tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252826002012-02-02T23:12:34.463+05:30Writing is a passion that springs from inside . to me it gives deep fulfilment if it could give hapiness to the reader that is satisfaction to the writer most of my blogs are written on the spur with no editing the moment for writing should be spontaneous and the flow continous Behind every single second of ones life is a hidden story the magic of bringing life into words is invigoratingharimohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105229701118099822noreply@blogger.comBlogger1871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282600.post-28131323809831393232012-02-02T19:56:00.001+05:302012-02-02T19:57:41.900+05:30

when loved ones disappear with no warning the days ahead are filled with mourning to all of us parting and losing are sad and to never see the person again is really bad . To each one of us the departed soul is different to one he or she is the lover to some the loving parent to many the person  is a dear friend to some he or she could be just indifferent all of us have to say one day

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Cancer is a disease that has a frightening tinge to it .It creates apprehension and fear of impending death ,the advances in oncology notwithstanding death does play a big role in Cancer though its shadow is definitely being shortened day by day We cannot group all Cancer into one it depends on the type ,the site the stage and the other problems associated with the patient ( we call it as

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Sometimes ,no most of the times fine things come not by design but by chance . surfing the channels on a lazy holiday made me see this classic movie by Director Shyamaprasad ,I would not have even known about it otherwise ! Akale is a very simple story of a north malabar anglo indian famly , Sheela the extrovert gregarious mother who hides her anxiety of a woman deserted by her husband , a

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It was 2007 July ,one of the hottest periods in the Gulf and I had the first taste of summer in Al Ain then I reached U.A.E precisely on july 12th  and landed in Abu Dhabi Airport . Tawam Hospital recieved thier staff on the first vist with a  friendly chaperone and a chauffuer driven vehicle . Smiling Sidhu was my first glimpse of my Hospital hospitality and he made  a reasonably good

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Some Malayalam films these days are showing the sensitivity that they are  known for and thier quality is improving  after a precipitous dip to crass masala recently . Surprisingly two films Pranayam and Adhaminte magan Abhu have dealt with the seniors in society who are considered  not very market worthy in film commerce . Adhaminte got the national award for acting for Saleem Kumar known for

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Chauhanji the central character in this post was the fulcrum of our trip up the mountains . He was the organiser and part of Panikker Travels to whom our group the School of Bhagavad Geetha of Thiruvananthapuram had entrusted to conduct the tour . They had conducted many such yatras over the years to Mt Kailas ,Amarnath and to the Chardhams for Swamiji and Chauhanji an

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 Uttarkashi is the quaint  capital city of Uttaranchal or Uttarkhand ( name depending on  whether the Congress or the BJP is ruling the state ). 1500 mts abov msl The chardham ( Yamunotri ,Gangotri ,Kedarnath and Badrinath )are situated in this mountainous  state ,almost every family here has at least one member in the armed forces no wonder an ex army general is its chief minister

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 A slice from our past is like Deja Vu . It happen at times when we remember incidents at times taste of certain food and some places They say that deep in our subconscious our memory circuits get triggered on these occasions and suddenly we feel we have been there and experienced this some time ago . On this holiday back home I had a dejavu lasting for a day and more . The marvels of

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Kerala truly  has Gods special creative touch ,its backwaters are bewitchingly beautiful ,its blue  seas make the sun disappear into its folds every dusk ,its coconut fronds ,and bitter green foliage are painted canopies ,its undulating hills and shimmering rivers are beyond words or adjectives below are some snaps of a Kumarakom hideout we escaped for Onam and got lost from the world

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Hi my first mobile post on my 53 rd B day  .one decade back one could only type in word and snd as mail 2 day one cud satisfy creative instincts on the move   what next ?

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Before any of you jump to conclusions that I have joined any course at this ripe age by calling this post as a return to the university, let me straighten facts . True I  did return back to The Madras University which conferred me the degree on which I live , The hospital I work in needed a verification certificate one of the on and off  formalities which occurs  in any workplace ,We have doctors

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Blessy the  Malayalam film director has surely proved himself to be  a blessing to the  woe begotten Malayalam film industry and its recent descent to subteranean depths in terms of quality . with his latest film Pranayam he has once again shown his mettle to handle sensitive issues with great delicacy and taste . Mohanlal one of the finest actors in India today has enough potential in him to do

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There was a time when every malayalee family had one or more elders in thier house . With the advent of nuclear families and the lean and mean age the seniors either stay alone if they have the place or either they are dumped into senior homes or some even on the streets . many children today have

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For a foodie like me this new malayalam movie was appetising indeed .I sincerely wish more such malayalam films catering to a discerning audience are created .The creator of the movie has blended a story of love for food bringing together two older persons who had missed the boat in thier younger days .Food is always in the background ,be it in the steamy dough that magically turns into Kuttiyil

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Anand was a sprightly young man Tall well built and handsome he was popular in his class and a bright student too .He had well laid out plans for a career ,after completing Bsc Physics he would do his post graduation and later his Phd and get into Astronomics .Space science had alwasy fascinated him and he knew he would be in that field .His parents both bank employees had only him to look

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This post comes from me after life without G mail for less than a week !Somehow my account got disabled and finally was reactivated after several frantic mails to Google in U.S. and sending them the princely sum of 30 cents by credit card !These past days my mail account ,Picassa ,Blog and Google talk all were frozen .now I knew how people feel when thier accounts get frozen I mean the biggies

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This post is written as a reply to a comment on my post on Baba Ramdev .the reader commentedThat if a low level activist like Anna Hazare could lead a fight against corruption why not Baba Ramdev being followed by millions ,He also felt Anna Hazare was an escape valve for middle class ambitions ,of people who dont believe in parliamentary democracy or in the ruling by political parties ! He went

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The anticorruption crusade begun by Anna Hazare seems to have been taken for a ride !Suddenly a bare bodied bearded Baba Ramdev was hoisted on to the centre stage ( they say by The RSS/VHP/ BJP combine ) .The Baba was crying against corruption with all the fervour he could muster out of his yogic stamina with occasional spurts of push ups on the stage and stomach churning muscular exhibitons

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Tihar Jail today is teeming with celebritieswho made loads of money in thier large kitties they stole from the country left and right and today the bare walls of Tihar is in thier sight ! Remember the commonwealth conman Kalmadithese days his debonair beard looks a bit tardy Suresh bought toilet papers at unbelievable prices Toilet paper was just one amongst his vices Andhimuthu Raja the Dalit

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Shri Sathya Sai Baba is called Swami by his devotees and Iam just one of those millions .His mortal remains have disappeared deep under the Sai Kulwanth hall in Prashanthi Nilayam Puttaparthi ,Andhra Pradesh bringing a chapter lasting 85 years to a close ,but it had changed the lives of many.The work he professed and blessed brought succour to thousands regardless of thier status ,be it financial

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India has as its drivers three kinds of people .The first kind are people who who mean well ,are patriots at heart ,those who are saddened by the path of our leaders ,this is a rare variety amongst leaders and politicians but there are a select few too but the large number of well meaning individuals who really dont have much of a say in things that matter like you and me make up this group .The

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It was the Vision of his highness Sheikh Zayed to have made AlAin his birthplace a city truly bestowed with the bounties of nature . Today Al Ain is one of the most beautiful cities in the world filled with broad roads wide neat pavements ,aesthetic roundabouts and plenty of trees and filled with flowers . One has to be amazed at the maintenance of this city with its extreme

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India has earned the notoriety of being one of the most corrupt countries in the world .As it celebrates its cricket world cup victory and its cricket heroes wallow in thier prize monies its ICC chief Sharad Pawar has agreed to step down from the select committee entitled to draft the Lok Pal bill in the parliament because he is tainted for corruption himself ! This is the misfortune of our

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The recent devastating earthquake and Tsunami of Japan which caused so much destruction took me back to 1999 when Orissa reeled with the Supercyclone . yours truly was there just days before that and experienced an early pinch of it of course I wasnt there during the supercyclone itself ,if so I wouldnt be writing this and would have been long forgotten by now !We had gone for a holiday to Orissa

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The rainy season in Thekkepat Kovilakkam my ancestral house in Parappanangadi ( not the above picture as my ancestral house is long gone back to dust ) was something to behold .The drumbeat of the incessant rains on the awnings ,the constant gushing of water in from the drain pipes ,the flooding of the nadumittams ( the open spaces within traditonal Kerala houses )the surreal croaking of frogs ,

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The Kite runner is the first book by Khaleid Hossieni a physician settled in the U.S. Khaleid is an Afghan by birth and has written about his home country in both of his books the second one being the thousand splendid suns ,though I have not read both the books I happened to see the movie the kite Runner yesterday and was moved and absorbed by it .I would rate it as one of the best movies

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Lungi is a piece of garment worn around the waist by south Indians mostly Malyalees ,Bangladeshis and also Sri Lankans and some Malays wear Lungi but it is synonymous with Mallu attireTaking off on this we did a Lungi fashion show in our Indian Medical Association cultural night recently in Kochin this was created and choreographed by our president Dr Sushil Daniel some of us doctors modelled

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Amavassai is a Tamil word for new moon or black moon .Usually somebody is named that as a pun the person being dark skinned .Iam going to tell about an Ammavasai this story incidentally is a true one .Our Ammavasai was a seven year old beggar who was also a rag picker ,an orphan he drifted into Kannur and once while picking a rubbish bin found a steel vessel .Like any other child would he

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Stefan Hanna, a Centre Party councillor from the town of Uppsala,Sweden demands a 'fat tax' in his blog, upsetting both the public and his party .He argued overweight people place higher demands on public than those who stay trim and should thus pay a greater share of the costs, Swedish newspaper The Local reported. "If it costs more to live unhealthily the collective society doesn't say no! The

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Al Ain where I live is a beautiful city where nature is enshrined .The authorities maintain the soul of the city with its flower decked roundabouts ,green lawns ,paved neat sidewalks and colourful flowerbeds .The hills in the background and the clear skies specailly in winter makes it a nature lovers delight The setting sun bloomed into my vison and I quickly parked my car and took out my

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The next day would see us speeding this time with Mohammed who was guide and driver rolled into one he was rich with anecedotes legends and knew a lot unlike our Ali and Hamoud who knew how to grin and not much else . We went to Maloula and Sydnara hill stations about 100 km from Damascus ,the hills were about 1500 metres high . Maloula appeared after a steep climb through rocky openings ,it

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We were looking for a place near UAE where one could take a quick break ,my well travelled ENT surgeon friend suggested Syria and we took it up ,never to regret It was one of our best travels Terminal III Dubai Airport welcomed us for the early morning Emirates flight to Damascus and thanks to a friendly cousin we had a surprise upgrade to its Business class ,we knew its luxury only when we took

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This Visit to India I made my peace with the Gods !We visited many beutiful temples in Kerala and Tirupathi outside it .I could not take a foto in Guruvayoor temple because I woke the Lord early morning at Nirmalayam !The rest are Triprayar the river facing scenic temple in Trissur district ,Chotanikkara where an elephant was swaying in peace ,Poornathreswar temple of Tripunnithara was only a

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The hat trick of recent scams are the breaking news these days .Adhimuthu Raja the telecommunications minister for India swindled just 1.73 trillion crore rupees from the country by granting 2 G connections ,he got a send off from the cabinet by a rightful kick in the posterior .theother two oostees were Kalmadi the bearded CWG hero of the now famous rupee 700 toilet roll scandal ,and the

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I grew up in Chennai ,those days it was still Madras and Mylapore where I spent my childhood was full of temples and festivals round the year .Come January there was Pongal when all the milkmen of the area would parade thier cows and buffaloes in full livery http://hariwrite.blogspot.com/2010/01/pongal-times.html ,come April it was the new year ( Varshapurappu ) just a day before the malayalee

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I threw up again ,the stink rose through my nose hitting my befuddled brain ,even in that state it was revolting ,The smell of vomit with booze in it and lots of it too is always revoltingAll the more if one was lying in a gutter with bilious liquid dirt flowing all around youWhere was I ?Of late this question had always popped up in my mind clearing the fumes of whisky from my gray cells for a

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The chennai international Airport confounded us with chaos and confusion .It was Haj times and one had to trudge a long distance sans trolleys which just werent available ,Chennai city definitely deserves a less shoddy airport than this .We were off to our four days sojourn to Thailand for a get together of my wifes classmates KMC 79 batch reunion .The tour itself was courtesy Diana Travels

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Going on leave to India for people in the Gulf is an occasion ,even though these days it is not a big deal as things are convinient and one can fly at ones whim if the timing is correct .Earlier the interval was longer and the preparation was also elaborate Those days one had to buy the mandatory foriegene things for the near and kin as India was starved of such goodies Today it like taking coal

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A rose by any other name is still a rose ! But still a name is a name . In Advaita philosophy life itself and all of us are just illusions and our existence is described by that wonderful term MAYA which has no equal in the queens language and so our names and ourselves are actually quite worthless .But for a mere mortal like me Advaithic thoughts dont come in the way of name attachment .We are

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Onam pon Onam ……….Once upon a time my dear friendsThere lived a king called Mahabali ,says legendHe was a wise man ,powerful ,handsome and fairTo find one like him it was very very rare But the Devas got envious and all greenSo they went to Lord Krishna with words so meanKrishna knew their tricks but still went to MahabaliDressed as a humble dwarf Brahmin ,you seeHe asked for just three foot of

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Aamir Khan is always associated with movies which arent run of the mill This time he is only a producer and never shows up on screen ." Peepli live "directed by former NDTV journo Anusha Rizvi focuses on rural India with so much reality that it sounds and looks more like a documentary than a commercial hindi film .From the main actors to the rest of the cast it is authenticity taken to so much

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They say it is every mans fantasy to have two wives ,of course the barrage faced would be twice indeed !After coming to UAE I have two ........to help me in the housework Before you gasp , let me hasten to add that both are safely men .Again before you gasp ! and start supecting things ........One is for cleaning the house and the other is for cooking my food The cleaning boy comes weekly twice

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After a long time I saw a good malayalam film .Malayalam films a decade back were known for its excellent creativity and were also commercially satisfying ,this slowly degenerated into poor copies of other South Indian language masala films ( not thier good ones ) with dance and songs alien to Kerala roots !Thankfully the Shakeela specials have petered down these days .Loudspeaker a movie by

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25 years back on a tragic day in Bhopal more than 15000 innocents succumbed to poisonous fumes leaked from the Union Carbide fertiliser plant due to gross ineptitude and negligence by the multinational corporate .Warren Anderson the CEO who had the guts to turn up at the site immediately was escorted to his home U.S.of A. by the leaders governing our country at that time and is still scot free in

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This FIFA a wriggly slippery pound of flesh made more news than all those sweating on and off the field . Somewhere in Germany in an aquarium Paul spread his buttoned tentacles over the can of food never knowing he was making histroy and being watched by millions on live TV .None knows how his clairvoyant powers were detected and marketed ,but one does know now that he was strangely and

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Al Ain means the Eye the garden city of the U.A.E.has been home to me for the last three years It reminds me a lot of New Delhi .Wide neat roads lined by greenery and flowers ,No high rises ( AlAin allows no high rises ) and a similar extreme climateFrom October till April it is cool and pleasant ,to make up for this the rest of the months are torridly hot ,As summer advances it becomes a furnace

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What is it that wants man to soar over all ?To be in the top of the worlds tallest building and look down at Terra firma is almost philosophical ,it makes your worries vanish without trace ! Me with my son and daughter did just that last week . I had seen the Burj Dubai coming up over the years whenever I drove to Dubai its pencil like spire growing taller and taller lost in the hazy horizon

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20 % of Indian children between 6 and 14 are not studying in schools ,they have no choice 12.6 million are engaged in work ...........that is child labour for you !Neither does the media find all this worthwhile to focus on such important issues nor do our great leaders have time to ponder over all this .Our Constitution clearly states that children have a right to education and are

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This holiday I managed to see six filmsthree malayalam ,two hindi and one TamilVERDICT :two of the three mallu flicks was o.k the third one a dismal boreonly tamil flick I saw was xlntboth hindi films were dud sPAPPI APPACHAN : one would imagine with the likes of Dileep ,Innocent and Kavya and thier talents any film would be a winner but this kind of thinking is wrong ,this poor try of a

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Folks this is the story of Shoiab and Sania A small tale of the recent Hyderabad love mania Shoib the dashing cricket hero from pakistan And Sania the tennis /fashion damsel of Hindoostanall you needed here for a film was Khan Sharukh Khan !suddenly there came an Aysha who created a drama by producing an untimely and faded NikkanammaAll over the TVs were the trio Sania Shoib and Ayshaof

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Legend tells us Kerala is a land made from the sea by Parasurama , Gods own country has lived up to its name in its natural beauty ,its flowing rivers ,rising hills ,green canopy ,and soothing winds .but no more today it has in many parts dry cracked land ,muddy rivers ,dry wells ,temperatures touching 40 C in march ! and sun burnt posteriors of its subjects Kerala is turning dry ( of course not

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My ambitions to become an actor was nipped in the bud ( for good ,thank God for that ,why did u think ever think of becoming one ?are three possible responses I hear from the reader )It all started when in 10 th grade , in my budding teens and with raring hormones ,an advertisement in the daily that they were looking for young people with the yearning to act to be part of a theatre group in

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Reading to me has been as much a passion as writing is when in school I used to devour any printed word even in grocery wraps ,I quickly graduated from Richie rich ,Mandrake the magician,Phantom , Tarzan to TinTin and Asterix ,on to Enid Blyton discovering P.G .Wodehouse and his wonders on the way ( and never looking back ) of course R.K.Narayanan would always be my all time favourite with the

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N.D.Tiwari the former honble governor of Andhra Pradesh is in his young eighties 83 to be precise but he needs no stick to help him walk nor does he spend time reading his scriptures being a Governor he shouldnt would be the natural response ! Tiwariji has different ideas of passing his time .his pictures of him romping with not one but three nubile damsels in the gubernatorial bed was all over

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Today is the world cancer day .More than 12 million people are diagnosed every year with cancer and more than 7.6 million succumb to it .It is estimated that more than 84 million people would die of it between 2005 and 2015 without intervention .Cancer is the uncontrolled growth and spread of cells. It can affect almost any part of the body. The growths often invade surrounding tissue and can

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To Fry or Grill that is the question ?the world reknowned Kentucky Fried chicken who have made frying birds thier business have recently became conscious of thier responsibility in making the world leaner and healthier .a fried chicken from thier outlet would just add 300 calories to your waists while a grilled one would be half of thatand so grilling would be the future not that it makes a

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Mylapore in Madras (todays Chennai ) in january was pleasant specially in the early mornings . The cool winds from the sea would blow through the narrow streets as the city woke up .the morning clamour would begin with the milkmen herding thier buffaloes , prodding them to move on ,houswewives would wait with thier steel vessels in front of thier houses .the milkman would sqat with a vessel

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December nights in Madras yesteryears Chennai were always cool and pleasant ,Christmas was looming ahead and in a couple of days it would be there .This time in Jerrys house was always full of fun and frolic .Jerry for your information was my guitar masternot that he taught me a lot or I learnt much but he was a colourful personality indeed .Having graduated ( wrong term ,sorry ,couldnt stand the

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" Dubai is broke ,they dont have the money for it "this statement is made not ina dinner conversation but in a press conference by a responsible head of the government of a state in India and remember a state which to a large extent relies on the money order economy from Malayalees who work in the Gulf ,a state that continues to appear prosperous in spite of its blundering idiots who call

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Exactly one year back on this day ten terrorists sent by our neighbour ripped into our country of more than 120 million ,into our premier city attacking its landmarks and causing mayhem ,leaving more than 175 dead and making us lose many valiant security personell and brave officers .As the lone Kasab waits his judgement in the Arthur jail Mumbai going through the convoluted process of justice

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I had a first look at the marvel called the GPS in Norway !On a drive from Oslo to my wifes cousins place about 4 hours away, her hubby a young handsome Norwegian doctor was all ears for his GPS, and as the seductive female voice crooned and sheened the way to us I envied Andreas for this device !" He does not need this ,he knows the way blindfolded but still he wants to hear her ,look at him all

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A pound of flesh was what Shylock wanted but here it is all about 7 pounds atoning a guilt or to put it differently to calm a sadness of the soul .Will Smith as the protaganist has done remarkably well there is a kindness that softens his feutures and a genial faraway look in his eyes that see beyond the horizon .Ben Thomas an Internal Revenue Service agent has a past that knaws him and happens

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This story is about a five and a half year old Iranian boy in Doha ---Qatar who was born in Iran on July 1969 and at one year migrated to Qatar He went to normal school in the day and to Arabic school in the night ,He plodded through five years of elementary school three years of secondary and finally four years of high school ,and Arabic five years of elementary ,three years of secondary and

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Mayawati mayawati the darling of log aamher heart in a flutter for kanshi kaanshi raamSuddenly Mayawati felt she needed lots of statue newto proclaim to the world the dalit love so blue and true .....The money ?cash no problem bhai Mayawati se queenof Uttar pradesh and its millions of no simple meanssaid she ...in her thundering speeches let them feast on our imagesbhai oh behn we will give you

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When Mr Tharoor was asked if he will travel in cattle class the next time he travels to Kerala, he retorted back saying, "Absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows."The Twitter comment from our sauve UN returned writer has landed him in neck deep trouble .when I first heard of this over the UAE Asianet Radio and also the furious reactions from malyalees ,( the show

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9/9/09 9pm 9 minutes and 99 seconds This would be a date and time etched into the history of Dubai the city Recently dates have always been associated with unfortunate events this has been a positive change .four years back when the plans for a metro started this date was mentioned ,hats off to the powers that they kept thier word in spite of the recession .The Metro in Dubai is another example

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The origin of Urdu as a language became a topic of intrest in one of our department meets when the unique word Roz connected with Id fasting rose as a matter of discussion ,this was a word of Persian origin .How was Urdu born ?became a question of intrest to me on that day so I did some browsing and came up with this blog post . I am thankful to the articles in the net from which this blog post

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Keralites always love shortcuts ,one could always find custom for goat farming ,teak investment and other such bizzare invsetment options ,the mallu wanted hard cash the easiest and laziest way possible .Militant labour was one such excellent career option for many youngsters the climate of zindabad howling and Hartal declaring was ideal for this .Any new venture in the state would find a flag

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When I was recently given a DVD of the film WEDNESDAY I had my own doubts ,used to hindi potboilers and having a low opinion on thier action thrillers i reluctantly sat down to watch what I though was one more of the kind .I sat straight in a few minutes and till the end of the movie for it absorbed me every single minute ,it appealed to my senses and at the end I clapped for Neeraj Pandey the

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This was when I was studying in Kilpauk Medical College Chennai for my MBBS .I used to stay just 2 Km away and used to walk home after college !There was a short cut through the mortuary and in the evenings I used to take this route as it saved a short distance ,usually there was always a crowd outside the mortuary and inside some attenders would be there or even the Forensic surgeon at times ,

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I have always had the yearning to go to the Mankavu Kovilakkam in kozhikode because that is where my grandfather belonged to, P.C.M. Raja ( Padinjare covilakkathu Manavedan Raja )was born as one among the Zamorins but before you get impressed by the royal name let me hurry to tell you the Zamorins today are anything but royal ( probabaly only in thier culture )they are friendly and down to

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Driving in the rains in Kerala is a delight of course this statement should be taken with a ton of salt as potholes ,narrow roads with steep edges and murderous drivers demonise the delight !But then if one just looked around the landscape was a feast ,soothing green ,foggy clouds ,thunderous rains ,windswept umbrellas ,wet children with schoolbags ,overfilled buses ,drenched cyclists ,here

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On the day lohitadas the gifted scriptwriter and director left this world i was watching yet another creation of an equally talented director Blessy . He too had brought A whiff of fresh air into an asphyxiated malayalam filmdom .His inimitable Kaycha ,Tanmatra ,Palingu and Calcutta news were unique ,the last two not making it upto the standard of the first two .The present film Bramharam is a

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The Gods own country lives upto its label specially in the monsoon come june till september the rain pitters ,patters and pours in turn playing hide and seek with a truant sun ,Kerala is known for its green visage this turns greener with the rains , cladded and raincoat hooded children in sodden solace go to schools in soaked spleandour Vehicles hop over rain filled potholes called roads thier

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The earliest memory I have of seeing Panikker is him standing on the one platform only Parappanangadi railway station as he waited for us to get down . The train would trundle down tired after its exhausting journey from the erstwhile Madras and todays Chennai .we would get down with all the luggage and Paniker would be there in a jiffy a smile pasted on his face .It would turn into a grin

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I was working in the oncology department in Lakeshore hospital in Kochi at that time ,as many of you are aware we do come across terminal patients in the course of our job and in the anecedote Iam about to relate the said patient was old and dying of his widely spread malignancy .He was a jolly old guy who had a special corner for me and always cracked jokes when I met him it was sad to see him

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Kaviyoor Sree Mahadeva Shetram is somewhere I had never visited but it is one temple whcih I would like to do so .It just happened when I was chatting with a friend Roopesh he told me about this temple which was also that of his family deity .He also told me a very interesting story which intrigued me .Kaviyoor is a small hamlet in South Kerala Pathananmthita district ,nestling amongst

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The last visit to India I found these photos in my aunts house at Chennai ,I was attracted to it because of the celebrities in it .I knew that Dr Sreedevi or Thangamuedathi as we fondly called her a cousin sister of my mother from Valliyil tharavadu in Parappanangadi was in the photos along with Pandit Jawarhalal Nehru Indias first prime minister along with Ms Indira Gandhi his daughter and sri

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Last weekend when Ihad a chance to attend the NCCN regional conference and stay at the exclusive Armed forces officers club ,AbuDhabi city ,the first thing I noticed was its proximity to the Grand mosque or Sheik Zayed mosque one of the the worlds largest .In fact whenever I drove into Abudhabi or returned to AlAin the mosque loomed like a mystical castle attracting me to visit its splendour but

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It all started with the Iraqi journalist and his missed target.The great game of throwing shoes at hated targets sprung from this innocuous beginningFormer president Bush smartly ducked from the missile aimed at him and even had the presence of mind to comment on its size and its poor aim,What happened to the journalist is still a speculationStrangely this start spurred an exodus of flying darts

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The Ambassador car sped on its way the hot summer of Chennai beating on its tin roof .Rajagopal sweated under his safari shirt , he took his handkerchief from his pocket and wiped his brow.A faint smile ironed out the furrows in his cheek ,he looked at the rear view mirror of the car ,not bad for someone approaching seventy five ,he still looked agile and active though the few grey wisps adorning

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Aniyettan is how I call him though that sounds suspiciously like a malayalam film title ! I do so because he is the younger brother of my brother in law but elder to me by age !!Having established the credentials let me tell you about Krishnan Unni fondly called as Mashh ( for master ) in and around Adakaputhur near Cherplassery ,palghat district .Having lived for a long time in Delhi and later

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I was reminded of Dhanraj master when A.R.Rehman got his Oscars for the wonderful score of Slumdog Millionaire.Dhanraj master was the patron saint of piano in old Madras, today’s Chennai and the seat of cinema creativity of the south,Those days almost all south Indian films be it Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu or Kannada and even many Hindi films sprung from this springboard of cinema.The backstreets

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The twelth annual day of shilpa society for the mentally Handicapped in kochi was celebrated on February 22nd with great aplomb .With more than 150 students Shilpa school has grown a lot over time ,with a disabled friendly building to house it and trained staff it is looking ahead to its new home in its new land of almost an acre in the heart of Kochi .This time too the cultural programmes were

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My Dear Friend A few special people have found way into my blog ,this post is of a very special somebody .We all lead a life with ups and downs and most of us ( specially me ) grumble at the end of day for getting pinpricks .I admire people with none of the advantages we have ,but have stood against their destiny to achieve and attain , Tata Tetely would never have seen any of their job

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SAS Airlines takes just an hour to fly between Stockholm and Oslo ,check in at Aralanda was a over in a jiffy ,Scandinavian airport personell and immigration people are cool and collected and friendly to boot ,I remembered to walk back to the immigration desk on reaching there as nobody checked my visa ,the bushy moustachioed Swede just grinned and said you got it stamped in Munich and that is

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I have been an admirer of His highness Sheikh Mohamoud Bin Rashid al Maktoum the ruler of Dubai and vice president of U.A.E since I came here .He has not only metamorphised the city from a desert town into a modern gleaming metropolis where the world confers and things happen .His vision has been futuristic and tempered by reason ,clarity, concern for the needy and to his subjects .He is also a

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Malayalam movies post Prem nazir and Madhu era were of two types ,the arty ones which picked up awards in film festivals (Adoor Gopalakrishnan type )but poor returns in theatres ,there were certain exeptional movies made in this genre but some were pains in the P ,the other type were commercial hits with popular stories made very well with good actors and great directors like Padmarajan ,Siby

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Thursday evening Emirates road in Dubai was like a python gone to sleep .vehicles were barely moving in the eight track huge road ,there should have been an accident somewhere for this to happen thought Muneer ,he was fidgety and in edge ,it was imperative he be in Sharjah by 7pm or else he would miss his flight he looked at Altaf Altaf whats happening ? think we are stuck is any exit possible

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Dubai,s high rises below slowly faded and with the sun still in its morning mellow the searing summer heat was a few hours away.Though the Luftansa business class seat was quite comfortable an ill placed wing hid the high rise landscape as we climbed up through the fluffy clouds . I lost myself to fine champagne, discovery Earth and a relaxing nap . The stewardess was disappointed with what she

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Today is the second Ramadhan after my coming to the U.A.E .last year I had just arrived and was still in culture shcok to make any observations .One of the most important functions to Muslims all over the world it falls on the ninth month of the Islamic calendar ,when it is believed that the holy Quran was revealed to the prophet Muhammed (PBUH).This is the month of SAWM or fasting .Every muslim

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In time for the 61st Independence day of our beloved country Abinav bindra got us a gold medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics effectively breaking the jinx of a country a with a billion people going with no gold for years .For the twenty ninth Olympics our hockey team the eternal medal grabber of yesteryears couldn’t even get into the to the olympics as they failed to qualify with their dismal

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Rains are no big deal in Kerala specially in this time of the year ,but to me in Al Ain it was a rare occurence .In the past one year I had been here I had glimpsed a tiny drizzle once which piffled before it started so It was a delightful surpise to me when I heard distant thunder rumble today evening ,I ran down from the hospital cloistered in claustrophobic central AC to watch it as it is !

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The early eighties in Kerala villages had darkness falling on it by dusk,with the rare few low voltage bulbs hardly dispelling them ,but a marriage house stood out like a sore thumb lit by bright hissing petromaxes .The evening before the marriage was importnat in Nair families as close relatives and friends would come with thier gifts to eat pazham ,mixture ,chayya combo ,there was singing of

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Thirteen years have rolled away ,it seems it was just yesterday that our daughter Shilpa slipped away ,She lived for eleven years in a world of silence bearing her problems with a patience unexplainable ,a benign smile on her face sullened by her recurrent problems .For us it was eleven years of mixed emotions ,devastating the day we knew that she would be a different child ,eleven years of hope

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Pranav my nephew battled a brain tumour and lost it last year .....since then Pranav left us to the unknown children are meant to outlive us but the rare few do it the other way round leaving an eternal emptiness in our hearts .my heart goes to his parents with whom I can empathise but pranav was different in all senses ,he was cerebral ,( read his poems )he was understanding and bore his

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Ones own becomes more desirous when one is away from it ,so is Kochi to me these days .The Gulf for the malayalee is never far away and is almost like a neighbourhood ,in three hours one could be back to good old Gods own country .In thr Gulp too one would almost trip on a mallu ,they existed in abundance .From grocery shops ,hair cutting saloons ,shopping complexes ,to computer savvy IT

harimohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18105229701118099822noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25282600.post-13714148673455529002008-06-14T04:57:00.003+05:302011-03-26T23:13:57.698+05:30

Holidays are the best times to grow ones pot ! ( not of the smoking kind )I meant the vertical protuberance in a mans middle that surfaces to spoil his shape ,the vestigeal begginings of such a mound in me existed in the subterranean always ,without a need for an archealogical expedition to unravel its truths ,but it began to show itself in full form during the recent time off .what with the

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After getting a driving licence I was raring to roam in Dubai and Abudhabi in the weekends .Al Ain where I stayed was a drivers delight with wide roads ,neat pavements bedecked with flowers ,palm trees ,and sedate traffic ,but Dubai was a different story , a nightmare for someone who didnt know his way around ,with diversions springing up every other hour ,it was also huge with multiple flyovers

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Gods own is teeming with swamis and swaminis these days ,multifarious speices with exotic labels surface every day and plush ashrams decorate our tv monitorsThe Interpol swami alias Santosh Madhavan was the first one to be unearthed ,handsome with dark locks and a serene beard the cool facade of his demenour hiding facts and truths ,his confesssions could but would never bring out the men and

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