Slave Labor ... in the US...?

An interesting article from BBC news... south asia..

"Indian men in US 'slave' protest

The Indian workers claim they have been kept in poor conditions
Almost 100 Indians who moved to the US for jobs have marched hundreds of miles to Washington DC in protest at being forced to work "like slaves".
The Indian ambassador


http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7316130.stm

MVP....

For this season... 2007-2008....

with 10 games left... it is again time to name the leagues " MVP"...

Defined as the MVP...of the regular season... it decorates the very players of the era... this era being this decade....

The Best player of this decade has been overlookek every year by conventional excuses..." the team is no1, doesnt make the other players better than him." etc.

Here are my rankings for the MVP... in order who of who deserves it most...:


I consider : skills, impact, stats, wins, clutch,, and game winning shots..


1. KOBE
The best player for many years... He scored 36 points/ game.. didnt get it for not winning enough games.. Now he is near the top in wins.. and i still the best player in the game: best shooter, best game winning player

2. Baron
His team makes the most number of difficult shots.. no insidre game they play 5 shooters/ skilll players.. with a small forward playing center... Davis runs the whole team.. they are the new phoenix suns. His team is ranked 8th in the west .. but they are above Lebron


3. Ginobilli:

Best player for the spurs last 4 years... won the 2005 championship.. with great game winning shots... Scores the big points at the end... He is the Superstar that chose to just be a basketball player...
He does all the work.. the touch shots.. and clutch play.. Duncan as usual gets all the credit.



4. Paul:
New orleans in number 1, at will be near the top... first playoffs for NO... 20 and 10 assists... He can do it all... No weakness...He is Kidd and Nash in one.. He looks like he is 10 years old...

5. Lebron James:
The east is weak... his team is no 13 in wins... lower than the guys above him. He scores 30points... no1 in the league...The other guys are better shooters than him.. He is great... MVP of the EAST... but the west is just oo good in competetion.. and star guard play...

Mumbai Pictures : Progressive" Masala..?

The "Progressive " Invasion of social cultural identity that swarmed into India in the late 90s and 2000s did not spare the forum of cinema from its grip.

The previously fiercly guarded film format made many concessions to the progressive wave of culture to such a great extent that it is legitimate claim that films today are completely different from those just 15 years ago.

The first major change that came is the obvious.... SLEEZE material that began with the western clothing of late 90s fashion that exposed more of the body , espcicially the bust and the legs, and then to girls making physcial gestures of lewd suggestions and obvious promiscuis nature.

These points were predictable since the indian audience of the 70, 80s and early 90s...got as much as they wanted of sleeze from western cinema through video rentals...Now there was an opening to put these elements in hindi movies via the domestic supplier.. the bollywood film producers.

As the Progressive or " times have changed" motto entered the mumbai film industry and audience.. this was the first and most predictable allowance from western cinema...

In Early 2ks... the sleeze quota for bollywood was represented through the " Item Number" component of any standard film. Girls who could not achieve as a leading girl... through the persona of the virgin could abandon ship and enter the item girl market. The new level of sleeze required by producers for the item number was justified with the title of "modern"... THe modern item girl would immediately be recognized by the title, image and qualities of the Item number upon being recognized in a film.

Maybe the most well know example is the "khallas girl" from company. She could not achieve as leading lady .... At age 25.. she made the sudden decision to become an item girl. She must have considered , that there probably would be no going back to leading roles after such exposure.

Company proved to be one of the landmark movies of the year, 2002, and decade to this point.
Though the rest of the film was stictly sleeze free... the khallas girl item number must be attached to it to judge the whole work in its entirity.

The khallas number had no other function in the film... but to entertain those in the audience who had a default demand for sleeze.. The prominent khallas number had no relevance to the nature or story of the film.. Boney Kapoor , the producer of the film, saw the box office rewards from its prospect and put it in the film.. Here it is an evidence that even as early as 2002, the sleeze item number had become a standard in the new format of films. Ram Gopal Varmas trend setting nature in films had the effect of popularizing the plot independent modern item number as it appeared in greater frequency in the films of the years ahead.


Beyond the sleeze item number , which is never the core of the film but a sideshow, the more important changes occured the main characters of the film.

LIFE, THE SALVATION......by Aninda Rahman

This article is repost of Aninda's note on facebook....




LIFE, THE SALVATION


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(to richie, thambi & me who find religion interesting)


Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do -Luke 23:34
Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise -Luke 23:43


is it funny
that all of your life
you’ve waited for a sudden

death,
on roopnarayana
if someone asks
who the hell

are you;
do you,
make it clear
you are in fact
in process
a what-the-hell

what a what you all are
that waited all the way
for a sudden death
a sudden fall
that a hanging note slips
from the staff
(a graph of pitch
with respect to time)
or from the figures
of the eternal pianist
what a what !

yet with each morning
that comes with a news of death
you start afresh
with a squeeze of toothpaste

you care for what
so
ever
you are;

and with breads
all perforated
and both side toasted
like your sample souls
you start afresh
and with a denial

a better saturday comes
after a good friday
when you have a life to live

yes you do;
that’s a brave one
awkwardly brave
as you know
what you are doing.

as you know
what you are doing
is what you are.

Future Articles I will write...

1) Darren Starr.... the mind behind the landmark Tv shows of the last two decades...

90201, Melrose Place, and ofcourse Sex and the City

2 ) Full House... the TV show from 80s , 90s... what happened to wholesome America...



3. A Review of the Movie / book ...The Namesake..



American Television


4. The Decline of Westerns or Cowboy movies in the 1980s and 1990s... and rise the of the Epic..or History movies in the 90s and 2000s...




5. The " Ball Game in New York "

6. The Death of Decency in America... what happened to frank sinatra...

7. Bill O Reily .... and the need for the " angry white man" to be seen in the clear..

8. Rajani and the rise of the Black Heroes...

9. Simran ... the banner girl for the Hindi Bombay Vamp in Tamil Movies..

Sports Talking ....

A big part of the cultural phenemena of sports... is the relationship between the vieweres and the game. The media serves as an occasional buffer between the viewers and the game as they have more access to the game ... since they directly view it and some people dont know they game well enough to take it all in by themselves..

The media is in the form of the color sports commentators..

Here I will describe those commentators that have encouraged my interest and understanding of American sports... esp... NBA and to a lesser extent NFL , tennis



1. Bob Costas .... the best of best... he covered MJ and Bulls in later 90s..
His coverage is some of the best english I think i have ever heard from a an american

2. John Madden... NFL... We all know the name from his brand of video games.. .the highest paid broadcasted for NFL... His natural impulse comments and attention to other wise un noticeable things keep me coming back... He is the only reliable entertainment for Monday Night Football..

3.. Tony Kornheiser... A DC local...Has his daily PTI tv show... , the Washington Post.. and now Monday night football...


4. Steve Young...
NFL... The most charming white man in America... His natural personality is the like that of leading man hero character of 1960s film of a more chaste America... You forget how lewed and nasty the defining qualities of America have become becuase of how serene his persona is ..


5. Hubie Brown

6. Skip Bayless

Bill Walton

7. Stephen A Smith

8. Peter Vescey

9. Mark Jackson..

10. Kenny Smith

TWINS:.... ITALIAN -- PUNJABI

Welcome to my TWINS section....
Here i will post pictures of famous people.. generally from different racial types... that have striking resemblance in facial features...

Let me know what u think about them....:



1.

I always find it interesting when I see people from different " race" .. or countries that have a striking resemblance... It gives me a sudden epiphany about geography, the idea of race, and varieties of the world... ..

Here I am showing some pictures of two of my favorite people...that I see regularly on TV
Manu Ginobilli... An Italian from Argentina... playing in the NBA....
and Vivek Oberoi.... A Punjabi Indian Film Actor.. Ginobilli Ginobilli

The more I look at them.. the more they look alike to me...:
Vivek Oberoi
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Vivek

This is Viveks father.... Suresh Oberoi.. ..He looks even more like Ginobilli than his Vivek...
Ginobilli

I always find it interesting when I see people from different " race" .. or countries that have a striking resemblance... It gives me a sudden epiphany on the whole concept of race and geographic and entire creation of human being...

Here I am showing some pictures of two of my favorite people...that I see regularly on TV

Manu Ginobilli... An Italian from Argentina... playing in the NBA....

and Vivek Oberoi.... A Punjabi Indian Film Actor..
Ginobilli Ginobilli

The more I look at them.. the more they look alike to me...:

Vivek Oberoi

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