STAR Vijay Channel is a good channel and telecasts good clean entertainment and most of the programmes being aired by other TV channels in Tamil are a poor imitation of the STAR Vijay’s Shows.
However the serial Kana Kaanum Kaalangal, which I was asked to see, is a programme in very bad taste.
The serial revolves around a Principal whose life Mission seems to ensure that a Student is sent out of the College.
Calf Love is shown at its worst with double entendre, in most times a single meaning- vulgar.
Add to this the way the students(!) comment on teachers, thinking that it is a joke…..nauseating.
Producers of the show might resort to the oft-repeated statement of film makers, especially of the Tamil Film industry that they are portraying Life!
What these perverts fail to understand is that they, with their imagination produce films on what they imagine to be possible but need not be ‘probable’.
The Society, including Students, make the ”possible’, ‘probable and certain’.
Media has an obligation to society, more than a few Silvers.
This is not the first time the Pachiyappa College students engaged in vandalism.
What I narrate here happened in 1967/8-68/69, when I was a student of Vivekananda CollegeChennai and happened to be the College Union Secretary.
Economic Department of the Madras University conducted an event at the Madras University premises and students of all colleges were attending the function.( I did not attend the function)
We, at our college received information that a student of our College(Vivekananda ) was stabbed by a student of the Pachiyappa College and we decided to take action on the following day by convening the Student Council.
The next day the The Indian Express published a news item under the heading ‘Rowdyism mar University function’.
On reading the headline , the students of Pachayappa College went on a procession through Mount Road and late Annadurai(who was a student of Pachiyappa College), who was at the Murasoli office at the time of the Day, came out and openly declared that the ‘Pachayappa College’ students should not behave like the rowdies of other colleges’, -calling the best behaved students of Vivekananda College as rowdies-one should note that the CM did not have any information as to what has happened and the fact Annadurai and Co were against the Vivekananda College as it was run(in his view) by Aryan Brahmins!
Enthused by his stupid and provocative remarks, the Pachayappa Students went on a rampage against our college and the Indian Express for a couple of Days.
We had to call in the Madras Students College Union and enlisted the support of all colleges,except Thyagaraya College, which aligned with Pachayappa’s, and it took another couple of days for Annadurai to depute his Minister Late.V.R Neduncheziyan to our college and he complicated the issues by stating in Vivekananda College Assembly by declaring that he will never step into our College as the college was not worthy of him and the enraged Students booed him and he had to be escorted out.
Later Annadurai, through the Pachayappa College ,Shanmugasundaram ,I recall, and Ra.Janarthanan who was student leader of the Pachiyappa College(he was a DMK stooge and he is no more), expressed his regrets and that was that.
If one were to check the History of Student violence in Chennai ,one would invariably find Pachayappa Students involved in one way or another.
After all, this college is the home ground of disciplined DMK Leaders.
I envisage a stream of hate mail and a list of the luminaries from Pachayappa College, but they shall fail to note that the luminaries were prior to DMK junk.
A great Institution is being sullied by the goons of DMK.
Will Pachayappa’s authorities restore their old glory by throwing out these flotsams and jetsams?
“At least 30 police personnel, including an Assistant Commissioner of Police, and ten others were injured when a ‘Bus Day’ celebration turned violent in front of the Pachaiyappa’s College here on Wednesday, police said.
According to police sources, about 100 students took a Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) bus from Broadway to their college as part of their ‘Bus Day’ celebration around noon on Wednesday. A large posse of police personnel escorted them. On reaching the college premises, the students allegedly threw stones. Traffic was disrupted on EVR Salai following the incident.
“We exercised restraint and persuaded the students to disperse. They continued to throw stones indiscriminately…Six members of the public were also injured. Police used mild force to chase the unruly students into the campus,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Kilpauk) S. Lakshmi said.
Four students were also hospitalised. “Police entered the campus without obtaining the permission of the management,” a professor of Pachaiyappa’s College said.
The incident took place a couple of days after the Madras High Court wanted to know why police were not taking action against unruly celebrations in the name of ‘Bus Day’. Explaining why police used force, Commissioner of Police T. Rajendran said the students kept on throwing stones on the police and public. “Public life and property was endangered. The Inspector of Police (Kilpauk) E. Rajeswari suffered a head injury…we had no other option but to chase the students. One MTC bus and two motorcycles were damaged in stone throwing,” he told The Hindu.”
“The police crackdown on the so-called ‘bus day’ celebrations will continue, and all police personnel have been instructed to strictly implement the court-imposed ban on the menace in letter and spirit, the city police have told the Madras high court.
A counter-affidavit, filed by Chennai police commissioner J K Tripathy in response to a batch of public interest petitions against the recent ‘bus day’ violence in the city, said chargesheet against 14 persons, including 12 Pachaiyappa’s College students, will be filed shortly.
“The investigation is mostly complete. The final report will be filed in due course. The police risked their lives, rescued the general public, especially women and children, and made all efforts to bring the situation under control,” Tripathy said, referring to the February 9 rampage by Pachaiyappa’s College students. ”
* the information can be verified by checking the archives of Indian Express.
It is worth noting that in the very nest year of this incident Pachiyappa College students were involved in the attack on the Madras City Transport buses and the Conductors and drivers retaliated in kind and this issue became a serious law and Order issue.
Racism has never abated, been only dormant and it surfaces unwittingly at times though.
Accept it , that’s all.What else can be done!
You can not change centuries of habit.
On the other hand this piece might be due to journalistic enthusiasm to get noticed with out knowing the fall out.
Let them be.
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The unexpected emergence of Jeremy Lin from the depths of the New York Knicks‘ bench has been a dream for headline writers and just about everyone who loves puns. The “Linsanity” has spawned some Lincredible wordplay as well as some really unLinteresting phrases.
And, now, we may have found our most offensive headline from a mainstream media outlet.
The use of the word “chink” is especially galling as Lin has revealed that this racial slur was used to taunt him during his college playing career at Harvard. After a brief run, the headline was changed to “All Good Things..”
Last night, ESPN.com’s mobile web site posted an offensive headline referencing Jeremy Lin at 2:30 am ET. The headline was removed at 3:05 am ET. We are conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake.
Ota also tweeted about the headline, noting the brief window of time that the headline was visible across mobile platforms.”
The liberal group TakeAction Minnesota on Monday morning held a press conference to condemn what they said was racist imagery being used to promote a proposed voter ID law.
The Republican-controlled Minnesota legislature is pushing for a constitutional amendment that would require voters to show a government-issued photo identification in order to vote at a polling place.
An online banner on WeWantVoterID.com, a site created by the conservative group Minnesota Majority, shows an African-American male dressed in a black-and-white-striped prison suit and a person dressed in a blue mariachi costume standing alongside fictional characters. All of the characters are lined up waiting to vote and the online banner’s reads” “Voter Fraud: Watch How Easy It Is To Cheat In Minnesota’s Elections.
Google seems bent on getting your Private information whatever be the cost.
It is interesting to read the New privacy information in Google, where it never says what you want to know nor you become any wiser what Google is talking about Privacy.Please read my blog on this.(under ‘internet’)
Like the Safari compromise, the IE9 compromise involves cookies — small bits of code that Web sites put into your Web browser. Those cookies usually don’t contain any personal information, but can keep track if you’ve visited a particular Web site so you don’t have to log in again every time you come back to the site. (Think how annoying it would be if you had to re-enter your Facebook ID every time you came back to Facebook, for instance.)
I came across a couple of sites which offer information on a wide range of subjects, education,gadgets, updated information on weather, earth, diseases etc.
“Welcome to the new Poodwaddle.com – Archive of free Flash gadgets, clocks, and applets, including the World Clock of course.
All our applets are completely free – ad-free, virus-free, scam-free, fat-free, germfree, handsfree, scotfree, Stayfree… um… maybe not that last one… Poodwaddle requires no sign-up or membership. Add our applets to your website, blog, or social net profile. Simply copy the small embed code snippet (shown in the lower left of each applet page).
Hey, are you even reading this? I bet you are just sitting there blankly staring at the ladybug and wondering if you should slap your screen. Slap if you like but he won’t go away.
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