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Friday, January 28, 2011

May be Rowdyism works better 4 me

When I was small, I remember, If some one comes to my house, the most likely question that I should be ready to answer was "what would like to become as you grow up?", and the answer they like to listen is either Engineer/Doctor/Scientist....those professions are considered to be lucrative in those days... But now looking at whats going on in India, I feel like I did a mistake. May be I should have considered "rowdyism" as my career option. I am serious ...... !!!!.

You know Mr. Bhanu, who killed Suri, his assets were estimated to be around 250 Cr. all that was earned in the last 15 years..
did you heard of Singanamal Ramesh, the film producer, he has a side business too..that is settlements ..his assets are estimated around 200Cr. thats in last 10 years....
These are all small people, no body knows about them till suri's murder..... imagine how many of such rowdies and how much of such money lying in their black hands......man! big bucks are lying over there....
Best example Mr. Jagan, from a bongu to a king..... in just 7 years....rapid growth...
Just few days back, in Maharashtra, people involved in mafia torched a public administrator to death. Imagine what kind of money they dealing with to take such kind of risks.
Huge Huge amounts,...How many life times that I need to work to see that kind of money....
Tell me what you do to become an engineer...pass each and every exam, every year....apart form your work your parents have to work day night to pay ur fees....If you want to become a rowdy...you don't need to pass any, its all simple ..... go to gym.....eat like pig and hit those whom you doesn't like....
Bhanu's laptop has the contact details of the top tollywood actress...what a life ....
did you like any actress......wait! are you a rowdy....? No, then what the **** you can do by just liking her....you don't have that luxury..

These days No value for 1 Cr....every body got 1 Cr........S**t who cares it....are you not looking at the news papers...they only write news if it involves more than 1000Cr.
If somebody involved in 100Cr scam.....that's OK man ....common...It's not huge...!!!!
Everyone who has a house in Hyderabad is a crorepati...everyone who got at least 7 acres in Andhra is crorepathi...Everyone who has a house in a Town is crorepathi...I am happy as lot of my country men are dealing with big bucks....
but what about the majority of the people who lives in villages, and those works for 10,000/month and works their A** O** to save 15 lacs or 20 lacs in their life time???....... may be they should change their occupation to rowdyism......any how govt doesn't care what you do...unless u get caught and become a news in the media..

Monday, January 24, 2011

Nalanda Maha Viswa Vidhyalaya


After so many years of discussions among Asian nations, the dream of rebuilding the Nalanda University, and the vision Dr. APJ Abdhul Kalam was announced few months back. Singapore, China, Indonesia, Japan and many other Asian nations are involved in this project and are the countries like Japan and singapore are donating generously to re-build the first ever known university near to its ruins at Bihar, India. Why all these countries that share different opinions on every possible international matters, have come together to build this University. Why is it so important. ?

If Nalanda University was not destroyed by Afghan ruthless conqueror Khilji in 1193, it should have been the oldest university known to mankind. Nalanda University is established in 5th century (i.e. some where in the years of 400-500) , now we are in 21st century (2011), if we could have been protected the university, imagine how magnanimous it would have been now. 

Nalanda was an old centre of learning that attracted students from many countries in the world, particularly China and Tibet, Korea and Japan, and the rest of Asia, but a few also from as far in the west as Turkey. Nalanda, a residential university, had at its peak 10,000 students, studying various subjects. Nalanda is the only non-Chinese institution in which any Chinese scholar was educated in the history of ancient China.

It was exactly the time when Nalanda flourished, Indian astronomy, Trigonometry, Calculus, Logic, Psychology and Religion were well celebrated and recognized across the world. It is important to note here on how friendly the Indians were to foreigners, who come for their educational and research works. The two well known scholars in Mathematics and religion, Xuangzang and Yi Jing mentions the warm welcome they received as they arrived in Nalanda from China. 

Nalanda served as converging point to the great scholars of the time. Nalanda at its peak, has around 2000 professors of different nationals working on diversified subjects. After china's invasion of Tibet and negligence in colonial era, many great Buddhist works were abandoned. Its an important to re-build the university to focus again on Buddhist philosophies and scholarly works of the time. 
Once its all completed, I hope it brings out the warmth and friendly relations that we had with China and many other nations of Asia and also the common cultural thread that we all shared and enjoyed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7UR9UEY79k
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/opinion/09garten.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1

***Post has the information collected from Internet

Thursday, January 20, 2011

India should bring back all it's looted treasures


This is not my article but just copy pates from different sources...Intension is to have this in my blog and to keep the info at one place

Archaeological Survey of India Director General Gautam Sengupta says, “Information is that most of the precious antique items which we lost in raids, attacks or loots during foreign invasions in the pre-independence period are spread over museums, mostly in European countries.”



Did you heard of Kohi-noor
No information is available about Shah Jahan’s Peacock throne, inlaid with precious stones, including the Kohinoor diamond, which was plundered by Nader Shah and taken to Persia in 1739.
The Kohinoor, a 105-carat diamond, once the largest in the world, was ostensibly presented to Queen Victoria in 1849 by the son of the Maharaja of Lahore, although many historians argue it was plundered by British Governor General Lord Dalhousie. The diamond is now at the Tower of London.

Did you heard of Tippu's Sword
Did you heard of Sultanganj Buddha

Another item is the Sultanganj Buddha, named after the town in northeastern India where it was found, was dug out of an abandoned Buddhist monastery in 1861 along with other priceless artefacts under the direction of E B Harris, a pith-helmeted functionary of the British Raj.
Within months, the 1,500-year-old bronze statue was shipped to Britain after a Birmingham industrialist, Samuel Thornton, secured it for 200 pounds.
Now the so-called “Birmingham Buddha” is one of the artefacts at the top of a list of “stolen treasures”.
Then, according to The Independent, is the Amravati railings, a series of limestone carvings dating from around AD100, acquired from a Buddhist temple in Andhra Pradesh by Victorian explorers.
The 2,000-year-old Amravati railings, which are limestone plaques from south-eastern India, depicting scenes from the life of Buddha, presently in the British Museum.
The Sultanganj Buddha, a 2.3m tall bronze statue, plundered by a British engineer in 1861 from North-east India, presently in the Birmingham city museum. 
There is the Saraswati idol, a sculpture of the Hindu deity from the Bhoj temple
India is seeking UNESCO support to retrieve priceless antiquities, such as the Peacock Throne and the Kohinoor, looted by foreign invaders. Other sought treasures include A marble Saraswati statue stolen from a temple at Bhojsala in central India and subsequently acquired by the British Museum in 1886.

India should get all of them back but I don't think we can make it !!!

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

System Vs People: What should change

I remember once, the govt has built new houses for the poor living on the streets, the intention of the government is to move them from the streets to the new houses, so that they can extend the road...but the people who got them, rented out those new houses and found a new street to build their new shelter.... who's problem is this here... the system or the people....

Who should be held responsible for the problems like corruption, hygienic conditions, backwardness, power misuse, etc... that we smell every day in India. Is it the problem with The System or it is more deep and is the problem with the peoples mind set. It is one of the popular discussions that my self involved in several times......

In India, if I step out
I see people cleaning their house and throwing the waste onto the roads....
I see people spitting on the chairs and roads
I see people giving bribes to get things done
I see people finding shortcuts to get rid of long Que...
bribe for license, bribe for certificate, bribe to get gazetted officer signature, ......

Most of the times in my discussion, I get majority of the people showing finger at The People as the reason for most of the problems. They say 'people pointing at the system are only finding ways for the excuses for their deeds.......' Ideally speaking a society which respects human values and follows Dharma shall flourish irrespective what system they are following...... are all of us sages to be like that...NO.
I tried to get my birth certificate, it took me almost a month to find out whats going on with the application...the next day i gave 500Rs to the attender, the certificate is in my hands with in next one hour.this happened in Kukatpally some office. Now whose problem is this? mine or system? I am sure I would have got the certificate if I wait for few more days...But if you do so, people looking at you will say that you are stupid.....
You can say, I should be strong and follow Dharma, then you are only expecting a Perl from the shell taken out of mud. I am from a society that embraced the shitty system. I just cant resist it even if I want to be good... Its is important to clean the mud before you expect Perls from it. 

My point is always, "if there are problems in a nation, that means there are serious problem in their institutions/systems". Our police system is spoiled, civil system is spoiled, political  system is spoiled, educational system is spoiled, health system is spoiled etc... but on the same land we have comparatively best judicial system, best election commission....So its not the people that's the problem, but the surrounding/systems/institutions are bad.
One simple example, when I was in India, i throw stuff on the roads, I followed shortcuts, I jumped the traffic signals...but why I am not doing any of those in USA, is it because I changed suddenly as soon as my feet touches holy soil of USA, No, the systems here doesn't allow me to do any of those.

Its great if we have all people follow ethics, but do you wanna spend next 100 years to educate and change the people, then start thinking about progress.....The best option to make things change fast is to implement the reforms they all sitting and waiting in the store rooms of govt of India. Lokpal bill is waiting to curb the corruption, police reforms, educational reforms, political reforms and many other reports with detailed plans are waiting. Huge responsibility on law makers to make all those changes, but there is no political will or they intentionally ignoring it for their benefit.