Letters from Oldenburg, Germany 1.1: And so it Begins!

 Posted on July 21, 2012  |  2 minutes  |  307 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

6th December, 2010 Hello All!! Winter is a strange season to start a new thing anywhere. Mainly because places seem most uninhabitable in this season. But here I am, sitting in mz new office, struggling with ? [Read More]
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Frames of Reference

 Posted on March 13, 2012  |  3 minutes  |  569 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

A colleague of mine is taking German lessons and when the topic of poetry came up at lunch, he described Elftans, and their structure. It reminded me a little of Haiku so I said ¨Sounds like the European version of Haiku¨. [Read More]
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Arranged Marriage

 Posted on August 5, 2011  |  6 minutes  |  1161 words  |  Janani Dhinakaran

Arranged marriage is an old concept. It existed long before people accepted love (that occurred before marriage) as a valid reason to marry. The process through which this changed is reflected very well in the movie ‘Fiddler on the Roof’. [Read More]
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