I just saw something on Facebook (I suppose a friend sent the wrong link) which showed a photo of three girls smoking, and a series of comments about them being "bad girls ( Read more... )

From this post from premkudva"Then there is an uncle who tells us that in Cochin they enforce the seat belt rule. And how he was once stopped. And how he said that buses should also have seat belts, and that Cochin with its clogged roads [and max speed of 20 kmph as per him] doesn't require seat belts. All this he delivers to the local constable who has ( Read more... )

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Sorry, some amendments are in order ( Read more... )

Must write about Swamimalai Sterling Resort and about my wine-tasting experience...but am just listening to Tamizh classic film songs on Thein Kinnam on Jaya TV and it was interspersed by ads...particularly ONE campaign ad for Amma (can you believe it, the theme for today is also "thaai"(mother)?)...so emotional, describing ONE Mother (with a ( Read more... )

This was prompted (as are several thoughts) by a television program I watched. Every day, I tape "Thein Kinnam", which brings old Tamizh film songs. Today's episode was compered by L.A.Rajakumar, a film music composer...and one of the songs which he described as a classic, an all-time great was from the movie Sivantha Mann...and it had a dancer in ( Read more... )

Why are we such mealy-mouthed hypocrites? Heroes are sooo mother- and father- and family- loving and marriage is soooo touted and all other relationships between a man and woman are frowned upon with shock and scandal and of course man-man or woman-woman relationships are NEVER dealt with...when Deepa Mehta's picture came out, there were people ( Read more... )