LOVE ALL - Episode 4

Dear EQ,
Thanks. The site is going to start soon. May be in the next episode or the episode after next. After all we need to find an auspicious day, invite people, publicise....
Gayathri and Kripa relationship is something inspired by the relationship between Sujatha and Simran in the Ajith starrer Aval Varuvala.
In that movie Sujatha will not hesitate to kill her own son in order to give a good life to Simran.
Arvind joining the site is a million dollar question as of now. Let's wait and see.
Thanks for appreciating KG's contribution. He's going to be there every week with his contribution to the religious forum and with something more as well.
thanks for the fb, Aruna.
love,

 

Dear Pooja,
There's nothing wrong with your system, Pooja. I did not have the heart to post this episode last week in the light of terrorists attack on Mumbai.

Many people think that funding is the constraint for any major project. But after being into that kind of work for the past 25 years I can almost swear that funding is the easiest thing if only you have a good concept and are ready to work on it.
Sameer Bhatia wanted to develop a dot com site for some technical purpose. The Angel investors told him that if he could create a site exclusively for email then they would fund him. And so hotmail was born. The person who could not even afford to pay salaries to his staff later sold his site for several million dollars to Microsoft. The reason - the basic idea was good.

You are right. Janaki-Bala are going to spend their spare time in such a way as to make the spare time of several thousands of women all over the world meaningful.

Will Arvind join the site? I don't know, Pooja.
Thanks for liking KG's mail. He might be sending weekly mails to keep us updated on religion and God. (Do we need to be updated on these areas?)
love
vara

 

Dear Aishwarya,
thanks for the kind words with which you opened your fb.

I know some of the pains and troubles that Malathy underwent when she started IL. In fact creating and running IL was a much more painful experience than www.com — the web starts here. But just to keep the story interesting I am underplaying Malathi's difficulties.

I am planning so many thing next week. Hopefully the site would be born by that time. And many forums and features added to it.

So I invite you to the site inauguration which will happen coming Sunday - hopefully. (I know you'd be free on that day. Yummy snacks are waiting for you)

You know I could not write the Aiyawal's story. Every time I came to the punchline my eyes would be full and I could not see a single letter on my computer screen. I have been crying over this story for the past several years. LA gave me an opportunity to share that with you all.

I am planning - sorry, KG is planning - for something like that next week.
love,
sridhar

 

Dear Kamla,

First my apologies for the 100 hours delay in responding to your fb. I landed back in my base and was suddenly swept off my feet (not by any beautiful woman) but by a flurry of activities. Before I could properly blink my eyes it was Thursday evening and I had not done much for LA 5. I ran back to my desk and was working till midnight yesterday to complete the first draft.

And now only I have the confidence to face the ILites.

You are right. The trouble with LA is that I had to take extra pains to embellish the characters so that no one takes offence. A friend of mine reading my serial ALS and LA commented that my stories are "too good to believe" And such things would never happen in the real world.

Being a dumb person I did not have any defence for this charge. I just passed the question up above and doing my work. And the answer came with a bang in two days.
I had been to the airport to pick up my sil, yes, Sudhavnarasimhan on Monday. On Tuesday I had to drive to various places. When I started my car on Tuesday afternoon I had an eerie feeling that something was wrong with the car. I drove down to pick up my wife and never switched off the engine and then with her on board I drove to the garage.
I asked the mechanic to drop us at home. He told me that he had to call in the battery guys to do some checking and that it may take some time before he can fix it.
As we were driving home we spotted the Exide Battery Mobile service van on the road. We waved to them. And the guy was there with all the equipments.
He checked my battery to tell me that it was virtually dead. And that it was a miracle that I could start and run the car during the last two days.
I shivered. My wife, Sudha and I were driving home from the airport at an ungodly hour. Had we been stranded on the way...
And the car came back to me on the same evening with a new battery and a greater reliability. Not only I was saved from a lot of embarrasment but also got a valid defence to the criticism that my stories are too good to happen.
If God could shower so much of love on an average guy like me, how much would He do to characters like Kamla, Vidya and Arun!

I was first hesitant to introduce a religious story in the serial. As I have stopped writing snippets in my bi-weekly forums I thought I would compensate it by including a religious story every week. I am happy that you liked it.
There is one more coming this week. I finalised it only yesterday.

Your fb is a great source of inspiration, Kamla. So if you don't write a fb soon after I post, I will demand it as a matter of right.
That I don't respond to your fb for days on end is a different story.
thanks once again,
love,
sridhar

 

My dear Indhu,
Even the word thanks comes stained with my tears.
Thanks for the fb which is surely an inspiration to write more and write better.
BTW what happened to the long, proper fb, Ma'am? Busy in building up verses?
Have time for your DH, dear.
love,
sridhar

 

Sriniketan,

I had to bring in a religious forum and a weekly column from KG to balance the serial and of course to draw people like you here.

It is very nice of your DH to have made such a point. Of reading Tamil and Sanskrit. Gita is the ideal choice. But Valmiki Ramayan is another excellent choice because the sanskrit there is very simple and the Rishi's thoughts are quite profound.

And for your information Sriniketan, KG has already chosen the story for this week.
love,
sridhar

 

Sriniketan,

I had to bring in a religious forum and a weekly column from KG to balance the serial and of course to draw people like you here.

It is very nice of your DH to have made such a point. Of reading Tamil and Sanskrit. Gita is the ideal choice. But Valmiki Ramayan is another excellent choice because the sanskrit there is very simple and the Rishi's thoughts are quite profound.

And for your information Sriniketan, KG has already chosen the story for this week.
love,
sridhar