Cinema! Cinema! Cinema!

In India, there are neither any discussions, nor magazines, nor television channels without having to do something with cinema. Although personally I don't watch cinema much, I want to go with the proverb "Be a Roman, while in Rome". So here is my first post about cinema.

Although I wanted to write about cinema, I didn't know what to write about. So I was just flipping through the channels, hoping that I will get some idea. Just then I watched a flash news in NDTV 24 X 7 , my favorite channel, that "A famous South Indian Actress Padmini died". So here I am writing my first post about cinema but unfortunately has to start it with a sad news. As soon as I heard of the news, the first thing that flashed across my mind was the film " Tillana Mohanambal", it was one of my favorite movie. Especially the song " Namlam thana" where Padmini dances to the tunes of Sivaji, will always remain etched in my memory.

Talking about the films I was watching one of my another favorite film "Ethir Neechal", starring Nagesh, the other day, when the cable service was distrupted. With the distruption of cable service being so frequent in our area, I feel it will not be long before we turn to Dish net services.

The last time when I went to a theatre was to watch the movie Gajini, along with my aunt's family. Recently my friends have been saying that " veetaiyadu villayadu" is good to watch and I should watch it. Hope I could get some time to watch it but for me books will always remain a first lover. I don't know why, but I was always more fascinated by the letters than by the films. So "Vettaiyadu Villayadu" can wait for some more time as I am ready to go to my book shelf, to explore yet another book.

PS: Our Honourable President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul kalam has not watched a single movie in the past 50 Yrs..

Yet another person with difference

Once Our Honourable President Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam , speaking abt medias role said that Indian media always gives importance to negative issues. The reason media gives for that was people are intrested only in such issues. Even as I was reading a variety of blogs just to educate myself about writing blog, a girl has written about the various headlines in recent news papers and has said that they are more like entertainments, which ought to be read after a tired days at office. They are nothing else other than that. But our President was once referring to a incident in Israel, where when he visited the headlines of all news papers were about a farmer's innovative technique and not about a bombing that killed hundreds ofpersons the day before. So taking our Presidents advice as a example, I also decided to write about positive quality of some personality i like in every alternate post. I had already written about Dr. APJ. Abdul Kalam in my previous posts, and this blog is going to be about Kanimozhi, the daughter of tamil nadu Cheif minister, Dr. Kalingar.

The idea of writting this blog actually occured to me as i was watching "coffee with Anu" a vijay TV Show. In fact now a days i feel programs of Vijay TV are better than that of Sun Tvprograms . Ok Let me deal about this things in some other blog, but let me now say something about Kanimozhi. Although i dont like her father much ( not personally but i dont like some of his policies), i like her for the following reasons:

• Her simplicity
• Her frankness and uprightness in discussing various issues
• Her boldness
• Her Honesty
• Her decision to not to rest on the laurels of her father but to work hard and create aname for herself in the society

In the Vijay Tv show i was referring too, one person said that DMK badly needs her to gather Female votes. I am absolutely sure she will not get an oppurtunity to read this blog, but my humble request ( Dont we who dont know even what is the weight of a cricket bat, give advice to Sachin on how to bat while watching matches, so what is wrong in myself requsting Kanimozhi, even though she may not even know that a soul called Subramani exist in this world) is that she should not limit herself to DMK. And she should not enter a politics just to become yet another vote gatherer. She definetly has more ability than that. Talking in the same show she said that she doesnt want to enter politics because she may have to make certain compromises. Therefore, i feel that if she really wants to enter politics, she should not end up as some vote gatherer, rather she should enter it with a bang and create a sort of revolution which removes the sort of compromises to be made if a person wants to enter the politics. But to expect her to enter just to get few more votes for DMK, is nothing short of foolishness. Our country badly needs a politician like her with a firm view on all issues. On the other hand, if she feels politics is not her cup of tea, she could do well to continue doing what she does best: Creating a awareness about the various problems in our counrty through her poems and articles.

Lets wait and see what she decides to do in the future

HUMAN BRAIN AND HOW IT WORKS TO REDUCE THE TAX

You must have read many functions of brain. It helps us to read, write, walk, take, make love, sleep, bla bla and bla. Infact it is the brain that differentiates Humans from the other animals. Take away all the weapons that the Humans created with the help of the brain, Humans would not even be able to fight against a small cat. Whether it is eye sight, hearing capacity, muscular power, in all the aspects we score lower than our animal counterparts. But only this small organ that lies in the top of our body makes us the Supreme power we are now.

It is the brain that made Mahatma Gandhi, the great person he is. It is the same brain that made Nadhuram Ghotse kill Gandhi. It is the same brain that made Osama Bin Laden kill thousands of people and it is the same brain that made Mother Teresa sacrifice her life for the slum dwelling people of Kolkatta.

Ok , I don't wanna bore you. The fact his how we use the brain that distinguishes us from others. But what makes me wonder is how the brain performs exceedingly well for the common public, when it comes to evading tax. The same people who feel that their brain has stopped functioning when their son studying in sixth standard approaches them and asks them to help him to solve his algebra problem, do some great marvelous work with their brain when it comes to evading the income tax.

Ill give you an example to justify my comment. In a foreign country, a woman bought a car. In that country, tax for car is 40%, whereas the tax for the vehicle that carries dead bodies is 20% . She registered the car as the vehicle that carries dead bodies and paid only 20% of the tax. When the authorities enquired about it she replied that she uses it only for carrying the dead bodies. She added that she uses the vehicle to carry dead hens ( chickens) from market to home and its enough for her to pay 20% tax legally.


I could think of so many other ways by which people make use of their brains to avoid tax. But the point is that if they start putting at least 20% of that effort in helping their country, the world will be a prosperous place to live. Its time every one thinks about and reflect what one of my favorite leader Abraham Lincon has said:

" Don't ask what the country did for you, Say what you did for your country".

Person with a difference

India as a country, seems to have always placed teachers in the pedestal. Famous Tamil verse places teachers just next to mother and father. We are not actually sure how much the students really respected the teachers, but at least going by what the epics try to convey, the teachers were kept in such greatness that Ekalayva was ready to sacrifice even his thumb for Dhronocharya, who actually even refused to teach him. (Was Ekalyva the first and the only person so far to learn archery thro correspondence course! Don't be surprised if SRM starts offering one soon)

I think I am deviating away from what I actually wanted to convey through this blog. Today very few youngsters respect teachers and very few want to become a teacher. Teachers are given nick names , made fun of, and all those sort of things. But then there is one person who is showing us the right ways. He is none other than our honorable President Dr. APJ. Abdul Kalam.

He had recently come to Tamil Nadu for attending in various functions. His schedule was tightly packed. He had to move from one college to another giving lectures and interacting with students and also had to attend so many functions that practically he had no time to rest. Inspite of his busy schedule, he infact found time to do two things that was not originally in his schedule, that surprised every one:-

1) He decided to visit the grave of his lecturers in a very dark night, he asked his car driver to focus the head light on the name of his lecturer written there, and stood in reverence for some time.

2) He also spent time with one of his old lecturer, who is 98 years old.

How many of us have visited our school teachers after we have passed out of our school. Don't we feel ashamed to sat that we are too busy to do it. Are we too busy than our President. Definitely not. So why don't we learn from our President.

( Our president also says that he will return to teaching once his presidential term is over. He is so passionate about teaching and shaping thae young minds of the country. In this context, even the lecturers and teachers have to learn a great deal from him)

Jai Hind and Long Live Our honorable President.

HAJ SUBSIDY

India is said to be a secular country. Our constitution says that the Government should not show any partiality towards any one particular religion. It also says that Government should not interfere in any of the customs, traditions of any religion as long as it does not affect the citizens of our country.

But then our politicians are just breaking this essential rule just for the sake of votes. Yes, im talking about the Haj subsidy. After all the talks about equality of religion, Our Government sponsors Muslims to go to their pilgrimage, whereas it doesn't give a paisa to a poor Hindu to go to Kasi or Rameswaram, neither it gives a paisa to a poor Christian family to visit their Holy place.

Talking about it, Islam strictly prohibits any person from getting help from any one in order to make the holy pilgrimage. Islam says you either go their spending your own money or else don't go. Our so called secular Government, which should not do something against the customs of any religion, unless it proves counter productive to the country itself, is giving subsidy to people going to Haj, thereby breaking Islamic tradition and Law for no reason.

Infact, no Muslim country in the world gives a single paisa, even to their poorest of their citizens for the sake of Haj pilgrimage. Why India alone acts differently. Wat else could be the answer? Just as college students get attracted by a four letter word called " love" , Our politicians also get attracted by a four letter word called "vote". With assembly elections in Uttar pradesh to be held shortly, don't be surprised if most of the Haj pilgrims this year are from Uttar pradesh

Hail Indias secularism

NOTE: I don't abhor Muslims. I have so many good Muslim friends. In fact every day while going to college as I pass through a mosque near my house, I look at it with a same rereverence that I look at a temple. I believe in Abdul Kalam, Our honorable Presidents words, who said" I have no doubt that the prayers said at a temple and a mosque reach the same GOD".