Saturday, April 22, 2006

April 23 is World Book and Copyright Day


Have you ever opened a book, begun reading and then instantly disappeared into the pages? If you haven't then you have missed the best adventures in life. Every book has a story to tell. It could be historical, geographical, literary, poetry almost anything. The book will take you to places you have never been to and sometimes can never even dream to be in.

Reading a story set in history will take you back to an age you have not experienced. You can imagine the people of that time, their concerns, their achievements, the kind of houses they lived in, the kind of food they ate. In your mind's eye you visualize the life of people you have never seen. It is the same with any other kind of book. You are immediately transported into another world, and in doing so you experience the magic of the unknow.

It is to celebrate the joy of reading that UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) has set aside April 23 as World Book and Copyright Day. So how did they fix the date? April 23 happens to be the day (in 1616) when three great writers Miguel de Cervantes, William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilasco de la Vega died. It is also the date of birth and death of the other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, Halldor K. Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo. So, on April 23 UNESCO encourages people the world over to appreciate the power of the written word and also remember those who have made exceptional contributions to Literature. April 23 is also World Copyright Day. According to there website: UNESCO's commitment to copyright dates from as far back as 1952, when the Universal Copyright Convention was adopted.

The advance in technology has many benefits but there is also a downside to it. For example while people queued up outside bookstores to collect their first copy of the highly priced Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, the piracy market was already at work and very soon cheaper books were sold on pavements and even on the roads at traffic lights! It is to prevent this kind of thing that UNESCO finds the need for awareness campaigns to raise the level of protection and also to act as a deterrent to piracy. Every time you buy a book that has been printed in violation of the Copyright Act you are aiding in piracy and violating the Copyright policy. So on April 23 let us all make a promise to read and also support the need for copyright to be protected.

Friday, April 21, 2006

Again Aravind


After seeing my photo in the blog, my brother Ashwin get angry. So to peace him we posted his photos here.

Some more kadi (bite)

Q. What medicine you will give to an ill ant?
Ans: Antibiotics

Q. What do you call a fish with no eye?
Ans: Fsh

Q. What do you do if your dog eats your pen?
Ans: Use a pencil

Q. Why we are getting cold?
Ans: Because we have two eyes above our nose

Q. Who is the only person to register 100 votes in Election?
Ans: Super star Rajini Kanth, because if he put one vote is it equal to 100 votes (ivar oru thadavai potta 100 thadavai potta mathiri).

Q. Which is the non-living thing, which has legs.
Ans: chair
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Yesterday I gone to beach,
With my brothers and sister
We played run and catching with them in the beach sand,
Catch some crabs and put it inside by brother shirt,
They dig the sand and buried my legs; I come out from that without any help
It was very funny evening; we enjoyed it, by eating popcorn, sundal and tease each other and put jolly fight.
My
brother (Jeevan) house was inversed by our looty.

Thursday, April 20, 2006

Aravind’s kadi (bite)


Hi guys, I am Aravind (Jeevan’s cousin brother), I have written some jokes in my brother’s blog. I have come to his house for my summer Vacation. Hope u all will enjoy it.

Q. We all know that Columbus discovered America, what he did, after putting his first leg on the America?

Ans: He put his second leg.

Q. Already two world wars has end, if another world war held what will happen?

Ans: One lesson will include in History.

Q. A teacher asked a student where is kanyakumari? The student blink and said, I don’t know, for that teacher ask the student to stand on the table?. What did that student replayed?

Ans: If I stand on the table can I see the kanyakumari sir?

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

Jeevan’s Election proclamation 3

Proclamation part 1 & part 2

Will encourage and help people to start, a self-business.

There are lots of unemployed people in Tamil Nadu. Even some good educated are not getting job now days. Only the high ranked young stress getting job. The big companies in fields like software industry, car industry, banks ect… are selection their employees by conduction campus interviews in the universities. The student who have not selected in the interviews or the low ranked students should start to search job after the course. Even some register in employment office and simple wasting there times, till they get invitation form the company. So we will encourage these peoples and help them by banks to get loan and start an own business. Already the government is giving advice and ideas for the people who are interested to do self-business. No job will be disgrace, if we do it with out cheating others. (This will also fit for women’s).

Facilities for disable people in Public places.


Every party are announcing the election proclamation for people, did any think about the facilities for disables. Are the disable person’s satisfied with the facilities in public places in Tamil Nadu. In the metros like chennai or corporations cities in Tamil Nadu have any facilities for disable, to go like normal persons, at least they have any ramps for Wheel Chare users? I think only few. Can the disable, (who use Wheel Chare or very hard to move) go to parks, theaters, shopping’s, traveling in public transports exhibition ect…. I haven’t seen any facilities for the disabler’s in these places. If we see in foreign countries like Singapore, US and European countries, they have built many facilities for disable in public places. There was also an outstanding case in Madras High Court to build some facilities in Public Buses. So we will build ramps and some special things in every place and in public transports.

Changing seawater into drinking water for domestic use.


If we tell chennai, the water problem will be the first one to struck every one’s mind. The current government has introduced many plans to solve the problem, but even thou some suffers without water. So we should compulsorily built a plant to change the sea water into drinking water, every politician’s are talking about the this plan, but no one has taken steps. Now days in chennai, many lands have been changed as multi storage flats and the flats used to suck the land water how much they can suck. So if we leave this situation to continue, we can see a worst drought. Many seaside areas’s land water are changed as salt. We should save the land water, for this the seawater transplant as drinking water is the best one. Hope we will do this project.

Will urge central government to build tsunami-warning system in Chennai.


In India, Tamil nadu is the worst affected state by Tsunami, so we need a tsunami-warning system soon. After the tsunami, the sea sore people are living in a fear; and we realize a big change in sea. Some times the waves are very rage opposite to convention. The central government should build a tsunami system in chennai.


Regulate the government hospitals and introduce new treatments.


The government hospitals in Tamil nadu are giving free and low cost treatment for people. But the people have to wait for long time to buy the tokens for treatment. In some hospitals there is no proper facilities for people and we should wait for long time to see doctors. The government hospitals are not clear, if a hospital was not clear, it will help the diseases to spread quickly. The government hospitals have needed equipments, but they are not using the instrument properly. Some times there was also bed and medicine scarcity, so that time we have to lay in floor and we should buy medicines from private medical shops. Another saddest thing is the workers and even some doctors and nurses in the government hospitals, compel the patents to pay money for each and every thing, like taking X-ray, scan, blood test and even to provide beds. So we will regulate these and give people a best treatment without stress. The poor also afraid to go to government hospitals because of poor treatment, so they chose private. So we will introduce latest treatments, which are given in private hospitals.


Will ban the Jalikattu (Catching bulls) and some crucial Temple festivals.


On festival times, some villages and towns in south Tamil Nadu conduct Jallikattu (catching Bulls). In this festival, many people have been injured seriously and some die, every year. This festival is a cruelty against Animals. Recently the Madurai High Court ruled some decisions how to conduct this festival, but why do we need to conduct this festival by giving stress to animals and hurt people, so we will ban this festival.
We are also thinking, to stop the crucial temple festivals, like breaking coconut on the head’s of devotees and hide the Children’s inside the sand and take them out.

Form an organization to develop our culture and traditional Dance, music and instruments.

Now a days the western culture hand has raised in Tamil nadu, I dint tell the western culture is bad, but at the same time we should also concentrate on out Tamil culture. Now days many people are like to learn western dance like hip-hop, jazz, cha cah, salsa ect…. the rate of learning Tamilans Barathanatiyam is coming low. The village dances like poikalguthurai, garakatam, thappadam, are very rare to see now, even in village festivals they are using light music’s, so we should protect these dance, it’s our tradition. We should encourage the people to learning the rural music, if we dint protect them, soon they will destroy. We will give free couching for the students, who are interested to learn the rural music and dance. Will give grace for wise musicians. The instruments like Tabla, Pakhawaj, mridangam, gottuvadhyam, Ghatam, Nadaswaram, Tavil, Veena, Tanpura ect… are becoming a exhibition objects. The people who make these instruments are facing hard situation, if we dint learn our traditional instruments, the people who depend on this will face many problems in there lives.

Thanks for Reading

proclamation continues......

Monday, April 17, 2006

Surprise joy in Chennai

Cloudiness have covered my place,
Rain starts to droping like a honey (water)
Earth smell was amazing,
The cool wind blow through the windows
Trees and plants started to dance
Birds giving sound and flying fast
Mild thunder blasts in the clouds
Surprise rain, is always fun.

Enjoying:)