IDC NASSCOM Survey of T-Schools

Warangal's right there with the best!!


Check out the link guys!
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/IIT-Kharagpur_top_technology_college_in_India_Survey/articleshow/2134316.cms

The Namesake

Generally afer getting home from work,I find it relaxing to unwind with a movie.Of course ,the unavailability of a television set might have something to do with that.Anyways..on one of my week-end jaunts which happened to lead to marathalli(i hope thats wat its called)I picked up a dvd of Mira Nair's cinematic rendition of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake..apart from a pair of really cheap flying machines.The Namesake is a movie I really wanted to watch on the big screen but thanks to the hectic few days I got to spend in Calcutta..that didn't quite work out.I had to,unwillingly, pin my hopes on a flimsy pirated camera-print bearing video disc.And I wasn't disappointed at all with what it had to offer...
I guess I will have to pen down a few words about the movie itself.The Namesake is a brilliant example of how a discerning director,a flamboyant script-writer and some sensitive acting can bring alive an authors's words penned on paper..The central character of the movie is of course played by Kal Penn as the intriguing but strikingly natural Nikhil 'Gogol' Ganguly.Of course his parents Asheema and Ashok also play a pivotal role in the development of the plot.Tabu,playing the role of Asheema,overwhelms us with her adroit acting as she slips in as comfortably into the garb of a young bride in Calcutta to a woman struggling to come to terms with a foreign environ in the US of A to an understanding mother and a woman who is shattered by the loss of the person she has learnt to love over several years.
Irffan Khan has been notably in his role of the quintessential professor Ganguly.As a young student,he had a near death experience on the railtracks where he was rescued clutching the pages of The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol.Aroused by the ramblings of a co-passenger Mr.Ghosh on that fateful day,Ashok decided to travel the world and ended up with a Phd and the livelihood of a university professor.
Ashok and Asheema decided to nickname ther child Gogol (his good name was of course Nikhil)and there started the saga of the Namesake.Gogol was the name which caught on.Its quite remarkable as to how Kal Penn(originally a Gujju Kalpen Modi) frets about having a name as strange as Gogol..be it in the high school Literature class where the teacher brings to light the idiosyncracies of the "slightly eccentric" Russian author(our gogol being his namesake) to the part in Gogol's seduction of his sweetheart where she has to say his name!Frustrated by constant mockery..he decidesto change his name to Nikhil "Nick" Ganguli.Of course..I could ramble on forever about the rest of the story..but let me talk about the three facets of the story which left me thinking...
One was the scenes of Calcutta...I havnt been home for a while now and whenever I see scenes of the City of Joy..ifail to control my emotions.There have been so many movies that have captured the beauty of this great city...The Namesake has once againg don justice.The beautiful shots of Howran bridge,the railway station,Hoogly river and the singing boatswaine,the imposing Victoria Memorial,schenes of a typical North Calcutta household ,Sarawsati pujo..the household handyman chasing Gogol as he runs through the crowded streets...thy all fill me with a feeling I cannot express in words.The movie keeps sifting dramatically through cities of Calcutta and Boston..the very two cities where Gogol has his roots embedded...
Secondly,Ashok Ganguli...when he reveals the secret of his son's name,takes Gogol's relationship with his father to a newer level...Everyday since has been a gift..says Ashok..and one can see how dearly the father loves his son...
Lastly of course...Gogol's rites of passage...where he evolves from being a young man seeking his identity..to a mature individual who realizes how the world around him ticks through several experiences ..some sweet..some bitter...no more bitter than his father's sudden death.The movie also brings to light several family values..brillinatly portrayed for exmaple by tabu's restlessness when her son doesn't call her back as he said he would...to her anguish when she looses her husband.
Taking a deep breath and looing back at about 2 hours of cimenascope..its a movie I would certainly recommend..Kal Penn too has evolved dramatically in his role of Gogol Ganguli..Some people claimed that the movie was slow..but that would not be a fair evaluation since a movie which intertwines so many emotions and shades of life cannot be expected to go at a 'Pirates of the Carribbean' pace for example!Its definitly worht a watch...just as Jhumpa Lahiri's book is worth a read!

embaçamento roxo....calina púrpura...Scuze me while I kiss the sky...

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things just dont seem the same
Actin funny, but I dont know why
scuse me while I kiss the sky
Purple haze all around
Dont know if Im comin up or down
Am I happy or in misery?
What ever it is, that girl put a spell on me
Help me
Help me
Oh, no, no
[faint, spoken lyrics...all questionable]
Hammerin
Talkin bout heart n...s-soul
Im talkin about hard stuff
If everbodys still around, fluff and ease, if
So far out my mind
Somethings happening, somethings happening
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, {click} ahhh,
Ooo, ahhh
Ooo, ahhh, yeah!
Purple haze all in my eyes, uhh
Dont know if its day or night
You got me blowin, blowin my mind
Is it tomorrow, or just the end of time?
Ooo
Help me
Ahh, yea-yeah, purple haze, yeah
Oh, no, oh
Oh, help me
Purple haze, tell me, baby, tell me
I cant go on like this
Purple haze
Youre makin me blow my mind...mama
Purple haze, n-no, nooo
Purple haze, no, its painful, baby