Friday, April 25, 2008

woman's era-march II

In your Jan II issue, " A Sweet Atumn " by K. Rangachari was very heart warming. The way elder daughter comes around and the though process of younger one is very touching.In every issue woman's era comes up with atleast one story about how to be a success in a relationhip and gives insight to hitherto unknown depths of emotion and understanding.I would request you to keep us giving us stories about the importance of relationships and how they can be better maintained.All relationships in life-like-husband wife,mother daughter,daughter-in-law versus inlaws,siblings, friends are very important,Today it has become a fashion to give importance to only those whom you need at that particular time of your life, but then need based relationships are not true.One has to learn to be true and right in all the spheres of life and everything becomes easy. This is what gandhiji taught us so many years ago, but we are still struggling with that.

Decaan-april 08-vent your anger

It is very disconcerting to see everyday the same pamphlets and again and again, it is a sheer wastage of such an important commodity like paper and very much against environment conservation, besides it doesnt even help the people who are advertising. I think there should be some regulation about it, like they can be inserted in sunday paper only or something like they should be on recycled paper only. I get many fliers everyday and I just put them in trash feeling sad.
renurastogi

Thursday, April 24, 2008

signs should be in marathi

This is such a typical political response. Politicians never think of solving any problem they only aggravate it.Its good that local language and culture should be encouraged but making it mandatory is preposterous.Wake up man! This is out country and all states are indian ,then why this discrimination. It doesnt augur well neither for maharshtra nor for the country.Locals may be given preference while recruiting, but and but only when either they are better or equal to other candidates not otherwise.Why are we going backward now? Instead of widening our horizons and making world our dream place we are making boundaries inside our own country.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Strangers

This is about two couples; KK and sonali and Jimmy shergil and nandana sen.Both are unhappy in their marriage. Jimmy is an unsuccessful writer and he destroys his marriage due to his insecurity while KK 's son dies in an accident and since then his wife has become a psycho, who refuses to accept that her son is dead and still behaves as if he is alive and does all routine jobs for him. KK and nandana meet in a bar and a relationship starts and then nanadana wants to give it a name and then the real twist starts, how they plan everything and how everything backfires and why?
Its interesting in parts, but the end is quite vaguely shown, and sometimes viewer is left to wonder whats happening.Story idea is good but the direction and treatment is what makes it quite below average.

Thursday, April 17, 2008

hyderabad airport

In Hyderabad, new airport is functional now. It can be compared to any other international airport in its ambience, comfort and facilities. But now it has become quite far from Hitech city.Though they have started airconditioned bus service but it doesnt cover the hitech city, While I think the maximum volume of passengers must be from this place only.So it will be very convenient if they think of starting this service to may be Shilparamam, as that may become the centre point catering to all sides. And one thing is very much required and that is making the auto people charge according to the meter. Neither in Hyderabad nor in Chennai,none of them use the meters and there is nobody to see that they comply with the rules

chennai news paper

From my childhood I was very fond of reading, at that time instead of news paper i was more interested in magazines and later on novels.But after growing up newspaper became a must to see with the morning cuppa for me and sometimes I feel surprised how my loyalties have changed regarding the paper.In the early 80s in Calcutta Telegraph was a rage and MJ AKbar, its editor became my favourite journalist.From a very upright and popular journalist, how and when he went into oblivion, never knew. Then in Delhi of course Hindustan times it is.Without reading it I felt if something missing and when in Indore I longed for it, but they have their own favourites like Free press and all. Slowly we got used to it. and then onward Hindustan times was lost for ever, as every place has its own tabloid like Dainik jagran in kanpur,and then we caught on with TOI, though still I prefer its Delhi version instead of Mumbai.But after settling in Hyderabad I started liking Deccan Chronicle, its very big plus point was that besides giving national news, it completely covers the city in all respects and one is all the time aware of what is happening where and that is very much required for people like me who wanted to know the city.It always listed all the important events with the addresses, and all other things like variety in restaurants, shops, travel needs and TV , almost everything. I liked it so much that when I came to Chennai, I wanted this only. But sadly its chennai version is not the same.Even the sankranti festival celebrated in Mylapore, such an important event and I dint know,nor that food festival, that of roadside stalls of authentic tamil cuisine.And I think its important for all the people writing about any place to include the address or atleast location of the place, bacause all the people going thru it may not be so well versed with the city to know just by name.Even otherwise when you are telling about something,your aim is to familiarise it with people, so what is the point in being vague about the address, I feel all the listings should be with ph no. and address all the time

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Life in a metro and Just married

recently I saw these two movies I wanted to see for a long time, Life in a metro was quite appreciated by everybody so I was quite curious to see, but I was dissappointed. It starts very slowly, and after a period that that rain is quite irritating. Moreover this style of introducing characters one by one is getting quite stale and slow process.The treatment is quite cliche and so is the end. Only part i liked was with Sharman and Irfan and Konkona

In Just married the basic story is good that there may be some awkwardness in an arranged marriage but the treatment and inacting of the lead couple both make the movie quite insipid.Isha has acted in such a way, as if she has been married against her will to a horrible man, This is not the way brides react in an arranged marriage and Fardeen as usual is hamming.And the idea of showing happy marriage thru a couple married for 40 yrs is completely bizarre, as they are shown cribbing all the time

Gruerre Switzerland