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Hot summer colors

2009-04-16T23:26:00.007+05:30

Flowers..everywhere. That's what I could see this summer when I went home. This may not be the first time I'm seeing all these, but its definitely the first time I'm noticing this. See the change in me !

I don't really care about flowers, but my friend is crazy about them. Took a few pics for her. Out of focus ? Crazy angles ? Wait a min. I took all these in 15 mins tops. My point and shoot was dying on me and ..heck, I omitted many because I caught them out of focus.

Here's it Tropical Indian Summer..

Straight from the God's own country

2007-01-04T13:56:00.000+05:30

A few snaps from the Kumarakam, Kerala - the God's own country.

Lula back to Brazil !

2006-10-30T15:44:00.000+05:30

Read on...

Lula is back!

Theyyam, the color of GOD

2006-04-24T23:32:00.000+05:30

A few snaps from a north malabar (Kerala, South India) art form, Theyyam. More on this later.

Tilting at Windmills

2006-04-22T13:38:00.000+05:30

Washingtonpost runs an article on environmentalists' attempt to kill a windmill project in New-England cost.

From the article : Already, activists and real estate developers have stalled projects across Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York. In Western Maryland, a proposal to build wind turbines alongside a coal mine, on a heavily logged mountaintop next to a transmission line, has just been nixed by state officials who called it too environmentally damaging. Along the coast of Nantucket, Mass. -- the only sufficiently shallow spot on the New England coast -- a coalition of anti-wind groups and summer homeowners, among them the Kennedy family, also seems set to block Cape Wind, a planned offshore wind farm. Their well-funded lobbying last month won them the attentions of Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who, though normally an advocate of a state's right to its own resources, has made an exception for Massachusetts and helped pass an amendment designed to kill the project altogether.

Slashdot shares its comments. [ with its usual troll and baits and pulls and bias]

Latin America's leftist wave

2006-04-13T00:35:00.000+05:30

It could be right that the cold war world definitions of left and right are obselete in a globalized world, but a strong under current right under the nose of the world's most powerful contry cannot be ignored.While the mainland is hard selling its capitalist ideas to asian new economic kiddies a powerful leftist wave is blowing over South America.

The change in Americas is quite evident with a number of countries voted for left and a new powerful generation of neo-communist leaders- those with old world communist ideas and a new globalist perspective - emerged.The rise to power of Lula da Silva in Brazil, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Nestor Kirchner in Argentina , Tabari Vasquez in Urauguay and most recently Evo Morales in Bolivia and Michelle Bachelet in Chile shows Latin American's leftist shift.

The most distinguishing factor of all these leaders are their bend towards modernization, following an orthodeox economic policy - one based on fiscal discipline, budget surpluses and an anti-inflationary monitory policy.Some of the old world leftist stands are easily dialuted, like in Brazil, where the President Lula decided to pay back the IMF debt or like in Argentina where the government paid back the debts by withdrawing one-third of its reserves raising popular outrage.

All these governments are trying to identify them as socialists and they see a new uprise in their economies with a boom in the world commodity market. They are well aware of their demanding position and is aligning towards collectivist economies. And naturally all them declared friendship with Fidel Castro and seek his embrace.Venezuela is a shining example, with a new messianic leadership and strong economic and political stands they showed that they can even make waves in North of Atlantic.

L'Italia gira il colore rosso !

2006-04-12T00:27:00.000+05:30

Tired of Berlusconi's policies, Italian people decisively voted for a change and they choose none other than the center-leftist Romano Prodi.

It will be interesting to see Prodi's stand on Italian foreign policy. He is a strong advocate of common European foreign policy and always opposed the Iraq invasion.

The center-left's arrival in power in Italy and the weakening of the center-right government in France will have a strong impact on European unions policy making.

Before heading to European union reforms Prodi has to do some tough jobs back home.Repairing of an ailing Italian economy will be his first task. The tightness of his majority and the make-up of his coalition will constrain him from moving far left on economic policies.

Anyway one thing is for sure , it will be more-EU-less-US for Italy.

Run Over by the RIAA

2006-04-06T15:49:00.000+05:30

An MIT student accused of copyright infringement has been documenting her struggles with the RIAA. Upon trying to negotiate her settlement, a representative told her that "the RIAA has been known to suggest that students drop out of college or go to community college in order to be able to afford settlements."

eh ! Bloody americans.

Jack Straw's private company

2006-04-04T16:15:00.000+05:30

Mirror reports some interesting news..on Jack Straw's and Condi rice's Baghdad visit.

read on.. - jack and jill

Now that's interesting .News from West Asia is nothing but boring these days. But this was a chill breeze. Atleast mirror stands apart from the crowd with their inventive journalism. I love these British paparazzies, you know.

Now big question, when will Jack and Rice visit Palestien ?