Bold Attempts: Bawandar

Those criticising the government and the police administration of India, might be well aware of what happened with Bhavri Devi of Rajasthan in 1992. The culprits behind the gang-rape of Bhavri Devi are either dead or under the scanner of CBI. 

The whole story of this wrong was given shape of a movie in 2001, named Bawandar. This movie, produced by the famous film producers Gaurang Joshi and Jag Mundhra. Though, this movie landed in the controversy, it won several international accolades like:

1. Audience Choice Award , Bermuda International Film Festival (2001)
2. Political Film Society, USA (PFS) Award - Peace Category (2004)
3. Best Actress (Nandita Das), Santa Monica Film Festival
4. 2001: Zanzibar International Film Festival: Golden Dhow

I salute such filmmakers, who raise the voice for justice through such Bold Attempts.

A Thirsty Shadow

I think you all might have guessed right. Yes this pic represents the shade of the tap in the mid of a day. It gives us a message that if we don't conserve water today, we will have nothing for tomorrow, except a Thirsty Shadow of a tap.

“What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

 

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”

― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. America, America, man sheds his waste on thee, And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.”

― George Carlin

 

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”

― Gary Snyder

1905: Small Introduction of V-8 Engine

• Produced in 1905, V-8 was intended to compete with the then popular electric cars used in towns, during beginning of the 20^th century. 
• Claude Johnson, the business partner of C. S. Rolls suggested introducing an internal-combustion-engined in order to overtake the electric car market.The car had to be silent, free of vibration and smoke free. Less emphasis was given on power. The engine would also have to be mounted under the car to give the appearance of a town brougham(a car body style, in which an outside seat was arranged in front for the chauffeur and an enclosed engine was designed in the form of a 90-degree, side-valve,V-8. 
• Though V-8 engine was produced in small numbers, the introduction of the V-8  cars was a decade earlier than the first mass production of a V8 engine by Cadillac. 
• Two body styles were proposed, 
• a Landaulet par Excellence to attack the town electric market and 
• the Legalimit. 

• Only one example of the V-8 was sold, a Legalimit (chassis number 40518) to Sir Alfred Harmsworth. This was later taken back by the factory.

1905: Small Introduction of V-8 Engine by LEX-57 the lex engine