My Domain

V DAKSHINAMOORTHY M. S SUBBULAKSHMI                  CHEMBAI VAIDYANATHA BHAGAVATHAR                       G. N BALASUBRAMANIAM   SEMMANGUDI SRINIVASA IYER  Dr. M BALAMURALIKRISHNA BOMBAY JAYASHRI   ANURADHA SRIRAM   SHANKAR MAHADEVAN                         K. S CHITHRA   

The declaration by our honorable PM Narendra Modi from the religious capital of India, Varanasi about 2 months ago put a spark in my mind to write this article. Modi, along the Ganges declare "Mother Ganga needs someone to take her out of the dirt and she's chosen me to do the work." These words stricked me a lot and motivated me to write this.                                  The name Varanasi derives from the names of two rivers, the 'Varuna' and the 'Asi'. The essence of the holy city is it's relationship with mother Ganga. The role of the city in Hindu mythology is quite outstanding. The life and activities in city is mainly depended on the holy river. The spiritual identity of Varanasi is due to the major shrine, the Vishwanatha temple. The city is thus called 'Kashi'. From my friend who had lived in Varanasi about 5 years ago, I came to know a typical day in the city. As the morning ra...

I am not fond of  TV serials and I always refused to see those teledramas. Unfortunately, one day while I was tuning the channels the TV remote suddenly got stuck for about 10 minutes. That 10 minutes...I was forced to see a serial.  Then the next day I watched the same serial to get a picture of what they are tracking. After watching that I feel pity on the way by which those serial makers are representing the relation between a typical Indian mother-in-law and daughter-in-law.      The common plot of most of the serials is the quarrel between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. There will be a ferocious mother-in-law with heavy make-up, lots of jewelries and jazzy sarees. She is portrayed as the one who is always blaming her daughter-in-law, making her work the whole time and may even try to stop her son having sex with his wife. At the same time, the daughter-in-law is a namby-pamby character who always shed tears. Sons in serials are totally hushed a...