tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180Sat, 12 Dec 2009 11:22:05 +0000http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (hemanth)Blogger71125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114435950998399792Thu, 06 Apr 2006 21:35:00 +00002006-04-06T14:54:04.046-07:00 [via]Latest addition to my wishlist. Live News in the Restroom! The rsstroom's got to be ranked as the next best thing to happen after RSS. Only problem is, it's rumored to be fake!http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/04/rsstroom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114349757530855266Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:03:00 +00002006-03-27T17:48:27.736-08:00And you thought Narayana Murthy was as far as you could go to cite a boss who sets an example for his employees on simple living. Try the 4th richest man on earth! Ingvar Kamprad, a.k.a the man who created IKEA.The Car that Ingavar drives, when he isn't taking the bus to work. A quick glance through this page shows that most of the other billionaires aren't in a hurry for an Auto update.The http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/03/frugal-swede.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114349582859951082Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:43:00 +00002006-03-27T13:50:03.506-08:00Take this no hassle survey for Shutterfly and get a 128 MB Memory Card, free. [via]http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/03/free-flashcards-from-shutterfly.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114349445563875260Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:12:00 +00002006-03-27T13:56:20.803-08:00A film about a Tamil Human Right's worker, who fought the LTTE, the IPKF and the Sri Lankan Government is making waves. The few lines on Rajani Thiranagama set me off Googling about the lady. When people assasinate Jaffna University's Head of the Anatomy Department, while she cycled her way back home, it fails to remain as a mere statistic. The more I read about her, the more humbled I am.When http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/03/no-more-tears-sister.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114323185672393003Fri, 24 Mar 2006 20:16:00 +00002006-03-24T17:13:55.446-08:00Rahman with his Orchestrator, Christopher Nightingale.Looks like A R Rahman's got another stinker on his hand. Sadly, the Lord of the Rings musical isn't really setting his stock on fire. Remember the kind of reviews Bombay Dreams received on its Broadway debut. With NY Times dismissing it right away, doubts about LOTR even making it to Broadway (based on reviews by the NYC-based media) have beenhttp://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/03/critics-rip-lotr-musical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114314640284325839Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:26:00 +00002006-03-23T12:40:02.843-08:00Without citing India or the majority of Mumbai's population that lives in slums or the shanties ringing the conference venue, Bo referred to "some developing countries" that cram their poor into "clusterings of shantytowns" where life is too bleak for freedom to mean anything. "Some people in those places cannot even have a shower for years on end. And these people - most of them have no access http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/03/boo-hoo-mr-bo_114314640284325839.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114313862668135512Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:21:00 +00002006-03-27T14:29:13.846-08:00Got to give it to Shyamalan. His ad (also viewable here) for American Express is outright intriguing, honest and charming. Here's why Shyamalan says he made the ad. While you're at it, here's an interesting excerpt from that conversation:I said to them before I signed on "you need to know right away there are certain levels of integrity that I have and that is going to make this difficult." The http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/03/shymalans-amex-pitch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114297778770868540Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:08:00 +00002006-03-24T17:08:20.646-08:00A sample from Cagle's take on Bush's largess to India.http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/03/bushs-n-deal-w-india.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114297805667246722Sat, 25 Feb 2006 12:34:00 +00002006-03-21T13:55:11.136-08:00A Textbook trouble's been brewing in California's backyard. Source of the problem, is the potrayal of Hinduism in Californian School textbooks. Parents, Academicians, Scholars and Educationists are in the middle of a super debate to define what Hinduism is. The debate assumes even higher singnificance 'cause according to NPR, Schools across the United States adopt California's Textbooks!MetroOnehttp://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/02/textbook-wars.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-113650565535378121Thu, 05 Jan 2006 23:59:00 +00002006-01-11T11:50:29.656-08:00AOR is a rare Telugu movie that'll make Hitchcock proud. Maybe am playing it up a bit, but Anukokunda's got class. Director Chandra Sekhar Yeleti's style reminds me of Ram Gopal Varma when he'd just made Shiva. Clearly, I missed the Aithe flares somewhere or else I would've found AOR much earlier.Told with all modesty, coming from AP, AOR tells a story from a young woman's perspective. Sahasra (http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2006/01/anukokunda-oka-roju.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-113541431519439721Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:44:00 +00002005-12-24T00:51:55.193-08:00Peter Jackson weaves his magic with KK, but when it's all over there's only a handful scenes that make the movie memorable. Take away the scenes between King Kong and Naomi Watts; and the film doesn't step up much. Not disappointed, but not too thrilled about it either.http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/12/king-kong_113541431519439721.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114297822904005420Thu, 08 Dec 2005 20:06:00 +00002006-03-21T13:57:09.040-08:00Anbu Mani, India's Minister for Health has a new report to back his law that'd ban smoking on Indian screens and it comes from University of California San Francisco.http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/12/smoking-and-mpaa.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-113339810238108758Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:48:00 +00002005-11-30T16:50:54.556-08:00Forget Madras' culture policing. Rajasthan's guidelines to tourist takes us back a few hundred centuries. Don't trust me? Take a peek:Men should never touch women in public, even to help a woman out of a car, unless the lady is very elderly or infirmIn Indian culture... men socialise with men, and women with women Married couples in Asia do not hug, hold hands or kiss in public. Even embracing athttp://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/11/shocker-from-rajasthan.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114297832737932820Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:33:00 +00002006-03-21T13:58:47.380-08:00Thanks to Amar Bose, you'll have a smoother ride over potholes. His suspension design would be a dream come true for Indian drivers, but like his speakers, the suspension system's going to the high-end car buyers. The add-on cost of the extra smooth ride for your Car - $5000.http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/11/bose-suspension.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114297837156986326Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:14:00 +00002006-03-21T13:59:31.570-08:00Time Magazine examines "How Indians came to view fair skin as an ideal--and a business opportunity"http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/11/indians-and-fair-skin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114297842054729692Sat, 26 Nov 2005 04:35:00 +00002006-03-21T14:00:20.546-08:00Albert Brooks' Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World; India and Pakistan, to be more precise. Rediff has a great introduction to the film.http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/11/looking-for-comedy-in-muslim-world.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-114297847323230967Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:52:00 +00002006-03-21T14:03:51.383-08:00With Hollywood Ending, Woody Allen let us into a filmmaking style, even while satirizing it (what if a Director turns blind and doesn't wish to stop shooting!); In Melinda & Melinda he takes us a little closer to his thought process while narrating a story. Two people discuss how a single incident ("A bunch of friends are having a jolly Dinner and a woman walks into them..." scenario) can be http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/11/melinda-and-melinda.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-112259594684257616Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:12:00 +00002005-07-28T17:13:03.386-07:00 "Hmm..., you wear a Turban, you must be Terror". That's the theme in America, going by the number of situations, where Sikhs have been caught in the cross-fire. I for one think this incident has to do with the Sikh Cabbies harassing the Cops in Manhattan. Musharaf's "No Al-Qaida Here: Movement 2" Symphony gets a few jarring notes. Just hold a moment! Human Rights "activists" speaking up from http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/07/sikhs-better-stay-in-canada-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-111099113673293812Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:37:00 +00002005-03-16T08:38:56.733-08:00Moved to MT (again). Pls be patient while you're being re-directed there...http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/03/moved.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-111068839542954853Mon, 14 Mar 2005 21:39:00 +00002005-03-14T15:16:06.580-08:00The song that opens with the titles for Raincoat has me in a bind. Rarely has a song given me the bumps like this one ("Mathura Nagarpathi Kaahe Tum Gokulu ...") Set to Debojyoti Mishra's music, rendered by the ever-impressive Shubha Mudgal, the song has an innate quality to set the mood for the impending narration. So apt is Rituparno Ghosh’s lyric, every time you play the song, the whole movie http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/03/mathura-nagarpathi-kahe-tum.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-111081711898527360Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:56:00 +00002005-03-14T12:27:59.830-08:00What? Pakistan never had an Arts school!How Much Is Your Stolen Music Worth?Ganga Dham, India's Mythological themed park.Muslim workers walk out at Dell plant in prayer dispute.Quentin wins Empire's Icon of the Decade Award."Passion of the Christ - Recut", coming to a theatre near you.http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/03/ganga-dham-passion-recut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-111057501817768221Fri, 11 Mar 2005 20:39:00 +00002005-03-13T20:54:25.743-08:00No, it’s not about Balaji. I know he's having the time of his life, but I know of someone else who's having a ball - ME. It's about that famous VKR liner. Reminds me, I actually saw that scene where Janagaraj goes "En Pondati Orrukku Poita..." (Agni Nakshathiram) being shot outside our school. Unfortunately, the name Mani Ratnam or P C Sreeram wouldn't have rung a bell to me (in the 80's) during http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/03/lakshmipathy-ensoi.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-111049124885682669Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:42:00 +00002005-03-14T15:38:00.310-08:00Here's the promised update: Finished ahead of two (out of eight) other racers, so can pat myself for it ;) The motor literally sucked after the third (of 11) race. Just couldn't get it to move fast enough, no matter how hard I abused the controller. If you're interested in Slot Cars or would like to explore, here're some resourceful links:Understanding Motors.Preparing to Race.Words of http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/03/after-race.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-111039258644488737Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:13:00 +00002005-03-13T20:57:26.893-08:00Warning: this post may contain shameless bragging, in dangerous proportions.Few weeks earlier, when we were at the Mall, our attention turned to a store that seemed to be abuzz with whining motors. We stepped in to check out what was going on behind the huge crowd that had gathered around the huge black table with black tracks on it. Days later, I would own my first Slot car and spend much of my http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/03/slot-car-league.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5293180.post-111031915307016029Tue, 08 Mar 2005 21:54:00 +00002005-03-08T14:29:39.976-08:00Indian Women abused most: UN Study. More.Either Women here speak up to surveys or UN's out to screw us again!Fat Women outnumber underfed: StudyIndia's an exception though.Bollywood defends its 'bare all' trendOfcourse they'd explain anything on earth.Sonia brings up Women's reservation, again.Good Luck this time Ma'am.Aspirin lets Women downWhile it helps Men save thier heart, it only favours http://instantkaapi.blogspot.com/2005/03/hey-its-womens-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (hemanth)0