Dated: October 20, 2009.
CBCNEWS
Around the World
Report Time: Over Two Minutes
Begins at: 4:40
Thursday, October 22, 2009
What exactly would an offensive against the Taliban entail...
Date: October 16, 2009.
CBCNEWS
Around the World
Report Time: 2 minutes
Begins at: 6:40
CBCNEWS
Around the World
Report Time: 2 minutes
Begins at: 6:40
Monday, October 12, 2009
The choreographer of her life
By Intikhab Amir
Every human being is a complex mix of two personalities, a coin with two sides. Both happen to be different from each other. One believes in togetherness, unity, and love for others. For her, the world is a big family. The other tends to be self-centred and egocentric. He is bent to make hell of this world.
One individual with two personalities! It sounds naive, the height of absurdity. Medical science, however, enforces this apparently weird concept.
The culprit for the duality is none other than the human brain. The human brain, according to researchers, is composed of two parts: the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. One is a proponent of unity, the other implants individualism.
Explaining the complexities of human brain, Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain researcher, in her Ted Talk, helps her listeners to understand the composition of the human brain, its functions, how it keeps our body a coherent entity, how it absorbs information and disseminates it, how it shapes human behaviour and attitudes towards others, and how it nourishes superiority complexes among human beings promoting individualism – a threat to world peace.
Taylor grew up studying the brain. She studied her own brother, a schizophrenic patient. But, her most enriched experience studying the human brain came from none other than her own brain. She suffered a stroke on December 10, 1996, which, in her words, left her “an infant in a woman’s body,” as her brain was rendered unable to process information.
The seven-minute ‘Ted Talk’ leaves the listeners with mixed feelings. It arouses their interest by providing them a peep into the human brain; expanding their knowledge about its composition, size, and functions. Simultaneously, it breaks them into laughter when told how their own brain alienates them by implanting in them an obsession with ‘I am.” Similarly, it also leaves them with wet-eyes when she explains her ordeal: when the idea dawned upon her that she was not the choreographer of her own life. It was the brain’s enormousness in her little body that was the source of her all energy. Ends
Every human being is a complex mix of two personalities, a coin with two sides. Both happen to be different from each other. One believes in togetherness, unity, and love for others. For her, the world is a big family. The other tends to be self-centred and egocentric. He is bent to make hell of this world.
One individual with two personalities! It sounds naive, the height of absurdity. Medical science, however, enforces this apparently weird concept.
The culprit for the duality is none other than the human brain. The human brain, according to researchers, is composed of two parts: the right hemisphere and the left hemisphere. One is a proponent of unity, the other implants individualism.
Explaining the complexities of human brain, Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain researcher, in her Ted Talk, helps her listeners to understand the composition of the human brain, its functions, how it keeps our body a coherent entity, how it absorbs information and disseminates it, how it shapes human behaviour and attitudes towards others, and how it nourishes superiority complexes among human beings promoting individualism – a threat to world peace.
Taylor grew up studying the brain. She studied her own brother, a schizophrenic patient. But, her most enriched experience studying the human brain came from none other than her own brain. She suffered a stroke on December 10, 1996, which, in her words, left her “an infant in a woman’s body,” as her brain was rendered unable to process information.
The seven-minute ‘Ted Talk’ leaves the listeners with mixed feelings. It arouses their interest by providing them a peep into the human brain; expanding their knowledge about its composition, size, and functions. Simultaneously, it breaks them into laughter when told how their own brain alienates them by implanting in them an obsession with ‘I am.” Similarly, it also leaves them with wet-eyes when she explains her ordeal: when the idea dawned upon her that she was not the choreographer of her own life. It was the brain’s enormousness in her little body that was the source of her all energy. Ends
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Movie Review
Slumdog Millionaire
(Director: Danny Boyle)
By Intikhab Amir
Moving from one horror to another with powerful images – a blitz of flashy colors -depicting the depth of low of a slum and the changing face of rising India, Slumdog Millionaire is a story of passionate love haunted by more than fierce brutality, overwhelming poverty, and sexual abuse.
Boyle builds the high-tension drama; heightened by music sensation A.R. Rehman’s enthralling compositions; as an illiterate youth Jamal Malik answers questions on a local television’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire show with flashback unfolding his troubled childhood. The epic begins in a dramatic Hollywood setting (a squat chunky policeman torturing Malik to spill the beans of truth after the show’s host accused him of cheating) and ends in a Hindi film style: A triumphant hero’s reunion with his love, attractive Latika. Winning eight Oscars in 2009, the movie has more to its credit: two new words added to English – ‘Jai Ho’ and ‘Slumdog.’
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(Director: Danny Boyle)
By Intikhab Amir
Moving from one horror to another with powerful images – a blitz of flashy colors -depicting the depth of low of a slum and the changing face of rising India, Slumdog Millionaire is a story of passionate love haunted by more than fierce brutality, overwhelming poverty, and sexual abuse.
Boyle builds the high-tension drama; heightened by music sensation A.R. Rehman’s enthralling compositions; as an illiterate youth Jamal Malik answers questions on a local television’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire show with flashback unfolding his troubled childhood. The epic begins in a dramatic Hollywood setting (a squat chunky policeman torturing Malik to spill the beans of truth after the show’s host accused him of cheating) and ends in a Hindi film style: A triumphant hero’s reunion with his love, attractive Latika. Winning eight Oscars in 2009, the movie has more to its credit: two new words added to English – ‘Jai Ho’ and ‘Slumdog.’
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