Native

Native place is very special to everyone, especially for fella’s like me, who are from rural areas. Me and my wife used to fight which one is great (though our natives are adjacent ones within a km)
I tend to ask this questions to all my foreign friends whenever they order for ‘Madras Lamb Curry’ from an Indian restaurant.

“Do you know what 'Madras' meant in Madras Lamb Curry?”

Usually the answer would be ***Blink*** or “Isit the person who invented the curry?” and the few sharp ones wud give the right answer.
With all pride I would give the answer explaining I am from the same place (and the hidden part is Do you have anything spl from your native?? Haha)

Whenever we Indians meet here the intial discussion would be “ where are you from in India?”

“Madras”

“Where in Madras?”

“Not exactly Madras, native is down south mmm Do you know Tirunelveli”

“I know Tirunelveli – where there?”

“Tirunelveli district – Ambasamudram”

recently when I had this discussion with a Srilankan Tamil family in a friends party

“Ambasamudram – yeah we know that place very well”

***1000 watts bulb in my face*** Isit – how come?

“Infact we are looking forward to visit Amabasamudram in our next India trip”

“howwww whyyy” (****whats so special there while I am here ;) ***)

“Its very famous noo…”

“**(now got it) collars up*** – isit through tamil cinemas you know that place?" ****almost most of the recent films are filmed there only, haaa its very popular location you see ****

“No no – that’s where Sun TV Annamalai serial was filmed right? That temple is so nice that we wanted to visit that temple. Have you been there?”

me- ***blink blink isit I never knew this apart from that loosu character in that serial**** Ohhhh yeeeaahh…yes …we have been there…(was looking at my wife for help *** Do you know which temple they are referring*****

My wife – “Its not exactly in Ambasamudram – it’s a near by place Alwarkurichi”. Thank god she watched it while at India and knew something about this

Me – “****that’s enuf I will samalichufy now**** yeah that temple is famous I did my college there…blah blah even Marmadesam serial was filmed in a near by place Brammadesam ….blah blah”

My wife was staring at me ****enuf enuf idhu kooda unga oorra pathi theriyala thoooo (don’t you know even this about your place?) ****

Pardon???

I am sure many of us will remember the Purulia arms drop incident. Foreign nationals involved in this incident were convicted and were sentenced to life imprisonment. I was shocked to read that most of them are now pardoned and released just because of their Government intervention. I can't see any justification in this. Will US release the Indian arms dealer who was last year arrested for selling arms to terrorist, if India requested a pardon for him? Or would UK entertain any such cases? Don’t know if this is my ignorance, but I can’t digest.

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Tube, Train and Rayil

Was late into office today as bcos of the heavy snow yesterday. As expected the train and tube services were at chaos. Even in summer whole rail network was in chaos bcos of very high temperature one day. And guess the so called very high temperature – It was 36 degrees Celsius and was only for a day. Phew, I think Indian Railway network is much more resilient, for the scorching summer and lashing rains we experience.

MP vs Newspaper

"The Sun" is one of UK's leading selling papers. Its very popular for the page 3 topless models.
Recently Clare Short, Labour MP repeated her attack on the daily diet of pictures of topless women in the tabloid. The Sun in response published more topless models in Page 1 itself and featured a morphed topless model image with Clare Short's face. To add to all these it sent a delegation of Page 3 models to the MP's house in a double decker bus.

hmmm It was totally different style when compared to Indian politics.

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எஙக ஊர் மாதிரி ஆட்டோ மட்டும் இருந்திருந்தா இப்பிடியெல்லாம் நடக்குமா??