Ambimama - India

One day I suddenly find I am a diabetic. I panic and follow the advice of Doctor. It works for some time and I forget. I tend to eat more sweets, worry more and develop complications. I am advised to go walking and do some exercise.

I am tired and I realize I have become lazier, worried and try alternative shortcuts in medications and exercise. The city environment and routine of my life does not motivate me to exercise.

Here comes a modern solution. I forget all that I have eaten fast or slow. A machine does the walking for me and gives me more benefits to maintain my health!

More about latest health machines in the coming article.

Later more details on India’s tour of New Zealand and why Cricket betting is banned in India!

The space, a few kilometres has only one sound Om, the sound of silence. The noise we create in home by TV, cooking appliances, electrical, telephone and music; outside by automobiles, office, cell phones and cinema halls cause immense damage to us. We never understand the power of silence. The sound disturbs us even when you relax or forced to relax.
Music is one way to soothe the soul and ears; to nullify the negatives effects of noise pollution. And the worst noise pollution is to wound someone by words in anger. To talk slowly, carefully and positively can be learned only if I am happy and know the art of remaining silent. ‘Hitam’ is the correct Sanskrit word. Hitam is the best of way practicing ‘Ahimsa’ or nonviolence.
This week is National Friendship Week. And a special one with Slumdog Millionaire bagging many Oscars.
I want to share a forward from my friend:
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NAILS IN THE FENCE
Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence. (Most importantly the last sentence)
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all.
He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone..
The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence. He said, ‘You have done well, my son, but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. But It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound will still be there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one. Remember that friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed.. They lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their hearts to us’
It’s National Friendship Week. Show your friends how much you care. Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it means sending it back to the person who sent it to you! If it comes back to you , you will then know you have a circle of friends.
YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED!
Now send this to every friend you have!! And to your family (they need to know that you love them too).
Please forgive me if I have ever left a ‘hole’ in your fence.
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Woman

Man

I will not see any Tamil movies. This is what I decided after seeing Naan Kadavul. An utter waste of talent, idea and time by Bala. Just because there is background music of chanting Rudra in Sanskrit and ‘Aham Brhmasmi’ does not convey anything.
The beggars’ torture is nicely shown in Slumdog Millionaire and a positive approach is given. In this film there is artificial sadness, show of violence, unwanted humour on beggars, police, judges and Sadhus. The film shows 99% of the time beggars of different kinds, their sufferings and a drugged Sadhu killing the mafia head who tortures them.
A really confused and drugged Bala has clearly shown he cannot make me enjoy Tamil movies anymore. I also wonder how censors have allowed abuse of drug ‘Ganja’ when they have banned alcohol and smoking in films. And by ‘Ganja’ the Godliness is established! It is true in Himalayas some sadhus use ‘Ganja’ but they do not form the basis of Hinduism or worship of Lord Siva. They live in forests and mountains and do not come out and mingle with family or society and kill villains!

I must say “Naan Paithiyam’ (I am a mad person) if I see any Tamil movie hereafter.
Such a nonsense film from Bala! The sadness in Sethu, and Pithamagan was OK. But here pseudo sadness and nonsense in every shot and scene is unbearable.

India Foundation for the Arts and Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts
in association with SPINZ present
CHRONOTOPIA
A new multi-media dance performance:
Time 7.30 pm, Feb 18th 2009, Wednesday at
The Music Academy

Choreographed by Mr Jayachandran Palazhy and the dancers, Attakkalari
Supported by India Foundation for the Arts

Brief note on Chronotopia:
Inspired by the Tamil epic `Chilappathikaram’, Attakkalari’s multi-media dance production, examines the plight of an individual in these tumultuous times, where spaces - internal and external, empirical and imagined, historical and contemporary as well as mythical, cultural and spiritual appear and disappear in one’s life in an unreal fashion as if one is on a journey, dislocating chronology.

The performance by Attakkalari’s talented Repertory, anchors on a central female character represented by three dancers. Chronotopia’s unique abstract movement vocabulary reflects and embodies the human circumstance, and in the process, time dissolves and dislocates, infusing the landscape with tenderness and loss.

Highly pixilated traces of projected images (Christian Ziegler) , complemented by abstracted light installation ( Chris Salter and Marje ), create an interactive context for the evocative performance, highlighted by Thomas Dotzler’s restrained and refined light design.

Intricate choreography by Jayachandran Palazhy (along with the dancers) is set to an original, vibrant and melodic score by French composer Mathias Duplessy, (created in collaboration with Carnatic musicians from Bangalore).

Emotional, haunting and introspective, CHRONOTOPIA is an ode to the senses, a magical tour de force through the voyage of life

Chronotopia was funded under India Foundation for the Arts’ New Performance Programme, 2006-07.

Ticket available at : Landmark (Nungambakkam, Spencer Plaza & Citi Centre), The Madras Terrace House, Royapeth & Chamiers (Chamiers Road)

For Telebooking please contact: 9884015641
Tickets: Donor Passes (Rs 1000), Rs 500, Rs 300, Rs 200 and Rs 100