'FEAR CAN KEEP YOU PRISONNER, HOPE CAN SET YOU FREE'

I just finished watching one of the best movies... ok, maybe not the best, but surely one of the most inpiring and beautiful movies i've ever seen- 'the shawshank redemption'. It was released in 1994 or something and stars Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.. brilliant story, brilliant cinematography, awesome acting and great(for want of a better word) naration by Morgan Freeman....It's about the lives of two people in prison and spans around twenty years... it's like most prison movies but there's just something about this that captures your heart... the naration, the story i don't know what... the story kinda slows down in the middle... but that just increases the beauty of the conclusion of the movie... the final redemption...
A must watch movie ... worth not doing your economics and electronics tutorials...bad comparison... but i'd better get back to doing some questions

Are languages disappearing?

a very interesting question that cropped up when my roommate and i were just sitting and talking.. my roomie is a big tamil buff and knows the thirukkural and all(i don't even know how to spell it).... and here i am... a mallu who doesn't know how to write malayalam properly... it's really sad.

He was just saying how tamil and sanskrit are the only two languages which have developed to an unparalleled level... and they used to exist side by side in india... without one affecting the other's development in anyway...but now the villian in the form 'English' comes...(witha small role played by hindi)to such an extent that sanskrit has disappeared from daily use. and tamil according to my roomie is also disappearing and in twenty years time there would be no tamil..... im' not sure if he's talking about classical tamil or about just normal tamil. whichever he was talking about...i don't think there is a problem about a language like malayalam even... let alone tamil disappearing. because of the basic fact that so few people in rural areas get english education... is that good? or bad? on the one hand it is argued that Tamil-medium or malayalam-medium are not as good as english-medium schools... i see two main reasons for this.....firstly and i think importantly... this prejudice that this is true... most good and capable students move to English medium schools and secondly GLOBALISATION... it is absolutely necessary that we know english to survive in this modern world where everyone and everyplace is connected....

which brings me to another interesting question... is all this networking and making the world a smaller place really good for humanity.... it's quite an obvious fact that smaller communities will be able to develop faster...i read that in some michael Crichton book....he explained with an example of how a group of 4 people will be able to make a decision and solve problems much faster than a group of say thirty.... so with all these advancements in technology and telecommunication are we really going to slow down human evolution?

or am i just really sleepy????