Avatar – the good, the bad and the ugly

First things first, Avatar is a good movie. I saw the movie in Imax 3D, and i think it was worth the 20 odd dollars, for the movie and soda etc, that it cost me. The director show cases that the story is most important for a movie, and that the CG effects are like [...]

Entry for January 20, 2009

Today. History was made. At about 5 minutes past noon, eastern time, Barak Hussein Obama took oath to become the 44th President of the United States. History because – he is the first African American – he has a muslim middle name – he was born to a family that still lives outside of the [...]

a new Negro

Rosa Parks was not the first person to protest the segregation on the bus. Martin Luther King was not the first to lead boycotts and protests for equal rights for the american negro. But what started as a quite but firm refusal to get up and give her seat up, and move to the back [...]

November 04, 2008

Today America votes, after almost eight years of torture by a person whose most stupendous ability is to mangle any and every english sentence or phrase he uses. It has been a day that one half of America was waiting holding every breath, so that they could live to see it. A day when the [...]

‘Fair Hearing’ – not for all ?

I first came to know about Mumia Abu Jamal in 1997. A rock band was performing in New York City, a weekend in the summer of ’97, and they were calling for the release of Mumia. I was working in Fort Lee, NJ, just outside the George Washington Bridge that goes into NYC. Those days, [...]

Whitie on the moon by Gil Scott Heron

A rat done bit my sister Nel with Whitie on the moon Her face and arm began to swell and Whitie’s on the moon I can’t pay no doctor bills while Whitie’s on the moon 10 years from now, I’ll be payin’ still with Whitie on the moon You know the man just upped my [...]