Why I admire Madhan Karky ?

Karky - A name which was only known to me as the author of widely acclaimed book "The Mother" - Maxim Gorky! Then came the audio launch of "Endhiran" and the name Karky became popular in Tamilnadu. This time it was Madhan Karky. To be honest, it was first the name that grabbed my attention before Madhan Karky's lyrics. And, from then it has been a journey of pleasant surprises and enchanments through the songs for which he has penned the lines.

Madhan Karky is a tamil film lyricist [or rather lyric engineer!], software engineer, dialogue writer and also an Assistant professor of Computer Science department at Anna University, Chennai. Being quite a multifaceted personality, he has enthralled me in at least more than one portfolios among the above. And, why can't he do that with such an elan, he is the son of Kaviperarasu Vairamuthu.

So,when I came to know that he has written some songs for Endhiran, the expectations were of high standards and yes, he exceeded the expectations with his "Irumbile Oru Idhayam" number and the count has now exceeded beyond 75 songs.

Let me put down my most favourite 5 songs of Madhan Karky and the specific lines which made me think this is special.

1. Irumbile Oru Idhayam - Endhiran

A robot acquires the knowledge of human emotions and guess how it would react if the first emotion it feels is the kiss of a beautiful girl. This song captivates the exuberance of a robot in love and rightly so, the lyrics has been interspersed with a lot of techie stuff. Some samples,

• "பூஜ்ஜியம் ஒன்றோடு,பூவாசம் இன்றோடு" - Robots are primarily computers whose commands are made of Zeros (பூஜ்ஜியம்) and Ones (ஒன்று)
• "கூகுள்கள் காணாத தேடல்கள் என்னோடு" - Reference to Google
• "என் நீலப் பல்லாலே உன்னோடு சிரிப்பேன்" - நீலப்பல் - Bluetooth
• Memory-யில் குமரியை தனிச் சிறை பிடித்தேன், Shutdown -ஏ செய்யாமல் இரவினில் துடித்தேன்! Sensor எல்லாம் தேய்த்தே நாளும் உன்னை படித்தேன், உன்னாலே தானே என் விதிகளை மறந்தேன்!! - Final lines about the Three Laws of Isaac Asimov 

2. Ennamo Edho - Ko

This song is featured in a situation when a  photo journalist is in a dilemma to express his love for his colleague. This song became a smashing hit and there was a great deal of discussion about the meaning of the words "Kuviyamilla Katchipezhai". 

And that line is

"ஏனோ குவியமில்லா குவியமில்லா ஒரு காட்சிப்பேழை! ஓஹோ உருவமில்லா உருவமில்லா நாளை!!" - குவியமில்லா means Out of Focus and காட்சிப்பேழை is a visual device like a monitor. 

His feelings for her are like an out of focus image in the display screen of the camera. How good is that for a simile!!

 3. Nee Korinal - 180

Another beautiful composition which is in the form of a puzzle. In the movie, Hero gets numerous birthday presents for his girl and hides them at specific locations. The clues for the locations are in the lyrics. For example,

• தீயே இன்றியே - நீ என்னை வாட்டினாய்! உன் ஜன்னலை அடைத்தடைத்து பெண்ணே ஓடாதே! - Location is a Microwave Oven
• ஓடும் ஓடும் அசையாதோடும் அழகியே! - Clock

4. Ask Laska - Nanban

Even before Nanban, Karky had ventured into writing foreign language songs for tamil films like "Continua" - 180 & "The Rise of Damo" - Ezhaam Arivu.

Ask Laska is a song of similar genre where the pallavi is created with the word love in 16 different languages.

அஸ்க் லஸ்கா ஏமோர் ஏமோர், ஐ அஸ்த் அஸ்த் லைபே!
அஹாவா போலிங்கோ சிந்தா சிந்தா, இஷ்க் இஷ்க் மைலே!
லவ் இஷ்ட ப்ரேம ப்ரேம ப்யாரோ ப்யாரோ ஒரு காதல் உந்தன் மேலே!!

 அஸ்க் - Ask - Turkish, லஸ்கா - Laska - Slovak, ஏமோர் - Amour -French/Spanish,

ஐ - Ai - Chinese, அஸ்த் - Ast - Icelandic, லைபே - Liebe - German, அஹாவா - Ahava - Hebrew, போலிங்கோ - Bolingo - Lingala, சிந்தா - Cinta - Malay, இஷ்க் - Ishq - Arabic,

மைலே - Meile - Lithuanian, லவ் - Love - English, இஷ்ட - Ishtam - Telugu, 

ப்ரேம - Premam - Malayalam, ப்யாரோ - Pyaar - Hindi, காதல் - Kadhal - Tamil

Some more words & lines that captured attention:

• "என் நெஞ்சில் நாடிமானி வைக்க, காதல் காதல் என்று சொல்ல!" - New word நாடிமானி - Stethoscope (The Heroine is a medical student)
• "தேஜாவூ கனவில் தீ மூட்டினாய்!"- First time, I am seeing the word Déjà vu being used in a Tamil song
• "முக்கோணங்கள் படிப்பேன் உன் மூக்கின் மேலே, விட்டம் மட்டம் படிப்பேன் உன் நெஞ்சின் மேலே!" - New way to learn Geometry by Lovers! :P
• "நீ கொல்லை மல்லி முல்லைப்போலே பிள்ளை மெல்லும் சொல்லைப்போலே!!" - What a wordplay!

5. Azhaippaya - Kadhalil Sodhappuvadhu Eppadi

 This song just takes you back to the memories of our college life. Waiting for the call from girlfriend, Imagining what we will be discussing, what will I be speaking and what will be her reactions and all other sweet nothings. This song shows the desperation of the boy to receive a call from his girlfriend and the lines are perfectly placed to bring out these emotions.

• "காலில்லா ஆமை போலவே காலம் ஓடுதே!" -ஆமை=slow then காலில்லா ஆமை! Time is so much slow paced when she is not with him!
• "இங்கே உன் இன்மையை உணர்கிற போது, ஒரே உண்மையை அறிகிறேன் நானே." - New Word "இன்மை" means Emptiness/Absence
• "நான் என்ன பேச வேண்டும் என்று சொல்லிப் பார்த்தேன், நீ என்ன கூற வேண்டும் என்றும் சொல்லிப் பார்த்தேன்! நான் அத்தனைக்கும் ஒத்திகைகள் ஓடவிட்டுப் பார்த்தேன், நீ எங்கு புன்னகைக்க வேண்டும் என்று கூட சேர்த்தேன்!!" - Just what we would have encountered during our college days!
• "அழைப்பாயா? அழைப்பாயா? தவறாமல் அழைப்பாயா? தவறாக அழைத்தாலே அது போதுமே...! அழைப்பாயா?" - He is so desperate that even if she calls by mistake, he will be happy! 

The above mentioned songs not only made me admire the composition but also induced me to do a line by line analysis of the lyrics!

Apart from this, Karky is also instrumental in spearheading Computer Science based Tamil Language projects in Tamil Computing Lab (TaCoLa) of Anna University.

Check out these links:

www.agaraadhi.com - Online Dictionary

www.agaraadhi.com/game - Onlne tamil games for Children

Madhan Karky has brought in some creativity in writing tamil songs which has captivated the imagination of this generation and also, introduced new tamil words to the public which many of us were not even aware that they existed. Looking forward to many more blissful songs from the pen of Madhan Karky!!

Train,Train! Come Again!!

Note: All the characters in this story are factual. Any resemblance to a living person is purely intentional to make sure it is a first step to meet them again!

Wednesday, July 21st

   I had planned the earlier day to wake up early to book my tatkal tickets in IRCTC. After snoozing my alarm for nearly 10 times (7:00,7:05,7:10,etc.,), got up at 7.52 sharp to prepare for the battle. Booking ur tickets in IRCTC website is like waiting for opening of Swarga Vasal in Perumal Temple. Till 7.59AM, the site traffic would be as low as  and right @ 8AM(Perumal Sannidhi Opens!), it would throw you the most feared screen "SERVICE UNAVAILABLE". For more info on this, check Dummies Guide to IRCTC. The author is a very seasoned campaigner!

   After a long struggle with all known browsers, finally booked a 3rd A/C ticket to CBE in Cheran by the mercy of a Firefox Session! There was nothing special in this trip till the date of Journey (Friday the 23rd!)

Friday, July 23rd

   Booked my return ticket which would be an action replay of the paragraph above. As usual, like a perfect workaholic, started from office by 7PM to board my 10PM train. Though 3 hrs seems to be ample time, chennai traffic makes you realise it the other way. Everything went in my way and I was there at station by 9.15PM.

  Then it happened! An incident which turned my journey to be a special one!

  I found the coach B2. Placed my luggage in Seat 6 [UB]. The train was literally empty as there was more than half an hour for the departure. At that time, she entered. Tall, Fair, Beautiful and in addition to that, her seat no was 3[UB again!].

  I immediately went out, checked the chart [Thanks to Indian Railways! But there are areas of improvement which I will tell later!] and found out her name as Archana. Cool! Got back and immediately texted some of my close friends about my surprise co-passenger.

   One guy replied immediately,"Machi! Dont forget to get her mobile no!". I replied back with a smiley and started reading a book. She was busy in her phone talking to someone. The train started to slowly fill up as time progressed. My other co-passengers of Seat 1,2,5 occupied their respective places. The passenger of Seat 4 didnt turn up! Good bcoz if it was a guy, one competition less now and if it was a girl, one distraction less! Guitar was missing in my hands to sweep her off her feet! [My friend gave a different definition for this but it is marked "CLASSIFIED" as her comment will be a damage to my image!]

   Like all stories, in this case too I had a villain. But a Villain completes a Hero! He was passenger of Seat no:5 [Didnt even mind to check out the guy's name in chart!] He had a laptop and was hearing music from his iPod and he initiated a conversation with all talking about Indian IT market, global recession,etc., in a flamboyant English. I could see Archana's expression like Yuck! for his blabbering and I was celebrating inside. Such an early defeat for the Villain boosts my morale!

   Then, an elderly person [Seat no:2 whose name I did checked later in the chart for specific reason!] sitting next to Archana started talking about Chennai Climate, Traffic,etc., She was still silent. I just introduced myself to the elderly person and slowly, all started building the conversation. The elderly person was working in a Nationalised Bank as Manager who came to visit his daughter, the bizarre guy working  in an MNC and most importantly Archana in an IT firm, Chennai.

   After some fruitful data mining, got the info that Archana had her schooling in Avila [Ada CBE ponnu!] then in NIT, Trichy! Like "Michael Madhana Kamarajan" dialogue, I thought "Aiyo! Coimbatore-u upper berth-u! Catch my point-u! Semmaya work out aayuduchu!!" Then, she turned to the elderly person next to her and asked, "Thoonga pongo pa! Karthaala seekiram ezhundhirukkanum!"[Nammava!].

   I felt like somebody has slapped hard on my face.[Adapavi! Appa va pakkathula vechukitte Kadala poda try pannirukkaye!!] I didnt utter a word and just went to check the chart again! She was Archana P and her father was Mr.D.Parameswaran [ Seat 2 & 3]. That set the record straight. All my plans came to a standstill. Silently, climbed to the upper berth and started my preparation for sleeping. She had already occupied the other upper berth and was having a word with her Dad in the middle berth before going to sleep. I also planned to sleep as there was no point to be awake.

   Suddenly, I felt somebody shaking me and trying to wake me up. I opened my eyes and it was her. Like in movies, I felt Ilayaraja's set piece orchestra playing a melody[A bit of exagerration! Please dont mind!]. It was interrupted by her voice [Another melody! :)]saying "TTR is asking for ticket", then she continued her slumber. After all the formalities by TTR, I resumed my sleep. I kept reminding myself,"Dont forget to tell her a Bye tmrw! That would be ur last chance to talk to her in this journey!!"

Climax [or rather Anti-Climax]

Saturday, July 24th

    I woke up at 6.20AM and to my disappointment, there was no one in the whole compartment. The train has reached CBE by 6 itself. Due to my Kumbhakaran's sleep, I missed bidding farewell to her [ Vada Poache!!] Came out and did a 360 degree check of CBE Rly Station, she was nowhere in sight [Aval parandhu ponaale!] This encounter turned out to be a passing cloud but a beautiful cloud!

   As usual, got the comments from friends,"Nee Waste da". The height of all the comments was from my brother,"Nee avanga appava correct pannirundhenna veetuke oru visit adichirukkalaam"[Experience speaks!]

   I consoled myself,"Trisha illati oru Divya!" :)

Sunday, July 25th

Cheran Express. Same B2 Coach. Return Journey.

   If there is something called destiny, I was expecting Archana again. But luck knocks the door only once and the key of the door was with luck's father supported by some conspiracy from IRCTC Chart preparing personnel :)

Area of improvements for Indian Railways: Try to include Contact details in chart[Atleast mail id!]. It would be useful for many of us! I believe most of my friends will support me on this!

EPILOGUE:

       This was my first attempt on "Based on True Story" kind of work. Hope I have done good for a starter!!

India @ T20 World Cup 09 - A MidSeries Analysis

As we are in the middle of the Twenty20 World Cup Series, let us analyse what is currently the chance of the Indian Team to retain their title this time.

Well, this year whether it is a boon or bane, we had the IPL 2 conducted just before the T20 World Cup. So most of the players got into the mood of T20 before the World Cup began.
This experience gave a new dimension to the Indian Team with players like Rohit Sharma moving up the order, RP Singh among wickets eventually emerging purple cap holder, Suresh raina stabilising the middle order and a lot of part time bowlers at disposal of whom Yuvraj & Rohit had hat-tricks against their names. Anybody who sees this side will be sure that they are tailor-made to be the champions.

With that prelude, we enter into the phase of T20 World cup.
Being the Champions of initial edition of World cup held two years back, India was grouped into a much easier group in the League table with likes of Ireland & Bangladesh.

1st warm up match against New Zealand saw the emergence as Rohit Sharma as a replacement for Sehwag in the opening slot. But still India went on to lose the match.
Note: India has lost all its T20 Encounters against the black caps.
Then, came the warm up match with Pakistan where India tore away the opposition to comfortably win the match.
So as hot favourites, India faced the young Bangladesh team. Remember? Bangladesh initiated the downfall of India in ICC World Cup 2007. With Bangladesh batsmen hastily chasing the runs, it was some clinical spin bowling in the middle that helped India to salvage a victory.
India also beat Ireland to go into Super 8 comfortably but even in this match, the Irish Batsmen scored heavily in the death overs bowled by Indians.
At this stage, we were able to see some negative things which were evident in most of the Indian matches:

• India gave too many runs at the death overs
• Very much dependent on the slower bowlers
• Dhoni's below par batting which reduces the run rate and makes the task to score runs much steeper for forthcoming batsmen
• India yet to face a quality side hence the performance of the team has not actually been tested under demanding situations

But these were not properly addressed and since the opposition were of not a niche quality, it didnt show its magnitude.

To crown it all, the injury of Sehwag was also a kind of blow to the Team.

Once India reached Super 8, it was drawn against West Indies, South Africa & England. 2 out of 3 wins will see them through to semis somehow.

In first Super 8 encounter, India lost to Windies in a big margin.

This match brought most of the problems with the Indian team into limelight.

• Once top order failed & Dhoni's sluggish batting continued, India was looking down to score somewhere around 110 to 120. Thanks to Yuvraj & Yusuf, India got much more.
• Once again the faster bowlers' balls were frequently sent out of the park. India was dependent on spinners but a much experienced side like Windies tackled the guiles of the spinners to a very good extent.
• Dhoni had a lot of bowling options which actually made him not to rotate the bowlers properly.
• Knowing the maraudering nature of Gayle, Team India had plans of taking him. Good. But they concentrated too much on Gayle, so didnt have a proper gameplan to tackle players coming in after Gayle.
• Dhoni missing one important run out chance which if effected could have sent back Bravo home who ultimately settled the match with a good 66.

So now India is in a must win do or die situation against England & South Africa.

Some of the corrections that could be made so as to avoid a humiliating defeat

• Dhoni should bat down the order and promoting Raina to 3rd slot, the position in which the southpaw is very much comfortable in scoring runs.
• Should juggle the main bowlers efficiently & bring in the part time bowlers only when it is very necessary. Some times we could see, very decent performance not utilized properly. For someone like Praveen who bowled a very good initial two overs but still at the end of Innings he s left with an over or two.
• Should have someone to bowl with good variations in the death overs in order to reduce the scoring rate.
• RP Singh could have been given a chance. It really feels odd when your faster bowlers are getting the thrashing but ur purple cap holder of IPL is kept in bench for all the matches.

So today its gonna be the second super 8 match for India against England. So if the above rectifications are done,we could expect India defeating England pretty comfortably.

With matches left with teams like England & South Africa, even a smal error will cost the Men in Blue very dear.

Lets hope they do win the match today against England and then win South Africa in the same fashion as they did in 2007.

It all depends on the "Captain Cool" to revisit and realign the strategies so as to reconcile & validate the loop holes in the Team & administration.

Lets hope for the Best & keep our fingers crossed !

A.R.Rahman - The Global Indian !

A.S. DhilipKumar! Nobody would recognise this name on hearing it for any number of times. But even ppl in the remote areas of India will know the name Allah Rakha Rahman (shortly A.R.Rahman). A man who has proved that music has the capacity to bridge the gap between the continents. Now he has made us proud by winning the prestigious golden globe award for the film "SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE". To add to his achievements, now he has been given three nominations in Two categories for the Academy Awards (Well Known as Oscars). The nominations are for: The Best Original Music Score -"SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE" and two nominations in the Best Original Song - "Jai Ho" and "Oh Saaya" from "SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE". The best thing in him is even after these achievements, he is still down to earth with his feet firmly on the ground which is a very rare trait.

Born to a Tamilian Hindu family on Jan 6,1966. His father R.K.Shekar was a musician by himself. Rahman lost his father in a tender age of 9 after which their family earned their living by renting out the musical instruments they had. Rahman started to work as a keyboard player to "Isai Gnani" Ilayaraja who was also one of the persons who gets Rahman's instruments for rent. His early days with Ilayaraja provided him a platform to flourish. He also got a degree in Western Classical Music from the Trinity College of Music, London.

In 1991, he got an offer from director Mani Ratnam to do musical score for the movie "Roja". Being a debutant in film industry, he caught the audience dumbstruck with his awesome songs of which "Chinna Chinna Asai" has been listed one of among the "Top 10 movie tracks of all time" by the Time magazine in 2005. He was the first ever debutant to win the National Award in Best Music director category.

After Roja, the progress chart of Rahman was always up with his great numbers in films like Kadhalan, Kizhakku Cheemaiyile, Kadhal Desam, Bombay, Muthu, Minsara Kanavu, Iruvar, Sillunu oru kadhal, Sivaji and the list is endless. Especially the song "Mustafa Mustafa" from Kadhal Desam was patroned as a national anthem for friendship those times. He has the ability to give the best in whatever category of music he chooses. He entered the world of Bollywood with "Rangeela" which turned out to be a blockbuster. After that Rahman become an important asset to the Hindi film industry. His works in Hindi includes films like Lagaan, Guru,Rang De Basanthi, Yuva, Ghajini, etc. He is an ardent believer in Sufism. So he converted to Islam. He loves the Qawwali type of music of Sufi saints. The song "Khwaja" from Jodhaa Akbar was fully composed of that style which will fill ur heart with divine spirit on hearing. He worships Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan as his guru and promptly he dedicated the song "Tere Bina" from "Guru" to his Guru.

One of the other big traits of Rahman is that he brings up a lot of aspiring young talents in the field of playback singing especially in Tamil, singers like Karthick, Benny Dayal, Chinmayee, Naresh Iyer, etc. are all finds of A.R.Rahman. He also proved that language is not a barrier for music by introducing singers like Udit Narayan, Sukhwinder Singh, Sadhana Sargam, Shreya Goshal and more to Tamil Film music. His achievements are endless including 3 national awards in Tamil for "Roja", "Minsara Kanavu", "Kannathil Muthamittal" and 1 national award in Hindi for "Lagaan" (totally 4 which is the highest ever by any music composer), six-time Tamilnadu state award, eleven time each in Filmfare award and Filmfare award south, IIFA award, Mauritius national award, Malaysian award and also recieved a honorary award from Stanford University for his contribution to world music. The most recent one being the "Golden Globe" for the music in "Slumdog Millionaire" and three nominations for the prestigious and most coveted Oscar awards.

Apart from film music, his albums have also been chartbusters like "Vande Matharam", "Jana Gana Mana",etc. His song "Pray For Me Brother " was chosen as the UNO's song for eradication of poverty in world. He also scored a theatre musical "Bombay Dreams" produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber. He also charted the music for the theatre production of "Lord Of The Rings". These achievements got him the title "Mozart Of Madras" from TIME Magazine.

Rahman still remains the same god fearing, humble and pious person what he was when entered his career. Mother India is really proud for her son who has taken India to the Globe with the magic of Music which needs no language. As Indians, we salute this great brother for bringing laurels to the nation with his golden globe award and wish him best for winning the Academy awards.

INDIAN CRICKET - HAS THE BELL BEEN TIED TO THE CAT?

Hi friends.. After a gap of two months,here is my next blog about the happenings after the debacle of the Indian team in the Carribean.

First, a humiliating defeat in the hands of an unexperienced but well determined Bangladesh. Followed by a record score against Bermuda lighting up a ray of hope.Finally,a demoralised exit from the tournament due to the loss to one of the favourites,SriLanka.Last of all, the resignation of Indian coach,Greg Chappell.

A single question ponders over the minds of billion Indians - WHERE IS INDIAN CRICKET HEADING FOR?

The Board of Control for Cricket in India(BCCI) has finally sought to some urgent but most welcomed methods to bring Indian Cricket back on track.

The following are the key points announced in the recent BCCI meeting:

• The coach of Indian Under-19 team,Venkatesh Prasad appointed as bowling coach.
• The coach of India A team,Robin Singh appointed as Fielding coach.
• Ravi Shastri appointed as the team manager for upcoming Bngladesh tour.
• Change in the method of salary: The normal method of annual salary as Rs 50 lakh for group 'A' cricketers,Rs 35 lakh for group 'B' and Rs 20 lakh for group 'C' has been slashed.
• Payment based on performance has been introduced ie., if a batsman scores a Duck or if a bowler doesn't shine then it will affect his salary.
• The wages per match which has Rs 1.6 lakh has been slashed to Rs 1 lakh and an incentive of Rs 3 lakh will be given only if a test or one-day series is won.

Now the biggest factor which is supposed to be affecting Cricketers' performance - "ENDORSEMENTS"

BCCI has laid down following conditions for ads by players:

• A player has appear in a maximum of 3 Advertisements only.
• No advertisement can host more than 2 players
• Prior permission has to be sought from BCCI for acting in Advertisements.
• Players should not act in any advertisements for a time span of 2 weeks before any series.

After all these reforms by BCCI, let us hope that Indian Team regains its lost fame and come up with a good show.

ALL THE BEST FOR THE REFORMED TEAM INDIA

INDIAN CINEMA AT WORLD STAGE - A PANORAMA

The recognition of Indian Cinema in the world arena started from the time when Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" astounded the world audience.After that,there was a red carpet welcome to indian films throughout the world.Though indian directors were looking for commercial successes,people like Satyajit Ray,Adoor Gopalakrishnan,Mrinal Sen and many more etched sensational and eternal movies which will exist till the art of movie making exist in this world.

"LAGAAN" directed by Ashutosh Gowariker was nominated in Best Foreign film

category for Oscars.This year "RANG DE BASANTHI" was nominated for the same category.A.R.Rahman's three songs, of which "Lukka chuppi" and "Khalbali" from RANG DE BASANTHI ,are also nominated this year.This shows the reach of Indian Film and Music in world Arena.

Year 2006 saw some really great movies from Bollywood which were trendsetters. Let us see about two of those movies of condradictory views but powerful thoughts:

RANG DE BASANTHI

-A new generation Awakens

Rang De Basanthi film deals about a foreigner who decides to shoot a film about Indian Freedom Struggle after getting inspiration from her grandpa's diary which he wrote while serving as jailer in India.Here she meets four young guys,through her friend,leading carefree lives . After a lot of persuasions,these guys,her friend and another hindu activist decide to act in her movie.At this juncture,their close friend and the indian girl's fiance who is a pilot dies in the aircraft due to faulty spares in the plane.The defence minister makes it up as an accident and put the blame on the pilot quoting him as a rash pilot.

Under these circumstances,these guys decide to become real national activists and plan to kill the defence minister and executes the plan to perfection.Unfortunately,the government hails defence minister as martyr and mourns his death as a national loss.So these young people decide to make the country aware of the real scenario via All India Radio and there they are getting killed by the commandoes of Indian Police on the orders of the ministers.The film ends with a child laying sapling for a better India in the future.

This film really kindles the spirit in each and every young gun to take part in national movement and has awakened the new generation.

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI

LAGE RAHO MUNNABHAI is a sequel of blockbuster "MUNNABHAI M.B.B.S" directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra.

If Rang De Basanthi is a serious story,Lage Raho is a laughter riot with a great message as its predecessor.

The famous Munnabhai spends all his day listening to Radio to the voice of Janavi.He eagerly wants to meet her at any cost.At that time,a quiz programme on Gandhiji is announce and the winner will have a personal chat with Janavi at the studio.Munna with by his normal "DADAGIRI" means wins the competition and meets Janavi.He lies to her that he is a history professor so Janavi asks him to give a lecture on Gandhiji.He goes and reads about Gandhiji in library.

Now, the actual tuning point occurs.Gandhiji himself comes to the rescue of Munna and he delivers an excellent lecture.As days passed,the residence of Janavi is being evacuated by Munna' s subordinate Circuit on the orders of a builder.Munna and others protest against the builder asking back the keys of Janavi's Residence.The builder threatens Munna that he will tell the truth about him to Janavi.Munna is in a fix.Now once again Gandhiji comes to his rescue.On his advice,Munna confesses to Janavi and she leaves him.But Munna continues the struggle to get back the home in a different way which he calls "GANDHIGIRI"-a confluence of Gandhism and Dadagiri and finally get backs the keys as well as Janavi's hands.

The story may be simple but it really portrays the power of Gandhian values and how it can be implemented in current scenario.

LONG LIVE GANDHIGIRI

Seeing these kind of films,we can be rest assured that the Indian Film Industry is turning in a healthy and positive direction providing world class entertainment for the generations to come.

ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION - THE NEED OF THE HOUR

Hi to all.After my first two blogs,I thought of changing to a different area of interest & importance-WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION.

When we look around and marvel at the beauty of nature and God's magnificient gift of Flora and Fauna, do the question really comes in our mind whether our future generation will also be gifted to view this masterpiece of God?

We want the answer to be "YES" but what is the actual scenario?

Instead of increase in the population of species of Animal Kingdom, the list of endangered species is growing at an alarming rate.

Some of common species under the danger of extinction are:

1.Tiger

2.Whale

3.Peacock

4.Lion

5.Vulture

6.Penguin

7.Rhinoceros

and the list goes on........

As a species existing in this beautiful earth ,it is an important duty of every human being to take care of well being of other species.Do animals hunt people ruthlessly or for fun? But man does.Even five-sensed species knows the importance of Ecological Balance and keeps the food cycle rolling. What we people boasting of having six senses do? Killng animals and birds for money , fun and endangering each and every species' existence in earth. Noone realised that this will affect them in return.

If animals and birds condition is like this,What is the state of our environment? Trees are being cut for Urbanisation.Increase in Industries increased Pollution. Usage of ChloroFluoroCarbons(CFCs) has created hole in the ozone layer which protects us from Harmful UV Rays of Sun.

WHAT IS THE SOLUTION?

The only Solution is - People should realise the need for environmental conservation and provide their contribution in one way or the other for its cause.

There are a lot of Societies such as the World Wildlife fund whose logo is at the top who are dedicated to the cause saving wildlife and conserving environment.

Even India has its own contribution from people like Sunderlal Bahuguna,who started the CHIPKO MOVEMENT and some people who set up their own forests and natural habitats for wildlife.

But,is this enough??

Definitely NO..Each and every people especially strong and energetic youth should involve himself or herself for the protection of our natural counterparts. There is a need for lot more Sunderlal Bahugunas in this world.

We should include WILDLIFE & ENVIRONMENT CONSERVATION as an important goal in the Vision INDIA-2020 and work for it.

COME.. LET US PROVIDE OUR FUTURE GENERATION WITH A MORE BEAUTIFUL AND SAFE EARTH TO LIVE ON.

CHANDRAYAAN-1 - A SPACE ODYSSEY IN THE MAKING

"One small step for man, A giant leap for mankind" - Neil Armstrong

Indian space research has toiled hard all these years and now here it is ready to take the small step to scale the moon for which the curtain raiser is the lunar project "CHANDRAYAAN-1".

Chandrayaan-1 is India's first ever mission to moon for high resolution remote sensing of lunar surfaces in various possible regions of light spectrum.It has been proposed to carry a 10 kg payload weight and 10 W power and space agencies of various nations like NASA,ESA,Bulgaria,Sweden,Germany,France,etc. have sent their scientific payloads for inclusion in Chandrayaan-1.The launch will be in the month of February 2008.

This project was announced by then Prime minister Mr.Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Independence Day of 2003.This project will be shortly followed by various other ambitious projects like Mars Exploration,Manned mission to moon,Finding possibilities of life in other planets,etc.

This mission aims at placing a 525kg satellite in a 100 km polar orbit over the moon.This satellite will be lauched by India's indigenous Satellite launch vehile, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle(PSLV).First the space vehicle will be placed in the Geo Synchronous Transfer Orbit and later tranferred to the proposed lunar orbit based on the in-built propulsion systems.This will be operational for 2 years providing enthralling information about our natural satellite,Moon.

The main objectives are:

1.To find out the chemical and mineral composition of North and south regions of moon which are permanently shadowed.

2.To evaluate the origin and evolution of moon.

3.To searh for Water ice on lunar surfaces especially at the poles.

4.To deduce the chemical composition of lunar rocks.

5.To map height variations in lunar surfaces.

THE MODEL:

The following are the proposed scientific payloads for this project:

1.Terrain Mapping stereo Camera(TMC)

2.Hyper Spectral Imager(HySI)

3.Lunar Laser Ranging Instrument(LLRI)

4.Low Energy and High Energy X-Ray Spectrometer(LEX and HEX)

5.Solar X-Ray Monitor(SXM)

Earlier the project was developed as an orbiting mission but now along with it, a small impact probe has been added to try out a hard landing on moon surface on the request of our esteemed President,Dr.A.P.J.Abdul Kalam.

By this time ,the team faced a problem.When solar eclipse occurs, earth will come between sun and moon (also,b\w sun & the spacecraft launched),so the probe may not get its power from sun and it needs a back up which will increase the weight of spacecraft.But since the next full solar eclipse is on December 2010,it has been decide to launch Chadrayaan-1 by February 2008 so that the project will be completed by February 2010,well ahead of the eclipse.

There are some more problems which are being efficiently addressed by our highly skilled scientists.We can be sure that the launch take place at the proposed date and give India, a new dimension in the field of space research.

I am happy that i have provided a bit of information on a project which is going to make Indians hold their heads high in the world arena.

Let us all join our hands in wishing the CHANDRAYAAN-1 team of ISRO, a grand success of their endeavour.

HARRY POTTER - THE MAGIC FEST

Harry Potter, the brain child of Joanne Keith Rowling or Popularly known as J.K.Rowling, has redefined the world of children novels.

Rowling has taken us all into a spellbounding world of magic with her unique characters and narration.

For those who are not familiar with Harry Potter, these novels involves the life of a wizard boy, Harry ,his seven years of life in th magic school,Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and his Bravery against the dark arts and the Dark Lord, Voldemort.His two great friends are Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger.

Six Parts of this series have already been released and the seventh part is ready for publishing.Five parts have been made as movies with fifth part yet to release.All four movies have been Box office hits.

Cast:

Harry Potter:Daniel Radcliffe

Ronald Weasley:Rupert Grint

Hermione Granger:Emma Watson

The seven parts of the Harry Potter series are:

1.HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

2.HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

3.HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

4.HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

5.HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF PHOENIX

6.HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE

7.HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS

Explaining the story in this blog is a herculean task.I recommend u all to read these books.It will surely take u to an enchanting world of Magic and very peculiar characters n creatures we have come across.

Here ends my first blog.Will come back with some more fascinating facts about Harry Potter and his magical endeavours.