Tendrils

2012-01-30T01:00:00.000-07:00

If it didn’t Bring you Joy,

Just Leave it Behind.

Let’s Ring in the New Year
With Good Things in Mind.

Let Every Bad Memory Go
That Brought Heartache and Pain.

And let’s Turn a New Leaf
With the Smell of New Rain.

Let’s Forget Past Mistakes
Making Amends for This Year.

Sending You These Greetings
To Bring you Hope and Cheer

Happy New Year!

2011-12-23T15:35:00.003-07:00

விடுகதையா இந்த வாழ்க்கை விடைதருவார் யாரோ
எனது கையென்னை அடிப்பதுவோ எனது விரல் கண்ணைக் கெடுப்பதுவோ
அழுது அறியாத என் கண்கள் ஆறு குளமாக மாறுவதோ
ஏனென்று கேட்கவும் நாதியில்லை ஏழையின் நீதிக்குக் கண்ணுண்டு பார்வையில்லை
பசுவினைப் பாம்பென்று சாட்சிசொல்ல முடியும் காம்பினில் விஷம் என்ன கறக்கவா முடியும் (2)
உடம்பில் வழிந்தோடும் உதிரம் உனைக்கேட்கும்
நான் செய்த தீங்கு என்ன (2)

விடுகதையா இந்த வாழ்க்கை விடைதருவார் யாரோ
வந்து விழுகின்ற மழைத்துளிகள் எந்த இடம் சேரும் யார் கண்டார்
மனிதர் கொண்டாடும் உறவுகளோ எந்த மனம் சேரும் யார் கண்டார்
மலைதனில் தோன்றுது கங்கை நதி அது கடல் சென்று சேர்வது காலன் விதி
இவனுக்கு இவள் என்று எழுதிய கணக்கு கணக்குகள் புரியாமல் கனவுக்குள் வழக்கு (2)
உறவின் மாறாட்டம் உரிமைப் போராட்டம்
இரண்டும் தீர்வதெப்போ (2)

விடுகதையா இந்த வாழ்க்கை விடைதருவார் யாரோ
உனது ராஜங்கம் இதுதானே ஒதுங்கக்கூடாது நல்லவனே
தொண்டுகள் செய்ய நீயிருந்தால் தொல்லை நேராது தூயவனே
கைகளில் பொன்னள்ளி நீ கொடுத்தாய் இன்று கண்களில் கண்ணீரை ஏன் கொடுத்தாய்
காவியங்கள் உனைப்பாடக் காத்திருக்கும்பொழுது காவியுடை நீ கொண்டால் என்னவாகும் மனது (2)
வாழ்வை நீ தேடி வடக்கே நீ போனால்
நாங்கள் பூவதேங்கு (2)

இந்த படமும் இந்த பாடலும் எனக்கு மிகவும் பிடிக்கும். தனிமையில் இருக்கும் பொழுது இந்த பாடலை கேட்டால் ,அர்த்தத்தின் ஆழம் புரியும்.விடைகள் கிடைப்பது சரமம் என்றும் புரியும்.

2011-12-15T18:11:00.001-07:00

During my engineering days, I was not a big fan of electronics laboratory. Theoretically there should be an output for every input and there is an expected output. But there are other factors that I have been clueless about which might have led to a not so favorable result. I really have not got an expected output most of the times I have experimented in the electronics lab.
I relate life to an electronics experiment many times. We know that the input we give is correct. Sometimes we don’t know the other factors which might lead to the undesired output.

Detaching science from this post, I want to squeeze in philosophy. When we don’t get certain things, we are trained to think that god gives us those at right time. Well, with that hope we try to put in the same effort thinking that we will be rewarded someday. There are times when we know that we deserve the best and the right things but it just does not happen. We ponder upon it over and over to find the reasons for not getting something. There really isn’t a great discovery for this exercise except for tiredness. But still we try out different things to get where we want. The irony is by the time it happens we lose interest and the victory loses its charm.

Having this thought is very natural. However we still should learn to live, like and love those victories and moments.

2011-10-21T12:23:00.001-07:00

Some people give free advice to others very well. I do not like people who advice for others which are purely personal situations to them. I feel I am the right judge for my situations and I know how to handle my stuff. Who are this other people who provide their suggestions for marriage, kids, job etc.I do not give suggestions to other people unless I know the person really well. Also everyone is entitled to their opinion and can act accordingly. Why should someone impose their thoughts and justify that it’s the right one? There is nothing called as right or wrong in this world. Leaving the situations which reflect value system, everything else is in one’s perception.

Tough Times ?

2011-10-14T14:34:00.005-07:00

When you are beaten in life again and again, do not lose heart and just read the article below:

http://tinklingsmiles.blogspot.com/2008_05_01_archive.html

One thing that I have felt is “life is a vicious circle”. It doesn’t stop anywhere. We have dreams, aspirations and we work hard towards it. When we meet our targets, we set up new goals and again work towards it. While working towards something, we face numerous challenges and we get tired mentally. Sometimes life treats us so kindly that we achieve our desires very soon; sometimes it chases us for years together to achieve what we want. The timeline in which one gets what he/she desires depends on karma. Sleepless night, sadness, tiredness, what more is left? Name it and we face everything in due course.

Everyone goes through this challenge for different needs. But the irony is we all forget the pain and experiences, when we pass the tunnel. The people who know the pain, who have experienced it and know how it feels for someone else, still would make fun and ask pricking questions to another person who undergoes painful times. Well, the point to be taken here is, these are the people who are like obstacles in our devotion and we just have to surpass and focus on what we want. At the end of the day, its tough to prove to everybody who makes fun of us and the reality is we live our life for just us.

Several years before I have heard stories and lectures from my grandfather. He always asked me to believe that our prayers will never go in vain. Sometimes god may not help us immediately when we need but he gives the best when the right time comes. Now, we really can’t know when this right time comes in a person’s life. But the hope with which we work towards something takes us far and one day there is light at the end of tunnel.

The moment of victory is a time truly dedicated to our hard work and is a result of our devotion and prayers of our well wishers. It’s a time when our needs are satisfied and that gives peace of mind and it is not a situation of proof for others.

Kindness

2011-10-13T23:25:00.000-07:00

Your kindness may be treated as your weakness,
Still be kind.

Your help to others may be unneeded and unnoticed,
Still be helpful.

If you are honest & frank, people may cheat you,
Still be honest.

What you spend in a year building
Someone Could Destroy Overnight, Still Build it.

If you find happiness, they may be jealous
Still be happy.

The good you do today, People will often forget tomorrow
Still do good deeds.
Because it is between you and god,
It was never between you and them.

For the longest of time I was not able to accept this concept. I understand very well but I find very difficult to put this into practice.

Anyways the crux is to be who we are and not to change just because others are the way we are and the way we expect them to be.

Try it!

मन और आंसू

2011-10-02T23:34:00.002-07:00

मन से उसकी बातचीत हो रही थी
उसने प्यार से बोला, विश्वास दिलाई
की इस मन को प्यार से देक्भाल करेगा

मन उसके सुख दुःख को उससे बोल रही थी
इक दिन उसने विश्वास को टूटके मन को कतोर्था से चिल्लाई
मन भोज को उठाकर, बिना बोले आंसू पोंछने लगा

उसने विश्वास की थोड़ी भी याद नहीं किया
और मन गलत बनकर गलती का भोज उठा रही थी

TRUTH

2011-09-28T10:26:00.000-07:00

Friend Request ?

2011-09-25T19:55:00.003-07:00

To me definition of friend is, a person who really cares, is not jealous, truly feels happy in your happy moments, feel equally bad in bad times, and help when needed. Treating the other person with respect shows the real friend in a person. The tone in which a person talks, the way a person treats other person mean a lot to me. I do not like people taking the other person for granted, demanding, making fun in front of others, letting down in front of others.

I have always hated when a so called friend talks between the 2 in a group when others in the scene are totally forgotten. I believe in etiquette and I am totally uncomfortable in such places. Two people can talk but eventually they should let others in the group know what they discussed. If it’s something that cannot be shared it could better be discussed in private.

Social networking websites help us to get connected with friends, colleagues, acquaintances, sometimes so called friends. Most of the times we even add people whom we have not seen, met and probably just talked over the phone hardly once. Sometimes we end up getting requests from people whom we know with traits that I have described above. I knew one such person who have made me totally uncomfortable in several occasions and now wants to add me in her network. What kind of a person is she?

It gives so much relief when I ignore and just move on with my work when such requests come. There is no better diplomatic reaction I could think of other than this.

2011-09-15T21:52:00.002-07:00

जो भी करो दिल से करो
सब की सुनो, दिल की करो
बुरे वक़्त में घबराना नहीं
अच्छे वक़्त में पगलाना नहीं

वाह रे वाह..............तालियाँ

आखिर ज़िन्दगी क्या है

2011-09-08T22:00:00.003-07:00

तन्हाई तन्हाई
दिल के रास्ते में कैसे टोकर मैंने खायी
टूटे कहाब सारे एक मायुं सी है छाई
हर ख़ुशी सो गयी, ज़िन्दगी खो गयी
तुमको जो प्यार किया मैंने तो सजा मैं पायी

कवाब में देखा था एक आँचल
मैंने अपने हाथों में
अब टूटे सपनों के शीशे चुब्ठे हें इन आँखों में
कल कोई था यहीं, अब कोई भी नहीं
बनके नागिन जैसे है सांसों में लहराई

क्यों ऐसी उम्मीद की मैंने
जो ऐसे ना काम हुई
दूर बनायीं थी मंजिल
थो रस्ते में ही शाम हुई
अब कहाँ जून मैं, किसको समझाउं मैं
क्या मैंने चाह था और क्या किस्मत में आई

कुछ गाने ऐसे हें जिसको पदथे वक़्त दिल का दर्पण जैसे लगता है....इस गाने में जो गहराई है, लगता है की लिकने वक़्त कवी ने पूरा मह्स्सोस करके लिखा हो..

User Interface

2011-09-04T19:42:00.002-07:00

Analyzing web sites is something I like to do. I have jotted down how the web site looks and what could be improved for most of the websites that I have used. I have analyzed as a user, what are the difficulties using the website and what kind of friendly features could be implemented. As a hobby and as a user, I have analyzed Chinmayi’s blue elephant, Macy’s, jcpenney, kohls, APS, Amazon, Apple, some restaurant websites and some more.

I like Amazon, Apple and Macy’s website a lot. Someone asked me to analyze Amazon’s website once and asked me what kind of improvement one can make in the website. There could be several one can think of. I am not a very brilliant person nor have I extensively re modeled UI applications. But I have enormous interest in UI. I feel presentation makes a great impact on people as a first step before anyone cares to explore a feature. In that aspect Apple and Amazon have unbeatable websites and products. Don’t they?

Here’s what I could think of as an improvement in Amazon’s website:

Amazon lists all the recent searches done by the user. Say like I look for watches, it always lists relevant watches and deals on the home page and all the recent searches made so far.

1) Going a step further, I would think based on a combination of searches made, like jewelry+watches+shoes, it would be a nice feature to suggest other things like clothes, handbags etc although a user would not have looked up these items in the past. I feel that way it is an option for the user to look at other product lines that might be of interest to him/her.

2) Similarly when I look for a watch of particular prize, I would like to have this feature:

When I move my mouse over the watch of a particular prize, it should display watches in that range like a flickr photo page.(although the watches are displayed based on the sort type we choose from the drop down in the page currently).

May be the points that I have listed out are silly..but still I tried to attempt :)

I am an Apple user since 2007. I was not aware of Apple Ipod until it was gifted to every employee in my company. I just love the features, UI, friendly usage etc. Brilliant brains behind those products!

Coming back to UI psychology, Its very important to analyze human minds to design user interface for a website, product because in my mind the first impression creates the best impression.

Akele Hum Akele Tum

2011-09-01T21:20:00.004-07:00

Some songs are very mesmerizing. This is one such song which is my all time favorite.

जब मन दुखी है, अकेलापन हें, तन्हाई महसूस होती है, तब ये गाना मुझे हमेशा याद आती है। इस गाने में एक मधुरता है और दुखी मन को पंखों से दवा दिलाने जैसे सुलाती है।

जब भी यह गाना सुनती हूँ, तब आँखों से पानी उबरकर आती है और मन हल्का हो जाता है

Dil boltha hai

2011-08-14T22:52:00.004-07:00

In the last few days, there were so many who asked if I were on facebook. Well, I was so tired answering to people that I am not.

To speak out my heart loudly and to tell about my perception towards facebook/orkut, I hate being on any of those social networking website. I like the concept of social networking site in terms of technology but I am simply not the kind of person who can be on it and share my likes/dislikes with the entire world. To me, it is more like allowing people to invade my space. I cannot be into something just because everyone else is. But I respect LinkedIn which is the other form of social networking site. I analyzed thoroughly before getting on to it. LinkedIn is so nice and so easy to be in touch with people professionally. There is no need to share one’s likes/dislikes, photos, scrapping others and I am glad there is no such thing on it. I love the fact that the top news allows us to be on top of tech news.

I have hand full of friends and I am in touch with them. I really don’t care about others whom I do not want to be in touch with. That is ME. There is no way I am going to change just because some body asks me to join one such site. I do things that my heart tells me to do and I cannot do anything different than that. When I do otherwise, that’s when I can’t be in peace and get irritated. Being a true fan of all the google products, I am still not convinced to be on google+ despite of getting several invitations. All the features are very interesting and the fact that this product came out so soon under Vic gundotra’s leadership is very inspiring. But the concept of creating a public profile and showing all the products the user is into is something I am not happy about. Why can’t uniting on a portal feature and revealing to world be an option? Creating a profile is ok, but a public profile is not ok according to me.

There is this very close friend of mine who always teases me that I am not in touch with lot other people and I am not in one of the snc. I keep quite because this person is a very close friend of mine. There are times when I just get irritated and talk back to him saying that I cannot be like him and do all that he does. To me there is nothing called as right or wrong and nothing called as one should do this/ not do this. I always thought some things are purely one's perception and no one should be forced.

Someday if I am on one such site, then I would have had a very strong or compelling reason to be on it. I wish no such compelling reasons arise rather I wish it needs to be convincing.

உயிரும் நீயே உடலும் நீயே

2011-07-23T13:22:00.003-07:00

In continuation to music adds spice to life, I was listening to one of my favorite songs from the tamil movie Pavithra. Thanks to Gokulnath FM in Tandora Tamil App for playing this song.

For the longest of time, Unnikrishnan was not my favorite singer. But this was one among those songs which changed my impression. I was not a big fan of ennavale song. The lyrics probably created an impression about Unni. However Vairamuthu’s lyrics combined with A.R.R’s divine composition and unni’s singing in the movie Pavithra for the song ‘Uyirum neeye , udalum neeye” changed my impression about Unni totally.

“vinnai padaithaan, mannai padaithaan, kaatrum kadalum oliyayum padaithaan

boomiku adhanaal nimmadhi illai...saami thavithaan, thaayei padaithaan “

Mind blowing lyrics and song.. I am a very big fan of this song = music+lyrics+singing

Music

2011-07-23T11:40:00.001-07:00

Music and painting are forms of art which I like the most. To me, the tune, rhythm influence a lot. Don't we all like to listen to different kinds of music depending on our state of mind ?I do that a lot. I associate music for stress burster, anger, painful moments, happiness, loneliness, missing people, concentration. Sometimes some songs remind me of situations or incidents happened in my life, cherishable moments,etc.. Music has always been the best company for me.

I mostly love to listen to melodious, soothing, romantic and philosophical songs.. I remember the days when I was always hooked up to all the tamil fm stations back in India. My first color mobile phone in Nokia had a fm tune up feature which was very interesting.My father and I went to the Nokia store and bought the phone. I used the phone for about an year and a half then later on moved on to using my ipod.

I always had my ipod on wherever I went and my sis was my ipod administrator. She would update all good songs for me. My ipod and my nokia mobile were always with me and I never got tired listening to the same songs over and again.

I loved listening to Mirchi shiva's kadhala kadhala in the night and tamil evergreen classic in sooryan fm.

Where did those musical moments go now ? Although I listen to songs in between, I still have a feeling that I forgot music for a brief period of time. The times when I have had ipod while at work, I have listened to the sarcastic comment that my manager once gave. Ever since that happened, I stopped carrying ipod to my office and its just remaining quietly. Daily I listen to country music while driving. I like country music but I wouldn't say they have had a great influence like the hindi/tamil songs. Is it the familiarity and the style of music that matters? Whatever!

I was extremely pissed off about several things since this morning. I am currently listening to tandora hindi and tamil music. It is so nice to listen to good mix of songs.

The music goes on.........

Good Soul

2011-03-01T21:47:00.002-07:00

There are many temples in India that have historic significance. Temples in south India were built by kings like Cholas, Cheras and Pandians. Every temple that was built in ancient days had its own significance. However due to several reasons many such temples are in a bad shape now.

We all know to work hard, do things that give us pleasure and work towards well being of our family members. But there are very few of us who work for a cause that helps the society and the betterment of people. I know one such person who has worked on several projects related to building demolished temples. For the past few years, I have been visiting a temple that was built by D uncle. More than D uncle, we know his wife very well. Besides religious occasions, there is nothing much that I know about them. But one such occasion is enough to know good people. Aunty is extremely involved and very dedicated in taking care of the temple. She is very down to earth and is also selfless. She has great respect for our family. My sister and I have sung songs several times in the temple. Without her, we would not have had an opportunity to sing during important occasions in the temple.

There is a reason why I am writing this. Recently D uncle expired due to illness. It was on a Thursday when I got to know this. Thursday is an auspicious day for turban master and that is the day when D uncle expired. I was wondering the fact that although a person does so many good things, still he faces a painful death. Sometimes god is so merciless because he treats everybody the same way. I heard from my parents that P aunty was strong enough to face this but the respect I had for P aunty made me cry thinking about her. That also reminded my grandfather’s demise during the same time few years back that faced a painful death. For a long time I was not convinced about the death that good souls face.

I was recollecting the stories that I have read in the past from satcharithram. Turban master as I lovingly call him thatha explains a story that talks about a person’s death.
It was a dark night and a person frustrated in his life, tries to commit suicide. When he decides to jump into a well, someone comes and saves him. Thatha tells this person in his dream that every one have to live their life until the time they are destined to face the death. No one has the right to kill oneself and that is considered as sin. Although a person does several good deeds in his janma, still he experiences bad things in life due to karma.
(Karma is a Sanskrit word that means action.)
The more he does good deeds, it reduces the papa karma. One has to completely work hard and negate the papa karma such that he doesn’t have to live a new janma. Janma and karma are basics of Hinduism and also requires interest in spirituality to understand to some extent.

Every story that hemadpanth narrates in satcharithram has a deep meaning to it and has answered many of my questions. Mostly they also had a hidden scientific justification and that increased my faith in thatha. Well, there is a huge difference between belief and faith. Hemadpanth also says every devotee has a reason why he is brought into this world. Thatha with his simple principles makes his devotees live a rich and meaningful life.

I am convinced D uncle was brought into this world to do several good deeds and everybody who has interacted with him will remember him forever. Our dear temple will talk about this great soul forever.

That which lasts

2010-12-28T00:00:00.001-07:00

This is a story that I came across quite recently.

Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, is about to pass away. His near and dear ones surround his sick-bed.

Weakly he whispers, “Can you see what is in my mouth?”
The old philosopher has lost all his teeth. So they reply, “We only see the tongue.”

After a while, Confucius asks them, “What is in your mouth?”
“We have both our tongue and teeth,” they answer.

The wise old man then tells them, “When man is born, he is born only with a tongue. The teeth come in gradually. They are harder and stronger than the tongue! But as man grows older, his hard, strong teeth drop off gradually. Only the tongue – soft and gentle – lasts till the end.”

The dying philosopher pauses for breath. “This is my last message to you, my dear ones,” he concludes. “That which is gentle, lasts.

Therefore, always be gentle! Speak to everyone kindly, lovingly, gently!”

Dharma

2010-12-28T00:00:00.000-07:00

This is a post that I had drafted way back. Inetresting story.

A young ascetic sitting in meditation under a tree was splattered by the droppings of a bird.

He looked up angrily at the culprit and such was the intensity of his wrath that the bird was reduced to ash.

His concentration disturbed, the ascetic got up and went in search of food. He knocked at the door of a house but there was no answer. He knocked again and the lady of the house shouted that she was coming. Presently she came out with food and seeing that he was annoyed at having had to wait so long, smiled and said: "Please don't try to burn me with your angry glance like you did that bird. My dharma as a housewife is first to take care of the needs of my family before attending to the needs of others."

The ascetic realised that she was no ordinary woman and was ashamed of him. He asked her to teach him what dharma was. She said he should see Dharma Vyadha.

The ascetic went in search of Dharma Vyadha expecting to find a venerable sage but the man turned out to be a meatseller.

Dharma Vyadha made him wait while he served his customers. When the ascetic showed signs of impatience, the meatseller smiled and said: "Just as the woman's first duty was to her family, my first duty is to my customers."

So the ascetic waited. When the last of his customers had gone, the meatseller turned to the ascetic and invited him home.

When they reached Dharma Vyadha's house the ascetic was again made to wait while his host lovingly attended to his parents. It was quite some time before the meatseller could return to his guest but the young man showed no trace of anger. A transformation had come over him.

"Now I know what dharma is," he said, rising and bowing to the meatseller.

Giving up the path of asceticism he returned home and begged forgiveness of his parents for having deserted them in their old age.

"I seek your blessings," he said, "to give me strength to do my dharma."

Nireekshana

2010-10-01T00:03:00.000-07:00

Sanskrit is the oldest Indo Aryan language and one of the official Indian languages. Sanskrit uses Devanagari script which is also adapted by the modern hindi language (Khadi boli). Also known by the name Devbhasha, this language was the medium for several slokas, Vedas and epics like Ramayana and Mahabharatha in Hinduism.

I have learnt Sanskrit during my school days for 5 years. Though I cannot talk fluently,
flawless recitation of slokas is something I have been doing for many years now. ‘vishnusahasranamam’, ‘Lalitha Sahasranam’, ‘Soundarya Lahiri’,’kanakadara stotram’, ‘annaporanashtakam’, ‘Adithyahrudhayam’, ‘shyamala dhandakam’ are some of the sthothrams that I have recited so far. Out of this ‘vishnusahasranamam’ and ‘Lalitha Sahasranam’ are stotrams that I have recited several times. Lalitha Sahasranamam as the name suggests is 1000 names in praise of goddess Parvathi. I tried to find out the meanings for 1000 names that come in the Lalitha Sahasranama. My 100th post is samarpanam to goddess Parvathi.

Happy Navrathri to all readers.

1 Srimatha – Mother who gives immeasurable wealth who removes all sorrows and gives only happiness.-indicates also her role of creation

2 Sri maharajni – She who is the empress who takes care of the universe- indicates her role of protection

3 Sri math simasaneshwari – She who sits on the throne of lions-indicates her role of destruction

4 Chidagni Kunda Sambootha – She who rose from the fire of knowledge and is the ultimate truth

5 Deva karya samudhyatha – She who is interested in helping devas

6 Udyath bhanu sahasrabha – She who glitters like thousand rising suns

7 Chadur bahu samanvidha – She who has four arms

8 Ragha Swaroopa pasadya – She who has love for all in the form of rope(pasa)-She has this in one of her left hands

9 Krodhakarankusojwala – She who glitters and has anger in the form of Anghusa –in one of her right hands.

10 Mano Rupeshu Kodanda – She who has the bow of sweet cane which is her mind-in one of her left hands

11 Pancha than mathra sayaka – “She who has five bows of touch , smell, hearing, taste and sight”

12 Nijaruna prabha poora majjath brahmanda mandala – She who makes all the universe immerse in her red colour which is like the sun in the dawn

13 Champakasoka – punnaga-sowgandhika- lasath kacha – “She who wears in her hair flowers like Champaka, Punnaga and Sowgandhika”

14 Kuru vinda mani – sreni-kanath kotira manditha – She whose crown glitters with rows of inlaid precious stones (Padmaraga stones)

15 Ashtami chandra vibhraja – dhalika sthala shobhitha – She who has a beautiful forehead like the half moon (visible on eighth day from new moon)

16 Muka chandra kalankabha mriganabhi viseshaka – She who has the thilaka(dot) of Musk in her forehead which is like the black shadow in the moon

17 Vadana smara mangalya griha thorana chillaka – She who has beautiful eyelids which look like the ornaments to her face which is like cupids home

18 Vakthra lakshmi –parivaha-chalan meenabha lochana – She who has beautiful eyes which look like fish in the pond of her face

19 Nava champaka –pushpabha-nasa dhanda virajitha – She who has nose like freshly opened flowers of Champaka

20 Thara kanthi thiraskari nasabharana bhasura – She who has a nose ring which shines more than the star

21 Kadambha manjari kluptha karna poora manohara – She who has beautiful ears like the kadamba flowers

22 Thadanga yugali bhootha thapanodupa mandala – She who wears the sun and the moon as her ear studs

23 Padma raga sila darsha paribhavika polabhu – She who has cheeks which shine more than the mirror made of Padmaraga

24 Nava vidhruma bimbha sri nyakkari rathna chhadha – She whose lips are like beautiful new corals

25 Shuddha vidyangurakara dwija pangthi dwayojjala – She who has teeth which look like germinated true knowledge(Shodasakshari vidya)

26 Karpoora Veedi Kamodha Samakarsha digandara – She who chews betel leaf with the spices which give perfume in all directions

27 Nija Sallabha Madhurya Vinirbhardista Kacchabhi – She who has voice sweeter than the notes produced by Sarawathi Devis Veena(This is called Kachabhi)

28 Mandasmitha prabha poora majjat Kamesha manasa – She who has lovely smile which is like the river in which the mind of cupid plays

29 Anakalidha Sadrushya Chibuka sri virajitha – She who has a beautiful chin which has nothing else to compare

30 Kamesha baddha mangalya sutra shobitha kandhara – She who shines with the sacred thread in her neck tied by Lord Kameshwara

31 Kankangadha Keyura Kamaniya Bujanvidha – She who wears golden Armlets

32 Rathna graiveya chinthaka lola muktha phalanvitha – She who wears necklace with moving pearls and dollar inlaid with gems

33 Kameswara prema rathna mani prathi pana sthani – She who gave her breasts which are like the pot made of Rathna(precious stones) and has obtained the love of Kameshwara

34 Nabhyala vala Romali latha phala kucha dwayi – She who has two breasts that are like fruits borne on the creeper of tiny hairs raising from her belly.

35 Lakshya roma latha dharatha samunneya madhyama – She who is suspected to have a waist because of the creeper like hairs raising from there

36 Sthana bhara dalan Madhya patta bhandha valithraya – She who has three stripes in her belly which looks like having been created to protect her tiny waist from her heavy breasts

37 Arunaruna kausumba vasthra bhaswat kati thati – She who shines in her light reddish silk cloth worn over her tiny waist

38 Rathna kinkinika ramya rasana dhama bhooshitha – She who wears a golden thread below her waist decorated with bells made of precious stones

39 Kamesha gnatha sowbhagya mardworu dwayanvitha – “She who has pretty and tender thighs known only to her consort, Kameshwara”

40 Manikhya mukuta kara janu dwaya virajitha – She who has knee joints like the crown made of manikya below her thighs

41 Indra kopa parikshiptha smarathunabha jangika – She who has forelegs like the cupids case of arrows followed by the bee called Indra kopa

42 Kooda Gulpha – She who has round ankles

43 Koorma prashta jayishnu prapadanvidha – She who has upper feet like the back of the tortoise

44 Nakadhi dhithi samchanna namajjana thamoguna – She who removes the darkness in the mind of her devotees by the sparkle of nails

45 Pada dwaya Prabha jala parakrutha saroruha – She who has two feet which are much more beautiful than lotus flowers

46 Sinchana mani manjira manditha sri pamambuja – She who has feet wearing musical anklets filled with gem stones

47 Marali Mandha Gamana – She who has the slow gait like the swan

48 Maha Lavanya Sewadhi – She who has the store house of supreme beauty

49 Sarvaruna – She who has light reddish colour of the dawn in all her aspects

50 Anavadhyangi – She who has most beautiful limbs which do not lack any aspect of beauty 51 Srvabharana Bhooshita – She who wears all the ornaments

52 Shivakameswarangastha – She who sits on the lap of Kameswara(shiva)

53 Shiva – She who is the personification of Shiva

54 Swadheena Vallabha – She whose husband obeys her

55 Summeru Madhya sringastha – She who lives in the central peak of Mount Meru

56 Sriman nagara nayika – She who is the chief of Srinagara(a town)

57 Chinthamani grihanthastha – She who lives in the all wish full filling house

58 Pancha brahmasana sthitha – “She who sits on the five brahmas viz., Brahma, Vishnu, Rudra, Esana and Sadashiva”

59 Maha padma davi samstha – She who lives in the forest of lotus flowers

60 Kadambha vana vasini – She who lives in the forest of Kadmbha (Madurai city is also called Kadambha vana)

61 Sudha sagara madhyastha – She who lives in the middle of the sea of nectar

62 Kamakshi – She who fulfills desires by her sight

63 Kamadhayini – She who gives what is desired

64 Devarshi Gana-sangatha-stuyamanathma-vaibhava – She who has all the qualities fit to be worshipped by sages and devas

65 Bhandasura vadodyuktha shakthi sena samavitha – She who is surrounded by army set ready to kill Bandasura

66 Sampathkari samarooda sindhoora vrija sevitha – She who is surrounded by Sampathkari (that which gives wealth) elephant brigade

67 Aswaroodadishidaswa kodi kodi biravrutha – She who is surrounded by crores of cavalry of horses

68 Chakra raja ratha rooda sarvayudha parishkridha – She who is fully armed and rides in the Srichakra chariot with nine stories

69 Geya chakra ratha rooda manthrini pari sevitha – She who rides in the chariot with seven stories and is served by manthrini who is the goddess of music

70 Giri chakra ratharooda dhanda natha puraskrutha – She who rides in the chariot with five stories and is served by goddess Varahi otherwise called Dhanda natha

71 Jwalimalika ksiptha vanhi prakara madhyaka – She who is in the middle of the fort of fire built by the Goddess Jwalamalini

72 Bhanda sainya vadodyuktha shakthi vikrama harshitha – She who was pleased by the various Shakthis(literally strength but a goddess) who helped in killing the army of Bhandasura

73 Nithya parakamatopa nireekshana samutsuka – She who is interested and happy in observing the valour of Nithya devathas (literally goddess of every day)

74 Banda puthra vadodyuktha bala vikrama nandhita – She who was pleased by the valour of Bala devi(her daughter) in destroying the sons of Banda

75 Manthrinyamba virachitha vishangavatha Doshitha – She who became happy at seeing Goddess Manthrini kill Vishanga(this ogre (brother of Banda) represents our desires for physical things)

76 Vishuka prana harana varahi veeerya nandhitha – She who appreciates the valour of Varahi in killing Vishuka (another brother of Banda-he is personification of ignorance)

77 Kameshwara mukaloka kalpitha sri Ganeshwara – “She who created God Ganesh by the mere look of the face of her Lord , Kameshwara”

78 Mahaganesha nirbhinna vignayanthra praharshitha – She who became happy at seeing Lord Ganesha destroy the Vigna Yanthra (contraption meant to delay ) created by Vishuka

79 Banda surendra nirmuktha sashtra prathyasthra varshani – She who rained arrows and replied with arrows against Bandasura

80 Karanguli nakhothpanna narayana dasakrithi – “She who created the ten avatharas of Narayana from the tip of her nails (when Bandasura send the Sarvasura asthra (arrow), she destroyed it by creating the ten avatharas of Vishnu)”

81 Maha pasupathasthragni nirdagdhasura sainika – She who destroyed the army of asuras by the Maha pasupatha arrow.

82 Kameshwarasthra nirdhagdha sabandasura sunyaka – She who destroyed Bandasura and his city called sunyaka by the Kameshwara arrow.

83 Brhmopendra mahendradhi deva samsthutha vaibhava – “She who is prayed by Lord Brahma , Vishnu, indra and other devas”

84 Hara nethragni sandhagdha kama sanjeevanoushadhi – She who brought back to life the God of love Manmatha who was burnt to ashes by the fire from the eyes of Shiva

85 Sri vagbhave koodaiga swaroopa mukha pankaja – She whose lotus face is Vagnhava Koota

86 Kantatha kadi paryantha Madhya koodaiga swaroopini – She whose portion from neck to hips is Madya koota

87 Sakthi koodaiga thapanna Kadyatho bhaga dharini – She whose portion below hips is the Shakthi koota

88 Moola manthrathmikha – She who is the meaning of Moola manthra (root manthra) or She who is the cause

89 Moola kooda thraya kalebhara – She whose body is the three parts of the basic manthra i.e. pancha dasakshari manthra

90 Kulamruthaika rasika – “She who enjoys the ecstatic state of oneness of one who sees, sight and what is seen or She who gets pleasure in drinking the nectar flowing from the thousand petalled lotus below the brain.”

91 Kula sanketha palini – She who protects the powerful truths from falling into unsuitable people

92 Kulangana – She who is a lady belonging to cultured family or She who is like Srividya known only to one whom it belongs

93 Kulanthastha – She who is fit to be worshipped any where

94 Kaulini – She who is the unification of the principles of Shiva and Shakthi

95 Kula yogini – She who is related to the family or She who is related to the ultimate knowledge

96 Akula – She who is beyond kula or She who is beyond any knowledge

97 Samayanthastha – She who is within the mental worship of Shiva and Shakthi

98 Samayachara that para – She who likes Samayachara i.e. worship stepwise from mooladhara Chakra

99 Moladharaika nilaya – She who exists in Mooladhara In Mooladhara which is in the form of four petalled lotus the kundalini sleeps.

100 Brhama Grandhi Vibhedini – She who breaks the tie in Brahma grandhi i.e she who helps us to cross the ties due to our birth.

101 Mani poorantharudhitha – She who exists in Mani pooraka chakra full dressed in her fineries

102 Vishnu grandhi vibedhini – She who breaks the ties of Vishnu grandhi i.e she who helps us cross the ties due to our position.

103 Agna chakarantharalastha – She who lives in between two eye lids in the form of she who orders

104 Rudra grandhi vibhedini – She who breaks the ties of Rudra grandhi i.e she who helps us cross the ties due to our violent thoughts and nature

105 Sahararambhujarooda – She who has climbed sahasrara the thousand petalled lotus which is the point of ultimate awakening

106 Sudha sarabhi varshini – She who makes nectar flow in all our nerves from sahasrara i.e. she who gives the very pleasant experience of the ultimate

107 Thadillatha samaruchya – She who shines like the streak of lightning

108 Shad chakropari samshitha – She who is on the top of six wheels starting from mooladhara

109 Maha ssakthya – She who likes worship by her devotees

110 Kundalini – She who is in the form of Kundalini ( a form which is a snake hissing and exists in mooladhara)

111 Bisa thanthu thaniyasi – She who is as thin as the thread from lotus

112 Bhavani – She who gives life to the routine life of human beings or She who is the consort of Lord Shiva

113 Bhavana gamya – She who can be attained by thinking

114 Bhavarany kudariga – She who is like the axe used to cut the miserable life of the world 115 Bhadra priya – She who is interested in doing good to her devotees

116 Bhadra moorthy – She who is personification of all that is good

117 Bhaktha sowbhagya dhayini – She who gives all good and luck to her devotees

118 Bhakthi priya – She who likes devotion to her

119 Bhakthi gamya – She who can be reached by devotion

120 Bhakthi vasya – She who can be controlled by devotion

121 Bhayapaha – She who removes fear

122 Sambhavya – She who is married to Shambhu

123 Saradharadya – She who is to be worshipped during Navarathri celebrated during autumn 124 Sarvani – She who is the consort of Lord Shiva in the form of Sarvar

125 Sarmadhayini – She who gives pleasures

126 Sankari – She who is the consort of Sankara

127 Sreekari – She who gives all forms of wealth and happiness

128 Sadhwi – She who is eternally devoted to her husband

129 Sarat chandra nibhanana – She who has the face like moon in the autumn

130 Satho dhari – She who has a thin belly

131 Santhimathi – She who is peace personified

132 Niradhara – She who does not need any support to herself

133 Niranjana – She who is devoid of any blemishes or scars 134

Nirlepa – She who does not have any attachment

135 Nirmala – She who is personification of clarity or She who is devoid of any dirt

136 Nithya – She who is permanently stable

137 Nirakara – She who does not have any shape

138 Nirakula – She who cannot be attained by confused people

139 Nirguna – She who is beyond any characteristics

140 Nishkala – She who is not divided

141 Santha – She who is peace

142 Nishkama – She who does not have any desires

143 Niruppallava – She who is never destroyed

144 Nithya muktha – She who is forever free of the ties of the world

145 Nirvikara – She never undergoes alteration

146 Nishprapancha – She who is beyond this world

147 Nirasraya – She who does not need support

148 Nithya shuddha – She who is forever clean

149 Nithya bhuddha – She who is for ever knowledge

150 Niravadhya – She who can never be accused

151 Niranthara – She who is forever continuous 152 Nishkarana – She who does not have cause

153 Nishkalanka – She who does not have blemishes

154 Nirupadhi – She who does not have basis

155 Nireeswara – She who does not have any one controlling her

156 Neeraga – She who does not have any desires

157 Ragha madhani – She who removes desires from us

158 Nirmadha – She who does not have any firm beliefs

159 Madhanasini – She who destroys beliefs

160 Nischintha – She who is not worried

161 Nirahankara – She who does not have an ego

162 Nirmoha – She who does not have any passion

163 Mohanasini – She who destroys passion

164 Nirmama – She who does not have selfish feelings

165 Mamatha hanthri – She who destroys selfishness

166 Nishpapa – She who does not have any sin

167 Papa nashini – She who destroys sin

168 Nishkrodha – She who is devoid of anger

169 Krodha –samani – She who destroys anger

170 Nir Lobha – She who is not miserly

171 Lobha nasini – She who removes miserliness

172 Nissamsaya – She who does not have any doubts

173 Samsayagni – She who clears doubts

174 Nirbhava – She who does not have another birth

175 Bhava nasini – She who helps us not have another birth

176 Nirvikalpa – She who does not do anything she does not desire

177 Nirabhadha – She who is not affected by anything

178 Nirbhedha – She who does not have any difference

179 Bhedha nasini – She who promotes oneness

180 Nirnasa – She who does not die

181 Mrityu madhani – She who removes fear of death

182 Nishkriya – She who does not have any work

183 Nishparigraha – She who does not accept help from others

184 Nisthula – She who does not have anything to be compared to

185 Neela chikura – She who has dark black hair

186 Nirapaya – She who is never destroyed

187 Nirathyaya – She who does not cross limits of rules she herself created

188 Dhurlabha – She who is difficult to obtain

189 Dhurgama – She who can not be neared easily

190 Dhurga – She who is Dhurga who is a nine year old girl

191 Dhuka hanthri – She who removes sorrows

192 Sukha prada – She who gives pleasures and happiness

193 Dushta doora – She who keeps far away from evil men

194 Durachara samani – She who destroys evil practices

195 Dosha varjitha – She who does not have anything bad

196 Sarvangna – She who knows everything

197 Saandra karuna – She who is full of mercy

198 Samanadhika varjitha – She who is incomparable

199 Sarva shakthi mayi – She who has personification of all strengths

200 Sarva mangala – She who is personification of all that is good

201 Sad gathi prada – She who gives us good path

202 Sarveshwari – She who is goddess of all

203 Sarva mayi – She who is everywhere

204 Sarva manthra swaroopini – She who is personification of all manthras

205 Sarva yanthrathmika – She who is represented by all yantras(Talisman)

206 Sarva thanthra roopa – She who is also goddess of all Thanthras which is a method of worship

207 Manonmani – She who is the result of mental thoughts of thoughts and actions

208 Maaheswari – She who is the consort of Maheswara (Lord of everything)

209 Mahaa devi – She who is the consort of Mahe Deva(God of all gods)

210 Maha lakshmi – “She who takes the form of Mahalaksmi, the goddess of wealth”

211 Mrida priya – She who is dear to Mrida (a name of Lord Shiva)

212 Maha roopa – She who is very big

213 Maha poojya – She who is fit to be worshipped by great people

214 Maha pathaka nasini – She who destroys the major misdemeanors

215 Maha maya – She who is the great illusion

216 Maha sathva – She who is greatly knowledgeable

217 Maha sakthi – She who is very strong

218 Maha rathi – She who gives great happiness

219 Maha bhoga – She who enjoys great pleasures

220 Mahaiswarya – She who has great wealth 221 Maha veerya – She who has great valour 222 Maha bala – She who is very strong

223 Maha bhudhi – She who is very intelligent

224 Maha sidhi – She who has great super natural powers

225 Maha yogeswareswari – She who is goddess of great yogis

226 Mahathanthra – She who has the greatest Thantra sasthras

227 Mahamanthra – She who has the greatest manthras

228 Mahayanthra – She who has the greatest yanthras

229 Mahasana – She who has the greatest seat

230 Maha yaga kramaradhya – She who should be worshipped by performing great sacrifices( Bhavana yaga and Chidagni Kunda yaga)

231 Maha bhairava poojitha – She who is being worshipped by the great Bhairava

232 Maheswara Mahakalpa Maha thandava sakshini – She who will be the witness to the great dance to be performed by the great lord at the end of the worlds

233 Maha kamesha mahishi – She who is the prime consort of the great Kameshwara

234 Maha tripura sundari – She who is the beauty of the three great cities

235 Chatustatyupacharadya – She who should be worshipped with sixty four offerings

236 Chathu sashti kala mayi – She who has sixty four sections

237 Maha Chathusashti kodi yogini gana sevitha – She who is being worshipped by the sixty four crore yoginis in the nine different charkas

238 Manu Vidya – She who is personification of Sri Vidya as expounded by Manu

239 Chandra Vidya – She who is personification of Sri Vidya as expounded by Moon

240 Chandra mandala Madhyaga – She who is in the center of the universe around the moon 241 Charu Roopa – She who is very beautiful

242 Charu Hasa – She who has a beautiful smile

243 Charu Chandra Kaladhara – She who wears the beautiful crescent

244 Charachara Jagannatha – She who is the Lord of all moving and immobile things

245 Chakra Raja Nikethana – She who lives in the middle of Sree Chakra

246 Parvathi – She who is the daughter of the mountain

247 Padma nayana – She who has eyes like the lotus

248 Padma raga samaprabha – She who shines as much as the Padma Raga jewel

249 Pancha prethasana seena – “She who sits on the seat of five dead bodies ( these are Brahma , Vishnu, Rudra, Eesa and Sadasiva without their Shakthi(consort))”

250 Pancha brahma swaroopini – She who is personification of five brahmas ( they are the gods mentioned in the last name with their Shakthi)

251 Chinmayi – She who is the personification action in every thing

252 Paramananda – She who is supremely happy

253 Vignana Gana Roopini – She who is the personification of knowledge based on science

254 Dhyana Dhyathru dhyeya roopa – “She who is personification of meditation, the being who meditates and what is being meditated upon”

255 Dharmadhrama vivarjitha – She who is beyond Dharma (justice) and Adharma(injustice) 256 Viswa roopa – She who has the form of the universe

257 Jagarini – She who is always awake

258 Swapanthi – She who is always in the state of dream

259 Thaijasathmika – She who is the form of Thaijasa which is microbial concept

260 Suptha – She who is in deep sleep

261 Prangnathmika – She who is awake

262 Thurya – She who is in trance

263 Sarvavastha vivarjitha – She who is above all states

264 Srishti karthri – She who creates 265 Brahma roopa – She who is the personification of ultimate

266 Gopthri – She who saves

267 Govinda roopini – She who is of the form of Govinda

268 Samharini – She who destroys

269 Rudhra roopa – She who is of the form of Rudhra

270 Thirodhana kari – She who hides herself from us

271 Eeswari – She who is of the form of easwara

272 Sadashivaa – She who is of the form of Sadashiva

273 Anugrahada – She who blesses

274 Pancha krithya parayana – “She who is engaged in the five duties of creation, existence, dissolving, disappearing, and blessing”

275 Bhanu mandala madhyastha – She who is in the middle of the sun’s universe

276 Bhairavi – She who is the consort of Bhairava

277 Bhaga malini – She who is the goddess bhaga malini

278 Padmasana – She who sits on a lotus

279 Bhagavathi – She who is with all wealth and knowledge

280 Padmanabha sahodari – She who is the sister of Vishnu

281 Unmesha nimishotpanna vipanna bhuvanavali – She who creates and destroys the universe by opening and closing of her eye lids

282 Sahasra seersha vadana – She who has thousands of faces and heads

283 Saharakshi – She who has thousands of eyes

284 Sahasra path – She who has thousands of feet

285 Aabrahma keeda janani – She has created all beings from worm to Lord Brahma

286 Varnashrama vidhayini – She who created the four fold division of society

287 Nijangna roopa nigama – She who gave orders which are based on Vedas

288 Punyapunya phala pradha – She who gives compensation for sins and good deeds

289 Sruthi seemantha kula sindhoori kritha padabjha dhooliga – She whose dust from her lotus feet is the sindhoora fills up in the parting of the hair of the Vedic mother

290 Sakalagama sandoha shukthi samputa maukthika – She who is like the pearl in the pearl holding shell of Vedas

291 Purashartha pradha – “She who gives us the purusharthas of Charity, assets, joy and moksha”

292 Poorna – She who is complete

293 Bhogini – She who enjoys pleasures

294 Bhuvaneshwari – She who is the Goddess presiding over the universe

295 Ambika – She who is the mother of the world 296 Anadhi nidhana – She who does not have either end or beginning

297 Hari brahmendra sevitha – “She who is served by Gods like Vishnu,Indra and Brahma” 298 Naarayani – She who is like Narayana

299 Naada roopa – She who is the shape of music (sound) 300 Nama roopa vivarjitha – She who does not have either name or shape

301 Hrim kari – She who makes the holy sound Hrim 302 Harimathi – She who is shy

303 Hrudya – She who is in the heart (devotees)

304 Heyopadeya varjitha – She who does not have aspects which can be accepted or rejected 305 Raja rajarchitha – She who is being worshipped by king of kings

306 Rakhini – She who is the queen of Kameshwara

307 Ramya – She who makes others happy

308 Rajeeva lochana – She who is lotus eyed

309 Ranjani – She who by her red colour makes Shiva also red

310 Ramani – She who plays with her devotees

311 Rasya – She who feeds the juice of everything

312 Ranath kinkini mekhala – She who wears the golden waist band with tinkling bells

313 Ramaa – She who is like Lakshmi

314 Raakendu vadana – She who has a face like the full moon

315 Rathi roopa – She who attracts others with her features like Rathi (wife of God of love-Manmatha)

316 Rathi priya – She who likes Rathi

317 Rakshaa kari – She who protects

318 Rakshasagni – She who kills Rakshasas-ogres opposed to the heaven

319 Raamaa – She who is feminine

320 Ramana lampata – She who is interested in making love to her lord

321 Kaamya – She who is of the form of love

322 Kamakala roopa – She who is the personification of the art of love 323 Kadambha kusuma priya – She who likes the flowers of Kadamba

324 Kalyani – She who does good

325 Jagathi kandha – She who is like a root to the world

326 Karuna rasa sagara – She who is the sea of the juice of mercy

327 Kalavathi – She who is an artist or she who has crescents

328 Kalaalapa – She whose talk is artful

329 Kaantha – She who glitters 330 Kadambari priya – She who likes the wine called Kadambari or She who likes long stories

331 Varadha – She who gives boons

332 Vama nayana – She who has beautiful eyes

333 Vaaruni madha vihwala – She who gets drunk with the wine called varuni(The wine of happiness)

334 Viswadhika – She who is above all universe

335 Veda vedya – She who can be understood by Vedas

336 Vindhyachala nivasini – She who lives on Vindhya mountains

337 Vidhatri – She who carries the world

338 Veda janani – She who created the Vedas

339 Vishnu maya – She who lives as the Vishnu maya

340 Vilasini – She who enjoys love making

341 Kshetra swaroopa – She who is personification of the Kshetra or body 342 Kshetresi – She who is goddess of bodies

343 Kshethra kshethragna palini – She who looks after bodies and their lord

344 Kshaya vridhi nirmuktha – She who neither decreases or increases

345 Kshetra pala samarchitha – She who is worshipped by those who look after bodies

346 Vijaya – She who is always victorious

347 Vimala – She who is clean of ignorance and illusion

348 Vandhya – She who is being worshipped by every body

349 Vandharu jana vatsala – She who has affection towards all those who worship her

350 Vaag vadhini – She who uses words with great effect in arguments

351 Vama kesi – She who has beautiful hair

352 Vahni mandala vaasini – She who lives in the universe of fire which is Mooladhara

353 Bhakthi mat kalpa lathika – She who is the wish giving creeper Kalpaga

354 Pasu pasa vimochani – She who removes shackles from the living

355 Samhrutha sesha pashanda – She who destroys those people who have left their faith

356 Sadachara pravarthika – She who makes things happen through good conduct

357 Thapatryagni santhaptha samahladahna chandrika – She who is like the pleasure giving moon to those who suffer from the three types of pain

358 Tharuni – She who is ever young

359 Thapasa aradhya – She who is being worshipped by sages

360 Thanu Madhya – She who has a narrow middle (hip)

361 Thamopaha – She who destroys darkness

362 Chithi – She who is personification of wisdom

363 Thatpada lakshyartha – She who is the indicative meaning of the word “thath” which is the first word of vedic saying “that thou art”

364 Chidekara swaroopini – She who is wisdom through out

365 Swathmananda lavi bhootha brahmadyanantha santhathi – She who in her ocean of wisdom makes Wisdom about Brahmam look like a wave

366 Paraa – She who is the outside meaning of every thing

367 Prathyak chidi roopa – She who makes us look for wisdom inside

368 Pasyanthi – She who sees everything within herself

369 Para devatha – She who gives power to all gods

370 Madhyama – She who is in the middle of everything

371 Vaikhari roopa – She who is of the form with words

372 Bhaktha manasa hamsikha – She who is like a swan in the lake called mind

373 Kameshwara prana nadi – She who is the life source of Kameswara

374 Kruthagna – She who watches all actions of every one or She who knows all

375 Kama poojitha – She who is being worshipped by the god of love in the kama giri peeta of Mooladhara chakra-Kama

376 Srungara rasa sampoorna – She who is lovely

377 Jayaa – She who is personification of victory

378 Jalandhara sthitha – She who is on Jalandhara peetha or She who is purest of the pure

379 Odyana peeda nilaya – She who is on Odyana peetha or She who lives in orders

380 Bindu mandala vaasini – She who lives in the dot in the center of Srichakra

381 Raho yoga kramaradhya – She who can be worshipped by secret sacrificial rites

382 Rahas tarpana tarpitha – She who is pleased of chants knowing its meaning

383 Sadya prasadini – She who is pleased immediately

384 Viswa sakshini – She who is the witness for the universe

385 Sakshi varjitha – She who does not have witness for herself

386 Shadanga devatha yuktha – “She who has her six parts as gods viz., heart, head, hair. Battle dress, eyes and arrows”

387 Shadgunya paripooritha – “She who is full of six characteristics viz., wealth, duty, fame, knowledge, assets and renunciation”

388 Nithya klinna – She in whose heart there is always mercy

389 Nirupama – She who does not have anything to be compared to

390 Nirvanasukha dayini – She who gives redemption

391 Nithya shodasika roopa – She who is of the form sixteen goddesses

392 Sri kandartha sareerini – She who occupies half the body of Lord Shiva

393 Prabhavathi – She who is lustrous of supernatural powers

394 Prabha roopa – She who is personification of the light provided by super natural powers

395 Prasiddha – She who is famous

396 Parameshwari – She who is the ultimate goddess

397 Moola prakrithi – She who is the root cause

398 Avyaktha – She who is not clearly seen

399 Vyktha Avyaktha swaroopini – She who is visible and not visible

400 Vyapini – She who is spread everywhere

401 Vividhakara – She who has several different forms

402 Vidhya avidhya swaroopini – She who is the form of knowledge as well as ignorance

403 Maha kamesha nayana kumudahladha kaumudhi – She who is like the full moon which opens the lotus like eyes of Lord Kameshwara

404 Bhaktha hardha thamo bedha bhanu mat bhanu santhathi – She who is like the sun’s rays which remove the darkness from the heart of devotees

405 Shivadhoothi – She who sent Shiva as her representative

406 Shivaradhya – She who is worshipped by Lord Shiva

407 Shiva moorthi – She who is of the form of Lord Shiva

408 Shivangari – She who makes good to happen

409 Shiva priya – She who is dear to Lord Shiva

410 Shivapara – She who does not have any other interest except Lord Shiva

411 Shishteshta – She who likes people with good habits

412 Shishta poojitha – She who is being worshipped by good people

413 Aprameya – She who cannot be measured

414 Swaprakasha – She who has her own luster

415 Mano vachama gochara – She who is beyond the mind and the word

416 Chitsakthi – She who is the strength of holy knowledge

417 Chethana roopa – She who is the personification of the power behind action

418 Jada shakthi – She who is the strength of the immobile

419 Jadathmikha – She who is the world of immobile

420 Gayathri – She who is Gayathri

421 Vyahruthi – She who is the grammar originating from letters

422 Sandhya – She who is the union of souls and the God

423 Dwija brinda nishewitha – She who is being worshipped by all beings

424 Tatwasana – She who sits on principles

425 Tat – She who is that

426 Twam – She who is you

427 Ayee – She who is the mother

428 Pancha kosandara sthitha – She who is in between the five holy parts

429 Nissema mahima – She who has limitless fame

430 Nithya youawana – She who is ever young

431 Madha shalini – She who shines by her exuberance

432 Madha goornitha rakthakshi – She who has rotating red eyes due to her exuberance

433 Madha patala khandaboo – She who has red cheeks due to excessive action

434 Chandana drava dhigdhangi – She who applies sandal paste all over her body

435 Champeya kusuma priya – She who likes the flowers of Champaka tree

436 Kusala – She who is intelligent

437 Komalakara – She who has soft beautiful form

438 Kuru kulla – She who is of the form of Kuru kulla devi who lives in Vimarsa

439 Kuleshwari – She who is the goddess for the clan

440 Kula kundalaya – She who lives in kula kunda or She who is the power called Kundalani

441 Kaula marga that para sevitha – She who is being worshipped by people who follow Kaula matha

442 Kumara gana nadambha – She who is mother to Ganesha and Subrahmanya

443 Thushti – She who is personification of happiness

444 Pushti – She who is personification of health

445 Mathi – She who is personification of wisdom

446 Dhrithi – She who is personification of courage

447 Santhi – She who is peaceful

448 Swasthimathi – She who always keeps well

449 Kanthi – She who is personification of light

450 Nandhini – She who is personification of Nadhini daughter of Kama denu

451 Vigna nasini – She who removes obstacles

452 Tejowathi – She who shines

453 Trinayana – She who has three eyes

454 Lolakshi-Kamaroopini – She who has wandering passionate eyes

455 Malini – She who wears a garland

456 Hamsini – She who is surrounded by swans

457 Matha – She who is the mother

458 Malayachala vasini – She who lives in the Malaya mountain

459 Sumukhi – She who has a pleasing disposition

460 Nalini – She who is tender

461 Subru – She who has beautiful eyelids

462 Shobhana – She who brings good things

463 Sura Nayika – She who is the leader of devas

464 Kala kanti – She who is the consort of he who killed the god of death

465 Kanthi mathi – She who has ethereal luster

466 Kshobhini – She who creates high emotions or She who gets agitated

467 Sukshma roopini – She who has a micro stature

468 Vajreshwari – She who is Vajreswari (lord of diamonds) who occupies jalandhara peetha

469 Vamadevi – She who is the consort of Vama deva

470 Vayovastha vivarjitha – She who does not change with age

471 Sidheswari – She who is the goddess of Siddhas (saints with super natural powers)

472 Sidha vidya – She who is personification of pancha dasa manthra which is called siddha vidya 473 Sidha matha – She who is the mother of Siddhas

474 Yasawini – She who is famous

475 Vishudhichakra Nilaya – She who is in sixteen petalled lotus

476 Aarakthavarni – She who is slightly red

477 Trilochana – She who has three eyes

478 Khadwangadhi prakarana – She who has arms like the sword

479 Vadanaika samavidha – She who has one face

480 Payasanna priya – She who likes sweet rice (Payasam)

481 Twakstha – She who lives in the sensibility of the skin

482 Pasu loka Bhayamkari – She who creates fear for animal like men

483 Amruthathi maha sakthi samvrutha – “She who is surrounded by Maha shakthis like Amrutha,Karshini, Indrani, Eesani, uma,Urdwa kesi”

484 Dakineeswari – She who is goddess of the south(denoting death)

485 Anahathabja nilaya – She who lives in the twelve petalled lotus

486 Syamabha – She who is greenish black

487 Vadanadwaya – She who has two faces

488 Dhamshtrojwala – She who shines with long protruding teeth

489 Aksha maladhi dhara – She who wears meditation chains

490 Rudhira samsthida – She who is in blood

491 Kala rathryadhi Shakthi youga vrudha – “She who is surrounded by Shakthis like Kalarathri. Kanditha, Gayathri, ….etc”

492 Sniggdowdhana priya – She who likes Ghee mixed rice

493 Maha veerendra varadha – She who gives boons to great heroes or She who gives boons to great sages

494 Rakinyambha swaroopini – She who has names like rakini

495 Mani poorabja nilaya – She who lives in ten petalled lotus

496 Vadana thraya samyudha – She who has three faces

497 Vajradhikayudhopetha – She who has weapons like Vajrayudha

498 Damaryadhibhi ravrutha – She who is surrounded by Goddess like Damari

499 Raktha varna – She who is of the colour of blood

500 Mamsa nishta – She who is in flesh

501 Gudanna preetha manasa – She who likes rice mixed with jaggery

502 Samastha bhaktha sukhadha – She who gives pleasure to all her devotees

503 Lakinyambha swaroopini – She who is famous in the name of “Lakini”

504 Swadhishtanambujagatha – She who lives in the six petalled lotus

505 Chathur vakthra manohara – She who has four beautiful faces

506 Sulayudha sampanna – She who has weapons like Spear

507 Peetha varna – She who is of golden colour

508 Adhi garvitha – She who is very proud

509 Medho nishta – She who is in the fatty layer

510 Madhu preetha – She who likes honey

511 Bhandinyadhi samanvidha – She who is surrounded by Shakthis called Bandhini

512 Dhadyanna saktha hridhaya – She who likes curd rice

513 Kakini roopa dharini – She who resembles “Kakini”

514 Mooladrambujarooda – She who sits on the mooladhara kamala or the lotus which is the basic support

515 Pancha vakthra – She who has five faces

516 Sthithi samsthitha – She who is in the bones

517 Ankusathi praharana – She who holds Ankusha and other weapons

518 Varadadhi nishevitha – She who is surrounded by Vardha and other shakthis

519 Mudgou danasaktha chittha – She who likes rice mixed with green gram dhal

520 Sakinyambha swaroopini – She who has the name “Sakini”

521 Agna chakrabja nilaya – She who sits on the lotus called Agna chakra or the wheel of order 522 Shukla varna – She who is white coloured

523 Shadanana – She who has six faces

524 Majja samstha – She who is in the fat surrounding the body

525 Hamsavathi mukhya shakthi samanvitha – She who is surrounded by shakthis called Hamsavathi

526 Hardrannaika rasika – She who likes rice mixed with turmeric powder

527 Hakini roopa dharini – She who has the name “Hakini”

528 Sahasra dhala padhmastha – She who sits on thousand petalled lotus

529 Sarva varnopi shobitha – She who shines in all colours

530 Sarvayudha dhara – She who is armed with all weapons

531 Shukla samsthitha – She who is in shukla or semen

532 Sarvathomukhi – She who has faces everywhere

533 Sarvou dhana preetha chittha – She who likes all types of rice

534 Yakinyambha swaroopini – She who is named as “yakini”

535 Swaha – She who is personification of Swaha ( the manthra chanted during fire sacrifice ) 536 Swadha – She who is of the form of Swadha

537 Amathi – She who is ignorance

538 Medha – She who is knowledge

539 Sruthi – She who is Vedas

540 Smrithi – She who is the guide to Vedas

541 Anuthama – She who is above all

542 Punya keerthi – She who is famous for good deeds

543 Punya labhya – She who can be attained by good deeds 544 Punya sravana keerthana – She who gives good for those who listen and those who sing about her

545 Pulomajarchidha – She who is worshipped by wife of Indra

546 Bandha mochini – She who releases us from bondage

547 Barbharalaka – She who has forelocks which resembles waves

548 Vimarsa roopini – She who is hidden from view

549 Vidhya – She who is “learning”

550 Viyadhadhi jagat prasu – She who created the earth and the sky

551 Sarva vyadhi prasamani – She who cures all diseases

552 Sarva mrutyu nivarini – She who avoids all types of death

553 Agra ganya – She who is at the top

554 Achintya roopa – She who is beyond thought

555 Kali kalmasha nasini – She who removes the ills of the dark age

556 Kathyayini – She who is Kathyayini in Odyana peetha or She who is the daughter of sage Kathyayana

557 Kala hanthri – She who kills god of death

558 Kamalaksha nishevitha – She who is being worshipped by the lotus eyed Vishnu

559 Thamboola pooritha mukhi – “She whose mouth is filled with betel leaves , betel nut and lime”

560 Dhadimi kusuma prabha – She whose colour is like the pomegranate

bud 561 Mrgakshi – She who has eyes like deer

562 Mohini – She who bewitches

563 Mukhya – She who is the chief

564 Mridani – She who gives pleasure

565 Mithra roopini – She who is of the form of Sun

566 Nithya Truptha – She who is satisfied always

567 Bhaktha Nidhi – She who is the treasure house of devotees

568 Niyanthri – She who controls

569 Nikhileswari – She who is goddess for every thing

570 Maitryadhi vasana Labhya – She who can be attained by habits like Maithree (friendship) 571 Maha pralaya sakshini – She who is the witness to the great deluge

572 Para Shakthi – She who is the end strength

573 Para Nishta – She who is at the end of concentration

574 Prgnana Gana roopini – She who is personification of all superior knowledge

575 Madhvi pana lasaa – She who is not interested in anything else due to drinking of toddy

576 Matha – She who appears to be fainted

577 Mathruka varna roopini – She who is the model of colour and shape

578 Maha Kailasa nilaya – She who sits on Maha Kailasa

579 Mrinala mrudhu dhorllatha – She who has arms as tender as lotus stalk

580 Mahaneeya – She who is fit to be venerated

581 Dhaya moorthi – She who is personification of mercy

582 Maha samrajya shalini – She who is the chef of all the worlds

583 Atma vidhya – She who is the science of soul

584 Maha Vidhya – She who is the great knowledge

585 Srividhya – She who is the knowledge of Goddess

586 Kama sevitha – “She who is worshipped by Kama, the God of love”

587 Sri Shodasakshari vidhya – She who is the sixteen lettered knowledge

588 Trikoota – She who is divided in to three parts

589 Kama Kotika – She who sits on Kama Koti peetha

590 Kataksha kimkari bhootha kamala koti sevitha – She who is attended by crores of Lakshmis who yearn for her simple glance

591 Shira sthitha – She who is in the head

592 Chandra nibha – She who is like the full moon

593 Bhalastha – She who is in the forehead

594 Indra Dhanu Prabha – She who is like the rain bow

595 Hridayastha – She who is in the heart

596 Ravi pragya – She who has luster like Sun God

597 Tri konanthara deepika – She who is like a light in a triangle

598 Dakshayani – She who is the daughter of Daksha

599 Dhithya hanthri – She who kills asuras

600 Daksha yagna vinasini – She who destroyed the sacrifice of Rudra

601 Dharandholitha deergakshi – She who has long eyes which have slight movement

602 Dharahasojwalanmukhi – She who has face that glitters with her smile

603 Guru moorthi – She who is the teacher

604 Guna nidhi – She who is the treasure house of good qualities

605 Gomatha – She who is the mother cow

606 Guhajanma bhoo – She who is the birth place of Lord Subrahmanya

607 Deveshi – She who is the goddess of Gods

608 Dhanda neethistha – She who judges and punishes

609 Dhaharakasa roopini – She who is of the form of wide sky

610 Prathi panmukhya rakantha thidhi mandala poojitha – She who is being worshipped on all the fifteen days from full moon to new moon

611 Kalathmika – She who is the soul of arts

612 Kala nadha – She who is the chief of arts

613 Kavya labha vimodhini – She who enjoys being described in epics

614 Sachamara rama vani savya dhakshina sevitha – She who is being fanned by Lakshmi the goddess of wealth and Saraswathi the goddess of knowledge

615 Adishakthi – She who is the primeval force

616 Ameya – She who cannot be measured

617 Atma – She who is the soul 618 Parama – She who is better than all others 619 Pavana krithi – She who is personification of purity 620 Aneka koti Bramanda janani – She who is the mother of several billions of universes

621 Divya Vigraha – She who is beautifully made

622 Klim karee – She who is the shape of “Klim”

623 Kevalaa – She who is she herself

624 Guhya – She who is secret

625 Kaivalya Padha dhayini – She who gives redemption as well as position

626 Tripura – She who lives everything in three aspects

627 Trijagat vandhya – She who is worshipped by all in three worlds

628 Trimurthi – She who is the trinity

629 Tri daseswari – She who is the goddess for all gods

630 Tryakshya – She who is of the form of three letters

631 Divya Gandhadya – She who has godly smell

632 Sindhura thila kanchidha – She who wears the sindhoora dot in her forehead

633 Uma – She who is in “om”

634 Sailendra Thanaya – She who is the daughter of the king of mountains

635 Gowri – She who is white coloured

636 Gandharwa Sevitha – She who is worshipped by gandharwas

637 Viswa Grabha – She who carries the universe in her belly

638 Swarna Garbha – She who is personification of gold

639 Avaradha – She who punishes bad people

640 Vagadeeswaree – She who is the goddess of words

641 Dhyanagamya – She who can be attained by meditation

642 Aparichedya – She who cannot be predicted to be in a certain place

643 Gnadha – She who gives out knowledge

644 Gnana Vigraha – She who is personification of knowledge

645 Sarva vedhantha samvedya – She who can be known by all Upanishads

646 Satyananda swaroopini – She who is personification of truth and happiness

647 Lopa mudrarchitha – She who is worshipped by Lopa Mudhra the wife of Agasthya

648 Leela kluptha brahmanda mandala – She who creates the different universes by simple play 649 Adurshya – She who cannot be seen

650 Drusya rahitha – She who does not see things differently

651 Vignathree – She who knows all sciences

652 Vedhya varjitha – She who does not have any need to know anything

653 Yogini – She who is personification of Yoga

654 Yogadha – She who gives knowledge and experience of yoga

655 Yogya – She who can be reached by yoga

656 Yogananda – She who gets pleasure out of yoga

657 Yugandhara – She who wears the yuga (Division of eons of time)

658 Iccha shakthi-Gnana shakthi-Kriya shakthi swaroopini – “She who has desire as her head, Knowledge as her body and work as her feet” 659 Sarvaadhara – She who is the basis of everything

660 Suprathishta – She who is the best place of stay

661 Sada sadroopa dharini – She who always has truth in her

662 Ashta moorthy – She who has eight forms

663 Aja jethree – She who has won over ignorance

664 Loka yathra vidahyini – She who makes the world rotate(travel)

665 Ekakini – She who is only herself and alone

666 Bhooma roopa – “She who is what we see , hear and understand”

667 Nirdwaitha – She who makes everything as one

668 Dwaitha varjitha – She who is away from “more than one”

669 Annadha – She who gives food

670 Vasudha – She who gives wealth

671 Vriddha – She who is old

672 Brhmatmykya swaroopini – She who merges herself in brahma-the ultimate truth

673 Brihathi – She who is big

674 Brahmani – She who is the wife of easwara

675 Brahmi – She who has one aspect of Brhma

676 Brahmananda – She who is the ultimate happiness

677 Bali priya – She who likes the strong

678 Bhasha roopa – She who is personification of language

679 Brihat sena – She who has big army

680 Bhavabhava vivarjitha – She who does not have birth or death

681 Sukharadhya – She who can be worshipped with pleasure

682 Shubhakaree – She who does good

683 Shobhana sulabha gathi – She who is easy to attain and does only good

684 Raja rajeswari – “She who is goddess to king of kings like Devaraja, Yaksha raja, , Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra”

685 Rajya Dhayini – “She who gives kingdoms like Vaikunta, kailasa etc”

686 Rajya vallabha – She who likes such kingdoms

687 Rajat krupa – She whose mercy shines everywhere

688 Raja peetha nivesitha nijasritha – She who makes people approaching her as kings

689 Rajya lakshmi – She who is the wealth of kingdoms

690 Kosa natha – She who protects the treasury

691 Chathuranga baleswai – “She who is the leader of the four fold army (Mind, brain, thought and ego)”

692 Samrajya Dhayini – She who makes you emperor

693 Sathya Sandha – She who is truthful

694 Sagara Mekhala – She who is the earth surrounded by the sea

695 Deekshitha – She who gives the right to do fire sacrifice

696 Dhaitya Shamani – She who controls anti gods

697 Sarva loka vasam kari – She who keeps all the world within her control

698 Sarvartha Dhatri – She who gives all wealth

699 Savithri – She who is shines like the sun

700 Sachidananda roopini – She who is personification of the ultimate truth

701 Desa kala parischinna – She who is not divided by region or time

702 Sarvaga – She who is full of everywhere

703 Sarva mohini – She who attracts every thing

704 Saraswathi – She who is the goddess of knowledge

705 Sasthra mayi – She who is the meaning of sciences

706 Guhamba – She who is mother of Lord Subrahmanya (Guha)

707 Guhya roopini – She whose form is hidden from all

708 Sarvo padhi vinirmuktha – She who does not have any doctrines

709 Sada shiva pathi vritha – She who is devoted wife for all times to Lord Shiva

710 Sampradhayeshwari – She who is goddess to rituals or She who is goddess to teacher-student hierarchy

711 Sadhu – She who is innocent

712 Ee – She who is the letter “e”

713 Guru mandala roopini – She who is the universe round teachers

714 Kulotheerna – She who is beyond the group of senses

715 Bhagaradhya – She who is to be worshipped in the universe round the sun

716 Maya – She who is illusion

717 Madhumathi – She who is the trance stage (seventh ) in yoga

718 Mahee – She who is personification of earth

719 Ganamba – She who is mother to Ganesha and bhootha ganas

720 Guhyakaradhya – She who should be worshipped in secret places

721 Komalangi – She who has beautiful limbs

722 Guru Priya – She who likes teachers

723 Swathanthra – She who is independent

724 Sarwa thanthresi – She who is goddess to all thanthras (tricks to attain God)

725 Dakshina moorthi roopini – She who is the personification of God facing South (The teacher form of Shiva)

726 Sanakadhi samaradhya – She who is being worshipped by Sanaka sages

727 Siva gnana pradhayini – She who gives the knowledge of God

728 Chid kala – She who is the micro power deep within

729 Ananda Kalika – She who is the happiness in beings

730 Prema roopa – She who is the form of love

731 Priyamkaree – She who does what is liked

732 Nama parayana preetha – She who likes repetition of her various names

733 Nandhi vidhya – She who is the knowledge taught by Nandi deva (The bull god on whom shiva rides)

734 Nateshwaree – She who is the goddess of dance

735 Mithya Jagat athishtana – She who is luck to this world of illusion

736 Mukthida – She who gives redemption

737 Mukthi roopini – She who is redemption

738 Lasya priya – She who likes feminine dance

739 Laya karee – She who is the bridge between dance and music

740 Lajja – She who is shy

741 Rambha adhi vandhitha – She who is worshipped by the celestial dancers

742 Bhava dhava sudha vrishti – She who douses the forest fire of the sad life of mortals with a rain of nectar.

743 Paparanya dhavanala – She who is the forest fire that destroys the forest of sin

744 Daurbhagya thoolavathoola – She who is the cyclone that blows away the cotton of bad luck. 745 Jaradwanthara viprabha – She who is the suns rays that swallows the darkness of old age 746 Bhagyabdhi chandrika – She who is the full moon to the sea of luck

747 Bhaktha Chitta Keki Ganagana – She who is the black cloud to the peacock which is he devotees mind

748 Roga parvatha Dhambola – She who is the Vajra weapon which breaks the sickness which is like the mountain

749 Mrutyu Dharu Kudarika – She who is like the axe which fells the tree of death

750 Maheswaree – She who is the greatest goddess

751 Maha kali – She who is the great Kalee

752 Maha grasa – She who is like a great drinking bowl

753 Mahasana – She who is the great eater

754 Aparna – She who did meditation without even eating a leaf 755 Chandika – She who is supremely angry

756 Chanda mundasura nishoodhini – She who killed the asuras called Chanda and Munda

757 Ksharaksharathmika – She who can never be destroyed and also destroyed

758 Sarva lokesi – She who is goddess to all the worlds

759 Viswa Dharini – She who carries all the universe

760 Thrivarga Dhathri – “She who gives dharma, Assets and pleasure”

761 Subhaga – She who is pleasing to look at

762 Thryambhaga – She who has three eyes

763 Trigunathmika – “She who is personification of three gunas viz .,Thamo (Kali), Rajo (Dhurga) and Sathva (Parvathy)”

764 Swargapavargadha – She who gives heaven and the way to it

765 Shuddha – She who is clean

766 Japapushpa nibhakrithi – She who has the colour of hibiscus

767 Ojovathi – She who is full of vigour

768 Dhyuthidhara – She who has light

769 Yagna roopa – She who is of the form of sacrifice

770 Priyavrudha – She who likes penances

771 Dhuraradhya – She who is rarely available for worship

772 Dhuradharsha – She who cannot be won

773 Patali kusuma priya – She who likes the buds of Patali tree

774 Mahathi – She who is big

775 Meru nilaya – She who lives in Meru mountain

776 Mandhara kusuma priya – She who likes the buds of Mandhara tree

777 Veeraradhya – She who is worshipped by heroes

778 Virad Roopa – She who a universal look

779 Viraja – She who does not have any blemish

780 Viswathomukhi – She who sees through every ones eyes

781 Prathyg roopa – She who can be seen by looking inside

782 Parakasa – She who is the great sky

783 Pranadha – She who gives the soul

784 Prana roopini – She who is the soul

785 Marthanda Bhairavaradhya – She who is being worshipped by Marthanda Bhairava

786 Manthrini nyashtha rajyadhoo – She who gave the power to rule to her form of Manthrini 787 Tripuresi – She who is the head of three cities

788 Jayatsena – She who has an army which wins

789 Nistrai gunya – She who is above the three qualities

790 Parapara – She who is outside and inside

791 Satya gnananda roopa – “She who is personification of truth, knowledge and happiness”

792 Samarasya parayana – She who stands in peace

793 Kapardhini – She who is the wife of Kapardhi (Siva with hair)

794 Kalamala – She who wears arts as garlands

795 Kamadhukh – She who fulfills desires

796 Kama roopini – She who can take any form

797 Kala nidhi – She who is the treasure of arts

798 Kavya kala – She who is the art of writing

799 Rasagna – She who appreciates arts

800 Rasa sevadhi – She who is the treasure of arts

801 Pushta – She who is healthy

802 Purathana – She who is ancient

803 Poojya – She who is fit to be worshipped

804 Pushkara – She who gives exuberance

805 Pushkarekshana – She who has lotus like eyes

806 Paramjyothi – She who is the ultimate light

807 Param dhama – She who is the ultimate resting place

808 Paramanu – She who is the ultimate atom

809 Parath para – She who is better than the best

810 Pasa Hastha – She who has rope in her hand

811 Pasa Hanthri – She who cuts off attachment

812 Para manthra Vibhedini – She who destroys the effect of spells cast

813 Moortha – She who has a form

814 Amoortha – She who does not have a form

815 Anithya thriptha – She who gets happy with prayers using temporary things

816 Muni manasa hamsika – She who is the swan in the mind ( lake like) of sages

817 Satya vritha – She who has resolved to speak only truth

818 Sathya roopa – She who is the real form

819 Sarvantharyamini – She who is within everything

820 Sathee – She who is Sathee the daughter of Daksha

821 Brahmani – She who is the strength behind creator

822 Brahmaa – She who is the creator

823 Janani – She who is the mother

824 Bahu roopa – She who has several forms

825 Budharchitha – She who is being worshipped by the enlightened

826 Prasavithri – She who has given birth to everything

827 Prachanda – She who is very angry

828 Aagna – She who is the order

829 Prathishta – She who has been installed

830 Prakata Krithi – She who is clearly visible

831 Praneshwari – She who is goddess to the soul

832 Prana Dhatri – She who gives the soul 833 Panchast peeta roopini – “She who is in fifty Shakthi peethas like Kama ropa, Varanasi. Ujjain etc” 834 Vishungala – She who is not chained 835 Vivikthastha – She who is in lonely places 836 Veera matha – She who is the mother of heroes 837 Viyat prasoo – She who has created the sky 838 Mukundaa – She who gives redemption 839 Mukthi nilaya – She who is the seat of redemption

840 Moola vigraha roopini – She who is the basic statue

841 Bavagna – She who understands wishes and thoughts

842 Bhava rokagni – She who cures the sin of birth

843 Bhava Chakra Pravarthani – She makes the wheel of birth rotate

844 Chanda sara – She who is the meaning of Vedas

845 Sasthra sara – She who is the meaning of Puranas(epics)

846 Manthra sara – She who is the meaning of Manthras ( chants)

847 Thalodharee – She who has a small belly

848 Udara keerthi – She who has wide and tall fame

849 Uddhhama vaibhava – She who has immeasurable fame

850 Varna roopini – She who is personification of alphabets

851 Janma mrutyu jara thaptha jana vishranthi dhayini – “She who is the panacea of ills of birth, death and aging”

852 Sarvopanisha dhudh gushta – She who is being loudly announced as the greatest by Upanishads

853 Shantyathheetha kalathmika – She who is a greater art than peace

854 Gambheera – She whose depth cannot be measured

855 Gagananthastha – She who is situated in the sky

856 Garvitha – She who is proud

857 Gana lolupa – She who likes songs

858 Kalpana rahitha – She who does not imagine

859 Kashta – She who is in the ultimate boundary

860 Akantha – She who removes sins

861 Kanthatha vigraha – She who is half of her husband (kantha)

862 Karya karana nirmuktha – She who is beyond the action and the cause

863 Kama keli tharangitha – She who is the waves of the sea of the play of the God

864 Kanath kanaka thadanga – She who wears the glittering golden ear studs

865 Leela vigraha dharini – She who assumes several forms as play 866 Ajha – She who does not have birth 867 Kshaya nirmuktha – She who does not have death

868 Gubdha – She who is beautiful

869 Ksipra prasadhini – She who is pleased quickly

870 Anthar mukha samaradhya – She who is worshipped by internal thoughts

871 Bahir mukha sudurlabha – She who can be attained by external prayers

872 Thrayee – “She who is of the form of three Vedas viz Rik, yajur and sama”

873 Trivarga nilaya – “She who is in three aspects of self, assets and pleasure”

874 Thristha – She who is in three

875 Tripura malini – She who is in tripura the sixth section of Srichakra

876 Niramaya – She who is without diseases

877 Niralamba – She who does not need another birth

878 Swatma rama – She who enjoys within herself

879 Sudha sruthi – She who is the rain of nectar

880 Samsara panga nirmagna samuddharana panditha – She who is capable of saving people who drown in the mud of day today life

881 Yagna priya – She who likes fire sacrifice

882 Yagna karthree – She who carries out fire sacrifice

883 Yajamana swaroopini – She who is the doer of fire sacrifice

884 Dharma dhara – She who is the basis of Dharma-the rightful action

885 Dhanadyaksha – She who presides over wealth

886 Dhanadhanya vivardhani – She who makes wealth and grain to grow

887 Vipra priya – She who likes those who learn Vedas

888 Vipra roopa – She who is the learner of Vedas

889 Viswa brhamana karini – She who makes the universe to rotate

890 Viswa grasa – She who eats the universe in one handful

891 Vidhrumabha – She who has the luster of coral

892 Vaishnavi – She who is the power of Vishnu

893 Vishnu roopini – She who is Vishnu

894 Ayoni – She who does not have a cause or She who is not born

895 Yoni nilaya – She who is the cause and source of everything

896 Kootastha – She who is stable

897 Kula roopini – She who is personification of culture

898 Veera goshti priya – She who likes company of heroes

899 Veera – She who has valour

900 Naish karmya – She who does not have attachment to action

901 Nadha roopini – She who is the form of sound 902 Vignana kalana – She who makes science 903 Kalya – She who is expert in arts

904 Vidhagdha – She who is an expert

905 Baindavasana – She who sits in the dot of the thousand petalled lotus

906 Tathwadhika – She who is above all metaphysics

907 Tatwa mayee – She who is Metaphysics

908 Tatwa Martha swaroopini – She who is personification of this and that

909 Sama gana priya – She who likes singing of sama

910 Soumya – She who is peaceful or She who is as pretty as the moon

911 Sada shiva kutumbini – She who is consort of Sada shiva

912 Savyapa savya margastha – “She who is birth, death and living or She who likes the priestly and tantric methods”

913 Sarva apadvi nivarini – She who removes all dangers

914 Swastha – She who has everything within her or She who is peaceful

915 Swabhava madura – She who is by nature sweet

916 Dheera – She who is courageous

917 Dheera samarchida – She who is being worshipped by the courageous

918 Chaithnyarkya samaradhya – She who is worshipped by the ablation of water

919 Chaitanya kusuma priya – She who likes the never fading flowers

920 Saddothitha – She who never sets

921 Sadha thushta – She who is always happy

922 Tharunadithya patala – She who like the young son is red mixed with white

923 Dakshina Daksinaradhya – She who is worshipped by the learned and ignorant

924 Dharasmera mukhambuja – She who has a smiling face like the lotus in full bloom

925 Kaulini kevala – She who is mixture of the koula and kevala methods

926 Anargya kaivalya pada dhayini – She who gives the immeasurable heavenly stature

927 Stotra priya – She who likes chants

928 Sthuthi mathi – She who gives boons for those who sing her chants

929 Sthuthi samsthutha vaibhava – She who is worshipped by the Vedas

930 Manaswaini – She who has a stable mind

931 Manavathi – She who has big heart

932 Mahesi – She who is the greatest goddess

933 Mangala kruthi – She who does only good

934 Viswa Matha – The mother of the universe

935 Jagat Dhathri – She who supports the world

936 Visalakshi – She who is broad eyed

937 Viragini – She who has renounced

938 Pragalbha – She who is courageous

939 Paramodhara – She who is great giver

940 Paramodha – She who has great happiness

941 Manomayi – She who is one with mind

942 Vyoma kesi – She who is the wife of Shiva who has sky as his hair

943 Vimanastha – She who is at the top

944 Vajrini – She who has indra’s wife as a part

945 Vamakeshwaree – She who is goddess of the people who follow the left path

946 Pancha yagna priya – She who likes the five sacrifices

947 Pancha pretha manchadhi sayini – She who sleeps on the cot made of five corpses

948 Panchami – She who is the consort of Sadshiva –the fifth of the pancha brahmas

949 Pancha bhoothesi – “She who is the chief of Pancha bhoothas viz earth, sky, fire, air. And water”

950 Pancha sankhyopacharini – “She who is to be worshipped by five methods of Gandha(sandal wood), Pushpa(flower), Dhoopa(incense), dheepa(light), Naivedya(offering)”

951 Saswathi – She who is permanent

952 Saswathaiswarya – She who gives perennial wealth

953 Sarmadha – She who gives pleasure

954 Sambhu mohini – She who bewitches Lord Shiva

955 Dhara – She who carries (beings like earth)

956 Dharasutha – She who is the daughter of the mountain

957 Dhanya – She who has all sort of wealth

958 Dharmini – She who likes dharma

959 Dharma vardhini – She who makes dharma grow

960 Loka theetha – She who is beyond the world

961 Guna theetha – She who is beyond properties

962 Sarvatheetha – She who is beyond everything

963 Samathmika – She who is peace

964 Bhandhooka kusuma prakhya – She who has the glitter of bhandhooka flowers

965 Bala – She who is a young maiden

966 Leela Vinodhini – She who loves to play

967 Sumangali – She who gives all good things

968 Sukha kari – She who gives pleasure

969 Suveshadya – She who is well made up

970 Suvasini – She who is sweet scented(married woman)

971 Suvasinyarchana preetha – She who likes the worship of married woman

972 AAshobhana – She who has full glitter

973 Shuddha manasa – She who has a clean mind

974 Bindhu tharpana santhushta – She who is happy with the offering in the dot of Ananda maya chakra

975 Poorvaja – She who preceded every one

976 Tripurambika – She who is the goddess of three cities

977 Dasa mudhra samaradhya – She who is worshipped by ten mudras(postures of the hand) 978 Thrpura sree vasankari – She who keeps the goddess Tripura sree

979 Gnana mudhra – She who shows the symbol of knowledge

980 Gnana gamya – She who can be attained by knowledge

981 Gnana gneya swaroopini – She who is what is thought and the thought

982 Yoni mudhra – She who shows the symbol of pleasure

983 Trikhandesi – “She who is the lord of three zones of fire, moon and sun”

984 Triguna – She who is three characters

985 Amba – She who is the mother

986 Trikonaga – She who has attained at all vertices of a triangle

987 Anaga – She who is not neared by sin

988 Adbutha charithra – She who has a wonderful history

989 Vanchithartha pradayini – She who gives what is desired

990 Abhyasathisaya gnatha – She who can be realized by constant practice

991 Shaddwatheetha roopini – She who supersedes the six methods of prayers

992 Avyaja karuna moorhy – She who shows mercy without reason

993 Agnana dwantha deepika – She who is the lamp that drives away ignorance

994 Abala gopa vidhitha – She who is worshipped by all right from children and cowherds

995 Sarvan ullangya sasana – She whose orders can never be disobeyed

996 Sri chakra raja nilaya – She who lives in Srichakra

997 Sri math thripura sundari – The beautiful goddess of wealth who is consort of the Lord of Tripura

998 Sri shivaa – She who is the eternal peace

999 Shiva shakthaikya roopini – She who is unification of Shiva and Shakthi

1000 Lalithambika – The easily approachable mother.

Judgemental Conclusions

2010-06-06T23:51:00.003-07:00

I have been thinking to write this post from a long time. This post is about people’s preconceived notions and judgmental conclusions.

It is general human tendency to judge people given every chance. This is sometimes good and sometimes bad. Don’t we have definitions for everything in life? We have several judgments like old people cannot adjust to new age, homemakers don’t have to have a quality/enjoyable life, well educated people can only be respected, a sophisticatedly not dressed person cannot get into a posh mall and the list goes on.

Few years back, I went to a shopping mall. I was there buying a handbag. I met my friend who came with her mother in law. We were talking for a long time and they also accompanied me while I was shopping. My friends MIL suggested few good ones and told me “You can buy whatever you want, because you are earning. Also you might want to take a good one while going to work”.
I was not very happy to hear that. Should only working women buy and enjoy what they want? My friend was hurt even more because she was a homemaker.

I have known few people who have set definitions about homemakers. Many people think that a homemaker does not earn and hence she doesn’t have to spend and live her life. Some divisions in corporate companies are called supporting divisions. These divisions don’t bring revenue to the company. So usually these divisions have very few team lunches and get together parties as the division has to spend from its pocket.
Similarly many of them don’t find it interesting when homemakers have a car of their own, go to beauty saloons, buy a nice dress from Lifestyle, have a smart phone and so on.
The reason behind this is very simple! Homemaker is not an earning member.
The first thing that comes to human mind is why does she need a car? Isn’t it enough for her to have a normal phone?
I feel enjoyment is a perspective. Anyone can enjoy anything and one doesn’t have to qualify for enjoyment. Life doesn’t have to have parameters always. It is totally ones perspective.

Sometimes back xx was contacted by a hiring manager for a job opportunity. xx was a well qualified person and also had few remarkable accomplishments. The hiring manager was a person with an engineering degree from IIT karagpur. This person was founder and CEO of a very small sized company who was hiring people and deploying in client locations. He proposed a deal to xx and forced xx to accept the opportunity. Precisely he was desperate to hire xx. xx very clearly mentioned to him that she was not interested in the opportunity. He was very sarcastic and teased xx that it is so hard to find a job of xx’s choice given the market situation and that she cannot expect anything better than his deal.
Well, here who is this demanding and controlling person to make decisions for others? If xx was from a similar institute, would he have dared to talk like that? Anyone has the right to dream anything and go to any heights they want. Education is completely different from knowledge. Education helps a person to gain knowledge. My theory is it doesn’t matter where one gets educated. Knowledge along with affability; decorum is all the more important. Else that education doesn’t have value.

I have worked with a manager earlier who was born and brought up in a village in Coimbatore. When I moved to the US, he was supposed to pick me up in the airport and help to check in me in to the hotel. This person always talked sarcastically to everyone and no one had a good impression on him. He enquired if my journey was comfortable and if it were my first international travel. When I said yes, his sarcasm went to the extent that he asked if I were excited and peeped out of the window throughout my travel. I was very hurt but unfortunately had to keep my mouth shut as I was destined to work with him for few months. What he did not realize was may be he did that when he made his first travel, but I have traveled enough times within India itself. All it takes for people to get accustomed to new people, place, food, dress is just an exposure. Lack of it is not a criterion to judge someone.

I have many north Indian and hindi speaking friends. Few years back I went to a south Indian restaurant with 2 of my north Indian friends AG and SR. AG likes south Indian food a lot and loved eating in plantain leaf. SR was totally against south Indians, their food and culture. But SR is a good friend of mine. I always gave enough time before knowing someone. May be some of her past experiences made her have such strong opinions against south Indians. AG ate rice with paruppu (lentils) on the plantain leaf and SR did not like it. She thought eating with hand was very cheap and it it did not appear very good to eat that way in a restaurant.
I strongly opposed her opinion. May be that is what she thinks but doesn’t have the right to control the other person who loves to eat that way. Who cares how we eat? We pay money for what we eat and eating with hands does not harm any other person. So what is wrong about that?
I feel silly rules are what we create.

Unfortunately there are several situations like this for many of us. But we remain silent most of the times and let it bother us for years together like how it did for me. A political science graduate is a CEO; a government employee who served the Indian government for several years is a CEO of an IT giant, a Chartered Accountant is a Global HR manager, a scientist is also a painter, an engineer transformed his career into drama, a moderately educated person runs a tv show and the list goes on.
If only scientist should invent we wouldn’t have had monalisa painting.

I feel this world and one’s life is too big to be judged too early.

Anonymous Comments

2010-06-05T11:51:00.002-07:00

For the past few days, I have been getting anonymous comments for some of my oldest blog posts. These anonymous comments were mostly links to illegal sites. I am not sure why a particular post was chosen every time to post such comments. Sometimes it was 3 to 4 comments at a time. I really hated these comments and logged in immediately to delete them. However this did not seem to help.

Thanks to BlogSpot! It did have some options to moderate comments. I am just going to wait and watch if this will continue to be a relief.

2010-06-04T22:03:00.000-07:00

xx is very dear to me; we have similar thoughts and lot of things in common. Like how we have many things in common, we also disagree on few things. If we agree to someone in totality, then aren’t we cloning that person?

A month back, she got a very important thing that she was waiting for. We have had discussions about that several times. I came to know that she received what she wanted and I was very happy for her. Then what else could be the problem here?

Xx recently started a foundation and she sent several emails about that. I was waiting to hear the good news from her. But she emailed not even once. Well this disturbed me a lot because I can never think anything other than good for my dear ones. What made xx not even to tell this to me?

May be she felt it was not as important to her as there are several things to achieve in life? May be she was very busy? Could she have felt that I would be jealous of her? Just did not strike her that she needs to share it with me? May be it is my mistake to have expectations even though she is a close friend?

This is what I have been thinking from a long time and I still couldn’t figure out. When a close person decides to not share good things, procrastinate in telling something, I could think of all the reasons that I have mentioned above and all the more it hurts. Well she pinged me later in chat but I was busy. So I thought it could be for informing also.

Some times I hate the way people share good things. Didn’t I tell you that I received such and such thing? Oh I hate that kind of delivery so much that I get irritated. I would think who cares! There is another kind of expression where in half the information is swallowed and the rest of it is shared after thinking several times.

I will never tell xx that I felt so bad. Probably will try to figure out her current situation in life and based on that will decide further to let her know diplomatically or to just expunge my thoughts.

Doodle winner 2010

2010-06-01T11:07:00.004-07:00

Makenzie MeltonAge 9, Grade 3El Dorado Springs, R-2 SchoolsEl Dorado Springs, Missouri

Doodle 4 google theme for this year was :
If I Could Do Anything, I Would…..

Makenzie chose this doodle because the rainforest is in danger and it is not fair to the plants and animals. She loves everything except spiders and snakes, but would still save them :)

Enjoy the pics from:

http://picasaweb.google.com/lambmegan/D40GRegionalFinalistEvents#

Creativity ?

2010-05-10T22:21:00.005-07:00

Lot of dreams- butterflies- DL (descriptive Language) [This is not Webservice DL]-flashy cards- e-invite.

Did you figure out what I am intending to write here ? Yes, it is about bride and the grooms and the wedding cards.

I have seen several wedding cards and creativity of different people while designing their wedding cards. Most of the cards that I have seen are lovely cards from Menaka cards or Maya cards. Some of the cards that I have seen are designed by the bride and the groom by themselves. I know a person who had a crossword on the invitation. The person is definitely not a crossword solving enthusiast who focuses on anagrams to solve the Hindu crosswords. I know someone else who had a pictionary of different rituals on the invitation. I have seen cards where the bride or the grooms have written poems, descriptive quotes, etc. Some of the cards had photos of the bride and the groom from their engagement ceremony. Later on, the trend was to have an evite link apart from the original wedding card. For those of you who are new to evite, the top ranked search engine, GOOGLE has several links to explain about evite. The bride and the groom create a profile in this evite system. Usually the bride posts her pictures from different stages of her life. Similarly the groom does. They write stories about how they knew each other if it were a love marriage. Those who have arranged marriage write stories about how many hours they spend time talking over the phone and create subnet congestion there by making BSNL wealthier.

Recently I happened to see someone’s wedding invitation to a whole bunch of people in his distribution list. The person had very proudly written his resume in the invitation :)
Then there comes the interesting part of this invitation. He had links to both their facebook profiles and also their BlogSpot links in the invitation. I felt little funny to see that and yes, unfortunately the SNS links are references to their identity.

Of course I did not like the idea and probably will never like the idea of printing blogspot or facebook links and resume on the wedding invitation. I was wondering if this person should print his LinkedIn public profile link on the invitation instead of a so called resume ? Doesn't this make more sense ?
All I could think about this was people are very CREATIVE.

*SNS- Social Networking Site

2010-04-30T15:45:00.005-07:00

I have few friends who are very nice and I like to stay in touch with them.

These are very few people with whom I interact with and I try to stay in touch with them because I value their friendship. Usually I email them or talk to them at least once in a month to know if everything was ok with them. Mostly I am the one who take initiative and try to stay in touch. At some point I was very tired and just waited for them to ask me how I was doing. Its been few months since I spoke to some of them.

In the last couple of days my mom and sister asked me if I were in touch with my friends. I was very tired and then yelled at them saying that I don’t want to be the first person to always initiate conversations. If I were a very important person, why can’t they try to find out about my well being? This eventually led to a very big discussion and I happened to listen to a big lecture. The crux of the lecture was that I should not think the way I am now. They very well know that I am not at all an egoistic person but just tired.

One of my friends emailed and asked me if I was doing well and sent out an email wishing for the Tamil New Year’s Day. My other friend emailed and also called up to know how I was doing. I was happy that they did that.

There is another friend of mine with whom I could not talk to when I was in India. I was very busy after I came back and had lot of work pending from the vacation. .I felt bad and then wrote her an email after getting back to regular schedules. She was very upset that I did not talk to her. I felt bad that even having explained how packed my India trip was, still she was upset. I was happy that she expected it because we are very good friends but at the same time I was the one who has always taken efforts to keep in touch.

So I am wondering about this. Shouldn’t this be mutual? I believe conversation with anyone for that matter needs to be mutual.This thought made me to remain silent and just move on with my stuffs. May be this is just a phase and I would get back to usual tendency of emailing and calling.

அன்பே சிவம்

2010-03-12T22:00:00.005-07:00

இதயம் என்பது சதய்தான் என்றால்
எரிதழல் தின்றுவிடும்
அன்பின் கருவி இதயம் என்றால்
சாவை வென்றுவிடும்

I was listening to this song from the film "Anbe Sivam" today. Its one of my favorite movies. Love is the supreme power.

உணர்ச்சிபூர்வமான வரிகள். நான் இதை பரிபூர்ணமாக நம்புகிறேன். அடுத்த நிமிடம் நம் வாழ்வில் இருக்குமா இல்லையா என்று கூட அறியாமல் அன்பில்லாத எவளவோ விஷயங்களை செயல் படுத்துகிறோம்.சில சமயம் இதை நினைத்தால் வேடிக்கையாக இருக்கிறது.ஏன் என்றால் பெரும்பாலானோர் வாழ்வின் பிர் பகுதியில் தான் இதை உணருகிறார்கள்.

என் தமிழில் பிழை இருக்க வாய்ப்பிருக்கிறது. பிழை இருந்தால் கூறுங்கள் திருத்தி கொள்கிறேன்.

2010-03-05T22:16:00.002-07:00

Drive carefully. Stop and cross the road slowly after the bus moves especially when you are riding a bicycle. Don’t raise the accelerator immediately when you drive your pep. I have heard enough of these when I was riding bicycle and driving bike.

When I drove my pep, I felt like a free bird flying high in air. Driving pep was heights of joy to me, so much of joy that when I flew seamlessly; there were experiences that cautioned me to be very careful. I have never cared about those cautions.Without thinking twice, I have told my parents several times that I had no regrets even if I had to die in accidents and they always replied that you might afford to think carelessly, but you are precious to us.

Today was yet another day in my driving chapters. My mind was frozen to the extent that I even forgot my regular route. I usually take 3 loops before getting onto the state route. I was careful till the 2nd loop. I just could not recollect what happened to me later. I had to take an exit to get into the 3rd loop but all that I realized was that I had gone past the point. I then got into the near by exit, took the freeway entrance again to get on to my usual route.

I was kind of alarmed by what I did and at the same time it was a caution for me. Now I have started believing the cautions that nature gives me.

Thinking Day

2010-02-22T22:01:00.002-07:00

It has been 3 months since 2010 begun and here am writing my first post. In January, I had drafted a post mentally. But I did not post it. I had drafted several posts later but they just remained as a draft because I wanted to be sure about what I wanted to write.

I drafted this post on 22nd Feb. My R friend at work always writes the specialty of a day on the bulletin board in front of her cube. It was Thinking Day on the 22nd. I have fond memories for this day.

It’s a day to think about the meaning of guiding and scouting and about scouts and guides in all the countries of the world. Donations are collected for the Thinking Day Fund which supports projects taken up by the scouts and guides.

In my school, the primary school girls associated with guiding were called as Bulbul and the secondary school girls were called as guides. I was a Bulbul and a guide during my school days. Every year events were organized on the Thinking Day. The events started at 6 A.M in the morning and ended before the school prayer. During my 7th grade, we had invited children from an orphanage. We had arranged a potluck and my mom had prepared bhel puri and poori masal for my contribution. It gave immense satisfaction to me when the kids enjoyed and ate the food. At the age of 12, the lesson that I learnt was true happiness lies in helping the have not’s and giving and sharing. Some of these incidents unknowingly created few good thoughts in me.
My mom always gave our old clothes to needy children. Either it has been an orphanage like ‘udavum karangal’ or to servant maid’s daughter or to any other hawker’s (flower seller or vegetable seller) daughter. Till some point in my life, I have never had the heart of giving away even my used clothes to others, may be because I was emotionally attached to them. But later I realized and gave those clothes with a sense of helping others when they were in good condition so that the other person gains joy when they wear them.

This year I did nothing on the thinking day . But I was thinking about the desire in me to help the needy at somepoint in my life and I also cherished the moments when I was part of a foundation earlier.

Reflections

2009-12-28T15:05:00.008-07:00

My memories go back to the Excitement, happiness, togetherness, mixed emotions that I experienced a year back. Work was very hectic and it spared me only the weekends to talk to my parents and sister leisurely. My cousin sister called me frequently to know that I am doing well and assuring that my family was always there for me at all times. My cousin brother called me and used to guide me for anything that I wanted. My aunt and uncle talked to me regularly to make me feel better that I was not alone here. I was eagerly waiting to go to India to see my family members. When I was in India, I hardly had 3 days to be with my loving family. Amidst all the preparations that was going on at home at that time, I had very less time to be with my parents, sister, cousins, aunt, uncle and the little princess in my family. I asked my mom to feed me food every chance that I got. I was awake most of the times despite the jetlag, to spend time with my family. I loved my cousin sister who feed me breakfast. I loved the carrot halwa that my sister made with so much of love. I cherished every moment when I was in India. With dark, bright and beautiful mehandi on my hands, I came here with my husband.

Little did I realize that I have spent couple of years here. With a smiling note and cherishing all the moments that happened this year, I look forward for a new year.

2009-10-28T20:42:00.003-07:00

While growing up I was a complan girl and was told by my parents that coffee was not good for kids. I was not a big fan of complan. During my childhood, daily in the morning I pretended to sleep even when I woke up early in the morning only to procrastinate drinking a cup of complan. However I overcame this feeling when complan mango shake was introduced. huh it was a big relief !
The yellow colored cup with a fancy sipper for complan mango shake was a good marketing magic to attract the kids then.

Slowly I started drinking 1 cup of coffee in the morning. But I always knew my limits and I also never liked drinking it more than once. When I got a chance to be part of Isha Yoga’s inner engineering program, I learnt that caffeine randomly activates our nervous system in the morning. Since I liked the program, I also had a great respect for whatever that was taught and followed it until 3 months before. But unfortunately the aroma of freshly brewed coffee, while sipping it with lot of enjoyment has made me feel extra energetic and has become indispensable component in my life now.

Most of the days I drink 2 cups of coffee. When I start my work in the morning, the first thing I do is to get a cup of coffee without which I feel my desk is empty.

I am afraid that I would become addicted to coffee and would become an
“avid coffee drinker” :(

Philosophy ?

2009-10-11T22:03:00.000-07:00

For a while now, I have been having a lot of philosophical thoughts. My perspective towards many things has been very philosophical. I could also say living and believing practicality. Sometimes the result of extensive thinking has even lead to confused thinking.

I have this habit of looking back about how a particular day was a year back and get thrilled of all the events that take place in the due course. Today when I look back, I am very convinced that today is a gift compared to the day it was a year back. This might also be the result of thinking that everyday is a gift.

One thing that I have been wondering about life is, things that we want to happen are the ones that happen at a later point of time when we least expect them to happen. By then we get tired of dreaming and move on. Usually our mind starts to think “why did this not happen at the time we want them to happen...?” Well how nice it would be to get things at the time when we want them. The timely gift always gives immense pleasure and is also very memorable.But we know the fact that things don't happen at the time we want and when they happen at the time that we don’t want, we get mad. I have an answer for every question that arises within me. “Probably everything that happens has a good reason behind it”.

One other thing that I wonder is, there would have been times in our life when we would have missed to enjoy very small things. Those are the things that we gain interest at a later point of time and then we feel bad for having missed it before. For instance most of us are very cautious about our food habits and would have avoided eating many food stuffs. Unfortunately we gain interest when we don’t get them to eat anymore :(
I remember the days when I haven’t showed any interest in eating. Now I really miss boiled sweet potato, boiled peanuts, vazhappoo, vazhathandu, palakottai sambar(jackfruit seeds), ladies finger. We don’t realize the value of anything until we have and miss them like hell when we don’t have them. That’s life I guess!
So now, I relish everything that I have and enjoy everyday.

By having a lot of practical and philosophical discussions within myself, I realize that my perception towards life has changed a lot. When I get a feeling that I am being fooled or taken for granted or when people irritate me, I have an answer to put down my fuming feelings. I just cannot tolerate at those times but I tell to myself that it matters more what I think about myself rather than what others do. Well, most of the times this has a very good effect cuz this attitude helps me to refrain from reacting for most of the situations. According to me response to a stimulus triggers the effect to be more and this forms a chain reaction.

I am not sure why I started writing about this.

Am I confused ? May be Yes or may be No.

Am I very practical ? May be Yes or may be No.

The power of good deeds

2009-09-16T22:01:00.001-07:00

A poor wood-cutter was on his way home, after a long, hard day’s work in the forest. On his head he carried a big bundle of wood – the fruit of his toil.

On the lonely forest track that evening, he saw a tapasvi, a holy man, coming towards him. Courteously, he stepped aside to let the holy man pass.

“Drop the bundle down!” the holy man said to the wood cutter.

Astonished, as well as puzzled, the poor man did as he was told.

“Untie the knot!” came the next instruction.

Lo and behold! As the bundle was untied, a deadly, venomous snake came out of the logs. The wood-cutter shrieked with fear and horror at the sight of the snake but it crept away quietly into the undergrowth and disappeared.

Still shaking with fright, the wood-cutter fell at the feet of the holy man.

“Master!” he exclaimed, “You saved my life!”

“You are mistaken,” replied the holy man quietly. “Tell me, did you perform a good deed today?”

“Alas master! All day long I worked hard cutting wood! It is not for humble ones like me to perform good deeds,” replied the wood cutter.

“Think again,” urged the holy man. “You must have done something special today!”

The man’s eyes widened in remembrance. “O master! I grew hungry and I sat down to eat my meal. I had two rotis with me. As I began to eat, a poor man came by. He told me he had not eaten for the last two days – poor soul! I shared one of my rotis with him. Apart from this, I have performed no good deed at all!”

The holy man blessed the poor wood-cutter.

“Brother,” he said, ‘today, you were to die of this snake. But your good deed has saved you from death, and blessed you with a new lease of life!”

Change in Homepage?

2009-09-11T18:00:00.002-07:00

The look and feel of the Google homepage has been changed since yesterday. Did you notice the elongated search box and the keywords that we enter are in bigger font size?

When I first saw the page, it appeared as though it had a UI defect. I was under the impression that some developer had missed to apply style sheet and deployed it into production server when he was half asleep.

Later I realized that it was a ‘CHANGE’.

I don’t like it. :(

Sweet Spot

2009-08-22T22:16:00.001-07:00

Few days back I had a technical discussion with my developer and the client on one of the critical projects that I am working for currently. My developer (hereafter referred to as ‘SA’) is a very sincere person who always aims for quality deliverable and also puts the best effort to meet deadlines. My client is a very systematic person who works in early bird schedule. So a technical discussion in the night is obviously an irritating thing for him. Unfortunately the discussion exceeded the scheduled time and SA was not convinced with the discussion. The more he was trying to clarify, the client was becoming impatient. Unexpectedly the discussion was not very fruitful.

I spoke to my SA immediately after the call and explained to him that it was right to focus on the client’s needs rather than giving a best solution for long term when the client is ready to rework after a while. I understood SA’s intentions that he wants to give a best solution rather than thinking short term solution.

A few days back I had another discussion with my supervisor. We were talking about different resources who report to me. He commented about SA that it was very tough to work with him and there were few people who haven’t preferred to work with this person. Hence he was trying to find out if I faced a similar situation. I said my relationship with my team is absolutely fine and I am satisfied with SA’s work too.

The point that my supervisor conveyed to me was, sometimes people become unhappy when the person works beyond what is expected. It was the same problem with SA. He worked so passionately that he doesn’t deliver until he is satisfied with the quality.
I said that was the quality that I was very impressed about SA and I am fine with that.

This lead to a discussion on one of the articles my CEO had written about ‘Sweet Spot’.

Here is a Venn diagram that shows the sweet spot:

The highlighted region is the sweet spot.
A- refers to company
B- refers to Personal Interests of an employee
C- refers to employee’s strengths

Sweet spot is defined as a region which helps an individual grow along with the organization's growth. A person has to have the caliber to do something; the one that interests him and is expected by the company showcases him as a talented person.

Having strengths but no interest; having interest but struggling to do a task; having interest and strengths but doesn’t meet the company’s needs are 3 combinations that make a person unsuccessful.

In the case of SA, he has high caliber and interest but most of the times doesn’t meet the expectation set by the company/client, rather exceeds them resulting in dissatisfaction.

I defended SA because I have never let down any of those who have worked with me so far. I know the fact about sweet spot but did not completely agree with my supervisor because I have been in similar situations before.

This discussion reminded me of 2 incidents in my life.

Incident 1:I had a very tough time before I found my best first job. I applied for a job position for one of the telecom giants based out of madras. There were 8000 candidates who had applied for the same job position. After having attended many interviews and knowing the time that it was a recession, I had very less expectations when I went to the aptitude test. I did my best and was very happy to know that I cleared the test. I then had a technical assessment which covered almost all the areas of engineering concepts. I was delighted to hear the results that I passed the test. Immediately there were 2 technical discussions on the same day. I was little bit nervous but slowly my expectations and confidence were building very fast. Both the interviews went on very well and I was waiting to hear the results again. Imagine the mental state of a person who had to hold the breath several times on the same day. I was informed that I cleared the interviews as well.

From the 8000 that appeared for the selection process, only 42 were selected after the technical discussions. After a weeks time, there was a HR interview and I got to know from sources that they were going to select only 35 of us. My interview went on well. I was very sure that I would be selected. But to my dismay I was told that I was one among the 7 who were rejected. Also the HR added to the point that those who were rejected don’t mean that they are not capable but their strengths does not fit in the company’s expectations J

Oh what a diplomatic way of conveying! Isn’t it? But that moment was very hard to digest and I was dejected. It took me at least a week’s time to think about the next step. But that was when I realized that there is going to be some other time in my life when my strengths would be recognized by someone else.

My thinking was true. I continued to put in my effort and was offered 2 jobs from leading companies at the same time.

Incident 2: There was a time when I used to work for a very critical project in my company. We had very odd working hours. Some of us used to work crazily and hardly had time to sleep. My superior was a person who was never satisfied with the work delivered. He was always a person who pointed out the scope for improvement. Sometimes when there was a delay in best of intentions to deliver quality product, it was often mistook as deliberate delay to let my superior down. How disgusting!

Soon after that project was completed, I moved onto a different team. Surprisingly for the same amount of effort that I had put earlier, I was appreciated at least once in a day. How funny life was!

My grandpa thought me a very important lesson to me. Tough times in a person’s life are inevitable. One has to suffer and get through those times. But when one continues to do good they will be rewarded the best during one’s best times…..wondering why? Its for the best deeds accumulated.

The lesson that life thought me many times was continued effort, good thought and good work will be appreciated one day or the other and I firmly believe it till day.

I also believe this holds good for many situations and relationships in our life.

So coming back to the original point, I planned to send appreciations for SA because one of the tasks that he had worked was highly appreciated by the client.

Pippa's song

2009-07-20T18:20:00.006-07:00

The last time when I posted, I forgot to include these lines from Pippa's song by Robert Browning.

God does everything for a reason and we realise it later.well, there is a lot to be written here but I am not very good in expressing. Here you go and its self explanatory.

The year's at the spring,

And day's at the morn;

Morning's at seven;

The hill-side's dew-pearled;

The lark's on the wing;

The snail's on the thorn;

God's in his Heaven --All's right with the world!

Random Post

2009-07-20T18:00:00.007-07:00

1. For a while now, I have been thinking about this. Why do people always want the one that they don’t have? I am not an exception….But the moment I am disappointed about something, I also realize that I have grown up and am matured enough to digest the fact that mom had always thought me in my journey so far “unakkum keezhe ullavar kodi, ninaithu pathu nimmadhi naadu”.

2. Why are some people hypocrites? It feels sick when I could read minds and categorize some people as hypocrites. I have seen some of those in my workplace.

3. I watched a wonderful movie “Abhiyum naanum”.My sister told me that she liked it.
The relationship between a father and a daughter has been wonderfully brought out in the movie.

4. Why do people render service to the society and take pictures when they help the needy? Is it telling everyone that their service needs to be recognized? Whom are they making happy? Do they get pleasure in serving the needy or feel happy when others talk about their helping nature? I am confused.
I know many who do great things and never talk about it.

I hate to see pictures in newsletters of foundations those help the needy.

5. I finished reading a book. I literally hated the story. The woman in the story was very indecisive and I hated the way she dealt the situations.

6. I had an informal meeting with my previous manager few days before. She always liked talking to me and felt bad for not having me in her team. She is the only woman in her team and she misses me. Every time when she talks to me, I am reminded of MK. That reminds me how MK never wanted to loose me but she always respected what I wanted.

5 star *****

2009-07-14T20:11:00.005-07:00

Do you remember this old tamil advertisement for 5 star?
I was reminded of the 5 star advertisements….

It’s like this…….A girl tries to become a pop singer and fails miserably every time. The song goes like this…

Asaigal nirasai anadhe
Kanavum kai nazhuvi ponadhe
Nambikkai tharum manadhile
Oru pudhuvazhi udayam anadhe
Kai patruvom star ai sadippom viraivil vaa……..
Kai patruvom star ai sadippom viraivil vaa……..

As the song goes, she eats a five star to gain confidence and we see a pop singer on the screen :)For the past few days I have been searching this ad in you tube……
By now you know what the search result was… :(

No ad…No five star :(

God’s in his heaven, All’s right with the world

2009-07-06T22:00:00.001-07:00

One of my very best friends used to tell me, one should have pure thoughts on a Monday morning and the entire week depends on how one experiences Monday. I don’t believe much in these kinds of sentiments. Every day is special to me. There were times when I wore same colored clothes almost the entire week. Some of them have asked me, “is that your lucky color?” Well I believed when I wore a dress of my choice and liking, I was more confident. But I have this inadvertent love for dates. I am working on it to overcome.

When I was up this morning, unfortunately I was not sure how my day is going to be. Although I was identified as “The Woman” in an organization I had worked previously, that is the smilie I wish to be one today.

I had 4 tasks to be deployed and they were expected to go live in a week’s time. All of them were critical ones. I was appreciated for some of the tasks that were fabulously carried out so far. But I was also criticized that out of many things that go wrong, 2 of the 4 tasks require some more effort. I did not get a “GO” from the business and hence we put them on hold.

I was not unhappy or dejected. I was just tired.

I have this very senior colleague in my office who is a blind motivator for me. She does the testing for most of the code my team develops. She asks numerous questions and is sometimes confused too. I just walk over to her place for the respect I have for her age and explain her patiently. Sometimes when I have other priorities, there can be no other person in my office to understand me better than her. Today I had to ask something to her and I was relieved to get a timely help. All that I could say her was “Thanks”.

She replied me back…I am moved with your patience to help me out every time. There is not a single time when you have said “No”.

I was happy.

God’s in his heaven, All’s right with the world.

Google Profile?

2009-06-25T19:26:00.003-07:00

Web 2.0 refers to what is perceived as a second generation of web development and web design. It is characterized as facilitating communication, information sharing, interoperability, User-centered design and collaboration on the World Wide Web. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications. Examples include social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies.

Although the term suggests a new version of WWW, it does not have any up gradations to technical specifications whereas gives a new tilt to the way end users utilize the web.

Got to Wiki for more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Now, do you wonder why am I writing a post on web 2.0 here? The answer is pretty simple. As usual I was exploring one of the features of Google. As a google adherent, I thought of sharing information about Google Profile.

In the current day, we have so many social networking sites bumping each other. LinkedIn is one such site with a different outlook to the SNS .Its a “Professional SNS”.
It’s a place where one can put their professional information there by floating ones information in the WWW.

Orkut on the other hand is a “Personal SNS” with a similar motive.

Today majority of the people ranging from school going kids to elderly people have got them registered in Orkut, LinkedIn, youtube, Picassa, reader, blogger, facebook & so on..

We know most of these products are under the very big umbrella called Google. Now what is different about Google Profile then?

Google Profile can be logged in with the usual gmail account and is built on the “Web 2.0” concept. It’s basically a place where one can register to have public presence. If someone wants to track a person on the web and the person being tracked has a google profile created, everything becomes pretty simple. It has link to all the google products and shows all of those where the logged in member has registered with.

Most of us log into any google related products with the same id. We don’t maintain different ids for different products when they always popularize the product with the fact that one can login if h/she has a gmail account. Thus the web 2.0 concept emerges.

For example, when a person logs into google profile with the gmail id, it shows their blog links, you tube membership details, presence in picassa, any journal membership, orkut, facebook and twitter and so on.

In the past when you did a “Vanity Search” ( if you wanted to be listed in search results for your own name), it would not have showed up the results as expected and often you needed your own website. However in April, Google has started giving Profiles a prominent placement in search results. If you set up an online profile with Google, a person looking for you online will be able to find you more easily. Google will let you know if they need more information before having your profile listed in search results.

Do you want to take a look to see a profile looks like? Search for Tim O'Reilly( web 2.0 guru) on the web.

Read for more details:
http://seodenver.com/2009/05/20/how-to-create-a-google-profile-and-manage-your-online-reputation/

I was very excited to learn about web 2.0 a year and a half back. But when I realized the concept in real-time, I have my own thoughts reserved for this.

I was analyzing the pros and cons of Google profile. I don’t want to discuss about it here as it might be a very good topic in a technical forum.

Although I jotted out many points, my question is still open.” Is Profile a boon or a bane?”

Power Outage

2009-06-18T21:54:00.002-07:00

Couple of days before, at work…..
I was starring at the monitor without moving anywhere as if I was glued to the chair. I was trying to open some document and all of a sudden the mouse stopped working. The computer got disconnected from the network. All the lights were turned off.
I realized it was a “Power outage”. After coming to the US, it was the first time I encountered a power outage.

Ah…….Probably it was a time to take break :)

Some of my coworkers started heading to their home. I was wondering what next to do?

But this brought a kind of happiness in everyone’s face as though no one is compelled to work anymore.

In school and college days it was really fun when an unexpected holiday was declared. Especially the bombs scare kind of rumors. I remember running to the play ground once during a bomb scare in the school.

Will a similar thing happen today? When I cannot afford to take a day off, it’s ok to expect a leave announcement.
Such was a kind of thought running through my mind and unfortunately everything resumed in 15 minutes.

रेशम

2009-06-11T18:23:00.002-07:00

वो लोग रेशमी कपड़े पहनते हैं

बोलते हैं कि वो अमीर हैं

वो समझ्तें हैं कि अमीर्पनका नमूना रेशम है

मन्दिर मे भगवान को धूम धाम से सजाते हैं

अगर्बती का मतलब इस मतलबी दुनिया में खो गया है

लोग समझ्तें हैं कि रेशमी कपडों में भगवान् की कीर्ती बद्थी है

रेशम की कीमत अनमोल है

लेकिन लोग माया के वश में हें

क्या रेशम कभी कफ़न बन सकता है?

कफ़न हमेशा सफ़ेद ही है

वह दुःख का नमूना है

For Hindi Aspirants, the poem means :

Everything in this world has its own significance. One cannot replace the otherones value.

A silk cloth cannot be used as a shroud.

Also this means ones value is not influenced by the others value. Our greatness lies in the quality of our inner self. For example, god is a supreme power.He is not a supreme power because of how we decorate him or what we offer to him.

उदार

2009-06-09T18:30:00.000-07:00

किरण जब ऊपर पड्त्ती है

आहिस्ता आलस उतारकर खिलती हैं ये नन्हे कलियाँ

फ़िर मुस्कुराती हैं फूल बनके

अपने दैनिक जीवन की सोच थोडी भी नही है

चारों तरफ़ खुश्बू फैलाकर हमको खुशी दिलाती हैं

इस स्वार्थी दुनिया में एक दिन की खुशी देकर स्वर्गीय बन जाती हैं

क्या ये सारे फूल हरि के लिए हार बनती हैं ?

आपस में हर एक फूल तड्पती हैं

एक दिन की परियां , हरि के गले में जब चड्ती हैं, तब उनका जन्मदिन है

क्या इन सबको वो मौका मिलता है ?

फ़िर भी खिलती हैं, हिलती हैं , खुशृबू फैलाती हैं, मुर्झाती भी हैं

The Garbage Truck

2009-06-04T19:37:00.001-07:00

I read this story very recently. Sometimes we know very clearly what to practice in our life. But we fail to do it due to circumstances. However, we get reminded of them when we read such stories or articles. Here is a very nice story.

How often do we let other people's emotions affect our mood? Do we let a
terrible driver, or a rude comment ruin our day?

The mark of a spiritual aspirant is how quickly we can ‘regain our focus’ on
what is important. One man learnt this experience while he was in a New
York City cab. Here's what happened.

He was traveling in a taxi, on his way to Grand Central Station. All of a
sudden, without warning, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in
front of them. The taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded and missed the
other car's back end by inches.

Then, the driver in the other car, who nearly caused a huge accident,
whipped his head around and started abusing the taxi driver. So did the
companion sitting next to him! One would have thought that it should have
been the other way round!!!

But the taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. The startled passenger
sitting in the taxi said, "Why did you take it so easy? The guys almost
caused your car to crash and send us to hospital!"

The taxi driver laughed and then related what he called, "The Law of The
Garbage Truck."

"Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of rubbish,
filled with frustration, bursting with anger, and packed with
disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. And
if you let them, they'll dump it on you. When someone wants to dump it all
on you, don't take it personally. You just smile, wave, wish them well, and
move on. You'll be glad you did. I assure you.”

The passenger started thinking how regularly he let garbage trucks run right
over him? And how frequently he took his own garbage and spread it onto
other people, at work, at home, or on the streets? It was that day he
promised to himself, "I'm not going to do it anymore. Enough is enough!"

Over time he learnt how to distinguish when a "Garbage Truck" was coming to
dump all over him. He noticed the junk they were carrying and prepared
himself to avoid it all being unloaded onto him. Like the taxi driver, he
did not make it a personal thing; he just smiled or waved or wished them or
did all of these and moved on!!!

We generally get disturbed on reacting to situations, to people’s opinions that we don’t like. Don’t we? Also we have an aversion to a rude comment, those who tease us, those who underestimate us, those who gossip about us and lot more.
A few years back, I started incorporating “The Law of Garbage truck”. I ensured that I don’t let anyone’s negative thoughts influence me. Generally we forget what to do when we have many more challenging situations and that’s what happened to me. I forgot totally about this law. I was reminded of this law sometime during last year.

I know a person who keeps smiling always. When someone talks rudely, he just doesn’t react. He says it’s our duty to keep our heart as beautiful like a flower and we need to try all possible ways for that.

But our mind is like a coin that has two sides. We can take conscious effort to practice good things. But isn’t it tough to remain the same always? When I do that I get a feeling, am I trying to clone “Mother Theresa”? Also it gives a feeling of being fooled. No……I don’t want to do that. I just want to remain the way I am.
That’s when we forcefully unlearn.

We can practice all good things and we can do it only till the threshold. Once that’s reached, we just can’t bear things and we react. No harm in it. Sometimes we need to let the world know what we are and who we are.

Shouldn’t we?

राह

2009-06-03T21:00:00.005-07:00

राह में बटमार दूर निकलने लगे

तमन्ना पुरी होने जैसे लग रही थी

लेकिन राही की छाया डूबने लगा

तब महसूस हुआ कि राह का दीप बुजने लगा है

For hindi aspirants, the poem means:

"When the tough gets going, the going gets tough" and thats life and we need to face it.

Feast

2009-05-31T14:21:00.002-07:00

This is a very nice song.... It has lot of ingredients to it...Waterfall, forest, birds chirping, rabbit.........
One can enjoy the song on mute...Music is a bonus to it and its all the more mesmerizing.
When i see the song it rejuvenates my cells...I wish I were in that place and relax for few days.

Some of my favorite verses from the song are:

salithu poanaen manidhanaay irundhu

parakka vaendum paravaiyaay thirindhu thirindhu

parandhu parandhu

uppu kadaloadu maegham urpathi aanaalum

uppu thanneerai maegham oru poadhum sindhaadhu

malaiyil vizhundhaalum sooriyan marithu poavathillai

nilavukku oliyootti thannai neettithu kolgiradheymaegh

amaay naanum maaraenoaadhan maenmai kunangal kaanbaeno

sooriyan poal avai maaraenoa en jothiyil ulagai aalvaeno

jananam maranam theriyaa vannam naanum mazhai thuli aavaenoa

When I see this song, this reminds me the beautiful adirampalli & wayanad falls :)

Enjoy the Song! :)

2009-05-30T23:43:00.004-07:00

It’s going to be close to a year since I moved out from OC. Today I was reminded of my friends M, S, R & B. It’s hard to make friends like these four. My stay in S’s house was great. It was a pleasant surprise today when B called me. Those were the critical days when I had to face things, when I missed my family a lot and these people were blessing in disguise. I should say god sent.

Who will take a day off to take care when someone needs attention? M was very kind enough to do that. S called me at frequent intervals to know if I had breakfast, lunch etc…Evening when she was back from office, she would give me a big glass of orange juice…ensures I eat my dinner properly…B cooked dal rice for us. He had damp eyes when he was at S’s place. The entire team came to S’s place.

S wanted to spend time with me till I was there with her. I know she felt every moment was precious. All of them came to the airport when I left…Till I went to the security check, SL, Su, S, M and lot others took pictures.. S gave me a lovely rose before I left home and wanted me to hold it till I boarded the flight.. Su wanted me to have the flower that she gave me…….

Nice friends and lively were those days with them.

जीवन का राज़

2009-05-27T21:11:00.009-07:00

परियों की रानी बोलती है

दीवार में चुप चुप के जीवन का आध्यात्मिक राज़ बोलती है

जीवन में सब कुछ क्षण भंगुर है

कल की आयु आज के चैन में है

किसी ने पूछा नही, किसी ने सुना नही, किसी ने समझा नही

आख़िर अन्तिम साँस लपेटे हुए ऊपर का भी मेहमान बनके चलते हैं

आंखों में आँसू पोंछ्के वो फ़िर से बोलती है

आज एक अनमोल रत्न है

यही है जीवन का आध्यात्मिक

Airtel Super Singer Grand Finals Part I

2009-05-27T21:01:00.002-07:00

I was shocked to see the results on Monday. One among the five finalists was eliminated. I was not happy to hear that Prasanna & Ranjini had a difference of 8000+ votes’.

It was excruciating to digest the fact that Ranjini was eliminated. I am not biased because she is my colleague. There were so many aspects that I liked about Ranjini…
She sang almost all the genres and her versatility were applauded by everybody until the finals.
I really don’t understand how the public cast vote?? Or was it an internal politics played to retain Prasanna or Renu? Probably people count appearance as a factor while deciding?
Or luck constitutes 10% of victory?

Ranjini parted with a happy note though. She was confident enough to tell everybody that she would be into playback singing some day. Lastly she sang “mayya mayya” from the film Guru.

What a bold attempt it was to sing that song!

Doodle Winner 2009

2009-05-21T07:46:00.005-07:00

Doodle 4 Google contest was held this year around the intriguing theme "What I Wish for the World."
Christin Engelberth, a sixth grader at Bernard Harris Middle School in San Antonio, Texas has won the Doodle 4 Google contest this year. She titled her doodle “A New Beginning”.
I remember voting for this title. Did I???
I think yes. Because when I first saw this doodle, it reminded me Darwin’s “Theory of Evolution”.
But christin created this doodle to express her wish that "out of the current crisis, discoveries will be found to help the Earth prosper once more."

When I read the title, the child in me had this thought …..Hey I have drawn enough on this slate…
Ok..lemme erase everything and make fresh drawings..:)
Isn't it nice?

2009-05-19T14:25:00.003-07:00

I was unwell for the past 2 days. I myself could not understand what was happening within me. Usually when I was unwell, mom asked me so many times”kanna enna ma achu?” I used to hug my mom when I was not okay. So she knows immediately that I am not okay. She knows that I am not a better person in explaining the discomforts and so she would ask all the symptoms like a doctor. Sometimes from the love that she has given me I have even forgotten the next day that I was unwell. Especially when I get to work I forget to eat even if she had asked me to eat any medicines. She used to call me and ensured that I ate everything properly and asked plenty of times if I was okay.
Now, when I am very far away from my beloved mom, sometimes it’s very hard to explain things over the phone. Whenever I have felt low, my sister cracked jokes and made me laugh. Many things like this remind me many instances where mom, dad & darling sis have taken care of me like a princess. I miss them a lot.

My dad always called me princess….When I was living with my parents, my work place was very far away from our home. So usually it was like 8:30 P.M when I was back from work. I will be so tired that I get into the bedroom immediately and would lie down to get some rest. Dad always bought a big 1.5 litres bottle of Maaza and a packet of Lays to kill my unbearable hunger before I ate the dinner.

The other day when I went to buy groceries with my husband, he bought me a Maaza tetra pack. My eyes were full of tears and I was very happy when he told that he understands how much I missed my dad.

After Rain

2009-05-13T10:21:00.004-07:00

A sudden rainfall.
Oddly the sound seemed more melancholy than menacing.
Plethora of thoughts surrounded by the sound.
Slowly the gentle breeze in the dawn was a sigh of relief.
The nature was at rest.
Everything was calm and clear – It was a peaceful solitude in the best way it can be!

2009-05-10T11:27:00.001-07:00

God chooses a special angel for every child on this earth.
She sings songs for the child, tells the most beautiful and sweet words the child can hear.
She teaches how to speak with much patience and care.
She is the only one to defend even if it means risking her life!
She is the happiest person to see her child grow and rewarded.

I call my angel as “Mommy”.

Happy Mother’s Day.

Success is not what we take it to be

2009-05-08T14:24:00.004-07:00

Recently I came across this article. I was very much impressed,especially the last story.
A very good read!

Everyone wants to be successful in life. But there are few who know the elements of success, the factors that go to build up success. Today, success is being confounded with making money, with amassing millions and billions. John D. Rockefeller was such a multimillionaire, to whom success did not bring him happiness. His biographer tells us that by the time Rockefeller was 53, his life was a wreck. He was the richest man in the world and yet he was miserable! He was sick – physically, mentally and emotionally. All his millions could not make him happy.

Rockefeller turned a new leaf. He stopped accumulating wealth, and began to give away his wealth. Thus was born the Rockefeller Foundation, which sponsors and supports education and medical care throughout the world. John Rockefeller re-wrote and re-defined the meaning of success for himself. Some people equate success with power and position. A fond mother said to me that her son had achieved success in life at the young age of 23. He had been appointed as the Managing Director of a large industrial concern. But a few days later, I heard that the young man was rude to his colleagues and unpopular with his workers; that he had a foul temper, and that he became a victim of gambling and drinking. Would you describe this young man as being successful?

Many of us tend to equate success with visible material acquisitions. There was a young woman who wore expensive clothes and diamond jewels; her handbag was stuffed with currency notes, she drove about in a Mercedes. Everyone agreed that she was indeed a woman who had achieved success in life. But then this young woman had problems too. She was one of the unhappiest women on earth. Her husband was constantly running after other women and paid no attention to her. Would you call this young woman successful?

Jay Gould, the American millionaire, amassed great wealth. But as he lay dying, he lamented, “I suppose I am the most miserable man on earth!” There is no happiness in wealth, but there is considerable wealth in the experience of happiness.

What is the definition of success? What is true success? I believe that true success is in some way or the other, related to inner happiness and peace of mind. It has been rightly said that if you lose your wealth, you lose but little. If you lose your health, you lose something. But, if you lose your peace of mind, you have lost everything!

Outer things, external achievements, are not the yardstick for success. Power, prestige, position, social influence, higher degrees awarded by universities – all these are outer things. They only touch the fringe of life; they don’t enter the depths within. A man may have all this, and yet he may be intellectually barren; he may be emotionally unbalanced, spiritually sterile. Would you call such a man successful?

What then, is success all about? One can define success as the ability to be happy and make others happy; the ability to love and be loved; the ability to remain in peaceful harmony with oneself, with those around you and with God’s cosmic laws.

Let me tell you the story of such a man, who achieved success in life.

You may have heard of Dunlop tyres. They were manufactured by George C. Dunlop. As a young man, Dunlop was far from wealthy. But he genuinely cared for an old woman, who was an invalid. She was confined to a wheel chair, and George would often propel the chair for her. He found she suffered severe jolting and discomfort, when steel rims of the wheel chair moved on rough terrain. He wanted to do something that would reduce her discomfort.

In those days, a new material was much talked about. People were beginning to marvel over its flexibility and softness. It was nothing but rubber! Dunlop took strands of rubber and wound them around the steel rims of the wheel chair and found that this smoothened considerably, the movements of the wheel, giving a great deal of comfort to his invalid friend. Thus began the story of Dunlop tyres – first designed to bring comfort to an invalid’s life, they made George Dunlop a wealthy man many times over!

This is what my turban master has said “If you can do anything, do some good to other” in Sri Sai Satcharitra, Ch X.

2009-05-07T14:46:00.006-07:00

Past few weeks have been very busy at work. But I love my work so much and I do it with passion.
Though work week has been very busy most of the times, I desperately find time to do things that I like. Yesterday I got reminded of some of my school teachers. I remembered the wishes that my primary school teacher had sent for my marriage. She was a very nice person .Both my sister and I have visited her after she got retired and when she got settled in a different city.

When I think of her, there are few things that remind me about her. In schooldays she used to be a very strict person. May be she is one even now. She always showed a difference between bright and dull children. One of my classmate was a below average student. He was not mentally fit for various reasons in his life. (I meant “not mentally fit” and not mentally retarded). He was very slow in grasping things. During exams he had a very tough problem of forgetting what he read. Some of us felt bad for him and used to help him as much as we could. This teacher always scolded him, has thrown hard substances like stick over him and has many times has even told that he is fit for nothing. She has even abused him for his appearance and all those words of underestimating a person. This continued for almost 6 years. There was no sign of improvement neither from my classmate nor from the teacher’s attitude. When we were in 9th grade, my classmate was forced to leave the school and we never came to know what happened to him later.

Most of us liked the teacher but we did not like the way she treated some of the classmates. So out of all the good deeds she did, this is one of her attitude that disturbed us.

Years later, one of my childhood friends happened to meet this so called dull, gullible classmate. She told me that he scored very good marks in his 12th grade and was pursuing his engineering. We were very glad to discuss about his effort to reach that point. It also reminded us of the teacher who had underestimated this person forever.

A teacher always scolds a student out of best interest for her students. But should not do that to the extent that one feels worthless in life.

I had a mathematics teacher who was a source of inspiration for most of the children. His approach of teaching was amazing. He made wonders by making a student score high marks who had struggled with mathematics for years.

He created a difference in many students life with his tremendous patience to ensure everybody understood the concepts. He was never tired of repeating.
I tried very hard to find whereabouts of my mathematics teacher. I came to know from one of my friends that he passed away.Till date I have only best things to remember about him.

Given a chance I would want to be like my mathematics teacher.
So far my attempt in teaching kids, training fresh grads has been very successful. But the opportunities for that are very narrow in my current work place.

Sometimes random memories like this and experiences from the past remind the old lessons learnt.

2009-04-30T18:28:00.002-07:00

Today I read a short story that I have heard years before. Whenever I feel low, defeated or think I need that extra strength to overcome my shortcomings and achieve more, I get reminded of the message from this story.
Some of the nice things that I have learnt in my life so far are those that one should treasure for life long.

Here is the story:

Once a King called upon all of his wise men and asked them "Is there a
mantra or suggestion which works in every situation, in every circumstance,
in every place and in every time? Tell me is there any mantra?"

After a lengthy discussion, an old man suggested something which appealed to
all of them. They went to the king and gave him something written on paper.
But the condition was that king was not to see it out of curiosity. Only in
extreme danger, when the King finds himself alone and there seems to be no
way, only then he’ll have to see it. The King put the paper under his
Diamond ring.

After a few days, the neighbors attacked the Kingdom. It was a collective
surprise attack of the King’s enemies. King and his army fought bravely but
lost the battle. King had to flee on his horse. The enemies were following
him. He could hear many troops of horses following him and the noise was
coming closer and closer. Suddenly the King found himself standing at the
end of the road - that road was not going anywhere. Underneath there was a
rocky valley 1000 feet deep. The sound of enemy’s horses was approaching
fast. The King became restless.

Then suddenly he saw the Diamond ring shining in the sun, and he remembered
the message hidden in the ring. He opened the diamond and read the message.
The message was very small but very great. The message was – “This too will
pass."

The King read it. Again read it. Again & again he read it. Suddenly
something struck him- Yes! It too will pass. Only a few days ago, I was
enjoying my kingdom. I was the mightiest of all the Kings. Yet today, the
Kingdom and all the pleasure have gone. I am here trying to escape from
enemies. However when those days of luxuries have gone, this day of danger
too will pass. Calm come on his face. The revelation of the message had a
great effect on him. He relaxed and forgot about those following him.

After a few minutes he realized that the noise of the horses and the enemy
coming was receding. They moved into some other part of the mountains and
were not on his path. The King was very brave. He reorganized his army and
fought again. He defeated the enemy and regained his lost empire. For a
moment King said to himself," I am one of the bravest and greatest Kings. It
is not easy to defeat me..:

People were dancing and singing. With all the reception and celebration he
saw an ego emerging in him. Suddenly the Diamond of his ring flashed in the
sunlight and reminded him of the message. He opened it and read it again:
"This too will pass" He became silent. His face went through a total change
-from the egoist he moved to a state of utter humbleness.

“If this too is going to pass, it is not yours. The defeat was not yours,
the victory is not yours. You are just a watcher. Everything passes by. We
are witnessing all this. We are the perceiver. Life comes and goes.
Happiness comes and goes. Sorrow comes and goes.”

PS: There is nothing permanent in this world. Nothing is real. Everything is
an illusion. Every thing changes except the law of change. If there are
problems in the present, they too will pass away. Because nothing remains
forever. Joy and sorrow are the two faces of the same coin. They both will
pass away.

Few years back, I attended a yoga class and that helped me learn lot of things.
One of the lessons from that was “When there is an expectation out of something, there is a probability of disappointment”. I cannot lie that I stopped expecting. But my perception has definitely changed. Always when something expected happens I feel happy. But when it does not happen, I started believing that I have no gain out of it and never know what harm in it was.

I enjoyed reading this story after a long time and thought would share this with all the readers.

2009-04-11T19:07:00.002-07:00

2009-03-03T13:44:00.002-07:00

Nothing can be won on demand,
Everything has to naturally fall in place.

-smilie

Lyrics

2009-02-03T13:02:00.005-07:00

This is a very nice song from a tamil film. I like this song a lot.
I like the second para especially.
Doesn’t it explain darwin’s theory (survival of the fittest)?? And I believe
Every individual has the caliber to survive.
Today I was listening to this song and thought would share the lyrics.

P.S: Click on the image for better clarity

A Poem Dedicated

2009-01-29T11:20:00.008-07:00

मई यह कविता अपनी नानाजी के लिए समर्पित करती हूँ।
मई अपनी बचपन में बहुत सारी कविताओं के बारे में अपनी नानाजी से बातचीत किया करती थी।
उन अनमोल स्रुष्टियों में यह अति सुंदर और हमेशा याद दिलानेवाली कविता है।
smilie says:
हे भगवान्, कभी कभी मन चिंता में डूब जाती है यह सोचके की, तुम दयालु हो की नही?
मेरे नानाजी जैसे उन्मत्ता प्रेमियों को भी तुम बहुत सताये हो। क्या येही है तुम्हारी विधि?

Here the poetess prays aloud to the almighty.The poetess describes that she does not know how to perform rituals. she is neither rich enough to give garlands to the god nor can sing sweet songs for him. She doesn't have anything to give in charity.She says oh god! accept my true devotion. All that I have is love for you and true devotion.

This is a wonderful poem written by subadra kumari chouhan. This is an all time favorite for me.This one is my grandpas favourite too. I remember he was seraching for this poem for a long time. When I first read it in school, I discussed with him about this. He wrote the poem legibly on a big paper and stuck it on a cardboard and hung in his room.Also he copied it to his diary and the diary was with him always with lot many things that he wrote in it. I saw the diary in his cupboard even in his death bed.

Miss you Grandpa.

Raffle tickets draw

2009-01-28T14:48:00.001-07:00

Cardinals are going to play super bowl. People here are cheering them in all possible ways.
My work place is not an exception either. We got a mail that the dress code is relaxed till feb 1st. We are free enough to show up on jerseys or anything supporting cardinals and can hang posters in our cubes.

There was a barbeque lunch arranged today for celebrating the upcoming super bowl. There was this lottery event where they were selling raffle tickets. Prize money was declared for winners and few non-cash gifts for some. We have been getting emails for last few days….
All of a sudden, half an hour before the draw time, I planned to purchase a raffle ticket.
To my surprise, I won a cardinals pennant . :))

Note: For those of you who don't know about cardinals , here you go:

The Arizona Cardinals, founded in 1898 and a charter member of the National Football League, hold the distinction of being the oldest continuously run professional American football, club in the US.

Read wiki for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Cardinals

Einstein Says...

2009-01-26T17:12:00.000-07:00

“Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.”

Verses From BhagawadGita

2009-01-21T14:14:00.000-07:00

कर्मन्येवाधिकरस्थे मा फलेषु कधाचन

मा करमा फल हेठुर्भु माथे संग्स्त्व कर्मणि

In English:

karmanye vadhikarasthe maa phaleshu kadhachana

maa karma phala hethurbhu mathe sangstva karmani

In English translation:

You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action। Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty. - Lord Krishna says

Today, I read a status message in gtalk which precisely meant what was told in Gita by Lord Krishna. My mom has cheered me many times saying கடமையை செய் பலனை எதுர்பாக்கதே.

When we work with this attitude, it really helps us to reach horizons.

Airtel Super Singer - a music show

2009-01-08T16:55:00.001-07:00

Airtel Super singer is a reality show hosted by Vijay TV (a popular tamil channel of Star network). A singing talent hunt for people of various age groups is conducted and every year a best singer is chosen and awarded “Super Singer” title.

I have been watching super singer 2008 from the beginning. The show is compered by the popular singer ‘Chinmayi’. When I say Chinmayi and if my memory servers right, around 8 years back I have had an opportunity to see Chinmayi singing in ‘Sarang’( A popular cultural event of IIT Madaras). It was when I saw the famous Srinivas even.

Coming back to Super singer….Currently after tough scrutiny in several rounds, top 7 singers have been selected by veterans like srinivas, sujatha, unni Krishnan, Anuradha Sriram.

All the 7 selected so far, have given stunning performances in various rounds. It also makes me very happy that one of the top 7 performers works for my organization.
Few months back, we traveled together almost daily. But haven’t had a chance to say a hello.

Renu, Ranjini, Ravi, Rohith, Prasanna, Vijay & Ajeesh are the contestants.

Out of these 7 contestants, Vijay and Ajeesh have very different voices. Some people like Renu, Ranjini have very beautiful voices by birth and I would say they are gifted.
But I have always felt that Vijay & Ajeesh differ in some ways from the others and deserve good things. In each episode I have observed how dedicated they are.

In the last episode, these two singers received the best singer of the episode title by the legends Chitra & Mano.
Ajeesh sang ‘kalyana then nila’ song with chitra who has received national award several times and the state government awards from all the states in southern zone.

Vijay sang ‘ayirathil naan oruvan’ with Mano from the film Iruvar. It is one of my favorite songs and I enjoyed listening to that song. In its original version, Mano has sung the song with full of energy, voice modulations to simulate the famous singer of 60’s, the one & only TMS.

According to me: dedication, passion for singing and continuous effort to be one among the top few people matters, more than winning the title. That’s what Ajeesh & Vijay had mentioned how they felt when they received the keyboard from Chitra & Mano for the best singer of the episode title. That showed how much passionate they were about singing and all that they focused was to give their best.

I was surprised to hear a rocking performance from Vijay in one of the previous episodes. I even wrote an article but did not post it then.……

My favorite Mahalakshmi Iyer rechristened him as Vijay ‘Adams’ and the striking performance was the fitting finale of the episode.
Man! His voice was just like Bryan Adams…. I felt I was listening to the original version of summer of 69….His attitude was too good. That’s what the judges had mentioned too.
The way he was tapping his toes when he sang “Those were the best days of my life” was too good..
No words to appreciate it…Simply superb!

For those who are interested to see him singing summer of 69, click on the below link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCEGhrXGLI&feature=related

Enjoy listening!

A few words about Mano :

Mano is one of those singers who had a significant contribution to the film industry. There are few voices which are very famous among everyone and also they are remembered in many occasions. There are many contributions from the singer which are really enjoyable. For a long time he was treated as no more than a successful SPB clone. It was when he sang songs like shenbagame , mukkala, ayirathil naan oruvan which gave him a well deserved break.

-From a wanna be popular singer :))

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2008-12-31T11:44:00.000-07:00

Santa - Funtoon

2008-12-19T15:05:00.001-07:00

It’s nice to see Christmas decorations everywhere. Glowing lamps in different colors, lot of posters, bells, trees, gifts, candies & the list goes on………….. At work, its fun to watch people playing secret Santa. It reminds me the “chris mom chris child” kind of games that we played during school and college days.

Today some of us wore a santa cap like the one I have painted and took pictures........... :-)

Stepping on the golden post

2008-11-10T23:04:00.000-07:00

It has been a great pleasure writing here for the past two years. Now am there writing my
50th post.

Man is a perverse creature. He is very stubborn on many things and also very emotional in many aspects. So it’s a kind of unbalanced emotions that most of them have. To have neutral, balanced emotions comes from extensive practice put into actions. Can we call all those who have controlled emotions as saints? Or yogis?
Well, it’s a stage attained in enjoying and understanding the life in minuscule level. They know the granular level details of the lesson called life.

The difference I have read in the yogis and the normal people is expression of thoughts. Yogis know how to enjoy the essence of life without impacting others. But the normal person reacts for every action in life and has an outcome called action, there by demonstrating Newton’s 3rd law every now and then.

But I am a normal person. Enjoy every moment of life by expressing my views. Hence landed up into this blogging world. So far I have written on varied topics mostly of my interests. Here I have grumbled and crumbled sometimes. I have tried funtoons and it was fun trying it out. Revived my passion for hindi. Started a new blogspace for my paintings. Sometimes posts on tribute to my teachers, mangers by whom I was inspired, glimpse of joys, racking pain. After my school days, I found this as a very good medium where I could live with my interests. School days are wonderful period for anyone. I loved my schooldays too.

This blog is full of life. I have put many things across wherever I can. Like butterflies, balloons, sunflowers, lavender flowers, smileys, stars, sunlight kisses, rain drops. Sometimes the dream world could be very unrealistic with all that we like, so as this blog world is like I have put all that I cherish.
Smiles are the testimonies to the fact that one enjoys every moment of life. The exquisite life calls me to write more and more about all that I perceive out of it.
I have no shy in writing or expressing that I still like crunching the dried leaves fallen all over. The sound that comes out of crumpling is a kind of enjoyment. I feel happier and feel happy when others enjoy doing it too. Whistling a music, bursting the bubbled cover, blowing a bubble gum, music from guitar, eating caramel pop corn, sipping vanilla latte, still buying crayons, making dolls out of candy wrappers, dora cartoons.
Man! So many things to enjoy in life.

Believe me the fear of death and the rim of death are really awkward and are part of life. So there may not be next minute. Doesn’t mean one has to compromise on beliefs and principles. Before one gets into those chapters, it’s wise to enjoy as much as one can without crucifixions.

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure”-Albert Einstein

Precisely I am a person who call music as a real music and not anything else J
All the more it makes me happy writing here.

Ram Darbar & MythiliSharan Gupta (पंचवटी)

2008-10-29T20:37:00.000-07:00

Recently I had been to a temple close by to my place.
Out of all the deities, the Ram Darbar was the most beautiful ones.
Ram, Lakshman & Sita in gorgeous mustard costume was awesome.
It reminded me of mythiliji’s “Panchavati”. It was a khand kavya written by the
Rashtra Kavi. In those days when I have read Panchavati, I fondly remembered the verses
as it was a great pleasure in telling them again & again.

I have never read Tulsi’s Ramcharithmanas , valmiki ramayan or the kamaba ramayanam. But Panchavati gave me a very good illustration of most of the characters and also the place there by the classic creation got registered very easily.

Here are few verses from Panchavati:
चारू चंद्र की चंचल किरणें खेल रही हैं जल थल में
स्वच्छ चान्दिनी बिची हुई है अवनी और अम्बर थल में
पुलक प्रकट करती है धरती हरित तरुणों की झोंकों में
मनो झूम रहें हैं तरु भी मंद पवन के झोंकों में
The above verses descibes the Panchavati. Kavi ji personifies the location with Ram's beauty.
He says the moon race plays in the water..The pure chandini is spread across the sky and the earth.The earth expresses its happiness when the grass moves in the breeze and it looks as if even trees swing in the lovely breeze.

Lakshman :
कौन जाग रहा है धनुर्धर जब की भुवन भर सोता है
भोगी कुसुमायुध योगी सा बना दृष्टिगत होता है
Lakshman takes care of Ram & Sita devi throught out the night when the entire earth
is in rest. This beautifuly explains the love of Lakshman for his beloved brother Ram and most respectful Sita Devi.

Sita:
मर्त्य लोक मालिन्य मेटने स्वामी संग जो आई है
तीन लोक की लक्ष्मी ने यह कुटी आज अपनाई है
Durga, Lakshmi, Saraswathi are referred to as trinities. Sita devi is such a powerfull godess, wife of respectful Ram who is equivalent to all three godess.

Mythili ji's wonderful creation is Panchavati.

Mixed emotions

2008-10-12T21:28:00.000-07:00

I have so many things to write here. But something makes me so uncomfortable
and write nothing. What do I write?? Can I write anything that comes to my mind?
Kind of unexplainable mindset. Quite few successes, little happiness, challenging roles,
quick friendships, cherish able friendships, unbelievable cooperation, prayers, unexpected
joys, moving on to new stuffs, forgetting few, short time, queen size life, thousands of people to care, got to move on though want to be for more time, what to miss?, priorities,
struggles, stress, sometimes strong, unwell ness, loneliness, independence, new challenges, new planet, fear, insecurity, square 1, proving at work, compromises, different people, void empathy, darkness, no food, getting better, tears, comfort?,
expectations, disappointments, eagerness, killing time, waiting to see known ones.
Days pass by…

Teacher's Day (आज का ताज़ा ख़बर)

2008-09-05T10:00:00.000-07:00

It was extremely happy to hear the news from one of my school mate today.
One of our school teacher receives the President's Award today.She has thought mathematics to my sister in her primary school. There are two other teaches from our chain of schools who would have received the award today.
I feel so happy that we had a chance to study with such teacher's guidance.
Long live your contributions maam!

Jaane Tu ya Jaane Na

2008-07-29T00:58:00.000-07:00

I watched the film for the sake of Aamir khan’s production and genelia(ha ha haasini).
It falls into aimless movie bucket. But I am ok with such kind of movies, cuz ultimately
movies are meant for relaxation. Genelia was very cute. Her costumes were amazing.
Imran khan was good. I liked his character.
Otherwise the movie doesn’t hold good story and supports the above description that I gave. The songs were not like usual Rahman numbers. But “pappu cant dance saala’ was enjoyable. The choreography was cute.

Watch the movie with a youthful gang :)

2008-07-24T06:44:00.000-07:00

I read “the schoolbag” from coffee and stories.
The kumbakonam tragedy is an incredible massacre till day.

I have very less to say in relation to this article because I was stuck on reading the story
and cried for long. There might be so many instances in life where a person feels so depressed and go to an extent of cursing the life.
But the mouth of death is unbearable. When a person knows that death is waiting
to trap , he/she would find 1000s of reason to live just like kannu felt.

Life is precious. So live your life.

2008-06-02T22:41:00.000-07:00

One of my coworker bought a very nice car last week. He and his wife were very happy about it. He got the car for a very good deal. In fact all of us very happy for him.
Yesterday he went to a temple and on his way came on the freeway. When he took the exit, he could not control the speed while making a turn and made an accident. His car was badly damaged in the front and the back. But luckily both he and his wife were safe.
He called up the insurance and came to know that the car went for a total loss.

This morning when I got a call from him, he said he has a bad news for me and on hearing this I was shell shocked. New car and so much of happiness went for a toss in just a matter of second. But I thanked god that his family was safe. I spoke to his wife as she was crying non stop and still could not come out of the shock. The accident reminds her now and then.

I could still not digest what happened to them. I know how much happy they were last week. In just a week’s time things turned out to be different.

My entire team was supportive to him and his wife. Though we all encouraged him still we ourselves could not digest that his new car has gone for a total loss.

I pray that things get better for him.

Steve Jobs Speech To Graduates of Stanford University

2008-05-15T07:18:00.000-07:00

I want to treasure this speech by Steve Job's.Hence posting it in my blog.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots.
I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: “We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?” They said: “Of course.” My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.
And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.
It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.
None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.
Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
My second story is about love and loss.
I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation - the Macintosh - a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.
I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me – I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.
I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.
During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I retuned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple’s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.
I’m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn’t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
My third story is about death.
When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn’t even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor’s code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you’d have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.
I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.
This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960’s, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.
Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Thank you all very much.

2008-05-13T22:52:00.000-07:00

I was listening to kishore’s numbers. I adore you tube for a chain of
songs they publish on the site when we get into a song. I was listening to a
song from Aandhi. From there on the list goes ..
Tere bina zindagi me koi shikwa - Aandhi
Mere bheegi bheegi si palkon me rah gaye - Anamika
Neele neele ambar par
Chookar mere man ko
Ham bewafa hargiz na the
Pal pal dil ke pas
Mere sapnon ki rani
O sathi re- Moquaddar ka Sikandar
And the list goes on………………..

I am mesmerized by kishore’s voice whenever I listen to it…More over you tube is like a gift. No wonder it’s a google product.

I was tagged

2008-05-09T22:41:00.000-07:00

I was tagged by Suchi .This time I am taking up this tag as the topic was very interesting.
“What are the things I like and don’t like when it comes to watching movies?”

I generally like to watch movies which are of full length humor. You know it should make me laugh more and more that it makes me watch again and again. Vasool raja MBBS, P.K.S, panchatantram, Munna bai MBBS, arangetra velai, thillu-mullu, sathileelavathi, aaha and the list goes on.

Movies which are aimless but still fit good for few hrs are fine with me.(Gilli, pokkiri, santosh subramanyam, thiruvilayadal arambam).Still you see ..these movies make you feel light.

Most of the kamal movies are great and I especially love the versatility in his movies. Varying from manadhai urukkum movies like anbe sivam, sadhileelavathy, punnagai mannan, chachi 420, varumayin niram sivappu, meendum kokila, mahanadhi.

These days all the prakash raj titles are very interesting. I was very much impressed by 23 puli kesi. Mozhi was another excellent movie.One should watch such kind of movie with a Tall vanilla latte, extra hot and some wafers. Woww both are relishing. (I mean the movie and the coffee)..:)

Movies with romantic sceneries are welcome. Especially the ones by Rajiv menon in kandu konden kandu konden.Sanjai leela bansali kind of movies are still more colorful. Its like a total imaginary world, but I don’t mind being in such stimulated emission state where I get the luxury of living for sometime.

Cool movies like cheeni kum, may madham are like a carefully woven painting. Idhayathai thirudadhe, mouna ragam are movies that I watch any time I get a chance.

I should not forget the Persian movie “children of heaven” by majid majidi. Language is not a show stopper as long as I get to understand the movie.

Any romantic movie and a hero based movie for sure have a known ending. Even though the hero faces a lot of hurdles, sometimes even goes to the death bed, I knew nothing would happen to him. I like watching such stuffs when I knew the expected outcome and the movie sails in the same way. I can call it a time pass. Our captain is the best example for such movies. Who else can get alright just by pumping a hand full of soil on the wound? Its fun watching such movies with a gang and commenting through out the movie. Isn’t it?

“Nidharsanamana unmai” like shoot out at lokhandwala, parzania made me cry for hours and hours. But I still watch those movies. They are worth it.Taare zameen par falls in a different category. But still here crying yet worth is the motto.

I haven’t watched movies like paruthiveeran, pithamagan. Cuz I knew they were all kinda heavy subject. How much so ever the movie might be good but I still can’t watch such movies.
Also movies with village environment are not my kind. As per my analogy, most of these films have a saddening theme. I should not forget to tell about veyyil, sethu. They were good but still I could not relish much.

Old is gold. I love watching movies like server sundaram, edhir neechal, kaase dhan kadavulada, kathalikka neramillai.

Balachander movies are very different. There are many those who don’t like it in the first shot.
But I have watched movies like pudhu pudhu arthangal, kalki so many times. Most of his movies are heroin based. “Adhuvum bharathi kanda pudhumai pengal”.

I like rajini movies. In most of the movies, one song decides the story. Like padayappa, muthu. I used to get goose pimples when I watch them. His styles are amazing. Most of them are not practical but still I watch them for just him.
I get excited when I watch movies like Dil chahtha hai.
“Hum cake kaane kahin bhi jayenge”……..whenever I go for a b’day party, I remember this dialogue and I really mean there is no harm in attending parties just for cakesJ
I appreciate those timely humor sense of saif..Especially when he makes fun of sonali’s boy friend.

With loads of popcorn to munch, I start watching movies..I make sure I finish them in the first half itself.

Did I miss anything else??

2008-04-20T10:42:00.000-07:00

I know a person who was recently laid off from his organization.
He is a very experienced person and is paid huge. The management told him
that he is an expensive resource and hence they cannot afford to pay him.
He worked hard for the company and has seen many successes. A farewell party was arranged for him. His manager praised him for his efforts in the party and asked him to
give a speech about what he feels about the company. He hardly spoke something.
Obviously when a person is with so much of grief about being laid off and finding very tough to get a new job matching his experience and salary, can surely not talk with happiness even when honored. On his last day he wrote an email to everyone saying that he was waiting for the day to leave the company and his dreams came true.

I wonder two things about this. The farewell party is a convention that’s followed in any organization. Be it the employee quits by himself or him being laid off. In this case when he is being laid off, it’s really ridiculous that the company expects him to share his happiness about his tenure in the company.

The second thing is the person was a contractor and also wishes to remain as a contractor.
He wants to earn more and doesn’t want to fit into the rules and regulations of a company. He very well knew that one would be laid off any point of time being a contractor. Knowing the outcome, there is no point that he can feel bad about his situation. Even now he doesn’t want to become permanent employee somewhere.
I feel he cannot blame the company. Writing a last day email saying that he dreamt to leave the company was like absolutely showing his anger to the people.

At some point there is a attitude problem everywhere.

Disclaimer: I haven’t concluded anything about the person or his company here.
I have just shared a scenario that commonly happens.

Funtoon2

2008-04-05T16:21:00.000-07:00

I was watching Mozhi film again. Pleasant movie.
Prithviraj says to prakash raj that bells rang and bulb glowed when he first saw jyothika :)
Does my funtoon depict it??

स्वागत हिन्दी

2008-04-02T22:42:00.000-07:00

आज हमने पहली बार ट्रांस्लितेरेशन का लिंक देखा। अब हिन्दी मे लिखने की बारी है
जब भी मैं हिन्दी मे लिक्ति हूँ तब स्वतंत्रता महसूस करती हूँ। इसमे लिखने की सुविधा संतोष दिलाती है
बीच बीच में हमारी तरफ़ से हिन्दी में भी सुनेंगे आप।

Wrong Window

2008-04-02T22:08:00.000-07:00

She was working in a very busy project. Her company had an internal messenger for
communication with coworkers. Her lead was a very submissive person and always
wanted to be over productive. The result was, she was dumped with work always.
They communicated only through the internal messenger. Simultaneously there were lot other people with whom she was coordinating with. She had the habit of informing everything to one of her close friend cum coworker. She used to crib about being dumped
with work. The internal messenger was a single window with multiple tabs. It was that day when she was very frustrated about her lead and was fuming and wanted to tell her friend. She scolded her lead as much as possible to console herself. To her dismay she found that she wrote everything about her lead to him thinking that she was writing to her friend.

Gosh! It was wrong window she screamed and went running to her leads desk. Luckily he was in a meeting and she closed his messenger.

That's life

2008-03-13T22:10:00.000-07:00

X had applied for an important document. She was told that she would get it in 2 weeks of time. She eagerly went to the mail room every day to check if she got it. To her dismay 2 weeks passed by soon. She did not receive it at the end of 2 weeks. She waited for a week more. It was in vein. She went to the office and checked the status. She was told that it was mailed 1 month back and they were not sure what happened to the document. She was shattered and immediately asked for a duplicate. This time she waited till 1 week and again went to the mail room daily. She was literally vexed and did not know what next to do. One day, she came little late from her work and found the document on the table. It was a profound joyous feeling for her. That was the day she stopped going to the mail room. She forgot the mental agony that was there and also forgot whom all she approached to solve the mystery. That’s life.

He completed his bachelors and was hunting for a job. The hunt was not all that easy. Anywhere he went, there was a tough competition. He was sure he gave his best everywhere. He did enough preparation each and every time he went for an interview.
The disappointment grew stronger and the confidence was getting lower. But his efforts remained same. It was one final day when his dream came true. He succeeded amidst a tough competition. He pinched himself to realize if it was reality. He was so happy to start with his work. As days went by he found better opportunities. His career did not stop there. That’s life.

X was scared what is she going to do when her roommate is going to vacate. She was scared to stay alone. It was almost very sure that she was to take necessary actions to face when it comes to that point. It was not all that easy to surrender everything in a week’s time. She was enquiring so many people if they could accommodate her stay. Some were kind enough to accommodate her. X was bit convinced that some how she can manage until the time that she is going to stay in that place. Her roommate called her one evening that her stay is going to be extended. X was quite relieved and informed those who gave her confidence. What seemed like a storm passed by like a tide. That’s life.

P.S: The idea of the post was to present the short stories collectively like "the legend" Balachander's Jennal

Balloons & Butterflies

2008-03-13T22:01:00.001-07:00

It was 3:30 P.M and the school bell rang. He came along with his classmates to buy handful of ber for 50 paisa. A 2 rupee coin was lying down. He immediately took it in his hands and put in his pocket before his friends noticed. There were thousands of plan that ransacked his mind. It was long time since he had the kuchi ice. He wanted to try the pink colored one this time. Then it stroked him to buy two caramel chocolate. One for him and the other for his sister. But he was asked to submit a project in social studies the next day. He already completed it and was left out with decoration of the book. He then thought he could buy a blue colored glass paper instead of the chocolate as he wanted to get appreciations. While he thought about all this, he also felt as if he was carrying a cactus with him. He reached his home and it was time to go to the temple near by. Daily he went there before he started with his home work. He had inculcated good values from his mother. The 2 rupee was dropped in the temple hundi. He felt he was holding balloons and he felt his heart like a garden with beautiful butterflies flying.

WoW Woman

2008-03-08T02:02:00.000-07:00

Astro science says Venus reaches its maximum brightness shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset, for which reason it is often called the Morning Star or the Evening Star.
They also say Women are from Venus .Goes without saying they are the brightest stars.
Well there are so many instances when every woman cribs for having born as a woman.
I am not an exception. But many times I have felt women are god’s best creation. He has carefully painted her. She is a loving daughter to her father, best listener to her friends,
Understanding wife, loving mom. She takes herself in various forms and does the best in every role.

I have come across many inspiring personalities so far. To me a woman means patience, perseverance, bold, acceptance, loving, caring, brilliant, responsible, sincere and smart.
To me real beauty is how smart she is and how well she handles things.

I started my career working in a team which was handled by Ms MK. MK was the account manager then. I have admired MK for her dynamic personality. She was known for the cute smile on her face. Extremely brilliant woman. One is always guaranteed for a smooth work.
MK was known for her best planning. She used to clearly instruct the team. At the time of crisis
MK was never impulsive. She assertively conveyed the plan of action to the team and gets them executed. I was proud at those times that MK liked me the most. She gave me excellent opportunities and brought out my talent.

I admired her for the way she had a work life balance. I have never seen her carrying work pressure to home and vice versa. I learnt from her how much she cared for her family and how she managed to be successful at work also. She identified a best project for me and wanted me to work in that. I remember the day when I told her about my dream project and the kind of exposure I expected. I was just a beginner in my organization then. She appreciated me for that and spoke to so many people and rightly placed me.
Without her I would not have bagged a best performer award for the year and visibility among the top management.

Today when I was rated as best performer, it reminds me the kind of excellent foundation that MK helped to get. The kind of confidence I have when it comes to delegation and the way to deal with the team members are things that I learnt from her.

I am sure MK must be director of a business unit by now. She is one of the smartest women I have come across.

Happy Women’s day readers.

Tagged Qns

2008-03-05T00:03:00.000-07:00

Instructions:Remove 1 question from below, and add in your personal question .
I have modified 1 question.Make it a total of 20 questions, and then tag 8 people in your list them out at the end of this post. Notify them in their chat box that he/she has been tagged.

1) Who are the most & most important persons you like to meet in your life?
Mrs.Narayana Moorthy – For the wonderful service she does for the society.

Mrs Uma sivaraman – Chief education officer (CBSE board) and my English maam
In school .Want to learn how well she managed both her family and career. Inspiring personality.

2) Name Three Most Valuable Assets?
Parents, Sister, my perseverance

3) If you have the chance, what would you probably say to your beloved one?
It’s something that cannot be shared with anyone other than him.

4) If you were to be stranded on a deserted island, who are the 2 professional you would NOT take with you?
Of course software professional, the other one is also software professional.
(Got really bugged up. Getting me?)

5) Where is the place that you want to go the most?
Venice, eastern India (I have just been to Kolkata)

6) If you can have 1 dream to come true, what would it be?
I shall surely tell when it comes true.

7) Till now, what is the moment that you regret the most?
I generally work in a manner that I don’t regret.

8) Two things which you always wanted to learn but never did till date?
Formally learn keyboard, swimming.

9) What would you do if you found a briefcase full of money?
I would hand it over to a cop. I would always prefer to go by process.

10) If you meet someone that you love, would you confess to him/her?
Why not? I am not egoistic.

11) List out 3 good points of the person who tagged you.
Writes humorously. I donno anything beyond this.

12) What are the requirements that you wish from your other half?
Life is not made out of requirements. I believe in acceptance.

13) Which type of person do you like the most?
Humorous, make everyone smile whatsoever be the pain one undergoes. Empathetic.

14) What is your ambition?
Shall tell when it comes true.

15) What is the thing that will make you think someone is a bad person?
Back biting, ruthlessness, non empathetic, not being punctual.

16) What is the factor of importance of money for you? (My Question)
Money is not everything .It cannot get everything in life. But am sure the more I earn,
the more I can serve the society.

17) Something that made u laugh today?
Some of my coworker’s attitude.

18) How do you deal with a friend who has wronged you?
I am patient for a long time. But I burst out on one day from when on the next
Person will not be left for anymore lessons to learn. I also move away from them.

19) Name one favorite song of yours.
I can never be partial. There are so many.

20) If you are about to lose all your memory and you have an option to remember just one person, who will it be?
My mom. She is the best person who can understand me.

I would like to tag everybody who reads this.

Jodhaa Akbar

2008-03-01T10:01:00.000-07:00

The movie was good overall. It’s worth watching once. But I felt I have to watch it once more so that I can remember the sequences. I wanted history, cuz I simply loved it.
But I should have gone back to my history books.
Do you get what I am saying? Yes the movie did not leave any kind of impression. At the same time I cannot say it was boring 3.5 hrs.

For some reasons, the bollywood was under an impression that sharukh and rani best suited for such roles. The convention was broken. Aishwaryaa was so gorgeous. I was awe stuck by her costume. She was like a perfect rajputh women. There cannot be anyone better than Hrithik to have acted as Akbar.
His actions were absolutely awesome. I was very much impressed by his gestures.

The Mughal era was usually described as a violent period with sword swinging and the kind of unimaginable ruthlessness towards Hinduism and its followers. But our history books never thought us the best part of Mughals. I neither went back to my history books nor did a research to find out if Akbar was originally as a person what was shown in the movie.
I even wondered if many of those were fiction.

Ashutosh Gowariker’s screenplay and direction was too good. The lingual difference between rajputh’s and mughals were brought out very well. The dialogue delivery was one aspect that made me feel to watch the movie once more.

Some scenes were really funny. The Maham Anga character was deceived. The kind of importance that was given to the character initially was in vein. Aishwaryaa learns urdu
And asks Akbar to read whatever she had written. Akbar asks her to read since he never learnt
to read/write. The entire theatre broke into laughter when we shouted “Abhishek”.
Kwaja mere song was too good. But the choreography was funny.

One should go and watch the movie to get the real essence I feel.

Funtoon

2008-02-24T12:26:00.000-07:00

Disclaimer

Well, the idea of above toon was just to depict the scenario.
The article does not intend to point out any individual or his/her
food interests.

This is to promote vegetarianism for one’s good health.

P.S: Click on the image to have a magnified view

Google – V’day Logo

2008-02-14T08:00:00.000-07:00

I am so interested in admiring the Google logo daily. Dennis Hwang is brilliant in depicting the importance of a day in terms of logo itself.

Today is a V’day special. I was quite impressed by the logo. It meant so much for me.
Oldies walking together with a walking stick and a rose in hand.

The idea of depicting old people together meant the depth of love. Walking together to enjoy the lovely sky depicts the happiness they must be having.

Don't you feel so?

Smilie smiles:)

2008-01-28T23:51:00.000-07:00

I am sure by now most of them would have watched this movie. The description would be more appropriate for those who have already watched the movie.
Ram madhvani has done a fabulous job. Wowww the movie was excellent.
I have no words to describe other than that expression.

Ishaan nandhakishore avasthi was the kid who played the lead role in the film and the movie is based on his dyslexia. The kid was just amazing. I loved the kid. I could understand the kid loosing his self confidence when the entire world tells him duffer.

I developed a great respect for aamir khan after watching the movie. I literally cried for 2.5 hrs. But I feel it’s worth that crying. I enjoyed the way aamir put forth things to Ishaan’s parents.

I liked the following conversation:

Aamir: Do you know what Ishaan’s problem is?
Parents: He does not read / write properly. Do you think I can feed this kinda kid life long?
Aamir: I asked you, what is the cause and you r nuts who tell about the symptoms. “mere ko patha hai ki munna bukhar se bhimar pada hai.lekin mujhe ye samajni padthi hai ki, use bhukaar kyon hai??”
I felt like he was banging with a hammer 1000 times. What a 1000W question.

Ishaan was absolutely perfect in his acting. Wow 3 year old kid was portrayed amazingly.

I liked aamir’s way of explaining to the kid how to overcome the disability. Einstein is a person whom I have loved during my school days for his theory of relativity. I suddenly started crying when Einstein was benchmarked.

Life is so beautiful and aamir has reached horizons in his life. The climax was with the painting competition. I was like enjoying that scene. May be because I love paintings.

People, just rush and watch this film, if you haven’t so far. Don’t miss this wonderful movie.

P.S: This reminds me of kid (kutti) whom I met when I went to the school for mentally challenged kids. He was so brilliant and could understand whatever I tought. I am sure god blesses everybody in some or the other way.My friend says everyone gets a total of 100 marks in the almighty's court.Its just that the split up that varies.I remember this statement whenever I feel low.The film brought out the positivie thought so well.

Different People

2008-01-11T23:34:00.000-07:00

I know it’s been quite a long time I wrote something here.
Happy New Year All.

I have been actually meeting different kinds of people over the past
few days. My friend keeps telling me, just don’t expect things to be rosy always.
People are not the same and don’t believe one can be there for you sometimes.

In the past few days what I learnt from this world was, these days many have lost
the art of talking. There are some people who think talking is like nailing on a
Wooden door. The politeness that one has to inculcate has become a bygone manner.
Recently I had to get in touch with few people for seeking their help. I was always
been replied with a mono-syllable answer. I could not conclude whether it was their
habit of answering or they really don’t want to take the pain of answering. I was not
in a mindset to be optimistic and consider them to be their habit.

There are these other people who always move in flocks. They remain to be in a team for
years together and try not to get out of their shell. Prioritizing a relationship does not mean avoiding or ignoring other relationships. Strange, people feel acquaintances are risk.
I think it’s often they look at the darker side of life thinking that they cannot get along with new people. They miss to give a thought that it could be the sweetest experience too.

There are these people who are extremely helpful. They are so broadminded that they can do everything for someone. They value relationships so much that it gives a comfort feeling for the other person. They are one among those great livings who empathize and are great helping hands.

There are these kinds of people who seem to be getting along well. But actually it’s the necessity that makes them or forces them to get along. I wouldn't say they are completely true.

There are these people who always think about the kind of impression that might get created among their friends when they step forward. They are good but are not bold enough thinking that their friends might not like them helping other than the one in the circle.

Ok, ultimately the crux is one forgets empathy, thinking s/he is very assertive. People are under a wrong impression that if one has to be assertive they should be extremely hard hearted. Well, being assertive does not mean one has to loose all those soft qualities or empathy completely. Sometimes I feel taking care of oneself is not only the purpose of our birth.It extends to so many qualifying deeds one has to render during his lifetime. Helping tendency, empathy, politeness are in fact an art of living. Small changes in ones attitude, manners and habits can multifold into many good things. Even if someone cannot be a helping hand still will not hurt.

Its formula that I thought of would bee too good. If you are helped at your critical time, just remember you are entitled to help someone in need another time. Count your blessings.

To A Friend

2007-12-20T07:21:00.000-07:00

It has been close to 2 years I know S. when I joined the project, she was already part of it.
We worked together in the project and have also enjoyed many moments being together.

We were a good support for each other during those critical times in the project. We worked with passion. S and I had many common interests. We learnt designer jewelry making. We loved paintings. Some times when we found time over the weekend, we did paintings of different kinds. Both of us enjoyed those lively moments of cultural events in office and many more. We have love for blackforest cake and whenever I ate I remembered S. To get a good company and enjoying moments is a blessing. I count my blessings and thoroughly enjoyed being with S. And now S had to march towards better things in life. I am happy for her. But something makes me little sad also. I think I am missing her company. S,Thanks for all that you have been for me so far. I wish we continue to have this lovely friendship. I carefully chose my friends and you are one among the treasure I chose.

I believe, to her I mean the same.

Petrol Bunk and fruits

2007-12-16T19:16:00.000-07:00

After a long time, I drove my pep over the weekend. The usual bunk where I used to fill the fuel was not active. So I went to another
bunk . I was carrying lot of "Ber"(not sure what is it called in english.Tamil equivalent=elandha pazham). The bunk had lot of girl assistants for fuel filling.One of them pointed me and spoke to her coworker that "Look, maam has got lot of ber". I asked her if she wanted some.She was blushing and I gave her handful. She said "maam just give me one". I realized her happiness when she got a handful of them.

There are still so many people in the society who can still not afford for even small things. The small deeds that we do can make a
difference.

Crackers-Diwali

2007-11-07T06:54:00.000-07:00

The moment we hear about diwali celebrations, no doubt crackers add charisma
to it. During my childhood my sis and myself have had enough enjoyment and have had loads of fun burning crackers.
I usually chose burning the lighters ones. I am still quite scared about the noisy way of celebrating diwali.

It’s been close to 10 years I totally stopped burning crackers because I took an oath not to encourage child labour. I have a strong feeling that any social change does not happen all over a night and its tough for a single person to fight and put things to an end. So if every individual bring in a change and contribute for it there can be a change in the society. Though I was interested in burning crackers I took an oath and followed it till day. But today when I read krishashok’s blog where he had mentioned about crackers being sold with a label “Made without Child Labour”, I was little excited on reading it. I was taken away for a moment that probably there were some changes being implemented for social reformations.

But then I realised this is no less than “cigerette smoking is injurious to health” kinda label when cigerettes are being sold.

Mere marketing strategy!

Second Concert

2007-10-15T08:27:00.000-07:00

Few months back my Sis and myself went for a near by saibaba temple kumbabishekam. Whenever we went there we sang songs for baba. The temple is actually in a devotee’s house. The aunty who runs the temple like both of us singing together and she often blessed us for the same. The first time we both sang bhajans for 1 hr during the pooja at kumbabishekam. Aunty blessed us and we got good applause from everybody.

Now its navrathri time and usually our colony temple trust organizes concerts in the temple. We both nominated for a 1 hr program. The evening was shared by some kids and the next 1 hr was our concert. We both prepared around 12 songs. The concert went on very well. The crowd enjoyed. We were given a 2 hr slot for a different occasion.

I think its all Sai baba’s blessing that we got a chance like this.

Driving Chronicles

2007-10-15T08:19:00.000-07:00

Part III Concluded

I was finding comfortable time to learn car driving. I joined in a school last month.

Initially I was quite not comfortable. Initial classes were in mauriti. Then there was this master who thought me santro. He was very strict and kinda typical master who would scold for any mistake that I did. He used to tease me that I cannot learn driving successfully. The analogy that he had derived from his past experiences was that a software engineer cannot learn anything other than related to software. They are like dumbos and their brain is tuned to a selective frequency. He gave me enough impositions when I made mistake while I changed gears. But I learnt fair enough and finally booked for license test. I was under the impression that mostly everyone would get a license if we went through a school. I took it very easily and I also cleared the test. But I learnt some were also failed. Anyways I have to explore my learning’s in days to comeJ

God save the roads!