an idiot's perceptions

Random-1

2012-09-17T22:53:00.000+05:30

A little boy was doing his math homework. He said to himself, "Two plus five, that son of a bitch is seven. Three plus six, that son of a bitch is nine."

His mother heard what he was saying and gasped "What are you doing?"

The little boy answered "I'm doing my math homework, Mom."

"And this is how your teacher taught you to do it?" the mother asked.

"Yes", he answered.

Infuriated, the mother asked the teacher the next day, "What are you teaching my son in math?"

The teacher replied, "Right now, we are learning addition."

The mother asked, "And are you teaching them to say two plus two, that son of a bitch is four?"

After the teacher stopped laughing, she answered, "What I taught them was, two plus two, THE SUM OF WHICH, is four." P.s: Taken from a site

Facts about ur Dreams..!!!

2012-09-15T17:40:00.000+05:30

The Immortals Of Meluha -Amish

2012-03-09T22:20:00.000+05:30

When I first came across this book in the stands I thought it would be like a fairy tale. After that its sequel The Secret of the Nagas has been referred by my friend during our visit to the Landmark, a book store in Chennai. But my mind resisted without any reason even after he explained me that many of his colleagues had hold it in their hands. Then my cousin whom I consider to be an intellectual than rest of my close ones referred me the book.

This time I decided to go for it and bought the book through Flipkart. Making a story about a god, who has been worshipped all over the country irrespective of the regional difference, as a protagonist and writing an interesting novel about him isn’t that easier thing. But Amish did it exceptionally well in this book.

He takes us to the land of Meluhans with ease and his explanation to our ancient concepts then and there in the story was incredible. Particularly the Somras.. The way he portrayed the love between Sati and Shiva deserves a special mention. Also as a Tamilan i felt proud when in the story the characters say SangamTamil is the oldest of civilization.

If you are person who love to read fantasies in a realistic way just go for it. This book will entertain you for sure.

Subramaniya Bharathi

2011-12-11T10:06:00.001+05:30

Bharathi is a name cannot be left out in tamil history. As today is his 129th birthday i have shared one of his tamil poems in my another blog which carries my Tamil writings.
I have given the link below,

http://ungalsarans.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-post.html

Sooooo long...

2011-12-06T15:33:00.004+05:30

Hi all...

Its been so long since I have posted something here. My last ever writing was on Valentine’s Day and the subject that post deals was the reason for my inactive mode. But here I am back with the same energy which I had during the inception of this blog. In coming days I will post something regularly in this space, so my dear readers please give me the same support you were giving in the past. My previous posts have only dealt with self development and not in wide range of topics. So I have decided to go big and you can expect more posts in reviews of books, music, movies and also some of the widely discussed topics. So expect minimally and visit regularly here.

Regards

Crazyidiot

Favorite songs-1

2011-06-28T13:41:00.001+05:30

Greenday is a famous band, who makes good compositions in PUNK ROCK genre. They have lot of great songs than this, but mine and many youths like me are favorable to the situation this songs deals with. I have given the Youtube link to the song along with the Lyrics below it. Jus enjoy the song.

Lyrics:
As soon as your born they make you feel small
By giving you no time instead of it all
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

They hurt you at home and they hit you at school
They hate if you're clever and they despise a fool
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years
Then they expect you to pick a career
When you can't really function you're so full of fear
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and you're classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see,
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

There's room at the top they are telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like all the folks on the hill
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be
A working class hero is something to be

If you want to be a hero, well just follow me
If you want to be a hero, well just follow me

Valentines Day

2011-02-14T12:17:00.002+05:30

February-14... Its the day whole world celebrates irrespective of their religion. Before writing about valentines day, I like to say few things about love.

You may be a well build and can have a strength to hit several persons, but only being soft helps you in love. So don't hold it too strong, also handle it gently. The simple and most important rule in love is don't try to understand it by researching. Particularly the girl you are in love, because getting a result is totally unsure. Love is purely a joyous thing. Enjoy the confusions it makes, fights it creates, dates it involved.

I had seen many persons feeling too hard when they had a breakup in love. If you are in such situation, think that you got an option to choose a better partner than the previous one. Never love too hard also never feel too hard for its failure. Importantly don't behave cinematic like growing beard. Remember among your failures only love failures can be identified easily by the persons around you. Don't give them a chance to sense your failure, because it may influence your next proposal.

Coming to valentines day, I have two perceptions regarding it. One as a MBA grad and another as a normal person. My management degree taught me to view it as a day which helps to increase the business in several sectors. Special days like this always enables for better liquidity. Being a normal person, its just an another day for me. The only thing it does is making me to realise about my relationship status and urging me to find a soulmate soon.

Wholly love is not only to be celebrated on feb-14, its for all days throughout the year.

Make love, enjoy the life.

Academy Award Nominations -2010

2011-01-25T19:42:00.002+05:30

Best motion picture of the year

Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter's Bone

Performance by an actor in a leading role

Javier Bardem in "Biutiful"
Jeff Bridges in "True Grit"
Jesse Eisenberg in "The Social Network"
Colin Firth in "The King's Speech"
James Franco in "127 Hours"

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Christian Bale in "The Fighter"
John Hawkes in "Winter's Bone"
Jeremy Renner in "The Town"
Mark Ruffalo in "The Kids Are All Right"
Geoffrey Rush in "The King's Speech"

Performance by an actress in a leading role

Annette Bening in "The Kids Are All Right"
Nicole Kidman in "Rabbit Hole"
Jennifer Lawrence in "Winter's Bone"
Natalie Portman in "Black Swan"
Michelle Williams in "Blue Valentine"

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Amy Adams in "The Fighter"
Helena Bonham Carter in "The King's Speech"
Melissa Leo in "The Fighter"
Hailee Steinfeld in "True Grit"
Jacki Weaver in "Animal Kingdom"

Best animated feature film of the year

How to Train Your Dragon, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois
The Illusionist, Sylvain Chomet
Toy Story 3, Lee Unkrich

Art Direction

Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney), Robert Stromberg (Production Design), Karen O'Hara (Set Decoration)
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.), Stuart Craig (Production Design), Stephenie McMillan (Set Decoration)
Inception (Warner Bros.), Guy Hendrix Dyas (Production Design), Larry Dias and Doug Mowat (Set Decoration)/span>
The King's Speech (Paramount), Eve Stewart (Production Design), Judy Farr (Set Decoration)
True Grit (Paramount), Jess Gonchor (Production Design), Nancy Haigh (Set Decoration)

Achievement in Cinematography

Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Matthew Libatique
Inception (Warner Bros.) Wally Pfister
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Danny Cohen
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit (Paramount) Roger Deakins

Achievement in costume design

Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Colleen Atwood
I Am Love (Magnolia Pictures) Antonella Cannarozzi
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Jenny Beavan
The Tempest (Miramax) Sandy Powell
True Grit (Paramount) Mary Zophres

Achievement in directing

Black Swan (Fox Searchlight), Darren Aronofsky
The Fighter (Paramount), David O. Russell
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Tom Hooper
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), David Fincher
True Grit (Paramount), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Best Documentary Feature

Exit through the Gift Shop (Producers Distribution Agency) Banksy and Jaimie D'Cruz A Paranoid Pictures Production
Gasland Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic A Gasland Production
Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics) Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs A Representational Pictures Production
Restrepo (National Geographic Entertainment) Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger An Outpost Films Production
Waste Land Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley (Arthouse Films) An Almega Projects Production

Best documentary short subject

Killing in the Name Nominees to be determined A Moxie Firecracker Films Production
Poster Girl Nominees to be determined A Portrayal Films Production
Strangers No More Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon A Simon & Goodman Picture Company Production
Sun Come Up Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger A Sun Come Up Production
The Warriors of Qiugang Ruby Yang and Thomas Lennon A Thomas Lennon Films Production

Achievement in film editing

Black Swan (Fox Searchlight) Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter Paramount Pamela Martin
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Tariq Anwar
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Jon Harris
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

Best foreign language film of the year

Biutiful Mexico
Dogtooth Greece
In a Better World Denmark
Incendies Canada
Outside the Law (Hors-la-loi) Algeria

Achievement in makeup

Achievement in makeup (Sony Pictures Classics) Adrien Morot
The Way Back (Newmarket Films in association with Wrekin Hill Entertainment and Image Entertainment) Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
The Wolfman (Universal) Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)

How to Train Your Dragon (Paramount) John Powell
Inception (Warner Bros.) Hans Zimmer
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Alexandre Desplat
127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) A.R. Rahman
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)

Coming Home from Country Strong (Sony Pictures Releasing (Screen Gems)) Music and Lyric by Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
I See the Light from Tangled (Walt Disney) Music by Alan Menken Lyric by Glenn Slater
If I Rise from 127 Hours (Fox Searchlight) Music by A.R. Rahman Lyric by Dido and Rollo Armstrong
We Belong Together from Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

Best animated short film

Day & Night (Walt Disney) A Pixar Animation Studios Production Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo A Magic Light Pictures Production Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let's Pollute A Geefwee Boedoe Production Geefwee Boedoe
The Lost Thing (Nick Batzias for Madman Entertainment) A Passion Pictures Australia Production Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, carnet de voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary) A Sacrebleu Production Bastien Dubois

Best live action short film

The Confession (National Film and Television School) A National Film and Television School Production Tanel Toom
The Crush (Network Ireland Television) A Purdy Pictures Production Michael Creagh
God of Love A Luke Matheny Production Luke Matheny
Na Wewe (Premium Films) A CUT! Production Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143 A Swing and Shift Films/Union Pictures Production Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

Achievement in sound editing

Inception (Warner Bros.) Richard King
Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney) Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
Tron: Legacy (Walt Disney) Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable (20th Century Fox) Mark P. Stoeckinger

Achievement in sound mixing

Inception (Warner Bros.) Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo and Ed Novick
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company) Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen and John Midgley
Salt (Sony Pictures Releasing) Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan and William Sarokin
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing) Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick and Mark Weingarten
True Grit (Paramount) Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland

Achievement in visual effects

Alice in Wonderland (Walt Disney) Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (Warner Bros.) Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter (Warner Bros.) Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
Inception (Warner Bros.) Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2 (Paramount and Marvel Entertainment, Distributed by Paramount) Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

Adapted screenplay

127 Hours (Fox Searchlight), Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
The Social Network (Sony Pictures Releasing), Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3 (Walt Disney), Screenplay by Michael Arndt. Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit (Paramount), Written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter's Bone (Roadside Attractions), Adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

Original screenplay

Another Year (Sony Pictures Classics), Written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter (Paramount), Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson. Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception (Warner Bros.), Written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features), Written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
The King's Speech (The Weinstein Company), Screenplay by David Seidler

Stop Worrying..!!!

2010-12-31T17:11:00.004+05:30

At any day or any time have you thought about the missing happiness or energy level, which you normally have at the start of a year??

I don’t know whether you came across such questions before in your life, but my mind raised this question today while I was planning to celebrate the commencement of 2011. Initially I struggled in finalizing an answer, but once I reached, it seemed simple for me.

To put the answer precisely in a word, I am terming it as “Worry”.

We worry about so many things in our life even by knowing that those circumstances cannot be changed. This is the major problem of our life. Just read the following to understand easily.

We worry about the scams of the politicians
We worry about our country’s status
We worry about ourselves
We worry about our son, daughter, siblings, cousins, in laws, neighbors, etc..,

As I always insist on being optimist in my posts, let’s try the above sentences by replacing just a single word ‘care’ for ‘worry’. Now you will sense the dramatic changes in those sentences.

We care about the scams of the politicians
We care about our country’s status
We care about ourselves
We care about our son, daughter, siblings, cousins, in laws, neighbors, etc..,

Being positive always helps you to be energetic and lead a happy life. Take for instance that, when you worry about your country only negative thoughts will flow into your mind about it, but the same will be reversed into positive thoughts when you care about your nation. So the thing I am trying to convey in this post is don’t worry for the things, try to care about it. Surely you will feel a lot of change within you and your surroundings.

Even if the story is common, every chapter in a book is different. Likewise every chapter of our life i.e., years will be different. As a new chapter begins tomorrow, let’s stop worrying and take care of the things around us. Have a positive 2011.

2010 !!!

2010-12-30T18:56:00.003+05:30

We have just a day more to complete the year of 2010. So it’s time for me to take a look at the paths I had traveled along this one year.

It’s a year like Shankar’s movie for me. I had a smooth start and then a roller coaster ride in middle and finally a happy ending climax. I like to term 2010 as a year of whistle blowing, because that word suits for me, my country and also the entire world.

It’s because many things about me, both positive and negative, have been blown out by the persons around me. By knowingly and unknowingly they corrected me to travel in a good path. There are several persons who are completely responsible for the changes in me.

India too needs such personalities, because for the whole year the news we hear from our media are scams and frauds. Exposing such activities to public is a good thing, but those aspects are yet to be corrected by the people in high command. As a rapidly developing nation we need those changes soon to be happened and those changes are possible only when the people are changed. But leaving all aside if you think that did we experience only the negatives? No, there are positives things happened for us to celebrate. Here I tried to come out with such things which I can remember.

When it comes to politics, 2010 is the year of scams. But the happiest thing is almost all of the scams are been exposed and politicians are switching over to correction mode. Every person is informed about the scams and frauds by our efficient media. But sad thing is they focused only about such things. We have achieved several things in sports, arts and in business.

In sports, we organized common wealth games successfully; our athletes and sports persons won several medals in Asiad and CWG. In cricket, Team India is the leader in test rankings and they performed well for the complete year. Importantly Sachin Tendulkar created history by scoring 200 runs as individual highest in ODI’s. In Arts, A.R. Rahman’s music has reached round the globe and he is the most wanted composer in Hollywood. And finally in Business, our empires have been extended to almost all continents by great business emperors of India.

This says we have lots of achievements to celebrate and remember for 2010. Celebration is the key word for everyone at both ends of a year. So let’s cherish our achievements of this year and perish our negatives in the forthcoming year.

My favorites of 2010 -Part two

2010-12-25T17:40:00.000+05:30

In my previous posts i listed out my favorites in entertainment sector. Now in this I am going for sports and politics and news makers.

Sports:

Virender Sehwag
Sachin Tendulkar
Saina Nehwal
M.S.Dhoni
Gagan Narang

Politics:

Manmohan Singh
Nitish Kumar
Narendra Modi
M.Karunanidhi

Newsmakers:

Julian Assange
Mark Zuckerberg
A. Raja
Kanimozhi
Niira Radia.

I had considered the persons in both ways and listed the favorites.

P.S: Please add up your favorites in comments here so that i could know something which i missed here.

My favorites of 2010

2010-12-19T13:34:00.004+05:30

We are in the last days of the great year 2010. Everybody started to list their favorites of this year in various departments. Now it’ turn to list mine.

Movie:

Nandalala
Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya
Inception
Ayirathil oruvan
Angadi theru
Raavanan
Enthiran

Albums:

Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya -A.R. Rahman
Aadukalam -G.V. Prakash Kumar
Enthiran -A.R. Rahman
Engeyum Kadhal -Harris Jayaraj
Naan Mahan Alla -Yuvan Shankar Raja
Manmadhan Ambu -Devi Sri Prasad

Songs:

Aromale -Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya
Mannipaaya -Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaaya
Ayyayo -Aadukalam
Dhimu Dhimu -Engeyum Kadhal
Irumbile -Enthiran

Positive Vs Negative

2010-12-17T16:50:00.004+05:30

I had seen many people perform self-analysis and trying to identify the positive and negative aspects of them. Some goes to an extent of asking the close ones to identify it. Even I had the habit for past couple of years. But for the past few days my mind raised a question that why we doing this.

The answer is simple, we believe removing our negative things will help us to grow higher, we believe successful peoples have only the positive aspects. Almost every people say negative things will act as a hurdle in relationships. Believe me all of the above is just an illusion and the reality is entirely different from it.

If it is possible to remove our negative aspects, then there will not be any uniqueness among human beings. We are human’s, we do have our uniqueness which others races cannot have. Take for instance about me, I have several positive as well as negative aspects and the persons who are close to me know about both sides clearly. They never complained about the negatives I have, because they loved my positive side.

Successful peoples never have only the positive sides. They do have these negative aspects, but they wrap it under their positives. Most successful persons in this world do the following things,

Developing their positive skills
Being optimistic to use their negative sides also for successes
Importantly they hide their negatives.

The thing I am trying to tell is focus on your positive aspects to develop it big so that people will not care about your other side. Remember even a particle is said to be an atom only if it has a proton and electron. Physics say for the flow of energy we need both positive and negative terminals, likewise we need both aspects within us to have a good flow of life.

So don’t worry about the negative side of you, develop your positives and lead a great life.

Journey of life

2010-12-13T14:16:00.005+05:30

“Life to me is a journey – you never know what may be your next destination”

– David Russell.

Life is always related to journey by philosophers and eminent speakers. There are several quotes said by them in relating life with journey. Is there a relationship? I tried to explore it in this post.

To make your journey smooth you will always need to choose a good path to travel, the same applies for your life. You need to choose a suitable path for you and that should also be a good path in order to make your life sweet and enjoyable.

The important thing in a journey is you will have several vehicles coming at you in opposite direction. If you like vehicle, you observe it and admire it. But you never consider it once it passes away. In life you should admire the persons who are opposite in nature, but never care about them once they moved away from you. Because persons with different or opposite to us will always have a lesson to teach or a special thing to admire.

At some point you will have to overtake the front runners of your journey. It is possible only by great efficiency and precise timing. The front runners in your life are the competitors in workplace, business and for wooing a girl. In order to win them be efficient and empower yourself. Timing is the great influencing factor here, because in life you can get back everything you lose except time.

The medium used for the journey always changes, so do the co-passengers. Accept your changes in life with open hands, because you will not have the same perception and persons with you always. Like you explore new place for each second in a travel, change yourselves according to the present world.

I hope you love to drive by own in a journey rather than keeping a driver. That’s always sweet. Don’t let others shape the course of your life, steer yourself with abundant energy, don’t confuse at cross roads, follow your own path and reach the desired destination.

I wish you a sweet journey for long time. And I also believe that by making you to read this post made me a co-passenger of your journey.

Insights on Myths-1

2010-12-11T00:05:00.002+05:30

When I first heard this story about the two gods Muruga and Ganesha my perception on it were completely different. I heard it during my childhood and those days I blindly believed my elders say. Before going into my perceptions I like to brief you the story.

It is Narada who made the trouble again to lord Shiva and Parvathi as usual. He visited them and presented a fruit saying that they should give to the person whom they like most.

Shiva set a test for his two sons Ganesha and Muruga. He asked them to go round the world and said that the person who finished doing this first would get the fruit. Muruga at once rushed on his mount, the peacock and made a quick trip around the world. He was surprised to find that Ganesha had already finished doing this, since he knew that Ganesha could not move very fast. Ganesha replied that his parents were his only world. So he had completed his task by just going around them.

When I heard this story at first time, my perceptions were,

Muruga lost the test
Parents are our world; we should be with them always
And Ganesha is greater god than Muruga

But now my perception on this story differs from the earlier one. This time I don’t see any loser in the story. I categorized Muruga and Ganesha as hard worker and smart worker respectively. There are several Muruga’s in the present world who acquires the fruit in the life by searching for it in many places. They work hard, gain the experience and attain the fruit. Of course they too achieve the success, but the time period is comparatively high with smart workers. Because the smart workers learning lessons from their ancestors and scholars. They use those lessons and a little of practical experiences to achieve the needed success. This is the characters of Muruga and Ganesha inferred to me from the story.

In the present competitive world being a Ganesha doesn’t help you to achieve the success. We should build ourselves with characteristics of both Muruga and Ganesha. So if you’re a smart worker, try to work hard and if you’re a hard worker learn to be a smart worker.

As u know change never changes this perception too might change at a point of time in my life. If I were an active blogger during that time will make a post on it.

Is 2G spectrum allocation is a Scam or an Error??

2010-12-07T18:58:00.003+05:30

I know it’s very late to write about this issue. I like to analyze keenly in any issue before arriving to a conclusion. Now looking at the proceedings in the allocation of 2G spectrum to the companies and later on reports about the issue, I doubt whether it is a scam or an error. You can wonder that while majority of the people saying it as a scam how this idiot is saying it might be an error.

First of all let’s see the process undergone in allocation of spectrum. It is allocated by First Cum First Service basis; people say it is a old model which was followed by two of our telecom ministers in past. Due to this the companies are allocated spectrum for relatively cheaper prices when compared with the market. Then those companies sold their stake to overseas and domestic firms for higher prices. Here the experts say A. Raja has been convinced or corrupted by the companies for getting spectrum in low price. They also say Niira Radia might have did the lobbying work.

Reports by the government agencies like CVC, CAG and CBI say that raja declined the recommendations by PM, MOF, and MoL. From these facts they say it’s a scam, but by implying basic common sense you can say it’s not enough to prove it. Because none of the report carries an evidence against Raja for corruption, if you take for the Niira Radia tapes not a single tape deals with the spectrum allocation.

Now let’s take our focus to CAG report, which says due to this our government lost Rs.1,76,000 crores. They say it by calculating the stake price of those companies at present and also by allotted spectrum’s market price. Here too use your common sense is it possible to gain such an amount as our 3G auction too doesn’t valued that much.

Before going into it deeply I like to inform you that its not the first 2G spectrum allocation process, already some of the market players like Airtel, Vodafone had been allotted with these spectrum years ago.

Here arises a doubt for me, how the allocation should be for the new companies as they need to compete with the existing players?? If we think in this manner, the mentioned allocation process seems to be reasonable for me. Because the new players who enter into the market need to compete with the existing, so they should be allotted with some reasonable price. Only because of the low priced allocation we people enjoying the low tariffs from service providers and also the price war among the people helps us a lot. So the low price allocation can be considered as a like a subsidy given for petroleum products and several others. If giving subsidy is a scam our governments are doing that since our independence.

Before concluding this post I like to mention a scam by our medias and CAG. CAG is a government agency which investigated this allocation process and made a report based on the investigation. Before that report was submitted to our president media got access to it. Is it possible without corruption??

Overall, I am not convinced to accept it as a scam, as there is no evidence for it. Still I think it’s an error.

I need your valuable comments, because I might be completely in wrong perception.

The Social Network

2010-12-05T16:46:00.002+05:30

How do you feel when you get a chance to see the development of the product which is one of your most favorite?

What are the words you use to describe that feeling?

Got an answer?!

I guess you will say ‘No words to describe it’. Because that’s the answer I got with these questions. I felt like that while watching the move 'The Social Network' . I hope you know that it’s a movie on Mark Zuckerberg the founder of Facebook.

I liked the line they used in posters of the movie “You don’t get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies”. The movie starts with the law suits faced by the Zuckerberg and it travels back according to the investigation details. I didn’t want to make this post as a movie review thing; I got some insights of the movie, so I liked to share it in my blog.

As a management student I learnt two things from this story,

First, generating a great idea doesn’t help you to grow big, you need to love it, live with it and importantly you should work on it.

Second, Even though you do a business on social networking, to sustain it, you need to sacrifice your relationships and your close friends might turn up into enemies.

I learnt these two things, but as an Indian citizen I got stuck up with some questions,

We do have several quality educational institutions, but why there are no innovative business ideas like facebook?

Why we never care about Entrepreneurships?

Why we are not making such movies like The Social Network? At least it might motivate persons to innovate or work on an idea.

I think the change should be in ourselves, because you cannot search a thing for somewhere, keeping it with you. If you think I am wrong on this, please do correct me by adding up your comments, I will be pleased to see those.

And finally if you love social networking try Facebook, its fun.

If you love Facebook see The Social Network movie, it’s cool

Story of Water

2010-12-02T13:17:00.000+05:30

It’s raining all the day. Our meteorological department says that for the past five years we have been receiving 90 to 98% of rainfall. A friend of mine by seeing these facts asked me a question that if we were receiving needed rain, why do people suffers in water scarcity. That’s the question made me to write this post.

In order to make you understand reasons for scarcity, I need you to travel along with me to our past. It’s the period of Cholas dynasty, the rainfall is not very high but the availability of water is high, people do agriculture throughout the year. How?

It is not because of the rainfall, it’s due to the methods adopted for irrigation. They had built several lakes to store the flood water and each of the lakes is networked among themselves and also with rivers by using canals. Not a huger quantity of flood waters is allowed into the sea those days. Particularly in Ramanathapuram district (now it’s been declared the water scarcity area) had 127 such lakes to avoid water scarcity. Even the irrigation experts in US wondered by seeing the satellite pictures of the network. But at present all those networks are disrupted by encroachments of people. The flood water due to the rain is not getting into those lakes like it did in the past. Also many lakes are destroyed or made into small size lakes by our irresponsible activities.

Not only Ramanathapuram, take our state capital city Chennai as example. During the period of Pallavas their irrigation plans made Chennai the next major agricultural area after Tanjore. But irony is that our history subject in the academics deals only about the construction of Mahabalipuram and Tanjore temples. Researchers say that Koovam rivers flows completely in a different path at present due to the several concrete structure built in the middle. Koovam and Adayar are the rivers which irrigated the agricultural lands of Chennai during the past, but now they act as drainage for the city. Many lakes of Chennai is been completely destroyed and today you cannot see the traces of it. Nungambakkam is one such place.

Both Ramanathapuram and Chennai are just examples. There are others cities and towns in Tamilnadu like Coimbatore and Tirupur with the same kind of stories. Here the blame should not be on the governments which ruled us; it should be on us the citizens of this republic. So we youngsters should be aware of things and should not repeat the same mistakes done by our ancestors and should make a prosperous Tamilnadu for our children.

Nandalala - Dont miss it

2010-11-30T01:42:00.000+05:30

My longing to see a good film in Tamil is been fulfilled by Mysskin’s Nandalala. At first a royal salute to Mysskin for not making a storyline based in Madurai zone which portrays a hero with unshaven face. Because most of the directors at present in Tamil cinema industry says they making a realistic script and does the above mentioned story.

A journey of two persons a kid and a grown up kid in searching of their respective mothers is the storyline. The situations and the persons they meet in the process of journey forms the crux of the film. I didn’t want to reveal the entire story because it may disrupt your interest while seeing the movie.

In a journey of life, we do several small journeys. Those journeys and the co-passengers of the journeys teach us a lot of lesson about the life. This is the thing Mysskin tries to deliver in the movie. The characterization of each person in the film is done by Mysskin with utmost care. Particularly I loved the characterization of the differentially able person the lead characters meet in the middle. Each end every scene of the film is crafted like writing a novel. I felt like reading a novel not felt as seeing a film. The director explains many sequences by the visualization not by lengthy dialogues.

Technically film has a lot to praise. Cinematography for the film is done by Mahesh Muthusamy. He deserves lot of praises, because his camera captured with the exact mood of the scenes, the colorization is perfect for each scene. Editing by Khakin deserves a special mention because for this kind of film the running length is the key factor and he made it around 135mins, which is a highly favorable thing to enjoy the movie.

The one person who carried the film in his shoulders with ease is our Mastero Illayaraja. I never experienced such a great quality BGM in any of the recent Tamil movies even not in Illayaraja scored films. Thanks to Mysskin for it. I am sure Illayaraja deserves a national award for Nandalala.

In performance everybody who acted in the movie did their job pretty well. As he is the captain of the ship, Mysskin blended himself to the character of psychologically affected person. The small boy Aswath ram and snigdha both did a commendable job.
Overall Nandalala is a cute novel in silver screen which portrays human emotions in relationships very neatly. A must see movie don’t miss it.

P.S: Nandalala is based on a Japanese film “Kikujiro” directed by Takeshi Kitano.

Persons who inspired me-3

2010-11-27T18:35:00.000+05:30

In my last two posts, I had written about the personalities who inspired me, but here comes the person who not only inspired me but also influenced me. His music always made me to feel good. He started his journey as a music instruments lender and then a keyboard player, finally a world class musician. The person I am writing about here is A. S. Dileep Kumar aka Allah Rakha Rahman and shortly ARR by his fans.

His abilities is been showcased to the world by a Tamil movie “ROJA”, which won him a national award. Since then he is unstoppable and that journey is been going steady after two Oscar awards. Initially he is been criticized by some persons for using electronically generated sounds. Even Illayaraja had mentioned in an interview that he never considers those electronic wastes of Rahman. But the same Illayaraja had praised him in a function where ARR is congratulated by Tamil cinema’s musicians. Whatever the criticisms are he answers it by his works not by words. To me music should be pleasant and magical irrespective of what the instruments used to compose it.

From my childhood when it comes to music ARR songs dominated completely. I admired his arrangements and using of new talents in his songs. Particularly I admired his introduction of Chinmayi to render for a song in Kannathil Muthamittal is the best part. His introduction of new talents changed the musical face of Tamil cinema. According to me his masterpiece in composition are Aromale in VTV, Oru theivam thandha poove & Vellai pookal in Kannathil muthamittal and his Vande mataram.

In my life, whenever I was happy, Sad, felt depressed and in travel ARR’s music is my companion.

The things which I inspired from him are
- Calmness
- Spirituality and
- Passion towards his work

Persons who inspired me-2

2010-11-10T19:20:00.000+05:30

The very next person after Sujatha who inspired me a lot is Dr. Kamal Hassan. From my childhood he is inspiring me a lot. But I didn’t recognize or understood the thoughts his movies carries, even I didn’t figure out he is a great actor. Even while seeing his famous movie “Thevarmagan” I didn’t realize about his performance. That might be due to the reason of his liveliness with the character. The movie which made me to turn my attention on him and made me to wonder about him is “AnbeSivam”. I think it is the first Tamil cinema which created a great impact on me. After seeing his performance and the thoughts he came around in that movie, I did a time travel by seeing all his previous classic movies.

The most things I hear about him in my surrounding is his movies and thoughts are advanced and that is the reason it is not understandable. I couldn’t understand this, because he never takes movies in any unknown language. For example if we know Indian history very well we can understand his Heyram easily. So I thought and also came to a conclusion that for our lack of knowledge we should not blame a genius. He entered the cinema industry as a choreographer, Balachander made him an assistant director to him and then to an actor.

I don’t know how he shaped his career as an actor, but I do aware about his script and dialogue writing skills. So when considering his scripts like Guna, Alavandhan, Anbesivam, Thevarmagan, Heyram, Dasavatharam all were in different genres. He handles every genre with ease which is not possible for many versatile scriptwriters in Tamil cinema. I don’t know how many of them are aware about Thevarmagan is an inspiration from Hollywood’s classic The Godfather. His “AnbeSivam” is a classic and masterpiece in Tamil cinema.

But I loved Dasavatharam more than anything from his other movies as a script writer. Because in it he interludes so many things like chaos theory, randomness theory, atheism, theism, international politics, science and finally history. To write a script with this much thing is really a difficult one, but he made it quite comfortably. More than script, the dialogues are so lively and great one in a Tamil movie after a long time. Particularly the initial dialogues of rangaraja nambi are awesome. Only this movie helped me to know about chaos theory and randomness theory.

But recently his new facet is revealed to me by Vijay TV. It is nothing other than his literature skills. I really took a long time to understand this and finally felt ashamed about myself for not understanding a poem on my mother tongue.

The things I got inspired from him are to learn a lot of things and use those knowledge u posses by learning to teach others. The important thing I learnt is, know about you more and love yourself a lot.

Persons who inspired me-1

2010-11-08T11:53:00.000+05:30

I came across this person’s writings during my HSC. I don’t know really how many of my close ones aware about his writings. He is initially known to me only as a writer, but when days passed I realized that he is a writer (books, drama, dialogues and screenplay), engineer and scientist. The thing by which he inspired me is his way of narration and new form of Tamil writings. Some of you now might have realized who I am writing about, he is writer Sujatha aka Rangarajan.

Sujatha (May 3, 1935 - February 27, 2008) was the pseudonym of the Tamil writer S. Rangarajan, author of over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such as Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam and Kalki. He had a wide readership, and served for a brief period as the editor of Kumudam, and has also written screenplays and dialogues for several Tamil movies. (Courtesy: Wikipedia)

If you are interested to read books and not having any idea about the author to start with, then your choice should be sujatha. Because he is the only writer in tamil who I know, has written stories years beyond which suits the present trend. I started to read his writings from “En iniya iyandhira”, a story about a robo dog, which has Artificial Intelligence. I think he wrote the story during 1980s. And the next part to the same book too is released during the same period. These are the two books where our latest blockbuster movie “Endhiran” is inspired. He is not only talented in writing Sci-fi stories. His story on love “pirivom sandhipom” is a biggest hit in Ananda vikatan. When I assumed he is master story writer(i.e is lengthy stories), his short stories surprised me a lot.

But he is not only a story writer his columns are of great success in both Ananda vikatan and Kanayali. He had written several drama scripts and dialogues for famous movies like Iruvar, Kannathil Muthamittal, Aayitha Ezhuthu, Indian, Mudhalvan etc. when I thought he was versatile writer, I surprised by an information from my dad, because he is one of the inventor of our E-polling machine. He did his engineering in MIT, Chennai. He worked first in Civil Aviation Department of Government of India and later for Bharat Electronics Limited in Bangalore. He initiated the development of advanced word processing before the days of personal computers.

The things which I got inspired from him are he never stopped to learn things till his journey of life stopped. He is specialized in so many fields, many personalities had said that we can discuss any kind of topic with him. Its hard to be a genius like him, but its easy to follow his footsteps and learn things. Because our country needs more creators in whatever field we operate. I got inspired from his stories and columns, I hope this small piece of my writings about this great man will inspire you.

How the Education system is ruined in India?!

2010-09-26T21:09:00.000+05:30

Initially the education is been a charity and the people who involved are been given a great respect in the society. I mean the persons who gives education and who enables it. Actually India is one among the countries which keeps educational institutions as a charity foundation. It is because from the past education is considered as a charity in our country and it is been treated as the right to every person. But the present situation made our government to enact a Right to Education bill in our parliament. What factors made this changes is been already discussed by so many media and writers. Now you can wonder how this idiot’s perception is going to be different from others, but I can assure not many writers covered this kind of facts. Because it is from my own experience, only I can describe it, others cannot!!

As like the educational history of India, mine too started off very well. My primary school teachers are so good to me and they ignited me always to study not by any hard punishments, but by soft words. I can feel the warmness I felt around them till now, that is the reason I had topped in academics all the time i.e., till my primary school days. Even they missed a thing for me, I had never realized my interests and they too never guided me to that. Once I entered in to my SSLC I started to feel that education system is ruining me. I never had any interest to study; I never realized the reasons for my change in attitude. But the thing is during those days I always advised to hold a textbook in my hand by my teachers. They did a crazy thing, which is teaching the class 10 syllabus from the last months of class 9. First I didn’t get the reasons for this, but later I understood they are making us to be ready for the public exams to the earliest.

It is because we need to secure marks higher, that is the trend still which is been followed in our educational institutions. They need to project that their students have secured good marks and that facts will gain them admission. They never care what each of the individuals dream about; particularly they shatter the dreams of students at the initial stage. These are started to occur in our system once the competition is started between the schools. The management in order to face the competition advised their staffs with different set of strategies in different stages,

• First stage they advised to have more concentration on weak students.
• Second they implemented several punishments which are sadistic occasionally.
• Finally a thing which made everything worse, implementation of incentives for teachers who handled the best performing classes.

Now you may wonder how an incentive will lead to these problems, but the path I came across in my life has the proof to it. Here the incentive made the teachers to focus on the marks of the students not on the behavior of the students. Because here it is a number to number deal, the numbers displayed in every students mark sheets influences the numbers in paychecks of themselves. So most of the teachers are aimed at achieving the incentive, I didn’t blame them for this, but they should have considered the aims of their students too. I had this kind of personal experience in my life even during my college days. The following are about the different stages of teachers actions with me,

• Guided me to secure good marks
• Forced me to get average marks
• Pushed me to pass marks
• Threatened me to write exam

It is because during the last stage, my mind started to think independently and those are the days I started to hate system of our country.
Our Indian education system is not only ruining the minds and dreams of its students, also ruining itself. I hope for a change soon and sure that I will be the change I wish to see in it. Because me also one among the victims of this system.

P.S: I use this medium to dedicate my educators- Dad and my close friend Balu.
Also the idea to this post striked my mind while i reading "freakonomics", thanks to Stephen J. Levitt.

December 6th- September 24th

2010-09-24T23:24:00.000+05:30

It’s really worst that the whole country is afraid about the judgment which is expected to be delivered and due to the interference of our supreme court it’s been postponed for another certain period. I didn’t view this incident as about the wrong doings of the political parties and religious organizations which are involved in it. It is about how the citizens of this country worked without any senses and made our country to feel shame in the international arena.

Babri mosque was constructed in the year 1527 by the order of Babur, first Mughal emperor of India. During the construction I think he didn’t think about the future consequences that the mosque is going to create. So he might have ordered to construct it with happiness and it was completed. Then the people who follow Islamism are started to use this mosque for this spiritual and devotional purposes. The problems started only during the year 1885, when a person named Mahant Raghuvardas filed a petition on court to build a temple for lord Ram near the mosque. During that time it is not made into a big issue as we Indians had British as our common enemy. India is a country with people of similar kind; they all will unite together only if a common enemy comes into act. So we didn’t have time for our religious fights.

Then during 1949, when enemy of our country has been eradicated we came to our basics again. What happened in this year is really seems funny for me. Statues of lord Ram has been inside the mosque in all of a sudden, I think you all can guess how it would have happened. But during those days the people claimed that the lord Ram had taken his place himself. This is where the issue started to be in focus among the people of India. Many petitions have been filed regarding this and not a single court had settled this issue. But the rituals for the statue is been performed regularly and Allahabad court ordered for the status quo till all the issues has been settled. During 1980s the situations really started to began worse and many movements have been organized by various organizations in the motive to build a Ram temple. Finally on December 6, 1992 the historic symbol of Mughal dynasty in India for 465 years is been destroyed.

This caused violence like bomb blasts, killings and public unrest on both sides. Most of the people in India are not in a position to accept the verdict even now. The thing which made me angry and at the same time to worry is: The government which is been elected by the people of this country is worrying about the judgment and the sequence of action will follow due to that, also they afraid about providing of security to the same citizens who elected it. But here I didn’t mean this to blame the government of India, we the people are to be blamed. We made the situation to be worse like this and it’s in our hands to make a change.

In my point of view I do have a suggestion to solve it. We should build up a monument in ground zero, which indicates the shame we people had created to our country. And it should also have a wordings like, this is the place where two gods sacrificed themselves for the betterment of their followers.

P.S: I hope the above will never happen, but atleast this issue should be solved soon.

Sweetest journey in my life

2010-09-11T16:53:00.000+05:30

It’s been a 20 years of journey for me and I can’t even imagine it will be over within a period of about 6 months. I have been educated a lot in this journey and also I learned many things. But I didn’t write this in order to outline the things I learned. I did those in my previous posts. So I decided to make this a description of the journey. I think you understood about what I have been mentioned here. If not by reading further you can make it.

I don’t remember the day and its happenings, but somehow after years I know that I have been to school regularly. My mom use to say that I never cried to go for school and been very calm those days. I think most of you will disagree with this, to make you all believe will say you another one and she also used to say I always eat without any hesitation. To my wonder I am always the topper during my primary school education. The important thing is I never carried the heavy luggage our schools offered us to carry till my grandfather there with us. After he passed away I used to carry it myself. I still remember those days that I wondered still how many years need to carry this luggage.

After my primary education over and I been to my SSLC. This is the period I started to miss my sweet home, parents and friends in my surroundings. But that luggage is always with me. That’s the day I understood that even though you change your school, the luggage u need to carry never changes. But in this period I learned to do things without depending others. Particularly I started to hate the education I were provided, because these are the days where books started to be in my life, here I doesn’t mean about the textbooks. My focus is only to have fun with my friends, never cared about the studies. Then somehow I completed my SSLC and entered into my evergreen period of life, HSC. This the period where I got matured a lot, experienced infatuations and many other which I cannot mention over here. I got my close friends during these days in my journey. Two years of fun, persons who are there with me in those days can’t forget any single things we did. Even my school principal can’t forget our gang and particularly me. I remember a English saying that "history is philosophy teaching by examples". I am sure that we are the examples for how to enjoy your days.

Then my journey entered into the second level of enjoyment in my life. I finished my schooling and entered into an engineering college without knowing what engineering is. I promise u still I didn’t know anything about engineering and nothing even in my stream computer science engineering. But the university awarded us that I am a certified professional in computer science engineering. This is how our Indian education system functions at present. But in this period I really overjoyed myself. The important thing to say here is the luggage factor is vanished in this part. Initially I went to college with a single notebook and after day’s with empty hands. I really wondered that our education system functions in reverse. Because when I have a physical strength to carry those loads, it’s not must and vice-versa. But it’s new to me to study or go to college without any luggage, so I decided to make a virtual burden named arrears. Really it’s been there with me till my last semester exams.

So I finished my engineering, most of my friends are selected to be a corporate slave. I decided to postpone my slavery period, so I joined MBA. But this is the most important decision in my life, I learnt many things and also about persons. Still I have some month’s time to finish this course; I will make the continuation to this post once I completed it.

-To be continued……