Time to look back

It is time for reviews of the year in blogs and media all over the world , and it won't be fair on my part not to look back at the year , which is declared as the most peaceful year in the history of jammu and kashmir since independence.. The year 2009 will be remembered for many reasons , but there are some things which we cannot forget very easily..

Barack Hussain Obama rewrote history in his own style.. Michael Jackson's mysterious death and A.R.Rahman's "jai ho" took the music world by storm.. Liberated Tigers of Tamil Ealam and Velupillai Prabhakaran were in news for half of the year.. Election comission of India successfully conducted world's largest elections ever, and Dr.Manmohan singh became only the second Indian Prime Minister to retain his chair at 7 RCR after a full term.. Rahul gandhi shocked Indian politics with his U.P. heroics..

Tamil nadu got its first deputy chief minister , and power cuts were at its peak.. Muthukumaran literally forced the state government to shut down all the colleges for a week.. Andhra lost YSR.. Telengana issue is still a burning issue there.. Maharashtra , Andhra pradesh , Jharkand were among the states which went to assembly elections..

Indian cricket had a very ordinary year with losses in Champion's trophy , World T20 and the home series against Australia... The only good news was receiving the ICC test championship mace..

Tamil cinema lost Nagesh.. No thalaivar movies and no maniratnam movies this year and for the year which started with "villu" and ended with "vetaikaran" , the likes of "nadodigal" and "pasanga" came as a relief..

Overall, 2009 was more eventful and , for India it was more peaceful than 2008..

Ameti vs Ahmedabad

With the news of Advani stepping down and Kalaignar's desire to be "one among the people" doing rounds in media , its time for the reporters and historians to sketch articles hailing them as crusaders of indian politics.. It has to be accepted that , both these men revolutionised Indian politics.. It was Advani's astute politics which laid the foundation for India getting an excellent prime minister.. No one can match Karunanidhi's political experience and he is among the most astute politicians the country has ever seen.. They may not be liked by everyone...But , they deserve a farewell , and this is time for political parties to shift gears and to pass on the baton to the next generation.. This is the impact a young politician like Rahul gandhi can impose on Indian politics..

Those who laugh at me when i say it will be Rahul vs Modi at 2014 , here is yet another reason why Modi is a very good administrator..A couple of days back , Gujarat assembly passed a bill making voting mandatory.. This is definitely a path breaking move and brings the much needed relief and hope for Indian democracy which is plagued by caste politics and violence..The policy makers at delhi sould learn lessons from this man , and should pass an ordinance immediately to ensure that democracy survive...

Clearly , Modi and Rahul will dictate terms at Delhi atleast for the next 10 years...So please start observing these two men... I will write about these two men again in this same blog by december 2019..

STRIVE NOT TO STARVE

We are speaking much about gdp,growth rate,recession,poverty,unemployment,globalisation,liberalisation..Too much of noise is being made at lok sabha about the liberhan commission.. Even after the prime minister magnanimously apologised for a mp's remark on vajpayee , the opposition benches are still shouting at the well of the house.. Resolution is passed congratulating the Indian cricket team.. I am very much worried whether our representatives really have atleast the slightest care for us..

In the last 10 years, I myself has seen the disappearance of farm lands and grazing lands.. The farmer near our house has sold 60% of his land.. And his agricultural fields, which were once watered by the chill water from the "pumpsets" have now turned into concrete streets and stagnant drainages.. I cannot see the tall coconut trees which once served as our boundary lines, anymore..

This is not the case with my area or my town alone.. The farm lands in all the three tier cities of our nation is fast disappearing... The main reason for this is the poor returns which the farmers get.. A farmer has to work for 3 to 4 months to raise a crop.. He has to pay wages to the labourers, pay for transportation and the find market.. The profit which a farmer gets is very very less when we consider the efforts which he puts in..

The next big issue is the disappearance of grazing lands.. Due to the real estate industry, each and every piece of land is turned into a plot.. Cows dont have any land left to graze for.. The recent rise in the milk price is an alarming indication..Adding to these miseries is the rise in price of pesticides and fodder for cattle..If this continues, we would have to import rice,wheat and milk powder from abroad.. It is absolutely impossible to import food stuffs for 110 million people..

The "manbumigu" representatives must push liberhans and politics aside, and take necessary steps to ensure that india is self sufficient to feed itself.. Else , 20 years from now on,we would die of starvation..

XIX

Yet another december 12..

A time to remember and thank god for having blessed me with beautiful , wonderful and caring people over these 19 years.. Its a gift to be born as an Indian , and to speak tamil.. 19 years have rolled on in no time and I have stepped into the last year of my teenage:(.. 19 years from now on, I should have achieved something remarkable in my life..

Today I received the maximum number of phone calls and maximum number of messages on a single day, a record which i can boast of..Also this is the first 12/12 since 1993 an exam is not in my mind during my birthday.. I think my birthday as an opportunity to remember all those hearts which cared for me, smiled , laughed and cried with me , for me.. Thank you all for everything

#3

The most joyous, longest and the most eventful semester in my college life so far... Right from day 1 , when the results of the previous semester were announced , nothing went wrong, but for some silly quarrels with the caring hearts.. I witnesssed the most significant concert in India in 2009, bought my laptop, thought much about myself, started analysing the world around me in detail,made good friends, earned no enemies.This semester gave me everything.. We had many reasons to smile and fill the hostel rooms with thundering laughters, and blunt(est) jokes...

Kannathil muthamital,Michael madhana kamarajan, sillunu oru kaadhal,Grudge,2012,mouna raagam(first half).. This is the list of movies which i saw during my semester examinations.. In all probability , I would lose my "9 pointer" and thereby, the most irritating "pandu" tag as soon as the results are out..It was extremely difficult to retain the interest of writing the exams for 20 days.. Somehow, all of us managed to finish the examinations...Now , its time to quote sujatha's dialogue in anniyan "rest eduthu rest eduthu tired agi rest edukaren".. Happy holidays

THE REAL MASTER

He taught me cricket.. When my grandma taught wat is a boundary, sachin was the batsman.. When i was wondering whether anyone can hit a six off a fast bowler, sachin smashed michael kasprowickz into the sharjah crowd.. Still i remember that particular match.. Unbelievable 143 against aussies at sharjah!! It was the match and sachin was the man who pulled me for cricket.. In the last 11 years I dont know even a single instance when sachin rolled on the floor and kissed the pitch for a century.. He was not chewing bubble gums , while the national anthem was played on the world cup finals.. He rarely blames the pitch.. " He chased a south affrican spectator and pulled him down , for snatching his Indian cap" , wrote vijay lokapally on The hindu dated 15.11.09..
He returned to national duty , right after his father's funeral.. Still I remember the sachin who looked into the heavens for 2 extra seconds , on course of his 140 against kenya... That was his first century after his father's demise... Thanks to the espn star cameraman , who focussed on the eyes of spectators , as soon as sachin scored his century... The tears shed there by those people and millions back home, tells who sachin is , amd wat he means to us..Anyone would have forgot his fourth innings century at chepauk.. certainly not I.. I was just 10 kilometres and 50 rupees away from watching it.. But for mathematics 1 , nothing prevented me from seeing sachin.. I dont know when the next test match will be played at chennai.. I dont know whether I will have a glimpse of the hero in my lifetime.. I missed a chance for seeing the man, who after scoring 87 international centuries , said his best moment in international cricket waas when he got his indian cap.. Thanks to his recent "I am an indian first" comment,Sachin is the only indian who unified all the political parties..
Dhoni right now shoulders the huge responsibility of giving sachin his most wanted gift, the world cup.. Let the street-smart captain keep in mind that if at all cricket has to survive in the country, sachin should announce his retirement from international cricket only after touching the golden cup with his golden hands... Else , it is very obvious that he will be asked to step down , not only by all indian cricket fans , but by all sachinists...

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It was sheer disappointmemt when the news of the cancellation of signals assess came. I have planned to pack up for home soon after the exam was over, now i have to wait till monday. Fed up with friday when we wrote tests for pds , electical machines lab and circuits lab back to back, the thought of getting free once and for all by saturday morning,was shattered. In sheer frustration i thought of watching movies, and spend my time lavishly. “National treasure” which i saw in the morning was an awesome movie with a nice plot and a good screenplay . Then in the afternoon I saw “Rang de basanti”, which is probably the only movie which made me think a lot. On seeing the climax of the movie i was so happy and satisfied. The success of the movie is that a person with a very very little hindi knowledge like me,could understand what the director came to say. Still, i am thinking of the dialogue which comes twice in the film. At first ,siddharth says , “ this country has no future”. Maddy will shoot back at him saying “ join politics , military , become ias”.. In the climax, siddharth repeats maddy's dialogue, and says he killed his very own father who was also corrupt. The soul of the film is rahman's music.. till now i am wondering about the bgm score, which is far far better than slumdog. If at all we want to portay India to the world,it should be in the “rang de” way and not in the “slumdog” way.