Vijay Narayanan on July 23rd, 2005

The wait is over! This week, a gaping Tamil populace found out the colour of actress Jyotika’s wedding saree. Colours – with an ‘s’ – to be precise, because there are 54600 of them – all in one saree! RmKV Silks has launched a set special edition silk sarees, which will most probably enter the [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 21st, 2005

Is creativity such a bad thing? Surely it takes a great deal to dream and innovate. But this thing was downright funny, and stupid. A prominent Indian insurance company had launched a campaign in one city to fire up its agents to sell more insurance policies. The person they had chosen to emulate was none [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 16th, 2005

I had actually decided to post a review entitled “Why I don’t like Ilaiyaraja’s Thiruvasagam?”. I had sufficient reasons to support that contention; and given my verbosity, it wouldn’t have been tough. Here go the reasons… Since Monday, I have been unable to concentrate on anything. My productivity levels (which are already pathetic) are hitting [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 15th, 2005

[This is a VKpedia exclusive!] Maruti’s recently launched Swift has been topping the charts since its release. Only today did I have the good fortune to observe it from different angles and be bowled over by the beauty and aesthetic elegance of this engineering marvel. Hoping to find out more, I ventured to the car’s [...]

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Vijay Narayanan on July 14th, 2005

[I'm posting this just to while away time; as usual, I have nothing else to say] A couple of days ago, there was an interview on NDTV Profit featuring some intellectual whose name they didn’t care to display in those 5 minutes I watched. I think they were discussing about morality and such forgotten things. [...]

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