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On my recent trip to Bangalore, I happen to see Mr. Jayakantan at Chennai Airport. I had nothing to talk to him and didn't want to invade his privacy just because he is a celebrity. Some 23 years ago, writer Sujatha had visited a friend's mom's friend's club to preside over a function. We were eager to know what would happen to Muthukumaran when he was shot by the British soldiers in the story ரத்தம் ஒரே நிறம். I chose not to meet him as I didn't feel like. My friends did and their thrill died down in a few days. May be smart people like Sujatha or Jayakantan are more interesting when you are a friend than a fan. Fans are friends of the characters and not the writers who created them.

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I wanted to get familiar with NHibernate - a fine tool for object RDB mapping. After about two hours of work, all I have is a simple mapping of one table to a class. Most of the time, I keep searching for a nifty tool to map the DB columns to a class and auto generate the mapping XML. I haven't began understanding the representation of relationships. At this stage in career - The mind began slowing down, can't multiply 13 and 17 without a calculator. Attention span is reduced to a micro second. Eyes look for key words to click on a web page. If you don't know what PHBs are you are likely to be one.

I almost finished reading Mr. Sampath - The Printer of Malgudi by R.K.Narayan. I do want to write about it, but this is no review. Mr. Sampath is a great novel. R.K. Narayan was one the best story tellers of recent times who wasn't recognized enough in India. Literacy is around 50% in India and less than 10% know English and of that 10, 9 won't have the habit of reading books. So, statistics prove that English authors have less chance of recognition as compared to Hindi. For that matter, a great literary person in any Indian language other than Hindi doesn't get the due recognition. I'm digressing. Coming back to Sampath, it has everything to be made into a good movie. If someone dares to make a movie from this story, that will be ironical. But I have heard of this movie Mr. Sampath with Cho in the lead - but not sure if it is based on the novel. I'm sure they would have made a mess of it as they did with தனிக்குடித்தனம். A novel on paper gives so much freedom to th...

Visiting the US consulate in Chennai is an experience that most of us don’t forget in lifetime. The experiences aren’t often pleasant like the waits outside the consulate on a humid day in April or a grilling from a consulate official. I had gone through them. But there was one that is slightly different where I was a neutral observer to events. I entered the waiting hall for Consular Services in the US Consulate, Chennai at about 3 PM . I wasn't there for getting a US visa this time. I had just settled in Chennai after five years in the US . To close my bank account in the US , I had to get a notary seal from the consulate office at Chennai. So, there I was, waiting in a sleepy afternoon. The waiting hall was rectangular with the entrance on a broader side and a counter opposite to it. There were chairs on the perimeter. The entrance was not in the middle of the room, so there were fewer seats to the left than to the right. Two guys were sitting on...