Published on July 31, 2007
in India.
I had always wondered why Sonia Gandhi never went on to take the post of Prime Minister of India. But when we saw her ruling India using Manmohan Singh as her front it was something that though not a shock but came to us as a revelation. I thought then she might be interested in the post of President of India. There were never signs of her wanting to be the President of India. Then we had Prathiba Patil made as the President of India. Sonia Gandhi has now control over the President of India and the Prime Minister of India. She can now rule both the posts without having to accept the duties that come with it. Everyone can see that though our new President and Prime Minister are brilliant people they are manipulated like puppets. India has now come to a stage where politics has reached heights of corruption and manipulation.
We had a great President before this who was not manipulated by anyone. He knew that interacting with the Public was the best thing to do when he was the President. He always knew that kids are people who should be inspired to lead a life of importance. He had inspired many individuals and most of them were kids who glad to have a President who had knowledge beyond others. Many people were proud to call him their President just because he was a man who had been well educated and was a teacher which is a rarity in Indian Politics. He gave people the hope that we might actually achieve after 60 years of Independence but the hopes shattered when he didn’t continue as the President. I had hoped we could have had a Prime Minister like him who could actually make things happen because of the amount of responsibility that comes with it. I actually do hope he does great in the field of teaching while he still teaches in Anna University here.
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Published on July 26, 2007
in Movie.
Yeah I don’t know why but I simply love this picture. Maybe it’s her pose that makes the picture perfect.
So now coming to the movie, I have always loved reading all the books in the Harry Potter series but The Order of Phoenix was one of those books which I actually don’t include into my favourites since I found it quite boring. But there were nearly hundred or something pages that I had found quite interesting in the book; actually some of the scenes were quite thrilling. I always thought when I read the book that they will use the only good part from the book.
I am quite happy they did exactly the same thing. They used only the best parts from the book and made it into the movie. Unfortunately I reached only when Harry had reached 12 Grimauld Place since I had gone to watch 8 am morning show at Sathyam here which is the only timing for Harry Potter (I guess one will know why since Sivaji was released in two screens in Sathyam). Now since I had missed lots of fun stuff I can’t comment on that but still had the whole movie left after that. In the movie some scenes were shot excellently giving details exactly as in the book. But I have to agree with Harsh the scenes of the Great Fred and George Weasly making their grand escape could have been a lot better. There are certain moments in the movie were a non reader might feel left out and I guess that’s because of not using the whole book and it’s quite common now.
I normally watch Harry Potter now just to see how much did they deviate from the book and it seems they did a lot of that in this movie. Thought it was very close to the book there were many minor deviations too which can obviously be noticed by any reader.
Atlast I would say this was a very good effort. I mean this would be one with my other favourites like The Chamber of Secrets and Prisoner of Azkaban. I would say this will complete my top three favourite movies in the series. I guess this film deserves 3.5/5.
Related Website: Download Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix to your iPod. Or watch it in DVD and DivX formats.
Published on July 26, 2007
in Me and Misc.
Had been reading Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows for sometime now but still haven’t been able to finish it got only two or three days after it came actually. I should have finished it on the day I got it but unfortunately I have been sick for the whole week and haven’t even gone to college now since I am not well. I don’t have any idea why I have written this post seems like an overkill to me though. Yeah, I saw the Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix on Sunday but since I was not well, I couldn’t write about it which I will do after this. There are lots of random ideas in my mind at this moment which I suppose I will be putting up in form of posts.
Published on July 16, 2007
in Web.
Now this is something everyone studying college should have in their browser’s bookmark folders. I never actually thought that doing assignments in colleges would be so difficult. I didn’t actually think I would start getting assignments within two week of joining college but still. The professor who gives me assignment insists that we read some book and do it rather than getting stuff of net. The worst part is that I rarely find anything related to my topic on net which becomes quite tough then and as I have late college its quite tough to go to library and search for a relevant book as it might take hours to find something relevant. I always thought if we could google for books and find the specific page which we needed to look and I guess google had answered this sometime back.
One of my non-geeky friends was trying to help with my assignment and ended up giving me a link to this. I couldn’t believe that something like that existed. It was more of a dream come true. All I needed was the right keywords and it was done. I really sound like those cheap ass advertising comments that I get on my blog but really it was very helpful. It gives preview of books which one can then read from the browser itself. Some books have full book preview and some of them have just some pages for preview and one can actually select that which type of books we want to see which is also a good feature.
I was not mood in writing review of something old but still I thought it was something good and useful to guys like me who have Professors sitting on their head wanting them to go through a ton lots of books just to get two page of information, though its not bad its hectic and tiresome. I guess google gods always have answers for everything.
Oh yeah forgot that some guys in schools have these kinds of teachers too so its good for them too, didnt want to make it seem that college is tougher than school.
Link: http://www.books.google.com/
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Published on July 9, 2007
in Web and World.
I am not going to post about how happy I am about Taj Mahal getting into the new 7 wonders of the world. I am happy but my post is not about it. What I actually want to say here is how every once in a while someone comes up with the idea of making a new list for the seven wonders of the world and people go totally mad over it. I mean voting for a wonder of the world is the most ridiculous thing. These things should be judged by the most experienced and the best architects and archaeologists of the world. But what happens is lots of silly votes are taken in and used to see who wins.
I agree to what UNESCO had said about this that the method is not scientific and that its purely money making campaign. The method is definitely not scientific but the worst part is asking the people to vote and select it. I mean is this some kind of freaking reality show like American Idol or something. I did not understand how they could do such a thing. I mean architectural marvels like Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty were left out.
It was certainly amidst a lot of controversy with the whole Pyramid of Giza fiasco then later on UNESCO claiming it to be just a money making campaign. Well, I personally believe that it should not be accepted as something of a great importance. The only reason for me saying this thing is that I don’t general public can actually make out what is a wonder in terms of archaeological and architectural ways. It just reduces the seven wonders of the world to some cheap reality show on a world wide scale.
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