Epilogue of Crime and Punishment

The novel's epilogue focuses on Raskolnikov's experiences as a convict in Siberia.

Raskolnikov initially feels a deep sense of alienation from his fellow prisoners. During

Lent and Easter, he falls ill, and he has a strange dream in which everyone in the

world becomes infected with a disease that causes each person to believe that he or

she is the sole bearer of truth. The deluded people kill each other, and the world heads toward total collapse. After recuperating from his illness, Raskolnikov walks to a

riverbank and gazes at the landscape. Sonya appears at his side. Suddenly,

Raskolnikov is seized with an entirely new sensation of love and compassion. Both he

and Sonya realize that something profound has occurred within his soul. Love has

raised him from the dead, and he will become a new man. Dostoyevsky concludes his

novel by stating that the story of Raskolnikov's regeneration might be the subject of a

new tale, but that the present one has endeded.

Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith

The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, by Thomas Keneally, tells the story of Jimmie Blacksmith, a man of mixed race, who goes on a killing spree in Australia in 1900. Keneally traces Jimmie's life, showing how he faced discrimination and oppression based solely on his race and how this eventually boiled over into an uncontrollable wrath. Taken from a fragment of Australian history, Keneally weaves together a fictional account of Jimmie Blacksmith's actions and his subsequent fugitive journey.

Jimmie is initiated into the Mungindi tribe, but he grows disillusioned and travels with Rev. and Mrs. Neville as they move to a new town. They encourage him to aim for a higher social status. They tell him that he should work to earn money for land and that he should marry a white girl from a farm. Driven by his ambitions and pride, he seeks work but finds that the white world wants little to do with him. His employers, including the police, treat him with contempt and distrust. They cheat him out of hard earned pay and Jimmie has little recourse but to accept it.

Meanwhile, Jimmie engages in a sexual relationship with a white kitchen maid named Gilda. When she becomes pregnant, they make plans to marry and find housing. Jimmie goes to work for the Newby family doing fencing and then sends for Gilda. When her baby is born, he realizes that the child is not his.

Several of Jimmie's relatives, Tabidgi Jackie Smolders, Mort, and Peter, arrive to bring him his initiation tooth from the tribe, which they believe will offer him protection from his white marriage. However, Mr. Newby seeks to drive off Jimmie's relatives, refusing to advance Jimmie money for food for his family. Goaded by Mr. Newby's arrogance and harshness, Jimmie reacts with revenge, killing Mr. Newby's wife, daughters, and a schoolteacher, Miss Graf. Thereafter, Jimmie and his family flee. Eventually Gilda, her baby, Peter, and Tabidgi are left behind, and Jimmie and Mort continue on.

In further retribution, Jimmie then enacts revenge on the Healy family, who he also worked for and was cheated by. He and Mort are almost caught on several occasions but manage to evade their pursuers, who include Miss Graf's fiancé, Dowie Stead. They take a schoolteacher hostage and force him to continue on with them. The schoolteacher, McCreadie, manages to convince Jimmie that he should go on without them as he is damaging Mort's native soul. Mort, who carries McCreadie to a farmer's house and sets him free, is later killed. Still on the run, Jimmie is shot trying to cross a river. He eventually takes refuge in a convent, where he hides in the guest room, coming out only when the nuns go to pray, but he is eventually captured and sentenced to death. As the novel ends, Tabidgi is hanged and Jimmie is awaiting the same fate.

ഒരു പൂവിന്‍റെ മൂന്നിതള്‍് പൊഴിഞ്ഞു...........

പ്രതിഭകള്‍ പൊലിഞ്ഞു പോയി കൊണ്ടേ ഇരിക്കുന്നു .ഈ കഴിഞ്ഞ രണ്ട്‌ മാസത്തിനുള്ളില്‍ മലയാളികള്‍ക്ക് നഷ്ടമായത് മൂന്ന് വ്യക്തിത്വങ്ങളെ ....നീലക്കുയിലിലൂടെ സ്റ്റില്‍ ഫോട്ടോഗ്രാഫര്‍ ആയി മലയാള സിനിമ ലോകത്തേക്ക് കടന്നു വന്ന ശോഭന പരമേശ്വരന്‍ നായര്‍ അന്തരിച്ചതിനു തൊട്ടുപിന്നാലെയായിരുന്നു കേരളത്തിന്‍െ നീര്‍മാതളം പൊഴിഞ്ഞത് .എഴുത്തിന്റെ വഴികളില്‍ സ്വന്തം വ്യക്തിമു‌ദ്ര പതിപ്പിച്ച കമല എന്ന എഴുത്തുകാരി മരിച്ചപോള്‍ നമുക്ക്‌ നഷ്ടമായത് മഹത്തായ ഒരു സാഹിത്യ ലോകമാണ് ... മാധവികുട്ടിയുടെ ആരാധകനായ ലോഹിതദാസിനെയും മരണം കീഴടക്കിയതും തികച്ചും അപ്രതീക്ഷിതമായിട്ടാണ്. അദ്ദേഹം ആദ്യം സംവിധാനം ചെയ്ത ഭൂതകണ്ണാടി എന്ന ചിത്രം ഒരു പ്രേക്ഷകന്റെയും മനസ്സില്‍ നിന്നും മായില്ല ..ഈ പ്രതിഭകളെ മരണത്തിനു മാത്രമേ കീഴടക്കാനാകു...മലയാളീ മനസ്സില്‍ ഇവര്‍ ഇന്നും ചിരന്ജീവികള്‍ ആണ്...........

Best music video of Idsfk

Reality Bites

Every form of art needs experimentations, explorations and inovations to keep on breathing. Deadlines 24x7 is a test tube in which a new blen is preapred. If film can be taken as the art of mixing sounds and visuals, thisn film is a combination of them for sure.

This film unflods the story of an ambitious teenage girl the rise and fall of an aspiring talent. Through a series of shots thins film relates to the viewer how varsha a girl from an ordinary background reaches the glitzy world of modelling, radio jockeying and tv and film acting through a reality show. Soon the media takes her up and she suddenly sees herself in the limelight.

After making her popular the media now pesters her everywhere. She and anything related to her are closely followed by the prying eye of the media. A very simple issue related to her brother is taken up by the news channels and makes her life a hell. Even after her suicide the media relents to leave, now after her sister.

The most striking feature of this film is the juxtapostion of totally dissociating sound tracks with the visuals. It creates a sort of ironic tension in form as well as content.

Lonely Soul

The lonely soul wanders
Alone in the walks of life
No other soul as his companion
The lonely soul wanders

Alone in the daybreak
He does his duties
In the walks of life
The lonely soul wanders

Alone in the life
He meets many other souls
Who comes to be
Unfit for the lonely soul
The lonely soul wanders

As the days pass by
The lonely soul became
More lonely, with no other
souls as his companion
The lonely soul wanders

Alone in the walks of life
The lonely soul decides
Not to die, but to face
Life in all its hardships
The lonely soul wanders

A View from Light House

WIDE NET

William Wallace Jamieson’s wife Hazel was going to have a baby. Even though the final stage of pregnancy remained six months away, Hazel behaved as though it would be the next day itself. If her husband didn’t pay enough attention to her needs, she refused to talk to him or spend time with him. As this practice began to continue on a daily basis, William Wallace got more and more irritated with his young wife. So one night he went out drinking with two boys of their neighbourhood and stayed out all the night. But when he returned home, early morning, Hazel had vanished. After searching the house inside out for her, William found she had left a letter for him. William swallowed hard on reading it, for Hazel stated that she would no longer put up with him and was going to the river to drown herself.

Upset and anxious, William ran to call his friend Virgil Thomas and insisted they should collect some villagers to assist in the dragging of the river. And as the river dragging party would require a wide net, he decided to collect it from the old local doctor, known as Doc. The two friends then recounted their experiences with Hazel and analysed her behaviour. As they searched for traces of Hazel in the grove amidst the deep interior of woods, William Wallace caught hold of a rabbit, stroked it and argued with his friend who had to remind him that he was out to catch not cotton trails but his missing wife.

Soon the river dragging party headed by William Wallace, Virgil and old Doc, along with the Doyles with their ferocious dogs and four nigger boys followed the path of the old Natchez Trace. It took them through the deep woods and led them down below to the Pearl river. The wide net was cast on to the river, which stretched from one bank to the other and its weights holding it all the way to the bottom. The net caught into it almost all of the river’s store of fishes, weeds, shoes and other things, so Wallace and his companions had to empty the net often, from top to bottom. As Wallace kept on diving to the bottom, he once reached the deepest part of the river. He stayed there for a pretty long time and as he broke on the surface of the river, he felt a deep agony at his heart. Soon it was noon and all felt hungry. So they dragged up the haul onto a wide sandbar, built a fire, cooked and ate the catfish. After having their fill, all of them fell asleep. Then something unexpected occurred before the bewildered river dragging party. William Wallace began to leap up and down excitedly, having hooked a big catfish to his belt buckle. The weather changed, showing signs of an approaching storm. Heavy drops of rain started pouring down, lightning struck trees, sudden currents and whirlpools thronged the river; and Wallace cut his foot walking on a sharp rock. The party decided to retreat to their Dover village, once the storm got over. Towards late afternoon, they reached the road leading to their village patched with tar. The river dragging party entered the village, showing off their catch with pride. Even Wallace Williams gained a profit by selling off his fish for three dollars.

Now, as Wallace returned home after the futile search, he saw a rainbow which seemed like a lady’s summer dress, a faint veil through which the stars showed. To his surprise, the familiar voice of Hazel greeted Wallace from the bedroom. He found Hazel as she was before. After supper, they sat on the front steps for a while, and as Wallace came to know that hazel was hiding and enjoying herself all the while, he turned her up and spanked her. Both of them behaved as if nothing had happened between them. They realized the fact that both needed each other’s company. Though it looked as if Wallace had dragged the river to capture Hazel who now lay smiling in the crook of his arm, it was really Hazel who had captured Wallace in her net. Thus Welty illuminates a universal truth here. It is only through personal loss that one realizes the full worth of a companion or friend.

tears lost

tears i shed all these days

was in vain i know it now

i need them for the days yet to come

oh, where shall i find those lost tears

in all these days i didnt realise

how close i came with friendly ones

how will i feel when all is gone

a loss that is beyond words

the winding path and rosy bushes

the greenish grass and swaying tress

the gurgling river and windy woods

all awoke a fear i ccant tell

the singing birds and crazy hares

the bees and naughty ants

butterflies aucking nectar of life

how could i feel alone with them

yet i shed some tears in days

among them before i realised that

i who cant see all these with my eyes

can see it all with my inner eyes

years made me realise that

i could see all those things

with my minds' within me

without others telling it to me

i feel peace in my mind

knowing that i could see in mind

all that others see with eyes

now i dont say crying, i am blind

Stuff that dreams are made of...

Stuff that dreams are made of...

Inside my mind I found a place,
a beautiful and hallowed space.

When we two parted...

When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
colder they kiss,
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.

The dew of the morning
Sunk chill on my brow-
If felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame;
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o'er me-
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well-
Long, long shall I rue thee,
Too deeply to tell.

In secret we met-
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.

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India's reservation system piercing the spine of deserving people?

The towering of Indis is not Pakistan or China but India itself, its wrong policies, flares strategies and maladministration.The policy of reservation is among the top of such muldies, of course the reservation for diffrent categories is meant for improving the backward categories and aims at bringing them at par with the other well off and well placed section of the society. Candidates seeking jobs oe admissiond against reserved category are usually of petite IQ and adverly lack capability, aplomb, dynamism and talent required by those jobs or courses.

For the talented jobs, virtue cities, genius laments, intelligence bemoans ans calibre screams at the after of reservation. Merit is a substance which is and must be above cost and free from all socio political and ecnomic pressures and prejudices as it plays a vital role in the development of India.

Political situation in Kerala

With the elections nearing, a precarious situation prevails in kerala especially when you take the Marxist party into consideration. There is no doubt that the conflicts within the major parties is going to affect the results if election in a big way. The internal conflicts within the LDF proves to be a boon to UDF who is determined to sieze the seats that they lost int he last election. Last time it was a landslide victory for LDF as they won all seats except one. But now the two groups within LDF being poles apart, the victory in this election seems to be adream for them. On the other hand congress is hoping for a victory not less thatn what the LDF had during the previous election. On the contrary even if the Marxizt party is voted to power, the future of the present CM is very much in doubt as he may not get support from the centre.

The other observation is that BJP may open their account in kerala for the 1st time in this election. Each seat that the Marxist party looses this time is sure to become a question for them for which they may have to hunt hard for an answer. Whith the JDS desciding not to support the ruling faction the future of LDF seems to be shadowed by dark clouds.

As of now the stage is all set for the Congeress to return to power.

Global Financial Crisis

The key question confronting the economy now is the backwash effect of the American or Global Financial Crisis. The current financial turnmoil is rooted to the subprime crisis.

Two kinds of loans are given by the American banks to their people.Prime loans and Subprime loans. Prime loans are given to persons who have thecapability to pay back the loan in time. Subprime loans are those loans that are provided even if the person is not capable to pay back the entire amount. Duing the boom years of the housing sector people took the subprime loans to buy houses. The banks provide huge amount as subprime loans with the eye that, if they didnt pay back the amount, then they can confiscate the flats and sell it at a higher profit. The banks gave the credits with little or no downpayment and without creditr checks.

When the banks took over these flats a situation arose where there were no buyers for these flats. Therefore these became nin performing assets with the banks. Banks ans financial instituitons often repackaged these debts with other high risk debts and sold them to worls wide investors creating financial instruments alled CDOs oe collateralised debt obligations. The serious subprime mortgage crisis began in June 2007 when teo Bear Stearns Hedge funds collapsed.

ee look kollaaam.....

gearing up to pour

trying to chase the rain, no matter u get drenched its where one gets close to nature.

green cover

Global Warming

Although a majority of Americans believe the seriousness of global warming is either correctly portrayed in the news or underestimated, a record-high 41% now say it is exaggerated. This represents the highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting on global warming seen in more than a decade of Gallup polling on the subject. Gallup has documented declines in public concern about the environment at times when other issues, such as a major economic downturn or a national crisis like 9/11, absorbed Americans’ attention. To some extent that may be true today, given the troubling state of the U.S. economy. However, the solitary drop in concern this year about global warming, among the eight specific environmental issues Gallup tested, suggests that something unique may be happening with the issue. Rather than seeing public opinion as a something to move as a prerequisite to action on certain climate policies, perhaps it is time for the experts to instead shape climate policies to fit the realities of public opinion. To paraphrase Walter Lippmann, the goal of politics is not to get everyone to think alike, but rather, to get people who think differently to act alike. Six in 10 Americans indicate that they are highly worried about global warming, including 34% who are worried “a great deal” and 26% “a fair amount.” Overall worry is similar to points at the start of the decade, but is down from 66% a year ago and from 65% in 2007.

STEM CELL

 It's come time to lie about science again - this time about the reality of embryonic stem cell pluripotency - and some of the old lies are coming back out of the storage shed. For instance, I've heard about how adult stem cells have cured or treated 72 diseases. Oh and embryonic stem cells, they've cured none. It's been a while since we've seen this adult stem cell nonsense.

To understand the problem with this list and why these citations don't say what they think they say, we have to learn a little bit about adult stem cells and a big scary word - transdifferentiation.

The main problem with those "72 treatments" is that they were not using adult stem cells to generate new tissue, rather they used adult blood stem cells as part of the chemotherapy to replenish the patient's blood.

caBBAGE

cold and green

life's soul

Dying Young

Remain young to the very end. A really alive person remains young while he is dying. When Socrates was dying he was very young. To the very end, to the last moment, he was so youthful, so curious to know about death, so enchanted, that he went again and again and asked the person who was preparing poison for him- because he was sentenced to death through poisoning- he asked again and again and again: How much more time will you take, because it is now time! Why are you making it late? and the man who was preapring the poison started crying. He said :I am delaying it knowingly, so that you can live a little longer. But why are you in so much hurry to die? Socrates said: Life i have seen; death i have not seen yet, hence i am more curious abouth death than about life.

morning view

1st rays

morning beauty