Nine

 Posted on February 16, 2010  |  1 minutes  |  63 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Beautiful spirited women and a wreck of a man. All the possible ways to screw up one’s marriage and work, he does it. He hurts people all along the way. [Read More]
Movie review  musical  nine 

Kannathil Mutham Ittal

 Posted on February 15, 2010  |  1 minutes  |  108 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

An honest story about how a young girl learns that she is adopted. Through this story, the larger inner turmoils of Sri Lanka are portrayed. A pregnant newly-wed woman goes to India as a refugee, gives birth and returns to join the movement in her dedication to her husband who believes in Tamil independance. [Read More]
A.R.Rahman  adoption  Mani Rathnam  Movie review  Sri Lanka  tamil 

Boosting Mental Health services in India

 Posted on February 14, 2010  |  3 minutes  |  483 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

I attended a lecture on CBT- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and how it is being made accessible in Scotland. Check the website below. http://www.livinglifetothefull.com/index.php?section=page&page_seq=13Can we bring this to India? [Read More]
bilingual  CDs  chat  clinical psychology  counsellors  depression  DVDs  email  face to face  group meetings  mental health  methods of access  phone  public  reaching people  scotland  therapy  video conference 

Dialogues III

 Posted on February 13, 2010  |  12 minutes  |  2476 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Dear readers, I’ve finally started to shed my inertia and write properly again. Here is the next set of Dialogues we had. J: Just to clarify, was it the Old Testament which said the earth was flat? [Read More]
26/11  Atlas Shrugged  auroville  Ayn Rand  bible  blasphemous  blessing  Bombay  castes  catholic church  Christianity  church  compassion  contradiction  customs  death toll  debating  dehli  E.F. Schumacher  earth is flat  employment  energy  faith  god  greeks  healed  hinduism  immaculate conception  islam  J.Krishnamurthi  jesus  Josephs Campbell  judgement  ka  KFI  lord  medicinal plants  miracles  morals  patriarchal  PhD  philosophy  plato  politics  pondicherry  qualia  reiki  relativist  richard bach  sacrifice  satan  saviour  sex  shiva  sin  Small is Beautiful  spiderman  sunday school  Tamil Nadu  tao of physics  terrorist attack  theosophical society  thermodynamics  trinity  unconditional love  untouchability  violence  virgin birth  vishnu  witchcraft 

Computer Angst etc.

 Posted on February 12, 2010  |  2 minutes  |  378 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

I sought to study biology, in which the brain fascinated me the most. I sought to study cognitive neuroscience of music and ended up sitting in front of the computer. [Read More]