Farouk Gulsara's Blog, page 150
March 5, 2017
The Journey!
The Chulia in Penang
Patronage and Place-Making around The Kapitan Kling Mosque 1786-1957 Author- Khoo Salma Nasution
With a year like 1786, they knew they could not go wrong. Muslims from South Asia are known to use the numerals 786, a calculation in a popular numerology system of the Abbasid Caliphate, as a short form for the salutations b-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm.
It was that year that the British decided to make 'Pulo Pinang' as their trading post and Tamil Muslims decide to place their future in this land of fortune. The British never 'discovered' Penang as it was already inhabited by fishermen and villagers. Only the British saw their potential for big things. The Tamil Muslim traders and talented sea-faring merchants had earlier established their own trade routes along the Straits of Malacca all the way to North Sumatra and beyond with the help of the monsoon winds. They had marked their presence into the Malacca Sultanate and other Malay courts.
The term 'Chulias' mainly refer to Tamil Muslims from the Coromandel coast (east) of South India who sojourned our shores during the time when sea faring vessels and businesses got sidelined by the burgeoning might the European might and influence. The word 'Chulia' must be a corruption from the mighty Cholas. Even, shipbuilders from the Malabar coast, Muslims who were descendants of Arab traders, got displaced to the east by the European fleet. They, the Marrikars, were also in the influx to this new found land.
Cauder Mahuddeen, the Captain of the Tamil Muslim community, is said to have acquired a piece of land from the East India Company for the establishment of a 'Mohamedan Church' in the place they use to call Tanjong Penagrie @ Tanjung Pudukarai. Generations of immigration followed suit. Slowly with integration with local populace, slowly appeared a group of people who called themselves 'Jawi Peranakan'.
Nagore Durgha Sheriff, George TownThe Marakkayars, fighting against the forces of Nature, moved around putting their trusts in patron saint, Saint Nagore. They built shrine in appreciation with donation from wealthy Sufi donors.
Slowly and surely, through the book, one can see how the Chulias made this country great through their engagements with the ruling British. When the rule of British Law came into effect, they exerted their influences within the confines of the law, dancing to and sometimes skirting it. They also brought in the concept of waqf land to ensure that the land they possess continued in their family for generations to come, immune against unscrupulous leaders.
The book guides through many names that still ring a bell to pure-bred Penangites. Names like Noordin of Noordin Street and Noordin Flats are known to many but know that Mahomad Merican Noordin was a famous and influential shipowner and international merchant.
Dato Koya was a Malabari convict who was banished to Penang. He later found revelation and became a Sufi saint with healing powers. His shrine is located in Transfer Road in town.
Kapitan Kling Mosque, the first principal mosque, catered for the Tamil speaking Muslim population. Later a mosque was built in Acheen Street to cater for the Malay speaking congregation. Over time they was a serious cleavage within the Muslim community. The elders decided that, in order to mend fences, the Friday sermons would alternate between the two mosques.
There was a time in the late 1850s when the Red Flag and White Flag secret societies reared their ugly faces. The activities usually flared up during Muharram celebrations and boria performances which became eponym with Penang. At one time, boria was blacklisted as bad, promoting promiscuity and polluting the minds of the young. It was the domain of the Jawi Peranakan. Bangsawan theatre is another product from Penang which made its origin from the Farsi theatre and was a hit amongst all layers of Penang society.
In 1905, the British enacted the Mohamedan and Hindu Endowment Boards to allow locals to administer their own affairs. The Kapitan Kling mosque, with their loyal worshippers contributed vastly to their upkeep. The Mosque council went on to renovate its premises and acquired land around it to build quarters and shophouses to collect rent.
As steam ships rolled along the Malayan shores, the Tamil Muslim sea-faring days seem over. They ventured into various businesses locally and internationally.
The Muslim society in Penang was also instrumental in developing the printing press.
Penang, in the early 20th century was a changed place. With deteriorating living conditions in India and migration of Indians into Malayan, the landscape changed again. Tamil Muslim migrants started filling up the harbour workforce. Migrants from different parts of Tamil Nadu came with their own expertise to offer. Jewellers and precious stones moved in. To feed the empty stomaches of the workforce, cooks and eateries sprung up. Their foods and taste soon the natural flavour of the country. Recreational clubs gave a lot of support to development of football in the state.
Many things happened after the two world wars. The nationalistic spirit in Malayans finally earned them independence and the right to choose their political path.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
http://.facebook.com/farouk.gulsara
Patronage and Place-Making around The Kapitan Kling Mosque 1786-1957 Author- Khoo Salma Nasution
With a year like 1786, they knew they could not go wrong. Muslims from South Asia are known to use the numerals 786, a calculation in a popular numerology system of the Abbasid Caliphate, as a short form for the salutations b-ismi-llāhi r-raḥmāni r-raḥīm.It was that year that the British decided to make 'Pulo Pinang' as their trading post and Tamil Muslims decide to place their future in this land of fortune. The British never 'discovered' Penang as it was already inhabited by fishermen and villagers. Only the British saw their potential for big things. The Tamil Muslim traders and talented sea-faring merchants had earlier established their own trade routes along the Straits of Malacca all the way to North Sumatra and beyond with the help of the monsoon winds. They had marked their presence into the Malacca Sultanate and other Malay courts.
The term 'Chulias' mainly refer to Tamil Muslims from the Coromandel coast (east) of South India who sojourned our shores during the time when sea faring vessels and businesses got sidelined by the burgeoning might the European might and influence. The word 'Chulia' must be a corruption from the mighty Cholas. Even, shipbuilders from the Malabar coast, Muslims who were descendants of Arab traders, got displaced to the east by the European fleet. They, the Marrikars, were also in the influx to this new found land.
Cauder Mahuddeen, the Captain of the Tamil Muslim community, is said to have acquired a piece of land from the East India Company for the establishment of a 'Mohamedan Church' in the place they use to call Tanjong Penagrie @ Tanjung Pudukarai. Generations of immigration followed suit. Slowly with integration with local populace, slowly appeared a group of people who called themselves 'Jawi Peranakan'.
Nagore Durgha Sheriff, George TownThe Marakkayars, fighting against the forces of Nature, moved around putting their trusts in patron saint, Saint Nagore. They built shrine in appreciation with donation from wealthy Sufi donors.Slowly and surely, through the book, one can see how the Chulias made this country great through their engagements with the ruling British. When the rule of British Law came into effect, they exerted their influences within the confines of the law, dancing to and sometimes skirting it. They also brought in the concept of waqf land to ensure that the land they possess continued in their family for generations to come, immune against unscrupulous leaders.
The book guides through many names that still ring a bell to pure-bred Penangites. Names like Noordin of Noordin Street and Noordin Flats are known to many but know that Mahomad Merican Noordin was a famous and influential shipowner and international merchant.
Dato Koya was a Malabari convict who was banished to Penang. He later found revelation and became a Sufi saint with healing powers. His shrine is located in Transfer Road in town.
Kapitan Kling Mosque, the first principal mosque, catered for the Tamil speaking Muslim population. Later a mosque was built in Acheen Street to cater for the Malay speaking congregation. Over time they was a serious cleavage within the Muslim community. The elders decided that, in order to mend fences, the Friday sermons would alternate between the two mosques.
There was a time in the late 1850s when the Red Flag and White Flag secret societies reared their ugly faces. The activities usually flared up during Muharram celebrations and boria performances which became eponym with Penang. At one time, boria was blacklisted as bad, promoting promiscuity and polluting the minds of the young. It was the domain of the Jawi Peranakan. Bangsawan theatre is another product from Penang which made its origin from the Farsi theatre and was a hit amongst all layers of Penang society.
In 1905, the British enacted the Mohamedan and Hindu Endowment Boards to allow locals to administer their own affairs. The Kapitan Kling mosque, with their loyal worshippers contributed vastly to their upkeep. The Mosque council went on to renovate its premises and acquired land around it to build quarters and shophouses to collect rent.
As steam ships rolled along the Malayan shores, the Tamil Muslim sea-faring days seem over. They ventured into various businesses locally and internationally.
The Muslim society in Penang was also instrumental in developing the printing press.
Penang, in the early 20th century was a changed place. With deteriorating living conditions in India and migration of Indians into Malayan, the landscape changed again. Tamil Muslim migrants started filling up the harbour workforce. Migrants from different parts of Tamil Nadu came with their own expertise to offer. Jewellers and precious stones moved in. To feed the empty stomaches of the workforce, cooks and eateries sprung up. Their foods and taste soon the natural flavour of the country. Recreational clubs gave a lot of support to development of football in the state.
Many things happened after the two world wars. The nationalistic spirit in Malayans finally earned them independence and the right to choose their political path.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
http://.facebook.com/farouk.gulsara
March 3, 2017
See you when I get there!
Top cops, ACP Bala (R) andbrother ShunmuganThere you lie, a pale shadow of the larger than life image that you used to portray. The look that sent shivers down the spine of the bandits, outlaws and hoodlums who named themselves 'Robin Hood'. You lost your wit long before you were called it a day.
You rest in peace, unshackled from the pains of living, free from the bondage of birth, in bliss to meet your Maker. I have not seen that glow in your face in years. Guess, the strain of living bogged you down, huh? The relief from the torment of dragging your soul with your physical must be lightening.
You came, you grew, you lived, you build bridges, break walls, made the country a peaceful place, a more liveable nation, you conquered hearts, you planted memories and you leave us all with broken hearts. The hearts of the living would go on beating reminiscing the good times that you created for us and the lessons you taught us, directly through your words and indirectly through your actions and inactions for generations to come.
Farewell and goodbye. See you when I get there!
Uncle B has left the building.... for a long journey.
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March 1, 2017
We all deserve the leaders we get?
Jagat (Trilingual Malaysian; 2015)
History has taught us again and again that the fate of a tribe/community/race is so dependent on the foresightedness of its leaders. Many civilisations soared to great heights or conversely disappeared into obscurity due to lack of direction, all because of the presence of a capable or weak leader respectively.
A leader is the one who foresees any untoward incidents that may come the way of his flock so as that he can pave a safe path. His mission is to serve his kind to ensure their continuity as a formidable group. For this task, the leader is accorded certain privileges which the society can withdraw at any juncture they feel apt. When the followers continue to follow blindly to the tricks of the sycophantic leaders and play doormat to their demands without batting an eyelid but wallowing their misfortune in fate, they truly deserve the leaders they get. Instead of the politicians working towards the well-being of the plebeians, looks like the people are hoodwinked to ensure the reign of the leaders stays uninterrupted! Whose fault is it, anyway?
The first thing I noticed when I caught this film aboard an Air Asia flight was the extremely picturesque shots of the landscapes around Malaysia. It was sometimes difficult to believe that those scenes were literally taken off our own backyards. The scene at the jetty, at a factory and even the open spaces, gave a luring view of the Malaysian outdoors.
The theme of the film is the story of any failed Malaysian Indian citizen who lost out in the rat race of development. The Indian diaspora which scaled the shores of most countries has done well. Indians in Fiji, South Africa, Mauritius, Surinam, Uganda, you name it, they control the economy. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the descendants of Indian migrant workers who were brought to the Malayan shores to toil the land. Sure, many have succeeded and have let their mark. The unsuccessful ones remain rudderless and bury their sorrows in the tombstones of their ancestors and the proof of their forefathers' sacrifice to the nation.
Aboy is a 12-year old boy who is at a crossroad. On one hand, there is his hardworking father who works for a pittance to ensure his son gets a decent education. He does not want his son to repeat his same mistake, to immerse himself in drama and literary stuff that does nothing to pay the bills. He disciplines his son in the only way he knows to put him on the right track. Then there is Aboy's uncle, his father's brother who seem to be well to do without working too much, by indulging in gangsterism. Aboy's schooling system and teachers have no time to spur his hidden talent. Their emphasis is rote learning. With the adverse environment in school and the village he lives in, it is inevitable that Aboy is drawn to the dark side of society. Ironically, at the end of the movie, the uncle decides to leave the decadent life but Aboy is initiated into it! History just repeats itself.
It is one of the few Malaysian Tamil movies that drew a large multi-ethnic crowd to the cinemas and made quite an impact at the local film awards. It was even screened at the international level.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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History has taught us again and again that the fate of a tribe/community/race is so dependent on the foresightedness of its leaders. Many civilisations soared to great heights or conversely disappeared into obscurity due to lack of direction, all because of the presence of a capable or weak leader respectively.
A leader is the one who foresees any untoward incidents that may come the way of his flock so as that he can pave a safe path. His mission is to serve his kind to ensure their continuity as a formidable group. For this task, the leader is accorded certain privileges which the society can withdraw at any juncture they feel apt. When the followers continue to follow blindly to the tricks of the sycophantic leaders and play doormat to their demands without batting an eyelid but wallowing their misfortune in fate, they truly deserve the leaders they get. Instead of the politicians working towards the well-being of the plebeians, looks like the people are hoodwinked to ensure the reign of the leaders stays uninterrupted! Whose fault is it, anyway?
The first thing I noticed when I caught this film aboard an Air Asia flight was the extremely picturesque shots of the landscapes around Malaysia. It was sometimes difficult to believe that those scenes were literally taken off our own backyards. The scene at the jetty, at a factory and even the open spaces, gave a luring view of the Malaysian outdoors.
The theme of the film is the story of any failed Malaysian Indian citizen who lost out in the rat race of development. The Indian diaspora which scaled the shores of most countries has done well. Indians in Fiji, South Africa, Mauritius, Surinam, Uganda, you name it, they control the economy. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the descendants of Indian migrant workers who were brought to the Malayan shores to toil the land. Sure, many have succeeded and have let their mark. The unsuccessful ones remain rudderless and bury their sorrows in the tombstones of their ancestors and the proof of their forefathers' sacrifice to the nation.
Aboy is a 12-year old boy who is at a crossroad. On one hand, there is his hardworking father who works for a pittance to ensure his son gets a decent education. He does not want his son to repeat his same mistake, to immerse himself in drama and literary stuff that does nothing to pay the bills. He disciplines his son in the only way he knows to put him on the right track. Then there is Aboy's uncle, his father's brother who seem to be well to do without working too much, by indulging in gangsterism. Aboy's schooling system and teachers have no time to spur his hidden talent. Their emphasis is rote learning. With the adverse environment in school and the village he lives in, it is inevitable that Aboy is drawn to the dark side of society. Ironically, at the end of the movie, the uncle decides to leave the decadent life but Aboy is initiated into it! History just repeats itself.
It is one of the few Malaysian Tamil movies that drew a large multi-ethnic crowd to the cinemas and made quite an impact at the local film awards. It was even screened at the international level.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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February 27, 2017
Go with the flow?
So it all takes is for someone to snoop around to look for another destination. A place where people lead an idyllic life living in symbiosis with the elements of Nature with the divine forces as their guiding light.
Venture capitalists move in. They show them the carrot and the lure of what money can do to enrich their 'impoverished' lives. They influence the elders who steamroll all oppositions who want to maintain the status quo. The general public thinks the opposers are just spoiled sports, reminiscing the old times, living in the past and naysayers who do not move with the times. The time to live is now, and they do not want to be left behind. So builds a frenzy, to join the bandwagon to draw sightseers to see what they had to offer. They were willing to play dance monkey to the tune of the first world revellers.
Slowly, the native's lives change. Their age old tradition of caring for humanity rather than worldly materialistic things is but a thing of the past. Rituals and prayers are only for display which they do like zoo-caged animals or museum artefacts. Hey, it draws the crowd and it pays for 'modernity' and 'development'. They all want to move forward in life, want to go one step ahead of what their forefathers left them. The world is changing and they must catch up, they thought! They want modern education, modern amenities, industrialisation and avert the laborious unproductive ways of their fathers. They want to do catching up with the rest of the world. For how long are they going to be cocooned on their so-called glorious past?
Like that modernity embraced them.
Fast forward. What they see is their people in the same helplessness. The only difference is that it had become worse with the introduction of greed as the primary armamentarium to prosper. The leaders have cherished from this introduction of modernity. Gone are the community spirits and need to live for the continuity of the clan. They, instead, have become chess pieces in the game of the rich. Their way of life has become a hedonistic indulgence of the affluence to spread the foreigners' beliefs as if the natives are too stupid to understand Nature and to live to respect it. They give the jungle dwellers things under the pretext of bringing them out of the yoke of ignorance but time has only shown that the invaders' cluelessness. See how many of theirs are disillusioned with their 'progress' and joined the simple way of living that the natives have been practising for aeons?
There must be some wisdom in the words of the forefathers!
Alms ceremony. Daily ritual ~6 am. Monks and trainee monks will parade in saffron robesto receive rice and other food for sustenance. In return, donors would receive blessings.Many boys from unprivileged background would join the monastery as an outlet from poverty,hunger and lack of opportunities.
FYI That is not lipstick she is wearing. It is due to a natural gum that she chews to give analluring pinkish hue to her lips!
In a Hmong village near Luang Prabang. A wife can be bought at the price of two buffalos (around USD 2000)
Children in a village in Muang Ngoi, along the Nam Ou River.
Hmong Village
Hmong Market
Ning Ning Guest House in Muang Ngoi.
Hmong Village
Cast of a bomb, reminder of the turbulent times
Buffaloes
View from Peak Point Muang Ngoi
Nam Oo River. Flows from China. 4 dams to be built along its path to generate electricity forself-sustenance and for export, soon to cause irreparable damage to it natural fauna and flora.
Bliss
Idyllic
Picture perfect
Sunset at Phui See Hill, Luang Prabang.
Kwang Si Waterfalls
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Venture capitalists move in. They show them the carrot and the lure of what money can do to enrich their 'impoverished' lives. They influence the elders who steamroll all oppositions who want to maintain the status quo. The general public thinks the opposers are just spoiled sports, reminiscing the old times, living in the past and naysayers who do not move with the times. The time to live is now, and they do not want to be left behind. So builds a frenzy, to join the bandwagon to draw sightseers to see what they had to offer. They were willing to play dance monkey to the tune of the first world revellers.
Slowly, the native's lives change. Their age old tradition of caring for humanity rather than worldly materialistic things is but a thing of the past. Rituals and prayers are only for display which they do like zoo-caged animals or museum artefacts. Hey, it draws the crowd and it pays for 'modernity' and 'development'. They all want to move forward in life, want to go one step ahead of what their forefathers left them. The world is changing and they must catch up, they thought! They want modern education, modern amenities, industrialisation and avert the laborious unproductive ways of their fathers. They want to do catching up with the rest of the world. For how long are they going to be cocooned on their so-called glorious past?
Like that modernity embraced them.
Fast forward. What they see is their people in the same helplessness. The only difference is that it had become worse with the introduction of greed as the primary armamentarium to prosper. The leaders have cherished from this introduction of modernity. Gone are the community spirits and need to live for the continuity of the clan. They, instead, have become chess pieces in the game of the rich. Their way of life has become a hedonistic indulgence of the affluence to spread the foreigners' beliefs as if the natives are too stupid to understand Nature and to live to respect it. They give the jungle dwellers things under the pretext of bringing them out of the yoke of ignorance but time has only shown that the invaders' cluelessness. See how many of theirs are disillusioned with their 'progress' and joined the simple way of living that the natives have been practising for aeons?
There must be some wisdom in the words of the forefathers!
Alms ceremony. Daily ritual ~6 am. Monks and trainee monks will parade in saffron robesto receive rice and other food for sustenance. In return, donors would receive blessings.Many boys from unprivileged background would join the monastery as an outlet from poverty,hunger and lack of opportunities.
FYI That is not lipstick she is wearing. It is due to a natural gum that she chews to give analluring pinkish hue to her lips!
In a Hmong village near Luang Prabang. A wife can be bought at the price of two buffalos (around USD 2000)
Children in a village in Muang Ngoi, along the Nam Ou River.
Hmong Village
Hmong Market
Ning Ning Guest House in Muang Ngoi.
Hmong Village
Cast of a bomb, reminder of the turbulent timesBuffaloes
View from Peak Point Muang Ngoi
Nam Oo River. Flows from China. 4 dams to be built along its path to generate electricity forself-sustenance and for export, soon to cause irreparable damage to it natural fauna and flora.
BlissIdyllic
Picture perfect
Sunset at Phui See Hill, Luang Prabang.
Kwang Si Waterfalls
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February 25, 2017
The other side of the coin?
The Great Global Warming Swindle (2007)
Channel 4; UK.
I thought that it is a given thing, that Man's existence is the reason for nature's degradation, that our carbon footprint is leaving irreparable damage to the ecosystem, that our reaping and raping of its resources for our selfish needs is going leave our descendants cursing at our lackadaisical attitudes, that our mere existence is going to increase the atmospheric carbon dioxide content and raise the global temperature. That was the prophecy that had been pushed down our throats all this while. Well, now a group of scientists say that this is not the whole truth.
That is the problem in the post-truth world where nothing is so clear cut anymore. For any argument, there is always another equally convincing counter-argument. We, the listeners, are left baffled, confused and come to understand that the truth is a multilayered animal that is neither black nor white!
This polemic documentary film is emphatic that the threat of global warming is actually a well-synchronised hoax perpetrated by developed countries with their own self-serving agendas. For a start, world leaders wanted to keep the coal workers unions in check and avert the usage of petroleum when its price skyrocketed in the 70s. They brought up the idea that increased CO2 levels in our atmosphere may lead to a catastrophic rise in the world temperatures. From then now, it became a mantra the world over, to exert domination of the West on the newly developing economies who just wanted to catch up with their past colonial masters.
The opponents of this global warming theory insist that that Earth has been going through cyclical periods of warming and cooling over the centuries. It is now going through a 'heating up' period. It is not related to industrialisation as the world actually went through a cooling period between 1940 and 1975 even when the CO2 levels increased. The scientists reviewed old data over the centuries to posit that there is a lag of ten years between the rise of temperature and increased levels of CO2. Carbon dioxide levels increase as a result of global warming when the oceans release more of them rather than being the cause of warming!
Space probes which had been sent as far as Pluto had shown that there is a universal warming of all planets. This is probably due to increasing nuclear fission activity of the sun as evidenced by visualisation of more sunspots on its surface. This explains the increase in Earth surface temperature. The true measurement of global warming is measured in the troposphere via satellites or weather balloons. It shows a low rate of increase.
The film emphasises that CO2 emission by human activity is minuscule compared to the natural decomposition process (like falling of leaves, animal excrements) as well as volcanic activity.The vocal scientists in the documentary assert that the whole global warming fiasco is an organised plan by anti-capitalistic, neo-Marxist, anti-US, environmentalists and imperialists to use authentic sounding authority like Interplanetary Climate Change (IPCC) to put forward their climate research to hoodwink the public, hiding their financial, ideological and political interests.
This film is proof that there are always two sides of the coin. The democratic way is to assess both sides of the arguments judiciously and to draw your own conclusion. http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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February 23, 2017
Under the curse of the money God!
They ask why the poor always gets the short end of the stick. They never have it good. Life is but a constant battle, juggling between misery, heartaches and disappointment. Relief is but short lived. "Why?", they ask.
They are told that it just God's test on His followers. He is just testing their faith. They are cajoled to weather the storm and pray for His guidance. He will show them the way.
The pragmatist tells them to get real. The poor's melancholy is just the side effect of economics. They are on the lowest rung of the food chain.When the going of the world is good, the occupants at the top of the pyramid get the lion's share of the kill, the good fortune. Of course, the trickle-down effect enables the have-nots to pick up the crumbs and the loot. The social structure is such that the economic model ensures that the poor is easily duped and lured to depart from the hard-earned morsel with clever advertisements using psychological techniques that stir their deeply slumbering primal desires of the reptilian brain of Man. They succumb. After all, they ask themselves what life is about if not for little vices here and there every now and then.
On the contrary, when the sky is grey, when winter is coming, when the winds are going down south and the national coffers are drying up, who do the vultures who are perched at the peak of heap look with scavenging eyes to fatten the repository? The poor again! When taxes need to be imposed, why are the ones most affected? Ditto. For the haves, the merchants, imposition of taxes do not really affect their dealings. They just pass the extra tariffs to the consumers. The profit margins remain. The poor will again to tighten their belt, persevere and put the whole meandering as a divine appraisal for a placing in the afterlife or cycle of rebirth!
Like they say 'God is money and even God knows that'!
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They are told that it just God's test on His followers. He is just testing their faith. They are cajoled to weather the storm and pray for His guidance. He will show them the way.
The pragmatist tells them to get real. The poor's melancholy is just the side effect of economics. They are on the lowest rung of the food chain.When the going of the world is good, the occupants at the top of the pyramid get the lion's share of the kill, the good fortune. Of course, the trickle-down effect enables the have-nots to pick up the crumbs and the loot. The social structure is such that the economic model ensures that the poor is easily duped and lured to depart from the hard-earned morsel with clever advertisements using psychological techniques that stir their deeply slumbering primal desires of the reptilian brain of Man. They succumb. After all, they ask themselves what life is about if not for little vices here and there every now and then.
On the contrary, when the sky is grey, when winter is coming, when the winds are going down south and the national coffers are drying up, who do the vultures who are perched at the peak of heap look with scavenging eyes to fatten the repository? The poor again! When taxes need to be imposed, why are the ones most affected? Ditto. For the haves, the merchants, imposition of taxes do not really affect their dealings. They just pass the extra tariffs to the consumers. The profit margins remain. The poor will again to tighten their belt, persevere and put the whole meandering as a divine appraisal for a placing in the afterlife or cycle of rebirth!
Like they say 'God is money and even God knows that'!
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February 20, 2017
A divine duty?
W. (2008)
George W. Bush had the unenviable record of being the US President with the lowest rating ever, at the end of his second term. His tenure marked the making the world a hostile world to live in and the unleashing of the genie of destruction from the Middle East.
Somehow I could not help but compare W as a President to Truman. Truman was not the first choice for Vice President but was chosen over the left leaning pacifist Henry Wallace. W was made President after a controversial election. When FDR died four months into his VPship, Truman was left asking himself, whether he was man enough to be the President? Like Truman, W had a disturbing past. Harry Truman grew up as a recluse and a nerd for being small, book-wormish and with thick glasses. Because of this complex, probably, Truman turned out to be a 'gung-ho' leader who threatened the whole world, especially the Soviet Union, with his new found toy, the Nuclear Bombs. W had always grown under the shadow of his brother Jeb and had always wanted to do something to win his father George Senior's heart. The Presidentship must have been W's way to prove that he won the sibling rivalry.
Both Truman and W left the world, after their leadership in a chaotic state. Truman with the Cold War and the world of Red Army versus the capitalists and W with his crusade against the unknown enemies to nuke them out of their foxholes as well dividing the world into two simplistic halves, with the US and against them.
This film starts showing a reckless George W Bush just wasting his time getting drunk, involving himself in failed ventures and living a life of disappointment to his father, George Sr. At the age of 40, he finds faith in God, gets his life in order, becomes a teetotaler and gets a heading in life. After becoming Governor of Texas, he gets the delusion that he is the God-appointed representative to lead the world's biggest Christian nation.
At the end of the day, the film did not reveal anything that most of us did not already know. Well, this film did not explore anything that we all did not know. All through, we noticed that W and his father never really saw eye to eye in many of the ways of ruling the nation and controlling the affairs of the world. Just like Truman, W also ended his tenure with the lowest rating ever in the history of USA.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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George W. Bush had the unenviable record of being the US President with the lowest rating ever, at the end of his second term. His tenure marked the making the world a hostile world to live in and the unleashing of the genie of destruction from the Middle East.Somehow I could not help but compare W as a President to Truman. Truman was not the first choice for Vice President but was chosen over the left leaning pacifist Henry Wallace. W was made President after a controversial election. When FDR died four months into his VPship, Truman was left asking himself, whether he was man enough to be the President? Like Truman, W had a disturbing past. Harry Truman grew up as a recluse and a nerd for being small, book-wormish and with thick glasses. Because of this complex, probably, Truman turned out to be a 'gung-ho' leader who threatened the whole world, especially the Soviet Union, with his new found toy, the Nuclear Bombs. W had always grown under the shadow of his brother Jeb and had always wanted to do something to win his father George Senior's heart. The Presidentship must have been W's way to prove that he won the sibling rivalry.
Both Truman and W left the world, after their leadership in a chaotic state. Truman with the Cold War and the world of Red Army versus the capitalists and W with his crusade against the unknown enemies to nuke them out of their foxholes as well dividing the world into two simplistic halves, with the US and against them.
This film starts showing a reckless George W Bush just wasting his time getting drunk, involving himself in failed ventures and living a life of disappointment to his father, George Sr. At the age of 40, he finds faith in God, gets his life in order, becomes a teetotaler and gets a heading in life. After becoming Governor of Texas, he gets the delusion that he is the God-appointed representative to lead the world's biggest Christian nation.
At the end of the day, the film did not reveal anything that most of us did not already know. Well, this film did not explore anything that we all did not know. All through, we noticed that W and his father never really saw eye to eye in many of the ways of ruling the nation and controlling the affairs of the world. Just like Truman, W also ended his tenure with the lowest rating ever in the history of USA.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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February 18, 2017
The dark side of Winston Churchill's legacy no one should forget
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/02/03/the-dark-side-of-winston-churchills-legacy-no-one-should-forget/
By Ishaan Tharoor February 3, 2015
The statue of Britain's former Prime Minister Winston Churchill is silhouetted in front of the Houses of Parliament in London, January 30, 2015. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)
There's no Western statesmen — at least in the English-speaking world — more routinely lionized than Winston Churchill. Last Friday marked a half century since his funeral, an occasion that itself led to numerous commemorations and paeans to the British Bulldog, whose moral courage and patriotism helped steer his nation through World War II.
Today we remember our greatest ever Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who saved our country. pic.twitter.com/uRkfSAy7ya
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron)January 30, 2015
Churchill, after all, has been posthumously voted by his countrymen as the greatest Briton. The presence (and absence) of his bust in the White House was enough to create political scandal on both sides of the pond. The allure of his name is so strong that it launches a thousand quotations, many of which are apocryphal. At its core, Churchill's myth serves as a ready-made metaphor for boldness and leadership, no matter how vacuous the context in which said metaphor is deployed.
For example, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair earned comparisons to Churchill after dragging his country into the much-maligned 2003 Iraq war. So too Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose tough stance on Iran's nuclear ambitions has been cast by some in Churchill's heroic mold — the Israeli premier's uncompromising resolve a foil to the supposed "appeasement" tendencies of President Obama.
In the West, Churchill is a freedom fighter, the man who grimly withstood Nazism and helped save Western liberal democracy. It's a civilizational legacy that has been polished and placed on a mantle for decades. Churchill "launched the lifeboats," declared Time magazine, on the cover of its Jan. 2, 1950 issue that hailed the British leader as the "man of the half century."
But there's another side to Churchill's politics and career that should not be forgotten amid the endless parade of eulogies. To many outside the West, he remains a grotesque racist and a stubborn imperialist, forever on the wrong side of history.
Churchill's detractors point to his well-documented bigotry, articulated often with shocking callousness and contempt. "I hate Indians," he once trumpeted. "They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
He referred to Palestinians as "barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung." When quashing insurgents in Sudan in the earlier days of his imperial career, Churchill boasted of killing three "savages." Contemplating restive populations in northwest Asia, he infamously lamentedthe "squeamishness" of his colleagues, who were not in "favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes."
Britain marked 50 years since Prime Minister’s Winston Churchill's funeral was held in 1965. His funeral was the world's largest at the time, attended by leaders from more than 100 countries. (Reuters)
At this point, you may say, so what? Churchill's attitudes were hardly unique for the age in which he expounded them. All great men have flaws and contradictions — some of America's founding fathers, those paragons of liberty, were slave owners. One of Churchill's biographers, cited by my colleague Karla Adam, insists that his failings were ultimately "unimportant, all of them, compared to the centrality of the point of Winston Churchill, which is that he saved [Britain] from being invaded by the Nazis."
But that should not obscure the dangers of his worldview. Churchill's racism was wrapped up in his Tory zeal for empire, one which irked his wartime ally, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a junior member of parliament, Churchill had cheered on Britain's plan for more conquests, insisting that its "Aryan stock is bound to triumph." It's strange to celebrate his bravado in the face of Hitler's war machine and not consider his wider thinking on other parts of the world. After all, these are places that, just like Europe and the West, still live with the legacy of Churchill's and Britain's actions at the time.
India, Britain's most important colonial possession, most animated Churchill. He despised the Indian independence movement and its spiritual leader, Mahatma Gandhi, whom he described as "half-naked" and labeled a "seditious fakir," or holy man. Most notoriously, Churchill presided over the hideous 1943 famine in Bengal, where some 3 million Indians perished, largely as a result of British imperial mismanagement. Churchill was both indifferent to the Indian plight and even mocked the millions suffering, chuckling over the culling of a population that bred "like rabbits."
Leopold Amery, Churchill's own Secretary of State for India, likened his boss's understanding of India's problems to King George III's apathy for the Americas. Amery vented in his private diaries, writing "on the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane" and that he didn't "see much difference between [Churchill's] outlook and Hitler's."
When Churchill did apply his attention to the subcontinent, it had other dire effects. As the Indian writer Pankaj Mishra explains in the New Yorker, Churchill was one of a coterie of imperial rulers who worked to create sectarian fissures within India's independence movement between Indian Hindus and Muslims, which led to the brutal partition of India when the former colony finally did win its freedom in 1947. Millions died or were displaced in an orgy of bloodshed that still echoes in the region's tense politics to this day. (India, it should be noted, was far from the only corner of the British empire victim to such divide-and-rule tactics.)
"The rival nationalisms and politicized religions the British Empire brought into being now clash in an enlarged geopolitical arena," writes Mishra, gesturing to the spread and growth of political Islam in parts of South Asia and the Middle East. "And the human costs of imperial overreaching seem unlikely to attain a final tally for many more decades."
When measuring up Churchill's legacy, that tally must be taken into account.
Ishaan Tharoor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He previously was a senior editor at TIME, based first in Hong Kong and later in New York. http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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By Ishaan Tharoor February 3, 2015
The statue of Britain's former Prime Minister Winston Churchill is silhouetted in front of the Houses of Parliament in London, January 30, 2015. (Eddie Keogh/Reuters)There's no Western statesmen — at least in the English-speaking world — more routinely lionized than Winston Churchill. Last Friday marked a half century since his funeral, an occasion that itself led to numerous commemorations and paeans to the British Bulldog, whose moral courage and patriotism helped steer his nation through World War II.
Today we remember our greatest ever Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who saved our country. pic.twitter.com/uRkfSAy7ya
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron)January 30, 2015
Churchill, after all, has been posthumously voted by his countrymen as the greatest Briton. The presence (and absence) of his bust in the White House was enough to create political scandal on both sides of the pond. The allure of his name is so strong that it launches a thousand quotations, many of which are apocryphal. At its core, Churchill's myth serves as a ready-made metaphor for boldness and leadership, no matter how vacuous the context in which said metaphor is deployed.
For example, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair earned comparisons to Churchill after dragging his country into the much-maligned 2003 Iraq war. So too Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose tough stance on Iran's nuclear ambitions has been cast by some in Churchill's heroic mold — the Israeli premier's uncompromising resolve a foil to the supposed "appeasement" tendencies of President Obama.
In the West, Churchill is a freedom fighter, the man who grimly withstood Nazism and helped save Western liberal democracy. It's a civilizational legacy that has been polished and placed on a mantle for decades. Churchill "launched the lifeboats," declared Time magazine, on the cover of its Jan. 2, 1950 issue that hailed the British leader as the "man of the half century."
But there's another side to Churchill's politics and career that should not be forgotten amid the endless parade of eulogies. To many outside the West, he remains a grotesque racist and a stubborn imperialist, forever on the wrong side of history.
Churchill's detractors point to his well-documented bigotry, articulated often with shocking callousness and contempt. "I hate Indians," he once trumpeted. "They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
He referred to Palestinians as "barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung." When quashing insurgents in Sudan in the earlier days of his imperial career, Churchill boasted of killing three "savages." Contemplating restive populations in northwest Asia, he infamously lamentedthe "squeamishness" of his colleagues, who were not in "favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes."
Britain marked 50 years since Prime Minister’s Winston Churchill's funeral was held in 1965. His funeral was the world's largest at the time, attended by leaders from more than 100 countries. (Reuters)
At this point, you may say, so what? Churchill's attitudes were hardly unique for the age in which he expounded them. All great men have flaws and contradictions — some of America's founding fathers, those paragons of liberty, were slave owners. One of Churchill's biographers, cited by my colleague Karla Adam, insists that his failings were ultimately "unimportant, all of them, compared to the centrality of the point of Winston Churchill, which is that he saved [Britain] from being invaded by the Nazis."
But that should not obscure the dangers of his worldview. Churchill's racism was wrapped up in his Tory zeal for empire, one which irked his wartime ally, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As a junior member of parliament, Churchill had cheered on Britain's plan for more conquests, insisting that its "Aryan stock is bound to triumph." It's strange to celebrate his bravado in the face of Hitler's war machine and not consider his wider thinking on other parts of the world. After all, these are places that, just like Europe and the West, still live with the legacy of Churchill's and Britain's actions at the time.
India, Britain's most important colonial possession, most animated Churchill. He despised the Indian independence movement and its spiritual leader, Mahatma Gandhi, whom he described as "half-naked" and labeled a "seditious fakir," or holy man. Most notoriously, Churchill presided over the hideous 1943 famine in Bengal, where some 3 million Indians perished, largely as a result of British imperial mismanagement. Churchill was both indifferent to the Indian plight and even mocked the millions suffering, chuckling over the culling of a population that bred "like rabbits."
Leopold Amery, Churchill's own Secretary of State for India, likened his boss's understanding of India's problems to King George III's apathy for the Americas. Amery vented in his private diaries, writing "on the subject of India, Winston is not quite sane" and that he didn't "see much difference between [Churchill's] outlook and Hitler's."
When Churchill did apply his attention to the subcontinent, it had other dire effects. As the Indian writer Pankaj Mishra explains in the New Yorker, Churchill was one of a coterie of imperial rulers who worked to create sectarian fissures within India's independence movement between Indian Hindus and Muslims, which led to the brutal partition of India when the former colony finally did win its freedom in 1947. Millions died or were displaced in an orgy of bloodshed that still echoes in the region's tense politics to this day. (India, it should be noted, was far from the only corner of the British empire victim to such divide-and-rule tactics.)
"The rival nationalisms and politicized religions the British Empire brought into being now clash in an enlarged geopolitical arena," writes Mishra, gesturing to the spread and growth of political Islam in parts of South Asia and the Middle East. "And the human costs of imperial overreaching seem unlikely to attain a final tally for many more decades."
When measuring up Churchill's legacy, that tally must be taken into account.
Ishaan Tharoor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. He previously was a senior editor at TIME, based first in Hong Kong and later in New York. http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boyhttp://.facebook.com/farouk.gulsara
February 16, 2017
Traditional economy versus the Consumerism one!
Bama Vijayam (பாமா விஜயம், Tamil; 1967)
The perpetual clash between the old wisdom and the new, between modernity and the time-tested traditional values, between the traditional economy and the New World Order whose lynchpin is credit and counting the eggs before they are hatched. This lesson, together with the advice of living within your means and to forget keeping up with the Joneses, is nicely depicted in this song.
The clash between the generation is evident here in this song composed by Kannadasan, as the member of the older, as depicted by the retired schoolmaster (TS Balaiah) who is probably the patriarchal head of the household and a widow, is debating his views about life and management of economics with his three sons, their wives and their kids. The grandchildren tend to side with their grandfather, probably just joining the fun, clueless about the complexities of adulthood.
The older generation after enduring the effects of Schools of Hard Knocks and Uncertainties, are naturally worried of the unpredictability of tomorrow, tend to be wary of plunging head-on without thinking without a safety net. The young, lured by materialism, consumerism and comforts of life do not mind taking risks by living only for the moment.
In the spring of youth, everything is done with only one demon to satisfy, i.e. the primal needs of men. With age and hopefully with wisdom and after burning our fingers and glutes, we wise up to appreciate that not all ancient teachings are outdated and worthless.
The whole scenario smacks of Schopenhauer's 'Will-to-life' proposition to reign in our desires and adopt a consolingly pessimistic attitude to our struggles as being happy is just an illusion created by Man to delude himself. This movie has been said to have best playwright ever, written by Crazy Mohan, for a Tamil movie. Mohan went on to write screenplays for many blockbusters including Avvai Shanmugi.
It is nice to see so many big names in one music video; TS Balaiah as the father, Sundarajan, Muthuraman and Nagesh as sons, Sowkar Janaki, Kanchana and Jayanthi as their respective wives and Satchu as a young adult.
Whether to reject all forms of modernity or embrace it wholeheartedly, the answer must surely lie somewhere in the middle. Like the melody of the song which infuses elements of traditional Indian instruments and the picking of electric guitar which is the quintessential emblem of modernity, the combination of both must surely be important. Its testimony is this mesmerising tune!
Income is 8 annas, Expenditure 10 annas,the difference of 2 annas will make things miserable in the end,when you think beyond your means, there is no peace.Sir, there is no peace.When there is too much desire, the existing one also won't stay.Mum, the existing one won't stay.After a certain age, good things in the world are rejected,Uncle, good things are rejected.When offspring live with new bigger things, they (the elders) can't take it,Father, they can't stand it,Rented sofa is Rs20, selling price Rs30,(Exactly, showing the absurdity of the justification of renting)Rented sofa is Rs20, selling price Rs30,Tyrant wife and enslaved husband won't work for family unit,Sir, won't work for family.If a cat eats like an elephant (showing gluttony, advising moderation), it'll have indigestion,Sir, indigestion.An eagle doesn't like to see a parrot fly high,Father, the eagle doesn't like.Without money, even medicines won't work,uncle, medicines won't work.If a borrowed golden chain goes missing, it is trouble,Bama Vijayam (the house) which is for Krishna, what is it for?Mum, what is it for? (advising saving for the future, for a rainy day)Mothers must turn to virgins (nuns),father, must turn for that,If they turn to nuns, why do they have children?Sir, why have children?for the sin of falling in love, what else?Father, for what else?Experience will explain what is new and what is old,Get dejected and you will know the questions and the answers.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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The perpetual clash between the old wisdom and the new, between modernity and the time-tested traditional values, between the traditional economy and the New World Order whose lynchpin is credit and counting the eggs before they are hatched. This lesson, together with the advice of living within your means and to forget keeping up with the Joneses, is nicely depicted in this song.
The clash between the generation is evident here in this song composed by Kannadasan, as the member of the older, as depicted by the retired schoolmaster (TS Balaiah) who is probably the patriarchal head of the household and a widow, is debating his views about life and management of economics with his three sons, their wives and their kids. The grandchildren tend to side with their grandfather, probably just joining the fun, clueless about the complexities of adulthood.
The older generation after enduring the effects of Schools of Hard Knocks and Uncertainties, are naturally worried of the unpredictability of tomorrow, tend to be wary of plunging head-on without thinking without a safety net. The young, lured by materialism, consumerism and comforts of life do not mind taking risks by living only for the moment.
In the spring of youth, everything is done with only one demon to satisfy, i.e. the primal needs of men. With age and hopefully with wisdom and after burning our fingers and glutes, we wise up to appreciate that not all ancient teachings are outdated and worthless.The whole scenario smacks of Schopenhauer's 'Will-to-life' proposition to reign in our desires and adopt a consolingly pessimistic attitude to our struggles as being happy is just an illusion created by Man to delude himself. This movie has been said to have best playwright ever, written by Crazy Mohan, for a Tamil movie. Mohan went on to write screenplays for many blockbusters including Avvai Shanmugi.
It is nice to see so many big names in one music video; TS Balaiah as the father, Sundarajan, Muthuraman and Nagesh as sons, Sowkar Janaki, Kanchana and Jayanthi as their respective wives and Satchu as a young adult.
Whether to reject all forms of modernity or embrace it wholeheartedly, the answer must surely lie somewhere in the middle. Like the melody of the song which infuses elements of traditional Indian instruments and the picking of electric guitar which is the quintessential emblem of modernity, the combination of both must surely be important. Its testimony is this mesmerising tune!
வரவு எட்டணா செலவு பத்தணா
அதிகம் ரெண்டனா கடைசியில் தும் தனா தும் தனா தும் தனா
நிலைமைக்கு மேலே நினைப்பு வந்தால் நிம்மதி இருக்காது
அய்யா நிம்மதி இருக்காது
அளவுக்கு மேலே ஆசை வந்தால் உள்ளதும் நிலைக்காது
அம்மா உள்ளதும் நிலைக்காது
வயசுக்கு மேலே உலகத்தில் உள்ள நல்லது பிடிக்காது
மாமா நல்லது பிடிக்காது
வயசு பிள்ளைகள் புதுசா பெருசா வாழ்வது பொறுக்காது
அப்பா வாழ்வது பொறுக்காது
வாடகை சோபா 20 ருபாய்
விலைக்கு வாங்கின 30 தே ரூபா
வாடகை சோபா 20 ரூபா விலைக்கு வாங்கின 30 தே ரூபா
அடங்கா மனைவி அடிமை புருஷன் குடும்பதுக்ககாது
அய்யா குடும்பதுக்க்காகது
யானையை போலே பூனையும் தின்னா ஜீரனமாகத்து
அய்யா ஜீரனமாகது
பச்சை கிளிகள் பறப்பதை பார்த்த பருந்துக்கு பிடிக்காது
அப்பா பருந்துக்கு பிடிக்காது
பணத்தை பார்த்தல் கௌரவம் என்பது மருந்துக்கும் இருக்காது
மாமா மருந்துக்கும் இருக்காது
தங்க சங்கிலி இரவல் வாங்கின தவறி போச்சுன்னா தகிட தந்தன
பாமா விஜயம் கிருஷ்ணனுக்காக இங்கே எதுக்காக
அம்மா இங்கே எதுக்காக
மாதர்கள் எல்லாம் கன்னிகளாக மாறனும் அதுக்காக
அப்பா மாறனும் அதுக்காக
கன்னியராக மாறனுமேன்றால் பிள்ளைகள் எதற்காக
அய்யா பிள்ளைகள் எதற்காக
காதல் செய்த பாவத்துக்காக வேறே எதுக்காக
அப்பா வேறே எதுக்காக
பட்டாள் தெரியும் பழசும் புதுசும் கெட்டால் தெரியும் கேள்வியும் பதிலும்
Income is 8 annas, Expenditure 10 annas,the difference of 2 annas will make things miserable in the end,when you think beyond your means, there is no peace.Sir, there is no peace.When there is too much desire, the existing one also won't stay.Mum, the existing one won't stay.After a certain age, good things in the world are rejected,Uncle, good things are rejected.When offspring live with new bigger things, they (the elders) can't take it,Father, they can't stand it,Rented sofa is Rs20, selling price Rs30,(Exactly, showing the absurdity of the justification of renting)Rented sofa is Rs20, selling price Rs30,Tyrant wife and enslaved husband won't work for family unit,Sir, won't work for family.If a cat eats like an elephant (showing gluttony, advising moderation), it'll have indigestion,Sir, indigestion.An eagle doesn't like to see a parrot fly high,Father, the eagle doesn't like.Without money, even medicines won't work,uncle, medicines won't work.If a borrowed golden chain goes missing, it is trouble,Bama Vijayam (the house) which is for Krishna, what is it for?Mum, what is it for? (advising saving for the future, for a rainy day)Mothers must turn to virgins (nuns),father, must turn for that,If they turn to nuns, why do they have children?Sir, why have children?for the sin of falling in love, what else?Father, for what else?Experience will explain what is new and what is old,Get dejected and you will know the questions and the answers.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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February 13, 2017
Help wanted: Step inside!
Sixth Sense (1999)
Written, Directed and Acted by M. Night Shyamalan
During the Mothers' Day celebrations, messages with cheesy words like, "God couldn't be everywhere, so He sent Mums!" are rife. The Divine forces work in mysterious ways they say. Many seemingly impossible incidences happen on a regular basis in our daily lives. People with strong religious convictions are content to assume these are holy interventions sanctioned by The Forces that are carried out by his serfs, godly angels. On the contrary, when the outcome is not quite expected or favourable, the blame is passed on to the ungodly demons and djinns. These energies are said to work on different astral planes than the ones mortal Man are familiar. Clairvoyants are able to harness their perception into this dimension to perceive things which normal humanly sensations cannot appreciate.
Medical sciences, however, would label it hallucinations and its practitioner of having delusions.
Proponents of these beliefs are steadfast that these 'pseudosciences' are not false but instead are alternatives. Carl Jung thought that two things that happen simultaneously are not mere meaningless coincidences. They are part of a dynamic process governed by an unknown force. Perhaps, these work at the unconscious level. Or are we able to control these events through our consciousness? Can we delve into our consciousness through meditation techniques or even through DMT (The Spirit Molecule) or LSD? Maybe we should increase neural connexions to the higher centres in the amygdala, pineal gland and hippocampus via targeted brain plasticity exercises! Surprisingly one of the non-invasive ways to increasing brain connectivity is through repetitive actions (mmm... chanting and recitals).
Instead of looking at external sources for remedy, perhaps we should look inwards and introspect.
Believe it or not, I only managed to catch up with this movie 18 years after its release. It tells the tale of a mentally disturbed adolescent boy and his dedicated psychologist and how they finally end up solving each others' problems.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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Written, Directed and Acted by M. Night Shyamalan
During the Mothers' Day celebrations, messages with cheesy words like, "God couldn't be everywhere, so He sent Mums!" are rife. The Divine forces work in mysterious ways they say. Many seemingly impossible incidences happen on a regular basis in our daily lives. People with strong religious convictions are content to assume these are holy interventions sanctioned by The Forces that are carried out by his serfs, godly angels. On the contrary, when the outcome is not quite expected or favourable, the blame is passed on to the ungodly demons and djinns. These energies are said to work on different astral planes than the ones mortal Man are familiar. Clairvoyants are able to harness their perception into this dimension to perceive things which normal humanly sensations cannot appreciate.
Medical sciences, however, would label it hallucinations and its practitioner of having delusions.
Proponents of these beliefs are steadfast that these 'pseudosciences' are not false but instead are alternatives. Carl Jung thought that two things that happen simultaneously are not mere meaningless coincidences. They are part of a dynamic process governed by an unknown force. Perhaps, these work at the unconscious level. Or are we able to control these events through our consciousness? Can we delve into our consciousness through meditation techniques or even through DMT (The Spirit Molecule) or LSD? Maybe we should increase neural connexions to the higher centres in the amygdala, pineal gland and hippocampus via targeted brain plasticity exercises! Surprisingly one of the non-invasive ways to increasing brain connectivity is through repetitive actions (mmm... chanting and recitals).
Instead of looking at external sources for remedy, perhaps we should look inwards and introspect.
Believe it or not, I only managed to catch up with this movie 18 years after its release. It tells the tale of a mentally disturbed adolescent boy and his dedicated psychologist and how they finally end up solving each others' problems.http://asok22.wix.com/rifle-range-boy
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