Science Alert

·       If the human eye were a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.

·       Human hair is as strong as aluminium. And a full head of hair can support the weight of two elephants.

·       Molecules in Vampire bat venom could lead to the development of new drugs for high blood pressure and stroke.

·       There is a powerful pain killer in your saliva. It is 6 times stronger than morphine.

·       The entire internet is stored and delivered using 540 billion trillion electrons, which all together weighs around 50 grams or about the weight of one strawberry.

·       The only joint less bone in the body is in our throat.

·       The sun makes up 99.8% of the solar system.

·       Venus spins backwards & nobody knows why.

·       Jupiter has storms that could swallow earth twice.

RAsNA  M.C.

Film Review

                                                 BLOW

Written by                   :  David Mukenna & Nick Casavetes

Directed by                  :  Ted Demme

Based on the book by:  Bruce Porter

           The film tells us the story of a young man who had become a millionaire by the sale of weeds and later cocaine. The story begins in the background of 1950s America. The hero is George who is loom in a middle class family in America. He quarreled with his parents in his adult hood and went to California.

            Once George was walking here and there in the Miame beach he met some friends there including women and men. One women gave George a puff of weeds and he was very much pleasure in it. But George thought for sale of weed not to use it. George’s girlfriends met some dealers of weeds in the town and accompanied George with the intention of sale of weeds for money. The meeting found an agreement between George and the dealer. In the coming days the man gave weeds to George and he along with his friends sold the thing in the beech in return of money. They got huge amount of money and lead a luxurious life.

Through this business George earned a lot of money but he was not satisfied so he thought for abundant sale of weeds. Instantly George planned to import weeds to America from Mexico since Mexico and Colombia were famous for the availability of weeds. The very next day George flew to Mexico and brought weeds to America with the help of a dealer there. By selling that George becomes richer. In between he married a lady among his friends who was addicted to the use of drugs and weeds. During 1970s she died and it was a period when George was rich and having a luxurious life. He was more ambitious to earn more from his business and in his way to his aim, he was caught by the police and was imprisoned.

             From the prison he got a friend and George opened his plans that he want to make more money by his business. The friend that George met tells him that; sale of cocaine is more profitable and valuable than weeds. Later they two were released. Once George got some cocaine with the help of his prison mate and he sold that and from the sale George got triple benefit than the sale of weeds. Thus they began to increase the sale of cocaine and in order to this George went to Columbia he met a underworld don Pablo Eskobar and make the deal that George should gave 50% of profit of his cocaine sale. George and his friends became by their business and they could not find any place to keep their money. In time George kept money in toilet too and everywhere it is cash now.

          After some days the prison mate cheated George in order to take the whole money. By telling George’s cocaine sale to police, he betrayed George. In between George had his second marriage and had a daughter too.

          When George was released from the prison his whole cash was ruined by his old friend. But George was not ready to avoid his business and he tried to involve more in his job. One day, during the birth day part of George’s daughter, his prison mate again cheated him by informing police about George’s cocaine business. And so in the birthday party George and his daughter were caught by the police. His wife who was addicted to cocaine became mental when she didn’t got cocaine in the absence of George.

          After some days George’s daughter was released and later after some years he too was released. His daughter ignored him. Thus he became a great failure in his life….

                                                                                               Sherin Shehanas

Interlude During The Tragic Play - 'Studies'

                           Shana C

LONG WORD

Extract from Dheshabimani Aksharamutam

           EVOLUTION OF FOOTBALL

       The history of English football is a long and detailed one, as it is not only the national sport but England was where the game was developed and codified. The modern global game of football was first codified in 1863 in London. The impetus for this was to unity English public school and university football games. There is evidence for refereed, team football games being played in English school since at least 1581. An account of an exclusively kicking football game from Nottinghamshire in the 15th century bears similarity to football. England can boast the earliest ever documented use of the English word “football” (1409) and the earliest reference to the spot in French (1314)

       England is home to the oldest football clubs in the world, the worlds oldest competition (the FA cup founded in 1871) and the first ever football league (1888). For these reasons England is considered the home of football

                                                  

   Fathima Rajeena.P.A.

                                                             

Short Story Review : An Internet Baby

     The illegal practice of child selling has become a common feature of the modern world. 'An Internet Baby', the short story written by Xiaolu Gou reveals the story of a young Chinese couple who decides to sell their baby on the internet. The two people, Weiming and Yuli, have their own arguments to justify their decision. Weiming is a 19-year-old man who is already working nearly 19 hours a day. So his motive  for selling their baby is money. If we take the case of Yuli, she is an 18-year-old girl. She has a dream to get her diploma and start a career in a big city. So they decides to sell the baby for 8,000 yuan. But a couple from Wenzhou show their willingness to buy the babyfor the double price 16,000 yuan.The funny thing is that no one gets the benefit of the child as the baby falls into the lake in the end of the story.

                    Here, the author seriously depicts the abuse of childhood. The young people don't think that what would be the condition of their baby if they sell him to others. For children, childhood is timeless. It is always present that matters for them. Children deserve the caring and love of their parents. It is the right of children to stat with their parents and it is the duty of the parents to look after their children. It is to be considered that they are also human beings and they too have the right to live in this world without fear or favour. Through selling the baby, his parents deny this right of the baby.

                     The major reason behind the child sale, according to the author is poverty and greed for money. Poverty is a big enemy to human happiness. it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable. The misfortunes of poverty carry with them nothing harder to bear than that it makes man ridiculous. But the sale of the child is not the real solution to eradicate poverty. The resources of Earth are open to everyone. By utilizing them properly, one can lead a very comfortable life without the fear of poverty and hunger. as Tom Lehrer said : Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

                    Through this story, the author really ridicules the modern people who do not know the value of others life and gives importance only to their dreams and ambitions....

Rashida P

FILM REVIEW

                                   Debt

   

             ‘Debt’ is a State Award winning Malayalam short film cast by the famous actor Lal and the new face Aryan. The story is written by Sachi and the film is directed by Lal Jnr under the production of Lal Creations.

          It is a completely emotional movie which focuses on a father son relationship and how a serious problem in their life changes the usual flow of currents of life that leads to the utmost anger and grief. The film takes us in to a family in which the father’s business is collapsed due to the global depression and the whole sources of the wealth are under the threat of confiscation with a number of debtors waiting outside. The suicide attempt made by the mother who died later and the father who was saved creates a pain-stricken atmosphere where the son realizes the burden he has to bear for his family. But as a son brought up seeking only a happy and luxurious life finds just a question mark before him and becomes very upset and utterly ruined in front of life. Consequently he turns to be angry towards his father and at a point of time he loses his sense and conceives of an attempt on his father’s life.

             The movie reveals the mindset of a father who wants to depend on his son whom he trusts to be a consolation but was altogether distressed when he heard the blaming words “couldn’t you have burnt into ashes?” .While the father goes to die by turning on the gas stove by himself the movie makes us think whom should we blame whether the father for bringing up his son offering all the luxuries without informing any of the problems or the son for not having a sense of responsibility towards his father and taking a quick decision to murder and run away with his father’s Life Insurance amount.

            On the whole ‘Debt’ is a realistic movie which throws light on the modern society in which money is important above all and the tremendous value of intimate relationships becomes loose. In a quest for money and ecstasy in life some valuable things are getting lost which are the founding stones of good society. Thus the movie conveys a message to the youth who fail to face the realities of life which are assumed by them a bed of roses.

                                                                Ayisha Yasmin.A