An Analyst

The suicide of 27-year-old newlywed woman Rithanya in June 2025 sent waves of shock across Tamil Nadu. The news channels were quick to label it as a case of  dowry harassment , following which the media started its coverage campaign 24×7 . Rithanya’s husband Kavin and his parents were arrested following public outrage. Many such incidents came to light. While dowry harassment is a real evil that is very much prevalent in Tamil Nadu, did Rithanya really decide to end her life because of dowry or something else? Let’s find out.  Rithanya, born to R.G. Annadurai and Jayasudha , held a master's degree and was a young social entrepreneur. Though not many details are available on the internet, she reportedly ran a startup that trained women from rural areas in Aari embroidery , thus enabling them to earn a living. She charged very little for women from underprivileged backgrounds. I believe she started her business out of passion rather than a necessity to earn a livelihood beca...

 Option Explicit Sub ConvertRates_Module1()          Dim ws As Worksheet     Dim rInput As Double     Dim rateType As String     Dim m As Long          Dim i_eff As Double      ' effective annual rate     Dim j_nom As Double      ' nominal annual rate (convertible m-thly)     Dim delta As Double      ' force of interest          Set ws = ThisWorkbook.Sheets("Rates")          ' ---- Read inputs ----     rInput = ws.Range("B2").Value          ' rate value entered by user     rateType = UCase(ws.Range("B3").Value) ' EFF / NOM / DELTA     m = ws.Range("B4").Value               ' compounding frequency          ' ---- Determine all three forms ----     Select Case rate...

 A few days back, my father introduced me to one of his “public park” friends — let’s call him Vaidyanathan (not his real name). After the usual pleasantries, my father felt obliged to mention, “You know, he’s from our ooru ” (my father’s hometown, Kanniyakumari). My heart raced a little. Even though I don’t identify much with the place since I grew up in a metropolitan city, I couldn’t stop myself from asking, “Where in Kanniyakumari?” He replied, “Nagercoil, Vadiveeswaram (வடிவீஸ்வரம்).” My mind silently yelped, Oh god…  Hiding my reaction, I asked, “So do you have anyone still living there?” He replied, “We used to own an ancestral house until a few years ago, but we sold it. There’s no reason to go back.” “Oh, why would you do that, uncle? It’s in the heart of the town.” “Yes,” he said, “but a lot has changed. Vadiveeswaram was originally a thriving agraharam when I was a boy, but over the years it gradually lost its originality. Our (Brahmin) community moved to citi...

  If you plan to use ChatGPT for study or last-minute exam revision, beware of its hallucination tendencies. It may not reliably recall earlier uploads or conversations. If you previously uploaded an ebook or PDF and ask it to go through chapters one by one, it can still pull in irrelevant content, skip major topics, or give minimal explanations of subjects because it “forgot” the earlier file. The good news: there’s a simple workaround. Use Konfuzio’s PDF splitter ( https://konfuzio.com/tools/split-pdf-by-chapters?lang=en_US ) to split your textbook into individual chapter PDFs, download the ZIP, extract the files, and then upload each chapter separately. In your prompt, explicitly ask ChatGPT to explain every topic in the chapter — including the text explanation, any formulas (with derivations), an intuitive explanation, and any sample problems with full solutions. Don’t assume the assistant will automatically cover everything; always check the chapter against the PDF to confirm...

  Actor Abhinay passed away recently due to liver cirrhosis. He was the son of veteran actress T. P. Radhamani . His first notable appearance was alongside Dhanush in the coming-of-age film Thulluvadho Ilamai . The young, fair, and chubby Abhinay swept hearts back then. He was expected to carve an identity for himself, but after a few films, he was no longer seen. In 2021, he re-emerged — not as part of a new project, but as a struggling actor battling a terminal liver condition. He had lost both his parents a few years earlier. With no work or financial support, and with his health worsening, the frail Abhinay — a complete contrast to the bright-faced boy from 2004 — garnered public sympathy. It was reported that someone from the film industry had supported him through his treatment, but Abhinay breathed his last a few days ago. I don’t know about elsewhere, but being branded a “chocolate boy” — someone with cute or charming looks — is almost a curse in Tamil cinema. The earli...

  Disclaimer: I don’t want to be specific with the details because it’s the internet nevertheless the story is real with a few details altered to not to offend anyone specific. Let's call her Thangammai. She might have been a centenarian if she were alive now — not someone from deep antiquity. To start with, she was born into a lap of luxury. She wasn’t the daughter of a colonial-era industrialist who owned sprawling bungalows in hill stations and had English governesses to oversee her education. But her parents owned vast amounts of land. They were locally affluent, at least. Her mother was a beautiful, scheming, strategic lady. There’s little known about her father, but both parents adored their only daughter. Growing up, the parents were astonished to find their daughter’s hair — it was long for her age, thick and unmanageable. Perhaps it was due to their special care. They never bought oil from the market; they would rather extract coconut milk, to extract oil and then careful...

Subramanyam Vedam , known to his friends and family as Subu, was born in India in 1961 and left the country as a nine-month-old baby. His family settled in State College, Pennsylvania , where his father, Dr. Kuppuswamy Vedam , worked as a professor of physics and his mother, Nalini Vedam , ran a local library. Subramanyam has an older sister, Saraswathy Vedam , who was born in the United States and is therefore a U.S. citizen. She later became a professor of midwifery, widely respected for her work in women’s health and advocacy.  SUBU AS CHILD  SUBU VEDAM WITH HIS OLDER SISTER DR.SARASWATHY VEDAM                                                          DR KUPPUSWAMY VEDAM NALINI VEDAM By 1981, Subu was 19 years old. Although he had lived in the United States for nearly his entire life, he had not yet qualified for U.S. citizenship ...

 Sun in Aquarius is something I’ve been observing for quite a while now, and a certain pattern is honestly unavoidable. Yes, there are always exceptions, but the broad behaviour and life experience of people with Sun in Aquarius tends to repeat in a very specific way.  First, a small clarification: In Vedic astrology (Jyotisha) , the Kumbha month usually falls between mid-February to mid-March , whereas in Western astrology , “Aquarius season” is roughly January 20 to February 20 . These two systems do not align because one uses the sidereal zodiac (fixed stars) and the other uses the tropical zodiac (seasonal points). Still, both call the sign “Aquarius,” and that’s where the confusion starts. Now, coming to the heart of the matter: Aquarius (Kumbha) is a Saturn-ruled sign . I’m talking from the perspective of astrology here, not astronomy. Saturn rules Aquarius — full stop. Saturn’s nature is very different from the Sun’s nature. Sun stands for self-identity, persona...