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February 11th, 2007
This week Malayalam movie awards were announced.
Best film - Drishtantham
Best director - Lenin Rajendran(Rathri Mazha)
Best actor - Prithviraj (Vasthavam)
Best actress - Urvasi (Madhuchandralekha)
Immediately after the announcement, the jury started getting abusive and threatening calls. The problem is simple, everyone was expecting an award or was expecting an award for his/her favorite actor [...]
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February 11th, 2007
Yesterday I came across the official Website of Thrissur police. I am not sure whether this is genuine, but it sure is funny!
Thrissurpolice.com, the official website of Thrissur District Police was launched in May 2001, with the broad objective of facilitating direct communication between members of the public and senior officials of the District Police. [...]
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February 10th, 2007
Rishiraj singh declares that all CD and DVD rental shops are illegal and sends a circular to all the police stations. It is really funny since even in US where copyright is supposed to be one of the 10 commandments, you can rent a CD or a DVD (blockbuster, netflix for example). Manorama reports that [...]
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February 10th, 2007
Mohammed Hanish is an ordinary guy (aged 26) living in Trivandrum. A simple blunder on thursday has turned his life upside down.
He was driving to his house from trivandrum city. Suddenly he saw a state car overtaking him and going at high speed. He thought - “I will follow the car and I can get [...]
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February 9th, 2007
Check out this interesting photo by Rahul. I wonder why no one bothered to tell this guy what it means!
Does anyone know where this business (chit fund) is located?
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February 9th, 2007
Suicides, especially farmer suicides are no longer news in Kerala. Suicide rates are always on the increase. farmsuicides does a round up farmer suicide in Kerala (2005-2006).
The main reason behind these suicides has been the debt problem. Most of them take loans from banks and when something happens to the crop, they are in deep [...]
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February 8th, 2007
Thiruvananthapuram Railway Division has installed a passenger call centre at Thycaud. The call centre number is 1331 (BSNL). The call centre is state of the art(?) and is setup at a cost of 60 lakhs. All your railway enquiries will be patiently answered, unlike the guys who pick up calls at the stations.
Railways has also [...]
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February 8th, 2007
I have added a new directory of quality Kerala related blogs. English and Malayalam blogs are grouped separately and blogs are also categorized. The idea is to have a list of quality blogs at one place.
This directory/blog list is maintained on user submission (which may be from a blog reader as well). Hence only blog [...]
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February 8th, 2007
വല്യമ്മായി who considers herself “അത്ര പാവമല്ലാത്ത ഒരു തൃശ്ശൂരുകാരി”, writes an interesting blog titled “എനിക്കു പറയാനുള്ളത്”. If you are looking for good short stories and poems in Malayalam, look no further!
തിരിച്ചറിവ്
കണ്ണിലൊരു കരടു പോയപ്പോഴാണ്
തിരിച്ചറിഞ്ഞത്
ഞാന് നിന്റെ കണ്ണിലെ കരടായിരുന്നപ്പോള്
എന്തുമാത്രം നൊന്തുവെന്ന്
എന്നിട്ടുമൊരുവേള ശ്രമിച്ചില്ലല്ലൊ
എന്നെയവിടെ നിന്നെടുത്തുമാറ്റാന്.
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February 8th, 2007
Interesting photo (Lost in translation!) by Maco,
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February 8th, 2007
Kerala police has installed a polygraph machine (lie detector) in Trivandrum as part of the modernization program. Home minister Kodiyeri Balakrishan inaugurated the machine, but didn’t volunteer for a test
In fact the machine was with Kerala police with sometime. The problem was that nobody was available to operate it. Kerala Police also has [...]
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February 7th, 2007
From today, Kerala Tips is hosting a Kerala discussion forum. The idea is to have quality discussions on topics related to Kerala only.
Currently only a limited set of forum topics are added. New forums will be added based on your suggestions. Some of the early participating members will be selected as forum moderators.
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February 6th, 2007
Following is a scene from the classic movie, No. 20 Madras Mail. In this scene, Tony Kurisinkal (Mohanlal) meets actor Mammootty in the first class compartment. Mohanlal is at his best in this scene. Enjoy!
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February 6th, 2007
Kerala sports team which went to this year’s national games at Assam had to endure a lot of hardships. Remember that the train journey from Kerala to Assam almost takes three days! Here is summary,
A single compartment which can accommodate 72 people were arranged for a team of 110.
The compartment was sealed from main train. [...]
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February 6th, 2007
It happened again on the national highway near Attingal. An old woman was first knocked down by a speeding vehicle on the national highway (NH 47). Vehicles which came behind also went over her. This continued for hours and as you can imagine she was nothing more than a pile of flesh by the time [...]
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