tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29689744616833003802024-03-12T16:26:12.498-07:00Inside view: Of Bengaluru and anything else that prompts me to ramble!My ramblings which began in Bangkok continue!Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-37342574301916951082023-08-30T06:15:00.021-07:002023-09-19T07:34:24.238-07:00Now that Chandrayaan 3 has created a lot of interest in Science and scientists!<p style="text-align: left;"></p><br />Like millions of Indians and others, I watched spellbound the graphical image depicting the touch down of Chandrayaan 3 on moon on Tv. It was a thrilling moment and a joyous one! It was also a huge relief, replacing the total sadness we felt when Chandrayaan 2 crashed! I think we watched with a feeling that it will be fine this time!<p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;">We spontaneously applauded the project leaders, the scientists and others who had worked on this project with a such total commitment. </p><p style="text-align: left;">Then it was the time to give and take credit for the success of our Indian science and the scientists involved.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>(</b><i>People who follow Indian cricket will understand the euphoria! Especially how a fan who watched the last few overs without even taking a toilet break will justifiably claim some of the credit for the success of our Indian team! </i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>It was no different here. </i><i>There was even a sly dig made at the graduates who went abroad.</i><i> </i><i>It is OK and we have learnt to take all this with a pinch of salt!)</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i>There were many scientists involved, here is a link to them..</i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><a href="https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/scientists-behind-chandrayaan-3-success-1692796298-1">https://www.jagranjosh.com/general-knowledge/scientists-behind-chandrayaan-3-success-1692796298-1</a></i></p><p style="text-align: left;">This makes us think of the role of science in India and how it began. </p><p style="text-align: left;">I feel I must quote from <b>The Dance of Lights and Atoms</b>, <b>Ten narratives in Physical Sciences</b>, by the author <b>Gorur Govinda Raju, Ph.D Emeritus Professor, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. </b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> "Contributions of Meghnad Saha to science and industrial development of India after independence cannot be summarized even in a single volume...</span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Saha and Nehru knew each other as early as 1938, nine years before independence. </span></i></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">In that year Subhash Chandra Bose, popularly called Netaji, a leader in the Indian National Congress was the president. <b>Bose was convinced that far reaching cooperation between science and politics' (in free India) was necessary for progress and prosperity. </b>He set up a national planning committee (NPC) for developing science policy for the anticipated free India, a few years into the future."</span></i></p><span style="text-align: center;"><span>It is important to mention this for people to understand the need for long term plans and staying with it! There is no magic wand for discovery and inventions which change the world.</span></span><div><b style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>He (Bose) invited Saha to attend a NPC meeting in Delhi. Sir M.Visweswarayya who also a member was understood to be the most qualified to become its president. However Saha, arguably on dubious grounds insisted that a National leader is more appropriate. Nehru agreed to become the Chairman. The NPC had already become unwieldy with 29 subcommittees and a chairman who was burdened with enormous other duties. The alliance between science and politics had Nehru on the politics side and luminaries such as Sir M.Visveswarayya (Engineering), Meghnad Saha (Physics), Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar (Mathematics) and P.C.Mahalanobis (Statistics). Nehru's preferences for the membership of the planning commission were Bhatnagar, Mahalanobis, and a much younger Bhabha.</i></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>Immediately after Independence a planning commision was formed with leading politicians and scientists. Saha was also a member of the committee. To be a member of the planning commision was a highly coveted honor.....</i></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><span><i>There is a lot more in the book to read and understand. We would be justifiably proud of the Indians for their contribution in the world of Physical Sciences.</i></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>About the book! <b>The Dance of Lights and Atoms</b>, <b>Ten narratives in Physical Sciences. </b> The back cover of the book explains: <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">'The ten narratives of the book in physical sciences, on various manifestations of energy including electricity, magnetism, nuclear interactions and light...The author has taken the challenge of explaining these difficult concepts in a easy to understand manner.</span></i><p style="text-align: left;">The intention of author is clear! <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i>One of the ways to interest young people in science is through life stories of successful scientists. And follow</i><i> the ancient tradition of India: the oftner one hears of the tales of achievements of our great ones and heroes, the more merit does one acquire.</i></span></p><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He chose topics he dealt as a teacher, researcher, supervisor, referee for papers and grant applications. </span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The quote he ends his introduction says it all!</span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I have seen flowers come in stony places</i></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And kind things done by men with ugly faces </i></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>And the gold cup won by the worst horse at races</i></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>So, I trust, too.</i></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>John Masefield (1878--1967)</i></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>(<span>People of Karnataka will be happy to note that his father Gorur Ramaswamy Iyengar was an eminent author, a freedom fighter who was jailed by the British.)</span></i></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> -0-0-0-0-0-0-</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">There is no way I could abridge the book and give you quick feel of the book.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The narrative of S Chandrasekhar highlights there is no formula to create scientists. We can only nurture these gifted people and to get the best out of them.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">S. Chandrasekhar was the son of a revenue officer working for British India. He inherited genes for hard work. His ability was inborn. Most of the scientists had average beginnings and grew in stature due to their innate abilities. </div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The Narrative below is to show how the science world viewed Indians who were devoted to research. </b></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Narrative 1</b></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">S. Chandrasekhar.....</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What are stars made of ?</b></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Born in Lahore, his father worked for the British India at the revenue department, Chandrasekhar was home schooled till the family moved to Chennai. Father took lessons in English and mother taught him tamil and gave him home work and tests. After high school in Madras,</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> he was admitted to <i>honours in physics course at the age of seventeen</i>. </span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The author of the book he read; 'Atomic Structure </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">and Special lines', </span><b>Sommerfield </b>was visiting India.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Very keen to meet him, he sought an appointment with him and was given!</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">The quote below is just to highlight how well Indian scientists of those days, were respected!</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">"He (Sommerfield) had respectful opinion of Indian Physicists, and wrote:</span></i></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">'The study shoots of modern physics have sprung in the recent years on this ancient and cultural soil and scientific research in India has suddenly begun to compete on equal terms with research in Europe". He expressed appreciation, 'no discovery in physics during last year has caused so much excitement and admiration during the last year has caused so much excitement and admiration in the entire world as the spectroscopic effect found by Professor C. V. Raman in Calcutta: and no discovery in astrophysics has been found to be as fruitful for our understanding of the stellar system as the theory formulated by Meghnad Saha at present professor in Allahabad. The international importance of these two men is emphasised by the fact that they have been chosen members of the Royal Society of London, that old and venerable Academy of Science </span></i></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="text-align: center;"><span>(One should feel proud that these three eminent Indian scientists found a place in a list of ten world class scientists! And they were highly regarded by others! </span></b>It was the time Physics was still about Newton and very basic. However, significant<span style="font-family: inherit;"> progress in modern science and </span>medicine<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span> filled the air <span style="font-family: inherit;">during the time. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Raman announcing 'Raman effect'. Sommerfield discovering electrons in solid behave as in gas...and there were many more.)</span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">SC was thrilled and read the paper given by Sommerfield and other research material and wrote an article. This was accepted by the most prestigious journal <i><b>'proceedings of the Royal society</b></i>..He completed his hon. degree as first of first class and got a scholarship to study in London.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">On his voyage from Madras to Venice, a journey of 18 days, Chandrasekhar thought about the contraction of Sirius B. His conclusions and mathematics he used were incredible. It is worth reading about S Chandrasekar. <b>The students he guided were awarded Noble prize years before </b><b>he was awarded a </b><b style="font-style: italic;">Noble prize</b> <b>for his work</b><b style="font-style: italic;"> </b><b>. </b></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Similarly we can see that the background of scientists vary. I have just listed the three out of ten eminent physicists!</b></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">Meghnad Saha was born in a village, his father was not keen to send him for higher studies. It is his teachers who saw he was good in maths advised his father to send him to high school.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">C.V. Raman was born to a teacher and also a violin player. He was exposed to science and maths. He was a brilliant student.</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Michel Faraday was born to a poor blacksmith and a country maid! He started as an apprentice to a book binder! So he read books which were around him!</div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;">It is also time to thank <a href="https://in.linkedin.com/in/ramesh-venkateswaran-45889242" target="_blank">Ramesh Venkateswaran, </a> writer and Chairman, Board of Governors, IIT Palakkad, for sharing his essay. He has outlined the impressions one had about India and can now take a oath to do better. I cannot link the PDF file but will share it with anyone interested!</div><div style="text-align: left;"><blockquote style="background-color: white; color: #242424; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" type="cite"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p align="center" class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"><b><span color="inherit" lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FREEDOM AT SUNSET – INDIA’S SECOND TRYST WITH DESTINY</span></b></p><p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="font-weight: inherit;"><span color="inherit" lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">After our Freedom at midnight on 14/15 August 1947, our second freedom in many ways happened at 6.03 pm IST on 23 August 2023 with the Chandrayan 3 landing on the moon. August 23 2023 should be commemorated as India’s second Independence Day. For two reasons </span></p><p class="x_x_MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-weight: inherit; text-indent: -18pt;"><span color="inherit" lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.<span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span color="inherit" lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">We have in many ways gained a second independence / freedom.</span></p><p class="x_x_MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent: -18pt;"><span color="inherit" lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2.<span color="inherit" style="border: 0px; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span><span color="inherit" lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>This is a day when we all Indians should revisit and reset our tryst with destiny.</b></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3vn7ROJgbDtVwBHOGfA1tnIv9BKU15Bc7Jllm5QwITu2-NBH9d8SllwHn1MP0Y96tNcXUq7haBOqdk4jAfhb4UWfE5LyzsRtb50Ty5l3AMJL4bDLbr5NXpHiV_WMdtSj5ZaSB5e-GoWIGTVSI32-c-WHVytwOy3_3jjCeQzbQqq-g5wTS2ow83wpS19TP/s1969/20230908_092215.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1969" data-original-width="1280" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3vn7ROJgbDtVwBHOGfA1tnIv9BKU15Bc7Jllm5QwITu2-NBH9d8SllwHn1MP0Y96tNcXUq7haBOqdk4jAfhb4UWfE5LyzsRtb50Ty5l3AMJL4bDLbr5NXpHiV_WMdtSj5ZaSB5e-GoWIGTVSI32-c-WHVytwOy3_3jjCeQzbQqq-g5wTS2ow83wpS19TP/s320/20230908_092215.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br /><p></p></div></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-70683519720831239452022-10-10T07:02:00.004-07:002022-10-10T07:12:20.457-07:00A early morning walk on and around commercial street. <p> I was at the Anand Lab for blood test etc., hence I had two hours between the two tests I had to take. </p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGN-2seRVhrv6Zmdc9tPxgw7QEYVNAXqG9kfYpCbGFuMvcpzAebfNS-3vnMBb_ZqHavxj9lfr3D5g6ZXWwS9VE1JjvACbWG0wpq1zY5Xr2NdamsXzSqem8D8ixmjCUBJjpB5sc44I_AiyldmyCKVFBYcUp3Rz8V-nSYhSQkVb6DHPBkiAVN_2CtBXEbg/s3155/2022-10-02_09-09-44.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3155" data-original-width="2110" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGN-2seRVhrv6Zmdc9tPxgw7QEYVNAXqG9kfYpCbGFuMvcpzAebfNS-3vnMBb_ZqHavxj9lfr3D5g6ZXWwS9VE1JjvACbWG0wpq1zY5Xr2NdamsXzSqem8D8ixmjCUBJjpB5sc44I_AiyldmyCKVFBYcUp3Rz8V-nSYhSQkVb6DHPBkiAVN_2CtBXEbg/w429-h640/2022-10-02_09-09-44.jpg" width="429" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Had heard about the revamped Commercial Street so<br /> I walked towards it.<br />The sign even though was not at the entrance of the street <br />I guessed it was meant for it. <br /><b>The guavas were looking good,</b> but didn't stop to buy!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimWNL54arb53_jIyk625nC_3JkJ0T9LEHWJo76mHY4PKW_KscP7tC315XEm7GVsp2N19rDrCSoTubhdwJaHXoRPXMdA_AnvyxUUhe8E6GUva9gZHPtPi1AfxE9gkqzOyvGRVFOVaMOnGRVLYbqnsBoeKCXcY6_T1oAAaZzoZgGkxlx2vaupvDkDUOhhg/s4359/2022-10-02_09-10-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4359" data-original-width="3031" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimWNL54arb53_jIyk625nC_3JkJ0T9LEHWJo76mHY4PKW_KscP7tC315XEm7GVsp2N19rDrCSoTubhdwJaHXoRPXMdA_AnvyxUUhe8E6GUva9gZHPtPi1AfxE9gkqzOyvGRVFOVaMOnGRVLYbqnsBoeKCXcY6_T1oAAaZzoZgGkxlx2vaupvDkDUOhhg/w279-h400/2022-10-02_09-10-10.jpg" width="279" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">As I walked past the guava vendor </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">the sight of old granite didn't impress me.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilnAh8lDqSFJIQT2mCINJfuxxDwXW53tvtFpDZLcJdzqfXdBjiO1elHUhQUAOXSCHJdptS6q7iqMpRN-nQj1qZdkh68_e2LhAQy6Dqunm6P9dBvYx1bPV0RYfTOrh0pzkeEjIXM_GiqQrwWF5u8PVKNyJj97__mFfDYLtpkXRO3NhKj5AUABjD19hFgw/w480-h640/2022-10-02_09-12-32.jpg" width="480" /></a><br /><b>Unbelievable </b>and I saw that the footpath<br /> is designed so that no cars could be parked!<br />(Normally it is a given that in Namma Bengaluru, <br /><b>if a car can be parked on the footpath; it will be!}</b> <br />(I need to check this out when com. street is open for business!) <br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHkSDigXS0drT9vn3gG_Bfc8GYYmF0MB5ujtpqbq9A01RBjj7gOQe2Bawzex8Pu-Vw-PNFujTE5ggOUUBbyH8G1RqbjDfAmAdAqGkTofH_SeX9D0rSaWkMODDaBCbdDG_-tpcomBx2n4FgtFKk74LPVjtu8fKZYjRnyhNXeQkwztRqNsNcEHNniSjvQ/s2876/2022-10-02_09-21-54.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2876" data-original-width="1831" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHkSDigXS0drT9vn3gG_Bfc8GYYmF0MB5ujtpqbq9A01RBjj7gOQe2Bawzex8Pu-Vw-PNFujTE5ggOUUBbyH8G1RqbjDfAmAdAqGkTofH_SeX9D0rSaWkMODDaBCbdDG_-tpcomBx2n4FgtFKk74LPVjtu8fKZYjRnyhNXeQkwztRqNsNcEHNniSjvQ/w255-h400/2022-10-02_09-21-54.jpg" width="255" /></a><br />We are used to <b>exceptions</b> to the rule. <br /><b>Especially if it belongs to the government!<br /></b>BESCOM is the worst offender! <br />Next are the car owners!<br /><b>I guess it is beyond repair. </b><br /> <br /><div style="text-align: left;">It was nice to see that the surrounding areas were also improved with good pavements.</div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6fDarzvPH8vzW4Wp7ZzYk9CV8ro7NZgtsrI3nFPu_0997ymgIiQdnEC9x9rF2qB4UpIQhYozxmJpnnHXrcOq5W0qBKGYET2xD2LnkLUL-VdBaWXJXWPxnQ-1E6r0hzGpdOlJaTzY4QzEnsQr4r9aUOpVBpN9w2UEpbIk5dvU6QlXQp3hp86A4sTdCQQ/s3512/2022-10-02_08-40-37.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-26478582026582486842022-09-30T02:30:00.000-07:002022-09-30T02:30:01.937-07:00IT IS WORLD HEART DAY ON 29 SEPT. ABOUT A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF A SURVIVOR OF HEART ATTACK AND CARDIAC ARREST.<p> Mohan (NSM) while sharing his blog began with a small introduction.</p><p><i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Some of you know that I had a roller coaster ride in the recent past (last 3 months). </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I have tried to chronicle the experience. </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>More importantly there could be lessons to be learnt. </b>Special thanks to Mr. Ashok Giri for all the support. And </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Mr. Srinidhi (Nidhi uncle) for motivating me to write this blog and helping to edit it. </span></span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Happy reading.</span></span></i></p><p><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="background-color: white;">It is nice of Mohan to give me credit. However the narration, the style, the compilation and the choice of photographs are all his!</span></span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The reactions to his blog are varied: </span></span><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">It reads like a full autobiography, f</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">ascinating,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"> touch and go, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">miracles do happen, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"> unmatchable </span></span></span></i></span><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">will power</span></span></span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">, scary, thoughtful to share, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"> a</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;">mazing humour, spine chilling, admire his presence of mind, like a James Bond race and tryst with destiny and so on.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></span></span></span></i></p><p><span><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Most importantly the trauma the family and friends go </span></span><span style="font-size: 15px;">through</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">!</span></span></span></span></i></span></p><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; background-color: white; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;">J<a data-ved="2ahUKEwiW3fj1w7T6AhX18TgGHeGNA5IQFnoECDoQAQ" href="https://ne-np.facebook.com/FortisBLR/posts/aasha-a-patient-support-group-program-initiated-by-fortis-hospital-bannerghatta-/3042184359394746/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://ne-np.facebook.com/FortisBLR/posts/aasha-a-patient-support-group-program-initiated-by-fortis-hospital-bannerghatta-/3042184359394746/&ved=2ahUKEwiW3fj1w7T6AhX18TgGHeGNA5IQFnoECDoQAQ" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1); color: #1a0dab; font-size: small; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><i style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">ust in case, if you have not seen his blog</i></a>, <i style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">written in his own exuberant and inimitable style. </i></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://nsmcyberdude-thoughts.blogspot.com/2022/09/those-three-months-in-2022.html?sc=1664257038998#c6478559526252205188" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">https://nsmcyberdude-thoughts.blogspot.com/2022/09/those-three-months-in-2022.html?sc=1664257038998#c6478559526252205188</a></span></p><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #202124; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>You also learn as you read the blog that our lives are linked in inscrutable ways. </i><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Take for instance, how his wife Anita's love for yoga was such an important factor!</i></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The purpose of his blog was to educate. Which it has done. Curious, I surfed the <span style="color: #2b00fe;">www </span>to learn more about heart attack<span style="color: #2b00fe;">. </span></span></span><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">I find that there are many websites which cover heart ailments from all across the world.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="https://www.survivorshaveheart.com/support-partners.html#:~:text=Mended%20Hearts%20is%20an%20organization,heart%20patients%20and%20their%20families.&text=Women%20Heart%20is%20a%20national,coalition%20for%20women%2C%20by%20women." style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Survivors have heart.</a><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"> an American website, is right on top! </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #333333; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Survivors Have Heart partners with organizations across the country that are dedicated to supporting and advocating for heart attack survivors and their loved ones. Learn more about each of our partners and browse some featured articles for additional resources and support materials.</i></span></span></p><p><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;">There are many such initiatives in every part of the world, especially in the developed</span><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"> world.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>The progress made in dealing with heart problems is incredible, my memories do go back to the time when there was no cure for a child with a hole in the heart. Watching a close friend and classmate succumb to it as a teenager was tough and confusing. Later Tara's dear friend went the same way, it was even more tragic as there was a cure by then, but the doctor is the small town she grew up in was perhaps not aware. She had moved to Pune to work, and we even took her to a doctor we knew in AFMC. I cannot forget his words and he had tears in his eyes when he said it was too late in her case. "I wish the doctor in her town had earlier heard the murmur in her heart!" </b></span></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>...She was such a fun loving vivacious girl!</b></span></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><i><span style="color: red;"><b>I guess there are many such stories where awareness would have saved lives!</b></span></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: bold;">My intention was to list the </span><b style="background-color: white;">websites</b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt;"><b> that are India based! </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a class="qi72231t nu7423ey n3hqoq4p r86q59rh b3qcqh3k fq87ekyn bdao358l fsf7x5fv rse6dlih s5oniofx m8h3af8h l7ghb35v kjdc1dyq kmwttqpk srn514ro oxkhqvkx rl78xhln nch0832m cr00lzj9 rn8ck1ys s3jn8y49 icdlwmnq jxuftiz4 cxfqmxzd o48pnaf2" href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1928497077287692/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 700; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" waprocessedanchor="true"><span style="font-size: small;">India: Heart Attack & Heart Disease Support Group</span></a><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white; font-size: small; font-weight: 700;"> </span><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white; font-size: small; font-weight: 700;">on Face Book</span><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white; font-weight: 700;"> </span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>Many websites of</span></span><b> Bangalore based hospitals came up. </b></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif">While</span><b> </b><span face="Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span>I am not recommending, listing a few which came up. </span></span></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>There would be more!</i></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>The buzz world they use is </span>highlighted<span> and underlined by me!</span></span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; 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overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"> American </span><span style="color: #5f6368; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">Heart</span><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"> Association</span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"> (AHA) for information</span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #4d5156;">and </span><u><span style="color: red;">treatment guidelines to <span style="font-weight: bold;">help</span> with .</span></u><span style="color: #4d5156;">..</span></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>It is uncanny, how the </i></b></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>internet came </i></b></span><b style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><i>up </i></b></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><i>with Bangalore hospitals first</i></b></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><b><i> and the website</i></b></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>also knew</i></b></span><b style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><i> that </i></b></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><i>I was looking for the activities</i></b></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><b><i> away from the </i></b></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>urban cities, </i></b></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="color: #4d5156; font-family: inherit;"><i>the following website came up! </i></b></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #4d5156;"><b><i>It is</i></b></span><b><i><span style="color: #4d5156;"> indeed </span></i></b></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="color: #4d5156;">encouraging. </span></i></b></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #4d5156;">While it frustrates</span></i></b></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><b style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #4d5156;"> it is worth a read! </span></i></b></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="color: #4d5156;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div class="Z26q7c UK95Uc jGGQ5e" data-header-feature="0" style="color: #202124; 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font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"> stalled. </h3></span></div><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #282828; font-family: TundraWeb, serif; font-size: 18px;">Under the project, </span></h3></span></div><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #282828; font-family: TundraWeb, serif; font-size: 18px;">the nodal agency should </span></h3></span></div><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #282828; font-family: TundraWeb, serif; font-size: 18px;">provide each taluk </span></h3></span></div><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #282828; font-family: TundraWeb, serif; font-size: 18px;">(spoke) hospital </span></h3></span></div><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="display: inline-block; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 3px; padding: 5px 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #282828; font-family: TundraWeb, serif; font-size: 18px;">with a heart attack </span></h3></span></div><div class="yuRUbf" style="line-height: 1.58;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><h3 class="LC20lb MBeuO DKV0Md" style="display: inline-block; 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-webkit-line-clamp: 2; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">the patient </span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">will be </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">provided</span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">thrombolytic </span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">t</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">herapy </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">for dissolving clots</span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>29 September is</b></span></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b> world </b></span><b style="font-family: inherit;">heart day! </b><br /></div><div class="VwiC3b yXK7lf MUxGbd yDYNvb lyLwlc lEBKkf" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 2; color: #4d5156; display: -webkit-box; margin-bottom: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><a href="https://world-heart-federation.org/world-heart-day/">https://world-heart-federation.or</a>g</b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-34599317753546603582022-09-01T11:23:00.005-07:002022-09-02T13:22:53.648-07:00'Demographic dividend'! How old is this concept? It seems I am paranoid about this !<p> <b>'Demographic Dividend'</b> is uttered whenever I express worries about the population growth or explosion. It is said in a manner reminiscent of a guru invoking the word 'Karma' to end all arguments. Obviously DD is coined by an economist..</p><p>Curious, I checked and chanced upon <a href="https://www.populationpyramid.net/india" target="_blank">a few graphs</a> courtesy UN. </p>The 1950 graph reflects the situation close to the beginning of India's independence.<div>Our leaders would have just managed to settle in the bungalows vacated by the British. It is also the time the refugees who fled Pakistan found refuge in 'camps'. A few, who could afford, did move into their own homes or rented them. Pavement dwellers were also visible. No idea whether they were refugees or just the migrants from the villages! </div><div><br /></div><div>The shape of the pyramid in the graph is typical of the times. We Indians, especially the poor, had more children. Even though the poor had not heard of DD, they instinctively knew that the family needed more working hands for their survival. Their employers also encouraged them to have more children, an abundant source of cheap labour. The young migrated into the towns and cities to seek work. They had no option as there were too many of them for a village to support, especially during the times of drought. </div><div><br /></div><div>In fact, it was an answer <i>to the prayers of middle class urban women</i>, mostly child bearers and cooks who needed help very badly. The arrival of village women along with the men was a godsend to them.</div><div>The women worked as maid servants in the urban homes, while their men found work as coolies! It is to their credit the men learnt skills and gradually did better for themselves. </div><div><br /></div><div>Living in Pune from 1964 to 1987, I saw many villagers pouring into the city, especially during times of drought. They occupied open spaces along the river, even up the pretty Parvati hills. I guess the government had no choice but to let them build these slums. None went back, they coped and survived.</div><div><br /></div><div>Clearly these villagers, husband and wife, working in the unorganized sector, was a Demographic (Multiple?) Dividend for the politicians. They were a cheap labor, vote bank and also useful in many other ways.</div><div><p>Coming to the charts below, the 1985 chart is similar to 1950 graph and the 2010 graph looks reassuring as the base of the pyramid is smaller. However in absolute terms India has added, in the period of about 25 years, a phenomenal 858 millions of us. (While I was out of the country! Not that I could do anything!</p><p>It is forecast <a href="https://www.populationpyramid.net/india/" target="_blank">the population of India </a>will peak in 2055 to about 1649 million and will start going down. Let's hope the <i>DD lovers </i>will not panic and come out again encouraging population growth! </p><p>The good news for them is that in the next 33 years another 415 million of us will be available to perpetuate the DD benefits and the lucky ones will continue to enjoy. </p><p>Going back in time, even true now, the ultimate measure of success in India is <b>"Kaige ondu aalu, kalige ondu aalu". </b>Which means " One servant for the hand, another servant for the leg". Perhaps it needs to be explained; cooks in the kitchen, maids to clean the house, maid to wash and iron the clothes. Add to that, an ayah to take care of each offspring individually. Drivers and Gardeners. Just let your imagination add as you wish. I used to hear about a scion of a wealthy family who would return from a game of tennis and flop on the sofa, a servant would kneel down and take his shoes off!</p><p>Will it ever change??</p></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKV5MgZVNRHZasfzZogj8FyBmZODVjqm1SY_iI-t41uK55miqBR5ZJNJEK3BWR2T2g2akxoQzJa3XM4xySKafWjCnYoLq245A8aoXHYsCR3Gn_mpfC4cSyi_umHg8Z1fPc3_w_OIzhDEbtjp0j8rk1cvpxUNXdeNY2sgt0iGslX5cojd7NLvXzBsweiw/s2317/20220824_182933.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2317" data-original-width="1717" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKV5MgZVNRHZasfzZogj8FyBmZODVjqm1SY_iI-t41uK55miqBR5ZJNJEK3BWR2T2g2akxoQzJa3XM4xySKafWjCnYoLq245A8aoXHYsCR3Gn_mpfC4cSyi_umHg8Z1fPc3_w_OIzhDEbtjp0j8rk1cvpxUNXdeNY2sgt0iGslX5cojd7NLvXzBsweiw/w474-h640/20220824_182933.jpg" width="474" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2UOE4OC7pU4R3UxRoyUnIpr9dlM5wTC9J4Jqfr9MZScEvA3jNFCcHIru0pFZRAjG_ry3a8TCejqrziaATfafPgigBuwIgVqCclRrQUCZpn2-QZZZoFAqH-CuZsBCQa31f45KUyBCGsk4jB1E1w3tA1uOwOa8GmkTULaTfYMFLtuZZ1S518iX5Rz7zQ/s2488/20220824_183022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2488" data-original-width="1818" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib2UOE4OC7pU4R3UxRoyUnIpr9dlM5wTC9J4Jqfr9MZScEvA3jNFCcHIru0pFZRAjG_ry3a8TCejqrziaATfafPgigBuwIgVqCclRrQUCZpn2-QZZZoFAqH-CuZsBCQa31f45KUyBCGsk4jB1E1w3tA1uOwOa8GmkTULaTfYMFLtuZZ1S518iX5Rz7zQ/w468-h640/20220824_183022.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_go2M9mgK5PHTVEJLtewn1PRQHOJbyfUQAxuL6GaMrSpyJvPh4ZdQDLTO2RomwomirakbOfJ0x9MZs_-ccGo4Pj0fHOuaPLFjmSdYE_1fVUuzg_lGjlTeeHm3dRfoFDNOrG6aADoBCx1YHbFAsqQY7XbflbpIquaPFCHoVX7L1GSsEBeg-dvyBgaikQ/s2470/20220824_183049.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2470" data-original-width="1745" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_go2M9mgK5PHTVEJLtewn1PRQHOJbyfUQAxuL6GaMrSpyJvPh4ZdQDLTO2RomwomirakbOfJ0x9MZs_-ccGo4Pj0fHOuaPLFjmSdYE_1fVUuzg_lGjlTeeHm3dRfoFDNOrG6aADoBCx1YHbFAsqQY7XbflbpIquaPFCHoVX7L1GSsEBeg-dvyBgaikQ/w452-h640/20220824_183049.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>My earlier blogs:</p><p><a href="https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-am-talking-about-our-population.ht" target="_blank">https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2010/06/i-am-talking-about-our-population.ht</a></p><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">To be honest it is not just the politicians, who are the least admired as a group, there are many more who harbour similar thoughts!</span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Then today I saw this article: Well worth reading. While I share his concerns, will we ever get down to it and do what is necessary? I am not so sure!</span></i></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; line-height: 16px;"><h2 style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 31px; margin: 0em 0em 1em; padding: 0em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Demographic time-out by</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">R Jagannathan </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thursday, June 3, 2010 2:00 IST</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h2><div id="story" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 1em 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="float: left; font-size: 0.8em; margin: 0.5em 1em 0em 0.5em; padding: 0px; width: 102px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="R <span class=" border="0" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEi-VjJ2qK-pnR0fsr9fNeqAnJAuWBiPTWSDLnswrV0lptewNI8pMJjwmeSdtWwcbpfYFowUgfle5BUzcSTObUf2GjrMZMC45XNY9QpKhZNvHOprFG-Oe-PcUCFY0j1iTp_UeP4BTHAq9MD20G6Zkrli0gyA=s0-d" style="border: 0px; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" /></span></span></div><p style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The demographic dividend that India is currently reaping is so much a part of accepted wisdom that we are in danger of becoming complacent about it. Loosely speaking, a country derives a demographic advantage when its working age population is rising, leading to growing demand, rising private consumption, booming government revenues....</span></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">......But there’s a big if to all this. The power of demography has to be harnessed through the right social and economic policies. There are five things we have to fix quickly: <b>education, labour markets, economic policy, governance and corruption.</b> If we don’t, the demographic advantage will turn out to be a curse. <b>Just as there is nothing more useful than having a youthful labour force, there is nothing worse than having a disengaged and angry population that does not find meaningful jobs......</b>..</span></span></span></p><p style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;">Read the full article.</span></p></div></span></div><p><a href="https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-on-population.html" target="_blank">https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2010/06/more-on-population.html</a></p><p>Quote from the above blog: <span style="background-color: white; color: #330033; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>I guess he wanted me to feel a little better! The article, excerpts <a href="The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet’s Surprising Future," target="_blank">from a book, </a>says that the population growth is indeed on a downward trend and the world population would level around 9 Billion by the middle of this century. It has elicited a number of comments which shows that people do take population growth issues seriously. <b>Opposite views about how, in some sections of India and other developing countries and of religions opposed to birth control, women would not be permitted to choose this option of having fewer children reduced my euphoria!</b></i></span></span></p><p><a href="https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2010/06/mouli-reacts-to-my-concerns-about.html" target="_blank">https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2010/06/mouli-reacts-to-my-concerns-about.html</a></p><p><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">Unlike our days of school (in suburban city environment) when we were basically left-on-our own, there are five </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">asuraas <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;">(Devils)</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;"> who will never let any good happen or last longer than they wish ! </span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px;">The Neta, the Baabu, the Laala, the Jhola and the Daada. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009900;">(The leader-politician, the bureaucrat, the business man, the journalist-intellectual and the godfather!)</span></b></i></p></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-30906118574874292082022-07-06T21:43:00.005-07:002022-07-07T14:23:35.596-07:00Feeling proud of our Kempegowda International Airport and thankful to the KLM airline staff<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaSwEA6X-oHU0k3nixEd2aq5qWxEGFR6FZBcMAZMK-tZv3M3V3QNHLPz-S7FRjkBYKshT2AZvO3b5FTXb_zoyDxQlWmuK7_HYcutdIGAeNS5J9j2WSQoPAzIhgJWf_914tXygaWGG-0rIbf4PcY3B99g8llHZLzYbaLSV-Of_UY34PaeLcuYphYVaBJA/s4032/7484ADE8-AB62-46C5-B9DB-422325A8DB1F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaSwEA6X-oHU0k3nixEd2aq5qWxEGFR6FZBcMAZMK-tZv3M3V3QNHLPz-S7FRjkBYKshT2AZvO3b5FTXb_zoyDxQlWmuK7_HYcutdIGAeNS5J9j2WSQoPAzIhgJWf_914tXygaWGG-0rIbf4PcY3B99g8llHZLzYbaLSV-Of_UY34PaeLcuYphYVaBJA/w213-h284/7484ADE8-AB62-46C5-B9DB-422325A8DB1F.jpeg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>We embarked on a trip to Seattle feeling reasonably safe to travel. Nandini found a good deal and our flight was via Amsterdam </p><p> Tara likes to be at the airport early. We also give enough margin for delays on the way. Hence I expected to be first at the counter of the KLM airlines. Well we were second. As the person in front took time. A ground hostess(!) walked across to the next counter and took care of us. That was nice </p><p> We checked in and walked to the immigration booths and waited for our turn at one which said ‘seniors and differently able’. The queue practically didn’t move, too many wheel chairs. </p><p>As other queues were moving fast, we decided to change queues. One of the staff came across to speak to us, probably he had seen us change the queue. I told him, smiling, that as an able Senior I would have liked a separate queue. </p><p>Soon an immigration officer moved to a vacant booth and beckoned us and cleared us in no time. No forms were to be filled. That’s a sea change from the days when we had to wait a long time. </p><p>We were soon at the security check area. For some reason Tara came with me and put the luggage thru in men’s line then walked across to the women’s line. A bit confusing. But she finished earlier and waited for me at the other end. I was cleared and picked up my carry on bag, belt, jacket, pouch and my phone. Tara helped me in this collection process. The whole process was fast and the staff polite. </p><p>The days of grim security check has changed. There is also a person advising us, reasonably pleasant. As I got thru this much required process, I wondered about the punishment if one was caught. At that moment, I wanted them to be incarcerated for life. </p><p>Nandini had timed her call to check as we were just walking out of the security area. She called my phone! The rest of the wait was pleasant, and time passed quickly and we boarded the plane and settled down. </p><p>That is the end of part one of the story.</p><p>As the plane took off, Tara intending to put her phone on Airplane mode, looked for it in her bag. After a search realised her phone was missing, </p><p>Tara told her co-passenger about it. She being a KLM flight personnel suggested Tara call the KLM duty manager at Bengaluru on arrival and check. She gave Tara the number of the Manager. She also sent a message later hoping that Tara found the phone. Very helpful person </p><p> Once we reached Seattle, Tara used Nandini's land line and spoke to the Duty Manager, who gave her another number. After three different calls she was able to speak to the ‘lost and found' department. The person who took the call, asked for details of the phone and time and date of the loss. Pooja, the person who spoke, did find a phone which matched Tara's description. She asked if there was any card in the holder of the phone. </p><p>Tara said that she was not sure, but copy of her pan card could be there. Yes it was there! Having established her owner ship, Tara wanted to know if it could be delivered to a messenger. Pooja said yes, an authority letter would work. </p><p>We typed a letter, signed and sent it across to Ravindra, our friend. (He managed the construction of our apartment in Bangalore and is now a friend!) He deputed his supervisor Srinivas to collect the phone. </p><p>Nandini contacted a friend, Srilatha, who was in Bengaluru and was returning to Seattle. Thanks to her Tara has her phone back! A miracle!</p><p><br /></p>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-90248109337155498912022-05-11T23:01:00.005-07:002022-05-15T09:03:08.954-07:00Ayodhya the birth place of Rama. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;">After our visit to the Sangam, the fort, Anand Bhavan and the hanuman temple we rested in an Armed Forces Officers mess in Prayagraj. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Next morning we were on our way to see the <i><b>Ram Janma Bhumi,</b></i> my first visit to Ayodhya. Perhaps we should have left an hour earlier. Our journey took little longer than anticipated. The construction site of the Rama temple was closed for public by the time we reached the site walking from the main road where we had parked.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="color: #2b00fe;">As we headed towards Ayodhya, I remembered my visit to Ayuthaya about 40 minutes away from my workplace in Thailand. Seeing the road sign for Ayuthaya I told my driver, he spoke good English, that Ayodhya in India was the birth place god Rama. He heard me, shook his head, and said phra Ram was born in Thailand and said ‘I can show you’. On an impulse I asked him to drive me there. As it is also <b>a punya bhoomi </b>venerated by the believers. I did not dispute his belief. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1hg22a_rzlAJyZqedv8FH7b_JwZ4Mbe999pa3WVnpryUohk_X1N8Mr3EcYaLo3hc_GCYTrq6_fGCsh_Few--H72PC19uITPTlkDXUTRDaI4MOKuFk3Zcrp-hPn2smM2VCiagyJ4OHftX_inxe4DxfBEgnkcwMcZUrykTgWZkt79p-EPcUAIusCuMhw/s1673/8650D273-180D-4C07-990D-91C93A820DF7.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1673" data-original-width="1242" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV1hg22a_rzlAJyZqedv8FH7b_JwZ4Mbe999pa3WVnpryUohk_X1N8Mr3EcYaLo3hc_GCYTrq6_fGCsh_Few--H72PC19uITPTlkDXUTRDaI4MOKuFk3Zcrp-hPn2smM2VCiagyJ4OHftX_inxe4DxfBEgnkcwMcZUrykTgWZkt79p-EPcUAIusCuMhw/w298-h400/8650D273-180D-4C07-990D-91C93A820DF7.jpeg" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>We were at Awama Ram Mandir just 5 minutes away <br />from the Ram mandir construction site!</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> While it was a bit disappointing not to see the progress made in the construction of the Rama temple, it felt good that we had tread on the same Bhoomi where Sri Rama would have walked and played as an young boy. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Raghu spoke to some one and headed towards a small office/shop opposite to the mandir and obtained passes for us and walked towards the Mandir. Our escort guided us thru the people sitting patiently on the steps. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I chose not to wade thru them and chose to walk around the open area absorbing the atmosphere. I walked around a bit and had begun to wonder when the others who had gone into the Mandir would return, our escort spotted me and said that others were waiting for me inside and I should join them. In fact, he gave me no choice but to follow him. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The crowd was a bit larger, amazingly they made way for us to get in. In fact, some of them helped me to climb the steps and go in. It was lunch time and people were waiting to be served. I occupied the place saved for me and sat down cross legged! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tara said I missed the nice prayers. They were a very disciplined group of devotees. Watching them, their patient demeanour, was very reassuring. There was no sign of annoyance on any of them as I walked past them to occupy the place saved for me! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We had a simple meal and walked out, across the next group of people waiting for their turn.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face=""Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">Amawa Ram Mandir in Ramkot at Ayodhya is situated at the same site whereupon stood the temple of the Raghu dynasty wherein Emperors of the Raghu clan including Lord Ram used to worship the deities. This is the reason that the Amawa Mandir, which in the complex of 15 temples, houses all the important deities of the Hindu religion. The word Amawa denotes the place situated in old Patna District and now in Nalanda District of Bihar. The Rani of Amawa built this temple in 1919 AD. It was renovated and extended by Acharya Kishore Kunal, a former IPS officer, Vice Chancellor of K.S.D. Sanskrit University and ex-Chairman of Bihar State Board of Hindu Religious Trusts.</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"> He built a magnificent Ram Temple with tuffen glass all around. A very fascinating idol of Lord Ram in childhood form was installed on 8th November 2019 with an earnest request and resolve that litigation of Ram Janmbhoomi may be decided in favour of Ram Lallaji at the earliest. The earnest request was heard by the Lord of the Universe and on the very next day i.e. 9th November 2019 the case, which was pending for almost 70 years was decided in favour of Ram Lalla. </span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">This Ram temple on the first floor of the extended portion of the Amawa Temple is the first Air - Conditioned temple of the holy town of Ayodhya and <b>the deity is overlooking all the pilgrims going towards the Ram Janmbhoomi</b> through the tuffen glasses. </span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Since his installation in the temple last year, the Amawa Mandir has become the talk of the town and is now known throughout the country because of many factors including </span><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ram Rasoi. </span>(Free food for the devotees)</b></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7qO9-3QScWr0LnlhbLNIHKCbEGfw-HTtIj_5GA0LrX_yrMDek6NciOt02MV4i2K1KfMbmPVj-VxYQE_ha-FyqCkYsv2rtoqesy0rV-n1uPbHqDT2FW07iDvpjVdR_WUrAo8M9lpvnm5Qytu7jEw-J7OrnaoQTUWyxw27YOyJiyo2eWnkgLToUB-1Xg/s3264/5E74C500-3598-4B30-8491-74D4CAC19149.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2136" data-original-width="3264" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI7qO9-3QScWr0LnlhbLNIHKCbEGfw-HTtIj_5GA0LrX_yrMDek6NciOt02MV4i2K1KfMbmPVj-VxYQE_ha-FyqCkYsv2rtoqesy0rV-n1uPbHqDT2FW07iDvpjVdR_WUrAo8M9lpvnm5Qytu7jEw-J7OrnaoQTUWyxw27YOyJiyo2eWnkgLToUB-1Xg/w640-h418/5E74C500-3598-4B30-8491-74D4CAC19149.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Awama Ram Mandir </b></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mTdlQXBF1viod7CQZln44mQDZlMjZwrCSxELI2mcvbPvfNBDIfmgy6n98YTlf-ZA3-jria4idOBuyxx7sCfmOrLQ8kWRfvhlgfq4NuRYKuvH0USYSZpRu42DQyX0B2d_Npyk45aEJEruEB9MXuPn40PzUAvgt6SP6_37YsuP23jJADIsppkQq9JI4Q/s1280/B8F42AE3-C01F-460F-B375-6472C0FE3669.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6mTdlQXBF1viod7CQZln44mQDZlMjZwrCSxELI2mcvbPvfNBDIfmgy6n98YTlf-ZA3-jria4idOBuyxx7sCfmOrLQ8kWRfvhlgfq4NuRYKuvH0USYSZpRu42DQyX0B2d_Npyk45aEJEruEB9MXuPn40PzUAvgt6SP6_37YsuP23jJADIsppkQq9JI4Q/w300-h400/B8F42AE3-C01F-460F-B375-6472C0FE3669.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8Vza4G6XM-1OG6tuq2j3HqRAqZwVVipOqz_nQTFE8bkIlcGlyYGfeYnNIpjxdiS5E34-4LIt0bUBDLF7oVaMzdH83bfWe3X0gMVKdaKpbViSzXg-UhiWzTuBn0vxeqZ1y7QQqDXzp53-jZt9lrmVLTGI9IBGtzwnpDTijc36CzQDSyqchBBv0KNfJw/s3514/8146352F-690F-48D5-BCC2-5EDF69847B8B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2120" data-original-width="3514" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8Vza4G6XM-1OG6tuq2j3HqRAqZwVVipOqz_nQTFE8bkIlcGlyYGfeYnNIpjxdiS5E34-4LIt0bUBDLF7oVaMzdH83bfWe3X0gMVKdaKpbViSzXg-UhiWzTuBn0vxeqZ1y7QQqDXzp53-jZt9lrmVLTGI9IBGtzwnpDTijc36CzQDSyqchBBv0KNfJw/w400-h241/8146352F-690F-48D5-BCC2-5EDF69847B8B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>As I walked around the area. Hope you enjoy the scene!</b></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhn2OJLsIRBaf5IwX04xEZ_bUFPcFVIJ6BYt-M55i5ghgYxdu8Xii5e4VNzjxS_02uKChlArS89dlr7tSOjIQYpYTc1pWf-qLgHkyxGQt0GMyb5WyNjeH-7E0GcK-dIYCRyq-9iegng45eKT1PKe2P-8NQT_uXlSRrqz-Xzg5BTEndlF5mxsoDPdxxA/s3578/940F9822-3358-47E2-BEAF-794BE51168BB.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2578" data-original-width="3578" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIhn2OJLsIRBaf5IwX04xEZ_bUFPcFVIJ6BYt-M55i5ghgYxdu8Xii5e4VNzjxS_02uKChlArS89dlr7tSOjIQYpYTc1pWf-qLgHkyxGQt0GMyb5WyNjeH-7E0GcK-dIYCRyq-9iegng45eKT1PKe2P-8NQT_uXlSRrqz-Xzg5BTEndlF5mxsoDPdxxA/w400-h289/940F9822-3358-47E2-BEAF-794BE51168BB.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>No idea what this building is about</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The last one to get it!<br />nice to see the notice in Kannada</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBNXXpRuuX3a4FRrO9-jn4kEgB76ArYlDDFRpRnJCHNQaV4jH4I_xvpYQvrnOdbz9g_rpMQFyT-b3o4HCXGjZrMC4yGw5_LO3sdm9XtfHlkrCShLP_9yHfUWf0VlFrNWNHJceqqm8tYfoTYhVwySjm-aM-40DY33rjF8A0hVTE1iYbA1Vqrp0Qa9S9kw/s3695/8CA9A534-E442-405E-AF3D-008E90B4D73A.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2698" data-original-width="3695" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBNXXpRuuX3a4FRrO9-jn4kEgB76ArYlDDFRpRnJCHNQaV4jH4I_xvpYQvrnOdbz9g_rpMQFyT-b3o4HCXGjZrMC4yGw5_LO3sdm9XtfHlkrCShLP_9yHfUWf0VlFrNWNHJceqqm8tYfoTYhVwySjm-aM-40DY33rjF8A0hVTE1iYbA1Vqrp0Qa9S9kw/w400-h293/8CA9A534-E442-405E-AF3D-008E90B4D73A.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div> <div><p><br /></p></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-52987933810717688172022-05-09T23:06:00.001-07:002022-05-09T23:30:30.584-07:00Prayagraj was impressive<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMrhPXTLr7Clw3bZ64ywuFPIfpF418NKJf3rXJm8-1qo4FfN0GUlT2yXUUCK_x6GhXu70x2pv-0LxoBNkMmWBYatLIlIb3uDsYI6ydGV1yC0k_lG32Krc3shRD_ttgEswol2YoQBIYYd2mfUlpWIP_FJqQNqnsACZaliae3nFWQAFm4cP9tedOAjLrg/s796/IMG_2778.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="796" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwMrhPXTLr7Clw3bZ64ywuFPIfpF418NKJf3rXJm8-1qo4FfN0GUlT2yXUUCK_x6GhXu70x2pv-0LxoBNkMmWBYatLIlIb3uDsYI6ydGV1yC0k_lG32Krc3shRD_ttgEswol2YoQBIYYd2mfUlpWIP_FJqQNqnsACZaliae3nFWQAFm4cP9tedOAjLrg/w400-h330/IMG_2778.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A village scene on the way! May soon become rare!</b></td></tr></tbody></table><p>We wisely rested after our return from Sarnath, a long journey was ahead of us. Next morning, it was a smooth ride as the roads are good. Our escort met us at Prayagraj, just after the long bridge across Ganga. <i>Triveni</i> Sangam was close by. Our first stop!<i> </i></p><p><i>(Interestingly googling for <b>Sangam</b> gave me a link to the movie Sangam!) </i></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnFT2_FnLott0-c6wS6ZRwQ3h3Z5FYr8csmLSpekJlVN6s8oS4KqKTiNSnBxt9UJ4Ot5QhOgPXiweJoUaaCEY5fTxDgC-ZtA6AcSn6QGo6L7BSffyrFnvbEMLZIOqGrY433uBJ_CYAP2vq_0VfJQ7FzEcqJVZziffQcIMiCpR5uTf45JSlGwdhsOc5A/s998/IMG_2763.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="998" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTnFT2_FnLott0-c6wS6ZRwQ3h3Z5FYr8csmLSpekJlVN6s8oS4KqKTiNSnBxt9UJ4Ot5QhOgPXiweJoUaaCEY5fTxDgC-ZtA6AcSn6QGo6L7BSffyrFnvbEMLZIOqGrY433uBJ_CYAP2vq_0VfJQ7FzEcqJVZziffQcIMiCpR5uTf45JSlGwdhsOc5A/w400-h264/IMG_2763.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><p>The view as we walked down the sandy shore towards the rivers was incredible. Our guide said that when the rivers are in spate water touched the walls of the Allahabad fort. After a short walk on the sands we were guided into a motor boat and were driven (!) slowly towards the Sangam. The ride was enjoyable with a constantly changing view. </p><p>Looking at the calm Ganga and a frisky Jamuna river moving side by side as they gradually merged felt like nature was giving us a message!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9Hm3Cwz3mmkKquPFP1_YaawjYvbTBXpjHWX47L8Wc4UmRBr5N1wdrewPy3QjnaGBaLbaJmfuw_clGXNrzaWHk6E8s_jdIze2zXwnt3T79el5vh4pnaLDWLNugvbcQhMkRxjUMbdf93yR_BsgKWuKzom1ZUgXHkCZQGf8loYrglMO5beR-Se35Ix64Q/s657/IMG_2603.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="493" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw9Hm3Cwz3mmkKquPFP1_YaawjYvbTBXpjHWX47L8Wc4UmRBr5N1wdrewPy3QjnaGBaLbaJmfuw_clGXNrzaWHk6E8s_jdIze2zXwnt3T79el5vh4pnaLDWLNugvbcQhMkRxjUMbdf93yR_BsgKWuKzom1ZUgXHkCZQGf8loYrglMO5beR-Se35Ix64Q/w300-h400/IMG_2603.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Innovative senior friendly steps to get to the boats!</b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF49n8-CaYEXFIbExtKDXySgzBJsNZaJA1SDI3clmTkbpd2Msa-eoKMKgKfq_-F28QbF27WzDgGDJyvqTC7UjfHkiWZY421DOGVmH0a-UKdNIM_o_X7LuwRFML4LF974nk0pCAAfd9Umb-5sIg2GYlC5tANdAZaRURNZZP5MspiisfKVpEtAYnP-ZpcA/s4032/CFDA9BC9-08E7-45B4-86C0-AE56C7D5F301.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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I later learnt that the fort is a restricted area and it was indeed a special privilege! Parking at a point, we walked towards a Banyan tree. Raghu offered pooja to the idols under the tree. The Pandit who officiated in the pooja walked with us as we circumambulated the ancient tree and pointed out a branch and said that Aurangzeb (or it could be Akbar) tried to destroy the tree and failed. Our guide also pointed out a path from which Jodha Bai, wife of Akbar, walked down to the river. </p><p>Later we stopped at an unoccupied but well kept pavilion and also climbed a few steps to see the point from which President of India had viewed the recent Kumbh Mela.</p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triveni_Sangam">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triveni_Sangam</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BS5hpoNoblBAqj1BBh_wlqu6Nv4EEvVVlFer23Cpe-3f9GyvQSxEWfOaBxLPNNroFF9UwwDwdHunhg17UGknZWWnBg5RWmPv-KVs3YVDAFnH7s_MDfkcywclWp0WPzHzaE6mUIDk0EVG0sH6TPDCueKWmJf1J8gjNqwWYPCDSbVJICK5csCfdZy3Jg/s657/aed64f0c-a601-4514-b756-3222d2a17768.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="493" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BS5hpoNoblBAqj1BBh_wlqu6Nv4EEvVVlFer23Cpe-3f9GyvQSxEWfOaBxLPNNroFF9UwwDwdHunhg17UGknZWWnBg5RWmPv-KVs3YVDAFnH7s_MDfkcywclWp0WPzHzaE6mUIDk0EVG0sH6TPDCueKWmJf1J8gjNqwWYPCDSbVJICK5csCfdZy3Jg/w300-h400/aed64f0c-a601-4514-b756-3222d2a17768.jpg" width="300" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Both the first Prime Minister and the powerful one!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p>Nehru family and MK Gandhi met in Allahabad. But the history of Prayagraj is not just that. </p><p>........................................................................................................................................................</p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">Trying to earn brownie points from Madam Vatasala! Read on the story I borrowed from the web, mostly wikipedia.</span></p></div><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">The <b>Anand Bhavan</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historic_house_museum" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Historic house museum">historic house museum</a> in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayagraj" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Prayagraj">Prayagraj</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="India">India</a>, focusing on the Nehru Family.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Bhavan#cite_note-1" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> It was bought by Indian political leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motilal_Nehru" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Motilal Nehru">Motilal Nehru</a> in the 1930s to serve as the residence of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru-Gandhi_Family" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nehru-Gandhi Family">Nehru family</a> when the original mansion <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swaraj_Bhavan" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Swaraj Bhavan">Swaraj Bhavan</a> (previously called Anand Bhavan) was transformed into the local headquarters of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Indian National Congress">Indian National Congress</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Bhavan#cite_note-2" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jawahar_Planetarium" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jawahar Planetarium">Jawahar Planetarium</a> is situated here, which has been striving to inculcate scientific temper among masses through its sky shows on astronomy and science.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Bhavan#cite_note-3" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">The residence was donated to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_government" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Indian government">Indian government</a> in 1970 by the then <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Prime Minister of India">Prime Minister of India</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indira_Gandhi" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Indira Gandhi">Indira Gandhi</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Bhavan#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup> the granddaughter of Motilal Nehru<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-5" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anand_Bhavan#cite_note-5" style="background-image: none; 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font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px; white-space: break-spaces;">Allahabad is known as </span><b style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px; white-space: break-spaces;">the City of Prime Ministers</b><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px; white-space: break-spaces;"> because seven out of 15 prime ministers of India since independence have connections to Allahabad (Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Gulzarilal Nanda, Vishwanath Pratap Singh and Chandra Shekhar).</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; white-space: break-spaces;"><div aria-expanded="true" class="card-header" data-target="#collapse1" data-toggle="collapse" id="heading1" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; border-radius: calc(-1px + 0.25rem) calc(-1px + 0.25rem) 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); cursor: pointer; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin-bottom: -1px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; white-space: normal;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: normal;"><b>The Legend of the 'Akshayavat' Tree </b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The "Akshayavat", or "the indestructible tree" is a legendary tree in Hindu mythology. The story of the tree is that once a famous sage asked Lord Narayana to show him his power - as a display of that, the Lord flooded the entire world for a moment. During this, the Akshayavat was the only tree which was still over the water level. For this reason, it is considered to be indestructible. </span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">The legend grew even bigger with time, and is actually quite old - some people believe that Rama, Lakshan and Sita rested under this tree during the times of Ramayana.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">Another popular local story is that Akbar tried to burn down the tree during the construction of the fort, but was unsuccessful - which is why the tree is conspicuously standing inside the fort. For a long time, people also used to commit suicide by jumping from this tree into the water, believing that they will attain salvation by doing this.</span></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">There are quite a few historical references to this tree as well - for example, a few Chinese pilgrims from the 7th century mention the stories of this tree. Unfortunately, there are also quite a few doubts as to where the original tree is - some say that the one on display is just a replica which is maintained by the pundits.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">This reclaiming of the city’s old Vedic name ‘prayag’ comes just in time for the Ardh Kumbh Mela, which will take place in January next year. The city was called ‘prayag’ during the Vedic period and is also mentioned in the Vedaa as the location where Brahma (the creator of the universe) attended a ritual sacrifice after creation. While the city has reclaimed its old name, Twitterati is left confused about it .......</span><span face="manrope, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;"> </span></span></h2></div></span></div><div class="row no-gutters mb-20" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(33, 37, 41); display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; letter-spacing: 0.3px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><h2 class="heading2 w-100" style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; width: 384px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Allahabad Fort, Allahabad Overview </span></h2><div class="readMoreText" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; transition: max-height 0.5s ease-out 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">Allahabad Fort is a splendid work of architecture that was built during the reign of Akbar, the Mughal Emperor in 1583. The marvellous structure is located on the banks of the confluence of the Rivers Ganga and Yamuna and is well-known for being the largest fort ever built by Akbar. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">This famous attraction draws thousands of tourists from all over the world not only for its historical importance but also for its architectural magnificence. However, one should note that quite, unfortunately, access to Allahabad Fort is generally closed to the common public. Tourists are allowed inside only during the Kumbh Mela, which is held once every 12 years. Nevertheless, the glorious architecture and the massive build of the monument as it stands strong on the banks of the confluence of the two rivers is a sight to behold!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Allahabad Fort holds a huge significance and is managed by the Archaeological Survey of India. The fort is also quite well known for its Akshayavat Tree (Banyan Tree) .. For those who wish to see the Akshayavat Tree, entry is allowed through a small gate to only the area that is occupied by the magnificent tree. Allahabad Fort is also home to the Patalpuri Temple, which is said to be home all the gates of hell. The best way to explore the Allahabad Fort from outside is on a boat ride in the river either during sunrise or sunset. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">It could also be the time to read about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbar" target="_blank">Emperor Akbar. </a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.3px;">..</span></p></div></div></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-32704197359986121142022-05-02T00:54:00.007-07:002022-05-04T19:54:42.868-07:00Sarnath, where Buddhism began! <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Visit to Sarnath felt very different. There was no rush and we walked around the ancient site at a leisurely pace admiring the stupa, from afar and up close. The surroundings felt peaceful.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> Gradually it hit me that most of the ruins were at the foundation level! We returned to Varanasi after walking around as the Museum was closed due to the pandemic. </span></div></div><div><p>Tara and I lived in a Buddhist country for 22 years. We had no hassles as we lead a life as Hindus without any restraints. Perhaps<i> no crackers </i>during Diwali was a bit of a dampener. </p><p>In fact, I had seen statues of Hindu gods in many places, including government buildings. Very impressive to see the incredibly huge statues of lord Ganesh installed at <a href="https://www.thaitravelblogs.com/2016/08/three-giant-ganesha-statues-in-chachoengsao-province/" target="_blank">Chachengsao.</a> <i style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px;"><b>In Thailand, Ganesha is called Phra Phikanet (พระพิฆเนศ) and is worshipped as the deity of fortune and success, and the remover of obstacles. He is associated with arts, education and trade. Shrines and statues for this elephant-headed Hindu God can be seen all around Thailand. Some of the largest statues of Ganesha can be found in Chachoengsao province. This is an easy day trip from Bangkok. But, you would need your own transport.</b></i></p><p><i style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">More about Sarnath:</b></i></p><p><i style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sarnath</b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> (Hindustani pronunciation: </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Hindi_and_Urdu" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Help:IPA/Hindi and Urdu">[saːɾnaːtʰ]</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">) is a place located 10 kilometres north-east of </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanasi" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Varanasi">Varanasi</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> near the confluence of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganges_River" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ganges River">Ganges</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> and the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varuna_River" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Varuna River">Varuna</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> rivers in </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uttar_Pradesh" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Uttar Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/India" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="India">India</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">. The Deer Park in Sarnath is where </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Gautama Buddha">Gautama Buddha</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> first taught the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharma" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dharma">Dharma</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">, and where the Buddhist </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangha_(Buddhism)" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sangha (Buddhism)">Sangha</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> came into existence through the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment_(spiritual)" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Enlightenment (spiritual)">enlightenment</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kondanna" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kondanna">Kondanna</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> (</span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanskrit_language" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sanskrit language">Sanskrit</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">: </span><span lang="sa" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Kauṇḍinya</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">).</span></i></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><i>Most of the ancient buildings and structures at Sarnath were damaged or destroyed by the Turks*. </i></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">For Buddhists, <b>Sarnath</b> (or Isipatana) is one of four pilgrimage sites designated by Gautama Buddha, the other three being </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kushinagar" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kushinagar"><b>Kushinagar</b></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">, <b>Bodh Gaya</b>, and </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumbini" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Lumbini"><b>Lumbini</b></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">.</span></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;">The </span><b style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaukhandi_Stupa" style="background-image: none; background: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Chaukhandi Stupa">Chaukhandi Stupa</a></b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> commemorates the spot where the Buddha met his first disciples, dating back to the fifth century or earlier... </span></i></span></p><p><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The </span><b style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashoka_Pillar" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ashoka Pillar">Ashoka Pillar</a></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">erected here ..</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">(presently on display at the</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnath_Museum" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Sarnath Museum">Sarnath Museum</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">), was broken during Turk invasions but the base still stands at the original location. The Lion Capital now symbolizes the modern state of India. The Lion Capital served as the base of a large 32-spoke stone dharma-chakra, which was found broken into many pieces.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">The seal of the</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_court_of_India" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Supreme court of India">Supreme court of India</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">displays the Dharma Chakra as it must have originally appeared.</span></span></i></p><p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnath">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarnath</a></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span class="ILfuVd NA6bn UiGGAb" face="Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(77, 81, 86); font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><span class="hgKElc" style="padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;">Buddhism is <b>one of the world's largest religions</b> and originated 2,500 years ago in India. 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text-align: center;">A monk in communion with his inner self!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUoM-myBTUVgjDbkCW_Msxwp9bUs7wffn9fkSgGaSfuSAGGFFpTpE5n1jYy4BENGt8Re35kwcdlICnblt5dCMLwBHom9qxxlFVKeN6v41ztWAStMr2ea6tIBgMn9lHkvLWyddeT4RgTCwsK9eGkM9YqkmKBqzlQhAJJozWYP3xO-Zq8xQBPzYHA8ZjnQ/s876/sarnath%2006.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="876" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUoM-myBTUVgjDbkCW_Msxwp9bUs7wffn9fkSgGaSfuSAGGFFpTpE5n1jYy4BENGt8Re35kwcdlICnblt5dCMLwBHom9qxxlFVKeN6v41ztWAStMr2ea6tIBgMn9lHkvLWyddeT4RgTCwsK9eGkM9YqkmKBqzlQhAJJozWYP3xO-Zq8xQBPzYHA8ZjnQ/w400-h300/sarnath%2006.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It does disturb, but we are used to ruins all over the world</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiltGOkN9-6YNuCvPOhD3TSfvbLAytDgfE6kqKfETV7vVY5lfouqX3-5xJ2Xj17oNqun7tjYRP9aANx7A0TsYXM2-NMJuinHOlJjpnbqsOZa5Rkndj5XyWDkGe3Gm-63fNxVBGoEcYthHGEz4-_fYDgBt4qVm5_eFx8sYjrR0k12aepNJLFTPmAmS_dIQ/s876/sarnath%2014..JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="876" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiltGOkN9-6YNuCvPOhD3TSfvbLAytDgfE6kqKfETV7vVY5lfouqX3-5xJ2Xj17oNqun7tjYRP9aANx7A0TsYXM2-NMJuinHOlJjpnbqsOZa5Rkndj5XyWDkGe3Gm-63fNxVBGoEcYthHGEz4-_fYDgBt4qVm5_eFx8sYjrR0k12aepNJLFTPmAmS_dIQ/w400-h300/sarnath%2014..JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmY_GyzbyuUIuCcjDACIA6JzWK4BgVDjrlu27qiok6tfRM5NVUY3NQxkkDP-NXlXSRzk5hgXHKEWXl2rMLKN9wCjxn730ISD7WFYFcZ-pPvEFllO5a1P2eYvdCKJnbIqJAgPfQlsFIjjWj0PAh0-ivC6P_g6jnNOg0AXMa3HHSy-c0roP6sdtaPqvyPg/s657/sarnath%2013..JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="477" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmY_GyzbyuUIuCcjDACIA6JzWK4BgVDjrlu27qiok6tfRM5NVUY3NQxkkDP-NXlXSRzk5hgXHKEWXl2rMLKN9wCjxn730ISD7WFYFcZ-pPvEFllO5a1P2eYvdCKJnbIqJAgPfQlsFIjjWj0PAh0-ivC6P_g6jnNOg0AXMa3HHSy-c0roP6sdtaPqvyPg/w290-h400/sarnath%2013..JPG" width="290" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpCYY-4zPVfuQ0LYvkqLa48TXZGHWwaTflDGQpCmzOU7H14lZU1FlT7NSTuQVtUOjwpqcrsAY97nf7HzfZu-05ErgwmaRBzbZkC2mEywxUIz86--yiXKB52K1ZOdbUO0KHFc3Qi00HoNN6fgiEUHLqCArg63YLSC9DioyTyydSXV4KLGCLBSTQLpnwQ/s657/sarnath%2003.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="493" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggpCYY-4zPVfuQ0LYvkqLa48TXZGHWwaTflDGQpCmzOU7H14lZU1FlT7NSTuQVtUOjwpqcrsAY97nf7HzfZu-05ErgwmaRBzbZkC2mEywxUIz86--yiXKB52K1ZOdbUO0KHFc3Qi00HoNN6fgiEUHLqCArg63YLSC9DioyTyydSXV4KLGCLBSTQLpnwQ/w300-h400/sarnath%2003.JPG" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The whole park was spotlessly clean!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5h8WOjmGucE-FTW4Xc8iGNNbyghl9pUPBcpRs6w3XU6XtEhaUMflaNcbsapCuzSzIRilMxpi8c_o0fbSdF5gMcWInyoIP15Ewzz6Ip6f3eEJoCb0iIBJxFg9HacBxK49gXX8SWqoVm1ikprO_uUymyXltMcoM3g6KujRSSHde6fmjLO-A-oz9JQ04sg/s657/sarnath%2015..JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="628" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5h8WOjmGucE-FTW4Xc8iGNNbyghl9pUPBcpRs6w3XU6XtEhaUMflaNcbsapCuzSzIRilMxpi8c_o0fbSdF5gMcWInyoIP15Ewzz6Ip6f3eEJoCb0iIBJxFg9HacBxK49gXX8SWqoVm1ikprO_uUymyXltMcoM3g6KujRSSHde6fmjLO-A-oz9JQ04sg/s320/sarnath%2015..JPG" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We didn't shop for souvenirs!<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><span>Buddhism which began with just 5 to whom it was explained by the enlightened Buddha in Sarnath is now the 5th largest religion by <i><b>proportion</b> </i>and 4th largest by <i><b>population in the world. </b></i></span></div><div><span><i>('proportion' indicates the spread of the religion across different countries.)</i></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>Whether '<b><i>The Buddha'</i></b> would have been happy at being number 4 by population is anybody's guess!</span></div><div><span>It is for sure <b>that one who believes that he/she ‘has the knowledge’ </b>would like to share it and want it to be followed by one and all. It is with good intentions it is<b> preached</b> <b>t</b>o others.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>It is seen the top two religions make up for 56% of the human population. <i>Third </i> are those who are <i><b>irreligious and are atheists</b></i>. Even if they are well spread all over the world, their numbers are small as a population in many countries. Not really sure whether they have any influence in making their country tolerant. </span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>There is a race to be number one, especially among the top two religions. Their methods differ, but it is clear the race has been on for many centuries. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>One wonders if strife is inevitable or is there a way for us to be rational and create a new order? </b></div><div><i><br /></i><div class="toctitle" dir="ltr" lang="en" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><h2 style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-size: 13.3px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span face="sans-serif"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations</a></span></h2></div><div class="toctitle" dir="ltr" lang="en" style="direction: ltr; text-align: left;"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading" style="border: 0px; display: inline; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan" style="font-size: 12.502px;"><label class="toctogglelabel" style="cursor: pointer;"></label></span></div><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Adherents_in_2020" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Adherents in 2020</span></span></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Notes" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">1.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Notes</span></span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#By_proportion" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;"><b>2</b></span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;"><b>By proportion</b></span></span></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Christians" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Christians</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Muslims" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Muslims</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Irreligious_and_atheist" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Irreligious and atheist</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Hindus" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Hindus</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Buddhists" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Buddhists</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Taoists/Confucianists/Chinese_traditional_religionists" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Taoists/Confucianists/Chinese traditional religionists</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Ethnic_and_indigenous" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Ethnic and indigenous</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Sikhism" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.8</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Sikhism</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Spiritism" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.9</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Spiritism</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Judaism" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.10</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Judaism</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Jainism" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">2.11</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Jainism</span></span></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#By_population" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;"><b>3</b></span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;"><b>By population</b></span></span></a><ul style="list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Christians_2" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Christians</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Muslims_2" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Muslims</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Hindus_2" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Hindus</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Buddhists_2" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Buddhists</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Sikhs" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Sikhs</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-21" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Jews" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Jews</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#Bah%C3%A1%CA%BC%C3%ADs" style="background-image: none; background: none; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;">3.7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Baháʼís</span></span></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="color: black;">3.8</span></span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell;"><span style="color: black;">Jainism<br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country</a></span></span></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populations#See_also" style="background-image: none; background: none; color: #0645ad; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></li></ul></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-41130167368525027952022-04-25T22:49:00.002-07:002022-04-25T22:53:09.282-07:00Varanasi trip. Kashi Vishwanath Temple early morning Pooja. For me it is very personal!<p> I thought I had not heard it right, but yes, we had to be ready by 2.15 next morning. Our escort had wisely chosen a less crowded and much <i>cooler</i> time, for the 3.30 am Mangalarathi. I have walked barefoot on granite paved paths in the hot sun at many temples as an youngster. I don't think I could do it now!</p><p>Having reached early, we waited. After a security check, our escort took us past a covered gate. We waited again and finally we were on our way. It was dark and I didn’t realise that <i>we had walked along a mosque.</i> We stopped to remove our footwear as we neared a large enclosure and walked barefoot. The Shiva temple was in the middle. As photography is not allowed, we had left our phones in the car. Even combs are not permitted!</p><p>We moved, a bit slowly, and reached one of the entrances of the small temple. Vatsala and Tara sat down in front, in Padmasana, facing the door, with a full view of the inner sanctum. Raghu and I, as super seniors, occupied a bench right close, also with a full view of the the Linga, which was installed at a lower level. Timing was perfect as the pooja started immediately.</p><p>This was the first <i>full </i>Pooja of Lord Shiva I watched. It was performed with a lot dedication and precision. One of the priests looked my age! Could be even more! The sound of chanting of mantras filled the small temple and resonated all across.<b> It was a memorable spiritual experience. </b></p><p>I looked around briefly and noticed the quadrangle was not crowded. A large tree, surely many years old, added beauty to the surroundings. After the pooja, flowers were distributed to the devotees. Raghu was happy to receive a garland. We then stepped into the temple to offer our <i><b>individual prayers</b></i> and exited from a different door.<b> It was indeed a unique experience and I felt fortunate to experience it. </b></p><p>We saw many<b> devotees waiting patiently in a queue</b> as we came out. As is customary, we sat down in one of the mantaps built along the outer peripheral wall. It gave us an opportunity to also see the <i><b>new corridor and the constructions around it. All built in a grand scale and style. </b></i></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><span><span><i><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254); color: #2b00fe;"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">The corridor is almost ready and the infrastructure is amazing. The area is very clean! As no pictures were allowed, I borrowed a few which illustrates the recent reconstruction. Also a few pictures of the destruction required to create a larger space around the temple. </span></i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"><i>Frankly I was totally ignorant about the earlier destructions of the temple by invaders. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varanasi" target="_blank">Varanasi</a>; is </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities.</b></span></i></span><i> </i></span></span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">The Kashi Vishwanath Temple was destroyed and rebuilt three (?) times.</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"> </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">I was equally surprised to see the mosque next to the temple. It is cardonned off, but is still intact. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">A </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">small</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"> entrance is provided for the devout to walk in to offer their prayers. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">I first thought it as an indication, an acceptance of today's need. A proof of </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">tolerance</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"> of each others' religion. It is evident in the armed forces, and I have seen a mosque and temple next to each other in Bengaluru. However, I read there is a litigation in the courts, to get </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">possession</span><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"> of the space and build a temple in its place. </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);"><br /></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(43, 0, 254);">Anyway, I am not advocating anything here in my blog, I am a total ASS (Autistic Symptoms Sometimes) when it concerns religion. My faith is very personal and neither can I convert nor can I be a part of the flock and preach or act. As a kid, I used to get scolded for my ways. It is too late to change now. Anyway I have found a new god in golf! </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><br /></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; font-family: -apple-system, HelveticaNeue; font-size: 20px; text-align: center; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdzgupms44EX6gtvyyknehWZ9Gz5a-V9_HPW7vHt9zu2OrtXW00kwd8xrTurg4_y-TzZm1g2MvjckuQ3d24-rCvIpXfYLVbsQtt4ebeRnA9x79G3SATVpI1rVc3Q2mcVZUJQ9DElmOz00QnI82Gk7rO0eXAHUHsyNNWnP9u8ZapWkvJ09mO1IMOvS8Q/s1343/42CD132A-8EDD-4C43-98BF-928F6661F666.jpeg" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1343" data-original-width="1280" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIdzgupms44EX6gtvyyknehWZ9Gz5a-V9_HPW7vHt9zu2OrtXW00kwd8xrTurg4_y-TzZm1g2MvjckuQ3d24-rCvIpXfYLVbsQtt4ebeRnA9x79G3SATVpI1rVc3Q2mcVZUJQ9DElmOz00QnI82Gk7rO0eXAHUHsyNNWnP9u8ZapWkvJ09mO1IMOvS8Q/w381-h400/42CD132A-8EDD-4C43-98BF-928F6661F666.jpeg" width="381" /></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="500" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilGOGr9-269tENt5m25MExsluCGkWUR9cLyUbURCMTHDHmD4W4JJAoIJtzywm2yeYXqlkfrkV_MiiFz4VN3S0oa-iGlf5QelY-_h3hZFpU0FWjId1UC2kY35jW2a-KzHewasQsxiOMabC0FDGZ67m-IW_zOj5f6tAbhPgpmSXdZU5OrDDG7kJ3Iu-bfw/w400-h284/B992D3F0-2916-4637-A082-C83C252FBE7E.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An earlier picture of the temple</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><b>I had heard that visiting Kashi was a spiritual experience and a test of our faith at the same time. It is very true!</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p>Sachitanand had asked in reply to my earlier blog:</p></div><p><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="-apple-system, HelveticaNeue" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; text-size-adjust: 125%;">Srinidhi</span><span face="-apple-system, HelveticaNeue" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; text-size-adjust: 125%;">, </span></span></i><i style="color: #2b00fe;">I have visited Varanasi in the Sixties, Eighties and at the turn of the Century. Each time I was terribly disappointed by the squalor of the ghats and the rapacious panda system at Kashi Viswanath temple, not to speak of the filth in the Ganga.</i></p><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><div><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">Recently I have been hearing glowing accounts of the wonderful transformation. rendered by the Modi - Yogi duo.</span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">Since this is your first visit to the age-old city, you may not be able to personally compare with what it was like in the recent past. However, I would like to know frankly from you whether all the tributes paid to the duo regarding the refurbishing of Varanasi and its environs are mere propaganda or actual fact.</span></i></div><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Can you, for example, move around today in the Kasi Viswanath temple without your feet getting stuck in cow dung and being waylaid by pandas ? Have they instituted a system of </span>darshan<span style="font-family: inherit;"> a la Tirupathi</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">My reply:</span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">Our visit was very different. </span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">We had a VIP experience as we accompanied Lt. Gen Raghunath, AMC, Retired. Army Medical Corps <span>took very good care of their retired senior and us as his family. </span><span>Beyond compare. </span></span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">In Kashi and specially in the temple there was no squalor I expected to see. </span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">There was no chaos or hustle anywhere. The <b>devotees</b> were very disciplined.</span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 125%; direction: ltr; text-size-adjust: 125%;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><p><br /></p>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-34612149465796312462022-04-04T08:06:00.003-07:002022-04-04T09:14:21.094-07:00The magical Aarthi. Varanasi is special. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Mangala-aarthi is ingrained into our psyche.</b> It is an important event in our homes as well. We may miss the main Pooja during an important festival or even in a daily ritual, but we must be there for the Aarthi or risk upsetting an elder. <p>We were eagerly looking forward to the Ganga Aarthi which is spectacular. We had a choice of watching aarthi from the boat, for the panoramic view or from the river bank. Our escort Naik R K Singh said he had already arranged seats for us up close, so it was from the river bank.</p><p> He had suggested while on the boat that we should get there early as devotees begin to occupy seats very early. We got there early enough, but a few devotees were already there right in front in the VIP area. However, two places were reserved in the front row. Raghu gracefully let Tara take the place next to Vatsala! </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggo6y31D1WNhk7S_hzIkRy6ChBn8-voUkgLELKkPwg_udt9qOaKjXrmnmNnpsVKD9USDmxmbNU5dzTulOCUjven0O8PRaIG-fGEwsh0Z4GrjOk-vbzKUaViNIGRc8lkgKY3m0vWG60A05xa1uTLznC0l4WT4DBqUPJoXNM0UthTSH7tzexAhpkT43b8Q/s2092/167AAC20-DDF6-48D4-A524-19D7FDB06BC2.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2092" data-original-width="1544" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggo6y31D1WNhk7S_hzIkRy6ChBn8-voUkgLELKkPwg_udt9qOaKjXrmnmNnpsVKD9USDmxmbNU5dzTulOCUjven0O8PRaIG-fGEwsh0Z4GrjOk-vbzKUaViNIGRc8lkgKY3m0vWG60A05xa1uTLznC0l4WT4DBqUPJoXNM0UthTSH7tzexAhpkT43b8Q/w295-h400/167AAC20-DDF6-48D4-A524-19D7FDB06BC2.jpeg" width="295" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Right in front!</td></tr></tbody></table><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgamP0rg_Wj4Q2aocDMJZuvpwE-Ug9CPzuQE-HRih7gWZPGccUXGxStMJqzefWhRerzzpCNnlGQVkh2TSb4OF1nNsyA2grdnlf0owO1i4x-2OqpGc-zNge_LmtQUW9h5-6QGJg_B3dE22HvdcUPk7SnKSHIF1gzzljb_RTRDwF54SI2cmQJ7ms1qRYCGg/s2434/CF8FDD36-9F68-4C1E-98EE-C2694CBC2991.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-family: "Times New Roman"; letter-spacing: normal; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXYHA09xNkqkJHgU6KnpBsj5eiNE3jUlSuZsxQeRUmgYsPQj3StvxBNob4LxKIPm3A7pXXDAYGDNGb2CIN1j3_B3o3V_N5aIHofYArc9YN3G1pkve7Yb26vMT73FNbLgdYHkjaIcOYXcaMIZ9HgPEImJI5CSIDJy27BadrmnSzcGr-E4LVKHfkXHN8gg/s4032/C955BA59-53F7-4521-BB58-060955003A73.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXYHA09xNkqkJHgU6KnpBsj5eiNE3jUlSuZsxQeRUmgYsPQj3StvxBNob4LxKIPm3A7pXXDAYGDNGb2CIN1j3_B3o3V_N5aIHofYArc9YN3G1pkve7Yb26vMT73FNbLgdYHkjaIcOYXcaMIZ9HgPEImJI5CSIDJy27BadrmnSzcGr-E4LVKHfkXHN8gg/w480-h640/C955BA59-53F7-4521-BB58-060955003A73.jpeg" style="cursor: move;" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gives us an idea as to the number of devotees attending.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhrlbKp__A2DOHOw6u5PBPw6fZnpEVPgMTAaEEXsIQ_rraUdjvbzhj6OSANKjcnXiA_RVXG1uVTS8C5EuORm2SrXwUVhvKXJsSWP-RjlxiFjMIwYnptu4CjpXdq-yS1qFLFgGOgpVrbdZuPMmtIyHjGW_WzcaldaVWIAawrPwtaYVEnfyT15zNT2rEw/s4032/1560FDFF-DA1C-4C15-83A3-69A82605DE86.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBhrlbKp__A2DOHOw6u5PBPw6fZnpEVPgMTAaEEXsIQ_rraUdjvbzhj6OSANKjcnXiA_RVXG1uVTS8C5EuORm2SrXwUVhvKXJsSWP-RjlxiFjMIwYnptu4CjpXdq-yS1qFLFgGOgpVrbdZuPMmtIyHjGW_WzcaldaVWIAawrPwtaYVEnfyT15zNT2rEw/w300-h400/1560FDFF-DA1C-4C15-83A3-69A82605DE86.jpeg" style="cursor: move;" width="300" /></a><br />It has been a long wait!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfSGIiZFHsNhmPN6Y15pErXG1TyGVuuA-7alTLY9eBys6F_btRhuwi5_B55m9QDzpwxX2Gf-Xistf5mMuWfGyxmXfMWTMlVuJBK3sabuqZ2TzTBDHpUpdXSQLe4All9GIwQt7fh8IE1KYwABxidt1pbWy2nu8yv9gVjzEfShPemhNLar8Py7PeCSrlrQ/s4032/6008C843-9D95-4129-891B-7FFBEA23FEB0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Many would come down to get a better look </span><span style="text-align: center;">and go back after a quick see.There were announcements from the mike guiding them.</span><span style="text-align: center;">Time did pass fast as I watched people and the preparations being made. </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="text-align: center;"> I noticed an old lady negotiate for a place closer to the Aarthi.</span><span style="text-align: center;">They said she could sit in the passage as the aarthi was about to begin. She touched her knees to indicate that was not possible. Somehow a little bit of place was created for her to sit and watch the aarthi. I have seen this happen often in temples, An earnest devotee does get accommodated!</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9G6YpDIdN23ScK2AlXxXKF9VnHjhT_XD4Sb9SRRJY9OQ3UfUcXvucHvs_Nhamp_t5e8LehbUB8B147w2OhzFpvjpVvgDjR1_rpR7CKn_A8f6UMqlrar1zU4v-GoL65YmAhYwF2G_NK7AQCYoBVuNWIecwToCrXZKqz-C5g0GgUIv4PzO5omx-fIbKDA/s2864/2BBA5BE8-3993-4F15-81E2-0D601F269F86.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2864" data-original-width="2460" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9G6YpDIdN23ScK2AlXxXKF9VnHjhT_XD4Sb9SRRJY9OQ3UfUcXvucHvs_Nhamp_t5e8LehbUB8B147w2OhzFpvjpVvgDjR1_rpR7CKn_A8f6UMqlrar1zU4v-GoL65YmAhYwF2G_NK7AQCYoBVuNWIecwToCrXZKqz-C5g0GgUIv4PzO5omx-fIbKDA/w344-h400/2BBA5BE8-3993-4F15-81E2-0D601F269F86.jpeg" width="344" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">At the beginning<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqh90leIdXG5eGxutHK-ldkcXq8B3rfSwO0q0zGHPNoxUYEkNmrCh3Y76ZZRgUylGafD162iwebxqO8d-N5zQeqYJw2EG-Knm1YB0mJOLCf_IoY4YRBZUlagV_oOkkRHGuqaQv0HuUlDqAbudKAB7uigmiDzzT-MEVeon_F_vWoZM2HVp7syNUPJT18w/s4032/5BE4AADC-CF59-426B-A9BD-BA92FBC3A911.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: left;">Special Thanks to Vatsala for the videos! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Both Vatsala and Tara said music is divine</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwSAmTGrrtUJ0qJjrJw34SVmuejKKf6pYn9fKMBFpOYYKMqZwZrn1bySlXNbCGEOHXqBAYjSfOWxd6yXU0MoQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Blowing the conch</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwJRJTRRQ4d4jZbh4sj1J_PLtH_ceptQcyA4CGX5FIcvzsr8GRVeCpsMztjrhqv_smLt_muAYlsPjZfSCl0EA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Doopa Arathi</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dze1N3sK0F8eIA0hRPYpoJgbrIIch-1gsR8k0t3wqWu0k6yRbIUa-AbFEhfMDTd6kX0rn7ttnjJYuDVMLADEg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Deepa Arathi</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><a href="https://youtu.be/iplTu8D6JxU">https://youtu.be/iplTu8D6JxU</a> Borrowed from the youtube in case you are keen to see a longer video<div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-71654163923866727232022-04-02T01:31:00.010-07:002022-04-02T17:33:10.574-07:00A fascinating boat trip on river Ganga in Varanasi<p> It was our first visit to the oldest 'living' city in the world. It felt familiar as we had seen many pictures and videos of Kashi. People ask me whether the city is clean and if the river water is clear? I would say yes!</p><p> No we didn’t take a dip in the river. Anyhow, I have collected enough merit by bathing a number of times very early in the morning at Rishikesh while attending a retreat organised and by Neema and Surya, our young gurus. </p><p>In fact, as I bathed, I did see a sewerage pipe disgorging polluted water. Anyway it it was a bit away and a barrier protected the place we were bathing in. I calculated that the sewerage water would be carried away due to the current in the river and would not pollute our little pool of water! I would also take a quick hot shower immediately after my foray into the river! That is how we deal with things we cannot control! </p><p>Anyway the boat ride was fun. The lights changed as we chugged along and I did try to capture a few images with my phone camera. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpKwv0lr7vTsRnrz9WkzKvU668NJrLgO8VF2WvUHyuwNQYJNajimP6lXlOk5GrGr12UOYHY2MPGPzvXcBvgCEksFHLwPgHCNQF4SEIocVuE-asizHFj4yQ7e_ljQ8PYsX__zcu1aLOssyJckXyhXun1SvZuuiOV_jj2MPWFqwpcYR8UnS_E-Y9htXu2g/s4032/3B3FD774-206E-424D-8F88-820DEE7E3B78.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpKwv0lr7vTsRnrz9WkzKvU668NJrLgO8VF2WvUHyuwNQYJNajimP6lXlOk5GrGr12UOYHY2MPGPzvXcBvgCEksFHLwPgHCNQF4SEIocVuE-asizHFj4yQ7e_ljQ8PYsX__zcu1aLOssyJckXyhXun1SvZuuiOV_jj2MPWFqwpcYR8UnS_E-Y9htXu2g/w640-h480/3B3FD774-206E-424D-8F88-820DEE7E3B78.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My first view of Maa Ganga </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyiLsagC8mUsEVBJWsPDflkxdCFrfxHlkqru0lDYucOr93bsx7Y0kJVT9tK63rPoOvwkFXSrqvgTP4st5g39QoUCPaV-Cix4DdwW8C38_mgnmYxyKYDYubgYFr6KIao0JdHeAzjzfe-XRk2DOaULG6HU9ChJ0dmSzxvhlHHNAnojhgph23mZWXLjiiBA/s4032/629F34BB-7543-4E13-9182-B6239BB408BF.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyiLsagC8mUsEVBJWsPDflkxdCFrfxHlkqru0lDYucOr93bsx7Y0kJVT9tK63rPoOvwkFXSrqvgTP4st5g39QoUCPaV-Cix4DdwW8C38_mgnmYxyKYDYubgYFr6KIao0JdHeAzjzfe-XRk2DOaULG6HU9ChJ0dmSzxvhlHHNAnojhgph23mZWXLjiiBA/w640-h480/629F34BB-7543-4E13-9182-B6239BB408BF.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As we stepped down a bit. It does look very clean! </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3hwbZCeSf_6rXOtV-_V57cnn9Xd7BvLn3T1CZBDl7dDLFDd4RiouHqbabl0PcE0-aSYx2u6_cIN4XMpPuR0Y_aunogydyuwFdaoqnecoERnW8msC9g5qfZCxJ42wq1EVpii5cYYpPjld-UMFSL3WQSQRaOTxcXTUeooku20XwnBJT_O4fvdFYvMF4Vw/s4032/01356CF8-0CF2-44FF-8150-6F0029FC6548.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3hwbZCeSf_6rXOtV-_V57cnn9Xd7BvLn3T1CZBDl7dDLFDd4RiouHqbabl0PcE0-aSYx2u6_cIN4XMpPuR0Y_aunogydyuwFdaoqnecoERnW8msC9g5qfZCxJ42wq1EVpii5cYYpPjld-UMFSL3WQSQRaOTxcXTUeooku20XwnBJT_O4fvdFYvMF4Vw/w640-h480/01356CF8-0CF2-44FF-8150-6F0029FC6548.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not many people. The crowds would be there in the evening<br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div>A few random pictures as we took the boat ride!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjL-pl3bTwklf0T67L8XAg5zGqKxtnyw1XBvthvf86rcIm-pO0A2XVhBgaoQOmrtAvlQXOUqczSbtm10t-5XfpQCmJK5YZ_gzYLobLKD6wpX1jNhSII7_k769o7yjwpsZTufstHWMHwReSFTLiyxnLwJY1obqvr0vyHjS7SdUznyr2_lVgdMYjMY94w/s4032/1F1EAD9F-0FFE-488C-BBB2-E5539A04A566.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLjL-pl3bTwklf0T67L8XAg5zGqKxtnyw1XBvthvf86rcIm-pO0A2XVhBgaoQOmrtAvlQXOUqczSbtm10t-5XfpQCmJK5YZ_gzYLobLKD6wpX1jNhSII7_k769o7yjwpsZTufstHWMHwReSFTLiyxnLwJY1obqvr0vyHjS7SdUznyr2_lVgdMYjMY94w/w640-h480/1F1EAD9F-0FFE-488C-BBB2-E5539A04A566.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I guess I need to read more about the buildings, its history.<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMX55riAmViaLXSScMexqNNs7SrkJ6yv5VYnXS416BaHOA7FoqbHheqQuGZxg0WsxIYLLwxBwIo6saGcYRCyMLL1BeNCEWDVmRwQ1Ok_g3x4uVZIMQDgYJvG8FIGVo98yJIX9ttCFUdKFb5OuI2x47Re-hNdErL-FBZkXduvYZoTkHhuVSFvlfzgUKsQ/s4032/008A15D9-FA4D-42A1-AFBD-9075358C5011.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMX55riAmViaLXSScMexqNNs7SrkJ6yv5VYnXS416BaHOA7FoqbHheqQuGZxg0WsxIYLLwxBwIo6saGcYRCyMLL1BeNCEWDVmRwQ1Ok_g3x4uVZIMQDgYJvG8FIGVo98yJIX9ttCFUdKFb5OuI2x47Re-hNdErL-FBZkXduvYZoTkHhuVSFvlfzgUKsQ/w640-h480/008A15D9-FA4D-42A1-AFBD-9075358C5011.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyk3599G14_tXBD5O5y6aOCl6T_kv0PoRtNmL7e_8JTi_cYgQjrZFGx7TQPsWHtW2gxfpbII6S24oKM2JKGAYvZ0WtEPky2XoX3UTu2MycLviDEJYzQnS5uEmCUP2Jvcu6K5WBu_mLXXAVrp07tzMEodo8hRBKXd9_nZYQ1bV9w2H6BJZbvCT_TMX8Q/s4032/9E759F1C-4C3B-45BE-8ACB-D5DD60486BC4.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyk3599G14_tXBD5O5y6aOCl6T_kv0PoRtNmL7e_8JTi_cYgQjrZFGx7TQPsWHtW2gxfpbII6S24oKM2JKGAYvZ0WtEPky2XoX3UTu2MycLviDEJYzQnS5uEmCUP2Jvcu6K5WBu_mLXXAVrp07tzMEodo8hRBKXd9_nZYQ1bV9w2H6BJZbvCT_TMX8Q/w640-h480/9E759F1C-4C3B-45BE-8ACB-D5DD60486BC4.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The lone boat on the other side of the river. Surprisingly or thankfully no buildings!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04FGHooOTAPKJb4P6gVrTvTBsOPGgDz9Ro-MQ--jCv8BoixUDxObCv_cR3lC3qrFmxdn0p_GfwQJ4mOq06vo-Wx2TJTrkvr80l2jmo2IYl8LYRgyNyfs_jMl5jCAqYIsQCgJvZPi-_O0RZjsqTJ6D2NrcqNlsikfk-XZlJgdaCPf2vjHRxlD-gHL6hQ/s3680/23C2488B-8A2E-40E2-A891-B09E148AA124.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2883" data-original-width="3680" height="502" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg04FGHooOTAPKJb4P6gVrTvTBsOPGgDz9Ro-MQ--jCv8BoixUDxObCv_cR3lC3qrFmxdn0p_GfwQJ4mOq06vo-Wx2TJTrkvr80l2jmo2IYl8LYRgyNyfs_jMl5jCAqYIsQCgJvZPi-_O0RZjsqTJ6D2NrcqNlsikfk-XZlJgdaCPf2vjHRxlD-gHL6hQ/w640-h502/23C2488B-8A2E-40E2-A891-B09E148AA124.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That is what rivers are for! A swim would be great fun.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnqspMPAn7Qzn8k_18SJXpS4Y5pSVhoxIdst6sMfOcdlK4jDhbEP88QNtTXtHOIXXyFHy-RvxuTwwzSP77fW8MDaO_5v4Pvpd9ZJbbTWh6bZcoo_fJXmMCbyAefHUmMJ9gcpfowEJ4iT5FJtAMuyArfKQytUxX0qUnKMyugFlarmUdUh--bF94lsqCZw/s4032/34F2931E-3C46-4D59-9A08-04D724C12BC2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnqspMPAn7Qzn8k_18SJXpS4Y5pSVhoxIdst6sMfOcdlK4jDhbEP88QNtTXtHOIXXyFHy-RvxuTwwzSP77fW8MDaO_5v4Pvpd9ZJbbTWh6bZcoo_fJXmMCbyAefHUmMJ9gcpfowEJ4iT5FJtAMuyArfKQytUxX0qUnKMyugFlarmUdUh--bF94lsqCZw/w640-h480/34F2931E-3C46-4D59-9A08-04D724C12BC2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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There is so much to see and ponder about the city, especially us who are born and live in this country.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">My knowledge of Kashi's history was sketchy. I understand now that the oldest city has a lot to offer and has survived some very tumultuous times. It is now clear India is again in a very critical period. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">It is Ugadi and I like to share greetings my friend Mohan sent me in Kannada. He has kindly translated it for me to English.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><u><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>A new year resolve</b></span></u></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Let’s be born at the dawn </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>of this ever renewing eon </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>With energy & vigour to go</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>New strength found </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Foundations laid strong </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Forgetting self and my selfish mine</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Rejecting you, your vain & pelf</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Embracing you to make a part of me</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Setting aside divisions & to be free</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Bitter would be the truth to face</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Better tempered with some sweet to taste</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Balanced we imbibe the ups and downs</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Those moments to cherish and forgetful sorrows</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Let’s be born at the dawn </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>of this ever renewing eon </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>With energy & vigour to go</b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>New strength found </b></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Foundations laid strong</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>N.S.Mohan</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Adding the original Kannada version. </b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>ಈ ಯುಗಾದಿಗುದ್ಭವಿಸು ನವಮಾನವ</div><div>ನವ ಚೇತನ,ನವೋಲ್ಲಾಸ</div><div>ನವನವೀನತೆಯಿಂದ</div><div>ಹೊಸ ಬುನಾದಿಯೊಂದಿಗೆ</div><div>ಹೊಸ ಸೃಷ್ಠಿಯತಾ</div><div>ಈ ಯುಗಾದಿಗುದ್ಭವಿಸು ನವಮಾನವ</div><div><br /></div><div>ನನ್ನ ನನ್ನವರನೆಲ್ಲ ಮರೆತು</div><div>ನಿನ್ನ ನಿನ್ನವರನೆಲ್ಲ ತೊರೆದು</div><div>ಹೊಸ ಬಾಳ ಬಾಗಿಲಿಗೆ ಬಂದು ನಿಂತು</div><div>ನನ್ನ ನಿನ್ನವರನೆಲ್ಲ ಒಂದಾಗಿ ಕಾಣುತ</div><div>ಆಹ್ವಾನಿಸು ಸವಿಯಲು ನವ ಸ್ವಾಧವ</div><div>ಈ ಯುಗಾದಿಗುದ್ಭವಿಸು ನವಮಾನವ</div><div><br /></div><div>ಬೇವಿನ ಕಹಿ ಕಡು ಸತ್ಯ</div><div>ಬೆಲ್ಲದೊಡೆ ನೀನದ ಸವಿ</div><div>ಸಮವಿರಲಿ ಜೀವನದೊಳು</div><div>ಸಂಯಮ ಸಾಮರಸ್ಯೆತೆಯು</div><div>ಜೀವನದೊಳು ಜೀವಿಗಳೊಡೆ</div><div>ಜೀವಿತದ ಹುರುಪನು ತಾ</div><div>ಈ ಯುಗಾದಿಗುದ್ಭವಿಸು ನವಮಾನವ</div><div>- ನಾ ಶ್ರೀ ಮೋ</div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">Mohan’s hope that we begin anew in all respects in the new year is very timely. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">I do hope we forget the past ills and build a new India with new ideas and attitudes.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Happy Ugadi</div></td></tr></tbody></table>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-17823482940329108332022-03-31T00:32:00.007-07:002022-04-01T00:04:38.222-07:00Our Varanasi trip. A visit to a handloom textile outlet. <p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">It was given that we went</span><i style="text-align: left;"> sari</i><span style="text-align: left;"> shopping first! We had some time to spare before the evening boat ride along the banks of Ganga Maa and the Aaarthi. Our guide took us to a well stocked outlet closeby. The owner was a suave and a friendly salesman. As we enjoyed a good cup of chai, we learnt that he was the third generation of their well known family business.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">He showed us a clip of his interview on cable tv and added that his master weaver was an award winner. </span><span style="text-align: left;">Making a sari is a long process. Conceiving the design, making a drawing and the process template for the weaver to follow. Spinning</span><span style="text-align: left;"> the yarn is another story! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">We learnt that his weavers worked nearby. As we wanted to see their workshop, the owner deputed a person to go along with us.</span><span style="text-align: left;"> It was fascinating for me as I had walked thru a huge textile factory. It was a part of my learning process. My job was to manage the assembly of a <i>draw frame, a textile machine, </i>for an associate company while working for Mahindra and Mahindra in Pune. </span></div><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_BGwB2-bWbmZeouTKhgAATiVuGO0rR5cQO9OI3oEmqdrE50LexA24uKd0oCc6euhXnZFmxpBm5tsaV3h18F1BsGNB0xNpawcWH7NAwVLUvOlJCAfF1AwMuZf4pbhnE6B0_l4fpHFCUQh0BhOmdY5qRsQxF1Xco8Vg4KtHKZX1U156uVpSd5W2qp4kBw/s2208/40623367-9D33-4E9C-8240-9C9FD01A0CAE.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2208" data-original-width="1242" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_BGwB2-bWbmZeouTKhgAATiVuGO0rR5cQO9OI3oEmqdrE50LexA24uKd0oCc6euhXnZFmxpBm5tsaV3h18F1BsGNB0xNpawcWH7NAwVLUvOlJCAfF1AwMuZf4pbhnE6B0_l4fpHFCUQh0BhOmdY5qRsQxF1Xco8Vg4KtHKZX1U156uVpSd5W2qp4kBw/w360-h640/40623367-9D33-4E9C-8240-9C9FD01A0CAE.png" width="360" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> A skilled worker is always happy to demonstrate his skills </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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padding: 0px;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmeeYj7suGTU5mlSzsj5AFTvVuWJEZ-AyiBD6A00j66g_2_Faot9qycdSr96HO1FSzRsCFdCpTSLE4yvJqYfEDD1y3n3pIxo2yq_0DrpPntftU570jx3fcJ6l5m368X0_yRfcVKSKFeZ1w7_Jr_w4e0E09wjQo_yNie7DG8al6wCTZygmN45qt-pwmw/s3004/69959AF4-3175-4146-8762-007CD2CDBA4E.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3004" data-original-width="2493" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVmeeYj7suGTU5mlSzsj5AFTvVuWJEZ-AyiBD6A00j66g_2_Faot9qycdSr96HO1FSzRsCFdCpTSLE4yvJqYfEDD1y3n3pIxo2yq_0DrpPntftU570jx3fcJ6l5m368X0_yRfcVKSKFeZ1w7_Jr_w4e0E09wjQo_yNie7DG8al6wCTZygmN45qt-pwmw/w333-h400/69959AF4-3175-4146-8762-007CD2CDBA4E.jpeg" width="333" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Trying out the one she bought.<span style="text-align: left;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirsWR-8CLCGvh2bmzVOAxRm4z-Q7O4czAosCR7yBz3UG50DCuKKmf3dIiiiRSQwt3trlTEqMhNaGvWZ40u9fLiEwjLfZ3eUjK7A9scfiVYRKvclx6WUsXiUHrJc86DnX4zgolaamGb8Mo24o3L3uJpmH74l9Oi_ijE6lg3B6k4h9RJq_GLNrrlPCEHIg/s4032/E2C30246-8E44-4EF8-A072-D70D66AEE3C9.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirsWR-8CLCGvh2bmzVOAxRm4z-Q7O4czAosCR7yBz3UG50DCuKKmf3dIiiiRSQwt3trlTEqMhNaGvWZ40u9fLiEwjLfZ3eUjK7A9scfiVYRKvclx6WUsXiUHrJc86DnX4zgolaamGb8Mo24o3L3uJpmH74l9Oi_ijE6lg3B6k4h9RJq_GLNrrlPCEHIg/w400-h300/E2C30246-8E44-4EF8-A072-D70D66AEE3C9.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The expensive sari in front looks gorgeous and it took months to make it.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div>The walk to see their workshops was an eyeopener!<br /><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOOFp2_3lIv8jcgTGKbxq7q1KgosZL81CSJPp28aNjayImelnYDl4HY--JrM9XPE8dZvy-kSDMK83QqnBmzqSdOss9eYKEy6Jf_wT8DVpcxJO8N-wyYmWjsMKRva6NEhE2itCD-WQ-its_UYYbnuBX56OOekJmpQQaPInisUsOBLle3b-GNQ57_25Ww/s320/B75B75F2-2B41-4F7F-B29D-53874FE40E8C.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="240" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was less than a km from the outlet. </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDOOFp2_3lIv8jcgTGKbxq7q1KgosZL81CSJPp28aNjayImelnYDl4HY--JrM9XPE8dZvy-kSDMK83QqnBmzqSdOss9eYKEy6Jf_wT8DVpcxJO8N-wyYmWjsMKRva6NEhE2itCD-WQ-its_UYYbnuBX56OOekJmpQQaPInisUsOBLle3b-GNQ57_25Ww/s4032/B75B75F2-2B41-4F7F-B29D-53874FE40E8C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><b>A footnote:</b></div><div>I was aware that the pandemic affected the handloom industry quite adversely. It was eye-opener to read an article on the subject in <a href="https://www.thebetterindia.com/225439/designers-weavers-artisans-weaving-hand-loom-industry-north-east-covid-19-coronavirus-impact-sustainability-india/" target="_blank">Better India </a>website.</div><div>I quote:</div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> India has a <b>vast handloom sector employing some 43.31 lakh weavers.</b> It’s the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/amp/s/wap.business-standard.com/article-amp/news-cm/indian-textile-handicrafts-industry-is-the-largest-employment-generator-after-agri-ajay-tamta-117110900180_1.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition-duration: 0.05s; transition-property: border, background, color; transition-timing-function: ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">second-largest</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"> employment sector after agriculture. Until the 2011 census, this sector employed more than 63 lakh people, nearly 87 per cent of whom reside in villages, with women forming around 77 per cent of the workforce, hardly making Rs 50 a day.</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">As the sector doesn’t fall into the essential services category, their plight doesn’t attract media coverage. Even in the current pandemic, the hardship of farmers, daily wagers, construction workers gets media attention but not the predicament of the handloom sector. Because of this, they are mostly dependent on the Master craftsmen who hire them on a contract basis, the weaver’s cluster societies employing them or the fashion designers who use natural handloom fabric. (</span></span>There is more to read!)</div><div><br /></div><div><div>Raji Narayan, a dear friend of ours, arranges exhibitions of handloom products as a part of the Crafts Council. I believe that the weavers participate directly.</div><div><br /></div><div>Anita, another dear friend, works with weavers in India and imports their products to sell in the USA. It was nice to know that she directly works with the weavers!</div><div><br /></div><div>I am sure there will be more such stories of many organisations and notable people getting involved. I do have some worries . The products are expensive, however I am not very clear about the return policy!</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Technology has surely made the individual weaver poor. It has been a double edged sword. The claim is that benefits will be in the long term!</div><div><br /></div><div>The handloom products we saw are certainly for the better off and surely not for the poor. My hope is that the middlemen are not too greedy. </div><div>Good news is that the mass produced products are more affordable as we see a change in clothes worn especially by the young all across, at all levels of our society. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_kQtFklsfDjb4CCJBBbTudb4qAj3NCbRWWZ9mNDBezSLUmKTs4STa8UAJAoNMjlAkkSCC8DZMCFZ80f_IdRVwKA52hK_t2ITu8b2odJ7hwqJTxPEs99hhyTn2Sv_U1frThv78y7qh5SDnzLxAFQs-xzEKbDdsRhM8Vl-fx77wuOeXg3Ws30pMwEwMQ/s1280/8F0DC736-D4EB-4DD9-8323-71B571901896.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO_kQtFklsfDjb4CCJBBbTudb4qAj3NCbRWWZ9mNDBezSLUmKTs4STa8UAJAoNMjlAkkSCC8DZMCFZ80f_IdRVwKA52hK_t2ITu8b2odJ7hwqJTxPEs99hhyTn2Sv_U1frThv78y7qh5SDnzLxAFQs-xzEKbDdsRhM8Vl-fx77wuOeXg3Ws30pMwEwMQ/s320/8F0DC736-D4EB-4DD9-8323-71B571901896.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-81265982810559830112022-03-14T07:15:00.001-07:002022-03-14T07:17:12.241-07:00A young historian wants BJP to go at any cost<p> I saw a Video shared in our WhatsApp group with an unexpected message! The video seriously echoed Modi's demand that the country be rid of 'Namdars' . The historian argued that Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi should quit congress and even politics! </p><p>The author was sure that their presence in the political arena actually helped BJP. He said that the <b>trio</b> are incapable taking people along with them and of convincing the<b> <i>opposition </i></b>to rally around them. In fact, the three have already offered to quit, but the <b>loyal </b>members in the congress party have replied <b>'No'</b> to this offer. </p><p>The author feels and is sure that once the Gandhis are out it is easy to rebuild congress and vanquish BJP. It is clear that the young historian's agenda is to rid India of Modi and the BJP at any cost ! However at the moment the congress party is willing to take the risk. Perhaps they have different priorities!</p><p>I always wonder if it is ever possible to change India which is dominated by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_families_of_India" target="_blank">political families.</a> It is a huge task. Every state can boast of dominant political families. The list is long. (Wikipedia has the whole list ) </p><p><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The author is convinced that BJP style of Hindutva is not good for India. And once BJP is vanquished India will be alright. I hope he has <b>taken a measure</b> of the various political </span></span><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">families and their impact on the politics of the country.</span></span></p><p><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">Even though </span><b style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">India</b><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> is a </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_system" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Parliamentary system">parliamentary democracy</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, the country's politics has become dynastic, possibly due to the absence of party organizations, independent civil-society associations which mobilize support for a party, and centralized financing of elections.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ppq.sagepub.com_1-0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_families_of_India#cite_note-ppq.sagepub.com-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</a></sup><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> The dynastic phenomenon is present at the national, state, regional, and district level. The </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehru%E2%80%93Gandhi_family" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Nehru–Gandhi family">Nehru–Gandhi family</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> has produced </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prime_ministers_of_India" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="List of prime ministers of India">three</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_India" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Prime Minister of India">Indian prime ministers</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, and family members have largely led the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_National_Congress" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Indian National Congress">Congress party</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> since 1978.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_families_of_India#cite_note-2" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</a></sup><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> The ruling </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bharatiya_Janata_Party" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Bharatiya Janata Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> (BJP) also has several senior dynastic leaders. In addition to the major national parties, other national and regional parties such as </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiromani_Akali_Dal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Shiromani Akali Dal">Shiromani Akali Dal</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiv_Sena" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Shiv Sena">Shiv Sena</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samajwadi_Party" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Samajwadi Party">Samajwadi Party</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashtriya_Janata_Dal" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Rashtriya Janata Dal">Rashtriya Janata Dal</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janata_Dal_(Secular)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Janata Dal (Secular)">Janata Dal Secular</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jharkhand_Mukti_Morcha" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jharkhand Mukti Morcha">Jharkhand Mukti Morcha</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravida_Munnetra_Kazhagam" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam">Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_%26_Kashmir_National_Conference" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jammu & Kashmir National Conference">Jammu & Kashmir National Conference</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_India_Majlis-e-Ittehadul_Muslimeen" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen">AIMIM</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;">, and the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalist_Congress_Party" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Nationalist Congress Party">Nationalist Congress Party</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit;"> are dominated by families.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_families_of_India#cite_note-3" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[3]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Chandra2016_4-0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_families_of_India#cite_note-Chandra2016-4" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[4]</a> Wikipedia</sup></span></i></p><p>It is mind boggling. Add to this the caste, religion and language barriers. It feels crazy. In addition, I have been always curious to know what happened to the royal families who merged into India. Where are all the princes, administrators and the military who were part of the principalities How have they accepted their lot? </p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><i><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">At the time of the British withdrawal, 565 princely states were officially recognised in the Indian subcontinent,</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princely_state#cite_note-3" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</a></sup><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> apart from thousands of </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamindar" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Zamindar">zamindari</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_(land)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Estate (land)">estates</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagir" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jagir">jagirs</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">. In 1947, princely states covered 40% of the area of pre-independence India and constituted 23% of its population.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princely_state#cite_note-4" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[3]</a></sup><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> The most important states had their own British Political Residencies: </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyderabad_State" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Hyderabad State">Hyderabad</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> of the </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizam" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Nizam">Nizams</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Mysore" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kingdom of Mysore">Mysore</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> and </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travancore_State" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Travancore State">Travancore</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> in the South, followed by </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jammu_and_Kashmir_(princely_state)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Jammu and Kashmir (princely state)">Jammu and Kashmir</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, and </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Sikkim" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Kingdom of Sikkim">Sikkim</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> in the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Himalayas">Himalayas</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);">, and </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indore_State" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Indore State">Indore</a><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34);"> in Central India. </span></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122;">Hope historians have some information </span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw40McrwJF84fQ5JA7z9PKbpmxYW1Ry2j-d-IAxPCTkp9_yNvh8W6p0FLcmZkxHoAk8g49EoSWYsy-hmtSTfdhMrljiyNFojCLOyCG_r0_5zRlw-nXRzEQ4ug-tP-nw7v5hIylZl4Ryv3jlFx1WRvVq8GH25QUBcNSr62bPXdmjvRsrKZBgOiPhzf0sQ=s1280" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="1280" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgw40McrwJF84fQ5JA7z9PKbpmxYW1Ry2j-d-IAxPCTkp9_yNvh8W6p0FLcmZkxHoAk8g49EoSWYsy-hmtSTfdhMrljiyNFojCLOyCG_r0_5zRlw-nXRzEQ4ug-tP-nw7v5hIylZl4Ryv3jlFx1WRvVq8GH25QUBcNSr62bPXdmjvRsrKZBgOiPhzf0sQ=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-86606549741559785692022-01-31T04:40:01.178-08:002022-02-03T02:44:38.954-08:00 "Charity" begins at home!?<p>I asked <a href="https://nidhiramblers.blogspot.com/2017/03/a-fine-balance-between-career-and.html" target="_blank">Gen. Raghunath,</a> (*You could read my blog about him!) who had lived in U.K. for higher studies, about <b>Oxfam </b>featured in my <a href="https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2022/01/poverty-and-pandemic.html" target="_blank">blog on poverty</a>. He just said<b style="font-style: italic;"> 'Charity should start at home!' </b>Amazing as it was <i>almost</i> the same title for this blog! </p><p><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Recently Tara employed a single woman as a 'helper', a construction worker, who had divorced her violent husband! She is just 35 years old! Her husband after beating her and their youngest child b</span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">rutally</span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">, had run away deserting her and their four kids. She went to the police, spent a lot of borrowed money </span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">to locate him</span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> and for the subsequent divorce. During the divorce proceedings the Hon. Judge asked the small kids, youngest was six, to choose between the two; father or the mother. The older three chose the father and the youngest obviously chose the mother!</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> </span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">S</span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">ince her divorce, the m</span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">other has not seen her older three kids. </span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">There is no alimony for child support.</span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> In fact, she had spent all her earnings in helping her husband to build a house in their village. She has lost it, as there is no way she can get her money back! The ex-husband has married again.</span></i></p><p><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The youngest girl is still bitter about her father. </span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Her siblings have not seen her all these years. Recently the eldest of the girls got married, however mother and youngest daughter did not go! </span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Tara is helping to educate the girl. Sadly the girl is unable to focus due to health issues. Effect of trauma and living in hostels at a very young age!</span></i></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">My thoughts are with such individual victims. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">The role of the village elders, the neighbors is uncertain. Family could take sides or keep away. </span><span style="background-color: white;">In case the traumatized victim seeks help, hopefully there are NGOs like the Oxfam to help. It does not always happen. </span>People, mostly urban middle class families who employ domestic help, would say<b> 'nothing new'</b><b>. </b>Sadly there are many such stories, the reason why many NGOs get formed!</p><p>I was incredulous when a <a href="https://www.antislavery.org/what-we-do/past-projects/india-domestic-workers/#:~:text=It%20is%20estimated%20that%20there,rather%20as%20'informal%20help'." target="_blank">website</a> quoted a low number for domestic workers<b> </b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-weight: bold;">"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">It is estimated that there are </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;">over four million domestic workers</b><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> in India. They remain part of an informal and unregulated sector, obscured in private homes, not recognised as workers but rather as 'informal help'. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This </span><span style="background-color: white;">organization</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> must be limiting itself to<b> blatant slavery, </b>between employer and employee<b>.</b> They also work with <a href="http://ndwm.org/" target="_blank">NDWM</a>. Both have international connections. I guess they both do good work. It is encouraging to see that government is taking steps.</span></p><p> <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/first-all-india-survey-on-domestic-workers-kicks-off/article37630354.ece " target="_blank"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">First all-India survey on domestic workers kicks off</span></a>. </span>The Hindu <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="blue-color ksl-time-stamp" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #133b5a; display: inline-block; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.69px; line-height: 12px; margin-top: 5px; outline: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase;">NEW DELHI,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050; font-size: 12px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span class="blue-color ksl-time-stamp" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #133b5a; display: inline-block; font-size: 10px; font-weight: 600; letter-spacing: 0.69px; line-height: 12px; margin-top: 5px; outline: 0px; text-align: right; text-transform: uppercase;"><none style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: normal; outline: 0px;">NOVEMBER 22, 2021 </none></span></span>The estimates made by the <a href="https://ndwm.org/domestic-workers/" target="_blank">National Domestic Workers Movement</a> :</p><p> <u> T<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he State of Domestic Workers in India</span></span></u></p><ul style="background-color: white; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 20px 35px; outline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The number of domestic workers in India range from official estimates of 4.2 million to unofficial estimates of more than 50 million.</span></li><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Girls and women make up the significant majority of domestic workers. Between 2000 and 2010, women accounted for seventy-five % of the increase in the total number of domestic workers in India.</span></li><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2009-2010 more than two-thirds of all domestic workers in India were employed in urban areas<span style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; color: #d22236; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</span>.</span></li><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The majority of domestic workers in India are illiterate/ minimally educated and low-skilled. They are also one of the poorest and most exploited groups of workers in the country.</span></li><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Domestic workers in India are forced to be dependent on their employers because they have no legal protection as workers under India’s labor laws,and no bargaining power due to their situations of poverty, illiteracy and low-skills.</span></li><li style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An estimated 185,595 children are employed as domestic help and in dhabas (small roadside eateries)<span style="background-color: transparent; background: transparent; border: 0px rgb(226, 226, 226); box-sizing: inherit; color: #d22236; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</span></span></li></ul><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It could be <b>much more, c</b>onsidering there are 600 million middle class people in India. I would estimate there are at least <b>150 million domestic</b> <b>workers </b>in India. The <b>poor relatives </b>who are sometimes forced to live and earn their keep by working within the family are not included. </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The numbers of poor and the middle class keep changing. However, not all domestic workers are badly off. It is also true that their lot is not rosy and many of the victims may not fight! <b>They just accept it as their fate and suffer.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Seeking ‘Charity’ away from home!</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhibwl-EhUFjtdvKIS5B7NEcZeAW75OHbjblwZiUpn3do_0b3UGe0BPGGKngBwdEE6NRnLggUUSyTjN-VhsVrdrz4ZiFYVgKCkiLrUWeYaMuKvcf8OkXN7yn-2K9l91uAlKvukHvcM87nrRkXpjC8kCoQrZUlj4H2S0BcGlMYCCGU0qHzzsZFwPcJIznw=s1280" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1280" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhibwl-EhUFjtdvKIS5B7NEcZeAW75OHbjblwZiUpn3do_0b3UGe0BPGGKngBwdEE6NRnLggUUSyTjN-VhsVrdrz4ZiFYVgKCkiLrUWeYaMuKvcf8OkXN7yn-2K9l91uAlKvukHvcM87nrRkXpjC8kCoQrZUlj4H2S0BcGlMYCCGU0qHzzsZFwPcJIznw=w400-h160" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Courtsey Oxfam</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1rem;">Seeing that Oxfam is engaged in a fight on </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe;">Violence</span><a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/take-action/campaigns/say-enough-violence-against-women-and-girls/violence-against-women-and-girls-enough-enough" style="background-color: transparent;" target="_blank"> against women and girls</a><span style="background-color: transparent;">, </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1rem;">I looked for a </span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1rem;">helpline link</b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 1rem;"> to connect with them ! </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;"> </span><a href="https://www.oxfamindia.org/contactus" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;">https://www.oxfamindia.org/contactus</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;"> should help</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;">.</span><div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;"> It is seen that Oxfam has </span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 1rem;">gone beyond charity! It is all about empowerment, setting things right in the world! Eliminate inequality. </b><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span>It has changed from its earlier days. Even a volunteer organisation needs full timers. It makes sense to go 'commercial' to pay them salary in case donations dry up.It is good</span><span> to ensure that most of the donations go directly to the needy!</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><b style="font-size: medium;">Sadly Covid 19 has impacted Oxfam seriously, they have been <a href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?tab=km#inbox/FMfcgzGmtXLWjvPLgqWpzdRFhGdgWFlW" target="_blank">forced to layoff staff!</a> </b></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><b style="font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><b>No surprise</b> that Oxfam International wanted the top Ten Rich whose wealth doubled during pandemic be taxed on the wealth created during pandemic. I hope this advice reaches the top ten and they do take steps to reduce inequality! <b>Mukesh Ambani is one of them!</b></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"> <i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>In the 35th annual </b></span></i></span><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;">Forbes</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> list of the world's billionaires, the list included 2,755 billionaires with a total net wealth of $13.1 trillion, up 660 members from 2020; 86% of these billionaires had more wealth than they possessed last year.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-FOB21_2-1" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires#cite_note-FOB21-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World%27s_Billionaires#cite_note-9" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a> (Wikipedia)</sup></b></span></i></span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><span><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">The psyche of the very rich is very complex, however fascinating, it is well beyond my </b><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><b>comprehension</b></span><b style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">. Quite a few of the rich do give away a portion of their wealth. Perhaps it is researched and well documented on how people benefit by trusts and endowments. </b></span></span></span><b style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">It is not just individuals, religious organisations are also active in humanitarian endeavors. </b></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">While their priorities and imperatives are different, I am sure all of them, in their own way, do try to alleviate the </b><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><b>sufferings</b></span><b style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"> of the poor! </b></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">I have learnt to accept the way we are and hope for the best. </b></span><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">There are no quick fixes for the poor!</b></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"> ....................................................................................................</span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Gist of comments by many on my earlier blog on </span><a href="https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2022/01/poverty-and-pandemic.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Povety and Pandemic</span></a>.<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> My thanks to them!</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Even a hundred OxFams will not be able to dent this gulf.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> There is nothing called equality. There will be and has
to be inequality and that is the norm.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">I have hope for the poor. .. poor children enjoy and have fun
with little little things. </span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">India has endurance in its design.</span>. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;">Robinhood socialism has its pitfalls.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><b><span style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"> Directly to the needy
seldom happens. The middlemen . have a major
share of the cake.</span><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><b>
</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: red;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>The video touched my heart....Huge lesson .., find joy in
small things and create those small things </b></span><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; line-height: 107%;"><b><br />
<span style="background: white;">Equality and non-discrimination only fuel debate
and discussion, and go no further.</span></b></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><b> It seems most of us are a bit sceptical of huge organisations!</b></span></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><b>Here is a direct message: </b></span></span></span><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">And leave economics alone. And leave poor countries alone."</span></b></i></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><i style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></i></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;">More about Oxfam.</b></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><b>Oxfam report:</b><i style="color: #2b00fe;">“In 2018-19 we worked directly with </i><b style="color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">19.5 million people</b><i style="color: #2b00fe;"> in our programs worldwide, 52% of whom were women and girls. For every euro received,</i></span><b style="color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;"> we spent more than two thirds on our humanitarian, development, and campaigning programs worldwide. </b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-style: italic;">Nearly 70 cents per Euro on saving and improving lives, on fighting inequality to beat poverty, and on building a better future for all.”</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span>“Total funds available 2018/19* </span><span> <b>1,018 million euros</b>; </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;" xml:lang="EN-US">Total expenditure </span><span style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="ES-TRAD" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;" xml:lang="ES-TRAD">2018/19 </span></span></span></span><span><b>998 million euros.</b></span></span></i><b>.” </b></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: center;"><span>I</span><span>t can be seen Oxfam depends on institutional funding, UN and governments, surely a challenge! Other sources are donations and trading.</span><span> </span></span><span style="text-align: center;"><i>The ‘Spending’ is on saving lives, gender justice and sustainable food among other things. </i> </span><span style="text-align: center;">Focus is generally on 'pockets' in underdeveloped nations! </span></span></b></p><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text paragraph--view-mode--default" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="max-width-text mx-auto" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 900px;"><div class="paragraph paragraph--type--text paragraph--view-mode--default max-width-text mx-auto content-section-text copy-body" style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: 900px;"><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Oxfam has been in <i>the news</i> the last few years. </b><b>The latest is from India! P</b><b>lease read the article, the author is very direct:</b></span></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://theprint.in/opinion/dear-oxfam-stop-looking-for-inequality-in-india-go-back-to-distributing-blankets/812844/" target="_blank">https://theprint.in/opinion/dear-oxfam-stop-looking-for-inequality-in-india-go-back-to-distributing-blankets/812844/</a>..<span style="color: #2b00fe;">.<i style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span>Jaithirth Rao is a retired businessperson who lives in Mumbai. Views are personal.</span></i></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Some excerpts:</b></span></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><i style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Some 25 years ago, I lived in London. I remember that at odd places on different streets, there would be Oxfam outlets where earnest individuals would collect old clothes for distribution among the poor."</span></i></li><li><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span>"Here are some elementary <b>Positive Economics</b> propositions that I make: 1.</span><span> </span><span>Oxfam needs poverty. If there were no poverty in the world, there would be no need for Oxfam.".................................</span></span></i></li><li><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>(There is more.... )</b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><i>"You will doubtless find my advice unpalatable, gratuitous and overbearing. But I can assure you that I am not wrong. Do get back to collecting old clothes and distributing them. <b>And leave economics alone. And leave poor countries alone."</b></i></span></li></ul><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Nairobi-based Oxfam International </b>will lay off about 1,500 employees globally and close its offices in 18 counties, including Tanzania, Rwanda, and Sudan. </span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The closures come to due to a fall in fundraising, mainly because of the Covid-19 pandemic. </span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;">One of the world's best known NGOs, Oxfam works in more than 90 countries. Its global headquarters was moved from Oxford, United Kingdom, to Nairobi in 2018. </span></i><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> Covid-19 lockdowns have hit the organisation hard, forcing it to close income-generating shops in Europe, cancel fundraising events, and absorb rising costs.</span></i></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Oxfam move to Kenya. As expected there is support for the move <i>from north to south </i>as inevitable. There are also critics who do not approve the move to a country which is known to be corrupt! It makes an interesting reading. <span>No surprise that UK papers were not happy with the move. </span></span></b></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6322563/African-112k-Queen-Oxfam-moving-charity-HQ-Britain-Kenya.html&source=gmail&ust=1643611435639000&usg=AOvVaw2tqzjJUF_azLlS_xxJQ7SR" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6322563/African-112k-Queen-Oxfam-moving-charity-HQ-Britain-Kenya.html" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne<wbr></wbr>ws/article-6322563/African-112<wbr></wbr>k-Queen-Oxfam-moving-charity-<wbr></wbr>HQ-Britain-Kenya.html</span></a></p><ul class="mol-bullets-with-font" style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 0px 8px; min-height: 1px; padding: 4px 0px 4px 16px; text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">African £112k 'Queen of Oxfam' is moving charity HQ from Britain to Kenya, as scandal-hit NGO fights off claims of sexual harassment and aid workers using prostitutes</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Ugandan-born Winnie Byanyima, 59, is <b>charismatic</b> boss of Oxfam International. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">She is fast becoming the most powerful female African political figure in world. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Charity is moving 4,000 miles from Oxford where it was launched to Nairobi. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.01em;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Surge in complaints from Oxfam staff and volunteers about sexual harassment</span></span><br /></span><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05dstlc&source=gmail&ust=1643611435637000&usg=AOvVaw2H8qVpehD6EuVfQUBNTtmr" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05dstlc" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programm<wbr></wbr>es/p05dstlc</span></b></a></p><h2 class="hP" data-legacy-thread-id="17e82c59dba65494" data-thread-perm-id="thread-f:1722675621918037140" id=":qm" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; border: 0px; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px; word-break: break-word;" tabindex="-1"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #202124; font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-weight: normal;">The Conversation, The Changing Role of Charity, Why Oxfam is moving its headquarters</span></span></h2></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/nov/12/aid-should-ngos-close&source=gmail&ust=1643608602623000&usg=AOvVaw1_qWqu6ynlCUnjn_GIWCKE" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/nov/12/aid-should-ngos-close" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.theguardian.com/gl<wbr></wbr>obal-development-professionals<wbr></wbr>-network/2015/nov/12/aid-<wbr></wbr>should-ngos-close</span></a></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">Bad aid: Should all NGOs close down? | Working in development | <b>The Guardian</b></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/nov/16/big-ngos-africa-amnesty-oxfam-actionaid&source=gmail&ust=1643608602625000&usg=AOvVaw2HOp3M_LEQkyXw8g9Xq0XP" href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2015/nov/16/big-ngos-africa-amnesty-oxfam-actionaid" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/gl<wbr></wbr>obal-development-professionals<wbr></wbr>-network/2015/nov/16/big-ngos-<wbr></wbr>africa-amnesty-oxfam-actionaid</a></span></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">Big NGOs prepare to move south, but will it make a difference? | Working in development <b>| The Guardian</b></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><i><b><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">( I could not open the guardian links!!)</span></b></i></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-variant-ligatures: no-contextual;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In case you like to know about the new executive director, follow the links below.</span></b></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/gabriela-bucher-appointed-new-oxfam-international-executive-director&source=gmail&ust=1643605502901000&usg=AOvVaw3atbvWTX5raL6q4RsP4SC5" href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/gabriela-bucher-appointed-new-oxfam-international-executive-director" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.oxfam.org/en/press<wbr></wbr>-releases/gabriela-bucher-<wbr></wbr>appointed-new-oxfam-internatio<wbr></wbr>nal-executive-director</span></a></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/new-oxfam-executive-director-launches-10-year-strategy-transform-oxfam-and-its-fight&source=gmail&ust=1643605502898000&usg=AOvVaw0MBZLG8dtAZ-EYS2UuEzA6" href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/new-oxfam-executive-director-launches-10-year-strategy-transform-oxfam-and-its-fight" rel="noreferrer" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.oxfam.org/en/press<wbr></wbr>-releases/new-oxfam-executive-<wbr></wbr>director-launches-10-year-<wbr></wbr>strategy-transform-oxfam-and-<wbr></wbr>its-fight</span></a></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span class="J-J5-Ji" id=":qp" style="align-items: center; background-color: white; color: #222222; display: inline-flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: inherit; min-height: 28px; position: relative; vertical-align: bottom;"></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div aria-label="Important according to Google magic." class="pG" data-tooltip-align="b,l" data-tooltip-contained="true" data-tooltip-delay="1500" id=":p5" role="img" style="align-items: center; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; height: 20px; justify-content: center; margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 20px;"></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p style="border: 0px solid; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1rem; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></div></div></div></div></div></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-81946783769184891592022-01-21T22:58:00.002-08:002022-01-21T23:18:11.868-08:00Poverty and Pandemic<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> I am thankful to Ramdas for telling me I was cryptic in my comments. He explained "You process your thoughts and make a statement! Unaware of your thought process, I have to ask you to explain!" He is very right, hopefully not always! I wonder if it means I am an ASS? (Autistic Symptoms Sometimes!) Hopefully a mild variety? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was reminded of this trait in me as I read an article in <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/business/Economy/oxfam-report-says-over-16-crore-more-people-forced-into-poverty-in-two-years-of-pandemic/article38282218.ece" target="_blank">'The Hindu'</a> news paper. <i>'</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; letter-spacing: -0.5px;"><i>Oxfam report says over 16 crore more people forced into poverty in two years of pandemic'. </i> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">As a solution Oxfam suggests the top 10 richest people be taxed 99% of the increase in their fortune in the last two years and fund it to provide universal health care, social protection, reduce gender-based violence, stop climate change and so on . </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">The article claims women collectively lost $800 billion in earnings during pandemic, a big set back in gender parity. It also faults the white people for not dying as much as the blacks, browns in Europe and the Americas. A very myopic view as they have not mentioned the yellow people in Asia. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">There is more but the ASS in me gave up! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; letter-spacing: -0.5px;"><span style="color: #545454; letter-spacing: normal;">I do not like it if others, specially white people, come to teach us charity. Oxfam has lost its credibility for me. Founded in Britain in 1942 to help women and children </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454;">who were starving </span><span style="color: #545454;">in occupied Greece during World War II, did nothing for </span><span style="color: #545454;">the starving Indians in Bengal around the same time. No doubt, there would be excuses for this lapse. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">It makes more sense that the 99% percent tax levied on the 10 richest men of the world be distributed among the world's poor directly! Their needs are immediate. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">I don’t believe <i>trickle down hypothesis</i> works. In a while the moola gets back to where it came from. Let the poor have fun at least for a while. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828; letter-spacing: -0.5px;">There are many horror stories during the Pandemic and we all know the worst and the best of humanity surfaces at such times. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: justify;">Oxfam says it is seeking </span><i style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">to change of economic systems</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: justify;">, In fact, humans have tried every conceivable system and seem to have settled on the present system for now! I wonder how will it really change? </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: justify;">It is very evident in many ways that pandemic gave a good time to the rich! It seems that they are spending their gains, and that is good news. You cannot prevent the rich from trying to get richer. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #545454;"> </span><span style="color: #545454;">Today Oxfam has spread around the world including India. </span><span style="color: #545454;">To call themselves '<i>Oxfam India'</i> feels very bovine.</span><span style="color: #545454;"> </span><span style="color: #545454;">Their aim is to create </span><i style="color: #545454;">a just and sustainable world! A good ideal, very utopian. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">They plan to work in 'niche' areas. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: justify;">Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, and Informal Sector Workers in the next five years.</span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"> While it is good to know, I have a feeling that </span><i style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">poverty is treated like an opportunity</i><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;">. I do hope it is not political. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"> I wished they were active on population control issues as well. The world, including Oxfam, had almost 80 years to do something tangible, allowed the population to treble. </span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"> Indians have seen abject poverty of the early years. They have been on a roller-coaster ride all along. Invariably the vote bank policy has come in the way of population control. So did the need (or greed) for cheap labour, demographic dividend, as it is called!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"> As I watch these workers every day, I am impressed by their hard work, trying to make the best out of the situation. Are these people with their innate dignity counted as poor? Most of the migrants would like to go home. I really don't know how this could be achieved. At least give their children a better home. </span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"> I feel I am like these little kids of migrant labour in the video.</span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: justify;"> Trying to keep my hope and innocence.</span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDh2wjPDHbsOWt7aP1lvkPK4LlOPm5UmwQE69i52LDA6U1KXYf6WlNL8QR1N782pzizExNo7GGABjVGksq-xAI5Is6RlqU-C3bN_Jw-Nv9BojxTbvzLSjFA8EcZJGW6o7B68t_Nc7ukirPZZ0hfXrorWeSTRwrbdAE93EtUDn8-vCRYBNqlIslwDanRg=s1067" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1022" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiDh2wjPDHbsOWt7aP1lvkPK4LlOPm5UmwQE69i52LDA6U1KXYf6WlNL8QR1N782pzizExNo7GGABjVGksq-xAI5Is6RlqU-C3bN_Jw-Nv9BojxTbvzLSjFA8EcZJGW6o7B68t_Nc7ukirPZZ0hfXrorWeSTRwrbdAE93EtUDn8-vCRYBNqlIslwDanRg=s320" width="307" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The lady works with the men, keeps an eye on the kids. <br />She cooks for them. There is an innate dignity in all of them. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyWsUYQ1VTOyWsUJ7EnkVjdQZOH41aC4FxQexPUSLPuJp_tSyjhUcjcKm9LLjcJoN16zwa07hv8Q1-RJlaeoQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;">Video courtesy Uma, neighbors sister </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">About Oxfam:</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The name “Oxfam” comes from the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, founded in Britain in 1942. The group campaigned for food supplies to be sent through an allied naval blockade to starving women and children in enemy-occupied Greece during the Second World War.</i></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><i><i style="color: black;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">"The 'Inequality Kills' briefing shows how deeply unequal our economic system is and how it fuels not only inequality but poverty as well. We urge the Government of India to commit to an economic system which creates a more equal and sustainable nation," Amitabh Behar, CEO, Oxfam India souaid in a statement.</span></i></i></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span><i>Oxfam India is leading NGO of people and organisations working hand in hand to fight inequality in India. Supporting civil society organisations in India over the past 60 years, In 2008 Oxfam registered as an Independent organisation.</i></span></span><i style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span>......</span></i><i><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: border-box;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span>And we won’t stop until everyone in India can live a life of dignity free from discrimination. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="text-align: justify;">Our vision is a just and discrimination-free India. Oxfam India will always be there in times of crisis and injustice to fight the inequalities and discrimination affecting the lives of millions of Indians. </span></i></span></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Over the next five years, we will help many more people from socially and economically excluded groups (Dalits, Adivasis, Muslims, and Informal Sector Workers), and especially women in exercising their right to live a life of dignity and free from discrimination.</span></i></p><p><i style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.875rem; text-align: justify;"><br /></i></p>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-54450299609918022482022-01-17T22:41:00.007-08:002022-01-19T19:44:33.074-08:00A worthwhile walk through Sunday 'Soul' Santhe. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We were a bit early for the santhe. Surprisingly walk-ins' had to pay more for the entry tickets. A notice on display said there was a discount if we paid thru ‘Amazon pay’. Tried to pay thru my phone. For some reason the 4G data didn’t work. While it is not a big deal I felt cheated. Wonder how the deal works? Will ‘Amazon pay’ reimburse the difference? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This 'santhe' was very different. It was upscale! Mostly youngsters, with live music, food and surely a good way to kill time on a week-end. Stalls were getting ready and saw a stall for beer as well! Totally unexpected! Anyway we couldn’t check it out! People on stage were still setting up music. I did buy some food and it was good! We soon left much before the santhe had gained momentum.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Was my soul was elevated? Not really! But felt happy when Nandini stopped at a stall which displayed Kolhapuri type slippers. They were my favourites while in Pune! The slippers on display looked different, however they were quite attractive.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> I mentioned this to the bright girl, Tejaswini, who was attending to Nandini and was impressed that she had designed the slippers. And that she got it made working directly with the skilled cobblers in Kolhapur! In fact, it is a nice story of an enterprise which ensures that benefits go directly to the craftsmen. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At my request Tejaswini sent me the story of her adventure!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #474747; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;">The Kaalcāri Journey </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;">I was exposed to numerous artisan communities during my undergraduate days at NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology). </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;">During my tenure at NIFT, I was exposed to communities such as Mysore Rosewood inlay artisans, Bidar Stone carving artisans, Clay/Pottery artisans, etc. Up until then, I was unaware of these artisan communities existence. This got me thinking about how my generation is alien towards these ancient/native and traditional artisan communities that have existed for several decades or even centuries.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"> During my study at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York, I found my passion to design footwear. This curiosity towards footwear design deepened to lead me to take up the MA course at LCF (London College of Fashion- University of the Arts London), UK.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"> Approaching my thesis study, I chose to focus on health and wellness in the area of footwear. While I looked at developing footwear in a more holistic environment, I was keen on collaborating with the Kolhapuri artisan community to develop the final collection. The connection with this community stayed and got stronger over time. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;">This motivated me to start Kaalcāri, a brand where the artisans and craftsmen form the core of the brand. Each product is handcrafted by these master craftsmen using new materials and trending styles. Me and my team design the footwear and carry our ideas to the clusters of these artisans. We sit together and integrate the designs into the artisans’ niche style and work together on product development. We carry out 3 rounds of prototyping before we step into the production of our footwear in large quantities.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"> The benefits that the artisan community gets by being an integral part of Kaalcāri would be to broaden their platform and reach of sales (online and offline), employment opportunities (especially post-pandemic) while being rewarded with good wages. They have been motivated to try new materials (fabrics, synthetic materials) and ways of making footwear which has enhanced their skill and the product. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;">By experimenting and exploring new techniques, they have been included in the decision making for product development. This has lead them to develop a sense of ownership and emotional attachment to the products made at Kaalcāri.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"> Our interaction with this team of Kolhapuri artisans has been taking place constantly for over a year and a half, developing a team synergy. We aim to integrate more communities (Weave experts, handloom artisans, embroidery craftsmen, different style of footwear makers, etc.) into the Kaalcāri making process and have these communities develop a symbiotic relationship to benefit each other. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;">We at Kaalcāri place bulk orders with the mission to offer the artisan communities larger sums of revenue at once rather than ordering individual pieces as and when there is a demand. Doing so also helps us with instant delivery to our clients. Warm regards, </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;">Tejaswini Raaj </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(71, 71, 71); color: #2b00fe; font-size: 15.4375px; text-size-adjust: auto; white-space: pre-line; word-spacing: 1px;">(Founder and creative head- Kaalcāri)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Read more about it in<b> <a href="https://www.kaalcari.com/">https://www.kaalcari.com/</a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wish her all the best in endeavour. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Slippers do look good, especially for Nandini’s sole!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgb-h2NXQGgG7dIW6aBK12EJTm6GzIe4y_F4AFx7x5nsKSt9gXgrYZw6Dz5w73XUM73lsuLylJ65NueGr4Wf_VvvQluAMC59ooAdjcI3Td-lPFYkph2qExnZx1XZKHl15G3lsJXmR_u5FPNejGtzH_CxBkbaD4kFnEeq_wrD8LcHimQuOLjuRuyi2-T0w=s2597" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2597" data-original-width="1970" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgb-h2NXQGgG7dIW6aBK12EJTm6GzIe4y_F4AFx7x5nsKSt9gXgrYZw6Dz5w73XUM73lsuLylJ65NueGr4Wf_VvvQluAMC59ooAdjcI3Td-lPFYkph2qExnZx1XZKHl15G3lsJXmR_u5FPNejGtzH_CxBkbaD4kFnEeq_wrD8LcHimQuOLjuRuyi2-T0w=s320" width="243" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Also Enjoy some random pictures of our stroll. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">We can definitely think of going again! </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgztnq0D9U6PwuOqPTiE4hLeCJ3bDxnlGiwF0J5V1we5G9E80-x8vubXKK100ZlTQQ93RAAvTuEywXWxJhXyyf83eN4UaPckHSzOADqc3-sjpMeULQGo6vG_uXls6Ivx0BqLzHmuJ-dPo10460nSbGnbpCMQBlGmRI4Usv8bMiugryDs5PSbzH9foH6_A=w300-h400" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We practically were the first to enter. </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgztnq0D9U6PwuOqPTiE4hLeCJ3bDxnlGiwF0J5V1we5G9E80-x8vubXKK100ZlTQQ93RAAvTuEywXWxJhXyyf83eN4UaPckHSzOADqc3-sjpMeULQGo6vG_uXls6Ivx0BqLzHmuJ-dPo10460nSbGnbpCMQBlGmRI4Usv8bMiugryDs5PSbzH9foH6_A=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><strike></strike></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis6zfPrQ6BG-IuK_JyLn-iMW5xAEd7fhdN3uNxz9nm9PKywZidsWypM5fMFAbu7rDwq9LR9EEgBq4hZXByMXWl8EOZ4B9wQs4KCWi6J3d9xlMii6UApKsFoRQV8e16X3c1tvAgBxJnIBhWrOxQqSwOTXafZwJIKKqxVIpy1zduOpGB9oyWE-cczosPTA=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEis6zfPrQ6BG-IuK_JyLn-iMW5xAEd7fhdN3uNxz9nm9PKywZidsWypM5fMFAbu7rDwq9LR9EEgBq4hZXByMXWl8EOZ4B9wQs4KCWi6J3d9xlMii6UApKsFoRQV8e16X3c1tvAgBxJnIBhWrOxQqSwOTXafZwJIKKqxVIpy1zduOpGB9oyWE-cczosPTA=w299-h400" width="299" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The girl was doing all the work. <br />Posing for a picture he pretended to help😊</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAdDzBeX8dW-Xu-jRyD5jGFgWxUyLsKHEPXmNGuZmuCpIxLh5W4oby8k3H03rGzExepr2Dom-PK6GCP_cZXc5gm6tBUB94K0Ioz-G78KK7jXQo7pBaXCqsHZzuYgPv3FOsipfKEgUzzbCI5lscYe2LB_9th7HEcNcD60sCmcIsCV2mRxpFRaAcvT6yYw=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiAdDzBeX8dW-Xu-jRyD5jGFgWxUyLsKHEPXmNGuZmuCpIxLh5W4oby8k3H03rGzExepr2Dom-PK6GCP_cZXc5gm6tBUB94K0Ioz-G78KK7jXQo7pBaXCqsHZzuYgPv3FOsipfKEgUzzbCI5lscYe2LB_9th7HEcNcD60sCmcIsCV2mRxpFRaAcvT6yYw=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice surroundings. Esp the trees. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrxZdjujhENvZHQwbbKhXXZyjoYPZQzjXaAsYoXLp77labTffb3zwloNVlyMMRABF6h3LXW_FIfc3Hs6dakogc-Krd9FCuOc8Y1Mc2eFv46LqrqrMyBxCK3VZzjZ4UKcFNv8UPDy8IDtSt7GgOBsSZppLn9vf9JN-AE6PxxLYtmLzTqaAwgWQ-od0xMg=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrxZdjujhENvZHQwbbKhXXZyjoYPZQzjXaAsYoXLp77labTffb3zwloNVlyMMRABF6h3LXW_FIfc3Hs6dakogc-Krd9FCuOc8Y1Mc2eFv46LqrqrMyBxCK3VZzjZ4UKcFNv8UPDy8IDtSt7GgOBsSZppLn9vf9JN-AE6PxxLYtmLzTqaAwgWQ-od0xMg=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjn3mj-pyuYyTxK_uEEpO6ZdGKzXrGFDUj0eT8ecJcKzxJHUrhVUkEDZJmh1BbnZO44tXSYODbi-DFKy0BVdMHqNVQ4GlfnjBjaklPjDi-IFPUb1P7Dxm0_E6xjo8cHdMXhMxP-XtVsqwqjraBK7z2Lb51MFnwl53H3oe6OfUZXZ4nmCowep1Qtb2GWyg=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjn3mj-pyuYyTxK_uEEpO6ZdGKzXrGFDUj0eT8ecJcKzxJHUrhVUkEDZJmh1BbnZO44tXSYODbi-DFKy0BVdMHqNVQ4GlfnjBjaklPjDi-IFPUb1P7Dxm0_E6xjo8cHdMXhMxP-XtVsqwqjraBK7z2Lb51MFnwl53H3oe6OfUZXZ4nmCowep1Qtb2GWyg=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrbqZ3gx7r_4TV5932LRn1y9T81FzrAtGIFo3YNvLxdDwOpaFTXZkgSGLiiYMAZpp9ez_KskeX-QythYwDxT6yYeLvk305PmuLf6P_UkezdkhrxKg38ZrjUGAN5R8UiInoOpaNxCqtKtEz-hfWflZpvYfojVeEPYON5NFFl9l8JR1qEl7AxkCjLcczhA=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrbqZ3gx7r_4TV5932LRn1y9T81FzrAtGIFo3YNvLxdDwOpaFTXZkgSGLiiYMAZpp9ez_KskeX-QythYwDxT6yYeLvk305PmuLf6P_UkezdkhrxKg38ZrjUGAN5R8UiInoOpaNxCqtKtEz-hfWflZpvYfojVeEPYON5NFFl9l8JR1qEl7AxkCjLcczhA=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A good idea. I have seen this done😊</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_B7INS6GDatMimnVgMVV1VpVLSFynPfut7yUP9c771PmMHNreEsaYQ38OimwzBkkAcqkpjlXRYCYkOe-sqRbCuwBCoBHgVaZNNRq5WgIn7dlpNw0X1QN8IJcrvW20gJJiP59K4STvrfhZ5E3UBMJ2O66QgNpJvTfvmZV1bcLQ95dOG53QRjionApd3Q=s4032" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_B7INS6GDatMimnVgMVV1VpVLSFynPfut7yUP9c771PmMHNreEsaYQ38OimwzBkkAcqkpjlXRYCYkOe-sqRbCuwBCoBHgVaZNNRq5WgIn7dlpNw0X1QN8IJcrvW20gJJiP59K4STvrfhZ5E3UBMJ2O66QgNpJvTfvmZV1bcLQ95dOG53QRjionApd3Q=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsmVM8Q8mSAdVN4x-Cv2PnCrINTfkXDFWZtEg_YnZzVT4DZaLNxDJpJudhp67KMOhjTeXsEp58LZ0qftFOYmbyy966y4HlnjLyO7-Ogj6uM72fcvZE33DCV0s9ytY2ejxYaPfk-DKGnbRN7TVq5AObV476rmXr9zQb6CiZrCfwS1Kh-MA4syI7hD3_Ag=s4032" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Tara was sorting out her parents' collection of books, albums and Arti-crafts. An old book fascinated me, the papers had gone brittle and sadly a few pages of the preface missing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The preface does touch upon the authentic feel of a mother's tongue and the unavoidable influence of other languages. I concur with the author while <i>samskrita </i>is elegant, dignified it is also artificial and is fit for rhetoric! (It does put me off when pandits constantly quote Sanskrit. Anyway my feelings are personal and may be another blog to speak about it.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The inclusion of words from other languages depend on so many factors!We Kannadigas had to cope with a lot of foreign words either adapted or imposed on us as we were often at the receiving end. It is heartening to note that, <span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.in/Books-J-Bucher/s?rh=n%3A976389031%2Cp_27%3AJ.+Bucher" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.amazon.in/Books-J-Bucher/s?rh=n%3A976389031%2Cp_27%3AJ.+Bucher" target="_blank">Rev. J Bucher </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel" target="_blank">Rev Ferdinand Kittel</a> </span>appreciated Kannada language enough to devote their time for its study. We do owe a lot to them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1GZYI9u8MLISWThXyann_HLMGLf9H3AESNjEoVMmanPIqb-pm2GeTowVptmyMGHEAui-ENmmu-D-Js8fLx4gkB4zOZPTmWudsWP77XzyFIRzStduDJsVicBMKMo6aghmSchrl47X4k0rHWglBMttNSsNOnS9Jlb20pVYFCzv-tpUQms_4QWxmPcjlYw=s3463" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3463" data-original-width="2318" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1GZYI9u8MLISWThXyann_HLMGLf9H3AESNjEoVMmanPIqb-pm2GeTowVptmyMGHEAui-ENmmu-D-Js8fLx4gkB4zOZPTmWudsWP77XzyFIRzStduDJsVicBMKMo6aghmSchrl47X4k0rHWglBMttNSsNOnS9Jlb20pVYFCzv-tpUQms_4QWxmPcjlYw=s320" width="214" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD2RPJ9wHiAN_vAk6RerQaZFab67qNx3S4wXBBCp8--CiHfjUKwb4Iz5mrPwgOA8q2glb0hVNd3v1UkicHX13sD1uXD1RGCkgeLslSX28fzzLJTCB3KA2G5WEDcNquwWKXcE5y8PDpfl6dLJtl8XUpT2digA8QAR_ZriOi820Fah7qqZ6vtav0TFklAQ=s3095" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3095" data-original-width="2138" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjD2RPJ9wHiAN_vAk6RerQaZFab67qNx3S4wXBBCp8--CiHfjUKwb4Iz5mrPwgOA8q2glb0hVNd3v1UkicHX13sD1uXD1RGCkgeLslSX28fzzLJTCB3KA2G5WEDcNquwWKXcE5y8PDpfl6dLJtl8XUpT2digA8QAR_ZriOi820Fah7qqZ6vtav0TFklAQ=s320" width="221" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I guess Tara’s parents would have used the dictionary during their school time as they moved from Kannada to English. </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIsd9_vQoF3-PbIfinDIVITOrxAm9c1c7jAA9QEQ2zUDCYLxP9bPBaXaljP9kFeV6eajZeBdA8rdoVj2u_tP3G1Y1pWRcF_5rY-yRQR2jLMf_RZ831YWxWdsatTGSxlzQgdnL-Gi41li5dFmpUB4hqkTNIQE84ykHk9yjrrzNlH4DvrwMbYCW9iMQHQA=s4008" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4008" data-original-width="2595" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIsd9_vQoF3-PbIfinDIVITOrxAm9c1c7jAA9QEQ2zUDCYLxP9bPBaXaljP9kFeV6eajZeBdA8rdoVj2u_tP3G1Y1pWRcF_5rY-yRQR2jLMf_RZ831YWxWdsatTGSxlzQgdnL-Gi41li5dFmpUB4hqkTNIQE84ykHk9yjrrzNlH4DvrwMbYCW9iMQHQA=w414-h640" width="414" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvu0VpcBhwn81GqxKLfh8CwNs_6arNtQOG7JY7PFmM43aWZO9oR5os36rwqz1K-aYoljhXBUu0b10-dkMoHR10vCbllQ3pWS2kddFDWXza4Hy80-TKetaZOB6O1ejhPDzTi7a3JgcAajnSlnOaJWCC7GEdqlJiZ9dLU371EgUDINTOj6f5YHWTDCH3qw=s3621" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3621" data-original-width="2338" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjvu0VpcBhwn81GqxKLfh8CwNs_6arNtQOG7JY7PFmM43aWZO9oR5os36rwqz1K-aYoljhXBUu0b10-dkMoHR10vCbllQ3pWS2kddFDWXza4Hy80-TKetaZOB6O1ejhPDzTi7a3JgcAajnSlnOaJWCC7GEdqlJiZ9dLU371EgUDINTOj6f5YHWTDCH3qw=w414-h640" width="414" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPd0qPA5u-KNQGj8qbKgOpRqEK_ioYiwYT6VGVBsPYdk7SKUMjTxUKXMNoxAClnSy1NiSl1tLzN8zLyQVsntnBk5OiShlJ8SevgzG4hP8qW8awyVovs8NZBU_iwXKt7EyV8-wGZqx0xKZs5UEE7DXnb0SWFlhUt3CsvKMktOLCU_5LtCyqS5bfaqVFTA=s3915" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3915" data-original-width="2669" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjPd0qPA5u-KNQGj8qbKgOpRqEK_ioYiwYT6VGVBsPYdk7SKUMjTxUKXMNoxAClnSy1NiSl1tLzN8zLyQVsntnBk5OiShlJ8SevgzG4hP8qW8awyVovs8NZBU_iwXKt7EyV8-wGZqx0xKZs5UEE7DXnb0SWFlhUt3CsvKMktOLCU_5LtCyqS5bfaqVFTA=w436-h640" width="436" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The book also gives us a bit of our colonial history. <br />Rev. J Bucher wrote the preface and published this </span>dictionary in the year 1899</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Great that book is still in demand and is available. It perhaps would have been a few rupees those days! Rev. Bucher gives all the credit to Rev. F Kittel for the dictionary. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">I borrow, courtesy Wikipedia, information about this remarkable person. I see that Kannadigas have acknowledged his memory by renaming Austin town as Ferdinand Kittel town. Also have installed a statue on MG Road. 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The earlier drab looking<i> ‘matrimonial column’</i> (?) has a dramatic new look as ‘Soulmate’. </p><p>I am sure I would have not dared to respond! The brides-to-be would be looking for a dapper looking man who could go <i>'balle balle' </i>at a minutes notice. No way a two-left-footed guy like me would do the Bhangra at the sangeet! If it also meant that I should have the capability to deck the bride with huge amounts of jewellery, I was out of the race in any case! I would have just glanced and tossed the paper away. Thanks to the rain I had time to scan the ads.</p><p> I was lucky not to depend on the media to my find a <i>mate </i>and<i> </i>the <i>'soul'</i> part was given when we were young!Those early days we had parents to arrange our weddings. Love came much later. Parents had the power and the responsibility! Horoscopes were matched and so on. There were rules! Sometimes rules did get bent. </p><p>For us, as parents, times have changed and as grandparents it will be a different matrix altogether! I have no message here. But it is interesting to see how urbanisation of the country has changed the scene of matrimony! With more money in circulation, it is no wonder the Gandhian (Mahatma!) simplicity has been tossed out!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ1pHFKmA0dz_rumnmZIPn5zthU0ulyIy-Laa61PCPLbqzN8nxQhNb93-ujFlkjfOEuc5gwvkoJr6Dus_i1qtLEy3d2WRzSolPXZ85dJ-MoPi8tBRUoRaWHhtEoen0zfahdV2Kld1Vvlg/s2048/4BB08DC7-3796-4322-9A70-753CD4D31CA7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1160" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJ1pHFKmA0dz_rumnmZIPn5zthU0ulyIy-Laa61PCPLbqzN8nxQhNb93-ujFlkjfOEuc5gwvkoJr6Dus_i1qtLEy3d2WRzSolPXZ85dJ-MoPi8tBRUoRaWHhtEoen0zfahdV2Kld1Vvlg/w362-h640/4BB08DC7-3796-4322-9A70-753CD4D31CA7.jpeg" width="362" /></a></div><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy8N23ypF2Whtt2_bKght_ruv4IRLQchdW0WeHZgbztapTIK1kBJLozoAMOe-VpLB-gOIu_wvycFVBO5VCRO-2hv_Bn5ergBgwYhpU4y_W1adNdWFvQAdg1olwkWsFzNujT6RfhNSI0lOZ/s2048/18980D64-7A85-4005-9339-A2A90645F095.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2046" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy8N23ypF2Whtt2_bKght_ruv4IRLQchdW0WeHZgbztapTIK1kBJLozoAMOe-VpLB-gOIu_wvycFVBO5VCRO-2hv_Bn5ergBgwYhpU4y_W1adNdWFvQAdg1olwkWsFzNujT6RfhNSI0lOZ/s320/18980D64-7A85-4005-9339-A2A90645F095.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Top of the page was about elite brides and grooms.</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><b>I guess it could be a kind of elimination process!</b></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9xYZjUqYWyF93YUlnULA6PO6lGt9pKsgbr2GshMI4JxxzuHTI-WaWuPgI_XZS8Rq2ePtqHzEdaSabTJ1ozstuNT4P8oneTrnZkN5tACSJDjxYagDmxQOxmt_PubNM8-6pvyUTqGvwrch/s2048/3BD144ED-C15C-494D-82A3-69161C1455AC.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2007" data-original-width="2048" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS9xYZjUqYWyF93YUlnULA6PO6lGt9pKsgbr2GshMI4JxxzuHTI-WaWuPgI_XZS8Rq2ePtqHzEdaSabTJ1ozstuNT4P8oneTrnZkN5tACSJDjxYagDmxQOxmt_PubNM8-6pvyUTqGvwrch/w640-h628/3BD144ED-C15C-494D-82A3-69161C1455AC.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>We would not see this variety in the old matrimonial columns </b></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggyQLjoc7KnvEZcH2Z30ifV28DDlqE7NTRvl4m2o0h6k26qyvPtkGKTVzsr0sevKmFhAgDXj0km6SK5Z2sWhHZ1EhbF-YDqYb7RHIbsoBQTgXqWwt_nGx8gsVN-kWyOI6iirtdFyHRYSqw/s2048/5F88E2BB-B530-40BE-BC80-71291C053338.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzDSe0aSOiW_xu4DkDoFlHvyX0w6NcqTc91oGdx3pALbWBTVtzfP27-hspGNqvusbk9coQU8uPKVNuWJUjI2UDnvsrz1H8rBvfI1TTCrJ8M7so86gaXd8i3nS5HozNQY5CdVE7EkEg5E_v/s2048/23DF7FF4-0497-4327-B947-91BB3C7EA6F0.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1327" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzDSe0aSOiW_xu4DkDoFlHvyX0w6NcqTc91oGdx3pALbWBTVtzfP27-hspGNqvusbk9coQU8uPKVNuWJUjI2UDnvsrz1H8rBvfI1TTCrJ8M7so86gaXd8i3nS5HozNQY5CdVE7EkEg5E_v/w259-h400/23DF7FF4-0497-4327-B947-91BB3C7EA6F0.jpeg" width="259" /></a></div>If you get confused with the ads read the articles linked below!<p></p><div><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/the-madness-in-matrimonials/story-CU51DMhkYLzOYnKfl5lnWK.html">https://www.hindustantimes.com/india/the-madness-in-matrimonials/story-CU51DMhkYLzOYnKfl5lnWK.html</a></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.dailyo.in/lifestyle/matrimonial-ads-marriage-grooms-wanted-dowry-matchmaking/story/1/4269.html">https://www.dailyo.in/lifestyle/matrimonial-ads-marriage-grooms-wanted-dowry-matchmaking/story/1/4269.html</a></p></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-73684661890123410062021-11-02T04:46:00.007-07:002021-11-02T05:07:22.799-07:00An exceptional Shishuvihara; ‘Nursery School’ opposite the very well run Chowdiah Hall.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuMVhfIEsxD9w45N-FsFb4MIul6HfJUqGUsrcX5Jdg-OiMZf1UiArk4Cdc330iNI0IzKvYZi_TzOdzDK5rBBRpNGiR0o-Y0PDzrhty-lo8E3jFp5xCCjMFF9yXXJycxyFj3XEbuEz3nmg/s1843/0F1E2422-3EEC-4C14-9C6F-28C0AB5E74B5.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1716" data-original-width="1843" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPuMVhfIEsxD9w45N-FsFb4MIul6HfJUqGUsrcX5Jdg-OiMZf1UiArk4Cdc330iNI0IzKvYZi_TzOdzDK5rBBRpNGiR0o-Y0PDzrhty-lo8E3jFp5xCCjMFF9yXXJycxyFj3XEbuEz3nmg/s320/0F1E2422-3EEC-4C14-9C6F-28C0AB5E74B5.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="text-align: left;">An adorable elephant for kids to enjoy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7RJ8b_VtWQl5ns7jyxh8V0-piad1k8r1BVXxGGqLa3tmkc7a2aG_OQ-jplokqobm9V83HXqqBTMm19irg3YFrC96ADnv0Fe4JZqoMcnq-xzHSIoC4JBt_8O2eBiwbsUHS1HpE8qnD63a/s2048/9C7EE9A2-C319-47A0-9B45-8629DB9FA1B8.jpeg" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7RJ8b_VtWQl5ns7jyxh8V0-piad1k8r1BVXxGGqLa3tmkc7a2aG_OQ-jplokqobm9V83HXqqBTMm19irg3YFrC96ADnv0Fe4JZqoMcnq-xzHSIoC4JBt_8O2eBiwbsUHS1HpE8qnD63a/w640-h480/9C7EE9A2-C319-47A0-9B45-8629DB9FA1B8.jpeg" width="640" /></a><p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">On Sunday we were at Chowdiah Memorial Hall to attend a book release and a concert. As we were a bit early I stepped out for a walk. The compound wall just across caught my eye. The blue board in <i>Kannada </i>said that it was a<i><b> shishuvihara!</b></i> I couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw that it was <i><b>a municipal school!</b></i> As the gate was shut I peeped through the railings and was very impressed! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>My memory goes back to a chat with an autorickshaw driver who sends his children to <b>a private English school.</b> He reasoned that "while government schools have better qualified teachers, they aren’t run well. Though private schools are expensive and have less qualified teachers, </i>their teachers aren’t even paid as well as the public school teachers, <i> private schools are</i><i> better!" </i>I wish he had seen this school. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Generally Indian public schools have a poor reputation. I quote:<i> <b>'</b></i><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px;"><i>However, because of the poor quality of public education, 27% of Indian children are privately educated'. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_school#India" target="_blank">Wikipedia.</a></i></span> </b>Education in India is a massive subject. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQdRi2HsWooZb-KMXeDj6iIw4MueBBo-tGJdTOaxaNytYcKyC_58RANBrNGV67q34SdTWO5HUGFxLPdU6GxvhaeMn8Cmz4OyyXlTav_Wmq35SElCMzwFAGa9hXZoWYFM8glsTzeNwbFKRp/s2048/6D65AAEC-1BF9-490E-ADB1-E737E09D2ADF.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQdRi2HsWooZb-KMXeDj6iIw4MueBBo-tGJdTOaxaNytYcKyC_58RANBrNGV67q34SdTWO5HUGFxLPdU6GxvhaeMn8Cmz4OyyXlTav_Wmq35SElCMzwFAGa9hXZoWYFM8glsTzeNwbFKRp/w400-h300/6D65AAEC-1BF9-490E-ADB1-E737E09D2ADF.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Play area</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGVV5U0T5dfGp7w3aI8i7ZMLAj7hOr2nUsjQJKJpyxA4u9xGflEvoGWThRALFLnPtxYGI7Higa8exIQM6hVUxfNm7T-cF6BOjBWUk7P_7J4uPA6PySW1PUwZrDe6RCLsYxEu_cFsV6IpQ/s2048/05495F11-47C7-4CB4-8E6C-A29BC8BDDD64.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCGVV5U0T5dfGp7w3aI8i7ZMLAj7hOr2nUsjQJKJpyxA4u9xGflEvoGWThRALFLnPtxYGI7Higa8exIQM6hVUxfNm7T-cF6BOjBWUk7P_7J4uPA6PySW1PUwZrDe6RCLsYxEu_cFsV6IpQ/w400-h300/05495F11-47C7-4CB4-8E6C-A29BC8BDDD64.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yoga too!</td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJEn3yqXvFwgLp0DCy79mG1FblYXS4RIVzDkwDobpLRMn72PQoa6jhHMVaOhauziG6BhMfd5_Jy0hPXPOB_D1-4qmzDHuIAB6VerbC5aDr3AVtcG7GPY7x7GypQ1FYgZoFeFHtf03iDRj/s2048/0FF41416-A7E0-4A33-80F0-E575396AFB48.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJEn3yqXvFwgLp0DCy79mG1FblYXS4RIVzDkwDobpLRMn72PQoa6jhHMVaOhauziG6BhMfd5_Jy0hPXPOB_D1-4qmzDHuIAB6VerbC5aDr3AVtcG7GPY7x7GypQ1FYgZoFeFHtf03iDRj/w400-h300/0FF41416-A7E0-4A33-80F0-E575396AFB48.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Luckily I saw that the gate was actually open <br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table> I stepped in and went around and it was impressive. Clean and with many trees. <p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7E0XLOkaNY1oYqIfwycwUkhgwix6uT2CfzskmJ5azB9BpoY7BbFRNytKndUDUBnEKtRvMwBs4GtDu6CqXxEEXhX5FhNy_vqE6VJJf0mkKS9urIF5p7jtd66MSlXuVKZAZ1ItQfYhWpm9/s2048/76B3C8C8-8FA7-46EB-AB7A-AE99A0441AE7.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi7E0XLOkaNY1oYqIfwycwUkhgwix6uT2CfzskmJ5azB9BpoY7BbFRNytKndUDUBnEKtRvMwBs4GtDu6CqXxEEXhX5FhNy_vqE6VJJf0mkKS9urIF5p7jtd66MSlXuVKZAZ1ItQfYhWpm9/w640-h480/76B3C8C8-8FA7-46EB-AB7A-AE99A0441AE7.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gandhi advises <b>Don't Drink</b> which seems to be a bit too early here!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It is well made, maintained and very well run. <b><span style="font-size: medium;">These two neighbors complement each other and proves to us we can do it! </span></b><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWb0riNigONnzAzlNiuv39co6Tyf0mb9ooIJzIcHOHRXag8whZ3B9aEyvXu3R33ZvJyF5ZPHri_J6HzThj68HGVw_gj6fymgP_l80qyDEcCutBkHWdXKvGmCVIypHUUHv_pCcE4LHsWv_r/s2619/DDA4016D-04E2-4FD2-A741-A8B6AD3A4826.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1201" data-original-width="2619" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWb0riNigONnzAzlNiuv39co6Tyf0mb9ooIJzIcHOHRXag8whZ3B9aEyvXu3R33ZvJyF5ZPHri_J6HzThj68HGVw_gj6fymgP_l80qyDEcCutBkHWdXKvGmCVIypHUUHv_pCcE4LHsWv_r/w640-h294/DDA4016D-04E2-4FD2-A741-A8B6AD3A4826.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-52281014657715148602021-10-17T04:31:00.092-07:002021-10-17T07:59:19.173-07:00Follow up on my Vinoba Bhave ashram visit. " His aim was to help the landless poor and making individuals spiritual!"<p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It
feels nice that the ashram Vallabh Niketan is a haven for about forty students. </span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-eAqCRX_myFC90wWIbU2bRj21uNCkDYkzP2ekZIP4f6fbORfZi-hwsuKuY6LlYGy_1_pQVW6lqIXTS4IOp4yVA4MAUSxMUD8g_iP6yA70MUUectkfURVBe11elrvs6E3m-yWCSwmdizs/s662/IMG_9632.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="662" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-eAqCRX_myFC90wWIbU2bRj21uNCkDYkzP2ekZIP4f6fbORfZi-hwsuKuY6LlYGy_1_pQVW6lqIXTS4IOp4yVA4MAUSxMUD8g_iP6yA70MUUectkfURVBe11elrvs6E3m-yWCSwmdizs/s320/IMG_9632.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A close up of the Mural which Vinoba Bhave would have seen and admired!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="428" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXhGygfEbaaj31gCERcXIaoRsAO_HEku-u6ahen8GBVWi6uCkOdN8LXYjWPP_f3JVx4NLDBekl0kqxKdwMWW-VkpdUIjh6u-XOaP1yEATjT13MICrdUg02w4WC6s8LNyGVsPVlgPZdoE2w/w418-h640/IMG_9646.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="418" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice expectations!</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjleKUWXaz5NjwNm7rg_RcSMFnd7hHtfzLbYrI3tdBEMAeHsmMkjgd_pyXYSnPa_BsUjqWm_Wa2rcy5PyFXXiFpN2jAi9Xo-gLdne-bWF9MmuIuRKa6Mv_U0ez9nbS0JR2v3TQWQ3spnz7D/s656/IMG_9664.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="492" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjleKUWXaz5NjwNm7rg_RcSMFnd7hHtfzLbYrI3tdBEMAeHsmMkjgd_pyXYSnPa_BsUjqWm_Wa2rcy5PyFXXiFpN2jAi9Xo-gLdne-bWF9MmuIuRKa6Mv_U0ez9nbS0JR2v3TQWQ3spnz7D/w300-h400/IMG_9664.JPG" width="300" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I am sure Acharya would not mind kids playing cricket!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><i>In the 20th Century, a frail man named Vinoba Narahar Bhave walked about Seventy thousand kilometres for fourteen years in India and received around forty-two lakh acres (Seventeen lakh hectares) of land in a donation for landless farmers. It was a miracle of compassion and love in the history of mankind. Vinoba gave a new dictum to the world.</i></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>Science + Spirituality = Sarvodaya (Welfare of all)</i></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; text-align: left;">Vinoba expressed that, we are in the era when service to all human beings should be considered as service to God.</span></span></i></p><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span> The </span></span> <a href="https://www.vinobabhave.org/index.php/important-places-col-182" target="_blank">Vinoba Bhave</a> website<span style="font-family: inherit;"> speaks about the Ashrams created by him.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: justify;">At Kashikabas, Rajasthan (Birthplace of late Shri. Jamanalaji Bajaj) Vinoba declared the formation of <b>Bramha Vidya Mandir</b> at Paunar, He said, “I felt the lack of search for knowledge of the Supreme in our activities and felt this more keenly after Bapu passed away. I became convinced that unless we had this spiritual foundation, our superstructure, our various programs would not last. Without the attainment of Brahmavidya, (knowledge of the Supreme) the well-spring of our thought would dry up, the current would no longer flow fully and freely. Having reached this conclusion, I decided to start a Brahmavidya Mandir. I have described “Brahmavidya Mandir” as a place where one may either attain the highest-the Supreme Vision or find one's whole effort gone for nothing. There is no other institution where there is such an element of risk. Here it is a case of all or nothing—infinity, or zero! We cannot offer any lesser odds. I am constrained to do this thing (establish this Ashram), even if I get is zero. I am not interested in half measures; I must have the infinite or nothing”. This ashram was established on </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: -webkit-center;">13th March 1959.....Vinoba Bhave</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br />
<strong><span style="background: white;">-Brahma Vidya Mandir Ashram: </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="background: white;"> </span></strong><br />
<span style="background: white;">About a 15 minute rickshaw ride from Sevagram,
in Paunar is the Ashram of Gandhi's disciple, Vinoba Bhave, who once resided
with Gandhi at his Sagarmati Ashram in Gujarat. Vinoba Bhave walked throughout
India after Gandhi was assassinated for several years asking wealthy landowners
to donate land to the countries poor (Bhoodan movement). In addition, he was a
sanskrit scholar & spoke many languages. He spent his later years
translating the Koran & Bhagavad Gita in addition to writing introductions
& critique to several texts. <b>His Brahma Vidya Mandir Ashram is an all
female ashram that has a more vibrant feel then Sevagram with a large garden in
the center and adjacent fields used to feed the ashram members who practice
Swarj (self sufficiency). </b>There is a book store and small exhibition on Vinoba
Bhave's life. In addition, the ashram is located beside the Dham River. <b>When
visiting in 2008 all guests were encouraged to help out farming or gardening.</b>
You can call or write ahead to arrange transportation however men wishing
to stay longer then a few days need special permission.
Here is a link that can provide more information if interested in
staying: </span><br />
</span></span><span style="line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://hellowardha.com/leftsidemenu/pavanar-ashram/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank" title=""><span style="background: white;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;">http://hellowardha.com/leftsidemenu/pavanar-ashram/</span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-size: 16.3636px;"><b>Mumbai Sarvoday Mandal</b>,</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.3636px; text-align: -webkit-center;"> is a charitable trust working in Mumbai for spreading the philosophy of Sarvodaya. The trust was registered in the year 1975, however, the work of Sarvoday in Mumbai started way back in the year 1951 when Vinoba started Bhoodan movement. The Sarvodaya workers in Mumbai arrange workshops for College students to teach them the philosophy of Sarvoday. Conduct Gandhi Vichar examination in various prisons of Maharashtra. Arrange discounted sale of Sarvoday books in Mumbai. Two websites namely mkgandhi.org and vinobabhave.org on life and mission of Mahatma Gandhi and Acharya Vinoba Bhave respectively are hosted by the Mandal. Gandhi Book Centre- a book store is run by the Mandal.</span><b>Birthplace of Acharya Vinoba Bhave</b>, Gagode Budruk, Pen taluka, Raigad: </span></span><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">Vinoba was born at Gagode on 11th September 1895. About five hundred acres of land in Gagode village was donated in Bhoodan by Bhave family in the year 1954. The ancestral house of Bhave family was also given by Bhave family for the work of Sarvodaya in the year 1955. A trust Acharya Vinoba Bhave Janmastan Pratistan was registered in the year 1985. Historical records of Bhave family, original letters of Vinoba and articles used by Vinoba are displayed here. A portrait painting of Vinoba by noted artist Suhas Bahulkar is displayed in the room where Vinoba was born.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="font-size: 16px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Maitri Ashram</b>. North Lakhimpur Block, Assam, India: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; text-align: justify;">About this Ashram Vinoba said. "Whatever rules, purposes and programs may be introduced here everything is covered by this word ‘Maitri’, Friendship. The only truth is friendship. The Only purpose is friendship, and the only program is friendship. This is a place of friendship. And as the problems of society go very deep, our friendship must find expression in the solution of those problems. We expect that the Maitri Ashram might keep in touch with the outside world and become a place of international friendship”. </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16.3636px; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">This ashram was established on <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16.3636px; line-height: normal;">5th March 1962.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16.3636px; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16.3636px; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;"><b>Samanvaya Ashram</b>. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; text-align: start;">Vinoba established the ashram in the Bodh Gaya in Bihar (eastern India) and Dwarkoji was asked to be the in-charge of this Ashram in 1962. </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">At the Ashram, Dwarkoji launched an education program for children. The principle he adopted was "education for life, education of life, and education through life". Education was correlated to the life-needs of rural villages. As of 2002, the school has been in continuous operation and has grown to cover 10,000 children in 167 villages. Two residential schools provide shelter, clothing, food, health care, education and loving care for 140 students. For the last 18 years, the Ashram has been also conducting very successful cataract eye operation camps. About 15,000 patients receive free eye operations each year. Local "terrorist" groups respect the social service provided by the Ashram to the villages and (diabolically) offer protection to the Ashram.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><b>It was amazing to read about the ashram in Bihar. However I could not see anything about the other two ashrams on the web. </b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"><b>Visarjan Ashram</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"> in Navlakha, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;"><b>Indore</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe;">..Social service organisation</span></span></p><h1 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: none medium; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Prasthan Ashram<span style="font-weight: 500;"> Nature Cure Centre..</span>Pathankot.<span style="font-weight: 500;"> Nature cure centre.</span></span></h1><div><span style="color: #2c2e36; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">While it is interesting to know about the ashrams, <b>what happened to <i>the donated lands </i> feels more important.</b> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px;">I tried to research on the subject.</span></div><div><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c2e36; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;">Intriguing that the article below is fairly recent
and asks a question after 60 years! </span></span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No idea how accurate are the details given in the article below.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b>Where’s Bhoodan Land By <a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/2968974461683300380/5228101465771514860"><span style="color: #337ab7;">Richard Mahapatra</span></a></b></span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #333333;">Published:
Monday 30 November -0001 (?)<br />
<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/2968974461683300380/5228101465771514860"><span style="color: blue;">https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/wheres-bhoodan-land-34263</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #333333;">Government
prefers not to talk about the 931,000 ha collected under land-gift movement</span><span style="color: #333333;"> Gifting
of land, or bhoodan in Hindi, is the current obsession of the government. It is
on a spree of acquiring land. This is often termed as bhoodan to corporate
houses. There is another kind of bhoodan that is being talked about. For a
country that is demographically young, this bhoodan took place as a movement when
India was just four years old. Then, it meant a gift from landed people,
assumed rich, to the landless. But why contemplate that movement now?</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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First, it completes 60 years and we do not know what happened of those precious
gifts. Second, the current bhoodan threatens to acquire the land—over 931,000
hectares (ha)—collected under the earlier bhoodan. There are widespread reports
of taking over these tracts of land for developing projects. The government’s
response to this is passive, if not mute.<br />
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Bhoodan Movement was started by Mahatma Gandhi’s disciple Vinoba Bhave in April
1951. Born spontaneously at an evening meeting in an Andhra Pradesh village,
the movement saw land owners gifting land to the landless. Within six years,
about 1.9 million ha were collected. Over the next two decades the movement
took shape of a law called the Bhoodan Act and put the government in charge of
distributing land from the land bank. The movement later transformed into
Gramdan (village in gift) movement, under which the whole or a major part of a
village land was donated by not less than 75 per cent of the residents for
equal distribution among all village residents. Tribal areas, currently under
vigorous land acquisition, were major participants in the Gramdan movement. Both
the movements died eventually but left behind the land bank.<br />
<br />
In the past six decades the government has distributed around 971,000 ha of the
bhoodan land among the landless. Of the people who received the land many could
not take physical possession as influential people encroached upon their land.
There are over 931,000 ha more to be distributed. But the government does not
talk much about this land bank. In fact, it does not issue a status report
except for a stale five- to 10-line paragraph in a voluminous annual report of
the Union ministry of rural development. There is no official record of these
tracts of lands, their location and status, nor any serious effort to identify
and distribute them among the landless.<br />
<br />
Reports are that the government is now distributing land from the bank to
housing, industrial and other projects. As this happens, the price of the
bhoodan land goes up. This is where the nexus of local influential people and
government officials come into picture; the land deeds are transferred to
undeserving (read influential) people for a windfall. In a way, this has
hastened usurping of the bhoodan land. Several documents on the status of land
show that 50 per cent of this undistributed bhoodan land has already been
encroached upon or transferred to undeserving people. In the absence of
specific data, social activists working on land reforms cite instances of
bhoodan land being given to corporate houses in nine states.<br />
<br />
For example, in Andhra Pradesh the urban development authority of Visakhapatnam
has allocated the bhoodan land for housing projects. The state government has
allocated large chunks of the bhoodan land in Ranga Reddy district to
industrialists; estimated market value of the land is Rs 1,500 crore.
Investigations are under way into how the tracts were sold to companies in
violation of the Bhoodan Act. A probe is also on in Maharashtra into bhoodan
land grab by builders and housing societies involving politicians.<br />
<br />
Several instances of land being given away to members of legislative assembly
cutting across party lines have emerged in Bihar, where Chief Minister Nitish
Kumar claims that distributing the bhoodan land is his priority. The Bihar Land
Reform Commission recently unmasked one such scandal. The government’s land
bank recorded a gift of 262,430 ha, of which only 103,335 ha had been
distributed to 315,454 families and over 112,000 ha were shown as not suitable
for distribution. There was no record of how the government reached this
decision. There was no record of any verification.<br />
<br />
“Without such verification the possibility of lands being utilized by
unauthorized persons including land mafia cannot be ruled out,” the commission
warned. Though distribution of the bhoodan land is a key activity under the
government’s land reform exercise, it has not gained momentum. Instead, it has
allowed the government to grab land meant for the poor. To streamline the
system, in 2007 the Centre set up the National Land Reform Council with the
prime minister as the chairperson. But it has not even met once. In October the
prime minister will convene a meeting of the council. Hopefully, it does talk
about the bhoodan land.</span><span style="color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The above article claims that lands which were meant for farmers are now given to non-farmers!</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 3.75pt; margin: 3.75pt 0in 7.5pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span>A link for those interested. </span></span><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/2968974461683300380/5228101465771514860"><span style="color: blue;"><span>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhoodan_movement</span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;">Read more at:<br />
<a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/2968974461683300380/5228101465771514860"><span style="color: #0071ff;">http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/46963509.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst</span></a></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: -0.15pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/2968974461683300380/5228101465771514860"><span style="color: blue;">https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/nagpur/64-yrs-on-bhoodan-movement-beneficiaries-yet-to-get-land/articleshow/46963509.cms</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The article is brief, worth reading! The movement started in 1951 and had collected about 4.5 million acres by 1957. Sad to see it failed due to the selfishness of people involved all across.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> The article bemoans the fact that almost 50%, about 2.3 million acres are yet to be distributed as of 2015. A BJP member requested that this should be done as early as possible.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It is interesting to read the article in full. </span></b><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It appears to be a tutorial.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://mrunal.org/2013/11/land-reforms-bhodan-gramdan-jan-satyagraha-2012-other-non-governmental-movements-achievements-obstacles-limitations.html">https://mrunal.org/2013/11/land-reforms-bhodan-gramdan-jan-satyagraha-2012-other-non-governmental-movements-achievements-obstacles-limitations.html</a> </span></p><div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">The following reflects the ground reality.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Obstacles, Limitations, Problem</span></b></div><div><ul style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 0px 1.655em; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After ’56 movement lost its momentum.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While nearly 4.5 million acres of Bhoodan land was available- barely 6.5 lakh acres was actually distributed among 200,000 families (1957)</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In some cases the donors took back their land from the Bhoodan workers for certain reasons.</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This created doubts in the minds of some people about the continuity of the movement.</span></li></ul><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Village leaders, or allotting authorities, demanded money from the poor for recommending their names for allotment. As a result, many undeserving villagers also got land e.g those already having land/ those involved in trade-commerce. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Bhoodan movement created land hunger among landless.Some of them applied multiple times in the name of wives, children etc. to get more and more free land.</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Big landlords donated those land which were unfit for cultivation (or under court litigation). Such donations served no real purpose. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Sometimes Bhoodan workers would even accept disputed land as gift. Without verification. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Later the Matter would be stuck in court </span><span style="background-color: white;">litigation</span><span style="background-color: white;"> and beneficiary would get nothing</span><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">In the later phase, Bhoodan workers got associated with one or another political parties </span><span style="background-color: white;"> lost credibility and respect among villagers land gifts declined. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Since Bhoodan workers became political agents, some landlords donated land as ‘bribe’ to Bhoodan workers- with hope of getting favourable returns e.g. ticket in local election, road-contracts, building contracts etc. </span><span style="background-color: white;">And if they were not given such favors- they’d forcibly take back the Bhoodan land from the beneficiary later on.</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="background-color: white;">Mere allotment of land was insufficient. Because landless farmer also needed seeds, fertilizer, irrigation etc..</span><span style="background-color: white;">Often the beneficiary couldn’t arrange loans for these inputs. </span><span style="background-color: white;">The average size of land given to beneficiary=0.5 to 3 acres. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Result: land fragmentation + diseconomies of scale + ‘disguised unemployment’ without any noticeable rise in agro-production. </span></i></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">District officials were slow and inefficient in finishing the formalities of Bhoodan land transfers.</span><span style="background-color: white;">donated land remained idle for a number of years and the revenue for it had to be paid by the donor.</span></span></i></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><i>The article also examines Gramdan. Which perhaps would have lead the country towards co-operative farming. </i></b></span><span style="background-color: white;">Original idea came from Gandhi’s reply to Jamnalal Bajaj: </span><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;">“it is far better for a hundred families in a village to cultivate their land collectively and divide the income therefrom than to divide the land any how into a hundred portions”.</em></span></div><div><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Gramdan was successful mainly in villages where class differentiation had not yet emerged and there was little if any disparity in ownership of land or other property. E.g. Tribal villages. But didn’t find cooperation from other villages in the plains or villages near urban centers.</b></span></span></em></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>It was an incredible movement and feels truly sad to read </i>how it spluttered into a stop<i>. It is nice to know a </i>trust<i> is keeping the Acharya's name alive.</i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit;"><b><i>However the country has already moved (?) towards a capitalistic economy. <span style="letter-spacing: -0.2px;">I do notice that the automobile sector is doing well. Many more imported cars are seen on the roads and roads are flooded with two wheelers. So it is not all that bad. </span></i></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">We have yet to face fully the fall-out of the pandemic. </span><o:p>If we are worried about the poorest of the poor, we see</o:p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i> </i>many sops are announced by </span>governments.<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.2px;">There are also charities, NGO's and so on. Hopefully they will not go hungry.</span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span style="background-color: white;">Only middle class especially the non-government employees and small time business men who have no real <a href="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/aboutus/committee/wrkgrp/wg_soclscty.pdf" target="_blank">'</a></span><a href="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/aboutus/committee/wrkgrp/wg_soclscty.pdf" target="_blank">s</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://niti.gov.in/planningcommission.gov.in/docs/aboutus/committee/wrkgrp/wg_soclscty.pdf" target="_blank">ocial security' </a>could be worried<span style="font-style: italic;">. </span><span>Those who are able to save thru PPF would have a safety net. </span></span></b></span><b style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are also advised to try mutual funds <span style="font-style: italic;">(Sahi hai!)</span> to compensate for the falling </span>interest rates. Frankly I am clueless about the MF option.</b></p></div><div class="news-detail-content" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px 60px 30px; position: relative;"><br /><section class="mt-30" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 30px;"></section></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-88733415654468132482021-10-13T05:17:00.003-07:002021-10-14T23:25:46.935-07:00A discovery near Gandhi Bhavan in Bengaluru. <p> As I walked past Gandhi Bhavan on 2nd Oct, an unpretentious entrance gate next to it caught my eye. It seemed like a place the Mahatma would have preferred to honour his memory. It was open with many trees and a small building tucked in at the rear </p><p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwlkA0HUwEyfILCS9khmCssGmiOcJEUpq_CX-7fvZeo_jH02qGW6gTfT_6_3SdM33RKzHM1MSdAehcQozrwVL1nAOmCKe1k5Y8BC6E-eQ23qA7WER10LLFutDb5BPpT2-RUTrE9DiUQ8Hw/s2048/7C265297-2A40-4E5E-9B74-68D69670EA6C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwlkA0HUwEyfILCS9khmCssGmiOcJEUpq_CX-7fvZeo_jH02qGW6gTfT_6_3SdM33RKzHM1MSdAehcQozrwVL1nAOmCKe1k5Y8BC6E-eQ23qA7WER10LLFutDb5BPpT2-RUTrE9DiUQ8Hw/w300-h400/7C265297-2A40-4E5E-9B74-68D69670EA6C.jpeg" width="300" /></a></p><p>It occupied an area as big as the Gandhi Bhavan and the bungalows, occupied by legislators, on the same row. As one would expect the bungalows had secured entrances and high compound walls. Mysterious how this precious piece of land had escaped the developers. </p><p>I saw an young boy climbing the compound wall. A few kids were playing cricket and obviously the batsman had hit a six which went over the wall!</p><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2O-V3IH8cIN7tV6sDnxle4Hlx8ukqJNdtYRj4MftUZeNhK2lVH3rl2c8VCAuSOVDSl0HNhSKdYBWhVL65KjwXwWzthGQRGXxHiDak0BA-mtjvqEh2B4Y1D31Ok8QIXQctvwRSwMP2nel/s2048/22FB76C5-AD1B-4E8B-9F5B-DBC526A188B7.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ2O-V3IH8cIN7tV6sDnxle4Hlx8ukqJNdtYRj4MftUZeNhK2lVH3rl2c8VCAuSOVDSl0HNhSKdYBWhVL65KjwXwWzthGQRGXxHiDak0BA-mtjvqEh2B4Y1D31Ok8QIXQctvwRSwMP2nel/s320/22FB76C5-AD1B-4E8B-9F5B-DBC526A188B7.jpeg" width="240" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdHwXdqOz9TGahSegB5PjePgRON6JqeMIq3UvOuMrpv5bRhZPbIQEilJL3kGfTfqaddohuW2Sh6_i38zHayyojBOhiRYC0uErO9s10S1ddmq0vOL62amLJ4unbqLxf61AF9t7cC4vpMd4V/s2048/DB718602-FB20-45B7-9EBF-CB2E845A8B84.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdHwXdqOz9TGahSegB5PjePgRON6JqeMIq3UvOuMrpv5bRhZPbIQEilJL3kGfTfqaddohuW2Sh6_i38zHayyojBOhiRYC0uErO9s10S1ddmq0vOL62amLJ4unbqLxf61AF9t7cC4vpMd4V/w300-h400/DB718602-FB20-45B7-9EBF-CB2E845A8B84.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div>There was also a <i>school bus</i> parked in the premises. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDrkoJvOW7YnJy0q0nBJ2u6qrZmCYCSdcolKV4BjDUiMw0m-hTDu8Y_8RV0-PCghgMQ5qfMwP1FUmDKLMIDjqx4vT0l7y4lIs4RTXtpIY_T6LJSp-4KXa1M5LNckwniQgcP0cT4fmgWcN/s2048/164DED07-DA42-4AE2-B2AA-81E86FA43B18.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKDrkoJvOW7YnJy0q0nBJ2u6qrZmCYCSdcolKV4BjDUiMw0m-hTDu8Y_8RV0-PCghgMQ5qfMwP1FUmDKLMIDjqx4vT0l7y4lIs4RTXtpIY_T6LJSp-4KXa1M5LNckwniQgcP0cT4fmgWcN/s320/164DED07-DA42-4AE2-B2AA-81E86FA43B18.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Totally curious now, I walked in and noticed many big cars parked. To see a compound wall painted with murals was totally unexpected. Just then a car came in and stopped near the small building which was more like an outhouse in one corner. A lady got out of the car and a driver took out a basket full of Bananas from the car. The kids stopped playing walked up and ate the bananas the lady gave and ran back to play. </div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5O45iz8QqLlGsfY5RImkOuHvj_FutdDh78dYgkCaKhMy2sFt4sa_OnO0bMHCmmjAy83guWR5I1DduDHERNsU3tzOovVnr5sBcO_tpW1bZ8C0X0r1LoDFKvqU5asZZQOtAHYcbpKlwgAsQ/s2048/2F76FF47-7E3E-42FE-A2EC-770EC0753A14.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5O45iz8QqLlGsfY5RImkOuHvj_FutdDh78dYgkCaKhMy2sFt4sa_OnO0bMHCmmjAy83guWR5I1DduDHERNsU3tzOovVnr5sBcO_tpW1bZ8C0X0r1LoDFKvqU5asZZQOtAHYcbpKlwgAsQ/w300-h400/2F76FF47-7E3E-42FE-A2EC-770EC0753A14.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI3xir85JgNYUscJ7rVfsPrKS86zhZIWOQ_MFbNaXasi-FPvpRanWsRQZaTeti-1JETB7_4ts35dD-Hbl8T_3tOjNmp7GdhBDiqimSQe_8rtRL5fO-LWlG-Lh7N8WZRiOyn8timIIZ57al/s2048/C81EF5CB-7AA3-449E-863D-692AD94DBD94.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI3xir85JgNYUscJ7rVfsPrKS86zhZIWOQ_MFbNaXasi-FPvpRanWsRQZaTeti-1JETB7_4ts35dD-Hbl8T_3tOjNmp7GdhBDiqimSQe_8rtRL5fO-LWlG-Lh7N8WZRiOyn8timIIZ57al/w400-h300/C81EF5CB-7AA3-449E-863D-692AD94DBD94.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZBKFSLGCg9oEfDDbUbb5TjADplph5n6psQ-qNMvz1nZOZAQpG5xuUkE_e6vgXaBgoSstHg4WADKwsB_iqjm5uOLWDHbYGPwDnedt2dOsZYUAWskfd3rIA-Q84LP_qjT3N6JQkkZVYnLo/s2048/8EAE2A7E-5023-4DE3-9EEC-009A0E420F7F.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpZBKFSLGCg9oEfDDbUbb5TjADplph5n6psQ-qNMvz1nZOZAQpG5xuUkE_e6vgXaBgoSstHg4WADKwsB_iqjm5uOLWDHbYGPwDnedt2dOsZYUAWskfd3rIA-Q84LP_qjT3N6JQkkZVYnLo/w400-h300/8EAE2A7E-5023-4DE3-9EEC-009A0E420F7F.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was fascinating</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4erILb0dgqVLyUD_Gix-D5ZYRd0Ag58KWQ8DzFcSsTIfdtV4HqfzIDzCkbWBjb-cHhE7ix5L9eYWftneivdgbdITwqU6dPt0ZXfxfr2F6S5LXKmygBuveyMGF7H9R7B1x295pYBo1g6Ex/s2048/DC40CC34-A053-4D47-8369-F310BBC9F4B1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4erILb0dgqVLyUD_Gix-D5ZYRd0Ag58KWQ8DzFcSsTIfdtV4HqfzIDzCkbWBjb-cHhE7ix5L9eYWftneivdgbdITwqU6dPt0ZXfxfr2F6S5LXKmygBuveyMGF7H9R7B1x295pYBo1g6Ex/w300-h400/DC40CC34-A053-4D47-8369-F310BBC9F4B1.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> Went across </span><i style="text-align: left;"> to speak to this person,</i><span style="text-align: left;"><br />who said it was a hostel for about 40 kids. <br />They went to a school situated elsewhere. <br />He did not elaborate further. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Feeling he was not in a mood to talk or show me around, walked across to look at the boards. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3V9E68xjp1217VEFcW8L7uIYEKQjT080TPGI-Jpn7B4mGcuvgXO2qPHP1h3W6tiChCFzL02Cdb_kmeOniruwVc0lCoYkaz9xUgQ24QaGl3X2ra1kUFvz0mrubSbo5okcznjqTchyphenhyphen4tOSf/s2048/E5534C31-96E6-45F4-AC06-B1F98D2A9617.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3V9E68xjp1217VEFcW8L7uIYEKQjT080TPGI-Jpn7B4mGcuvgXO2qPHP1h3W6tiChCFzL02Cdb_kmeOniruwVc0lCoYkaz9xUgQ24QaGl3X2ra1kUFvz0mrubSbo5okcznjqTchyphenhyphen4tOSf/w640-h480/E5534C31-96E6-45F4-AC06-B1F98D2A9617.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was not far wrong in thinking that it felt like an ashram Gandhi would have liked. I did see a picture of Mahatma and also that of Acharya Vinobha Bhave. Acharya was called the <i>spiritual successor</i> to Gandhi. His <i>bhoodhan</i> movement which did persuade a few rich landowners to donate to the landless. It was a success for a while, then lost momentum. An ideal, which perhaps could not resolve the practical aspects of the movement. It could be the quality of the land donated, and I guess, the support needed for the tiller during their hard times. They did not own the land! No idea about the present status of the lands donated!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bhoodhan movement was supported by congress and it is said J P Narayan joined the movement in 1953, quitting active politics. It seems to have lasted for about a decade? It was surprising to read that Acharya supported the <i>emergency</i> imposed Indira Gandhi, calling it <i>time for discipline! </i>The times were eerie, even though it looked good for a short while.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Anyway was happy to read seven such ashrams are now in India. I tried to meet the person heading the place. He had gone out!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_inbT-msVreUo0ScnUWVERWIZVuuFaoE7_sWKl6aSFD4Gg8A-sax5nxLER-jhf44KJSbsimShCQqAEpGquMaxSVGw8ib4Le56b9og_zwZfVmTyOauZCdmyGL9Hyve-q6z9_91plpiwhMO/s2048/0D35C6AF-3F03-4172-8382-519754EF715C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_inbT-msVreUo0ScnUWVERWIZVuuFaoE7_sWKl6aSFD4Gg8A-sax5nxLER-jhf44KJSbsimShCQqAEpGquMaxSVGw8ib4Le56b9og_zwZfVmTyOauZCdmyGL9Hyve-q6z9_91plpiwhMO/w480-h640/0D35C6AF-3F03-4172-8382-519754EF715C.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><p></p></div></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-3027835897252575732021-10-08T21:53:00.007-07:002021-10-09T09:59:01.331-07:00A comprehensive guide for Indian students going to UK for studies.<p>Today's TOI of had a small insert about <i>counseling</i> students desirous of studying in UK at the Oberoi hotel. Tara saw and showed it to me! It was an amazing coincidence as recently we had received a copy of a <i><b>Guide</b></i> on the same subject authored by <b>Geetha Swamy</b> and I had plans to blog about the book! The book is very well planned and excellently produced. It is a book to keep!</p><p>Studying in the UK surely is not new! It goes back to many many years. A number of our luminaries have studied in UK. To name a few, Mahatma Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and H.V.R Iengar, from our own Bengaluru! </p><p></p><p>I don’t know about others, those days our community actually forbade people from traveling overseas. I had heard this story from my mother. A ritual was performed after HVR’s return from UK completing his studies to become an ICS officer. She said he was covered with a gunny bag and was given a few blows with a cane. A punishment for breaking a rule or for purification! I wish I had the temerity to ask him about it.</p><p> While numbers surely run into thousands now. It was exciting memories for me as a kid when two of my close relatives, cousin B.S.Rangaraj and a cousin's husband Dr.N.K. Gopalan went to UK for studies. There would be many more!</p><p>More about our dear friend Geetha Swamy, whom we know from our Pune days. Tara and Geetha were colleagues at the Canadian International School in Bangalore. Geetha was a teacher and a counselor at CIS. She taught IB maths and Physics and continues to do so even after retirement!</p><p>She used to advice parents on how to select, enroll students etc., at school. Finally she chose to write a guide to help parents and students. I quote<span style="color: #2b00fe;"><i> "<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">As a counselor I always felt frustrated that despite an overload of books on American universities, there was none on UK universities. I quit my job and traveled extensively touring campuses and recording observations that would interest the International student. The book was born out of a deep desire to help students and young counselors who could access such information."</span></i></span></p><p>When I saw the guide I wondered whether such guide is available for own universities. Hope so. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQH2atHbjparp_uYb4zvBA_oLDmmwQOOta5PkyPBGOPmH7fsbf4wR5zysAzuduc2zYlgqg0QW7gUPH-kDraheMwJshhq6QFuGQT_gULqnAI0RM_NV2_kyZKtsJ8iL3S4wmyk1-0YdeTPO/s559/IMG_0818.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="389" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidQH2atHbjparp_uYb4zvBA_oLDmmwQOOta5PkyPBGOPmH7fsbf4wR5zysAzuduc2zYlgqg0QW7gUPH-kDraheMwJshhq6QFuGQT_gULqnAI0RM_NV2_kyZKtsJ8iL3S4wmyk1-0YdeTPO/w446-h640/IMG_0818.JPG" width="446" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZi5K9mq-7N37LoaUKUbRssQGUIyRC41WNShggx7rk_TYurCHkb_kf6C8o1b9_7e7BGdNd6DqA125TPmwY2RR3LawXtwclHaK6SUXGaQSVJy_uGrqmaWBSTJduUim6gGfaMG5kV7EjLN7/s559/IMG_0819.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="559" data-original-width="391" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQZi5K9mq-7N37LoaUKUbRssQGUIyRC41WNShggx7rk_TYurCHkb_kf6C8o1b9_7e7BGdNd6DqA125TPmwY2RR3LawXtwclHaK6SUXGaQSVJy_uGrqmaWBSTJduUim6gGfaMG5kV7EjLN7/w448-h640/IMG_0819.JPG" width="448" /></a></div><div><br /></div><b>A glimpse of the guide:</b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBi1fCs2yEBiBVgOvnWjusODywu4DTuj6mXr4KiA6ryGDDONBrH1CWRtTuU0Rj0AtMkmkwrkSRPcCYcD316ctqBeVfDUMfJsMhYi2TygVRU5g6bpGoLePAqRpvCDUAT3okwANk3lgthYsn/s657/IMG_0835.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="485" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBi1fCs2yEBiBVgOvnWjusODywu4DTuj6mXr4KiA6ryGDDONBrH1CWRtTuU0Rj0AtMkmkwrkSRPcCYcD316ctqBeVfDUMfJsMhYi2TygVRU5g6bpGoLePAqRpvCDUAT3okwANk3lgthYsn/w295-h400/IMG_0835.JPG" width="295" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, "Segoe UI", Tahoma, sans-serif" style="background-color: #323639; color: white; font-size: 13.92px; white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2jgf8AZqbcCDqlsFXtn9bbYF_cVO9sdWVckhQ8UtMLEL19VQThx7kb6pA8Sz9r20uIPKROUQCDW4IxwBDuX1wkxwjnFv7TlKjK5zNDaMjVbQYvyUHZNn7vcTbkmnHE6UmidcRB6C6qF2D/s1280/thumbnail_IMG_0920.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="720" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2jgf8AZqbcCDqlsFXtn9bbYF_cVO9sdWVckhQ8UtMLEL19VQThx7kb6pA8Sz9r20uIPKROUQCDW4IxwBDuX1wkxwjnFv7TlKjK5zNDaMjVbQYvyUHZNn7vcTbkmnHE6UmidcRB6C6qF2D/s16000/thumbnail_IMG_0920.png" /></a></div><br />Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-85854697043465294802021-10-02T07:24:00.000-07:002021-10-02T18:54:21.802-07:00Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday!<p> There was a time when 'Gandhi' meant the Mahatma, the father of the nation! Today, the 2nd October, is his Birthday, and also of our late Prime Minister Lal Bahudur Shastri. </p><p>On an impulse I walked across to Gandhi Bhavan, situated in Kumara Park East, just across the railway line. When compared to K P West it is a bit more <i>highbrow</i> location!</p><p> I had never been inside the Bhavan even-though I had walked past it. The Bhavan is pretty impressive, which is a surprise. Gandhi was known for his simple life. He wore a loin cloth and preferred living in a hut! However, we do like to show respect through ostentation. The Bhavan is huge. Here are a few pictures of my visit. There was a function on the first floor which I missed!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Fr770PbHFWhn98G_Jbe-PM5XbBamUUQK-NaJg7sMZCUdZIleJ8HJto8zz-mRQxNCfdZ_n2-XLigSYSYiI9Ot3HPFSxdLwFBn4AQRWyThadvYHYhDiA9MPR0xI0B5QSfA-U-ow7R68ehy/s2048/ED1A6564-FF5D-4385-A813-EA0B02FAAB31.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2Fr770PbHFWhn98G_Jbe-PM5XbBamUUQK-NaJg7sMZCUdZIleJ8HJto8zz-mRQxNCfdZ_n2-XLigSYSYiI9Ot3HPFSxdLwFBn4AQRWyThadvYHYhDiA9MPR0xI0B5QSfA-U-ow7R68ehy/w480-h640/ED1A6564-FF5D-4385-A813-EA0B02FAAB31.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installed in the garden in front.</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6i-RqyGyg8oUY6NBiyOj9AHiYkSEGpFKp8nYVhBkOD4wUAEvKEmL8B0oJTRhrc6NtM746dK_78oAscj5lEwRqDbVI79XxLnfxNFtfxz2Q6bg3PbytD4mlSex93_i8nWsIfaztVXR-HAEn/s2048/2664AA2F-F4D4-4606-84A3-CCEB292075CF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6i-RqyGyg8oUY6NBiyOj9AHiYkSEGpFKp8nYVhBkOD4wUAEvKEmL8B0oJTRhrc6NtM746dK_78oAscj5lEwRqDbVI79XxLnfxNFtfxz2Q6bg3PbytD4mlSex93_i8nWsIfaztVXR-HAEn/s320/2664AA2F-F4D4-4606-84A3-CCEB292075CF.jpeg" width="240" /></a>v</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">Love this reminder for us to walk! </div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">Not easy to walk in this lovely city</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTOmQMfVu0w-_1IdXH-HwOg4xSCOfltmMTAZAMiea7qtKKcnyXuVuCBXxk6yjRud6Dn9VV_CGeO2X4tOi0qw7CrUzjixWDZaNs2GmnD-esgZRv1PH9CGwT3GdurWm00IMAJlVMpRpUkMtN/s2048/32CD6091-A0F8-4815-BAC3-D91B9A7B246B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTOmQMfVu0w-_1IdXH-HwOg4xSCOfltmMTAZAMiea7qtKKcnyXuVuCBXxk6yjRud6Dn9VV_CGeO2X4tOi0qw7CrUzjixWDZaNs2GmnD-esgZRv1PH9CGwT3GdurWm00IMAJlVMpRpUkMtN/w300-h400/32CD6091-A0F8-4815-BAC3-D91B9A7B246B.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">A formal statue, simply adorned!</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga1OrcctE4ZPt5010jFZNYLijP5rQPvymYGI4uYhqnpGfXFiJxYPeqWMjyj0mt3Y40BST_kDuLWF9xRhtn8NIx3dlKeQLJXSGyVkI-g28gkHZ1CsQ7pPTgpyuv3TodclI8q2CtuizEV3iv/s2048/9E10A2E4-6C47-47F5-8F10-C3AE3EE8D9F2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga1OrcctE4ZPt5010jFZNYLijP5rQPvymYGI4uYhqnpGfXFiJxYPeqWMjyj0mt3Y40BST_kDuLWF9xRhtn8NIx3dlKeQLJXSGyVkI-g28gkHZ1CsQ7pPTgpyuv3TodclI8q2CtuizEV3iv/w300-h400/9E10A2E4-6C47-47F5-8F10-C3AE3EE8D9F2.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">Very well known advice.</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">I try hard to keep my mouth shut!</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgbM1CWWk8bbT-NZtP8WYhCdl2AuTB3YX8iuV03B68ApXiEaIjJP2nSoTp2__V21JIw0mWYCjkBrSD73fr6rsznHsesswajhbHr6MpyiJEMsObwWX0qq2e6LAzmp64Xew5e0OrAssJP3oW/s2048/053AB64C-F1EE-45D2-99A0-861977C613DD.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgbM1CWWk8bbT-NZtP8WYhCdl2AuTB3YX8iuV03B68ApXiEaIjJP2nSoTp2__V21JIw0mWYCjkBrSD73fr6rsznHsesswajhbHr6MpyiJEMsObwWX0qq2e6LAzmp64Xew5e0OrAssJP3oW/w480-h640/053AB64C-F1EE-45D2-99A0-861977C613DD.jpeg" width="480" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">It has a beautiful facade.</div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8VlZWi_Nhlw8KNvFHrLfSWCnGG41vSrU_C9hhfLrzMQm1dA1E9dCafA-dVuemgOQQP252HvkD7Vfz2Ojk0X84XQmxJGWi09UPvhV9G0RW70gHfo5LT1wqCqGPnqSZnjQdKo9SvPyH0A3x/s2048/D637AFF6-59DF-48E2-A1CA-599B5F465891.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8VlZWi_Nhlw8KNvFHrLfSWCnGG41vSrU_C9hhfLrzMQm1dA1E9dCafA-dVuemgOQQP252HvkD7Vfz2Ojk0X84XQmxJGWi09UPvhV9G0RW70gHfo5LT1wqCqGPnqSZnjQdKo9SvPyH0A3x/w300-h400/D637AFF6-59DF-48E2-A1CA-599B5F465891.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;">Some will notice an irony here. </div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"> India has come a long way!</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVncO3X5BF-MYaZIjv2kmG34bWiD7KUENIldPFEFBO5P1NknC_Ev3yyNScc7wNq5oxeIvUaLCh35UmsxBcWR56T_6OOO62PYMFOBsfz_lBcGJE3oktcfr3T-aFqHXFz8Em9iYXe1-Dd4d/s2048/46AF1938-382C-457D-8D2A-5A829C12DF0C.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUVncO3X5BF-MYaZIjv2kmG34bWiD7KUENIldPFEFBO5P1NknC_Ev3yyNScc7wNq5oxeIvUaLCh35UmsxBcWR56T_6OOO62PYMFOBsfz_lBcGJE3oktcfr3T-aFqHXFz8Em9iYXe1-Dd4d/w400-h300/46AF1938-382C-457D-8D2A-5A829C12DF0C.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was a pleasant surprise to meet our relative Sridevi <br />an avid stamp collector who has displayed her collection of<br />M G stamps!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy2Vwv_5uX1h20UeJdgNSfxMD5BBRbKmZ8DQy6c4mMfkvrMZWwTCvVXSRguI_jZ8_kQXCKpXb8Apjb7_ruQwMEOgHU70jKaqLhWlhJDdT2txTuJ6n4KLMwlegU5otuxBPUfhq2sAMJ9FyQ/s320/0537A659-F325-497E-9D0F-AF9A1AE1924D.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Free consultation was offered.<br /> Didn't try.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2X9gvI270bjNHu_unQAiYslCebaifz9b_ZdUc_tbPGsQ-W69QKMNlv1F4UAnpczts7KQfcA19AOyfa4k0jaBDEvtrULMZTZbTw7aWWTuZn1BSVoOUbrzJRn8MBecmpYC8ntMT7VL3HBhZ/s2048/485FBEC1-D544-4C25-B759-0CA2DEDA68CD.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2X9gvI270bjNHu_unQAiYslCebaifz9b_ZdUc_tbPGsQ-W69QKMNlv1F4UAnpczts7KQfcA19AOyfa4k0jaBDEvtrULMZTZbTw7aWWTuZn1BSVoOUbrzJRn8MBecmpYC8ntMT7VL3HBhZ/w400-h300/485FBEC1-D544-4C25-B759-0CA2DEDA68CD.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perhaps would have watched the movie. <br />But no chairs!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; 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Books were on sale</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2aBguGM127-Nd1lWV7qauUqBUHp_xND9I_fgM3WI8WmBKm6QD2qONJXoPmrbzJR3_cFkQ5_MyBPLXJlMMorsOJPbJl1il-YpyUc52WOXOn3EsM01m7Hy-FZ2NblojxhUTZBIUnwC_TfTI/s2048/0263EE5F-A1ED-4592-9463-B89E55C5215B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2aBguGM127-Nd1lWV7qauUqBUHp_xND9I_fgM3WI8WmBKm6QD2qONJXoPmrbzJR3_cFkQ5_MyBPLXJlMMorsOJPbJl1il-YpyUc52WOXOn3EsM01m7Hy-FZ2NblojxhUTZBIUnwC_TfTI/w400-h300/0263EE5F-A1ED-4592-9463-B89E55C5215B.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Not a political comment.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Gandhi topi is no more that visible</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyVeRwjvWlJEhB59pwTuM6Rrldni7IJ72kzwcb0hGdDNIC6D0Pk0RgoU81dIT0kLtj6buhZN2ZHdPpHvauabZ3iZNYzelXCMXdxJPUABwNM_11k4nvcoaDCfSVXNgPxJNR0Kqgr5WRYc97/s2048/25EE9436-2724-47A0-BA6F-03C4F380F3A4.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyVeRwjvWlJEhB59pwTuM6Rrldni7IJ72kzwcb0hGdDNIC6D0Pk0RgoU81dIT0kLtj6buhZN2ZHdPpHvauabZ3iZNYzelXCMXdxJPUABwNM_11k4nvcoaDCfSVXNgPxJNR0Kqgr5WRYc97/s320/25EE9436-2724-47A0-BA6F-03C4F380F3A4.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxg9v9xP2Song1HUAjZFTRZqdamTuLSjGo6ovrtm4KP3sDuABFrhyjv5Exr0aIaFDBLn4kDlmEi3a_CdufJ-bbYJYRcUGYH2zdiP5bgAvwSRwc2DRbzP-0om0WzGCdqJ48XECv1FIZ32Y/s2048/4F8F69A4-A59C-44D6-8091-2942A152F65F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxg9v9xP2Song1HUAjZFTRZqdamTuLSjGo6ovrtm4KP3sDuABFrhyjv5Exr0aIaFDBLn4kDlmEi3a_CdufJ-bbYJYRcUGYH2zdiP5bgAvwSRwc2DRbzP-0om0WzGCdqJ48XECv1FIZ32Y/w300-h400/4F8F69A4-A59C-44D6-8091-2942A152F65F.jpeg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYWcotw-VK0eZpB8i_DxQcVSxEBE6qwYFJ88754FyjQDzfqtkplNF_UMsuo6Q9h7UEF7_JNkrh0OkTjsJGDa1wBWV2_7fxA1JH2Scr7GBrSKTZarHmbRaYfSIa9fkeSPcVzXuB-rWZ7X7/s2048/4BD8D8E6-741F-4B5F-9F2D-8466398229B5.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfYWcotw-VK0eZpB8i_DxQcVSxEBE6qwYFJ88754FyjQDzfqtkplNF_UMsuo6Q9h7UEF7_JNkrh0OkTjsJGDa1wBWV2_7fxA1JH2Scr7GBrSKTZarHmbRaYfSIa9fkeSPcVzXuB-rWZ7X7/s320/4BD8D8E6-741F-4B5F-9F2D-8466398229B5.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The CM had graced the Emporium with a visit as per the poster.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuebe2O3hUEmxD-AuokQeeL_WNEphqKQubFLlAzg7jPXY06buNUdmg-2sWTRje3_Nk3kPwMFWdd1-RBf1L2ObcFbZ9QjXPqE9_zbh-kiNRwhu-KSREo02hULP8ZIT90wBPdttg0vcDxGgg/s2048/4B926E55-CADE-4A5E-BA27-0E33FAA39EC6.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuebe2O3hUEmxD-AuokQeeL_WNEphqKQubFLlAzg7jPXY06buNUdmg-2sWTRje3_Nk3kPwMFWdd1-RBf1L2ObcFbZ9QjXPqE9_zbh-kiNRwhu-KSREo02hULP8ZIT90wBPdttg0vcDxGgg/w300-h400/4B926E55-CADE-4A5E-BA27-0E33FAA39EC6.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />No idea if there are Khadi T-shirts with collar!<br />Would be interesting to learn how Khadi is doing? </td></tr></tbody></table>!<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2968974461683300380.post-18000560356080096602021-06-28T02:32:00.002-07:002021-07-02T02:47:58.484-07:00Nandita is happy to write about a "Lake Restored" in Kyalasanahalli, now part of Bengaluru <p><br /></p>Nandita's father sent me this <i>reassuring</i> <i>article</i> she wrote for her school project. This was in response to <a href="https://nidhibengaluru.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-picnic-on-nelligudde-lake-near-bidadi.html" target="_blank">my blog on lakes.</a><div><br /><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> "</span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">A few weeks ago, I asked 8-year-old Nandita to do some research on her own on restoring lakes. I sent her some papers to get her started. She did the general and specific research and wrote this article, complete with before and after photos and her own painting of lake restoration." </span></span><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;">Nandita has done an excellent job of relating the saga of Bengaluru lakes. The way existing lakes, planned by our earlier generation of <i>visionaries, </i></span><span style="text-align: center;">mostly man-made, </span><span style="text-align: center;">were allowed to be destroyed by the shortsightedness of citizens who inherited them. </span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="text-align: center;">I clearly remember an elderly uncle justifying the conversion of lakes. "Half the time they are dry, not maintained and a breeding place for mosquitoes!" This is how we missed the <i>real </i>issues. Instead of seeking long term solutions and fixing responsibility on the </span>municipality; we let them get away with their destructive actions.</div><div><br /></div><div>Nandita's article is a required reading for us. Not just to appreciate it. It is also to see how well she has summarized it with a call for right action and the need for citizens to become <i>vigilant</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div> I believe the citizens around the Kyansanahalli lake saw builders surveying the lake and took action! All credit to them and the business community which pitched in!</div><div><span style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxEbT4cqPgMQIs0RN12URZM6pqhocpY2dvAfa9GTrKgDvi1AunAenaLn7YysXdTpih5brZBWcXZJLEsr_G2aJ7L9RzIDAav_PEnt7GwnaDf1rC8J8HgMxf-cbv72jakWC6azbQQYbetyg2/s1062/7174B486-6109-4963-AFBF-09193CD37A94.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="1062" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxEbT4cqPgMQIs0RN12URZM6pqhocpY2dvAfa9GTrKgDvi1AunAenaLn7YysXdTpih5brZBWcXZJLEsr_G2aJ7L9RzIDAav_PEnt7GwnaDf1rC8J8HgMxf-cbv72jakWC6azbQQYbetyg2/s320/7174B486-6109-4963-AFBF-09193CD37A94.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">A LAKE RESTORED!!! </span></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">By Nandita </span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lakes are dying faster than one can imagine. All of us must take part in helping our lakes! It is a gift that God himself created for us! We would not want to lose it, correct?</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Bangalore, a great example for this topic, earlier had 262 lakes and sadly and so quickly now less than 50 lakes are there. This is because of sewage waste clogging inlets and even water that is going through is getting polluted. And lakes start stinking. Then, the water table starts to fall, leading to scarcity of water. Finally dying lakes end up becoming flat land, so selfish builders take over the land and build apartments.</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">I have been living in Bangalore for the last three months. Now, I will tell you a story about a 36- acre lake, the Kyalasanahalli Lake, next to our Villa complex that was restored thanks to the efforts of citizens and local companies who approached the <a href="https://karunadu.karnataka.gov.in/ldakarnataka/pages/home.aspx" target="_blank">Lake Development Authority </a>and revived this lake which had been dying for the last 35 years!</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">In order to remove all the silt and mud, they used earth-moving machines and with the mud they made five islands and then unclogged all the inlets so fresh-water could be recharged. And so, in the next rainy season more water came, and in the lake was 20 feet deep. A small road was created around the lake boundary. As part of the lake restoration, they planted 18,000 saplings, 3,000 fruit trees of 22 varieties, 3,000 native species of plants, and 2,000 medicinal plants. It has become a nesting home for birds and butterflies. There are lots of activities too! People come for jogging, nature walks, fishing, bird watching and there is a playground for kids nearby!</span></p><p><span style="color: #2b00fe;">This is soon becoming a tourist attraction. I hope more lakes across the country get restored. And remember this is a project that us citizens and not just companies should be passionate about.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfvc_cLlyCT0aDYKuAhfLaA-xEDqmjeq8dWak7ppdLKarF1lMtEHxI4ZQprVw43bUOsP_jOhQCJl6hYglBIv6l6x1rdtJjDwwVXDuXNB_gSUGVFN31SeWwS3TsUxz7HAjkLNFO22W6PQW/s1211/B8232A35-3085-459C-9393-21BF77DA660C.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdfvc_cLlyCT0aDYKuAhfLaA-xEDqmjeq8dWak7ppdLKarF1lMtEHxI4ZQprVw43bUOsP_jOhQCJl6hYglBIv6l6x1rdtJjDwwVXDuXNB_gSUGVFN31SeWwS3TsUxz7HAjkLNFO22W6PQW/s320/B8232A35-3085-459C-9393-21BF77DA660C.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">The article below by<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #282828;">K V Aditya Bharadwaj</span>,</span> published by <a href="https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/348-crore-promised-in-budget-for-developing-59-lakes-over-three-years/article26227094.ece" target="_blank">The Hindu</a> gives us hope and also reminds us of the enormity of the work and the effort and commitment needed for the rejuvenation of lakes. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #282828; letter-spacing: -0.5px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is fresh hope for lakes in the city, with the State government announcing a Re.348-crore package for the development and rejuvenation of 59 lakes over the next three years.</span></span></div><div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; color: #505050; outline: 0px;"><div id="content-body-14269002-26227094" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The package is part of the Re. 8,015-crore special assistance for the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) announced in the State Budget presented on Friday. The civic body will receive ₹2,300 crore during 2019–20 (to be spent over three years) of which ₹250 crore is earmarked for lakes.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcoming the special grant, lake conservation activists sounded caution not to squander away what could be a one-time fixing of most parts of the lake ecosystem in the city, if done right. Some rejuvenated lakes in north Bengaluru — Rachenahalli and Jakkur lakes — are a lesson as to what could go wrong, they said, as the two waterbodies are now polluted with sewage.</span></p><div class="dfp-ad" data-google-query-id="CNDNirrLt_ECFYFBaAodbX0CHA" id="div-gpt-ad-1564640628558-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #133b5a; color: #faf9f6; font-weight: 600; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Some of the lakes to be rejuvenated</span></span></div><div class="ng_infobox infobox-container" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fcfcfc; border-bottom-color: rgb(209, 206, 210); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(209, 206, 210); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; float: left; height: auto; margin: 7px 20px 28px 30px; outline: 0px; position: relative; width: 300px;"><div class="infobox-description" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: whitesmoke; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 17px 23px 8px; width: 300px;"><ul style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 0px -22px; outline: 0px; width: auto;"><li style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #505050; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Malathahalli, Hosakerehalli, Mathikere, Halagevaderahalli, Nagarabhavi, Kalkere Rampura, Hosakere Halekere, Nagasandra, Doddakallasandra, Gunjur Palya, Basavanapura, Gubbalala, Gowdanapalya, Konappana Agrahara lakes</span></li></ul></div></div><div class="dfp-ad Inarticle" id="div-gpt-ad-1552914402102-0" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Lakes are not about the lakebed alone: they are about clean water, for which the veins and nerves (storm-water drains and inlets) need to be taken care of to prevent inlet of any sewage. Unless this is ensured, rejuvenation is likely to turn into a cyclical project like repairing potholed roads,” said V. Ramprasad, convener, Friends of Lakes.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) has set a deadline of 2020 to completely operationalise 28 sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the city, which will have the capacity to treat 1,470 MLD of sewage. “Theoretically, a capacity to treat 1,470 MLD will ensure all sewage the city produces is treated. If the rejuvenation of these lakes and the operationalisation of the STPs is coordinated, we will probably be looking at a best-case scenario for the city lakes in the recent history,” said water conservationist S. Vishwanath.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, Mr. Vishwanath said a few more interventions were essential to prevent repeated degradation of these lakes once rejuvenated. “The BWSSB must work towards covering the entire catchment area of the lakes with underground drainage system, so that there is no direct inlet of untreated sewage into the lakes, which is mostly the case presently in 110 villages [that were added to the BBMP limits in 2007]. The design of development of these lakes must include wetlands at the inlet points to naturally treat unaccounted sewage,” he said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600; outline: 0px;">Preventing sewage entry</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The budget also allocates ₹76.55 crore over the next two years for projects to prevent sewage from entering storm-water drains (SWDs) at 914 entry points, which would also go a long way in preventing inlet of untreated sewage into the lakes, activists said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad told <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">The Hindu </em>that the civic body would soon invite tenders to rope in consultants to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for the rejuvenation of all the 59 lakes, following which these DPRs have to be cleared by the Karnataka Tank Conservation and Development Authority, which will ensure a co-ordinated effort from the BBMP and the BWSSB regarding each lake.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600; outline: 0px;">₹500 crore transferred to escrow account for Bellandur, Varthur lake development</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The State government has transferred ₹500 crore into an escrow account in the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) for development of Bellandur and Varthur lakes in accordance with the recent National Green Tribunal (NGT) order.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The NGT also appointed a committee, led by the former Supreme Court judge N. Santosh Hegde, to oversee the implementation of the order and fix accountability for any failure. The committee has already held two meetings, and Mr. Hegde told <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px;">The Hindu</em> that he would conduct a spot inspection of the two lakes on February 17.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">BBMP Commissioner N. Manjunath Prasad said all agencies would submit action plans for their respective roles before the committee and they would be put up on a dedicated website that would be opened for public consultation.</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #282828; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 30px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 10px; width: 600px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, lake conservation activists have raised objections to all ₹500 crore being used on Bellandur and Varthur lakes. “Bellandur lake turning a cesspool of sewage is not an isolated problem that can be tackled at the lake. It is an upstream problem and water from 43 upstream lakes eventually comes to Bellandur lake. Unless the upstream problem is solved and sewage at these lakes is treated, whatever we pour into Bellandur lake will go down the drain,” said lake conservationist S. 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Bharath and I had a good day of golf with our friends and residents Anu and Pramod on Wednesday. The next day thanks to Mallika, also a resident, Meenakshi planned a quick trip to Nelligudde Kere (lake) which is less than an half-hour ride from Eagleton. It was a nice outing!</p><p>Sridhar, who was also to join, couldn't make it. However he went early in the morning, to a small restaurant just off the Mysore road to collect 'Thatte Idli' (The best according to Mallika) which he had ordered the day before. No luck as the restaurant had not opened! It was still not open an hour later when we went past it! In fact, no Thatte Idly place was open on the way. however we noticed wine-shops were open!</p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsgmHc_0hlA-AOs4BiFGHkEhKRQu2c9-006-XoxH46NvbDdde_ggJqRi0jiHSkxRZQmTIr3YKoY88qyevnZDTXrG_6Sbsl8RlNmCUjURlipJyk9ZuUS-NrGzox40OIIpAbL8bA6oHW4UPc/s768/Thatte-Idli-1-768x576.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="768" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsgmHc_0hlA-AOs4BiFGHkEhKRQu2c9-006-XoxH46NvbDdde_ggJqRi0jiHSkxRZQmTIr3YKoY88qyevnZDTXrG_6Sbsl8RlNmCUjURlipJyk9ZuUS-NrGzox40OIIpAbL8bA6oHW4UPc/w400-h300/Thatte-Idli-1-768x576.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Actually the main purpose was to eat thatte idli at the reservoir</b></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><b>No luck</b></div><p>It was an easy ride, and on the way we had a glimpse of the Bangalore - Mysore National highway in the making. We reached the lake easily. We didn't need the help of <i>'googlamma'</i> as Mallika knew the way! Parked the car and went up for a walk on the bund. No crowd, just an youngster and a girl who sprinted up and down the bund. </p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOY9dvOg0fiY4T2mSnEvh2k3-1GHYlo6odzZUoV3gQZY7kyfXY_pvRnRiqWhjlkY0tXxD90UNgoXxaublL6RrKdivF5GwvlyeTbmzauWQ1TLX-NeBX43r9STsO-FMuYx7SlKYbU4_qJt7l/s876/IMG_2951.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="876" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOY9dvOg0fiY4T2mSnEvh2k3-1GHYlo6odzZUoV3gQZY7kyfXY_pvRnRiqWhjlkY0tXxD90UNgoXxaublL6RrKdivF5GwvlyeTbmzauWQ1TLX-NeBX43r9STsO-FMuYx7SlKYbU4_qJt7l/w640-h480/IMG_2951.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>A typical shrine seen in villages was protecting the Lake!<br /></b><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg7HC0ets0-w9xayAv2lw-TsvVchZQPn9BFSAu_ET92v-GuPZIH5DQpasvhDtRAH8Uo7yK3dUHmCJ3SqyaQgxWu5UdsFytHicss6q6inl7TCyUem7qDyr75y0PRoIBeUD1ZnQ_r1AOo8tp/s1168/IMG_2964.MOV.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1168" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg7HC0ets0-w9xayAv2lw-TsvVchZQPn9BFSAu_ET92v-GuPZIH5DQpasvhDtRAH8Uo7yK3dUHmCJ3SqyaQgxWu5UdsFytHicss6q6inl7TCyUem7qDyr75y0PRoIBeUD1ZnQ_r1AOo8tp/w640-h360/IMG_2964.MOV.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It was a bit early, the lake looked very peaceful. The only noise was the women beating the clothes they had taken to wash! A fisherman on a coracle (a basket boat) was trying his luck at a distance! We did not see him land any fish while we were there. Just as well for vegetarians like us!</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtI7RvZT6071h7EGsINOZ4Anz0wmS15pO8hDUXKHMrMk1c4dwpkwphKOpWzG-ZHn3mfGKMgXAuqvdPasZJWPi5tui8-u-dvHInzNHAU5VB0EgIbtRBTsofmiwQWWnWe9xJFAZhoR6GVRPU/s1168/IMG_2966.MOV.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="1168" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtI7RvZT6071h7EGsINOZ4Anz0wmS15pO8hDUXKHMrMk1c4dwpkwphKOpWzG-ZHn3mfGKMgXAuqvdPasZJWPi5tui8-u-dvHInzNHAU5VB0EgIbtRBTsofmiwQWWnWe9xJFAZhoR6GVRPU/w640-h360/IMG_2966.MOV.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p>Bharath, Meenakshi and Mallika went ahead as I tarried to see the bullocks being given a nice rub and wash</p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKfgsy3WcnXECP6G9ypRPTK1ypP6ZDUNtmEgOkMiGk94UhznL2kOSCf9BtfPHpHLTK8GruD-fMF31pcXpqiKbWsbH4T0Sx1pYZioX7M3_dgFHaXnwIkoNrILiemq2d4aDgX41iC1Nh2QOW/s657/IMG_2971.MOV.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="370" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKfgsy3WcnXECP6G9ypRPTK1ypP6ZDUNtmEgOkMiGk94UhznL2kOSCf9BtfPHpHLTK8GruD-fMF31pcXpqiKbWsbH4T0Sx1pYZioX7M3_dgFHaXnwIkoNrILiemq2d4aDgX41iC1Nh2QOW/w225-h400/IMG_2971.MOV.jpg" width="225" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFDsOuETJsQ-Lp8hgcqy8w6iP2tdbxy8_Q5Sp7BoAGpK6kb_TKABFiFbXZ3zkc9VovdTP1ac5XCJvzivLjNZAqP6kdNaFPHXkSqbm3ed3ZUgId3FI72I_idp2j0pED4rK7et8y4zWkyGGK/s627/IMG_2970.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="627" data-original-width="470" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFDsOuETJsQ-Lp8hgcqy8w6iP2tdbxy8_Q5Sp7BoAGpK6kb_TKABFiFbXZ3zkc9VovdTP1ac5XCJvzivLjNZAqP6kdNaFPHXkSqbm3ed3ZUgId3FI72I_idp2j0pED4rK7et8y4zWkyGGK/w300-h400/IMG_2970.JPG" width="300" /></a> </p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; 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margin-right: auto;" width="300" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">counselling by Dr. Meenakshi</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijUlc38LjuikygVKlAazdjyCbrLQLaSvOguR4g04As4SMbcl2KvW1FSW-_IG_3mcNmnVcFvRZcjJTURFSlEhMU1jUVoQREO0aWiy0bnYO01B8f1nt5YhdkOdJxDZ89zPRs6yFOWT-xsK7D/s619/IMG_3021.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDIfsH4rI1nEfj4UwODaT6ESOUfdmlGrm4rRWjexdog-hAqCBa-E7pOORKXms2nWgCrViW8sYk83GlnRU_xTGvyHhivMy7Azl0FQsWFFX9whe141nrQpoMEx6rmLYqhukmeBkNUzy3-MUW/s657/IMG_3019.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="493" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDIfsH4rI1nEfj4UwODaT6ESOUfdmlGrm4rRWjexdog-hAqCBa-E7pOORKXms2nWgCrViW8sYk83GlnRU_xTGvyHhivMy7Azl0FQsWFFX9whe141nrQpoMEx6rmLYqhukmeBkNUzy3-MUW/w480-h640/IMG_3019.JPG" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">As we were about to leave the young man with the striped tee shirt ran down to ask for a favor.<br /> He requested Dr. Meenakshi to speak to his mother. She went up again and counselled them. <br /> ( The young man had heard Mallika and Meenakshi discuss some health issues of women.<br /> Being a smart young man, he had rushed to get his mother to get her talk to Meenakshi.)<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Bharath had spoken to him earlier about the lake, its beauty, peaceful surroundings and hoping it would last. The young man, doing his MBA, was not so hopeful. The new law allowing farm land to be sold freely, not just to another farmer would create drastic changes. A school was already coming up at the lake shore. Soon there would be villas surrounding the lake. There is a likelihood of small farmers giving up farming.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br />Knowing the lax implementation of rules to preserve the lakes in Bangalore, the lake would become a total mess. </span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Let us hope the villagers are vigilant and will not let this happen. In fact, there could be a simple picnic area, with a few trees and wooden benches. A bit too early to have a swimming pool for kids. So on and so forth. 😊</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;">On a positive note, I have seen Jakkur lake being rejuvenated. Earlier a large quantity of sewerage water was directly flowing in. Now it is regulated better.</span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> It is a rare story of unique achievement within the sordid scene of Bangalore development. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCorICjSKLAU0XQDc9J-WMyj4bKb-NuggYhIySW5ZTIl8zl590NpxSeGXTTg9Pg1YQzSVbeX31V0D1DBCtINhZKggcZv8ncjgy8JM4YbR7LodfH7EduMlA4IHQ8Cx_nStgS_JC-GST1uuK/s1280/2E7E67E1-17D7-438E-BDE4-C353DC9D6DFF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="1280" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCorICjSKLAU0XQDc9J-WMyj4bKb-NuggYhIySW5ZTIl8zl590NpxSeGXTTg9Pg1YQzSVbeX31V0D1DBCtINhZKggcZv8ncjgy8JM4YbR7LodfH7EduMlA4IHQ8Cx_nStgS_JC-GST1uuK/w400-h300/2E7E67E1-17D7-438E-BDE4-C353DC9D6DFF.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Meenakshi saw this</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRAcxBIzzvEkOfJFE70P1gKQ08xMdlI24gizUgsoWoQ8PPUmSX5XsDKZluhm5S7_Q9MhLApmYgKLotKBK7v9VN6R0gqulgwFlu7ET5Bj44g6Y0twiUXOQgLKlNA1mb6rKc0DG0xSzL0UsS/s1156/189748B4-6872-43B8-861E-4C81BBE82BFF.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="867" data-original-width="1156" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRAcxBIzzvEkOfJFE70P1gKQ08xMdlI24gizUgsoWoQ8PPUmSX5XsDKZluhm5S7_Q9MhLApmYgKLotKBK7v9VN6R0gqulgwFlu7ET5Bj44g6Y0twiUXOQgLKlNA1mb6rKc0DG0xSzL0UsS/w640-h480/189748B4-6872-43B8-861E-4C81BBE82BFF.jpeg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bharath liked the expanse of water!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p></div></div>Doreswamy Srinidhihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03845366539142402484noreply@blogger.com5