Veteran playback singer Malaysia Vasudevan passed away in a private hospital in Chennai on Sunday. He was admitted a few days before after he suffered cardiac arrest.

Born in Malaysia, he moved to India and found a career as a singer and actor in stage plays. Later, he started singing for movies and, to date, has nearly 8,000 songs in Tamil and over 4,000 songs in other South Indian languages to his credit. He has also acted in nearly 85 films. Veteran Tamil director A P Nagarajan christened him as ‘Malaysia Vasudevan’. He has worked with many music directors such as M S Viswanathan, Ilaiyaraja, Shankar-Ganesh, Deva, A R Rahman, and Vidyasagar.
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Most of you would have seen people in trance during Thaipusam but have you ever wondered how a person inherits a certain trance? Thanks to my friend Abang Vinod that now I am able to share a video with all of you showing the process of inheriting a trance, minus the preparation part. The person who inherits the body is none other than “Ayya”.

Recently, Uncle Sam was quoted saying that there are way too many Indian-based parties around. For the first time ever, I am agreeing with him.

Well, here are some of the notable ones:

• Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC)
• Malaysian Indian United Party (MIUP)
• Indian Progressive Front (IPF)
• Malaysia Makkal Sakti Party (MMSP?)
• Malaysian Indian Democratic Action Front (MINDRAF)

And the latest addition by Uthayakumar:

• Human Rights Party (Inclined more towards Indians although not Indian-based)

I really couldn’t find the reasoning behind the formation of HRP and MMSP since both of the parties are somewhat connected to HINDRAF and can even be merged if they want to but I guess some “internal affairs” is what keeps them apart from each other. As for MINDRAF, I don’t have much to say about them except that their name is a ripoff of HINDRAF. Meanwhile, the merger of MIC with either IPF or MIUP can only be ‘talked’ about but in practical, it would never happen despite claiming that they have “reached a so-called agreement”. So, that gives us a total of SIX (6) Indian parties to choose from.

While it seems to be a piece of cake to form an Indian party in this country, I thought of forming one as well. M1i or MAIRE. I bet most of you could easily decode the former one but as for the latter one, I’m seriously hoping if anyone could give some ideas on how to form a nice name by implementing the word “Malaysian” for MA and “Indian” for I. Any ideas for the RE part?
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I got this forwarded email with the subject line “Muar Kali” yesterday and at first, I thought it was a name of a person. But then, it seems that the email was all about our god “Kali” in Muar, Johor. There was not much details about this ‘event’ as all the contents (attachments) were purely photos. Before that, let me tell you something. I am the kind of a person who would ignore most of the forwarded emails that I receive and I would only read a few of them once in a blue moon, and that is, randomly. The same goes to this email.

The reason I’m saying so is because this email might be old, in such a way that it was once circulated around 1 year ago, 2 years ago or even 4 years ago. So, if by any chance, the following photos might be familiar to you, kindly apologise my ‘slowpokeness‘ and hope that those who haven’t seen them before shall be having a good time viewing them.
 

Most of time, Tamil mega serials would never fail to show a scene where the mother-in-law would be trying her level best to either chase away her own daughter-in-law or in some cases, killing her via the most common way which is to mix her drink with some poison. On the other hand, there would even be a scene showing the daughter-in-law trying her level best to chase away her mother-in-law via any plausible means from the house where they are living together so that she could live ‘happily’ with her husband.

Well, all the above were fictional as we all may know. Today, it seems that a study conducted in Malaysia has revealed that the major cause of divorce in Indian community is because of one’s mother-in-law. Yes, you heard that right. One’s mother-in-law could even mean the mother-in-law of a husband and the fight among them as a part of the reason for divorce but that is very unlikely to occur. Seriously, I mean that.
 

KUALA LUMPUR: Every married person knows it, but a local study has confirmed it – mothers-in-law are the chief cause of divorces, especially in the Indian community.

Data in the Malaysia Community and Family Study 2004 by the National Population and Family Development Board (LPPKN) revealed that “meddlesome in-laws” is the number one reason why Indian couples get divorced.

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Perhaps if Tamil serials start to emphasize more on the positive bonding of mother-in-laws with their daughter-in-laws, I personally believe that it could at least yield a favorable outcome instead of giving ideas through the screen on how to kill each other via various ways. Sigh.
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