Last Train

Watched a beautiful short film "Last Train". Neatly told ,brilliantly executed. There is no last train ,if we miss now , there is always another train coming sooner or latter., life's story.

Hats off to Kartik Subbaraj, the director.

A Day in the Life of an Untouchable Sweeper

Pathetic.. Inhuman.. feel very sad . why dont the government do something. The state government should punish those people who use the street to relieve their waste.

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Shame!

Maraiporul -மறைபொருள்

Check out this beautiful and touching short film , very sad to see the pain in the eyes of that girl. Pon.Sudha , the director had done wonderful job. Don't know much about hijab.Any way its a good video.

Bodhidharma

After watching "7am arivu ", i started searching in internet and found these videos in youtube..Really confused with these details.What to believe - the chinese who still keep Bodhidharma in high esteem as shown in these videos or "7am arivu's version. Whatever the truth im happy to know that he was a Tamilian.
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some more links about Bodhidharma:
Wikipedia 
USShoalintemple
Biography in a snapshot

What about me?

Found this video in youtube , very interesting .I liked the last dialogue ""Do you have another banana? No the donkey took them". Very funny and deeply moving also!


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The Old Man and the Sea

I have heard and read many things  about his book "The Old Man and the Sea " by Ernest Hemingway but i have never tried to read this book.Fortunately as i was reading a Tamil blog i found this interesting link.This is a animated version of this book .Great effort by Alexander Petrov  and it received Academy Award for Best Animated short film.

The Old Man and the Sea Animated film

Good to see the old classic  like this one in a animated version.

World Food Wastage

When i read this article in rediff , i was shocked and wondering where are we going.I was bit happy that India was not there at the top 10. This list is based on OECD Environmental Compendium
Food Wastage list

Position	Country	Food wasted per person  in Kilogram
1.	USA	760
2.	Australia	690
3.	Denmark	660
4.	Switzerland	650
5.	Canada	640
6.	Norway	620
7.	Netherlands	610
8.	Austria	560
9.	United Kingdom	560
10.	Ireland	560
11.	Belgium	550
12.	Germany	540
13.	France	510
14.	Italy	500
15.	Finland	460
16.	Sweden	450
17.	Japan	410

Almost all of the above countries are developed countries and in all the major issues including food supply shortage they blame developing or poor countries.As im typing this ,im reading today's Straits Times in which there is a headline "UN warns of food shortages in parts of S-E Asia" ,even though this UN report does not show any relation with the above table, one must be vigilant in what he/she eats.As our elders used to say never throw the food and you will find it hard to get it latter, thats true as prices of food items goes up.
In contrast to the above table , check out this documentary.


What a contradiction...!!

Meals Ready

Documentaries always fascinates me .It gives or rather explains the feeling  or  problem or  working  or situation in a short and clear manner, of course not all the documentaries are like that.Some days back in a morning i watched a malayalam documentary by Nithuna Nevil Dinesh.

It tells the story of a old man who works in a motel.His job is to hold the "Meals Ready" signboard on the edge of the highway.He stands there without any shelter under the burning sun .He watches how a old man is treated happily by his children, then  a girl shares her chocolate and a group of  young people drinking water and throwing the water bottles.He is thirsty and its very painful when someone wastes water, he takes the bottle and drinks the left over.

After his work , his employer gives a food parcel for his work.He takes it and go to his house and shares with his wife and kitten.He gives the chocolate to his wife,the story ends there.

After watching this video , i was thinking so many things.Beautifully shot , the emotions were natural.The smile by the old lady when she got chocolate was something i can remember for a long time.Kudos to the team.