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Saturday, September 29, 2018

Court is not courting controversies but setting right what was left to it to do.


Court is not courting controversies but setting right what was left to it to do.


Lot of humorous as well as hyper emotional reactions on some of the recent SC judgments are going around.


Excuse me for all typographical errors as I have typed most of it during a very jerky ride amid very busy meetings, though I have been reading most of the stuff while travelling.


But SC has been, in my opinion, quiet right in what it did to whatever was brought to its doors.


Sex is a physical issue that need not come under the ambit of socio-religious morality.


Similarly, the right to visit any place of worship is a belief issue why bar a particular gender.

Periods [menstruation] is just a biological discomfort which need not be punished with either social or religious boycotts and taboos or spatial ostracization.


Do we do it for diarrhea or running nose or contusion related urination, then, why for menstruation alone.


None of the reasons put forth for doing so are either scientific or rational or sane and therefore need not be over sanctified.



It is something that the religion/ tradition itself could have corrected long back ( like sati) instead of waiting for a legal forum to intervene and instruct.

Resorting to comparative justification that some other religion does not allow is irrelevant.


I knew this was coming or going to come anytime as this was long overdue.


In modern times religious sentiments and sensitivities cannot have overriding rights over humanitarian concerns, rational debates, gender justice, environmental safety, social welfare  etc.


I knew or had almost a premonition- like apprehension that both the judgments may go the way they did.

There is no need for religious, political debates here.

Certain Right decisions must not be Left to hangover nor must be Left to others to claim Right credit for making such decisions. (when I tend to write like this I become nostalgic about great essays in The Spectator in 17th century by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele)


Justifying or rationalizing everything under a broad umbrella of highly sensitive aspect called tradition or religion is not correct and cannot be sustained in the long run due to inevitable obligations of growth of civilization and social evolutionary trends.

The fact historically is that sex got inserted into morality somewhere in the 16th century and periods got secreted into religious practices in the 18th century that too among less than 0.0000001% of the population and hence, cannot be a sustainable argument under any constitutional law.

I wish all those who feel that they can listen to other opinions and see reason beyond sentimental affinity [ which I am not saying is wrong] to go through in detail the following links and re-dictate to your PA [ Perspective and Attitude].

On Morality:-



On Periods:-


On Sex:-




As we are very near International Day of Peace let us seek peace beyond the recalcitrant right wing and the radical left wing both of which suffer from Ostrich syndrome and therefore may not facilitate rationality to fly high.


Restraint, respect and reverence must evolve as innate responsibility and not enforced through any extraneous instructions as a socio- religious-morality.

Sensing this I wrote just 5 days ago the following




Judiciary and media

1. Judiciary pandering to populist narratives or pressures is a dangerous and self destructive trend.

2. Judiciary is respected to be the umpire only on legality and constitutional validity of actions and issues and by extension has the onus of protecting welfare of society and environment.

3. Media is one more important business owned and/or sponsored and run by and for financial consideration supposedly giving information and opinions not necessarily impartial.

4. Why should judiciary anoint media as an omnipotent supra umpire and on put media on a pedestal higher than the elected representatives.

5. What if some media starts scrutinizing and publishing with mala fide intentions the details of incomes of all senior advocates, judge pre and post appointment as judges. 




































































Venkataprasanna chathurvedi on bio energy

1. This person speaks on invitation.

2. Delivers lectures on a wide range of topics like a specialist.

3. In fact Abdul Kalam made it a point to tell many premier institutes of science to arrange a lecture of this person be it soil science or biochemistry or atomic science.

4.By his appearances and personal choices many may think he is one more religious preacher.

5. Of course he is undoubtedly a great master in spiritual science.

6. He delivers his lectures like a tirade and his speech is too fast connecting many subjects making a synergy in frequency in most lectures but if one bothers to listen there will be lot of substance and coherence. 

7. He is not preachy but gets across the importance of intrinsic values and values the importance of everything.

8. Unfortunately, there are not many records of his lectures or transcripts or books.

9..His erudition on a wide range of subjects is extraordinary.

10. He was unnecessarily forced into controversies.

11. If you can allot solid 2 hours without any preoccupation you may listen to this lecture given to doctors and a wide range of healers.

12. In every speech of his, irrespective of the topic, you end up learning many things which you may want to try out in your personal life.

13. Listen this lecture and if time permits one may also read one rare transcript made with lot of gramnatical errors but still worth reading for the content.

14. I had the opportunity of staying with him for two full days at Coimbatore some 20 plus years back, before he became too popular and very busy and highly sought after. I asked him many provocative questions and he gave wondeful answers. But now I wonder whether his disciples would even let me near him.

15. Best part is he talks with same fluency in Sanskrit, English, Tamil and Telugu.

16.Lecture on bio-energy and spirituality in 2008


17. Transcript of his speech given some 15 years back




psychology Living

Some gems today from 'psychology Living'

They make you think and rethink and resort to course correction if necessary .

1. Find three hobbies: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape, and one to keep you creative

2. Music is so influential on the brain that the type you listen to actually has the ability to change the way you think and look at the world.

3. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.

4. If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that’s exactly where it came from.

5. Mental health isn’t all of me, but it’s a massive part of my journey and a massive part of my whole being. -- Adwoa Aboah

6. Take care of your mind, your body will thank you. Take care of your body, your mind will thank you.

7. To me, good health is more than just exercise and diet. Its really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

8. The best six doctors anywhere and no one can deny it are sunshine, water, rest, air, exercise and diet.

9. It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

10. The root of all health is in the brain. The trunk of it is in emotion. The branches and leaves are the body. The flower of health blooms when all parts work together.

Economy why it can get misled

If one can have the  liberty of over simplification and over generalization, then, in short it is the price that even strong economies pay for succumbing to  over publicized offers  with hidden agenda of either intentional scheming and/or the result of  ignorant subjugation to manipulative enticements or projections based on mere notional valuations.



There may be many other reasons for economic backlash like:-




Excessively and intentionally complicating fiscal or economic policies;



Generating new derivatives which thrive more on notional valuations; 



Trying to extrapolate certain norms on multiple services and verticles;



Applying certain policies through enforced homogenization or unnatural creation of uniformity across different regions and different economic conditions;





Creating drastic paradigm shifts trying to change the very mentality of the people without enough field studies;



In most places, ultimately the political dispensation makes  the final decision on many matters of vital economic importance.



The politicians may be or may not be savvy about various parameters of economic development, and even if they are savvy, often, political compulsions may not allow them to accommodate various measures;



Besides, every where there are those lurking luddites who oppose any change for fear of losing their status quo.



We cannot do many things without data but at the same time we cannot do everything for human​ ​life relying on data alone.



The cure may lay perhaps in accepting the fact that economists too cannot visualize all possible twists and turns.

However, they can factor in as a priority social and humanitarian welfare along with balanced and realistic environmental concerns.

These  principles may ensure the basic intention of any economic developmental measure does not cripple all the three important aspects which contribute to happy living, social harmony and a useful environment for posterity ( with comforts of modern life and balance of biodiversity- at affordable places not near urban or suburban areas)

How to approach topics

Sir it is by me or rather should I say through me.

Given below are a dozen links with many sublinks that would give an idea as to how and why I approach a topic and how I go about it.

The first 10 give you an idea as to why I do what I do with biographies starting with a framework of my approach to biography followed by 5 biographies.

Then why I write, how terminologies and topics are interrelated and what a writer preferably must be.

Followed by why I choose to write only about a select few unique leaders in some fields and defining what leadership is all about.

Last two have too many sublinks but they are like complete package tours which must motivate one to think about many aspects.

One is about meaning of life and another realization of reality.

These last two require lot of time.












mix of attitudes and all valid

A mix of attitudes and all valid.

1. Isn't it strange, how something as simple as a song can sum-up over a million feelings in one moment.

2. Not looking back is the hardest part about moving forward.

3. "You can adopt the attitude there is nothing you can do, or you can see the challenge as your call to action." - Catherine Pulsifer

4. "Not appreciating what we have now, robs us of our abundance even when it exists." - Marshall Sylver

Saturday, September 22, 2018

Ramana Maharishi







Shri Ramana Maharishi

He lived in a realm far far beyond the mind- space-time conundrums and must have had a direct communion with life's innermost recesses relinking with some divine or greater source.


Therefore, it is beyond the understanding of ordinary mortals and defies the scrutiny of even the best intellectual attempts.


This observation is not some stereotyped religiously impelled reverence based deification ( which many do mechanically) or intellectual admiration while reading or listening to someone ( which I do often), but in the case of Ramana Maharishi if one is luckily destined, one could experience some indescribable feeling while reading about him.



I had this experience which jolted me and made me go crazy and question many things about life around me, fortunately or unfortunately, it was confined to my inner introspection.



This happened precisely in 94 to 95 when after my eye operation, someone came to meet me and gave 8 books of Ramana Maharishi and another 12 about Ramana Maharishi and I read all of them within a span of one month.



It taught me a few things and chief among them were equanimity is the most important aspect to face life and not to allow any external actions or reactions to upset one's sense of intrinsic values that one must internalize and live by.

To an ordinary mortal like me it is clear that it is not a mere peep beyond the horizon of intellect or even a conscious leap with courage of conviction beyond the realm of reason.

It may be some inexplicable push from an unknown source that just happen.

For our easy reference we may label it as intuition bla bla. 

For Ramana Maharishi it was a real experience of death and he relived a life of enlightened awareness.


Definitely some biological changes do take place as even J. KRISHNAMURTHY keeps on writing about an unbearable back pain andchead ache in his diaries.