kathalu

Whats in a name?

2006-08-30T08:30:00.000-07:00

Some strange things happen and continue to happen no one questions them i dont know why they are not as important as some other things which become the most important things:

We have West Bengal, there is nothing called an East Bengal, it has become Bangladesh long time back, so isnt there more merit in calling West Bengal as Bengal before you wanna change Calcutta to Kolkata?

Now the Karnataka govt wants to change Bangalore to Bengaluru, it sounds almost the same but is spelled lot differently, the interesting fact would be how they will handle all the English names that they have all over the city - Frazer Town, Richmond Town, Cox Town, Whitefield etc etc.
Would it be ok with the culture part if you just change the name of the city and not its streets?

Bombay became Mumbai, Madras became Chennai, Calcutta became Kolkata....the only remaining Metropolitan city is New Delhi, now not sure why no name change there, maybe the Delhi state govt and the central govt at the centre would have been different and they couldnt finalise on the name :)

Tamil movies these days get some tax exemption if you use tamil names, phrases or sentences....and I always thought that the name of the movie has to do with the plot of the movie, not in this state. Maybe one guy who would really benefited with something like this and thats Karan Johar - Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna all hindi names, i would say Karan make friends with some tamil politicians and decision makers, you are gonna save a lot of money on tax.

Anywise folks I am sure we cannot contest the "whats in a name" sentence as lot of public money is involved in and around lot of names :)

Jokes apart folks lot of public money goes into drain with this obsession of changing names, we should schedule these once we have money to spare, weve had deficit budget every single year from the time i was born and that was quite sometime back and hopefully i wouldnt be saying the same when i am 60 :)

kadedi kavithakanarham

2006-08-30T08:14:00.000-07:00

There were times when people had great reservations on what we can write or say as poetry and what we could not when a great poet, social activist and i guess also communist Sri Sri said these words "kadedi kavithaku anarham" in telugu, which means there is nothing on which we cannot write poetry on and that every object in this world can inspire poetry.

It would have been great if he was around now with the internet age and he getting all the feedback from across the world on his work : )
One thing that i guess he would have said about the blogs would have been "kadedi blog ki anarham" meaning, you can just blog on anything and everything, there are no holds barred.
OK, now enough justification on why the hell i started writing, as i said earlier its just like that and if people dont kill me for my writings i want to be around for sometime :)

"kathalu" means stories, now everything can be a story in this world, a small incident that took place lastnight can be a story the next day and some great piece of history happening can be a story some other day, so for all the people reading this blog in general and telugu folks in particular i dont mean a slang version of kathalu (the slang version in telugu is like he is telling stories....meaning he doenst mean what he's saying and just playing around).

Why Blog?

2006-08-29T07:43:00.000-07:00

I donno, but i am doing it just like that, just for fun. So no big fundas and nothing out of the earth from me, its going to be some stuff i would love to write about again just for fun :)

Na Katha

2006-08-29T07:30:00.000-07:00

Well, after a long time thinking about writing a blog i am off to a start and this has to do more with Dakshina's comments on work :)