Favourites

the best songs ever , in my opinion.

oldie goldies:
1. chakravarthini
2. kasthuri manakkunnallo
3. kalpantha kalatholam

middle melodies:
1. vathil pazhuthilode
2. arikil nee undayirunnenkil
3. etho varmukilin
4. vaalkkannezhuthiya

latest loves:
1. oru naru pushpamayi
2. oru chempaneer
3. shyamavaniletho

other languages:
1.pachai nirame
2. chinna chinna asai
3. ek ladki ko

Top Ten

The ten best books i have read so far. care has been taken to select books from all genres.
the numbering depicts just the order of remembrance and not priority.

1) Pride and Prejudice by jane austen-a good love story
2) The house of the seven gables by nathaniel hawthorne- a captivating story said in strong words
3) The Alchemist by paulo coelho- inspirational
4) To kill a mocking bird by harper lee- light hearted
5)Wuthering heights by emily bronte( or charlotte ..dont remember which)- strong characters set in a slightly bitter atmosphere
6)The da vinci code by dan brown- fact Vs fiction
7)The murder on the orient express by agatha christie- good mystery where the end is beyond guess
8) The scarlet Pimpernal by baroness orczy- a love story set in aristocratic circles with a touch of dare in it
9) The taming of the shrew by william shakespeare(only the non detailed)- comedy
10) Harry potter and the order of the phoenix- no description needed

Book Review: The Final Theory

This book is an entertaining read for physics enthusiasts;still, the book is in such simple a language that even those who are not too deep into physics can appreciate it. It revolves around astrophysics but the terms used are elaborated for the sake of non physicists so that at no point the reader is at a loss . The story in a nutshell: Einstein ,during his last days was bent on finding a unified theory which would explain all electromagnetic and gravitational phenomena. But his followers believed that he passed away without getting hold of the theroy. the story begins when the protagonist gets a call from a detective asking him to go to a city hospital where his teacher at princeton (with whom he had published a paper on two dimensional representation of the universe) is admitted with fatal injuries. The teacher tells him that Einstein did get hold of the unified theory but was apprehensive of the consequences that would pursue if his theory was used for non- peaceful purposes. Therefore he did not publish his theory.But he did not destroy the theory as it was too beautiful. Instead he gave it to three of his students to safeguard. two of them were already murdered and the third one is in the hospital bed about to die. he trusts the hero with a password which is a set of numbers and asks him to save it from an unscrupulous gang that is after the theory. there begins the story. the hero sets out to find the theory but the police are after him because he is the only link they have in the murder and the gang is after him because they know his teacher had transferred the secret to him. but he himself has no idea what to do with the set of numbers he had. what follows is an enthralling story of adventure , horror and suspense with the scientific terms so dexterously interspersed with the story element that it never gives the impression of a physics journal. Infact astrophysics sets the stage for a suspense thriller, but the reader can appreciate both the science as well as the stroy with equal vigour.The story ends along the usual lines with the good winning over the bad forces still a lot of surprises are in store towards the end of the story.

Favourites

My favourite lines of poetry.....


i dont know what this is called or who wrote it....it is about someone who was exiled to a remote island and his frustrations at the isolation and abandonment all around him...

I am monarch of all i survey
my right there is none to dispute
from the centre ,all around the sea
i am the king of the foul and the brute

and now comes the best lines
"oh solitude! where are the charms
that the sages had seen in thy face
better dwell in the midst of alarms
than reign in this horrible place"

given the context of the poem these lines are quite fitting and true.

some lines from the light of other days by thomas moore

context: someone who had turned old lamenting at the loss of his cheerful boyhood years and "the eyes that shone now dimmed and gone"...ie.the friends he had lost

when i remember all
my friends so linked together
i ve seen around me fall
like leaves in wintry weather

i feel like one who tread alone
some banquet hall deserted
whose lights have fled
whose garlands dead
and none but he departed.....

touching in the context of having to leave your friends.

now something simple yet good

i guess this is by wordworth

"'tis my faith that every flower
enjoys the air it breathes"

shows the beauty of life

and now a malayalam poem....
this poem seems like a narration by a woman who is about to marry but reading deeper we see that it infact speaks about a persons appointment with death......

ente veli by g.shankarakurup

"kaalamen shirasinkal aniyikkyayaai mulla maala
bhaalathil chaarthi kazhinju varakkuri"
although it seems like a bride getting ready infact it means that time has adorned my hair with white flowers(meaning greying of hair at oldage) and has brought in wrinkles in my forehead.

most of these i came across at school but it is now that i appreciate their beauty more.