India to overthrow Japan from the third position in GDP ranking

   India might become the world's third largest economy in 2011 by overtaking Japan in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) measured according to the domestic purchasing power of the rupee, otherwise called purchasing power parity.


   India is now the fourth-largest economy behind the US, China and Japan. Numbers from 2010 show that the Japanese economy was worth $4.31 trillion, with India snapping at its heels at $4.06 trillion. But after March's devastating tsunami and earthquakes, Japan's economy is widely expected to contract while India's economy will grow between 7% and 8% this fiscal


   IMF forecasts show India and Japan neck-to-neck in 2011, but the disaster in Japan has brought the event forward. "Were it not for the earthquake and tsunami, India would have overtaken Japan in around 2013-14" 


  The purchasing power parity (PPP) method measures the size of an economy by levelling price differences between countries that occur in the process of conversion to a single currency.   Under this method, a dollar should be able to buy the same amount of goods anywhere in the world and exchange rates should adjust accordingly.

   The Economist's Big Mac Index, which takes the price of a Big Mac burger across 120 countries to calculate the 'real' price of its currency, is a crude way to measure PPP. India was included in the index recently. It showed that the Indian rupee was undervalued by 53% against the US dollar in August.   Earlier, a report by consultant PwC suggested that the Indian economy would surpass the Japanese economy in 2012. The IMF expects the Japanese economy to contract 0.7% this year while India is expected to grow 8.2%. A bigger economy could also give the government additional clout and bargaining power overseas.   India, once a recipient nation for foreign aid, could now come together with Brazil, Russia and China to form a fund to stabilise tottering economies in the Eurozone.


   Globally, companies have their eyes set on India as a rapidly growing nation that is full of opportunities. The sheer scale of development needed could drive growth for many years. "India has the advantage of size. The scope of growth and excess capacity present in terms of resources would drive growth in the future,"


   Economists say that while the change in the rank of a country does not mean much, it points to broad trends in the growth trajectories of nations.


   According to the University of Pennsylvania PPP world tables, India has already moved ahead of Japan in 2010. The size of the Indian economy is expected to reach almost $5 trillion by the end of 2011.   According to the University of Pennsylvania PPP world tables, India has already moved ahead of Japan in 2010. The size of the Indian economy is expected to reach almost $5 trillion by the end of 2011.


source : etimes

Neutrinos faster than light... Is time travel possible now....

   An Italian experiment has unveiled evidence that fundamental particles known as neutrinos can travel faster than light. Other researchers are cautious about the result, but if it stands further scrutiny, the finding would overturn the most fundamental rule of modern physics — that nothing travels faster than 299,792,458 metres per second.

   The experiment is called OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus), and lies 1,400 metres underground in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. It is designed to study a beam of neutrinos coming from CERN, Europe's premier high-energy physics laboratory located 730 kilometres away near Geneva, Switzerland. Neutrinos are fundamental particles that are electrically neutral, rarely interact with other matter, and have a vanishingly small mass. But they are all around us — the Sun produces so many neutrinos as a by-product of nuclear reactions that many billions pass through your eye every second.

   The 1,800-tonne OPERA detector is a complex array of electronics and photographic emulsion plates, but the new result is simple — the neutrinos are arriving 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light allows. "We are shocked," says Antonio Ereditato, a physicist at the University of Bern in Switzerland and OPERA's spokesman.

Breaking the law

The idea that nothing can travel faster than light in a vacuum is the cornerstone of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity, which itself forms the foundation of modern physics. If neutrinos are travelling faster than light speed, then one of the most fundamental assumptions of science — that the rules of physics are the same for all observers — would be invalidated. "If it's true, then it's truly extraordinary," says John Ellis, a theoretical physicist at CERN.

Ereditato says that he is confident enough in the new result to make it public. The researchers claim to have measured the 730-kilometre trip between CERN and its detector to within 20 centimetres. They can measure the time of the trip to within 10 nanoseconds, and they have seen the effect in more than 16,000 events measured over the past two years. Given all this, they believe the result has a significance of six-sigma — the physicists' way of saying it is certainly correct. The group will present their results tomorrow at CERN, and a preprint of their results will be posted on the physics website ArXiv.org.

   At least one other experiment has seen a similar effect before, albeit with a much lower confidence level. In 2007, the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) experiment in Minnesota saw neutrinos from the particle-physics facility Fermilab in Illinois arriving slightly ahead of schedule. At the time, the MINOS team downplayed the result, in part because there was too much uncertainty in the detector's exact position to be sure of its significance, says Jenny Thomas, a spokeswoman for the experiment. Thomas says that MINOS was already planning more accurate follow-up experiments before the latest OPERA result. "I'm hoping that we could get that going and make a measurement in a year or two," she says.

Reasonable doubt

   If MINOS were to confirm OPERA's find, the consequences would be enormous. "If you give up the speed of light, then the construction of special relativity falls down," says Antonino Zichichi, a theoretical physicist and emeritus professor at the University of Bologna, Italy. Zichichi speculates that the 'superluminal' neutrinos detected by OPERA could be slipping through extra dimensions in space, as predicted by theories such as string theory.

  Ellis, however, remains sceptical. Many experiments have looked for particles travelling faster than light speed in the past and have come up empty-handed, he says. Most troubling for OPERA is a separate analysis of a pulse of neutrinos from a nearby supernova known as 1987a. If the speeds seen by OPERA were achievable by all neutrinos, then the pulse from the supernova would have shown up years earlier than the exploding star's flash of light; instead, they arrived within hours of each other. "It's difficult to reconcile with what OPERA is seeing," Ellis says.Ereditato says that he welcomes scepticism from outsiders, but adds that the researchers have been unable to find any other explanation for their remarkable result. "Whenever you are in these conditions, then you have to go to the community," he says.


Time travel :


   Jeff Forshaw, a professor of particle physics at Manchester University, said the results, if confirmed, would mean it would be possible in theory “to send information into the past.”
    ”In other words, time travel into the past would become possible ... (though) that does not mean we'll be building time machines any time soon”.

Can a man survive in Mumbai with just Rs.32

The article tells us how difficult is it to live a poor mans life in the Business capital of India, MUMBAI.

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    I think it is possible to spend just Rs 32 a day and not starve," said the man wearing the floral shirt, rather loudly."Not in Mumbai or Bangalore...maybe in Sangli or Satara," said his partner, even as he shuffled a pack of cards and spread them across a suitcase resting on the legs of his partner. The two other card players and this correspondent listened quietly."I can live for less than Rs 32 a day," replied floral shirt as he picked up his cards. "Can you?" he mocked his partner.

    It's an unusually hot Wednesday afternoon in Mumbai and the conversation in this 'first-class' compartment of a suburban train is the usual mix of whispered stock tips, and angst about the money Dhoni and his men are making. Chitchat about poverty is out of character in a train which cuts through some of the most appalling slums in the whole world.

    But then again, the wise men and women of the Planning Commission had told the Supreme Court that that anybody who spends Rs 33 or more a day in cities is not poor and hence not eligible for a below poverty line (BPL) card, which lets the poor avail services like medical care for free.The conversation got me thinking: can I live on just Rs 32 a day? My first response was: no.

    So, on Thursday morning, I woke up to the aroma of ginger tea being made in the kitchen by my household help (who makes Rs 200 a day but stays in a chawl) and nobly declined the brew. My wife scowled.Instead, I legged it to the neibhourhood tea stall and ordered a cutting chai and a boiled egg. The tab: Rs 8. I can pull this off, I told myself. An hour later, I was hungry again. But life around the poverty line does not include multiple breakfasts with eggs and muesli.

    Virtue and the resolve to write good copy triumphed.After a bath (in which I shunned soap) and a refusal to spray myself with my Rs 200 deodorant, I pocketed by Rs 9,000 Blackberry and my Hidesign wallet and was ready to face the world.As soon as I stepped out of the gate of my apartment complex, it hit me. The railway station was two kilometers away and I paid Rs 20 everyday for an auto ride.

    As I undertook my personal Dandi under a blazing sun, I felt more Gandhian than Anna Hazare. My satyagraha was just beginning.

    At the station, ticket prices triggered a mild cardiac arrest. Ten rupees, one way, for a second-class ride. The total damage now: Rs 18. The train came and 'cattle class' was redefined. I was elbowed out in my first attempt to board the second-class compartment.Twenty minutes and three attempts later, I was sandwiched (a food analogy, I wonder why) between half-a-dozen men. The crowd was crushing. But nothing unusual. This is how it is always.

    Forty breathless minutes later, I was disgorged out of the compartment — sweaty, sticky and crumpled-shirted.I spent the rest of the day wondering if my colleagues could smell me from a few feet away. By noon, my stomach was starting to sound like Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker were engaged in battle inside, to the background score of a hundred xylophones.

    Even as the rest of my colleagues went for a four-course mean (with dessert) it was time to hunt for a stall that sold the staple food of all indigents in the city of dreams : the mighty but extremely affordable vada pav. Turns out that vada pav is a dish sold in the latter part of the day, so have I have to settle for puri bhaji.

    For Rs 15, I am served four over-fried puris and an undercooked potato bhaji. I wait in a line for 15 minutes to be handed my plate but it's the most delicious lunch I have ever had. Hunger gives you brand new taste buds. My damage so far: Rs 33.Back in office, my stomach is cramping. The thought of another train journey on small budget is not appealing.I leave office early. The train rolls in. The first-class compartment is empty.

    I want to cheat. Badly.Mercifully, the second class is not packed. Ten more rupees gone, my budget is Rs 43. I stand for five stations before I get a seat. When I get off, I realise that Dandi II is left. I walk back home, slowly. The walk that took me 12 minutes in the morning takes me nearly half an hour in evening.As I reach home, I realise that dinner is still a few hours away.

    My wife opens the door, looking worried. "Don't be silly...eat something...you have proved your point," she says testily. I show her the two plantains I have bought for Rs 6. My budget: Rs 49. I can barely stand.

    Dinner time. I peel the banana. "Is there some instant noodles at home?" I ask. I wolf down two packs. There might be no nobility in poverty but it takes guts to survive a life of want.

    My little message for all Oxford-Cambridge-Harvard-Yale etc, etc educated, lal batti-on-their-car folks who came up with the "Rs 32-per-day" figure: please wake up and smell the cutting chai.

Velayudham lyrics

RATHATHIN RATHAME :


Music Director: Vijay Antony
Lyrics: Annamalai
Singers: Haricharan, Sri Madhumitha

rathathin rathame..
en iniya udan pirappe..
sonthathin sonthame..
naan eyangum uyir thudippe!

ammavum appavum ellame neethaane
en vaazhkai unakallavaa!
sethalum puthaithalum chediyaaga muzhaithalum
en vaasam unakallavaa!

rathathin rathame..
en iniya udan pirappe..
sonthathin sonthame..
naan eyangum uyir thudippe!

anbenra otrai sollai..polonru veru illai
nee kaatum paasathuku..deivangal eedu illai
en nenjum unnaimattum..kadikaara mullaai sutrum
nodineram nee pirinthal..ammadi uyire pogum

nee sonnal ethaiyum seiven
thalai aatum bommai aaven
sethalum puthaithalum
sediyaaga mulaithalum
en vaasaam unakallava

rathathin rathame..
en iniya udan pirappe..
sonthathin sonthame..
naan eyangum uyir thudippe!

neenga romba naal nalla irukanum
ithemathiri
romba naal nalla irukanum
nooru pulla pethu..kodi anbu serthu
neenga vaazhanum santhosama
intha jodi pola
jodi illainu
vaazhunthu kaatanum santhosama

tajmahal unaku
thangathil kattaporen
megathil nooleduthu
selai naan senju tharen

ennodu nee irunthal
verethum eedaguma
kandangi selai pothum
verethum naan ketpena

vaanathil neelam pole
boomikul eeram pole
erithalum piriyathu
mudinthalum mudiyathu
naam konda uravallava

CHILLAX CHILLAX :

Music Director: Vijay Antony
Lyrics: Annamalai
Singers: Karthik, Charulatha Mani

chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax..
chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax..

manjanathi marathu katta
maiya vechi mayaki puta
naatu katta townu katta
rendum kalandha semma katta

kaiyu rendum urutu katta
kannu rendum vetta vetta
nenjukulla ratham sotta
eduku vara kitta..

sooriyane thevaiyille vithudalama
rathiriya inga mattum inga vachukalama
thirupachi meesaiyile sikkikalama
neeyachu naanachu paathukalama

manjanathi marathu katta
maiya vechi mayaki puta
naatu katta townu katta
rendum kalandha semma katta

kaiyu rendum urutu katta
kannu rendum vetta vetta
nenjukulla ratham sotta
eduku vara kitta..

dheem dheem thananam dheem dheem thananam
ah ah..ahhaaa..ah ah ahhaa

en odhattu sayathula
ottikolla vaada ulla
patthu veral theekuchiya
pattha veika vaadi pulla

kattabomma peran ne katthi meesa veeran
muthan vechu kuthi kollu sethu poren

mayavi tha neeyum inga mayangiputta nanum
athangara moginiyum vaa nee enna katti pudikka

chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax
chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax
chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax
chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax
chilllllaaaaa….x chillax baby

en odambu panju metha
kitta vandhu kaatu vitha
un iduppu vaazha maata
naa pudicha thaanga maata

sandhu pondhu veedu nee vanthu vilayadu
patta vaanga thevaiyilla kotta podu
vetiya na sethu un marapula korthu
ennanamo pannuriye nenjukitta ketta kanava (ketta kanavu..)

chillax chillax chilla chilla chillax
chillax chillax chilla chilla chillax

manjanathi marathu katta
maiya vechi mayaki puta
naatu katta townu katta
rendum kalandha semma katta

kaiyu rendum urutu katta
kannu rendum vetta vetta
nenjukulla ratham sotta
eduku vara kitta..

sooriyane thevaiyille vithudalama
rathiriya inga mattum inga vachukalama
thirupachi meesaiyile sikkikalama
neeyachu naanachu paathukalama

chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax..
chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax..
chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax..
chillax chillax chillax chillax chillax..
chillax chillax chillax

SONNA PURIYATHU :

andam nadu nadunga, aagaasam kidukidunga

chennai sangamathil thanga medlu vaangiya naanga

kaarakudi karakaata gosti daane ..

kumbittu koopidurom, koothaada vaarumaiyya

kaaveri neera pola salanga mani kulungi nikka

thanjaavuru thappaata kuluvirukku

panja kodi parakka paathu neeyum vaarumaiya

aatathil kodi paraka aasaaney aadumaiya

tharu pidichu naadhasuvaram,

vaaru pidicha urumi melam

thirunalveli seemai aaalum kodalamaada saami aattam

sokkaney soorakaatha sulandu sulandu aadumaiyaa..

sokki vilum namma kuttam super-a-thaan paadumaiyaa

sokkaney soorakaatha vaarumaiyaa 

sonna puriyadhu sollukula adangathu

neengalam en mela vacha paasam

sonna puriyadhu sollukula adangathu

neengalam en mela vacha paasam

onna poranthalum ithupola irukathu

naan unga mela ellam vacha nesam

meenuthila maiyma, ellundhu varra yelaisa

yepulla meenakshi athaan varraan thookiko.. 

velayutham peru en pathu veral velu

nikkathu intha kaalu kottiruchu da thelu

sonna puriyadhu sollukula adangathu

neengalam en mela vacha paasam

onna poranthalum ithupola irukathu

naan unga mela ellam vacha nesam

meenuthila maiyma, ellundhu varra yelaisa

yepulla meenakshi athaan varraan thookiko.. 

gulsa ye gulsa gulsa ye gulsa

gulsa ye gulsa, gulsa ye gulsa

jimmuku jimmuku jimmuku jim

jimmuku jimmuku jimmuku jim

jimmuku jimmuku jimmuku jim

jimmuku jimmuku jim

hold me

how you control me

better you hold me, everyday..nananey.

osandha malayeri, emmela nee yeri

kudikka kalleraki malara ne kudikuriye

thalayil aadum karagam irukkum

thalaila ganamatha irunthathilla

thara thapattam thaan irukkum

thappana attam naan pottathilla

puli vesham pottukitu puli attam adiruken

vettai aadi mattum naan vazhnthathilla

sandaina MGR-ru

sandiyarna ayyanar 

dhil irunthum vambu sandai pottathilla

meenuthila maiyma, ellundhu varra yelaisa

yepulla meenakshi athaan varraan thookiko.. 

gulsa ye gulsa gulsa ye gulsa

gulsa ye gulsa, gulsa ye gulsa

varapa midhichu raa pagala uzhachu

vaazhura jananga namma katchi

ivanga manasa sandhosa padutha

thappu nu senjalum rightu machi

aadugira aatathukku koodugira kootathukku

kaiya vachu ippo na kumbudura

unga veetu chella pulla enna pola yarum illa

ungalathan eppovume nambiduren

meenuthila maiyma, ellundhu varra yelaisa

yepulla meenakshi athaan varraan thookiko.. 

sonna puriyadhu sollukula adangathu

neengalam en mela vacha paasam

onna poranthalum ithupola irukathu

naan unga mela ellam vacha nesam

meenuthila maiyma, ellundhu varra yelaisa

yepulla meenakshi athaan varraan thookiko.. 

velayutham peru en pathu veral velu

nikkathu intha kaalu kottiruchu da thelu

gumsa hey gumsa hey gumsa hey gumsa.. 

MOLACHU MOONU :

Music Director: Vijay Antony
Lyrics: Vivega
Singers: Prasanna, Supriya Joshi

molachu munu yelaye vidala
tharuva olaga azhagi medala
veralu vendakka un kaadhu avarakka
mooku molaga, mookuthi kaduga
kanindha kaai thottam neethana…

molachu munu yelaye vidala
tharuva olaga azhagi medala
veralu vendakka un kaadhu avarakka
mooku molaga, mookuthi kaduga
kanindha kaai thottam neethana…

vayaso pathinanchu..adi vaadi maa pinju
paavam en nenju..ena paarthu ne konju
paarvai thirupaachi un theendal nerupaachu
unna paarthale en paalam meruvaachu

hey kaanapinanu nee aluga irukuriye
kangal rendum maadaveyil enna porikiriye
imaigal moodamal konjam paarvai pakuriye
anju nodiyil nenju kuzhiyil enna pothaikiriye

odambellam macha kaari usupethu kachaikaari
idhama motthakari mosakaari
odambellam macha kaari usupethu kachaikaari
idhama motthakari mosakaari

molachu munu yelaye vidala
tharuva olaga azhagi medala
veralu vendakka un kaadhu avarakka

siripu kalkandu un sinungal anukundu
vizhigal karuvandu adi vizhunthen adhai kandu
unadhu negam keeri en udambil thazhumberi
alarum naal thedi en aaval thirukaachu

hey dhinusu dhinushaga dhenam kanavil thonuriye
udaiya thiruppi usura varuthi paduthi edukuriye
mulusu mulusaga enna muzhunga ninaikiriye
odamba murukki valayal norukki kadhaiya mudikiriye

medana pallathakke midhama soorai kaatre
puriyaadha ennaikone ittha soodey
kaadhoram kaadhal pechey azhagana arivaal veechey
uyaratho uyirin pechey edho aachey

molachu munu yelaye vidala
tharuva olaga azhagi medala
veralu vendakka un kaadhu avarakka
mooku molaga, mookuthi kaduga
kanindha kaai thottam neethana…

molachu munu yelaye vidala
tharuva olaga azhagi medala
veralu vendakka un kaadhu avarakka
mooku molaga, mookuthi kaduga
kanindha kaai thottam neethana…


MAAYAM SEIDHAAYO :

maayam seidhayo nenjai kayam seidhayo

kolla vandhaayo pathil solla vandhaayo..

vaari sendrai pennai paarthu nindren kannai

yedhu seithai ennai ketu nindren unnai

maayam seidhayo nenjai kayam seidhayo

kolla vandhaayo pathil solla vandhaayo..

naane sedi valarum thotam aanen

yaanai vandhu pona solai aanen

kadhal karai purandu ooda paarthen

thoondil mul nuniyil uyirai korthen

ennai sevi kandu siru vegu thooram vizhundhen

en perai naan maranthu kal pola kidanthen

maayam seidhayo nenjai kayam seidhayo

kolla vandhaayo pathil solla vandhaayo..

vervai thuli mugathil vaira karkkal

azhagai koora tamilil illai sorkkal

meesai mudi kariya arukam purkal

thaavi mella kadikka yengum parkal

unarugil mul sediyum azhagaga theriyum

unn veral thondurugaiyil thurumbagum malaiyum

maayam seidhayo nenjai kayam seidhayo

kolla vandhaayo pathil solla vandhaayo..

vaari sendrai pennai paarthu nindren kannai

yedhu seithai ennai ketu nindren unnai

maayam seidhayo nenjai kayam seidhayo

kolla vandhaayo pathil solla vandhaayo..

THEME SONG : (VELA VELA)

ada vela vela vela vela velayudham

nee otha paarva partha podhum nooraayudham

coming down town, coming to the sea

he is the man like shiny bee

breaking through the barriers .....

gonna come and carry us 

don shout out

come get some

you cant cut him down, he is velayutham

ada vela vela vela vela velayutham

nee otha paarva partha podhum nooraayudham

now dont know now you cant catch him

he's the and you're original son

he's out alone and on a deadly track

cold heart and broken furious brat

ice cold brand and a killing gun

you gotta look out you gotta beware

we cant touch his billions

hearts of the millions

don shout out

come get some

you cant cut him down, he is velayutham