tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post5330109966669099230..comments2024-03-29T19:38:43.404+05:30Comments on Tomichan Matheikal's blog: Going PlacesTomichan Matheikalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-77367936486807485972013-07-10T17:45:00.347+05:302013-07-10T17:45:00.347+05:30Thanks for this suggestion, Pankti. In fact, I...Thanks for this suggestion, Pankti. In fact, I'm planning a novel set in this school. But due to time constraint, I may have to wait for retirement (or retrenchment) for the novel to materialise. But it keeps growing in reality!Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-50329327285539890052013-07-09T19:11:27.710+05:302013-07-09T19:11:27.710+05:30Wonderful story. I would definitely have loved to ...Wonderful story. I would definitely have loved to see what Arjun did after scaling the wall. Where did he go and how he dealt with the situation? Did the experience touched his outlook somewhere? Can you write another continuing episode of this fiction? Phew...too many questions of mine :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17846323466187478742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-20592970554762518572013-07-02T06:44:05.547+05:302013-07-02T06:44:05.547+05:30You are not good, Raghuram, you are the best.
Bo...You are not good, Raghuram, you are the best. <br /><br />Bother me - I love it when you do. Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-53035720571181248892013-07-01T15:27:55.544+05:302013-07-01T15:27:55.544+05:30I will bother myself and you by reacting to your r...I will bother myself and you by reacting to your response Matheikal :)<br /><br />Who else but I (or, is it "me"?) can get so much out of you simply be raising one's hands? I am really good ;-)<br /><br />REmandakolathurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774568024246167410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-67453986400693636492013-06-30T07:02:08.721+05:302013-06-30T07:02:08.721+05:30Thanks, Kajal, for the appreciation. Politics at ...Thanks, Kajal, for the appreciation. Politics at any time was not edifying. Contemporary politics is at the lowest level on the moral hierarchy.Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-16286040533535196212013-06-29T23:52:23.388+05:302013-06-29T23:52:23.388+05:30I am glad to have read a story that reflects utmos...I am glad to have read a story that reflects utmost brilliance in lacerating politics of the kind of perversion being practised by some politicians. I have also written. a story dealing with the theme of power politics. Your post is really a scathing one!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08968388824250628712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-77848938638645550222013-06-29T16:26:50.292+05:302013-06-29T16:26:50.292+05:30Thanks, Santhosh.Thanks, Santhosh.Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-1600841814034362822013-06-29T12:43:23.013+05:302013-06-29T12:43:23.013+05:30That rot is nothing but selfishness. Lack of human...That rot is nothing but selfishness. Lack of humane feeling for others. Everything should be for me - attitude. Those who sacrifice or share with others or do justice to their jobs are considered to be fools. It is really difficult to surmount such selfishness. It is a long journey to travel. Unless a spiritual token is there, no one can enter the road to that destination.wingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12629140307669198833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-57543593667220247522013-06-29T11:17:50.455+05:302013-06-29T11:17:50.455+05:30"Sodium atoms and chlorine atoms bonded toget..."Sodium atoms and chlorine atoms bonded together and were drowned in salty sweat" - Good one.Gurujihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01979180240055800364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-41998464725663192982013-06-29T09:27:46.679+05:302013-06-29T09:27:46.679+05:30Do teachers mould their values at least to some ex...Do teachers mould their values at least to some extent by what they see their bosses doing? In a system which exploits teachers how many teachers will succeed in retaining their virtues? <br /><br />What I'm implying is that there's something radically wrong with our societies. The rot lies deep...Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-56624877919234121582013-06-29T09:25:14.622+05:302013-06-29T09:25:14.622+05:30Thanks, Adarsh. I'm indeed happy you liked it...Thanks, Adarsh. I'm indeed happy you liked it.Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-75389111979117401722013-06-29T08:39:42.338+05:302013-06-29T08:39:42.338+05:30CCE is such a politician who pampers all the vagab...CCE is such a politician who pampers all the vagabonds who don't even qualify for any sort of education. Even sports is a part of education, provided the students play with ethics and not using their bodily strength and skill alone. Why has CCE forgotten that? Even the sports teachers cannot understand the subtleties of education and an ethic called sportsmanship. How can they evaluate any student. Everybody cannot become Dhyan Chand. Can anybody?wingshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12629140307669198833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-26490381990854585992013-06-29T00:35:02.814+05:302013-06-29T00:35:02.814+05:30Hi, good one!! I loved the way the narrative shift...Hi, good one!! I loved the way the narrative shifts between what the boy is doing and what the boy is thinking.The Freudian Couchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02846833382241285200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-2347788209633639342013-06-28T22:43:55.848+05:302013-06-28T22:43:55.848+05:30Nice...Technology NewsNice...<a href="http://biyago.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">Technology News</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-38083250657836137312013-06-28T20:09:52.194+05:302013-06-28T20:09:52.194+05:30Raghuram,
I'm indeed happy that you bothered ...Raghuram,<br /><br />I'm indeed happy that you bothered to comment on this.<br /><br />First of all, let me remind you that I wrote recently about Marcel Proust trying to criticise his own writing and failing (in a blog titled 'Self-criticism). Fiction writing is a complex process. The unconscious is more active than the conscious. The complexities in the writer's mind will turn up in the writing. If you are a psychiatrist you can analyse my writing and find out the psychological traumas I underwent...<br /><br />Secondly, there are too many themes I have packed into this story. This is my problem as a writer of fiction. The moment I sit down to write fiction I cease to be me. Somebody else takes over. Who is that somebody? Is it me? Is it NOT me?<br /><br />Thirdly, look at the themes of corruption, evil, adolescence, love... too many of them in the story. That's where I fail. <br /><br />Fourthly, The starting sentence of this story is taken from J D Salinger's famous novel, 'The Catcher in the Rye', in which a 16-year old student of a residential school runs away saying the same sentence: "Sleep tight ya morons". The rest of the story and everything in it is my making. But the connection means something sacred (?) to me. <br /><br />Fifthly, you need not bother about this comment. I know you. I know me. <br /><br />Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-30115824670090736072013-06-28T20:01:08.896+05:302013-06-28T20:01:08.896+05:30Parents pampering children by giving money and too...Parents pampering children by giving money and too much freedom (due to their own selfish interests) is one theme in the story, Saru. I was also trying to show that the whole society has a problem: there are no heroes. <br /><br />I think I should stop writing stories and start preaching :)Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-39517289875131653822013-06-28T20:00:02.610+05:302013-06-28T20:00:02.610+05:30Matheikal,
You are not going to believe this! Wh...Matheikal, <br /><br />You are not going to believe this! When I came to this space, the comment space, my comment was going to be and still is, "the story flew over this cuckoo's nest!"<br /><br />And your response to the first comment - you are happy someone understood what you wrote!<br /><br />Now, you must be happy that someone took the time to write he did not understand :)<br /><br /><br />REmandakolathurhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03774568024246167410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-15997966351087141662013-06-28T19:43:46.772+05:302013-06-28T19:43:46.772+05:30When we think, as parents that giving comforts wou...When we think, as parents that giving comforts would make us great parents we are wrong. We have to be with them, understand them. I wish his father met him often and talked to him.Saru Singhalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12860642404643756746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-66837223253319000692013-06-28T17:16:02.512+05:302013-06-28T17:16:02.512+05:30I'm consoled. At least one comment. It means...I'm consoled. At least one comment. It means at least one reader understood what I was trying to convey. Thanks for the consolation :)Tomichan Matheikalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05037872309096060126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2102451431033041663.post-91393720170470678132013-06-28T13:58:42.203+05:302013-06-28T13:58:42.203+05:30Wow..Really loved reading it...It is very true ind...Wow..Really loved reading it...It is very true indeed that usually wealthy people tend to care less about their children as they think money can buy them Happiness...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com