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Blogs That I Follow.

  • http://navallanga.blogspot.com
  • News Item That touched Me ....There was one article in this month's Reader's Digest about Kamalbhai Parmar who is running a fabricating unit and who runsa school,rather a tution school for the poor students in Ahmedabad.It takes a large heart to start something like this.I do wish I can do something like that too.Atleast be able to teach in such effort .
  • Books That I am reading now.....I am reading "Under Orders" by Dick Francis.Just started.Seems to be about issues in racing sport.
  • News Items That Touched Me Today----The bicyc;e scores over train and car in a survey conducted for two wheeler travel ina congested metro like New York as the fastest transport..
  • Movies That I Liked.....I watched a Malayalam Movie called'Vastu Hara' in Kairali T.V.yesterday.The story touches about losers who migrate abandoning their personal properties during divison of countries and realtes to the creation of East Pakistan called East Bengal dividing Bengalis .Also running underneath the main issue is the personal loss of property which gets rejected by the Mother in the story who is offered the same back by her Husband's relatives.
  • Books That Are My Favorites----Somerset Maughm's short stories,Arthur Conan Doyle's 'sherlock Holm mysteries',All of Shakespearian dramas,The Bronte sister's writings,Poems by Mathew Arnold and Tagore's 'gitanjali'.This list is not exahaustive.

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Some Thoughts On The Media.


I was watching T.V.the other day.One advertisement showing a small boy exploring the eggs of a bird attracted me.I think such advertisements in the light of our diminishing birdlife is not good.I am yet to come across a city lad who knows to climb a tree.The only available greenery in the city is the parks.The advertisement was for ensuing 'freedom' by using a particular network.So definitely the boy is from a city.Supposing they had shown a village boy,at least I can imagine him with some access to greenery where a bird's eggs can be tampered with.

It is the hype about 'concepts' that I am talking about.Freedom as a hype,learning( super learning) as a hype.There was even an advertisement about a teacher teaching through a cell phone.I live in a country with a huge population.Teachers should be appointed and school teaching made worth while as an occupation.Instead technology(we are way behind in essential technology),but mod technology of a cell phone usage is glamorized.What to say?

I read at the same time Goverment hospitals abandoning sick persons,leaving them near their village or just in some abandoned places as these patients have no money for treatment and they are sick probably with incurable ones needing attention.It is not a private hospital who did the abandoning but Goverment hospitals with at least someone signing a discharge.Where is humanity?

Jayamala.
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