Wanna travel back in Tamil Calendar?

One very good tamil site, especially for the tamil history lovers. http://www.varalaaru.com. This is a monthly online magazine presently featuring sections like history-oriented fiction, ancient architectural styles, periodic traveller-essays about different places around the world, "Ilakkiachuvai" - essays under various thought-provoking topics with reference to ancient tamil literature. There are other good sections too but my little knowledge doesnot know in all those what is being written. The fiction is written by Gokul, he also handles the "Ilakkiachuvai" too. Both of them seems to be very good.

OMNIGLOT

While roaming over google, I just got into this interesting site. http://www.omniglot.com. It has scripts of about 150 writing systems of the world. The site claims that most of the sanskrit and other indian languages are derived from "Brahmi" script. But the present day indian scripts seems to have no relation with the Brahmi script. Easily one can use this site to learn literally any language's alphabets. Also this site features a puzzle section, in which some half-written or bewildering inscriptions on stones and objects are presented for viewers to decipher it.

Sentimental touch by Ganguly

http://www.hindu.com/2006/01/22/stories/2006012205161700.htm

On seeing this picture in today's Hindu, I felt like seeing a high sentimental Indi-film. It seems that he clearly missed out an opportunity at Lahore when he allegedly refused the opening. Then there is no gain in crying over the spoilt milk. Probably, he could take up on each and every opportunity in the team and if not selected, get some good runs and form in the domestic cricket before making an appeal for selection into the Team India. He was a great cricketer and taken India to new heights and desevers a grand farewell like Steve Waught got. He can plan things accordingly and now everything is in Ganguly's hands, getting a farewell or get-last card.

Flute Start-up

In the list of New year resolutions, "Learning Carnatic Music" also figures as an important bullet. As a postive step towards that is the Flute class, introduced by my friends Rajesh and Jaggy who are also working in another software company. Still my flute is like chennai water-tap only. Only air is coming out, no music by any way. It looks like playing from Sa to Ni and Ni to Sa itself is a great maestro achievement. The flute music by the way is too good to ears only when the master plays it. The caller tune in my mobile was Anbae Sivam. Immediately after hearing it for the first time, our Master Mr. Venkatesh played it in his flute with great ease. Amazed! Ok, hoping to get to some good tunes with the flute in days to come.

New Year Resolution

This is a part of my new year resolution. To maintain a blog. I had created this one sometime back in March 2005 but have never come back to it. I just thought that I am getting so much good from the internet, from so many face-unknown persons, but what am I giving back to them. So I shall share some of my thoughts here. Might be useful sometimes or might be totally crap many other times. You have full freedom to cut out the nonsense in my writings, feel free to add your comments.