A shame

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Originally Posted by equanimus

I'm of course not interested in whether he personally gives inportance to familial ties

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That was to allay buplic misunderstanding by giving the context of the line.

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Originally Posted by equanimus

but in how prescient he actually is in this matter. :))

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We won't be able to answer that. Though it is fairly clearly the days are numbered for the insitution as we know it today I think it will take some time. Simply because - big word alert, society is itself simultaneously as various stages of
progress (aka degeneracy). So we will live to see only the beginning of the decline that's all. And I am not wishfully thinking OTOH, I mumble: "naLLa vELai".

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Originally Posted by joe

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Originally Posted by leosimha

Sonia Singh: You want to be true to yourself. The bit you said also about the fact that your children, Shruti at least, is a remarkably well-rounded and beautiful young woman. You mentioned about not a normal childhood. And one major thing, and it was scandalous at that time, was that both your children were born before you got married.

Kamal Haasan: That's right and that's what it is.

Sonia Singh: So, you decided to go ahead and get married?

Kamal Haasan: Yes! Because later on, even taking a hotel room was difficult. They wanted to know who the other person is. If you say 'that's the mother of my children', that's not good enough. So you had to say...

Sonia Singh: My wife?

Kamal Haasan: She is my Mrs. and I wanted to know what that 'Mrs' meant? It meant mistress. So, it's sort of a funny circle. I have been asking questions like they keep fighting and saying that's the oldest institution and how could you say it's failing just because yours failed. I think it is failing and it is not the oldest institutions and it's not the strongest holding institutions. The strongest holding institution is the family. You saw that between me and Shruti. That is family. That need not be clarified by something called marriage.

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for this Thatstamil writes.. 'ஹோட்டல்களில் அறை எடுக்க சங்கடங்கள் இருந்ததால்தான் நான் சரிகாவை திருமணம் செய்து கொண்டேன்!’ என்று நடிகர் கமல்ஹாசன் கூறினார். :sigh2:

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எப்பொருள் யார் யார் வாய் கேட்பினும் - அப்பொருள்
மெய்ப்பொருள் காண்பதறிவு.

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Originally Posted by Plum

In some way or the other, there will be an institution for 'relationships'(if not marriage). The name will change, the rules will change, but there will be a concept the majority adhere to, and a minority protest at. Isnt it?

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Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram

Though it is fairly clearly the days are numbered for the insitution as we know it today I think it will take some time. Simply because - big word alert, society is itself simultaneously as various stages of
progress (aka degeneracy). So we will live to see only the beginning of the decline that's all.

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"It's getting too technical..." :)

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Originally Posted by Prabhu Ram

We won't be able to answer that.

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The other day I was having dinner with my friend and the conversation somehow touched upon leap years and I happened to explain to him that "[y]ears that are evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, unless they are also evenly divisible by 400, in which case they are leap years" (just quoting from Wikipedia), and remarked (in half-jest) about how seriously we take ourselves! And added that luckily for us, 2000 happened to be a leap year. My friend said, "idhu theriyAmalE nAn seththup pOyiruppEn, nInga thEvai illAma en kitta solli ennaiyum idhai ellAm therinjukka vechchittInga."

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Originally Posted by equanimus

idhu theriyAmalE nAn seththup pOyiruppEn,

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:lol:

btw I ditto this

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Originally Posted by pavalamani pragasam

இந்த வார ஆனந்தவிகடன் இதழில் கண்டெடுத்த ஒரு முத்தான கருத்து:

"திருமணங்கள் தோல்வியில் முடிகின்றன. எனவே திருமணங்கள் தேவையில்லை!" -கமல்ஹாசன்.

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Just another proof as to why we shouldn't take the opinions / statements etc. of these guys seriously, while we wholeheartedly appreciate their artistic performances :-)

app, while I agree, I would suggest you read/listen to the interview to realize how hilariously that statement has been reduced/deduced from what he said.

I really like how they got the precise எனவே from thin air :lol2:

Responsible journalism is becoming a rare commodity?! :huh:

Pp, present continous tense use panniirukkeenga. Past tense is apt for your sentence!

ippO romba yOkkiyamaa ezuthuraangannu solReengaLaa? :shock:

Aiyo illa, "has become a rare commodity"-nu solraen