The magic behind Lalu's magic

Ministry of railways says that it is on a profit track and common people admires lalu prasad for not making any increase in passenger fares in the past budgets.But in reality while boasting on the people friendly budgets railway have introduced a bunch of hidden charges in reservation and other services.For booking a ticket now clarkage charge is twenty rupees which was ten earlier.If the ticket is booked from a station other than the boarding station you have to pay 40 rupees.All major trains in the country comes with a superfast tag from last year onwards which again cost you 20 rupees even they run at passenger speed.
In railway clock rooms earlier it was ten rupees for keeping all the luggage, from this year for every luggage passengers have to pay ten rupees each.In last budget railway announced
Three long distance trains from kochuveli to amritsar,darahadun and chandigarh.none of these trains have started its service so far.Members of parliament who claps for every budget are not seen after the budget presentation. The state should monitor how far the budget proposals are executed in the state.unless this happens subh yathra will be a distant dream.

Happy x'mas

Dear friends,It is a festival time for all of us. IFFK just finished.christmas coming in and state youth festival and new year on waiting.we the fourth group takes charge of our blog today.we wish you all a very HAPPY X'MAS

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!

Adhrisya Thozhan (poem)

-- by Divya T S

Evideyanu nee ariyillenikku

ninnajathamaam roopam

njan kanda swapnangalile midhyayo nee

perariyathoru shilpithan srishtiyo

ushasil dalathilirikkum manjuthulliyo nee

atho,hassikkum sumangalo;

vasanthathin madhuramaam thennoottum bhramaramo nee

ethannu nin roopam ariyillenikkath

sayahnangalil enne thalodum thennalo nee

atho aakashath kanchimmum tharakangallo

enne pulakamaniyikkum snehamo nee

ariyillenikku ninne

onnu mathramariyam ......enn

sukha dukhangalil aaswasam pakarum thozhanannu nee

oradhrisya thozhan...........

Unnathangalil (poem)

-- by Anila

Anavasarathil pradarsippikkan
ente sneham randam tharamalla.

Ninakkath avasyamillenkil
njan athu tharikayilla.

Ente mathram sampathanathu,
njanathin ekadhipathi.
Ente sneham ninakku samarpikkan
njan yachakayvilla.

Oru kaiyil ninakkay
ananthamay nirayunna
pana pathram perumbol,
marukaiyil enthinu ninte
bhikshaykay yachana pathram?

Chakravarthiniyay njanee
simhasanathil irikam.
snehathinte chakravarthiyakil
ninak oppamirikam.

yachakanay nee varendathilla.

unnathangalil ninnu
nam pranayikkum,
unnathangalil ninnu mathram.

Cultural art forms for IFFK opening

Some of the cultural art forms - as shown for the opening ceremony of the 13th IFFK last week. Everyone is welcome to name each of them.

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Video 3: Thiruvathira



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Video 5: Oppana



Video 6: Margham Kali (sorry about the voices)



One of the following has got to be Theyyam!

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Video 10: They are all here. The video is a little slanting, if anyone knows how to bring it straight, please proceed.