I learnt a new proverb today. chacchinODi kaLLu chAreDu. (The dead fellow had large eyes.) This will become the second proverb that I will recall from now on whenever a public figure dies. The first one is pOyinOLLu andaru machOLLu. (The dead are all good.) In school, our Telugu non-detail textbooks often had six long [...]
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The New News Presenters
A decade ago the media in India was yet to realize its true potential. Those with a pleasant face and a good voice and diction were hired as newsreaders. All they had to do was to deliver the news with clarity and impassiveness. Some are remembered because they distinguished themselves with their voice, which is [...]
My Last Words For Now
I can’t immediately recollect the last time I wrote something in such a hurry. The current reaction time is nineteen milliseconds less than the last time I had been pinged by a girl on Gtalk. You must understand this desperation to say my last words and more importantly forgive me for its un-intelligibility if I [...]
Death of a Language
Every language has a life. Like yours and mine, but only enormously more significant. It has a present, a past and a future that transcends all the lives of its speakers. It forgets some words and traits, and develops new ones. Making their lives even more dynamic, languages influence each other every day. The importance [...]
Film Censorship
The CBFC doesn’t seem to have caught up with the Indian lifestyle, at least in terms of ratings. The board still gives the useless ‘U’, ‘UA’ and ‘A’ ratings. Why are they useless? To my understanding, CBFC’s mission is to categorize movies based on what categories of the Indian society each movie is suitable for. [...]