Swades - We the people

                Just now, finished watching the movie Swades, including all the seven deleted scenes available in youtube :). I am not sure how many times i've already seen the movie. 

From the very first time i've seen this movie, I've become a big fan of the movie as well as Ashutosh Gowarikar. He is a marvellous Director who has done some excellent meaningful movies.


Coming to the movie:
    Shahrukh was perfect to the character, an NRI who came to india for his nanny. Not a bit of over acting any where[which he normally does :)]. Perfect in cute little romantic scenes as well as serious scenes crying or preaching the villagers. I would say this is his best performance till date(Sep 1st, 2010).


    Gayatri Joshi is also very natural and apt for the role. She might not've acted greatly in some scenes, but that makes it more natural.[No Human being gives perfect expressions in real life :)] I am really surprised why she couldn't act in many movies[atleast big movies] after that movie. 


    The director was able to properly everything in the movie:

• Romance/Love between the lead pair was shown in  a very cute and decent manner. 
• Emotions were perfectly brought in all the scenes showing various problems/people's sufferings,,etc. Never over the board. This is very difficult to achieve.
• Some simple solutions were shown in a nice way. Lets not debate on the possibilities of those solutions.
• The whole village environment was captured very well.

I feel/think, India needs many such Mohan Bhargavas for it to resolve all it's problems and become a properly developed country.

I will feel really happy/proud when ever I read about such people who fight/bring  change in the society and show solutions to the common/poor people's problems. Recently I've read about Bhagavatula Parameswara Rao, an indian who completed his PhD in US and returned to India in 1967 and since then been helping many people using his Bhagavatula Charitable trust.

More information can be found at http://www.bctindia.net/

Jai Hind

Easiest way to download images from picasa website [Other user accounts]

Hi,

 

Many times, our friends will upload the pics to picasa and send us the links.

 

But, how can we download all of them to our desktop?

Picasa doesn’t provide any such options. And we cannot waste all our time right click on each image and downloading.

 

We can use DownThemAll but with a slight twist.

If you directly use it to download all images, you will only download the thumbnail size images.

To download the actual full size images, open the RSS and use the tool from there.

 

1. Install the DownThemAll extension
2. Go to the picasa album url.
3. Click on the “RSS” on the right side bar and you’ll get album’s feed.
4. Right-click on the page, select DownThemAll/DownThemAll in the contextual menu, expand the Filters section and check "Images". Don't forget to enter the folder where you want to save the photos.

 

Cheers,
Santhosh

 

 

[Some time pass] Observations on Population & Population Density stats :-)

Today, I am getting damn bored in the office and hence wasted time doing R&D on Population and Population Density.

And here is some of the gyan I gained: (Thanks to Wikipedia J )

 

Total world population as of now: ~685 crores

• (2^nd) India’s contribution: 17.26%
• (1^st) China’s contribution: 19.52%
• (3^rd) USA’s contribution: 4.52 %        [See the huge difference from here J]
• (4^th) Indonesia’s contribution: 3.41%
• First 10 countries among the 223 countries in the list contribute to 58.65 % of the population

(China, India, US, Indonesia, Brazil, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Russia and Japan)

• The 80-20 rule(Pareto principle) applies here also:

• 80% of world’s population live in less than 20% of the world’s countries(33 countries out of 223 countries)

 

 

Population Density:

• Among the top ten populous countries, again India is the second densely populous country after Bangladesh J

• (9^th rank in population density ) Bangladesh: 1126 humans/km2
• (9) Bangladesh: 1126
• (32) India: 360
• (36) Japan: 337
• (58) Pakistan: 211
• (72) Nigeria: 167
• (78) China: 139
• (91) Indonesia: 121
• (178) US: 32
• (192) Brazil: 22
• (221) Russia: 8

 

• This to some extent explains poverty in our countries and wealth in US and Russia,,

 

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_density

 

Cheers,
Santhosh

 

 

**^H@ppy Sund@y^**

From the past 26+ years, except for the first 3 initial years, i think the ever sweetest thing is SUNDAY. And I am sure, each of you would surely say so. [If u do not think so, better u visit some doctor(not kidding :))].

During different stages of life, I was enjoying them in a variety of ways:

L.K.G to 5th Class: Full of playing inside n outside home.

6th Class to 10th Class: Some games outside, movies with friends and very importantly IDIOT BOX[TV]

+1 and +2(Intermediate two years): BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS[all others r negligible :(]

B.Tech 4 years: Nothing special[same enjoy as other days of week ;)]

Of late, probably after I am little grown up, following three are really helping me in enjoying my Sunday.

Eenadu: 

Like many people in Andhra, my brain has now got completely programmed to such an extent that, reading any news paper other than eenadu, I will not feel like I read a news paper. Hence, first thing I do once I get up is to get this.

Why do I need the news paper?

I will not claim to be a responsible citizen just by reading a news paper. The imp. reason to read it is, probably it provides me what I am interested in(movies, sports, politics, happenings). Easiest way to know about the world u r leaving in is reading the news paper. It tells u about the real-time meanings of all the following words including their counter words. 

Good, bad, ugly, great, faith, bold,  generous, secure, sensitive, responsible, honorable, creative, humility, ignorant, tolerance, determine, loyal, truthful.

Swathi:

Ahhhhh,,,, "I almost enjoy each and every letter printed in Swathi weekly."

I know it's little exaggerating. But it's not completely false. I really love each and everything in swathi: serials, stories, nannu adagandi, kothi kommochchi, ee sheershike meedhe, all the cartoons and drawings from Baapu, editorial by balaram sir, film reviews and news, articles about various things, articles about god, health tips, that, this,, etc and everything.

FULL TIMEPASS. I cannot say this, as I make the time for it and again pass it ;)

Some people think, it is for ladies. But, I am proud to say I am a fan of Swathi. I am not at all ashamed of reading it.

Bru Coffe:

Start the day with a bru coffe. Even though u've it daily, but having it so leasurely on a Sunday morning, is a completely different experience.[Again aaahhhhhh],,May be caffeine is little poisonous to health. But it is worth the joy it provides :D,,

Apart from the above, movies(inside and outside, men only parties :(,  :), friends, internet, and of course, IDIOT BOX complete my Sundays.

Another sunday is almost finished,,,,Waiting for one more [:)],,,

Cheers

Santhosh