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March 9th, 2007
Tom thomas has created a video review of Sanghumugham beach titled “Ee manohara theeram”. Considering that this is an amateur attempt, it is pretty impressive! Note that the voice is in Malayalam. I never knew there were so many things around the beach!
An attempt made by me to summarize the mesmerizing beauty and enchanted past [...]
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March 8th, 2007
Here are two funny videos made by techies at Technopark, Trivandrum.
This one is titled “Jaada at Work”. Depicts a typical client visit. The funny part is at the very end
This one was made during Tech-a-break event last year. Looks at the daily life of a technoparkian. This one has a professional touch!
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March 4th, 2007
Following sand artwork was done by a couple of guys at the sanghumugham beach in Trivandrum. On a sunday, the crowd at the beach is very large. It is the easiest way to get maximum audience for any event! So you can see budding artists, advertisement on vehicles and even bible speech on a sunday [...]
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February 16th, 2007
Kerala’s IT park (Technopark) will become the largest IT park in India when the new building Thejaswini is inaugurated. Kerala chief minister V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate the building on February 22. Operations in Thejaswini are expected to start soon. Thejaswini has 12 floors and a total built up area of over 600,000 square feet. [...]
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February 15th, 2007
Vinod from Trivandrum converted his Maruti 800 to an amphibious carwhich can run on road and on water! It took him 5 years and 8.5 lakh rupees.
Vinod is a mechanic and has a diploma in refrigeration technology.
“I was traveling in my car in the city when it was raining. I got stuck in the [...]
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February 14th, 2007
Torque is startup company operating out of Technopark, Trivandrum. It is small company started by 4 students of College of Engineering, Trivandrum. From Torque site,
Torque is a 360 degree wireless solution and service provider, leveraging a blend of rapid information delivery and communication streams.
Torque specializes in providing wireless messaging solutions which empower you to [...]
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February 13th, 2007
Today there was a demonstration by orthodox christians in Trivandrum. As expected a bunch of anti-social elements from around the state assembled at trivandrum. They started a big riot in the city causing a lot of damage!
These fellows call themselves christians and interestingly their language is only violence. The kind of vulgar language they [...]
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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 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
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 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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January 27th, 2007
Yesterday I wrote a post on the kerala sabdam article on ‘exploitation in IT companies in Technopark’. After writing this post, I happened to talk to a friend who works in Technopark. He had some interesting things to share,
Technopark is run by Kerala government. So like any government department, corruption is part of it. There [...]
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January 26th, 2007
I am a regular reader of Kerala Sabdam malayalam weekly. In this week’s issue, kerala shabdam has an interesting article titled “slavery and exploitation in Kerala IT industry!”.
The author/article is highly biased (kerala sabdam claims to be neutral, but in general leans to left) against IT companies. He says that there is widespread exploitation of [...]
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January 25th, 2007
Laurie Baker is a British architect who came to India 50 years back and is currently staying in Trivandrum, Kerala. He pioneered unique building construction methods suited for Kerala climate and lifestyle. His work is so famous that anyone in Kerala knows what a “Baker home” means
Check out this article to know more [...]
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January 25th, 2007
Kerala health minister Sreemathi teacher didn’t expect that things are so bad in Medical college. When she went for a surprise inspection, she found that most of the senior doctors and paramedical staff were missing! Only one group was in plenty - Poor Patients…
Trivandrum medical college is one place where even the wheel chairs demand [...]
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