Archive for November, 2008

Nov

BEAUTIFUL SRIDEVI AND HER FAMILY – PHOTOS

Categories: Celebrities

Here is the actual picture of Sridevi’s daughter. Don’t know whether she is Jhanavi or not. Think this picture was taken when Sridevi and her family went to watch one of the famous theater play in South India somewhere.

For those who don’t know about Sridevi. Sridevi married film producer Boney Kapoor on June 2, 1996.Boney Kapoor and Sridevi have two daughters – Jhanvi Kapoor and Khushi Kapoor. Actor Anil Kapoor, her co-star in a number films, is her brother-in-law.

Updates: Looks like there is a rumor going around about Sridevi’s daughter Jhanvi Kapoor as if she is planning to act in bollywood. I am not sure how true it is.

Sridevi’s husband, film director Boney Kapoor and daughters Janavi and Khushi cheered for her, sitting in the audience.

Srideviproved that she is still very much the Bollywood siren as she sizzled on the ramp on the final day of Fashion Week in Mumbai.

Boney Kapoor with wife Sridevi and their daughter

Nov

Tamil Actress Sridevi..!!

By sasthamcotta 1 Comment

Categories: Celebrities

Sridevi, daughter of veteran actors Manjula and Vijayakumar and an already popular actress in Tamil and Telugu films, is now making her debut in Kannada with Kaanchanaganga, produced by Jai Jagadish and directed by SV Rajendrasingh Babu. Her sister Rukmini has already acted in a Kannada film titled Om Namashivaya.

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Nov

Learn Malayalam Easily..

By sasthamcotta 2 Comments

Categories: 1, Cool Things, Kerala Pilgrimage and Our India

Malayalam alphabet

Origin

Malayalam first appeared in writing in the vazhappalli inscription which dates from about 830 AD. In the early thirteenth century the Malayalam script began to develop from a script known as vattezhuthu (round writing), a descendant of the Brahmi script.

As a result of the difficulties of printing Malayalam, a simplified or reformed version of the script was introduced during the 1970s and 1980s. The main change involved writing consonants and diacritics separately rather than as complex characters. These changes are not applied consistently applied so the modern script is often mixture of traditional and simplified characteres

Malayalam is also regularly written with a version of the Arabic script by Muslims in Singapore and Malaysia, and occasionally by Muslims in Kerala.

Notable features

This is a syllabic alphabet in which all consonants have an inherent vowel. Diacritics, which can appear above, below, before or after the consonant they belong to, are used to change the inherent vowel.
When they appear the the beginning of a syllable, vowels are written as independent letters.
When certain consonants occur together, special conjunct symbols are used which combine the essential parts of each letter.

Used to write:

Malayalam, a Dravidian language with about 35 million speakers. It is spoken mainly in the south west of India, particularly in Kerala, the Laccadive Islands and neighboring states, and also in Bahrain, Fiji, Israel, Malaysia, Qatar, Singapore, UAE and the UK.

Malayalam alphabet

Vowels (svaram)

Malayalam vowels

Vowel diacritics with ka

Malayalam vowel diacritics ka

Note

When combined with vowel diacritics some consonants change shape. This doesn’t happen in the simplified version of the script (in blue)

Consonants (vyanjanam)

Malayalam consonants

A selection of conjunct consonants

Malayalam conjunct consonants

Numerals

Malayalam numerals

The simplified versions are shown in blue.

Sample text

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Malayalam

Transliteration

Manuṣyarellāvarum tulyāvakāśan̄n̄aḷōṭum antassōṭum svātantryattōtumkūṭi janiccavarāṇ. Anyōnyam bhrātrubāvattoṭe perumāṛuvānāṇa manuṣyannu vivēkabuddhiyum manaṣṣākṣiyum siddhamāyirikkunnat.

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Translation

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
(Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)

Longer sample text (Tower of Babel)