Wednesday, May 19, 2010
THE TAMIL "PASALI" IN JAPAN
கடந்த 2009 - ஆம் ஆண்டு அக்டோபர் மாதம் ஆறாம் தேதி தொடக்கம் பத்து நாட்கள் நான் ஜப்பானில் டோக்கியோ நகரிலிருந்தேன். யூஏனோ பகுதியில் பார்க் சைடு ஹோட்டலில் இருந்த நான், டோக்கியோ நகரை சுற்றிப்பார்க்கும் விருப்பில் ரயிலேறி அகாகுசா புத்தர் திருக்கோயில் சென்று அந்தப் பேரறிவாளனை வணங்கிவிட்டு நேரே டோக்கியோவின் குறுக்காக ஓடும் ஆற்றின் மீதமைந்த பாலத்தின் மீது நின்றவாறு ஆற்றங்கரையோரமாகக் கட்டப்பட்டுள்ள படகுகள் நீரோட்டத்தில் அசைவதைக் கண்டுகளித்தேன். கருமேகம் நிறைந்த நீலவானம். கரும்பச்சை நிறமான ஆற்று நீர். அழகான மக்கள். பொம்மைகள் போன்ற குழந்தைகள். கட்டிளம் பெண்கள். தலைமுடியை வாறாத துடிப்பான பள்ளி மாணவர்கள். வெகுநேரம் என்னை மறந்து எத்தனையோ ஆயிரம் கல் தொலைவிலிருந்து இனிய ஜப்பானைக் கண்குளிரக் காண்பதற்கு அருளிய என் கதிர்காமக் கந்தவேளை மனதில் நன்றி கூறி வணங்கினேன்.
வயிற்றில் பசியெடுத்தது. சாலையைக் கடந்து வரிசையாகத் தென்படும் உணவகங்கள் பலவற்றில் மனம் விரும்பிய ஒன்றினுள் புகுந்தேன். ஒரு வெள்ளை தட்டில் பலவகையான பச்சைக் காய்கறிகளுடன் கூடிய சோற்றுணவு வந்தது. பறிமாறியவள் ஒரு மூதிளம்பெண். என் எதிரே அமர்ந்து ஒரு நடுத்தர வயதுடைய ஜப்பானியர் உணவருந்திக் கொண்டிருந்தார். பலவகையான் பச்சைக் காய்கறி கீரைகளின் நடுவே விசித்திரமான ஒரு கீரையும் இருந்தது. அதன் பெயர் என்ன என்று அந்த ஜப்பானியரை நான் கேட்டேன்.
"பசலி" - என்றார் அவர்.
"உங்கள் ஜப்பான் மொழியில் இதன் பெயரைக் கூறுங்கள்" - என்றேன்.
"பசலி", "பசலி" - என்று இரு முறையும் மிகவும் தெளிவாகக் கூறினார்.
படர்கொடிப் பந்தல் கட்டி வீட்டின் முற்றத்தில் நிழல் தரும் இவர்கொடிப் பசலிக்கொடி கடல் கடந்தும்
சுடரொளி வீசும் செந்தமிழ்ப் பெயர் சிறிதும் வழுவாது பசலி என்றே ஜப்பானியராலும் அறியப்படுகிறதென்றால்
நம் தாய் மொழியாம் தமிழ் மொழி தன் மக்களை மட்டுமின்றி தன் மண்மீது கிளைத்து முளைத்த செடிகொடிகளின் பெயர்களையும் கடல் மலை கடந்த மொழிபெயர் நாடுகளெங்கும் பரவவிட்டுள்ள
மொழிமாண்பினை, தமிழ் மொழியில் வழக்காறு பரவிடும் வல்லாண்மையை, செம்மொழியாகிய அதன்
சீர்த்தியை என் கணங்களை மூடி ஒரு நிமிடம் மெய்சிலிர்க்க வணங்கியவனாக செந்தமிழ் கொடியை ஜப்பான் நாட்டினுள்ளும் பெயர் விளங்கும் வகையில் பரப்பி உடல் வளர்க்கும் உணவாக உதவும் பசலியை உண்டேன்.
தமிழ்ப் பசலி ஜப்பானில் உணவாகி என் உள்ளத்தினுள் தமிழ் உணர்வை உரமூட்டியதை உணர்ந்தேன் நான்.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
SCHOOL IN CALIBRE LOOTING
THE ROT IN THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM IN INDIA
NO PUNITIVE ACTIONS ON LOOTERS USING EDUCATION
AS A TOOL TO CORRUPT INDIA
"YOU NEED A CALIBRE IN SCHOOL TO LOOT INDIA!"
I start with the Indian Medical Council, now dismantled after letting Ketan Desai, its erstwhile chairman was allowed to amass cash and gold worth millions of dollars. The ministry of health and the government of India were sleeping beauties for so many years that Ketan Desai was spreading a cancer in corruption to the root of the system that teaches medicine in India. This man deserves to be an instant target to a military firing squad and should be done with his life instantly. But he is often shown in TV news footage at courts and police in custody. Our judicial system will allow him to live for his full life without he being punished or sentenced. That much is for our democracy!
You think Ketan Desai is all alone in the corrupt dens that India proclaims as its proud temples of education? No. Look at the “International Schools” all over India catering the needs of the children of the rich parents! Look at Members of Legislative Assemblies and Members of Parliament running engineering colleges, arts & science colleges, institutes for aeronautical engineering, medical colleges and even kindergarten and higher secondary schools across India. They are business houses and not worth the meaning of educational institutions. Such private colleges and schools only cater the needs of the wards of rich businessmen and tycoons looting India as real estate owners, developers, shopping mall owners and movie theatre owners. There are of course our politicians and even well know journalists running periodical magazines, newspapers and to say the least, government officers drawing state money as salary!
But, that is not our serious concern. The rot is in the disparity they show to deserving poor students against sons and daughters of rich businessmen hoarding black money in millions is our real worry. A common man’s son or daughter cannot get admission in Padama Sheshadri’s Calibre School, said to be a model school emulating the teaching system in the US! Sorry, no educational institution in the USA is ever charging a sum of money from the parents of an American kindergarten child that Padma Sheshadri is all out to loot in the name of “American-type Education” in India! The government of India grants permission to such daylight brigands decorating them with Padmashri awards for them to continue with their “service” to loot the nation. Yes, a horrible sum of Rs.40, 000/- is the outright money for admission and Rs.10,000/- more for other reasons and still more in term payments leading up to Rs.1,00,000/- per annum for a child in Padma Sheshadri’s Calibre School in Chennai. That is the order of her school to gullible goats among Chennai parents in Tamil Nadu to gets a “USA type Education” here.
How then it is possible for sons and daughters of common man to gain education here? Is it not time for the government to weed out nocturnal elements like Calibre school from looting ignorant people in India? Why Padma Sheshadri cannot go out to open a Calibre School in Jharkhand, Bihar, Orissa and the UT of Dadra & Nahar Haveli where poor people really need educational uplift? Why only in rich Chennai, Delhi and Mumbai? Let them prove their service oriented gift to India via education from those areas where it is extremely required to enlighten less privileged rural people who need more than in education than any one in India. Let Padma Sheshadri show her mettle and prowess there and thereby her love to impart education equally to all. Why only she should target the rich living only in the metro cities?
The government should ban all such private schools and set a target for fee collection from students over their parents’ economical conditions and status.
The government cannot keep sleeping on this issue any more. Already there is a silent protest brewing in the mind of people across India in the way education has been transformed into a looters’ paradise. If left unchecked, this issue could one day become a conflagration to engulf India with its different form of vicious tentacles a few of which is already visible in the way the poor people are becoming the deadly Maoists and Naxalites in the neglected rural parts of India. No power is nearest in strength to contain people’s distaste if vented against the government that shows Nelson’s Eye to social disparity sown in the system of education in the way Padma Sheshadri is killing the very roots of “education to everyone in equal measure and respect”.
Not alone our government, it is time the general public come out to close down class divide initiated by people like Padma Sheshadri using education as a tool to rot and kill our dear Mother India.
Will our government take note of this and bring in equality at least in our educational system?
TOP COMMENT ON GAMBLING WITH CRICKET
C. Sachidananda Narayanan, Chennai 15 May, 2010 1213hrs IST
Thursday, May 13, 2010
THINKTANK DAYALNATHAN'S VIEW ON RICHNESS
HOW MUCH ONE SHOULD BE RICH
THINK-TANK,MR. DAYALNATHAN'S
CONCEPT ON RICHNESS AND ITS LIMITS
Needless to say that the intellectual capital of India, the city of Chennai is brimming with persons of factual and revolutionarily enlightened minds and Mr. Dayalnathan is one among the unknown thousands silently adding glitter to the process of thinking while he manages his own business satisfactorily. The other day when I met him for a leisure talk, my parting away from his office made me a few more kilograms heavier than ever. He asked me how much I would need to spend to enjoy a life if I were to spend a day in a five star luxury hotel anywhere in the world - be it in the Big Apple in the US, Ueno Prefecture or Kanda in Tokyo, Japan or the White Fields in Bangalore. I hesitated to answer as I was well aware of a break in our talk due to my answer that could drag him into a new area to think differently. So, I kept quite.
Then Mr. Dayalnathan started to write on a paper splitting the amount for room rent, food, drinks, entertainments, shopping and all the likes an average person who often travels like me incurred. It came out to be Rs.10, 000/- (US$ 5000) and nothing more even to include a chauffeur driven air-cooled car for travel. Beyond that, even if one tried hard to spend on him, it would be difficult to find a passage to do so in 24 hrs minus a minimum required duration of time to sleep for 8 hrs doing nothing lying on bed alone - or- even with a chosen partner rented for purpose!
Then Mr. Dayalnathan started his calculations adding up to a grand total for 365 days. If one could possess or inherit that sum of money for a perceived period of his / her life of 75 years, or work up to accumulate it through hard working when his / her body enabled to achieve that target, Mr. Dayalnathan categorically said “that was it” and nothing more in any currency ever required by anyone. As I raised my eyebrow, a smart think-tank in Mr. Dayalnathan has immediately came out with an answer to a question I was left with no alternative but to swallow that before I gave vent to it inquisitively. Mr. Dayalnathan told me that one needs to work, slog or labour to own such a huge amount with definitely the support of his educational qualifications, professionalism, training, self or service oriented employment. He even has admitted that with all that as assets and weapons, one needed to spend a better part of his life to achieve it. My inquisitiveness enlarged.
Mr. Dayalnathan picked it out from my blank face held up staring the ceiling of the room where my eyes were transfixed.
“Look at me, Sachidananda. I know and I can also read what is going on in your mind about those multi-millionaires who have amassed wealth to last for a couple of dozens of their generations from them". – He said.
"Yes, indeed. I was just thinking on them alone", I muttered faintly.
"No. The rest of the money is of no use to them at all as a person who toiled for it. They simply dig out more for others to sit on it. They thereby create a generation to inherit laziness, nonchalance and no innovative thoughts".
Mr. Dayalnathan was explaining me so.
"Remember one more thing, Sachidananda......"-
Mr. Dayalnathan was showing his index finger at me as though I should give more attention to what he would say further than what he had already said.
"What?" - I asked him looking at his finger pointed towards my face.
"Not one among the millions of billionaires who have amassed wealth beyond the required proportion of money to lead such a life as I have mentioned above have ever remembered by this world including Warren Buffet, Rockefeller or Sultan Hasnan Bolkia of Brunei" –
Mr. Dayalnathan delivered his words as though I were one among those rich people holding a Himalayan heap of wealth. His tone was admonishing. I kept my tongue tight expecting more from him.
"But, Sachidananda, it was those people like Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Kattabomman and Abraham Lincoln.....APJ Abdul Kalaam....." –
Mr. Dayalnathan seemed to make a beeline of people even a 5th standard schoolgirl in India would be aware and could write an essay in a competition to get awards for that.
"Between Warren Buffet and Abraham Lincoln, tell me, whose name is lasting long in memory for generations to remember and emulate?"
That was hitting me like a hammer though Mr. Dayalnathan has modulated his voice to the sweet lullaby our Tamil mothers lament to their infants left to sleep while they rock their cradles. I really felt that comfort as he asked me.
"That must be the reason why Bill Gates has become a philanthropist and donating his extra wealth to establish institutions of knowledge in Amethi, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad where talents from among poor young students swarm with a lust to become rich!"
-I was reasoning out so within me. Rather than investing big amounts of money in a rich countries like the USA, England or Japan, wise men like Bill Gates nurture nations where people are plenty to perpetuate their memory beyond the period of their life span. The Chosen Land for the likes of Bill Gates to perpetuate their name in fame.
"Extra money cannot give any extra comfort. The reach money could yield in comforts has definite limits. Beyond that, it is always a burden to yield adverse effects as problems."
– Mr. Dayalnathan was philosophical now as he has transfixed his eyes to the ceiling of the room.
The think-tank in Mr. Dayalnathan and his concepts on variegated topics and his views on subject matters is really an asset to Chennai.
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010
IT WANTS TO EXIST, SURVIVE AND SUSTAIN AS A NATION STATE
May be my idea seems funny to read.
But, GB is no more a nation as it was once known for its power, politics and economy. Now, GB is an emasculated entity attached to the European Continent geographically and to the European Union politically. Its dwindling political power is seen today with a big question mark in a situation where a lying-in-home for Himalayan corruption has emerged as a hung Parliament to lead the common man in GB to become a Nepali to overthrow his ruler in a mass upsurge for certain. A hung-Parliament is not any sign of matured political wisdom of the people or the electorate. It is the clear sign of political instability and desperation among voting public confused to come at a conclusion to elect from among every inept politician they are left out to select in a so called Parliamentary process of general election. Having ruled India for a full 200 years, the Empire is Indian now in every aspect of its political process to govern the country. The only difference is, there is no Royal Head in India that is an eternally fixed knob on the political gates of GB.
The desperation of the Briton is understandable. Having no reason to go to war with a country far away in a distant continent, each British subject (note - not citizens) has been subjected to severe pounding financially as Barrister Tony Blair preferred GB to wag and pull barking the tobaggon that George Bush has assembled to uproot the entire Middle East using the tragedy of 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq.
The cost of one banana in GB is 10 times more than in any country that the Empire once controlled under its arm-pit as a colony - including Robert's Zimbabwe. The industrial output from Britain is less than half compared to the same 15 years ago. Big business houses in the GB are bought outright without bargain by expat business tycoons from India and the Middle East. The Harrods is the latest to be owned by a Gulf Sultanate. Church going Pro & Con Britons are no more practically even on Sunday. The pastors are imported from other nations to run the church shows in a ritual fashion. Influx of expats increase every year morphs the ethnicity of native English speaking people with the glamour of monsoon marriages and cross continental and crass religious persons. Single parents outnumber traditional family of fathers and mothers and their children. "My baby, your baby and our baby" syndrome is awfully glaring in the society. Privately each of Her Majesty's subject is brooding on the privy purse paid from the taxpayers money to those lock themselves around in British castles, palaces and Royal dwellings. Of all the people around the globe, the British subjects are the most calm and nonchalant to the type of Royal governance they are addicted to for centuries all along.
Changes needed to rule Britain with written constitutional systems of governance have no place in the thinking of the British society. The recently held elections are the step stone to take Britain into an era of rethinking to collectively change the political system oriented to people and not to Lords, dukes, princes and princesses. Her Majesty is too long with her shadow wearing the Crown studded with the Kohinoor looted by her Royal army from my country, India, while the Crown Prince is too old to be a King as his sons are ripe with every talent to become foot soldiers in the British Army in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Britain is beautiful. Intellectually it is very strong. It is reasonable in thinking too. With Tony Blair, all such acclaimed qualities have gone with the wind. Now, all that Britain needs is everything to mean "Great". That is only possible if each Briton comes out of the cocoon he is living in under a Monarchy which has no place in this part of the time this world is moving across time this world was born in a big bang or in 6 days. Whatever that may be, with British elections leading up to a hung Parliament, it is 7th day from now on for GB to take rest in any international matter for political, scientific, technological, environmental and intellectual matters or events.
IT WANTS TO EXIST, SURVIVE AND SUSTAIN AS A NATION STATE
May be my idea seems funny to read.
But, GB is no more a nation as it was once known for its power, politics and economy. Now, GB is an emasculated entity attached to the European Continent geographically and to the European Union politically. Its dwindling political power is seen today with a big question mark in a situation where a lying-in-home for Himalayan corruption has emerged as a hung Parliament to lead the common man in GB to become a Nepali to overthrow his ruler in a mass upsurge for certain. A hung-Parliament is not any sign of matured political wisdom of the people or the electorate. It is the clear sign of political instability and desperation among voting public confused to come at a conclusion to elect from among every inept politician they are left out to select in a so called Parliamentary process of general election. Having ruled India for a full 200 years, the Empire is Indian now in every aspect of its political process to govern the country. The only difference is, there is no Royal Head in India that is an eternally fixed knob on the political gates of GB.
The desperation of the Briton is understandable. Having no reason to go to war with a country far away in a distant continent, each British subject (note - not citizens) has been subjected to severe pounding financially as Barrister Tony Blair preferred GB to wag and pull barking the tobaggon that George Bush has assembled to uproot the entire Middle East using the tragedy of 9/11 as a pretext to invade Iraq.
The cost of one banana in GB is 10 times more than in any country that the Empire once controlled under its arm-pit as a colony - including Robert's Zimbabwe. The industrial output from Britain is less than half compared to the same 15 years ago. Big business houses in the GB are bought outright without bargain by expat business tycoons from India and the Middle East. The Harrods is the latest to be owned by a Gulf Sultanate. Church going Pro & Con Britons are no more practically even on Sunday. The pastors are imported from other nations to run the church shows in a ritual fashion. Influx of expats increase every year morphs the ethnicity of native English speaking people with the glamour of monsoon marriages and cross continental and crass religious persons. Single parents outnumber traditional family of fathers and mothers and their children. "My baby, your baby and our baby" syndrome is awfully glaring in the society. Privately each of Her Majesty's subject is brooding on the privy purse paid from the taxpayers money to those lock themselves around in British castles, palaces and Royal dwellings. Of all the people around the globe, the British subjects are the most calm and nonchalant to the type of Royal governance they are addicted to for centuries all along.
Changes needed to rule Britain with written constitutional systems of governance have no place in the thinking of the British society. The recently held elections are the step stone to take Britain into an era of rethinking to collectively change the political system oriented to people and not to Lords, dukes, princes and princesses. Her Majesty is too long with her shadow wearing the Crown studded with the Kohinoor looted by her Royal army from my country, India, while the Crown Prince is too old to be a King as his sons are ripe with every talent to become foot soldiers in the British Army in the streets of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Britain is beautiful. Intellectually it is very strong. It is reasonable in thinking too. With Tony Blair, all such acclaimed qualities have gone with the wind. Now, all that Britain needs is everything to mean "Great". That is only possible if each Briton comes out of the cocoon he is living in under a Monarchy which has no place in this part of the time this world is moving across time this world was born in a big bang or in 6 days. Whatever that may be, with British elections leading up to a hung Parliament, it is 7th day from now on for GB to take rest in any international matter for political, scientific, technological, environmental and intellectual matters or events.