Map of unrest

Map of the revolt

Here is a nice pictorial summary of current revolts going on in
Tunisia,Libya,Egypt,Algeria,Sudan,Syria,Yemen,Baharin

Source

Vishal Bhardwaj : 3 Khoon Maaf

I must say that Vishal Bhardwaj has mastered the art of over promising
and under delivering. Starting from Omkara to Kaminey and now 7 Khoon Maaf.
He was able to lure me to theater with all 3 and disappoint as a result.

I would just like to figure out what makes even the otherwise intelligent
reviewers go ga-ga about his movies. Here are my guesses :

1. Quite early in his career, he gave us Maqbool. So he has earned some goodwill
which would take time to get burnt out.

2. He attributes his inspirations to popular literary figures, including Shakespeare
and Ruskin Bond, which maintains an intellectual aura around him and his movies.

That's the thing about reviewers. But what about the audience. Why do they give
him some very positive reactions?

3. He manages to get some of the finest actors to work in his movies, the likes of
Irfan Khan and Naseeruddin Shah. Add to it the crowd pulling stars, starting from
Omkara. This combination of star power and actor power is hard to beat as Prakash Jha
proved with Rajneeti.

4. He can shoot some really smart scenes which he can put into trailers and fool people.

What else?

PS: BTW here is the most honest and unbiased review of 7 Khoon Maaf  I have come across.

A small,small world

Watched this play in Rang Shankara, this went saturday.
I liked the way live camera and projector was used in the play.
It became pretty boring towards the end though.

   

Details :

Greenland, close to the North Pole, 26th April 2007: By accident a helicopter pilot sees a man in the ice, picks him up and saves his life. The man is Hamidur Rahman from Bangladesh, 30 years old and on his way to his dream land Canada – illegally, ill-equipped and on foot. He has come from Germany, where he was about to be deported back to Bangladesh. It is not the first time Hamidur is running – from his political involvement in Bangladesh he runs away to Malaysia, from there he flees with his Malaysian wife and their son to Germany. What is he running from and who will believe him? Hamidurs life is the story of a smart villager on the global move, getting dangerously close to his dreams and failing to find a place in this world. Two actors with minimal sets and a camera, re-imagine and examine scenes from Hamidurs life. They lend their voices to people who knew Hamidur and seeks to find grains of truth in the fiction that is called documentary.

• Language :
  English
• Genre :
  Documentary
• Cast & Crew :
  Konradin Kunze , Abshishek Majumdar
• Director :
  Konradin Kunze , Sophia Stepf
• Length :
  1 hr 40 mins
• Writer :
  Konradin Kunze , Sophia Stepf

Guruji drops music as Google music marches on

Imitating Guruji, Google had launched music around 22 Oct, 2010.
But now the pioneer itself seems to have dropped music, might be
due to some legal complications.

Can't help comparing it with the social gaming space. Zynga does
similar things out there, copying the most popular games and ruin
them with its money power.

Google Adsense should pay interest on unpaid earnings

In the hope that I would earn something some day, I had integrated Google Adsense in my blog.
Seems that it would never happen as I have around $7 after more than 3 years. And I am sure
there are many people like me out there. Google will never pay us since it doesn't pay as long
as your balance reaches $100.

But, and it's a very strong but, Google is holding MY money and countless others'. And it's
earning a lot of interest on the same. I demand that Google pays that interest to me since
its MY money which is earning the interest.

If Google doesn't pay that interest to me, it's evil.

PPF accounts - ICICI's best kept secret

Update (1st July,2012) : 
If you have PPF account with ICICI, you can transfer money online to it from your ICICI savings account.

Copied verbatim from here.(since I have had the same experience and now hold a PPF a/c with ICICI)

I decided to open a PPF account. First, the venerable SBI closed on me (it was saturday after lunch). The post-office also shot me down (it's right across the street from the main bangalore SBI) although they didnt really give me a reason why. My PPF action item was not going down easy.

Now, at some point, I had read that ICICI was recently authorized to collect funds for opening a PPF account. A press release from ICICI stating that they are going to offer online access to PPF account from your savings account at ICICI. The ICICI website, perversely, makes no mention of this fact anywhere. You can search for PPF all day long at icicibank.com and you wont find a thing. The other scheme mentioned in the press release, some senior saving scheme, gets a page of its own so you're left wondering if the addition of the PPF in the release was a huge mistake by the Marketing Dept.

I figured i ought to give ICICI a shot. I had already heard 'no' twice and was getting used to rejection. i stepped into the main ICICI branch and, wonder of wonders, they do open a PPF for you if you ASK. Ten minutes and one submitted photograph later, I was given a PPF account number WITH online access from my savings account. The account would be activated 10 working days after the submission of the form. There, wasnt that simple?

Questions that I want to scream at the top of my lungs are (but didnt) are:

(A) Why does SBI require two photographs, compulsory witnesses for nomination AND an initial cash deposit? By contrast, ICICI wants one photograph and cash/cheque and no signatures when nominee is a major!

2. Why is ICICI not publicizing its PPF capabilities? Is one web page extra too much cost? I'm guessing, since opening a PPF at ICICI does not benefit ICICI in any substantial way, they'd rather not spend time or money on informing the public.

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