Saturday, October 12, 2024

Tamil -1

In School days all I know is that Tamilnadu means Madras and their mother tongue is Tamil. That was the only thing I know about Tamilnadu and never and never in my dreams, I thought I will be coming to Chennai to make a living.

After Studies, all my Friends shifted to Hyderabad for better oppurtunities but, I am the only guy who shifted to Chennai to learn VLSI. Ofcourse, I am not working in VLSI but in SAP that is all together a different story.

Chennai is a Metropolitan City and very well I could have managed with English but I learned Tamil only for the reason that when I look back in my Life I should have a satisfaction that "Yes I know how to speak few more languages other than my Mother Tongue".

I spend weekends mooning around the webspace, listening to advertisement Jingles, Music, watching snippets of different different movies on Youtube.

But, when I watch snippets of Rajnikanth's speech or Vijay's speech at their Movie Audio launch or Movie success meets then I feel very happy that I am able to understand their speech word to word even though I can't speak as fluently as they can. Especially, Rajni Sir's speech, I will get tears in my eyes, I will get goosebumps. It is then I feel content and happy that it is good that I learned Tamil otherwise I would have missed out what they are saying.

Rajni knows very clearly that he is not a Hero material in terms of looks but it is some magic and God's grace that he is a Super Star in the Tamil Film Industry. He is very simple and grounded.

Tamil Film Industry is the only film industry where Hero's looks doesn't matter. Example is Dhanush and Vijay Sethupathi. There is all together a different post about Dhanush that is going on in my mind since a looooong time. When I find time I will post it.

Till then enjoy Rajni Sir's speech at Vettaiyan Audio launch.

Good that I learned Tamil... :-) :-) :-)

Closing comments "Nallathu, Na Tamil Katthkute" :-) :-) :-)

Thursday, October 10, 2024

R I P Sir Ratan Tata :-( :-( :-(

 One of the Quotes from Late Mr.Ratan Tata.......

"Ups and downs in Life are very important to keep us going because a straight line even in an ECG means we are not alive."

Rest in Peace Sir. :-( :-( :-(


Saturday, September 21, 2024

Tamilnadu and Hindi

 Let's start with the basics.....

Till date there are totally 29 States and 7 Union Territories and each of them has their own native Language or Mother tongue. 

If you go through the below list then you can understand that Hindi is not a Mother Tongue or Native Language of any of the States or Union Territory but just a common language. 

When you learn Hindi you can converse across India without any problem. I don't understand why TN feels that somebody is thrusting their own language on them.

Hope a day will come when TN will be open to Hindi :-)

State/Union Territory Native Language

Andhra Pradesh Telugu

Arunachal Pradesh         Nissi / Dafla, Adi

Assam         Assamese, Bodo

Bihar         Maithili

Chhattisgarh        Chattisgarhi, Hindi

Goa                Konkani

Gujarat        Gujarati

Haryana        Haryanavi

Himachal Pradesh        Pahari, Hindi

Jharkhand        Sadri/Nagpuri, Khortha, Kurmali, Panchparganiya, Hindi

Karnataka        Kannada

Kerala        Malayalam

Madhya Pradesh        Bagheli, Awadhi, Hindi

Maharashtra        Marathi

Manipur        Manipuri

Meghalaya        Khasi, Assamese, Sylheti, Garo, Manipuri, Mizo, Bodo

Mizoram        Lushai/Mizo

Nagaland                Konyak, Ao, Sema

Odisha        Odia

Punjab        Punjabi

Rajasthan        Rajasthani, Marwari, Urdu, Hindi

Sikkim        Nepali, Sikkimese (Bhutia), Lepcha, Dzongkha, Groma, 

                                                       Majhi, Majhwar, Thulung, Tibetan, Yakha, Hindi

Tamil Nadu       Tamil

Telangana       Telugu

Tripura       Bengali

Uttarakhand       Garhwali and Kumauni (both Pahari languages), 

                                                      Punjabi, Nepali,Hindi

Uttar Pradesh       Awadhi, Bhojpuri, Braj Bundeli, Bagheli, Hindi

West Bengal       Bengali

Andaman and Nicobar Islands      Gujarati & Hindi in Daman & Diu, 

                                                       Bhili /Bhilodi, Hindi in Dadra & Nagar Haveli

Chandigarh        Punjabi, Hindi

Delhi                                              Hindi

Jammu & Kashmir                         Kashmiri, Hindi, Dogri

Lakshadweep        Malayalam

Puducherry        Tamil

I repeat, Hindi is not a Native Language or Mother Tongue of any State or Union Territory, but just a common langauge using which we can converse with People from different different States. 

Hope a day will come when TN understands this and accepts Hindi.

Sunday, August 25, 2024

TRAI - CNAP

" TRAI stands for Telecom Regulatory Authority of India, which is a government organization that regulates telecom services, broadcasting, consumer, UCC, broadband, and spectrum. "

" CNAP stands for Calling Name Presentation, a supplementary service that displays the name of the caller on a phone screen when someone calls. It's similar to Truecaller, another service that shows the caller's name. CNAP is used in US-based telephone networks and is often displayed in Caller ID. The information could be the person's name or a company name. "

In India we have 3 private telcos namely Airtel, Jio, and Vodafone-Idea ( Vi ) and one Govt telco BSNL.

TRAI has recommended that all the telcos should implement CNAP but, private telcos are saying CNAP should not be made mandatory but should be only optional.

CNAP is all about displaying the name of the Caller as per the KYC document submitted at the time of getting the connection. I don't understand why private telcos should be having an objection in implementing this.

Infact, TRAI has also started trails in Mumbai and Haryana and expecting it to implement gradually in all the other States sooner or later.

In my opinion, CNAP should be made mandatory by all the telcos, which will help in curbing pesky and blank calls. Hope this feature will be LIVE soon.

Tuesday, August 20, 2024

Mind Speaks - 2

जब खोने के लिए कुछ नहीं होता न 

 तो पाने को पूरी दुनिया होती है  "

  A dialogue from the movie Mumbai Saaga.

A loose translation of this in English.....

When we have nothing to loose, then we have the whole World to win.

Postings of " Mind Speaks " reflects my current mindset.

Note :- There are some minor mistakes in Hindi. It is due to the inconsistencies when English is getting translated to Hindi. I think lack of a proper Hindi keyboard is still a lacuna in the computing World.

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Fear Song from Devara Part -1 Lyricists - Ramajogayya Sastry / Manoj Muntashir / Vishnu Edavan

Film                          :- Devara - Part 1

Lyricist in Telugu          :- Ramajogayya Sastry

Lyricist in Hindi            :- Manoj Muntashir

Lyricist in Tamil            :- Vishnu Edavan

Music                         :- Anirudh Ravichander

Singer                         :- Anirudh Ravichander ( Telugu / Tamil / Hindi )


I heard all the 3 versions of this Fear song. Elevation of the Hero character with this song is damn good.


Manoj Muntashir has understood the context and concept of this song upto 60 % and done justification to the Hindi lyrics.


My knowledge in Tamil is limited only to colloquial Tamil and hence not able to understand the Tamil literature of this song penned by Vishnu Edavan. I think even Tamil version of this song is equally good thinking that Ramajogayya Sastry and Anirudh would have helped Vishnu in understanding the context and concept of this song. A Tamilian will be right person to comment on Tamil lyrics.


Producers would have told Anirudh that it is a Title Song, it is a Mass Song and it is for Jr.NTR. So better he comes up with good music for this song that can catch the pulse of Jr.NTR Fans.


No doubt, Music and Voice of Anirudh has added the required spice to this song. Surprising thing is that he had sung in all the three versions without compromising on the accent and slang. His facial expressions indicate that he had understood the lyrics upto some extent in Telugu and Hindi. You have to see Anirudh’s facial expressions especially in Hindi and Telugu :-) I had limited my links only to Lyrical Videos. 


There are some spelling mistakes in all the lyrical videos but these are the closest that I can get for lyrical videos.


Fear Song - Telugu Lyrics in Telugu


Fear Song - Telugu Lyrics in English by T- Series


Fear Song - Hindi Lyrics in English by T-Series


Fear Song - Hindi Lyrics in English


Fear Song - Tamil lyrics in English by T-Series


For Anirudh's expressions in Hindi version :-)


I think Anirudh has arrived as a Music director, pan India.


Concept of this song is, Hero questioning the concept of Fearlessness.


To put in layman terms….


“ You may be Brave but you have to be afraid sometimes….bole tho Darna Zaroori Hai “


Usually Music Director and the Singer bags all the limelight and the Lyricists gets confined to the background. Lyricists should get their due recognition. It is very tough to write lyrics for a song-for a dubbing movie because the Context, Lyrics and Music of the Original version would have already been finalised.


Last but not the least, don’t forget the Lyricists name. They should get their due recognition.


Friday, August 2, 2024

Mind Speaks - 1

हार भले ही हो

  मैं लड़के हारना चाहती हु "

   A dialogue from the movie Vedaa.

A loose translation of this in English.....

Even if the defeat is inevitable, I would like to fight it out and loose.

Postings of " Mind Speaks " reflects my current mindset.

Note :- There are some minor mistakes in Hindi. It is due to the inconsistencies when English is getting translated to Hindi. I think lack of a proper Hindi keyboard is still a lacuna in the computing World.