The British opened thousands of Opium shops in India so they come down
on Indian heritage and leave Indians without any depth of Culture.
Indian Governments are doing the same but TamilNadu Government takes the cake.
They have opened Government run Alcohol shops and now Tamils in Tamilnadu
are gulping alcohol like hell.
Just see the statistics provided by TamilNadu Government on beer consumption in Tamilnadu through the years..
Yearly Production Sales
(Crore Bulk Litres) (in LakhBoxes)
1996-1997 5.33 100.43
1997-1998 5.25 101.79
1998-1999 5.29 109.01
1999-2000 4.23 105.81
2000-2001 5.76 111.66
2001-2002 5.06 114.69
2002-2003 4.32 97.16
2003-2004 5.95 86.35
2004-2005 7.78 89.01
2005-2006 10.62 132.27
2006-2007 13.68 177.33
2007-2008 15.80 196.36
2008-2009 17.11 223.72
E V Ramasamy wanted his followers to be idiots. The Tamilnadu
Government that proudly claims to his thoughts as its Principles,
is doing its best so that People have no sense of their History,
heritage and Culture.
It is easy to misrule over such dump people. Am hurt coz am a Tamil.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Monday, December 27, 2010
Kick OUT, the Nawab of Arcot
In Free India, honouring traitors who betrayed Indian Nationalist sentiments is a travesty. Yet many traitors are being honoured while patriots and freedom fighters are given pittance and lip sympathies.
The Nawabs of Arcot belong to the lineage of these traitors.Noe they have shifted track and pretending to be Patriotic.The Present Nawab ,Nawab Muhammed Abdul Ali, should not be given Government patronage but because he is a Muslim and a Poltical Muslim at that, he is kept high on Government Protocol. Let us have a glimpse of the history of this Nawab.
The thirteenth Nawab, Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan (1825–1855), died without issue and the British annexed the Carnatic Nawabdom applying the doctrine of lapse. Ghouse Khan's uncle Azim Jah was created the first Prince of Arcot (Amir-E-Arcot) in 1867 by Queen Victoria, and was given a tax free pension in perpetuity. This privilege continues to be honoured by the Government of India. This status is protected by the Indian Constitution and the family continues to retain its privileges and titles. The warrant of Precedence needs to be cancelled as India as a Democracy can not recognize loyalty. It is ludicrous thet India calls herself the World's Largest democracy while recognising dead Monarchies as Monarchies.The current Prince of Arcot Abdul Ali came to the title in July 1994.
Pl read the Government order especially those in bold letters to understand the Nawabs. This was taken from their website:
Government's Gazette of April 1871:
Political Department,
Fort S1. George,
Madras.
Notification
Fort St. George April 18, 1871
At 5.30 p.m., on the 12th April 1871, His Excellency the Governor held a Durbar in the Banqueting Hall, for the purpose of presenting to His Highness Prince Azim Jah Bahadur, the Letters Patent issued by Command of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, investing His Highness and his successors with the title and dignity of Ameer-e-Arcot or Prince of Arcot, in India.
The Chief Justice of Madras, the Members of Council, the Provincial Commander-in-Chief, the principal Civil and Military officials of the Presidency, and a large number of residents of Madras were present on this occasion. One of the Governor's carriages, containing Aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Governor and the Under-Secretary started from Government House at 5 minutes to 5.00 p.m., for the purpose of conveying His Highness Prince Azim Jah from his residence, the Shadi Mahal, to the Durbar. A party of the Body Guard were in attendance. The sons and grandsons of His Highness and the gentleman of his suite followed in His Highness' own carriages in the rear of the Body Guard.
A Company from each of the corps in Garrison was present as a guard of honour.
On his Highness' arrival, a salute of 15 guns was fired and the guard of honour presented arms. On alighting, His Highness was received at the foot of the steps by the Chief Secretary to Government and by the Private Secretary to His Excellency who conducted him to the Hall. His Excellency the Governor met His Highness at the entrance of the Hall, and led him to a seat on the dais on His Excellency's right.
After His Highness' sons and grandson had been presented, His Excellency the Governor addressing Prince Azim Jah said:-
"Prince Azim Jah Bahadur,... I have the honour to deliver to your Highness the Letters Patent by which Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to invest you and your successors with the title of Prince of Arcot. In conferring this dignity upon your Highness, Her Majesty the Queen has borne in mind the ties which have united the fortunes of your family with the growth and ascendancy of British Power in the South of India. The name which you and your posterity will bear will serve to recall and commemorate the days when your ancestors and our predecessors cemented their alliance in triumphs over a common adversary, but Her Majesty the Queen blends with memory of the past gracious solicitude for the present and the future.
Her Majesty deshes to mark the esteem in which she holds your Highness personally as the representative of an ancient, friendly and loyal house. She desires to perpetuate her favour in your descendants, and to continue to them, in few forms of honour and with new guarantees of welfare, the means of serving their sovereign and their country. We are happy to see your Highness surrounded by two generations of your offspring, who will convey to after times the recollection of this auspicious day. Your Highness will know how to impress on them the duty of bearing themselves wisely and usefully in the high station in which they have been now confirmed.
Price of Arcot, - I deem myself fortunate in conveying to your Highness, in your venerable age these tokens of the goodwill of our august Sovereign. I trust that you may long live to enjoy the favour of the Queen, the regard of this Government, the affection of your family and the respect of the people of this Presidency."
The Common adversary the Government Order speaks is the Locals called Indians. This family which was hand in glove with the British and perpetuated atrocities on Indians should not be honoured, any further.
Will anyone hear Sense in India?
The Nawabs of Arcot belong to the lineage of these traitors.Noe they have shifted track and pretending to be Patriotic.The Present Nawab ,Nawab Muhammed Abdul Ali, should not be given Government patronage but because he is a Muslim and a Poltical Muslim at that, he is kept high on Government Protocol. Let us have a glimpse of the history of this Nawab.
The thirteenth Nawab, Ghulam Muhammad Ghouse Khan (1825–1855), died without issue and the British annexed the Carnatic Nawabdom applying the doctrine of lapse. Ghouse Khan's uncle Azim Jah was created the first Prince of Arcot (Amir-E-Arcot) in 1867 by Queen Victoria, and was given a tax free pension in perpetuity. This privilege continues to be honoured by the Government of India. This status is protected by the Indian Constitution and the family continues to retain its privileges and titles. The warrant of Precedence needs to be cancelled as India as a Democracy can not recognize loyalty. It is ludicrous thet India calls herself the World's Largest democracy while recognising dead Monarchies as Monarchies.The current Prince of Arcot Abdul Ali came to the title in July 1994.
Pl read the Government order especially those in bold letters to understand the Nawabs. This was taken from their website:
Government's Gazette of April 1871:
Political Department,
Fort S1. George,
Madras.
Notification
Fort St. George April 18, 1871
At 5.30 p.m., on the 12th April 1871, His Excellency the Governor held a Durbar in the Banqueting Hall, for the purpose of presenting to His Highness Prince Azim Jah Bahadur, the Letters Patent issued by Command of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, investing His Highness and his successors with the title and dignity of Ameer-e-Arcot or Prince of Arcot, in India.
The Chief Justice of Madras, the Members of Council, the Provincial Commander-in-Chief, the principal Civil and Military officials of the Presidency, and a large number of residents of Madras were present on this occasion. One of the Governor's carriages, containing Aide-de-camp to His Excellency the Governor and the Under-Secretary started from Government House at 5 minutes to 5.00 p.m., for the purpose of conveying His Highness Prince Azim Jah from his residence, the Shadi Mahal, to the Durbar. A party of the Body Guard were in attendance. The sons and grandsons of His Highness and the gentleman of his suite followed in His Highness' own carriages in the rear of the Body Guard.
A Company from each of the corps in Garrison was present as a guard of honour.
On his Highness' arrival, a salute of 15 guns was fired and the guard of honour presented arms. On alighting, His Highness was received at the foot of the steps by the Chief Secretary to Government and by the Private Secretary to His Excellency who conducted him to the Hall. His Excellency the Governor met His Highness at the entrance of the Hall, and led him to a seat on the dais on His Excellency's right.
After His Highness' sons and grandson had been presented, His Excellency the Governor addressing Prince Azim Jah said:-
"Prince Azim Jah Bahadur,... I have the honour to deliver to your Highness the Letters Patent by which Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to invest you and your successors with the title of Prince of Arcot. In conferring this dignity upon your Highness, Her Majesty the Queen has borne in mind the ties which have united the fortunes of your family with the growth and ascendancy of British Power in the South of India. The name which you and your posterity will bear will serve to recall and commemorate the days when your ancestors and our predecessors cemented their alliance in triumphs over a common adversary, but Her Majesty the Queen blends with memory of the past gracious solicitude for the present and the future.
Her Majesty deshes to mark the esteem in which she holds your Highness personally as the representative of an ancient, friendly and loyal house. She desires to perpetuate her favour in your descendants, and to continue to them, in few forms of honour and with new guarantees of welfare, the means of serving their sovereign and their country. We are happy to see your Highness surrounded by two generations of your offspring, who will convey to after times the recollection of this auspicious day. Your Highness will know how to impress on them the duty of bearing themselves wisely and usefully in the high station in which they have been now confirmed.
Price of Arcot, - I deem myself fortunate in conveying to your Highness, in your venerable age these tokens of the goodwill of our august Sovereign. I trust that you may long live to enjoy the favour of the Queen, the regard of this Government, the affection of your family and the respect of the people of this Presidency."
The Common adversary the Government Order speaks is the Locals called Indians. This family which was hand in glove with the British and perpetuated atrocities on Indians should not be honoured, any further.
Will anyone hear Sense in India?
Tata..a Different Story.
Jamshedji worked in his father's firm till the age of 29. In 1868, he started a trading company with a seed capital of Rs. 21,000. In 1869, he acquired a bankrupt oil mill in Chinchpokli, converted it into a cotton mill and renamed the mill to Alexandra Mill. He sold the mill two years later for a healthy profit. Thereafter he set up a cotton mill in Nagpur in 1874. He christened it Empress Mill on 1 January 1877 when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
"Empress Mills" how noble and patriotic!! and even till today the TATAs try and spin this yarn about their nationalist credentials.
Well where did he get this "seed capital of Rs. 21,000"? and what would be Rs. 21,000 worth today? when at the time cost of gold was roughly ONE RUPEE AN OUNCE - while today it is above Rs. 39,000 an ounce!!!
DRUGS!! The TATAs were drug dealers!!
Here are excerpts from the minutes to a Legislative Council meeting held on Friday, March 25, 1887 at Hongkong
During the meeting a group of Hong Kong-based merchants, among whom were included Shellim Ezekiel Shellim, “of the firm of David Sassoon,Sons & Co,” and Ruttonjee Dadabhoy Tata, “of the firm Tata & Co.,” presented a petition “for and on behalf of the Opium Importers and wholesale Opium Merchants of the said Colony.”
They had come to complain about a Bill before the council, titled “An Ordinance for the Regulation of the trade in Opium,” which they believed “would prejudicially affect their trade.”
That while fully recognizing the necessity of carrying out the object aimed at by the said Bill, namely, the prevention of Opium smuggling into China, and while sympathizing with its spirit, your petitioners submit that the means by which it is proposed to effectuate such object would inflict serious injury upon the Opium trade, and especially on the aforesaid Opium Importers and wholesale and retail Opium dealers, and prove a blow to the general commerce and prosperity of this Colony.
Dont forget that JAMSETH TATA also built Tatanagar on the blood of BIRSA MUNDA who fought heroic battles against the British and that Rattan Tata's grandfather- the founder of TATANAGAR was a DRUG DEALER. The TATA's supplied opium to the British for the Opium wars in China and was requested to come to Jharkhand after the British crushed one of India's greatest patriots!
Tatas are crooks like anyone else..otherwise there wont be any connection with Nira Radia and Rotten tata.
"Empress Mills" how noble and patriotic!! and even till today the TATAs try and spin this yarn about their nationalist credentials.
Well where did he get this "seed capital of Rs. 21,000"? and what would be Rs. 21,000 worth today? when at the time cost of gold was roughly ONE RUPEE AN OUNCE - while today it is above Rs. 39,000 an ounce!!!
DRUGS!! The TATAs were drug dealers!!
Here are excerpts from the minutes to a Legislative Council meeting held on Friday, March 25, 1887 at Hongkong
During the meeting a group of Hong Kong-based merchants, among whom were included Shellim Ezekiel Shellim, “of the firm of David Sassoon,Sons & Co,” and Ruttonjee Dadabhoy Tata, “of the firm Tata & Co.,” presented a petition “for and on behalf of the Opium Importers and wholesale Opium Merchants of the said Colony.”
They had come to complain about a Bill before the council, titled “An Ordinance for the Regulation of the trade in Opium,” which they believed “would prejudicially affect their trade.”
That while fully recognizing the necessity of carrying out the object aimed at by the said Bill, namely, the prevention of Opium smuggling into China, and while sympathizing with its spirit, your petitioners submit that the means by which it is proposed to effectuate such object would inflict serious injury upon the Opium trade, and especially on the aforesaid Opium Importers and wholesale and retail Opium dealers, and prove a blow to the general commerce and prosperity of this Colony.
Dont forget that JAMSETH TATA also built Tatanagar on the blood of BIRSA MUNDA who fought heroic battles against the British and that Rattan Tata's grandfather- the founder of TATANAGAR was a DRUG DEALER. The TATA's supplied opium to the British for the Opium wars in China and was requested to come to Jharkhand after the British crushed one of India's greatest patriots!
Tatas are crooks like anyone else..otherwise there wont be any connection with Nira Radia and Rotten tata.
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Indian Press and Cricketer Dhoni's wedding..
Atlast the hullaboo regarding India’s Cricket Hero Mahendra Singh Dhoni marriage came down.The Media covered his so called Love story in detail. Were they facts as portrayed?
Both Dhoni and Sakshi were supposedly known to each other from Childhood. They even studied together at the same school.Their Parents worked at the same PSU in Ranchi. Some Media, even called them as neighbours. The Great newspapers which gave these details include The Hindu, The Times of India and The Hindustan Times.
But the facts were different. Dhoni met Sakshi at the Hotel in Kolkata where she was an Intern, about 2 years ago. Everything else that appeared in the Media, the Pillars of Indian Democracy, was a figment of their fertile imagination. Speaks so much of our Media and our Democracy!
Interestingly, Dhoni didnt react to the stories..he may have to spend his lifetime doing so.Publicity is important and far more important was his advertising contracts that were on the increase as an outcome. Why care then when such stories bring money?
Both Dhoni and Sakshi were supposedly known to each other from Childhood. They even studied together at the same school.Their Parents worked at the same PSU in Ranchi. Some Media, even called them as neighbours. The Great newspapers which gave these details include The Hindu, The Times of India and The Hindustan Times.
But the facts were different. Dhoni met Sakshi at the Hotel in Kolkata where she was an Intern, about 2 years ago. Everything else that appeared in the Media, the Pillars of Indian Democracy, was a figment of their fertile imagination. Speaks so much of our Media and our Democracy!
Interestingly, Dhoni didnt react to the stories..he may have to spend his lifetime doing so.Publicity is important and far more important was his advertising contracts that were on the increase as an outcome. Why care then when such stories bring money?
Say NO CASTE when Census Knocks at your door..
British ruled India by dividing People. When Communal census was mooted by
them, the then Patriotic Indian Leaders opposed. They could understand the
mischievous intentions of the British.Pl read here to understand how British perpetuated Caste system in India.
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/14523285/312880223/name/bhagat_GENUS.pdf
But, today, under pretensions of caste upliftment
(read Caste votes), Indian Leaders have decided on a Caste census.
Census is the BEST way to perpetuate caste in a society.They want caste to
exist even in other religions too. People are falling victim to the
pretensions of Politicians. But I see some at the end of the tunnel.
Pl read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/asia/11caste.html?_r=1&hp
India will progress despite our Pathetic Politicians.I will say NO CASTE
when census knocks my door. How about you?
them, the then Patriotic Indian Leaders opposed. They could understand the
mischievous intentions of the British.Pl read here to understand how British perpetuated Caste system in India.
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/14523285/312880223/name/bhagat_GENUS.pdf
But, today, under pretensions of caste upliftment
(read Caste votes), Indian Leaders have decided on a Caste census.
Census is the BEST way to perpetuate caste in a society.They want caste to
exist even in other religions too. People are falling victim to the
pretensions of Politicians. But I see some at the end of the tunnel.
Pl read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/asia/11caste.html?_r=1&hp
India will progress despite our Pathetic Politicians.I will say NO CASTE
when census knocks my door. How about you?
Friday, June 25, 2010
Kill Bureaucracy...Teach Bureaucrats to think as Indians not as British
The British harmed India in many ways as Will Durrant eloquently says in his book" The case for India". But to me the biggest harm they inflicted on India is the creation of a religion and a caste called Babus meaning Bureaucrats.
Who is an average Bureaucrat? He thinks he has the powers to do what ever is under his control and no responsibilty and accountabilty. He thinks he is a wonderful human being, sent by the Gods to dispense favours, show contempt to the tax payer who supports him, has no qualm manipulating people and rules to his advantage but pretends to shiver in the presence of his bosses as well as political bosses.
There was this district collector who was in perennial need of money. He needed a VCR to see adult movies and he ordered that Rs 30000 may be drawn from an office account to serve a public purpose. His subordinate officer pocketed half of it and the rest went to the Collector. This is not an unusual activity with Bureaucrats as they evoke fear amonst the people, just the way the British did.
Have you seen a Reality show in India? The judges will often disqualify a participant saying that he was not good for something was missing in him. They can not explain that something and will pretend to be in a metaphysical plane. Inreality, this was a fraud to eliminate the participant and bring up the guy who would lose otherwise. Similarly, the Bureaucrats sit on Judgement of affairs of the Comman man and make their own living at the expense of the lesser powers.
Who is an average Bureaucrat? He thinks he has the powers to do what ever is under his control and no responsibilty and accountabilty. He thinks he is a wonderful human being, sent by the Gods to dispense favours, show contempt to the tax payer who supports him, has no qualm manipulating people and rules to his advantage but pretends to shiver in the presence of his bosses as well as political bosses.
There was this district collector who was in perennial need of money. He needed a VCR to see adult movies and he ordered that Rs 30000 may be drawn from an office account to serve a public purpose. His subordinate officer pocketed half of it and the rest went to the Collector. This is not an unusual activity with Bureaucrats as they evoke fear amonst the people, just the way the British did.
Have you seen a Reality show in India? The judges will often disqualify a participant saying that he was not good for something was missing in him. They can not explain that something and will pretend to be in a metaphysical plane. Inreality, this was a fraud to eliminate the participant and bring up the guy who would lose otherwise. Similarly, the Bureaucrats sit on Judgement of affairs of the Comman man and make their own living at the expense of the lesser powers.
Tamil Honoured as Classical by a Government Order?
It is funny and amusing. The Government of TamilNadu requests Government of India to provide classical status to Tamil Language. Government of India, apparently an expert Body on World Languages suddenlu understands the worth of Tamil or bows to Political pressure for political survival, agrees and this has supposedly added to the glory of Tamil. A Government order to honour a Language that has sustained itself through ages through individual efforts.? How far can a Government go? Have the Government gone crazy like the British of yesteryear's when they thought they have everything on earth under their command.
And a Conference at Coimbatore to celebrate the Classical Tamil while all the Participants will hail the Chief Minister who decided to spend 100s of crores of rupees belonging to the tax payer in the pretext for the sake of the language. So after the Conference, Tamil would have found a place among the great languages of the world thanks to a Government and its Leaders...till the next conference.
A Language grows not by the numbers of people who speak it, as is normally assumed, but by the great minds which use the language to think and write on. Of course a language dies if nobody is there to speak it. But it is not the numbers which determine a language but the quality of achievements in the Language. Hence, Sanskrit continues to be a classical language. So does Latin and Greek and Hebrew.Although often considered a dead language , in view of the fact that it has no native, fluent speakers, Latin continues to be taught in schools and has been, and currently is, used in the process of new word production in modern languages from many different families, including English. Greek is still spoken in Greece. Chinese and Arabic are also considered Classical languages because of their antiquity. Hebrew is spoken by Jews across the world and in Israel.
The inspiration for a Civilisation and a Language is the Great Minds that the language can be proud about.The history of a Language is the History of the Great works written on the language. For a language to flourish there has to be tolerance of criticism, appreciation of contrary convictions and opinions and a humility about oneself. We need substance in thinking and not just a style of great or grand nothings.There also ought to be freedom for creativity and standards for writing in a language, whose existence ought to be debated in TamilNadu. Anyone who questions and values the actions of the Government in TamilNadu and her Leaders were supposed to have hurt some weird sentiments.
How does a Government order issued by a Government run by mediocre people called politicians and bureaucrats help is debatable but Politicians in Tamil hardly debate this on the fear of being misunderstood as anti Tamils. Even the Media which has grown to thrive on Government advertisements and survives by claims to ideals has stopped even pretending to raise basic relevant questions.Iam a Tamil, a Proud Tamil proud of her Classical heritage but shocked at the Pretensions and dramatic acts to impress the people that these help the language grow.
What are the Purposes of this Classical Tamil Institute set up by the Government after Tamil claimed classical Status by a G.O??
•Preparation of definitive editions of forty-one Classical Tamil texts
•Translation of those works into English and other major European languages as well as into many leading Indian languages
•Making of visual episodes on classical Tamil language, literature, epigraphy and architecture
•Development of material for the online teaching of Tamil
•Writing of a historical grammar of Tamil
•Undertaking diachronic and synchronic studies of Tamil dialects
•Creation of a corpus of classical Tamil texts
•Establishment of a digital library
•Study of India as a linguistic area
•Promotion of multidisciplinary research in classical Tamil
These Purposes appear lofty but the major lacunae is support for creating standards in writing in Tamil , translation of masterpieces from other languages to Tamil is single important factor to help a language grow, in the absence of formed minds in Contemporary Tamilnadu.Most of the ideals are limited to documentation and documentation need not be factual knowing the poor standards of documentation and the desire to please higher ups(in journalistic parlance) by writing favourably to please the Powers. Merely scribbling in Tamil does not enable the language though the scribbler may be called a Poet or a Scholar today by the present pathetic language standards in TamilNadu. Remember how Chief Minister Karunanidhi is claimed to have been present on the dais when DMK party was launched? Remember how Jayalaltha removed Srilanka from the Thanjavur Conference Logo because if her anathema to the island nation?
What are the benefits of declaring Tamil as a Classical Language with G.O? A few of hundreds of people with academic degrees in Tamil Language will be provided jobs. What else? They will develop the language. How? By compiling and writing in Tamil. Compilation is a documentation work which the government agencies are famous for. How can Tamil flourish wherein sycophancy and political interests were of paramount importance over anything else? How can a language grow where dissent is crushed and suspected as a neurological disorder. Isn't language being used to further narrow political pretensions? Nobody wants to question because everyone has an axe to grind.
Tamil VazhghaIt is absurd many believe that this shout helps Tamil develop? TamilNadu is having Semmozhi Parks in Mahabalipuram and in Coimbatore. These are sculpture parks which is interesting as TamilNadu is famous today for her moulded sculptures which hold a remote resemblance on the person on which the sculpture was done.The standard of sculpting today is abysmal in TamilNadu as there was not much difference between Thiruvalluvar and EV Ramasamy except for the pair of glasses. But how can Semmozhi Parks further a language? By naming Parks and Buildings , how can one propagate or develop a Language? Luckily these parks were about semmozhi, some new language, as it would be discovered by archaeologists in a few hundreds of years.. Bureaucrats in India are not Public servants anymore but servants of their political bosses. They are hand in glove with Polticians and it is very interesting that many Tamils aspire to be bureaucrats and reap benefits. And to think that we have UPSC to chose these bureaucrats and an Academy at Mussourie to train them in total subservience of bosses and circumvention of Laws is a tragedy. By the way, is Semmozhi, some new language? This will also be the point of research 200 years from hence.
I believe,Tamil was and is a Classical language. The language can stand on its own as it has for many centuries.But the threat posed by so called proud Tamils Leaders is the biggest threat the language has faced since her birth.So far Tamils had great kick out of self affixed prefixes and sometimes suffixes that thoughtlessly claimed greatness of some sort(but without meaning,of course). Now the language of Tamil is being honoured with suffixes such as Semmozhi. Tamil Language doesn't deserve this abuse really. Leave Tamil alone and it will grow and no acts of any Government can eradicate or bring down the importance of the achievements of the Language despite the recent insults she has received..
Please tell me whether Tamil Language will really benefit by the poor standards of academic research in the Language. How students gain Doctorates in research in TamilNadu is better not revealed here though it was common knowledge on the methodology of securing it. We are also aware how the corrupt elements decide on the choice of Vice Chancellors. The present Governor of the state used to pretend that he was learning Tamil( Pl see his interviews in 1989 and 2005) as he thought that pretension will get him some respect. He also knew people have short memory and can not question him. Pl ask him to speak a proper sentence in Tamil? This is as important as Tamil becoming a Judicial language of the Chennai High Court as the HoS has no knowledge of the Tamil language.
To repeat the original question: what can a Government order do to a language? Just like the Vatican with their numerous cases of homo sexuality, child abuse and sexual abuses decides on the Saints of the Catholic Christian World, the Government decided to honour Tamil Language and help in development of Tamil. This order will supposedly help in the development of Classical Tamil with the establishment of a Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai where Tamil is spoken the most chaste way(?). And 90 percent of Government orders can not be enforced in India just the way traffic rules are being enforced in Chennai( or the auto meters were being used?). Even the Tamil words on 100s of contracted ChennaiMetro water lorries can not spell in proper Tamil "Chennai water" as Chennai Kudineer". Whom are we deceiving?
To me these are pretensions that enable only the Politicians wallow in Self Importance and in the bargain gain Political one upmanship in the idea starved TamilNadu and of course make a few material crumps, as usual.E V Ramasamy called Tamil a barbaric language. He was wrong. Tamil is a language of the Barbarians now.Tamil should live despite the barbarians.
I was hoping I was wrong here. But Media informs us that 8 persons were arrested for propagating against the World Tamil Conference today. Looks Stalins and Mussolinis and Hitlers still rule TamilNadu under pretext of Democracy. Tamilnadu has become a Mockcracy indeed.
And a Conference at Coimbatore to celebrate the Classical Tamil while all the Participants will hail the Chief Minister who decided to spend 100s of crores of rupees belonging to the tax payer in the pretext for the sake of the language. So after the Conference, Tamil would have found a place among the great languages of the world thanks to a Government and its Leaders...till the next conference.
A Language grows not by the numbers of people who speak it, as is normally assumed, but by the great minds which use the language to think and write on. Of course a language dies if nobody is there to speak it. But it is not the numbers which determine a language but the quality of achievements in the Language. Hence, Sanskrit continues to be a classical language. So does Latin and Greek and Hebrew.Although often considered a dead language , in view of the fact that it has no native, fluent speakers, Latin continues to be taught in schools and has been, and currently is, used in the process of new word production in modern languages from many different families, including English. Greek is still spoken in Greece. Chinese and Arabic are also considered Classical languages because of their antiquity. Hebrew is spoken by Jews across the world and in Israel.
The inspiration for a Civilisation and a Language is the Great Minds that the language can be proud about.The history of a Language is the History of the Great works written on the language. For a language to flourish there has to be tolerance of criticism, appreciation of contrary convictions and opinions and a humility about oneself. We need substance in thinking and not just a style of great or grand nothings.There also ought to be freedom for creativity and standards for writing in a language, whose existence ought to be debated in TamilNadu. Anyone who questions and values the actions of the Government in TamilNadu and her Leaders were supposed to have hurt some weird sentiments.
How does a Government order issued by a Government run by mediocre people called politicians and bureaucrats help is debatable but Politicians in Tamil hardly debate this on the fear of being misunderstood as anti Tamils. Even the Media which has grown to thrive on Government advertisements and survives by claims to ideals has stopped even pretending to raise basic relevant questions.Iam a Tamil, a Proud Tamil proud of her Classical heritage but shocked at the Pretensions and dramatic acts to impress the people that these help the language grow.
What are the Purposes of this Classical Tamil Institute set up by the Government after Tamil claimed classical Status by a G.O??
•Preparation of definitive editions of forty-one Classical Tamil texts
•Translation of those works into English and other major European languages as well as into many leading Indian languages
•Making of visual episodes on classical Tamil language, literature, epigraphy and architecture
•Development of material for the online teaching of Tamil
•Writing of a historical grammar of Tamil
•Undertaking diachronic and synchronic studies of Tamil dialects
•Creation of a corpus of classical Tamil texts
•Establishment of a digital library
•Study of India as a linguistic area
•Promotion of multidisciplinary research in classical Tamil
These Purposes appear lofty but the major lacunae is support for creating standards in writing in Tamil , translation of masterpieces from other languages to Tamil is single important factor to help a language grow, in the absence of formed minds in Contemporary Tamilnadu.Most of the ideals are limited to documentation and documentation need not be factual knowing the poor standards of documentation and the desire to please higher ups(in journalistic parlance) by writing favourably to please the Powers. Merely scribbling in Tamil does not enable the language though the scribbler may be called a Poet or a Scholar today by the present pathetic language standards in TamilNadu. Remember how Chief Minister Karunanidhi is claimed to have been present on the dais when DMK party was launched? Remember how Jayalaltha removed Srilanka from the Thanjavur Conference Logo because if her anathema to the island nation?
What are the benefits of declaring Tamil as a Classical Language with G.O? A few of hundreds of people with academic degrees in Tamil Language will be provided jobs. What else? They will develop the language. How? By compiling and writing in Tamil. Compilation is a documentation work which the government agencies are famous for. How can Tamil flourish wherein sycophancy and political interests were of paramount importance over anything else? How can a language grow where dissent is crushed and suspected as a neurological disorder. Isn't language being used to further narrow political pretensions? Nobody wants to question because everyone has an axe to grind.
Tamil VazhghaIt is absurd many believe that this shout helps Tamil develop? TamilNadu is having Semmozhi Parks in Mahabalipuram and in Coimbatore. These are sculpture parks which is interesting as TamilNadu is famous today for her moulded sculptures which hold a remote resemblance on the person on which the sculpture was done.The standard of sculpting today is abysmal in TamilNadu as there was not much difference between Thiruvalluvar and EV Ramasamy except for the pair of glasses. But how can Semmozhi Parks further a language? By naming Parks and Buildings , how can one propagate or develop a Language? Luckily these parks were about semmozhi, some new language, as it would be discovered by archaeologists in a few hundreds of years.. Bureaucrats in India are not Public servants anymore but servants of their political bosses. They are hand in glove with Polticians and it is very interesting that many Tamils aspire to be bureaucrats and reap benefits. And to think that we have UPSC to chose these bureaucrats and an Academy at Mussourie to train them in total subservience of bosses and circumvention of Laws is a tragedy. By the way, is Semmozhi, some new language? This will also be the point of research 200 years from hence.
I believe,Tamil was and is a Classical language. The language can stand on its own as it has for many centuries.But the threat posed by so called proud Tamils Leaders is the biggest threat the language has faced since her birth.So far Tamils had great kick out of self affixed prefixes and sometimes suffixes that thoughtlessly claimed greatness of some sort(but without meaning,of course). Now the language of Tamil is being honoured with suffixes such as Semmozhi. Tamil Language doesn't deserve this abuse really. Leave Tamil alone and it will grow and no acts of any Government can eradicate or bring down the importance of the achievements of the Language despite the recent insults she has received..
Please tell me whether Tamil Language will really benefit by the poor standards of academic research in the Language. How students gain Doctorates in research in TamilNadu is better not revealed here though it was common knowledge on the methodology of securing it. We are also aware how the corrupt elements decide on the choice of Vice Chancellors. The present Governor of the state used to pretend that he was learning Tamil( Pl see his interviews in 1989 and 2005) as he thought that pretension will get him some respect. He also knew people have short memory and can not question him. Pl ask him to speak a proper sentence in Tamil? This is as important as Tamil becoming a Judicial language of the Chennai High Court as the HoS has no knowledge of the Tamil language.
To repeat the original question: what can a Government order do to a language? Just like the Vatican with their numerous cases of homo sexuality, child abuse and sexual abuses decides on the Saints of the Catholic Christian World, the Government decided to honour Tamil Language and help in development of Tamil. This order will supposedly help in the development of Classical Tamil with the establishment of a Central Institute of Classical Tamil in Chennai where Tamil is spoken the most chaste way(?). And 90 percent of Government orders can not be enforced in India just the way traffic rules are being enforced in Chennai( or the auto meters were being used?). Even the Tamil words on 100s of contracted ChennaiMetro water lorries can not spell in proper Tamil "Chennai water" as Chennai Kudineer". Whom are we deceiving?
To me these are pretensions that enable only the Politicians wallow in Self Importance and in the bargain gain Political one upmanship in the idea starved TamilNadu and of course make a few material crumps, as usual.E V Ramasamy called Tamil a barbaric language. He was wrong. Tamil is a language of the Barbarians now.Tamil should live despite the barbarians.
I was hoping I was wrong here. But Media informs us that 8 persons were arrested for propagating against the World Tamil Conference today. Looks Stalins and Mussolinis and Hitlers still rule TamilNadu under pretext of Democracy. Tamilnadu has become a Mockcracy indeed.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Rule of Law
I was always impressed by one of the purposes of the International Junior Chamber Organisation, known as the Jaycees:
the government should be laws rather than of men.
Laws that benefit the maximum and not a small group. A Government that works for a smaller group under some noble pretext, as it often was, has to be removed from power as it works against the interest of the people and soceity.
India, trumpeted by Political Leaders and Media as the World's Largest democracy is a fine example of how noble intentions do not match with the self interest of her leaders. And how her citizens are more dead than alive.In brief, the words and actions of the Indian soceity often do not match at all.
We shall begin with the top.The Custodian of Indian Constitution is the President of India and the Governor represent the President in the linguistic states. They were expected to par excellence humans especially when it comes to respect the rule of law and the Constitution. Do they set an example by their actions? Let us study with few examples.
The Rashtrapathi Bhavan and Raj Bhavans, by rules, were expected to run two kitchens. One for the Head of the state or states and another for guests. The Home kitchen was expected to be manned and directed by the spouse or a family member of the Head of a State. What exactly is the reality here?
Often, there was no home kitchen at the Bhavans. The Head of a the state and his family becomes the Guests of the Bhavans and they pay a nominal, paltry amount (say 50 rupees for three meals that may include almond soup and tandoori chicken, atleast twice a day)either monthly or daily to the Comptroller of Governor's Household as Guests of Bhavan. In other words, the Governor becomes his own Guest by manipulating the rules in force. Ofcourse, the Bureaucrats chisen by the UPSC and trained by the Mussorie's Lal Bahadur Sashtri Academy, in their high intelligence, help manipulate the rules for their furthering the self interests. Whether we need such a clever civil service in this country will merit a discussion separately.
The Question is: Can we expect these Custodians of Constituition of India to perform their roles perfectly? I am sure they can not.
Incidentally, the Media had highlighted the illegal activities of the husband of the President of India, Prathiba Singh. Before her election to the President's post, there were reports that she was responsible for breaking law . Pl see the following links:
http://http://www.ivarta.com/columns/070714-Pratibha-Patil-President.htm
http://http://www.zimbio.com/Pratibha+Patil/articles/Tq83EWJuA-3/Pratibha+Patil+Husband+Accused+Land+grab
The Press Secretary to the President of India has the cleverness to take people for a ride when he released a Press release saying that the President of India is not responsible for her husband's doings. Despite sharing the same home and the same bed room? A press release that she was not responsible for her own doings, especially actions against law, will soon be on the way. Media such as The Hindu will continue to highlight her positives by turning a nelson's eye to her wrong doings. Did you say Hand in Glove?
In Indian conditions, Criminality is fast becoming an eligibilty to Power and People seem to be in a long slumber or in an indifferent mood not realising that their attitude is going to hurt future generations. What we have in India is a Government of Men and not of Laws. The people do not think twice before jumping a Que and often believe, it is beneath their dignity to stand in a Que. The west is developed because of the nations respect law, generally. Maybe, this was what made the ex president Abdul Kalam ineligible for a second term.N number of examples are available and we shall discuss these in future.
Rules, Regulations and Constitution will work only in Civilised soceities and nations. For others, as in India they become instruments to beat up the civilised individuals, the powerful become perennial exceptions under some self serving pretext and stop soceities and nations growing up into civilised entities. To me India is dying and my hope was that I would be proved wrong.
It was India's Leaders who were responsible for naxalism and please observe none of them were taking responsibilty for the state of affairs. When a few good things appear to happen, then these Leaders will cry from the roof top that they were responsible for them.
It is time we get up and get rid of our in difference. Or time may be up soon for India!
the government should be laws rather than of men.
Laws that benefit the maximum and not a small group. A Government that works for a smaller group under some noble pretext, as it often was, has to be removed from power as it works against the interest of the people and soceity.
India, trumpeted by Political Leaders and Media as the World's Largest democracy is a fine example of how noble intentions do not match with the self interest of her leaders. And how her citizens are more dead than alive.In brief, the words and actions of the Indian soceity often do not match at all.
We shall begin with the top.The Custodian of Indian Constitution is the President of India and the Governor represent the President in the linguistic states. They were expected to par excellence humans especially when it comes to respect the rule of law and the Constitution. Do they set an example by their actions? Let us study with few examples.
The Rashtrapathi Bhavan and Raj Bhavans, by rules, were expected to run two kitchens. One for the Head of the state or states and another for guests. The Home kitchen was expected to be manned and directed by the spouse or a family member of the Head of a State. What exactly is the reality here?
Often, there was no home kitchen at the Bhavans. The Head of a the state and his family becomes the Guests of the Bhavans and they pay a nominal, paltry amount (say 50 rupees for three meals that may include almond soup and tandoori chicken, atleast twice a day)either monthly or daily to the Comptroller of Governor's Household as Guests of Bhavan. In other words, the Governor becomes his own Guest by manipulating the rules in force. Ofcourse, the Bureaucrats chisen by the UPSC and trained by the Mussorie's Lal Bahadur Sashtri Academy, in their high intelligence, help manipulate the rules for their furthering the self interests. Whether we need such a clever civil service in this country will merit a discussion separately.
The Question is: Can we expect these Custodians of Constituition of India to perform their roles perfectly? I am sure they can not.
Incidentally, the Media had highlighted the illegal activities of the husband of the President of India, Prathiba Singh. Before her election to the President's post, there were reports that she was responsible for breaking law . Pl see the following links:
http://http://www.ivarta.com/columns/070714-Pratibha-Patil-President.htm
http://http://www.zimbio.com/Pratibha+Patil/articles/Tq83EWJuA-3/Pratibha+Patil+Husband+Accused+Land+grab
The Press Secretary to the President of India has the cleverness to take people for a ride when he released a Press release saying that the President of India is not responsible for her husband's doings. Despite sharing the same home and the same bed room? A press release that she was not responsible for her own doings, especially actions against law, will soon be on the way. Media such as The Hindu will continue to highlight her positives by turning a nelson's eye to her wrong doings. Did you say Hand in Glove?
In Indian conditions, Criminality is fast becoming an eligibilty to Power and People seem to be in a long slumber or in an indifferent mood not realising that their attitude is going to hurt future generations. What we have in India is a Government of Men and not of Laws. The people do not think twice before jumping a Que and often believe, it is beneath their dignity to stand in a Que. The west is developed because of the nations respect law, generally. Maybe, this was what made the ex president Abdul Kalam ineligible for a second term.N number of examples are available and we shall discuss these in future.
Rules, Regulations and Constitution will work only in Civilised soceities and nations. For others, as in India they become instruments to beat up the civilised individuals, the powerful become perennial exceptions under some self serving pretext and stop soceities and nations growing up into civilised entities. To me India is dying and my hope was that I would be proved wrong.
It was India's Leaders who were responsible for naxalism and please observe none of them were taking responsibilty for the state of affairs. When a few good things appear to happen, then these Leaders will cry from the roof top that they were responsible for them.
It is time we get up and get rid of our in difference. Or time may be up soon for India!
Thursday, February 25, 2010
What we believe and this thing called Superstition..
I believe . Therfore I exist.
With even kids showing intelligence and cleverness beyond their age, reasoning has hit the nadir today. There are as many opinions as there were people and people with some clarity have become Gurus who flaunt their richness as a parameter for their success. For the same reasons, there has been a rise in the business of consultants as people have no time to apply their mind on issues and are busy with everything else.
The Britishers who arrived in India to loot pretended to be Saviours who would rescue Indians from their thousands of years of superstious beliefs. Today, many so called Modern Indians imitate the British and will join your bandwagon if you raise your voice against superstitious beliefs in India.They have no time and hence to appear modern and progressive, bring down on anything Indian and hence Indian beliefs whatever they were become superstitious beliefs and have to be condemned.
What are beliefs? Is there any distinction between a superstitious belief and a scientific belief and whether any such rhetorical distinction played has substance?
For over thousands of years, Man has respected, worshipped his ancestors and believed that ancestors including dead parents and grandparents guide and protect him in his daily living. Man also worshipped the Sun , the Moon and the Stars and festivals across the world thank the Sun God for the yearly Harvests. These beliefs have sustained Mankind and human life and were the central point of evolution of local heritages. Man has been comforted by these thoughts and if someone has to ask for laboratory proof for the protection received from the Ancestors, they will receive none.
At a different level, Science theories or thoughts have been evolving too. Earth was considered flat and Galileo was condemned when he proclaimed the world as round. Now we know, that the world, was not perfectly round...yes..almost.
Darwin's theory that Man evolved from Monkeys has been questioned recently. What will evolve out of Man in a million years has not been answered yet.
Maybe scientific laws do not change but the theories and our perception of them keep changing. Theories that can not proven wrong at a point of time become scientific laws and remain so, until they were proven wrong.
The Dravidar Kazhagam party of Ramasamy got publicity when they broke idols of Hindu Gods to prove that such beliefs were superstitious. They dare not do anything to Christian catholic Beliefs or to Buddhist Beliefs is a different matter. But nobody questioned when thousands of poor replicas of Ramasamy , the founder of Dravidar kazhagam, were made and erected to across TamilNadu and his followers garlanded these statues as a mark of respect and worship. Does Ramasamy live and bless his followers from these statues? These are pathetic statues and only by reading the name on the slab on the pedestal of the statue, will anyone infer the statue as Ramasamy. Otherwise they could be thought to Sankaradas swamigal too.
Beliefs were not be based on Logic especially when all logic except mathematical logic keeps changing according to our inferences. When beliefs in Gods can inspire Michael Angelo to sculpt David and paint the roof of Sistine chapel, we need more Jesuses. When belief in God can evolve in India into a beautiful heritage with excellence in architecture, paintings, literature, music, sculpture, fine arts..there was indeed a need for enrichment of our belief in Gods. The Gods called Allah and Buddha have led to fine architectures across the world. Every religion has played her part but there has been no visible proof yet of so called non believer's achievements or contributions to mankind. The religions may have their limitations but but for them human excellence would have an imaginary fact.
Isnt it wonderful that beliefs that may be called superstition were the cause of the finest in Human civilisation? The non believers will be hurt by facts because truth hurts.
Indians need to understand their heritage but as such they have blinded. They believe that contempt for anything Indian is Modern and the Secular Leaders of the country have successfully manipulated them.
Let us believe. Believe in our national Flag, believe in our country, believe in our family,believe in Mankind. There were no reasons to do so.Let the non believers and sceptics be allowed to rust..for they chose to be so.
With even kids showing intelligence and cleverness beyond their age, reasoning has hit the nadir today. There are as many opinions as there were people and people with some clarity have become Gurus who flaunt their richness as a parameter for their success. For the same reasons, there has been a rise in the business of consultants as people have no time to apply their mind on issues and are busy with everything else.
The Britishers who arrived in India to loot pretended to be Saviours who would rescue Indians from their thousands of years of superstious beliefs. Today, many so called Modern Indians imitate the British and will join your bandwagon if you raise your voice against superstitious beliefs in India.They have no time and hence to appear modern and progressive, bring down on anything Indian and hence Indian beliefs whatever they were become superstitious beliefs and have to be condemned.
What are beliefs? Is there any distinction between a superstitious belief and a scientific belief and whether any such rhetorical distinction played has substance?
For over thousands of years, Man has respected, worshipped his ancestors and believed that ancestors including dead parents and grandparents guide and protect him in his daily living. Man also worshipped the Sun , the Moon and the Stars and festivals across the world thank the Sun God for the yearly Harvests. These beliefs have sustained Mankind and human life and were the central point of evolution of local heritages. Man has been comforted by these thoughts and if someone has to ask for laboratory proof for the protection received from the Ancestors, they will receive none.
At a different level, Science theories or thoughts have been evolving too. Earth was considered flat and Galileo was condemned when he proclaimed the world as round. Now we know, that the world, was not perfectly round...yes..almost.
Darwin's theory that Man evolved from Monkeys has been questioned recently. What will evolve out of Man in a million years has not been answered yet.
Maybe scientific laws do not change but the theories and our perception of them keep changing. Theories that can not proven wrong at a point of time become scientific laws and remain so, until they were proven wrong.
The Dravidar Kazhagam party of Ramasamy got publicity when they broke idols of Hindu Gods to prove that such beliefs were superstitious. They dare not do anything to Christian catholic Beliefs or to Buddhist Beliefs is a different matter. But nobody questioned when thousands of poor replicas of Ramasamy , the founder of Dravidar kazhagam, were made and erected to across TamilNadu and his followers garlanded these statues as a mark of respect and worship. Does Ramasamy live and bless his followers from these statues? These are pathetic statues and only by reading the name on the slab on the pedestal of the statue, will anyone infer the statue as Ramasamy. Otherwise they could be thought to Sankaradas swamigal too.
Beliefs were not be based on Logic especially when all logic except mathematical logic keeps changing according to our inferences. When beliefs in Gods can inspire Michael Angelo to sculpt David and paint the roof of Sistine chapel, we need more Jesuses. When belief in God can evolve in India into a beautiful heritage with excellence in architecture, paintings, literature, music, sculpture, fine arts..there was indeed a need for enrichment of our belief in Gods. The Gods called Allah and Buddha have led to fine architectures across the world. Every religion has played her part but there has been no visible proof yet of so called non believer's achievements or contributions to mankind. The religions may have their limitations but but for them human excellence would have an imaginary fact.
Isnt it wonderful that beliefs that may be called superstition were the cause of the finest in Human civilisation? The non believers will be hurt by facts because truth hurts.
Indians need to understand their heritage but as such they have blinded. They believe that contempt for anything Indian is Modern and the Secular Leaders of the country have successfully manipulated them.
Let us believe. Believe in our national Flag, believe in our country, believe in our family,believe in Mankind. There were no reasons to do so.Let the non believers and sceptics be allowed to rust..for they chose to be so.
Cheating Customers by Flat Discount Sales
Yesterday, on 24th Feb 2010,I had gone to a NIKE showroom close to the RA Puram Overbridge in Chennai. They had extensively advertised that a Flat 40 discount percent sale was on at all their showrooms and i wanted to purchase something for my child. There was an inviting colorful huge board too at the entrance to the showroom that the discount sale was indeed on.
I picked up a pair of sandals and another pair of flip flops(as bathroom chapals are now called in a rebirth) and asked them to be billed. They created a bill but wanted me to sign the credit card before receiving the bill and checking it. I succumbed to the system but I saw on the bill there was no discount on the flip flop which cost about rs 1500. I asked the cashier for the promised discount and asked him about the flat discount sale. He said that there was no discount on the particular product and when i asked him to enlighten me on the meaning of a Flat Discount sale, he called the sales guy and began questioning him. The sales guy said that I didnt enquire whether there was discount on the particular product and hence didnt inform me so.
As I had already paid the bill by credit card, I had to leave the Nike shop without the promised discount. Taking the customer for a ride, the Nike way.
Words have no meaning in Indian conditions and so was service at commercial establishments. Six months ago, there was a sale in the Lifestyle showroom in City Centre Mall and I purchased a pair of Nike(yes, Nike again) walking shoes. I brought shoes back home and didnt unwrap it for a week. When i tried wearing it one day, i found that one shoe was two sizes smaller than the particular shoe that fit me feet when i tried at the show room. I had to take the shoe back, argue and get it exchanged for the right pair of shoes. Careless service?
On 4th Jan 2010, on the eve of my wife's birthday, I wanted to buy a pair of sun glasses to gift her and visited the Odyssey show room in Adayar. There was a 15 percent discount on for sun glasses but i was told that for the particular product which i had purchased for Rs 6000, i will be given just a 5 percent discount. After being billed and just a second before my credit card was rubbed in the machine, i asked for the amount and the guy on the bill desk said Rs 12000. Shocked, i asked him to check the tag on the sun glass which he did after unwrapping the pack. The bill was raised wrongly and he asked me whether he can bill the new amount..i refused to take the product and left. No apologies to the customer here too.
Before a product is purchased in India, the customer indeed is king. But after a product was purchased, the customer is treated a slave and service becomes harassment with the customer being repeatedly asked to show understanding for the failures of the company.
If Nike is so bad in India, just imagine the service standards we have in India? God save Indians!
I picked up a pair of sandals and another pair of flip flops(as bathroom chapals are now called in a rebirth) and asked them to be billed. They created a bill but wanted me to sign the credit card before receiving the bill and checking it. I succumbed to the system but I saw on the bill there was no discount on the flip flop which cost about rs 1500. I asked the cashier for the promised discount and asked him about the flat discount sale. He said that there was no discount on the particular product and when i asked him to enlighten me on the meaning of a Flat Discount sale, he called the sales guy and began questioning him. The sales guy said that I didnt enquire whether there was discount on the particular product and hence didnt inform me so.
As I had already paid the bill by credit card, I had to leave the Nike shop without the promised discount. Taking the customer for a ride, the Nike way.
Words have no meaning in Indian conditions and so was service at commercial establishments. Six months ago, there was a sale in the Lifestyle showroom in City Centre Mall and I purchased a pair of Nike(yes, Nike again) walking shoes. I brought shoes back home and didnt unwrap it for a week. When i tried wearing it one day, i found that one shoe was two sizes smaller than the particular shoe that fit me feet when i tried at the show room. I had to take the shoe back, argue and get it exchanged for the right pair of shoes. Careless service?
On 4th Jan 2010, on the eve of my wife's birthday, I wanted to buy a pair of sun glasses to gift her and visited the Odyssey show room in Adayar. There was a 15 percent discount on for sun glasses but i was told that for the particular product which i had purchased for Rs 6000, i will be given just a 5 percent discount. After being billed and just a second before my credit card was rubbed in the machine, i asked for the amount and the guy on the bill desk said Rs 12000. Shocked, i asked him to check the tag on the sun glass which he did after unwrapping the pack. The bill was raised wrongly and he asked me whether he can bill the new amount..i refused to take the product and left. No apologies to the customer here too.
Before a product is purchased in India, the customer indeed is king. But after a product was purchased, the customer is treated a slave and service becomes harassment with the customer being repeatedly asked to show understanding for the failures of the company.
If Nike is so bad in India, just imagine the service standards we have in India? God save Indians!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Logic of Dowry?
I remember my mother rebuking my father one day: "You thought you would not require the wealth my father offered you and said no but see how my brothers are living their luxurious lives on the property that ought to have been ours. And we have to work so hard now to make our living".
This after my father turned down dowry offered by his Father in law as he was the only graduate son in law amongst ten others. My Father thought he was being a Progressive thinker
and he became the butt of my mother's jokes.
It is now common in Indian Media to highlight so called dowry deaths and dowry arrests. Feminist Organisations fight against Dowry practices and so called Reformers claim that Dowry is an uncivilised practice in the soceity. Some even say that the male species are a greedy lot unlike the females who supposedly not greedy. Right?
What is Dowry? A gift given to the daughter's family on the occasion of her wedding. Maybe voluntarily and maybe often on demand now. The Law prohibits the practice of dowry and this becomes a crime when sometimes the brides's family objects to the demands usually after the engagement.
Let us work our Dowry.This gift of Dowry called wealth is nothing but money in a different form.
When a search for a Bride or a Groom was launched by Parents, what do they look for? Family Background, Education, Career, Looks and Character. Right?
By Family Background, what do we mean? Whether the family members have or held positions of power and whether they have weath formidable compared to one's own. By education we mean ability to further one's career , which in turn is the ability to make money. This is almost always the case when a groom has to be fixed. It is common to say that if the prospective prosperous groom has had a greyish character, that he will become an angel after marriage and youthful encounters are acceptable if the other parameters such as family background were impressive.
Accepting that grooms search for prosperous brides in with greed, what makes the brides's families search for grooms who were supposedly settled, earning money in plenty.
Will any bride be willing to marry a groom poorer than she was? Will she make Character as the primary virtue and be willing to live in poor environment for the sake of love? Can you find an advertisement in the lakhs of classified matrimonial advertisements asking for a Groom who has character and who will love the bride until his last breadth? If this is the priority, then why should this be taken for granted.
The fact remains that both the female and male species are a greedy lot. When it hurts them, the females call the males greedy. And Men make use of women's parental wealth when it is an additional perk to them.Women are after money as much as Men are and definitely their intensity for extravagance is no less than the Males. Remember Imelda Marcos and Jayalalitha.
Dowry will exist in some form as long as Man (and Woman)doesnt grow to be civilised. And blaming each other is only a pretension of goodness. It is on the rise as human beings try to live a life of comparitive wealth and not contentment.
This after my father turned down dowry offered by his Father in law as he was the only graduate son in law amongst ten others. My Father thought he was being a Progressive thinker
and he became the butt of my mother's jokes.
It is now common in Indian Media to highlight so called dowry deaths and dowry arrests. Feminist Organisations fight against Dowry practices and so called Reformers claim that Dowry is an uncivilised practice in the soceity. Some even say that the male species are a greedy lot unlike the females who supposedly not greedy. Right?
What is Dowry? A gift given to the daughter's family on the occasion of her wedding. Maybe voluntarily and maybe often on demand now. The Law prohibits the practice of dowry and this becomes a crime when sometimes the brides's family objects to the demands usually after the engagement.
Let us work our Dowry.This gift of Dowry called wealth is nothing but money in a different form.
When a search for a Bride or a Groom was launched by Parents, what do they look for? Family Background, Education, Career, Looks and Character. Right?
By Family Background, what do we mean? Whether the family members have or held positions of power and whether they have weath formidable compared to one's own. By education we mean ability to further one's career , which in turn is the ability to make money. This is almost always the case when a groom has to be fixed. It is common to say that if the prospective prosperous groom has had a greyish character, that he will become an angel after marriage and youthful encounters are acceptable if the other parameters such as family background were impressive.
Accepting that grooms search for prosperous brides in with greed, what makes the brides's families search for grooms who were supposedly settled, earning money in plenty.
Will any bride be willing to marry a groom poorer than she was? Will she make Character as the primary virtue and be willing to live in poor environment for the sake of love? Can you find an advertisement in the lakhs of classified matrimonial advertisements asking for a Groom who has character and who will love the bride until his last breadth? If this is the priority, then why should this be taken for granted.
The fact remains that both the female and male species are a greedy lot. When it hurts them, the females call the males greedy. And Men make use of women's parental wealth when it is an additional perk to them.Women are after money as much as Men are and definitely their intensity for extravagance is no less than the Males. Remember Imelda Marcos and Jayalalitha.
Dowry will exist in some form as long as Man (and Woman)doesnt grow to be civilised. And blaming each other is only a pretension of goodness. It is on the rise as human beings try to live a life of comparitive wealth and not contentment.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Self Respect or Arrogance?
We had a so called movement for Self respect in TamilNadu led by a born again atheist Ramasamy Naicker. Ironically, if you call Ramasamy Naicker as Ramasamy, many in TamilNadu are now flustered. He has to be adored by the word Periyar meaning Great man.
The Movement started on an anti Brahmin plank and so became pro backward classes and pro dalit.By classes, i mean, the castes of the Hindus.The goal was to attain political power under the assumption that political power reap gains to the people. This goal was reached in 1967 under tall promises such as a measure of rice for one rupee(approx 1.4 kilo). It is another matter none of the promises were ever delivered and people made suckers.
Forty years after, poverty is as much an issue as was Social equality( the term Self respect could backfire,hence).The values of so called Brahmins of yesteryears became the values of so called leaders of this movement. They called for total subservience from the followers, took unilateral decisions, manipulated logic and arguments to defend their short sighted narrow self interests.
Take the example of fight against Brahmins. Brahmins are not a factor in TamilNadu today as they have been decimated in Public life today. Though, if you want a dependent employee, any one would prefer a Brahmin though speaking differently in public.
So what happened to the Anti Brahmin movement? Dravidar kazhagam which was the child of Ramasamy was handed on a platter to one Veeramani by Ramasamy's second wife Maniammai. Just recollect these facts: Ramasamy was born 1879. He remarried in 1948 at the age of 69. Maniammai was in her twenties when she married Ramasamy.Ramasamy published a statement in Viduthalai on June 28, 1949 that he was planning to make K. A. Maniammai his heir ignoring many stalwarts in the movement. Veeramani aka Krishnasamy started working with Ramasamy in 1956 when he was 23 years old and soon became a friend of Ramasamy's family. Later Maniammai, on Ramasamy's death proclaimed Veeramani as her heir. All these decisions were on Public interest? It doesnt take intelligence to realise an young Maniammai being attracted by a young man, Veeramani and the Movement taking indecent turns. Was the thoughts of followers ever considered while taking these decisions? When decisions were taken by these so called leaders, it was always in public interest. And so they claim.Pure crap.
Tamils Welfare is a plank often used by these men. The businesses run by these men called leaders can go to any length to take advantagous of the weaker sections of the soceity in TamilNadu. There is a Periyar Maniammai University run by Veeramani's clan for the upliftment of everybody knows whom. The University has a girls hostel and a mess attached. The poor quality of food given to girls in the hostel is to be ate to be believed. Despite lofty ideals proclaiming women's equality, these hostels provide better food to boys because they can behave violently. They care how many hoots for the girls is there to see.
I want to go a step further and ask these Tamil Leaders a few questions. If Tamils in Malaysia are harassed for violation of local laws and Srilankan Tamils are in a pitiable state, are the Tamils in TamilNadu are in a better state? Look at the n number of prisons and 1000s of prisons languishing in Jails in the state, many on grounds of mere suspicions. How come nobody speaks for them? Are non Indian Tamils alone make up for real Tamils?
A walk to the Okkaiyam Thoraipakkam Slum Clearance Board shelters in South Chennai, just a few mins from the elitish Rajiv Gandhi Salai is a proof that nobody cares for Tamils. Poor sanitary conditions, unliveable conditions in a modern soceity are the status quo.
Hypocrisy and double standards are the hallmark of Tamil Politicians. They speak something for public consumption. They can hardly speak the truth. Vaaye Vellum. Speech alone truimphs.We are told that we have the government we deserve. I believe, we deserve better governments. Despite being stupid, arrogant and indifferent to common good. We hardly have self respect and how i wish i was wrong.
The Movement started on an anti Brahmin plank and so became pro backward classes and pro dalit.By classes, i mean, the castes of the Hindus.The goal was to attain political power under the assumption that political power reap gains to the people. This goal was reached in 1967 under tall promises such as a measure of rice for one rupee(approx 1.4 kilo). It is another matter none of the promises were ever delivered and people made suckers.
Forty years after, poverty is as much an issue as was Social equality( the term Self respect could backfire,hence).The values of so called Brahmins of yesteryears became the values of so called leaders of this movement. They called for total subservience from the followers, took unilateral decisions, manipulated logic and arguments to defend their short sighted narrow self interests.
Take the example of fight against Brahmins. Brahmins are not a factor in TamilNadu today as they have been decimated in Public life today. Though, if you want a dependent employee, any one would prefer a Brahmin though speaking differently in public.
So what happened to the Anti Brahmin movement? Dravidar kazhagam which was the child of Ramasamy was handed on a platter to one Veeramani by Ramasamy's second wife Maniammai. Just recollect these facts: Ramasamy was born 1879. He remarried in 1948 at the age of 69. Maniammai was in her twenties when she married Ramasamy.Ramasamy published a statement in Viduthalai on June 28, 1949 that he was planning to make K. A. Maniammai his heir ignoring many stalwarts in the movement. Veeramani aka Krishnasamy started working with Ramasamy in 1956 when he was 23 years old and soon became a friend of Ramasamy's family. Later Maniammai, on Ramasamy's death proclaimed Veeramani as her heir. All these decisions were on Public interest? It doesnt take intelligence to realise an young Maniammai being attracted by a young man, Veeramani and the Movement taking indecent turns. Was the thoughts of followers ever considered while taking these decisions? When decisions were taken by these so called leaders, it was always in public interest. And so they claim.Pure crap.
Tamils Welfare is a plank often used by these men. The businesses run by these men called leaders can go to any length to take advantagous of the weaker sections of the soceity in TamilNadu. There is a Periyar Maniammai University run by Veeramani's clan for the upliftment of everybody knows whom. The University has a girls hostel and a mess attached. The poor quality of food given to girls in the hostel is to be ate to be believed. Despite lofty ideals proclaiming women's equality, these hostels provide better food to boys because they can behave violently. They care how many hoots for the girls is there to see.
I want to go a step further and ask these Tamil Leaders a few questions. If Tamils in Malaysia are harassed for violation of local laws and Srilankan Tamils are in a pitiable state, are the Tamils in TamilNadu are in a better state? Look at the n number of prisons and 1000s of prisons languishing in Jails in the state, many on grounds of mere suspicions. How come nobody speaks for them? Are non Indian Tamils alone make up for real Tamils?
A walk to the Okkaiyam Thoraipakkam Slum Clearance Board shelters in South Chennai, just a few mins from the elitish Rajiv Gandhi Salai is a proof that nobody cares for Tamils. Poor sanitary conditions, unliveable conditions in a modern soceity are the status quo.
Hypocrisy and double standards are the hallmark of Tamil Politicians. They speak something for public consumption. They can hardly speak the truth. Vaaye Vellum. Speech alone truimphs.We are told that we have the government we deserve. I believe, we deserve better governments. Despite being stupid, arrogant and indifferent to common good. We hardly have self respect and how i wish i was wrong.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Dr TAMIL
Tamils love prefixes and suffixes to their names.
A Political leader calls himself Revolutionary leader, another a Great Scholar and the third a Great Artiste. The Tamil Film Industry has similiar habits too. Grand words are used to describe film personalities.
Tamils since Indian Independence have loved using their academic qualifications as a suffix as it shows them as learnt persons.They are yet to display their School qualifications though. The demand for Honorary University Doctorates are on the rise and those with some power,money and political, can manage a Honorary Doctorate, so that they can display it and pretend to something they know they arent. Honorary Doctorates are not displayed as a practise world wide but Tamils today are always an exception. American Presidents or Indian Prime Ministers who received such Doctorates had never ever displayed them. Ever heard of Dr Indira Gandhi or Dr Jawaharlal Nehru?
Tamils adore suffixing their academic degrees whenever possible for effect.Infact many in TamilNadu go for multi academic qualifications so that they can display these to the world as an achievement. I have personally seen many with Masters degree in five, six, seven subjects just for displaying them on their business card. Is that accumulation of knowledge or accumulation of academic degrees? I know of a bureaucrat who finished his MBBS, 25 years ago, but hardly remembers anything of his study.But he has this prefix DR.
Another development is people belonging to engineer profession using prefix ER to show off their profession, just as Physicians do. Physicians use the prefix of DR so that they can be easily identified when they are needed in an emergency. Engineers probably felt disturbed by the identity provided to Physicians and felt the need to compete with them. Some day, every one will have a prefix in TamilNadu as they may feel awed by the growing development and feel the need to be in tune with the times.
Members of the Indian Civil Service do not use display the service to which they belong at the the Babudom of New Delhi. In TamilNadu, just to create awe and pretend superiority ,it is common for officers to use IAS, IPS as a suffix to their names. Atleast it will help them get their personal work done whenever influence matters and as it matters everywhere.
Tamils today are not of substance and hence the need for them to prove to the world.
This inadequacy, craving for recognition and arrogance and contempt for fellow human beings including Tamils makes them create superficial values for display. It also shows a degraded soceity looking for recognition in the shortest route possible without working the hard straight way for it. It is also a method to put down fellow Tamils who do not have suffixes and prefixes. It is also contempt for other Tamils that makes users of these prefixes and suffixes wallow in self importance. If ever there was any meaning of social justice, this is the exact opposite of that term.
I know of a man who wrote about 30 pot boilers buy claimed he is greater than Thiruvalluvar because of the quantity of his productions. How to make his mind relate to the difference is a challenge.
Posterity will be confused as even dead men are being dug up and given prefixes. Thiruvalluvar will be known as Ayyan and future archeologists will conclude that Thiruvalluvar was born in Thiruvallur and his real name was Ayyan and he belonged to the Ayyar Community as his name rhymes with the name of the Brahmin community. Prefixes and Suffixes are bound to confuse but they are meant to be so.
Grand words which just mean grand Nothings!
A Political leader calls himself Revolutionary leader, another a Great Scholar and the third a Great Artiste. The Tamil Film Industry has similiar habits too. Grand words are used to describe film personalities.
Tamils since Indian Independence have loved using their academic qualifications as a suffix as it shows them as learnt persons.They are yet to display their School qualifications though. The demand for Honorary University Doctorates are on the rise and those with some power,money and political, can manage a Honorary Doctorate, so that they can display it and pretend to something they know they arent. Honorary Doctorates are not displayed as a practise world wide but Tamils today are always an exception. American Presidents or Indian Prime Ministers who received such Doctorates had never ever displayed them. Ever heard of Dr Indira Gandhi or Dr Jawaharlal Nehru?
Tamils adore suffixing their academic degrees whenever possible for effect.Infact many in TamilNadu go for multi academic qualifications so that they can display these to the world as an achievement. I have personally seen many with Masters degree in five, six, seven subjects just for displaying them on their business card. Is that accumulation of knowledge or accumulation of academic degrees? I know of a bureaucrat who finished his MBBS, 25 years ago, but hardly remembers anything of his study.But he has this prefix DR.
Another development is people belonging to engineer profession using prefix ER to show off their profession, just as Physicians do. Physicians use the prefix of DR so that they can be easily identified when they are needed in an emergency. Engineers probably felt disturbed by the identity provided to Physicians and felt the need to compete with them. Some day, every one will have a prefix in TamilNadu as they may feel awed by the growing development and feel the need to be in tune with the times.
Members of the Indian Civil Service do not use display the service to which they belong at the the Babudom of New Delhi. In TamilNadu, just to create awe and pretend superiority ,it is common for officers to use IAS, IPS as a suffix to their names. Atleast it will help them get their personal work done whenever influence matters and as it matters everywhere.
Tamils today are not of substance and hence the need for them to prove to the world.
This inadequacy, craving for recognition and arrogance and contempt for fellow human beings including Tamils makes them create superficial values for display. It also shows a degraded soceity looking for recognition in the shortest route possible without working the hard straight way for it. It is also a method to put down fellow Tamils who do not have suffixes and prefixes. It is also contempt for other Tamils that makes users of these prefixes and suffixes wallow in self importance. If ever there was any meaning of social justice, this is the exact opposite of that term.
I know of a man who wrote about 30 pot boilers buy claimed he is greater than Thiruvalluvar because of the quantity of his productions. How to make his mind relate to the difference is a challenge.
Posterity will be confused as even dead men are being dug up and given prefixes. Thiruvalluvar will be known as Ayyan and future archeologists will conclude that Thiruvalluvar was born in Thiruvallur and his real name was Ayyan and he belonged to the Ayyar Community as his name rhymes with the name of the Brahmin community. Prefixes and Suffixes are bound to confuse but they are meant to be so.
Grand words which just mean grand Nothings!
Friday, January 29, 2010
Annadurai's quote
C.N Annadurai was the Chief Minister of TamilNadu for a short period in Late 60s.
He was called ARIGNAR meaning a great scholar.
One of his his popular quotes is:
"Go to the People,
Live with them,
Learn from them,
Love them,
Start with what they know,
Build on what they have."
Incidentaly, the Famous Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu ought to have read Annadurai thousands of years ago as he wrote the same words in his book "Tao Te Ching" during the period of his living in 600 BC to 531 BC.
He was called ARIGNAR meaning a great scholar.
One of his his popular quotes is:
"Go to the People,
Live with them,
Learn from them,
Love them,
Start with what they know,
Build on what they have."
Incidentaly, the Famous Chinese Philosopher Lao Tzu ought to have read Annadurai thousands of years ago as he wrote the same words in his book "Tao Te Ching" during the period of his living in 600 BC to 531 BC.
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