Ponniyin Selvan play
Any Tamil reader above 30s would have certainly read Kalki’s Ponniyin Selvam. A whole generation was mesmerized by this novel that came out in the 1950s, many families named their…
June 2014
If its Monday it must be Madurai
A few months back, I read a review of Srinath Perur’s book If It’s Monday, It Must Be Madurai. As a travel buff and someone who enjoys travelogues with humour,…
My first PC quotation from 1992
(Flashback date: 2/April/1994) The other day I was going through my old files (physical paper files) from the 1990s. I was surprised to find a quotation from 1992 and for…
Sitas curse
In February I read the review in The Hindu about this book, Sita’s Curse by Sreemoyee Piu Kundu. In the review Sreemoyee, a former journalist as introduced her book to…
Compacting Virtual Machine disks
I have been using Microsoft Virtual PC (later Hyper-V in Windows 8) and Oracle’s VirtualBox for many years for running older versions of Windows or Linux for testing & experimenting.…