I have one hour.
No you are wrong. I gonna live more than that. I have one hour before my work.
what could i do in this one hour. Can i scribble on this white paper, can i write my dreams or can i see short film on UBU.com
how to maximise one's time? or should i go to bank and apply for credit card.. maximise my credit limit?
i think i should write down something.
over the years i became lazy lazier and more laziest..i wake up 11- 12 in the noon. whewre i am going? i don't try to work hard, take things as it is, don't try to push my limits. iCouldn't satisfy myself. I feel communiacation problem all along the world, whichever language or freinds or relatives?
all this lead to confidence loss and depression and many things.
I try to read things, people, stories but they don't create meaning , they don't translate ity in ideas .
i saw one old woman looking at me with curious eyes from the shop from opposite side.. what she might have thought about me? what story she has made up in her mind about this bearded man? ( Am i really man?)
how should i grow as a writer as film maker if i negate the experices? why my mind and body is becoming more andm ore stubborn?
i can write stories about the blind man who lost eyes in vietnam war, i make film on man who changed his sex, i can write screenplay on my own life. why not?
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
media terror about Mumbai terror
Media operate on money and power. SADLY they lead our news channels to such a worst extent. It is sad that they attacked Taj, symbol of money, glamour and power in India not India. The terrorists also attacked V. T. station and they killed more than 30 people over there. News channel didn't highlight that shootout. Because it more of a regular story for them. Who is interested in life of an unknown regular Indian.
They decribed it as Taj massacre. Guys you know what massacre is?? PLease go to interiors of Bihar and African countries if you don't want to read your world history books.
It' s failure of imagination from news channels and their reporters about impact of their live feeds.
"Enough is enough" kind of journalism has to rethink about its ethics, morality and duty towards their viewers.
Hope all of us learn lessons from this incident and created a space for better leaders.
They decribed it as Taj massacre. Guys you know what massacre is?? PLease go to interiors of Bihar and African countries if you don't want to read your world history books.
It' s failure of imagination from news channels and their reporters about impact of their live feeds.
"Enough is enough" kind of journalism has to rethink about its ethics, morality and duty towards their viewers.
Hope all of us learn lessons from this incident and created a space for better leaders.
Friday, November 28, 2008
i feel awesome about wefeelfine.com
I met intelligent man today... his name is Jonathan Harris. I met him in alley of ted.com. He collects stories...no he collects footprints from internet and we as a reader /visitor creates person's story through their footprint on web... His software picks up "I feel ... " sententence from various blog enteries across glob.. and create a graphical representation what people are feeling at perticular hour..
His software picks up data from all sources and divides them in sub catogaries gender, location, time ,weather... and of course feelings.. it also picks up photographs which people posted on their website...
some people may ask of right to use some one else photograph but don't you think so while we publish a note or a photo it becomes public property???
His another crazy idea is to measure happines in a small town of Bhutan.. he interviewed about 200 people.. each person has to scale his happiness from 1-10. If one person is very happy and says he will give 8/10 then he will give 8 baloons to him.. and photo graph him with ballon and his palms... and ask him to make a wish... he takes all those wish ballons at one place and make a wish chain at some temple.. hope all of those wish come true in some sense...and someday
I also wish I find peace whatever I do...
LOVE LIGHT PEACE
His software picks up data from all sources and divides them in sub catogaries gender, location, time ,weather... and of course feelings.. it also picks up photographs which people posted on their website...
some people may ask of right to use some one else photograph but don't you think so while we publish a note or a photo it becomes public property???
His another crazy idea is to measure happines in a small town of Bhutan.. he interviewed about 200 people.. each person has to scale his happiness from 1-10. If one person is very happy and says he will give 8/10 then he will give 8 baloons to him.. and photo graph him with ballon and his palms... and ask him to make a wish... he takes all those wish ballons at one place and make a wish chain at some temple.. hope all of those wish come true in some sense...and someday
I also wish I find peace whatever I do...
LOVE LIGHT PEACE
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Monday, November 12, 2007
future performance!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/10/25/theater/20071025_FUER_SLIDESHOW_7.html
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Death of a language
Globalization often conjures up the image of reduction of diversity, a trend towards homogenization that affects every aspect of a community's culture, including its language. Several linguists fear that within a century or so the total number of languages spoken around the world will be reduced from close to 6,700 today to around 200. The biggest losers in this competition will be the indigenous languages spoken in territories colonized by Europe over the past four centuries. The winners are the languages of the leading colonial powers (English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish), those of major industrial powers (which makes Japanese very safe), those spoken as vernaculars by millions of people (varieties of Arabic, Chinese, and Indic languages, for example), and those Third World languages that function as national or regional lingua francas (such as Swahili in East Africa).
Although some linguists have identified hegemonic languages such as English and French as killer languages, this is a misconception. Languages do not kill languages; speakers do. A language is transmitted and maintained in a community through continuous use. Languages die when their speakers give them up. It is like having a population whose members refuse to produce offspring. The only difference is that speakers do not deliberately refuse to use their languages but are often compelled to speak other languages that offer practical or material advantages: being integrated in a mainstream society, finding a good job, and getting opportunities for socioeconomic ascension. Speakers could, of course, also keep their ancestral languages, but often wind up speaking only the more advantageous language-especially if they move out of their native communities. Then their knowledge of their ancestral languages suffers a form of atrophy. When more and more speakers adopt this behavior and only the older generations speak them for some traditional communicative functions, linguists say such languages fall into attrition. As the older speakers die, so do the languages.
How do populations find themselves in such predicaments? For the past 400 years, European colonization has been the main culprit. This is true especially in settlement colonies, where Europeans came to develop other Europes outside Europe. In each such territory, the language of the colonial ruler prevailed as the main language of industry and economy. Pressure increased on immigrants and natives to acquire that language in order to function in the new world order. Population reduction caused by illnesses brought from the Old World and wars with the colonizers, coupled with opportunities for socioeconomic integration and speakers' flights from their native communities, have precipitated these languages' course toward extinction.
Such linguistic consequences are an old concomitant of the history of mankind, which is marked by layers of population movements and domination. It may be faster today, but it has been there all along and explains why only remnants of Celtic languages are still spoken, and barely so, in France, Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom (e.g., Breton, Welsh, Gaelic). Increased awareness of this predicament has led linguists to treat languages-and rightly so-as natural resources that must be protected. Programs have been launched to preserve some moribund languages and maintain linguistic diversity, more or less like protecting biotic diversity in an ecological niche. But preservation in literary productions and linguistic descriptions is quite different from revitalization. Languages that have prevailed over others show substantial vitality. Among the questions that must be addressed is why some people give up their ancestral languages-it's usually not because they wish to do so. In a way, such people are victims of globalization; but one can also argue that they reflect advantageous adaptations to changing ecologies-as cynical as this observation may sound. Once scholars decide to face them from such an ecological perspective, challenges for revitalizing moribund languages become monumental.
Salikoko Mufwene, PhD'79, is professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics. He is author of The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge, 2001).
Although some linguists have identified hegemonic languages such as English and French as killer languages, this is a misconception. Languages do not kill languages; speakers do. A language is transmitted and maintained in a community through continuous use. Languages die when their speakers give them up. It is like having a population whose members refuse to produce offspring. The only difference is that speakers do not deliberately refuse to use their languages but are often compelled to speak other languages that offer practical or material advantages: being integrated in a mainstream society, finding a good job, and getting opportunities for socioeconomic ascension. Speakers could, of course, also keep their ancestral languages, but often wind up speaking only the more advantageous language-especially if they move out of their native communities. Then their knowledge of their ancestral languages suffers a form of atrophy. When more and more speakers adopt this behavior and only the older generations speak them for some traditional communicative functions, linguists say such languages fall into attrition. As the older speakers die, so do the languages.
How do populations find themselves in such predicaments? For the past 400 years, European colonization has been the main culprit. This is true especially in settlement colonies, where Europeans came to develop other Europes outside Europe. In each such territory, the language of the colonial ruler prevailed as the main language of industry and economy. Pressure increased on immigrants and natives to acquire that language in order to function in the new world order. Population reduction caused by illnesses brought from the Old World and wars with the colonizers, coupled with opportunities for socioeconomic integration and speakers' flights from their native communities, have precipitated these languages' course toward extinction.
Such linguistic consequences are an old concomitant of the history of mankind, which is marked by layers of population movements and domination. It may be faster today, but it has been there all along and explains why only remnants of Celtic languages are still spoken, and barely so, in France, Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom (e.g., Breton, Welsh, Gaelic). Increased awareness of this predicament has led linguists to treat languages-and rightly so-as natural resources that must be protected. Programs have been launched to preserve some moribund languages and maintain linguistic diversity, more or less like protecting biotic diversity in an ecological niche. But preservation in literary productions and linguistic descriptions is quite different from revitalization. Languages that have prevailed over others show substantial vitality. Among the questions that must be addressed is why some people give up their ancestral languages-it's usually not because they wish to do so. In a way, such people are victims of globalization; but one can also argue that they reflect advantageous adaptations to changing ecologies-as cynical as this observation may sound. Once scholars decide to face them from such an ecological perspective, challenges for revitalizing moribund languages become monumental.
Salikoko Mufwene, PhD'79, is professor and chair of the Department of Linguistics. He is author of The Ecology of Language Evolution (Cambridge, 2001).
Friday, June 15, 2007
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