Tracing the Lion

The guy goes… Hi Tambdi (the sound echoing in the room)!!! Drops his khaki sack on the table and shouts… “Rama ek chai dena yar”. These are among the few words this “South Indian” can speak to perfection. Florescent and what ever color one can imagine after that is what he wears. In shorts all the time, feeling the breeze on his muscular legs and riding a bike in style is how he makes his appearance. Always accompanying is a gadget just about a foot long, with which to captures whatever strikes the mind. While on mission exploration this “Terrorist” is draped with key chains, earphones wires, Discman, mobile, and all hanging and dangling gadgets one can imagine, resembling a perfect human bomb. For this techno savvy anything that is not made in India is made in France, for that’s where he would love to be if not in India.

A charmer to perfection, he would be for you before you uttered it to him. The Man females would die to be with. Lovers are who he loves, to the extent that he would make Parks for them. A laugh and not a smile is what you get form him always. While a pizza from Domino’s is what he relishes the most, Wada pao and kapa pao is what he nourishes on, the most. Printing is his passion; he tames “the Screen” to perfection, and the sun is the identity with which he signs his creations.I first met Arima – The Lion, nine years ago at the college of architecture, and since then I have been enjoying every moment sent with him. Arima began his architectural practice in Pondichery soon after completion of his course in Goa. Welding staircases, sandwiching saris between sheets of plastic, augmenting funds and arranging for constructions, is how he began his work.

Firdaus’s Ari…, Tambdi’s Kali…, Sonia’s Areemaaa..., Dionne’s Charisma…, for all of us The Architect, is today a part of Mancini Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. and spells his name as J Thamizharima – The Tamil Lion. The first article of the firm’s work was published a few days back in the Economic Times of India. Arima is thrilled with this accomplishment and why shouldn’t he be. It has been a benchmark achieved within no time. The work speaks for itself and needs no explanations.

The Conqueror of creation is on the move; the lion has begun his Rule!!!