It always amuses me to hear the arrogance and stupidity displayed by the self-styled rationalists of Tamil Nadu, led by E.V.Ramaswamy Naicker, nick named as Periyar,the learned One!
Yes, among idiots,, one cane can look Learned.
I saw a Video in Periyar TV, the self-styled Rationalist TV,, of Suba.Veerapandian, who makes a living out of Tamil,Brahmin baiting, and insulting Hinduism.
Heroes while attacking Hinduism, these people become coy while talking about Christianity or Islam.
Now the unanswerable questions,according to EVR by all Religions.
1.Do Animals,Birds,Animals, Plants, all have Soul?
The answer is YES.
2.If the Soul survives after Death and the Body is destroyed how come there is an increase in Population?
The answer is.
a) We do not know the Population of All the Living Beings.
I have been a risk taker, no calculated risks even.
I do not understand the term calculated risk.
A risk remains one so long it remains.
One Oncologist told me that as far as he is concerned in treating cancer patients, he does not care about the risks,stating that even a miniscule .1% is 100 5 risk for patient!
So is risk taking.
I would simply take any action which appealed me, especially jobs,may be it might offer more benefits or the Job content I liked.
I was very out going, though not easy-going.
These remain the same even this day.
I do things as I used to do, but with slight trepidation, but it will be in my mind, which was not the case earlier,but I do things any way.
As to with people I remain the same.
My close friend of 43 Years tells me I am not easy to approach though I am easy to move with and an extrovert
I do not know.
I used to eat a lot of Chocolates, Ice cream and Sweets.
I still do.
My grand children love me for this as we raid the Fridge together after others sleep.
I used to be irreverent towards every thing, including Religion.
Happy because the post generated a lot of discussion with members speaking out with out inhibition.
Sad because it revealed to me the malaise that is eating our Society.
Though the views of the communities need not reflect the views of all the other Communities in general, this particular community views are taken as a model for others despite their bashing this Community.
During the course of the discussions I came across views, which I will sum up as it would be unethical to post them direct here.
1.All agree that there is this problem of leaving the elderly in Old Age Homes
.2.The elderly also prefer it.
3.This, from the trend and profiles I could gleam, seems to be from NRI .( parents of NRIs and the parents themselves)
4.It is my impression that there seems to be communication disconnect between the Parents and the Children.
5.Children do want to keep them at Home.
6.Sad was a comment the children is ‘an Insurance for parents’ posted by a Parent.
7.Equally appalling was a comment that “Parents are incorrigible and make the Life of Children Hell”
I have posted my views in the group discussion.
Then there was a question of Duty of Sons (No body spoke about daughters!)
The point is that where was this problem, say 40 years ago?
Agreed that we had differences at Homes with parents with us, we never thought that ‘they were living with us’ rather’ we were living in a Home’
Tiffs are always sorted out,
Then why so now?
1.People have gone after monetary values alone.
Parents want their sons to go abroad , especially the US for Higher Studies and Jobs.
When they get a Green Card, the parents feel that they own the world.
Forgetting that the values and the standard of Living shall make sure that they do not return.
If you have sent your child abroad you should be prepared for it.
Alternately, you should stay with them there.
If you a can not stay because you want to come to your Native place, then you have no other option but to stay here alone or in an Old Age Home.
You can not blame the children for it.
Not that you need not send your children abroad, but only that you should have the maturity to handle the consequences.
2.Interfering in Grown up children’s day-to-day affairs.
Many elderly do resort to this as a sign of showing their control of the Household.
It produces the opposite reaction.
You have run the family for nearly 30 t0 40 years and you have taught , or you thought you had taught your children to face Life,.
Why not leave them be?
What could they do?
They might make mistakes. like you and I ( should this be ‘Me’) have made when we were young, or for that matter even now.
Why not admit that the younger generation may be, in fact, is more intelligent in handling practical Life than we did?
Let them run the family the way they want.
If you have brought them up well and proper they would have the basic Morals alright.
That would do.
Not the silly expectation of them coming to you and submitting their account and informing you where they are gong and what they are doing.
We have run our Race,
Let the Relay race run.If you run along the relay runner, you Team, The Family, will lose.
Elders need to handle this with maturity.
2.For Children.
Parents are not your enemies.
They say and do hings for you, they may not know to how to go about saying or doing it.
Do not suspect their Love or their concern for you.
They are not Incorrigible.
These incorrigible idiots made you into what you are to-day, even enabling you to speak this way.
The value of parents will be known when they are no more.
Only Parents love you for what You are.-with all your warts.
Others for What You have.
PS.I have not touched the actual Physical and mental abuse of Parents here.
There is a report on the Worst Journalists of India, 2014.
I am posting excerpts below.
Mean while,one should remember Media is also a part of the Society in which we live.
Just as they used to show in films about Judges as the ones beyond Human failings of corruption,which is not a fact as we know at least now, we , unfortunately still believe that the Journalists are as pure as driven snow and are beyond corruption and partisan views.
The fact is they are so , so are we.
Burkha Dutt
Under the circumstances, I do not follow or listen to one Journalist or another.
I watch all of them, independently verify stories from different sources and arrive at a conclusion on my own.
The perception that some are worst or good is a subjective .
Let me leave it at that.
But to expect some journalist to be of the standard of say GK.Reddy, even he was biased, is too much to expect especially after Rai tapes implicating Burkha Dutt, Vir Sanghvi, (Check for audio under Radia Tapes)
However I have a few impressions of some Journalists.
Arnab Goswamy, though he is overly aggressive, forms opinions for himself , wants others merely to endorse him , by and large is as independent as The channel allows him.
Karan Thapar,Arrasive to the point of repugnancy, yet he makes the people whom he interviews squirm and generally make an ass of themselves.
In the process, in both these Journalists cases, the people spill the beans.
That’s it for me.
Now to the worst Journalist of the year 2014.
You would find most of them to be tainted.
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10. S. Varadarajan (New entrant)
Till recently S. Varadarajan or “Varadabhai” as I fondly call him, was the editor of ‘The Hindu’ which is famous for its anti-Hindu articles. Lately, Varadabhai is a TV panellist who helps to continue pounding the redundant theory that Modi abetted the 2002 riots. He came out strongly in support of Rahul Gandhi’s bogus allegations on January 27 with Arnab Goswami. Incidentally, RG stated journalists told him Gujarat govt was involved in the riots. I guess RG just missed naming Varadabhai directly. Peddling opinions as news articles was one of the reasons the anti-Hindu claimed he was sacked from the newspaper. The most hilarious article carried in the The Hindu under Varadabhai was one which more or less claimed the “masculine pose” by Swami Vivekananda was one of the causes of rapes in India. So if Varadabhai ever strikes that pose I don’t want to venture a guess on what’s on his mind.
KK stays where he was last time. He retains his old habits of hate-RSS, hate-Hindutva and anything remotely connected with BJP. Of course, most would remember he’s also a former speech writer for Congress. Lately, he’s an “acting” defence lawyer for the AAP party. Following the anarchic acts of Arvind Kejriwal & Co. outside Rail Bhawan in January 2014 Ketkar quickly defended them by telling CNN-IBN India has always been anarchic. He recalled events like the Ayodhya movement to defend Kejriwal’s stupidity. KK has a rare distinction though. He’s one of those media heroes who has been provided police protection following police complaints and threats for abusing a certain caste in Maharashtra. And that contempt is because he hated a certain politician. There’s also a case relating to defamatory articlesagainst the RSS and also abusing judiciary. It’s unlikely the man will change. A hate-filled heart remains the same.
8. Nikhil Wagle (New entrant)
Frankly, this media moron is in the bad news not so much for journalism but for his filthy tweets and some allegations by one Nitin Rane. I haven’t watched him on IBN Lokmat nor have I had the misfortune to read anything he may have ever written. Like some others in this list he is most known for peddling of untruths. His most stupid outburst was against the middle class people. Hetweeted in March 2012: “I am surprised by the low IQ of middle class in this country. Their understanding of politics is so dismal that they vote BJP. God save!” In another tweet he brazenly claims “Not a single PM of India has defended communal riots directly or indirectly. If @narendramodi dreams to become PM he should know this!” Of course, this Congress crony apparently backs what Rajiv Gandhi said justifying killing of Sikhs with a great tree falling. While Wagle often screams about corruption, readers and voters are quite aware of his bosses being alleged to be involved in the Coal scam. I don’t see any reason why Wagle why will ever move out of this list.
The “Larger picture” has made progress and has gone up the list. If she is angling for a permanent spot among India’s worst then she’s doing just the right things. With a permanent scowl on her face and permanent contempt for some panellists, her show called “Left, right, centre” is nothing more than filler on NDTV. Sort of bench-warming for passing the “buck”. Nidhi delivered one of the most shameful episodes on Indian TV in her mindless rant against a British MP for inviting Narendra Modi to speak in the British parliament. She even claimed she had the right to “question” SC judgements. If you watch the video of that shameless spectacle Nidhi mentions “controversial/controversy” as many times as Rahul Gandhi mentions empowerment or systems in his speeches. A thorough disgrace to journalism.
6. Karan Thapar (6)
India’s only “bow-tie” journalist (he often reminds me of thebow-tie killer). He has earned the nickname ‘The Tool’ after infamously ridiculing PA Sangma, the presidential candidate, of being a tool in the hands of some political parties. His standard pose is the dangerous “masculine” pose that The Hindu warns us of as the cause of rapes. Often also called a Paki-Tool, KT sort of proved it when he was handed a quote of Nawaz Sharif about friendship with India. This quote was planted by the Pak news agencies after Sharif became PM and KT grandly discussed the “hand of friendship” on his show. It just turned out the statement was made by Sharif to none other than KT earlier (before Sharif became PM again) and the Pakis made KT a “useful idiot” to peddle that old statement in the midst of LOC violations. The other thing KT is fond of is making others (like Sibal, Jaitley) sit in his chair and play Devil’s Advocate and pay him compliments. His 2007 statement hoping for a “sudden removal of Modi” may hold more interest now in many quarters.
5. Rajdeep Sardesai (3)
If Rajdeep has fallen one place it’s only because a bigger disgrace has made a grand debut in this list. “Point taken, fair enough” is now the standard defence RS offers when zapped by a panellist (much like Nidhi’s “larger picture” diversion). From defending Robert Vadra and the Gandhis, RS is now seen as grand campaigner for the AAP party. The number of interviews and promotions of Arvind Kejriwal on CNN-IBN and the whole IBN group would stand as proof. His most famous event in the past two years would be the incompetent interview with Modi on the bus floor. Modi even, deliberately or inadvertently, called him “Sar-ka-dard-esai”. Under RS the IBN group has hit rock bottom with many employees being sacked and the channel hitting new lows in TRP. Quite unfortunate considering CNN-IBN does have some of the best journalists on TV. Rajdeep’s judgement and prudence can be measured by the fact that most of his IOTY nominees have ended up as disasters. If the “top” is bad then no number of good journalists can shore up a failing channel.
KT: So in other words you buckled under media pressure?
JJ: No, not at all. It was misunderstood by many people. It was not an anti-conversion law, it was an anti forcible conversion law.
KT: But it was misunderstood for almost two years. You could have repealed it earlier, you didn’t. You only repealed it after you failed to win seats.
JJ: It has nothing to do with that. If you insist on giving this interpretation I can’t help it.
KT: What about the…
JJ: (Intervenes) As to why the media is biased, that is because I am a self-made woman. Politics has for long been a male bastion. Mrs. Indira Gandhi changed all that, but still you must remember that Mrs. Indira Gandhi had all the inbuilt advantages. She had the advantage of being born in the…
KT: (Intervenes) You’re saying that media picks on you?
JJ: I do think so.
KT: Because you are a woman?
JJ: You are not allowing me to finish anything I want to say.
“In a note that Italian prosecutors have produced in court to allege the vital role played by middleman Christian Michel in fixing the VVIP chopper deal, the British ‘consultant’ has told top AgustaWestland officials to ‘target’ the closest advisers for UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi for the contract.
The March 2008 note, which has been sent by the elusive Christian Michel to Peter Hulett, the then Head of Region, Govt Sales at the AgustaWestland India office, is one of the many documents that Italian investigators seized from the office of Switzerland based middleman Guido Haschke who is currently facing trial in the case of alleged 51 million euro kickbacks generated in the Indian VVIP chopper deal.
India has in January terminated the deal on the grounds that the integrity pact was violated and that unfair practices were adopted to bag the deal by Agusta. The Defence Ministry is currently engaged in an arbitration process on the contract that was inked in 2010. The March 15, 2008 note that has been produced in Italian court is addressed to Peter and instructs him to advise the British High Commissioner in India (AgustaWestland is an Anglo-Italian firm) to ‘target’ people close to Sonia Gandhi.
“As Mrs Gandhi is the driving force behind the VIP, she will not fly any more in the Mi 8. Mrs Gandhi and her closest advisers are the people the High Commissioner should target,” the note reads. Mi 8′s are the current VIP role choppers flown by the air force. The document has been produced by prosecutors as part of their questioning of Guido Haschke. In January, as reported by The Indian Express, they also asked Haschke in court if the reference to an abbreviation of AP in a ‘budget sheet’ of the middlemen referred to Gandhi’s key aide Ahmed Patel. Italian newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano has also reported that the prosecutors produced a photograph of Sonia Gandhi and Ahmed Patel during the hearing to question Haschke but the middlemen said that he only recognised Gandhi from the picture.”
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