Cast : Rajini, Pasupathy, Nayanthara, Meena, Sona, Vadivelu, Vijayakumar

Direction P Vasu

Music : G V Prakash

Production : K Balachander
Running Time : 2hrs 30min (approx)

Storyline : Balakrishna (a) Balu (Pashupathy) plays a poor barber who leads a wretched life in a village with wife Sridevi (Meena) and three children. His short term goal, however, is to renovate is old beauty saloon and in an attempt to revive it from downswing by applying for a bank loan. In the meantime, Ashok kumar (Rajinikanth) & his film crew comes to the village for a filmshooting. The whole village, including his family, rally around Balakrishna pursuing his favour to meet the star as the news of the childwood friendship between Balu and Ashok kumar spreads. Balu fears to meet Ashok Kumar thinking that he may not identify him. The multiple attempts of Balu, Vadivelu and livingston’s to meet the star forms the rest of the story.

Review : You can see a completely different Rajinikanth without his usual stunts and masala. Pashupathy excels with his flawless acting. With a bunch of characters for comic roles like Vadivelu, Santhanam, Livinston, Chinni jeyanth the movie gives a bad taste of humour. The main weakness is the screenplay where the first half drags a lot with lifeless scenes involving the villagers. Meena has done a okay job. For many of us who have been wondering a lot about Rajini’s political ambitions and his trips to the Himalayas, he answers us all with such vivacious dilouges which will silence us from anymore guesswork. I almost forgot about the presence of Nayanthara and Mamta Mohandas. Nayantara comes with a lot barely-there costumes and captured in multiple angles. Mamta Mohandas comes as asst director making no shades. The movie aften shifts from the main story which losens the script.

The only plus for the movie is the 20 min long climax where Rajini gives a sentimental speech and meets his childwood friend.

Camera work is quite convincing for the movie done by Arvind Krishna, but its ofen distracted by the low class CG Works done by Orcher Studios headed by Aishwaya Rajnikanth. GV Prakash has done a moderate job. Art work done by Thottatharani needs little life.

The Day to cherish!

It was a pleasant starry summer night
He cried his way into this world
Though tired I stretched a bit to see his face
And smiled to hide my tears of joy.

Ten months of carrying and caring
Few hours of panting and paining
All seemed nothing as I felt great
Me too the mother of a small wonder

Days too short, nights so swift
But needed more time to sit and watch
The starry eyes, smile so cute and rosy cheeks
He was growing and glowing day by day

Days were restless and nights sleepless
Feel and feed him full, I was always alert
Feeling so rare, cannot feed back in words
Blissful! I say when he sucked me for life

I was speechless, when he started his speech
Senseless though, but sensuous were his words
Pants became shorts and tops tightened so quickly
Years galloped now see!! he is a young man

It was a pleasant starry summer night
I cannot wait, to hear the clock chumming twelve
I rushed to his room, and kissed him to wake
Happy birthday!! my boy, once again you made my day!!

by Santhi Krishnan

Is India yesterday’s news? Will China, Russia, Vietnam and Brazil become the future of information technology offshore outsourcing? - By Marc Hebert | Courtesy - News.com

Some are making that argument, and there is an argument to be made. After all, the cost advantage of doing business in India has come under pressure as salaries for qualified Indian IT professionals reach record heights. Average Indian salaries in the field rose 12 percent last year, and they are expected to rise by about 15 percent across the industry again this year.

And as Indian salaries climb, many speculate that this presents opportunities for other offshoring hot spots, such as China, Eastern Europe–and even upstarts like Vietnam and Brazil. Some even speculate that rising salaries in India will erode the cost advantage over U.S. IT workers, ultimately returning offshore jobs to American soil. But that’s only one side of the story. To paraphrase Mark Twain, the reported death of Indian outsourcing is greatly exaggerated.

The counterargument rests on two pillars: productivity and scale. Salaries may increase, but there are offsetting factors such as experience, infrastructure, high productivity levels and economies ofSome people even speculate that rising salaries in India will erode the cost advantage over U.S. IT workers, ultimately returning offshore jobs to American soil.
scale to consider. Let me put it another way: The cost of doing information technology in India is falling, as the range and complexity of projects that can be offshored to India is increasing.How can that be? If you subtract the salary advantage, what makes India different than China, Russia and the myriad other countries chomping at the bit for IT work?

One reason is that India has a multiyear experience advantage over other nations. First-generation IT offshore providers cut their teeth on mainframe legacy code maintenance–the gritty work that few IT professionals in the United States care to do anymore. Now Indian IT companies are hitting the sweet spot of the enterprise application package market, offloading many of the high-volume, routine tasks that chief information officers struggle to maintain with high-cost U.S. resources. Countries like China and Russia simply don’t have the experience to handle these tasks, and it will take years for them to come anywhere close.

Better backbone
Another reason is that India has vastly improved its IT infrastructure. A few years ago, large-scale projects required mirrored offshore hardware/software environments that were expensive to set up and a nightmare to keep in sync. That’s no longer the case–distributed system development is now the de facto standard in many IT shops. India’s IT infrastructure improvements enable Indian businesses to match salary increases with productivity improvements.

What’s more, India has achieved global leadership in adopting continuous quality improvements that guarantee mature business processes and ongoing productivity improvement. By creating real software factories, Indian companies leverage the power of doing it right the first time. The leading software quality methodology in the world today is the Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Model, or CMM. It is no accident that two-thirds of the world’s CMM Level 5 organizations are based in India. Other countries will get there, but it’s going to take time.

In addition, many India-based companies have discovered the leverage in India’s university system to achieve increased efficiency. While it’s unrealisticCountries like China and Russia simply don’t have the experience to handle these tasks, and it will take years for them to come anywhere close.
to expect “freshers” to be highly productive the day they receive their sheepskins, Indian businesses with strong training programs quickly supplement their new college graduates’ strong theoretical IT foundations with the practical skills needed on their projects. College graduate salaries start at less than $5,000 per year, which is about half the salary or less of a seasoned Indian software developer.Finally, India is rapidly creating huge economies of scale in IT offshoring, which further offset the inflationary pressures of salary increases. To counter wage increases, many offshore outsourcers are implementing large team sizes and long-term projects to help maintain utilization levels at above 75 percent. With larger teams comes the ability to include new college graduates in the mix, enabling them to train on the job.

While Indian IT salaries are undeniably on the rise, don’t think that this will derail the offshore-to-India IT locomotive. Offshore service providers continue to find ways to provide their customers with increased productivity and scale, thus ensuring that India will not easily cede its current dominant share of the global IT offshoring market. And with the Indian government’s focus on dramatically upping the supply of technical graduates over time, it ensures that India keeps moving up that steep productivity curve. That’s the power of productivity–and India has figured it out.

P.N. Oak, President of The Institute for Rewriting Indian History, has repeatedly asserted that the Taj Mahal was a Hindu temple of the god Shiva, usurped and remodeled by Shah Jahan. The temple’s name, he says, was originally “Tejo Mahalaya”; this was corrupted over time to “Taj Mahal”. Oak also claims that the tombs of Humayun, Akbar and Itmiad-u-Dallah — as well as the Vatican in Rome, the Kaaba in Mecca, Stonehenge and “all historic buildings” in India — were also Hindu temples or palaces.

The Taj is only a typical illustration of how all historic buildings and townships from Kashmir to Cape Comorin though of Hindu origin have been ascribed to this or that Muslim ruler or courtier.He further says that if Taj Mahal was not a Shiva temple, that it might then have been the palace of a Rajput king. In any case, the Taj Mahal was Hindu in origin, stolen by Shah Jahan and adapted as a tomb — although Oak also claims that Mumtaz is not buried there.

Oak further states that the numerous eyewitness accounts of Taj Mahal construction, and Shah Jahan’s construction orders and voluminous financial records, are elaborate frauds meant to hide its Hindu origin.His many provocative assertions have gained a lot of popular interest and made Oak a well-known media figure.He has sued to break open the cenotaphs, and to tear down brick walls in the lower plinth: In these “fake tombs” and “sealed apartments”, Oak says Shivalingams or other temple items were hidden by Shah Jahan.

According to Oak, the Indian government’s refusal to allow him unfettered access amounts to a conspiracy against Hinduism.Oak’s assertions are not accepted by legitimate scholars. But these stories are widely believed and publicized by some contemporary Hindutva activists.

In 2000 India’s Supreme Court dismissed Oak’s petition to declare that a Hindu king built the Taj Mahal and reprimanded him for bringing the action. In 2005 a similar petition was dismissed by the Allahabad High Court. This case was brought by Amar Nath Mishra, a social worker and preacher who claims that the Taj Mahal was built by the Hindu King Parmar Dev in 1196.

For detailed proof of this breath taking discovery, you may read the well known historian Shri. P. N. Oak’s celebrated book titled ” Tajmahal : The True Story”. But let us place before you, for the time being an exhaustive summary of the massive evidence ranging over hundred points: Tajmahal a hindu monument evidence.doc

Freemasonry is a fraternal organization whose membership is held together by shared moral and metaphysical ideals and in most of its branches by a constitutional declaration of belief in a Supreme Being.

The fraternity of Freemasonry uses the allegorical metaphors of operative stonemasons’ tools and implements, to convey what is most generally defined as: A peculiar system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. This is currently illustrated in the 1991 English Emulation Ritual.

It is an esoteric society only in that certain aspects are private;[4] Freemasons have stated that Freemasonry has, in the 21st century, become less a secret society and more of a “society with secrets.” The non-Freemason and historian professor Dr. Dieter Anton Binder of the university of Graz describes Freemasonry as a confidential society in contrast to a secret society in his book Die diskrete Gesellschaft. Most modern Freemasons regard the traditional concern over secrecy as a demonstration of their ability to keep a promise and a concern over the privacy of their own affairs. “Lodge meetings, like meetings of many other social and professional associations, are private occasions open only to members.” The private aspects of modern Freemasonry deal with the modes of recognition amongst members and elements within the ritual.

While there have been many disclosures and exposés dating as far back as the eighteenth century, Freemasons caution that they often lack the proper context for true understanding, may be outdated for various reasons, or could be outright hoaxes on the part of the author.In reality, Freemasons are proud of their true heritage and happy to share it, offering spokesmen, briefings for the media, and providing talks to interested groups upon reque.

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