Good Trailers I came across..

I leave the stories for the trailers to tell...:)

Pandorum

Capitalism

Law Abiding Citizen

The Men Who Stare at Goats

En Thaai Pirandha Desam

I have known this song for a long time and its one of the songs close to my heart. When I listened to this now, I can relate this to the lost cause. I have just given the verses which I felt were directly related to the lost cause. The movie is Siraichalai (Kalapaani in Hindi) and music by Ilayaraja. The songs starts as 'Idhu Thaai Pirandha Desam...'

வீரனை குண்டுகள் துளைக்காது
வீரத்தை சரித்திரம் புதைக்காது

நாட்டை நினைக்கும் நெஞ்சங்கள்
வாடகை மூச்சில் வாழாது

இறந்த உயிர்களோ கணக்கில்லை
இருமி சாவதில் சிறப்பில்லை

இன்னும் என்னடா விளையாட்டு
எதிரி நரம்பிலே கொடி ஏத்து!

நிலத்தடியில் புதைந்திருக்கும்
பிணங்களுக்கும் மனம் துடிக்கும்

தாயோ பத்தே மாசம் தான்
அதிகம் சுமந்தது தேசம் தான்

உயிரும் உடலும் யார் தந்தார்?
உணர்ந்து பார்த்தால் தேசம் தான்

இந்த புழுதி தான் உடல் ஆச்சு
இந்த காற்று தான் உயிர் மூச்சு

இன்று இரண்டுமே பறி போச்சு
இன்னும் என்னடா வெறும் பேச்சு?

Religious Rants

If you are an atheist, there is just one religion for you. If you are a theist, then God save you! Half the problems in today's world are either through religion or religious men.

I am a theist. I am not religious.

I do not want to get into whether Religions came through God(s). All I make out is that there were some very clever men behind the framework of each religion. Generation after generation, these men moulded the framework. They thought of all the problems in society at that point of time and tried to address them in the framework. They also thought of all the natural disasters and calamities they did not understand then and again fit them in the framework. Add to it, things they did not like happening in the society and lo! they are the most important part of the framework.

The end products, as we see today, is the work of so many people. But what we fail to understand, across religions, is that they were still human made. Tell me one product made by humans which is infallible and irrefutable?

The question is not whether I need to follow a religion. The question to ask is whether I, as a human, need to follow another human blindly? If some human, who just by living a few thousand years before me has the advantage of giving a path to God, why can't I find my own new path to reach my God? What makes someone who lived before special and me ordinary? Nothing!

So, are religions bad? No. Are there good things in religious? Yes. But can they be better? Certainly!

I don't care about people who practice their weirdest path as long as they do not harm others.

More importantly, my heart bleeds for a few people caught in some religion who cannot break the shackles. They are those who hate some customs in their religions but can never come out or talk about it. What wrong did they do? Can't they have their freedom?

God made Man. Man made religion. What is religion fast making? End of Earth.

Am back..

whewww...it took three weeks to get back to blogging. Am still caught in my day to day things. Guess, back here in India, you have more things to do, more friends to catch up with, etc. Time flies....:)

Ramya is doing fine. Still in Tanjore. Am busy hunting a home in Bangalore. I suddenly realize that I have more friends in office in Bangalore than Chennai. :)

Will start writing very soon...

:)