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Hope you are all doing good. I want to thank you all for the support you are showing Aviyal. We are really grateful for that. Keep supporting, it is our main source of motivation. With your support we are confident we can write some great articles. This might be a controversial post that some might not like. This is about Gods and religion, and ultimately, faith. The article is merely a discussion and a few opinions from the author, and not meant to offend anyone. The main purpose of this article is to raise some questions in the readers’ mind, which they themselves can answer as they please, after giving it some thought. First we have to know what religion is - well, according to Google, religion is defined as  “ the belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or Gods ”. So basically it means that a group of people believing a supernatural phenomenon or a personal God can be called a religion. Most religious people believe that God is the cre...

  Around 1510, an Italian painter named Raphael painted a Fresco (a type of painting done on wet plaster on walls - professionally known among artists as an absolute pain in the butt). He very likely painted it because of threats from the Pope, seeing it was in a palace owned by the church in the Vatican. It was one of the many paintings that covered the walls of a series of decorative rooms called “Stanze de Raffaello”. He might or might not have known at the time that his work, the School of Athens in particular, will be how the future generations remember the beginning of the Italian renaissance, along with Michaelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Ceiling.  The Setting It’s a Fresco. It is not painted on a canvas. It is not a painting that you collect for antiquity, it is part of the architecture. Raphael placed this painting on the wall which had a door on one side and no windows, to make sure he gets a nice solid piece of wall to work on. The School of Athens is painted opposite to...

  Jagame thanthiram is an action gangster movie directed by celebrated director Karthik Subburaj (Jigarthanda fame) and the lead role Suruli is done by Dhanush. No one else seems to be worth mentioning because of how poorly their characters were written.  The plot is simple. It’s a typical gangster movie trope that has worked wonderfully for many movies in the past, including Dhanush’s own Vadachennai. Suruli is a gangster in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. A really big and notorious London gangster Peter Sprott (played by James Cosmo, 997th  Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch) recruits Suruli to finish off his opponent Sivadoss, who is his rival gangster in London. But soon Suruli finds out Peter has ulterior motives behind hiring him. What happens next is pretty much the movie.   The movie starts with the introduction of the three main characters Peter Sprott - who is established as a mad racist, Sivadoss - a Sri Lankan London gangster and Suruli - a gangster/goon in the out...

  Okay. How do we start? Oh wait, I got it. Hello everyone, - nope, that doesn’t seem like a good start. Let's just say welcome to Aviyal. Seems good enough.  Seeing the title, you might wonder how it is a betrayal if it comes from a stranger. Well, what is betrayal? To me when someone you trust fails you miserably, I call it betrayal. To trust someone, you have to know them well. So normally betrayal can’t come from strangers. I will try to explain my case. You get betrayed by family, by friends. Most of all, you betray yourself. But on all these occasions, it’s someone you know that betrays you. But I think betrayal is a fundamental human attribute and it extends to not just the closest circle. Betrayal is universal, because trust is universal. I don’t believe in the concept of God. We all have our own beliefs - some trust Jesus, some trust Allah, some trust Sivan. Me? I trust people. Now, this may sound incredibly cringe, but that’s the truth.  I choose to trust us. I...

  He’s got a point, hasn't he? Tigers weigh around 250 kg on average, have 3 inch long teeth, and can bite with a force of 75 kilograms per square centimeter (If you don’t know how much that is, it’s a LOT), plus the claws. If there is an animal that threatens a tiger, that is surely something to be scared of. But what is it? Well, can you think of any animal that has been the cause of tigers almost going extinct? Us, of course. We have all read about the food chain in third grade science. The textbooks always said lions and tigers were at the top of the food chain. But that isn’t exactly right, is it? We have a tendency to consider us not animals, and therefore not include us in the list. But the truth is this: it is not the biggest cat or the king of the jungle that’s on top of the food chain. It’s us. We are at the top of the food chain. In fact, we are so far above the chain that the chain almost looks horizontal to us. Because the food chain is...