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Animated Hanuman
CHILDREN
thirsting for an Indian taste to animated superhero action can look
forward to seeing Hanuman beat up the bad guys on television soon. Toonz
Animation, based at the Technopark campus in this Kerala capital, says
it has begun pre-production work on 13 half-hour episodes of a series on
the Hindu monkey God that would be aired on Cartoon Network next year.
Toonz creative director Atul Rao, an American citizen of Indian origin
who has previously worked with Warner Brothers and Walt Disney, is
leading the team working on the new serial. Toonz earlier production,
"The Adventures of Tenali Raman" is already being aired on
Cartoon Network.
Website traces
immigration
Who opened the first
Indian restaurant in Britain? It was Dean Mahomet, a resident of Patna,
who moved to England in 1784. Born in 1759, Dean joined the East Indian
Company and rose to the rank of Subedar. He is also credited with
having introduced the art of champi, or shampooing, in England.
This is one of the several interesting nuggets of information about
migration to Britain from South Asia compiled on a Website that went
online last week — www.movinghere.org.uk. The 2.65-million-pound
Website has been funded by the national lottery money and hosts a unique
collection of documents, photographs and papers charting the history of
Britain’s migrant population. The online site details migration of
four distinct peoples: Jewish, Caribbean, Irish and South Asian. It also
enables descendants of early migrants to trace their family history.
Net tracks down
truant officer
A senior government
official who apparently failed to resume work after going on long leave
in Orissa has been traced in the USA, thanks to the Internet. The Indian
Administrative Service (IAS) officer who was posted in the fishery and
animal husbandry department had applied for six years’ leave in 1996.
When he did not turn up after his leave expired in 2002, the government
made several efforts to trace him, but to no avail, said a source. The
source said because of the Internet the officer has been located. The
state government has come to know that the official now resides in the
USA with his family. It is sending him a notice both at his home address
in India and at what is believed to be his current residence in the USA.
Keep Microsoft, Intel
out
Three chipmakers and the
world’s largest mobile phone group teamed up in an apparent bid to
prevent Microsoft and Intel from dominating mobile devices as they do
personal computers. STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments said they
had formed an alliance to spur development of a wider range of wireless
features and to guard against any one industry player dominating the
latest generation of phones. The
companies said they would be joined in the alliance by Nokia,
manufacturer of more than one-third of the mobile phones sold worldwide,
and ARM, a designer of core processor chips used in most wireless
phones. The move by the four established players in the global mobile
phone industry appears geared to deflect challenges from Microsoft and
Intel, two computer industry heavyweights, which are aiming to win a
larger share of mobile phone markets.
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