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Definition of “Villain” as per dictionary.com: 1. a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime; scoundrel. 2. a character in a play, novel, or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot.   Let me repeat some of the words mentioned above – Cruel, Malicious, Wicked, Crime, Scoundrel, Evil. Now can you imagine someone who is all these words and still be “adorable”? Isn’t it a dichotomy? How can someone be “evil” and “adorable” at the same time? Well if you want an answer you need to watch Shahrukh Khan in Don 2. Here is a villain whom you would love to love, a villain whom you don’t want to be killed by the protagonist and a villain whom you want to woo the leading lady.   There are some more examples of such villains whom we adore. Lalu Prasad Yadav is a loving character and will always be notwithstanding the fodder scam or the total collapse of law and order in Bihar during his governance. Then there is Charles Sobhraj, a seri...

Pick up any gadgets magazine and you will have scores of pages dedicated to new products, their features, specifications and comparison to other similar devices. Similarly, any new technology product launch boasts about the "revolutionary new" features, enhanced specs, first-in-the-industry functions... Amoled screen, Carl Zeiss camera lens, Dolby sound, capacitative touchscreen, turn-by-turn navigation, 3G/HSPA, faster processor... to name a few.  Off late a few products have started talking about what these features can do for you... never lose your way, take notes in your handwriting, edit your videos, check your email on the go, upload your photos to Facebook... Just two years back no one wanted a tablet device, knew what it was or what it could do. The select few in the technology world who had heard or read about such a device had anyways written it off stating what would anyone do with it? So when Apple launched iPad in March last year, doomsayers touted it as the ...

All of us wish to succeed. Doesn't matter which field we choose, be it medicine, business, entertainment, tourism, sports, law, administrative services or corporate. Irrespective of where we are from, Gangtok to Gandhidham or Kargil to Kollam. Nothing to do with the socio economic class, religion, caste, gender or region. In spite of physical differences, shortcomings or handicaps. We all just want to be successful. Right from the formative years, we study hard, half of us would rise at unearthly hours while the other half would be getting to bed at that time, putting in 90-100 hours every week. Those of us who choose sports as the profession would invest similar number of hours on the field. Majority would be hopping from one tuition class to another interspersed with tennis, karate, dance and music classes while one is also expected to participate in quizzes, debates, Olympiads and extempores. Great... Finally all the hard work pays off and we end up being a successful entrep...

16 million views on YouTube... Record sharing on Facebook & Twitter... Scores of cover versions... Dozens spoofs... Hundreds write-ups across umpteen publications... Caller tune for millions mobile subscribers... Wikipedia page... All this and more in just over 15 days of release. According to folklore (yes, it has reached that stage), director Aishwarya wanted a lilting song on heartbreak and composer Anirudh Ravichander obliged. Singer Dhanush then supposedly came up with this song in just 20 minutes. He said "When I was writing down the lyrics, I kept in mind all the English words that are used in the Tamil vocabulary. Words like I, you, me, how, why, cow.. I just framed them into sentences and thats how I came up with the song." And everyone is wondering... What is in this song that makes it what it is? The lyrics are absolutely absurd, is sung by an occasional singer, video shot in a drab studio and the music is not out of ordinary... then why is everyone seems t...