Chidam SPEAKS!

                 From the typical roadside dramas to the present astonishing multiplex theaters, art has come a long way. From the day, when artists were treated with disdain, to the present day, where they are treated with esteemed admiration, artists have come a long way. In this current scenario,  this blog post is all about finding the answer to the question "Does life imitate art? or Does art imitate life? If art influences life, is it in a positive manner? Come on with me to explore the answer to these intriguing questions. To be familiar with the Tamil audience, most of the examples mentioned in this post will be with reference to the Tamil Cinema.             Art has imitated life in many cases. For instance, the movies released in the early 20th century, where there won't be much meetings and physical contact between two people in love with each other, before their marriage. This is a reflection of the real life. Tamil people, then, believed in one wom

   Have you noticed the reaction of the person who has triumped? Let it be Usain Bolt or Michael Phelps or Virat Kohli or whoever it might be (not just constrained to sports person). If you had noticed them carefully, you would have seen one thing common among everyone who has won  or achieved something. They would simply raise or spread both their hands in the air away from the body. Each and every part of their body seems to have spread outside. When you see them, you will understand that they are pretty confident and are having indomitable spirit. This is what I mean by the term "POWER POSE". The following are some of the images that depicts power pose. Michael Schumachar, the popular F1 racer The world's fastest man, USAIN BOLT Ajinkya Rahane, Indian Cricketer AR RAHMAN, the most popular music director When someone spreads their body outside like this, it gives them the feeling of power, the feeling of authority over the situation and the feeli

  Our mind is one of the most fascinating things in this world. Yet, we don't dedicate much of our time to know about it. There is a reason why I say that it is the most fascinating thing. Look around you. The gadgets, the automobiles, the households, etc were first created in one's mind before they were created in real. Our mind is an obsequious servant which works to carter our needs. It is a power house that has a lot of potential to drive the world. But the most intriguing question comes now. How to use these unlimited powers of our mind to create the things that we desire? To answer this question, I will narrate a small incident that most of you might have already known.            Swami Vivekananda, on his trip to America, found some boys shooting at the egg shells that were floating over the water. Every time they shot, they were missing the target. So swamiji, went to them and took the gun in his hands. He aimed at the egg shells and shot them. He fired several sh

             Have you ever heard a politician who has lost the election say "People have made the biggest mistake of their life. They are going to suffer a lot during this period"? Well, there are as many chances as sun to rise at 12AM, for you to have heard that. Instead they might say "Next time we will earn people's confidence and win the election" The politicians are well aware of the fact that criticising or condemning people for the failure in the elections, would make matter only more worser.                            Criticisms are very futile. They don't change the situation but contribute towards adding more fuel to fire. B.F.Skinner, the world-famous renowned psychologist from America, conducted a series of experiments on animals. The research concluded that an animal  rewarded for a good behaviour learns much more rapidly than an animal punished for a bad behaviour. Man is an animal with an extra sense and it applies to human beings as wel

              We have reached a point where smartphones have become a integral part of our life. Life hardly seems to move on when we restrict ourselves from using them even for at-least one day. They have blended into our lives. Applications have made our life much simpler that if you own a smartphone, you own a camera, a torch, a alarm clock, and even much more. This is the reason why we are not able to live a life without them. Okay, now let's ask ourselves, are these smartphones killing us? The answer to this question, certainly is yes. Not only emotionally, they are killing people physically too. Yes, not only smartphones, a ordinary mobile phone is killing people. You may ask how a phone can kill someone, but the truth is  that there has been a considerable number of deaths around the world that has been caused due to the usage of mobile phone while it  is being charged.                For instance, a Australian women, who was an air hostess, was electrocuted while she