Here’s the story:  50 year old husband falls inside a well in nearby property.  Wife thinks he must have gone to Sweden with his secretary,  leaving her and their 4 daughters.  Though the girls insist,  she doesn’t try to call him and starts to have an affair with a neighbour.  3 years later, they discover that husband didn’t run away, but had fallen into the well and died.  She was angry and frustrated at the world throughout this period.  Wife continues relationship with neighbor, but becomes less angry.

Moral as per the youngest daughter:  Anger has changed her mom into a different person.  Hence the title for the movie.

Now,  do you all see why the movie has a 74% fresh rating in rotten tomatoes?

I’m at a loss of words, there is nothing I know of that’s quite comparable to these things. These are very advanced noise cancellation head phones. Sounds as good as the best speakers in the world. And noise cancellation is so good that you can listen to an audio book in low volume while walking in Chennai roads.

It was the first classical dance performance that I’ve seen live, and it was done in such a grand scale by extremely powerful dancers, that I was totally moved. All dancers were female (even Krishna was played by 3 female artists, one young, and two older) artists except one male, who played the roles of Poothana/Kaliya.

Music was played live, the song was in Hindi, but I was able to pick up random words from here and there. I was anyways aware of the stories so didn’t have much trouble following it.

What better story can you get to watch than that of Krishna? These are stories that we’ve heard/read hundreds of times and they still bring infinite joy when we see it retold. The show inspired me to buy a copy of Srimad Bhagavatam today. Would start reading after finishing around 5 other books that are already in the queue. Had a great weekend all together.

Thank you very much!

I’m amused to see Google reader telling me that even now, there are around 5 people subscribing to my rss feeds.  I’ll bet none of them use Google reader anymore, and if they still do, they must be extremely lazy people or must like me very very much!

There has been more activity in my life in this gap – I joined Citicorp around 2 months back, and got my first fully Linux job, which makes me a happy man.  After working for a startup company for an year,  it feels very different to be for a large organization where there are seperate departments for everything.  It might make you think life is  very comfortable for me.  Yes it is.  Problem is the pace at which things progress.

Next sad thing is that internet is highly restricted.  Web mail sites are blocked and our in-boxes are monitored   Community sites, streaming media sites are all blocked.  But life is still good (i.e., I still don’t get the time to think if its good.) and I’m learning more and more and more new things here including a lot of productivity tools (which I had denied myself so foolishly until recently)

I’ve read 3 Salman Rushdie novels and almost done with the fourth,  but as this post makes evident,  it has not had any effect on my vocabulary [yet].

I’ll try my best to write random things just to keep the blog alive.  I realise I’ve missed around 1 year worth of  posts just for me to look back at, if for nothing else.

Uniphore builds voice based IVR systems in Indian languages using Automated Speech Recogniton. Uniphore has also developed a patent pending technology which helps improve speech regocnition accuracy to very high levels.

Out of all the researches and experiments happening at Uniphore, one of the very interesting products that has come out is Noddler. Noddler is a platform for developers and businesses to create IVR applications easily. All you have to do is come to the Noddler SANDBOX site, create a call flow and then, you have your very own menu driven IVR application ready. You can also get it to interact with your APIs, both get data for the IVR application to speak or recognize, and to send the caller’s responses to your server. The GUI for building the applications is slightly slow and ugly, but we’re working on it too.

Once you create an application, it goes into the sandbox where you can test it. Once we’re happy with the application too, we can proceed towards making the application live.

There are a lot of more things happening, but this is all I can say for the time being. Expect to see more exciting things, and register at Noddler and try the services to get a feel of what your final applications would be like. If you are a developer, do try out the Noddler SANDBOX.