Thodupuzha, Karshikamela, 18-Jan-2010,
Kerala must strive hard to become a healthy state and going Organic will be a significant step towards it, stated Sri Mullakkara Retnakaran, Hon Minister for Agriculture, Kerala. He was inaugurating the Karshikamela organised by Gandhiji study centre in Thodupuzha. Kerala has 3% of the total population in India but consumes 20% of the total medicines that are sold in the country. This is an alarming picture he said. He also said that protecting traditional knowledge for future generations is the need of today, especially in the farming sector. India must stop depending on world market and should focus on achieving self-sufficiency in food production, he commented. He said that if India and China approaches the world market for food items, that would lead to black marketing and price rice, thus creating artificial scarcity.
In his presidential note, Sri P J Joseph, Hon. Minister for PWD, said that the current economic crisis is partly due to the neglect shown by countries towards agriculture sector. Kerala must focus on value added product placement of it's agricultural products, he said.
The Karshikamela will be held from 18-26 Jan 2010. The exhibition stalls will be open to public from 10:00 AM on 19-Jan-2010. One of the major topics for the seminars is Precision framing, which will be presented by a team of professors from Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, headed by Dr. E Vadivel.
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
Good news
Good news for all A.R.Rahman fans.
Cant reveal it now coz of some technical reasons.
Stay tuned!!
Cant reveal it now coz of some technical reasons.
Stay tuned!!
Swayamvara
Swayamvara, the film was a dream project for my dear brother. He got the offer only coz of Kitty. Being with him at the time of composing was real fun. He composed 5 songs in 5 days and all was approved by the director. Rhythm programming was done by him only.Kadriskeys is always fun.Shakthi,Joe,Sriram,Hriday,Phulak haaa...these guys are the different organs for my bro. This time for a change he tried Gopisundar.. Gopi..ha, he completed 2 songs in 3 days. Babu Annan aka Titanic Babu ,our coordinator, Shit man, he always come to studio and his only activity...SLEEPING brrrrr. Anitha, Naveen, Keba, Karthik and Priya ..people behind d scene. As promised he made Maya sing a song,who is from our voice hunt..GLAD!! Yesterday was the audio release of Swayamvara.. All popular stars were present..Puneeth, Ramya, Diganth, Kitty, Sharmila ,Yograj nd all. Bro was hiding behind all, could hardly see him. lol. Shakthi was all laughing seeing this. Ramya is one HOT girl, cant take eyes off her.. And interestingly Diganth still remb me!! How cool s dat? I thought Puneeth is one big *** Hole.. Pretty good actually. bro was specially thanked by him for the great songs in his upcoming film PRITHVI. Watchout for that. Back to the topic.. Song was played before start..after hearing the songs, all were like.. AHHH, Wat was that? Let me stop this.. Today i got a mail.. from bro asking did u like the songs? guess wat i replied.. NUTS. buwahaha..
Marxist of the masses
Veteran Journalist M J Akbar in todays Times of India writes about Basu:
The gentle silence of a last goodbye began to seep through the Calcutta dusk on January 6 as Jyoti Basu’s city began to absorb the final drift of an icon from the shadow of age to the darkness of eternity. It had heard the code words ‘critical’ and ventilator’. There was nothing left to say.
Marx and Oxbridge were not that distant when Jyoti Basu went for his degree in the 1930s, with some compromise on both sides. Jyoti Basu returned with the heart of a gentleman and the head of a Marxist. He was the perfect Bengali.
Our paths first crossed in a strange, distant fashion. I was trapped in my small town mohalla in Telinipara by communal riots in 1968. He was home minister of Bengal. He arrived on a duty call. He did not come to our mohalla but learnt that I had not been able to go to my college, the famed Presidency, for weeks.
The next day the police provided safe passage. Whenever the endemic and poisonous eczema of riots troubled our land he would send a message to ensure that Telinipara was safe. He rarely forgot the individual in the tumult of the crowd.
A few months ago, on a sudden impulse, I asked to meet him. He was sitting in an armchair, in his familiar casual wear. Age had shrunk his face to a pale, taut mask on which I saw the flicker of images from the past: India’s most charismatic Chief Minister, a man whose sentence could change the dynamic of power, whose speech was all the assurance that the Bengali, Hindu or Muslim, needed.
I tried small talk, with increasing difficulty. I gave him a couple of books. “I can’t read anymore,” he said, gently. The fire returned, if only as a flame. “The doctors come every day. I think they must be laughing after they leave.” A pause. “Why did you come? Why did you come to see a dead man?”
I broke down.
The gentle silence of a last goodbye began to seep through the Calcutta dusk on January 6 as Jyoti Basu’s city began to absorb the final drift of an icon from the shadow of age to the darkness of eternity. It had heard the code words ‘critical’ and ventilator’. There was nothing left to say.
Marx and Oxbridge were not that distant when Jyoti Basu went for his degree in the 1930s, with some compromise on both sides. Jyoti Basu returned with the heart of a gentleman and the head of a Marxist. He was the perfect Bengali.
Our paths first crossed in a strange, distant fashion. I was trapped in my small town mohalla in Telinipara by communal riots in 1968. He was home minister of Bengal. He arrived on a duty call. He did not come to our mohalla but learnt that I had not been able to go to my college, the famed Presidency, for weeks.
The next day the police provided safe passage. Whenever the endemic and poisonous eczema of riots troubled our land he would send a message to ensure that Telinipara was safe. He rarely forgot the individual in the tumult of the crowd.
A few months ago, on a sudden impulse, I asked to meet him. He was sitting in an armchair, in his familiar casual wear. Age had shrunk his face to a pale, taut mask on which I saw the flicker of images from the past: India’s most charismatic Chief Minister, a man whose sentence could change the dynamic of power, whose speech was all the assurance that the Bengali, Hindu or Muslim, needed.
I tried small talk, with increasing difficulty. I gave him a couple of books. “I can’t read anymore,” he said, gently. The fire returned, if only as a flame. “The doctors come every day. I think they must be laughing after they leave.” A pause. “Why did you come? Why did you come to see a dead man?”
I broke down.
Last founding politburo member of CPI(M) no more
With a heavy heart, this blog records the death of veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu.
Jyoti Basu (8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from West Bengal, India. He served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him India's longest-serving Chief Minister as of 2010 of any Indian state. He was a member of the CPI(M) Politburo from the time of the party's founding in 1964 until 2008. Since 2008 till his death in 2010 he remained a permanent invitee to the central committee of the party. On his death, the last of the founding Politburo members of Communist Party of India (Marxist) passed away.
Jyoti Basu (8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) was an Indian politician belonging to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from West Bengal, India. He served as the Chief Minister of West Bengal from 1977 to 2000, making him India's longest-serving Chief Minister as of 2010 of any Indian state. He was a member of the CPI(M) Politburo from the time of the party's founding in 1964 until 2008. Since 2008 till his death in 2010 he remained a permanent invitee to the central committee of the party. On his death, the last of the founding Politburo members of Communist Party of India (Marxist) passed away.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Reasons?
I never thought my life will end up being like this. When i had the luxury to choose, i never did it. and now when i search for options, people biting me from back. Some people blive in intuitions, some in destiny. Whats interesting is, where they meet.Still, there are factors like Religion,caste etc. I was born christian,but i blive in every religion.Does that make a difference? No.Now the realization process, how it happens? 4 some it will take years.4 some a few weeks. i dunno why people stick on to thr thoughts and never change. i blive in the whole experience of knowing a person which involves all the conventional practises,thoughts, words and actions. Now whr people go wrong?In judging? No.Is it because thr mind is already filled with some thoughts? Or is it that the whole experience is more valuer than the state of expression?.Blive me,still we cant say that our country is free,we need to trash these negative thoughts.
Monday, November 9, 2009
May to November-
Atlast,
yea, i decided to continue blogging.
this time really inspired by Neha's and Piyush's blogs.
they are mainting thr blogs so beautifuly.The 'J' factor may be,ya.i am gonna continue.
I had to delete around 20 posts, coz now i feel,i shudnt have written those and the comments received for those were quite offensive.
Have lot of stories to post these days.
Phatak.
Here i start again..
Tony :)
yea, i decided to continue blogging.
this time really inspired by Neha's and Piyush's blogs.
they are mainting thr blogs so beautifuly.The 'J' factor may be,ya.i am gonna continue.
I had to delete around 20 posts, coz now i feel,i shudnt have written those and the comments received for those were quite offensive.
Have lot of stories to post these days.
Phatak.
Here i start again..
Tony :)
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