Where are they?

Chittu kuruvi (sparrows) were ubiquitously found in chennai. This "bird" had titillated many many poets and lyricists to compose songs named after them. But, unfournately, oflate these kuruvis were not seen in this city. When inquired it was found massive urbanisation pushed them out of the urban areas, Moreover, the installation of cell towers had caused them to move out of the cities.

This is one of the classic stories of ecological imbalances which we are witnessing right in front of our eyes.... Still, we will be witnessing many more species getting extincted a DAY IS NOT FAR WHEN WE OURSELVES GET EXTINCTED FROM THIS WORLD.....don't underestimate ourselves we have the capability to destroy ourselves..........

One man's loss is another man's gain

just a couple of weeks back Jet airways pilots went on strike over sacking of their colleagues. Sensing the trouble brewing in the aviation sector, the other airlines encashed the situation by hiking the airfares arbitarily.

Now, it is the national carrier Air India's turn as its pilots were reportedly went on sick leave en masse. Will there be any upward movement in airfare?

The concept behind Durga mata

The demon magisha had a boon from lord Brahma that in the event of death it should happen at the hands of a woman. That was the level of arrogance. He had a belief no woman could take extreme steps of killing a man .

As a result, No god was in a position to take on the demon. Everyone urged the goddess Uma to take on the asura. Even Umadevi failed in her operation. After analysing the situation, The entire divinity came to a conclusion that a seperate shakthi be created thereby others divine powers would give away their unique power to the newly created shakthi and they wanted to make the created shakthi as a potent force in anhiliation of the magisan.

Lord Vishnu surrendered his shankhu and chakra. Lord Shiva surrendered his trishul.Likewise, other devas followed it.This is how goddess Durga was created.

INTERPRETATION: If there was a petty theft local constable could handle the situation. If there was a mob riot, a mild lathicharge could bring the situation under control. If there was an arson and looting throughout the city RAF will be called in.

Suppose, if there was a terrosist attack like Mumbai attack last year. The above mentioned official machinery were considered inept in handling the situation.

The solution: NSG commandos should be brought in to take stock of the situation.
How NSG commandos were formed? The top cadets of army and other para military forces were picked for NSG training . THis force has the speciality in carying out flushing out ultras.
Here, NSG acted as commandos but the inputs were drawn from other forces. Just like other divine powers energised the newly created shakthi called Durga.

Lanka Naresh: An opposite view

Every year, around this time, people celebrate the killings of Ravan. By the way, this blog has no intention of belittle Lord Ram. My effort is to see the qualities of Raavan.
Parents:Father, Vishrava ( Brahmin) Mother,Kaikesi (Daitya)

Lineage: Greatgrand son of Lord Brahma, Cousin of kubera, god of wealth.

Qualifications: an ardent shiva devotee, exponent in four vedas and six shastras (that's why he is depicted as ten-headed personality).

Weakness: Penchant for woman In other words,covetable character.

On vijayadasami day, the effigies of ravana, kumbhakarna and indrajit will be burnt. At the same time, Dave Brahmins belongs to mudgal gotra will be performing shraadh for ravana whom they consider as their ancestor.

After killing ravana Lord ram performed a puja at Rmeswaram to ward off the Brahmahatidosha and also to pacify the anger of Lord shiva, for having killed his devotee.

It is not an easy task to become an enemy of god. TO be a god's enemy you need certain qualities which lankanaresh possesed. But, because of one bad habit he fell from his grace.

P.S. Ravana comes under "blended product" category because of his parentage. Not all, "blended products" could reach the level of higher valueS. Had Ravana inherited his mother's brilliance and his father courage he would have been nowhere.To articulate on this subject, just read my first blog of DECEMBER 2008.

Come on...let's "play"

Man voice: Hey! have u made arrangements for our "play" at your "place".

Woman's voice: No ! We will have at your place so we can "play" longer....

Man voice: No! No! we will "play" at a neutral venue.


Hold on! Hold on! the above conversation has no double meaning effect. At present scenario, Neither India can tour Pakistan nor Pakistan can do tour India. The sporting authorities of two countries are exploring possibilities to reume sporting ties..

The above piece is purely an imaginery conversation and nothing else!

What we miss today?

Once upon a time, there were no cola giants in Tamil Nadu. People used to drink "colour" to quench their thirst. The "COLOUR" means locally manufactured aeriated water mixed with saccrine or rose water essence. Otherwise known as "paneer soda".

After the arrival of cola giants these "colours" were not even found in the remotest hamlets of the state. I still remember, a bottle of paneer soda was available for just 0.30ps (without "ice") or 0.40ps (with "ice") . Those things will never come back again.

life's motto

This is the conversation between a reporter and a casanova.

Reporter: How do you see your life?

Casanova: FILL IT, SHUT IT AND FORGET IT.

Reporter :??????????

A night round up Part II

Bicycle was the common mode of transport in the 70's . Every main road used to have a cycle lane exclusively for the cylists. During nighttime, it was mandatory on the part of the cyclists to have lamps (mainly kerosene -lit lamps) either in front of or side of the front wheel. Filing to do so,would attract fine from the police.

Likewise, "doubles travel" was prohibited by the police. The immediate response from the police would be to deflate the cycle tyres. The night show goers were always seen with a suspicion hence,they had to preserve the cinema tickets till they reached home. Otherwise, that could pose trouble. Even today,this practice is continuing.

A night round up

Chennai always known for its conservativeness. In the 70's and early part of early 80's people used to go to sleep as early as 9.00 clock, as there was no entertainment in those years except All India Radio's Vividhabharathi. That too, tamil programmes got over by 9.00 p.m. If anyone stay awake after 9.00 p.m even neighbhors could command the person to go to bed .That was the socio environment. The most affected parties were tenants. The Landlord of those era almost behaved like bullies.They had every 'right" to issue writ over tenants electricity usages.

Slowly and steadily, the scenario changed in the mid-80's. Thanks to cricket. Television started telecasting matches midnight and early hours of the morning. That made kids to stay awake to watch cricket. Even then, the chennaites were deprived of any sort of entertainments. Only recreation was going to "night show". The night show goers got the tagname -----ruffians from the fellow members of the locality.

Then came satellite television in the early 90's which really changed the sleeping pattern almost all urbanites, not just chennaites. The round the clock telecast made these "deprived class " to spend more hours in front of the idiot box. I would even say the chennaites didn't get what they wanted.

The picture started changing by mid-90's with the arrival of various MNC's to this city. Many dicotheques, bars amusement parks were opened. The city also witnessed immigrants from other parts of the country flocking in relation to their jobs and businesses to this city.Gradually, this city earned the name of "somewhat-cosmopolitan" status.

As the night life started flourished in the city, the eating pattern too changed significantly. Earlier, this city was known for a few udipi hotels and arya bhavans.But, now everything has changed rapidly. Many a street side cafetria have sprung up across the city. Oflate, many biryani outlets are the flavour of the masses.
Eating Biryani at 11.00p.m. has become a fashion. (then, why you rue over chennai being called diabetic capital of India).

Cattle trade

Mahatma gandhi once said " The future of india is intrinsically connected with the future of its villages".

As a TRUE indian,Last Sunday, I went to a village near kanchipuram. The village was hosting a weekly shandy. I came to know that village was known for "buying" cattle in "bulk". The "breeds" from all over the state and neighbhoring states were found. To my surprise, I had spotted two-three "foreign breeds" too.

The local breeds were looking frail and weak whereas other breeds were robust. A government vet said " our breeds were reeling under prolong summer the other breeds were just out of monsoon that's why they look robust".

The way in which they negotiated in "purchasing" cattle was a unique way. The buyer and seller came together (the meeting was facilitated by a "broker" ultimately, he gets a cut from the sale proceeds). The broker would place a turkey towel (before which both buyer and seller held one another hands together) on their hands of the buyer and seller . It is a non-verbal communication once the "deal" is okayed the buyer caould take away the cattle.

The buyer would "inspect" the cow by pulling its teeth (i.e.to check the "age" of the animal)
Predominatly, the buyers were "interested" in buying cows without calves. the reason being that the calves maintenance were considered as a wasteful expenditure.

Out of every five bovines sold, one happened to be a male bovine. These male bovines were huge in demand during "mating season". During that season, the maintenance of bull cast upon cow's owner. The nourishment and medical expenses would be borne by the cow's pwner.The other days these bulls were used for farming purposes.

Energy releas(er)

When the earth feels its tension it releases by way of an earthquake.

When you are on a long travel, your pants or underwear gets stuck between the buttocks (BTW this phenomenon is known as "pants wedgie") your hand will wait for an opportunity to pull out the "clogged-part" from your bums this is one way of energy releasing process.

Your are in a meeting room which is air-conditioned. Your are asked to present or explain over a subject again and again by your boss. By this time, urine gets accumulated in your bladder. What you would think at that time? As soon as the meeting gets over, you will rush to washroom to "release" it.

The boss talks about an incentive plans to his (woman) personal secretary and asks her to stay after the office hours which means he is about to "mount" energy releasing operation on her. Get ready damsel!

You've had a mouthfuls from your superiors for your silly acts. your mental energy is at the lowest ebb. You curse yourself of your state. You will throw tantrums at the persons whom you think would not retaliate you. This is another way of energy releasing operation.

Occasionally, one must release the bad energies stored in our body. Otherwise, the pent-up emotions will have a delirious effects on one's metabolism.

As the zen saying goes........

IF YOU CHOOSE TO SEE ONLY THE POSITIVE YOU MISS HALF OF WHAT'S GOING ON---AND IT'S DANGEROUS!
THE WAY IS TO SEE IT ALL, AS A WHOLE. AND THEN CHOOSE. THIS IS WHAT PRACTICING ZEN DOES.IDEALISM CAN BE DEADLY.

In real life, we only project our better sides to others. we hush up our darker sides. Come on, you and I have darker side too. Because we want to project ourselves as a cut above the rest. You may think that you've hushed up everything but, the time will expose you when it is necessary.

A complete transformation

The villages once known for innocent life is no longer seen. The bug urbanisation has caught them too. The eating pattern has changed rapidly. They too, "crave" for junk foods just like their brethren in cities.

Gilli danda, kabadi games have been replaced by cricket on the dry village tank beds.
Socialising aspect (for which it was knon for ages together) is absolutely missing. Every one watching with a suspicion or fear in their mind. Instead of eating greens and vegetables available in their fields people wait in the que to get vegetables from the "annachi" shop(which is invariably dry in nature).

hence, the so-called-village life has transformed over the years.

What is this?

A union minister tweeted comparing economy class travellers to cattle class.
THEN, How would he call this photo. packed like sardines! Huh!

Thoppukaranam redefined

The practise of thoppukkaranam is visible in every household of south India.But, with the arrival of luxuries in everyday's life we don't practise it.Even today,the students who are afraid of exams make a "deal" with the god of knowledge ---Ganesha. If their demand is materialised , they perform thoppukarnam in front of the ganesha idol who is seated under the canopy of a pipal tree in the vicinity of the village tank. Remember, the pipal tree has the benefits of enlarging one's intelligent power. In urban areas, the concept of thoppukaranam has been modified because of tight shirts and trousers. Urbanites do it at their own style.


What is more pathetic is that we as Indians do not honour our age old practise. When the same thing has received a "so-called-certificate" from the westerners. We follow it with full reverence.

Now, the thoppukaranam has been redefined as super brain yoga . The benefits of this yoga is to improve our intelligent power.Just correlate intelligence-Lord Ganesha-Pipal tree everything leads to knowledge.

I hear some whispers saying "there is some real stuff in pagan's traditions".

It's Navratri

This is the most auspicious period to do penance. The first three days/nights belongs to goddess Lakshmi. The second three days/nights belongs to goddess parvati and the last three days/nights belongs yo goddess saraswati. The tenth day is elebrated as vijayadasami. Upto 9 days, you strive on your sankalpa to taste the victory you need the blessings of the supreme power.

The number 9 has significant role in Hindu Calender. The total duration of Mahabharatha war is 18 days. There are navagrahas. If you count a rosary you'll find 108 beads.

In the match-making process,Navamsa should match between a bride and groom.

Reversal of Time

A cardiologist said " 30 years ago, when I started my practice the grandsons/granddaughters used to accompany their grandparents and urged me to save them.

Now, I do receive grandsons and grandparents the only difference is that the grandparents urges me to save their grandsons".

H1N1 latest fall out : French Kiss

The outbreak of swine flu has forced the french people to abandon their traditional kiss.Is there any epidemic which could prevent Indians from being loquacious.As they are known as everlasting chatter-box.

Tardy response

In India, sports have no official recognition. A few whimpers would raise after the major event over the dismal performance of the indian sportsmen. Then, the government would constitute a committee to probe into the sports debacle and as usual The committee would table its reports after 10 years meanwhile, dismal performance continues .

The commonwealth games is due to be held in 2010 in New Delhi . The preparedness on the part of the government machinery just shows how lethargic it is. We ought to be more serious . This is the major event after almost 27 years of Delhi Asiad Games. We ought to seize this opportunity to showcase our mettle.

China won its first gold medal in olympics in los angeles games in 1984. Look at its stride it made in sports by 2008 beijing olympics . It topped the medal list showing its prowess in sports also. In India, everything is "chaltha hai" attitude which causes the impediment to progress.

Tale of two mothers

A housemaid,mother of three children, struggling to meet her ends. This time she is expecting her fourth child. Not intersted in having the fourth child . Planning to abort the pregnancy. But, the owner of that house advised her to have the child.

Saying one of her relatives would adopt the child as they were issueless and they would finance other children studies. At last, the housemaid accepted the deal. She delivered a girl child but ironically, she refused to part her baby. She told " with whatever means I have I would raise the child but I would not give my baby for adoption".

This story about a woman in her mid-twenties. Leading a carefree life. Always home alone as their parents were away from the town. That enabled her to heavy partying and rollicking. As a result, she became pregnant and her boyfriend had deserted her.


The pregnancy reached an advanced stage so there was no room for abortion. She delivered a girl child and called her housemaid to look after the child. While giving away her child she gave a huge monetary compensation to her housemaid. Now, the woman got married and leading a normal life and oblivious of pre-marital child.

Why we wake up

The most easiest thing one could do is to sleep for longer period. But, after that what happens.. One has to wake up from the sleep. The reason: the karmas of our past lives propel us to the waking stage. Can we declare that I'll go to sleep for three months. Not more than 8 hours you can lie on your bed.

There are three stages one has to pass through dreaming stage waking stage and deep sleep stage.

Once you are in a deep sleep stage you'll not realize whether you are alive or dead. After coming to waking stage then you'll say " that I had a nice sleep". Now, quesion yourself with that "I" used in your declaration. chant the mantra Who am I? something will dawn on you. This is called self-realization.

A Zen poem

There is a pond
A frog jumped into it
plop!
Ha!

Indian pugilists : creates history

Virender Singh created history by winning a bronze medal in the world Boxing Championship . This is the first time that an Indian have won a medal at the competition of this level. Instead of concenrating on big cities the sports authorities should move to hinterland to harness the talent. This pugilist, Virender singh, comes from a village in Haryana.

All these years India's hope rested on hockey team .Currently, the state of the game is absymal low . Still, hockey is our national game our performance in that game has diminished rather, we lost our space to power hockey of the western nations. We didn't pick the changes in the game rapidly as a result, we are in this position.

India should concenrate on individual's game to win medals at the international games. Boxing proves to be a beacon for india's medal hopes in the next olympic games.

Recently, International Olympic Association has included women boxing events in the next olympic games. Already our women boxers have proved their mettle in this region.Hence, our women boxers do not lag behind their male counterparts.

TAILPIECE: This author has the penchant of watching two women fighting inside the ring or otherwise. If that battle happened to be a gladiatoral battle then there is no way to measure the author's joy. It's called NO QUANTUM OF JOY.

9/11: three different years, three different events

FIRST: Historical speech made by swami vivekananda at Chicago on this date 1893


SECOND: Mohammed Ali Jinnah , Father of Pakistan , died on this date in 1948.The man held responsible for partition of India on religious ground.



Third: America tasted the poison of religious fanaticism.

Tighten your purse

The global meltdown has forced a change in lifestyle . Even deities are not spared. some temples in India have cut down their expenses on alankaram (decoration expenses). In some other temples, the size of the prasadan(divine gift) has reduced drastically.

The government has announced austere steps to prevent the flight of public money. It has asked the MP's to travel by economy class. The MP's are entitled to 34 air travel pass that alone costs Rs.54Cr for the government. By this the exchequer could save public money.Several business meetings have been cancelled they are conducted through video conferencing.

No abbreviation plz.....

Thirumuruga kripananda varriar swamigal once said" we lavishly spend on wedding parties but, when it comes to printing wedding invitation card we show our stinginess. The salutations used for bride is Sowbhagyavathi(a woman blessed with (all forms) of luck)and the groom is addressed as chiranjivi (a man who remains immortal). However, if one read through the wedding invitation card one could see abridged version of their salutations as "sow" "chi" prefixing their names.

The word "sow" has various meanings one of them is ---an adult female pig. And when you mention "chi" in tamil it is something disgusting or detesting in nature. The most auspicious happening is marriage in one's life just because of the stinginess the very meaning of marriage gets degraded can't we rectify it?".

Power respects power

Here is a neighbor who has scant regard for any conventions. All he wants to do is to dictate his own terms. He has charted his growth path in late 70's. He had analyzed our strength much before we analyzed it. As a result,In the mid-80's,He had helped another "rogue" neighbor in developing lethal weaponry clandestinely.

Currently, he is throwing his weight to botch our chances in becoming an economic super power. Since he was concentrating rather focusing on his growth he had "outsourced" the destabilizing projects (which are inimical to our interests)to our "rogue" neighbor. Now, he has laid an encirclement strategy to keep us trapped in a closet. The other powers in the locality would only use as a counterweight they too, follow self interest policy when it comes to us. We can only have self-pity what else can we do?

How do we defeat the nefarious designs of evil neighbor?

We should accelerate our economic growth to 10% for the next 10 years. We should strengthen our defense mechanisms . No other power could help us out from this current quagmire.

Right now, we do not have the guts to speak about our problems loudly.

It is time for our policymakers to read Kautilya's ardha sasthra again and again in order to know how to deal with the powerful adversary.
The neighbor will not respect us because of our "weak" apparatus. Unless, otherwise, we gird up our loins we cannot tide over the situation.

In this world, only power respects power.

Raise your cudgel

I came across a newpaper column about Indian Mom-in-laws have formed an association to make their voice heard of. To substantiate their grievance they cite the NFHS (national family health survey) As per that survey, Young woman suffer domestic violence from their parents rather-in-laws.

The members of this forum are not from lower strata of the society. There are forensic experts, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals. A harrassed mom-in-law lamented her story " everytime I go to take a shower my bahu switch on the geyser from outside during summer season".

Often they are portrayed as vamp by the media. Coming back to suryey it found an unmarried woman faces 13.7% domestic violence from her MOTHER comparitively 1.7% by their mom-in-law.

The report went on to say the daughter-in-laws are programmed to dislike their partner mother. Once this mindset is on, it is very difficult to mend it. This is the view expressed by a psychologist from Cambridge,UK.

Now, who indoctrinates the daughter-in-law? Who extends external support to daughter-in-laws? Or is it something found in women genes?

For further information visit www.aimpf.org.

TAILPIECE: At Vandalur zoo,In a fight between two lionesses one aged lioness died and the younger lioness badly bruised.
This above information has nothing to do with saas-bahu relationships.

Not a sinful act

There is a famous dialogue in the film nayagan(1987) by a boatman-cum-bootlegger "Naalu perukku nalladhu seidal edhuvumay thaappu illai" literal meaning is even a sinful act,if there are beneficiaries to it, will not be treated as sin.

Apply this dialogue in everyday's life. The people of this generation (only a miniscule portion of the society) indulge in all immoral activities like "swinging" "one-stand stands" "swapping". In conclusion, we cite that it was for the welfare of the family members. To accentuate our stand, we even quote "the end justifies the means" . As human beings, we want the logical support for our deeds.No matter how bad our activities are. No sophistry please!

Beware of gilma party

In real life scenario, one could avoid this kind of characters. But, there are a lot of characters available in the chatrooms. Sometimes , you need this kind of characters for a time pass even though you know who they are. Recently, the cuban president Fidel castro's son got duped into online affair by a miami based cuban refuggee (apparently a man) posed as a woman. "Her" intention was to excavate the real extravaganza life of the dictator son's life. Like her??? many masquerade themselves in excavation mission but, only they get buried inside the pit.

Beauty no issue!

A young woman had a "desire"(actually, renouncing desires would lead to the path of enlightenment) of getting enlightenment so she visited various zen monasteries. The monasteries rejected her admission. This attitude made her to feel sick about it. But, she didn't give up . She kept knocking at the doors of monasteries . She got a reply for her rejection. The incumbent of one monastery said " Lady, we could admit you in our school but, Your beauty could spoil other inmates that's why we reject you". On knowing the reason, She disfigured her face by herself. Again, she went to that monastery and sought admission. This time, the incumbent got astonished and sensing her determination in pursuit of her enlightenment goal he admitted her into their monastery.

Absolute resolute mind is required. Not just for seeking enlightenment but, for achieving any goals in one's life.

Act against

If you command your child not to touch a particular object. It will definetely touch that object. Likewise, when a child falls off the child would not cry immediately. The child will wait for the reactions from the surroundings. If there is a sympathy from onlookers it will cry otherwise, tthe child will move away from the scene quietly.

To get the job done from a child it is always better to give an opposite command. More restrictions and protection would make the child to feel timid.

Its a male chauvanism.....

We always know religious gurus (be it any religion) headed by a male member.In the days of yore, there were yoginis(counterpart of yogis) made significant contribution for the success of siddhis. Similarly, women were wearning yagnopaveeth (janevu) in the olden times. Remember, mother is the first teacher to her child as per yogic tradition.They also participated in major yagnas. Slowly and steadily, their importance were phased out thanks to invasion of foreign powers. No male member can digest to the fact that he could be outclassed by a female member. This is known as sheer male chauvanism.....

An Advice

A man, apparently harrased by his wife,said to me not knowing my marital status " NEVER EVER SLEEP IN YOUR BEDROOM WITH YOUR SPOUSE WITH WHOM YOU'VE JUST HAD A QUARREL. B'COZ HER MENTAL CONDITION WILL BE UNPREDICTABLE AS SHE COULD STAB YOU WITH A KNIFE". One has to ponder this saying........