My Essays

Cinema and community.
Cinema and community.We know that Cinema is an Audio – Visual medium. More than one person is involved in the production of a movie. Many of us don’t know that the thoughts of a director and a scriptwriter can make a lot of difference in society. You might ask what difference can they make. They are just two common people in the society. Other people see their imagination on the silver screen and they try to imitate that. Imitation is common human behavior. Its human nature to imitate whatever they see.The scenes like the villain chasing the heroine and abducting her and raping her or the cold-blooded killings or the hi-tech robberies and destroying the evidence etc are all teaching us how to do a crime and how to escape after that and how to destroy the evidence. Thus a lot of anti-social activities could be learned through this medium.We are not aware of the reality that there are a group of people who are trying to create chaos in society by showing violence, killings, rape, robberies, drug abuse, prostitution etc on silver screen using artists. They are sawing the seeds of crime into the minds of people.At this point a question might arise that whether the artist don’t have his own freedom to express. All artists have freedom of expression. It flows like a lava flow, not even censored by the Censor Board. The truth is that nothing is censored at all, except for a few sex scenes.An artist should be someone with a positive mind and also somebody who wants social justice. An artist should have the thinking that myself along with the society should be liberated from the clutches of the evil, then only good thoughts will blossom.You may ask how evil comes into such a good artist’s work. It’s a good question. All artists may not be good souls. When one had artistic talent, he tried to exhibit it, without caring for good and evil. He may not have thought of the difference it makes in the society. Even if he had thought, then his counter thought will be what good does it make to himself. I know that I can quench my hunger only if I work hard. Will this society give me food at least once a day? Will it construct a house for me to sleep? Will it buy me dress to wear? Nobody will buy me anything. Then why should I think of making the society better? But such thoughts can never make the society better; it will only go more and more into evil paths. If God has given us a talent, then it is for us to make a living out of it. Along with that, we should understand the good and evil in society and write or visualize against evil. Thus through our creation, we should create at least a small ripple. This is an artist’s responsibility towards society. Even if he gets rich through his creation, it doesn’t mean that he should divide his wealth and give back to society. He became rich because of his talent. He knows that he made everything through good deeds only. Each citizen in society can come up in life only through self-talent. Anything achieved through evil is only temporary and never permanent.An artist’s achievement is to exhibit his creation before the society and get an honor for it. But the creations so honored should contain only good. Then more and more good artists and good creations will take birth, and the society will be kind enough to accept them without discarding.Although Cinema was born in France, it started its growth in countries like America, Europe, India and Russia.For the first time in history, a Cinema was made and publicly exhibited by the Lumier Brothers. This was in France. That was the beginning of Cinema. After that the art form of Cinema grew worldwide.Today the world cinema centers at Hollywood in America, The Indian cinema centers at Mumbai and the South Indian Cinema centers at Chennai. Cinema today is big business, but the truth is that good quality movies are not taking birth as expected.The main reason for the sheer fall in quality of today’s cinema is the changing environment. Earlier the idea in one man’s mind will be elaborated by many other people and give rise to a superior creation. Today it has become mechanical. Film production has gone hi-tech with latest technologies. As a result good cinema died and low quality movies are taking birth.As said in Hindu mythology, Devas and Asuras were enemies. They fought with each other. The Asuras got the ‘Amruth’ after churning the ‘Palazhi’. But the Devas fooled Asuras and got Amruth and they became immortal. Along with that one Asura also got Amruth and became immortal. As a result the Devaloga was slowly on destruction. Devas didn’t know that. Just like the Palace secret becoming public talk, nobody knew about this. Even if they knew it was no good. Because along with the Devas, one Asura had also become immortal.Moral of the story is that when we start a good thing, we should not co-operate not even a single person who is against it. Else sooner or later we will repent.In our society also there are Devas and Asuras. It can be divided as people who do good deeds and people who do bad deeds. People who do bad will keep on doing it if the climate is favorable. Such people have the capacity to destroy a society or a civilization or even a country.Quoting Swamy Sree Narayana Guru, we should unite to be strong. Only our union can make us stronger. It will make the society better. But if the people who unite are the people who are doing wrong, then we can guess the result.If a society has to be good, the people have to be good. If the society is good, the country will be good. Many good countries might make this world better.A question might arise that what are the factors for the betterment of society. For a good society people should have pure and innocent minds. Abstention from alcohol, tobacco, drugs etc is very important.But in today’s work it is difficult to find a person who doesn’t have any of the above bad habits. Even if we find them, they are just numbered.Its written on the cigarette pack that “Smoking is injurious to health”, but still people buy and use it. It’s a bad habit. Its written on the alcohol bottle that “Drinking is injurious to health”, still people buy and drink that. Similarly it’s written on Pan masalas that it’s injurious to health, but still people use them.Like doing a crime intentionally, people are trying to hug a disaster. We can say that it is like going to a prostitute who is know to have deadly diseases like AIDS or Gonorrhea.Knowingly or unknowingly we might slip into the wrong path and go far. There is no point in repenting after which there is no return. ‘Time’ is precious for man. Do GOOD things only.

My Essays

Essay:-1
MALAYALAM CINEMA YESTERDAY AND TODAY
In Ancient days,Malayalam cinema was merely story telling.Still,it was much better than the new generation movies.In old cinemas, the producers had to mix some condiments to make good for the investment amount.Cabaret dance is seen in most of the olden movies starring Jayan,Nazir,Vincent,Sudheer,Soman etc.New cinemas don’t have much cabaret dance but still a lot of violence is shown.
Veterans like Adoor Gopalakrishnan,Aravindan,John Abraham,P.A.Baker etc have left their mark in the Malayalam Film industry.People dont rush into theatre to see their movies.Usually,inside theatres, we could see young people who resrmbled some intellectuals with long hair and long beard.Although the film world is dominated by the new generation,to the satisfaction of the intellectuals,once in a while a good quality movies is born,like the occasional downpour in a hot summer.The rest are all packed with sex and violence.Two films worth mentioning here are Sivaji(Tamil)And Alibhai(Malayalam).
From the facial expressions of the people who saw sivaji,it was clear that it was money well
spend.Although it was a big budget movie,it had neither a good storyline nor screenplay nor any immobilize his opponent.All the black money in the state is then converted to American
Dollar and brought back to the state itself and brings the state under his feet through Sivaji Fou
ndation and becomes the uncrowned king.Later he is took in to remand by the CBI and is killed under Police custody.He takes a rebirth .The story ends when he takes revenge of his
opponent.Such a story is not likely to happen in india or anywhere in the world.The producer’s
confidence to get good returns for his investment is reiterated here,no matter how the story is
told.Alibhai also belongs to the same generation with a lot of violence and dialogue delivery.sex,violence,heroic scenes or dialogues resembling verbal diarrhoea will not make a film great.
Today’smovies appear and vanish like the gamblers at the carnival.They may be there to attract people for a week or at the most two weeks.
Each actor has a Fans associaton.These Fans Associatons mostly maintain the cinema.The
association members will see the movie repeated,thereby managing to keep a long que outside the theatres,showing their loyalty towards the hero of the movie.
But the directors don’t have any Fans Associations.It was all in the golden times of John Abraham and Aravindan.Today the situation has changed.Today the Fans Association members spend from their pocket and repeated see the movie of their favorite actor,not caring whether it is a good movie or not.If the present situation continues like this,we may never be able to see a good movie again either in Malayalam or in any language.If the situation in Mala-
yalam film industry is so pathetic,it is better not to mention about other language movies.
Cinema is viewed as a big business where the businessman tries to recover the invested
amount through any means.Greedy persons are trying to catch the film appreciaters in their net
by packing condiments in the movie.The hunger for money is the only thing seen in cinema production today.If this situation changes,then malayalam movie might survive.

How to stop the Hackers?

How to stop the Hackers?
Today we see that the crackers and viruses have got into Internet through the worldwide use of Internet services. Recent studies show that among the countries of the world, the hackers are using the Internet services in India the most. It has been found that one in every 28 have been virus infected. The Storm worm, which attacks through the U Tube video, has been the latest one. This new virus has affected 1.8 million computers worldwide.
The truth is that majority of the users in India are not trying to block this virus. Any user is not interested to find either the source of this virus or the reason for its attack. If at all they try, they may not know how to respond to it.
Crackers are perverted minded people who try to steal, distort, attack or add unwanted things to the email ids, web sites and other private files of other people. Crackers may not have a reason to do these things. They are people who sit in front of a computer for long hours, distorting the web sites of known people or crack the password for Internet banking accounts or the FTP username and some how try to introduce a virus into the system to destroy files or distort them or add unwanted items. Such crackers are to be feared.
Recently we read in newspaper about the cracking of the Hon’ Chief Minister of Kerala’s web site owned by the Govt of Kerala. If even a Chief Minister is not spared, then how can we ensure safety for a common man’s web site?
We should think about it. The crackers have grown beyond skies. They can attack any time. Today if a Chief Minister’s web site is hacked tomorrow it may be the President’s or Prime minister’s in our country or any other country. If we are careful, we may be able to stop them.
These crackers or their agents may be cracking our passwords or FTP usernames by hiding at some remote corner of this world. You may doubt how its possible to steal our secret password and FTP user name. The reason for this is the latest electronic technology, by placing a sophisticated electronic gadget inside the computer system that we use. The crackers can also come disguised in Internet. We can stop their activities to an extend by being careful. It is better to do Internet services through mobile phones or do it in protected environments, which are not accessible to crackers. Let us hope for a better worldwide Internet service without virus.
“Net Alter software” – a technology that does not need domain name.
This facility can be made available in PCs by installing net alter software browser. By installing the net alter software browser, the computers in network may share data and publish content etc. It is not necessary to host a web server or register the domain name. Due the absence of domains this gives complete protection from virus and hacking.

CHANGING FACES AND SMELLY PLACES

Changing faces and smelly places

Long time back, people used depend on bullock carts for transportation. It’s changed today. Instead of bullock carts, we have 2 wheelers, car, bus, train, plane etc. A person who doesn’t own any of the above or at least a bicycle is rare. Villages and cities all have highways now. Villages seem to have more concrete buildings. The narrow zigzag roads in villages are all made beautiful. On either side we can see paddy fields converted to residential areas. Villages filled with coconut trees have all disappeared. Streetlights may be glowing but not with enough light. Still the roads are conveyable.
The changes that happened in cities are not ignorable. Cities are face lifted with huge shopping malls and other buildings. Although there is big development, we can still see the garbage from plastic wastes, rotten vegetables & fruits and other eatables at every nook and corner. How ever handsome a person may be, but a pimple or black spot may make him ugly. Just like that, our city may be beautiful, but with unkept surroundings it may look ugly.
Things that we use daily like toothpaste, detergent, talcum powder, plastic wastes, unused eatables, rotten vegetables, fruits, meat, egg etc will decompose in surroundings and will emit bad odor making the city life a hell. The real culprits for this pathetic state are we ourselves. The things that throw away can become breeding places for flies and mosquitoes and it can create a lot of problems for other fellow beings.
Villages are no different. The throw away things can cause big social issues like fatal diseases (Chicungunya, dengue etc) which can destroy a society or even the country. As far as possible, we should try not to throw away the waste. We should dispose them by burning or burying it in some uninhabited place.
The society and ourselves will be healthy only if we keep our surrounding neat and tidy. Then there wont be any contagious diseases. The country will progress only if we keep our surroundings clean. We can live longer also. Foreign tourists will visit our place only if it is kept neat and tidy.
“Even if our faces looks ugly our surroundings should not look ugly”