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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

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missing my home :-( ...... pics, thanks to my amma for maintaining the garden , and thanks to my cousin for the snaps ! click on the pics to see them enlarged

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Samskritam

weekend spoken sanskrit workshop

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Some of my favorite lines from Adhyatma Ramayanam by Thunchathezhuthachan, the Mallu version of Valmiki Ramayanam (poem, translation and pic- source- internet) chakshusravana galasthamaam dardurambhakshanathinnapekshikkunnathu polekaalaahina parigrasthamaam lokavumaalola chethasaa bhOgangal thEdunnu'Like a trapped frog looking for food even when it is in the mouth of the snake,So does the world caught by the serpent of time,Seeks pleasure with a weak heart.’paanthar peruvazhiyambalam thannilethaantharaykoodi viyOgam varumbOlenadyaamozhukunna kaashthangal pOleyumethrayum chanchalamaalayasangamam'Like travelers who assemble at a lodge and depart in the morning,like logs that float on the river (they departs with strong currents) so fragile is the unions on earth.’

akbar jo thaa

अक्बर् जो था !!

At the outset, let me clarify that this is more about Akbar "the great" than the good or bads of the recent bollywood movie starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai

In my school history texts, just like any other kid in India would have, I too studied about "Akbar-the-great", the proponent of Hindu-Muslim-bhai-bhai ( spoofed as goat-butcher-bhai-bhai in "Hey Ram" movie - a freudian slip from Kamala Haasan ?) .... and as example of his "reaching out to the Hindus" was given the example of his marrying Rajput women ....

Interestingly as I used to read my text books at home, my mother - by no means a hindutva person, and who used to vote for Muslim League candidate simply because they had an alliance with Kaaangress - used to say .. " Oh well, Akbar, all he did in the name of Hindu-Muslim alliance was enjoy marrying Hindu women "

That was one of those incidents where I have to admit that "knowledge from ancestors" …

The mallu christian actresses !

(Pic: Meera jasmine, from the net)

Mallu land remains like the oil in water.... seperate from the rest of India.. it never stops surprising me. When in Bollywood, almost every (ready every) non Hindu actor is married to or after a Hindu girl (/actress/model), the Mallu christian actresses have set a reverse trend

* Years before , actress Lizi married director Priyadarshan (did she become Lakshmi ?!)

* Annie, another famous actress married to Shaji Kailas (filmmaker) and now has two kids- Jagan and Jain

* Actress Beena Antony, if my memory serves me right married a Hindu guy

And now Meera Jasmine - the National award winning actress and born to a christian family - seems to be the next in line. There are rumours of her affair with a leading Hindu actor, but I would consider that gossipp until they themselves admit. But then she visited a temple recently. As usual the orthodox temple authorities have made it an issue and done purification - idiots, your minds needs purification. A race h…

Fwd: A list of communal riots in India, between 1953-1979

This is an old email, that I got fwdd again recently..I have not verified the claims, but won't be surprised either if it were true, going by the dar-al-harb logic ... and I am also testing for the first time, posting by email.... [ Subject: A list of communal riots in India, between 1953-1979
[ Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 16:30:58 -0500

This period was post partition, and before Ayodhya

Most riots are caused by illegal muslim cow slaughter or
muslims stoning hindu processions or muslims molesting
hindu girls

Muslims attacked hindu processionists, raped hindu girls,
attacked buddhists, xtians, newspapers and cops and
desecrated temples

Out of the 74 riots described below

Unknown = 14
Police initiated = 1
Hindu initiated = 4
Muslim initiated = 55

In other words, Muslims initiated 75% of all riots This
was in a period, where muslims were supposedly defanged
by the sikh-hindu reprisals in the punjab

POLITICS OF COMMUNALISM

By Ms Zenab Banu

Appendix IV, Page 175-193
Historical Survey of some major communal…

The Meera Jasmine petition

( A note dated: May 30, 2007 , almost a year after the petition - readers may also want to read

http://drisyadrisya.blogspot.com/2006/07/7170666.html
http://stochastic-blah-blah.blogspot.com/2007/05/temple-entry-to-everyone.html

to know some after-effects of the petition )

Now for the original post below:
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See my previous post, and thanks to the encouragement from rambler, we now have the petition up and running.. Please sign it, and cut and paste the message below and send it to your friends

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Dear friends

Please take a minute or two to read and sign the following petition and pass it on to your friends

http://www.petitiononline.com/4meera/

In brief : National award winning actress Meera Jasmine was made to apologize and pay for purification rituals for having entered a temple in Kerala inspite of being born into a Christian family. By her own admission Meera respects Hinduism and its rit…

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