Category Archives: India

How to avoid shoe being thrown during a press conference?

A question that pretty much every security agency protecting politicians all around world are worried about.

But its pretty simple especially for Indian police just change the press conference to a near by Hindu temple where shoes/slippers are not allowed inside and you are safe. :)

It would be better if they avoid the following temple mentioned here. Please send me the video link if you find one.

India Electoral Roll List search

Yet again I was immersed  reading Wikipedia articles and I found a site that basically provides search interface to search the electoral roll list of India.

With elections on the way  this tool would avoid people from visiting the poll booth and return back with out voting since they aren’t in the list. It can be accessed from the below link.

http://search.eci.gov.in/

BTW I’m not sure if it really works because I kept encountering this login pop up which was annoying so I found the site for Tamil Nadu Election commison to check if I was there in the list.

One more you need to download their own tamil fonts and install. I know..

Bummer TN election has a search interface with Under construction message.  They do have another form which gives out tamil pdf for district – Constituency ward list for each of them.

Again bummer its in tamil so I can’t search in firefox or inside pdf which is a pain. So I had to literally read through all names in my ward and to every ones surprise I’m not listed :cry:

Waste of time. One good thing now I know my neighbours name and avoided a trip for my dad to check out the list.

Yamm Petra Inbam intha Vaiyakamum peratum..

Raise of Rahul Gandhi

Rahul GandhiThe whole world knows that one day he will become the Prime minister of India but when it will happen is the question. Especially with the parliamentary elections coming up in April 2009 and considering Mr.Manmohan Singh health condition  the question will be speculated by every media org.

Irrespective of who wins the election Mr.Rahul Gandhi will be a winner because all his moves are carefully planned and backed up by Ms.Sonia Gandhi the advantage Mr.Rajiv Gandhi lacked and we all know his end.

My personal opinion is Congress would allocate him the much hyped Information and Broadcasting ministry which was held by Ms.Indira Gandhi if Congress forms the government in 2009 which would get him the much needed experience to control the coalition parties.

If congress looses the election its actually better for him since he would have the much needed anti-incumbency factor from the 2009 goverment which in turn would get him the majority to form goverment in 2014 or earlier.

Until then the PM/opposition leader from congress will be Mr.Pranab Mukherjee or Mr.Manmohan Singh if his health permits.

We Indians are so used to the dynasty culture that we choose to elect kings in a democracy.

Recession hurts Super Star

Not even Super Star movies are not safe from recession.

Shankar should rather spend more time on a good story rather than spending so much money on a single movie almost 120 crores.

Well Sun TV is going to run the promo although months together.  Remember Thambiku Entha ooru which gets re-telecast n number of times :) .

Well I have updated my wordpress theme to the holiday mood.

Stupid IE is screwing the layout will fix itwhen I get time. Until then use any other browser than IE.

Tamil Nadu school books available online

If you are one of the people who is looking out for tamil school books to teach tamil to your kid then you got a good news.

Tamil Nadu government has launched a web site some time in September 2007 containing digital copies of all school books published by Tamil Nadu text books publisher which I believe covers the state board and matriculation as well.

I do like to refer my  10th,11th and 12th math books some times for reference so kudos to TN government for initiating this project.

I would be more happy if they digitalize all the books published by them in previous years as well since the sylabus changes.

We only can..

I can’t understand why would General Fonseka of Srilanka call TN politicians a joker which is absolutely right but he doesn’t have the right to cell them only we do.

If this makes him happy there are lot of Indians who will call this politicians jokers so general please don’t even worry about that. Well if you do want to call them names please do apply for Indian Citizenship.

I don’t remember where I read this statement “Every country in world have their army but only pakistan,turkey army has a country”. Looks like Srilanka as whole will also be added to that list of armies having a country sooner.

We don’t need Condemnation

We Condemned assassination of Rajiv Gandhi 1991
We Condemned demolition of Babri Masjid 1992
We Condemned 1992 Mumbai riots
We Condemned 1993 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned 2001 Indian parliament attack
We Condemned 2002 Godhra train bombing
We Condemned 2003 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned 2006 Mumbai blasts
We Condemned so many blasts this year
We have Condemned Mumbai 2008 blasts as well.

We have Condemned all along and all the perpetrators who causes this incidents are still roaming around freely in this world.
I’m tired of Condemnation and as a Indian I Condemn the government for its inactions.

Tamil Nadu census site

As usual I was browsing around and was surprised to find the Tamil Nadu census site online containing the most recent census data from 2001 with all kind of data like male,female,working,literates count etc with district,taluks,blocks based maps and charts.

Good to know Tamil Nadu has a 73.5% literacy rate.

It would be nice if they get some neat charts. I was able to find the Indian Census site but wasn’t able to view data since it requires a login created which is free. So if you got time and curious check it out.

Sabapathy one of a kind

There are some movies that you can watch n number times because they are so well made and the plot of the movie still applies today. Sabapathy released in 1941 falls under that category and a precursor to all comedy movies in tamil.

Most of the new comedians mostly take a thread from this movie and repackage to the current trend. One simple example is the repackaging of the master servant switching places story one example I could remember right away is Ullathai alithaa which was big hit in 90′s.

Some other surprising things I noticed are:

  1. People bribed even before India got Independence and it was even shown in movies. So bribe was something that we had it not something we generated after independence. Still we haven’t fixed it thats the sad part. Almost 70 years of promises by politicians.
  2. Tanglish was born and brought up even before the Dravidian parties was formed and it flourished. E.g ‘ivan nusiance thanga mudiyala sir’,'vera enna seilam brother’,'brother ithalam ippadi vaika’. The percentage is still low but Tanglish had it roots long before.
  3. Sabapathy father complains about his son not knowing to right 2 pages in tamil and my dad shares the same feeling. View @ 19.00 Minutes in Video 1.

70 years of time has passed but people haven’t changed.

What ever may be this is one good movie that I can enjoy watching any time any where rather than watching the new ones.

Please watch the movie if you get a chance.

Who is he?

Is he a Tamilian?
Is he a Muslim?
Is he a ex-President of India?
Is he a Indian?
Is he a professor?
Is he a Scientist?
Is he a Writer?

No he is none of these he is an living example of how one person should be and aspire to be.

Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam deepavali interview. Please watch it.

Please do let me know what do you feel about him.

Director Seeman/Ameer please watch it before speaking again.

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