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Are The Indians Stupid To Burn Wal-Mart?
As usual, Indians ignorant about globalisation, are groping in a mess of disinformation and going berserk about Wal-Mart, which unfortunately has come to symbolise Multinational Retail Chains.
I don’t mean the proud ‘American’ Indians who might have sent
Greed is in the eyes of the beholder:
I mean the real Indians, citizens of the largest
democratic country who blindly follow the US India
“Supporters contend that the chain’s
legendary low prices have democratized consumption, allowing low-income
households to afford flat-screen televisions, for example. Critics say those
low prices have depressed domestic wages and exported manufacturing jobs to
foreign countries, hurting Americans more than helping them.”
DAM 999 - Will It Burst And Take The Unity Of India With It?
DAM 999, a movie released today
about a 110 year old dam,
built to last for a meagre 50 years using mud and mortar, which bursts during
an earthquake, is itself in the middle of a political storm and has caught the
world’s attention. The flick is about the Mullapperiyar Dam in Kerala,
an idyllic state in the union of India
At the heart of the political
storm is a water sharing agreement for 999 years, irrelevant in any civilised
part of the world, which put the life of three million people. at great
risk, as it doesn’t take in to account the aging of the dam built to
harness the Periyar River
The UAE-Indian film
has become controversial as the state of Tamilnad has prohibited its release
and exhibition in its cinemas, accusing the producers of scare mongering among
the vast population and the state of Kerala for secretly funding the movie. The
producers on the other hand are approaching the supreme court of India
A PAIR OF GENIUS FROM GOD'S OWN COUNTRY
This blog post is to request you to visit and contribute to a special Facebook Fan page.
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I hope it will bring out and introduce to the whole world, the genius of the great and inimitable Malayalam script writer and actor Sreenivasan and the secret of how his unforgettable scripts came alive and live for ever in the hearts of Malayalees through sheer screen magic of Satyan Anthicad, a great Malayalam film director.
Their work is such that there is no reason why it wouldn’t be recognised among the best of best in the world cinema had it been in English language! It is never too late to bring them such recognition and the onus is on none but the mallus themselves who are naturally bestowed with broad hearts.
The work of the pair will be remembered for the wonderfully natural characters it has produced on the screen with whom every malayalee can identify in some way.
This page is a place to share your unforgettable experience of that identity, the moments which made you laugh and cry and feel helpless in the state of affairs in God’s own land!
If the world should know, it has to be in English, even if it means your competence is at par with that of Sreemathi Teacher!
Satyan - Anthicad films with scripts by Sreenivasan
1986 T. P. Balagopalan M.A. Mohanlal, Shobana, Sreenivasan, Kuthiravattom Pappu Sreenivasan
1986 Gandhinagar 2nd Street Mohanlal, Karthika, Sreenivasan, Mammootty, Seema, Janardhanan, Thilakan, KPAC Lalitha Sreenivasan
1986 Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam (Peace for Good Minded) Mohanlal, Karthika, Sreenivasan, M.G. Soman, KPAC Lalitha, Thilakan Sreenivasan
1987 Sreedharante Onnam Thirumurivu(Sreedharan's First Blessed Wound) Mammootty, Sreenivasan, Neena Kurup, Innocent, Suresh Gopi, Sankaradi Sreenivasan
1987 Nadodikkattu (Nomadic Wind) Mohanlal, Sreenivasan, Thilakan, Shobhana, Innocent, Mamukkoya, Captain Raju Sreenivasan
1988 Pattanapravesham (Coming to Town) Mohanlal, Sreenivasan, Karamana Janardanan Nair, Thilakan, Ambika, Innocent,KPAC Lalitha Sreenivasan
1988 Ponmuttayidunna Tharavu ( The Goose That Lays Golden Eggs) Sreenivasan, Jayaram, Urvashi, Innocent, Karamana Janardanan Nair, KPAC Lalitha,Parvathy Sreenivasan
1989 Varavelpu (Welcoming) Mohanlal, Revathi, Murali, Sreenivasan, Mamukkoya, Innocent, Jagadeesh, Oduvil Unnikrishnan Sreenivasan
1990 Thalayanamanthram (Pillow Talk) Sreenivasan, Jayaram, Urvashi, Parvathy, Innocent, Mamukkoya, KPAC Lalitha,Sukumari Sreenivasan
1991 Sandhesam (Message) Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma, Sreenivasan, Jayaram, Innocent, Mamukkoya, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Siddique Sreenivasan
1993 Samooham (Society) Suhasini, Suresh Gopi, Manoj K Jayan, Sreenivasan, Nedumudi Venu, Mamukkoya,Vineeth Sreenivasan
1993 Golanthara Vartha (Global News) Mammootty, Shobhana, Kanaka, Sreenivasan, Nedumudi Venu, Mamukkoya, Oduvil Unnikrishnan Sreenivasan
1994 Pingami (Successor) Mohanlal, Sukumaran, Kanaka, Jagathi Sreekumar, Innocent, Oduvil Unnikrishnan,Devan Raghunath Paleri
1994 Santhana Gopalam Balachandra Menon, Jagathi Sreekumar, jagadeesh, Thilakan, Kaviyoor Ponnamma
1997 Irattakuttikalude Achan (Father of Twins) Jayaram, Manju Warrier, Murali, Sreenivasan, Kavya Madhavan, Lalu Alex,Mamukkoya Sreenivasan
2001 Narendran Makan Jayakanthan Vaka (Of Jayakaanthan, Narendran's Son) Kunchacko Boban, Samyuktha Varma, Asin, Sreenivasan, Innocent, Oduvil Unnikrishnan, K. P. A. C. Lalitha, Parthiban Sreenivasan
2002 Yathrakarude Sradhakku (Passengers Attention Please) Jayaram, Soundarya, Sreenivasan, Innocent, Mamukkoya, Oduvil Unnikrishnan,Siddique, Nedumudi Venu Sreenivasan
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Will The New Facebook Profile Make “Nostalgia” Disappear For Ever?
Last week Facebook started
rolling out the much anticipated updates which were to follow their substantial
revamp aimed at catching
up with Google+. The timing was just right to create the necessary uproar
and interest among its 800 million followers and the rest of the world and make
them ready for the quantum leaps Mark Zuckerberg was
about to announce during F8, the annual conference of Facebook developers.
In fact Facebook went ahead and
implemented the change to its news
updates a few of days back which in itself drew wild worldwide reactions.
Though there seemed to be wide
support (more than 2000 likes and 100 tweets as received by this innocuous
comment, which raised the author to a HuffPost Influencer status) for the
changes, there were also avalanches
of protests from disgruntled users who objected to Face book’s arbitrary
choice of what the user should see in the status update timeline. One survey
showed disastrous results.
The main changes announced
concerned how News Feed will act more like your own personal newspaper, and how
you won't have to worry about missing important stuff. Because all your news
will be in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the
top.
The other
most important feature was a new Twitter-like timeline called Ticker with real
time streaming of friends' activity like “likes” of an update, comments on a
post or subscribing to a page.
Though these innovations looked
nice, especially visually more appealing with larger photos and suited those
with a large number of friends or those who visited Facebook less often to
check friend’s updates, they seem to have incurred undue wrath of loyal
members, threatening to switch to Google+
The protests were surely
following a now familiar pattern:
“In the
history of Facebook changes, the pattern has typically been that users complain
loudly at first and threaten to
leave the site but then eventually learn to live with, if not
like, the new approach.”
However, Facebook has announced seven
important updates in the conference, of which the changes to the Profile
page seem to be the ones which will have far reaching consequences.
In a nutshell, the Facebook
Profile page is becoming your life story, your illustrated autobiography, a
chronicle in which everything you chose to appear right from your birth day,
everything you posted on Facebook reflecting your daily life and interaction
with those around you will be available to anyone who is allowed an access. The
whole information will be nicely indexed, year wise and moth wise for easy
access.
The social impact of such a
feature, available on the 800 million members and possibly billions who will
eventually join the network is, at the minimum mind boggling! We may bid good by
to “Nostalgia”, or the simple joy of
discovering a lost picture, for ever, because nothing is hidden farther from a
mouse click!
Article first published as Will
The New Facebook Profile Make “Nostalgia†Disappear For Ever? on
Technorati.
The 9/11 Memorial, A Pilgrimage Of A Different Kind
If for the two thousand nine hundred
and eighty three unfortunate souls their lives were tragically robbed on 9 /11
in the cruelest way, God has bestowed the kindest of mercies in death. For each
one of them, there can’t be a more serene and happier place to rest than the
wonderful memorial built for them.
In God’s wisdom, the 9/11 memorial has
turned out to be a most beautiful place where the departed souls will rest in
eternal peace, yet always be in the company of their loved ones and millions of
others from future generations who will stroll by, sharing the same love,
compassion and heroism they have come to uphold in their death.
Conceptually, the memorial is
nearly perfect, preserving the sanctity of ground zero for eternity and the
hopes and aspirations of the lives, which were never really lost, in the gentle
streams of water flowing down the walls of the massive ponds ever reminding the
immensity of the tragedy that happened. The memorial has certainly achieved
everything described in the words of its President Joe Daniels and much more:
“Our mission is twofold: to create a Memorial at the
very site of the attacks, where people will come to honor those who died on
September 11 and reflect on the compassion and humanity evidenced in the
aftermath of the attack, and to create a Memorial Museum where people will not
only examine “what happened” on 9/11, but also the questions of “why” and “what
does this mean for our future?”
Collectively, the Memorial & Museum will remind us
of the powerful and binding connection we share with one another. A connection
that eclipses politics, race, economic class, and geography.”
What makes the 9/11 memorial unique and even more special is
the manner in which the names are engraved in marble, in a way everyone can
physically touch them, kiss them and embrace them, which in fact make a huge
difference .
The power of this simple but unique architectural feature
rendering natural ways to communicate with the lost ones possible was evident during the memorial ceremony not only
for the loved ones of the departed but also for millions around the world who
watched sharing the same feelings, with tears swelling in their eyes, with each
name being read out.
The great men and women who conceived the memorial certainly
understood the needs and aspirations of the people who lost their lives more
than anyone else, which were reflected in the commemoration speech of President
Obama.
"Decades from now, Americans will visit the memorials to those who were lost on 9/11. They will run their fingers over the places where the names of those we loved are carved into marble and stone, and they may wonder at the lives they led.
And they
will know that nothing can break the will of a truly United States of America
Over time, the
9/11 memorial will no doubt become a centre of pilgrimage of a different type, a rare heart rending and touching experience,
the meaning of which will take years and generations to fully understand and
appreciate.
Article first published as The
9/11 Memorial, A Pilgrimage Of A Different Kind. on Technorati.
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