Sociologist Roderick Graham and I debated this issue at the Divided We Fall
website.
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 Big Indian Fascist Farce of Fasting
Why is it then people, who have
no track record of generating national wealth of even one rupee, are able to
hold India to ransom by the farce of self denial of food? A farce India
should be truly ashamed of because pathetic emaciated human carcasses nearly
dying of hunger stalk the busy streets of its cities, completely ignored by its
speeding upward class.
Mahatma Gandhi invented fasting
as a tool to fight against a cause; to send the British occupiers back home. He
knew that he can get millions of hungry
people to realise fasting can kill the only leader they have to stand up to the British and they
have no choice but to stand behind him. But even he discovered its limitation
when it took several days of fasting before a national indebtedness towards him
for getting rid of the British, just about worked to stop the sparring Hindus
and Muslims and bring about a feeble truce.
But none of the declarations
to fast which have been recently made in fast succession, including the
latest one by the Gujarat Chief Minister Modi seemed to be worthy of a death
by food deprivation, in a country where
people die of hunger as a routine and least of all worthy of causes like the
one stated by Modi.
"The
mission is to unite, not divide. Gujarat is my family, the six crore Gujaratis'
happiness and grief, dreams and aspirations is mine”
What makes the farce of fasts even more despicable is the fact that
they are merely motivated by easy publicity abetted by topic hungry media who
is willing to put up any story as long as they get the eye balls and ratings
and conducted with exorbitant five star comforts and security to get maximum
footage for the event.
But the real danger seems to the
creeping in of hidden fascist elements in the whole process. Gandhi’s fast had not even a remote semblance to the fascist
elements which seem to be the driving
force behind the fasting farce of post
Gandhi era.
Whether it is an ex military truck driver who runs a village through its own court where whipping by an army belt may be the right punishment or a physical Guru who is an epitome of manly strength and wants to build an army of armed supports but had to be whisked away from Police in a woman’s garb by women or a chief minister who had to be reminded by the country’s prime minister that he can’t act Like A Nero in a burring Rome, it looks like there are serious and disturbing fascist strains in the veins of the proponents of modern fasting In India.
Whether it is an ex military truck driver who runs a village through its own court where whipping by an army belt may be the right punishment or a physical Guru who is an epitome of manly strength and wants to build an army of armed supports but had to be whisked away from Police in a woman’s garb by women or a chief minister who had to be reminded by the country’s prime minister that he can’t act Like A Nero in a burring Rome, it looks like there are serious and disturbing fascist strains in the veins of the proponents of modern fasting In India.
The definition fascism include:
“ radical, authoritarian nationalist political ideology
that seeks the mass mobilization of a nation through indoctrination, physical education,
to purge forces, ideas, people, and systems deemed to be the cause of decadence and degeneration, and to produce their nation's
rebirth based on commitment to the national community based on organic unity,
in which individuals are bound together by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood.”
It may be worthwhile to
examine which of these characteristics
fit each of them
Article first published as The Big Indian Fascist Farce of Fasting. on Technorati.
Article first published as The Big Indian Fascist Farce of Fasting. 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.
How Facebook Is Catching Up With GOOGLE+
A couple of months back, the attention was on the features
of Google+, the new Social Networking Site of Google, which were being sparingly
revealed to the world, much like a shrewd merchant revealing the end of the silk
he is holding out to the customer. Of course it succeeded in generating the
huge worldwide interest in Google+ and the phenomenal growth in its membership.
ComScore, a highly reputed business
analytics site reported that Google+ now has 25 million users while it took around
three years for Facebook and Twitter to achieve the same.
While the membership has no doubt shot up, it is not clear how the
users have accepted the features of the new
networking platform like Circles, Hangouts, Instant uploads, Sparks
and Huddles. Serious doubts
have been raised how useful and user
friendly they really are, despite the added
features Google introduced, leveraging on its own Browser, Chrome.
It was expected that Facebook
will inevitably introduce improvements to counter what Google would be offering
in the new platform. In fact over the course of the last three months it has
already silently introduced several small features and some important one like video chat
incorporating Skype.
However, the most important
improvement to the site which could counter the much tooted features of Google+
were announced only last week in the Facebook blog.
Unlike Google, Facebook has preferred to clearly explain the changes in very
simple ‘before’ and ‘after’ the change style, which everyone can understand and
are widely appreciated. Though there was favourable opinion from experts,
you could only palpate the richness of the goodies offered by Facebook only
since a couple of days. To be fair, they have turned out to be good stuff much
of the 750 million members of Facebook are going to like and appreciate.
The changes according to Facebook
in a nut shell are:
“A bunch
of improvements that make it easier to share posts, photos, tags and other
content with exactly the people you want, to make this more visual and
straightforward, bye moving most of your controls from a settings page to,
right next to the posts, photos and tags they affect. Plus there are several
other updates that will make it easier to understand who can see your stuff (or
your friends') in any context, organized around two areas: what shows up on
your profile and what happens when you share something new”
The beauty and simplicity of how
Facebook has gone about beating the circles of
GOOGLE + is by bringing everything you need to control your privacy in
to one simple circle and right where you need to apply them with the click of a
mouse.
At the heart of this clever
innovation is a drop down menu from which you can select the group of people or
person with whom you are going to share. This intuitive sharing engine is then
attached where it is required like your profile editing page in which it can be
applied to each of the menu item and your wall where you update your status and
share your media. The added bonus is the flexibility you get even to change the
sharing at a later date, if you change your mind.
This drop down menu undoubtedly
is a PLUS over Google+, in which you need to
pre select and compartmentalise your groups, who will receive different levels
of your favour and get to share what they deserve. To completely match the
segregation offered by Google+, Facebook will be expanding this over time to
include smaller groups of people like co-workers, Friend Lists you've created,
and Groups you're a member of.
Other
important changes include a button to show what your profile looked like to
others, another to add a location and tag the people you're with. You can add tags of your friends or anyone else
on Facebook and can review and approve or reject any tag someone tries
to add to your photos and posts..
Article first published as How
Facebook Is Catching Up With Google+ on Technorati.
Anna Hazare – An Indian Hitler Or Don Quixote?
If Cervantes, the Spanish author who
created Don Quixote four
hundred years ago visits India
today, he would be amused to see the ruckus
being created by Anna Hazare. However, he will be aghast how his character
could go out of control and create the current mass hysteria sweeping the
Indian continent, unless he digs up why Adolph Hitler could whip up something
similar in the pre war Germany .
Like Don Quixote, Anna Hazare has
been inspired only in his ripe old age to attain glory and a place in history.
Till the recent up surge against “corruption” no one, at least outside India ,
has heard of him.
It took him seventy four years to
see that there is an enemy “corruption” in the Indian society and it is his
call to eradicate it and thereby achieve eternal glory as his role model Mahatma
Gandhi.
There are a lot of interesting
parallels in the saga of Anna Hazare with that of Don Quixote. One can see Don’s stupid horse "Rocinante" in the bizzaare
group of spiritual and materialistic swamis, police officers and business men
supporting his shows. India ’s
nouveau rich techie and urban community is “Sancho Panza”, his equally
daft squire, who is promised the utopia of corruption free India .
The rural India
which constitutes ninety percent of the Indian population is his lady love, “Dulcinea del Toboso”, who he
tries to save from a corrupt government but she knows nothing about this.
Most striking comparison though
is in their adventures. Like Don, who saw in a wind mill a giant monster he
needs to defeat, Anna has identified and is relentlessly attacking the “corrupt”
Indian administration as his arch rival he must bring down.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
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