My blog has been reached in record numbers for the past two days. Looks like the huge crowd is coming from this Google search of Dhanush-Aishwarya marriage.
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Have shifted to Total Choice
Have shifted to Total Choice Hosting service from Bloghosts. Bloghosts are closing for business and hence I had to switch to a new one. The guys at bloghosts were amazing and I didn’t want to actually leave them.
TCH guys gave away a great deal for bloghosts customers of a free upgrade. So currently I am on a plan that gives more bandwidth and ample storage space. These guys also have great support. What more do I need to ask for.
Last evening, I switched the nameservers and so for sometime you must have been seeing older entries because my new site was backed up few days back itself. I have brought back the older enteries from the copies I had. The comments of the last four posts are missing. I know the previous post did have a good debate going on. In a day or two I will back up all the comments and put them as they were posted.
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Contradicting Anbe Sivam
[pic: kapaleeswarar.com]Yesterday, I spent a warm evening at the Mylapore Kapaleeswarar Temple. This is the first time I had been to the temple since the consecration happened on August 30th 2004. To visit a temple within the first forty days of its consecration is tantamount to performing a Ashwamedha Yaga. I missed it anyway. Mylapore still remains/will remain to be the center of spiritual chennai. Not much has changed around the temple except for the new bhavans and hotels that have mushroomed. However, the roadside shop near the theradi still gives away tasty bajjis of all types.
After the kumbhabishekam, the gopurams glitter in the twilight with the backdrop of a bluish sky. Couldn’t take a shot as I didn’t have my digital camera. Usually I love the gopurams that have lost their paints which give them a antique look and re-itrating that truth stands tall over time. However, this mylapore temple has one of the finest gopurams in the city and I did bask that same pleasure even with the finest of paints.
That new red neon board fixed in the middle of the gopuram said, Anbe Sivam. Wow !! It meant a world to me. For Hinduism, isn’t to be seen as a religion. Its a way of life. Anbe Sivam is a much profound explanation to that definition. The ideology of Shiva, the theology of Hinduism all encompassed in just two words.
Inside the temple, near the sanctum sanctorum, the white cardboard read, Non-Hindus Not Allowed. Ah!! Red alert. With all that Anbe Sivam philosophy up the gopurams, this board with just a few feet away contradicts. It hurts. This is the second time I’m boring this over in the blog. The last time I vented this out was while I had been to the Madurai Temple. Why wouldn’t this be taken out may be a question to the believers who have understood the Hindu school of thought.
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Anand Wins Indus Technovators Award 2004
Anand Chandrasekharan, who guest blogs here , has won the Global Indus Technovators Award for 2004. Anand will recieve this award today at a special ceremony to be held from 6-9:30 pm. at Wong Auditorium, MIT .
I did know this news a couple of weeks back but was waiting to post it here only after they announced the technovators 2004 online. This award is given away by the Indian Business Club at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to recognize and felicitate 20 distinguished innovators of Indus origin working at the cutting-edge of technology that may be harnessed for far-reaching applications.
Anand co-founded Aeroprise from Stanford, which specialises in Mobile Workflow Management system. Having known Anand for sometime now, I’m personally happy for this acknowledgement and wanted to share it here.
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Kollywood Godfather
This post isn’t about the multitude of films that borrowed story ideas from the Hollywood classic Godfather. With the protests over english names for tamil movies still gearing up, I was suprised this morning to a see an film ad on tamil dailies that read, God father. A middle aged man with a thick white moustache and spectacles posed for the ad. He looked similar to our Ajith. Adjusting my eyes, I looked it up once more. It’s Ajith Kumar himself.
There was more to come. The film produced by NIC Arts is being directed by K S Ravikumar. The previous time Ajith and KSR combo worked out in Villain. Note the english name again. Ask for the technical crew and here you go with more. A R Rahman on the keys and PC Sreeram with the camera.
What more should we do but hope that KSR doesn’t re-use Jaggubhai‘s story here. But jokes apart, it is a dream combo especially with PC Sreeram joining the crew. Probably this was what Ajith mentioned in his Attakasam trailer as, Ezhundutaen, Tho Varen.
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