Bollywood & its new affair with health disorders ;)

Yesterday, I was watching newly released movie, "Paa", starring Bachan's dual of Father & Son, Vidya Balan.

Movie was really nice and it adds new perspective to these rare disorders which never gets known or noticed by ordinary people.

In this film a child "Auro" was suffering from "Progeria - A rare abnormality marked by premature aging (grey hair and wrinkled skin and stooped posture) in a child". The role was played very well by Mr. Amitabh Bachan.

There has been couple of movies released on the same lines of health disorders recently.

It all started with "dyslexia - Impaired ability to learn to read" in Taare Zameen Paar played by Ishaan.

"Black" had Rani Mukherjee starring as blind girl who struggles hard to study and get a degree taking help from his teacher played by Amitabh.

In all three, "Taare Zameen Paar", "Black" and "Paa" one very important aspect of life was also touched called Parenting. Generally we fail to miss this part which is of utmost importance because of our attraction towards the stars starring rather than the design and script around it. I just hope that parenting aspect is shown in more better way so that it catches the general public's attention and add value to the society...

Then there were few other movie which had packaged the disorder with bollywood masala like love, dance, fights, comedy, etc. Like "Ghajini" starring Aamir Khan playing role of Sanjay Singhania suffering from amnesia with short term memory loss. Ghajini is more remembered in a funny way of short term memory loss and good fights rather than any other aspect :(.

Hope the change and momentum in the direction of "Paa" continues......

Google Vs Apple

Whenever one hear the name of Google or Apple one think of Google search engine or Apple's

Mac OS, iPod, iPhone, respectively. But it seems Google has agressive plans to intrude into the Apple's core business. Apple will not be sitting silently for sure after observing the aggressive plans of one of its allies. In last 12 months, google had a $10 billion of profit on a revenue of $20 billion,

whereas Apple had a $8 billion of gross profit on a revenue of $30 billion. Both are technology giants and will definately grow bigger. But google is supposed to grow more faster once its investment starts yielding results. What is Apple going to about it? Will the business allies turn into fierce competitors ?

Google's recent foray into new domain like mobile framework and operating system it seems the technology giant wants a bigger pie of the technology market.

The recent demonstration of Android OS speculates a war of technology powerhouses. Microsoft is not even a major player in this battle. After Vista, many of my friends say it Visaster (read disaster), even though it might believe in itself being one

of them. Google started with a google chrome browser, and many speculated the os to be the next step, which is true. Microsoft is no doubt the leader in the os market now, but after vista will it be able to come up with something which can beat the chrome, + Microsoft's reputation with all those bugs and crashes. So if you ask me, its a battle between Apple and Google. Microsoft is soon going to be a history in the OS market.

Android Mobile venture as Open Mobile Alliance, which has a strong backing up from Motorola and couple of other OEM seems be platform in which google will launch itself with a big bang. Android OS is leaped a

great deal ahead with Motorola nearly dumping all its old platforms and putting all its eggs on Android. Its more like demise of Windows Mobile & palm OS. Android phones will be competing with Apple's iPhone, and definately a google app store is expected to come soon to take on Apple iphone app store.

So it seems like in Desktop OS + Mobile OS google is definately expected to beat Microsoft's Windows XP + Vista & Windows Mobile. So its more like Google chrome OS v$ Apple's Mac Os and Google's Mobile Android OS v$ Apple's iPhone. With Google chief resigning as Apple director, battle is about to heat up more.

When will strikes stop in my Kolkata (Calcutta) !!!

For some or the other reason, West Bengal have been in news for quite some time, be it Singur or Lok Sabha elections, or Mamta Banerjee's Rail Budget or Maoist threat in Lalgarh. There was strike few days back called by congress and its back again by some unions today.

Lot of people outside of kolkata anticipate that most strikes are because of communists in W.B. But, it seems now the trend has changed and strikes are called by someone else, sometimes congress, sometimes Trinamol congress or some other union. The baseline is whether communists are there or not, strikes have become a part-and-parcel of us in kolkata. So lets not blame CPI(M) alone for the strikes.

I just hope that the peace returns in West Bengal soon.

Sri Lanka : War is Won - What about Peace ???

Sri Lankan Government may have won the war against LTTE, but what about winning the hearts of the Tamils? For me its just a territorial gain and nothing more than that. The estimated amount of the people displaced is more than 250,000. I just hope that Rajpakse govt. will try to give some more powers to the tamil population there and treat them equally, and not as a 2nd class citizen. I have been reading many blogs written by various tamils from Sri Lanka staying outside. And everyone says about one thing with one voice, whether he is a hardline Sri Lankan Tamil or moderate one, "discrimination against Sri Lankan Tamils". The LTTE came about as a result of the oppression of Tamils by the Sri Lankan government. One never knows what will happen next. Its the best time for Sri Lankan government to give all the Tamilians the rightful place in their own country.

Not sure how they managed to kill Prabhakaran . But there seems to be many versions floating in here and there. Sri Lanka has to come out of its etnic loyalty culture ever since they gained independence from British. I feel sad at the death of Prabhakaran (Even though I don't agree with his methods). Noone can deny that he had a goal and he was working to achieve it with all resources he had. But really what makes Sri Lankan govt celebrate more is that LTTE was more of a one Man Ruled private limited company with no norms of liberation organisation. And with all the top leaders of LTTE dead, none knows what lies ahead of the Tamilians in Sri Lanka.

I pray to lord Shiva that he bless all the souls innocent or warring one peace at the Resting Place.