HAPPY PONGAL

Hi all,
Wish you all a happy Pongal and also Happy New Year - I am referring to 1st Jan and not theNew Pongal New Year Day created by politicians. I do not think they are competent to decide such things though if I remember right, our High Court said they can. In the TV channels, some channels like Kalignar and Raj referred to the 1st of Thai as Nw Year Day when announcing their special programs for the holiday but most other channels said only Pongal Vizhavai Munnittu.

Here, in this house , Pongal means freedom from the early morning noise that the next-door temple has been making all Maargazhi in the name of Devotional chanting. An old man ws given the mike and every line was repeated by a group including many children and each had his/her own sruti which again changed from line to line. When I was just back from the hospital, this was really torture in the early morning.

Coimbatore is getting warm already, marching towards its early summer.

-Ramakrishnan.