Summer Shower

The earth is hot, and we all expect a warm climate to cool our mind and body. For the last two days, summer rain is showering. It is a real soother. Let it showers in our mind and body.

Kabuliwala, Oh... Kabuliwala.....

During my school days, the only entertainment was Doordharsan's two channels; the National one and Regional one. Telecasting was not like that of today's schedule. Both channels were not of 24 hours continuously telecasting the programmes. Yet we wait for the programmes without any haste because as said earlier, it was the only entertainment channel at that time ! Kids of todays generation will laugh while reading this.

Every Sunday afternoon, the National channel will telecast a regional language feature film. Viewers show the patience to view that without having a knowledge in that language; whether it is Punjabi or Tamil; Assamese or Malayalam; Bengali or Kashmiri.... having to watch a film is more important than to knowing the language for most of us. Thanks for the subtitle too which help the literate to translate the same to their co-viewers. TAM rating was not heard at that time. Yet these films have a good viewership rating.

One of the films that still in my mind is Tagore's famous story ; KABULIWALA. I still remember the words of little Mini calling her huge, tall Afgan friend : " Kabuliwala, Oh, Kabuliwala !! ". Time had changed very very lot. From one single channel, my living room is now flooded with more than 100 channels to view. Yet I love and have some nostalgic feeling about that old days where there is only one channel to view and the patience to view it without any complaints.

Sure, the present revolution in channel flooding will never quench generations like me. I think.

New Scope in Kerala Tourism

Tourism is one of the best industry in the world. And many nations earn a good revenue from it. Kerala, a small state in India; had already been selected by many renowned agencies as one of the best tourist spot in the world map. But is that enough? From mere sight seeing, tourism had developed a lot in many countries like Medical Tourism, etc etc....

Now the turn is for the Kerala Government. There are two good areas that the local Government promote. The first one is Accident view Tourism. This is nothing more than viewing the live scenes of an Accident. Whether it is a motor accident, or a building collapse; the tourist can see residents queueing in with their mobile phone cameras recording it live and blocking the police, fire force and the rescue workers in many way so as to enjoy and make the incident more worse and worse to make out the best from the above scenes. Same is the case when a building collapsed and those caught were crying for help were falling under deaf ears. See, is this a good scope for a new type of Tourism ?

The Second one is Peeping Tourism. Kerala is the first State in India to acquire 100 % Literacy. That is only in books, I think. Moreover the people of this small state are highly educated, a hard believer in white/blue collar jobs etc etc... Now they enjoy by peeping into others privacy. Whether it is in Hotels, Restauarants, Parks, Public Places, Changing rooms ...... the list is endless. You can expect a peeping camera any where in any form. In Kerala, we don't care anybody's privacy. If you like this type of privacy invaders, then please visit this small piece of land. We call this land as GODS OWN COUNTRY .

So happy tourism. Please visit here and enjoy the new trends in tourism.