On Vijayadasami Day, the day for fresh beginnings and new learning, we provide some advice to the people who need them most: Parents. We tell them how to nurture musical and artistic skills of their children, because this column subscribes to the school of thought that academic education isn’t everything in life. Music Music is what binds this disparate world… Read more →
England to go Scot-free This week, as befitting a newspaper that lays much importance on neighbourhood-specific events, we focus on a very vital development, which of course is the impending historical referendum in Scotland. Scotland is to England what Anna Nagar is to Chennai — outsiders think they are part of the same entity, but the inside joke is that… Read more →
Before the world deals with the threats of ISIS and al-Qaeda, I think it will be better served if it focuses its energies on handling the more pressing problem of elephant dung coffee — a brew that is made out of coffee beans that have been consumed and — I can already feel the rising aroma — excreted by elephants…. Read more →
You could be a student/nonstop-talking RJ/party-attending millionaire/busy homemaker/bored techie/Chetan Bhagat/Rajnikanth/Rajnath Singh/doctor at a mental asylum. You could be anybody. But you are different from several crores of others. When the rest of the public are totally taking it easy on a festival-spirited three-day weekend, you have chosen to read this. What does this show? That you are a committed reader… Read more →
For a city that has turned 375, Chennai looks unmistakably young. Especially its streets look no older than 175 years. Hah, this is just some good-natured mild leg-pulling at the city which has a keen sense of heritage as this everyday happening will establish: The founding father of Chennai/Madras is said to be the Englishman Francis Day, and Chennaiites to… Read more →
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