CC RAJAN

                                      The sad demisal of our great principal CC RAJAN makes our life meaningless.The golden memories with him makes us nervous.Pray for him.

Pranayadurantham

Orumaasathinusesham aval thante pankaaliyodulla arpanam vyakthamaakki. Avalude vaadangalkkumunpil enikku vaakkukalilla.Pinne kure kuttappeduthalukal, parihaasangal, ochayedukkal, karachil avasaanam aathmahatya bheeshani.
oduvil deshyam vannitu Dashboardlum windoyilum kai prayogam Maatil chavittal. Njan enthu cheyyendu?Enthu parayanam? Onne cheythullu.Surakshithamaayi oru stopil irakki. Yaathrayiludaneelam pinthudarnnu. Veettil ethumennurappakki. Pinne madangi pratheekshyudeyum viswasathinteyum oru Charadu maathram kayyilaninjukondu. Athu aval kettithannathu manassu niraye deshyavum saapavum nirachukondaanu.Avalilninnum Daivathepole anugrahavum kootukarepole aasamsakalum oru prerakanilninnennapole prachothanavum upadesangalum aanu njan pratheekshichathu.Aval ippol munpennumillathathupole enne verukkunu. Ithu ente maathrum vidhiyanu. Njanippozhum jeevichirikkunnathu enne sehikkuna chilarude prarthana kondu maathramaanu.Pinne Attappaadikkaarude Kuladaivam,Maladaivam,Malleeswarante anugraham kondum.

VILASINI

Keeping the love for 40 years.Waiting years for the lover to marriage Thats in this decade Unbelievable?!VILASINI teacher is the exact roll model for every man to his lover.Kerala peoples are really cruel to the teacher No body take initiative to solve the misunderstanding between Mash and teacher Result is that a man and a women lost their life for the people who loves them.What a pity.The mentality of Malayalees towards love is also a failure.May future will excuse to us.

AZHEEKKODE

Wan marangal veezhumbol avayil parkkunna cheru kilikal enthu cheyyum.Chilava parannu pokum.Chilathu cherumarangalil chekkerum. Chilathu marichu veezhum.SUKUMAR azheekkode vidaparanjappol samskaarikakeralathinte avastha ingineyaanu.Chinthikkunna oru janathayudeyum........

VIRTUAL REALITY

(Language-malayalam)
2011NOV24 Ente jeevithathile marakkanaavatha oru divasamanu athu. Njan njettiya,paribhramicha,pedicha oru divasam. Unnathe ,urangathe oru dinam.Chila madhyam pole,allengil pampu kadiyettapole oru anubhavam. cheriyoru "shock" athinte "after effets" bheekaramaayirunnu.Vedanayum vishamangalum aazhchakalolam. Oru "panic situation"Randu kollam orale enthellam vishamangal koduthittundo athellam orunimisham kondu thirichu kitty.Oru kutty kannu nananju kaal thottu vannichappol njan onnumallathayi,onnumillathavanaayi.Ente aaradhikayude ee marupadi ente jeevithathe sakthamayi badhikkum.orayiram vakkinekkal sakthiyundu oru nottathine.Orayiram vachakangalekkal swatheenam oru sparsanathinum.vakku kondum Nokku kondum avalenne tholppichukalanju"The worst feeling inthe world is..... when you can't love anyone else because your heart still belongs to the one who broke it."Ithiri Sneham Nashtamayapol, Othirivedanichengil,Othiri Nombarangal thanna ninne Enthumathrum njan Pranayichittundavum.....

RUDAALIYILE RUDRASANGEETHAM

Kishakkinte sangeetham ennariyappetta BHOOPAN HASARIKA ormayayi.Assamees gayakanum sangeethaknjanumaya hasarika nadodi sangeethathe indian mukhyadharayilethichu.Swaramadhuri mathramalla sabdha ghambiryavum sahrudhayare aakarshikkum ennu addheham theliyichu.Anugraheetha gayika Latha mangeshkar 'Rudali'yil " Dil hoom hoom kare.... "mooliyappol athu Lathaajiyude manoharamaya mattoru prakadanamaayi.Pakshe Boopala raagathinte sabdhgarima Boopan thante swantham sabdhathil srodhakkalke anubhavavedhyamakkikoduthu.Irupathu varshangalkkippuravum enikkumarakkan kazhiyunnilla aa gaanavum Hasarikayum.Aa sangeetha prathibhakke orupidi kanneer pookkal...

Captain MS DHONI

Who is the best Captain in world cricket? It is the Captain of World champion team.Now India is the world champions in Cricket and MSDhoni is the Captain. If he is really a No.1 captain?If anybody has such a doubt, it is cleared yesterday.Chennai super kings raised the IPL trophy once again with the captancy of Dhoni.Now we can say he is not only a no.1 captain but also a Super captain.He is the blessing of India.

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ICCWORLDCUP

Once Again world cup captured by Indians after 23 years.In 1983 KAPILS devils done it.And now DHONIS tigers repeated it for their valueble Honourable Evergreen hereo SACHIN TENDULKAR.Yes it is the cup for him and the same for 100 crore people

ELECTION-OVERVIEW AND FORECAST

THE results of kerala assembly election will come with in hours.what may be the result?I think it is favourable to LDF.Most of kerala people wishes to become VSACHUTHANANTHAN as Chief minister I think LDF get the rule with a slight margin of seats and VS become the CM again.

INDO PAK

Once again in world cricket INdo pak Fight The final result may India world champion and Suchin the entire cricketer.Do you think this jodi support whom?

VS

ONCE again the peoples leader VS achuthananadan selected as candidate of MAlampuzha after parties decision to block achuthanandans candidature.He will return as MLA into KErala niyamasabha and may be agood Opposition Leader this term also

KARUNAKARAN-THE LEADER

In Kerala there is only one leader in politics and politricks That is karunakaran He made a lot,good or bad, it attracted the keralapeople Hence he become Chiefminister more than one time A short overview of his life.......

Kannoth Karunakaran July 5, 1918 - December 23, 2010) was a senior politician from Kerala, India belonging to Congress party. He was a former Chief Minister of Kerala, Home minister of Government of Kerala, and Minister for Industries of Government of India. He was one of the most influential persons in Kerala politics for several decades and was affectionately called "Leader" by Congress activists. He was often criticized for apparent nepotism.

Early life

Karunakaran was born on 5 July 1918 at Chirackkal in Kannur District to Shri.Thekkedathu Ramunni Marar and Smt. Kannoth Kalyani Amma with birth star “Karthika". His father Ramunni Marar was a 'sirastadar', a government job under the then British Malabar state government. He had two elder brothers (Kunjiraman Marar and Balakrishnan Marar) and a younger brother (Damodaran Marar aka Appunni Marar). Their only sister Devaki died when she was merely 5 years old.

As a young boy, Karunakaran was passionate about swimming, football and volleyball. He also demonstrated ample interest in painting. During his early years, while being admitted to the lower primary school, he insisted not to add the caste name 'Marar' to his official name at the school unlike the normal practice of those days. He started his school education in Vadakara LP School and continued through Andalloor and then Chirakkal Raja's School till eighth standard. Later, he had to undergo prolonged treatment due to an eye-related disorder, and was thus relocated (with his elder brother Kunjirama Marar) to the home of his uncle Puthenveettil Raghavan Nair at Vellanikkara, a village, ten kilometer away from Thrissur. The two brothers would later actively participate in the prevailing Indian freedom movement since an early age. The stay at Thrissur would transform their life altogether and engulf them into the politics and trade union activism that was brewing up in the region.

After continuing the school at Sarkar High School, Thrissur (presently Govt. Model Boys High School, Thrissur), Karunakaran wanted to pursue his career in drawing and painting. He joined the Maharaja's Technical Institute (MTI), Thrissur for a Diploma in Design and Drawing. Although he earned the Diploma with a Gold Medal, except for a short stint at a Fine Arts Institute in Thrissur he did not take up painting as a profession and instead turned his attention completely towards the political issues. However, as an artist, he recalls in his biography, his paintings were appreciated well and many of them would fetch a price as good as Rs.500 per piece.

In 1937, Karunakaran joined the flood relief camps that were conducted by V.R. Krishnan Ezhuthachan, C. Achyutha Menon, R.M. Manakkalath and other leaders of Prajamandalam, an early freedom struggle movement in Cochin State. He became a member of the Indian National Congress and began to wear Khadi. He also participated intensively in the trade union activities in the vast Thattil rubber estates where his uncle Raghavan Nair was a 'writer'. During this time, he would spare his artistic skills and labour in helping the workers' union (later INTUC) for their wall writings and campaigns. Gradually, he was picked up by Panampilly Govinda Menon as his most favourite follower. In due course, Karunakaran rose to a level of the senior-most Leader of the Indian National Trade Union Congress(INTUC). The INTUC later became one of the largest trade unions in India having with over 4 million memberships today.
Karunakaran with M. G. Ramachandran (left) and Panruti Ramachandran (right).

Karunakaran is the founder of United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1970. He evinced utmost care in ensuring cordiality, unity and understanding among the constituent parties, and he commanded absolute control and due respect from them.

His closeness to the Nehru family begins from Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and culminated and pinnacled during the tenure of Smt. Indira Gandhi and Shri. Rajiv Gandhi. Karunakaran played the role of King Maker in finding out a successor to Rajiv Gandhi. Being the senior mostensuing elections of 1977.

Karunakaran has been the Chief Minister of Kerala four times. He took charge as Chief Minister for the first time on 25-3-1977. However he tendered his resignation on 25-4-1977, immediately following certain references by the Kerala High Court in what came to be known as Rajan case.

He took charge as Chief Minister again on December 28, 1981. However, this ministry did not last long. He resigned on 17 March 1982, following the withdrawal of support by a member of the Kerala Congress (M). Midterm elections to the 7th Kerala Legislative Assembly was held on May 19, 1982. The Ministry with Shri. K.Karunakaran as Chief Minister assumed office on 24 May 1982 and continued till 1987. On June 24, 1991, Shri.K.Karunakaran took charge again as Chief Minister of Kerala for the fourth term, and resigned on March 16, 1995, making way for A.K.Antony to take up the Chief Ministership.

After A. K. Antony was elected as Kerala chief minister in 2001, Karunakaran was on the warpath with the Government led by his own party and the party high command. After a series of unsuccessful attempts to regain supremacy in the Kerala wing of the Indian National Congress, the dissidents led by him landed up in the bad books of the Congress high command. With the sharp increase in factional meetings held all over Kerala, mostly led by his son K. Muraleedharan, Indian National Congress suspended Muraleedharan from the party.

As a veteran parliamentarian, whose career stretches over five decades, Karunakaran has been elected three times to Rajya Sabha and to Lok Sabha twice. He was a member of Rajya Sabha during 1995-97, 1997–98 and 2004-2005. He has been elected to Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram in 1998 and from Mukundapuram constituency in 1999. Karunakaran served as the Minister for Industries in the Union Cabinet for one year in 1995.

With Muraleedharan being pushed to the verge of political orphanage, Karunakaran left his party and formed a new political outfit with him as the President. Thus, on 1 May 2005, Karunakaran formed a new party in Kerala National Congress (Indira). Later, the new party was renamed to Democratic Indira Congress (Karunakaran). Later, Karunakaran merged his party with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), despite opposition from many senior leaders like T. M. Jacob who has since left the party. K Karunakaran and his daughter Padmaja returned to their parent party (Indian National Congress) following a spilt . However his son Muraleedharan dissociated himself from his father and continued in NCP.A great Leader who gave a helping hand to the Minorities and supported them.

Death

Karunakaran died on 23 December 2010 at Ananthapuri Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram. He was suffering from respiratory problems, fever and other age related diseases. His condition worsened following a stroke and the death occurred when he had a cardiac arrest. His death was confirmed by doctors at 5:30 PM. It was coincidental that his death and Narasimha Rao's death was on same date. Karunakaran had played key role in backing the Rao Government and later Rao had dismissed Karunakaran from the chair of Chief Minister of Kerala[2][3]. His funeral was attended by the prime minister Manmohan Singh and the AICC chief Sonia Gandhi.

Controversies

K. Karunakaran was the home minister of Kerala during the emergency period. After the Emergency, the Rajan case rocked Kerala politics like no other issue before and Karunakaran was forced to step down as the case attracted national attention. It was a habeas corpus petition filed by T.V. Eachara Warrier seeking the state machinery produce his son Rajan (a student of Regional Engineering College ,Calicut who actively participated in protests against the emergency declared by the Indira government), in court. Rajan was allegedly killed by the police at Kakkayam police torture camp and the body disposed off Mad. The legal battle lead by Rajan's father became one of the most remembered human rights fight in the state[4] and the legal struggle by his father T V Eachara Warrier had diminished the popularity of Karunakaran.The book Memories of a father is a lamentation of a father over his son's brutal death. He was an accused in the palmolein corruption case, which was pending before the supreme court at the time of his death.

Karunakaran will be remembered for his strong stand against Naxalism in Kerala and for completely removing its roots from the society.

Biographies

1. The first Biography on him titled 'K.Karunakaran' was written by Vrindavanam Venugopalan. Published by Islamiya Books, Aluva in 1992
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S SREESANTH

Return of sreesanth to indian worldcup squad is a dramatic one Also avoiding him from it is dramatic.I think he will be the no 1 perforrming bowler in the coming worldcup.
Sreesanth,the violent,hungered Indian Tiger will eat other batsman as inthe series against Australlia
and SouthAfrica

JAYAN THE REAL HERO

16 November 1980 Sholavaram, near Chennai, Tamil Nadu.Jayan was killed in an accident on the set of the movie Kolilakkam.16th November 2010.Even after 30 years his death people of kerala refresh their sweet memories and painfull death of JAYAN.All the Dailies and Magazines provide a major space for his memories. Then who was Jayan?Is a Politician? A social worker?Is he a relegious leader? or A great ruler?The answer is NO. He is only a Film actor.He only done 125 malayalam films and one Tamil film.He is only five years in film industry.Yes.That's enough.He entered and lived in the audience heart.He is a gentleman in the film field and his personnel life.Hence the so called critic people of Kerala remembers him.Madhu, a famous actor prominent in the 60s, once stated in an interview, "Jayan will forever be young and alive. No one can ever visualise him as an old man."Yes JAYAN still lives our heart as an Energetic youngster.

More about JAYAN

Early life

Jayan was born in Kollam, Travancore as the first child of his father Thevalli, Kottaram Veetil Madhavan Pillai and mother Bharathiyamma. His birthname was Krishnan Nair. He had a younger brother named Soman Nair. Jayan's formal education ended at 10th grade at Kollam Govt. Boys High School; he then joined the Indian Navy. The first accolades for his acting skills reached him when he was a naval sailor. He used to act in plays at various functions like anniversaries. The encouragement from his friends and colleagues in the Navy gave him the desire to act in films. Jayan served in the Indian Navy for 16 years, culminating in the rank of Master CPO. Then he left the Indian Navy to try his hand in the film industry.


Career

The name "Jayan" was given to him by Jose Prakash, a noted villain actor of yesteryear Malayalam cinema. Jayan started his career by acting in minor roles. His first film was Shapa Moksham (1974). Jayan got his first major break with Thacholi Ambu (1978) in which he acted as a co-hero. What made Jayan a superstar was his negative hero role in Sarapanjaram (1979). He catapulted to fame riding on machismo roles that endeared him to the masses, and he established himself as one of the most popular Malayalam film actors of his time. He is touted as the first action hero in Malayalam cinema.

Movies exploited Jayan's masculine physique and he appeared barechested in numerous scenes. His onscreen attire (most famously his Elvis bellbottoms), his masculine image and the nature of his death turned him into something of a legend in Kerala. Jayan was also known for his unique method of dialogue delivery and he has contributed many memorable lines to Malayalam film history.

In the late 1990s and early 21st century, there was a resurgence in Jayan's popularity in Kerala and his old movies came into prominence again. This resurgence was mostly because of popular mimicry stage artists in the State, whose imitations of the star's mannerisms caught on; soon, similar shows became commonplace in college stage events, television programs and mimicry stage shows.

Death

On 16 November 1980, Jayan was killed in an accident on the set of the movie Kolilakkam. The climax scene of the movie was being filmed in Sholavaram, near Chennai, Tamil Nadu. He was 42 then and at the peak of his popularity. Jayan always performed his own stunts, and for this movie he was performing a particularly dangerous stunt that involved him boarding an airborne helicopter from a moving motorbike. The shot was accepted by the director in the first take; altogether three shots were filmed.

According to the film's production executive, Jayan insisted on yet another re-take as he was not satisfied with its perfection. During the re-take, the helicopter lost its balance and crashed along with Jayan, who later succumbed to his injuries.

Some conspiracy theories emerged regarding the circumstances of his death, primarily because the pilot and his co-star Balan K. Nair, who was in the helicopter, survived with minor or no injuries. Nevertheless, it has been confirmed as a genuine accident.

Today Jayan is best remembered for his loud, colourful attire, his machismo mannerisms and his unique speaking style.


Selected filmography

* Komaram (1982)
* Ariyappedatha Rahasyam (1981) .... Raghu
* Kolilakkam (1981)
* Gargjanam (1981) .... (Jayan completed part and then remade with Rajnikanth)
* Sanchari (1981)....Bargavan
* Thadavara (1981) .... Seema
* Aakramanam (1981)
* Panchapandavar (1981)
* Abhinayam (1981) .... Raghu
* Agnisaram (1981)
* Aakkramanam (1981)
* Love in Singapore (1980) .... Suresh
* Angaadi (1980) .... Babu
* Anthappuram (1980) .... Ambika
* Benz Vasu (1980)
* Ethikkara Pakky (1980)
* Idi Muzhakkam (1980)
* Kaanatha Valayam (1980)
* Karimpana (1980) .... Muthan
* Kari Puranda Jeevithangal (1980)
* Manushya Mrugam (1980) .... Babu/Gopi
* Meen (1980)
* Deepam (1980)
* Chaakara (1980) .... Sethumadhavan
* Moorkhan (1980) .... Vinod
* Naayattu (1980)
* Ethikkara Pakki (1980) .... Adimakannu
* Paallattu Kunjikannan (1980)
* Theenalangal (1980)
* Chandrahasam (1980)
* Sakthi (1980) .... Vijayan/Rajan Varma
* Aavesham (1979) .... Gopi/Ravi
* Angakkuri (1979)
* Anupallavai (1979)
* Avano Atho Avalo (1979)
* Chuvanna Chirakukal (1979)
* Kazhukan (1979) .... Velu
* Venalil Oru Mazha (1979)
* Irumpazhikal (1979) .... Jayabharathi
* Sarppam (1979)
* Ivide Kattinu Sugandam (1979)
* Mamangam (1979) .... Moosa
* Mochanam (1979)
* Poottatha Pootukkal (1979) Tamil
* Prabhu (1979)
* Puthiya Velicham (1979) .... Venu
* Vellayani Paramu (1979)
* Sarapanjaram (1979) .... Rajasekharan
* Sayoojyam (1979)
* Oru Ragam Pala Thalam (1979)
* Pennorumbettal (1979)
* Sanndhyaragam (1979)
* Pushyaragam (1979)
* Sigharangal (1979)
* Kadathanattu Makkam (1978)
* Mukkuvane Snehicha Bhootham (1978)
* Aana Paachan (1978)
* Adavukal Pathinettu (1978)
* Ee Manohara Theeram (1978)
* Iniyum Puzha Ozhukum (1978) .... Vidhubaala
* Itha Oru Manushyan (1978)
* Jayikkanaayi Janichavan (1978)
* Kaathirunna Nimiksham (1978)
* Lisa (1978)
* Mattoru Karnan (1978)
* Soothrakkari (1978)
* Thacholy Ambu (1978)
* Yeatho Oru Swapnam (1978)
* Kanyaka (1978)
* Kalpavruksham (1978)
* Asthamayam (1978)
* Pattalam Janaki (1978)
* Adimakkachavadam (1978)
* Sathrusamharam (1978)
* Midukkipponnamma (1978)
* Madanolsavam (1978) .... Dr. Jayakumar
* Kannappanunni (1977)
* Angikaram (1977)
* Acharam Ammini Osaram Omana (1977) .... Sudhakaran
* Itha Ivide Vare (1977)
* Ormakal Marikkumo? (1977)
* Randu Lokam (1977)
* Rathi Manmathan (1977)
* Rajaparampara (1977)
* Anjali (1977)
* Aval Viswasthayayirunnu (1977)
* Abhinivesam (1977)
* Kavilamma (1977)
* Sukradasa (1977)
* Ivanente Priyaputhran (1977)
* Aparajitha (1977)
* Adyapadham (1977)
* Tholakkan Enikku Manassilla (1977)
* Amrudha Vahini (1976)
* Ashirvadam (1976)
* Panchami (1976)
* Yavvanam Daham (1976)
* Mallanum Mathevanum (1976)
* Agnipushpam (1976)
* Ullasayathra (1975)
* Shapa Moksham (1974)

KANDAHAR

MULTISTAR film coming in malayalam directed by MAJOR RAVI Casting Mohanlal,Amitab bhachan......

Ball evolution

Ball evolution
The Dark Ages

Who can say when the game began? Kicking is a fairly instinctive activity, so no doubt Stone Age man gave a rock or bone the occasional thump with his foot and then perhaps one day someone kicked it back and it all began there.
However, the first indications of an early formal form of football date back 3,000 years to Ancient China. A game played with a ball of animal skins stuffed with hair or feathers was kicked between poles some 10 metres high and was most likely used for military training. By 50AD, the game was named “tsu chu” (or “cuju”) and early records compare the round ball and square goal to Yin and Yang, the ancient symbols of harmony.
Football probably began in China 3,000 years ago. This 19th century watercolour shows Kemari, a Japanese ceremonial version of the game. Illustration courtesy of the National Football Museum, Preston, UK.

The Greeks and Romans were the greatest exponents of games. They built arenas all over their empires and staged everything from chariot racing to gladiatorial combats where serious injury or death were taken as a matter of course and all part of enjoyable entertainment. Kicking a ball seems tame in comparison, nevertheless there are indications that they did play a type of football, too. In the case of the Greeks, it was called “episkyros” and the Romans had a game called “harpastum” – but both were mainly ball-carrying games.

“Harpastum” is taken from the Greek word “Harpazein”, which means “to seize”. The ball was small, about the size of a grapefruit, and hard, not least because it was stuffed with sand. Play would take place on a marked-out pitch, with each player taking a position on the field, just as they do today. Teams probably consisted of 12 players. The game itself was more like rugby with more throwing than kicking and it required considerable agility. The rules, it appears, involved a sort of inverted form of football, with the objective being to keep the ball behind one’s own half of the centre line and not allow the opponents to get it. Goals were scored if the ball hit the ground.

The Vikings are reported to have kicked the heads of their enemies about, which was not very pleasant behaviour, but the somewhat more civilised societies such as the Japanese, Persians, Egyptians, Assyrians and North American Indians all played forms of ball games. The Aztecs in Mexico developed their own kicking game with a stone covered in a thick coating of gum. The game known as “tlatchi” was played between two seven-man teams and it was a very important cultural activity. Games were even played in purpose-built stadiums and huge sums of money were staked on the results.

The whole essence of football is its most simple implement – the ball. And it has to be a particular type of ball, too, with the ability to fly through the air as directed by the player and – most importantly – to bounce predictably. It was really only the development of the bouncing ball and the sheer fun of kicking it in a wide variety of ways that made football the world’s most popular and successful game.

Football

* The Origins
* Britain, the home of Football
* Opposition to the game
* The Global Growth

History of the Game - Module
History of Football - The Origins

The contemporary history of the world's favourite game spans more than 100 years. It all began in 1863 in England, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses and the Football Association in England was formed - becoming the sport's first governing body.

Both codes stemmed from a common root and both have a long and intricately branched ancestral tree. A search down the centuries reveals at least half a dozen different games, varying to different degrees, and to which the historical development of football has been traced back. Whether this can be justified in some instances is disputable. Nevertheless, the fact remains that people have enjoyed kicking a ball about for thousands of years and there is absolutely no reason to consider it an aberration of the more 'natural' form of playing a ball with the hands.

On the contrary, apart from the need to employ the legs and feet in tough tussles for the ball, often without any laws for protection, it was recognised right at the outset that the art of controlling the ball with the feet was not easy and, as such, required no small measure of skill. The very earliest form of the game for which there is scientific evidence was an exercise from a military manual dating back to the second and third centuries BC in China.

This Han Dynasty forebear of football was called Tsu' Chu and it consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening, measuring only 30-40cm in width, into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes. According to one variation of this exercise, the player was not permitted to aim at his target unimpeded, but had to use his feet, chest, back and shoulders while trying to withstand the attacks of his opponents. Use of the hands was not permitted.

Another form of the game, also originating from the Far East, was the Japanese Kemari, which began some 500-600 years later and is still played today. This is a sport lacking the competitive element of Tsu' Chu with no struggle for possession involved. Standing in a circle, the players had to pass the ball to each other, in a relatively small space, trying not to let it touch the ground.

The Greek 'Episkyros' - of which few concrete details survive - was much livelier, as was the Roman 'Harpastum'. The latter was played out with a smaller ball by two teams on a rectangular field marked by boundary lines and a centre line. The objective was to get the ball over the opposition's boundary lines and as players passed it between themselves, trickery was the order of the day. The game remained popular for 700-800 years, but, although the Romans took it to Britain with them, the use of feet was so small as to scarcely be of consequence.

Carles PUYOL

* Date of Birth: 13 April 1978
* Height: 178 cm
* Shirt number: 5
* Position: Defender
* Current club: Barcelona (ESP)
* International Caps: 89
* International Goals: 3
* First international: Spain - Netherlands
(15 November 2000)

Club History

* FC Barcelona B (ESP): From 1996 to 1999

Thanks to a combination of talent, humility, dedication and a ferocious work ethic, Carles Puyol has developed into a first-choice central defender for both Spain and Barcelona. What makes this feat even more notable is that the 32-year-old Catalan started out in the Barça youth system as a right winger, before a succession of coaches decided the best place for this fierce competitor was further back.

Indeed, his first-team debut under the Azulgranas' former coach Louis Van Gaal came as a right wing-back, with the Dutch strategist soon making full use of Puyol's versatility and indefatigable spirit by changing his position once more; this time to the heart of the defensive line.

Quick off the mark and good in the air, it is Puyol's commitment and sheer will to win that have earned him the respect of fans and the media alike. After winning two La Liga titles and the 2006 UEFA Champions League, he went on to captain his beloved Barcelona in an historic 2009, in which the Catalan club won no less than six titles: La Liga, the Copa del Rey, the Spanish SuperCup, the European SuperCup and the FIFA Club World Cup.

Puyol made his senior national-team debut in November 2000, shortly after playing his part in the Olympic squad which picked up silver at the Games in Sydney. Since then his name has been a constant in the Spain squad list, including appearances at two FIFA World Cups™ and two UEFA EUROs. Indeed, Puyol's tigerish defending was another key factor in La Roja's long-awaited success at the latter event in Austria and Switzerland last summer.

An adaptable performer, the Blaugrana stalwart is able to step into either full-back position as well as his favoured central role, while his powerful leap makes him an imposing aerial presence in either box - amply demonstrated by his headed goal in the 6-2 win at Real Madrid on 2 May.

Instantly recognisable thanks to his shaggy mop of curly hair, a look he insists will remain with him at least until he hangs up his boots, Puyol's strength of character and leadership skills will surely serve him well to that day and beyond.


Carles puyol spanish attacker playes attractive football and he also a stylish footballer JAYAN

UNPREDICTABLE

INDIANCRICKET UNBELIEVABLE

MS Dhoni now has won the award for collecting the maximum number of catches and stumpings in an Asia Cup Final. He has taken 4 catches and one stumping, which is a record for an Asia Cup.
This is an Indian side which did not have Sachin, Yuvi and Sehwag. So this win is all the more praiseworthy. India have won the Asia Cup for the 5th time after a gap of 15 years. Imagine this Indian side when the above mentioned players come back into the side. SL on the other hand have been simply blown by the late swing of Zak, PK and the ever smiling Nehra.
Dhoni and Co. are all smiles as they grab stumps as souvenirs. India will get USD 60,000 for winning the Asia Cup. Gary Kirsten too is smiling as he comes out to congratulate the Indians and console the Lankans. Sanga wears a disappointed look on his face as he comes out to shake the Indian players hands.
India got the start that they needed with the wicket of Dilshan initially. Sri Lanka needed atleast one of their two big guns, Sanga and Jaya, to fire and play a big one. Unfortunately for the Lankans, their most reliable men failed to step up to the occasion. The middle order was rattled by Nehra and the Sri Lankans never made a comeback into the game after that. Kapugedera came up with a fifty lower down the order but it was all too late by then. Wickets kept tumbling at the other end as Indians inched closer and closer to a win in the finals of the Asia Cup. One has to say, it was that kind of a game that the bowlers had to win it for India and Boy! Didn't they do it in a stylish way? Massive win as India win by 81 runs. Stay tuned for the presentation..