A filmmaker's quest to resolve an internal dilemma surrounding the split-up of chores around the house, through conversations with his mother.
Here's a small attempt by me, do watch.
Who gave Malluwood the right to destroy our hindu culture ???
There is blockbuster movie called HRIDAYAM in Malayalam directed by Vineeth Srinivasan and produced by Subramaniam
It stars son of Mohanlal and daughter of director priyadarshan
So far so good
They use a telugu
This is a normal scene from the general coach of Indian Railway. People are crammed and stacked up like logs, surrendering the basic dignity of a citizen.
Rather than celebrating mega projects which could only be consumed or subscribed by a very few from the high income section of the society, a responsible State should invest in developing basic infrastructure which could ensure minimum dignity to the common people.
In which other state would you find the legislative assembly organizing a book festival, and a free access to the assembly hall, the place where their elected representatives make laws and policies for them.
"India’s academic freedom index is in the bottom 30% among 179 countries... On a scale of 0 (low) to 1 (high), India scored 0.38... What’s ironic is that this score is lower than India’s bête noire Pakistan’s 0.43."
Today's the birth anniversary of EMS. Coincidentally, I found these photos of my mother with EMS in an old album today. These pictures are from 1989, when she was the Kerala University union chairperson.
'Rethinking Capitalist Development' by Kalyan Sanyal is a must read for anybody who wants to get a grasp of the politcal economy of development in the postcolonial context. Happily Recommending.
Never seen a Malayalam movie which intentionally broke almost all textbook rules of filmmaking vis-a-vis rule of third, rule of 180, left and right axis rule etc.
(Purusha Pretham - 2023)
In an ideal world Dr Snehashish Bhattacharya would have been teaching his students Development Economics. Alas, he was arbitrarily suspended for expressing solidarity with the protesting students.
Photograph from the talk organised by
@dsg_sau
at CISLS, JNU
@boneIessbiryani
AC coaches are neatly maintained while non ac and general coaches, where the poor travel are completely neglected. In a low income country like ours the poor cannot even expect the bare minimum.
Legislative assembly and books are a lethal combination which has the power to act as a catalyst for the advancement and progression of a society. This is the Kerala Model.
Happy to share this article about my alma mater College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram. Do read and let me know your opinions.
Thanks
@litemeter
for your thoughtful corrections and editing.
Dear
@AshwiniVaishnaw
,
We don't need more Vande Bharats but more passenger trains (now called special) and more general coaches in long distance trains—this is where the vast majority of the toiling masses travel.
📍06451 Ernakulam-Kayamlulam special before departure.
Aijaz Ahmed has written "that every country gets the fascism that it deserves", and Rajesh Varma has done genuine care to draw a rough picture of what that will look like in India's case through his novel 'Chuvanna Badge' which is an in-depth study of characteristics of fascism.
But what's the condition of CET now? NIRF rank between 150-200 (76 in 2018) Poor in terms academic seminars/conferences, research papers, projects etc. Inadequate infrastructure, old workshops and labs, limited hostel capacity.
We need some immediate state intervention here.
Worth applauding:
@ISRO
chief Dr Somanath is a product of the TKM College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala and many of his colleagues graduated from the College of Engineering, Thiruvananthapuram (CET). At least seven more engineers from CET were involved in the
"The great thing about Messi is that he doesn't really believe he's Messi" wrote Eduardo Galeano. "And long may it stay that way because that allows him to play with all the joy of a kid just playing in the street."
#GOAT
𓃵
Fans slept in the railway station after the match.
Craze is insane.
#KBFC
#KeralaBlasters
Location: Ernakulam Junction railway station.
Date & Time : 2 October,Monday 5:30 AM
For a better context: They were raising slogans like "Bharat Mata ki raksha hum karenge" and later started dancing to ultra sexist songs of Pawan Singh.
In the light of the horrific
#rgkarincident
some boys of my university choose to celebrate ‘Independence Day’ with dancing to the tunes of absolutely sexist, vulgar, crass songs such derogatory on the face for women. When questioned, these are the responses.
Paul Schrader on the influence of Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket" (1959) in his works:
“The movie that was most important to me was 'Pickpocket', because when I saw that in 1969 it made me realise that there was a connection between a religious upbringing and my profane presence
"The fact is that the Mahatma hasn’t aged well. He detested democracy, defended the caste system, and had a deeply disturbing relationship with sex."
Read this brilliant piece by
@pratinavanil
Poverty reduction requires wealth creation which is rarely possibly without an increase in inequality between those who create wealth and the rest. While some love to sound an alarm over such inequality, people at large rarely resent wealth creators.
Today is
#ReadingdayinKerala
. It is celebrated on the birth anniversary of the late P.N. Panicker, legendary bibliophile and founder of Library Movement. Thanks to him and thousands of Library Movement volunteers, no village in Kerala is now without a library.
Only a Small proportion of the population could afford to travel in these well maintained, while the rest thrives on miserable sleeper/general coaches. Are these coaches being neglected as only the underprivileged travel on them and not the rich?
“As I was part of the strike in 2015, the student protests became very important for me in order to protect public institutes... designed to give everyone equal opportunity; A Night of Knowing Nothing was a homage to these spaces.”
The best thing about IFFK is the amount of planning with which you attend it - from looking at the selection of movies, choosing which to watch, marking them on the schedule list, keeping in mind what you wish to watch as well as the distance between theatres and the timings;
Exciting news!
#JSTOR
is now free in 1,000 correctional facilities worldwide, benefiting over 500,000 incarcerated individuals, demonstrating JSTOR's commitment to inclusive
#education
.
Learn more about the
#JSTORAccessInPrison
program:
In contrast to his last couple of outings where the conflict revolves around people as a result of the changes in material conditions, here in Nanpakal, LJP weaves a fable like drama where the conflict takes place in the protagonist's mind.
We had a lovely time discussing the Indian reception to Piero Sraffa last week at HCU. Especially delighted that Christian Gehrke was in our midst.
Participants came from Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Graz, Hyderabad, Kalyani, Leeds, Mumbai, Vizag.
@kr_ashwath
@ysi_commons
Finally finished reading 'The Logic of Capital' by Deepankar Basu. Basu attempts to decode Karl Marx's magnum Opus 'Das Kapital' without losing its essence and structure, concentrating more on the "quantitative" than the "qualitative" aspects.
"If higher wages were all that is necessary, Marx would have been no more than a wordy and over-philosophical union activist. The problems, however, are much bigger: the wage relation and capitalist social relations themselves.