humanity is my fraternity”
The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued. -Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)
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Mahakavi
Subramaniya
Bharathiyar's
Birth Anniversary
At least two people have been killed and 15 others injured in an
explosion at a concert by an Indian Bollywood star in Colombo.
The blast ripped through the stands just as Shahrukh Khan
ended a three-hour performance on Saturday.
Sirahinile ....
by 6 Artists:[MIOL]
[More Pictures - BBC News]
group says [The Globe and Mail]
An international human-rights organization is warning members
of Canada's Tamil community that their donations to
organizations in Sri Lanka may be used in the recruitment of
child soldiers.
Human Rights Watch reported sectarian rebel group Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam has continued to recruit child soldiers in
order to solidify the group's position in the north and east of
the country.
"What we hope to do is encourage the Tamil community in
Canada to use both their political and financial influence with
the LTTE to push this issue and directly question the LTTE
about their child-recruitment policies and practices," Jo Becker,
Human Rights Watch children's rights advocacy director, said
yesterday.
Sri Lankan truck driver Dinesh Rajaratnam taken hostage in
Iraq last October has been released along with his
Bangladeshi colleague Abul Kashem, the Foreign Ministry
confirmed yesterday.
Sri Lanka's Muslims are warning of a militant backlash as
increasing tension between them and the Tamil community in
the east of the country fuels feelings of frustration and anger.
The Virakesari on Monday in its lead story quoted Ranil
Wickremesinghe's speech at the UNP's 50th annual
convention, who said the time limit allowed to the government
to look into the people's grievances was now over and added
that while the people were unable to find three decent meals,
President Kumaratunga was attempting to be in office for a
third term.
In another front page story, the paper said IGP Chandra
Fernando had completed his investigations on two senior
police officials who had dealings with underworld kingpin and
prime suspect in High Court Judge Sarath Ambepitiya's killing,
Potta Nauffer, and his report would be submitted to the
National Police Commission.
The Thinakkural too led with Ranil Wickremesinghe's speech at
the UNP's convention. In yet another story, the paper said
President Kumaratunga had sought Erik Solheim's help to ease
tension following Prabhakaran's Heroes' Day speech.
The Sudaroli said that former UNP strongman Sirisena Cooray
would soon join the UNP again.
The Virakesari on Tuesday reported that thousands of families
were displaced due to floods in Kilinochchi and Batticaloa. TNA
MPs would travel to India at the end of the month where they
would meet with political leaders in Tamil Nadu and in New
Delhi, the paper said in a front page story.
The Sudaroli led with a story that Arumugam Thondaman
would assume duties as a Cabinet Minister with his deputy as
Kandy District CWC MP, Faisal Musthafa. All Tamil Dailies on
Wednesday led with the Supreme Court judgment in the S. B.
Dissanayake contempt case. The Thinakkural in a front page
story published a picture of Sri Lankan Dinesh Rajaratnam
abducted in Iraq and said he was released on Tuesday. The
Sudaroli said LTTE's Batticaloa political office was attacked on
Tuesday night. Four hand grenades were thrown into the office
but no one was injured.
The Thinakkural quoted the speech of UNP Parliamentarian T.
Maheswaran and said the main Opposition UNP was observing
silence in the face of dictatorial governance by the President.
FILMS "OF BY AND FOR" THE PEOPLE
by D.B.S.JEYARAJ
Film festivals are fast becoming annual events in many, many
cities now. The reviewer V.Radhika writing in the "Hindu"
summed it up aptly "In a box-office-propelled movie world, film
festivals are oases of hope. They offer a kaleidoscope of world
visions that are not packaged in a fast-food format: to be
devoured and forgotten. They showcase works that hold a
mirror to the times we live in, often reflecting unflattering but
thought-provoking images". [Contd.]
Born on September 16, 1916, in Madurai to Subramania Iyer
and Shanmukhavadivu, Madurai Shanmukhavadivu
Subbulakshmi, her brother Saktivel and sister Vadivambal grew
up surrounded by classical music. Her grandmother Akkammal
played the violin and her mother was a veena artist.
Sarcasm has always been Satyaraj's forte. And he plays it up in
marked style in Sundari Films' "Maha Nadigan." He makes fun
of many in cinema and politics with his glib tongue, and gets
away with it too. (He doesn't spare himself either) Story wise
there's not much that is plausible and true to life, but the
dialogue makes up for the flaws with its facile wit and genuine
humour.
Study Says [National Geogrpahic News]
Increasingly, scientists agree that it isn't physical need that
makes animal smart, but social necessity. Group living tends to
be a complicated business, so for individuals to prosper they
need to understand exactly what's going on. So highly social
creatures like dolphins, chimps, and humans tend to be
large-brained and intelligent. The study notes that crows are
also social and have unusually large brains for their size. "It is
relatively the same size as the chimpanzee brain," the authors
said. They say that crows and apes both think about their
social and physical surroundings in complex ways, using tool
use as an example.
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Click to listen Song from Tamil Movie " Parasakthi " By C. S. Jeyaraman
According to an article published in the latest issue of Science,
crows are among the standouts: They make tools, have great
memories and have remarkable recognition ability. In fact, a
few types of birds demonstrate a thinking capacity that belies
the pejorative term "bird-brained."
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