The Moonstruck Mystique...

If only I had known how much you'd loved me... If only you had told me once and I would've been yours If only I had had the slightest clue and we'd have lived together this life through for I had loved you so but couldn't confess.... I wish I had; I'd have at least tried... And now when I began to forget you came into my life again.. and told me what you oughtn't to; what now could I possibly do.... I am bound by another's love its only him for me now... If you couldn't then, why tell me now? If you think it helps then tell me how... for now I feel torn apart.. too much pain I bear in my heart. I'd yearn for you and you never knew hurt it did that I kept it from you.. But now our pain of longing hurts me more. no, my love... we were.. but long long ago now its just too late blame it on me or on fate... I love him so hurt him, I cannot. it just isn't anyone's fault. Now leave me alone, just let me be we were probably never meant to be... Don...

Most of us hate going to a government office of any kind in India. The snails pace at which the employees discharge their duties, the importance they give to chatting amongst each other rather than attending to people, the lack of concern towards our time or energy and so on. And the thorough mismanagement of affairs. No one knows what the rules are, most don't know who is in charge of what and the one you go in search for is on a week's leave! I came across such a thing when I was travelling home two weeks back at the Chennai Central. Having been suffering from severe backache further aggravated by my use of the prosthesis, I had decided to engage the services of the golf-cart like carriage within the station meant for the physically challenged to get to my coach rather than walk as I was advised rest. I went to the enquiry counter and I was asked to wait. I asked them if they had a phone number by which I could request for this service once I alighted at the station to whic...

It is Independence day tomorrow and one of the two days of the year ( cricket matches not withstanding) when the Indian feels patriotic. We will have the tricolour flying all over and people greeting each other ( if at all ); the goosebumps and the blood rush while hearing 'Vande mataram'. But to be very honest I don't think most of us, including myself, are patriotic in the true sense of the word. Pinning a flag on your shirt or singing the national anthem out loud does not prove our love for the nation. First, let us learn to value a human life. Let us learn to respect an individual for the choices he makes. Let him have his right to make them; infact give him a choice to make in the first place. Two days back I read a news item in the newspaper that a tribal girl was paraded naked through the village and it was even videographed and circulated as an MMS clip. And all this for having liked a boy outside the community. The girl and the father are under police protectio...

Mother, I wish I could understand the deal of how you think and how you feel... for when I'm happy, you just smile by an eye yet when I'm down, you pine more than I... When I want to give up, when I can take no more you take me by my hand and pull me ashore... You tell me I'm not alone, that together I am we whatever the problem, we'll find the key... How I forget every worry hiding in your bosom How you've taught me to never succumb... You are my conscience, my inner soul You are my strength and path to every goal... When I'm scared, when I'm unsure I yearn for you cuz you believe in me and know me more than I do... You are my life and this is true when I want the world, all I need is you.  ********************************************************************************* They say that God gives us mothers because he cannot always be with us. I'm luckier cuz I have two... they have always been my best friends.  I find it very interesting that tho...

The following photo was taken on Velachery Main Road in Chennai... where a dog was sitting pillion on a scooty. It was amazing the way our friend was balancing himself for he didn't have the space to move even a little. Later, he actually sat down on the carrier-seat. He did look more comfortable that way. Though the picture isn't clear I couldn't help not posting it.

Yes. I watched the movie and I'm going to write about it. In one line. I'm wondering who in the world gave it 4 stars and why? Just one look at the posters... woaah... what I star cast I must say. When my cousins asked me if I wanted to go, I said sure. After all, one can watch the movie only for the star cast. But now I realize that one can watch it only for the star cast. Not taking credit away from Prakash Jha. We all know he is a good director and makes serious films. But the story here really wasn't all that great. Bad politics it is but too many subplots. Too much confusion for a normal viewer. The pace of the movie was good. Another good thing was that none of the characters were larger than life in the sense that all characters were shown with both their good sides and their grey shades. It was never that this guy is good and the other bad. Much effort has gone into careful character sketching of all the main protagonists. Weirdest scene: The one with Shruti Se...

Some people have them some people don't. I am the former. Well, which is right? Now this is another of those questions that don't have an answer. There have been plenty of instances where I have been severely criticized for having one. I know of friends who are forbidden from having opinions let alone voicing them only because they are girl children while their male siblings have a say in matters. There was a friendly neighbour back home in Kerala who came home on a Sunday morning and was talking to dad and me. As my dad was on the look out for a groom for my sister, he turned towards me and asked what kind of a guy we were looking out for. Since he had majorly aimed the question at me and my dad was waiting for my answer too; also for the fact that I was clear about it, I told him what I thought... not from dad's point of view but mine... that my sister had spent enough time outside India that she wouldn't want to find a guy who lives abroad especially in places like...