Category Archives: tamil

What next?

Posted by toalakan-web on April 26, 2009 1 comments

I was totally shocked and surprised by this sudden move of the current CM of Tamil Nadu M Karunanidhi to go on an indefinite fast unto death today to bring a ceasefire between srilanka and ltte.

That too after  J Jayalalithaa declared she would strive to form Eelam if she wins the 40 seats.

Sooner or later some one is going to promise we will rename Tamil Nadu to Eelam if we form the government in central. We still got solid 17 days before D day so any thing can happen people be on the watch out…

If I’m right these 2 parties AIDMK and DMK ruled Tamil Nadu for last 30 years ,were part of most governments in central and this war has been going for last 30 years.

What are the odds of this scenario happening and a solution not being found for last 30 years?

-Updated April 27,2009 1.00PM

What a surprise the fast didn’t even last more than 3 hours?

Is it cosidered a fast if I dont eat between breakfast and lunch?

India Electoral Roll List search

Posted by toalakan-web on February 27, 2009 None comments

Yet again I was immersed  reading Wikipedia articles and I found a site that basically provides search interface to search the electoral roll list of India.

With elections on the way  this tool would avoid people from visiting the poll booth and return back with out voting since they aren’t in the list. It can be accessed from the below link.

http://search.eci.gov.in/

BTW I’m not sure if it really works because I kept encountering this login pop up which was annoying so I found the site for Tamil Nadu Election commison to check if I was there in the list.

One more you need to download their own tamil fonts and install. I know..

Bummer TN election has a search interface with Under construction message.  They do have another form which gives out tamil pdf for district – Constituency ward list for each of them.

Again bummer its in tamil so I can’t search in firefox or inside pdf which is a pain. So I had to literally read through all names in my ward and to every ones surprise I’m not listed :cry:

Waste of time. One good thing now I know my neighbours name and avoided a trip for my dad to check out the list.

Yamm Petra Inbam intha Vaiyakamum peratum..

தை பொறந்தா வழி பொறக்கும் தங்கமே தங்கம்

Posted by toalakan-web on January 15, 2009 3 comments

Thai Piranthal Vazhi Pirakum is an old tamil saying which means as the tamil calendar month of Thai is born you will find solutions to all your problems.

This year its true in my case since I finally got out of my cycle of cold -flu – bronchitis with this new month. Although doctor prescribed the medicine and I took it but still it counts as an solution right ain’t it.

Happy Pongal..

Here is the original lyrics from the song. Video Link for the song.

தை பொறந்தா வழி பொறக்கும் தங்கமே தங்கம் தங்க‌ ச‌ம்பா நெல் விளையும் தங்கமே தங்கம்

ஆடியிலே வெதை வெதைசோம் தங்கமே தங்கம்
ஐப்ப‌சியில் க‌ளை எடுத்தோம் தங்கமே தங்கம்
கார்த்திகையில் க‌திராச்சி தங்கமே தங்கம்
கார்த்திகையில் க‌திராச்சி தங்கமே தங்கம்
க‌ழ‌னியெல்லாம் பொன்னாச்சி தங்கமே தங்கம்
தை பொறந்தா வழி பொறக்கும் தங்கமே தங்கம்
தங்க‌ ச‌ம்பா நெல் விளையும் தங்கமே தங்கம்

க‌ன்னிய‌ரின் ம‌ன‌சு போலே தங்கமே தங்கம்
க‌ல்யாண‌ம் ஆகும‌டி தங்கமே தங்கம் ஆமா !
க‌ன்னிய‌ரின் ம‌ன‌சு போலே தங்கமே தங்கம்
க‌ல்யாண‌ம் ஆகும‌டி தங்கமே தங்கம்
வ‌ண்ண‌ம‌ணி கைக‌ளிலே தங்கமே தங்கம் ஆகா !
வ‌ளையல்களும் குலுங்கும‌டி தங்கமே தங்கம்
தை பொறந்தா வழி பொறக்கும் தங்கமே தங்கம்
தங்க‌ ச‌ம்பா நெல் விளையும் தங்கமே தங்கம்

முத்துச‌ம்பா நெல்லு குத்தி தங்கமே தங்கம்
முற்ற‌த்திலே சோறு பொங்கி தங்கமே தங்கம்
குத்து விள‌க்கேற்றி வ‌ச்சி தங்கமே தங்கம் ஆமா
குத்து விள‌க்கேற்றி வ‌ச்சி தங்கமே தங்கம்
கொண்டாடி ம‌கிழ்ந்திடுவோம் தங்கமே தங்கம்
தை பொறந்தா வழி பொறக்கும் ….


I’m not Sita – ur not Rama either

Posted by toalakan-web on January 7, 2009 4 comments

I have faced this situation n number of times every where I lived in United states of America whenever there is a talk about India or going to Hindi movies.

I’m going to redirect them to this post to find my answer because I’m tired of telling each of them individually.

There is a wide spread accusation that people from Tamil Nadu (India) don’t speak or hesitate to learn Hindi and they should speak it since its a national language. I can’t talk for the whole tamil speaking people but here is my answer to it

  1. If the need araises then I will learn hindi which I don’t see happening in near future.
  2. I’m too lazy to learn and Hindi would be the last thing I would even consider learning.
  3. I tried learning once hindi as a kid and failed miserably hence I’m staying away from it.
  4. I don’t have to prove my nationality by learning Hindi.
  5. I’m happy watching Hindi movies using sub titles.

No offense guys we can always communicate in english which I beleive every one of my friend knows.

Recession hurts Super Star

Posted by toalakan-web on December 19, 2008 3 comments

Not even Super Star movies are not safe from recession.

Shankar should rather spend more time on a good story rather than spending so much money on a single movie almost 120 crores.

Well Sun TV is going to run the promo although months together.  Remember Thambiku Entha ooru which gets re-telecast n number of times :) .

Well I have updated my wordpress theme to the holiday mood.

Stupid IE is screwing the layout will fix itwhen I get time. Until then use any other browser than IE.

Tamil Nadu school books available online

Posted by toalakan-web on December 18, 2008 1 comments

If you are one of the people who is looking out for tamil school books to teach tamil to your kid then you got a good news.

Tamil Nadu government has launched a web site some time in September 2007 containing digital copies of all school books published by Tamil Nadu text books publisher which I believe covers the state board and matriculation as well.

I do like to refer my  10th,11th and 12th math books some times for reference so kudos to TN government for initiating this project.

I would be more happy if they digitalize all the books published by them in previous years as well since the sylabus changes.

Sabapathy one of a kind

Posted by toalakan-web on November 10, 2008 None comments

There are some movies that you can watch n number times because they are so well made and the plot of the movie still applies today. Sabapathy released in 1941 falls under that category and a precursor to all comedy movies in tamil.

Most of the new comedians mostly take a thread from this movie and repackage to the current trend. One simple example is the repackaging of the master servant switching places story one example I could remember right away is Ullathai alithaa which was big hit in 90′s.

Some other surprising things I noticed are:

  1. People bribed even before India got Independence and it was even shown in movies. So bribe was something that we had it not something we generated after independence. Still we haven’t fixed it thats the sad part. Almost 70 years of promises by politicians.
  2. Tanglish was born and brought up even before the Dravidian parties was formed and it flourished. E.g ‘ivan nusiance thanga mudiyala sir’,'vera enna seilam brother’,'brother ithalam ippadi vaika’. The percentage is still low but Tanglish had it roots long before.
  3. Sabapathy father complains about his son not knowing to right 2 pages in tamil and my dad shares the same feeling. View @ 19.00 Minutes in Video 1.

70 years of time has passed but people haven’t changed.

What ever may be this is one good movie that I can enjoy watching any time any where rather than watching the new ones.

Please watch the movie if you get a chance.

What do you call it..

Posted by toalakan-web on November 4, 2008 None comments

A wonderful tamil song in Veera Thirumagan which I have been looking around for a long time since I didn’t know the movie name.

One more song that I have been looking around for some time because of my poor knowledge in Hindi which basically leads me to search with wrong keywords.

Well Yet another master piece out here..

What good will it do

Posted by toalakan-web on October 13, 2008 1 comments

What good will it do especially after the last fiasco with with Karnataka govt.

Google News in Tamil..

Posted by toalakan-web on October 7, 2008 None comments

Not sure how long Google News had tamil news feed from Aug 6 2008 but I just found about it today. Now I will be able read all crappy,funny and gossips from tamil news papers as well.

With every political party preparing for elections its going to be fun. Since none of the parties can give a definitive solution for high inflation in India TN politicians have smartly used the Srilankan Tamil cause as a scape goat to divert people from inflation.

“Yethanai kaalamthan yematruvar indhe naattile” (for how long will these people cheat in this country).

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