There were tens of thousands of ethnic Irish Americans in Maine protesting against Britain's persecution of Irish people in Ireland. Micheal Douglus, the hollywood actor said the US should send army to scuttle britain's ethnic cleansing otherwise the Irish Americans would seccede from America. His Irish blood is boiling over this. He questioned whether the blood running in Bill Clinton's body is irish. He challenged Bill Clinton to show his placental connection and called bill clinton a shame for not helping Irish cause using his ex-presidential influence. He said the Irish people now dont believe in USA. what is the use of ICBMs and nuclear warheads if it cannot be used for protecting the Irish-american taxpayer's umblical connection. He said the 10s of thousands of Irish people have chosen maine for protesting because maine is closer to england and their shouts and cries would reach britain's deaf ears. He also said in his emotional cry that he and his fellow irish-americans are going to take up AK-1000 if irish people are continue to be persecuted in Ireland.
Scene 2:
Collin powell and lakhs of African american gathered in Ocean city Maryland in a show of might for their umblical cord relations in darfur. Powell said African americans would seccede from america if USA does not fire 1000s of ICBMs against Khartum for its atrocity against the darfurians. Powell said america is playing against African american sentiments in Darfur. He said time has come for him and the 100s of thousands of African americans to swin against the atlantic ocean to reach africa and walk to darfur and show the might of their umblical cord's power.
Scene 3:
Gujaratis were being persecuted by Idi Amin. They were beaten and trashed and thier property confisticated. The gujartis were still Indian citizens they were not ethnic citizen of uganda. The gujaratis in India asked.....................atom bomb ..... pokhran ......umblical chord......
Now back to reality. Now why not such comedy happens in other parts of the world but only in TN? Even for infants the last remnants of umblical chord falls of within
2 days. How long will tamils in TN be taken for a ride in the name of umblical chord?
I strongly condemn the racist SL govt. but equally condemnable is the racial bigotry organisation the LTTE.
It has killed the greatest gandhian the world has ever produced after Gandhi -- Amirthalingam. Not only that it is the only organisation that has assasinated more leaders than all the terrorist organisation in the world combined. It has ethnically cleansed muslims. It has killed all the other splinter tamil groups. LTTE is doing ,done and will do more harm to the Tamils cause than anyone else. only when it is out of the scene a good solution could be achieved.
even when SL govt opened the A7 highway the LTTE blocks it. Even last week LTTE tried to sink vessel carrying food materials to kilinochi's tamil.whatever food material that reaches kilinochi is being grabbed by LTTE.
Why all of a sudden there is a sudden spike in the protests in TN? Even for a small lolipop sucking baby it would be very evident. The LTTE has been encircled by the SL army in its own den. Now there is no way for them except to fight and perish or chew their power candy dangling around their neck. The politicians in LTTE pay rolls in TN are doing what their pay masters want to do. The desperation is pretty evident with the amount of protests TN is seeing every day.
It is okay to raise voice in suppport of the kilinochi tamils even if the tamils in TN dont want to know the reality in kilinochi and the ulterior designs of LTTE even if none in the world would do such ridicule act citing umblical chord that has spanned about 1500 years. But what rights do Amir,seeman and other fools ask for seccession of TN from India?
The example these useless craps raise is that whether after mahatma gandhi's assasination the whole of godse's race was eliminated then why after Rajiv's death the whole of tamil race is being wiped? What a great logic these idiots are blabbering. First no Indian or indian army is killing TN tamils or for that matter no indian is killing SL tamils. Also Godse was hanged after his henious crime. Beant singh was hanged for killing indira. If they want to apply the same logic then Prabha also should be hanged for his role in Rajiv's assasination.
Seeman says that the homeland for tamils has been already achieved then why doesnt he go there and live in the homeland of tamils rather than staying in India and foementing seccession.
I recently read excerpts from a book about Tamil ethnic people other than from india. It talks about how sadistically the Eelam tamils used to treat the plantation tamils who migrated to SL. Till to date the plantation tamils who are real indians are being illtreated and looked down by SL Tamils. Till to date Thondaman the leader of plantation tamils shows how frustrated they are with the SL Tamils and LTTE.
The caste conscious SL tamils treat the plantation tamils as untouchables. Even leaving this i support the SL tamils just only on humanitarian basis and nothing on language basis. They are suffering from 2 demons one the dreaded LTTE and another some bigotry elements in SL like JVP and some chauvinistic buddhist elements.
Of all the leaders in TN who are being swept by irrational logic and by the of cash infused by the terrorist LTTE only JJ has stood her ground. She really distinguished between supporting Eelam tamils and opposing LTTE. In spite of all the tension and the palpable bigotry feelings being fanned in TN , she has stood ground. I also bow down to some TN congress leaders who are also in forefront in opposing the support for LTTE.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
A hole in the bucket...
Last week i had an oppurtunity to watch a glimpse of the movie "billa" (not the new billa but the old rajini kanth's version) courtesy SUN TV the only Tamil channel that is visible in this part of the world through dish network. I dont have the patience to connect my computer to the TV screen to watch other channels but that is for some other day.
The part i just got the glimpse was the scene where Billa is chased by police. bills escapes from the police in a car, he goes in opposite directions in one way lanes, the police still chases him, he drives very crazily still the police chases him, he hits medians and other obstacles with his car still the police chases him, he somehow gets into a horse and rides down on it on mount road still the police chase him, he goes into kamarajar salai adjoining marina beach, the police still purse him, he goes near Napier bridge the police finally catch up on him and they shoot him down, he gets up and jumps into ..... yes jumps into cooum with his bullet injuries.
I was dumbfounded !!! not because i was surprised that Rajini could jump into cooum inspite of heavy bullet injury but to see that the cooum was cleaner than i had ever seen at that point of the bridge. Probably it was say 25 years before that movie was shot? probably Just in 10-15 years from a little murky but clean river at that point of its journey it has become brackish utterly poisonous river. I think Arjun in mudhalvan also jumps into the river at the same point of cooum. I remember how brakish it looked in that movie.
this is just a sample of the great innovative genius of tamils at display.
This is just not cooum, Coimbatore has its own cooum the Noyyal.
Now to the real topic which i wanted to write:
All i have heard about Documentary film festivals is that they would show documentaries from many countries with varying themes. But i have never heard of any documentary film festival organized on just one specific theme. But recently there was one documentary film festival just organized on one specific theme of "Water"!!!.
This doc. festival was held in india and what place on india would be more appropriate for it? any guesses yes it was held in the most notrious state which does not give a damn about water treaties. Yes, it is a great oxymoron. Bangalore hosted it.
The festival looks like showed more than 70 documentary on that theme. As usual documentaries from many countries were shown. It focussed on water wars between states/countries, water mismanagement, death of rivers etc.,
Many indian documentaries also were there. There were couple of documentaries on Tamilnadu rivers. (is there any river except tamiraparani that is exclusively in TN??)
There was a documentary named : My name is palar.
Another one by name : "A hole in the bucket".
The first one by the name itself we can understand it talks about the river palar.
the second film is about the water story of madaras. I could even find a web site for this documentary.
http://www.kanavuppattarai.com/hib.htm
It looks like the director is a woman and her name is Leena manimekalai. I did not watch the documentary but the brief write up on it by "The frontline" magazine and also the commentary on the website sounds very intriguing. I think it would be a good watch.
But what really disappointed me is the documentary was funded by "govt of netherlands".
I am now becoming a firm believer that more than the corrupt government, only NGOs and comitted citizens can bring up any change on any thing. Is there any doubt to this even after reading about Rajendra Singh? ( 2001 Magsaysay Award winner and reviver of many dead rivers in Rajasthan).
The part i just got the glimpse was the scene where Billa is chased by police. bills escapes from the police in a car, he goes in opposite directions in one way lanes, the police still chases him, he drives very crazily still the police chases him, he hits medians and other obstacles with his car still the police chases him, he somehow gets into a horse and rides down on it on mount road still the police chase him, he goes into kamarajar salai adjoining marina beach, the police still purse him, he goes near Napier bridge the police finally catch up on him and they shoot him down, he gets up and jumps into ..... yes jumps into cooum with his bullet injuries.
I was dumbfounded !!! not because i was surprised that Rajini could jump into cooum inspite of heavy bullet injury but to see that the cooum was cleaner than i had ever seen at that point of the bridge. Probably it was say 25 years before that movie was shot? probably Just in 10-15 years from a little murky but clean river at that point of its journey it has become brackish utterly poisonous river. I think Arjun in mudhalvan also jumps into the river at the same point of cooum. I remember how brakish it looked in that movie.
this is just a sample of the great innovative genius of tamils at display.
This is just not cooum, Coimbatore has its own cooum the Noyyal.
Now to the real topic which i wanted to write:
All i have heard about Documentary film festivals is that they would show documentaries from many countries with varying themes. But i have never heard of any documentary film festival organized on just one specific theme. But recently there was one documentary film festival just organized on one specific theme of "Water"!!!.
This doc. festival was held in india and what place on india would be more appropriate for it? any guesses yes it was held in the most notrious state which does not give a damn about water treaties. Yes, it is a great oxymoron. Bangalore hosted it.
The festival looks like showed more than 70 documentary on that theme. As usual documentaries from many countries were shown. It focussed on water wars between states/countries, water mismanagement, death of rivers etc.,
Many indian documentaries also were there. There were couple of documentaries on Tamilnadu rivers. (is there any river except tamiraparani that is exclusively in TN??)
There was a documentary named : My name is palar.
Another one by name : "A hole in the bucket".
The first one by the name itself we can understand it talks about the river palar.
the second film is about the water story of madaras. I could even find a web site for this documentary.
http://www.kanavuppattarai.com/hib.htm
It looks like the director is a woman and her name is Leena manimekalai. I did not watch the documentary but the brief write up on it by "The frontline" magazine and also the commentary on the website sounds very intriguing. I think it would be a good watch.
But what really disappointed me is the documentary was funded by "govt of netherlands".
I am now becoming a firm believer that more than the corrupt government, only NGOs and comitted citizens can bring up any change on any thing. Is there any doubt to this even after reading about Rajendra Singh? ( 2001 Magsaysay Award winner and reviver of many dead rivers in Rajasthan).
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Quality conscious another corporate cheat...
"Indian goods dont have quality then how would germans buy it, how would Americans buy it.?" "Sir, after .... company sent its good to US, the US company returned the goods and cancelled the order due to poor quality". "Indians dont have any honesty they cheat in quality then how could they come up in the world".
I dont know how true were these but these were the common complaints by self professed know all uncles during their discussions in any gathtering. I used to be school going kid at that time and i would carried over by those talks and started to feel bad about the quality of Indian products and the dishonesty in Indian psyche.
Now only i can clearly understand those were mere bullshits.
The US runs into billions and billions of dollar deficit in trading with China. The "quality conscious" US has insatiable hunger for the filthy goods from china.
Never a day goes by , that shatters the world about the poor quality and the cheating by the chinese comapnies.
Barbies recalled, mattel toys recalled, this is recalled ,that is recalled, recall recall is the only news the business section of wahingtonpost newspaper carries almost dialy.
But why still the trade deficit with China is increasing if the US is sooooooooooo quality conscious?? The lack of quality never seems to threaten chinese goods!!! Kids,babies ,infants get killed by the great quality chinese products but still nothing happens to the chinese exports not even a small dent and dint.
What else could be the reason other than the corporate greed? All the US corporations procure directly from china. They just want windfall profit they dont bother about the consumers.
The hapless US consumers , who in india are regarded as the greatest quality connosuiers, lap up any garbage thrown at them from china even if it causes them to die!!!
There is no sharp scathing attack by newspapers on these corporations procuring goods by the billions from china.
The newspapers just report about the recalls but they dont question the corporate policy. The recalls happen only after few victims ,usually the kids, surface in the news. Probably the newspapers and the US congress would dig out themselves of the slumber only after 1000s of deaths and destructions probably on the scale of katrina.
Then they would squabble among themselves and pass a bill restricting the greed of US corporations.
Indians are more quality conscious than the rest of the world then how else could you explain the fact that India is the only country that runs trade surplus against china. Not only that the common refrain of the average maamis and mammas about the quality of chinese goods is well evident again from their discussions just like they used to have when i was kid about indian goods but this time it is more tangiable to me and even to those know all maamas.
I dont know how true were these but these were the common complaints by self professed know all uncles during their discussions in any gathtering. I used to be school going kid at that time and i would carried over by those talks and started to feel bad about the quality of Indian products and the dishonesty in Indian psyche.
Now only i can clearly understand those were mere bullshits.
The US runs into billions and billions of dollar deficit in trading with China. The "quality conscious" US has insatiable hunger for the filthy goods from china.
Never a day goes by , that shatters the world about the poor quality and the cheating by the chinese comapnies.
Barbies recalled, mattel toys recalled, this is recalled ,that is recalled, recall recall is the only news the business section of wahingtonpost newspaper carries almost dialy.
But why still the trade deficit with China is increasing if the US is sooooooooooo quality conscious?? The lack of quality never seems to threaten chinese goods!!! Kids,babies ,infants get killed by the great quality chinese products but still nothing happens to the chinese exports not even a small dent and dint.
What else could be the reason other than the corporate greed? All the US corporations procure directly from china. They just want windfall profit they dont bother about the consumers.
The hapless US consumers , who in india are regarded as the greatest quality connosuiers, lap up any garbage thrown at them from china even if it causes them to die!!!
There is no sharp scathing attack by newspapers on these corporations procuring goods by the billions from china.
The newspapers just report about the recalls but they dont question the corporate policy. The recalls happen only after few victims ,usually the kids, surface in the news. Probably the newspapers and the US congress would dig out themselves of the slumber only after 1000s of deaths and destructions probably on the scale of katrina.
Then they would squabble among themselves and pass a bill restricting the greed of US corporations.
Indians are more quality conscious than the rest of the world then how else could you explain the fact that India is the only country that runs trade surplus against china. Not only that the common refrain of the average maamis and mammas about the quality of chinese goods is well evident again from their discussions just like they used to have when i was kid about indian goods but this time it is more tangiable to me and even to those know all maamas.
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