I curated a selection of quotes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice books that I find particularly paradigm-shifting. These passages explore the absurdity of language, backward memory, and the illogical logic found in Wonderland and the Looking Glass.

From Lewis Caroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. These are the quotes I found most... how shall I put it... eye-opening. Paradigm-shifting. "..the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury found it advisable-"\ "Found WHAT?" said the Duck.\ "Found IT," the Mouse replied rather crossly. "Of course you know what 'it' means."\ "I know what 'it' means well enough, when I find a thing," said the Duck: "it's generally a frog or a worm. The question is, what did the archbishop find?" "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"\ "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.\ "I don't much care where-" said Alice.\ "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.\ "-so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation.\ "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad. Do you grant that?"\ "I suppose so," said Alice.\ "Well, then," the Cat went on, "you see a dog growls when it's angry, and wags it's tail when it's pleased. Now I growl when I'm pleased, and wag my tail when I'm angry. Therefore I'm mad." "I can't believe THAT!" said Alice.\ "Can't you?" said the Queen in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes."\ Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said, "one can't believe impossible things."\ "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast!" "I can't remember things before they happen."\ "It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards," the Queen remarked. "Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else - if you ran fast for a long time as we've been doing."\ "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep you in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!" "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."\ "The question is," said Alice, "whether you CAN make words mean so many different things."\ "The question is", said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all." "Fan her head!" the Red Queen anxiously interrupted. "She'll be feverish after so much thinking." "Five nights are warmer than one night, then?" Alice ventured to ask.\ "Five times as warm, of course."\ "But they should also be five times as cold, by the same rule - "\ "Just so!" cried the Red Queen. "Five times as warm, AND five times as cold - just as I'm five times as rich as you are, AND five times as clever!" Comments unknown 8 Apr 2007 5:27 pm: could you put the part from Alice in Wonderland where TwiddleDee and TwiddleDum are telling the story about the oysters when the walrus says somehthing like, The time has the walrus said to speak of other things... thanks jolene 20 Dec 2006 12:00 pm: the time has come, my little friends, to talk of other things. of shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings. and why the sea is boiling hot, and whether pigs have wings, calloo-callay, come, run away. with cabages and kings! johnna 18 Sep 2008 2:08 am: i adore every quote from this story. my favorite is the Cat. i just had to say how much i get out of reading your quotes. much oblige! Captain Whitney 17 Apr 2009 5:15 am: Insanity, pure and simple. Isn't it beautiful? courtney 14 Mar 2010 4:10 am: Off with his head! I almost love beheadings as much as I love caviar Moon 1 Jan 2010 8:31 am: Twinkle twinkle little bat, how I wonder what your at. Up above the world you fly, like a tea tray in the sky. But I don't want to go amongst mad people. Oh you cant help that, we're all mad here. Aditya 20 Jun 2012 7:01 am: “Well, in our country,” said Alice, still panting a little, “you’d generally get to somewhere else – if you ran fast for a long time as we’ve been doing.” “A slow sort of country!” said the Queen. “Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep you in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!” Such is life and inflation!

Quotes from Alice in Wonderland


I've compiled a set of hilarious articles by Ramesh Mahadevan, featuring the comedic adventures of Ajay Palvayanteeswaran. These satirical pieces offer a witty look at South Asian culture and life, perfect for a quick laugh.

Hilarious articles from Ramesh Mahadevan, including the exploits of Ajay Palvayanteeswaran.

Ramesh Mahadevan articles


I found a recorded message designed to prank telemarketers. By transferring callers to an extension with a voice that sounds very interested, you can waste their time using an automated loop of fake enthusiasm.

A recorded message for telemarketers. Whenever one of them calls, this guy transfers them to an extension with a recorded voice that's "very interested in your offer".

Recorded message for telemarketers


Optimize Firefox's RAM consumption by adjusting about:config settings and managing memory cache when the browser is inactive. Learn how to handle extension bloat and use the config.trim_on_minimize preference to improve system performance.

Reducing your memory usage in Firefox.

Reducing your memory usage in Firefox


I highlight an Economist report on the evolution of retailing in India, examining the shift from traditional small-scale shops to organized retail and the complex regulatory landscape surrounding foreign direct investment in the country.

The Economist takes a good look at retailing in India.

Retailing in India


Sketch what you want to see and Retrievr searches Flickr to find matching images. It demonstrates an early experimental approach to content-based image retrieval using hand-drawn doodles and visual pattern matching.

Retrievr. You sketch out what you want to see and it tries to make a match on Flickr.

Retrievr


I argue that time is often a scarcer resource than money, making return on effort more important than ROI. I apply Workonomics principles to identify your primary constraint—be it staff, cash, or customers—and maximize productivity accordingly.

If you have a bunch of projects you could do, and want to decide which ones to take up, I was taught a rule: if a project has positive net present value, do it. That is, find out how much money you have to put in (& when), and how much you'll get out (& when). Adjust for money today being worth more than money tomorrow. If it makes a profit, just do it. There are 3 aspects to this calculation, of which two are usually ignored. 1. Time value of money. Money today is worth more than money tomorrow. People usually don't adjust for this -- either because they don't know they should, or because they're not sure how much to adjust by. It's usually OK to ignore this. The difference is not often much. Your estimations of cash flow are likely to be off by more than this adjustment anyway. 2. Cash flow projection. This is tough too. People batch these together into two groups: what you put in and what you get out. 3. Investment and return. This is the often used part. You put in money (over time), and you get money out (over time). Do you get more than you put in? How much more? In other words, I've seen Return on Investment (RoI) used far more than Net Present Value (NPV). NPV vs ROI In my MBA classes, I was taught that this is wrong. That you need to worry about RoI only if you're budget-constrained. If you have enough money (and organisations can always borrow), you should do all profitable projects. I can't tell for sure if organisations are budget constrained or not. Departments do have budgets. But whether they stick to it or not depends on the department head's risk aversion and political power. It often has nothing to do with projects. But I've seen a bigger complaint cited more often: people don't have time. Time is a bigger constraint than money. This works in two ways. You don't have staff to execute a more projects. Or you don't have management time to pay attention to new projects. If you're constrained by money, it makes sense to maximise return on investment. But if you're constrained by time, maximise return on effort. BTW, effort is not the same as time. Outsourcing, for example, increases return on effort, but probably not return on investment. Vendors take money without taking up staff time (except a bit of management time). If you're manpower constrained, and not money constrained, use them as much as possible. Similarly, investing in assets rather than in hiring improves return on effort. When at BCG, there was a whole theme around this called Workonomics. Like Economics is about maximising return for money, Workonomics is about maximising return from your workforce. Powerful concept. It's a pity I've never seen it applied where it's really needed. Economics vs Workonomics The most important thing is: at any point, you have only one constraint. Maximise return on that constraint. If it's money, maximise RoI. If it's staff, maximise productivity. If it's customers, maximise share of wallet. And so on. Comments snambiar 7 Dec 2006 9:54 am: While the idea is robust in a broad sense and does subscribe to conventional wisdom, what we all forget is that there are a list of sub constraints. Does workonomics take into account human behaviour? Thats where the entire problem begins.. Where do you draw the line where the fun at work stops and disillusionment begins? As a businessman i might be encouraged to restrict my employees from unproductive activity, but this curbing of freedom has an effect on morale! We just cannot thing about real world problems on a two dimensional sheet of paper, but the effort is ofcourse almost always worth it. :) S Anand 8 Dec 2006 10:28 am: I should clarify. More productivity means doing things in LESS time. I agree that most people confuse more productivity with more hours. Restricting employees from unproductive activity may or may not be a bad thing, but doing things faster is almost always better. S Anand 8 Dec 2006 3:12 pm: But I see your concern with Workonimics. Ultimately, it appears to be about squeezing more out of people. True. It's often used that way. No argument there :-( Krishna 13 Dec 2006 4:12 am: Hello Anand, how are you. Hope you recognise me. I understand your post. But how far we can use this on day to day basis. Is it specific only on consulting side where we can see money behind every project or at other levels too. The other level here I mean, other professions. I am into a new assignment. Now I am into retail industry as a 'Business Analyst'. My job primarily here is to analyse various reports that is coming out and raise strategic questions and try to improve the performance. So here, is there any way I can use 'Return on Effect' concept.In case If I can use, it would be very much useful to at this time. Krishna

Return on effort


I recommend starting a running routine by focusing on gradual progression and proper footwear. This approach emphasizes building endurance through consistency to help beginners stay motivated and avoid common injuries while training.

Running for beginners.

Running for beginners


I highlight a discussion on why passengers in Bangalore rush to exit planes more aggressively than those in Delhi, focusing on the distinct competitive spirit that characterizes the local culture in India's technology capital.

Why people rush out of a plane at Bangalore but not at Delhi. via Kaps

Rushing out of planes


I built a simple JavaScript-based Sanskrit transliterator that converts English input into Devanagari script. It supports copy-pasting into documents, and I've shared the source code on Google Code for anyone to reuse or study.

I've built a simple Sanskrit transliterator. You can type in words in English and it will spell them out in Sanskrit. You can copy-paste the Tamil above into Microsoft Word, etc. Browse through my Javascript to see how it works. Feel free to reuse. Comments ND 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: Real good and absolutely quick! Saurabh 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: Good work, wonder how many use Sanskrit these days though! One more thing, specific to Mac users, is that Indic support is still not mature for Firefox. Safari, the inbuilt browser does a decent job though. There was an extra "S" that was appearing after each letter in Safari. Madhu 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: Awesome, again what ur doing at Infy consulting, u shud be developing products at google:) KK 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: It is really awesome vikram 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: i cannot see any translation in firefox 1.5.0.12 version Animesh 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: Good tool, but the transliteration scheme should be replaced by more standard one. Ashwin (you know me!!) 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: nice one buddy!!although how would you deal with ambiguities like "om" ? Anand 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: Hmm, I wonder...can you please check if the small ''i'' maatra works fine? I gave the word ''janani'' and the ''i'' gave me the maatra AFTER the second ''na'', while it should be BEFORE. The big ''ii''/''I'' works fine. Also words like ''chithram'' etc - basically wherever there is a small ''i''! Rama Krishna 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: Really Good. Keep up the good work mohana 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: try this swami neelkanth 28 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: thanks

Sanskrit transliterator


I analyzed my site's search traffic using Google Analytics, finding that 60% of visitors arrived via Calvin and Hobbes quotes. Other significant traffic sources included Excel formula tips and a bizarre variety of unexpected, niche search queries.

On a related note, 60% of the search queries that lead to my site this year were Calvin and Hobbes quotes. "i can't help but wonder what kind of desperate straits would drive a man to invent this thing." topped the list (Calvin referring to a yo-yo), with i always catch these trick questions following closely. People searching for Excel related stuff were next (20%): excel indirect(address(, row() excel offset address and the like. A few were also looking for me by name or school (10%). The last 10% ranged from the puzzling to the bizarre, including these gems. michalengelo hidden skull. Probably looking for the alleged hidden skull in Last Judgement. googlemail access between england and india. Why? Did he think there wouldn't be any? greenwich meridien time for india. This is usually the same in Greenwich and in India. Rest of the world too. origin of monkey in fez. What? address of sexy girl in ahmedabad. But why my site? address of tool makers for converting html to xml in chennai. Do they have a license to convert? Comments Sai 11 Apr 2006 4:55 pm: Really funny! What kind of metics/tools do you have to know what searches lead to your site? S Anand 11 Apr 2006 7:44 pm: I use Google Analytics. ritzkini 14 Apr 2006 5:37 pm: address of sexy girl in ahmedabad !! :)) Krishna 15 Apr 2006 5:57 pm: Thats a real funny set of queries. But why your site? ;-) The Calvin and Hobbes search Takedown | s-anand.net 21 May 2010 12:02 pm (pingback): [...] also increased traffic to my site, which was a bit disconcerting. I didn’t want to attract attention. In 2007, I [...]

Search queries to my site


I tested my typing speed and found I average 100 words per minute. I compare my performance to others and emphasize that consistent practice is the only way to reach high keystroke speeds.

See how fast you can type. I averaged 100 words per minute. Comments Sri 20 Jul 2006 9:24 pm: WOW. @ 100 WPM even if each word had only 3 letters you typed 300 keystrokes in 60 secs not counting spaces. Which is about 5 keystrokes per sec. WOW. S Anand 21 Jul 2006 2:21 pm: I'm not the fastest typist I know. When I was at LBS, almost everyone around me typed (what seemed like) two keys for every one of mine. Sri 21 Jul 2006 5:17 pm: amazing. I have trouble hitting the keyboard 5 times while saying 1001,1002. Thats like hummingbird speed. I can manage 100 CPM and about 50 WPM. S Anand 22 Jul 2006 2:05 pm: Practice, practice, practice :-)

See how fast you can type


Understand Miller’s Law, the cognitive principle stating that the average human brain can only hold seven plus or minus two items in short-term memory. Use this limit to guide information design and better memory retention strategies.

The seven plus or minus two rule. That's all your brain can remember.

Seven plus or minus two


I shared a link to the Share Your OPML discovery service for RSS subscription lists, though I found the site was down. This service was intended to help users exchange and browse OPML files.

Share your OPML. Seems to be down, though. Comments rajkumarc 11 May 2006 7:54 am: 24/25 - Great work and kept me awake until I got it right. Couldn't figure out what was song #23. S Anand 11 May 2006 11:59 am: 23: Kamal, Sridevi song. rajkumarc 12 May 2006 5:00 am: Thanks S Anand. I guessed it right the first time but typed in Sivappu instead of Sigappu and it was not accepted. S Anand 14 May 2006 8:25 am: Yeah, it's a little difficult making tradeoffs on what variations to allow and what not to. 'v' maps to w, b, g... too many things.

Share your OPML


Grow your business by shrinking the total market for competitors. Capture revenue by inflicting asymmetrical pain, a strategy used by Microsoft to take a dollar for themselves while removing six from their rivals' bottom lines.

Grow by shrinking a market. For every dollar of revenue Microsoft made, it took away six dollars of revenue from their competitors. Every dollar of Microsoft's gain caused an asymmetrical amount of pain in the marketplace. They made money by shrinking the market.

Shrink a market


I've updated my site's layout and the underlying backend code. I'm anticipating potential bugs during this transition and want feedback on the new design, which some visitors have already described as looking a bit too much like candy.

I've changed the site layout and some code behind it. Weird bugs are likely -- so do let me know of any that you find. Comments ritzkini 4 Feb 2006 12:07 pm: No...no..no..first up: look not great..too much light blue..i dunno..my 2 cents..:-) jake 5 Feb 2006 7:36 am: yup. looks more like ..candy. the thick blue bars.

Site layout has changed


I explore the psychological illusion of the Sun and Moon's size. By using a finger at arm's length as a two-degree scale, you can see that four moons actually fit behind your single fingertip.

The sun and moon look smaller than you think. The apparent large size of the Sun and Moon as we see them in the sky is a psychological illusion. There are several different explanations for this. If you take a picture of the moon with a camera lens that has the same field of view as Celestia, you may be surprised at the small size of its image. Here is something you might try: a finger at arm's length is about two degrees wide for most people. That means that you can fit four moons side by side. Go outside and check it. Now have a direct look at your finger indoors. Can you still believe that four moons will fit on it?

Size of the sun and moon


I'm highlighting that Google has released Sketchup as a free download. It is a powerful 3D modeling tool that simplifies spatial design, making architectural visualization and digital modeling accessible to everyone at no cost.

Sketchup (from Google) is now available for free download. It's a 3D modelling tool.

Sketchup is free


Slightly overexpose your digital camera shots to maximize color resolution. Since sensors capture more data in bright tones, you can darken images in post-processing without losing quality, whereas brightening dark shots causes significant data loss.

Based on advice from Thomas Knoll, Michael suggests overexposing digital camera shots. This is because the on the CCD of digital cameras, the bright tones have the highest colour resolution. So you can darken images later and retain the colours well, but you can't brighten without losing data.

Slightly overexpose digital camera shots


I moved to a Dell Latitude D420, stripping Windows bloatware for a spartan 'Classic' setup. My toolkit includes Perl, Python, Subversion, and essential Firefox extensions to rebuild a fast, distraction-free environment on my new machine.

And so, thanks to Infosys Consulting being spun off as a separate legal entity in the UK, I got my new laptop. (Because our old laptops were legally the assets of Infosys Technologies Ltd, and not Infosys Consulting Inc. Weirder things have happened, but who's complaining?) My old Toshiba Portege A200 has been replaced by a Dell Latitude D420 (which I was dreaming for, after having just read Jeff's post on big laptops). Dell Latitude D420 Firstly, it's light. I thought my Toshiba was light compared to the Dell monsters others had, but this weighs 1.4 kgs! Secondly, it's thin. It's thinner than some of the paper notebooks I used to carry. It's hard to imagine where we will be in 5-7 years time if innovations keep rolling in at this rate. There were only two (minor) problems I saw with it. It didn't have an S-Video port -- so I can't watch movies on TV. And it had a fairly small (12") screen. Being a wide screen, I get a lot less height than I used to. I'm still having some trouble getting used to that, especially when browsing tall pages but it's a good laptop for playing games such as 올인구조대. My weekend was like a kid in a candy store. Here's what I did. Uninstalled useless software: The laptop came with Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 Basic and PowerDVD 5.1. I got rid of them. Copied all my files: I had about 25GB of data (15GB of music, 5 GB of books, 2 GB of video, 3GB of work). This was a bit tricky: some of my data was in SVN repositories, and I had to migrate them. Configured the new system by literally running through each entry in the control panel, and ensuring that it's the same as my old machine. Most of my changes are spartan (aimed at less eye-candy, usually). For example, Display: I switch to Windows Classic and a black background. I used to do this because it takes less memory, but with 1GB of RAM, that's no longer a consideration. I just got used to this. I also turn off all special effects, and remove everything except the Recycle Bin from my desktop. But the really useful thing is to turn on ClearType. Taskbar and Start Menu: I switch to the Classic Start Menu, and turn off everything. Here's what mine looks like now.Start Menu settings Toolbars: I like my toolbars to fit on one line. So I do some heavy customisation with the Internet Explorer toolbar to shrink it to a line. Similarly on the desktop toolbars. Installed software. This is the fun part. I've made a number of changes to my software inventory. ActivePerl: Perl is the only language I still know. ActivePython: I'm learning Python. I'm not impressed, but the Python Image Library makes jigsaw quizzes easier than in Perl. Apache HTTP server: To test this web page locally. Audacity: To record and convert sounds. I've ditched Goldwave. Camstudio: To capture screen sessions. Crimson Editor: I'm still trying to pick a good text editor. (I need block operations, filtering, regular expressions and syntax highlighting. No editor seems to offer all of these. Filtering is especially rare.) Cygwin: Just for the basic tools (head, tail, less). UnixUtils would do just fine, actually. DX-Ball 2: The only game I play other than Solitaire, Minesweeper and Age of Kings. Google Desktop: I can't live without it any more. Google Earth: I find Google Maps faster and better (because of the street maps). Google Toolbar for IE: It practically replaces my address bar. ImgBurn: I'm trying it instead of Nero. Except for multi-session support, it's great. Microsoft Reader: I have a lot of books in the .LIT format Mozilla Firefox: Mainly for its extensions (Google Suggest, NextPlease, Tab Mix Plus, Google Bookmarks Button, Extended Statusbar, IE Tab, Live HTTP Headers, Web Developer) Paint.NET: Quicker than Photoshop. Mostly I just crop images. Picasa: Adequate for viewing photos. Powertoys for Windows - TweakUI: To make Windows even more spartan. Restoration: Can restore permanently deleted files. Subversion: I like the version numbers (1, 2, 3, ...) better than CVS' (1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.1.1, ...). VirtualDub: Mainly to convert videos from my digicam to DivX. VLC player: When all else fails, I turn to VLC. WinAmp: with Media Library import/export and Pepper WinRAR: For the occasional .rar download And finally, after reinstalling my SVN repository and copying my WinAmp playlists, Firefox bookmarks, etc, my new laptop feels as good as old. Comments Somnath 27 Sep 2006 4:03 am: How do you have admin rights our laptop? Most companies IT security policy means no admin rights on your machines (laptops or desktops). S Anand 27 Sep 2006 7:08 am: Oh yes, thankfully! I can install pretty much anything, and the only issue is that these won't be "supported" by our IT team. (But in reality, they're actually thrilled to support these, when called :-) Somnath 3 Oct 2006 3:30 am: One definitely good reason to work for Infy Consulting then ;-) Michelle 5 Dec 2006 12:38 pm: Please tell me there is literature of non-fiction in 1977. Except for MOVIES! Anand 8 Jan 2007 6:59 pm: Do you plan to embrace Windows Vista when it is released later this month ? Also I recommend the Firefox extension Colorful Tabs. It is pretty S Anand 15 Jan 2007 8:16 pm: Guess I don't have a choice about Vista. If Infosys upgrades, I upgrade. Anonymous 3 Apr 2007 3:58 pm: I have also reently swicthed to D420. I can't get it to record on audacity (or anything else). Previous Dell laptop was fine. Any suggestions S Anand 3 Apr 2007 4:19 pm: I'm able to record using the Microphone on Audacity. But on my Toshiba, I was able to record what I was playing on the speaker as well, and that's not possible on D420, thanks to the sound card. Also, the hard disk is incredibly slow. Rockey Nebhwani 11 Jan 2010 4:02 pm: I would like to see the revised list of softwares on your laptop :-) Software for my new laptop 2 | s-anand.net 27 Sep 2011 7:15 pm (pingback): [...] for my new laptop 2 September 27th, 2011 Top 10 lists S Anand Time for a new laptop, and to replace software. Here’s my new [...] Software I currently use | s-anand.net 9 May 2014 6:23 pm (pingback): […] Every few years, I review the software I use. Here are some of my earlier lists. […]

Software for my new laptop


I highlight Icosystem’s tool that simplifies photo editing through interactive mutations, allowing non-experts to improve images by selecting favorites. Their approach applies evolutionary computation and ant-logic algorithms to complex domains like logistics and telecom routing.

Software that builds on hunches. ... is a filter for images that allows a naive user to improve digital photos without understanding complex tools like Adobe Photoshop, by choosing from mutations of the picture to make it better. "My grandmother doesn't know anything about improving pictures," says Bonabeau, "but she knows which pictures of her grandchildren she likes." Wired News tried out the photo selector. After loading the photograph you want to improve, the application shows you nine mutant versions. In the case of a dark photo, it's easy enough to pick a lighter version and move it to the seed area so that it becomes the foundation of the next crop of mutation pictures. You can keep selecting and mutating indefinitely. When you find the version you like, you save it. In a photo of a dark house and a moon, seven iterations were enough to lighten the photograph adequately. This is from Icosystem, who're doing some cool work like using ants' logic to route BT's telecom traffic or Fedex's packages.

Software that builds on hunches


This post discusses the observed 'double hump' in programming education, where student results suggest two distinct populations: those who intuitively grasp programming logic and those who cannot, regardless of the teaching method used.

All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve.

Some people will never program


I shared a video demo of Sony's digital desktop, which projects an interactive interface onto a physical desk surface. The system enables seamless drag-and-drop actions between digital files and physical paper to merge workspace environments.

Video demo of Sony's digital desktop. This converts your physical desktop (you know, the one where you keep paper and staplers) into a digital desktop. You can drag and drop on to the physical desktop. You have to see it to understand!

Sony digital desktop


I share a collection of techniques for web developers to speed up page delivery. These methods focus on optimizing front-end performance and reducing load times to enhance the overall user experience for site visitors.

Speed up your pages.

Speed up your pages


I recommend a guide for speeding up torrent downloads by resolving the Event ID 4226 connection limit in Windows XP SP2. This fix involves patching the system to allow more simultaneous outbound TCP connection attempts.

Speed up your torrents. Particularly, get rid of the Event ID 4226 problem.

Speed up your torrents


I explore why Starbucks hides a cheaper, high-quality coffee option to maintain price discrimination. It demonstrates how firms with significant market power deliberately make their lower-priced products less appealing to maximize total profit.

Starbucks economics. Why Starbucks has a better, cheaper coffee that it keeps a secret. Comments Dhar 11 Jan 2006 10:28 am: This was so damn interesting! ritzkini 12 Jan 2006 6:14 am: "The more market power firms have, the less attractive they make the cheaper products." I can think of N Marketeers in India doing this ! Madhu 13 Jan 2006 11:10 am: Interesting to compare this with the Bottom of the Pyramid concept of CKP.

Starbucks economics


I transcribed Calvin and Hobbes and compared its word frequency against a large English corpus to automatically identify characteristic themes. This 'statistically improbable phrases' method highlights unique recurring concepts like Spaceman Spiff, Transmogrifier, and tuna.

Calvin and Hobbes has some recurrent themes, like Hobbes pouncing, snow art, polls, letters to Santa, ... Over the last 5 years, I've transcribed the Calvin and Hobbes comics, and tagged them manually by theme. But can I generate themes automatically? One way is to use Amazon's statistically improbable phrases. It's a list of words that occur a lot in a book, but rarely occur in others. It gives you a good feel of what topics the book is about. Here's how I did it: 1. Transcribe Calvin & Hobbes. This is 99% of the work. 2. Make a C&H word list. Just join all the words in Calvin and Hobbes. (Be careful about punctuation, and colloquialisms like "dunno", "leggo", etc.) 3. Get an English corpus. That is, get a big list of words in normally occurring text. I have some e-books, and I picked 23 megabytes worth of these as my corpus. 4. Compare the word frequency in C&H with the corpus. That is, compare the % of occurrences of a word in Calvin and Hobbes versus the corpus. 5. Display those with significantly higher frequency in C&H. The list below has common Calvin & Hobbes words occurring 10 times as often as in normal text. It's incredible how closely it relates to most of the themes. (Big words occur more often. Dark words are more improbable.) allowance assignment babe balloon bat bath beanie bedtime bee beep bet bike blaster boring bug bus butter calvin calvinball cartoon cent cereal cheat chew chocolate click comic cookie crunch dad dame derkins dictator-for-life dinosaur disgusting doll doomed dumb duplicate earthling explorer fang fearless ferocious flip flush frog frosted fun fuzzy genius goggle goodness goon grade gross grown-up gum hack hamburger hamster hate hero hideous hobbes homework huey insect invent jelly jerk jurassic kid leaf loot martian math mild-mannered mom monster moron motto munch mushy nickel oatmeal ouija pant peanut perspective pit playground poll porridge poster quiz recess rosalyn rotten rub sandwich santa scary sculpture scum shovel sissy sitter sled slimy slug slushball sniff snow snowball snowman soak spaceman spiff splash spoil sport squirt steer sting stuffed stupendous sugar susie tickle tiger toy transmogrifier transmogrify tub tuna twinky tyrannosaur underwear vacation weird wham whiff worm wormwood Summary: "Statistically improbable phrases" are a powerful tool for text analysis. You can apply it on any content and figure out what topics it talks about. Update: Technically, these are "Statistically improbable WORDS", not phrases. So I re-did this analysis using phrases instead of words. Comments DMac 23 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: This is great. Can you be more specific on how you did this? You say that the words listed are "common" words that appear more than 10 times more often - what is your criterion for "common"? Also, what were the ranges of improbability and oftenness that you mapped into the size and color of the results. How are improbability and oftenness different, anyway? Finally, how did you handle any words in C&H that didn''t appear in your corpus? I''m very interested in hearing more from you about how you did this - I''m looking forward to hearing from you. Best regards... Mugen 15 Sep 2010 4:33 pm: Any further directions to how exactly you came up with this/whether you used any software would be most helpful. Please tell us more about this. This is going to be awesome to help decide what to read. Thanks a load. Also, does amazon have this feature for most books? I browsed a lot of books in amazon but was only able to find this in one so far.

Statistically improbable phrases


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Summer of '69: a line-by-line history of the song, by its writer Jim Vallance.

Summer of 69


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I built a quiz featuring middle-of-the-song lyrics from eight classic TMS-MGR collaborations. Test your knowledge of Tamil cinema by guessing the movie for each track; the input boxes turn green when you get it right.

Here are words from the middle of 8 songs TMS has sung for MGR. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments sailesh kumar basu 13 Mar 2009 7:20 am: V.V.Good, who can forget Thalaivars Songs Lyrics and Films. Continue the good work. Anonymous 28 Sep 2006 5:06 am: I am RamaKrishnan. I am also from TamilNadu I am not understand the lines above... Its a songs or anyother thing? S Anand 28 Sep 2006 6:46 am: Ramakrishnan, these are 2 lines from the middle of 8 different MGR film songs. You need to guess the film they appeared in. ashwini 3 Nov 2006 9:51 am: Good selection. ashwini 3 Nov 2006 10:17 am: which song is the 6th one pls. Prasanna 24 Dec 2006 5:46 am: Great site & great effort,Anand!Hats Off!Couldn't crack no.6.Will you post the answers or can email me?Thanks. Murali Kannan. T 20 Feb 2007 12:40 pm: Very nice work! I'm a great fan of MGR. Keep it up. subadra 6 Mar 2007 2:39 am: but fr the nadodimannan song we found everything.appa went to sleep.the first thing he said in the morning is nadodimannan Mohan.C 27 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: I really enjoyed this quiz I remember old songs of mgr thru this quiz GOOD JOB lakshmi 27 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: fantastic job Anand I really enjoyed it. geetha 27 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: i have answered some Meena 22 Sep 2008 1:22 am: Excellent lyrics. Vivacious. I'm flabbergasted. I am from Trichy. I just loved all these lines. Thanks for recalling such a treasure in our life. You have done a great job. Rajagopalan 30 Dec 2008 11:27 am: Good song selection. Did not get two songs correct. K.Swaminathan 31 Dec 2008 5:40 am: Where I can get the lyrics of our Great MGR Songs.\ \ Please advise me. I want free download of lyrics of Mr.MGR songs.\ \ Regards,\ Swaminathan Rameshkarthikeyan 4 Mar 2009 2:13 pm: I need a song but i forget the starting of the song. "Ellam enakul erunthalum ennai thannakkul vaithirukkum " S Anand 4 Mar 2009 3:00 pm: You're probably referring to Ulagam Pirandhadhu Enakkaaga from Paasam. Got it by googling. Rangan 15 Oct 2009 12:55 pm: I really enjoyed this and i love to do for MGR related quizzes. But sad thing is that i am not able to find answer for one question:-(. My evergreen hero is MGR and i love to watch all MGR movies. What a charismatic person he is! Rangan 15 Oct 2009 1:04 pm: Particularly i love to watch movies like Nadodi Mannan, Thirudathe, Enga Veetu Pillai, Adimai Pen, Aayirathil Oruvan, Ninaithadai Mudippavan, Anbe Vaa, Ullagam Suttrum Valiban, Rikshawkkaran, Rajakumari, Arasakattalai, Madhuraiveeran, Mannadhi Mannan, Kalangarai Vilakkam, Nadodi, Kudiyirindha Kovil, Padagotti etc etc. Some movies may be missed out from this list. I have watched all the above movies more than 20 times. I like his bunny cheeks when he laughs. This kind of cheeks only madhavan (maddy) is having after MGR and this is told by famous director Manirathnam. venkatp 12 Oct 2011 1:53 pm: fantastic...... santhosh 6 Apr 2016 6:24 pm: I want song first. I only remember songs middle line . that's is patta maram paal varuma paagarkai then tharuma devar magal paarviley.. Can anyone help to find that song..

Tamil lyrics quiz - TMS MGR


I built an interactive quiz where you can test your knowledge of classic Tamil cinema. Identify the movies for ten songs sung by T.M. Soundararajan for Sivaji Ganesan using specific lyric snippets from the middle of each track.

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs TMS has sung for Sivaji. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Anonymous 2 Oct 2006 6:28 pm: help out wth the 5th one alone. sounds familiar,bt guessing fails. Anonymous 2 Oct 2006 6:29 pm: hey gt it got it. got the 5th one also.gud one ashwini 3 Nov 2006 9:54 am: Excellent songs ashwini 3 Nov 2006 10:20 am: Found out all songs. deen 16 Nov 2006 9:45 pm: 5th is pakappirivinai pls. mark the numbers for songs arun 13 Dec 2006 9:03 am: i think i have answered most Hema 5 Mar 2007 11:55 am: I have answered most. One or two with the help of your mother. Very interesting and thrilling. Excellent work done. Keep it going. subadra 5 Mar 2007 3:05 pm: appa and i got all correct lakshmi 24 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: all are correct. geetha 24 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: ha got some maduraimouli 8 Jan 2012 4:19 pm: rende rendu theriyalaye...naan enga poven periamma ? yarai keppen?

Tamil lyrics quiz - TMS Sivaji


I created an interactive quiz featuring lyrics from ten Tamil movie songs. Test your cinema knowledge by guessing the films; the interface provides instant feedback. It includes snippets from classics starring Kamal Haasan and other Kollywood hits.

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments anonymous 3 Sep 2006 5:10 pm: got 7 rite.help wth 2,3 and 8.3rd seems to be damn familiar. S Anand 3 Sep 2006 9:53 pm: More lyrics as hints.\ 2. naNbar uNdu pagaivar illai, naNmai uNdu theemai illai\ 3. aaththigam pEsum adiyaarkkellaam sivamE anbaagum\ 8. thaay paravai midhiththaal sEy paravai nOvadhillai kaayam aavadhillai Anonymous 15 Sep 2006 5:09 pm: struggling wth 2nd and 8th still.2nd almost got it.8th no idea at all. S Anand 15 Sep 2006 5:47 pm: 2 stars Kamal and Jayapradha. 8 stars Kamal and Roshni. Anonymous 19 Sep 2006 8:05 am: hey thanx.wonderful.at last found out everything.but the worst part, cudnt find what song is the second one though got the movie name right. Sri 9 May 2007 8:28 pm: awesome one. got them all. lakshmi 27 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: I have got 9 out of ten. priya 27 Aug 2006 12:00 pm: nice mamta 1 Jan 2009 1:53 am: Hi,\ \ I wish to read Tamil lyrics in Tamil Script.. Please help Jo 17 Sep 2009 7:58 am: I got only 7.... chirp 1 Jan 2011 1:05 am: good one Shobhana 29 Sep 2011 9:29 am: I got 10/10!!! nice one work man :) Venkat 1 Aug 2012 10:38 pm: Migavum Arumai.. Super..I did 8/10. Expecting more!!! Thanks much Shiva 22 Nov 2012 2:47 pm: WoW ... Got 5/10.. Similarity is our Ulaga Nayagan Special

Tamil song lyrics quiz 1


I created a challenging lyric quiz featuring 10 fast-paced Tamil dappanguthu songs from the 1980s. Test your knowledge by identifying the movie for each song based on snippets from the middle of the lyrics.

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from 1980-1990. They are all dappanguthus -- or at least, fast songs. Can you guess which movie they are from? Note: I've made this quiz a little tougher than the earlier ones. Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments ashwini 3 Nov 2006 10:10 am: Ok deen 16 Nov 2006 10:03 pm: 4th munthanai mudichchu 7th alaikal oiwathillai p.kannan 8 Jan 2007 4:17 am: its a nice one bobby 3 Feb 2007 12:07 pm: hey its too good stivane 30 Mar 2007 11:34 am: alwayes old is gold usha 9 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Interesting sree 14 Mar 2010 9:32 am: what is the 2nd song..... mpganesh 11 Mar 2011 4:25 pm: i scored 9/10; what is the 5th song? Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:44 am: Got everything except the second one.. any clue for the second one?

Tamil song lyrics quiz 1980s dappanguthus


I built this interactive quiz featuring lyrics from the middle of ten Tamil songs released between 1985 and 1989. Test your knowledge of 80s cinema by guessing the specific movies they appeared in.

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from 1985-1989. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Anonymous 15 Sep 2006 4:50 pm: help out wth 2 and 7 pl S Anand 15 Sep 2006 5:44 pm: 2: Sathyaraj film. 7: Superstar film Anonymous 19 Sep 2006 7:56 am: 2nd found out 7th cant guess at all,any more clues ?????? S Anand 19 Sep 2006 9:42 am: 7: Actress is Radha. sutha 23 Sep 2006 8:31 am: is it kathiks movie number 9? S Anand 23 Sep 2006 6:25 pm: No, 9 is Ramarajan. Bosky 5 Oct 2006 2:25 pm: got all these in less than 6 minutes K.Shyam 12 Oct 2006 8:14 pm: 10/10 valli 14 Oct 2006 7:47 pm: good time pass. thanks. deen 16 Nov 2006 10:16 pm: 9th specialised with a cuntry dance 10th kamal double faced .....? sathish 6 Dec 2006 8:57 pm: Got all 10.. Good job anand..Post more quizzes like this suriya 16 Mar 2009 3:27 am: help me with 2,8 plz. suryaaa 23 Jun 2009 5:37 am: pathukku pathu...in less than 15 seconds...im soooo happy... sharanya 19 Jan 2010 9:57 am: 3.Mv song i know but i can't pls hlp me. balaji 25 Nov 2010 12:05 pm: very interesting... post more quizzes like this Shobhana 17 Oct 2011 12:42 pm: 10/10!!!! Anamika 11 Feb 2012 2:46 pm: Sangeetham paatila nee pesum pechila ? Shobhana 20 May 2012 4:42 am: Got 9/10... cant get the 8th one though.. das 17 Aug 2011 5:30 am: yehe 9/10 Siva G 25 Sep 2012 8:43 pm: Got 10/10… but the 2nd one is very tough...Really very interesting

Tamil song lyrics quiz 1985s


I created a quiz featuring 10 Tamil song lyrics from the period 1990–1994. Test your Kollywood knowledge by identifying the specific movie for each song snippet in this interactive and nostalgic musical challenge.

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from 1990-1994. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Anonymous 19 Sep 2006 7:58 am: 1,4 and 5 please!clue. S Anand 19 Sep 2006 9:41 am: Heroes for 1, 4, 5 are Murali, Prabhu and Karthik. Anonymous 27 Sep 2006 5:34 pm: 4 abd 5 no guesses works out.any other clues? S Anand 27 Sep 2006 7:26 pm: 4: Bhanupriya. 5: Revathi. K.Shyam 12 Oct 2006 8:15 pm: 10/10 SANDHYA 1 Dec 2006 4:49 am: cant trace 3,4,5 Anonymous 1 Dec 2006 4:49 am: valuable clues pls gopinath 1 Dec 2006 6:21 am: 3,4,5 azar 2 Dec 2006 7:03 am: intresting Sathish 6 Dec 2006 9:04 pm: Got all 10 Jayadevi sabarigirish 19 Jan 2007 4:34 pm: could not find 3, 5.. we had a nice time doing this!! Ravi 5 Mar 2007 11:52 am: i know 4th one (oru kathal thevathai boomiyil vanthal) i forgot the film name..........Nice BallamuruganLaxmi 8 Mar 2007 3:28 am: ulla azhuguraen veliya sirikkiraen nalla vaeshandhaan veluththu vaanguraen feelgood 14 Mar 2007 2:53 pm: mmm good one Ramya 6 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Got a ten on ten for this one too ... kagithan 1 Jan 2011 3:00 pm: 10/10 nirmala 18 Dec 2010 7:51 pm: couldnt find 1 5 n 7 help pls priya 29 Sep 2011 3:29 pm: 8/10.. good.. interesting... Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:04 am: 10/10... :)

Tamil song lyrics quiz 1990s


I created an interactive quiz featuring lyrics from ten Tamil songs released between 1995 and 1999. Test your knowledge by guessing the movies based on specific lyric snippets; the input box turns green for correct phonetic spellings.

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from 1995-1999. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Swaroopa 6 Sep 2006 12:24 pm: Cool selections!! can I have all the answers S Anand 6 Sep 2006 3:56 pm: I'd rather not post the answers here. Have mailed them to you. Anonymous 28 Sep 2006 10:46 am: Hi nice work Anonymous 3 Oct 2006 5:14 pm: 7 and 8 pl.cnt guess S Anand 3 Oct 2006 6:32 pm: 7 and 8 are both Ajit films. V Gopinath 1 Dec 2006 7:03 am: 10/10 venky 28 Feb 2007 6:22 am: Thats real cool da....i got except the 7th one give me some clue Shathish 7 Mar 2007 8:49 am: Very nice and easy selections.Good Seetha 3 May 2007 6:11 am: cool one :) Seetha 3 May 2007 6:16 am: I was able to make 10 :) divya 8 May 2007 6:32 am: any clue for the 2nd song pls Seetha 5 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Cool..damn easy!! sundar 5 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: done 10/10 Pillaikani 12 Jan 2010 4:34 pm: DONE I'VE DONE IT!!!!!!! 10/10 Nangalum Vaanguvomla!!!!!!!!!!!! Eppudi!!!! balaji 26 Nov 2010 12:02 pm: appu risk edukkardhu engalukku rusk sapidara madhiri.. eppoooodi ha ha Suganya 30 May 2012 7:42 am: Could not find 9... :( Anamika 12 Feb 2012 10:42 am: Indha thaamarai poo theeyil indru kaathirukku ullam nondhu kangal ennum poon thean thumbi paadi chellaadho...! Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:02 am: 10/10 !!! Yay!!!! Ugendran 22 Sep 2012 11:09 am: I got 9/10, but i cn't find 2nd Vijay 12 Feb 2018 9:43 am: Hi could you mail me the answers please - its a great quiz

Tamil song lyrics quiz 1995s


I created an interactive quiz featuring lyrics from ten 2000s Tamil songs. Test your movie knowledge by guessing the film titles from these middle-of-the-song snippets. Just type the names to see if you get them right!

Here are words from the middle of 10 songs from the 2000s. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Films are NOT repeated) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments saranya 19 Sep 2006 9:08 am: its simply superb S Anand 19 Sep 2006 9:44 am: Thanks, Saranya! Anonymous 20 Sep 2006 8:22 am: can u give me the answers ANAND pls saranya 20 Sep 2006 8:23 am: can u give me the answers ANAND pls S Anand 20 Sep 2006 8:45 am: I've e-mailed them. S Anand 20 Sep 2006 8:48 am: Looks like the mail bounced. You can mail me at root dot node at gmail dot com, and I'll reply with the answers. I don't plan to post the answers on my site :-) PAPPU 1 Oct 2006 6:40 pm: HI ITS GOOD arumugam 3 Oct 2006 1:07 pm: very nice Anonymous 3 Oct 2006 5:20 pm: anjavadhu mattum paduthudhu.udhavungal anand S Anand 3 Oct 2006 6:35 pm: 5th: More lyrics.\ idhu nanavaay thonRum kanavu idhu kaalaiyil thonRum nilavu\ idhu kaNNai kaNNai pariththu veLichcham tharum iravu Swapnaa 12 Oct 2006 1:31 pm: Its crazy how my brain gets fixed on one song once I get it, and plugs in all the other lyrics into that same tune! If many people managed to solve this, it looks like I've got some serious cross-modal attentional issues! dheepthi 12 Oct 2006 6:14 pm: wats da 5th 1 S Anand 12 Oct 2006 8:11 pm: Hi Swapnaa, a few have managed 10/10, most settle at 9/10 or 8/10 S Anand 12 Oct 2006 8:12 pm: Dheepthi, here's another hint for the 5th: the movie was produced by Prakash Raj vijayachakravarthy 19 Oct 2006 2:58 am: Its cool i found all except this - kEtkaadha osaigaL idhazh thaandaadha vaarththaigaL Ranganathan 25 Oct 2006 11:36 am: Hi Anand... Ranga here... Tried this one too... 10/10 Thanks for the Quiz... suresh 28 Oct 2006 6:43 am: hey guys its cool.. after seeing the comments i logged into it.. you are cool guys(deepthi, anand and ranga) Senthil 14 Nov 2006 7:19 am: It's Good deen 16 Nov 2006 10:41 pm: azhahu enpathu aanpal Anonymous 21 Nov 2006 11:49 am: Hi..this one's cool...i got 10/10... sugee 1 Dec 2006 3:18 pm: ts gud suresh 2 Dec 2006 4:19 pm: its very nice....... ossime da. keep going and give us more fun and enjoyment worthy vinodh 12 Dec 2006 11:16 am: its nice.... 10/10 Srinivasan.T.K. 16 Dec 2006 5:45 pm: Great one man. Keep changing questions. mangai 22 Dec 2006 4:12 am: good sabari 22 Dec 2006 7:18 am: it is nice anitha 22 Dec 2006 10:21 am: It's nice kani 24 Dec 2006 6:38 pm: answers pls. Revathy 29 Dec 2006 3:00 pm: its good s&s 15 Jan 2007 9:16 pm: it's fantastic. muhunthan 8 Feb 2007 5:13 am: i like this very much plz make more quizes Divya Umapathy 2 Mar 2007 6:22 am: This is really cool balaji 2 Mar 2007 10:53 am: entertaining ravi 5 Mar 2007 12:08 pm: 8 mattum udaikkuthu ----------super O superb Shathish 7 Mar 2007 8:42 am: superb superb superb shathish 7 Mar 2007 8:44 am: romba nalla irukuinga .Aanal "Nilalgalin ullae nijangalai thedinen...... Enna Adhu song.. Naanum thedinen onnum kidaikalai feel good 14 Mar 2007 3:05 pm: alaikadalaai...irundha manam...panithuliyaai sidhariyadhey...aimbulanum en manamum enakedhiriaai seyalpadudhey...oru pennin ninaivenna seyyum oru kathi illamal koyyum...idhil meela vazhi ulladhey...iruppinum ullam virumbaadho oh yeh.... vizhigalin aruginil vaanam vegu tholaivnil tholaivinil thookam....en aindhu pulangalin ekkam..en mudhal mudhal anubavaum oh yeh.... oliyindri udhadugal pesum..perum puyal ena veli varum swaasam. sneha 1 Apr 2007 10:24 am: Its great oppurtunity priyasakhi 8 May 2007 3:35 pm: tanglish therinja people tamizh paalagavum uthavuthu. thz! hi friends...... ungalukku kavithaigalil interest irunthal..... now visit www.kavimozhiz.blogspot.com enodu msn le thodarpu kondu..... neege unga kavithaigalukku ujir kuudugalam. Valentino 1 Jun 2007 7:52 am: well try Padhu 1 Jun 2007 8:05 am: Good effort... still the 80's songs with wonderful lyrics can be used to make it more challanging Sundaram 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: i need Jalsa panungada song Lyrics in Tamil From the movie Chennai 600028. Thank you. sahi 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Adi vangadha paaraigal sirpangal aagadhu tholviku anjadhu munerada- can someone tell in which song this lyrics is? Bharathi 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Its very nice.... could not guess the 5th one alone... jenifer rosy 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: the game is nice Anonymous 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: good...but..couldn get 5th song!!! alice 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: good...but..couldn get 5th song!!! Ramya 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Wow ! I got a ten on ten !! vasanth 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: awesome creation jayashree 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: gdfhcfgj Dhinakar 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Pls tell me answers shan 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: nice one vinod 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: waste..........put the lyrics of tamil songs in tamil words JamunaRani 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: Hi, Adi Vaangath Paaraigal Sirpangal Aagathu is from the movie Azhagiya theeye song (Ullalae Ullalae song sung by devan (first song) praveen 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: very interesting, helps us improve our thinking skills vinoth 3 Sep 2006 12:00 pm: hi anand are u from iitk Harish 1 Jan 2009 11:07 am: Dear Mr.ananth\ Self Answered 7/10 Ques , any price for me\ Plz mail me answers for un answered ones. Senthilkumar.S 24 Mar 2009 7:34 am: got 7/10.. suriya 17 Mar 2009 3:13 am: Nice ... got 10/10 priya 15 May 2009 9:30 am: superb mickey 25 May 2009 11:34 am: its really interesting and it makes me know how much i have knowledge about it.It rocks farzana 20 May 2009 11:58 am: good but cant find "nilalgalin ullae ulla..." dhan hak sak 17 Jun 2009 12:36 pm: Super appu, Got 10/10 naveen 15 Mar 2010 2:00 pm: very nice Pillaikani 13 Jan 2010 5:59 am: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Pillaikani 13 Jan 2010 6:00 am: got 10/10 Archana 1 Mar 2010 4:39 pm: Hey i got 10/10 E. Ramya 29 Apr 2010 6:13 pm: i got 10/10......... Velzzz 14 Aug 2010 10:20 am: Got 10/10 :) RAJ V 29 Mar 2010 1:17 pm: got 10/10.. rami 4 Nov 2010 9:05 am: Got 10/10 balaji 25 Nov 2010 12:16 pm: nandri soola unakku vartahi illa enakku.... Perumalsamy.j 9 Nov 2010 2:30 pm: Is there any song sung by Ilayaraja in A.R.Rahman's music MICHAEL JACKSON 27 Dec 2010 7:31 am: scored just 6...... interesting........ padma 16 Feb 2011 9:57 am: i got 8/10 in 200 quiz super give some other quiz karthika 22 Feb 2011 10:59 am: got 10/10 wohhhh Sarvetha 31 Jul 2011 7:54 am: Very Very Very Very Very Very superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sharmila banu 2 Aug 2011 12:07 pm: nice ...... Lalitha 13 Sep 2011 8:37 am: I got 6 Suresh 21 Jul 2011 7:40 pm: innum ungakittey irunthu neraya yethirpakkrom:got 10/10 Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 12:34 pm: I ve completed 8/10 vasanth 20 Nov 2011 3:24 pm: hi its nice . i wnt to know the score muthu 18 Apr 2012 6:02 pm: Very nice blog..I loved this... 7/10 by my own and 10/10 thru google Anamika 12 Feb 2012 10:52 am: Mannagam marandhu vittaen enai maatrungal pazhaiyabadi...! Shobhana 20 May 2012 4:39 am: i got all 10 !!! :) priya 29 Sep 2011 2:36 pm: very nice... :) .. got 10/10 :) Sathya 8 Mar 2012 9:11 am: nice collection i got 9/10. Ugendran 22 Sep 2012 10:47 am: yeah really nice....I got 8/10 diamond 30 Dec 2012 7:40 am: it is very niceeeeee.... krithika 1 Jul 2015 10:31 am: I lost the game Suriya muthusamy 15 Jul 2020 12:09 pm: Got 10/10 SINDHUJA K 1 May 2019 3:25 pm: Nice

Tamil song lyrics quiz 2000s


I put together a quiz on hit Tamil songs from 1975 to 1980, featuring background music from the Ilayaraja and MS Viswanathan era. Test your knowledge by guessing which movies these classic snippets are from.

Ilayaraja scored Annakkili in 1975, and ruled Tamil film music for 15 years as isai gnaani . He took the mantle from MSV, who continued to score great melodies until 1980. Here is the background music from some hit songs between 1975 - 1980. Can you guess which movie they are from? (Some films appear twice ) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Anonymous 9 May 2006 8:36 am: 17/20 5 songs not playing are 1,4,7,19&23 9,12,22- not got but i think will get if i come back later and try i struggled a lot for 5 spelliing got the song before the first second got over same for 18 but its not accepting my spelling maybe u can hv a few more options isai inban oh btw the quiz is good fun thanks S Anand 9 May 2006 8:41 am: Oops, looks like I forgot to upload those 5. I'll get that done by 6pm GMT. Kaps 9 May 2006 9:56 am: Anand, The boxes are not turning green for 18. I think you need to provide more spelling options. I managed to find out that you have given a space between the two words for #6. even in #17 there is a space between the first two words. I also struggled a lot for 5. you should introduced an option with the letter t instead of k. any clues for songs 12, 21 & 22? I have also managed to find 17 / 20. S Anand 9 May 2006 10:06 am: Funny, I thought I was ignoring spaces. I did think of the 't' option vs 'k' option for #5... will implement that. As for clues, I'm afraid I'm at office now -- can't hear the songs, and don't remember the order. Will post clues by end of day. zero 9 May 2006 10:16 am: At least a couple of songs are not playing right now. will come back later. Terrific stuff! Thanks. S Anand 9 May 2006 10:51 am: Hopefully, it's all fixed now. zero 9 May 2006 11:41 am: 15/25. Failed - 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. Got 21 and 22 coz you said some movies appear twice ;). So, am not counting that. 18, 24 - the songs are way too obv, but i am struggling to recollect the films :( Kaps 9 May 2006 11:47 am: Anand, 24/25 this time. I'm having problems cracking the spelling for #18. I'm quite confident of the movie. Once this is set right, my score would be a perfect 25. You might consider giving an option for the letter v instead of g in #23. zero 9 May 2006 11:57 am: Death to me for not finding out 18.\ Kaps, I guess Anand will not be considering that ;)\ Googled for 24, the other got-the-song-not-the-movie one. sudheer 9 May 2006 1:32 pm: I got only 7 movies right.. got a few more songs - without the movies.. but awesome quiz tho.. had good fun. thanks anand Asa 9 May 2006 3:27 pm: I face problem in playing the song bits. I don hear any thing when I click the play button. Any pointers/help? SLN 9 May 2006 8:21 pm: I got 23/25 on my own couldnt place 21 and 22. Still thinking, will try again later. prakash 10 May 2006 2:10 am: 23/25 srivatsan 10 May 2006 2:45 am: song no. 18 is kanmaniye kadhal enbadhu from aarilirundhu arupadhu varai (that's what i guess) but the answer doesn't turn green? zero 10 May 2006 5:05 am: prakash, you are right. It turns on for 'aruvathu' Vijay 10 May 2006 5:15 am: Try "aarilirundhu aruVadhu varai". sivaramakrishnan 10 May 2006 5:50 am: i got the spelling for 18.just spell it the way u wud speak out the name of the film.got 18/25 thennavan 10 May 2006 6:03 am: 25/25 once again confirming which era I belong to :-). Good selection of songs for all the periods. Anonymous 12 May 2006 6:37 am: clue for #12 pls got the rest. isai inban S Anand 12 May 2006 9:06 pm: 12: Kamal, K Balachander hari 17 May 2006 12:26 pm: 15 points 3 with spellings mistakes sambasivam 15 Mar 2009 7:10 am: first quiz in which i got full marks. dear anand, keep going kamesh 16 Apr 2009 4:17 am: song no.7 not playing, and i could able to find out no.21, i think the song is cholam vidaikayile from 16 vayathinile it seems. any one let me know.i got 23/25. anand superb quiz. keep going Mina 16 Oct 2009 5:40 am: Good one Anand. I too struggled with #5, but the "t" vs "k" option was a giveaway. TQ Sujatha 16 Sep 2009 6:33 am: Got 25/25.Make it harder. Saku 8 Nov 2010 2:17 am: good one.. except for the slight juggling for spelling for 21.. Isn't it 't' instead of 'v'? paramesh 23 Jul 2011 12:09 pm: i got 25 correct . very nice Kannan 24 Oct 2011 11:28 am: Two scores from the same song (12 and 14). I could not identify 21....feel bad Panimalar 17 Jan 2013 11:22 am: Got 24/25. Can anyone tell me the answer to song #9..sounds familiar but unable to find it.

Tamil Songs - 1975s


I curated a quiz featuring short clips of Ilayaraja’s background music from his 1980s hits. Can you identify the movies they belong to? Just type the name phonetically to see if you can score a perfect ten.

Ilayaraja ruled the Tamil music industry in the 1980s. Below are short clips with the background music from his hit songs. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Anonymous 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: 9/10 lazygeek 7 May 2006 9:38 am: 10/10 S Anand 7 May 2006 9:55 am: I should've guessed you'd be able to get them all! Well, I've got a 1970s one coming up. Will try and make it a little tougher, just for you :-) prakash 7 May 2006 6:32 pm: 10/10 thennavan 7 May 2006 6:39 pm: 10/10; Compare this to my Rehman score and you'll be able to reasonable say to which era I belong :) anantha 7 May 2006 7:12 pm: that anon comment was from me Cipher 7 May 2006 7:47 pm: 9/10 - 2nd is so familiar that i forgot it ;-) S Anand 7 May 2006 8:17 pm: Anantha, which did you miss? Cipher, the actor for the second song is Kamal. Cipher 8 May 2006 12:06 am: Was it tik tik tik or Sigappu rojakkal ? lazy geek 8 May 2006 5:09 am: cipher, it was andhi mazhai Anonymous 8 May 2006 5:41 pm: 10/10. isai inban. Aravind 8 May 2006 11:03 pm: 10/10 zero 9 May 2006 10:08 am: 10/10 kummy 10 May 2006 8:21 am: 10/10 janani 15 May 2006 1:48 pm: hey am pretty terrible at the 80's music. hmm... does that mean i am ultra modern or just badly informed. nvm.. they're just as bad. but it was awesome fun. going on to the 90's one now. K.Shyam 12 Oct 2006 8:14 pm: 10/10 Peri 14 Oct 2006 4:58 am: hey wat is 5 th. It is verrry familiar but I couldn't make it.Some Bharathiraja movie. That is sure !! S Anand 14 Oct 2006 6:54 am: Peri, yes it's a Bharathiraja film. Hint: Karthik and Radha. ASHOK KUMAR 18 Oct 2006 12:04 pm: HELLO SIR I'AM ASHOK. I VERY INTREST YOUR ALL MELODY SONGS .SO I want to ilayaraja hit nengil nendra ragam.plese give to this alubm keyan 28 Nov 2006 11:20 am: not challenging illayrajas music is in blood sathish 6 Dec 2006 9:12 pm: got all 10.. It was easy one..took 5 minutes madhu 4 Feb 2007 5:15 pm: got 10/10 Seetha 4 May 2007 6:18 am: Got nine..Wats fifth??s t not alaigal oivadhillai?? its not turning green :-) sathya 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: i like illiaraja very much his music is something different from other music when i sleep at night fistly i hear illiaraja sir music then i myself sing then sleep Sridhar 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: 10/10 ASHOK 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: I LIKE THIS COLLECTIONS GOOD,KEEP IT UP. Ahamed 6 May 2006 12:00 pm: Your site has been one of my favourites.. Uniquely beautiful to see a great site in a web world of obscenity and vulgarity. Keep up the good work Vinod Tamodharan 15 Aug 2008 11:59 pm: I LIKE THIS COLLECTION Kavitha 16 Nov 2008 2:28 am: All Songs are nice Deva 16 Nov 2008 10:22 pm: 3rd one is en iniya pon nilave. i forgot the movie name. ashok kumar 25 Dec 2008 12:13 am: all songs are very nice and i give 10/10 kiran 16 Feb 2009 3:57 am: 10/10.. but beautiful collection. I am getting to like your site as well :) Ashokkumar 16 Feb 2009 1:20 pm: Hi Gentelman I am very like & love your all songs I have your music song but i need your old melody song did you send me pl pl pl pl pl ................ archana 4 Mar 2009 1:08 am: 10/10 beautiful songs evergreen suriya 16 Mar 2009 3:15 am: 9 th i know the song..(poove sembuve) movie name dont know why do you need it? 3 Apr 2009 3:01 am: 10/10 for me. I love Ilayaraja songs. There is a torrent with over 4GB of free Ilayaraja mp3 songs. mininova.org. Enjoy...If there is a better site, please post... Selva 26 May 2009 3:35 pm: its interesting ya and i got all right Vishnu 5 Jun 2009 2:58 am: ha.. finally scored 10/10 on a quiz.. these are very good brain teasers by the way.. thanks for the effort :-) .. Vishnu Chnadru 13 Sep 2009 12:26 pm: Why is there no Panchu Arunachalam lyrics collection? Like kanmaniya kadhan yenabathu karbanayo.......... DJ 7 Aug 2009 9:51 pm: beautiful songs brings back my beautiful memories.....its like my soul....Ilayaraja the GREAT!! these songs automatically giving a pleasant feeling to heart, can't express it.... but i feel to listen listen listen... Sujatha 15 Sep 2009 8:45 am: 10/10.Very easy one.I enjoy these quizzes alot. sharanya 16 Jan 2010 6:03 am: It's very nice & Interesting Anita 7 Jan 2010 3:40 am: Hey, i wasnt able to recollect even one movie, but all songs are my favs. Merlin 2 Apr 2010 7:10 am: I got 10/10 kutty 2 Apr 2010 4:27 pm: i got 10/10 mahi 24 Mar 2010 5:25 am: i got 9/10 .. i can't guess the 6th song ... S.Chandrasekar 2 Jul 2010 10:03 am: I got 10/10. This is just because I have lived with Ilayarajas songs . Vijay 25 Jun 2010 1:44 am: nice one. got 10/10. You site is quite adictive. senthil kumar 19 Jul 2010 9:08 am: dear sir, very mush ur musiq and songs so like this ur songs and musiq every body thanks for ur goods music ...... Ramakrishnan 6 Jul 2010 3:34 pm: I LIKE VERY MUCH ILAYARAJA MUSIC Bcase of he is the ONE & ONLY Legend of Music.iam always hear his songs.He reveled the own culture in every songs. shanthi 24 Sep 2010 3:20 pm: very good collection...i got only 6 correct....its really interesting...I wish I know about this site earlier... vijayabaskar 20 Nov 2010 12:55 pm: pretty nice collection..its really easy to recollect the songs with the base tune... not realised that it be difficult to guess the movie name....just got 5 out of 10 303 14 Nov 2010 6:39 pm: yay!!!.. naanga pass aagitommmmmm.... :) .. adhuvum 10/10 :) TRG 8 Apr 2011 12:17 pm: I AM ILAYARAJA THEVARA RASIGAN 10/10 Kartick 14 Feb 2011 12:17 pm: @Sundar - Mella mella from vaazhkai.. guess u must've heard it in sarvam.. :) Sundar 13 Jan 2011 10:44 pm: could some one help me find this song . I can just remember the starting music i think this movie suresh and either nadiya or purnima jayaram or revathy acted . Please listen to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEOOsnLaQPw you might know . Please let me know at rdsundar@yahoo.com kagithan 1 Jan 2011 3:23 pm: 2m.. 3m.. theriyala ravindra babu hyderabad 18 Dec 2010 1:27 pm: hi nice to hear and collections Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 11:56 am: Easyyyyyy.. 10/10 kuttuvababu 25 Mar 2011 12:27 pm: very easy and popular songs DINESH 30 Dec 2011 10:16 am: NIZH, R.PARVAI, P.MUDIVATHILAI, M.VASANAI, V.KATHIRUNTHAL, S.BAIRAVI, M.RAGAM, N'GAN, S.T.MANASU, KARA'KARAN 10/10. BUT SONG 3 IS TRICKY Shriram 14 Jan 2012 4:34 pm: got 10/10 Anamika 12 Feb 2012 10:38 am: Pogum paadhai dhoorame vaazhum kaalam konjame jeeva sugam pera raaga nadhiyinil nee neendhavaa...! Arulselvam 2 Sep 2011 3:02 pm: 10/10 Nice collections viji 20 Jan 2012 12:30 pm: 80's songs are classic, romance, simply superb, its creates magic when v listen those songs people just forget the problems for sometimes enjoy the life, hates off to illayaraja for giving those awesome music, especially kamal + ilayaraja combo is a magic das 7 Nov 2011 3:06 pm: yehhhhhhhhhhhhh nanum 10/10 das 17 Aug 2011 5:13 am: 9/10 vijay renu 15 Dec 2011 9:52 am: we got 7/10 Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 1:29 pm: 5/10 padmanaban 15 Apr 2012 6:59 am: Nice collection, good to listen best wishes. 9/10 Ulaganathan 5 Mar 2011 3:45 am: Yeah.... Aatha Naan Pass Ayiten. 10 out of 10. divya 6 Mar 2012 2:41 pm: i just love raja sir Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:10 am: I got 10/10 in this one too.. :) madurai mouli 6 Apr 2012 8:15 am: 9 answer than kandupidichen. miss aanathu 9 avathu pattu. gotha ,just'la missu. Kesava Pillai 20 Jun 2012 7:00 am: 9/10 ,பூவே செம்பூவே ...மட்டும் என்ன படம் என்று மறந்து விட்டது ... Malarvannan 8 Sep 2012 1:57 pm: 10/10 Panimalar 16 Jan 2013 6:09 pm: Easy. Got 10/10. Very interesting to guess. balaji 4 Feb 2016 9:45 am: wow ! 10/10feeling great Aravindan 7 Apr 2020 6:08 am: It's ever green songs very easy to identify the movie.so nice

Tamil Songs - 1980s


I created an interactive quiz where you identify 1990s Tamil movies from their background music. It highlights the decade's shift from Ilayaraja to A.R. Rahman. Listen to the clips and see how many films you can name.

In 1992, A R Rahman emerged. Ilayaraja may have scored more tunes until the first 3 years of the decade than Rahman did the whole decade. But the decade belonged to Rahman. Here is the background music from some hit songs from the 1990s. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Blogeswari 7 May 2006 5:10 pm: hi , posting all my entries.. prakash 7 May 2006 6:29 pm: 21/25 thennavan 7 May 2006 6:40 pm: 14/25; actually I know two or three more too but it is like at the proverbial tip of the tongue but am unable to spit it out :) lazygeek 7 May 2006 6:50 pm: again 25/25 anantha 7 May 2006 7:12 pm: 24/25 with my roomie blurting out the other even before i could try. Honestly i couldnt have got it, i think! Cipher 7 May 2006 7:38 pm: 22/25 - 1,5,16 theriyalaba :-( S Anand 7 May 2006 8:16 pm: Cipher, these are the actors who sang 1, 5 and 16. Lots of kids, Kamal (sort-of) and Arvind Swamy. Does that help? lazygeek 8 May 2006 2:09 am: cipher, semma easyba !! Bala 8 May 2006 7:00 am: Superb quizes! Thanks. Arun 8 May 2006 10:38 am: only 12/25. But knew 22-23 of the songs. If you had played a bit more, would have done better, methinks :-) Great stuff!! Priya 8 May 2006 4:32 pm: Hey, excellent quiz, I know I got all 25 right in the 1990s quiz and all 10 in the 1980s. But how do I confirm, my box deosnt turn green or anything. Is there any other way to track the score? Ashwin 8 May 2006 4:48 pm: 24/25. I could identify some songs in about .75 seconds. :)Same as priya. Box does not turn green though! Anonymous 8 May 2006 6:01 pm: 24/25. isai inban. i think its no.18 i am stuck on. Music is familiar was racking my brains for some ilayaraja number then thought maybe its arr by some strange chance. But cant figure. clue pls S Anand 8 May 2006 7:23 pm: No. 18 is not Ilayaraja, actually. S Anand 8 May 2006 7:24 pm: Priya, Ashwin: what browser & version are you using? S Anand 8 May 2006 7:28 pm: Clue for No. 18: the actor is Arjun. Aravind 8 May 2006 11:04 pm: 24/25. Couldn't remember the movie for the 25th. zero 9 May 2006 10:12 am: Anand, The 16th is not playing. Couldn't get the 6th. Damn! 23/25 :( Priya 9 May 2006 2:28 pm: I got 25/25....this section was quite easy Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:15 pm: Anand, I was stupid. I was typing song names Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:21 pm: one giveaway was that all clips were chronological P 9 May 2006 4:46 pm: Hi, I am stuck on 14....any clue plz Ashwin 9 May 2006 6:48 pm: 14 had Nasser in it zero 10 May 2006 5:07 am: Song no. 16 is still not playing for me. kummy 10 May 2006 8:18 am: got 24/25 any clue for 10th one S Anand 10 May 2006 2:55 pm: 10: Vineeth is the actor Karthik 10 May 2006 5:35 pm: stuck on 25th.. any clues S Anand 10 May 2006 9:19 pm: 25: Sung by Shankar Mahadevan SuperStarFritz 12 May 2006 3:20 pm: Got 23/25. Have no idea about 10. 23 I know the song, but can't proceed from that tune onwards. Thoughts? S Anand 12 May 2006 9:07 pm: 23: Arjun song. janani 15 May 2006 2:24 pm: hey again, 18/25 on this one. am getting a tad better. shri 16 May 2006 3:00 pm: wow.got 25/25.cool.its so nice to play ths one. Anonymous 26 Jul 2006 2:24 am: couple of songs dont register..especially bombay and kaathalukku mariyaathai Ranganathan 25 Oct 2006 10:53 am: Hi Anand... Ranga here... How are you ? Came to know about this site... Quite Interesting... I am trying some of the quizzes here... This one I got 25 / 25 karthika 10 Dec 2006 3:44 pm: This site quite is interesting Prin 11 Dec 2006 10:19 am: Please help Anand, i have done everything from 1, 10-25. Others I need help considering i'm 14 and am a Londoner. Thanks sorna 31 Dec 2006 5:29 pm: 14 has nasar and revathi Seetha 4 May 2007 5:52 am: Not able to listen to the 19th one..it says not supported by the s/w :) Seetha 4 May 2007 6:21 am: Got 24 except for 19 :-)not able to lsiten to t :) kiran 16 Feb 2009 4:20 am: 25/25. Pretty easy though. (6 was a tricky one, common tune used by Raja in a couple of other movies) suriya 16 Mar 2009 3:25 am: 23/25.... help me with 6 and 10 plz... Senthilkumar.S 24 Mar 2009 7:28 am: got 23/25. couldn't find 1 and 10. Gopi 27 Feb 2010 6:50 pm: Acheived 25/25 Sujatha 2 Oct 2009 12:17 am: Got 30/30. Selvam S 7 Feb 2010 6:09 pm: Got 24/25... can any one give clue for No. 1.... Archana 1 Mar 2010 5:12 pm: i got 23/25 ilayaraja 17 Jun 2010 2:40 pm: i got 22/25 Vijay 24 Jun 2010 1:07 am: Nice quiz. Got all right, but needed a bit of help on 18. Manoj 28 Sep 2010 6:53 pm: Very nice.. 24/25.. 6 theriyala.. TRG 8 Apr 2011 12:15 pm: GOOD I GOT 25/25 Charan 16 Jan 2011 1:03 am: 25 out of 25 ravindra babu hyderabad 18 Dec 2010 1:50 pm: nice quiz romba naalachi tamil songs kettu really superb quiz Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 12:03 pm: i got 25/25... yeahhhhhhhhhhhh.... :) Kannan 24 Oct 2011 11:35 am: Yes. Got 25/25. It's like cake walk for me. Shobhana 17 Oct 2011 12:03 pm: hi.. i got 23/25.. missed on 6th and the 3rd.. the rest were quite easy.. can you please help with 3 and 6? thanks Srikan 11 Mar 2011 10:43 pm: Which name of the song from titel 12? das 17 Aug 2011 5:23 am: nan 22/25 than Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 1:56 pm: 22/25 Shobhana 20 May 2012 5:25 am: Yay!!! I got 25/25... nice quizzes Mr. Anand. It passes time very effectively..

Tamil Songs - 1990s


I built an interactive quiz where you identify 2000s Tamil movies from their background music. It features hits by A.R. Rahman, Harris Jayaraj, and Yuvan Shankar Raja. See if you can score a perfect 25/25.

The 2000s saw the proliferation of music directors like Vidyasagar, Harris Jayaraj and Yuvan Shankar Raja, while Rahman still continued strong. Here is the background music from some hit songs from the 2000s. Can you guess which movie they are from? Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Kaps 8 May 2006 7:33 am: Anand, All of them were pretty easy. scored 25/25. Can we have some tough / old ones please? S Anand 8 May 2006 8:33 am: Gosh, I honestly thought no one would get 25/25! Well, 1970s is next, and I'll making that as tough as I can. RDX 8 May 2006 1:46 pm: when ar u postin e ans??? S Anand 8 May 2006 4:01 pm: No plans to post answers. You can always mail me, though. Anonymous 8 May 2006 7:09 pm: 23/25. isai inban. 17 & 19 :-( clue its there on the tip of the finger not able to type S Anand 8 May 2006 7:29 pm: 17: Madhavan, 19: Ajit riggy 8 May 2006 8:14 pm: aww...i'm pulling my hair out on this!! 12/25....good one anand..do post more of these!! aneetaa 9 May 2006 12:38 am: cudn't find the last one alone.... gayathri 9 May 2006 12:52 am: any clues on the 15th? I cracked the rest ... but no idea on the 15th! kummy 9 May 2006 1:41 am: hurrah i got 25/25\ gayathri, its thotti jaya S Anand 9 May 2006 7:21 am: Actor for the last one: SJ Suryah Anonymous 9 May 2006 7:53 am: thanks. looks like i missed a particular md s in this and the previous quiz. I am happy i didnt miss any of gods creations ;-) isai inban zero 9 May 2006 10:20 am: 20/25 :(. I didn't get 10, 15, 16, 19, 21. and I came dangerously close to getting it right only for 16. Damn this too ;) sudheer 9 May 2006 1:54 pm: Awesome quiz.. cos its awesome fun.. i scored 16/25... need to sharpen my memory more!! Ashwin 9 May 2006 3:10 pm: 15/25(that too cheated by typing some popular trash vijay movies).. I am definitely a 80s tamil hippie :) balaji 11 May 2006 8:50 pm: and i thought i knew tamil songs... sigh got only 15/25 vidhya 12 May 2006 11:29 am: great one! when i started out, i thought i wld nail them.. but then had to be satisfied with 20/25. super fun, it was. thanks shri 17 May 2006 9:24 am: cudnt find out 10,19,25,15 and 16.any clues pl.?wasnt tht bad.its really enjoyable and u feel so bad wen unable to find out the movie name PAPPU 1 Oct 2006 7:11 pm: I TS LITTLE THOUGH.CAN U GIVE ANSWERS FOR UNKNOWN ONE? Ranganathan 25 Oct 2006 11:03 am: Hi Anand... ! Ranga here... Tried this one too... 25/ 25... Great Quiz... ! Thanks... punitha 16 Nov 2006 10:41 am: great....now i know, i am not that bad.....25/25....... suresh 2 Dec 2006 4:56 pm: tried hard but could get only 15/25 .... any way i enjoyed Prin 11 Dec 2006 10:37 am: Got 22 out of 25 - 9, 12, 16 Help with these. Just can't remember 16 although I can sense it Anonymous 24 Feb 2007 11:07 am: 25/25.15th was tough though Senthilkumar.S 24 Mar 2009 9:10 am: nice quiz... got 21/25. very close to the missed out songs... nazreen 9 Jun 2010 9:39 am: nice all quiz......really enjoyed...... nirmala 16 Dec 2010 10:13 pm: 24 out of 25 coulnt find 19...pls help...gr8 quiz though Sudhakar Dhanapal 19 Jan 2011 12:14 pm: 25 / 25 .. yahhhhhhhhh ohhhhhhh :) ramya 16 Dec 2011 5:41 pm: plz tell the ans for 19 plzzzz :{ Ranjani 7 Aug 2011 2:22 pm: 19/25 B.Manivannan 26 Feb 2017 5:05 pm: nice to listen

Tamil Songs - 2000s


I built an interactive quiz focusing on 1960s and 70s Tamil songs by A.M. Raja. Test your film knowledge by identifying movies from classic tracks using this custom web-based tool with real-time feedback.

More songs from the 60s and 70s. These are by A M Raja . Can you guess which movie they are from? (Some films appear twice ) Don't worry about the spelling. Just spell it like it sounds, and the box will turn green. Comments Kaps 16 May 2006 6:49 pm: 9/10 for this one and the next. Couldn't crack the 4th one. S Anand 16 May 2006 7:38 pm: 4: Sivaji, Chandrababu Dhar 19 May 2006 5:54 am: Errr, dont you think too much of Tamil Songs been featuring on your site? How about a nice juicy quiz on books, movies or something that non-Tamilians can take part in? Cheers, D. S Anand 19 May 2006 5:58 am: OK, will have something for you this weekend! ;-) Dhar 19 May 2006 6:13 pm: Wonderful! Will try to send you a quiz on Sci-Fi & Fantasy novels that you can package in this neato approach. Cheers, D. preethi 24 Feb 2007 10:07 am: got 10/10,4th one - sabash meena subadra 9 Mar 2007 2:39 pm: we too got 10/10 Anonymous 25 Mar 2007 7:56 am: I was hunting the inet for Am raja's photo, i couldnt find one , i want to relate his songs to his picure, do u have one ?can u post them ?-Thnx -Savithri MANY 15 May 2006 12:00 pm: thanks RAJA MOHAMED 27 Nov 2008 5:22 pm: i am a a.m.raja fan.but i am young generation Hilmy - Sri Lanka 10 Jan 2009 2:48 am: I/we(entire tamil am raja lovers) are very unlucky,thats why pepople like am raja didnt stay with us for another onE or two decades. pem 7 Feb 2009 4:14 am: good songs Thomas Prins 12 Sep 2010 9:47 am: 4th one from Sabash Meena - was sung by TA Mothy, not AMR. DR.NINAN KOOTHOOR 5 Dec 2010 5:30 pm: Songs like ulavum thenral,yaum kuzhalum un mozhi (kodiswaran) theladum neerodae meethae (alavudeenum albutha vilakkum) are wanted by me. If any of A.M.Rajah fan can help me to have them Iwill be greatful to him

Tamil songs by AM Raja