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Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/197052/ Date: 18-Feb-2024 Tiger Companion It is perhaps a fact that living with Calvins is akin to traveling in a boat with a monkey. We feel that they are interested merely in destruction and protests. When they cannot destroy, they oppose fiercely. Really, what is their problem? (Therefore I have structured this article around how to travel with a monkey in a boat) There are simple philosophical fundamentals to understand the Calvins. What is our home? We are not able to handle this chaotic, or the unfathomably ordered, fiercely energetic, immeasurably gigantic universe. Therefore, we create a tiny universe for ourselves. We call that home. This tiny universe is completely under our control. It embeds the meaning that we had created and provided it. It has the limits that are within our visionary bounds. Everything here is describable and repairable. That is why, we attempt to set right the chair and unwrinkle the screens. "Trash bin mus...

Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/197016/ Date: 17-Feb-2024 Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip that I have been reading for the past ten years. Yes, Daily. It is being sent to me via e-mail by Pinterest. The company is urging me to search and read this series daily. Like a coffee, it makes me start my day with enthusiasm. I didn't find Calvin and Hobbes by chance. It was a comic book presented to me by Suchitra. It started from there.  Such comic books follow a framework. They would occur like lines drawn with disdain. But as you watch them closely, you would understand that they were drawn by expert artists capturing even the expressions and the thoughts in the eyes of the characters. After a stage, the characters would become like people well acquainted to and living amongst us. Another constant in these comic strips is that they are made up of  the same recurring themes and the characters with unchanging characteristics, which is what makes them humorous. Unless you...

Original Source: https://www.jeyamohan.in/78988/ Date: 11-Aug-2022   Dear Jeyamohan, I started my literature journey with your short story collection "Aram". It was a good start. As a novice reader, the stories touched me a lot, especially stories like "Yaanai Doctor" (Elephant Doctor), "Nooru Naarkaaligal" (A Hundred Armchairs) and "Sotrukkanakku" (The Meal tally) disturbed me. Reading turns even an ordinary life into a cherishable one. I am grateful to you for providing me with a great start to my reading. I am into my early adulthood now. I am into the world's youngest domain - Software. The usual skepticisms of this age are impacting me a lot. There are a lot of questions on religion and rituals, especially in Vaastu and astrology. My family has deep faith in them. I have not got an unbiased responses to my doubts till now. The response is either 'At your age, your doubts are natural. With maturity you will be OK', or 'All the...