The captions accompanying each photo are a reproduction of Nanda’s description of each photo sent in.
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Indian Sweet Stall where I spoke with the lady
The man I spoke to with his stocks piled up
Young kid carrying kavadi
Devotees in the temple compound
View from the overhead bridge
View from the overhead bridge right after the first shot- just zoomed a little and cropped the road part a little and I believe you can see the effect in terms of the number of crowd perception
View from the overhead bridge – right side of the temple entrance
View from the overhead bridge – left to the temple entrance
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drsaravananr
January 25, 2008
Hahahahaha,
Samy! Samy! one million you said? There were more people during the Bersih Rally. Samy not only becoming senile, but also becoming blind. Nanda,no photos of Samy walking with his gunmen?
cheers
SV Singam
January 25, 2008
A picture paints a thousand words. Well done!
shar101
January 26, 2008
Brilliant shots, Nanda.
Each photo tells its own story, corroborating your narrative in the earlier post.
Pics no: 5 and 6, in particular, encapsulates the possibilities of positive and negative perception of an event, depending on how it was presented.
And the ‘shadows’ depict a noon occurrence.
Pictures don’t lie but in the hands of a spin-meister, one can never tell.
Thank you for the honesty (and the courage of having the gall to speak with the FRU guyz whilst wearing a 10-Eleven t-shirt!).
cuddlyfamily
January 26, 2008
U know they will deny any pictorial evidence? Thats why the star didnt seem to publish any pix of the thaipusam, or just close ups (seems like a crowd there ehhe).
Politics and religion just dont mix
Siew Eng
January 26, 2008
Now, how to tell the tens of thousands who have no idea of Star’s deception?
oA
January 26, 2008
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let this be the beginning ….
hope more to come …..
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Nanda
January 26, 2008
drsaravananr, I did take a picture of SV with the FRU but I just felt its irrelevant. The MSM has already carried enough of him.
Cheers
cheeran
January 26, 2008
Samy is weak in mathematics..maaaaa. 1000 for him is 1,000,000.
meltingpot
January 26, 2008
in the face of irrefutable evidence, samy still say a million celebrated thaipusam in batu caves. guy just can’t count. yes a million indians celebrated thaipusam, but not in batu caves. sorry samy, you are b…s..ing again!
yh
January 26, 2008
not too surprising. otherwise, how can you explain the phenomenon growth of devotees in other temples. the boycott call has major effects, whichever way ones to see it, except for SAMY THE DENIAL.
Jerry Mohan
January 26, 2008
Anyone with last year’s photos of the crowd at Bt Caves?
Maybe we can put them together to let ppl see the difference between last year’s crowd and this year’s crowd.
Rastaman.JB.
January 26, 2008
Dear Haris,
Many thanks Nanda for the pictorial evidences.Semi Value can say and think what he wants…..but the writing is on the wall.The Thaipusam boycott is the 3rd slap that he has recieved thus far following his return from India.The call has had its effect and even a downfall of 200k devotees can be seen as “mission accomplished”.
Now it is time to raid the accounts of the temple and see where the funds have been channeled to thus far. It has been said that close to RM5.5 million is collected every Thaipusam.Given the spending power of the Indians these past 20 years….a healthy sum of close to 100 million should be seen in the account books.What portion of the funds goes for education and how many have graduated via these funds must be made transparent.
Me gut feeling says…..Semi’s dirty fingers is a sure dig in the temple coffers!!!!!
MIC and Semi are fast becoming like Nona for most Malaysian Indians.
Nona ?
Following Tata’s recent launch of a small and cheap car Nano…..SAMY VELLU announced of his plans to launch a car small and cheap car in Malaysia called NONA !!!!!
BR
Rastaman.JB.
toyolbuster
January 26, 2008
I was told that there were about half the crowd size compared to last year. But from the photos, it looks like less than 10% of last year’s crowd. No wonder there were so much left over at the food stalls.
shiver
January 27, 2008
thanks nanda. if BN to win big again, we really have to blame utusan, star, nst, BH.
they screwed the country by lying to its people.
malaysia truly in trouble.
michael chick
January 27, 2008
Someone suggested that the photo on the Star Newspapers was a file pix. Anyone has any clue? It was mentioned about the string of blue lights which were not part of the decor of 2008. Anyone can confirm this? Also we were watching the news footage, which seemed to show a decent crowd. However, this is in stark contrast to what we saw on TV that night itself.
How do you spell “lawsuit” for false representation?
multidimid
January 28, 2008
Nanda, Great shots you have of Batu Caves. But you missed the Saturday Jan 26 08 Anti-Price Hike Protest at KLCC. For those interested, MORE PICS & Video – 56 Held in Anti-Price Hike Protest – KLCC Jan 26 08;
43 Males & 13 Females including Opposition & NGO leaders & activists; Protesters Outnumbered 10 times by Police Personnel.
Go H E R E</a
DR.M.SOMASUNDRAM
January 31, 2008
DEAR FELLOW INDIANS,
WHAT IS WRONG WITH SAMY ? PONDER FOR A MOMENT . HE HAS THE AUDACITY TO SAY INDIANS ARE EARNING US3000/ MONTH. HE SAID AND PREPARED SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS . WHERE AND HOW HE ARRIVED AT THESE FIGURES. HE INCLUDED TAN SRI ANANTHA’S INCOME, I SUPPOSE.
WHY DID HE GIVE THE DOCUMENTS IN INDIA ? HE SHOULD HAVE DISTRIBUTED TO HIS CRONIES AND ‘YA TUAN’ SUPPORETERS [ VELLA KAKA , YES TUAN; KARUPU KAKA, YES TUAN PEOPLE].
WHEN THE TIME WILL ARRIVE FOR OUR MAKKAL TO VINDICATE THEMSELVES FROM BEING ENTICED WITH CHEAP WORDS AND CHEAP TACTICS.
HE MAY SAY THAT HE HAS TURNED DEVIL BUT LET US NOT FOLLOW THE DEVIL TO BE TRAPPED IN THE QUAGMIRE.
WAKEUP AND PREPARE MENTALLY TO PICK THE RIGHT CANDIDATE.
WHERE IN THE WORLD HE FOUND THAT INDIANS CANNOT LIGHT CANDLES IN TEMPLE PREMISES.
BE SENSITIVE TO CHANGES AND PREPARE YOURSELF WITH MULTIPLE SKILLS TO SURVIVE .
THNAKS TO NANDA FRO THE EXCELLENT PHOTOS. SOMEONE WILL BE PREPARING NEW [ OUTDATED PHOTOS ] PHTOTS TO PROVE OTHERWISE.
Bargitah
February 1, 2008
Hi Indian Friends,
Thank You for boycott Thaipusam at Batu caves this year,because its a big shame for Mic leader samy velu.
My indians friends please show the power of india on the coming election to MIC and Barisan, because they think they will get 100% indians votes, make sure we break samy vellu’s nose.
He keep on telling to media that he will get 100% our votes, he says don’t worry to Pak Lah we will win.But we make sure they will losse, so indians friends be together and think before you do your voting think for our future and think our HINDRAF HEROS IN ISA, be smart we are not stupid has barisan & mic think.
Thank you Nanda for your excellent photos that shows how bad this thaipusam at Batu Caves.
May God Bless us all, VALLGA TAMIL MAKKAL.