Virginity and Rape

Last evening at cafe i read a short story in Eenadu Vasundhara. Its about a village boy who meets a 'modern city girl' at a street protest against Delhi Gangrape incident.

Later he finds out that, she has many boy friends. Then he realizes that she is kind of a play-girl. And the story ends with questioning the integrity and morals of the girl while participating the protest against rape.

Though the author is a lady ( May be its a pseudo name), i would not mind to knock her on the head and explain her about rape from a feminist point of view. And the editor who accepted that story to get printed deserves a slap on the face.

Do people think that , rape victims suffer because they lost virginity or they are forced to participate in sex which they hate? According to feminist philosophy, rape is not about sex, its about power. Imagine , you are a good host and you have lot of friends. You invite friends to your home for dinners. One day a stranger enters your home and demands a meal. Would not you be offended ? Its not that you are not good host. Its about someone making you do things against your "Will" . If you do not appreciate intrusion in to your home, then imagine how helpless and humiliated the rape victim would feel.

The conversationalist view of rape always places blame on the girls. And according to those dumb heads, being raped can be avoided by wearing traditional clothes and by not using mobile phones. If there is a good, he must save us from people like these.

Bomb blast means....

The purpose of terrorist activities is to terrorize people, but there are side affects too

1.  The notion that all muslims are terrorists will surface again, and thanks to movie tupaki, now the term "sleeping cells " would be added to that

2. india pak relations will go down again, complaints from india, assurances from pak will fill the headlines for the whole year

3. Being indian would be equated to being a hindu

4. A blame game among intelligence , police, central and state govt will touch its pinnacle , which is already started.

5. Opposition blames the whole thing on govt and ask for the resignation of home minister.

6. Budget session would be disrupted

7. Security guards at shopping malls and multiplexes would literally molest us.

8.  News channels would try to scare us more.

9. Whatever celebrities tweet on bomb blasts will be on news channels.

10. Arnab Gosaswamy of  NDTV raises his voice pitch to the level of cracking the TV.

11. Arindam Chowdary and Chetan Bhagat will write nonsense articles on terrorism.

Of course , we forget about blasts soon and move on.

YSR దీక్ష చేయు విధానంబు ఎట్టిదనిన ....

అట్టి విధముగా , చెరసాలలో ఉండిపోయి బయటకు రాలేక , లోపల ఉండలేక , ఎన లేని బాధలు పడుతున్న మన అన్న జగన్ అన్న దగ్గరకి, ఒక తింగరోడు వచ్చి ఉన్నాడు.  అప్పుడు దీనమయిన మొహం పెట్టుకుని ఆ జైలు పక్షి ఈ విధముగా అడిగెను " అయ్యా, తింగరి , ఒక టీవీ ఛానల్ పెట్టి, రెండు సంవత్సరాలుగా దాన్లో మా తండ్రి గారి నెత్తి మీద పూల వర్షం కురిపిస్తున్నా, నాకు ఈ కష్టములు తప్పుట లేదు, ఇక ఈ కష్టములని నేను భరింప జాలను, తమ తింగరి బుర్రని ఉపయోగించి నాకు ఒక పరిష్కారం సూచించమని " యాచించినాడు.

అప్పుడు ఆ తింగరి వాడు, కాసేపు గడ్డం గోక్కుని, కాసేపు గజ్జలు గోక్కొని, ఆలోచించి, జగన్ కి ఇలా సెలవిచ్చెను . " బాబు, మద్రాసు నుంచి ఆంద్ర రాష్ట్రము విడిపోయాక, ఆంధ్రులలో పిచ్చి తగ్గుతూ వచ్చింది.  ఒకానొక కాలములో NTR వచ్చి వోట్లేయ్యమని అడిగితే వేలం వెర్రిగా వేసిన జనం, మొన్న మెగాస్టార్ కి అంత అదృష్టం ఇవ్వలేదు . కాని , మన సహోదరాలు అయిన అరవం వాళ్ళు మటుకు అప్పటికి ఇప్పటికి సిని తారలకలే వోట్లు వేస్తూ, వాళ్ళకి గుళ్ళు కడుతూ తరతరాలుగా తమకున్న పిచ్చిని కాపాడుకుంటూ వస్తున్నారు. అదే విధముగా, తెలుగు వాళ్ళలో కూడా పిచ్చిని పునరుద్దనిచవలసిన సమయము ఆసన్నమయినది.

అది విన్న జగను, " అయ్యా మీరు చెప్పినది సత్యము వాలే తోచుచున్నది, మరి తెలుగు వారిలో కూడా పిచ్చిని పెపొందిన్చావలనేన్న విధానమును సెలవియ్యుడి " అని ప్రాధాయే పడిన పిమ్మట, ఆ తింగరోడు ఈ విధముగా పలికెను " జగనా , మీ తండ్రి గారి పేరు మీద ఒక వ్రతమును ప్రారంభిమ్పుడి , అయ్యప్ప మాల వాలే. ". ఆ ఆలోచన విన్న జగనుడు " ఈ ఆలోచన కొత్తగా , చెత్తగా తోచుచున్నది కావున, పిచ్చి వాళ్ళ మీద పని చెయ్యవచ్చును. ఆ వ్రత విధానమును కూడా సెలవిచ్చి నన్ను ధన్యుడ్ని చేయవలసిందిగా కోరుతున్నాను " అని మిక్కిలి ప్రాధేయ పడినాడు.

అప్పుడు ఆ తింగరి వ్రత విధానమును ఇట్లు వివరించెను " పిచ్చివాళ్ళు, శుచిగా స్నానం చేసి, రాత్రి తాగిన మందు వాసన వదిలించుకుని , తెల్ల బట్టలు వేసుకుని, మేడలో YSR పటము ఉన్న ఒక మాలని ధరించి, నెత్తి మీద అటుకులు బెల్లం మూట పెట్టుకుని , కాలి నడకన మీ తండ్రి గారి సమాధి వరకు నడుచుకుంటూ వెల్లవలె . బయలు దేరే ముందు సాక్షి చానెల్ కి పరిస్తితిని వివరించి, కెమెరా ముందు "స్వామియే YSR " అని అయ్యప్ప భక్తుల తీరులో అరిచి, మీ తండ్రిగారిని పొగిడి, వారి పిచ్చితనమును చాటుతూ , సమాధి చేరిన పిమ్మట , అటుకులు ఉప్మా , బెల్లం తో పాయసం చేసుకుని తిని, మంచి నీటికి బదులు బీరుని తాగవలె . ఇట్టి విధముగా చేసిన, తెలుగు వారి  పిచ్చను ప్రపంచానికి నిరూపించిన ఘనత లభించును " అని సెలవిచ్చెను.

అటు పిమ్మట జగనుడు, తింగరి కి పాదాభివందనం చేసి, తాను బయటకు రాగానే, తన సలహాదారుగా ఉండమని ప్రదేయపడెను . తింగరి , జగనుడి కోరికను మన్నిస్తానని మాట ఇచ్చిన వాడై నిష్క్రమించెను.

Chasing the monsoon by Alexander Frater

A big disappointment. The book might be interesting for foreigners who wish to think of India as a land of snakes and poverty.

Though it is non fiction, the writing style is pure fiction. The book is the journal of an Australian who traveled from Kerala to chirapunji, following the south-east monsoon.

The story begins with his neck injury. The co-patients talked about chirapunji so he embarked on the trip.

As the author flew from one place to another and lodged in expensive hotels , whatever views he expressed are similar to what elite of India usually have. He talked a lot about meteorology , without explaining the terminology. How many can understand lines like "sky is filled with cumulus "? What is the percentage is readers who know that cumulus is a type of a cloud? Instead of boring me with his childhood memories, he could have made it informative. And I don't understand how the marital problems of the couple who gave him the idea of chasing the monsoon are related to this book.

There is more description of beautiful women he came across in India than the monsoon. Everywhere he go, he met people who either speaks good English or none at all. None of the Indians in the book talked in pure butler English. Interestingly many use the phrase " touch wood ".

" Never since Somerset Maugham has rain seemed so romantic " - Observer .

Above line is printed on the back of the book. If observer is right, then Somerset Maugham's works on rain must be pathetic. No part of the book can really considered as poetic or philosophical. His difficulties with Indian bureaucracy and his experiences in Kolkata are the only parts I enjoyed reading. Extensive description of hotels, people he met coupled with many dialogs made it look like work of fiction.

After I finished, I cursed Hyderabad for not having a good library , I could have saved the money spent on it.

Poor Swami Vivekananda !!

Gouthama Budha is walking in a garden and met Bhagat Singh. After a small talk, Bhagat singh asked Budha for fool proof techniques to control anger. Budha understood that singh is unhappy about something but could not guess the reason. The young and dynamic man wanted India to be free, he fought for it, he gave his life for it. After India got independence he could not control himself with happiness. Then slowly he become moody , and over the years his fuse is getting shorter and shorter. Its the first time he openly talked about his anger issues. But, angry on what? Bhagat singh started explaining , " Its because of RSS, they didnt take major part in Indian independence movement, I never subscribed to their idiology when i was alive. Now, they talk as if i am one of them. Religious freaks. I am a socialist and dont believe in religion. But these RSS people are really tarnishing my image !! "

Budha openly laughed at the face of Bhagat Singh. For Singh, at the moment, he looked like a laughing budha without tummy. Soon, LOL of budha turned into an ironic smile and tapped the shoulder of Singh and said , " Thats the problem with Hinduism, centuries ago , i relented hinduism and started my own religion. After few centuries , they made me avatar of vishnu and cleverly wiped out my religion. How i become avatar of vishnu? I dont know. Now you are also a hindu for those freaks though you are a Sikh.  So is the case with shiridi sai baba. He is a fakir, who made an old masjid his home and treated both hindus and muslims equally. Now see his fate, he has got temple in every colony, and a dedicated brahmin priest to look after his marble statues.

"You guys dont pay much attention to current affairs of the nations" came Gandhi with his long stick in his hand. Bhagat Singh was horrified " What happened now, did they tarnish my image further? "

"No" said Gandhi, "RSS turned Swami Vivekananda into a religious bigot and started sharing whatever they want to say using his image as background on Facebook ".

"Thats terrible" said Bhagat. "Not only that , they celebrated his birthday at a grand-scale to prove them he is one of them , soon they will leave you alone".

Bhagat is very much irritated with that , " Thats a good news for me, but this thing cant go on like that. They complain on  Christianity because of the religious conversions. And these idiots are converting great people into hinduism. At least missionaries offer money, education and hospital facilities"

His irritation reached one more step with the smiling face of Budha. "And he knows all these?" he questioned Gandhi.

"Dont think so".

"He is a great philosopher and wise man who understood Hinduism , unlike these fellows, lets go and wake him from meditation , i cant tolerate watching his image moving from a philosopher to a bigot" 

When they saw Vivekananda doing meditation, Bhagat Singh shouted " Arise, awake and stop not till you beat them all" .

Swami Vivekananda opened his eyes and Singh told him what was happening.  He didnt loose his cool, got up slowly and said " May be its because of the saffron cloths, from now on i will follow my guru Ramakrishna parama hamsa and drape only in white " ! !

Land of seven rivers by sanjeev sanyal

The book received good reviews on flipkart.com. So, I ordered it.

Initially it is more like a book by Romila Thapar, I.e explained geology and then started real history. This technique is followed till the end of Harappan civilization. After that the economist in the author woke up and delivered opinions on historical develoments. The economic view of history is really interesting.

History was explained in a linear fashion till Mughals. From that point, he started on hopping. Author mentioned importance of lot of things in and around Delhi which are not famous tourist spots. Few anecdotes , trivia and lot of local stories which are useful for a tourist guide but not for a history reader.

The views of author on slums around a city and path of
transformation of a village to suburban and then to urban in the liberal India are amazing. Its good to read a popular economic cum geology cum historical book on India.

But there are few faults. The caption of the book is  " A brief history of India's geography " . But there is less geography, it's not even history in the back drop of geography. Definitely not a reference book for either history or geography of India.

Author has mentioned " Rudrama devi of Golconda". Its a blunder.

Cover page of the book is the geographical map of India showing its rivers. In those rivers Godavari is missing. As name is the book is " land of seven rivers", graphic designer , author and publishers should have checked if the map on the cover page is correct. The word Geography on the cover page made it look more silly.

But, on the whole, it's a good read. It just didnt deliver what I expected from the book title.

My theory on birth of Astrology

Since the first time I visited Birla Planetarium as a school kid, one question started rupturing inner walls of my skull i.e, how did they found zodiac signs? There are infinite number of stars in the universe and ones which are visible to the naked eye in the sky are scattered randomly. Then how did our ancestors observed patterns in them and named them?

Everybody seems to have observed the pattern in my class, i would be the dumb fellow if i asked the question , so i played along with everybody else. As a kid who grew up in the outskirts , i was forced to enjoy the sleeping on the roof in summer. Many times i tried to find the pattern by myself, but it was impossible. All i could find is the saptarshi mandlam which is more like a distorted parallelogram with a tail.

I googled for the answers and landed up in the wikipedia as usual. Normally we see the lines which connect the stars for our understanding and assume that there is a pattern. This time, I observed the stars which are connected.

Apparently,  the stars which form a particular astrological sign need not be having same characteristics. The stars which are connected by the lines dont have similar size or brightness. So our ancestors , imagined a picture in the sky and then pointed out the those particular stars. Its cheating. Its a lie. And all major countries adopted this system.  There are books, based on this system, daily future predictions on news papers, channels, magazines etc etc. A big fat lie.

After i finished laughing, i started thinking about the scholars who invented this system. Of course there is no information available on them. But one thing for sure, they are all insomniacs. And were thinking deeply about something, and hallucinated objects and then thought of zodiac signs with the stars which are behind the hallucinated objects. Most of them must be hunters because we have many animals in that list ( Aries, Taurus , Scorpio, Capricorn and Leo), Sagittarius must be representing a hunter. Apart from hunters , we have fishermen ( Cancer , Pisces) , gardeners or slaves (Acquarius) , retail merchants (Libra), infertile women ( Gemini ) , farmers ( Taurus ) and perverts who masturbate under open sky ( Virgo) .

Somehow, the system became famous and since then we have been cheated for generations.

If the modern insomniacs want to design a new system, may be we will develop signs representing bus, laptop, chicken  etc etc .

ఛత్తీస్గఢ్ స్కూటర్ యాత్ర by పరవస్తు లోకేశ్వర్

ప్రస్తుతం జరుగుతున్న హైదరాబాద్ పుస్తక ప్రదర్శన లో కొన్నా ఈ పుస్తకాన్ని .  ఈ పుస్తకం పేరు చూసి స్టాల్ లోకి వెళ్లి మిగతా పుస్తకాలు చూస్తుండగా, అక్కడి వ్యక్తీ తో మాటలు మొదలయ్యి, ఆయనే పరవస్తు లోకేశ్వర్ అని తెలిసాక ఆనందించా చాలా. ఇదే మొదటి సరి ఒక రచయితని కలవడం. పుస్తకం కొని అయన autograph తీసుకుందామనుకున్న మొదట్లో, కాని, మాటల మధ్యలో ఆయన నా పేరు అడగడం, వెంటనే నా ఇంటిపేరు అడగడం తో కాస్త చిరాకేసింది. ఇంటి పేరు ఎందుకు అసలు ? నా కులం గురించి ఎందుకు అసలు? ఫలానా కులం అయితే ఎక్కువ డిస్కౌంట్ ఇస్తారా ?

నిజం చెప్పాలంటే, కాస్త అదే చిరాకు మీద పుస్తకం మొదలు పెట్టా.  ఒకసారి అటు ఇటు తిరగేస్తే కమ్యూనిస్ట్ కంపు కాస్త అనిపించింది. సర్లే, కొన్నాం కదా అది చదవడం మొదలు పెట్టాక పుస్తకం చాల నచ్చింది. రచయిత , అతని స్నేహితుడు , ఒక Honda Activa మీద ఛత్తీస్గఢ్ లో పది రోజుల పాటు తిరిగినప్పటి అనుభవాలు , ఆ తర్వాత మరో స్నేహితుడితో రెండు సంవత్సరాల తర్వాత మరల తిరిగిన అనుభవాలు.

ఛత్తీస్గఢ్ చరిత్ర, సాంఘిక స్తితిగతులు, నక్సల్ ఉద్యమం , కొత్తగా ఏర్పడిన రాష్ట్రము పట్ల ప్రజల ఆనందం., గిరిజనులు , ఎక్కడి నుంచో వచ్చి అక్కడ స్థిరపడి పోయిన వాళ్ళు, భూత వైద్యుల మధ్య ఒక అలోపతి డాక్టర్ కస్టాలు, చాలా బాగా కవర్ చేసారు.

ఇదే నేను చదివిన మొదటి travelogue. నచ్చింది. కాకపోతే రచయిత భాష విషయం లో కాస్త జాగ్రత్త వహిస్తే బాగుండేది అనిపించింది. కాసేపు తెలంగంగా యాస, కాసేపు text book లాంగ్వేజ్,  కాసేపు నాటకాల భాష, కాసేపు ఉర్దూ, మధ్య మధ్య లో ఇంగ్లీష్ సూక్తులతో కాస్త వింతగా అనిపించింది. హిందీ , ఉర్దూ వాక్యాలకి పక్కన అనువాదం కూడా ఇస్తే బాగుండేది. 

ఇక, మధ్య మధ్య లో రచయితే ఆలోచలనలు కాస్త చిరాకు పెట్టాయి, తెలంగాణా ఉద్యమం జరుగుతున్నతీరుమీదకాని,గిరిజనులలోదొంగతనాలు లాంటివి ఉండవు అన్న ఉద్దేశ్యాలు ముఖ్యంగా నాకు నచ్చలేదు . Of course ,అయన పుస్తకం అయన ఇష్టం, నా బ్లాగు నా ఇష్టం .

కాకపోతే,  రచయిత  ఎంత  చిరాకు పెట్టినా  ,  పుస్తకం  లో  చెప్పిన  విషయాలు  చాల  విలువయినవి ,  పుస్తకం బోర్ కొట్టలేదు.  అన్నిటికి  మించి కేవలం 6 లీటర్లు  tank capacity ఉన్న , Honda Activa మీద చత్తీస్ఘడ్ లాంటి వెనక బడిన రాష్ట్రాన్ని చుట్టారంటే ,  రచయిత ధైర్యానికి నా సలాం .

Chokher bali by Tagore

Long time ago I read few stanzas of Geetanjali, since then started avoiding works of Ravindranath Tagore. Found this small novel at home and started reading . It took me just few pages to realize why he is great.

The novel surrounded 6 characters, among which five are emotional and impulsive and one knows what he wants and knows his limits regarding others personal life. Its a multi dimensional love story, and most of them get confused between love and flirting.

Thinking flirting as expressing love, jealousy, a bit of misunderstanding , revenge, etc etv sounds like a TV serial, but not at all boring. I guessed at the end there will be a widow remarriage , but he kept the novel realistic.

The problem with reading classics is, it's hard relate them with our present customs and norms. As the society gets progressed, when we come across the old custom in novels, it's not easy to feel the pain the character who is been suffering because of the customs. Problems of widows is one such issue.

I have checked Wikipedia and came to know that the novel got adopted into a movie starring Aiswarya rai in the lead role.

A good refreshment, from the contemporary novels.

Internet Hindu

Hi, My religion is Hinduism and I live in the land of internet.

I can be only seen on internet, all over internet, blogs, twitter, facebook, orkut... you name a site,I will be there spreading hatred towards other religions.

I actually don't know the difference between Indian sub continent and India, but it doesn't matter, for me both are same.

I hate Muslims, Christians and communists. Somebody told me that budhists, jains and sikhs are not from Hinduism, but I don't care, I don't have time to dig into details, I am too busy updating stuff on Facebook and drinking beer.

You can find a Sri Madbhagavdgeetha in my room and picture of sivaji on my laptop. By the way what's the difference between ordinary bhagavadgeetha and madbhagavadgeetha? Who cares anyway, I am a Hindu, nothing else matters.

I perceive India as Hindustan, a land of Hindus, here hindu means person belonging to hindu religion not the person lives beyond river Indus as named by kings of middle east in medieval era.

I have no idea how Hinduism spread across south east Asia but I forward mails saying India never invaded other nations. I feel good when Hindus construct a temple in USA but I get agitated when a church is constructed in my area. I listen to Bollywood item songs early in the morning, but I believe that people should not have problem with incomprehensible suprabhatam. But damn, I hate Christian songs n quawwali songs. They should be banned. I may not watch SVBC or Aastha but I hate watching those Christian channels.

When I am not with others and think alone, I get a doubt that my bhakti is based on hatred towards other religions but not with the appreciation towards Hinduism. How can I appreciate something which is very vast and hard to understand. But, that's not a problem, I love my Hinduism because it's a great religion.

Lovers day? What the hell is that? It's western concept, but new year is not, because it's awesome. Nor I have any problem with freshers day in college. They are fun.

I think narendra modi is the incarnation of lord vishnu. Doesn't he look great? People call him religious fundamentalist but I call him a hero, a visionary. Gujarat was an underdeveloped state before him, I believe he did homa n puja and now see gujarat. I wish I am in gujarat, but the problem is there is prohibition of alcohol.

I don't see any difference being a nationalist , a patriot and a hundu in Indian context. Don't why people differentiate these. How can a non-hindu can be loyal to India?

Would not it be great, if non-hindus of India die over night? It would be pretty awesome. Then we can bring back the glory of India. May be we will be so rich again to sell diamonds on streets again.

Recently I have seen this picture "oh my god". It raised few questions in my mind, but I chose to not to ponder over them. Why mess the thought of being great and being spiritual.
Ok, I have expressed myself enough today, I enjoy insulting secularists and communists and trying explain my opinions without an argument is pretty tiring. It's time to listen some item numbers, but if you are a true patriot, you listen to gayathri mantra.

Discussion with a Doctor after a quarter

He became little drunk and started acting as if he is totally drunk.

From satires on one other, the discussion moved to cars, drifts and accidents. Probably the alcohol started kicking his mind a bit, we have moved to serious discussion.
He is kind of a guy who doesn't share much and talks about things objectively. Alcohol must have put his brain cells related to objectivity to sleep , loosen his jaw muscles and crushed the social filters between his mouth and mind.

When he told me about how he searched for answers when mother of his close friend got breast cancer, how he cried when she passed away along with his friend and how he had to see the postmortem of his friend when he died because of drunken driving, I started seeing doctors as just humans with emotions.

So often, we try to understand a person based on his profession and the abilities he needs to survive in that.

We all choose our professions because of the hype attached to it. But not everyone is cut out to be perfectly fit into the profession they have chosen. It's ridiculous to expect that every soldier should not fear death in the battle field.
We normally, focus on "how it's going to be when he got success", but not on the skill set required to be successful in that profession. May be a soldier to be recruited will dream of saving his countrymen with a machine gun , but might not focus on bullets he has to dodge in the battle field.

Similarly a biology student must be dreaming of getting appreciations from the relatives of patient when he saved him, but not concentrate on how it feels when a patient dies in the operation table.

But what it feels like to cut open a person or even a dead body? Or when he could not save a patient? He must have entered medicine because it's all about extending life, like  god. But death of patient will remind him that he is not even a  demi-god. The gap between the a success and failure must be twisting his heart because death is synonym to fail in that profession.

Not every human is born to cope with that trauma. But sadly that can't be known unless one becomes a doctor.

From here  Munnabhai MBBS occupied my mind. Now it is known to me personally that, when a patient dies with or without his fault, the doctor will be devastated. I am referring only newbies here, experienced ones will learn how to deal with it through years of practice. And what if the newbie to the profession is emotionally weak or thinks he is? He would left the profession after first death. So, should not the medical schools teach them on how to handle that frustration? Should not they learn to treat patients with objective approach?

Next time I should ask him for his opinion on Munnabhai MBBS !

A different food chain

On one idle day, my thought-train made a stop at the station called " difference between animals and humans".

I thought of family structure and politics, but most of the apes form societies, fight for power even form coalitions too. So that difference is not valid. The opposable thumb and bipedalism are also observed in apes.

Is it talking? Even parrots can talk. So, this thing can't be considered.

Ok, we have relatively large brains. No other animal has it.  But the question is what did the brain do to get control over the earth?  The answer I found is " Defying nature ".

Yes, that's the only answer I can come up with. No, I was not referring to pollution.

When climate is cold, we refused to get chilled and made sweaters to escape wrath of nature etc etc. Nature lost its power to make us suffer with climate change.

We diverted the course of rivers for our advantage. We are not satisfied with natural habitation so we made our own shelters.

Rest of the animal kingdom, depends on other naturally available living beings for food, so they have to hunt, or move to other lands once the food supply is stopped in a particular area. We found a better alternative, we grow food in our vicinity, or else the preparation of grill chicken might have started from preparing the nets or guns , instead of just going to a nearby chicken shop, so is the case with veg food.

Now we have our own food chain, which is different from natural one. If all the deer in the world have evaporated, tigers will go extinct. That's not the case with us, either deer goes extinct or tiger , we will have our paddy fields and poultry farms to feed us.

So accepting what we get is not a human trait. While rest of the animals get adjusted to nature, we try the opposite way.

But this raises another question, by defying nature, are not we messing up with natural process of evolution? May be, the under weight child or the kid with a hole in the heart should die according to law of evolution. These kids are born with mutation, which won't improvise the human species, but we don't just let it happen, we get it cured, in the name of love.

Oops, love. Is it the reason we are superior than others? The concept could be used by poor hero while explaining to rich villain to justify his love for his daughter. But sadly not, animals also love. It is not the trait which separates us from animals. So we are back to defying nature thingy.

So far, all the articles on the subject " man and nature" depict man as the villain. May be to some extent that's true, but it's law of nature with nature.

Now, the next question, what motivates us to defy nature like that? Is it the comfort or safety or our rejection to get subdued to power?

Krishnam vande jagadgurum

One thing which pulled all of us to balapur theater to watch this movie is " Directed by Krish "

Seems krish is experimenting with the stories. Gamyam has one main story, there are four stories in vedam.

But krisnam vande , is the conglomeration of social, love n revenge kind of story. The movie resembles old chiranjeevi movies, where hero comes to save the village from villain and then realizes that he has to take personal revenge on the villain. Krishnam vande also has similar story, sans one extra heroin.

Anyway, its an average movie, as I didnt feel the urge to walk out of theater. And it's fun to watch a helicopter-using-villain, who throws a party at his mansion after a long time.

Songs were randomly placed. The comedy of brahmanandam  seems to be funny, but comedy of posani sure does.

Care should be taken while making a movie on social issues, the affords to make it a commercial movie were seen in stone aspects.

The intelligence of director is clearly visible as expression -less face of rana is covered in drama company make up.

Director should have used subtitles when the dialogues are in kannada. Anyway , krish didnt do the film with whole heart, his magic was missing.

Anyway, I really hope this movie would give lift to surabhi naataka company.

Midnight in Paris

The movie targeted the audience with literary interest. But the message is for the people who believes that life is more elegant in the past.

The protagonist is a Hollywood actor, who wants to give a shot at writing novels. When he was lost and searching for the hotel, a guy invited him to join a party and offered lift in his vintage care. In that car hero travels to the time and place which he thinks great i.e Paris in 1920's. From that day he travels to the past every midnight in that vintage car and hangs out with his literary idols and kind of fell in love with girl friend if Pablo Picasso.

The girl is just like him who happens to think that life 1890's is more elegant than in 1920's. When they both travel through the time in a horse cart, protagonist observes that artists of that era are admiring their predecessors in literature and arts. Hero understands that the artists of every generation think past is more glorious and more classier  than theirs. He explains that to ex of Picasso but she choose to stay in the time what she believes to be filled with elegance.

The story ends after our hero cancelled his engagement and started dating a girl from "nostalgia shop".

I never shared the beliefs of hero regarding past except for cigars. What caught my attention is the relation between him and his fiance. She is more of a woman who likes to be on  top of the world, and she always seem to try to fit him in her version of boy friend,  instead of accepting him as he is. When he didnt bend, she started sleeping with her crush from college and wish that hero learns from him. She could not understand the simple pleasures of hero like walking in the rain and thought that he is little weird. The more she treats him with disparagement  the more i hated her. Director has done a great job in showing such a character.

The dialogue of Hemingway character explaining fear of death as outcome of lack of love has lifted me up and then dropped me in the well of thoughts. I am sure, much contemplation is needed in that area.

The movie is good, gives us something to think about and reminded me to resume the book of Hemingway which i started long back.

If all artists are dead....

Of late i started wondering , what would have happened to the world, if there are no artists.

I always  consider an artist not as an entertainer but as the one who will show us ways of expressing an emotion in different forms of media.

They say beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but those eyes are controlled by the brain which learns many things including identification of beauty while growing up. The society teaches us whats beauty along with many. Here society does not refer to the rules and customs of the society but the widely accepted entertainment.

Da vinci felt that the half smile of a women is beautiful, and he is an artist, so he drew whats in  his mind , and ever since monalisa become the synonym for beauty.  In fact the whole bunch of authors , who are majorly from European, made being fair is equal to being beautiful. The same thing with long hair. I believe, we think those are attractive only because we learned to believe so.  The same logic goes to political opinions. 

This pattern is observed not only in forming opinions but also the way we act in a situation. Its not unknown that die-hard fans have the same mannerisms of their favorite actors. Of course some of them are trying to impersonate them but still....

But i was not able to decide if this concept is negative or positive at an individual level. I no longer have to think  and feel to form opinions on something, and i have ready-made action bits and dialogs to use in a social situation. That takes load out of my mind , but am i not becoming a slave to my surroundings ?

But i think its ok, because it could not affect the world as a whole , there are many out there who think and not ashamed to announce that they dont like music of ilayaraja at all. And not every A.R.R music is a hit, not every chiranjeevi movie or Bapu movie is a hit. I belong to the minority which believes aiswarya roy looks stupid and dusky girls are more attractive. Not all people like books of chetan bhagat. So, no matter in what length the society wants to teach us, not all of us want to be taught something based on popular demand.  As long as there are  humans who behave like sheep, there will be a black sheep to show less popular options to rest.

Bribing a police

This tutorial is not for murderers, rapists and politicians.

This how - to guide consists of 3 parts based on police officer.

1. The police who caught you for the bribe will imply what he wants. Like saying nonsense rules which don’t exist. For example, once a police caught me because I have earphones plugged in my ears and according to him its violation of law. It clearly indicates he is looking for money. There will be no way out, because we can’t argue with them about laws. He will simply say discuss those with the judge. So agree soon and give him some money.

Another way a police will ask for money is by cooking a story, like telling us that they have received a complaint against us, so they have come. Easy way to escape is to bribe him; it could be as low as 25% of the fine amount.

This type of police is easy to handle, they know what they want and we know what they want and without much ado both parties jump into the actual business talk.

2. Type two are like opportunists, they wait for you to offer bribe with no specific cues. The only clue to offer money is , he will hold the pen and pad, and asks you as if threatening “you want me to write a fine or not?”

3. While first two types are mostly rude, the third type is soft. Like bargaining tomatoes at vegetable market. They literally beg, “give some amount you like” will be the phrase. Or they are too sophisticated and act as if bribe taking is part of the job, there will be no change in the modulation of tone. The constable in safari suite, who come to enquire when we applied for passport is the example.

And those who don’t take bribe, they simply fill the form, collect the fine and will ask you to leave.
In any case, its just not the money the police is looking for , the power of uniform and arms will be in the head. One cant afford to talk in a disrespectful way with them,

The Mine by Arnab Ray

The author is one of the widely read blogger.  The Mine is his second book and first in fiction I guess. Anyway I like his tweets (@greatbong) and enjoy reading his blog posts. He has that subtle sense of humor where you can admire the sarcasm with a smile. 

Somewhere in the Rajasthan, some rich people started digging for something, and bumped into an old shrine with bizarre sculptures and sayings in old Hebrew language under them.  After that there were mysterious deaths happened in the mine and a highly paid team is formed to enquire into the matter. Our protagonist, an old spy of India is part of them. 

The head of the mine, after some incidents informs them that, they all have done fatal things in the past, so there  are here to suffer for their sins. The twist is, she has released a nervous gas, which might enhance their physical abilities but gives them a mental torture. And the route to get out of the mine is filled with sophisticated booby-traps.   

By the end of the novel, I was clutching the book hard and my eyes are moving like crazy over the lines. 

But there are too many loose ends. First of all, why a bunch of wealthy people want to dig up a hole in the earth , and inviting all the criminals who are never punished by the law , then kill them there.  Morgan Freemans movie seven , and aparichitudu came to my mind.

And author completely neglected the way the shrine which aroused in interest in the readers. He tried to strike a balance between thriller, a psychological thriller, a drama and a historic novel. But he settled on thriller for most of the part.

The Mine is gripping, a page turner and all that. But it didnt not made sense when I finished the novel and had a tea.  But considering the fact its just second book of the author and the book made me sit and read. I have hopes on this author. I think he is writing a new book now, I am going to pre-order it.

Why do we have to ?

Sometimes i wonder what would have happen to world if we dont have nothing to engage ourselves like a hobby and a religion, and nothing which keeps us from thinking like alcohol and a structure prescribed by society to fit it.

Surely, an idles man mind is a devils workshop and everything around us tries to make sure that it wont happen.

If those two factors are not present, what we would have done? Just work?

To satisfy " actual needs " we dont need much. A saint and a begger also surviving with minimum things. But they have religion or something to keep their mind occupied. Why do we need arts in the first place? They dont provide food,cloths are shelter.  Why do we need others to survive? Why do we need to feel alive or achievements. Why do we have to make babies , knowing that they will die eventually. Why do we need shelter and clothes, knowing the early man and rest of the animal kingdom survived without them.

Why do we have think about others, make affords for their betterment,knowing the fact that they will also die.

Why do we have to watch tv serials and movies, or read fiction to feel how other ppl persons in those situations would feel, knowing that its not our lives.

Why do we have to crave for acceptance of others or even to laugh, which will not add anything extra to our lifestyle.

Why do we have to know the information of others business including celebrities, when we have little knowledge about ourselves.

Why do we have to judge others? Which will not bring us one more meal?

Why do we have take alcohol and drugs and forget our problems and then switch on tv to know about / feel problems of others?

Why cant we earn our meals, then sit idle till we are hungry like rest of the animals.

Is it because of love, or because its hardwired in our brains, or for entry pass to heaven?

From all the above i conclude that, i have become little cynical and need to do something to retain my smile.

పెనం మీద నుంచి పొయ్యి లోకి ....

అలా దూకినట్టుంది, ఉత్తరప్రదేశ్ , బెంగాల్ రాష్ట్రాల పరిస్తితి.

కమ్యునిస్టులు వద్దు అని మమతా బెనర్జీ ని ఎన్నుకుంటే, ఆమె తనే అసలైన బుర్ర లేని కంమునిస్ట్ ని అని , కాకపోతే తనకి ఎరుపు కాకుండా నీలం ఇష్టం అని తన విధానాల ద్వారా చెప్తోంది..

మాయావతి వొద్దని , SP ని ఎన్నుకుంటే, ఆరు నెలలలో 2437 హత్యలతో ఉత్తర ప్రదేశ్ వర్ధిల్లుతోంది .

పాపం ఆ ప్రజలు !

ప్రభుత్వం తో నిషిద్దాక్షరి ఆట

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ఉదాహరణకి , కరెంటు కోత సమస్యని తీసుకోండి, కరెంటు కావాలి అంటాము, అక్కడ బొగ్గు నిల్వలు అయిపోతున్నాయి, దేశ జనాభా పెరుగుతోంది, కాబట్టి ఇంకా జల విద్యుత్ కేంద్రాలు,నిర్మించాలి అని ప్రభుత్వం అంటుంది, వెంటనే మనం, చ చ అదేం కుదరదు, జల విద్యుత్ వల్ల కొన్ని జంతువులు చచ్చిపోతాయి, అడవులు అంతరించిపోతాయి, మేము ఒప్పుకోం అనేస్తాం, సరే solution వోద్దన్నారు కాబట్టి సమస్యని భరించండి అని ప్రభుత్వం అంటే, అదేం కుదరదు, నువ్వే solution చూడాలి అంటాం, తర్వాత ప్రభుత్వం అణు విద్యుత్ కేంద్రం అంటుంది, వెంటనే అది కూడా వోద్దనేస్తం, ఎందుకంటే nuclear అనే మాట వినబడగానే మనకి హిరోషిమ నాగసాకి మీద బాంబు వేసినపుడు తీసిన ఫోటో అలా కళ్ళ ముందుకు వచ్చేస్తుంది, ప్రభుత్వానికి కాలింది, సమస్యని భరించలేరు, సమాధానానికి ఒప్పుకోరు , ఇక లాభం లేదని, అణు విద్యుత్ వైపు అడుగులు వేసింది, దానికి ఇంధనం కావాలి కదా, అది మన దగ్గర దొరకదు, కొన్ని చోట్ల uranium దొరికినా, దాన్ని భూమి నించి వెలికి తీసి వాడడానికి మనం ఒప్పుకోము, ఎందుకంటే గునపం కొట్టి కొత్తగానే ఆ ప్రదేశం అంతా పేలుతుంది అని మన నమ్మకం. ఇంకేం చెయ్యాలి , చచినట్టు బయటనుంచి ఇంధనం తెచ్చుకోవాలి, వాడు ఫ్రీ గా ఇవ్వడు కదా, డబ్బులు అడుగుతాడు, ఛా మన నాయకులు వేదేశాలకి వెళ్లి అక్కడి మందు తాగేసి, వ్రేలిముద్రలు వేసేసి మన భూమిని అమ్మేశారని నారాయణమూర్తి లాంటి వాళ్ళు చెప్పగానే మనం ఒక సరి చప్పట్లు కొట్టి అవునవును అనేస్తాం.


పోనీ  ప్రతీ దానికి కాలు అడ్డం వేస్తున్నారు, పరిష్కారం దొరికేదాకా ఉన్న విద్యుత్ ని జాగ్రత్తగా వాడుకోండి అంటే, అదీ మనం చెయ్యం.

రోడ్  మీద కుక్కలు ఎక్కువ అంటాము, వాటిని చంపడానికి వస్తే వద్దు అని అడ్డం పడతాము,  ట్రాఫిక్ ఎక్కువ అని గోల పెడతాము, రోడ్డు వెడల్పు చేస్తుంటే వద్దు అంటాం, ధనవుంతులకి పేదవారికి వ్యత్యాసం పెరుగుతోంది అంటాము, సరే పన్నులు వేసి ధనవంతుల దగ్గర నుంచి ఎక్కువ పిండుదాము అంటే కుదరదు అనేస్తాము, ఉద్యోగ అవకాశాలు కావాలి అంటాము, మళ్ళి కాలుష్యం ఎక్కువవుతుంది కాబట్టి పరిశ్రమలు వద్దు అంటాం, అందరు సమాన ఆర్టిక స్తితికి రావాలి అంటాము, మళ్ళి రిజర్వేషన్ ని వ్యతిరేకిస్తాము,

చేనేత శ్రామికులని ప్రభుత్వం ఆదుకోవాలి , మనం మాత్రం చేనేత వస్త్రాలు ధరించము, మన ఆరోగ్యం గురించి కూడా ప్రభుత్వమే పట్టించుకోవాలి అంటాము, సిగరెట్టు తాగొద్దు, పంటలకి ఎండోసల్ఫాన్ వాడొద్దు అంటే మళ్ళి వినము, ప్రభుత్వం పెదాలని ఆదుకోవాలి అంటాము, అలా ఆదుకోడానికి ఏర్పాటు చేసిన NGREA పదకాలకి డబ్బులు సరిపోక పెట్రోలు మీద సబ్సిడి తగ్గిస్తే ఒప్పుకోము,

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