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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.

Friday, February 27, 2009

Let Me Say Those Things.



I do not like these things.Let me list them.

1) I do not like the hype surrounding the cricket team of India.I felt that they will be defeated by NewZealand.

2) I feel the media overplays its role many times.There were better films than the "Slumdog" and they did not get the Oscar.None of the media had highlighted this aspect too.

3)Bollywood need not dominate our opinions.

4)Politicians are becoming more and more calibre less.I rue this.

5)We can live with less cars and less petrol.

6) Environmental pollution is a concern.Let us bring the concept of celebrating "Vanamahothsava" in our school and plant trees.

Jayamala.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Some Notes On Entertainment.



Of late I have been watching some good movies in English.I watched,1)Code,The Cleaner,2)Sweet Home Alabama,3)Dark water,4)When Harry met Sally,5)the Pelican Brief etc.Most movies were really good in story line and the Hollywood people do say it straight.

Compared to these movies sometimes I find both Hindi and Tamil movies boring.I have no continuing inclination to watch.Malayalam movies seems to be better that the Hindi and Tamil movies.I am a real Desi Indian as much in love with my country, but we are highly dramatic and unnecessarily lenghthy.These are only my personal comments.

Jayamala.

Sunday, February 08, 2009

I Just Want To Be.



I just want to be at a little distance today,

So I will not speak or even think,

This day breaks in slowly at first,

But moves in a hurry.


There was nobody to care and nothing to hold onto,

So the whisper is there that it does not matter,

If I do not speak or feel.

A little loneliness is but a grea distance to cross on.


Jayamala.