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Entries from June 2008

DASAVATHARAM - Insider Fun

June 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Since DASAVATHARAM review was posted here, I’ve been moderating comments every other hour (hyperbole!hyperbole!) which calls BVN an “Asshole”. Some way or the other google lands some KS Ravikumars here. I didn’t review the other asshole’s movie six months back because he has these rabid fans, but didn’t expect the same for Kamal. Though most of the comments called BVN […]

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Tags: talkies · Insider fun

Page 24 - 7th Standard Social Studies Textbook

June 23rd, 2008 · 167 Comments

Education Reform in Kerala - VIIth Heaven Standard….
Yet another pastoral letter across churches yesterday, KSU(Congress’s student wing) activists and police clash across the state, Muslim League enters the protests arena in its North Kerala strong holds, and today the opening session of the state Assembly comes to a virtual standstill on the issue. Education Reform in […]

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Tags: social · kerala · secularism · Papa Bear · malayalam

Kamal’s DASAVATHARAM - Review

June 19th, 2008 · 34 Comments

Readers of the comic strip “Mayavi” in “Balarama” would remember the two nerd scientists - Lottulodukk and GulGulMal. They come up with these quirky gadgets for the evil likes of Kuttoosan and Dakini, and in the end of the strip “Mayavi” destroys the gadget (sometimes he pours water on that, sometimes it falls down from […]

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Tags: talkies

Nobody knows but me

June 18th, 2008 · 2 Comments

There are two kinds of people, there’s those who like Johnny Cash, and those that will.
 
10 years ago on a cold dark night
Someone was killed neath the town hall lights
There were few at the scene but they all agreed
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me
She walks these hills in a long black […]

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Tags: poetry · lyrics

“White” House

June 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

A token pin on sale at the Texas Republican Convention venue and like one comment pointed out,shouldn’t it be “When Obama is President…”
An irony given the fact that the south used to vote against Republicans till a few decades back because they were Abraham Lincoln’s Party.
They were Abraham Lincoln’s Party.

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Tags: US · 2008 Elections