Srinivas Padma: Personal Musings on Life, Growth, and Connections

Despite several inequities and challenges, Chennai is emerging as a seedbed for the animation industry with great success stories. Mr Muralidharan, chief technology officer, Accel Animation Studios , says, "The current scenario is very encouraging with the increasing demand in domestic as well as outsourced service work from leading producers. It indicates the indu-stry is growing at a very fast pace in Chennai ." Accel Animation is currently working on 3D animated episodes for preschool children Raju the Autorickshaw for a Canadian producer Kahani World. The company has just completed a 40 minute visual effect and 3D character animation for a Hindi feature film Friends For Ever which is expected to hit the screens by September 2007. Mr Muralidharan added that the company is also working on a 3D animated movie South India Fables based on Thirukkural for a global audience. The first one-hour show of 12 hours will be ready for distribution by October 2007. According ...

The capital city has a distinction. New Delhi has been declared as the best city to live in among the metropolitan cities of the country. The Mercer Human Resource Consulting survey says that the capital has the highest standard of living in the country. The Mercer Human Resource Consulting that is surveying the worldwide quality of living had select ed 215 cities around the globe. New Delhi has been ranked at 148, two places up from 2006 position. The other cities of the country that featured in the list include Chennai and Mumbai. In fact, Chennai has been put at 177 ahead of the financial capital Mumbai (209). The Mercer’s analysis of world cities was based on evaluation of 39 criteria that include political, social, economic and environmental factors.