Write to me

An email reaches me and I answer it myself, which takes a few days. If you would rather hear from me once a month, there are two newsletters below.

Monthly newsletters

Readers with an account on this site can have one email a month, of either or both kinds:

• Puthukural monthly update — the kurals added that month, and any that were corrected, each with its Kural ID so you can find it in the kural search.
• Nila Nalam moon-cycle plan chart — the coming month’s new-moon and full-moon days, with the thirty-day plan from Nila Nalam laid out against them.

1. Create an account with your name and email address — or log in if you have one.
2. Confirm your email with the 6-digit code we send you.
3. On My account, tick the newsletters you want.

You can untick them on the same page at any time. Your email is used for nothing else and is never shared. Until you subscribe, the site reminds you at most once an hour; “Later” quiets it.

What is worth writing about

• You tried something from Nila Nalam and something happened — it worked, it did not, or it did something I did not predict. This is the one I most want to hear. Chapter 11 of the book is a page of readers’ accounts and it is still nearly empty.
• You found a mistake. In the Tamil, in the science, in the arithmetic. Please do tell me.
• A kural you would like explained, or one you would like to share — every kural has a Share button and its own link.
• Work: delivery, Agile practice, automation.

What I cannot do

I cannot advise you on your own health. I am not a doctor and not a nutritionist, and a stranger’s email is not enough to go on even if I were. If you take medication — for diabetes or blood pressure especially — the person to ask is the one who prescribed it. That is not me being cautious for form’s sake; it is the single thing I would most regret getting wrong.

Elsewhere

• தஞ்சை நாடோடி — the Tamil blog, where shorter pieces go.
• The Puthukural on Amazon — Tamil and English editions, with QR codes.
• Nila Nalam on Amazon (also on amazon.in).