Friends, thanks for your responses..
first, I was the captain myself
Second, change of tailwind to nil wind was reported by my first officer, after reaching the bay. at 50ft my attention was all outside. so there could be a possibility of erroneous reporting.
third, ROD upto 50ft was about 700fpm. 3 deg descend, 2 whites 2 reds, GW about 61T. autothrust was on all the time. I disconnected AP at about 1000ft.
fourth, I did feel the increase in sink after crossing the threshold at 50ft.
my initial response to it was to pitch up a little bit to arrest the ROD. but it failed to respond. controls were sluggish.
I cut the power , because landing with power on with uncontrolled sink would have lead to greater bounch.
Now I recall we had a little bounch. And an aural 'PITCH' at touchdown.
post flight inspection, no sign of tailstrike.
of course I know, a go around would have been an ideal solution. but I started the thread with an objective to know what could have been done to reduce the g load on touchdown, assuming that a pilot would continue.
I feel g load could have been lesser if I had relaxed the pitch up demand, after finding no response intially. I dug the main wheels with constant demand.