http://rkarthik.blogsome.com Let me understand myself Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:41:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I don’t know for how many years that we kept listening to his “Indru Oru Thagaval” through AIR Chennai (If my memory serves me right, it was at 7:40 am or something). In fact I had a Social Studies teacher who used to discuss about his “Indru Oru Thagaval” in ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2009/09/17/remembering-thenkatchi-ko-swaminathan/ I remember in the 1990’s when bilateral series were not as common as they are today. During working days our school library had a TV that we used to watch in between classes and during breaks. If time was very short, we would just ask anybody coming from the general ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2009/08/09/illayarajaa-etc/ I guess I needed some sort of a change as things were getting a bit mundane. What a better way to do that than a new project, change of location and opportunity for direct interaction. After about half a dozen flip flops that threatened to throw plans out of ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2009/07/20/back-in-the-us/ Coming to think of it, it’s still hard to believe it is a coincidence! The probability of a hero of a movie having your name is reasonably high (especially, as a friend tells me, if your name is so common that in a group of 5 random South Indian men, there’s ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2009/05/04/whats-in-a-movie-name/ Reference: The same people? Surely not Please answer the following questions: 1. Tamil actor ilayathalapathi Vijay’s actual name is Joseph Vijay. Why did he leave out Joseph and just have Vijay? 2. Another actor Vikram’s actual name is John Kennedy. His close friends call him Kenny. He chose to call himself Vikram, which ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2009/04/22/question-to-vir-sanghvi/ Does being a successful entrepreneur and an alumni of BITS / IIMA qualify one to represent people? Agreed that the guy, if elected, will probably fall in the 99th percentile of MP’s in terms of education. Agreed that he shows a semblance of vision for his constituency if you go ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2009/04/21/election-round-up/ Kuppu: Hi Suppu. Suppu: Hi maama. Kuppu: So what’s up. How’s your school going? Suppu: As usual, nothing special. In fact I find it boring. Kuppu: Hmm…you’re too young to find life boring. Not so soon… Suppu: I just find my school boring. I definitely find a lot of things interesting outside school. Kuppu: Like? Suppu: Like ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2009/02/27/tamil-names/ Sufficient alarms have been raised in the Indian newspapers about Obama’s speech to the US Congress, specifically on sections of the speech that deal with outsourcing. While I agree that Obama’s made-for-the-gallery (just like Tamil kuthu songs made for front benchers) speeches take a long time to comprehend, it is ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2009/02/26/p222/ I found it hard to believe when a colleague mentioned that Indian Railways has introduced side middle berths in most of the coaches of trains starting from Chennai. Middle berths themselves were new to people who travelled in meter gauge trains. When I first encountered them, I found them so ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2008/12/18/middle-side-berths/ Till recently, I was not a regular viewer of the current Super Singer season. The reason was that they took the 2006 edition too far, stretched it as much as possible, gave so much air time to the outside-music activities like getting the finalists dressed up, just stopping short of ... http://rkarthik.blogsome.com/2008/12/04/airtel-super-singer-2/