KERALA POLLS - STUDIO EXPERIENCE

My second day in Trivandrum gave me great opportunities to meet elite people from Malayalam media. Mr. Baiju Chandran senior journalist took me to DD Malayalam office.  While driving to Office we discussed major political issues in Kerala. I must say I have learnt allot while discussing.

Mr. Chandra worked as a student leader in his college days during emergency, he shared his experiences in reporting from Trivandrum. He said “Kerala politics are quite typical compared to other state politics because here we can see many parties with different mottos working together in government“.

    He explained major political movements in Kerala from emergency. How communists came to power with direct voting (it was the first time in the world for communist to be in power with voting), Described How communist parties separated to CPM and CPI, How communists lost their power within two years, how AK antony lead the government in Kerala when he was chief minister. Why Kerala people choose to change the government for every five years and etc…., he taught me many things.

DD Malayalam office is located in KUDUPANAKUNNU a hill top area in Trivandrum, is a beautiful place to have photographs but security dint allow me to take camera inside. I was introduced to many reporters and stringers in DD head office.

   I spoke to Dr K AMPADY Dept Director and Public information officer, An MMBS doctor turned journalist, and he enquired about my opinions on Indian politics and especially on AP politics.

Dr AMPADY is strong in central politics and is keen in observing politics from global perspective. He appreciated achutanandans Commitment to take Kerala towards Industrial development and his welfare schemes like KSHEERADHARA (brought down 75000 lit of milk imported to 25000 lit from North India) and Housing scheme (Gov builds homes for poor) and bank loans for formers.

     He was critical on both LDf and UDF for not discussing any public welfare issues in their rallies during the campaign. Amapady condemned the way both the parties shooting comments only on scams and scandals.

After the discussion we went to news room, I met stringers from Reuters and PTI and have seen how news comes into input desk and how it is divided on priority basis. They are using ENPS to upload news feeds, and then I spent the remaining time in editing room Prepared DOPESHEET for the 11o’colck bulletin.

Visited two news studios inside the office and spoke to SHAJI DEVI, news reader for Malayalam. She explained how to use teleprompter while reading. Studio was well decorated. Then I recorded a voice over in Sound proof room just for experience. I dint notice the time while was in DD office the passed in a minute.                                                                                                          

                                                                                                          

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KERALA POLLS -2011

“Kerala-a state famous for its nature, its culture and its sea shore”, these are the early responses from any tourist after visiting to Kerala. Unlike other tourists am in a political tour across the state to cover assembly elections.

A day after central government declared 100% literacy rate in Kerala, I moved to Trivandrum to start my first internship with DD national team and I received warm welcome from the Editor of DD Malayalam in tiruvanantapuram. On the very first day of my work I was given an opportunity to cover Soniagandhi’s tour in South Kerala with DD national team from Delhi. (Delhi team led by Ritu verma an experienced political journalist and two senior camera persons)

We started our day early in the morning to reach HARIPAD assembly constituency. Journey through hill stations, forest and sea shore was visually pleasing. Ritu mam and I discussed very crucial issues in Kerala election.

(Kerala is a very complex state geographically and even politically, there is never a repetitive government after its term from last forty years. The Major political quarters in Kerla LDF (a communist party lead alliance) and UDF (a congress lead alliance) differ themselves in all the ways)

As there is only a week left before elections, all the top political personalities from centre were addressing public meetings all over Kerala from last week.

     Congress president Mrs. Gandhi arrived at Haripad to address a public meeting to get support for cong lead, she explained UPA government’s role in developing Kerala from past ten years and she reminded UPA’s policies to strengthen common man. Sonia strictly opposed LDF’s administrative failures in bringing the corruption down and she quoted LDF as an OLD fashioned Political Crew.

Oman chandy and vailar Ravi accompanied Mrs. Gandhi in this campaign but couldn’t speak in public rallies. 

         Congress men worked day and night to bring maximum crowd to the meeting but were a bit unsuccessful. The meeting went peacefully but there was no enthusiasm in public while Sonia was delivering her speech.

It was first time for me to sit in media stand but it gave me opportunity to observe many things in live telecast, as the meeting finished we moved to allapi to cover boat rider’s views and expectations in coming elections. Alapi is all about greenery and water with beautifully decorated HOUSE BOATS.I suggest every one to visit allapi once.

                                                                                                                   Rajkamal rao

What's Behind a RELATIONSHIP

          I was trying to find my new article for this day, I spoke to my friend before this and we were sharing our opinions on being in a relationship. I tried to find my relations and the words came out of my personnel emotions.  Some feel my writing as an  immature one  and some relate to their life.

 In our very common life we come across many emotive situations that made us laugh, cry and made us to express anger. Every moment in our life had dealt with dissimilar feelings. One had entirely different bondage from another and those relations left us with different feelings and emotions.

A relation may start with smile anger or sometimes quite by accidental and is an extension to the feeling which creates an impression.We come across many emotions from the childhood, like a baby recognising her mother and walking towards the door to wait for father’s arrival and crying for dolls and doggies. Every emotion which makes us to make an attachment to it is a relation.

How can we describe our relation with childhood friend who used share sweets and chocolates?

How can we describe our relation with granny’s who entertained us with beautiful stories and left their memories? .Our first crush and first proposal even though they were short?

All the relations are associated with a strong emotions .We try to find more and more relations and sometimes we try to break relations .But the strong feelings associated with the particular relation will never go.There is no measurement to find the strength of a relation and there is no principle that describes the status of a relation, it is always a feeling which describes the strength of a relation. A good relation should give hope, strength and will teach how to live.

A relation can have mixed feelings and variant emotions. Our generation has clearly understood the mixture of feelings in a relation and associated ‘being in love’ feel to it and try to replace the relations when our feelings get hurt. We fail to handle the balance of emotions and sometimes we don’t try to correct ourselves to be in a relation.

We try to associate our loosed feelings to a new relation but again we fail to realise the fact that every feeling is new in life like wise relations. There is no replacement for any emotion that we shared with someone. We can’t create feelings for others to be in a relation with us but we can keep the feelings intact. Try to get back your relations which cost billions and feelings which are priceless.

                                                                                                   Raj Kamal Vuppu

Anish Kapoor- an artistic genius of Modern Art

Anish Kapoor  Who gained fame with his creations like Sky Mirror, Cloud Gate, Mother as Mountain. The architectural inventions of Mr Kapoor have brought the deepest thoughts of an Architect.

Anish kapoor (born 12 March 1954) is a British sculptor of Indian origin Born in Mumbai, has lived and worked in London since the early 70’s. His early influence of Art and music came from his mother.  

British Council in association with Louis Vuitton Initiated to bring Mr.Aneesh kapoors First Exhibition in India at Jaipoor House New Delhi. The president of Congress Party Sri Sonia Gandhi Inaugurated the Exhibition.

Kapoor’s unique style and Indian heritage have combined to make him one of the most engaging and a distinctive artist in the world. The exhibition is the first ever showcase of his work in the country of his birth.

Mallika Sarabhai Dancer and Art lover who visited the exhibition says” Kapoor’s Exhibition Describing the potential of Indian sculptures, The Indian Government must take initiative to give space to the Modern art “.

Kapoor’s  art  and sculptures Depicted his interest towards Monochromatic colours which described his deepest thoughts  and The defined Geometric  frames  in his creation has shown  the intense .

Documentary on kapoors creations was a master piece of audio visual work which included Kapoor’s biography and his sculptures all over the world. The video inspired the spectators to understand the creations more in detail.

Kapoors design CLOUD GATE at Chicago Millennium was inspired by liquid mercury and the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city skyline.  His pieces relied on powder to cover the works and the floor around them.

His another creation Sky Mirror a six metre wide concave mirror of polished stainless steel angled up towards the sky continuously reflects the moving clouds and has become a regular visiting place outside the theatre in Wellington Circus,  London .

Most of his works concentrate on the usage of naturally available sources like wax, steel and wood.  Architecture principles of the sculptures utilised natural Light on illusion, reflection and refraction. Models presented in the gallery articulated the process of making those sculptures

Kapoors Upcoming project “ORBIT” a vast, snaking steel structure will dominate in 2012 Olympic Park in London. And the exhibition leaves the spectators in a sail of imaginary world.

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