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The “THEY” This word they was as normal as its other cousins like the, then, there, that etc.  But it gains sudden significance because of the usage amongst adults, they imbibe the same into the impressionable kids around them.  The kids then grow up to realise the potency of the term THEY and will then start using that everywhere, at work, at home, with kids, lover, wife, husband everyone uses THEY. What is so special about THEY? Intriguing right? Well just remember when was the last time you used the word THEY.  This is a pretty tough one, I used THEY day before yesterday talking about the corrupt officials at the registration office and how my house katha with everything right in terms of paperwork and documents.  I exactly knew the THEY but I still used THEY generalising the whole system and all office bearers at the registrar’s office no matter if they were corrupt or no.  THEY form our belief system, religion, class, creed, politics, governmen...

Brass Tap I was recently forced to go shopping with my plumber to buy some taps, pipes and fixtures for the new wash basins installed at home.  When I went to the shop, the shop owner had some excellence award from some company for sales he had done.  I could not help but notice the similarity of the design of the tap to the tap we used to use when we were kids. My childhood was in a joint family, we were 21 people in a house which was less than 12 square meters of carpet area.  It had tiled roof, we had rats, squirrels commonly wandering amongst us.  We had a backyard which was typically used to store all the firewood for heating water etc.  Although we had a water heater or boiler in place which used to run on electricity it was too expensive for us to run on that.  Our house backyard was a famous playground for us cousins post the play time outside of the house. My father was the youngest son of my grandparents.  That made me an uncle the d...

Your Truly...  Smart Ladies are all around us, some men too some times tend towards being smart.  This is no MCP crap about being the smarter race but light hearted humour which has touched my life and also strangely got a great fan following from the fairer sex.  Request all to just take in the humour and leave the blame game.  Welcome to the Smart Lady blog where I would place the encounter of the Smart kind :) Smart Lady on Facebook - www.fb.com/ismartlady The Encounters: PD: you are so mod and hip, but your FB page is ismart lady? Isn't it too villagish Smartie? Smart Lady: PD that's read as I Smart Lady, duh... Now follow Smart Lady at www.fb.com/ismartlady Smart Lady: Conjunctivitis is called Madras Eye, because it started first in Madras PD: How are you so sure? SL: Why do you think Karunanidhi wears those glasses? Smart Lady: PD creativity check PD: ಬೇಡ ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಬಿಡಲ್ಲ, ಸರಿ ಚೆಕ್ಕಿಸು... SL: ನನಗೆ ಹೊಟ್ಟೆ ನೋವು. ಇದನ್ನು creativeಆಗಿ ಹೇಳು PD: ನ...

Kannada Theatre Scene Ninth Century AD: King Nrupatunga wrote Kavirajamarga in the matured script of Kannada. It is the first recognised literary work by any author in Kannada history. Being a set of poems it was recited to people at numerous literary gatherings. Hence, we could also categorise it as the first script in Kannada literature. Kannada theatre has seen a huge wave of changes from the times of Jaina Works, Vachana Literature, Dasa Sahitya till today's Modern Kannada. When you go to the new look Ravindra Kalakshetra with improved interiors and exteriors and interact with the Kannada theatre activists, you get the same look and feel, as it was many years back. You still get to see the old scripts, which are, staged every week and meetings/readings going on in the Samsa Open Theatre. However, when you ask them the question of this article "what happened to the new age writers, why are we going back to the age of Shakespeare or of Karnard?" Everyone unanimously a...

Use and Need of Obscenity and Cultural ethos defining the change from biradrajaramyajnik.blogspot.com The play's promotional campaign reads, "Persons below 18 years will not be admitted". It opens to a bunch of curious audience who get to see audiovisual images, which they are used to seeing on TV or in Movies. Nevertheless, they are disturbed and could not believe their eyes and ears. This is common with plays, which are purely for adults. But this is true with most of the plays, which are being staged worldwide. There has been a separate category created for such kind of plays called In-Your-Face Theatre. There are many exponents for this play and this started as a parallel theatre culture to converse with the audience in more realistic and hard-hitting way. We could trace the history of this not very far back with avant-garde theatre. This French word was a movement held prominence in the modern period, a period that could be loosely described as the late ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gujaratis in Karnataka Gujrati's from the home of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi are known for their strong business culture and eating out. They are also known to be strong will powered who will rise from ashes like the phoenix. Their light-hearted attitude allows them to mingle with any community or culture without a problem. There is no town in the world where you wont find a Gujrati but they wont be announcing their presence like others but will be living their life just like the locals do. Something to the accurate effect of being a "Roman in Rome". Their huge and long presence in Karnataka has earned them huge respect from everyone in the state. We can even sight the example of our CM hosting a high tea session for them last year. They are practically in all businesses and most of the old economy businesses run by Gujrati community is concentrated in and around Gandhinagar. The notable professions run by them are ...

BEANBAGS From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia When Julia Roberts said "Reading a book in a beanbag chair in front of my fireplace is a great luxury - to sit down with a whole day free and barrel through a book" she did really give importance to the piece of her relaxing furniture beanbags. With the fast growing and fast culture, our bodies need to rest some times and Beanbags are the best according to most of us. An official dictionary definition of beanbag chairs: a chair like a large beanbag covered with vinyl, fabric, etc. and filled with foam pellets, as of polystyrene, that shift about to fit one's body. In 1960's during the pop revolution hitting the world, there was a small invention in the furniture industry and they named it "Sacco". With a leather cover and pear-shaped with expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) beads the bags rolled into the world market. Its popular belief that the discovery was accidental when polystyrene (Styrofoam) ...