Tonight,
when you gaze at the sky
you will find the constellation of togetherness.
Trace the silhouette of your new caravan
and wrap the infinity with your happiness.
wouldn't you?,
wouldn't you share even the syllables
and slice silence?
Dream of sharing the seasons,
summer into two
winter into three
Dream of transcending numbers to seasons
two into summer,three into winter.
Let every moment of your life
sublime to a metaphor.
When memories are the only left overs
of existence
you would also have
shared silence,seasons,numbers
And
collective dreams.
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This was the poem that Mathi, gifted us for the wedding. The most lyrical gift that we have ever received.
There is a bit of interesting history here regarding Mathi's writing. For those among you who don't know Mathi, he is a Nobel laureate in the making. Or a Booker winner, or a Pulitzer or something like that for sure. We knew this right from our good old college days. So myself and Subri, did something to cash in on his genius :). Like all smart business men of the past, who have feasted on the brilliance of the creators, we made Mathi sign an agreement, giving us exclusive printing privileges on anything that he creates.
CopyLeft :D.
Sankar
Monday, March 31, 2008
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Ippadikki Bharathi
I have been following Ippadikku Rose on Vijay very regularly. However, the programme on IT - how IT has affected our cultural and social life (yes...everyone wants to talk about this...) was terribly anti women, backward and judgemental. taking a moral high stand comes so easy to our people and one of the guests, Sivakumar (from madurai) is such a great example. He was talking of some sensational team building exercise that attempted at demonstrating how degenerated we have become..and it ended up demonstrating how pervert he was. It was about a bed sheet spread and about 100 people.."guys and girls together "cramming and of course..people who don't stick well enough and don't stand on the bedspread are out.. and Sivakumar was pissed that women agreed to do this... first nowhere have i heard such team building exercises. And that was just a pervert way of looking, evident from the number of times he emphasised on "guys and girls together" when he talked. Has it never happened that women get squeezed with men in buses, involuntarily that too? And preethi and Sivakumar talked as though they had no option but to take these team building and go to these parties to be accepted. CRAP. You will get fired if you don't go to parties only if you are a Page 3 reporter in magazines. Nowhere else.
Preethi was very proud of our people being ashamed of sex and embarrassed of sex...bingo..send her to AIDS campaigns..(contradictory to this a previous ippaidkki rose programme brought out nicely that most problems in India relating to sex has been due to oppressed sexuality).. oh of course we were very ashamed to only "talk" about sex...did anyone say..india has second highest number of people affected with AIDS. Preethi seems to be working in some weirdo organization ( I think its Kekhra and mekhra in Dubai kurukku sandu) , where people talk about sex openly, make love in breakout areas. She was just sensationalizing I suppose.
Has there never been Sexual harassment? Magalir mattum discussed sexual harassment in Garment companies years before computers came to India. Poor women they never had any Anti sexual harassment wing either those days. guys who have only seen girls are objects...as "figures" are the ones that need to be fired. ....But sadly though, even in major IT companies which employ only professionals (BE/ MCAs) in a metro like chennai, girls cant play badminton or basket ball in the court without ten guys staring at her..that The other side of the coin was of course kept in the dark in the discussion.
Sivakumar is like Mozhi's Bhaski. He is still in 1980s and gets a pat in his back from Rose for being so "clear" about staying in 1980s. He turned red talking of striptease and nude bars and was blushing. Someone please take him to his own town's suburbs and educate him about "record dance" (our answer to cabaret). Did IT bring that too? Why do we talk as if we are so morally superior.Doesn't Sivakumar watch Tamil movies? Am not saying its wrong but why blame an industry for that? I at least expected the girl to project a better image. She says 80% 0f the IT people are spoilt.. "80% kettupoitannga.." how can a woman who is hardly maybe 26 (so I would say about 4-5 years in IT) working in a IT cum Media (not even completely IT) take a judgement call about 80% of the entire IT population which runs in Millions? And how did she substantiate -changed to western clothing clothing and going to parties..??? They talk as if IT companies have rave parties or some such thing. All that It companies do most of the times is go for a bowling game and then a dinner.. maybe she would like to keep our culture there and have parties on aadi perukku in the beach and we can let guys play cricket and girls play paandi...or both can play catch catch but of course a guy shouldn't touch the girl when attempting to catch her..Dah...Rose should have said something here at least. She was wearing Western clothing herself. What is wrong? Gimme a break.
Ask them if they would marry within IT and both don't have the guts to raise their hands. Preethi doesn't realise that more Sivakumars in the IT industry would reduce her probability of getting married itself. Sivakumar would find some kudumba kuthuvillakuu who would make steaming filter coffee when he returns home. What would preethi do? marry someone outside IT "anti IT" guy and he would blame her for being culturally degraded cos she is in IT. Talk about Cultural degeneration due to IT and we all have only women to blame. Guna (another husband who lost his wife to IT) comes shamelessly says that his mother was "afraid" when his father came back from work and his wife wasn't. his wife went to places by herself and spent money by herself and dared to become "independent" . How drastic.
What is cultural degeneration according to these guys? - this is - That women don't pack their bags at 6pm and go home like they used to do in Banks? That women these days know that they don't have to be branded as prostitutes just because they wear western clothing, or they don't have to be afraid of their husbands or just married only because they have to feed themselves and their kids? Our whole society predominantly "including women"are male chauvinists. The happier side sadly exists...that parents don't worry if they don't have sons..their daughters would earn enough to afford them a good lifestyle in their retirement...without looking up for a budget sanction from her in laws or husband..that most girls earn good enough to fund their own marriages.. The bottom line is that, a person (guy or gal) who wants to take less moral ways would take it in any industry. IT industry has better work than running brothels.
Preethi was very proud of our people being ashamed of sex and embarrassed of sex...bingo..send her to AIDS campaigns..(contradictory to this a previous ippaidkki rose programme brought out nicely that most problems in India relating to sex has been due to oppressed sexuality).. oh of course we were very ashamed to only "talk" about sex...did anyone say..india has second highest number of people affected with AIDS. Preethi seems to be working in some weirdo organization ( I think its Kekhra and mekhra in Dubai kurukku sandu) , where people talk about sex openly, make love in breakout areas. She was just sensationalizing I suppose.
Has there never been Sexual harassment? Magalir mattum discussed sexual harassment in Garment companies years before computers came to India. Poor women they never had any Anti sexual harassment wing either those days. guys who have only seen girls are objects...as "figures" are the ones that need to be fired. ....But sadly though, even in major IT companies which employ only professionals (BE/ MCAs) in a metro like chennai, girls cant play badminton or basket ball in the court without ten guys staring at her..that The other side of the coin was of course kept in the dark in the discussion.
Sivakumar is like Mozhi's Bhaski. He is still in 1980s and gets a pat in his back from Rose for being so "clear" about staying in 1980s. He turned red talking of striptease and nude bars and was blushing. Someone please take him to his own town's suburbs and educate him about "record dance" (our answer to cabaret). Did IT bring that too? Why do we talk as if we are so morally superior.Doesn't Sivakumar watch Tamil movies? Am not saying its wrong but why blame an industry for that? I at least expected the girl to project a better image. She says 80% 0f the IT people are spoilt.. "80% kettupoitannga.." how can a woman who is hardly maybe 26 (so I would say about 4-5 years in IT) working in a IT cum Media (not even completely IT) take a judgement call about 80% of the entire IT population which runs in Millions? And how did she substantiate -changed to western clothing clothing and going to parties..??? They talk as if IT companies have rave parties or some such thing. All that It companies do most of the times is go for a bowling game and then a dinner.. maybe she would like to keep our culture there and have parties on aadi perukku in the beach and we can let guys play cricket and girls play paandi...or both can play catch catch but of course a guy shouldn't touch the girl when attempting to catch her..Dah...Rose should have said something here at least. She was wearing Western clothing herself. What is wrong? Gimme a break.
Ask them if they would marry within IT and both don't have the guts to raise their hands. Preethi doesn't realise that more Sivakumars in the IT industry would reduce her probability of getting married itself. Sivakumar would find some kudumba kuthuvillakuu who would make steaming filter coffee when he returns home. What would preethi do? marry someone outside IT "anti IT" guy and he would blame her for being culturally degraded cos she is in IT. Talk about Cultural degeneration due to IT and we all have only women to blame. Guna (another husband who lost his wife to IT) comes shamelessly says that his mother was "afraid" when his father came back from work and his wife wasn't. his wife went to places by herself and spent money by herself and dared to become "independent" . How drastic.
What is cultural degeneration according to these guys? - this is - That women don't pack their bags at 6pm and go home like they used to do in Banks? That women these days know that they don't have to be branded as prostitutes just because they wear western clothing, or they don't have to be afraid of their husbands or just married only because they have to feed themselves and their kids? Our whole society predominantly "including women"are male chauvinists. The happier side sadly exists...that parents don't worry if they don't have sons..their daughters would earn enough to afford them a good lifestyle in their retirement...without looking up for a budget sanction from her in laws or husband..that most girls earn good enough to fund their own marriages.. The bottom line is that, a person (guy or gal) who wants to take less moral ways would take it in any industry. IT industry has better work than running brothels.
Friday, March 28, 2008
Us
This is our first attempt at blogging...together.. :)) Sankar and I...! We want to write all trash that we can think of...from playstations to feminism..from cricket to ilayaraja..from history to oor vambu.. everything.. :)
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