Arunachal Blog

The topic read - Talibanisation of Roing!

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 08:06:00 +0000

Hadn't checked other Arunachal Pradesh related blogs for a while, but woke up this morning to find the news on one of the most harrowing act, in a place thats closest to my heart - Roing.

The post read...

A 2:18 minute video taken through a mobile handset has shocked the tribal community living here in Roing. The video reveals two minor tribal boys studying in Govt Middle School of Roing blindfolded and tied in their hands and being forcefully made to confess for stealing. After having shot the video and making them confess the crime, these boys were reportedly handed over to police. It is alleged that they were caught while stealing domesticated pigs and a written complaint was lodged in the Roing police station. The boys are in their VIIIth and VIIth grade respectively.

Read more? Find the post here... Talibanisation of Roing(Roingnews)

I wondered, how inhuman can we turn into just to salvage the vagabond tribalistic pride we effuse inherently and nonchalantly. There are ways to solve things but certainly this wasn't the one - blindfolding, torturing with all the dastard premises of their know-hows of taking things to their, whatever intentional design they forsake.

Roing, has changed not on the developmental sides that it's people would have loved it, but on a sheer agonizing and frustrating detrimental peripheries one can imagine of.

Roing and its people have learnt and still prefers the uncanny way of solving disputes when it comes to communal ground. The unique feature is..."It's never personal, if you land on trouble with someone from another tribe - It's always communal". If one were to describe it more elaborately, it would be " Idu and Adi(padam) are two different sets, and clash between any single entity of these two sets is entitled to be chastised as a sufficient condition to flare up a communal clash".

I've been witness to such innumerous communal clashes whenever I'ad been to Roing. None of my vacations has escaped being marked by these communal tensions. I'ad a different notion about the communal clashes where the primal criterion always had been the 'religions'. But, the whole things takes a different shape when it's about an Idu-Adi communal clash in Roing.

I wonder, when would we learn to coexist!

The pigs did! Where are we?

Letter from AIMSU & ICLS on Dibang project

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:54:00 +0000

July 13, 2009

Mr. Jairam Ramesh,
Honorable Minister of State (Independent Charge), Environment & Forests,
New Delhi.

Sub: Illegal public hearing called for 3000 MW Dibang Multipurpose
project on August 6th; reject pre-construction clearance to project

Dear Mr. Ramesh,

Greetings from the Dibang Valley, Arunachal Pradesh! We write to you
on behalf of the Idu Cultural and Literary Society (ICLS) and the All
Idu Mishmi Students Union (AIMSU). ICLS is the apex body of the Idu
Mishmi community, while AIMSU is the students union. We would like to
bring to your notice a serious subversion of environmental norms by
NHPC and the Arunachal Pradesh state government while announcing the
public hearing for the 3000 MW Dibang Multipurpose project on August
6th.

As mentioned on the MoEF website, NHPC has applied for Scoping under
the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) notification 2006 for the
Dibang project on May 28th, 2009. As per the EIA notification 2006 it
is clear that if the site is felt inappropriate on environmental and
social grounds, the MoEF based on recommendations of the EAC can
reject a project at this stage itself. The EAC may choose to conduct a
site visit in order to give its recommendations and could also choose
to give detailed Terms of Reference (ToR) for conduct of EIA studies
for the project and a clearance for pre-construction activities. It
is only after the MoEF conveys its decision to the project authority
after the Scoping stage that further steps such as ‘Public
Consultation’ may require to be taken up. That too only if
pre-construction clearance has been granted and necessary studies have
been conducted as per the ToR provided to the project authority as per
EIA 2006.

As per the MoEF website: “This proposal was considered by the EAC at
its meeting held on 16th June 2009. Additional information sought by
the committee.” Therefore it is clear that the EAC and MoEF are yet
to arrive at a final decision on whether to grant or reject
pre-construction clearance to the project. This is further confirmed
from the agenda for the upcoming July 24th EAC meeting uploaded on the
MoEF website which has the Dibang project listed as “Reconsideration
for ToR.” However, an advertisement has appeared on June 24th 2009 in
the Echo of Arunachal Pradesh, announcing a public hearing to be held
in the Dibang Valley district, on July 29th, 2009. This has been
subsequently been pushed ahead by ten days for August 6th. Therefore
a request for conduct of this public hearing would have gone from NHPC
to the Arunachal Pradesh State Pollution Control Board (APSPCB)
certainly before June 23rd, without any decision from the MoEF about
whether it plans to grant or reject pre-construction clearance! Even
if the MOEF was to grant pre-construction clearance at a later date,
studies will have to be undertaken as per the ToR granted by EAC. Such
completed studies will have to be available at least one month before
the public hearing to members of the public. However, both NHPC and
the APSPCB appear to have treated the Dibang project as a fait
accompli and announced the public hearing even before waiting to hear
from the MoEF about its final decision on the Dibang project at the
Scoping Stage! This is a serious subversion of environmental norms and
should not be allowed by your ministry. The public hearing scheduled
for August 6th should be cancelled with immediate effect.

Larger concerns

We believe that the public hearing process has become a mere cosmetic
step while granting rubber stamp environmental clearances and
appreciate the concerns you have raised in this respect recently. In
January 2008, NHPC and the Arunachal Pradesh state government misled
the PMO and got the Prime Minister to lay the foundation stone of the
Dibang project even before the public hearing processes and green
clearances were obtained. We are encouraged by the fact that you have
raised this issue (laying of foundation stones by project authorities
before green clearances) in a recent press conference held in New
Delhi.

One of the biggest threats to proper environmental decision-making on
Arunachal dams in recent times has been what you identified as a ‘MoU
virus’ in May 2008, in your earlier capacity as Minister of State for
Power. There has been a rapid signing of MoUs by Arunachal Pradesh,
both with the private sector and the public sector, even as it plans
to build 135 large hydel project. Each of these agreements is
accompanied by huge monetary advances to the government even before
the DPR is prepared, public consultations held and green clearances
obtained. For example, NHPC paid the Arunachal Pradesh government Rs.
225 crores while signing MoUs for three projects, including Rs. 150
crores for the Dibang project. How can we expect the EIA reports
commissioned by project authorities to give a honest picture when they
have already made huge investments upfront at the time of signing
MoUs? They are going to justify the project as ‘benign’ under any
circumstances. Similarly, the state government has already received
huge money upfront. This fact is going to clearly influence the
content of the forest clearance application it submits to the central
government or the manner in which it conducts public hearings under
the environmental clearance process.

The same saga continues at the stage of environmental appraisal. In
spite of Arunachal Pradesh being an ecologically and culturally
sensitive region (traversed by two global biodiversity hotspots:
Himalaya and Indo-Burma), as well as being seismically active, the
current EAC has granted clearances (pre-construction or environmental
clearance as the case may be) to every single project which come
before the committee! This is incredible! Although there are several
ministries looking at social justice issues (e.g. Ministry of Tribal
Affairs), the environmental clearance process handled by the MoEF is
the only space where detailed social impact assessment of large
development projects is supposed to be done (including public
consultations). Therefore, it assumes great significance for tribal
communities such as the Idu Mishmis. We are more than a little
surprised to see that even though these projects have mega impacts on
landscapes which are home to minority indigenous communities like
ours, there are no independent experts from the social sciences on the
EAC. While we respect the expertise of the current EAC members in
their respective disciplines, we would like to point out that the
current EAC is incompetent in assessing complex socio-cultural issues,
such as the impact of mega dams on the rights and livelihood of
indigenous communities like ours, as is evident from their
decision-making over the last two years in states such as Arunachal
Pradesh and Sikkim. We would urge you to ensure that both independent
social scientists as well representation from ministries such as
Tribal Affairs is necessary on the EAC. Since the Northeast is a
unique region and identified as a major area for new large hydro
projects, we would also like persons who understand the environmental
and social realities of the region to be part of such an expert
appraisal committee.

A public hearing was held for the Dibang project earlier in Roing,
Lower Dibang Valley district, in January 2008 (as per the earlier EIA
regime). During this hearing we had clearly pointed our opposition to
the destructive Dibang project and raised concerns about the shoddy
EIA reports prepared to justify the project. There is no point
holding public consultations when everything in the environmental
decision-making process until now seems to treat the Dibang project as
a fait accompli. Therefore, the people of the Dibang Valley have
boycotted/ blocked all subsequent attempts to hold a public hearing in
the Dibang Valley district. Except for a small political elite who
stand to gain personally from the mega investments in the Dibang dam,
the majority of people in the Dibang Valley have opposed this project
which stands to threaten our social and ecological security.

Scrap Dibang project at Scoping State itself

We urge the MoEF to take a precautionary principle approach and scrap
the Dibang dam at the Scoping Stage itself. We have already written
to you with a demand to declare the Dibang Valley an ecologically
sensitive area under the EPA, in which only ecologically and
socio-culturally sensitive development should be allowed, not large
dams. We want the Dibang river to flow free. By all counts the Dibang
Valley qualifies to be declared ecologically sensitive (details in our
application sent earlier). For example, renowned wildlife expert from
the Northeast, Dr. Anwaruddin Choudhury says: "Dibang and Lohit
valleys contain some of the last large contiguous tracts of tropical,
subtropical and temperate forests in the country. These forests have
potentially large populations of many rare species such as Hoolock
gibbon, Slow loris, Capped langur, Stump-tailed and Pig-tailed
macaques, Asiatic black bear, Malayan bear, Gaur, Takin, Leaf deer,
lesser cats, Clouded leopard and perhaps a good Tiger population. Also
many endemic and threatened birds. Many proposed dams in the area
means that no river basin has been spared to retain its pristine
glory. The downstream impact in the Brahmaputra plains could seriously
jeopardise common people's livelihood."

The population of the Idu Mishmi community is only 12,000. The kind
of development being proposed through multiple mega-hydel projects
involving the influx of a large number of outside labour (outnumbering
the locals) is contradictory to the constitutional and legal
safeguards provided to the small populations of culturally sensitive
indigenous communities of Arunachal Pradesh. The current safeguards
disallow land transfer to outsiders and regulate entry of persons in
our traditional homelands. But the current dams juggernaut will simply
dismantle this protection given to us.

We are putting down some of the issues which clearly indicate that a
precautionary principle approach is adopted and the Dibang project
scrapped at this stage itself:

Huge loss of forests and biodiversity: Over 5000 hectares of pristine
forests to be lost directly in the project. You are aware that the
Northeast is traversed by two of three global biodiversity hotspots
which cover India – Himalaya and Indo-Burma. Contrary to claims of the
company that no sanctuary is affected, there will be a major impact on
the Mehao sanctuary. The road to the dam site from Roing passes
through the Mehao sanctuary at certain places. Curently there is very
low traffic density on this road. The coming in of such a large
project will dramatically increase the flow of traffic of vehicles and
machinery for a long period of time (it is a long gestation project)
through the sanctuary. Such a massive dam involves the extraction of
approximately 32 lakh truckloads (193 lakh cubic metres) of boulders
and 16 lakh truckloads (96.5 lakh cubic metres) of sand from the river
bed (Dibang and some its tributaries). The river beds from where this
will be done are part of an Important Bird Area (IBA) – Dibang Reserve
Forest and adjacent areas - identified by the Bombay Natural History
Society (BNHS) as per international criteria. This IBA has also been
found to qualify to be a potential Ramsar site – a wetland of
international importance – by the BNHS in a recent publication on
potential Ramsar sites in the country.

Major demographic changes and socio-cultural impacts:

As indicated earlier the Idu Mishmi community is only 12,000 in
number. The old EIA report of the Dibang project states that 5800
people (labour and technical staff) will come in for the project
related activities. This seems to be a gross underestimate. The 2000
MW Lower Subansiri project being developed by the same company, NHPC,
is relatively smaller in all respects compared to 3000 Dibang MW –
height of dam, power generation, construction period etc. The EIA
report done for this project states that the total workforce (labour
and technical staff) during peak construction activity of 4-5 years
will be 15, 500 people. In a smaller project, the estimate was
15,500. How is it only 5,800 in Dibang? If one compares with Lower
Subansiri, the workforce in Dibang will be at the very least 25,000
(more than twice the population of the Idu Mishmis) staying for long
periods of time since this is a long gestation project. In addition,
the government is proposing a total of 17 large hydel projects in our
valley! Cumulatively, this will involve at least 150,000 outside
labour for long periods of time. The pressure on the rich forests of
the region due to such a large work force has to be accounted for too.
Despite fancy claims in project documents how fuel will be supplied to
the workforce, this is almost never complied with. A glaring example
is the 2000 MW Lower Subansiri project by NHPC. The pressure on the
surrounding forests (part of the Subansiri Important Bird Area) due to
illegal fuelwood collection by labour for the dam has also been
recorded in the monitoring reports of the MoEF’s regional office in
Shillong. Local green groups from North Lakhimpur have also reported
poaching by the labour force. In addition to the forests officially
diverted for the project, such pressures on surrounding areas will
also conflict with our traditional rights to these forests.

Project affected areas and persons is considerably higher than projected:

One of the major arguments made in favour of large hydroelectric
projects in Arunachal Pradesh is that there is relatively ‘small
displacement’ by submergence as compared to other parts of the
country. But a careful perusal of the ground situation indicates that
displacement is grossly underestimated both individually and
cumulatively. Shifting agriculture (jhum) is a dominant traditional
land use in the hills of Arunachal Pradesh and plays a critical role
in the livelihoods of people, maintaining agricultural biodiversity
and providing food security. Increasing pressures on land have
resulted in the shortening of jhum cycles (the length of the fallow
period between two cropping phases), thus impacting the ecological
viability of this farming system. The submergence of land by hydel
projects will further shorten the jhum cycle and enhance the pressure
on the surrounding areas, thus affecting the environment and the
livelihoods of jhum dependent communities over a much larger
landscape. In addition to the submergence, land use restrictions will
also apply in the Catchment Area of the reservoir as per mandatory
norms to reduce the siltation and increase the life of the reservoir.
The figures for the Dibang dam indicate that 4009 hectares will be
under submergence by the project. But the direct catchment area is
59,811.88 hectares (out of which 10, 281.64 hectares is degraded
forest/abandoned jhum and 3851.64 hectares is agriculture/current
jhum/habitation). The Catchment Area Treatment (CAT) will involve
land use restrictions in the direct draining catchment to reduce
siltation. What will be the population of people affected by this
restriction of land use in the direct draining catchment of 59, 811.88
ha? This is considerably larger than just the population affected by
loss of land in submergence zone.

Further, compensatory mechanisms required as per forest laws to
offset the loss of forests due to the project also lead to supposed
‘protection’ of other areas by change of tenure and access regimes to
land and resources. For example, conversion of Unclassified State
Forests (USFs) in AP, with currently greater access and control of
local communities, into Protected Forests, with greater state control.
Firstly, no compensatory afforestation can compensate the loss of
such a large area of biodiverse forest in the Dibang Valley.
Secondly, the compensatory afforestation will require twice the area
of forest land used directly in project (i.e. over 10,000 hectares) to
be converted from USFs to PFs, thus involving further acquisition of
rights from people.

Further, the whole issue of downstream impacts has been completely
ignored! Recent times have also seen grave concern being expressed
about the poorly studied downstream livelihood and ecological impacts
of large dams in both Arunachal Pradesh and neighbouring Assam. The
concerns include loss of fisheries, changes in beel (wetland) ecology
in the flood plains, agricultural losses, increased flood
vulnerability due to massive boulder extraction from river beds and
sudden water releases from reservoirs in the monsoons. But this issue
has been completely ignored by the MoEF and its EAC, although this has
been brought to the notice of the EAC repeatedly in the last two
years. All ToRs prescribed for Arunachal dams have been asked to
restrict their studies to only 10 km. downstream of the projects.
In the case of the Dibang project the extraction of 32 lakh truck load
of boulders (the first line of defence against floods) and 16 lakh
truck loads of sand will put the downstream areas at grave risk. It
will be judicious not to make such massive interventions in the
Eastern Himalayan rivers such as the Dibang.

As seen above, the impact on local communities and the environment is
well beyond what is being projected in the current decision-making
process.

Keeping the above issues in mind, we strongly urge you to scrap the
3000 MW Dibang Multipurpose project at the Scoping Stage itself.
Adoption of a precautionary principle approach is urgently required at
this point of time. We do not want the country’s tallest dam (288 m
high, approximately a 100 storey high building!) to come up in its
seismically most active region in our Dibang Valley. We cannot
compromise our social and ecological security under any circumstances.
While the MoEF considers this appeal to reject the pre-construction
clearance to the Dibang project, we hope you will call for an
immediate cancellation of the illegal public hearing announced for
August 6th.

Thanking you,
Sincerely,
Dr. Mite Lingi, General Secretary, Idu Cultural and Literary Society
Tone Mickrow, General Secretary, All Idu Mishmi Students Union
Raju Mimi, Information and Publicity Secretary, All Idu Mishmi Students Unio

Precious Little Moments!

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:07:00 +0000

Life is a box of chocolates, you never know which one you might get ( unless the box is all yours of course! ), each of the chocolates tasting different than the other. And so does it goes true for events and moments that we live by.

Life has an uncanny way of disguising to something new or rather modified in every another day that we step by. It's the sheer ungratitudiness of being mere human beings that we seldom give a thought on the various aspects of ' how it did?'. A person lives some of his life's best moment today and is still unsure about how it might ' tomorrow '. However, the answer isn't about finding a statistically proved model of working out the probability of ideally finding a yet another 'good day', but it should be about how 'yesterdays' are the moments that gives meaning to our life and to what we are today. It's weird how the invisible traits of life, which otherwise are just the figments of how much we can cache the memories - of ours and others, has the power of depositioning how we might view others and how others might view us.

However, the point of this posting wasn't about, stretching the limitless counter arguments that my mind might give in for even having thought on - how vague arguments on something that are vaguely visible should take the upper shelves of my supposedly nimble time these days.

So, lets move in to the precious little vagaries of Life which adds nothing much but the more of you with fews that you can recollect and rejoice ( at the end ) having done that. I will do mine for certain.

This should be nothing more than a routine exercise to gather more of such for many people across that you call - 'the loved ones'.

Let's unravel it...

I keep telling myself... if there is something that is most precious to me, then it would be my Dad and each of the moments that I'ad spent with him. But, on a serious note, when I actually try to recollect those moments - it takes me a lot to recall those. Some of the the moments that first strikes and comes to my mind are ( trying to note down the first three ):-

Moment1- The first and the Last 'Slap'.

It goes back to my primary school days ( I was in 4th standard, 1995 ), I'ad a petty little fight with my Dad over some superstitiously generated urgency of having Rs.100 in my pocket. I wanted to go to a restaurant along with my friends ( what? ). Sounds like, an annoying little kid I must have been. Rs.100 bucks in 1995 meant a lot...and it even did more to a 4th standard student. And quite obviously my Dad did say 'NO' and wanted to re-negotiate on the terms of my demands with mega depreciation furthering to Rs.10.

Rs.10, how does that sound? I wished it had been my birthday that day...but alas, it wasn't. You can guess what a spoilt, short-tempered brat would respond back by. Yes, I did that... started kicking around the furnitures, clothes rack and whatever my legs could reach within the 'acquired-circumference-of-zero-tolerance'. I guess it should have been sufficient enough to cool down my anger and justify the 'howling acts' and shedding of some 'forced tears' to ascertain my position over my justified claims.

Well...I went overboard...I over did...

by heading for my Dad's room and trying to make a hole using a knife ( DAO )through his suitcase so that I could get my hand on the cash( if there were any ). Pretty good, sturdy traditional VIP suitcase it was ( I could make only few scratches which might possbilby be deciphered as some ancient fossilised writings, if aliens discover it, eons later)!

My futile efforts just earned me a one good tight slap.
And I get nostalgic remembering that...the only Slap ever and so far!

moment2 .. ( shall continue later ) :)

P.S:- I would suggest, even you try out the same...and gauge for yourself as to where you fall!

An Idea, that couldn't take off!

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:48:00 +0000

If you can self-employ yourself ( what an oxymoron phrase ) and help others in doing so, you make a great deal out of the MBA degree that you earn by accumulating all the marketing jargons in 2 years course of mba certification. What? You don't believe it... ok... naysayers have their own thoughts. :)
Just trying to buy lame excuses so that I keep myself from never to stop dreaming about becoming an entrepreneur someday. The word sounds good - 'entrepreneur' , a good occupation for people who wouldn't like to take orders from people around and where you get your own options to choose; where you get your orders from!
This post is about an entrepreneur kinda stuff that I had in my mind, that never took off. It was 2008 ( somewhere February ), I was working in a small software firm, 'Vinove ( Delhi )', when I got this idea of coming up with my own social networking site. An independent domain name, with GBs of hosting space, an innovative name, a mass-media promotion for the same. Well, I'ad literally thought down about all the features this 'supposedly unique website' would come up with. Now, with thousands of social networking sites, along with the likes of Facebook, Myspace, Orkut etc, it would be the stupidest to think for a social networking site that would cater to, whatever these sites have to offer. Well, I wasn't thinking of that. So, this had to be something unique. It needed to have its own niche segment that it could target to.
"WWW.Lifewithoutthem.COM" - that was the name I'ad thought. ( haha... I was a jerk of having not been able to think of something better than that ). So, it's pretty implied what this site would have catered to. OK...You're still waiting for me to explain that! Then you fall in my league as well. Actually I did try a lot of names... rememberingyou, rememberingthem, lovedones, blah blah... but all were unavailable. :(

This website was about - giving virtual space to all of the people who are dead. You would need to register, then provide the photographs of the loved ones you would like to feature in this site. This was supposed to work out as some sort of 'Obituary space' for the netizens. I knew pooling around all the Dead people profiles from around the world would be a mammoth task, so just wanted to stick around with only Indians on my mind.
So once you're done with registration, the admin ( me ) would check out the validity(of course, I wouldn't be able to do that, unless I've access to the database of all the dead people or any of my cousin works in some central govt dept office with access to all of these). Then, put your request Live by next day. You can pen down testimonials, moments shared with him/her, some memorable photographs ( create an album for the deceased infact ), then invite your friends, who you think might know him/her to have a look and give their own shares. And...Voila... you've given him/her, a space that would live by ages ( unless the validity of the site expires and I am unable to pay for its renewal, ofcourse ), a space that would keep growing, a space that your kins, his/her kins, relatives would cherish.
So, a complete online journal for a beloved ones gets created....and you never miss to put a smile on your face, going though those beautiful moments you'ad to share.
Well.. thats it. I couldn't come up with it, despite even having thought to quit my job for this project. I'ad to grab my call for MBA. Now, there's never enough time to think of that sorts...and it was few months back ( somewhere April 2009 ), when I told the same to my friend, he introduced me to a website with similar features, name Respectance ( click for the page ). After going through this...I don't know if I really should feel glad - that my thought never did took off".

Anyway, I hope people who wants to come up with such a kind of website, can better it, with more specific targets in mind.

Bing - check the next big thing!

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:58:00 +0000

A copy or an original, Bing - certainly has made an impact on me. It's a new search engine still in Beta stage launched on 3rd june by Microsoft to challenge the hegemony of Google in the search engine world. Simple and more or lesser, features like google ... 'bing' has gained a tremendous response all over the world, and not to wonder the massive campaigns that were live, all this while from microsofts end. And I hope this blog post will do a little bit into that.

So, try out the latest search engine "THE BING" .

Oh, honestly... I came to know about it today through a group mail from on of my mates. And yet another fascinating website he refered was the "SPEZIFY". A search engine but one of its kind.

Result upon keywords - 'rome mele' . :)

So bing and the spezify ... check it for urself!! :)

A Driving license for an MBA!

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:37:00 +0000

The idea of fat pay-checks once you roll out of a good B-school, despite the sheer personal acknowledgement that you could have done much better with a job rather than spending 2 years on mugging and roting up something vestigial - is a firmly entrenched belief for many MBA grads.

I'm currently undergoing my summer internship with a company xyz and the task in hand - "200 institutes to be surveyed in 20 days"... I wonder...if we need a driving license and equally maneuvering expertise of MotoGp bikers or I would need an MBA degree for that ? Cost cutting - the need of hour - They say !!!

Pune Summers and the Pains!

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:52:00 +0000

Writing back after a long hiatus and I believe in this course - might have lost a many of the few visitors to my blog. A very bad example of how to maintain a blog and along with that to keep dreaming of bringing in new readers.

This summer has been a nightmare - one for the climatic definition of what summers stands for and the other in lieu with the summers essential for aspiring managers. WoW...did I say 'aspiring managers?'. Well...I did, quite an obnoxious paraphrase for MBA grads who's been badly hit by the so called global economic recession, and quite a pain in ass when you've to work for the companies xyz as summer intern as necessitated by the mba curriculum - to give an insight into how the corporate life would be, once you start working.

This has been a long sluggish summers for me - for many reasons that I've been sun-baked now and OH MY UV rays allergy ( which I'ad been diagnosed once during my engineering days ) and the investments on assets of natural liquidity - the petrol and the constant paranoia of getting hit by thousands of bikes and cars I come along while riding my *newly-purchased-old-kinetic*, which is so shameless of guzzling petrol with the loudest of roars ( Ya, I've to mend my silencer...I know that!! ) in the vicinity. And of course not to forget the 10mins of kicks drills to start my kinetic each time I give it a rest for 1 hour ( And Ya...my battery wouldn't work ) - and paradoxically - all for the summers that requires me to run around the whole PUNE.

So, much for summers...and the mortgaged self esteem wouldn't take respite to give back the appreciations...with so called Indianised version of "slowdown economy" - all one gets back for the efforts and the pains are "depreciation" .

Just....praying for 15 June...when I would be free from the agonies of my First Summer!

Things that consoles me...

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:01:00 +0000

Had my 3 hours International Marketing lecture this evening...and probably the last lecture of the subject for this semester, though I bunked many of the same ( atleast among the highest few ). But, I had to strictly align my tendencies to bunk classes with the principle I am very passionate about, which is - " All gone well at the end is counted under GONE WELL".

Being the last class our lecturer took a time off to provide his feedback for all the presentations we had given...and the usual advices on how being consistent and being innovative weighs much more than the mere marks a class topper scores over another. WoW.. that was a yet another consolation to my ever falling grades though I manage to pass all the papers ( 14+ khichdi subjects in one single sem ) on a single cue that I keep giving myself every morning - Ya, am a good dreamer which probably could be, because I am a good sleeper too. That's an uncanny habit which probably by now has become a part of my gene and my kids in future too would inherit the same - and am quite confident about that. Have tried real hard to get rid of this...but why would one get rid of something every human beings treasure and care about the most, thats an impromptu question that strikes my mind. And ya, am a very mindful guy as well...apart from a good dreamer... so I dream, for which I sleep - even if it meant compensating the balance sleep hours in the class.

OK. That was deviating ! :)

Lets deviate again...

Have you ever wondered where the best brains of the world go for their higher degrees, atleast in the management perspective? It's the likes of Harvard, Oxford, London school of economics, Standfords, and the best in India to IIMs.

Now, did you ever wonder where the BESTEST of these mangerial brains opt to work for ( which sector, in precise )?

Investment Banking sectors ( likes of Mckinsey...and erstwhile Lehman bros & DSP Meryll Lynch ).

Now, did you ever wonder the failure in proper management of which sector has led to one of the biggest financial crunch that world has ever witnessed?

No... prizes for guessing.

No Dam Zone in Dibang Valley

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 05:59:00 +0000

Press release note (14th March 2009)

Campaign on demanding `No Dam Zone in Dibang Valley'
Today on the day of March 14, 2009 which is observed all over the world as International Day of Action against Dams and for Rivers. water and Life', we the All Idu Mishmi Students Union and Idu Mishmi Cultural and Literary Society demand Dibang Valley to be declared as an Ecologically Sensitive Zone according to the provisions under Section 3 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986 similar to that of the Aravalli hills where mining is banned.

Similarly, mega projects such as dam building should be banned in Dibang Valley and the region declared as 'No Dam Zone. A letter to this effect has been sent to the Prime Minister with copies to the officials of the Ministry of Environment & Forests and to the state Government of Arunachal Pradesh. A copy of the same is attached here with the release note.

The International Day of Action against Dams and for Rivers, Water, and Life was inspired and mandated by the participants of the 1997 First International Meeting of People Affected by Dams in Curitiba, Brazil. Every year on March 14, people around the world celebrate victories such as dam removal and river restoration, teach others about issues threatening rivers and communities, and demand improvements in policies and practices of decision-makers.

Dr Mite Linggi
Secretary
Idu Mishmi Cultural and Literary Society

Tone Mickrow
Secretary
All Idu Mishmi Student Union

Pareto principle at work in Arunachal ?

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:26:00 +0000

Ever wondered why 20% of the time expended produces 80% of the results,

Or, 80% of your phone calls go to 20% of the names in your phone list,
Or, 20% of the paper has 80% of the news,
Or, 80% of the news is in the first 20% of the article,
Or, 20% of the people causes 80% of the problems,
Or, 80% of the problems in the world are because of Religion and its 20% of any Religion that are followed for the good.

80-20 % observation is a very interesting way to look at the things happenings around the world, whose extension over the business world has been used to achieve the so called benefits of socio-economic upliftments, for the 80% of the people who happens to serve 20% of the people. The impinging reverberation of this stark inequality calls forth for a new class of world over.

This disproportion theory of 20-80% is popularly known as the Pareto principle which was first propounded by Vilfredo Pareto(1848-1923). He observed that 20% of the people of Italy who formed the upper strata of the societal hierarchy nearly owned about 80% of the wealth. The concept of such disproportion in the society was thus put forward by Pareto. The exact value of 20 and 80% are not necessarily true or significant every time. But, the thread of truth attached with such disporportion distribution of wealth is something that can't be overlooked.

And the same stands true for what we can observe in Arunachal Pradesh. Only the politicians, their relatives, bureaucrats, engineers and few elite contractual players etc reaps the benefits of the funds that were supposedly meant for the overall development. So, its the wealthy 20% arunachali population that owns the 80% of the wealth. Now, if we further ponder upon how the fund-flow system in Arunachal assumes figure... then one might have to oblige with the fact that... there is more than 80% probability that these 20% of the people representing the wealthy arunachalis is somehow spun around in the same network that remains exclusively theirs.

Now, what does other 80% of the Arunachali people do... people who represents the middle and lower section of the SEC ( socio economic classificatory groups )?
A good question... and the answer is - 80% of the whole arunachal population competes amongst eachother for the scarce and limited 20% of the fund. This 80% of the population represents the people who are frustrated for this un-equitable distribution of wealth which by no exception is a handiwork of an economic system that works only for the sustainment of its existence rather than existing for people who needs the most.

This vicious cycle of 80-20% in wealth distribution is multiplicative in nature, which makes it imperative for the people in the border of this distinctive groups of 80-20 to find a way into the upper 20. And for this to happen they have no other option but to get into the nexus of this cyclic proportionate distribution of wealth.

Going by definition of any economic community run by a government that is being elected by the overall population the following points would have been achievable:
- the 20% of the people who work for the 80% of the people would have been responsible for distribution of 80% of the wealth to atleast 80% of the people.
- The reversed implication of Pareto principle would have been observed.

But, the subtle truth of asking for an Utopian kind of society in present context is too much to ask for. Again, a reedemable and a healthy proportion much in favor of society at large isn't an impossible feat to achieve. An conscientious effort to bring in this slow but imminently desired change in the 80-20% has to be brought forth.

Days of reckoning the same wouldn't be far if we believe that onus lies on each one of us.

A society of new economic order can wait!

OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER OF INDIA

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:47:00 +0000

To
Dr. Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India
South Block
New Delhi

Honourable Prime Minister Sir:
For the past one year, we, the Idu Mishmis of Dibang Valley, have been subjected to a very cruel circus of development. Development that we understand very little, projects of national interest that do not evoke any interest within us, dreams that we know will remain unfulfilled.

The 3,000 MW Dibang Multipurpose Project along with more than a dozen other hydro projects are being imposed on us in the name of national interest and energy security. We have protested since we failed to be convinced that they will benefit us, we have submitted memoranda with the hope that we will be heard, and we argued against our destruction, the bleak future of our future generation, because we thought that we were the citizens of the world’s biggest democracy.

But, the events of the past one year, a sham process of forcible public participation to legitimize a project, a shoddy and incomplete environment impact assessment by a reputed public sector organization and repeated violations in organizing public hearings – all point to the fact that nobody is interested to listen to us – the governments, the bureaucrats or even our elected public representatives. Even you chose to inaugurate the Dibang Valley project early this year, some hundreds of kms away in Itanagar, without any consultation with our community.

We fail to understand how projects could be envisaged to be of national interest when their likely impacts are going to unleash destruction and devastation – destruction of our pristine forests, rich biodiversity, our land and livelihood, our sacred Taloh (as Dibang river is referred to by the Idu Mishmis) and its riverine ecology. Where an influx of 6,000 outsiders for a single project in a valley of fast diminishing 12,000 indigenous people is seen as a cultural integration and assimilation, submergence of our ancestral land and the only habitations in an otherwise hostile terrain is supposed to pave the way for a 43 km long reservoir, which will result in a ‘navigable waterway connecting the villages’, and destruction of land and livelihood is countered with generation of wage employment, all other arguments favouring the projects come to us as a cruel joke.

If these are mere apprehensions, let us also be clear that our apprehensions are still to be cleared beyond doubt. Instead, this genre of development, with the spectre of crores of rupees coming in to a mostly non monetised economy, dreams of an incomprehensible but quality life is dividing our small community and sowing seeds of divide and discord.

A future social conflict within our Idu Mishmi community could be self defeating and the Government of India will have to squarely take the blame.

Honourable Prime Minister Sir, a Public Hearing in New Anaya, Upper Dibang Valley has been again notified for March 27th, 2009, perhaps for the seventh or eighth time. This never ending circus has to end some where.

We don’t want any project in Dibang Valley, and
No further Public Hearings

This is the Will of the Idu Mishmis, the indigenous people of Dibang Valley. Your Government, being an important member of the United Nations, cannot violate the Convention on the Rights of the Indigenous People which your Government has ratified in September 2007.

We sincerely hope that our voice will reach you and your Government.

For Peace, Tranquility and Hope in Dibang Valley

Sincerely,
Idu Mishmi Cultural and Literary Society
All Idu Mishmi Students Union
Dam Affected Citizens Committee

[as posted in Veracity - a local daily of roing ]

The L.K.Advani google ads attack!

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:44:00 +0000

I certainly do despise Indian politicians... there are innumerable reasons which this post itself wouldn't suffice. And that's a whole lot of reason that I wouldn't like my blog to advertise something I hate by myself. It was recently that I added few " Google image ads " to my blog. I thought google - like they boast of algorithm that detects the contents of the blog and feed ads accordingly to the code that you install through Adsense would make my job pretty easy. Ya, I would have definitely liked some ads of automotive or other products etc ( though i never wrote anything on the same in this blog ) but certainly not the Advani ads or as a matter of fact of any other politicians.

But, even the three google image ads posted wouldn't shy of showing-off the great L.K Advani's race to PM'ship. They wouldn't spare even one...for a different ads.

A snapshot ( which I took incase that image ads of advani disappears ) of the Advani ads... and you can find that to the right side of the blog as well.
[ Is it still there ? ... a question that I would ask unless I decide to completely remove those image ads. ] :)

Quite annoying ... atleast when you are trying to monetize through a blog that so far hasn't earned anything.

Then I did a google search on ' LK Advani google ads ' ... and there were scores of other websites talking about how the BJP has eventually laid webs of Ads all over the Internet ... as if we netizens know nothing about how India fared under BJP and too a little extent, it doesn't make much difference than the present regime as well.

I finally clicked the ads after a long thought ( it took me 3 days infact ) to figure out what's really behind that Ad.

Well... my personal assessment on that would be - Just the regular Politician's website trumpeting all over :

What we would do if you elect us, blah blah ( rather than what we achieved which other would have never )
Where Congress has failed ... ( quite preposterous looking other way round as well...where BJP have failed when they were in power )
Promises of empowering the youths of India, to build a stronger, more prosperous and more secure India. ( I wonder... what were they upto when they had the power ! )
Failures and Betrayals of UPA govt... increasing poverty and the usual etcs.. ( ya, India was really SHINING... the cliched n most dumbest assuring slogan they could think of to reassure the poorest of poor in India )

I felt I should leave the other such points for you to figure out... and think accordingly which PM would be the best for India. It's not over yet...going through the LKadvani site... I got a glimpse of this pic. And, I quite liked it... so here it is.
Maybe you ( Arunachalees ) can guess it out as to.. WHY !

Well... I wouldn't mind if you click on the google ads on the side bar as well ( if advani is still in there ).

Recession or the slowdown ?

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:15:00 +0000

Just a snippet from the Aarohan Case Study meet ( or rather contest ) organized by students of Supply Chain Management of SIIB.

When your attendance count is among the least in the class and the institute makes it rather mandatory to keep a minimum of 90%, failing which you wouldn't be allowed to sit for the placements...then you have no option but to oblige even if it meant keeping your ass glued to a remotely located seat of the auditorium for straight 7 hours. Well, today was one such day... various experts and gurus from supply chain industry were among the dignified judges for the ocassion and I had to hear all they had to pour out... but am glad that I did that!

The theme of the event was ...the Supply Chain in recessionary period ... which everyone by the end had to agree that it was slightly termed wrong. Should have been - supply chain in slowdown period, not recession.

Everyday, newspapers flaunts about the troubling time all the B-schools are facing due to the recession in the bearish market which months ago was bullish. But, in an Indian context...is it really recession for us. It is certainly a recession for the western markets in U.S because of the mortgage crisis, failure of the investment banks and finally leading to liquidity crisis... but does it work and mean the same for India.

Indian economy, which was liberalised in 90s was the biggest thing that had happened to India to see it going up the ladder of economic power block of the world. And till, to the day it stands true. Government of India with its economic regulatory bodies has been the prime reason why India isn't facing, what we would have called the real recession.

Whenever there is recession worldwide we see Indian government intervention through RBI cutting/increasing the repo/reverse repo rates. Which makes a perfect sense of the globalized economy we are tangled with. Recession somewhere is bound to have some sort of impact on the economy elsewhere.

The recent collapse of two U.S Investment companies ( Meryll lynch & Lehman bros ) filling for bankruptcy finally triggering the panicky of Recession worldwide remains the ubiquitous and most popular explanation of the topsy turvy economic condition. But, when we bring it down to Indian context this would have never happened. Indian economy though liberalised remains a protected economy and thats for every good reason. The GOI with its apex regulatory bodies intervenes everytime it senses companies in troubled water. Hence, when we talk about Indian market, we would hardly find any companies filing for bankruptcy. And this remains the most attractive part of the protected Indian economy.

If this isn't Recession with so many companies around employing job-cutting tactics then what is it?

And along with that we have various organizations predicting a GDP of 5-6% for subsequent years until and unless we get a government ruling at the centre which is open to foreign investments.

There is a healthy difference between the Recession and the Slowdown - which is what Indian economy is facing as of now. Recession can be termed as a period of negative growth for more than two quarters in a row and on the other hand slowdown is when the economy is growing at a slower rate, and is very Industry specific. Recession is a vicious cycle that sees a fall in profits of the overall market and tremendous decline in the economic growth rate, leading to cost-cutting methods companies start employing. Which ultimately results into large figure of unemployment and reduced spending power of the consumers. But, on the other hand what India is witnessing is just a slower growth rate of economy.

You might one to go through this article as well Capitalmoney

In any marketing lectures of B-schools, quite often we get to hear about 'Blue Ocean Strategy' which exists vis-a-vis to 'Red Ocean Strategy'. These strategies were coined by two harvard grads Kim and Mauborgne and which they later went on to publish under the header Blue Ocean Strategy.

For those who aren't familiar with these terms,

Blue Ocean strategy refers to a kind of business strategy that promotes creation of new market space known as "blue ocean" rather than contesting in an existing competition intensive market. These blue oceans are created when a company achieves value innovation beside adding value for both the company and the buyer. The trademark of such strategy is that it kills the competition to get a market of its own.

One of the speaker of the Aarohan SCM summit pointed out very succinctly that it's only during good economic condition Industry people talk about Blue oceans and the red oceans. Quite obvious, merrier times would represent more blue oceans, and any company employing blue ocean strategy trying to find a new blue ocean for itself. The blue oceans gets more blue-ed.

But what about when the economy is in a slowdown phase? Does it simply means diminishing needs of the consumers? Where does these marketing jargons go then?

This scenario would tantamount to 'Red Oceans', where the market space gets crowded and the prospects for profit and growth are highly reduced because of the decrease in purchasing power. But, would that implicate that needs of the consumers have decreased? Certainly not... Then how do we justify the cost-cutting measures companies suddenly start using whenever market is bearish. Wouldn't creating or finding a blue ocean amidst the red oceans in these hard times describe the excellent value addition any company can add to itself and for the that matter the consumers too.

What better marketing strategy and branding would that be, but quite far away from what we can expect from Indian market, which remains one of the most risk aversive market. Maybe for all good reasons ( whatever it is ).

To end it in an optimistic way, all gone well... we are in slowdown, not recession for certain! :)

Blogspot vs Wordpress dilemma

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:19:00 +0000

I am ( or was )quite frequent with my blogspot blog www.arunachalblog.blogspot.com ... but haven't quite updated this wordpress blog " http://romele.wordpress.com/ ". I was quite apprehensive about the visibility of my blog for arunachal and the blog keywords...and felt it quite often that maybe google which owns the blogspot might give preferential ranking to the blog in the blogspot domain rather than the wordpress blog. I felt it too hard to compromise the search visibility that I could get through the blogspot blog than the features that you get in the wordpress blog.

It's quite understood that the wordpress blog comes along with more customizable features than the blogspot blog but one needs to have comparatively better know-how of the htmls. And the themes of wordpress are also much professional in look and it comes along with lots of add-ons and plug-ins when you compare it to blogspot's themes which looks more like you've been fed with some limitations. Of course, a free of cost blog has to come along with some impaired features, features that you can't simply go about changing at your will.

But, now that my blogspot blog is 2 years old and there is no way I can import it from blogspot to wordpress without sacrificing my search visibility...I guess I will have to work on the same for maybe a year or two until I get a self-hosted domain of my own.

Well...if you're new to blogging and want to own one... my suggestion would be start it from wordpress. It's very easy to use blogspot blogs and so is the case with wordpress. But, down the years...your blogging perspective atleast with the technicality purview would certainly improve if you start it with wordpress at the first hand. The same might take a little bit more in blogger, as things are right fed to you but with no option to decide unless you're quite good with the coding.

You might want to go through these posts as well:

Moving from blogger to wordpress without losing traffic page rank

Wordpress vs Blogspot ( theWirds.com )

Hope you all take a good decision! :)

Pride on talking weird things

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 12:58:00 +0000

Did you ever take pride on talking out weird things amidst a gossip you've with your pals? Well, gossips here refers to a kind of group conversation along with friends sort of reunion meet and off course the flash backs of the fool. In most of these talks what I found for myself was that I wouldn't miss out telling the weird stuffs that I'ad eaten way back in my Primary school days.

What a weird thing that would be to write it in my blog, all loud ... that's what I thought since I haven't updated my blog for quite a while and with my Financial management exam the very next day. So, writing weird things during the time-crunch period when you are supposed to be actually studying is after all a yet another thing that deviates from normalcy aka ...the weird way.

It all relates back to my boarding school days when I was in 7th standard at VKV Roing ( vivekananda kendra vidyalaya ) and during those days Food in our hostel mess were really abominable. I loathed it... and I hope many ex-vkvians would vouch for the same. I hope it has improved by now. Well, we had to face it because of the fact that fee charged for a whole academic year were substantially subsidized despite nill subsidization provision from state or central government.

Now, as you can guess... Non-veg food were a luxury we could think of, giving us respite from Pongal ( south indian delicacy ) in the breakfast for most of the weekdays and the same old rice and daal for lunch and dinner. So, hunting for some animals within the large campus for inevitable desire to have some non-veg thing in our mouth was a viable option. Well, by saying animals in this case weren't the actual wild animals which some of you might have imagined of. Hmmm... we used to hunt grasshoppers. Come sunday, and all the great grasshopper hunters of our times would start off for the ordeal to bag the highest number of it before the noon. I had my own hunting pouch... which was infact the camera roll-cylindrical-shaped-white plastic container. By noon I used to fill it up and meet my other partners in this hunting expedition behind the bathroom side. We had our own decently styled fire place to cook our meal. Three slabs of bricks and a candle beneath, and the tin lid from "Amul's powdered milk container " - these were the major items of our kitchen.

What next ? The prime time culinary experts trying to work out all the secret recipes of the world, right from Amul's butter ( for oil and salt factors ), chillies ( if you can manage to steal it from kitchen garden ), some wild leaves ( oh... mom-back-at-hom- used-to-put-that...-I remember that - kinda leaves ).

And finally... a pumped chest to tell your hostel mates about the "Meatly thing" you just relished.

Oh... I still reminisce those days and it fills me about the certainly wonderful times I'ad. No wonder... weird things doesn't turn out that weird at all.

Company's Logo for the Economic Recession

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:34:00 +0000

Existence of God

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:12:00 +0000

Who's seen a God or the God or many of the Gods? Quite a difficult question to answer but on an equal scale - easier to put down.

So Can you see the God?

I certainly do not. That's because to extent of what I think about God is that it can't be seen but definitely

can be felt, shared and respected.

I say, God can exist and it does exist. But not as a christ, muhammad, buddha, or other forms of God. I wake up every morning, but I forget to thank someone for having let me face it. Not for the troubles my routines could give me, but to experience the feeling of being alive. Being alive doesn't make

sense to many, and hence there are numerous suicides around daily. But what they forget to get the glimpse is of the other beautiful aspects of life because of which people toil hard every single day to make it to yet another day. Statistically, I might be correct here. People live, procreate and die... even today. Well, did we even ponder on why it does happen or can there be a significant another for the same ?

There must be a reason that we live, not just because of the reason that we are unable to find its explanation - that we live are we are made to do so.

Science and God are correlated like the way God is related to other unbeknownst thing of the world. Without Science God's existence would have never been unfolded. And without God, Science would loose its sheen. As I say, Science has helped us in finding a description about God, some might find it ambiguous to fit this statement here. We talk about atoms and all the other particles and the aspects that makes us reason about things happening the way it ought to be not the other way round(Ya, it does seldom but even thats how it were meant to be). Next level of curiosity should draw us forth to what has led to this characterization of things being relative to one other. Consequences are interconnected. Some of them goes unseen, and doesn't draw our curiosity to make us further investigate upon it. However,there has to be a reason, why things exists ?

My figments of imaginations and thoughts makes me believe that - God inside everything makes them exist. God isn't something that has to be holy, as sanctified descriptions our holy books would rather say. God is about being yourself.

God is about being kind enough to

acknowledge the facts that God exists in others as well. Its not our weakness that we try to seek for God, but rather its our step forward becoming more of a Godly entity. God is in you, so its in

others. So does it realllly exist?

Lazy Google crawlers

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:10:00 +0000

It's been 5-6 months by now and Google search enginge crawlers still hasn't bothered enough to see the differences in the weblinks even with their much touted algorithms of listing only the relevant webpages.

In one of my previous post, I'ad mentioned that I'ad changed my domain name from www.rome-dec.blogspot.com to www.arunachalblog.blogspot.com, because of various reasons as cited there. However, to this day google crawler still is inefficient in its own terms to identify if the discarded domain name is relevant or not to the keywords searched.

Below are some of the snapshots which will help you understand "why"

This is the search engine page listing for the keyword

"ARUNACHAL BLOG", which otherwise will bring out the pages that are relevant or has better keyword density of "arunachalblog".

But my discarded domain name blog, now used by someone else, blogging solely about "domain name selling business" is ranked 'SECOND'.

And ya, that's my blog "arunachalblog" getting referred by another third party " skirbit " where I've registered my blog.

Now Upon further refining my keywords to " ARUNACHAL PRADESH BLOG ", this is what I get:

My discarded domain name ranks the first this time and ya, there's me in "Third".

Lesson: be careful before you discard your domain name.

Learning it short - the tall way

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:36:00 +0000

Standing tall ( short ) at 5.3ft height I'ad always been apprehensive about people commenting on my short stature. I don't know on how many ocassions I'ad to hate people for pointing at me by my height or calling me names. Even If those names were called with a good will or neutral point of view, I'ad a different reasonings or assumptions to make.

Plagued by unsurmountable thirst for playing with logics, reasonings and assumptions... I would hate those who would call me by name, say " chotu " or whatever that would connote or depict me as a short heighted fella. I've this problem to this day, and maybe I need to really work out on this, since a stray incidence of such nature would eat up significant part of my time, which I think could have been used for something better or least to say...enjoy what others has to say. After all, its their say...not mine. I can only change or control myself not them.

In my recent college trip to Panchagani for the "Initiatives of Change ( Moral re-armament ) " camp, I met the coordinator 'Siddarth( he co-owns the company "Paradigm unlimited"), who was cool by all regards - at least the thoughts he would put in his words made me think so. Whether he practises it or not is a different thing all together, but for me his words were real soothing. I met him one on one, and told him about the besotted problem that I've with the name callings.

My reasonings for 'why I hated people calling me names' were:

First, they know my name and why they intend to use something else, which I seriously hate about. Second, my assumption was that... If you make names for others, your very intention is to ridicule them and I serious temparament on that. Third, at this age of 20plus I expect matured responses from people.

After listening to my part of the story he asked " Are you happy with your Height ? "

I couldn't say anything more...cause deep down in my heart I'ad always hated being a short heighted person, which infact meant...I hated myself...and this should simplify that I had no reason to hate others.

What I learnt that day was - Love yourself for what you are. Be the change you want to see and don't expect others to change or bring about the change. I couldn't agree more.

Superficial talks

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:09:00 +0000

Call it an Irony of being thrashed with the facts and figures that approximates a potential of delivering something substantial or Call it the mockery of the rudiment intelligence we vaguely try to become proud of.

The last time I was home, August 2007 – Roing was reeling under the age of blackouts, with constant powercuts for weeks and months altogether. This was the time when Roing people were busy protesting against the Dam projects.

Well, to this day... Roing is still in the Dark age, where Candles have become a necessity and electric generator – a luxury.

The only reason that you get when you talk to the officials are – insufficient funds and ofcourse the torrential rains. But, this wasn’t the case 8-10years ago... Roing was affluent with its own aspects. And powercuts was a phenomenon in Summer which wouldn’t last more than a week.

But 10 years down the line, when most of the Arunachal seems to be happy and optimistic about developments touching their vicinity ... condition in Roing has worsened. I wonder, which kind of developments that we are talking about.

It’s winter now but Roing is still engulfed under the dark cloud of power shortages, which would be an Irony to the fact that Dibang Valley has the potential of becoming one of the largest hydropower houses.

So...I keep asking myself, if Roing or Dibang valley is better or worse than ever under the current regime of Arunachal Pradesh? And should the generation of 1000’s of megawatts for big companies or few 10’s of megawatts for the rightful owner of the land – be the concern of Arunachal Government?

Answer seems quite obvious... and our protests too - even if the whole of Arunachal Pradesh has different view on it.

So... we Protest.

The Difference that matters

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:01:00 +0000

As a young school boy I was always fascinated by Mukut Mithi and adored him a lot. I felt or cheering him standing in the midst of the crowd emulating the scenes of documentary I used to see on popular leaders of the world. To know our leader better I always looked for opportunity to listen to his speeches. Finally I had the chance and it was during the year 2003 in Hunli when the election campaign for the newly amended panchayati raj was in full swing. I was then ignorant about politics and had mind-set of a typical VKVian. After the speech I was however disillusioned from what I could understand that development in Arunachal would come from 'ruling party'.

A year later Mithi lost power in the government and was back in the village for a strategic campaign meeting of the congress party. That was the time when some sections of educated youths from the community were actively campaigning for a political change. They
had the grievances on leaders for not doing enough for the youths. It was my second chance to listen to Mithi then. Having listened attentively I soon realized the difference in him. From what I could understand from the meeting, the other public leaders that accompanied him talked only on petty issues and sounded too bitchy. Since then, on numerous occasions I had the chance to listen to him but I vaguely remember any of his speeches since it didn't matter to me much.
The year 2007 saw rise of All Idu Mishmi Students Union (AIMSU) under the leadership of Tone Mickrow, a mechanical engineer graduate. The Dibang Multipurpose Project, India's highest dam of 288mtr was by then a controversial debate in the community. The student union disagreed with the local public leaders and the senior members of the community on Dibang dam as solution for the backwardness of the region. I was then involved in the issue reporting for the newspapers local and national. In the midst of the anti dam campaign, I accompanied the student union delegates in their meeting with Mithi who was then the Lt Governor of Puducherry. Perhaps the concerns expressed were too obvious so things didn't turn out satisfactory.

On 28th August 2008 I had another chance to be part of the meeting to discuss on Dibang Project. The Chief Minister had called all the organizations raising concerns for direct talks in Itanagar. I vividly remember when Mithi who was also part of the meeting said "Dibang Project is of national importance". However AIMSU in its earlier campaign had said, "National interest not at the cost of our community". The point of disagreement lies here which the neither side will easily undermine their own perception. The student union looks at the issue in terms of worst case scenario and is sensitive to any sort of misadventure with the community. Whereas Mithi being a political leader is committed for a larger cause. However, he acknowledged the difference in perception and approved the concerns raised.

There are matters on which nation’s interest cannot be compromised. However though dams can be literarily termed as in nation’s interest but the constitution guarantees enough space to a citizen to fight for protection of environment as well to protect the rights of the indigenous community. So a citizen that abides by the constitution cannot be working against the interest of the nation. AIMSU had strongly articulated its fear on indigeous rights being undermined by saying, “Don’t violate fundamental rights under the guise of development”.

What is needed right now is to bridge the difference in perception and to incorporate the
community interest first. The Dibang Project can be substituted by other 100 large dams planned in Arunachal Pradesh that can meet the power requirement of the country but there can never be a subtitute for the Idu Mishmi community. Here there would be no second chance. And as I write down I keep recalling my younger days.

Arunachal Dragon Force - is it still alive?

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:06:00 +0000

I woke up this morning to check the news and there you go, Times of India had the featured news of the No.of terrorist organization currently active in India and to my surprise Arunachal Pradesh had a part to share.

The maximum number — 40 — operate in Manipur, followed by 36 in Assam, 32 in Jammu and Kashmir, and 30 in Tripura, figures compiled by the South Asia Terrorism Portal say.
Punjab is home to 12 terror groups, Meghalaya houses four, Nagaland three, Mizoram two and Arunachal Pradesh one.

- Times of India

Arunachal Dragon Force - I'ad heard about it's existence years ago, but could never ascertain it for sure, if it really existed. Now, the headline cover story of TOI saying so, made me ponder if it really existed, to this day. Did a few Google searches, wiki hardly had substantial thing to say about its existence, but SATP ( south asia terrorism portal ), did have a brief page mentioning about it.

Find it here!

Another news piece from expressindia.com dating back to December 2003, also had a line on ADF and so did Hinduonnet.com. But, both of them referring to the same event when Indian army had carried a major counter-insurgency operation near the Indo-bhutan border, with the support of Royal Bhutan Army in 2003.

On December 20, the Indian Army ambushed and killed three terrorists, two from ULFA and one from the relatively unknown Arunachal Dragon Force (ADF), near Namsai in Arunachal Pradesh. The chief of the ADF, Chownomee Namchumoo, was captured along with AK-47 rifles, pistols, grenades and a large amount of explosives and cash.

- hinduonnet.com

He said that as per figures available with the Indian Army, 14 militants -- 10 from the ULFA, three from NDFB and one from the Arunachal Dragon Force -- have been killed while 14 hardcore, mainly from the ULFA, have been apprehended.

-expressindia.com

Call it a piece of perfect information or the adroitness of ADF that, death of only One ADF militant has been confirmed, till date. Which, further sets me to question the veracity of the news that is being covered in major news paper - if the terrorist organization that is being linked to Arunachal Pradesh has any significance to current insurgency problems in Arunachal Pradesh? Since, to my knowledge, most of the Insurgency problems that can be heard in Arunachal context is mostly about ULFA, NSCN ( IM & K ), but never been ADF.

And am not surprised of not finding any worthwhile cover story from Arunachal Govt on the same. Concealing matters from public afterall are their fundamental discourse.

I shall be glad, if someone could share with me more on Arunachal Dragon Force.

" Petro Dollar Vs Petro Euro " - The new Oil wars

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:33:00 +0000

I recently came across this insightful article and thought, shared it with you all. This article has most of the points covered that is also apparently shown in a popular documentary ZEITGEIST.

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Why the Dollar Bubble is about to Burst? IRAN HAS REALLY DONE IT...more deadlier than the nuclear..

The Voice (issue 264 -) ran an article beginning, ' Iran has really gone and done it now. No, they haven't sent their first nuclear sub in to the Persian Gulf . They are about to launch something much more deadly -- next week the Iran Bourse will open to trade oil, not in dollars but in Euros' This apparently insignificant event has consequences far greater for the US people, indeed all for us all, than is imaginable.

Currently almost all oil buying and selling is in US-dollars through exchanges in London and New York . It is not accidental they are both US-owned..

The Wall Street crash in 1929 sparked off global depression and World War II. During that war the US supplied provisions and munitions to all its allies, refusing currency and demanding gold payments in exchange.

By 1945, 80% of the world's gold was sitting in US vaults. The dollar became the one undisputed global reserve currency -- it was treated world-wide as `safer than gold'. The Bretton Woods agreement was established.

The US took full advantage over the next decades and printed dollars like there was no tomorrow. The US exported many mountains of dollars, paying for ever-increasing amounts of commodities, tax cuts for the rich, many wars abroad, mercenaries, spies and politicians the world over. You see, this did not affect inflation at home! The US got it all for free! Well, maybe for a forest or two.

Over subsequent decades the world's vaults bulged at the seams and more and more vaults were built, just for US dollars. Each year, the US spends many more dollars abroad that at home. Analysts pretty much agree that outside the US , of the savings, or reserves, of all other countries, in gold and all currencies -- that a massive 66% of this total wealth is in US dollars!

In 1971 several countries simultaneously tried to sell a small portion of their dollars to the US for gold. Krassimir Petrov, (Ph. D. in Economics at Ohio University ) recently wrote, 'The US Government defaulted on its payment on August 15, 1971 . While popular spin told the story of `severing the link between the dollar and gold', in reality the denial to pay back in gold was an act of bankruptcy by the US Government.' The 1945 Breton Woods agreement was unilaterally smashed.

The dollar and US economy were on a precipice resembling Germany in 1929. The US now had to find a way for the rest of the world to believe and have faith in the paper dollar. The solution was in oil, in the petrodollar. The US viciously bullied first Saudi Arabia and then OPEC to sell oil for dollars only -- it worked, the dollar was saved. Now countries had to keep dollars to buy much needed oil. And the US could buy oil all over the world, free of charge. What a Houdini for the US ! Oil replaced gold as the new foundation to stop the paper dollar sinking.

Since 1971, the US printed even more mountains of dollars to spend abroad. The trade deficit grew and grew. The US sucked-in much of the world's products for next to nothing. More vaults were built.

Expert, Cóilínn Nunan, wrote in 2003, 'The dollar is the de facto world reserve currency: the US currency accounts for approximately two thirds of all official exchange reserves. More than four-fifths of all foreign exchange transactions and half of all world exports are denominated in dollars. In addition, all IMF loans are denominated in dollars.' Dr Bulent Gukay of Keele University recently wrote, 'This system of the US dollar acting as global reserve currency in oil trade keeps the demand for the dollar `artificially' high. This enables the US to carry out printing dollars at the price of next to nothing to fund increased military spending and consumer spending on imports. There is no theoretical limit to the amount of dollars that can be printed. As long as the US has no serious challengers, and the other states have confidence in the US dollar, the system functions.'

Until recently, the US-dollar has been safe. However, since 1990 Western Europe has been busy growing, swallowing up central and Eastern Europe . French and German bosses were jealous of the US ability to buy goods and people the world over for nothing. They wanted a slice of the free cake too. Further, they now had the power and established the euro in late 1999 against massive US-inspired opposition across Europe , especially from Britain - paid for in dollars of course. But the euro succeeded.

Only months after the euro-launch, Saddam's Iraq announced it was switching from selling oil in dollars only, to euros only -- breaking the OPEC agreement.. Iran , Russia , Venezuela , Libya , all began talking openly of switching too -- were the floodgates about to be opened?

Then aero planes flew into the twin-towers in September 2001. Was this another Houdini chance to save the US (petro) dollar and the biggest financial/economic crash in history? War preparations began in the US But first war-fever had to be created -- and truth was the first casualty. Other oil producing countries watched-on. In 2000 Iraq began selling oil in euros. In 2002, Iraq changed all their petro-dollars in their vaults into euros. A few months later, the US began their invasion of Iraq .

The whole world was watching: very few aware that the US was engaging in the first oil currency, or petro-dollar war. After the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, remember, the US secured oil areas first. Their first sales in August were, of course, in dollars, again. The only government building in Baghdad not bombed was the Oil Ministry! It does not matter how many people are murdered -- for the US , the petro-dollar must be saved as the only way to buy and sell oil - otherwise the US economy will crash, and much more besides.

In early 2003, Hugo Chavez, President of Venezuela talked openly of selling half of its oil in euros (the other half is bought by the US ). On 12 April 2003, the US-supported business leaders and some generals in Venezuela kidnapped Chavez and attempted a coup. The masses rose against this and the Army followed suit. The coup failed. This was bad for the US .

In November 2000 the euro/dollar was at $0.82 dollars, its lowest ever, and still diving, but when Iraq started selling oil in euros, the euro dive was halted. In April 2002 senior OPEC reps talked about trading in euros and the euro shot up. In June 2003 the US occupiers of Iraq switched trading back to dollars and the euro fell against the dollar again. In August 2003 Iran starts to sell oil in euros to some European countries and the euro rises sharply.. In the winter of 2003-4 Russian and OPEC politicians talked seriously of switching oil/gas sales to the euro and the euro rose. In February 2004 OPEC met and made no decision to turn to the euro -- and yes, the euro fell against the dollar. In June 2004 Iran announced it would build an oil bourse to rival London and New York , and again, the euro rose. The euro stands at $1.27 and has been climbing of late.

But matters this month became far, far worse for the US dollar. On 5th May Iran registered its own Oil Bourse, the IOB. Not only are they now selling oil in euros from abroad -- they have established an actual Oil Bourse, a global trading centre for all countries to buy and sell their oil!

In Chavez's recent visit to London ; he talked openly about supporting the Iranian Oil Bourse, and selling oil in euros. When asked in London about the new arms embargo imposed by the US against Venezuela , Chavez prophetically dismissed the US as 'a paper tiger'.

Currently, almost all the world's oil is sold on either the NYMEX, New York Mercantile Exchange, or the IPE, London's International Petroleum Exchange. Both are owned by US citizens and both sell and buy only in US dollars. The success of the Iran Oil Bourse makes sense to Europe , which buys 70% of Iran 's oil. It makes sense for Russia , which sells 66% of its oil to Europe . But worse for the US , China and India have already stated they are very interested in the new Iranian Oil Bourse.

If there is a tactical-nuclear strike on - deja-vu - `weapons of mass destruction' in Iran , who would bet against a certain Oil Exchange and more, being bombed too?

And worse for Bush. It makes sense for Europe , China , India and Japan-- as well as all the other countries mentioned above -- to buy and sell oil in Euro's. They will certainly have to stock-up on euros now, and they will sell dollars to do so. The euro is far more stable than the debt-ridden dollar. The IMF has recently highlighted US economic difficulties and the trade deficit strangling the US-- there is no way out.

The problem for so many countries now is how to get rid of their vaults full of dollars, before it crashes? And the US has bullied so many countries for so many decades around the world, that many will see a chance to kick the bully back. The US cannot accept even 5% of the world's dollars -- it would crash the US economy dragging much of the world with it, especially Britain .

To survive, as the Scottish Socialist Voice article stated, 'the US , needs to generate a trade surplus to get out of this one. Problem is it can't.' This is spot on. To do that they must force US workers into near slavery, to get paid less than Chinese or Indian workers. We all know that this will not happen.

What will happen in the US ? Chaos for sure. Maybe a workers revolution, but looking at the situation as it is now, it is more likely to be a re-run of Germany post-1929, and some form of extreme-right mass movement will emerge...

Does Europe and China/Asia have the economic independence and strength to stop the whole world's economies collapsing with the US ? Their vaults are full to the brim with dollars.

The US has to find a way to pay for its dollar-imperialist exploitation of the world since 1945.. Somehow, eventually, it has to account for every dollar in every vault in the world.

Bombing Iran could backfire tremendously. It would bring Iran openly into the war in Iraq , behind the Shiite majority. The US cannot cope even now with the much smaller Iraqi insurgency. Perhaps the US will feed into the Sunni v Shiite conflict and turn it into a wider Middle-East civil-war. However, this is so dangerous for global oil supplies. Further, they know that this would be temporary, as some country somewhere else, will establish a euro-oil-exchange, perhaps in Brussels .

There is one `solution' -- scrap the dollar and print a whole new currency for the US . This will destroy 66% of the rest of the world's savings/reserves in one swoop. Imagine the implications? Such are the desperate things now swimming around heads in the White House, Wall Street and Pentagon.

Another is to do as Germany did, just before invading Poland in 1938. The Nazis filmed a mock Polish Army attack on Germany , to win hearts and minds at home. But again, this is a finger in the dam. So, how is the US going to escape this time? The only global arena of total superiority left is military. Who knows what horrors lie ahead. A new world war is one tool by which the US could discipline its `allies' into keeping the dollar in their vaults.

The task of socialists today is to explain to as many as possible, especially our class, that the coming crisis belongs purely to capitalism and (dollar) imperialism. Not people of other cultures, not Islam, not the axis of evil or their so-called WMDs. Their system alone is to blame.

The new Iranian Oil Bourse, the IOB, is situated in a new building on the free-trade-zone island of Kish , in the Persian Gulf . It's computers and software are all set to go. The IOB was supposed to be up and running last March, but many pressures forced a postponement. Where the pressure came from is obvious. It was internationally registered on 5th May and supposed to open mid-May, but its opening was put off, some saying the oil-mafia was involved, along with much international pressure. ............................ In 2007 Crude was trades around 60 usd. Everyone know dollar was getting weaker and weaker day by day. Than US with the help of their two NYMEX & IPE exchange started rising the price of crude by Future trading on crude( called speculation). Today crude is around 140 usd. It means whole world who were paying 60 usd, now paying 140 usd, means demand of dollar increase to 230% and dollar start again rising. Even OPEC recently that in hike og crude, 60% contribution is due to speculation (Future market). Moral of story is USA has & will go to destroy any nation to keep its monopoly of dollar in world.

Wikipedia vs Citizendium - pioneer advantage?

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:45:00 +0000

Wikipedia - that was launched way back in Jan 2001 by Jimmy Wales, is today the most preferred Internet encyclopedia and has positioned itself with the other Internet giants such as Google and eBay. Wikipedia, is a collaborative effort of volunteers from around the world, each of them adding substantial contribution to the pooled information already with the Wikipedia. The very idea of adapting a system wherein the users themselves are the contributors, and a sense of pride they can relate to having contributed something worthwhile, which million others would read - has always strided toward the growing popularity and reliability of Wikipedia. Wikipedia has been able to create a base of knowledge outside of institutions where the onus of being the right - is decided by the availability of knowledge and reliable sources linking to it, not the pedigree behind one's name.

But However, Wikipedia being an authorative source of knowledge has always been a question of doubt - at least the people who are researchers and experts in certain fields by themselves, finds it so. But, still that shouldn't stop Wikipedia from being a good place to start with.

Wikipedia, having been the pioneer of Online encylopedia has with itself the "First Mover" advantage or the "Pioneer advantage", because of which over millions of users refer it on a regular basis for things they are unaware of.

There are also many Marketing Researches, that supports the fact that market pioneer gains the greatest advantage. Carpenter and Nakamoto, found out that 19 out of 25 companies that were the market leader in 1923 were still the market leader in 1963, 60 years later. Another market study by Robinson and Min found out that in a sample of industrial goods businesses, 66% of pioneers survived at least 10 years, versus 48% of the early followers.

But Larry Sanger, the co-founder of Wikipedia, who left Wikipedia in 2002 to start his own Online Encyclopedia - "Citizendium" has its own reasons to challenge the hegemony of Wikipedia. Sanger in press release said " Citizendium will soon attempt to unseat Wikipedia as the go-to destination for general information online". He left Wiki with a bad taste, notably for the way things were run in Wikipedia. He wanted Wikipedia to be the portal of credible information, which ultimately would have binded Wikipedia with the Institution experts. In August 2007, he aired his view that " The world needs a more credible free encyclopedia", making it quite clear for what he stood.

Wikipedia, certainly does have its First Mover advantage but that doesn't stop Citizendium from working upon its Second mover advantage efficiently. And if things works out in favorable way for Sanger's Citizendium, Wikipedia's would soon have to rethink about it's marketing strategy.

Some of the popular examples of Later entrants over-throwing the market leaders are: IBM over Sperry in mainframe computers, Matsushita over Sony in VCRs, and GE over EMI in CAT scan equipments.

Citizendium's aim is to create an "expert culture and community that encourages subject specialists ('editors') to contribute and 'citizens' (to be called "authors") to respect the expert contributions."(from Wikipedia's article on Citizendium)

Being the Second Mover, Citizendium can avoid heavy investment in R&D by replicating or by importing the million+ Wikipedia articles into Citizendium. These articles will them be worked upon by experts and authors in their respective fields. One of the major concern for Wikipedia here is that, the articles are available under the GNU free documentation license, since the project was actually started to create a fork of wikipedia.

Hence, Citizendium will open up as an exact copy of Wikipedia, which would further save them five years of developement time. And most important of all, Citizendium can learn from Wikipedia's mistakes - No anonymous editing.

Box office

noreply@blogger.com (Rome Mele) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:22:00 +0000

I've become a sort of movie buff, not that I frequent theaters or multiplexes which I infact seldom. I prefer the 14" of my laptop over the big screens, where things seems to be disposable to me within the confines of my room - cigarettes, snacks, pillow, cellphone, and ofcourse the God wikipedia, wherein I try to douse my curiousity if this movie would be worth watching. Time is a luxury, and making it worthwhile is certainly a divine exercise - to me atleast! Below are few of the movies that I would prescribe...

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The Man from Earth : Released in 2007, written by Jerome Bixby and Directed by Richard Schenkman is a must for Atheists, Agnosts, Theists and all sorts of creatures, who believes in being rational - atleast to the extent where Religions becomes the central theme for most of their talks.

The beauty of this movie is the way, it makes you sit attentively and listen to all the dialogues, since the whole movie is all about it - Dialogues.
The story is of John Oldman, who claims himself to be a 14,000 year old Cro-Magnon caveman, and who survives until the present day. The entire film is shot inside a small room, relying solely on the intellectual discourse between the John trying to prove his claims and his friends.

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The World's Fastest Indian (2005),
Do you like anthony hopkins? Yes - this should be a treat for you. It's a film based on the legendary New Zealand speed bike racer Burt Munro. Munro set numerous land speed records for motorcycles with engines less than 1000 cc at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in the late 1950s and into the 1960s. Many of his records still stand to this day.
Inspiring movie... Age doesn't matter to the success. Success before your death would make you alive...

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Everything is Illuminated:
If you like world war movies, with nazi's attrocities over jews, sort of Pianist type, this movie would be an all together different experience. The country side of Europe and the beautiful landscapes that adorns it - this movie has every bit of it.
This film is based on the story of a yound american Jew's journey to Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather's life during the Nazi's liquidation of Trachimbrod, which was infact a small village during the world war period.

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Feast of Love: It is romantic movie starring Morgan Freeman. A movie that captures the significant portions of the lives of people, in and around you, which you might be aware and unaware of. The movie highlights on some of the facts of a broken relationship or shortlived relationship. It has a cast, which depicts a person trying his best to be the best for his partner, all in while forgetting to actually realize that he infact never saw deep into his partner; but at last realizes that it's not a love to hold against what your love actually loves.

And there are other casts with their own part of the stories to share.

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An American Crime: It's a crime-drama film based on the true story of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis housewife Gertrde Baniszewski. Fans of Juno ( catherine keener ) would certainly love this movie, and ofcourse shed a tear too.

So if you have missed all these while, a movie that can make you shed tears or the least fill your eyes, this is the movie you should go for sure. A high quality performances Juno Star.

A story or the plot telling here would certainly eat away the climax of this movie, so I prefer to cut it out here.

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Atonement:It's a movie based on Ian McEwan's popular novel " Atonement". Directed by Joe Wright, this movie is yet another of the kind of movies for people who like serious movies. James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, starring movie is about the impassionate love story they share, and how a mistaken identification by Keira's younger sister, brings their Love story to a totally devastating stage, which finally locks the fate of their love story. This story revolves around the Younger sister's life and how she tries to recuperate or atone the mistake she had committed and how her elder sister finally ends up paying for whole of her life.

A yet another must watch...

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The man in the moon:

It's a 1991 drama film directed by Rober Mulligan, and was also the film debut for Reese Witherspoon.
The story is about a 14year old Reese, falling in love for a guy, who in turn falls in Reese's elder sister. The film focuses on the pain of the two sisters infatuated with the same boy, and the way relationships with family and friends gets affected.
The movie highlights the innocence, at least most of must have experienced, the so called Teenage infatuations, finally leading to overspilling Crush Lists.

That's it for now... Enjoy your movies...