Veli Clean-up on Sunday

The tidycity.org project is going to do a clean up of Veli beach this Sunday, February 8th. The idea of these clean up initiatives, is to send across a message, that every single person can make a difference. More than a clean up, the team intends to promote an awareness about keeping our cities clean.

More details about the drive are available at the website http://tidycity.org


Those who are interested to join the tidycity campaign, can subscribe to the mailing list, available in the website.

Tidy City initiative

There is a clean city initiative taken up by a few people in the Trivandrum city. Activities of the initiative are written about in the blog http://tidycity.org/blog

They are planning a museum clean up this Sunday, as one of the first actions. 'They' includes the author of this post as well :-)

The museum clean up is to happen on Sunday, February 1st around 4 pm in the afternoon. A clean city is one we all argue about, and think we can do nothing about. To prove this wrong, to prove that there is a part each individual plays - is one of the firt messages that the initiative tries to drive across. We cant force others to clean up, but we can try to inspire them. We can make them think before they throw something on the streets the next time. Thats a lot.

Everyone is welcome to join the cause. Those who are interested can comment in the tidycity blog and make their voices heard.

Kerala Kaumudi gets it; when is our turn?

Even as Joe Sir taught us about legal proprietaries that media persons had to worry about, there comes the Kerala Kaumudi case. Yeah, everyone else do it, so I can do it too – we think. But Joe Sir was right when he said you maybe the unlucky one who gets caught and has to face the penalties, when others may while away and drink their coffees. Ok he didnt say about drinking coffee, thats my addition. But thats what happens isnt it?

All papers have been carrying various stories about Abhaya case for the past few months. Unfortunately for Kerala Kaumudi, one of their articles was read by someone at the High Court, and bang came the court case. I dont mean to justify them. I was just wondering how coincidental it was that this happened right after that class we had.

And so many of us just take pictures from the net without a second thought. Imagine having to enter a court for that – years after years! Problem is if something like what happened to our teacher occurs – well whats the guarantee we will even realize something was wrong – I mean an advertisement on the page carrying a wrong map! Who'd think about it anyway? Journalism is a tricky profession I tell you. From outside it looks all daring, a journalist can do anything, go anywhere. Yeah - do court sessions and go to prison!

13th iffk went by

8 days and its over. 13th international film festival of Kerala. We press club students can proudly say that many of our faces were among the crowds that pushed and pulled to get a seat. Some of us ended up standing, some sitting on the floor and some on laps!

Few movies came out to be the favorites of many – Yellow House, Machan, The Photograph were some names everyone talked about. Some unlucky folks had to miss all these good ones.

New face Anjali Menon bagged 2 awards – and more than the awards, one could brag about the movie. Her first movie did a lot of what movie-lovers could ask for. Personally, I was quite happy that every actor used his/her voice and there were no dubbing artists.

The 50-years category was – needless to say – nostalgic. Competition movies were yummy and world cinema a little below the mark – according to the reviews. Among the Indian movies, Firaaq drew a huge crowd in, owing to one name – Nandita Das.

Inviting all here for contributing movie reviews!

Shoes at Bush!

Video of Bush-shoe-attack

Amazing. A journalist actually dared to throw shoes at President Bush on his “surprise visit” to Iraq. Surely that must have been some surprise!