"The Hindoo" under a firangi princox.

It’s no surprise that the pamphleteer of the organized Left in the sickular land is now led by a modern jholawala. To be honest, I have to admit that I was an ardent reader of this semi red fiction paper for its quality when compared with its rivals and I have to confess that I committed a heinous crime (long back), when I persuaded many of my friends to change their reading habits, I am quite sure that I’ll pay for this sin.

Update: It seems that Sid V has resigned, check the tweet here

Sid V's appointment was constantly challenged by Subramanian Swamy

Just updated the this screenshots, thanks to Subramanian Swamy for his efforts

So, what made me write this post? The answer would be an easy one. It is because of the firangi jholawala princox. The answer is simple and many fan boys and ex-fan boys turned secret admirers would obviously demand justifications - I would give my justifications, explanations and analysis unlike its Editor (in Chef?), who clips off the truth and adds masala to come out with pseudo-intellectual stuff.

For centuries, organized religions of this planet have mastered the art of brainwashing souls and the erstwhile Soviets did it with force, and with quotes of equality (Of course, these chants resulted in virtual doomsday though..) and the media, especially the Left Liberal and the organized Left had to adopt this brainwashing procedure to make its ideology survive. Yes, they did it well and they still do it even though they are exposed repeatedly, but the exposes doesn't impact them as the institutions of this sickular nation have already been brainwashed or they are hijacked and strongly controlled by the reds. Allow me to jump into the crazy world of 'allegations' now.

The Creed of Carrion Eaters and a Credulous Mass - Indian Left Liberals

I guess, it’s the recent Marxist bunkum of Girish Karnad against Nobel laureate V.S Naipaul and Ramachandra Guha's eloquent crap which has lifted the spirits of our desi comrades and Left Liberals. People like Girish Karnard & Co who are vehement claques of Romial Taphar versions of History are excited, pumped up and are busy breast beating due to many reasons. Indian Left-Liberal legacy of shooting over their mistress’ shoulders is well known and these days they are working sincerely.

Image Source: http://www.hdscreenwallpapers.com

The Left Liberal  propensity of giving logic to endorse their propaganda is being replayed again in the on going conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza strip. Their glycerin tears for peace, their gimmicks for spreading victim-hood feeling, their social activities to melt ignorant hearts by showing images of the injured, their disgusting methods to manufacture truth by propagating the absurd statistics that Israel is a terrorist state and 'Hamas' is an innocent victim -- these mastered drills of left liberals are similar to the tactics and tantrums of Girish Karnard typos -- Accusations with no truth or acceptable logic behind them.

• "Who started it?", 
• "Why should they fire a missile in the first place?", 
• "What's wrong if Israel retaliates?"

Suck Kshetra

“They sing well” – “It’s good to see such shows on TV” – “Such initiatives should be encouraged”. Above are the comments during a discussion about a singing competition on a Colorful TV. This yo-yo colleague of mine, who prefers to call Mumbai as Bombay even though he never lived in Mumbai during the time of ‘Bombay’, has espousing liberal stuff and yada, yada..

I don’t understand if it is just plain dumbness or it is to show off their funky attitude when gasbags talk about promoting bilateral relations and peace with song competitions with a country like Pakistan. The bunkum logic of Indian Activists is well known and it’s quite comprehensible that why most of them act as mentally retarded, but the strange thing to note is the same phenomenon can be seen in idiots who largely comprise left-liberals.

How can a singing competition help peace between India and Pakistan?, How can anyone think that singing competition can control the hatred of religious bigots? How can a singing competition stop the export of Islamic Terrorism? And most importantly the fine-tuned slogan of Aman ki asha. If one understands how our neighboring nation functions, even a 10^th standard student will come up with a minimal prudent perception – but the logic, optimism and gimmickry of these people (@ Champions of Peace) beats everyone.

Every drop of blood which was spilled in the 26/11 attacks, the departed souls of our security forces and the innocent people who had to take bullets cries for justice and seeks vengeance. I hang my head in shame when my fellow countrymen are viewed as sacrificial goats and their bravery and tolerance is snubbed.

Strictly restricting myself to the people who endorse such meaningless logic of peace, they are big suckers and no wonder there is a big Suck Kshetra out there and again it’s the common man who will be paying the price for the imports and exports which we will do with our loving neighbor.

ఓ స్త్రీ నీకు పాదాభివందనం

 













ఓ స్త్రీ నీకు పాదాభివందనం,
అమ్మవై అందరికి జన్మవైనావు,
చెల్లివై అందరికి చేరువౌతావు,
భార్యవై అనుభందానికి దారివైనావు.
 
నీ ఓర్పు కలగలిపితే భూమి అవుతుంది,
నిన్ను ఙ్నానం అర్ధిస్తే శారదవే అవవా?
నీ కోపం చూడాలంటే కాళీరూపమే కాదా?
నీ ఐశ్వర్యం కలిగితే లక్ష్మివే అవవా?



కానీ,

జన్మనిచ్చి నీవు రొమ్ము పాలిస్తే,
రొమ్ము జుర్రి మేము గుండెనే తంతాము.

తోబుట్టువై నీవు తోడునవుదామనుకుంటే,
తోడేల్లలా మేము తోలువలుస్తాము.

చెలివై నీవు చెంతనచేరతావు,
మాటలతో నిన్ను చిత్రహింస పెడతాము.

ప్రేయసి లా మారి ప్రేమంతా కురిపిస్తే,
కామంతో నిన్ను కుళ్ళబొడుస్తాము.


మాది,
పురుషహంకారం - మాట వినం ఇది హూంకరం,
ఉన్మాదం - స్త్రీని లోబరుచుకోవడం వినోదం,
పైశాచికం - ఏమాత్రం జాలి లేని అరాచకం,
మాది మగజాతి, (ఆడ)మానవత్వం లేని మ్రుగజాతి!!



-- మీ సాయి కార్తీక్
 

Happy Birthday Friedrich Nietzsche

“Some men are born posthumously” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I came across his name for the first time in my 10^th class Social Studies History textbook, a lesson about the World War II and if I remember correctly, the sentence was– ‘Hitler was inspired by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche’. I underlined the sentence, in the presumption that it would come as an objective question and like always, I wanted to show my friends how good I am in Social Studies, especially in History. I did ponder about him for few seconds as he is one who inspired Adolf Hitler. This happened approximately 10 years ago.

I came across his name for the second time when I was in my final year of my Computer Engineering and read Ayn Rand’s ‘The Fountainhead’, I was remotely fascinated to know her inspiration, I did some research and eventually discovered that she was inspired by writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.

I was able to comprehend the intellectual humor of Woody Allen and after watching all his films, I came across an article ‘Thus Ate Zarathustra’ written by Woody Allen for ‘The New Yorker’ and thus I came to know about ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’. The admiration for Woody Allen made me look for his books ‘Side Effects, Without Feathers and Getting Even’ in book stores and luckily in the ‘Classics’ section of the book store my eye reads the title of a book ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra’, I was thrilled for an intangible reason, I was not sure whether I need to buy it or not?, I was holding the book in my hand and decided to turn few pages, the introduction section had a quote

“A testing and a questioning hath been all my travelling -- and verily, one must also learn to answer such questioning! That, however, is my taste --”,

I decided to buy the book – thus started my journey into Nietzsche’s works.

Why UPA has better chances to win the 2013-14 Elections and why NDA has only one way to win it

Image Source: Rediff

It is the season of politics, with elections of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh round the corner and the gossips of next general elections makes it more interesting on how Congress (UPA) and BJP (NDA) are going to plan their approach for future.

I being a political watcher and who observes on how political parties are preparing and exuding themselves for the upcoming general elections, I decided to present my views. Of Course, I warn you that whatever you read here might turn out to be the other way when the results are there for everyone to see.

I don’t know what the darling scientific tools of psephologists are, but with my limited knowledge and observation, I can tell that Congress (UPA) has more chances to form the next Government and BJP (NDA) has minimal chances to come to power, going by the observations till today. This observation of mine may come as a surprise to many of the Anti-Congress and Pro-BJP supporters but that seems to be the reality till now. I would explain you how I reached this conclusion bit by bit as the size of this post progresses.

Husbands and Wives

I am not writing a review for Woody Allen’s film ‘Husbands and Wives’ nor am i married to write about issues of ‘Husbands and Wives’. This post is about the controversy created by media and feminists regarding the statement made by Shriprakash Jaiswal.  This is what Shriprakash Jaiswal said while addressing a cultural event.

“A new victory and a new marriage have their own importance. But as times passes, the memories of a victory go old and as time passes, a wife gets old, the same charm is not there”

Women organizations protested, they criticized and some even said that it’s “Commodification of Women” and should be charged under IPC. Let’s just replace the word ‘wife’ with ‘husband’ in the statement made by Shriprakash Jaiswal. It would be…

“A new victory and a new marriage have their own importance. But as times passes, the memories of a victory go old and as time passes, a husband gets old, the same charm is not there” 

Does the above statement create anger? For me, the above statement is more like a gimmick of a left-liberal- feminist standup comedian. If you have visited a pub or a bar where these days the so called female standup comedians perform their acts, every alternate joke is about boyfriends and husbands and if they are out of sexist jokes they shift their attention on Penis jokes. Of Course, the performance of so called ‘Desi’ female standup comedians is of gutter quality, but no one questions the sexist remarks made by them. Why?

Understand few things before asking for 'Right to Religious Freedom'

Perhaps the debate of ‘Right to Religious Freedom’ places the left-liberal intelligentsia in a very comfortable position, the non-rigid conservative supporters in a difficult position and the rookie liberals juxtaposed with their own thoughts. Often we see the topic of ‘Religious Freedom’ termed as a complex issue, it is a simple issue when looked with the lens of anarchy and it would be a mistake to surmise it as a non-state issue.

Some basic definitions of terms which will be helpful to comprehend my perception when you scroll down this page:

Image Courtesy: The Hindu 

Secularism: Secularism is the principle of separation between government institutions and the persons mandated to represent the State from religious institutions and religious dignitaries.

Pseudo intellectual: Pretentiously or insincerely intellectual.

Uniform civil code: A uniform civil code administers the same set of secular civil laws to govern all people irrespective of their religion, caste and tribe.

Why Howard Roark’s life and message makes him the son-in-law of communism

Why Howard Roark’s life and message makes him the son-in-law of communism:

After Karl Marx and Lenin, when world felt the void of Communist heroes, a  reincarnated soul in a ripe orange hair emerged to save the world , he was called Howard Roark, he fought against oppression, championed the cause of the poor, denounced religious dogma and empty ritualism, and sought to inspire a righteous attitude in society.

The life and message of Howard Roark reveals that he imbibed, taught and fought for these principles vehemently. In fact, an objective analysis of the ‘The Fountainhead’ too would reveal that Howard Roark was a better communist than Karl Marx. One could go so far as to describe him as the faithful torchbearer of communism!  

Krishna and Radha, who will be reincarnated as
Howard Roark and Dominique 

Howard Roark and Dominique Francon - True Communists

??? ఏమో ???

ఏమో?


ఏమో? సమాధానం లేని ప్రశ్నలకు సమాధానం,
ఏమో? సమాధానం చెప్పలేని ప్రశ్నలకు సమాధానం,
ఏమో? ప్రశ్నలే మనసునిండా ఉంటే వచ్చే సమాధానం,
ఏమో? ప్రశ్నలే సమాధానం అయినప్పుడు చెప్పే సమాధానం,

అర్థంకాలేదా పై నాలుగు వాక్యాలు, ఏమో?
అర్థమైనా ఒప్పుకోలేనివా ఆ నాలుగు వాక్యాలు, ఏమో?
అర్థంలేనివి అనైనా కొట్టిపారేస్తావా పోనీ, ఏమో?
అర్థంవెతికే ప్రయత్నం చేస్తావా పోనీ, ఏమో?

ఏమో? ఏమో? ఏమో? ఏమో?

రంగుల ప్రపంచం మాత్రమే కోరుకునే ఓ మనసా,
కలలేకంటూ, హరివిల్లే ఇల్లు అవ్వాలనేది నీ ఆశ,
వాస్తావాల వాసన చూసేసరికి, అవాక్కయ్యవా?
వర్షం పడ్డ కాసేపే ఉంటుందన్నది మర్చిపోయావా?    

ఆలోచించే నీ మెదడుకు అన్నీ తెలుసు,
కాస్తకిందకి చేర వెయ్యి నీ మనసుకూ..
జరిగేది తెలుసూ, జరగనిది తెలుసూ,
తెలిసీ తెలియక కాదు, ఒప్పుకోలేవని కూడా తెలుసూ,

అలా ఒప్పుకోలేక చెప్పే నీ సమాధానం, ఏమో?

సమాధానం ఆశించడం తప్పా? ఏమో?
సమాధానం మనసుకి నచ్చకపోవడం తప్పా? ఏమో?
ఏన్నాళ్ళు ఇలా ఓ మనసా, కుదురుకో, మేలుకో,
వాస్తవాలు గ్రహించు, నీ మెదడు మాట విను..


-- మీ సాయి కార్తీక్

నిను చేరనే ధరి చేరనే మాటేందుకే ప్రేమ..

నిను చేరనే ధరి చేరనే మాటేందుకే ప్రేమ.. 

నిను వీడనే విడిపోననే అన్నావుగా మొన్న 

కడలంత ప్రేమ గుండెల్లో దాచానుగా .... కరిగించలేని మనసునే కదిలించగా ...

ఉన్నానని ఉంటానని కలలెందుకే??!!! కనీరేగా ఆ కనులలో తేలవరగా ......


-- Pavan Kumar

A Colorful page in life

ప్రాణంలోని ప్రాణమా, మౌనంలోని సరాగమా,
నా గుండె గుడి లో దీపం నువ్వు,గుండెసడి తాళం నువ్వు,
చిన్నపిల్లలా ముద్దులొలికే మాటలు నీవి ,విని తరించే భాగ్యం నాది.
వెన్నెల దారుల వేయి కాంతులు, నువ్వు నవ్వితే వెల వెలబోవా!!

నువ్వు తాకిన పూవనం, పులకించేను తోటంతా యవ్వనం,
ఆ పూలదారిలో మనం నడిచే క్షణం, జీవన మధురక్షణం,
నింగి నుంచి తారను తెంచనా? చందమామని చెక్కిలికి రాయనా?
ఆ చుక్కల్లో చిక్కి నవ్వుతావేమో, రాలిపోయేను పాపం నక్షత్రాలు!!

సాగాలి మనం నడకలో నడకై, జీవన తరంగమై,
జన్మంతా నాతో ఉంటావా? నీలో నేనున్నట్టు గా,
మనసులో నన్ను నింపుకుంటావా? నాలో నువ్వున్నట్టు గా,
జగమంతా మనమే ఉందాం జనమెవ్వరు లేనట్టుగా!!


-- మీ సాయి కార్తీక్

Gujarat, Nature and Activists

Many of my left liberal, communist and socialist friends resort to the tools of ‘Greater Good’, ‘Equality with Dignity’, ‘Government’s Responsibility’, ’Marginalized’ etc… to counter my arguments over issues like religious reservations, economic policies, minority appeasement etc… and I am eventually compelled to release mild tantrums like “Going by logics of yours (lefties), people of this country can only survive either by begging or stealing”.

These days, the word ‘Environment’ gives orgasms to many activists and their views get endorsed from the usual suspects, especially when it’s related to Gujarat. If you are a keen observer over the strategy and methodology applied by the Anti-Modi or Anti-Gujarat group, you can easily trace the origins of the latest allegations by so called environmental activists against the Government of Gujarat in regard to the ‘Technology Solution for Environment Upgradation’ seminar organized by Gujarat Govt. Mr. A. K. Joti, Chief Secretary of Govt of Gujarat is accused of being anti-environment and pro-industry. Mr. A. K. Joti has made a comment on “Basel Convention” with respect to other players like China, Bangladesh and Pakistan.

I tried to deconstruct the strategy applied by these activists whenever Gujarat or Modi is the issue. The tricks used by these activists seem to be a neo-platonic approach, which usually yield good results.

Never Let Me Go - Tunes of Sorrow

Its perhaps a guilty pleasure to admire tragedy because of the emotions it can spur in the viewers mind and with all the skepticism towards life and its meaning, ‘Tragedy’ may be the intangible essence of life. Life, as understood (or misunderstood) by us could bring its sorrow assorted with its ecstasy to play cruel jokes accompanied with hope. Thus, tragedy is a long spectrum of emotions which ruthlessly demands a lot of comprehension unless one experiences it.

Never Let Me Go (2010) is based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s book by the same name, it’s a dystopian film. Kazuo Ishiguro [1] has mastered the art of tragedy, the films fluidity is a testimony to it and the grief of its characters is the relentless questioning on the meaning of life. Almost every frame of the film has its share of melancholy, and the characters constantly ‘Break the 4th Wall’ and shoot uncomfortable questions. One might be under the assumption that a dystopian film would trim the burden of reality and it would be much easier to digest the feelings, but on the contrary – it’s the dystopian set which makes the film more tragic and engaging. What is it like to know you are a sacrificial goat?

Dangling Pointers - Ideologies of so called Modern Indians

I am a Computer Science & Engineering Graduate and the title of this post should be comprehensible for people who come from the same academic background and for those who don’t - below is the minimal definition from Wikipedia.

Dangling Pointers: Dangling pointers in computer programming are pointers that do not point to a valid object of the appropriate type. These are special cases of memory safety violations.

The presumption that an individual can be devoid of an ideology by being an active participant in social and political issues is not agreeable to me, for me it’s more of an hypocrisy and style statement and less to do with the social and political neutrality which an individual tries to project himself to keep immune from any disturbances. In this internet age, where one has the extreme freedom to express his views with anonymity and where one has the power to question and expose the lies of others, it’s imperative that the individual has an ideology. But, these-days I find a peculiar set of people who claim that they do not belong or associate themselves to any particular ideology but their views are based on greater good of the society and some clichéd stuff.

Sagaika Ghose, author of the book ‘Gin Drinkers’ states that her political ideology is ‘Liberal Democracy’ “Theoretically”. Barkha Dutt editor of NDTV enlightens us of what is bad by tweeting “Many of those tweeting in the name of the 'Right' online are the worst Ambassadors for their ideology. Mostly spewing poisonous garbage.”, We have B.Raman, who equates the restless right wing online people as ‘Nazi storm troopers’, the one and only Ramachandra Guha who is an expert in history, cricket, politics etc… and I suspect that his computer password is the pet name of the ‘The Greatest Indian after Gandhi’, the editor in chief of ‘The Hindu’ who has the unique power to read hundreds and thousands of pages of court judgments with in a matter of hours and write an editorial on it. All the mentioned esteemed people can easily be associated with one or the other ideology. The new group (I must admit that I found these creed recently, they may have come into existence even before my discovery) which deny any association to any particular ideology but project themselves as active citizens who have genuine concern towards society and politics amaze me and I call them as ‘Dangling Pointers’ and thus the title of the post. May be its premature for me to classify them, but taking of risk of going wrong, I would give a general classification based on my observations.

Why i write and what makes me write

I am a lazy guy, not even 2 out of 10 posts which i want to write make into my blog, but i do get some energy and responsibility to blog once in a while and the credit goes to Arun Shourie.

Just because "The Only Fatherland" of these theoreticians has collapsed, just because that collapse has taken the theory down with it does not mean that they have been rendered harmless. Their claims are hollowed, they have nothing to say, but they still control large parts of our academia and a very large part of media, certainly the media in English. Therefore, at every opportunity they must be confronted with what has become known about the regimes they had held up to us as exemplars. They must be confronted with and requested to explain what they were writing till just six years ago. The lie they repeat should not be shrugged off just because it is the same old lie: it must be nailed with evidence - each time, and as many times as it is repeated. As must every half-truth by which they seek to once again inveigle us into looking away.
~ Eminent Historians

దేవుడు చేసిన మనుషులు

దేవుడు చేసిన మనుషులు అంటారు, దేవుడు చేతుల్లోని పావులు అంటారు,
అన్నింటికీ నింద ఆ దేవుడిమీదే, మనుషుల భాధల భారం వాడిదే పాపం,
ఉన్నాడా నీ ఆ దేవుడు, ఉంటే వింటాడా నీ మోర,
కన్నాడా ఏనాడైనా నీ రొద, చుశాడా నీ కళ్ళలో వ్యధ.

ఉన్నాడని వాదించేంతా గొప్పోడిని కాదు నేను,
లేడంటూ నిందించే మనిషిని కాదు నేను,
ఉన్నాడో లేదో అని అనుమానించే స్థాయిలోను లేను నేను,
కానీ, ఉన్నాడని నమ్మేవాళ్ళకి ధైర్యం ఆ పైవాడు,
లేదని నిందించేటోల్లకి ఏమీ చెయ్యలేని వాడు.

నమ్మడం నమ్మక పోవడం నీ ఇష్టం,
మొత్తం దేవుడే అని వదిలేస్తే నీకే కష్టం,
నిన్ను నువ్వు నమ్ముకోడం నీ అద్రుష్టం,
అలా నమ్మి ముందుకు సాగడం మహోత్క్రుష్టం.

గాలిని చుశావా కళ్ళతో ? లేదని శ్వాశ ఆపగలవా?
కాలాన్ని ఆపగలవా చేతితో? చేతికి గడియారం ఉందికదా అని!!
కళ్ళుమూసుకుంటే కనుమరుగవుతాడా  మండే సూరీడు?

దేవుడు ఓ నమ్మకం, మనిషి ఓ నిజం,
నిజాన్ని నమ్ము, నువ్వు నమ్మింది నిజంచెయ్యి,
నిజమైన నమ్మకం నీమీద నీకుంటే, దేవుడు కుడా నిజమౌతాడు.


-- మీ సాయి కార్తీక్

The farce debate of Religion vs Science

Reading these articles in the Open-Page of 'The Hindu' my brain was encroached with some thoughts which were in solitude. The 3 articles are 'Is science another of those fanatical religions?', 'Why blame science and religion for the human foibles?' and 'The curse of scientific fundamentalism'. Discussing Religion and Science with idiots gets me the feeling of an insect crawling on neck which i am desperate to get rid off.

Dichotomy between Religion and Science:

Is there a dichotomy between Religion and Science? or is it just one of the pathetic borrowed concepts from the West?. I am quite sure that for many of us the title 'Religion and Science' will be seen with the lens of debate and how one is superior over the other, how the other is devoid of rationality, how the other lacks spirituality, how the other doesn't include inner love, how the other views the world in black and white, how the other has a pragmatic approach towards society etc...;

Forget Greek, what about the Indian Tragedy?

“It’s the real Greek Tragedy” claimed my Left-Liberal friend after hearing the Greece Election Results. The phrase “The Greek Tragedy” is generously used by our Indian journalists and I am quite sure that 9 out of 10 journalists using the phrase have no idea what that actually means. With my limited knowledge of Economics and very little knowledge of Greek Mythology, I surprisingly find very less similarities of the Greece Economic Crisis and the ‘The Greek Tragedy’.

Its  one of my guilty pleasures to include Nietzsche whenever and wherever I can, in this case – I drag Nietzsche and elevate him to a different level, many may feel that it is quite unnecessary, but guilty pleasures hardly take care of others opinions.

“But, at this juncture, when the will is most imperiled, art approaches, as a redeeming and healing enchantress; she alone may transform these horrible reflections on the terror and absurdity of existence into representations with which man may live. These are the representation of the sublime as the artistic conquest of the awful, and of the comic as the artistic release from the nausea of the absurd. The satyric chorus of the dithyramb is the saving device of Greek art."

The 100th post

Thank You,

If you are reading this post, its untypical to start a post with a 'Thank You' but that how the blog has been so many years, i know that i am self boasting - i guess every man needs it - before feminists smell something more here, may be even women needs self boasting.

The 100 post - Well, i deleted many of my previous posts becuase i felt that they are crap, though i never disagreed ideologically, but they were exposing the mediocrity of my writing.

Thanks to Priyanka Mukherjee for her insightful and brilliant articles which range from Akira Kurasowa to Ingmar Bergman, Gayatri Spivak to Presidency College etc...

Thanks to Sai Karthik for his Telugu(తెలుగు) poems and posts. We both share enormous respect and love for the lyrics of 'Veturi Sundararama Murthy'.

Thanks to readers, i know that very few people read my blog, but still Thanks!

Regards,

Krishna

లక్ష్యసాధన - గమ్యఛేదన

రమ్మన్నా రాదు నిన్నటి నీ కల, తాకి వెళ్ళిన గాలి తరగలా,
నిద్రపోయిన నువ్వు కాదన్న మాత్రాన నిన్నటి నీ లోపం పోతుందా,
మేల్కొంటే ముందడుగు వేస్తావు లోకం నివ్వెరపోయి నిన్ను చూసేట్టు,
వెయ్యాలి చేతల్తో చాటింపు చెవులూరే జయజయధ్వానాలకై.

నిండుగా సాగిపోయే మేఘం వర్షించక మానదు, నీ కష్టం ఫలించక మానదు,
ఏ కొమ్మైనా కాయ ఇవ్వను పొమ్మంటుందా,వెన్నెల నే విరబూయను వెళ్ళిపోమంటుందా,
నీటి బొట్టు నేను నడవలేనని నిలుచుంటుందా,తిరగలేనని భూమి ఆగిందా,
ఆగదు ఏ నిమిషము ఏ లోకం ఆగితే సాగదు మానవ ప్రయాణము.

విజయం వరించక వెళ్ళగలదా, ఓటమి వదలివెళ్ళక వెనకుంటుందా,
నీ ప్రయత్నం, నీ కష్టం, నీ ఓరిమి, నీ తపన,
నువ్వు వదలనంత కాలం , నీ అడుగే తొలి అడుగు, మలి అడుగే ముందదుగు.

చేరగలనా గమ్యం అనే చిన్న అనుమనం, చిన్న తీరం కుడా దాటనివ్వదు,
ఓటమి అనే ఊహ కుడా చివరికి ఊహకందని ఓటమి అవుతుంది,
అందదనే ఆలోచన కూడా, కలవని రైలు పట్టాల్లా కలుసుకోలెవు.

నిప్పుల కొలిమిని చూడందే బంగారం మెరిసిందా?
కాలికింద నలగందే ఏ మట్టైనా చల్లని చలివేంద్రమయ్యిందా?
శిల్పి ఉలి రుచి చూడందే శిలకి రూపం వచ్చిందా?

ఒక్కో ఓటమి మెట్టు ఎక్కుతూ విజయ శిఖరం చేరు,
నిన్నటి నీ కలని సాకారం చేస్తూ నింగిని చేరు,
నీ కల నువ్వు, నీ బలం నువ్వు, నీ విజయం నువ్వు!!


-- మీ సాయి కార్తీక్

In Response to a Junior from Presidency College

Dear Junior,

The name Presidency College invokes a rather wide array of emotions in me. Even today as I walk through that gate or climb up those stairs, history whispers to me tales from a glorious past, a splendid heritage inspires reverence. I have been lucky to be taught by some of the best teachers at Presidency. That I could ever sit in a classroom, where the likes of Prof. Taraknath Sen and Prof. Bhabatosh Dutta ever taught, overwhelms me. Yes, I am a very proud Presidencian! Presi was my first citadel of freedom. Be it good or bad, whatever I am today has much to do with those two years I spent there.

Image Courtesy: IBN Live

I also know of another Presidency; a dim and dark dungeon where a girl, about your age was most thoroughly brainwashed. The thought of this Presidency makes me go numb in fear! Let me share her story with you. Once there was this inexperienced and foolish young girl who wanted to usher in positive changes overnight. Her restlessness made her vulnerable. Thus started a process to indoctrinate her with a dreadful ideology.  Her seniors (some of them are now in Police custody) whom she looked up to would give her left radical literature to read. She would be taken to Naxalite congregations. Her faculty for reasoning however had not totally subsided, she could still see through their insincerity, but she would be snubbed off every time she tried to voice her doubts. Her logics would be deemed as ‘inherent reactionary tendencies’. As it happens, after a point she gave in. She somehow stood convinced and even before she realized it herself; she was editing pamphlets for the PCAPA. That girl was I. When the chief minister in her imperfect English tries to put it across that frontal organizations of underground groups are active in the elite institutions of the city, she is speaking the truth and I know it from my experience.

Pune 52 - The Desi Film Noir?

May be its my love for it which makes me look every frame with the lens of Film Noir. I had a chance to look at the trailer and poster of "Pune 52", a Marathi film. At the first look, i felt that it was bold and the poster reminded me of the works of one of my favorite director Jean-Pierre Melville.

The poster was resembling the shot from one of Melville's film  "Le Doulos".

Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Doulos" - 1962.

The Film Noir genre is not something new, nor experimental, nor just a temporary fascination for Indian Cinema. There are many Indian films which can safely be placed in this genre, especially a bunch of Telugu films between 1950-1965 period. I hope to start the my pending post on Telugu Noir soon. Below are the poster and trailer of "Pune 52".

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - Probably the best tribute to Raymond Chandler

The frames spoke with similitudes, I could sense nostalgic moments creeping into my mind, but couldn’t discover that it was trying to suggest a narrative style of a writer, with a comic touch.

It is Philip Marlowe, it was hard to read between the lines – Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is probably the best tribute to detective fiction writer ‘Raymond Chandler’ who once said that halfwits could guess the suspects of Hercule Poirot’s cases and a rumor involving him which suggested that he called Alfred Hitchcok a ‘fat bastard’.

If you are a hardcore film noir fan like me, there is a possibility that you may have watched the classics like ‘Murder, My Sweet’, ‘Double Indemnity’, the confusing ‘The Big Sleep’ and the audacious ‘Lady in the Lake’. All these film noirs were perfect examples for novel narration of detective genre and they couldn’t have been possible without Raymond Chandler. The above classics were followed by Robert Altman’s ‘The Long Goodbye’ and the old Philip Marlowe played by Robert Mitchum in ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ but I could never find another Philip Marlowe.

Yes... he is Philip Marlowe, but never says that he is..

Harry Lockhart played by Robert Downey, Jr. in Shane Black's 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang'is kind of an alter ego of Philip Marlowe. He is vulnerable, poor in English grammar and also poor at mathematics (when he unintentionally puts a bullet into a guy’s head) and says that there was 8% chance, he finds himself at wrong places at the right time and most importantly he is a detective (I mean…he bluffs that he is a detective).

You just can’t miss this Philip Marlowe. Watch it!

Cuss words of Indian Media

I am often compelled to think weather majority of us who have the instincts to react to the injustices and prejudices in society(via media) have ever pondered to deconstruct the truth behind the news and the malicious intention of the messenger. Lets us all (if not all, at least most of us) agree that we are lazy scumbags who take and agree what is given to us even though it is crap.

These days, we are being told that social media is irresponsible. The padma awardee journo is one of the protagonist of this movement, when the irresponsible social media was brainstorming the mainstream media over their silence on a CD, the padma awardee journo was quick to come with words like 'public interest, privacy, etc...'. I am again asking the same question again, what offense did Nityanada commit? why was he termed as 'Sex Swamy' by these media houses and journalists who carry morality, privacy and freedom on their shoulders?

On what categorization is Nityananda distinguished which forced our journalists to term him as sex swamy and throw mud on his privacy and under what interest did the media houses report and telecast the XXX tapes of him?. Doesn't Nityananda have the same privacy rights like others?. What national importance and public interest did the padma awardee journo discover in some xxx tapes and why did they fail to recognize the 'Right to Privacy' in those tapes and what made them enlightened in the recent xxx tapes?. Let me state my position on these tapes and such other issues - I am totally against anything which compromises the rights of an individual and which hurts his/her privacy, any act of such kind which suggests to be illegal should only be taken and discussed in court and no trial should be made by public and media.

Right To Education - RTE

Socialism is Evil.

I have said what i wanted to say in a nutshell in the first line, proceed and read to know the draconian 'Right To Education' bill, referred to other blog posts written by @realitycheckind on his blog and on CRI (Centre Right India)

and some gyan by Nietzsche on Education.

The entire system of higher education in Germany has lost what matters most: the end as well as the means to the end. That education, that Bildung, is itself an end — and not "the Reich" — and that educators are needed to that end, and not secondary-school teachers and university scholars — that has been forgotten. Educators are needed who have themselves been educated, superior, noble spirits, proved at every moment, proved by words and silence, representing culture which has grown ripe and sweet — not the learned louts whom secondary schools and universities today offer our youth as "higher wet nurses." Educators are lacking, not counting the most exceptional of exceptions, the very first condition of education: hence the decline of German culture. One of this rarest of exceptions is my venerable friend, Jacob Burckhardt in Basel: it is primarily to him that Basel owes its pre-eminence in humaneness.

What the "higher schools" in Germany really achieve is a brutal training, designed to prepare huge numbers of young men, with as little loss of time as possible, to become usable, abusable, in government service. "Higher education" and huge numbers — that is a contradiction to start with. All higher education belongs only to the exception: one must be privileged to have a right to so high a privilege. All great, all beautiful things can never be common property: pulchrum est paucorum hominum. What contributes to the decline of German culture? That "higher education" is no longer a privilege — the democratism of Bildung, which has become "common" — too common. Let it not be forgotten that military privileges really compel an all-too-great attendance in the higher schools, and thus their downfall.

In present-day Germany no one is any longer free to give his children a noble education: our "higher schools" are all set up for the most ambiguous mediocrity, with their teachers, curricula, and teaching aims. And everywhere an indecent haste prevails, as if something would be lost if the young man of twenty-three were not yet "finished," or if he did not yet know the answer to the "main question": which calling? A higher kind of human being, if I may say so, does not like "callings," precisely because he knows himself to be called. He has time, he takes time, he does not even think of "finishing": at thirty one is, in the sense of high culture, a beginner, a child. Our overcrowded secondary schools, our overworked, stupefied secondary-school teachers, are a scandal: for one to defend such conditions, as the professors at Heidelberg did recently, there may perhaps be causes — reasons there are none.

~ Twilight of the Idols

శ్రీ వేంకటేశుని వైభవం

శ్రీ వేంకటేశుని వైభవం చూతము రారండి,
శ్రీనివాసుని పాదాభివందనం చేతము రండి.
నిత్యకల్యాణ నిజశోభ నెలవంకకైనా కలదా,
ఆ వేవేల రతనాల కాంతి మన స్వామిదే అవదా.

ఏంతో ఎత్తునున్న ఆ ఏడుకొండలవాడు,
జనులందరికి అండగా కొండపై నిలుచున్నాడు.
గోవర్థనమెత్తిన గోవర్ధనుడు ఈ గోవిందుడు,
ఉడత భక్తిని మెచ్చిన రాముడు ఈ రమణుడు.

కలిగించు నీపై భక్తి మా హ్రుదయాలలో,
కురిపించు నీ కరుణ మా లోగిళ్ళలో.
నిన్ను చేరాలనే తలుపు కలిగించు మా మనసులో,
చెర్చుకో నీ పాదాల చెంత హరి పాదరేణువులలో.

అహో ఆ శ్రీ వేంకటేశుని వైభవం,
చాలవు ఈ రెండు కళ్ళు,చాలదు నూరెళ్ళ ఈ జన్మ.
ఆహా ఆ కళ్యాణరాముని కరుణ,
పొందాలి అందరు ప్రతి జన్మలో, జన్మాంతరాలు ఇక లేకుండా.

-- మీ సాయి కార్తీక్

A Separation

What is with these Iranian films which question the modern aesthetics of film making? They seem to question us unintentionally, but as a movie lover, it’s hard to ignore them. Asghar Farhadi’s ‘A Separation’ which won the ‘Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film’ amidst ‘The Artist’ which was rewarded for being silent and ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ was victim of bad luck.

The film starts with passport and visa documents getting scanned and later a still shot of two couple who are in the front of a judge arguing about divorce. Later we are presented with an old man who needs help, a daughter who is in the middle of her parents who have applied for divorce and a simplistically simple plot.

The screenplay of the film is brutally honest and it dips the viewer into the plot with ease with series of conversations, accusations and emotional reasoning. The reference of religion, the trauma of the families, the shaking thought of absolute morality and the provocations of love are so neatly executed that it’s hard to get distracted even for a second. Goodness is sometimes asked to pay its price for just to pass the test of innersole, the conscious opportunism is juxtaposed with the burden of morality, and trying to create passionate symphony of emotions is beyond brilliance.

The Curious case of Censorship

I take no responsibility whatsoever for any so called obnoxious feelings which may arise while reading this post. 18+ only. Reading Blogs is injurious to Cerebrum.

The Censor B***d has always been a puzzle to me for its acts, for filmmakers it’s a devil and for viewers it’s a soft target. Passion of a filmmaker can only be understood by filmmakers, the infatuation for movies can only be explained by movie-buffs and the burden of social responsibility for making our society cleaner and evil-free can only be understood by them.

Let’s go back into History. Freedom of Expression was a risky business for all the governments and Indira Gandhi was petrified by it, suppressing the freedom of Expression by Govt is nothing new but the suppression of it by institutions is the most dangerous practice. The inception of such ideas with respect to our country points to our Desi Comrades – The curriculum in history text books is the best example, where Karl Marx is suffocated in 42 lines and their own Swami Vivekananda is liberated in 2 lines.

Pran, Kishore Kumar etc… were some celebrities who verbally opposed the emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi and the result of it is the discrimination and suppression of speech adopted by the govt. A song in which he praises Vajpayee, Morarji Desai, Advani and Jayaprakash Narayan was banned. In those days, Doordarshan was the only channel and the government planned to keep the common man in their homes by telecasting the film ‘Bobby’ but the people found the speeches of Jayaprakash Narayan more captivating. Let’s get back to the Censor B***d.

Love Hurts

నేరం నాది కాదు, నీది, నరకయాతన నీది కాదు, నాది,

మనసు గాయం మాసి పోదు మదిని వీడి వెళ్ళిపోదు,
నిన్నలోని నిరీక్షన, కన్నీరై కరిగిన క్షణాన,
మనసు గాయం లోతు ఎంతో గుండె అడుగునున్న ఆ కన్నీటినడగాలి.

స్వేచ్చగా వచ్చి నా తలుపు తట్టి వచ్చి చేరిపోయావు,

వెళ్తూ వెళ్తూ స్వఛ్ఛమైన నా గుండె గుడిని మార్చేసావు,
నీతో ఉన్న నిన్నటి ఆ తీపి క్షణం, తలుచుకోలేను మరే క్షణం.

మనసంటే అద్దం అంటారు ముక్కలైతే అతకదంటారు,

నీకోసం పేర్చా ప్రతీ సారీ విరిగిన వెంటనే, నీ కొసం,
గుచ్చుకున్న గాజు భాధంతా గుండెల్లో దాచి,
నిలబడ్డా ప్రతీ సారీ నీ బొమ్మ చుడాలని, ఆ అద్దంలో.

ప్రతి మాటా ప్రతి పలుకు గాలి లో కలవచ్చు కానీ,

మద్యలో అవి తాకిన మది తలుపులు, పదిలం చెశాయి నీ ప్రతి మాటా,
వస్తావో వెళ్తావో వుంటావూ వీడతావో,
నిర్ణయం నాది కాదు, నీది, యాతన నీది కాదు, నాది.

-- మీ సాయి కార్తీక్

Happy Pongal !! Who is happy ??

The pretext of this article is the feelings of many Indians like me, who are not very happy with this pongal. Let me draw a line and tell you that I am not writing this article in disdain.


Pongal, Makar Sankranti, Songkran, Thingyan, Maghi called out with many names all over South Asia. Out of many traditional folklores circulating in India, let me choose first, ichha mrityu(death at will) of Bhishma who left his mortal coil on this day. Other being, Makar sankranthi which marks the ‘day’ of gods, and it is believed all auspicious things will be done during this six month period (Uttarayana).The other reason is to celebrate the yields of abundant harvest during this time of the year in India. Whatever reason may be, it is one of the festivals of our Indian culture. My moot point is about the harvest and producers of that harvest – farmers.