@Bayta @Chenthil@pixelfed.social You can go to Omandhurar Super Speciality Hospital or RGGH. The Master Health Check up section is in a separate building from the hospital.

@Bayta @Chenthil@pixelfed.social No referral nothing. You can book online or over phone. But it doesn't matter as it is first come first served basis. Be there by 7.30 AM you should be out by 12.00 PM. They start at 8.00 AM. Payment by cash or card. No id card was asked. Just go, fill in the form and join the queue. They provide breakfast too as part of package after fasting blood test.

Twitter used to be our main marketing tool--the primary way we sold books online and got the word out.

These days, not so much.

Please help support us and our authors with a signal boost! We are an independent publisher based in Chennai with books on folklore from different parts of India, graphic novels, ghost encyclopedias, weird horror, pulp fiction in translation, and some pretty strange little zines.

https://www.blaft.com/collections/new-arrivals

#bookstodon
#indiepublishing

@Bayta @vinayaravind not working for my main account but works for my poetry account.

Hate limit exceeded on Twitter.

@sujays Hello

@Bayta @ionhandshaker ha ha. Never connected this to that

@krxn@mas.to you can mail to chenthilnathan at gmail. Though I'm not well versed in linguistics and grammar I will try

"As the world cracks by
thundering
like a lost lumber truck
on a steep grade .."

From 'The Canticle of Jack Kerouac', Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1987

"Our precious lives follow their destined course,
Like rafts following the course of a mighty river
Clattering over rocks after a downpour
from lightning slashed skies’,.."

Puranaanooru 192, Kaniyan Poonkundranar, 2000 years ago in Tamil. English translation mine.

#Poetry

Traffice Lane rules in Chennai :

If a road has n lanes (n>3), n-2 lanes will be occupied by shops and parking.

Of the remaining 2 lanes one will be used exclusively for wrong side traveling.

#Chennai #Traffic #LaneDiscipline

சதாப்தி மொழிபெயர்ப்பு.

இன்று அதிகாலை சென்னை மத்திய ரயில் நிலையத்தில் முகக் கூட்டங்களைக் கண்டதும் எஸ்ரா பவுண்ட் கவிதை நினைவுக்கு வந்தது.

In A Station Of The Metro

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; 
Petals on a wet, black bough.

மாநகர ரயில் நிறுத்தத்தில்
அருவமாய்த் தோன்றி மறையும் முகங்கள்
கரிய கிளையொன்றின் மலரிதழ்கள்.

#Poetry #EzraPound #Tamil #Translation

Break fast - Poori and Potato Masala. It's special today because son (16) made the Potato Masala from scratch. Teach your kids to cook and set them free from food delivery apps :-)

My book number 6 of the #2023ReadingList was also inspired by #PoongaBookClub @poongabook. Specifically @chenthil's theme of "Classics. With a twist. any work written before 10th century CE." I read

Kalidasa's Kumarasambhavam: The Origin of the Young God.

I went with Hank Heifetz's translation which includes the controversial 8th canto. I really liked Kalidasa's sensuous imagery.

Highly recommended.

#Bookstodon #books #reading #poetry #translations #ScanmanRecommends

I started baking 4 years ago. To activate the yeast itself took me more attempts than I'd like to disclose. Shaping a loaf seemed like magic and beyond me. From there to here has been quite a journey. #Baking #WhiteBread

It Ends Or It Doesn't
By Caitlyn Siehl

It ends or it doesn’t.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tunnel, the night,
the pain, the love.
It ends or it doesn’t.
If the sun never comes up,
you find a way to live
without it.
If they don’t come back,
you sleep in the middle of the bed,
learn how to make enough coffee
for yourself alone.
Adapt. Adjust.
It ends or it doesn’t.
It ends or it doesn’t.
We do not perish.

#Poetry #Poem