Saturday, October 17, 2009

Before the Rains:A review

Kerala is well known for its movies and world famous directors.The Kerala film industry is also growing at a phenomenal rate.Every year a lot of movies hit the theater.The audience are flooded with many movies.There are a good number of movies in malayalam that comes with commercial taste and preference.But i had only a few chance of watching good movies in the theater.Because the good movies never comes to theater.
Therefore when I heard of the movie Before the Rains itself i watched that movie.I would tell it was a thought provoking film.I don't narrate the story of the movie but it was really a kind of movie that narrates the Kerala culture,beliefs and traditions.Santhosh Shivan could bring the originality in the movie using all kinds of traditional beliefs.What attracted me was Bose kissing the burning metal in order to prove his innocence.That scene is marvelously taken with its all beauty.The tourists remember Kerala for its monsoon ie the abundance of the rain.Rain has become theme for many malayalam movies like perumazhakalam.As the title indicates in this movie also rain has a significant role to play.The foreigner has to finish the road construction before the monsoon starts.If monsoon comes it will not be possible for him to complete the work.But he has given monsoon a spiriatual meaning of cleansing.That is why at the end of the movie rain comes to purify him from his defilements.
Movie is also successful in depicting the forgiving nature of Keralites especially and at large the Indians.at the end of the movie the foreigner is set free by Bose.This is really worthseeing.Rain cleanses both of them.The wife of the foreigner also depicts a moral character.
I would highly recommended that all should watch that movie.

A painting that i can never forget

Yes in our life we have seen many paintings and pictures that have touched our life or seduced our eyes.The paintings of Davinci a and Michael Angelo are most famous among them. The painting of Raja Ravi Varma is still on of the marvels in the world.They are unique and appealing to our eyes.
But more than these there is a painting that touched both my eyes and heart that is what i saw when i was going for a picnic with my class students.We were travelling from Trivandrum to Alleppey.It was already midnight. As children were dancing and singing i could not sleep.I was watching what all things area happening tin the outside world.Then i saw the picture that still remains in my mind.
A lean man drawing a picture of the malayalam actress picture on the wall of jewelry shop.Even though it was mid night how beautifully he was drawing the picture.It was not for his pleasure or get fame by drawing the picture but it was for earning the food for the family.still i could see that he was totally immersed in his paintings.whether it is for money or fame what is more important is that a kind of involvement in whatever we do.Usually nobody will be very active in the nighttime but the poverty compels him to work in the nighttime too.
The painting was very attractive.I think it was a picture of Kavya Madhavan a famous malayalam actress.The painting had a touch of Sandosh shivan who portrayed Kavya as Revivarma's well known picture in the movie Anandabhadram.Therefore that picture lives in me more stronger than any other picture that i have seen. Dear artist you may have drawn that picture for your livelihood but for me a piece of art that still lives in me more stronger than any other picture.

Monday, October 12, 2009

How kind Japanese are!!!

This is not a story.But real incident that happened to one of my professors recently.He was there i n Japan for attending a The world Sanskrit Conference in Japan.He had to travel a few minutes to get the Hotel from where he stayed.But actually he did not know the exact way to the hotel.As there was enough time at his disposal he decided to walk to the hotel. As he was going forward he got confused.So he asked a girl,who was going on a bicycle where the hotel was.To his surprise suddenly not only the girl got down from the bicycle and told where the hotel is and also accompanied him to the hotel in ordere to show the hotel.
The greater surprise came later only.As the Japanese women are famous for their beauty, my professor also thought she would be a student.On the way she asked him why he was there? He replied that he was there to chair a session in the World Sanskrit Conference. Following that he asked her what she is doing.To his surprise she told She is a doctor.He was really shocked to hear that.Because a doctor taking a stranger to the place where he wanted to go when he asked for the way.He was quite impressed and also expressed the same to her.
This reminds me what Jesus told"If someone asks you to follow him for one mile follow him four en miles."When he came back here shared the same with us his students.Now i am thinking if it was in India how will be the situation.I don't underestimate the hospitality of Indians.yet this incident prompted me to write this blog.Yes She will remain in my mind also.
Sayanora Dear Japanese Lady

why boys don't say to girls that they are sexy

i wonder what a girl will think if somebody is telling her that she is sexy.of course she will feel exited.I think most of the city dwelling girls want to hear this from somebody.They donn't care whether it is from a boy or girl.If it is from a boy it is always nice.
Earlier when i strted using orkut i saw most of my girl friends were afraid to publish their photos not even in the place of their profile photo.But it is changing because most of the girls are uploading their photos in the orkut.But now i think why do they do so?Only to share their photos!!! No of course not.They also like somebody saying them they are sexy or cute or exiting.
Therefore i today wrote on my friends profile that she looks sexy.The word sexy is a very catchy word.Why i wrote?because nobody has written anything.Actually Why do these boys say a compliment to some girls.Don't they deserve it.We must appreciate their beauty and charm.
so dear friend make some comments like this.At least let them enjoy and happy.I think that she will be surely happy. i thinks she is also privileged because she is the first girl to whom i say that she looks sexy.
Are our boys timid to say like this to a girl.what i think is that they give some bad meaning to the word sexy.

Fear of people regarding what they will think

now here also i am afraid what people will think if i write whatever comes to my mind.i saw some faces in the blog who are my friends.If they come to know about what i write what they will thinks always me makes me frightened.but i have decided to go ahead. I am a novice in this field.i don't know the custom and way of expressions and all.because i am an animal which does not know about the conventions and decency in the field.Yet i try my best here.the only reason that motivates me is the desire to go beyond.Yes i want to go beyond.nothing should not be a hindrance for me.i want to become human.writing can make human beings perfect.In my life i have written only few articles in order to publish in one of the manuscript magazine out of coercion.Not from my free will.
HERE I realize the full meaning of freewill.i am also free, free like a bird. I want to fly to the horizon of blog.There may not be logical or conceptual coherence in my writing.That i don't care.By writing only I will acquire these skills.
I must personally appreciate myself.Because for me this blogging is a new life giving.Here i am trying to find out my own abilities like writing.In my opinion that itself is a big achievement.Therefore i have decided to go ahead.yes i must go forward in order to find sth new.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Ethics exam

Today i had ethics exam.actually i did study.exam was in a way good experience.Professor asked me to speak about his favourite philosopher.how can i know who his dear philosopher is? but i cud guess who he is.yes he is Levinas.The thesis that i am going to do about Phenomenology of eros is also based on that philosopher Levinas.Still i cud not speak very well about the philosopher.How can i say sth about him.i never go to claass.i have never been attentive in my classes.
but as i expected the professor was kind enough to me.he gave all the chance to speak.he tried to bring the real philosophy of Levinas but do u think a never class goer can say sth about a philosopher.Hes should not. i did not.
Yesterday in my blog i noted that exams are time waste.but oral exams cannot be included in that category.because there u get enlightenment.Even if u don't know at least the professor will explain sth during exam time.that is y i like oral exam.
i will always be tensed b4 the exam.it has become my part and parcel.i think i always wanted to give answers perfectly.that is what make me more tensed.therefore 2day i tried to be as cool as possible.So i sat in front of the professor very coolly. yes after the exam also i am very cool.but still after the exam even if i try to be cool i am not conformable. my passion to be perfect always make me restless as well as tensed.
i want to get rid of this tension.how can i .it i think it is possible.those who believe that can they can!!!!but y y i feel so? i don't know.anyway that leads me to the understanding that life is full of struggle and exams.
how to handle exams in a better way .only possibility is to understand.so far i have studied without understanding anything.that is what makes my exams a failure.so i have to understand the concept and study.understand first.
only understanding con liberate a person.without understanding how a professor will teach ?likewise a sutdent can not say anything without understanding.
that is what happened in my case. i did not what Levinas philosophy al about.I studied some words in his philosophy but when asked to explain eth went wrong
till today i was very concerned about the marks.yes after ethics exam i proclaim give me marks for that i understood.
"try ur best to understand.
understanding makes person person.
Philosophy is a way of understanding
without understanding nobody can phiolosophize
thanks to ethics and the professor 4 making me understand the value of understanding".

why do i blog?

for me blog as well as cyber space is sacred space. why do we go to sacred places like Yamuna, Mekka, where Jesus was born and so on? in order to sanctify and purify ourselves.this is the same answer for me to blog.i come here to purify and sanctify me.Even if i go to these places i don't think that i will be purified.But here i am sure that blog will make me clean from that what is unclean.That's y i blog.i want to purify my thoughts, emotions feelings and totally myself.
i am always hunted by different disturbing thoughts and feelings.but there is no one to share these feelings.i don't like to pen down in diary because it will remain there for ever.only after my death somebody will open that read considering that as my "personal diary".i don't want to happen that to me.i want frequent answers, no no... i don't want answers i want responses.therefore i come to the world of blog where people freely pen their opinions and thoughts.in the world there is no other place where u can freely share ur thoughts.
therefor here i am to find new people to who can share their valuable thoughts with me. how is that!!!!! expecting contributions from all.
Aladdin

are Exams a waste?

i think exams r time waste.because it consumes our valuable time by by heating everything that the professor tought in the class.we must find some other ways to evaluate the student.the one way is to give him chance and time to read a text and prepare a detailed study material based on that and allow him/her to take class on that.i think this is a better way.this will help him to at least familiarize himself with the original text.but conducting exams at the end of the semester is useless in my opinion.what do you think?

Saturday, October 3, 2009

Ethics books

Dear friends there awaits you a treasure of books on ethics.