The highly anticipated Ferrari 458 Italia has been announced. The design is very sleek and looks like it will grab a lot of attention if you drive it through the streets of any city. The Ferrari 458 has a 4.5 liter V8 engine that produces 562 horsepower and 398 lb-ft of torque. Of course this car is very fast and can travel 100 km/h in 3.4 sec. Check out more about ferrari at : ferrari.fanz.in/india
Kerala Piravi represents creation of Kerala state. The Kerala took birth on Nov 1st, 1956. Mallu from all over the globe celebrate 1 Nov as festival of Kerala Piravi, that stands for the birth of Kerala in Malayalam language.
This year in 2009 the 53rd anniversary is being celebrated of this festival known as Kerala Piravi.
Kerala Piravi Celebrations in the state: The Kerala University Union will arrange a variety of programs in to celebrate the ‘Kerala Piravi’ from 1st Nov – 6th Nov 2009. As per the program, an artistic demonstration will be organized from the Govt. Guest House, Chinnakada, upto S.N. College, Kollam, at 10 in the morning on 2nd Nov 2009. Minister of Water Resources Mr. N.K. Premachandran will start the public gathering to be organized after the program.
We wish our readers from Kerala and India a very Happy Kerala Piravi 2009. People from Kerala exchange greetings and send sms
and orkut scraps to friends and relatives on this day. The collection of greetings and SMS can be searched in Google.
Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif make a wowsome couple on screen.. Of their five films together — Namastey London, Singh is Kingg and Welcome have been super duper hits.
They will soon be seen in Farha Khan’s Tees Maar Khan and as per reports, the flick is a very strong one.
Those who have seen sneak previews (like us) can see why these two actors work so well together. In fact, Katrina isn’t even sure what she will say to the media about Akshay because this is her sixth film with him.
However, Kat needn’t worry. The promos of TMK that are attached to the prints of Golmaal-3 are likely to say it all. Incidentally, Shirish Kunder and Farha intend to make a sequel to TMK in 2012. Of course,
Akshay will produce it with them.
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Srinagar : After
three months of curfews and strikes hitting Jammu and Kashmir, the state
administration on Wednesday launched a massive facelift drive to
beautify the region’s famous gardens. As part of the drive,
restoration and beautification works have already begun in some of the
heritage gardens that were built by the Mughal emperors in medieval
times.
Bigg Boss 4 was seeing a love triangle all this while. But tonight, this triangle will turn into a quadrangle with the surprise entry of Ali Merchant in the Bigg Boss house.
Sara Khan, who’s still coming to grips with the shifting romantic leanings of Ashmit Patel, is in for a surprise – pleasant or unpleasant depending on how she takes the entry of her beau (presumably not ex yet) on the show ‘Bigg Boss 4’.
Ali Merchant will enter the house to sort out his tangled love life with Sara. On the other hand, a romance or at least its likeness seems to be brewing up between Ashmit and Veena Malik.
Ashmit, who looks as it butter wouldn’t melt in his mouth, was exposed after Sara was sent to the secret room of Bigg Boss. In no time, he was seen bonding with Veena.
Now, the question is: does Sara still love Ashmit? What does Ashmit feel for Veena who has hinted her love toward him? Will Ali Merchant be able to win back Sara?
The votes are in! While many expected the Doctor to be raising his hand for the trademark (if not cliched) victory sign, few would have anticipated it barely a few hours after election results were released.
Even the most optimistic UPA figures (including those thought by themselves) did not exceed the 240 mark. Regional Heavyweights like Mulayam Singh Yadav of the SP, Lalu Prasad Yadav of the RJD and Jayalalitha of the AIADMK were being courted as allies in either an internal or external support structure to help the coalition cross the magic 272 figure mark. Of course, the results of May 16, stripped the ‘kingmakers’ of their regal rewards.
To recap the results,
UPA – 262 seats (+43 since GE 2004)
NDA – 157 seats (-23)
Third Front – 57 seats (-22)
BSP – 21 seats (+2)
Others – 17 seats
To compare the results with MIP Predictions,
UPA outperformed by 67 seats
NDA underperformed by 32 seats
Third Front underperformed by 43 seats
BSP underperfomed by 11 seats
Others outperformed by 7 seats
To explore where the actual results deviated from the expected, it is quite clear that the UPA’s increase of seats was a direct steal from the share of its competitors, the need-for-rejuvenation NDA and the need-for-any-kind-of-stability Third Front. The Congress Party in itself, had a fantastic performance taking a total of 206 seats across the nation. The last time the Congress had such a result, the dynamic Rajiv Gandhi was at the helm. Credit is definitely due to the Congress for beating the BJP, party-for-party, by a margin of 90 seats, which can only be a termed as an absolute drumming.
Lets dive in further to analyze the UPA results.
1. The Trinamool Congress chipped in as the most valuable ally with 19 seats. The alliance with the Congress, helped it take over West Bengal, long regarded as a Left Stronghold (through the CPM).
2. The DMK came a close second with 18 seats in Tamil Nadu, exactly double of Amma’s return with the AIADMK.
3. Very strong performance by the UPA (>80% of seats) in the states of:
Andhra Pradesh (95%)
Haryana (90%)
Rajasthan (80%)
Jammu & Kashmir (83%)
Kerala (80%)
Delhi (100%)
Uttrakhand (100%)
4. Strong performance by the UPA (>60% of seats) in the states of:
Punjab (62%)
West Bengal (62%)
Tamil Nadu (69%)
5. Moderate performance by the UPA (>30% of seats) in the states of:
Gujuart (42%)
Maharashtra (52%)
Madhya Pradesh (41%)
Orissa (29%)
6. Weak performance by the UPA (<30% of seats) in the states of:
Uttar Pradesh (26%)
Jharkand (21%)
Karnataka (21%)
Himachal Pradesh (25%)
Do note that this weak performance only represents arithmetic numbers. In reality, the UPA has perfomed exceptionally well to even get this 20-30% share in some states like UP or Karnataka. The dominance of regional heavyweights are often the cause of a poor show by national parties.
The UPA had very few Zeros – Small North-Eastern States like Sikkim and Nagaland and Union Territories like Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Daman & Diu.
The Final scorecard of the UPA reads as: 7-3-4-4 (only taking major states into account).
Comparing the results to GE 2004, the main increases of the UPA were:
Uttar Pradesh (200% increase)
Punjab (300% increase)
Rajasthan (400% increase)
Jammu & Kashmir (150% increase)
Kerala (a phenomenal 1500% increase, the tally of only 1 seat in 2004 rising to 16 in 2009)
West Bengal (333% increase)
Madhya Pradesh (200% increase)
Orissa (100% increase)
The main declines were seen in:
Bihar (93% decrease)
Jharkand (75% decrease)
Tamil Nadu (25% decrease)
Himachal Pradesh (67% decrease)
While the UPA camp is a happy one, the NDA is hardly ‘Shining’. The BJP itself fell from its 2004 position of 138 seats to 116 seats. Some reasons for the dismal performance of the NDA:
1. The departure of Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) from the NDA weakened the chances of getting seats in Orissa. The BJD ultimately got 14 out of the 21 seats in Orissa, with the NDA failing to capture even 1.
2. Poor performance of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) in Punjab. While in power via the Badals in the Vidhan Sabha, the BJP-SAD combo failed to take over Punjab. The alliance only gave 5 out of the 13 seats, with the UPA securing the remaining 8.
3. Failure to do well in South India. While the Congress enjoys a pan-India reputation, the BJP is largely a North India party catering to the Hindi heartland. In South India (barring Karnataka), the NDA took a real whacking. 2 seats of 42 in Andhra Pradesh, none in Kerala or Tamil Nadu have practically cost it the election. In the same 3 states, the UPA took a mammoth 83 out of the 101 seats.
A more detailed state-wise analysis of the NDA:
1. Very strong performance by the NDA (>80% of seats) in the states of:
Bihar (80%)
Chhatisgarh (91%)
2. Strong performance by the NDA (>60% of the seats) in the states of:
Karnataka (68%)
Himachal Pradesh (75%)
3. Moderate performance by the NDA (>30% of the seats) in the states of:
Gujuarat (58%)
Jharkand (57%)
Punjab (38%)
Maharashtra (42%)
Madhya Pradesh (55%)
Assam (36%)
4. Weak perfomance by the NDA (<30% of the seats) in the states of:
Uttar Pradesh (19%)
Andhra Pradesh (5%)
Rajasthan (16%)
West Bengal (2%)
The NDA had much more 0s than the UPA. In Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, Delhi, Kerala, Orissa and several North-Eastern states, the NDA failed to register a single seat. With a scorecard of 2-2-6-4 can hardly compete with the 7-3-4-4 of the UPA.
But the NDA arent the biggest losers of this campaign. Not by a long shot. See the results of the Left and try and not think about the words ‘crushing defeat’. Quite tough.
The CPI and the CPM in total polled 24 seats, a 29 seat decline from the 53 seats captured in 2004. The Communist bastions of Kerala and West Bengal are now UPA strongholds. In Kerala, the Left only took 20% of the seats, while in West Bengal, its 35% capture was insufficient to block the advances of the UPA. It was quite amazing to see Prakash Karat pull off a faint smile, while reporters all over for screeching questions about the reasons for this defeat.
Now that we are on the Losers column, let us also talk about the heartland trio – Samajwadi Party, Rashtriya Janata Dal and Lok Jan Shakti Party.
The SP saw a fall of 13 seats to end with 23 seats. Perhaps Mulayam Singh Yadav’s idea of removing computers and teaching of English was not as visionary as he thought.
Lalu’s RJD was embarassed with a 20 seat loss, ending with simply 4 seats. The ex-Railways Minister will find no place for himself in the Cabinet this time around.
If the RJD was embarassed, the LJP was humiliated. Ram Vilas Paswan’s party lost his 4 seats and has failed to find representation in the Lok Sabha.
Sharad Pawar of the NCP has been remarkably quiet about his chances for the Top Job. He probably realized that his party’s return of 9 seats was not impressive in an alliance of 262 seats.
The most quiet person of this elections has probably been Mayawati. While the Bahujan Samaj Party got a decent return of 21 seats, there is no reason for the UPA to invite her to join the alliance. External support may be considered for the UPA to cross the 272 mark, but she is not going to have as imporant a role in the national polity as she would have hoped for. The BSP is also quite weak outside of the UP, its only other seat coming in Madhya Pradesh.
Special mention to Nitish Kumar, whose JD(U) in Bihar won 20 out of the 40 seats. The Lalu era is practically over, and Nitish’s popularity continues to rise.
Rahul Gandhi’s work in UP seems to have paid off well. He seems at ease in the Engine of the Congress, and seems to getting the right seasoning. Lets hope Rajiv’s son has inherited many of his father’s qualities.
The ‘Brat’ (Varun Gandhi) won the Pilihibit Constituency by receiving 49.79% of the total votes casted (over 4.19 lakh votes). MIP’s Idol-in-Chief Shashi Tharoor is also an MP now, winning the Trivandrum constituency in Kerala. Tharoor beat his nearest rival by over 1 lakh votes. Meera Sanyal, however, did not enjoy success. She barely polled over 5000 votes, and quite easily beaten by the incumbent Milind Deora.
To end this mammoth article, MIP would like to congratulate the UPA and the Congress, for their excellent results. While personal opinion supports the NDA and the BJP, MIP realizes the need for stability and continuity and prefers a government that will not have to face no-confidence motions any time its allies feel like making a U-turn. Well done. Heres hoping to 5 more years of India Shining! 
Before I forget, isnt this picture really, really funny?
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Producer: Ronnie Screwvala
Director: Shyam Benegal
Cast: Shreyas Talpade, Amrita Rao, Ravi Kishan, Rajeshwari Sachdeva, Ravi Jhankal, Ila Arun, Divya Dutta, Yashpal Sharma
Music: Shantanu Moitra
Welcome to Shyam Benegal’s world of enchanting social comment. Every character in this village of the damned, the doomed and remarkably redeemed is a stereotype. And yet, miraculously, every character is an individual, eccentric, quirky, blemished and yet so full of vitality vigour and energy that you wonder which came first…life, or life as seen through the eyes of Benegal’s camera of innocence, candour and credibility.
This isn’t Benegal’s first broadly-designed, warmly-panoramic ensemble film. Earlier, the prolific director excelled in depicting the life of a specific community in ‘Mandi’ and ‘Suraj Ka Satwan Ghoda’ as a microcosm of a larger reality.
Bad karma nudges delicious satire in ‘Welome To Sajjanpur’ as a closet-author whiles away his time writing letters for the illiterate, misguided villagers in a sleepy village that comes alive only at election time when a spirited eunuch takes on a local gangster at the elections.
The spirit of the missives, some sad, some satirical, others a bewildering Benegalesque blend of both, comes across in episodic overtures that lead us gently but persuasively from one issue – of widow remarriage (Ravi Kissan giving coy glances to Rajeswahri Sachdeva is a paisa-vasool sight) to another issue of rural migration.
Amrita Rao, in loud parrot-coloured saris and mannerisms suggesting an unspoilt naivete, is the bride-in-waiting whose husband has been gone to Mumbai for four years.
Shreyas Talpade is the letter writer given the task of informing Amrita’s husband that the bride can wait no more. In a spurt of blinding self-interest, Talpade goes from detached letter-writer to attached Romeo and then to the penitent martyr with an ease, fluency and sauciness that the actor seems to muster up with a magician’s flourish.
In a film flush with accomplished performances, Talpade holds the plot together like a voluminous book’s spine – giving his bucolic character heart, charm and chutzpah.
This is Talpade’s coming-of-age film. You really can’t imagine any other leading man achieving the same level of connectivity with the character, plot and audience.
All the Benegal regulars – from Ila Arun to Rajit Kapur – show up in Sajjanpur with gratifying humility and warmth. Ravi Jhankal as the election-contesting eunuch and Yashpal Sharma as the eunuch’s uncouth opponent stand out, if ‘stand out’ is the right term for a film where the actors become one with the characters in a seamless design celebrating life’s most recognisable and basic emotions.
The costumes (Pia Benegal) tend to get a little touristy at times. And the dialogues (Ashok Mishra again) sometimes lean towards the lewd to salute the boorish rustic ambience. These are not traits you would expect in Benegal’s film. But then he needs to keep up with the times. A fact that seems to have bypassed the soporific slumber-dwellers of Sajjanpur as they battle between hand-written postcards and sms communications, finally allowing the former to rule the roost until further notification.
This is a film where every character – big or small – stands tall in his or her naive insularity from forces of corruptibility that threaten to break down their doors.
Sajjanpur echoes a 1977 film ‘Palkon Ki Chaon Mein’ where Rajesh Khanna played the village postman trying not to get too involved with the local people’s domestic problems. Talpade doesn’t try that hard.
This is not Benegal’s most subtle work of his prolific career. But it is one of his warmest, funniest and raunchiest pieces of cinema – where every character is a human being you’d bump into if you visit a Sajjanpur. Not too many films do that these days.
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The World Anti Doping agency has been pushing reforms across various sports this includes tennis and cricket. In fact Sania Mirza and Mahesh Bhupathi have recently told the media that cricketers should just agree with the WADA and follow their anti-doping rules.
The problem is that the WADA wants players to disclose their locations three months before any sports match and that is invading their privacy.
Cheating in sports should be avoided but an agency should not go into the private lives of our favorite sports players. India should develop its own rules on enhancements sports players use
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