That ‘Rama’ and ‘Das’ are north Indian words is beyond dispute. In fact there was an ‘Aryan’ saint by name Ramdas, not to speak of more popular savants like Tulsidas and Kalidas. If anything ‘Ramadoss’ carries the unmistakeable imprint of Sanskrit, as do the words ‘karuna’ and ‘nidhi’.
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‘Routhiram Pazhagu’ -( practise anger) – said Poet Bharathi. Of course, by prevailing standards in the nation, both in his time and now, Bharathi may be deemed a terrorist or at least, be accused of inciting violence. Really, he was only telling his countrymen to be human
It’s high time the crows of the country start crowing out in protest. Hell, ever since the art of sculpting and statue-making became popular pastimes of the human race, these winged blackies have alongside been accused of playing spoil sport.
The Shibu Sorens of the country serve a few useful purposes too. Besides contributing profusely through case laws to the cause of criminal jurisprudence, such characters make you alive to the dark and disturbing possibilities and prospects that a democracy could throw up, making it seem like some kind of a ‘demon’ocracy.
To be be laid low for more than a week by a virtually invisible enemy as a virus was indeed a very humbling experience. Not that as a journo one expected to be somehow immune to the sweep of those micro monsters.
To be stuck in traffic on a rainy working day evening at the Thousand Lights bottleneck on Mount Road in Chennai, is by itself a great physical ordeal. So imagine one’s chagrin on getting converted into an involuntary participant of a procession to protest the death sentence on Shri Saddam Hussein, care of, Baghdad
While Indian cricket over-flows with politics, politicians barring Sharad Pawar, hardly have time for cricket. Unless there is an Indo-Pak series in the offing, whence cricket becomes a diplomatic, or rather, an undiplomatic affair.
Politics in the State touched a new low this week. A new high, rather, if you look at things upside down, and come to think of it, that’s the way you have to look at it, because the subject is liquor. TN’s political theatre has witnessed much melodrama, glamour and violence in the past few weeks, but a bit of vice was certainly overdue. Now we have it in barrels.
Man may be a political animal or not, but he sure is a religious animal. Be he a saffron-clad sadhu or an yellow towel-rationalist, God dominates his thought, in devotion or denial. Indeed, religion is a natural impulse for homo sapiens while secularism, atheism and the like are either afterthoughts or habits wrought by external compulsions or simply fads.