Notes of Nagesh

మనదేశంలో 90 శాతం మంది ప్రజలు "భ్రమ"లో బతుకుతున్నారు. ఎవరో చెప్పిన మాటలను విని  వాస్తవాలు ఆలోచించక, తెలుసుకోలేక  భ్రమలో బతుకుతున్నారు. ఉన్నవి లేనట్టుగా, లేనివి ఉన్న ట్టుగా కపట వేషధారులైన స్వామీజీలు, బాబాలు చెప్పిన మాటలు విని,  తలలూపుతూ వారు చెప్పినట్టు నడుచుకుంటున్నారు.ఆర్థికంగా నష్టపోతున్నారు. శాస్త్రవేత్తల కన్నా స్వామీజీలకే ఎక్కువ విలువ ఇస్తున్నారు గౌరవిస్తున్నారు. మనిషి వాస్తవాలను చూస్తూ, వింటూ ఎవరో చెబుతున్నారని మన కంటి ముందు కనిపించని వాటిని కూడా పిచ్చిగా నమ్మేస్తున్నాడు. ఒక్కొక్కసారి భ్రమ పడడం సహజమే. భ్రమ పడినటువంటి విషయము ఒక్కొక్కసారి నిజం కావచ్చు కాకపోవచ్చు అందుకోసం ఈ విషయాన్ని మనం స్వయంగా ప్రశ్నించి,మన జ్ఞానేంద్రియాలతో దానిని పరిశీలించి, ప్రయోగాల ద్వారా సాక్ష్యాధారాల ద్వారా ధృవపరుచుకొని ఏది నిజమో ఏది అబద్దమో తెలుసుకోవాలి.  కొందరు మనం దేవుని బిడ్డలం, దేవునికి జన్మించాము అంటుంటారు. మరికొందరు దేవుడున్నాడని ఆయన మన పాపాలను లెక్కకడుతున్నాడని, పాపాలు ఎక్కువైతే నరకంలోకి పంపిస్తాడని, పుణ్యాలు ఎక్కువైతే స్వర్గం లోకి పంపిస్తాడని చాలామంది అంటుంటారు. కానీ ఇవేవీ నిజాలు కావ...

🔴 *When constructing  Biography of a person follow these three laws* __________________ 📌 * One, first look for sources other than those emanating from your principal character.* So Elwin wrote 40 books, 400 newspaper articles, 4,000 letters and likewise with Nehru, Gandhi or Ambedkar. You can write the whole book based on what they have said – so look for sources that come from a second party, a third party, a 10th party which may be a friend or admirer. That’s the first law. 📌 * The second law is that the relationship with secondary characters illuminates the principal characte r.* So if you write about Ambedkar, there will be a light on Gandhi, right? If you look at their interaction or Nehru and the Hindu right, that is the second law. Pay adequate attention to the secondary characters, don’t just focus on the principal character. 📌 * The third law is always go chronologically*. A life is lived forward but understood backwards, but he has lived from day to day . So for exa...

https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/reviews/story/patrick-olivelles-ashoka-portrait-of-a-philosopher-king-highlights-the-rulers-legacy-of-dharma-for-our-times-557417 Salil Misra Emperor Ashoka lived many lives. Most of them were constructed by different sources. In Buddhist records, he has been portrayed as a great follower of Buddhism who gave up violence after witnessing the bloodshed at the battle of Kalinga and adopted Buddhism as his faith. Not only was he converted to Buddhism and became an Upasaka, he also took up the endeavour to spread the faith within and outside Indian borders. Just as Buddhism transformed Ashoka from a conqueror into a Buddhist Upasaka, Ashoka also transformed Buddhism from a small sect in the Gangetic valley into a global religion. His deep involvement with Buddhism was the most important aspect of Ashoka’s life, according to Buddhist sources. The Brahmanical records, by contrast, constructed a different image and underplayed many of his achievements. The bo...

by Dilip Mandal CRICKET HISTORY : Krishnamachari Srikkanth After seeing the record of this player, I am surprised who was there in BCCI who kept giving him a chance in the team for ten years? 📌Scored a total of 4091 runs in 148 ODIs at a batting average of 29. 📌Was out 47 times after scoring less than 10 runs. And in this he was out on zero 11 times. 📌In 1989, BCCI made this mediocre player the captain of the Indian cricket team. Captained in 4 Tests and scored runs at a batting average of 13. Out of 13 ODIs, they won 4 matches and lost 8 matches. 📌In 1990, BCCI forcibly removed him from the captaincy. But the newspapers and sports magazines of the country declared him a martyr of cricket, that too by showing the sacred thread. Sports World magazine is owned by Anand Bazar Patrika of Bengal . This publication is completely run by the Bhadralok community of Bengal. BCCI also made him a part of the 1992 World Cup team. Its performance in 8 matches was as follows - 39, 1*,...

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MOHAN GURUSWAMY: Reforming the Bureaucracy . When Manmohan Singh first became Prime Minister he declared that the topmost priority of his government was to reform the bureaucracy.  Narendra Modi said exactly the same thing when he became Prime Minister. We are still waiting. India pays the price for their inability or unwillingness to seize the bull by its horns.  Reforming the Bureaucracy.-1 India, as one state, has never been larger. Like Ashoka’s great empire, the Mughal Empire never went down southwards and eastwards very much. The British ruled directly only in the three great presidencies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay and the four smaller units of the Punjab, the United Provinces, the Central Provinces and Berar, and the Northwest Frontier Provinces. Even after the doctrine of lapse was repudiated 601 princely states remained administering themselves and managing their day-to-day affairs quite independently, as long as Britain was acknowledged as the paramount power in In...

Unfortunately, legal system has often played ‘pivotal role’ in perpetuating ‘historical wrongs’: Chandrachud   https://www.dailyexcelsior.com/unfortunately-legal-system-has-often-played-pivotal-role-in-perpetuating-historical-wrongs-chandrachud/ NEW YORK, Oct 23: Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud has said that unfortunately the legal system has often played a “pivotal role” in perpetuating “historical wrongs” against marginalised social groups and the harm caused by this can persist for generations. Chandrachud delivered the keynote address at the Sixth International Conference on the ‘Unfinished Legacy of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar’ at the Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, on Sunday. In his address titled ‘Reformation Beyond Representation: The Social Life of the Constitution in Remedying Historical Wrongs’, Chandrachud said that throughout history, marginalised social groups have been subjected to horrendous, egregious wrongs, often stemming from prejudice, discrimina...

MOHAN GURUSWAMY: There are only two real ideological driven political adversaries in India now. On one side you have the Centre of Indian Trade Unions (CITU) and on the other side you have the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). One would have thought that with this we would have the makings of a political debate, but the ideological bankruptcy at both ends is telling. But this is still quite an evolution from the late 1980’s when it used to be said, half in jest and half seriously, that while the good news was that the long overdue polarization of our polity has finally happened; the bad news was that it has happened along pro-Reliance and pro- Bombay Dyeing lines. For those of us who had a better than ringside view of national politics the fault-line running through our polity then was little more than this. More than Bofors, which VP Singh was initially reluctant to latch on to, as it was he as Finance Minister who had approved that deal, it was Reliance that VP Singh preferred ...

MOHAN GURUSWAMY: When Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998 I was asked by Prime Minister AB Vajpayee for a briefing on him. I tried to explain about his ethical concerns about prolonged and increasing income inequality to which Vajpayee tersely said “sankshipt mein batao!” He was happy with my next attempt which was “for being a good human being!” Just a few months before that LK Advani inquired from me whether I was familiar with his work? I gave him three books by Sen I had read till then, all of whom related to Inequality, Ethics and Economics. I could make out that Advani, who is a keen reader of books – all manner of books – was “impressioned” enough to ask me if I could arrange for him to meet Professor Sen. I told him I did not know him but would try to make a connection.   But Sen’s Nobel took care of that. The Vajpayee government welcomed the award and honored him with receptions and meetings. The Finance Ministry hosted a grand luncheon meeting at ...

Evolution of Hinduism and Hindu myths  Murad Ali Baig   Ancient India was once a complex patchwork of thousands of tribes, local customs and languages. Many survive to this day as is evident from the existence of 22 official languages and 1,635 dialects (according to the 2011 census). These confirm India’s gigantic linguistic diversity and also reflect India’s huge variety in ethnic, religious and social traditions. Ethnologue, a comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world’s known living languages, states that India has 454 living languages of which 447 are indigenous (and not based on Sanskrit). The continuing vestiges of these early tribal roots are also evident from the many thousands of ‘gotras’, or lineages that are part of India’s very complicated caste system. These gotras were the lineages believed to have descended from a single ancient ancestor.   Strictly speaking Hinduism is not a religion. Calling it a way of life is also far too simplistic. Orig...

. Mohan Guruswamy I once visited the Kamakya temple in Gauhati a day after Dussehra. Its floor was slick with the blood of animals. The slaughter of animals in this temple is an all year activity but these days it seems Dussehra provokes an added frenzy. Dussehra also known as Vijayadashami is observed for different reasons and celebrated differently in various parts of South Asia. In the southern, eastern and northeastern states of India, Vijayadashami marks the end of Durga Puja, remembering goddess Durga's victory over the buffalo demon Mahishasura to restore and protect dharma. In the northern and western states, the festival is synonymously called Dussehra. In these regions, it marks the end of "Ramlila" and remembers Rama's victory over the Ravana.   Arjuna’s victory over a Kuru  host  that included Bhishma, Drona, Ashwatthama, Karna and others at the end of a year of remaining incognito also symbolizes  the victory of Dharma) over Adharma is also celebrat...

Charlie Chaplin died aged 88. He left us 4 statements: (1) Nothing is eternal in this world, not even our problems. (2) I like to walk in the rain, because no one can see my tears. (3) The most wasted day in life is the day we don't laugh. (4) The six best doctors in the world... 1. sunshine, 2. Rest, 3. Exercise, 4. diet, 5. Self-esteem 6. friends. Keep them in all stages of your life and enjoy healthy life... If you see the moon you will see the beauty of God..... If you see the sun you will see the power of god.. If you look in the mirror, you will see God's best creation. Believe it then. We are all tourists, God is our travel agent who already made our itineraries, bookings and destinations... Trust him and enjoy LIFE. Life is just a journey! Live today!!!!