Graduation, Poem, Reservations and Narayana Murthy

Well, well. Its high time something is written in this blog and here we go. I have finally graduated from NUS and that was the news of the last week other than kicking some NTU ass at NTU (cricket, ofcourse). I am typing this blog entry using this cool online word processor called zoho writer. Its quite brilliant. Versatile. Can type in unicode tamil effortlessly. And it has a slick interface. I like it.

I would like to start off with a beautiful poem I came across this week. It is written by a tamil poet, Prameel. It goes like this,

“சிறகிலிருந்து பிரிந்த
இறகு ஒன்று
காற்றின்
தீராத பக்கங்களில்
ஒரு
பறவையின் வாழ்வை
எழுதிச் செல்கிறது”

Translation:

“A feather detaching itself
From the wing
Render on the
Pages of the
wind
The life of a bird” – the english translation is not so good.

Flicked from : http://kumizh.blogspot.com/2005/03/1.html

Just to say, atleast that, it is my life’s dream to come up with a few of

such brilliant stuff.

Another thing, I am proud to anounce that I have become a hardcore admirer of Lollu Sabha Manohar and I think he should become the next chief minister of TamilNadu.

I would like to write about reservations and stuff. Insah Allah, I will. Here are a few links to reflect on.

http://bseshadri.blogspot.com/2006/05/letter-iit-k-professors-wrote.html

http://bseshadri.blogspot.com/2006/05/iit-k-letter-and-my-comments.html

http://www.ambedkar.org/News/News051707.htm

“India must be the only country in the world, where people fight to be  called  backward”

- Narayan Murthy

Just received this one through e-mail. Noone is fighting to be called backward nor there is any pride in being backward. It is about recognising that a section of a society had been denied the right for education and equal oppurtunity and embracing them on India’s progress. I am not sure about the context in which the statement was made or if it was made at all. Assuming that Mr. Narayana Murthy of Infosys said this and taking this line at its face value, I would like to register my disappointment on such short-sighted, shallow and stupid remark. Mr. Murthy, you built a billion dollar company from scratch. You should know better, really. I am curious to know what Mr. Murthy think about the whole reservation issue. Any links?

I was thinking of writing a review of Pudhupettai, a latest tamil movie, will reserve it for later.

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