About.....

Name: Trisha Krishnan
Nick Name: Honey
Date of birth: May 04, 1983
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Birth place: Chennai, India
Height : 5' 8"
Hails from: Palakkad, Kerala, India
Father - Krishnan
Mother - Uma Krishnan
Mother Tongue : Tamil
Languages Known : English, Hindi, Tamil and FrenchSchooling : Church ParkCollege : Ethiraj CollegeAddress: Mac Sunny Side, 5/1, Dr Alagappa Chettiar Road,Poonamallee High Road, Chennai- 600084
Debut Film: Mounam Pesiyadhey (TAMIL FILM)Hobbies: Music, Reading, Swimming
Her Strength: Determination
Her Weakness: Thinks a lot even about petty matters
Turned on by: Good perfume,
PowerTurned off by: Body odour, In-compassionate people, People chewing loudly
Blind date she would go with: Bill Clinton
Favourite night activity: Reading, net-surfing & partying occasionally
Terrified of: Losing people who matter the mostRecurring dream: walking on a lonely road in the middle of the night & a guy on a bicycle rides past her and pulls her hand
Her idols: Claudia Schiffer, Aishwariya Rai and Madhu Sapre
Other talents: Ballet dancer, Swimmer
Unusual things done by her: tried to sneak out of school once during Sports Day, always been intrigued by the supernatural especially U.F.O.'s and aliens
Her light brown eyes and glorious smile will take her to places. Trisha Krishnan, the lovely South Indian Actress was born and brought up in Chennai. BBA student of Ethiraj College, Chennai, she started her career as a model. She had been a model for many popular brands including Pepsi, Fair and Lovely, Medimix, Josco Jewellery, Prince Jewellery, Kumaram Silks.
was at this time Trisha took a shot at Miss Chennai contest 99 and emerged victorious with her stunning looks. From that point she has never looked back. She participated in the Fa Miss India Femina contest and bagged Miss Beautiful Smile title. After winning this title, she became a prominent figure in fashion shows and had worked with leading designers and choreographers. She also starred in Phalguni Pathak's famous music album 'Meri Chunar Ud Ud Jaye' During this time she received a call from Producer Vikram Singh to act in a lead role in his film 'Lesa Lesa' opposite Shyam directed by the famous director Priyadharshan. But it was 'Mounam Pesiyathe' opposite Surya that hit the screens first and the film turned out to be an average grosser. Her second film 'Manasellam' opposite Srikanth did well at the box-office.
Even before her first movie gets released, Trisha has been roped in to play as a heroine in nearly half-a-dozen movies with leading stars of South India. Her films Mani Ratnam's 'Aayudha Ezuthu', 'Saamy' opposite Vikram, 'Unakku 18, Enakku 20', 'Manasellam' has established her as one of the South Indian top actresses at the moment. Some of her interests include music, animals, channel surfing, reading and travelling. Commercials: Medimix soap, Vimal, Butterfly, Junior Horlicks, Britannia cold coffee, Fair & Lovely, Pepsi, Josco Jewellery (Kerala), Brooke bond Red Label Tea, Philips Power Vision, Arun Ice Cream, Goya Perfume (Colombo), Cavincare Meera Gold, Neem Toothpaste, Hercules cycle. ICICI Bank For starters Trisha is a well known actress in Tamil & Telugu films. She has acted in Tamil blockbuster Saamy and is well known face in ad world.She is former Miss Chennai and was also adjudged Miss Beautiful at Femina Miss India pageant.
Trisha, the busy actress in Tamil and Telugu film industries, is celebrating her birthday on Thursday. It has been a happy year so far as Trisha is flooded with offers. Celebrating her birthday in the sets of Bheema, Trisha is currently acting in a couple of Tamil films including Vikram's Bheema and Jeyam Ravi starrer Something Something. In Telugu, the actress is playing the heroine to Chiranjeevi in his movie Stalin. Trisha says, 'I am not in a hurry to choose movies. I go by the storyline and the merit of my role. In Bheema, my role is prominent. Unlike heroines who run around trees and romance and later disappear, I play a part of the story. Congratulations Trisha Krishnan ! What for, you might ask. Well, the buzz is that the Tollywood topper has become the first actress in south India to command a Rs 1 crore fee. So far, Sridevi had held the record for taking the highest salary in south - Rs 80 lakh in her prime days.Beautiful South Indian actress Trisha, who has been making waves in South Indian by delivering hit after hit has been officially voted as the top actress in South Indian in a poll conducted by a popular media house. Trisha easily beat other charming South Indian beauties like Nayanthara, Namitha, Asin & Shriya. She received more than 40% of the votes polled. In another poll conducted by the same media house Nayanthara was voted as the most glamorous actress and Namitha was voted as the Sexiest actress in South.
Trisha is one of the most popular south Indian actresses and she is young, talented and charming. Her birth name is Trisha Krishnamurthy. Trisha was born on the 4th of May 1983 in Pallakad, Kerala, India. She speaks English, Hindi, Tamil and French. A Profile of the TOP ACTRESS in SOUTH - Trisha

Monday, July 28, 2008

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Giving voice to the voiceless Giving voice to the voiceless
In his Ramon Magsaysay Award acceptance speech in Manila on August 31, P. Sainath, Rural Affairs Editor of The Hindu, spoke of the legacy bequeathed to Indian journalism by freedom fighters who doubled up as journalists, and said he w as accepting the award on behalf of the same tradition of giving voice to the voiceless.Mr. Sainath won the award in the Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication category for his “passionate commitment as a journalist to restore the rural poor to India’s national consciouness.”
This is the text of the speech:This is the 60th year of Indian independence. A freedom fought for and won on a vision that placed our humblest citizens at the centre of action and of the future. A struggle that brought the world’s then mightiest empire to its knees. A struggle which saw the birth of a new nation, with a populace overwhelmingly illiterate, yet aiming at and committed to building a democracy the world could be proud of. A people who, one freedom fighter predicted, would make the deaf hear and the blind see. They did.Today, the generation of Indians who took part in that great struggle have mostly died out, though their achievements have not. The few who remain are in their late 80s or 90s. As one of them told me recently: “We fought to expel the colonial ruler, but not only for that. We fought for a just and honourable nation, for a good society.”I am now recording the lives of these last stalwarts of a generation I was not part of, but which I so deeply admire. A struggle that preceded my birth, but in which my own values are rooted. In their names, with those principles, and for their selflessness, I accept this great award.In that great battle for freedom, a tiny press played a mighty role. So vital did it become, that every national leader worth his or her salt, across the political spectrum, also doubled up as a journalist. Small and vulnerable as they were, the journalists of that time also sought to give voice to the voiceless and speak for those who could not. Their rewards were banning, imprisonment, exile and worse. But they bequeathed to Indian journalism a legacy I am proud of and on behalf of which tradition, I accept this award today.For the vision that generation stood for, the values it embodied, are no longer so secure as they once were. A nation founded on principles of egalitarianism embedded in its Constitution, now witnesses the growth of inequality on a scale not seen since the days of the Colonial Raj. A nation that ranks fourth in the world’s list of dollar billionaires, ranks 126th in human development. A crisis in the countryside has seen agriculture — on which close to 60 per cent of the population, or over 600 million people, depend — descend into the doldrums. It has seen rural employment crash. It has driven hundreds of thousands from villages towards towns and cities in search of jobs that are not there. It has pushed millions deeper into debt and has seen, according to the government itself, over 112,000 farmers take their own lives in distress in a decade.This time around, though, the response of a media politically free but chained by profit, has not been anywhere as inspiring. Front pages and prime time are the turf of film stars, fashion shows and the entrenched privilege of the elite. Rural India, where the greatest battles of our freedom were fought, is pretty low down in the media’s priority list. There are, as always, exceptions. The paper I work for, The Hindu, has consistently given space to the chronicling of o ur greatest agrarian crisis since the eve of the Green Revolution. And across the country are countless journalists who, despite active discouragement from their managements, seek to place people above profit in their reporting. Who try desperately to warn their audiences of what is going on at the bottom end of the spectrum and the dangers to democracy that this involves. On behalf of all of them, all these colleagues of mine, I accept this award.In nearly 14 years of reporting India’s villages full time, I have felt honoured and humbled by the generosity of some of the poorest people in the world. People who constantly bring home to you the Mahatma’s great line: ‘Live simply, that others might simply live.’ But a people we today sideline and marginalise in the path of development we now pursue. A people in distress, even despair, who still manage to awe me with their human and humane values. On their behalf too, I accept the Ramon Magsaysay award.

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