Leaves of My Tree

Sixteen thousand people... all dressed in Khaki uniform, to hear their leader, the 6th Sarsanghchalak Mananiya Shri Mohan ji Bhagvath. I must say it was a sight to see. A speech worth its time and energy! This is not the first time that I have heard such a speech or seen such a sight. But this time there was something more that was not so pleasing. The discipline that is exhibited by the swayamsevaks is usually blatantly in contrast to the disorganised behaviour of the general public, also present to hear the speech. but this time it was not so. A significant part of the younger swayamsevaks seemed to be on an excursion, happily roaming around the field, exhibiting complete disinterest in the speech which was meant to be the purpose of their visit. Busy eating icecreams, taking pictures and littering away the place... all this was agin by the younger swayamsevaks. All the swayamsevaks carry a danda (a bamboo stick five feet long) which is an integral part of their uniform. The age...

"Oh my god... you have not changed at all.. how come?" " how come you still remember kannada? Oh goodness you still talk in our style!!" " You just came from Canada no? how come you are still wearing a bindi and saree? you dont do style????" ( !?!) " She is lying. She did not go to foreign. Look.. she does not wear western clothes." "She still sings in kannada songs. Why will a person from foreign sing in kannada.. that too before god?" " How come you dont have beads and different colour hair streaks?" " Thank God... you dint cut your hair." I am sure most of us would have been subjected to such conversations specially when we get the status of ' foreign-returned'. I have never been able to understand the reason behind such converstaions: whether they are conversations for the sake of starting a meaningful one or presumed to be meaningful perse. I would be apalled if it is meant to be the later. In eithe...

There have been many movies that have fantasised the concepts of alien existence. One such brilliantly made movie is District 9. The animations in the movie does not look animated at all! (Animation is probably is one such profession where it looks best when it achieves its exact opposite). Kudos to the entire team of District 9. What particularly drew my mind in the entire movie is the relationship between response and stimulus. I am reminded of a saying.." If men were triangles, God would also be a triangle". In other words, man conceptualises things the way he sees himself. It has been very recently that man has begun to imagine different shapes of living beings with equal, inferior or superior intelligence. It took human mind quite a few years to reach this stage. However,till date, he has not been in a position to think beyond his emotions. This is exactly what caught my attention in the movie.The aliens in the movie look like prawns. What they spoke was not comp...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jen-1ofuU4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9kladiGQlk Look at that Child prodigy. Her body language, her attitude is so child-like. She is playing with her necklace.. really not bothered about what's happening around her... I doubt if she even knows the gravity of her knowledge. I am stunned by that ' indifferent' answering! May be it is the pre-acquired knowledge. A knowledge that was acquired by her in the previous birth! I am quite skeptical about the concept of punarjanma, Karma theory etc..... I do not know if there is something of that sort. May be the rational in me is not ready to accept it without a 'studied and established proof' or may be I am that ignorant to even conceptualise it or may be my ego in its sublime level does not want to accept the fact of evident superiority in other people. But when I see such videos, I am humbled. It definitely has not convinced me about the existence of such 'surreality'. It m...

ಇಂದು ಹೊಸದಾಗಿ ಕೇಳಿದ ಪದ . ವೈಚಾರಿಕ ಅತ್ಯಾಚಾರ . ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಏನಂತೆ ಗೊತ್ತಾ ? ಒಂದು ಹುಡುಗಿಯನ್ನ ಇಷ್ಟ ಪಟ್ಟು ಆಕೆಗೆ ಹೇಳದೆ ಮನಸ್ಸಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಮಂಡಿಗೆ ತಿನ್ನುವುದಕ್ಕೆ ವೈಚಾರಿಕ ಅತ್ಯಾಚಾರ ಅಂತ ನಾಮಕರಣ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದಾರೆ ಒಬ್ಬರು ಮಹಾನುಭಾವರು . ಆಹಾ ! Concept ಕೇಳಿ shock ಆಯ್ತು . ಅಲ್ಲಾ ... ಪಾಪ . ಒಂದು ಹುಡುಗಿಯನ್ನ ಇಷ್ಟಪಟ್ಟು ಯಾವುದೊ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕೆ , ಅಂದ್ರೆ ಧೈರ್ಯ ಆಗದೆ ನೋ ಅಥವಾ ಕೇಳಿದ್ರೆ ಅವಳು ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಬೇಜಾರು ಮಾಡ್ಕೊಂಡು ಮಾತು ಕೂಡ ಆಡದೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಇರುವ ಸಂಬಂಧವನ್ನು ಕಡ್ಕೊಂಡು ಬಿಡ್ತಾಳೆ ಅಂತಾನೋ ... ಏನೋ ಕಾರಣಕ್ಕೆ ಆ ಹುಡುಗ ಅವಳಿಗೆ ಹೇಳದೆ ಇದ್ದರೆ , ಅವನಿಗೆ ಅತ್ಯಾಚಾರಿ ಅಂತ ಹೆಸರು ಇಡೋದು ಏನು ಸೊಗಸು ? ಅತಿರೇಕ ಅಷ್ಟೆ . ಹೀಗೆ ಮಾತಾಡಿದಾಗ confuse ಆಗುತ್ತೆ . ಇದು ಹೆಣ್ಣಿನ ಮರ್ಯಾದೆಯನ್ನು ಕಾಪಾಡಲಿಕ್ಕೆ ಹೇಳಿದ ಮಾತು , ಆದರೆ ನಿಜವಾಗ್ಲೂ ಹಾಗೆ ಅರ್ಥ ಕೊಡುತ್ತಾ ಅಂತ . i can put it is crass terms. i will avoid it though. ಈ ಪದ ಕೇಳಿ ವಿಚಿತ್ರ ಅನ್ನಿಸಿತ್ತು . ಮತ್ತೊಬ್ಬರಿಗೆ ಇದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹೇಳಿದೆ . ಆ ಮನುಷ್ಯ , ಮತ್ತೊಂದು extension ಕೊಟ್ಟ . ಹಾಗಿದ್ರೆ , ಈ dating ಗೆ ಹೋಗುವವರೆಲ್ಲ ಏನು ವೈಚಾರಿಕ ವ್ಯಭಿಚಾರಿಗಳಂತಾ ಅಂತ ಕೇಳಿದ . very thoughtful question i must say. i la...

I am going to get married in a while. People say it is a love marriage. I believe it to be so because I chose the guy. I do not know if I love him. But I just know that I cannot imagine a life without him around me. May be that is love... I do not know. I am writing this because, off late, I have been having such conversation with people around me who are looking for life partners. They have come up with a common statement when I have asked them as to why they have not found one yet, when they had a chance of meeting so many people. They have said " annisalilla" ( the feeling never arose). This statement has confused me. I asked my fiance if he loves me. He says yes. But when I asked him what love is he did not know it. When I accepted his proposal, the only thought that was in my mind was ' A known devil is better than an unknown God'. I would have had to marry somebody at some point in my life. I tried analysing his personality. I did not find any reason to reject...

Long time... Infact there have been a lot of things about which I had an opinion that I wanted to share. In the meanwhile, Things got quite bad that I had to rethink my opinion about myself. I irresponsibly lost my debit card. Then I was more irresponsible to I lose my wallet. The next week I fell down and hurt myself. In short, I have successfully managed to irritate myself. That apart, things are moving on in a slow pace with me these days. But nevertheless, the only satisfaction is that they have not stopped. One of the thing that really amused me this month was the statement by our Minister Mr. Gulam Nabi Azad. "Distribute TV to the villages in order to check the growth of population." Quite an interesting and amusing thought process! He supported this statement by explaining that this would be a medium of entertainment, as a result of which the population could be controlled. Imagine, if in the course of time, villages also get infected with B grade movies, which are sh...