Sampath-Musings

  From Sampath’s Desk:       DADA SAHEB PHALKE AWARD FOR SUPERSTAR RAJINIKANTH India's highest and most coveted film world laurel DADA SAHEB PHALKE AWARD was announced for Superstar Rajinikanth in April 2021. He received it from our Vice President Venkaiah Naidu at Delhi on 25.10.2021 (Monday).   This award has added yet another feather to his already colourful cap and embeded a precious gem and priceless diamond into his already shining crown. Congrats Superstar!   The Superstar rightly and richly deserves it, because, like Thyagaraja Bhagavathar, MGR, and Sivaji Ganesan – Rajinikanth, once a humble bus conductor Sivaji Rao, opened his own golden chapter and has been reigning in the film world for decades together stealing the hearts of millions - an era that is still going great guns.   That he dedicated the prestigious award to all those who stood by him throughout in general, and his Guru and another Dad...

  From Sampath’s Desk:       GENERATION GAP IS A REALITY, ACCEPT IT   Generation gap basically involves and evolves with the inevitable aging which is a perennial process, necessarily creating a divide between generations.   If the world is moving fast today, it will move faster tomorrow. This will go on in an endless spiral. Each passing day brings new arrivals, new thoughts, new hopes, and new aspirations. New trends set in and change, sometimes by the turn of a day. There is always scope in the ever-changing world for ever-evolving trendy things and innovative thought processes.   The divergence in the thought process in successive generations due to constantly evolving changes and trends in all walks of life, which is natural to crop up, is a major cause for the generation gap. Age and aging lend rise to the psychological gap in terms of thinking patterns and ushering in new norms. Children, with passage of time, understandably an...

From Sampath’s Desk: GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING   GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS:   Meaning:   To go straight to the basic facts and realities of a matter – to begin the most important work or business – talk about the important things - to get started with the essentials – get serious about something – talk about the crux of the matter or the real issue or problem – to focus on the most important aspects of a particular situation     Example sentences:   We have been chatting around for quite some time. Let us GET DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and discuss what we are really here for.   They finally GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and discussed the issue threadbare that was really bothering them.   After exchanging pleasantries with each other, the heads of the two companies GOT DOWN TO BRASS TACKS and finalized the terms for the proposed merger.   Enough is enough. We have unnecessarily wasted a lot of time...

  From Sampath’s Desk:         SUSHMA SWARAJ (14 February 1952 – 6 August 2019)     In the departure of the former Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, one of the tallest and strongest pillars of modern women power has fallen. She was a great woman face in politics. An eminent and towering stateswoman, she had dedicated herself to the service of people. Shushmaji – a versatile personality being a daring and challenge-savvy veteran leader, prolific and powerful orator, forcefully arguing lawyer, a ‘go-getter’ for her party,– all rolled into one - is no longer amongst us. Hers is an irreparable loss to our country and her party.   With her passing away, a great saga of inspiring intellectual patriotism besides her long, illustrious and industrious journey has come to an end. She can be easily rated as the second tallest woman leader of the country who reached peaks of name and fame after our former Prime Minister ...

From Sampath’s Desk:     PULWAMA TERROR ATTACK (14 February 2019)     India woke up on 14.2.2019 (Thursday) to the horrific, heart-breaking, and spine-chilling news of a terror attack in Lethapora, Pulwama, at the wee hours (03.30 AM) - a shameful and cowardly act sponsored by Pakistan - which can easily be described as one of the deadliest ever in India that time in Jammu and Kashmir coming as it were after Mumbai 26-29/11/2008 terror arrack, shortly known as 26/11 - in which at least 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were martyred leaving 35 others grievously injured.   The Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed claimed responsibility for the attack. A Jaish suicide bomber rammed his vehicle carrying over 100 kg of explosives into one of the military convoy’s buses near Awantipora on the Srinagar-Jammu Highway in Pulwama district that was ferrying the 76th battalions from Jammu to Srinagar on that ill-fated day.  Subse...

  From Sampath’s Desk:   GORDIAN KNOT and RAISE CAIN:   GORDIAN KNOT:   Pronunciation:   (gh) கோர்டியன் நாட்     Meaning:   If you describe a situation or problem as a Gordian knot, you mean that it is very complicated and difficult to resolve. If someone succeeds in resolving it, you can say that they cut the Gordian knot – an intricate problem especially one insoluable in its own terms This is a literary expression.   தமிழில் – பிரம்ம முடிச்சு ( எளிதில் அவிழ்க்க முடியாத முடிச்சு )   Tracing the origin and history of the term GORDIAN KNOT   This was a knot tied by Gordius, the king of Phrygia, held to be capable of being untied only by the future ruler of Asia, and cut by Alexander the Great with his sword.   The term “Gordian knot,” commonly used to describe a complex or unsolvable problem, can be traced back to a legendary chapter in the life of Alexander the Great.   As the...