten days of meditation change your life?

May 4, 2024

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By Hari PR In this post, I try mostly to make sense of the ten days I spent in a vipassana meditation course of ten days. I have dabbled in meditation before and have also participated in a few online meditation communities. My pet theory is that ‘serious’ meditation practice (lasting for about an hour everyday or […]

Readers Write In #689: Translations, Tamil Literature and Posterity

April 21, 2024

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By Eswar What do ‘Crime and Punishment‘, ‘One hundred Years of Solitude‘ and ‘The Little Prince‘ have in common? They are all famous literary works that are, even to this day, widely read all over the world. Yet, all of these works were not originally written in English. For ages, it didn’t dawn on me […]

Election talk… for those interested!

April 13, 2024

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BTW, do these stunts still work?

Readers Write In #687: Trees that are trees, and trees that are not

April 10, 2024

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By Iniya A I have many trees. So do you. Everyone does. There are the childhood trees. The large canopied neem and gulmohar trees that you grew up with. Trees that you swear were small once, but you can’t ever recollect them that way, because you were small too. Trees that you first climbed. Trees […]

Readers Write In #682: Retracing the past one year at a time

April 5, 2024

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By Rahini David I was reading the recent and very relatable RWI by Abishekspeare and the reply was getting long enough to be its own RWI and so here goes. The disillusioned feeling after months of over-consumption of social media is so common and it happens so regularly to so many of us that it is a […]

Readers Write In #681: Smart Gadgets, Dumb Humans

March 27, 2024

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By abishekspeare My favorite pastime is to go down the memory lane. I do it a lot. I could reach a point in the future where most of my memories are me thinking about my memories. And every time I erupt into a nostalgic zone of “They don’t make music like this anymore”, cursing the […]

The TM Krishna affair… aka The controversy over Sangeetha Kalanidhi

March 22, 2024

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The Madras Music Academy conferred TM Krishna with the Sangita Kalanidhi, the highest award in the Carnatic music scene. While some musicians have come in his support, others have registered their protest by returning awards and boycotting the Music Academy Conference 2024. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatoday.in/amp/music/story/explained-controversy-around-musician-tm-krishnas-sangita-kalanidhi-award-carnatic-vocalists-ranjani-gayatri-and-harikatha-exponent-dushyanth-sridhar-withdraw-from-the-academy-2517733-2024-03-21 For those who want to talk about this issue…

Readers Write In #673: Can we manifest an earth bereft of rapes?

March 10, 2024

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By Neerajaa Raghuraman Who gives us the right to harm another human being or even touch them without their consent? Be it a 5 year old or 50 year old,every being has the whole grand right to lead a free life as you do, with all due regards. I strongly feel the glorification and normalisation […]

Readers Write In #670: An awareness post regarding the spam calls people are getting

February 25, 2024

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By Hari hi all – A few days back i got an automated call stating that my number is going to be deactivated and press 9 for more information. When i pressed 9, i was told that my aadhar has been misused by someone else in getting a new phone number and using that phone […]

Readers Write In #664: Is man evil by nature?

February 7, 2024

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By G Waugh ‘Man by nature, is selfish. That is precisely why socialist societies don’t get created so easily unless by force. Even if they do, they don’t last’ I have seen these lines being offered as counter-argument whenever I had tried to ‘convert’ my friends or relatives into socialism. *** When you ask me […]

Readers Write In #661: कलि के शंकर खोटे

January 20, 2024

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By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma हिय में इनके दरसन राजे, मति में पोथे मोटे भगति बिसराय नीति बखाने कलि के शंकर खोटे। अवध बुलावे भूरि भाव से, ये‌ अहं में लोटे-पोटे इतिहासन‌ में दर्ज़ भयेंगें‌ चतुर नाम कलकोटे। तिमिर जलधि में ज्योत जराई, आदि प्रभु थे छोटे बड़कन बना रहे पीठन को भरम भरे‌ परकोटे। राम-राम […]

Readers Write In #644: Anything but a slut

November 15, 2023

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By Aparna Namboodiripad (tonks) I was hearing a lot of buzz on social media about how Deepika Padukone was cheating on Ranveer Singh, and people were trolling and slut- shaming her for her words, “In my mind I was committed to him, but I was seeing other people”. So I wanted to see what the […]

Bitty Ruminations 97 – Work-life balance

November 1, 2023

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Madan wrote this about Narayana Murthy telling youngsters to work 70 hours a week: “I have worked 70 hour weeks.  In fact, in my first corporate assignment (with a multinational bank), I often worked 15 hours a day 6 days a week – i.e. 90 hour weeks. Happy, Mr Murthy?  Well, you wouldn’t be so happy to […]

From the Web (FTW) #13: The #MarakkumaNenjam concert fiasco

September 14, 2023

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As requested, a link to Madan’s piece: “Even the most idolized of celebrities in India cannot escape their very Indian failings at the end of the day. And the God of music now find himself in an unholy mess. ” https://rothrocks.wordpress.com/2023/09/13/in-the-name-of-god-the-marakumma-nenjam-fiasco/

Readers Write In #607: The new normal in Tamil cinema that’s abnormal

July 27, 2023

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By Madhumithaa Jai Bhim, Viduthalai, Por Thozhil. This is just a quick list off the top of my head. There are definitely more movies that will effortlessly make it to this list. There’s a disturbing pattern that I notice in these movies, and an even more disturbing pattern with the audience. The disturbing pattern is […]

Readers Write In #600: Moral Responsibility in Choices

July 7, 2023

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By Deepika Santhanakrishnan Group decision making is a contentious topic in economics. More contentious than the ability to make and analyse choice(s) made in groups is, how to make the members of the groups take moral responsibility for the (undesirable) outcomes of their decisions. In view of this, there are two kinds of arguments within […]

From the Web (FTW) #11: சாதியை இந்துமதம்தான் உருவாக்கியதா?

June 29, 2023

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அதாவது மக்கள் சாதியாக பிரிக்கப்படவில்லை. சாதிகளாக ஒருங்கிணைந்தார்கள். அவ்வாறுதான் இந்திய சமூகம் உருவாகியது. Read the rest here: https://www.jeyamohan.in/185101/

Readers Write In #585: Book Review: Plassey- The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History

June 7, 2023

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By Vishnu Mahesh Sharma Who would have thought that a physician’s treatment of an emperor’s groin would lay a cornerstone for one of the decisive battles of Indian History? Who would have thought that a helpless nymphomaniac widow would cast a spell of doom on one of the richest provinces of India? Who would have […]

Readers Write In #584: Diving straight and dissecting into the micro level of why mass unnatural disasters happen

June 5, 2023

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By Neerajaa Raghuraman I am not understanding the joke universe is trying to play on us with these mass deaths and injuries. Though there might be a lot of discussion at macro levels, I directly get into heart level discussion here. I think people should be allowed to love without restrictions. Responsibility from a place […]

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