Recent happenings that disturbed me

Recent events that are taking place in many of the parts of our Country is disturbiung me. The Advocate incidents that took place in Chennai is the heights of unlawful act (enacted by people who are supposed to be the protectors of law). I had visited the Court premises after a week and the place looked ransacked. Who is to be blamed is still being argued by all political parties who see this as a platform for starting their bickerings . Even otherwise during my earlier visits, I have always felt that the lawyers always acted indifferently towards police. So the police had their day. To add to it the advocates went to the extreme of destroying the Justice Krishna Commission Report, on the incident. The next one is the death of medico Aman. The death is once again because of ragging. Few years back it was Tirunavukarasu, medical student who was studying in Annamalai University. Somehow such ragging incidents are more in professional colleges. The death of Aman is a very big loss to his family. Even worse is the loss faced by the family of the accused. They would be shattered by the arrest of their children. All their dreams and hopes about their wards are now over. To add to it they also have to face the society. As usual out politicians are enjoying their own piece of cake by asking some persons to resign taking moral responsibility. I really wonder how people who are to save life can themselves indulge in such inhuman act. Education is supposed to make a human civilised. But it looks that we are back to barbarism and enjoy fighting on the name of Religion, Caste, Community, Language and the list goes on.......

Blogging after long time

I am back to blogging in my dashboard after a lapse of almost an year. Though I kept viewing many other people's blog spot......and was also sharing my views with them........somehow I had not been blogging in my own space. Last year was full of hectic events.....some good and some not so good......some bad......But, one good thing about last year was that my daughter got engaged to a very good friend of hers and the year ended with lots of happiness. I went to Tirupati thrice last year and we went on pilgrimage to so many different temples in and around Kumbakonam, Tanjore and Trichy. It was our family's turn at Varagur Mandagapadi during Chitirai Varuzha Pirapu.......a wonderful honour bestowed on only four families at our hometown temple. So the whole family was there and it was a wonderful day. Wish we could do this regularly every fourth year.........My Bro's family came back to India for good...and it is nice to have your kith and kin near you.........All along he was away and it is real long time since we were together in our family functions.........(the last function that the two of us were together was during his daughter's birthday).......I am happy he will be here for my daughter's wedding. It is really painful to see your loved ones staying away for various reasons in a different country and you don't get to see them for two to three years.......I am happy he is back........and I would get to meet him often now........On the whole, last year went on well and hope the grace of god would continue to be the same........this year also.

A million dollar question

Hi all,

The political scenario at Tamilnadu in the recent times is the best comedy times. Starting from Cable TV Network it is extending to all the issues and the irony is that the media is having a great time writing about it in their papers and enjoying their piece of cake. The family politics is worse than what is said to have happened in the epic Mahabharata. I will not surprised even if Tamilnadu gets divided into two portions in the near future, south and north to solve the family crisis. The honourable voters of Tamilnadu have been taken for a ride, and nor are our people bothered about it. The alliances are another cameo, they talk about all the policy decisions, and comment against many actions of the ruling party but then again in view of the elections which are to take place in the year to come, they state that the alliances hold good, and they have no idea of breaking the same. (If they break then their family lose the power in Centre). What is going to be end of this? Will Tamilnadu or rather India, see some new horizon? It reminds me of a joke, where it is said, that a Japanese, Russian, American and Indian happened to meet God personally and when they wanted to ascertain, if their nation would improve, the almighty gave answers as follows:
to the Japanese : Yes in another 15 years
to the Russian : Yes in another 20 years
to the American : Not in your lifetime
to the Indian : Not in my lifetime.
A question for which the almighty himself does not know the answer.
I hope that my anguish is shared by all Indians. I am not happy writing this blog, and it pains a lot to write this.

December Season in Chennai

This blog is about the Chennai December Season. The month of Margazhi, dedicated to the God, bears its own festive look. This festival is of course different in nature, as it is a celebration enjoyed with arts of various nature. Music, Dance, Dramatics in various sabhas, and the eat outs that are operated in the sabhas is a different type of life. All artists decked in silk attires and grand jewellery and the members and viewers trying to level with the artists is a sight to enjoy. Though all these are prevailing even today, the charm that existed earlier is lost now. There are too many sabhas and each sabha holding the same types of programs, and awarding titles to the same group of people, is way far from ethics. The divinity that was present in the music concerts presented by M.S. amma, M.L.V. ammd, D.K.P. amma, and veterans like Semmungudi sir, Balamurali sir, is absent now. Though I never had the opportunity to attend to the concerts of the legendry G.N.B sir, Madurai Mani Iyer anna and various jambavans, I do listen to their music in CDs and tapes. The music touches a chord in us and makes us crave for more. At the end of each recital we feel the nearness to something divine. Are we enjoying the same today? This field is also marching towards the rat race today. Eventually the art forms have lost their charm and only competition to surpass others prevail. Many artists with abundant talent do not get the right platform and some of them pay to perform during this season. Is it really necessary and are they doing justice to the art they have learnt? Some others with a view to attract the public perform something abstract, especially in the field of dance. Presenting negatives is considered to be creative. May be people may feel that I am prejudiced, well this is my opinion, and I strongly, a art attains it glory only when it reaches a common man. I do know, that many of these art forms are meant for the creamy layer of the public. However, there are some which are open to all public, and I know many sincere people who attend these programs, as they cannot make it for a paid concert. But all the sabhas, are not ready to present concerts by famous persons, for free and it is always ticketed. Talents who cannot afford contributing materially never get a platform and it ultimately remains in dark. Added to this is the shows presented in various private channels during the season. Again the TRB rating plays a great role in deciding the viewership of the programs and the channels travel miles to reach the top of rating. While viewing the programs at a later date in the channel, there will be so many advertisements in between and commercial breaks, which only brings down the charm of the concert. It is evident that arts have also attained a business status today and the competition prevailing is nothing less than what exists in I.T. industry. The charm is lost and even the reviews that appear in the papers are only to uplift the already existing talents and not inclined to promote new talents. The concerts which use to run for more than three hours earlier are shortened and the time limit is one and half or two hours. It is time framed and is like enjoying ready made food. Neither the artists are ready to present a breathtaking performance, nor is the viewer asking for same. Compromises are part of day to day life and it is taking place in this field also.

Pubs and discos

This is my second blog and i really do not if I have reached at least one are two as I am yet to receive some comments about my earlier blog. The topic about which I would like to post this blog is the recent craze among the people about attending discos and pubs. People have some how got into an impression that going to discos and dancing is a step to modern living. Is it right or safe? A recent editorial in a leading daily clearly stated that many obscene photos which are being posted in web sites and mobiles, have been shot in such places. I think all girls should put their mind into some serious thinking. In a way easy money which is available to our younger generation is also reason for such walk of life. Dating, discotheques and flirting around is not modern thinking. I am definitely not against friendship between boys and girls. I was from a co-education school and to this our school friendship is going on. But I feel we should know where to draw the line. Women Liberation does not come from such activities. The so called liberation should be in our mind and healthy thinking. After all we all have our own responsibilities to our society. Getting involved in such activities is like entering a maze and it could be a place of no return like Siberia. We are the masters of our action and there is no point in blaming the others for a wrong step taken at a wrong time. If everyone could think twice before going to such places, I am very sure they can avoid landing into some deep troubles.

how i came to know about it

Hi

I came to know about blogs thro' my cousins and was jus contemplating about opening a blogspot to share my views and the d-day happened to be this day.
Many of the ideas shared by my bro's have really inspired and made me proud.I hold my head high reading their articles. Good to be a part of this. Some deep thinking in the articles in the blog-spot has made me realise that there is a sense of responsibility and commitment in todays youth. I feel it is time our political system start using them properly. When will the political arena realise their responsibility? Are they heading on the right direction? Who is going to set things right in our country? Do we have another Mahatma who would change the Country?Or to be more precise, even if babuji is going to be back can he make things straight? This is not jus a billion dollar question, it is the anguish i wish to share will all bloggers. I am happy about the technological advancement and the achievement made by Indians in Software Industry. The whole world salutes us today as far as our Software Brain is concerned on the otherside where is our agriculture going? What is the use in having loads of money without agrarian growth? We were once exporting Wheat to the world market and now we have reached a stage where very soon we will be importing wheat for our own use. Has the politicians realised that very soon we may be a developed country in other fields but not in agriculture. Unless a green revolution takes place the situation is not going to improve and we have a grim future. Will the Govenment contemplate making Agriculture also private which might atleast prevent migration of the agrarian population to other arenas. I am not very sure if this is a solution, but I am very sure that something should be done to protect agriculture, and it should be done very very soon to protect our nation from importing almost everything from the rest of the world.