Avatar...should we recommend it as the 8th wonder of the world...that might be too far fetched but alas it is a magical world and kudos to the creativity of James Cameron for giving us such a wonderful masterpiece.
I was very eager to watch Avatar, but postponed my gratification as I want to experience the spectacle on the biggest screen in India.....IMAX in Hyderabad. Alas the wait was worth in Gold and I watched d movie twice....tht too back to back. It is not to do with the story line and climax... they were pretty tepid and predictable, but it has more to do with the amazing 3D spectacle and the grand canvas on which it is pictured.
The floating mountains of Pandora called haleluya, the night life at pandora which was breath taking and the various creatures just made me see the scale of imagination that a Human Being can have.
This movie has shown to us how greed will ruin us and also about how a "white man" can save other races.
Now coming to the Indian Connection,
The name Avatar is taken from sanskrit or the Hindu Mythology where in Lord vishnu takes the form of human like Rama & Krishna to protect the Earth from evil.
The Blue colour concept came from Lord Krishna. Indian Mythology has inspired Cameron to have the Navi people in blue colour.
The concept of Linking the brain of a person to other body has been present in India since time immemorial, that is called as "Para Kaya Pravesh" literal translation meaning, entering others body. The equivalent in Japanese is the Shintenshin...i.e. the body mind transfer.
The worship of the giant tree with the tree with lots of roots is like a banyan tree which spreads its roots through a large area.
Atlast the Turuk was like the Garuda, who Lord Vishnu rides and destroys the evil.
P.S:- TO enjoy the movie the way it is, Please watch it in IMAX. U can see the Magical world and u can feel the heat of fire and also the gust of wind.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Regionalism
Our Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh has outlined regionalism as one of the threats to Indian National Integration along side of terrorism, naxalism and poverty. India is not a homogeneous country like many other. It is the largest democracy in the world with varied cultures, languages and regions. The strength of our country has always been its tolerance and its ability to absorb different influencing cultures and create its own.
No other country in the world has such diverse regions, cultures, languages and religions co existing together for centuries. India has with stood the onslaught of Moslems from persia and Afghanistan and it with stood the cultural hara kiri done by the Britishers. These are the best examples for the resilience and the adaptability of the Indian Nation.
Recently there have been incidents which threaten the sensitive national fabric of the country under the veil of nationalism and sons of soil movement. I believe that India is for all Indian citizens and they are at a liberty to pursue their profession any where in the country. This is the right that has been granted by our constitution.
There have been incidents which have been roused by the selfish political parties to create divisions among the people and to leverage on them to garner votes. These divisive forces should not be given a toe hold in our mind as they tend to destroy its sane thinking and to provoke people to do dastardly acts of violence.
People are inherently good and they strive to do good for the society unless or until acted upon an external force. The present Telangana Movement is the zenith of the divisive politics by some political parties which are fighting for their existence and they are stoking the emotions of the people to achieve their own selfish ends.
Just 4 months ago when YSR was alive and kicking there was not even a single voice raising the "Telangana" slogan and suddenly the landscape of the entire state of Andhra Pradesh has changed with agitations and dharnas which stifle the normal life and create innumerable difficulties for ordinary people... "aam aadmi"
The Congress party which lost the most influential leader at the top wanted to destroy the foundation on which Telugu Desam Party is built and by announcing on midnight that the procedure for Telangana has started. But it did not expect the public retribution and back tracked its statement. As you will sow, so you will reap. The strategy of the COngress has been to deliver two blows with one punch one was to marginalize TDP in Andhra Pradesh and the other was to prevent Jagan from becoming the Chief Minister.
It has not achieved its objective and to gain its selfish ends it has created divisions in a peaceful state and made our state a burning conundrum. The political parties have divided according to regional lines and they are pursuing their own motives.
In the end the looser of the whole drama is the aam aadmi and the industries in Andhra Pradesh which are loosing their valuable man days.
This is the scenario in Andhra pradesh and in Maharashtra MNS on the plank of Marathi Manoos or Marathi self respect is driving terror into the minds of simple minded Maharashtrians to kick out the people who don't speak Marathi out of Maharashtra/Mumbai.
Recently when I was traveling a person who works for state Government of Karnataka has asked me where are you from?
I told him I'm from Hyderabad. He told me why did you come to Bangalore and do a job here rather than in Hyderabad.
His attitude has miffed me. Here is a person who is highly educated and "Cultured" asking me to go to my home town rather than working in other place. If this is the case with an educated person, my worry is what about the masses. This has got me wondering where our New India is headed to.
In Karnataka I see all the sign boards in Kannada. In Tamilnadu and Maharashtra it is the same case. Language is a sensitive issue but it should not be at the level where it would hurt others feelings and sentiments. One has to love his own language but these political parties has turned it to Hate all other languages.
We have to be tolerant to other cultures and respect them, this is what our long last heritage has taught us. United we stand divided we fall. If in every region people only want their own people to live then the India that our fore fathers has envisioned is short lived. We have to be broad minded and accept other people and cultures. That is the essence of the co existence in this flat world.
No other country in the world has such diverse regions, cultures, languages and religions co existing together for centuries. India has with stood the onslaught of Moslems from persia and Afghanistan and it with stood the cultural hara kiri done by the Britishers. These are the best examples for the resilience and the adaptability of the Indian Nation.
Recently there have been incidents which threaten the sensitive national fabric of the country under the veil of nationalism and sons of soil movement. I believe that India is for all Indian citizens and they are at a liberty to pursue their profession any where in the country. This is the right that has been granted by our constitution.
There have been incidents which have been roused by the selfish political parties to create divisions among the people and to leverage on them to garner votes. These divisive forces should not be given a toe hold in our mind as they tend to destroy its sane thinking and to provoke people to do dastardly acts of violence.
People are inherently good and they strive to do good for the society unless or until acted upon an external force. The present Telangana Movement is the zenith of the divisive politics by some political parties which are fighting for their existence and they are stoking the emotions of the people to achieve their own selfish ends.
Just 4 months ago when YSR was alive and kicking there was not even a single voice raising the "Telangana" slogan and suddenly the landscape of the entire state of Andhra Pradesh has changed with agitations and dharnas which stifle the normal life and create innumerable difficulties for ordinary people... "aam aadmi"
The Congress party which lost the most influential leader at the top wanted to destroy the foundation on which Telugu Desam Party is built and by announcing on midnight that the procedure for Telangana has started. But it did not expect the public retribution and back tracked its statement. As you will sow, so you will reap. The strategy of the COngress has been to deliver two blows with one punch one was to marginalize TDP in Andhra Pradesh and the other was to prevent Jagan from becoming the Chief Minister.
It has not achieved its objective and to gain its selfish ends it has created divisions in a peaceful state and made our state a burning conundrum. The political parties have divided according to regional lines and they are pursuing their own motives.
In the end the looser of the whole drama is the aam aadmi and the industries in Andhra Pradesh which are loosing their valuable man days.
This is the scenario in Andhra pradesh and in Maharashtra MNS on the plank of Marathi Manoos or Marathi self respect is driving terror into the minds of simple minded Maharashtrians to kick out the people who don't speak Marathi out of Maharashtra/Mumbai.
Recently when I was traveling a person who works for state Government of Karnataka has asked me where are you from?
I told him I'm from Hyderabad. He told me why did you come to Bangalore and do a job here rather than in Hyderabad.
His attitude has miffed me. Here is a person who is highly educated and "Cultured" asking me to go to my home town rather than working in other place. If this is the case with an educated person, my worry is what about the masses. This has got me wondering where our New India is headed to.
In Karnataka I see all the sign boards in Kannada. In Tamilnadu and Maharashtra it is the same case. Language is a sensitive issue but it should not be at the level where it would hurt others feelings and sentiments. One has to love his own language but these political parties has turned it to Hate all other languages.
We have to be tolerant to other cultures and respect them, this is what our long last heritage has taught us. United we stand divided we fall. If in every region people only want their own people to live then the India that our fore fathers has envisioned is short lived. We have to be broad minded and accept other people and cultures. That is the essence of the co existence in this flat world.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Social Phenomena
I was wondering how people get to think in herds and about the recall value that people have. I wanted to do some research on the social phenomena that affect our life and how they can be used for the benefit of business enterprises.
The main factor that technology leverages on and becomes a mass phenomena is the sticky factor in the technology. If a new technology is a few years ahead of its time people have a barrier to accept it and the technology even if it is very useful will die a slow death.
In the recent months I want to compare three things viz.. The phenomena of Google Wave and that of Face book and Twitter. I do acknowledge that G-wave is still at its starting phase and it needs its time to peak. It is not a nice idea to compare all the three, but for the sake of understanding three different platforms at three different phases the three are the epitome.
The sticky factor in facebook is greater than that of twitter and that of G-wave. The major contributing factor for it is the number of your peers on both the networks and the ease of use.
The phenomena of micro blogging and twitter is sweeping the world and celebrities are latching on to it to post their "STATUS" on the move, the coming of celebrities has put the twitter phenomena on to the growth path and more over the multi usage of Twitter for small business and for marketing has increased its viability.
The Facebook brigade took India by storm. Till then all the youngsters were happy with Orkut and its scraps and communities. Facebook just swept Orkut out of the numero uno position in India and occupied it with in 6 months time.Huh! Thats pretty fast.
The growth in the Facebook is more linked with the amazing array of games it has, like Mafia wars and farm ville. These games were an integral part in the growth of Facebook phenomena in India, where people formed a community to have an Indian flag for farm ville to designate their nationality.
The Google wave is an extremely useful tool, and it will bring the new wave of revolution in web 2.0 in the way work is done and also in the way that people are going to interact. But it is still at its initial stage overcoming the hiccups to stand on its own feet. But it has the backing of Google and it will grow.
The peaking of a social networking tool starts when people join it in numbers and people only join when they see a certain amount of numbers. This in itself is a chicken and eggs situation and for every social networking platform to succeed it should over come this predicament. To overcome this it needs to have some extraneous help like what happened with Twitter and Facebook. Once the growth starts then it grows exponentially before hitting a plateau.
P.S:- This entire article was written in 30 minutes of time with out any back ground work and if some of the facts are mis represented, please do correct me.
The main factor that technology leverages on and becomes a mass phenomena is the sticky factor in the technology. If a new technology is a few years ahead of its time people have a barrier to accept it and the technology even if it is very useful will die a slow death.
In the recent months I want to compare three things viz.. The phenomena of Google Wave and that of Face book and Twitter. I do acknowledge that G-wave is still at its starting phase and it needs its time to peak. It is not a nice idea to compare all the three, but for the sake of understanding three different platforms at three different phases the three are the epitome.
The sticky factor in facebook is greater than that of twitter and that of G-wave. The major contributing factor for it is the number of your peers on both the networks and the ease of use.
The phenomena of micro blogging and twitter is sweeping the world and celebrities are latching on to it to post their "STATUS" on the move, the coming of celebrities has put the twitter phenomena on to the growth path and more over the multi usage of Twitter for small business and for marketing has increased its viability.
The Facebook brigade took India by storm. Till then all the youngsters were happy with Orkut and its scraps and communities. Facebook just swept Orkut out of the numero uno position in India and occupied it with in 6 months time.Huh! Thats pretty fast.
The growth in the Facebook is more linked with the amazing array of games it has, like Mafia wars and farm ville. These games were an integral part in the growth of Facebook phenomena in India, where people formed a community to have an Indian flag for farm ville to designate their nationality.
The Google wave is an extremely useful tool, and it will bring the new wave of revolution in web 2.0 in the way work is done and also in the way that people are going to interact. But it is still at its initial stage overcoming the hiccups to stand on its own feet. But it has the backing of Google and it will grow.
The peaking of a social networking tool starts when people join it in numbers and people only join when they see a certain amount of numbers. This in itself is a chicken and eggs situation and for every social networking platform to succeed it should over come this predicament. To overcome this it needs to have some extraneous help like what happened with Twitter and Facebook. Once the growth starts then it grows exponentially before hitting a plateau.
P.S:- This entire article was written in 30 minutes of time with out any back ground work and if some of the facts are mis represented, please do correct me.
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