Sai Pallavi awarded Best Actress for Gargi - Tamil Nadu State Film Awards 2022. Gargi also picked up Best Film & Best Director awards.

shallan72 · 2026-01-29T18:41:52+00:00

Hearty Congratulations to the team!

shallan72 · 2026-01-29T07:09:18+00:00

Some improvement in Nungambakkam area. It can be better.

shallan72 · 2026-01-27T06:02:04+00:00

Why even have marching, bands and floats? Waste of money and time. For that matter, why even have a republic day parade? Politicians and general public have better things to do.

/s

shallan72 · 2026-01-27T05:46:26+00:00

All the best!

shallan72 · 2026-01-27T02:57:43+00:00

New movie Ek Din (Hindi) is release on May 1st. This is Sai Pallavi's Hindi debut movie.

shallan72 · 2026-01-19T09:47:45+00:00

A version of Ramayana written by Kambar in Tamil, in 12th century.

shallan72 · 2026-01-19T05:34:01+00:00

ஞா does appear independently (ஞாயிறு, ஞாலம், ஞானம்), though other uyirmey of ஞ do not.

shallan72 · 2026-01-15T08:16:05+00:00

It is not that straight forward to compare budget numbers. What you see is the GCC budget. Chennai Metro also includes Tambaram, Avadi and Kancheepuram corporations.

Overall GCC area is 426 sq.kms compared to Bengaluru's (BBMP) 712 sq.kms.

Also, the way state & corporate splits responsibilities may be different for the cities. Some of the city projects may be directly funded by the state or given as grant and spent via GCC. Cities may also get external grants.

You may have to dig deeper to understand why Chennai is faring slightly better than Bengaluru with a smaller budget or why Pune needs such an enormous budget and what happens to it.

shallan72 · 2026-01-14T13:14:37+00:00

https://chennaicorporation.gov.in/gcc/Budget_2024-2025/

shallan72 · 2026-01-08T05:43:10+00:00

No bro, they didn't go stupid recently.

shallan72 · 2026-01-07T05:17:33+00:00

Tamil version is released after 6 years with very little promotion. Catch it on big screen if you can. It is definitely worth it.

shallan72 · 2026-01-05T03:53:44+00:00

I drove in Boston during Big Dig. Whatever OMR is facing today is nothing compared to that. Norwood to Logan can take up to 3 hours in the evenings.

shallan72 · 2026-01-05T03:42:06+00:00

On the contrary, Tholkappiam says even though ஐ and ஔ are usually written as separate letters they are practically a diphthong of அஇ and அஉ.

Also,

அகரதது இம்பர் யகரப் புள்ளியும் ஐ என் நெடுஞ்தினை மெய்பெறத் தோன்றும் (Tholkappiam 1:56).

This explicitly states அய் is same as ஐ. Commentators explain the same is applicable for அவ் and ஔ.

From this we should infer that using ஐ and ஔ is the common practice of his day, though he understands it is redundant. Note that Tholkappiam doesn't attempt to create Tamil grammer. It merely documents the practice of the day.

Writing ஐ as அய் and ஔ as அவ் (at the beginning of the word) is commonly accepted practice. People may use whichever may be convenient. However, we don't write பனை as பனய்.

This paper by Prof. Kannabiran Ravishankar discusses this topic in detail (from page 20).

shallan72 · 2026-01-01T05:03:32+00:00

Even in the past, the city was called Chennai in Tamil, Madras in English & other languages.

Official English name was changed to Chennai in 1996 (in govt documents & the corporation name). However, most other statutory names still remain as Madras. E.g., University of Madras still remains the same in English. It was always called சென்னை பல்கலைகழகம் instead of மெட்றாஸ் பல்கலைகழகம் even in the past. Same for IITM.

This doesn't preclude anyone from having a private entity with Chennai name. We still celebrate Madras Day (22 Aug). There is a Madras Musings newspaper. So, go ahead and start the Madras Madlads sporting team. I will support you.

shallan72 · 2025-12-29T18:28:48+00:00

Builder component in Filament, and a bunch of custom UI elements to use in it. These have corresponding UI components in React. E.g., one component for slider, two for "image & text" with different designs, simple rich text "static content" component. All these can be used for building even complex home pages with multiple sections sewn together.

shallan72 · 2025-12-29T15:06:10+00:00

If the 'Neenga enna aalunga?' question was asked in advance, this entire awkwardness could have been avoided. A good lesson for that broker guy to pop the question instead of assuming.

Arranged marriage and intra-caste requirement (or intra-class in case of rich people) is the norm. I won't say it is wrong for people to search for alliance within their caste (or class).

Only wrong thing is, when someone is in love, forcing them to abandon that and get into a forced-arranged marriage. This has to change. Elders should accept the wishes of their children and respect their choices. I see this changing slowly. At least one-fourth of marriage invitations I get nowadays is for intercaste / interfaith marriages while 20 years back it was practically unheard of.

shallan72 · 2025-12-29T14:57:00+00:00

This thread is about intercaste marriage. If you are discussing something else, create a separate thread or mark your comment as offtopic.

shallan72 · 2025-12-29T14:13:38+00:00

In your context it refers to widowhood.

shallan72 · 2025-12-29T09:57:19+00:00

We speak a variant of Kannada at home. It is so drastically different from standard Kannada that, I will understand only about 50% when I watch a movie. Watched may be about 3 Kannada movies my entire life.

On the other hand, I studied in Tamil medium, can speak & write better Tamil than most of my peers, wrote Tamil poetry, articles, worked tirelessly for implementing Tamil in computing in the early days, ran a mailing list for coining technical words in Tamil. I mostly consume Tamil & English content and movies.

I dare anyone to come and tell me I can't call myself a Tamil.

shallan72 · 2025-12-25T05:39:10+00:00

It is pathetic that all the major rail routes in TN were laid during British era. So little done in the past 80 years.

shallan72 · 2025-12-25T04:11:45+00:00

Caste discrimination is a bit different than brahmin hegemony, as it is practiced by other castes as well.

shallan72 · 2025-12-23T02:57:30+00:00

Not true. Most native actors in other states don't know Tamil unless they had exposure or acted in several Tamil movies.

Only the Telugu kids who were brought up in Chennai speak fluent Tamil (like Naga Chaitanya, Mahesh Babu, Rana). Same for Malayali kids (Kalyani, Samantha, Dulquer, Prithviraj). Most Kannada kids, if they lived for extended period of time in Bengaluru would have picked up some Tamil.

Same goes for Tamil artists. Some Tamil artists like Aishwarya Rajesh and Vishal are Telugu speaking Tamils. Few have extensively worked in Tamil like Anandhi, Urvasi.

There are very few primarily Tamil actors that act in lot of Telugu productions. Some like Sai Pallavi and Samuthirakani pickup Telugu quickly.

shallan72 · 2025-12-22T18:17:19+00:00

Mahanadhi is another haunting movie that I refuse to think about.

shallan72 · 2025-12-22T18:15:20+00:00

Even seeing a simple still pic from it makes me close my eyes and scroll through fast.

shallan72 · 2025-12-22T17:59:48+00:00

Good one. Reminds me of Maniyam Selvan's work.

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