life -= life;

Svyvny qhgvrf !! Eryvtvba !! Ybir !! Cersrerapr !! frysvfu !! Checbfr bs Yvsr !! Fvfgref !! Fbpvrgl !! NUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU !!

Hate hate

Sob Sob !! WTF is wrong !!

Death of a Nation - Russia

This documentary lists the following problems prevalent in Russia as of now. I started thinking about how there is a reflection of this in India too.

1. Population growth is being stunted. Life expectancy has gone down by 7 years since 1991.
[India: OK, I dont think we have this problem]

2. Poverty and money to the rich few in Moscow. Corruption and better opportunities only to the people close to power. Managed Democracy by Putin. Corruption in all levels of the state machinery.
[India: Is the tech boom helping us deal with this problem? What about the farmer suicides ? Poor in villages who might as well be dis-enfranchised. Corruption is still rife. People close to power still have a huge huge advantage over those who are not. Although I seem to be forming an opinion that people from lower sections of society are now able to get their kids to somehow benefit by the technology boom and thus create a path to upward social mobility.]

3. Nationalism and torture of minorities like Turks and Muslims.
[India: Godhra, stats on Muslim povery and lack of opportunity, Hindu/Islamic fundamentalists, BJP's agenda on changing the syllabus]

4. AIDS problem.
[ India: I have no clue what the govt. is doing. But I know that as a society we look upon this as a disease of the lowly, just like the Russians are claimed to be in this doc.]

Tamil cinema

I am watching this movie called "PachaiKili Muthucharam"  Director:Gautham Menon    Writers: James Siegel (story) and  Gautham Menon.

There seems to be this concept in Chennai that going in a Taxi (a closed vehicle/van) with a member of a opposite gender is not seen in very good light by culture police. Auto-rickshaw seems to be the more accepted option. I didn't know this.