Suchin Dailies

Graham Staines was in India, 'helping lepers', to serve his God. He got married, bore three children and the family were all missionaries. His children were studying, not in a government school, but in the best of schools in Ooty. Obviously he earned enough to put them in such a school. After he was murdered by tribals in Orissa, his wife apparently excused the murderers! And after 14 years, she is not even able to recognize the murderers who she had seen and forgiven. Whether this is noble or not, is not easy to judge. But the root cause of this crime was their own making. Staines was a missionary from Australia. He came to India to serve lepers. He should have! He did. But he did not just serve lepers, he also converted them to Christianity. As always, a missionary will never serve without returns. Their aim is to convert by 'helping' by being 'compassionate.' They cannot disprove this. If God wanted Staines to serve lepers and cure them, God would not ask...

Panoramic view of Triveni Sangam (meeting of rivers Ganga and Yamuna) The sheer volume of people from all over the nation, descending at Allahabad for a spiritual dip in Ganga mixed with Yamuna river at Sangam, was something to be experienced being right there. Watching it over the TV or videos on websites would not have given us the same feel of actually looking at the mammoth assembly of people.  I stayed with Chandra Mouli, my long time buddy, in Hyderabad for two days. Enjoyed hospitality of his mother and sister who packed us 4 zip locked Puliyogares for our journey. Our first hurdle was to get the confirmed tickets to Allahabad on train. Having booked online, we were put on waiting list that was around 200 initially and was down to 20 something previous night. Next morning it was WL7! and charts closed! Mouli wanted to know if we should go or drop out since no ticket means we need to go unreserved, with no hopes of getting a seat for the next 36 hours! But I thoug...

T his post has nothing to do with Pope laying down his resignation. But it has only triggered me to look into 'matters' inside Vatican. Just out of curiosity I started to visit their official website and started searching for 'Hindu' and 'India'. Not a surprise to me that I found records of 1886 and older.  Some of the recordings of history of Christian push in India of those times, are painful to read, from the perspective of 'conversion' and that too a planned one leaving no stones unturned. How they worked with various christian groups to play with innocent minds of Hindus and slowly convert them without creating any suspicion in the minds of neither the public nor the authorities.  India was not their only target. Wherever they perceived gullible people they ruthlessly invaded with their religion, at even costing their lives. I wonder sometimes, why the eff would Jesus have ever preached such enforced conversion of humans to believe him?  Ther...

                                                                            Please click here for Kannada Version Respected Sir, Your party had declared in the manifesto, before you came to power, that you will take concrete steps to wipe our corruption with certain time. The people of Karnataka handed over power to you with a great majority. The same people have placed repeated trust in your ruling by supporting you in other elections too. Despite this, corruption is abundantly, clearly visible to the public eye. Especially this is evident in the Police Departments. Their misuse of power and department's resources to extract money from public is shamelessly evident! Your government had talked about, or at least dreamed, making Karnataka one of the best State in the Country, comparable to Gujarat'...

Please click here for English Version ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಮಾನ್ಯ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಮಂತ್ರಿಯವರಿಗೆ ಬಹಿರಂಗ ಪತ್ರ ನಮಸ್ಕಾರಗಳು. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪಕ್ಷವು ಅಧಿಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ಬರುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಂಚೆ, ಚುನಾವಣೆ ಪ್ರಣಾಳಿಕೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರ ನಿರ್ಮೂಲನೆಗಾಗಿ ಸಾಕಷ್ಟು ಕಾರ್ಯ ಯೋಜನೆಗಳನ್ನ ಘೋಷಿಸಿದ್ದಿರಿ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ಜನತೆ ನಿಮ್ಮನ್ನು ಬಹುಮತದಿಂದ ಆಯ್ಕೆ ಮಾಡಿ, ಮರಳಿ ಮರಳಿ ಅಧಿಕಾರಕ್ಕೆ ತರುತ್ತಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಆದರೂ, ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಪ್ರಜೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಕಣ್ಣಿಗೆ ಕುಕ್ಕುವಂತೆ ಭ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರ ಕಾಣಿಸುತ್ತಲೇ ಇದೆ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಇಲಾಖೆಗಳಲ್ಲೂ ಇನ್ನೂ ಇದು ಕಾಣಿಸುತ್ತಲೇ ಇದೆ ಅನ್ನೋದು ಸರ್ವೇ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯರಿಗೂ ಗೊತ್ತಿರುವ ವಿಷಯ. ಅದರಲ್ಲೂ ಪೋಲೀಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಡೆಯುವ ಅಧಿಕಾರ ದುರ್ಬಳಕೆ, ಆಯವ್ಯಯ ದುಃಸ್ಥಿತಿ, ದೈನಂದಿನ ವಿಷಯವಾಗಿದೆ. ಕರ್ನಾಟಕವನ್ನು ಶ್ರೀ ನರೇಂದ್ರ ಮೋದಿಯವರ ಗುಜರಾತ್ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಆಳಿಕೆ ಮಾದರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಯಶಸ್ಸು ಪಡೆಯುವ ಕನಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಜನತೆ ನಿಮಗೆ ಆಡಳಿತ ಅವಕಾಶ ಮಾಡಿಕೊಟ್ಟಿದ್ದಾರೆ. ಒಬ್ಬ ಸಾಮಾನ್ಯ ಪ್ರಜೆಗೆ ಒಂದು ಉತ್ಕೃಷ್ಟ ರಾಜ್ಯಭಾರದ, ಮೋದಿಯವರಿಗಿಂತಲೂ ನಮ್ಮ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ಸಾಧನೆಗಳನ್ನ ನಮ್ಮ ದೇಶಕ್ಕೇ ಉದಾಹರಣೆಯಾಗಿ, ತೋರಿಸುವ ಚಿತ್ರ, ಕಣ್ಣೆದುರು ಸದಾಕಾಲ ನಿಂತಿರುವುದರಲ್ಲಿ ಸಂದೇಹವೇ ಇಲ್ಲ. ಕೆಲವು ಗಮನಾರ್ಹ ಸಾಧನೆಗಳನ್ನು ನಿಮ್ಮ ಸರ್ಕಾರ ಖಂಡಿತ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದರೂ, ಬ್ರಷ್ಟಾಚಾರದ ವಿಷಯದಲ್ಲಿ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಪರಿಷ್ರಮ ಎಂದಿಗೂ ಎದ್ದು ಕಾಣುತ್ತಿಲ್ಲವೆಂದ...

Extract from "Vaataapiganapathim Bhaje" of Yesudas. The stotram part of the one hour long rendering of Vaataapi in his golden voice. ---------------------- ---------------------- Stotram: (The audio may have slightly different lyric. I have transliterated Sanskrit version to English here) [shaanti paaTa] om karNobhihi shruNuyaam dEvaaha| bhadra pashyEmaakshabhiryajatraaha|| sthirairaGhnaistuSTuvaamsassthanoobhihi| vyashEma dEvahitam yadaayuhu|| om svasthi na indrO vruddhashravaaha| svasthi nO bruhaspathirdhadhaatu|| om tanmaamavatu tada vaktaaramavatu avatu vaktaaram om shaantihi shaantihi shaantihi|| [upanishath] harihi om namastE gaNapatayE| tvamEva pratyaksham tatvamasi|| tvamEva kEvalam kartaasi| tvamEva kEvalam dhartaaasi|| tvamEva kEvalam hartaaasi| tvamEva sarva khalvidam bhramhaaasi|| tvam saakshaath aatmaaasi nityam|| || [swaroopa tatva] shrutam vacchmi || satyam vacchmi || ava tvam maam || ava vaktaaram || ava shrOtaaram || ava daat...

Happens all the time. Invariably I end up sitting for more than the ‘empty’ time in my ‘Seat Of Knowledge’ (SoK), the toilet. And I wonder how when your system becomes lighter, your thinking becomes sharper :) It’s not surprising to me that I have found the place to have opened up whole world of TRUTH to me many a times. I sometimes have arrived at a closest solution to most complex ideas. My thoughts will be something like, how close artificial intelligence be compared to human brains, in couple of decades from now. Truth about God is my most interesting and haunting thoughts in SoK. Of course I get soaked in the thought.  The last ‘meditation’ was on ‘Why is the story of Gods across religions is NOT the same, if there was/is ONLY ONE God?’ Can there be a story at all? What crap is the story is all about? If you are a priest and reading this, please don’t bother to explain me God. I know a lot more than you do. But you are blind, I am not. My SoK transcends me to end of Univers...