ஹைக்கூ ?

ஒற்றை மரத்தடி

காலி புத்தகம்

பேனாவில் மை தீர்ந்திருந்தது.

தாகம் தீர்க்க

கானல் நீரை

நோக்கி நடந்தேன்

அவளுக்காக காத்திருக்கையில்.

காலை இளம்பனி

நதியில் ஓடம்

துடுப்பு இன்றி

நெற்றியின் பொட்டை

சுற்றி வரைந்த

ஒற்றை புள்ளி கோலம்

உன் முகம்

இவற்றில் எவை ஹைக்கூ அல்ல என்று உங்களால் கூற இயன்றால் ,

உங்களுக்கு ஒரு சபாஷ்! ஹைக்கூ எழுத விதி முறைகள் உள்ளன. அறிய விழைந்தால் சுஜாதாவின் "ஹைக்கூ - ஓர் அறிமுகம்" படியுங்கள்.

( சிந்து மேனனின் முகம் போருந்தியதென எண்ணினேன்! தவிர அவரை நினைத்து எழுதவில்லை ! எழுதினாலும் தவறில்லை !)

உண்மைகள் !

'பெரிய உண்மைகள் பரம எளிமையானவை 'என்று எதையோ ஆரம்பத்தில் உளறினேன் . பல்லாயிரம் ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னால் பாரதியின் தாத்தாவும் என் தாத்தாவும் ' ஒருவரே ' என்று பின்னோக்கிய உயிர்ப் பயணத்தில் சாதாரணமாகத் தெரிந்து கொள்ள முடியாதா என்ன? இன்னும் பின்னாடி போனால் இதுவரை பிறந்ததும் ஒரே மனிதன் .... ஆயிரம் கோடி பெயர் ரூபங்களில் அவன் ... அவனே காசி . அவனே மார்டின் .. நாம , ரூப மயக்கங்கள். தனித்தனியே உயிர்ப் 'பற்றுகள்' . உலகில் யார் ஒருவர் இறந்தாலும் அது நான் தான். உயிர் வாழ்தலே காலத்தின் ஒரு தற்காலிக ஏற்பாடு தான். சாதாரண பொது புத்தியில் உணரலாமே மனிதா! ஒருவனே பிறக்கிறான். ஒருவனே இறக்கிறான். இதனால் பிறப்புக்கும், இறப்புக்கும் 'தனி' அர்த்தம் எதுவுமில்லை என்று பொது புத்தி(common sense) கொண்டே புரியலாமே! இதனையே பூனை, புலி, கரும்பு, வேம்பு, கரப்பான், கொசு, புல்லென்று, சகல உயிர் ராசிகளுக்கும் பொருத்திக் கொள்ளலாம். 'உயிர்' வெளிப்பாட்டின் எண்ணற்ற உடல் வடிவங்கள். இந்த வடிவங்களில் மயங்குவதும் முயங்குவதும் வாழ்க்கை. வடிவங்களை பெயர்களால் அடையாள படுத்திக்கொண்டு வதைப்பட்டுகொண்டிருக்கிறோம் .

நன்றி : பாதசாரி , 'மனநிழல்'

மழை, ஜூலை 2002 இதழிலிருந்து

quoted from : 'உயிரின் ரகசியம்' - சுஜாதா

It all boils down to this!

"Nothing is more chastening to human vanity than the realization that the richness of our mental life — all our thoughts, feelings, emotions, even what we regard as our intimate self—arises exclusively from the activity of little wisps of protoplasm in the brain."

Quoted by - Vilayanur. S. Ramachandran and William Hirstein , Brain and Perception Laboratory, 0109, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA

In - "Three Laws of Qualia - What Neurology Tells Us about the Biological Functions of Consciousness, Qualia and the Self"

From - "Journal of Consciousness Studies, 4, No. 5-6, 1997, pp. 429–58"

(Qualia are the ‘raw feels’ of conscious experience: the painfulness of pain, the redness of red. Qualia give human conscious experience the particular character that it has. For instance, imagine a red square; that conscious experience has (at least) two qualia: a colour quale, responsible for your sensation of redness, and a shape quale, responsible for the square appearance of the imagined object.)

Read more about qualia in http://www.imprint.co.uk/rama/qualia.pdf

மழையும் உண்டு ...

'பாரி பாரி' என்று பல ஏத்தி,

ஒருவற் புகழ்வர், செந் நாப் புலவர்;

பாரி ஒருவனும் அல்லன் ;

மாரியும் உண்டு , ஈண்டு உலகு புரப்பதுவே .

பாரி பாரி என்று

ஒருவனையே புகழ்வர் புலவர் அனைவரும்.

பாரி ஒருவன் மட்டும் இல்லை

மழையும் உண்டு

உலகை காக்க!

புறநானூறு - பாடல் 107

பாடியவர் - கபிலர்

பாடப்பெற்றவர் - வேள்பாரி

திணை - பாடாண் திணை

துறை - இயன்மொழி

பாரி இல்லையானாலும் மாரியாவது உள்ளதே !

An insult by whom?

Kalam was not in headlines for quite some time.. This month he was,but not for good reasons. He was frisked by continental airlines some 3 months back. Our responsible politicians have nothing to argue about in parliament . It appears to me like they have been hunting for issues to discuss... Pity them, India is a developed and a problem free country and they have no issues to discuss in Parliament. They had found this issue and i feel sorry for Kalam.

Of course, frisking an ex-president is a misdemeanour. Airline staff were aware of this, but they obliged to their company's rules than to Indian constitution. Our honorable MPs have demanded an apology from Continental Airlines. They had followed Transport Security Administration rules and were defending their staff. They openly stated we can not apologize. Our Patriotic MPs including Aviation ministry told media, if they aren't going to apologize, their license will be cancelled. Cont Airlines were made to bow and finally they apologized. I don't understand what a person can get out of an apology that was begged for! A person of Kalam's stature shouldn't be treated this way. The way he envisioned India to be a developed country I'm sure no forthcoming president would do it. They dragged him into mud and have put him in a delicate situation. Just tell me, what can he comment on this? These goddamn MPs gained what out of this apology. These shameless b@#$%&ds didn't make any enemy state bow down like this when we were attacked. Sitaram Yechury went to the extent of politicizing this issue saying they might have frisked him because he was a Muslim. Why the hell he is dragging religion in to this.

Are we such a safe & affluent nation to talk about issues like this. One day at parliament two idiots were fighting with each other for answering to one another's question in a different language.

Why the hell we elect such assholes? We are to blame! Who knows, they may find this silly blog and take me to task for calling them assholes. Jobless b@#$%^&ds!

Now tell me who insulted Kalam?

The sun sets in the Sunset Boulevard,LA...

RIP Jackson! :(

Hogenakkal trip

I am bloggin after a long time.. Many other things had occupied my time..

I am writing this after a long time I visited Hogenakkal. Well, It remains still in my memory afresh as I saw those things that day. ( A trip worth remembering..) Felt like writing it today only.

Me and my friend Maria christu raja started off by evening around 6.30 in my Unicorn on a full moon day in april ( dont remember the day). Going out of Bangalore was a headache..

We preferred the Anekkal-Thenkanikottai (தேன்கனிக்கோட்டை beautiful name)-Hogenakkal route.

By the time we were at the outskirts of the city, it was around 8 pm. Moon was rising.. Beautiful sight. Never been in highways at night, before.. so couldn't go beyond 60. After we took a turn from Hosur road from chandapura towards Anekkal ( meaning elephant stone), the roads were calm - not much traffic, narrow with lot of trees on both sides.. not much humans around.. We drove slowly (30-40 kmph), and reached anekkal.. had our dinner there and then set out towards Thenkanikottai. We had planned to stay there in a lodge for the night. On our way to Thenkanikottai we had to pass through many villages and uninhabited places. Moon was around 60 degrees from the vertical... We switched off the headlamps and drove in the moonlight.. beautiful experience... Our retinae got adjusted to the available light and we were able to navigate without any hitch...

Reached Thenkanikottai and stayed there for a night.. Lodge was pretty decent ( there was only one in the whole town).. Started off to Hogenakkal early in the morning.. We passed through villages, stopped by lily ponds. I can't describe them. It was like a painting.. Cranes flying around, fishes jumping out of water, frogs over the lotus leaves, flowers at various stages of bloom, cattle grazing around and peasants bathing them. Heaven on earth..

Then we entered into reserved forests and stopped by small streams passing by... they were clear and place around were great other than the mineral water bottles and lays packets thrown around by humans passing by... I pity those mindless creatures..

Rest of the journey towards hogenakkal, we saw lot of forest birds and trees.. Here I have to mention something.. Maria Christu Raja is a ardent lover of nature and is good in identifying trees from their barks, flowers and leaves and birds. He knows a lot about animal's behavior and food habits as he volunteers often for surveying preys, predators conducted by NGOs. Nice that I joined that trip with him.. I learned a lot.. After sometime we had to climb small hills and the roads had lots of hair-pin bends after which came the amazing view of Kaveri flowing amidst hills.... Lovely sight. It divides Karnataka and Tamilnadu for a stretch of few kilometers.. We stopped few kilometers ahead of hogenakkal to wet ourselves in the river.. I parked my Unicorn at the banks of Kaveri( was worried a little about my best pal's loneliness, But a lady's cycle gave him good company till I came back). There was this Parisal. We hired one and waded the river and reached a small island... We both got into the river and started playing...

இயற்கை தாயின் மடியில் பிறந்து

எப்படி வாழ்ந்தேன் இதயம் தொலைந்து

சலித்து போனேன் மனிதனாய் இருந்து

பறக்க வேண்டும் பறவையாய் திரிந்து

Later Raja told we can climb a hill nearby so that He can study some trees in that forest. I had never trekked like that before.. there were lot of holes in the slopes of that hills where I suspected the presence of snakes.. National geographic snake documentaries flashed before me very often... We went to a certain height.. It was twelve in the noon and the summer sun was burning us.. I gave up and told let's get back to the boat... He said ok and we started getting down..

When I was about to alight the boat I had to remove my sandals... I bent to remove that and the sony ericsson in my pocket ( was singing that time ) fell into the river... :) oops.. The boatman looked for it and took it outside.. It was singing still with an infection in its throat..LOL.. I removed the batteries and put it into my bag.. We got back to the other shore... Raja attempted rowing the parisal for a while.. Nice experience.. We took off in my unicorn ( He had to leave his newly got girlfriend there itself) towards Hogenakkal..

Reached hogenakkal.. we hate crowd and decided not to boat once again... Civilians visiting Hogenakkal were having a good time.. some were drinking and massaging besides the water falls ( What a bad taste!)

Two eyes were not sufficient for me to watch the magnificence of the water falls.. we went by foot around various falls and finally had a so called fresh catch fish toast in a hotel.. it was good...

Return also we drove slow.. reached Thenkanikottai and took rest for sometime.. Back to Bangalore in the same evening... Had dinner in Malgudi that night...

The day was worth living!

who are becoming teacher these days??

This question was running in my mind days.... Of course after I passed out of my college! I'm writing this from a Tamilnadu student's perspective.. Most of us who opt science group, take it with the intention of undertaking a professional course (engineering or medicine) .. These days engineering is more preferred because 235 odd colleges are there in Tamilnadu and getting into one of them is not a big job (but getting a job after that is...). Then got to clear 8 semesters and get into some job that would fetch a minimum of 20 k a month...Nothing wrong indeed.. We need to resolve the financial crisis and get things stable.. Medicine is mostly opted by people who are ambitious or their parents are so ambitious that they push these guys into medical colleges...
Approximately 95-98% of Tamilnadu's Science group population gets into these 2 courses.. The remaining
1. who don't manage to score good
2. Willing to work as a teacher
3. Dont get a job other than a teacher

become Teachers...

This is really a sad state. (Tamilnadu state) LOL.. The percentage of teachers who really inspire us to learn a subject and make that us our career is decreasing day by day.. In many cases it has become the other way.. Many of us developed hatred towards certain subjects due to incompetent teachers...

If I hated chemistry, my chemistry teacher Ms.Amudhini is to blame. She does everything else in class other than teaching the subject. She shuts the doors and starts conducting a prayer meeting, mentions few fellow class mate's name just before the exam and prays specially for them to get good marks.. let us leave her.. waste of time talking about one inhumane person.

Well, seeing from a broader perspective, teaching effectively is an art. It is an important aspect in building a nation. Teachers are the engineers of a country. It is a sacred job.

Even if you are getting into teaching profession out of desperate need for a job, it have to be done with so much care understanding the gravity of its need in country building. People should understand this.

Well, no use blaming unless I make some change here....