H1N1 and India

H1N1 or swine flu is spreading around the world in am alarming manner.This virus is something that seen in pigs and now its spreading to human beings also..but in an alarming dangerous manner.The wikipedia tells that "In the 2009 flu pandemic, the virus isolated from patients in the United States was found to be made up of genetic elements from four different flu viruses – North American Mexican influenza, North American avian influenza, human influenza, and swine influenza virus typically found in Asia and Europe – "an unusually mongrelised mix of genetic sequences." This new strain appears to be a result of re assortment of human influenza and swine influenza viruses, in all four different strains of subtype H1N1.


Preliminary genetic characterization found that the hemagglutinin (HA) gene was similar to that of swine flu viruses present in U.S. pigs since 1999, but the neuraminidase (NA) and matrix protein (M) genes resembled versions present in European swine flu isolates. The six genes from American swine flu are themselves mixtures of swine flu, bird flu, and human flu viruses.While viruses with this genetic makeup had not previously been found to be circulating in humans or pigs, there is no formal national surveillance system to determine what viruses are circulating in pigs in the U.S.
On June 11, 2009, the WHO declared an H1N1 pandemic, moving the alert level to phase 6, marking the first global pandemic since the 1968 Hong Kong flu.

Ok..I know most of us knows something bout these virus and steps to prevent them.eh???
My post here is to make some statements on how India reacted to this disaster?The Ministry of Health tried to reduce the fear of this disease at first.But later,soon after the first death announced in Pune due to H1N1,the people started fearing the disease.Even common fever or cold started to be considered as H1N1 and sometimes it resulted in death of some people as these fevers lead to pneumonia and all other diseases.A normal healthy man can be saved from the disease ,if he maintains the prescribed by the doctors against H1N1.

Normally,the causalities are children and old aged people as they lacks self defense mechanism against diseases.Many causalities are announced in the major It hubs of India like Mumbai,Pune,Bengalluru,Chennai etc.The climatic conditions and all leads to the increase of the number of patients.Also,there is chance of spreading of diseases as loads of people lives in these places.And as there are International Airports there,there is chance of spreading of viruses from foreigners.Now its our payback time.We should also start checking the foreigners like they are checking the people from Asian countries,suspecting them as terrorists
:)
Hey,this disease is also powerful than normal bombings and other stuffs of terrorists.As bombings affects a particular place,this disease spreads in no time to all over.So the officials should be aware and cautious enough to stop spreading this disease.

A magic from a minnow

I was about to write a post on another topic and then i changed my mind and started writing about a wonder that occurred today.An unknown player from Zimbabwe equalled Saeed Anwar's world record of 194 runs v/s India in ODI's.The most important thing is that he got to the top of the highest individual scores in ODI's as he was not out i this match.Though Zimbabwe lost the match to Bangladesh who chased the target with the help of Tameem's  154,this score will be there in the record books for a long time.

The most important thing is that this score came from a team that lost its test status due to it's poor performance in International cricket due to racism and all.Zimbabwe in the last decade was blessed with players like Alistair Campbell,Flower brothers,Johnson (He was a sensation at that time as he opened batting and bowling ),Goodwin etc.But cricket came in between the civil activities that took place there and that country was affected in a miserable way.

Zimbabwe was dark horse in many international cricket tournaments before and they made the exit of Indian team easily in 99 world cup and even defeated Australia in the inaugural T20 world cup.They had victories against many International teams in the last decade.But cricket didn't develop much there.

Charles Coventry is the name of the player who surpassed Anwar as the highest individual scorer in a single ODI match.Before this match,he played 14 matches and scored 301 at an average of 21.5.But look at his statics in batting after this match.Now his total runs is 495 with an average of 38.Even though he is not a great player like Sachin,Jayasurya,Kirsten and all who topped the list,he would remember this match for his life long.Bangladesh is now a better side now under the captaincies of Shakeeb and Mortaza.So none can consider this score of 194* as useless.Coventry,you are now in record books.Coventry,26 is the wicket keeper of Zimbabwe.Though record books don't tell the class of a player (eg.Sunil Gavaskar,as he scored just a century in ODI's)its a boost for Zimbabwe cricket team.They have players having some class now.Minnows like them have to do just better to make cricket really exciting.Otherwise,matches against them by the super teams will become bore and will become a place for the testing of the bench of top teams.

Anyway,as a mad fan of cricket,i really congrats Charles Coventry in sensational score.I was waiting for him to score 200.But he didn't get much strike to reach the score.Congrats Coventry

;)

SRK detained in US Airport- A Matter of controversy???

 Well,yesterday our medias are of flooded up the with the incident that happened to SRK in US.The high Indian officials tried to save him out of the problem.SRK later told e he had been held for two hours at Newark Liberty International Airport after his name appeared on a security alert.He also added that it was doe to his name "KHAN" that made him to be detained.Then the medias got a lottery and started celebrating the incident with expert opinions in their "news hours" and all.So this incident became much controversy in India.

  Some days ago,our former president Dr.APJ was also under such  a problem.Likewise,the Malyalam megastar Mammootty also faced the same situation in U S due to his name of a Muslim.The medias and government high officials started making comments on these incidents as unlucky and all.

Well.its one side of the incident.SRK told that he was detained due to his name "Khan".Hey,you are a superstar in Indian hearts only.Not for the US citizens,though some where there.It is the regular security check in that country.Every country is not like India.They are having strict measures against terrorism and they are following those measures.Most probably,every one is equal before the law outside India.This is not India to give you excuses as that happening in here.The incident on Dr.APJ was really bad,though the officers did their duty.It was an embarrassing incident for us Indians only.India is a country which is not ready to give the prescribed punishment for the one's who attacked the Parliament.Afsal Guru and party are still enjoying the loop holes of Indian law and India is continuously failing to give sufficient punishments to the culprits.

Terrorism is an evil in all the major countries all over the world.But the sad thing is that it is often connected by people of a particular religion.But,the jihad and all by the terrorist groups made the officials of major countries to consider them suspects of terrorism.What is there to be checked when our hands are pure?As a global citizen ,all the VIP's should be ready to face such inspections.But they have to be treated well during these times.Many passengers are checked likewise in many countries and it's a routine procedure .But the media catches them all when it happens to celebrities.

Hey don't the common man have such sentiments for being checked like a terrorist.It's the duty of a country from which a person is coming to check his details.When such things fails,the officials in other countries have to go with these actions.So our medias should be some more matured in highlighting these things.Otherwise,these silly things will  make common man confused about these type of security checking..

Gossip:-read in some site that this is a gimmick of SRK as his next movie "My name is Khan" is based on such problems as the Muslims gets suspected to be terrorists.Only God knows!!!!

:)

Yet another Independence day!!!!Thoughts?????

     My dear Indians,we are again going to celebrate the birthday of our country.Though having a great heritage and cultural practices over the periods,our country got freedom from British on a night in August 15.We are celebrating this occasion with much importance...even in government offices.Huge parades of the sections of Army with a special guest from another country makes it a real colourful one.It's time which makes the citizens of India proud to be born in such a country having great heritage and customs and cultures which acted as a standard to the people in other countries.The largest democratic country,a country of auspicious scenic beauty,a country which was the birth place of many greats who contributed to world by their great inborn skills.We have everything..from the word go.....

   We have the IIT's giving birth to the great engineers in the world,great institutions that makes the tomorrow's frontiers and all.But have you ever felt that you lacks something??

Yes,we do.....

Even though we have such huge buildings in our metroes such as Mumbai,Delhi,Bangalore etc..we still have our countrymen in poverty.The slums of Mumbai and some other metroes gives a vivid account of all these.The caste and religious reservations,the hell of things creates inequality in our country.These reservations were made for the poorer sections of our country during its birth time.It was right at that time,as our country was infected seriously due to the caste systems that were here..So those reservations are made for the emerging of the lower sections of people.

As a result,many people got the fruit of it and as a result,the caste system which parted the lower castes from upper castes came to an end...though not fully,but to an extend.But as a result most of the upper caste people lost their properties and there happened to have loss of job among them due to these reservations to make matters worse.Most of the huge bungalows of the feudal became cattle sheds..In many  states communist parties fought against the feudal lords which resulted in many killings.There was a transformation of the communists called as Naxals and they were more aggressive in nature.Years passed,the inequalities were reduced,though not fully.

   This is were the real problem originates.Many people who were considered as SC/ST's got the fruits of the reservations and they all became a strong part of the society.Later those gospel stuffs came and most of them worked well for the uplift of people from low classes and even started schools and hospitals in remote villages.But at some point of time,they lose their way and started converting people from Muslims,Hindus,Christians and all.So the people in these religions which enjoyed the luxuries of reservation got rich and got higher education and all from the best of Universities and became rich.At the same time,they enjoyed the benefits of reservation.I am not criticising about the conversion of people.But what I am going to tell is that,in the present scenario,there is no need of caste/religious reservations as they don't have anything to do with the society.Even the communists,who revolted for the uplift of lower classes lost their way and now they are like some organisations with high capital and the comrades are all now rich.

So,it's better ,if wants to give reservations,give it on the basis of income one family has ,then for the disabled,keeping along with the reservations the family of a military staff enjoys.There are no lower-upper class discrimination in our country right now.There is only rich-poor classification that exists.There are Brahmins and other general classes in the poor class and those with reservations in the richer class.So the policy of reservations in government institutions and for government jobs should be taken out.And those stuffs should be given according to sheer merit only.Otherwise,the rich will be richer and the poor will be poorer than ever.

   The next thing is with terrorism.Terrorism is spreading like an incurable cancer in the soil of India.Hey brother,we are all Indians.Then why should we work for our enemies and betraying our country.As every guilty person has to say,they also might tell that the circumstances like no job ,poor family conditions etc motivated them to be a terrorist.Hey,do you ever think that your conditions will change going into such illegal activities??NO.One might get some money for doing such illegal activities.But what if caught??Will your sister get a good proposal?Will your students get a good education?Will your parents have status in front of the society?No.Everyone will consider such a person as "Gaddar".Will you ever get peace of mind and will you be able to escape from your inner self?No.So  my brother,please don't betray our country.

 Another thing is the source for illegal money transactions taking place in India.Many people tends to hide out their money without paying taxes and most often,they are used as a capital in illegal activities.bribery is also carving out our nation.No government office is free of bribery.

Oh! God..It's so hard to live in our country with all these problems.But we still love our country (even though many of us goes to other countries to earn).Yes the system in India is all out-dated.The government and political parties should be professional and should work for the uplift of our country.But at first,the citizens should do their duties rather than to enjoy rights as we studied in some lower classes in civics and all.Then our country will one day become a place in which men from other countries come to earn a living.

SO JAI HIND...AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY  INDIA!!!!

Puthiya Mugham-A new trend setter???

 Last Sunday...I happened to go to Trivandrum to meet my friends over there.I reached there by 11 am and one of my friend Chops went for the movie 'Puthiya Mugham".Though I wasn't in a mood to watch a Prithvi movie,I went along with Chingu,another friend for the movie Puthiya Mugham.Personally,I don't like the movies of Prithvi as one feels that he is not having talents of a born-actor.Also,one comes to a conclusion that he is trying to imitate the Big M's in most of his movies.

   The introduction song was over when we went in.The theatre was crowded and we had to be in the first class and had occupied one of the front row seats.Chingu saw the film before.As he is mad about the movies,this is not a special thing for him,watching movies a dozen times.But I am always reluctant to watch a Malayalam movie in theatres,except some like..@ Harihar Nagar and all due to their publicity and expectations.Moreover our Mallu hit movies most often paints the same colour.A tharavadu,a small pond,gang of friends of Hero who all looks like pigs,twisting moustaches and walking in slow motion after defeating the so called villains and punch dialogues.These things always acts as a flavour for the fans of the big M's.So most of the people are irritated with the movies of same wave length.

 Ok..let's back to our point.Puhiya Mugham can be called as Mallu movie taken using gimmicks of Tamil movies.Though many scenes resembles of previous hits in Tamil like Ghajini,Run,Anniyan and all,it was a movie for youngsters.One may or may not like the film.All according to one's mind set.There were lots of claps for the film..during Prithvi's entry,Bala's scenes and even during fights,Though the film appeared to be logic less(scenes like beating the policemen in Police station ) and all.So it can't be considered as a valuable piece of art or so.

   But it showed the other directors that the youngsters in Kerala are not aged much just to watch the so called family movies and some comedy craps of Dileep and Jayaram.Actor's like Prithvi should now stick up to the roles that suits his age,rather than become the father of a 3 year old girl(Vellinakshatram) or so.He is an actor in his mid 20's and he have some roles that he could do himself.The action scenes were really good and the stunt men in that deserves real appreciation along aith the stunt master.

 The music by Deepak Dev was mind blowing ,especially with the song "Picha Vacha Naal" and also the song by Prithvi himself "Kaane Kaane"..it also showed the real spirit of this movie.Then the new director Diphan who was an associate ti Shaji Kailas showed that he is having talent within him.The dance scenes were average..anyway much better than that in the movies of Big M's and all.The story line is  that a guy from an Ayengar family in Palakad comes to an engineering college in Ernakulam and the challenges he faced there and the conversion of Prithvi into an action hero.The first half was ok.But if you are a fan of action movies (not Hollywood) you will like the action scenes as Prithvi excelled in that,Also that his physique is excellent to do such movies.

   In all,after getting out of the theatre,I am happy to see a film for youngsters in Malayalam.This movie don't have any class or a sharp story line.But this film is worth watching if you are ready to tale out your brains onto your hands for two and a half hours.I heard that Prithvi now have Superstar status.Though some of his movies in which he played the central character were hits,but their credits were all gone to others.Considering this,this is the first Superhit/hit of Prithvi which goes into his credit.He cannot be called as a superstar with this movie.Because,he lacks flexibility in acting such as doing senti scenes and humor.Rather than that he is having some good features of a good artist.So it's only time to call him a 'Next generation superstar" and not a superstar positions which the Big M's holds...

  I rate the movie as 6/10

Direction and other ingredients 6.5/10 and for Prithvi for hhis screen presence as 7/10.....

verdict:-This movie is only for the one's who don't consider the stuffs in the movie as real life.If you are going to spend some time in a theatre,watch this movie and please don't hawl at the heroes.They are having gutts to be in front of camera,while most of us lacks it.