Outshine

URL typing in TAMIL

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:45:42 PST

ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is contemplating to introduce URL typing in languages other than English.At present,even if the site has a Tamil name,it has to be typed in English in the browser .ICANN is experimenting other language URL typing currently.For this purpose they have selected 11 languages. Tamil finds a place in the list of 11 languages selected by

Deora under fire

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:39:49 PDT

An unfortunate fire accident has occured at the Indian oil depot at Jaipur.The petroleum Minister Murali Deora was honest and practical in saying that the fire has to die out on its own when the fuel ends.Immediatley all Tv chanels started blaming Deora for government's helplessness to put out the fire.In fact Deora was frank and forthright in saying 'No expert can do anything'.We are not used to

The young face of India - Suhash Gopinath

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:52:50 PDT

The World Economic Forum at Davos announced the Bangalore based Suhash Gopinath for the "Young Global Leader" award for 2008-2009 along with A.R.Rehman.Gopinath is just 23 years old now.He is the youngest to recieve this award in the history of World Economic Forum.This years YGL award features two other Indians(by birth)Hotmail.com's Sabeer Bhatia and Lousiana State Governor Bobby Jindal.But

The controversy over Bt Brinjal

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:43:11 PDT

Bt Brinjal refers to a Genetically Modified crop(GM crop).This Bt brinjal will contain a gene artificially introduced into its genome.This gene is produced from a soil bacterium called'bacillus thuringienesis'(bt).Hence the name Bt Brinjal.Agri-Biotechnology Support Program(ABSP)is an USAID program under Private-Public Partnership.Mosanto India Ltd and Mahyco are two bio technology companies

Global Hand Washing Day

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:42:31 PDT

Global Hand washing Day will be celebrated on October 15th.For many this might be yet another day celebrated globally.But I feel 'Global Hand Washing Day' has some relevance to India and its vast multitude of people. Many days are celebrated internationally. Most of them are for creating awareness and have a didactic value. The theme is to raise awareness about the benefits of hand washing with

Mamta,Lalu and Indian Railways

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:48:58 PDT

Lalu was hailed as India's best Railway Minister.His Desi wisdom earned him admirers all over the world.undoubtedly he was the most popular Railway Minister.Indian Railways is the world's largest employer.It employs 1.6 million heads.In 2004 when Lalu took over as Railway Minister ,Indian Railways was almost bankrupt.But in 5 years time Lalu with his ingenuity made it a cash surplus

Mayawati and her delusions

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 05:52:10 PDT

The UP Chief Minister Mayawati is all set to unviel about 40 statues in UP.This includes 6 statues of her own along with her mentorKanshi Ram.The statues of Ambedkar and other Dalit icons are also in the list.The total cost of all these statues are reported to be over Rs 100 crores.It is also reported the statue of Mayawati in Ambedkar Udyan alone costs around Rs1.55 crores.This is an offcial

Violations of the Laws of War

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:56:05 PDT

The war between the LTTE and the Sri Lankan government is no longer a war against an insurgency movement.It has developed into a catastrophic humanitarian crisis.Large number of civilians getting killed and wounded can not be acceptable to any civilised society. As a dispassionate observer, I am pained to see the plight of the innocent civilians,especially children,old people,and women caught in

Shoe Throwing

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 22:55:54 PDT

The latest shoe throwing was on Bollywood star Jeetendra when he was campaigning for the congress candidate Amrish Patel.Of late, shoe throwing on politicians have become a global trend, ever since a pair of shoes were thrown at Bush in the middle of a press conference last December by the Iraqi TV journalist Zaidi as "a farewell kiss from Iraqi people to the dog" .Bush joked "if you want details

Monarchy,democracy and dynasty

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:48:24 PDT

In a monarchy the authority is inherited from the monarch. On the other hand dynasty has a sequence of powerful leaders from the same family.India is one of worlds largest democratic country,where we give prominence to dynasty and elect parlimentarians and leaders from the same family.It is a nice blend of democracy and dynasty almost bordering on monarchy. Look at the Indian political scenario.

Sea horses

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:39:42 PDT

It is reported more than 100 sea horses were caught by Rameswaram fishermen yetserday.Many of us would have seen sea horses as specimens preserved in the zoology labs in schools and colleges or in some aquariums.Sea horses are actually a type of fish.They don't have scales like fishes.But they have armoured plates all over the body.There are about 50 different species of sea horses.They have a

Race for the saddle

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:28:05 PDT

On June 2nd the world will know about the next Indian Prime minister.Though it is too early to predict the outcome,there are too many aspiring Prime ministerial candidates form a host of parties.This includes some regional parties also.Who will don the PM's mantle is a million dollar question.Notwithstanding the uncertainites of the poll outcome,given below is a list of possible PM aspirants .

Quid Pro quo politics of India

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:10:13 PDT

The Indian general elections are scheduled to be held from 16th April 2009 to 13th May 2009, and the new government would be formed on 2nd June 2009.714 milllion Indians are going to exercise their franchise to decide on the next Indian government.As one of world's largest democracy,the Indian general elections would assume greater importance and the entire world would be anxiously awaiting for

Will they bag Academy Awards-India awaits

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:22:47 PST

Tomorrow,on Feb 22 the Academy Awards (Oscars) would be announced.India awaits with great anticipation to know if the two Indians among the nominees would bag the Academy Award for India.The third in the list (Also for SlumdogMillionaire),though not an Indian, belongs to the Tamil diaspora from Sri Lanka.The three Oscar award nominees from South Asia are A.R.Rehman,Resul Pookutty and Maya Arul

International Mother Language day - Feb 21

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:27:36 PST

UNESCO declared february 21 as the International Mother Language Day in 1999.Since 2000, it is observed every year all over the world.This is done to promote cultural diversity and mutilingualism.The tenth International Mother language day falls on Feb 21,2009.This year IML day assumes greater significance on two accounts.The Year long celebrations of the 'International Year of Languages' comes

Bird Migration

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:53:46 PST

Recently I travelled to Tuticorin in Tamil nadu from Bangalore by bus.Enroute to Tuticorin from Madurai,I think it was somewhere near the Aruppokottai region (I am not sure),I saw lot of white birds perched atop trees found in road side ponds.In each tree top,they were in such large numbers,that even some of the trees looked in spotless white colour from a distance.I presumed thses birds were

Changing face of Bangalore

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:16:41 PST

In Chord Road from Attiguppe to vijayanagar there were lot of trees lined on either side of the road.These trees have been axed to widen the roads and also for the metro rail project.There were trees in the road side parks on either side of the chord road leading to the vijayanagar bus stand.Some of these trees in the road side parks have also been felled.A Big tree near the Vijayanagar bus

Telegrams

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:08:50 PST

Have you tried to sent a telegram recently? I had been to a telegraph office near my house.When I asked for the 'Telegram form',the man at the office looked at me blankly as though I have come from a different planet.I have given below my conversaton with him.He said "You can't send telegrams from here"."Is this not a telegraph office?" I asked"It is, but you can't send telegrams from here""Why?"

Kudos to Resul Pookutty

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:31:59 PST

Resul pookutty the Sound engineer/designer of 'Slumdog Millionaire' has also been nominated to Oscars along with ARR. Resul hails from an obscure village called Anchal near Punalur in Kollam district of Kerala.It is a great honour for Indian film industry, and especially Kerala.Pookutty is an FTII graduate and was the sound director for films like Gajini and Black.Pookutty has also been

Globe trotter wins Golden globe-Jai Ho Rehman

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:23:16 PST

Alla Rakka Rehman has won the best original music score award for Danny Boyles "Slumdog Millionaire"ARR celebrated his birthday just a week ago.Here comes another great award just two days prior to Tamil festival Pongal.ARR's song 'Jai ho' has secured him the award.The film has also bagged for him IPA's(Interational Press academy) satellite award for best music score.Gulzar is the lyricist of the

Unparliamentary Language

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:00:08 PST

Today morning I read a news in Times of India that the word "weed" is considered unparliamentary by the Loksabha.The Loksabha secretariat brings out a book every year listing 'unparliamentary words'.The idea is to educate the members to refrain from using them during debates and their speeches in the House.The intent of the book is to make the dignified members to uphold the dignity and decorum

Everything about New Year

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:46:31 PST

Let me first wish 'Happy new Year' in advance to all fellow bloggers and blog readers.The dawn of the new year prompted me to think about the different New Years being celebrated in India by different states and by different linguistic communities in the same state.How this could have come in to being?Why there is no uniformity? Should we have different calendar years?Does it serve any purpose?.

Aiko,cyborg,transhumanism and the future

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:41:11 PST

Vietnam born and canadian inventor Le Tung has created a female robot called Aiko at a cost of $25000.Aiko has unbelievable housekeeping skills,a page 3 pin up face,an enviable 32,23,33 contour,shiny hair,can talk English and Japanese,can do mathematics and manage accounts.Aiko is touch sensitive and reacts the natural way when showered with affection or hurt,recogonises faces says hello.she

Trilingual blogger

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 19:02:04 PST

Google Search results for "trilingual Blogger" has returned outshine and Aguas.It appears Aguas has a travel blog in three languages.But I do not know in what three languages he is blogging.From his "blog.travelpod.com" I can't find out the three language details.It also appears trilingual blogging was started by Aguas as late as September 2008 from the google search results.Trilingual postings

Mumbai attack and its aftermath

noreply@blogger.com (outshine) — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:06:55 PST

Before I dwell on the Mumbai attack,I would like to go back to the 9/11 USA attack.Since then there has been no attack worthy of mention in USA.How could they achieve this? But in India there have been attacks after attack and every time the government issued statments about gearing up security measures.I don't think any concrete action has been put in place despite umpteen number of attacks.The