Posted in maamis, tagged tirunelveli, Tamil lullabies, Tygaraja, Murugan on January 29, 2008 | 30 Comments »
“So what do I sing?” I asked Amma.
She never minced her words. “There are no lullabies that I know of meant to put a baby girl to sleep”, she said, her tone dead-pan and final.
Huh? This bit came as a surprise.I remember that until the last day that I left her home, my lasting memory of [...]
Posted in talk, tagged Nellai, idli, SIET, Sri Sri Ravishankar, Shahrukh on January 25, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I was a loser at getting physical.
I mean I could never hold up to playing any sport. I just didn’t have the stamina for physical activities like sports. Whaddya expect having grown up on a diet of thayir saadam, erumai paal and mutakosu kari? And having spent the first ten years of my life falling ill with [...]
Posted in men, tagged Cholamandal Artist's village, East Coast Road, K.M.Adimoolam, small magazines on January 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
K.M.Adimoolam
I met him first in the summer of 1994. His house stood on the sandy East Coast Road, resting cheek-by- jowl on the Cholamandal Artists’ Village. The garden was covered in lush foliage, shady coconut trees and blooms of rhododendrons, boungenvillea and flower shrubs. His atelier was well-lit with the sun streaming through bay windows and the green creepers [...]
Posted in talk, tagged Barkha Dutt, Rajdeep Sardesai, NDTV, CNN IBN, Sun TV on January 19, 2008 | 19 Comments »
And I have to announce that the winners are…… the newscasters from the varied Tamil TV channels and other regional channels.
I no longer have TV viewing rights in the family. The fellas have taken over. When we moved to our home here, after much debate and disregarding decor dictums of the day, we plonked our telly in the living [...]
