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“The lure of the screen is so high

If you take it away the mind will cry!

The social media is so cool and free! 

Till I realise that the ones who is trapped is me!”

In a book called Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Meurisse, the author talks about..yes! The trending topic of the day! Dopamine Detox!

This is the apparent secret behind your social media addiction!

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Dopamine is a type of neurotransmitter or a nerve messenger (not nervous in any way!) in the brain. It is naturally produced by the body and it affects many behavioral and physical functions, including mainly learning, motivation, sleep, mood and attention. 

An excess or deficiency in dopamine production can cause mental health conditions. Exposure to overwhelming levels of stimuli can prompt such disorders, leading to dependencies on certain substances or activities!

Like everything else in life, a balance is very important! 

Many of the new age ‘Gurus’ have ‘identified’ dopamine as the root cause of all addiction so have suggested what is known as DOPAMINE DETOX! 

The goal here is to rid everyone of their dependence on certain stimuli, such as phone alerts, texts, and social media notifications. 

The general concept behind “detox” is for people to let themselves feel lonely or bored, or to try simpler activities instead of reaching for quick “hits” of dopamine. 

Ideally, people will start to notice how certain stimuli might distract them.

The modern compulsive behaviours are things like excess or binge or emotional eating, excessive internet usage and gaming, gambling and shopping, porn and masturbation, thrill and novelty seeking and recreational drugs

It has been postulated that social media addiction is as close to nicotine addiction and a little less than cocaine addiction!

By fasting from these activities that trigger the brain’s neurotransmitters, people become less dependent on the emotional “hits” that dopamine provides, which can sometimes lead to dependence or addiction.

The chief notion here is that even if you give in to the need and allow social media or other distractions, you do not get a feeling of satisfaction! You actually feel more depressed and then you do not have time for other activities!

The constant procrastination which is the biggest evil in the world today is the end result of dopamine addiction! It could be that unfinished book or that unfinished poem!

If you set a time for everything then it is under your control and you will definitely have time for may be a blog or a sketch or may be a poem everyday (wink wink!)! 

Now today was the Vamana Jayanthi/onam celebration all over and we were going from one Sadya to another! It was a gastronomic delight to say the least! Need to do some fasting of the food kind after all that feast! 

With all the fest and fervour of Onam we also must remember that it is the birthday of celebrated engineer Sir Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya  and also celebrated as engineers day! Since I am surrounded by family and friends who are engineers I congratulate and wish them from my side!

Happy Onam!

Happy engineers day!

Shubh Ratri!

“He called me names that’s insane!

He is simply pulling my chain!

He called me names he called me goat!

Don’t matter now, will see him in court!”

One of the most so called intelligent species in the entire universe is the Homo Sapiens but I have never understood this simple thing! 

How could such a smart species have fight or issue with another human, pause the fight, employ another human or humans and pay that human along with the person with whom he has a fight who himself or herself is forced or coerced to employ another human and pay him or her to continue the same fight in front of another different human or humans who would finally ‘settle’ your fight for you at his or her own time and discretion!

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The word law, attested in Old English as lagu, comes from the Old Norse word lǫg. The singular form lag meant ‘something laid or fixed’ while its plural meant ‘law. The earliest known use of the noun lawyer is in the Middle English period in the writing of William Langland, poet. lawyer is formed within English, by derivation. It is formed from the earlier noun law, combined with the affix ‑ier.

While the Latin root of the word attorney is to attorn. In English, it means to transfer one’s rights and obligations to someone else. Therefore, when we give someone power of attorney, we give them the right to make decisions on our behalf. Plainly, “power of attorney” means the power to act on someone’s behalf.

You would not wish even your worst enemy to run around in courts! If filing a legal document is a pain, then imagine fighting a case in the court! The wait, the expectation, the expenditure and finally if you are lucky, the words, “Case closed”

In any case, there is of course a party who is the loser. You can never have a case where both are winners! Now whether you win or lose you have to pay the lawyer since they have of course worked for you in compiling the documents and other details but there was actually a time when your lawyer was simply your ‘friend’ or ‘accomplice’ who would argue on your behalf and the most important this was that he or she must do that work WITHOUT any fees! Yes! It the earliest lawyers used to work for free!

Now the legal profession has its origins in ancient Greece and Rome. Those days in Greece it was forbidden to take payment for pleading the cause of another but even then that rule was widely flouted. 

The ban on fees was abolished by Emperor Claudius, who legalized advocacy as a profession and allowed the Roman advocates to become the first lawyers who could practice openly and charge fees for their services—but he also imposed a fee ceiling of 10,000 sesterces! At that time though it was supposed to be one of the lowest paid ‘profession’. 

Of course later on as the laws became more complex and government got more control; the widely read ‘lawyers’ or ‘advocates’ came into picture who were very well read and knew all the laws to either ‘rescue’ or ‘trap’ their or other clients! 

Unfortunately the root of the matter that who is right or who is guilty has now many times become weak. If you have a good liar…I mean Lawyer, you can make your case accordingly and win! 

If you are a person with no connections (read less money or no money!) then you can expect your case to be heard as late as possible with little or no hope!

Not to mention the legal lingo is so complicated and lengthy! In one of the list of the funniest cases this one case was found to be funny because no one could actually understand what was trying to be conveyed! Like the Professor in 3 idiots says, “What do you want to say!?” If you do not believe me then this is the summary reproduced as it is! Please let me know what it means! 

“The summum bonum of the aforesaid discussion is that all the aforesaid material which existed before the learned Executing Court standing slighted besides their impact standing untenably undermined by him whereupon the ensuing sequel therefrom is of the learned Executing Court while pronouncing its impugned rendition overlooking the relevant and germane evidence besides its not appreciating its worth. Consequently, the order impugned suffers from a gross absurdity and perversity of misappreciation of material on record.”

I am guessing he was distantly related to one MP in Trivandrum! 

In a news report in a paper (allright accurately the report was online since I do not read papers nowadays!) given some days back apparently, more than five crore cases are pending in various courts, including district courts, high courts and the Supreme Court.

The shocking thing is that According to the National Judicial Data Grid (NJDG), nearly 2.45 lakh cases are pending in high courts which are 20 to 30 years old! 

Justice definitely denied…Let us hope that at least future generations do not need a third party to solve their problems which they could have solved by themselves! Talking about court and cases reminds me of the birthday celebrity Murali Karthikeyan Muthuraman or Karthik and his epic scenes in the movie Mouna ragam! 

Maybe watch the Mr Chandramouli scene and sleep happily!

Shubh ratri!

“A little bit of this and that
A little thin a little fat!
Now that’s the best way to go!
A little high and a little low!”

Today is the 266th day of the year and this is my 266th full lenght blog! Of course the same number for the sketch!

“oru alavu” That was the standard quantity used by my mother!

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Anyone who tells you that money is not important run away and go back and listen to him or her after you have enough money!

Now please do not get me wrong! Money is not everything but money is very important! All you have to decide is ALAVU!

Yes, that in my mother’s mixture of tamil and malayalam means quantity!

Like Rajni says in Muthu, Kaiyil konjam kaasu irunthaal, Neethan atharku ejamaanan
Kazhuthu varaikkum kasu irunthal, Athuthan unakku ejamanan. which means that if you have some money in your hands then you are its owner but if you have money upto your neck it is your owner! Basically it means that you must be the owner of your money and not its slave!

You need to know how much money is needed for you to be comfortable. You must know your brake!

Of course now this blog was and is not about money!

When my mother used to make any dish, she always made the best one! Be it Baigan ka bhartha or aloo paratha or even a sambar! It was always the best and the most delicious!

So whenever someone used to ask her about the recipe, she always used to tell to add this spice or that ingredient and tell Oru allavu! In hindi she used to tell “apne andaz ya hisaab” which means that you add that ingredient as per your taste which actually we later realised was based on experience!

The same ingredient and masalas you give to someone else and the taste would not be the same! Many of my aunties and other relatives would constantly have this complaint that the dish does not taste the same! Even the Upma which I hate when made by her would taste so nice! My aunty would be surprised and say oh come on, it is only Upma! But it was true! Apart from her usual ‘alavu’ here the added flavour was ghee roasted shallots!

But then many always felt my mother was either not telling the complete recipe or she was telling them the wrong one!

It used to be the same with me! Now of course my mother had couple of tricks up her sleeve like the upma above and like roasting the onions before making aloo bonda or adding roasted ginger to the podimass (A potato dish with grated coconut and boiled potato) but overall when she made the dishes it was so tasty!

The only way to learn that was to cook with her! Which is exactly what I did! I used to call her and make her sit on a chair and I used to cook with her! Then over a period of time I understood the alavu!

Most of the recipes we see online or otherwise the quantity of most of the ingredients are fixed like half or quarter tea spoon! But most cooks do not use any spoons! They always use their hands and the quantity is decided on the spot and with experience!

I have always believed that anything more is bad and mostly everything in life is always a balance! An ‘alavu’! Even most of the self help books always tell you to get a balance! Even most gurus try to tell you to get a work life balance!
Hope you find your balance or Alavu in life!

Like how the birthday celebrity Usha Nadkarni gives a balanced act in her movies and TV!

Have great weekend!
Shubh ratri!

“The wait will make you see

The honey and the bee!

Fanning for eternity for a drop

Must carry on though, don’t stop!”

In the Novel Nexus Yuval gives an introduction to one of the most frustrating activities the modern day civilisation has ever insisted!

the tape which is red! And did you know it was all because of a desk or table!?

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I hate filling forms! They are one of the most irritating things in the world especially if it is a rigid and specific form!

Since I often have flights of fantasy like a would be author, sticking to the script was never the strong suit!

Which may be the reason many like me can never be in accounts or be lawyers! Of course documentation is one of the cornerstones of modern medical practice but those are alright since we can still have creative liberties on the symptoms and complains!

But the most irritating stuff is when you need to do an official work from any government agency or even the bank! Of course now many of the places with the introduction of online access, it is a breeze but I still remember the days when simple things like applying for a official document was a big tapasya!

You need to fill innumerable forms and submit a zillion documents! I still remember those days when we had to apply for a landline telephone connection! That was the most difficult thing to do! After application your phone line may come after ages! Even then you need to ‘grease’ the palms and submit more documents!

 This is the region of the red tape or Bureaucracy!

Now Bureaucracy literally means ‘rule by writing desk’! 

The term was invented in eighteenth-century France, when the typical official sat next to a writing desk with drawers or a bureau!

And at the heart of the bureaucratic order, then, is the drawer. 

Now bureaucracy was introduced to solve the retrieval problem by dividing the world into drawers, and knowing which document goes into which drawer.

The principle remains the same regardless of whether the document is placed into a drawer, a shelf, a basket, a jar, a computer folder or any other receptacle: divide and rule. The principle is division and transfer into sections! The image of the in and out folders of a office babu comes to mind!

This division, however causes more confusion and delay! 

So instead of focusing on understanding the world as it is, bureaucracy is often busy imposing a new and artificial order on the world. In the book called Peter principle by  Laurence J. Peter and R Suttton; it has been indicated that such Bureaucrats are appointed for the sole purpose to simply follow their rigid rule whether it makes sense or not!

Peter tells the story of Michael Patrick O Brien who was kept for 11 months on a ferry boat plying between Hong Kong and Macao because of a travel issue! 

This leads to another interesting phenomenon especially in the Government sector! There are some forms which serve no purpose other than waste time energy and money! But incompetent officers insist on it because of customary routine! Like the case of Michael above!

The above are also examples of Professional Automatism! 

Means are more important than the end! The paperwork is more important than the purpose! 

But most of the time even if they don’t do any work, professional automatism still gets them promoted! In fact if you question or do not get with the flow, then you are not given any promotion! Here competence is harmful!

This was amazingly depicted even in the movie Zootopia when the cop goes to the Motor vehicle department! 

There was this amazing movie called Kagaz and in the movie based on the series Office office; a person who is alive has to prove that he is alive when a ‘certificate’ emerges which proves him to be dead! In fact the comedy series by Pankaj Kapur actually is an amazing satire on the crazy world of red tapes and Bureaucrats! 

The Bureaucrat in the office tells the person standing hale and hearty in front him that according to the certificate, he is dead! 

It was dark comedy when the person says that he is very much alive while the Bureaucrat tells him that the ‘computer’ cannot be wrong! That whole scene in a nutshell is the state of Bureaucracy!  

So bureaucrats begin by inventing various drawers, which are intersubjective realities that don’t necessarily correspond to any objective divisions in the world. The bureaucrats then try to force the world to fit into these drawers, and if the fit isn’t very good, the bureaucrats push harder. The forms do not adapt to you! You must adapt to the form!

Anyone with a big name from South India can relate to the commonly asked question in most official form; ‘first name. middle name and surname”! Try to fit Sriram Nathan Sivaramakrishnan Iyer in that! 

Anyway talking about ‘Fit’ you can think about the birthday celebrity Puneet Issar!

Now fill that Google form and hope that you don’t get nightmares about red tape and sleep!

Shubh ratri!

The Monk who sold his Ferrari by Robin Sharma

Self help book

Audio Book

A very popular book which needs no introduction or even a review to be popular! But this is both a review and a summary! Those who may read may find it like a preview and those who may not read it can get the main points!

I had read this one many years back and felt it was too preachy! I was young at that time and now a little older!

It sounds a little less preachy now!

The best way to read this book is to listen! These self help books are best heard and not read! The zeal and enthusiasm with which the narrator drives the point is what makes the difference!

If you are a regular reader of self help books then you would have probably read this one many times! If you have not read it before then you definitely need help!

Like many of this books like the 5 am club, Robin uses characters and storylines to put his point across!

The points are not something you do not already know but the application to your life is what is important here!

Now as the title suggests there is a Ferrari but may not be an actual Monk but something similar!

The book starts with a big great and successful liar…I mean lawyer having a heart attack and collapsing in the court!

Then starts the history of the lawyer and how he comes back as a ‘monk’!

Now this is not a murder mystery that you feel that is a spoiler!

What is relevant is what he learnt and what he is urging you to do with your life!

When you actually listen to the story of the lawyer in the end then you will actually understand why and how he used to work like that.
a very successful lawyer reached a peak and burnt out

Then one fine day he reappears all young and fit and healthy and full of life to spread his knowledge and secrets of a good life!

He tells about the sages or Swamis of shivala (or savanah! Since it was audiobook the spelling may not be correct!) and their techniques

He tells mainly about a Yogi called Yogi Raman and the indian connection. Yogi Raman was also a successful person who left everything and settled in the peaceful mountains!

The main advice is to simply get up and go! Get up as early as possible to seize the day! I guess this is a prelude to the 5 am club!

He mainly mentions about the diet which is very important! Either try to be a vegetarian or at least start eating as much less meat as possible and increase the vegetables and salads you eat! Slowly try to become more green in your choice of food!

He also tells to read self help books as much as you can!

The prominent being Gandhi and benjamin franklin and Think and grow rich! Here when he tells about growing rich he means not only of physical wealth but overal wealth!

He also urges to read the book Siddhartha by Hermen Hesse. He also mentions some little titbits from these books.

I have mentioned and read about the 80/20 rule is so many places! Here also Robin talks about it! So most of your time must be spent doing the 20 percent of the things which are important and not the 80 percent which waste your time!

Which brings us to the most important commodity of your life! The main idea of the book and the biggest gift the ‘monk’ gets from the sages!

He gets a golden hourglass!

This means that the most important and precious commodity is, Time!
The same in told by telling about a sumo wrestler with the pink band and the golden watch analogy!

He advices his junior to literally throw away your phone and your pager! Try NOT to answer call once in a while! Try to spend more time with family and not only work!

Yogi Raman says when you are born you cry and the world smiles! do work so that you laugh and the world cries! Of course this is a song in hindi which many people in India know too well!

Finally the ‘monk’ told the story of his life and as the day got over the proverbial sunrise took away the darkness of the room and gave light to the junior!

So do you want to be the monk who sold his Ferrari!? Well, get a Ferrari first! Or simply read or listen to this one!

“I can reach the end of the universe so fast!
The reach of my power is so vast!
Only the mind can hold me right!
Cause imagination can always take a flight!”

Have you heard about Cher ami, the one who saved over 194 men!?
Cher was mentioned in a book called ‘Nexus’, by Yuval Noah who tries to tell a brief history of information and tries to define data!
Oh, yeah by the way…Cher was a pigeon!

Intrigued?

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Cher Ami, which means “dear friend” in French, was born in 1918. Cher Ami was one of the 600 Army Signal Corps pigeons sent to France to assist with communication on the battlefield.

Homing pigeons are known for their ability to find their way home, even from across terrains the pigeon does not know. Short notes were placed in a tiny canister attached to the pigeon’s leg that they would carry to their destination.

Cher Ami had 12 successful missions — a high success rate among homing pigeons! So what great thing did you achieve today!?

Unfortunately when the Germans became aware of the Army’s use of pigeons in carrying important information, they began training to shoot them down.

Cher Ami had his most dangerous mission during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in 1918. Cher Ami was stationed with the 77th Division, referred to as the “Lost Battalion,” in the Argonne Forest. They found themselves cut off from the rest of the American troops, under heavy bombardment. The battalion was trapped behind German lines and unable to make their position known. Soon, American bombs began falling on the Lost Battalion on October 4, making the situation dire. Since they were out of the reach of the radio signal, using a homing pigeon was their only choice!

American Maj. Charles Whittlesey and his men watched as almost all of their pigeons were shot down by the Germans until they were left with only one pigeon, Cher Ami.
Whittlesey attached a note to Cher Ami’s leg, writing, “We are along the road parallel to 276.4. Our own artillery is dropping a barrage directly on us. For heaven’s sake, stop it!.”

Cher Ami dodged German bullets, giving the Soldiers hope until he was shot through the chest and fell to the ground. Against all odds, he returned to the sky to deliver the message. He flew at record speeds, covering 25 miles in a little less than a half an hour. He arrived at the American base with the message, alive but badly wounded!

Army medics were able to save Cher Ami, but he lost his right leg and was permanently blinded. Due to Cher Ami’s trip, the bombardment on the Lost Battalion stopped and 194 men safely returned to American lines. Cher Ami was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French government to honor bravery on the battlefield.

General John Pershing honored him by saying, “There isn’t anything the United States can do too much for this bird.”

Under the care of his trainer, Capt. John Carney, Cher Ami returned to the United States where he spent the rest of his life. Cher Ami died due to his war wounds on June 13, 1919, in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. His body was preserved and presented to the Smithsonian Institution with honor in 1921.

So nice and wonderful right? Well, Yuval actually tries to burst this story! Apparently the American Bombers actually got the message on the position of the troops before Cher! Another version actually says how it was not even Cher who did the message carrying but some other Pigeon! Another says his wounds were severe but not that severe!

Now, now! Do not feel bad! That is the power of inspirational stories! Cher is not simply a Pigeon who did all that work! He is a symbol of hope when morale is low! He is an inspiration and an idea! An idea with wings! Literally!
In the quest of accuracy do not become a cynic! Also the thought of nation is a feeling and inspiration! Inspirational also are great stories of freedom fighters such as the birthday celebrity Vinayak Narahari Bhave!

Now start the ebook Nexus to have a good sleep!
Shubh ratri!

“The shores keep calling me
The sound it makes by the sea!
The ocean so vast and wide
Waves at me with the tide!”


What is the similarity between one of the biggest things you know and one of the smallest ones you know!? Did you also know that these things which you cannot see were described many years ago!? Also you may know this another scientist because of a cat! Triple intrigued!?

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Kaṇāda also known as Ulūka, Kashyapa, Kaṇabhaksha and Kaṇabhuj was an ancient Indian natural scientist and philosopher who founded the Vaisheshika school of Indian philosophy that also represents the earliest Indian physics.

Kaṇāda proposed that paramanu is an indestructible particle of matter. The paramanu is indivisible because it is a state at which no measurement can be attributed. He used invariance arguments to determine properties of the atoms. He also stated that anu can have two states—absolute rest and a state of motion!

Now this will be more clear when you get the english word for paramanu! Yes! Atom!

Now the word atom is derived from the ancient Greek adjective atomos, meaning “uncuttable” or “indivisible.”
We now know that the atom has a nucleus composed of protons and neutrons surrounded by clouds of electrons. The protons are positively charged, electrons are negatively charged, and neutrons possess no charge!

In one of the models of the atom which is called the Rutherford model; The atom is described as a tiny, dense, positively charged core called a nucleus, in which nearly all the mass is concentrated, around which the light, negative constituents, called electrons, circulate at some distance!

There is another much bigger system in which the mass is concentrated in the center and other lesser mass go ‘around’ or move in a cyclical way around the central mass! Yes! The solar system!

This was of course an oversimplification of the structure of atom which has now been superseded by “The Quantum Mechanical Model” which views electrons within an atom as waves, not as particles as previously believed. Because of this, electrons can be described as having a high probability of residing in specific orbitals, or regions of space, within the atom!

There was this comment that if you cannot explain something to a five year old then it means that you have not understood it yourself! The Rutherford model is the simple version while the Quantum mechanical model is the uber complex model!

The quantum model is a modification of two other models called the Bohr’s and this another one you would have heard in association with a cat!

This scientist solved a series of mathematical equations to come up with a model for the distributions of electrons in an atom! His model shows the nucleus surrounded by clouds of electron density. These clouds are clouds of probability; though we don’t know exactly where the electrons are, we know they’re likely to be found in given regions of space. These regions of space are referred to as electron orbitals!

Saw the uncertainty? Well doesn’t it remind you of a scientist and the cat!? Well! Even this model is by the same person! Schrödinger! Of course the cat story is for another day! or is it!? The reason why Rutherford model is comfortable is because of its similarity to the Solar system! This familiarity gives a sense of security or contentment! We are always wary of those which are not familiar! Now the sketch of birthday celebrity Atul Kulkarni was tolerable to my son since he was a familiar face in a movie we had seen recently! Oh all right, the movie was The Ghazi attack!

Lets now respect the solar system and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!

“It can be slow it can be fast!

It can make your heart beat fast! 

It can drown the blues big or small!

Music is simply the best of em all!”

What do you do when you do not have time for relaxation or exercise or you are simply lazy!? Well, there is something which can still be done!

Read on and also learn about the Drummer Rick allen of Def Leppard who has only one hand!

I love music! 

By default my echo device would play Hanuman Chalisa at the same time everyday and then Vishnu sahasranama and maybe later on other songs or chanting depending on the festival!

Then while driving it will be some hindi old or new soulful music by KK or Arijit singh or my favourite Sonu Nigham! If nostalgic then Kishore da and Rafi saab would come with Mannade and Amit Kumar!

Later on while sketching it would be some rock song or pop song which could be new or old depending on my son and my mood! My daughter would drop in her KPop once in a while! 

Then if it is at home with my father it would be the classical songs with my Tabla to assist! We all would join in the chorus and it would be mesmerising! 

Finally before we sleep if in the mood then some old songs or videos of popular songs on the projector and then a few minutes of instrumental music by many including Kenny G for a sound (mostly!) sleep!

Even during my study days and school days music has been keeping me alert and awake! If I need to concentrate then it is more instrumental music like the Dream theatre or even some carnatic classics! 

Good music has no boundary and I feel it really helps me keep a good mood! Which is why I really do not like when someone says to stop the music or reduce the volume! Even now! Then again I am really wary of anyone who does not like music when he or she has a normal mood! 

There have been studies that show even plants and animals like and enjoy music so I guess humans must enjoy it more!

Listening to calming music can help people relax and focus on the present moment. Studies have also found that listening to music helps release endorphins which further reduces stress levels and may even aid in the healing process. Now this is subjective and whether you get endorphins or not, it is still good!

Now proper musicians are better qualified to talk about the intersection of music and healing! The drummer of the Band Def Leppard was Rick Allen.  

The band’s album ‘Pyromania’ was selling millions of copies in the U.S. and their videos were all over MTV when in 1984 he lost his left arm in a car crash! When he thought all was lost, his bandmates famously stood by him and he remained in the group. They supported him and with music he supported himself. 

Over a period of time he trained himself and developed a drum kit which could be played with one hand and his legs! And lo! He created magic with the drums! He continued to play with the band, which went on to its most commercially successful phase!

When asked what was the inspiration he told about the healing power of music or in his case, drumming! 

Of course you must not take it literally! Music calms your body mind and soul! It makes you feel postive and hopeful and that is the crux! A good positive healthy mind is the essential element to have a healthy body! Even if you do not believe in these, just sing and dance! At least you will move some muscle! Or if you want you can read a book! Like the one written by birthday celebrity Ramaswamy Krishnamurthy! Who!? you may know him as the author of Ponniyin Selvan or as Kalki!

Now listen to light music and try to sleep!

Shubh Ratri!

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thriller with Lincoln Rhyme as the lead detective with his usual team of Amelia Sachs and the rest of the team!

This is a Novella which can get over in less than 30 minutes of reading!

The story is simple and a sign of the times about this dating service where vulnerable women who are sensitive and already at the threshold of loss or recovering from a loss are preyed upon by a predator!

The surprise is not there!

The surprise is mental and not physical!

With people who treat emotions as most important would associate with this very well!

What he does is much more damaging but unfortunately even with the excess amount of mental agony and torture he gets away…or does he!?

There are some indications of Rhyme going the Curtain; Poirot’s last case way! Wrong or right…well, you read and decide!