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Thursday, April 24, 2025

Hope, New inputs, perspectives and more frames of reference.

 

Hope

Our great nation BHARATH, which has pride of ancestry and hence, offers hope for the future, but then how do we ensure that we fulfill hopes*1 and dreams?

New inputs, perspectives, and more frames of reference.

New inputs and perspectives offered more frames of reference to perceive*2 better the importance of long-term strategies through the multitude of short-term tactics [which are like the multiple pieces of the jigsaw puzzle], some of which may be effective, productive, and fit in easily, and the rest may take time to figure out. However, the overall outline is clear and driven by strategy; one can always create new pieces to fill the gaps. Any strategy in the present-day geopolitical scenario must have enough flexibility and leg room for modifications. Ultimately, the overall trade-off and outcome matter. 

Approach of practical, philosophical solutions beyond ideological affinities.

Each one had their pertinent questions, apprehensions, and reactions, and the silent ones were more eloquent through their receptive ears and keen observation. Overall, it was a very useful evening. Wish all the best to everyone.

Though all were brought together on some ideological synergy, the approaches to the issues were, as they ought to be, philosophical, practical, and with the burden of distorted histories. However, irrespective of whatever strategy or option is adopted, the constantly evolving context will prevail over everything.

We cannot deny or defy the importance of anything or anyone. *4

“In the end nothing less than the whole of everything can be the truth of anything at all." William James

"The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything but to keep in tune with everything." - Swami Chinmayananda.

Narrative peddlers need to be countered.⁵

Wokeness and the work of narrative peddlers are not only wrecking the social fabric, but more alarming are the damages they cause by depriving the children of their innocent pleasures, the artists of their creativity & the curtailing of native cultures and time-tested traditions.

Strategies are a long-term agenda, and tactics are temporary moves as per exigencies. *6

In present day politics, in addition to tactics, tact and presence of mind are more important than capabilities, services and skills, as the game of winning elections requires lot of compromises and convincing too many idiots.*7

Social engineering*8 involves too many factors. Modern-day politics*9 and political leaderships*10 have certain unique opportunities and obstacles [mostly manufactured by the media mafia’s negativism*11 propped by left in the lurch, the leftover LEFT*12, and its new and nasty avatar WOKEISM*13], especially subjected to scrutiny in international diplomacy.* 14 most aspects are beyond puerile homogenization*15 and useless ideologies*16. For life is beyond ideologies, and political landscapes cannot be blinkered anymore in dichotomies.*17.

Life must go beyond ideological identities;*18 therefore, desist from the temptation for ideological idolatry.*19 Look out for broader and brighter purpose and meaning,*20 and prioritize economic development and wealth with broader definitions of both.*21

Social engineering must overcome or bypass the constraints, compulsions forcing one to compromise and instead create an ecosystem of synergy that leads to carve the ideal idea of India*22 leading into the 21st century wherein high nationalism can comfortably coexist with obligations of and responsibilities of  internationalism *23, while being aware that life is an unmapped atlas consisting of unexplored territories and a jig saw puzzle without even all pieces available in the box.

While talking of security, broadly speaking, we need to ensure physical, cultural, cyber, and PSYCHOLOGICAL security [become aware of all sorts of subtle propaganda leading to brainwashing—very recently a brief video of what it is and how it is nudged in]*24 [https://x.com/FatEmperor/status/1912580813964665294?s=08], and in certain aspects some or all of these may be interlinked. It must factor in too many specifics. However, at least basic awareness must be created at all levels, and precautionary measures must be taken based on that awareness. It involves regular monitoring, prevention, proactive counterattacks, and immediate responses. Monitoring mainly the vulnerable spots, i.e., MSMs [Mainstream Media], SMs [Social Media], and Academia [Institutions of Higher Education—the mass opinion-generating factories]. 












 


































































Thursday, April 17, 2025

Tamil phonetics and its short comings

 Ok AI can't do better than this. 


As it is, very few Tamilians speak chaste Tamil. 

Besides, unlike poetry l, in songs one can take liberties with pronunciation. To top it all Tamil has a few features.  

It is my mother tongue, I did my entire schooling in it ( though later on I did Sanskrit, Hindi ( of course), besides dabbling in a few other languages because basically I have intense interest in etymology and lexicography. 

Tamil as such is a language with irregular phonetics, as bad as English.

At least, in English, they accept linguistic, historical and etymological justifications and openly declare the irregularities as such because , like all European languages, they too need to express their pronunciation through IPA (INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABET). 

But in Tamil, due to some reasons which are the result of long inculcated bias, Tamilians are  unwilling to accept those anomalies/ irregularities and adopt an indifferent attitude of 'let those who want to learn learn'.

That's why for anyone, especially non-native speakers, learning to speak in Tamil will be very tough. 

The difference between script and pronunciation are totally haywire. 

We write தவறு,தண்ணீர், தம்பி (thambi), தந்தை (thanthai), தப்பு (thappu) & தண்டனை all with the alphabet த. But pronounce last word as 'Dha'ndanai'.

In English too, we have those problems but they get buried or ignored because 80% of the speakers of English across the globe are non native speakers  (it is not their mother tongue) and hence,  there are too many varieties of English. 

Coming to irregularities of pronunciation. 


Let us start with the first Alphabet 'A' . It has a minimum of 3 pronunciations. 

1. As in mAn, cAt etc.

 2. As in April 

3. As in Above.

Similarly, even combinations are horrible when you write 'oo' . 

You say dOOr, flOOr but pOOr it is first, in fact  poor phonetics.

Modi's Great Interview with Lex Fridman Podcast #460: Prime Minister of India - Power, Democracy, War & Peace | Lex Fridman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPUtA3W-7_I









Excellent but present gen attention span too less & lack patience, hence pls ask our party IT Cell to slice interview into multiple topics, translate in Indian languages & share in WhatsApp, INSTA, FB, TIK TOK with members of RSS, BJP, BMS, VHP, ABVP etc.


PM MODI’s great Interview –IT cell please wake up and do publicity BJP's IT Cell and its publicity wing need to have a very aggressive proactive brand building agenda as the present the IT cell fails to promote the best brand for LEADERSHIP [MODI] and best party [BJP] to rule the country.

BJP IT cell please wake up and try to slice the interview of Lex Fridman with our Hon.PM into multiple topics, translate into all the possible Indian languages and at least share in WhatsApp, INSTA, FB, TIK TOK as IN SHOTS with members of RSS, BJP, BMS, VHP, ABVP etc.

What a wonderful interview from a once in a century great leader who is now leading one of the greatest countries of the world.

He has made the rest of world look up to and connect with greater respect for Bharath's glorious past, India's important presence at present and a potential hope for the future with vital role as a global leader that it may have to play as a great peace maker, emerging superpower and its experience in living in harmony amid colourful variety.

Sanity it is not to indulge in hero-worship but sensibility it is to admire impactful influences worth internalising as take aways.

What a holistic personality with soulful, sensible, simple, humble, high performing in terms of not merely the cliché of contradiction free honesty in thoughts, words and actions but seamless energetic, enthusiastic and synergetic manifestations of the major aspects of life like physical, psychological, emotional, nostalgic, spiritual and social with appropriate actions, accommodative approaches, adequate adjustments and accommodation with passionate involvement, compassionate interactions and dispassionate about the personal glories and places is gratitude to all individuals and institutions responsible for his successful journey of life starting from his mother to teachers to gurus to swamijis to the great institution of RSS. It is a sort of highly matured philosophical attitude with a sensible and practical prioritising based on contextually relevant scientific real humanitarian economic welfare-oriented socialism with an awareness that it can be delivered mostly, if not only, through capitalistic economic development by predominantly private business partnership or Public-Private Participation. These ensure concomitant hospitality towards humanity to live a loveable life at present with a sensitive responsibility to bequeath a liveable planet to the future.

At the same time his awareness, knowledge and experiences at ground level makes him realize and relish the pride in our vast historical and civilizational past which enables nuanced nice diplomatic geopolitical adaptability and navigate through any situation with both poise and panache.

Do we have any popular leader today who is so versatile in the sense in a single interview one could grasp a brief but encyclopaedic range of topics, oceanic depth of understanding, spiritualistic sense of involving the inner spirit like a saint while dealing with external world issues with scientific temperament totally in tune with the prevailing realistic solutions. He explains his anecdotal experiences which are universally testable examples, historic [‘contexts-relevant’] perspectives, fantastic inspirational ideas conveyed in simple language outperforming most motivational speakers or self-help gurus.

One could easily admire A to Z of his attitude, aspirations, actions and achievements.

Aesthetic appreciation wherever it exists. Bureaucratic blocks brought down to bestow beneficial schemes to the people. Collectivistic and constructive processes promoted for country’s progress. Diplomatic dealing with global powers rather than deals with DEEP STATE. Enthusiastic engagement in environmental protection activities. Fantastic flexibility to foray into futuristic tasks. Gigantic governance models geared to gain geopolitical space. Holistic harmonious ways to hitch historic pride with happenings on ground. Immanentistic inherent interconnectedness used to inspire unity. Juristic resolutions through courts to address certain national issues. Kleptocratic kinship kept away. Lunatic luddites of reforms ended up lapping up the benefits. Maieutic methods used for macro-economic developments. Nomistic norms nurtured as a befitting our national ethos. Optimistic operations offering growth opportunities over emphasised. Pacifistic policies promoted as pride of our peace-loving nation. Quixotic and questionable practices and policies were quashed. Realistic reforms and rejuvenation of required radiance to restrict rioters. Synergistic and syncretistic schemes for social harmony of pluralistic society. Technocratic talents toed in to make great tides in technological advancements. Universalistic principles ensconced between nationalism and internationalism. Voluntaristic values used as vestibules between the wealthy with the vulnerable. Welfaristic works given wings to spread far and wide. Xenialistic inhibition free attitudes towards all. Yogistic and ycleptic console help interaction with people on ground. Zeugmatic anti-national, anti-people and anti-growth parties brought to zero.

His interview reflects these quotations aptly-part -4

“In the end nothing less than the whole of everything can be the truth of anything at all”- William James

"The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything." - Swami Chinmayananda

“We live in a changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of it”-Timothy Ferris

“There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies”-Robert Brault

"Existence consists in the interplay of a plurality of elements whose true nature is indescribable and whose source is unknown. Combinations of these elements instantaneously flash into existence and instantaneously disappear, to be succeeded by new combinations of elements appearing in a strict causality." - Earle Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre

As D.J.Mercier, the Archbishop of Malines has said even “Sound Philosophy sets out from analysis and terminates in synthesis”. Meaning of Life is the result of churning of the outer world by the inner self or the way inner self relates with the outer world in all its multiple manifestations. Everything is part of life and not apart from life and therefore cannot be kept apart for a future date or an assumed future condition or fit into any predetermined concept.

Life is functionally a dynamic energy; visually a multi-faceted splendour; a marvellous mystery which unfolds itself through every one of us at every moment and so on. Therefore, life cannot be either generalized in any manner or simplified into any predefined categories.

Life is never fulfilled with unfulfilled relationships within the family, with others in the society, with the environment, with the many sciences, subjects, systems that we come across which are useful to us, used by us or we are used by them and so on. So, the quality of life is the manifestation of the quality of the interplay of these various relationships.

Life is after all not mere chronology of existence but a meaningful topology of relationships.






Cricketing talents and techniques

 https://www.espncricinfo.com/cricket-videos/so-simple-nick-knight-on-pooran-s-six-hitting-

1478585

Cricket has too many nuanced techniques [ most other sports do have as well] which are

being analysed and explained well by ‘experts now' and ‘advanced technology helps us to see

and enhance our understanding.



However, that does not mean these techniques and nuances did not exist before

[unfortunately, we do not have video footage of the batting of Gary Sobers, Rohan Kanhai,

C.K. Naidu, Salim Durrani etc.


In addition, beyond these types of useful in-depth analysis, there are also other varieties

which were imbued with ‘excellent natural talent’ and ‘unique intelligence’ of certain

individuals.

Excellent talent:-

The best talent in any field is the manifestation of flamboyance with ease, simplicity and

spontaneity -the hallmark traits of naturally talented and gifted greats. The ability to

repeatedly perform such feats, not a few instants of fluke.

Great example I can think of is Virendra Shewag with his pure timing, minimum effort and

enjoying hitting sixes that too singing while the bowler is running to bowl.

Unique intelligence of certain individuals:-

The delivery of desired results without bothering about criticism of orthodoxy.

Vinod Kumble when some criticized him for lack of turn. He knew he had to focus only at

the overall width of each wicket is 9 inches (22.9 cm) height of stumps 28 inches (71.1 cm)

with maximum and minimum diameters of 1 1 ⁄ 2  inches (3.81 cm) and 1 3 ⁄ 8  inches (3.49 cm) the

length.

Shane Warne used his intelligence more on tossing up the ball like Prasanna and the angles

it created more than his turn [ though that was huge] that’s how he and Ian Healy combo

engineered many wickets.


Ian Bottom took his last 80 plus wickets in his cricketing career through sheer intelligence.


I am not mentioning many talented present-day players as that would generate too many biased

arguments.

Human brain may be "salvageable for not only hours but possibly days- after death.

 The human brain may be "salvageable for not only hours but possibly days" after death.


Dr. Sam Parnia, an associate professor at NYU’s Langone Medical Center and a leading voice in near-death research, is challenging one of humanity's oldest assumptions: that death is final.

"I have been researching death for 30 years. I am now convinced it is reversible," he says.

 In a striking interview, Parnia argued that death should be viewed not as a fixed state, but as a treatable injury.

 Drawing on his team's groundbreaking research, he points to cases where brain activity and even memory returned in patients an hour after cardiac arrest, suggesting that the window for revival may be much wider than previously thought.

Parnia’s work includes studies showing signs of cognition after death and experiments using advanced interventions like ECMO machines and what he calls “CPR cocktails” — a mix of drugs designed to aid in resuscitation. Though the concept may seem straight out of science fiction, the results are pushing the boundaries of what modern medicine can achieve. Parnia contends that, with the right tools and timing, people may not need to stay dead after cardiac arrest — a radical idea that could redefine how we perceive life, death, and everything in between. 

Left liberal narrative peddlers

Long wait at Airport and vailing away time inevitable patience has to be the norm and when at such a time if I come across some issues which have been  long term irritants which are hardly taken seriously but when a few sincere leaders decide to take on such issues head on to make the world take notice of it and help the world to make it a better place for future generations. 


One such issue is the following the result of network of malign mafia of narrative peddlers consisting mostly of paid media, left liberal eco- systems, eco-chambers, Woke worshippers and those political outfits which use them for mileage in their expedition of expediency, seldom realising how those narratives corrode into the very fabric of disciplined, peaceful and intelligent societies. 

Wokeness and the work of narrative peddlers are not only wrecking the social fabric but more alarming are the damages they cause by depriving the children of their innocent pleasures, the artists of their creativity & the curtailing of native cultures and time tested traditions.

A to Z of  what Left liberal narrative peddling MSMs are doing.

Anchoring in and admiring agendas pushing attitudes and actions.

Brainwashing to build biases and blindly believe.

Campaigning to conform to carefully crafted conditioning.

Deracinate from duendes to divert deliberately into desired doctrinaire designs.

Engaging in blackmailing with empyrean and eschatological enticements.

Fostering factious and factitious falsehoods as fatidic facets of faith.

Harping on hidden agendas and hinder a host of useful aspects and haecceity.

Instigating the innocent impressionable youth with insipid innuendos.

Justifying with the jabberwocky of journalistic jargons they jeopardise joy.

Kindling klutzy Kafkaesque kindred of kvetchy, kinky kids.

Leaving in lurch after luring with lip servicing  left liberalism lazy luddites.

Manipulating through media mafia all mattoids, makebates and marplots.

Negating with nasty narratives anything nice by nullifying nuances.

Obfuscating opportunities with obsessive outdated opinions and outrages.

Polluting people with petrified perspectives, putrefied and puerile perceptions.

Questioning the quintessence of socio-cultural life with quondam quislings.

Resisting rationality and resorting to radicalism without any relevance.

Scandalising serious social reforms with senseless specious sloganeering.

Troubling tolerant traditions but truckling to tarradiddles.

Unleashing unworkable utopic ultimatums with ulterior motives .

Verbigerating victimhood peddling and vaticinate with velleity.

Working to wreck peace and wantonly withhold worthy works of progress.

X-raying X-axially with selective amnesia ignoring  xenial  behaviours.    

Yearning for yummy lifestyles but refuse yelpers merely for ideologies.

Zorbing inside the ideological bubbles and zooming out zetetic minds.

 



Evaluation and relevant credit without conflating

 It is indeed a great and commendable work as to how we as a nation under a responsible leader handled the pandemic very effectively considering the population, lack of sanitation, lack of hygiene and lack of social concern among public. 


We ensured no one went hungry and toping on the cake was we developed our own indigenous vaccines so quickly and refrained from listening to the media mafia noise and naysayers.

So, definitely politically and economically we did manage and kudos to all who were responsible and maximum credit to the decision makers and those in power but to tag the qualification of Sanatani or being a great Hindutvadi is sheer stupidity. 

What it had to do with those achievements. It is like saying Feyman, Einstein, Faraday or Curie discovered all those because they were devout Christians. 

I think we must learn not to validate real achievements in one domain by mixing irrelevant associations. 

It is like saying that Tendulkar was a great player and the best part is he was not only a great batsman but also a Marathi.

understanding, wisdom Feyman

 

@ProfFeynman
Absorb the meaning, not just the words. Chase understanding, not just facts. Embrace concepts, not just procedures. Cultivate insight, not just information. Pursue clarity, not just answers. Value reason, not just rules. Explore ideas, not just methods. Nurture curiosity, not just skills. Seek wisdom, not just knowledge. Foster creativity, not just techniques.

Self-discipline

 ."Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time."

~ John C. Maxwell

2. "Self-discipline starts with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do."
~ Napolean Hill

3. "There is only hard work, late nights, early mornings, practice, rehearsal, repetition, study, sweat, blood, toil, frustration, and discipline."
~ Jocko Willink

4. "Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do."
~ Pele

5. "Success is buried on the other side of rejection."
~ Tony Robbins

6. "Great achievement always requires great sacrifice."
~ Robin Sharma

7. "If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining."
~ Marcus Aurelius

8. "Develop Success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the stepping stones to success." 
~ Dale Carnegie

9. "Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."
~ Epictetus

10. "Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others."
~ Jonathan Swift

11. "Hustle in silence and let your success make the noise."
~ Unknown


12. "The secret of change is to focus all of your energies, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
~ Socrates

13. "In today's rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers."
~ Robert T. Kiyosaki

Business Ecosystem

 Wish all to read the entire thread. 


There may be some exaggerations, some false information and few unpleasant stark realities and harsh facts. 

Any which way there are multiple lessons to learn​.
​Nowadays any ​in product one cannot overlook the traditional wisdom and certain basic principles of modern economics beyond demand and supply.

They could be,:-

1. We cannot overlook or underestimate the importance of availability of raw materials and the manufacturing sector.

2. Manufacturing sector must not be either over pampered or strangulated by the government policies that go into the cost of production.

3. Any business and almost most businesses in the non perishable  products have to be aware of the competitive landscape 'globally' and the impact of online presence for both B to B and B to C. 

4. Brokers, commission agents and a hoard of other middlemen cannot be wished away as they do multiple roles in the marketing chain for most products and players.

5. Wherever the businesses can grow big, then,  they must decentralise, delegate and trust professionals without getting smothered by control freaks.

6. Similarly, for bigger players brand development, positioning and publicity are vital.

7. Quality can never be compromised at any cost.

8. Businesses have to be sensitive to cultural and ​to regional tastes and preferences. 

9. Businesses too, like any other profession, happen better when done with passion, involvement and professional commitment.

10. It would be better to operate where there is a  conducive ecosystem to do business which means overall health of the economy must be the priority of governance. This is obvious because while the governance domain may focus on taxes, regulations etc they must realise and ensure that those things can get delivered only when businesses happen.

Distortions of History

Distortians to dictators to Duke's to wokes history has been abused. In recent times, the MSM and academia together have further damaged it beyond recognition. I don't have enough knowledge to venture into specific events. However, I felt the need to present a generic picture of history's roles, ruins and rectifications required to relive a worthy life.