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Developing New Technologies - M Joseph

                  Mostly   our   students   and   teachers   are   users   of   the technologies   innovated   by   other   countries   rather   than   technology developers and showing great interest in learning new technologies so as to get placed. Technology development has lot of merits such as job creation, revenue and to a greater extent national income will   also   get   improved   apart   from   its   societal implications.        Invention   of   the   Dubbing   Technology   could   only   pave   the   way   for the doyen in Tamil Cinema M.G.R, to act in cinemas as hero, as it helped   him   overcoming   his   inability   to   sing,   in   spite   of   his cinematic   charisma.   Those   were   times   Tamil   actors   should   posses singling   qualities   to   become   hero/protagonists   in   the   music dominated cinemas, due to restrictions of the then available audio recording facilities. On the other hand career of the then super star,   probably   the   first,   M.K. 

Tamil Characters: Personalities, Politics and Culture – Book Review - M Joseph

            Generally the history of India ends with the Independence of India. The famous Indian historian  Ramachandra Guha emphasizes the need and importance of writings on the post colonial history of India in one of his interview or article. He specifically  mentions C.N Annadurai. Towards that historian A.R. Venkatachalapathy’s book, Tamil Characters: Personalities, Politics and Culture, published by Pan Macmillan India, 2018, makes a valid attempt to record the history of post colonial Tamil  Nadu, though peripherally.      The Tamil personalities like Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, C.N. Annadurai and the like and other historical events pertinent to Tamils and Tamil Nadu, with due recognition  along with their contribution are well presented in this book. Books on such kind will give deeper insight into the post colonial  history of Tamils and Tamil Nadu to the International community.      I was very much surprised and shocked to see the book which does not have any references and foo