Ambimama - India

The Concise Dictionary World Place Names, 2006 released by the Oxford Press mentions Bangalore as a land of Bengalis and that Kempe Gowda belonged to Hoysala Dynasty. The Times of India promptly reported this yesterday in its daily and followed up by sending an E-mail. The Oxford Press responded immediately by freezing the book stocks and sending a sorry note for the errors.

That really tells the professionalism of the people running that business. Openly admitting a mistake is rare to find. They have also agreed to have a meeting with the Government officials and print the correct details as given.

Our politicians interfere in the content of text books and twist the History and Geography at their whims and fancy. And how many cities have changed their names due to political reasons – like Madras to Chennai, Bombay to Mumbai, Calcutta to Kolkata and now Bangalore to Bengaluru!

It was the Germans during World War II who propagated the false idea of Aryan and Dravidian culture. And that Indians now in India migrated to India. This resulted in British dividing India on North and South with Dravidians belonging to South. And we still believe in that baseless theory! The recent research by archaeologists around the World have found out there was no Aryan Dravidian culture at all. There was only one culture – Indian and Indians were here from time unknown!

The UK, USA and all countries around the World have accepted this fact! But our politicians still try to exploit us using this baseless and useless fact. I would like to stop these party men who belong to these political parties that claim to work for the “Dravidians” - Do you really know the meaning of the word Dravidian? Do you really know what it refers to?

Welcome to India. Politicians using useless references from history and every other possible thing to their advantage!

There are reports on TV channels that a terrorist group from Bangladesh is involved. India which helped Bangladesh get its freedom has been suffering from infiltration on the East for a long time.

Now this terror act proves Bangladesh, A Moslem nation is there to prove once again the terror and Jihad attitude of Islam, which will not benefit them in any way. Instead it brings a Black Dot on Bangladesh and Islam.

So it is Pakistan or Bangladesh as Islamic nations which instead of trying to build themselves are out there trying to create disharmony inside India. That too planting bombs inside a Mosque!

As the Australian Prime Minister refused to send his Cricket team to Zimbabwe, citing Mugabe’s dictatorship and attitude, The Indian Government should call back immediately the Cricket team playing there.

11 people died in the explosion inside the mosque during Friday prayers, five persons were killed in the police firing in the old city soon after the blast.

61 people were injured in the blast.

The relief package announced by the government, including Rs 5 lakh ex-gratia, a house and a government job to each bereaved family, would apply to victims of the blast and police firing, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh said.

Apart from this, the Prime Minister’s office had last night announced Rs 1 lakh ex-gratia to each bereaved family.

L.Vaidyanathan, L.Shankar and L.Subramanian the music trio and violinists are more famous abroad than in India. They are sons of V.Lakshminarayana, a famous musician.

L vaidyanathan is a music director scoring music for 160 films in Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi.

His musical score in the Tamil movie Ezhavathu Manithan giving the songs of Bharathiar is a great hit.

His background score was the soul in the Singeetham Srinivasan’s dialogueless movie (Pushpak in Hindi, Pushpaka Vimanam in Tamil and Pushpaka Vimana in Kannada). The Kannada version of the movie got him the Karnataka state award for best music director.

TV viewers will remember him best for the folksy title music of Shankar Nag’s Malgudi Days based on the late R K Narayan’s short stories.

He was conferred with the Kalaimamani award by the Tamil Nadu government in 2003.

L.Vaidyanathan died here on 19th May Saturday morning following a massive heart attack. He was 65. He is survived by his wife and two sons.

Courtesy - Indian Express, Chennai

AVM does it again, they have for one more time postponed the release date to June 15th. What are they scared to release a thalivar movie? Come on, we can’t wait anymore.

Galatta.com reports :

Sivaji The Boss, which was set to be released on 31st May 2007, has been postponed to June15th, says AVM Productions spokespeople.

This information has been given to Galatta.com exclusively and FIRST before any other media.

As always, watch this space as Galatta.com brings you AUTHENTIC news on Sivaji The Boss as and when it happens FIRST!
The Rajinikanth- Shriya starrer is the most hyped and secretive project of the South Indian Film industry which is definitely going to be worth watching the throng of the masses who will flock at theatres across the region to watch this film. We wish Sivaji The Boss all success!

There used to be flood light matches in Chennai, with local teams playing. It was very popular and crowds used to see these matches with more interest. Some how these matches are not to be seen due to some fight between rival teams and police banning such kind of matches in the night.

The actual spirit of the Chennai night cricket matches and the mood has been wonderfully brought back by the film “Chennai 600028”.

Sure some efforts must be put to bring back the joy of watching our local boys playing sensible cricket. (not “My boys” as often said by Ganguly!)

League Cricket is very common in England, called as County matches. It’s like United Manchester or AC Milan in football. The players in the County may be from any country.

A similar approach will be experimented in India by Zee TV with the help of Kapil Dev, Tony Greg, Dean Jones and Kiran More.