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Turbulence of the Coded wisdom...!

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A sure sign of growing old is that you start developing an interest in your past, your cultures, traditions and values. Being from a strict iyer family,as a Tamil Brahmin I was used to wake upto the chants of MS Subbalakshmi's "kausalya Suprabhatham"  echoing in background, with a shout of "amma filter kaapi" grudgingly as I struggled to wake up ,followed up by a stern reading of Hindu newspaper ,as that is believed to stir the reader's intellect,subjudice and devoid of any spelling mistakes for a strong vocab..All that has gone for a toss..! Am also from the species who like Carnatic music and for movies consider Balasubramaniam and Yesudas as divine,and that's already a nostalgia! Am also from the creed who at any point of time craves his soul by having sambar chawal despite going through a 7 course meal an hour back..That's corrupted by Junk food and people calling vada as an adaptation of doughnuts.! When we visit temples in a mundu or traditiona...