Blasts at Hyderabad

Yesterday's blasts at Hyderabad killing 41 people and injuring many more people are very disturbing. Just 3 months back, there was a blast in Mecca Masjid killing 12 people. Blast at important commercial centers targetting weekend crowd of Hyderabad creates panic and divides the people among communal lines. As initial investigation suggest Bangladesh based terrorist organization is behind the blast like in Mecca Masjid blast, two Muslim neighbour countries jihadi groups attacking Indian establishments especialy big cities and economic centers, trying to slow down our economic progress adds new dimension to our fight against terrorism. Hopefully all the culprits are brought to justice.

Illayatalapathi Vijay to get Doctorate from Dr. M.G.R Deemed University - bad trend

Dr. M.G.R Deemeed University, Chennai announced it will give Doctorate to Illayatalapathi Vijay for his service to art field and service to human kind. Recently actor Sathyaraj and Gnana famous Musician Deva were given Doctorate by Sathyabama Deemed University. No offence to these stars, as more and more private engineering college are becoming Deemed University, they started giving Honorary Doctorate's to celebrities. This is a unwelcome trend in TamilNadu, these universities are nothing but an engineering college which doesn't indulge in any research activities, did nothing to engineering, science or arts field, they just giving Doctorates to get the popularity. They should ask themselves how many of these universities produced Doctorates ?To earn a Doctorate, a person has to toil 5 yrs of his life, by these actions, Doctorate loses his dignity. This culture is not new to TamilNadu, politicians in TamilNadu right from MGR, Karunanidhi, Jayalalalitha got their Honrary Doctorate from universities in TamilNadu, this trend catching up with film starts is a very bad thing. Again this can happen only in TamilNadu.

New world class Cricket stadium in Chennai

As sub continent is slowly gearing up for 2011 Cricket World Cup, Chennai is going to get new Cricket stadium near Shollinganallur for the world cup. TamilNadu government had given 50 acres of land to TNCA for constructing new stadium. TNCA is even thinking of contructing this new stadium as indoor or retractable roof. Hope this ground is going to be top class

New York Vs London, Financial capital of world ??

Recently, there is a debate doing rounds, Is New York still financial capital of world, does London pushed NYC to 2nd place??. As most of the financial markets revolves around New York, London and Tokyo, London is clearly emerging as a leader as it attracts more international companies mostly from fast growing economies of world China, India. Because of lot of Securities Exchange Commission SEC regulation after Enron debacle / 9/11 incident, New York is not able to attract as much as London. In a recent finding from MasterCard survey, London finds the #1 spot for doing business.

There is a comprehensive article by Fortune magazine comparing 2 great financial cities of world. If interested, http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141310/index.htm?postversion=2007072306

Bridge collapses in Minneapolis, Minnesota

Aug, 1, 2007 - Bridge which runs across Mississippi river near downtown Minneapolis , collapsed during rush hour. Almost 100 cars were there when the bridge came down. Here some pics.

TATA project in South TamilNadu stopped - bad trend

Recently TamilNadu govt. and TATA signed MOU for setting up Titanium Di Oxide plant factory in South TamilNadu bordering Kanyakumari and Tuthukudi district. Investments worth around 2500 Cr planned for plant, would have created more jobs, business opportunity for the local people. But as usual, strong opposition from various political parties and interests groups against setting up of plant. Even AIADMK jumped to protest, AMMA said herself will lead the protest against setting up of plant. Under these circumstances, to avoid possible violence in that area like in Nandigram, West Bengal, Kalaignar decided to stop the project for time being and decided to get the mood of the people in that area about this project.

As a principal opposition party, we can understand AIADMK opposing this project, but Communist, PMK opposing this project just to shows they slowly want to get out of the DMK alliance. PMK for some time always acting against industrial activity in TamilNadu. Kalaignar has to drop 2 satellite towns around Chennai which was planned to reduce load on ever increasing Chennai city as PMK was against it. TamilNadu govt want to extend the existing Chennai airport for building new world class airport but again on the pressure from PMK, new greenfield airport is shifted to SriPerumdur. Only thing communist know is to criticize against people in govt. I personally don't like idea of getting land from people by government for industry group, not properly rehabilitating the land owners, but just for political reasons we cant stop the development activity. TamilNadu is considered to better off than any state in implementation of SEZ and other industrial development, these recent happenings are setting bad trend.

We want to more assertive goverment in dealing with these kind of issue, not bulging to the pressure from various parties. We wish this goverment be determined in implementation of infrastructure projects and attracting new industries as they implementing free tv for poor scheme. TamilNadu would be better of if every poor family gets a free toilet instead of free color TV.

"Robot" - Shankar next project with King Khan Sharukh

Its official now, Shankar is going to direct his dream project "Robot" in Hindi, starring Sharukh Khan. Sharukh Khan production company also producing the movie. "Robot" was first conceived by Shankar for Ulaga-Nayagan Kamalahassan after Indian movie but made to put into shelves for budget problems. Though Shankar's Nayak in hindi didn't go well, Shankar sure to rock Bollywood with Robot. All the best Shankar !!!