Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Air India strike shows a highly unprofessional attitude

Air India spent approximately Rs.81050 (about Rs.24,150 on accommodation and food, Rs.6900 on transport and about Rs.50,000 for alternative flights via Bangkok) on each of these passenger — who were in a few hundreds in number. Meanwhile, the Aviation ministry releases press brief that it’s not going to interfere over the issue, it will back the management’s decision completely. What was even more interesting was that our stay at Bangkok airport, for over six hours, never made us realise that we are in the same nation which is being torn apart through riots since years. The arrangement and flight procedures inside the airport was perfectly in place and it was made sure that the internal disturbance don't harm the business of airlines.

In a casual conversation I asked a receptionist of Hotel Mandarin Oriental Singapore, where we were staying as we were waiting for an alternative flight arrangement, that can employees of Asia’s one of the most successful airlines, Singapore Airlines, go on strike on similar context? He confidently said no though it doesn’t mean that their demands can’t be heard and met by respective authorities. Strike is illegal while employees have all the rights to raise their demands.

It’s high time for us to wake up, at least, for the sake of the nation. This small incident exemplifies the uncivilised manner we deal with issues. There is no logical reason harassing hundreds of commuters who have nothing to do with the strike's agendas (whether they are selfish or greedy in nature). Similarly, there is no point that Aviation Ministry should be so careless on such issues especially when no airlines, even public run airlines are making big money.

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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Goneare the dieting days…

Gwyneth Paltrow has given up her quest for a sexy and sizzling figure and is no longer concentrating on dieting so that she can look after her children. Apparently, the “Shakespeare in Love” star doesn’t get the time to follow a diet. In fact, she is so fond of food that she would love to open a restaurant one day! Hopefully we’ll see more actresses choosing to be curvaceous and we’ll see fewer clothes-hangers passing off as women!

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Friday, June 04, 2010

Primary education for all

Some 1.7 lakh children to benefit from the scheme

Shankar Sathua lives in Salia Sahi, a slum in suburban Bhubaneswar. Life became hell for him after his father’s demise. When he was four-year-old, Shankar had to work as a domestic help along with his ailing mother. But still he was struggling to meet the basic need. Finally with the help of some people Shankar opened a vegetable shop at a nearby colony. Since then, his family’s economy has stabilised as his small business is doing well. Still he has many problems to overcome. Illiteracy is the biggest one as he is unable to even count properly. But this will come to an end soon.

The Orissa government is planning to launch a new system through which a boy or a girl can get direct admission into a class according to his/her age. A non-beginner like Shankar can directly get admission in class seven along with his friends.

Dr Rabindra Acharya, a senior teacher at Capital High School, Bhubaneswar, says: “This is a good idea and we hope this provision of lateral entry of children in higher classes according to their age will reduce the number of school drop-outs and non-beginners in the state. This way, we can achieve the goal of primary education for all.” There are more than 1.75 lakh illiterate children in Orissa. The scheme will come into effect in all 30 districts of Orissa from July. Under the newly legislated “Orissa Education Rule-2010,” the government has introduced this provision for the first time. It has called it bridge course. According to government sources, the facility of lateral entry to students will be available up to class eight under bridge course. The execution of this new scheme will be carried out by Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (OPEPA) at district level. The School & Mass Education Department, which has the responsibility to achieve the goals of universal elementary education, is funding this mega scheme of Rs 1,740 crore. Iswar Chandra Barda, joint secretary to School and Mass Education Department, says: “This is an ambitious project that will make Orissa a 100 per cent achiever in primary education. And one important thing about this scheme is that the government will bear all expenditures of the students inducted under this scheme. OPEPA along with some other NGOs will execute the programme.”

The OPEPA has started a state-level training programme for primary school teachers in Bhubaneswar. The purpose is to make them aware of their new responsibilities. Now, about 55,417 schools across the state are ready to welcome a new group of students. The need of the hour is to re-orient the existing programmes and help implement the new policy of bridge course successfully from the grass-root level. This way the mission of providing primary education to children can be achieved by the government.
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Wednesday, June 02, 2010

The green-eyed hunk talks about his journey from “finished” to “phenomenal”

Doesn’t attempting all those daredevil action scenes give you goosebumps?

I’m a slave to my vision in my head. If I see something in my head, then I have to make it manifest. If I can see it in my head, I know it’s possible and if I know it’s possible, I just keep working at it without giving up. And that’s how it happens.

Do you see yourself progressing into direction?

Ah! No, I don’t think so. I don’t think direction is about giving suggestions and having little visions of how a scene should progress or where you should place the camera. It’s just that I’ve been around the camera so much that I’ve learnt a lot and have my own instincts. But that doesn’t mean I have the talent of being the director. But all said and done, if at all my life leads me that way, then, we shall see (laughs).

Which has been your best role till now?

Well, I see my life in two phases. All the work that I’ve done between “Kaho Na Pyaar Hai” and “Koi Mil Gaya” were kind of a reference phase in my life. All that I did was reference acting and reference work. I was trying to duplicate or relive the kind of success that I had in my first film. And then “Koi Mil Gaya” came into my life and I relived that same passion, that desire and that drive which I’d felt in my first film. And then I realised what filmmaking and acting was truly all about. I realised and I decided at that time that I’d do only those films that make me feel this way. From then on my stepping stone towards that mission became my films like “Lakshya”, “Krissh” and “Dhoom”. Now it’s “Kites” and then “Guzaarish”. I only want to do films that excite me that much and I realised this back at the time when I was doing “Koi Mil Gaya”. You know, even while brushing my teeth in the morning, I would think about the film. I had this rush and feeling of pure passion. That’s how I want it to be with all the films I take up.

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