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Challenge Chatni

It was a busy saturday.Had too much to look out for.There was the Army recruitment,FOSS meet at MCC Calicut,The Class at IBM ACE and Challenge Chatni by Doordarshan.


FOSS was something attractive.Army recruitment was too much to digest my physiques won't allow that.Class at IBM ACE was suspended due to improvement exam of collleagues.So in Chatni was the last and only thing to attend.We 3 were to be a team.There were 3 other teams and we were given 4 problems.We had to solve the problems .The best solution for each problem will be selected to finals.

We started with a shot with all of us saying "Qabool Hai".They had got the anchor from NIT Calicut,a final year student.There was just a Camera person and director.One camera,one channel,one India.I couldn't but laugh when they arrived at college in an auto-rickshaw.They spoke Hindi and were lucky enough to find Hindi speaking people ,in our college,as participants.
We had several shots about 2 days.We had to pose the plan then make a model and make it working too.

For the problems and solutions watch Doordarshan "Challenge Chatni" to be telecasted on January 2009.More details only after that.

Superstition and belief

I have been intrigued by the way people believed in the god,the evil and billion superstition.I used to tease people for their silly beliefs.

The Cat
One of the most famous objects of superstition.The Cat sometimes is itself contaning an evil spirit,Sometime it is the pet of some evil soul,the first cat which feared me was a dark one in the famous horror story"Lisa".Some cats bring bad luck,misfortunes,business failures,bad examinations and in extreme cases a death.

I had a friend who would throw a stone in the path crossed by a cat.He would say that the stone will remove the bad effects caused by cat's interference of our way.If someone whom we dislike walks in front of us,then also the curse is removed.

Wonderful isn't it.

The Ghost

There have been a lot of research and hard work from many people debating over the existence,presence or effects of ghost.Most horror movies have their success on white or dark ghosts,mostly feminine ghost(just to add beauty to the evil).

There was a challenge sometime back.One of my friend challenged others.If they could stand at 0000hours midnight at an open place and close their eyes for 5 minutes,after five minutes they are supposed to turn back and look what was behind them.A white light like that of a ghost is supposed to be seen.

Some took the challenge couraged but later returned(after the challenge with goosebumps)

God-fearing

Some people argur that if one is god-fearing then one shouls\d also be believing in Ghost/Devil.
That is quite foolish.It is said that all creatures living or non-living are creations of god.So the "Ghost " (if at all it exist) must be a God's creation.God who has no shape ,colour who is indefinite and incompletely defined;will He ever making such a thing as ghost?The synonym for Evil; Lucifer is said to be a disciple of Jesus(the messenger)..Should he create devil,then we should worship the devil too.For all God's creation deserve equal respect.To frighten people is no God's job.He probably has better things to do.Hon'ble Albert Einstein said "God does not play dice".God being an idealisation and perfection.


Belief is one thing and an exaggeration of believes accumulated over ages prone to one's emotion lead to superstition.Control the emotions and control the self.The mind will then be free from the shackles of fear.


But there is one incident which made me slightly superstitious:
Here goes the event

I wanted to dual boot my PC with Linux and Windows XP.Since I was spending most of the day in front of computer,my ma asked me to shut it down and take rest.I didn't care.I continued to work.After some more hours she again insisted on me to power it off.I didn't,I was trying to install the buzzz word of IT ,Linux.Then,she sort of cursed "Let the system get damaged!"(I need a better MALAYALAM->ENGLISH translator).
Then after few minutes the problem started.The windows won't boot.I couldn't get into Linux either.I tried to procure an installation CD from my friend,after installation the registration key couldn't be found.It was sleeping time.I to fix the problem on the next day.I eventually got the registration key after a long search,now the windows won't boot again.i installed the OS again.Then all of a sudden the CD drive stopped working.I tried to fix the connection inside the tower.No,the CD drive won't work.A computer service professional was called for.The computer was taken for repair.After one week of trial they said that the system cannot be restored,the only way out was formatting and reinstalling.It was done and later I got the Linux installed in it.

But no one knows what had happened.was it a problem with partitioning,while Linux installation?Then why didn't the CD drive work?(By the way,A new CD drive had to be installed.).Why didn't the recovery CD for windows work?

May be,some part of the incident arouse superstition,some coincidental,but some mystery is involved..imperceptible.

Excerpt from Doordarshan- debate on Textbook issue

Textbook issue

There was much hype about the 7th standard textbook.Political parties,the government,the public and even the kids were involved in the following harthal and other stuff.

The problem with the christian priests and the Congress and other people was that

1. The book didn't have any content to be learned.
2. In spite of having a competent expert, Prof.Khadar as Director of SCERT ,he had no role in preparation of textbook.
3. It is anti-religion and propagating atheism.
4. It didn't give or propagate the values of religion.
5. Local history is highlighted.
6. Only some part of history is told
7. The text had hidden agenda of propagating the ideology of CPI(M)

The Doordarshan had a debate programme with the Education minister ,Sri M.A.Baby,P.C.Viswanath M.L.A,Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan (Ex Minister and M.L.A),FAther Tholekkat.Prof.Khadar,Ragesh(President,S.F.I),Moderator Asharff Kadakkal.

Prof.Khadar clarified the following:-

1. The book was prepared based on NCF recommendations,using new pedagogic techniques with the objective of the student approaching the lessons in a research and problem solving mode,rather than learn things by-heart.
2. A test was conducted ,by SCERT,for forming a panel of teeachers to prepare the textbook.The entire process was tyransparent.
3. He was actively involved in the preparation of the textbook.

M.A Baby clarified:-

1. There was no intention of propagating atheism.The value of secularism has been highlighted in consanance with the policy of India Govt.Similar approach had been adopted my NCERT textbook.However,it was pointed out in the textbook that al regiligions basically propagate peace and love.A catholic priest who happens to be a school teacher as awell has reported that there was nothing unacceptable in the textbook concerned and has been using it to teach his students.
   
2. The importance of local history cannot be overruled.the history of a region is made up of many local level actions.However,this does not mean trivialissation of the national level history.Mr.Ragesh intervened at this point and pointed out that there had been no reference to Peer Mohammed in the first war of independence(1857) while Mangal Pandey alone had been lionised in the past,this textbook does justice to the role of a freedom fighter like Peer Mohammed.Ragesh continued and pointed out that local level Muslim congress leaders in Malabar who had contributed handsomely to the freedom movement had been referred to for the first time in a history textbook in this.
   
3. The approach of SCERT was to conbsider thetext book of all subjects for all standards from first to tenth are to be considered in a sequence.hence it is a specious argument that many parts of history are not included in the concerned textbook.What has not been covered in first standard could be covered in other standards.

A retrospective of my poems ( a poem)

Incoherence is what some call,
Tolerance is that way tall.
Same applies to my work all,
The thought reddened my eyeball.

I wrote that just for fun,
Serious batter there was none,
Put it in me silly blog,
And invited all who said they jog.

They made me think,
Some bade me wink,
Others asked me the link,
Most called it a junk.

The poem in the blog lacks rhyme,
The ones in Kindergarten got good rhyme,
The poem kindles the dart of aim,
The incoherence and rhyme is all the same.

What I think isn't what I type,
What I type isn't what I see,
What i see isn't what I meant,
What I meant isn't what I get.

So much for a poem,
On the infinite web-podium,
Move,march for a diadem,
To hope for the best is my aim.

Nanotechnology (a poem)

Nano is the tiny word we use
Ten power minus nine we deduce
Why do we need another word?
For good?bad?or the pity mad?

When it's raining
And afraid of draining
Get under the nano
Rain is no problemo.

When you want a car,
And your purse is on the tar,
Think of buying nano,
Car is no problemo.

This is how they sell,
Just ring them a bell.
To the place you dwell,
They bring it very well.

All these misnomers,
Attract all customers.
The company turns prosperous,
Since the world is delirious.

What is there in a name,
For the life is just a game,
Don't be dumb and lame,
Or have fun watching the mime.

Nano is in technology,
Take Chemistry or Biology,
All follow the very pedagogy,
Call it never a bad bogey.

Come on all,for its your day,
March your way,Come what may,
In the the path of knowledge,
And burn the common effigy.