Orucomputer

With Rama watched Oridathu (A place) of G. Aravindan fielding a cast of Nedumudi Venu, Thilakan, Innocent, Srinivasan, Vineet ... the film forecasting or foretelling a village future with wooden electricity poles .... Aravindan nudges thought..... and the film could be slotted in the epic genre.... trees have to be cut for laying lines... a Communist tailor quotes Gorky...women hurt before and after the village is lighted ... the film ends in a blow out ... there is a shot of young Vineet toying the electric switch .... off-on... smiles around ... and there is a power cut ... nasam... remark the few in the room. Aravindan makes many statements or perhaps suggests, not sure... or simply chronicles ...a let go. Today it is perhaps time to make a film Orucomputer (A computer); are you interested Kartik Iyer?; the film script is there in Osama Manzar column in today's Mint -- Digital World -- The Humane Source of Crowdsourcing; Manzar and Anurag Behar are me best Mint columnists, writing of ordinary humans and tempting solutions. An 18-year old Ajay Kumar raises study funds on computers with banks as usual refusing help. Majethy Sujatha of Medak runs an organisation for destitute women, depressed widows and suffering wives. Sujatha has raised monies on social media platforms -- Rs.30,000 for funding marriages of two girls. Writes Manzar: ' For Sujatha the entire digital world has now become a family that can be tapped for raising funds... I see a huge boom in crowdsourcing phenomenon in India in the coming days, especially as connectivity and Internet usage increases. However, the interference of venture capitalists in crowdsourcing platform-based initiatives could lead to a monoplizing control and this is something I fear could lead to the end of a good thing.' Oridathu filled me with Kottarakara, my village; in the 60s, it had no electricity, no roads, no tapped water; no walls; greens; today it has walls around the temple pond, temple, homes .. and computers with women tapping keys ....do not know what Aravindan would think of Manzar script but me it excites; perhaps a digital Kottarakara with Malayali women going their ways less hurt, less scared, less upset ..in some peace which the gods and men are denying them .... for a human in and around Kottarakara .... from where Asianet TV reported a 90 year woman hurted by a 65 year old man on Onam day... Orucomputer could free women and poor ......