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The shameful incident of 40 odd self acclaimed “protectors of Indian culture” attacking girls partying in a club in Mangalore has been drawing severe criticism from all parts of the country and from all intelligent and humane sections of the society.

The incident happened on January 24 2009 when 40 activists of  “Sri Ram Sena” (SRS), a hindu group attacked girls who were just having some quality time with their friends. They were brutally beaten and harrased at the hands of SRS goons. They were slapped,pushed,made to hear derogatory remarks about their conduct. So much hooliganism in the name of religion and culture.

We today claim to be a super power, we talk about giving reservations to women, giving them their rights, but the truth is that from inside we just dont respect our women. We still see (or a large section) them as someone who has to sit at home keeping our houses,feeding our children and bearing our non sense all the time. We treat them not as humans but as animals,or even as objects. These people are talking about culture? How civilised do they think when they lay their hands on a female. Do they think you are “men”? They are cowards. A man will never physically harass a women. I saw the pictures of the assualt and they were extremely terrifying and I could not post them here on my blog post.I find it hard to believe how can someone actually treat women like that.

I was watching the interview of one of the victim on news channel. She said that they were molested,harassed,their skirts were pulled down,were even called prostitutes (WTF!!!) and other derogatory remarks. Another victim described the whole incident as a traumatic expirience.

Which religion/culture teaches us to dis-respect women? Its just in the mentality of Indian men that we cant accept women working shoulder to shoulder with us. We may be in 21st century but our thinking is not in sync with the current times.

This is not just an isolated incident. These hindu groups and so called “keepers of the Indian culture” have been practising these kind of attacks for a long tme now. Couples have been repeatedly targeted,harassed, beaten since years, specially on Valentines Day. You can bet this will happen this time too. I am really sick of these groups;VHP,SRS,Bajrang Dal, Shiv Sena etc.

These kind of incidents makes women believe they are not safe among us,that they can not walk freely even in daylight,they are not free to move anywhere they want or do anything they want. I read many news papers and activists have rightly called this “Talibanisation of India“. (more…)

Underdog Slumdog Millionaire,a Danny Boyle directed film, won 4 awards at the 66^th annual Golden Globes award.

Slumdog Millionaire was nominated in four categories and it won all the four awards in which it was nominated.

It won:

• Best picture-Drama
• Best director (Danny Boyle)
• Best screenplay – Simone Beaufoy
• and Best original score – A.R. Rahman

Heath Ledger won the award for Best actor in a supporting role for his stunning portrayal of “The Joker” in “The Dark Knight” Director of TDK,Christopher Nolan accepted the award on behalf of the late actor
Other notable winners are:

- Best picture, Musical or Comedy: “Vicky Cristina Barcelona.”

- Actor, Drama: Mickey Rourke, for “The Wrestler.”

- Actress, Drama: Kate Winslet, for “Revolutionary Road.”

- Actor, Musical or Comedy: Colin Farrell, for “In Bruges.”

- Actress, Musical or Comedy: Sally Hawkins, for “Happy-Go-Lucky.”

- Supporting Actor: Heath Ledger, for “The Dark Knight.”

- Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet, for The Reader

- Foreign Language Film: “Waltz With Bashir.”

- Best Animated Film: “WALL-E.”

- Original Song: “The Wrestler” for “The Wrestler.”

With Slumdog sweeping the Golden Globes, chances of it succeeding at the Academy have gone very high. Story about a slumdog who participates in the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” to win over his childhood love,has been winning hearts across the globe. I myself loved the movie, and have watched it three times in the last 20 days. (more…)

Google has again changed its favicon. (Favicon is a little icon you see in the address bar of your browser and it helps you identify with the site you are visiting)
When the last time Google changed its favicon,it wasnt liked by many and ill have to admit,this time Google got it even worse. It appears so messy and plastic,like an ugly creation of a child with as bad creativity as mine. Thats just my personal opinion though.

Have a look yourself.
(If the image is not loading,just go to Google.com or any other Google product website and see for yourself)

The lower case “g” seems to be lost somewhere in background and it even looks like the numeral 8.

Microsoft’s latest Windows avatar,Windows 7 (Beta) can be downloaded for free on 9 January 2009.

If you want to download head over to this Windows 7 page and download it. And do it real fast because Windows 7 Beta will be available to the first 2.5 million downloaders only. So be quick.

This Beta will expire on 1st August 2009.

Here is an excerpt from the Windowsteamblog:

On January 9th, the Windows 7 Beta will be available for Windows enthusiasts to download via the Windows 7 page on Windows.com. The Windows 7 Beta is going to be available download-only (we’re not sending out physical media) and available for a limited time to the first 2.5 million people who download the beta.

The Windows 7 Beta will be available in English, German, Japanese, Arabic, and Hindi, and each language will be available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions (except Hindi which will only be available in 32-bit). Because the Windows 7 Beta will be offered download-only, it will be provided to you as an ISO image (an .iso file) that you download. After downloading either the 32-bit or 64-bit ISO image of the Windows 7 Beta, you will be required to burn the ISO image to a DVD to install Windows 7. So you want to be sure you have a DVD burner before spending the time downloading the ISO image.

Happy downloading.

A very very happy and prosperous new year to everyone who is reading this message.

May we have economic stability and peace in 2009.

Google gave me  a good new year gift, a PR. Google updated its PR in last days of December 2008. Knayam got a Page Rank of 2! Surprisingly,a few internal pages also got PR’s. I dint see that coming. Though I was expecting a PR of 3 for my homepage here. But I dint do any updates in December so I guess I missed the chance of getting a higher PR which seems like a tough job in this PR update process.

Well I have to say this PR update seems a little weird to me. Many good old blogs dropped their PR. Many blogs which have many back links, are stuck at 2. So from that perspective, a PR of 2 for my 2 odd month old blog is satisfactory.

My other main blog still remains  to be black listed in Google’s eyes. I wish I got a PR on that.