STRAIGHT TALKS

Preface Try finding the socio economic status of Indian sub continent during and earlier years before the British and Portuguese arrived in India. You will find almost none as if that period India had melted away thanks to amenable spineless pot boiling dishonest historians who wrote only to curry favours from the powerful in a spirit that’s analogous to contemporary news media sarcastically called presstitutes today. Did the Europeans invade a land that was steeped in Superstition and where people lived in abject poverty as was the case when British left India in 1947? The ruthless British were credited with modernisation of India today, for the education system in vogue, for launching Industries and for the modern medicine that exists in India today? Some even believe that the British were better than contemporary Indian leaders especially those of the sychophantic corrupt congress which didn’t make a transformational impact on Indian economy. It’s time to check facts and t...

Remember an old Tamil adage which goes like this:  “Your money is mine and mine is mine too”. Commonwealth is akin to this concept. While Britain’s ego gets pampered as all commonwealth nations are seemingly united under the authority of the Queen, the nations of commonwealth continue to receive a raw deal from UK on all bilateral issues especially on Visas. Indians are discriminated and treated with disdain in UK as was done during the colonial rule. Racist incidents against Indians are not rare in UK. Compare commonwealth  to UK’s Brexit referendum which ran primarily on the issue of immigration. UK was insecure with regulated immigration  so opted for Brexit but was comfortable when they invaded and looted forcibly other nations, as they patted themselves with pride that British empire never ever sees the sun set. Fact:British colonialism was a brutal cannabalistic force. American philosopher historian Will Durant described Britain “guilty of conscious and ...

By Indian army , I mean all the three wings of the Indian armed defence forces. Despite Indian becoming free and independent, the army appears as a vestige of everything British. Sadly the many Prime Ministers  and Generals have ensured that the Army remains a vestige of British in culture and practices thereby undermining the glorious unheard and unseen desi soldiers of the past. The pointed rebuttal and refusal to make Indian Army Indian was that as India was no single nation before British arrived, it suits better Indian army to remain a vestige of British colonial rule. The glorious invasions of Chozhas in the South Asia with about a thousand ships across the seas or the bravery of soldiers fighting Alexander or the Moghuls have not been incorporated into the history of India as it ought to have been. So also were the sacrifice of millions of Indian soldiers in world war #2 at the behest of the British.  There still continues this British culture or habits as you...

Why we need God and Religion? Atheism is in vogue in the west. Some fantasise that a disbelief or atleast the questioning in the existence of God may make them appear intelligent, smarter, revolutionary to the eYeS of the world. Some others imagine that humans of today are more advanced than ever in the past and progress is some kind of eternal upward movement. Let’s check the substance to these arguments.  As Christian missionaries go berserk converting other religions in developing countries, it’s a fact that they are simulataneously losing hold of their religion in the developed western world. Their inability to set an example of what they profess to others was the main incentive for many to turn back to Christianity. A huge rise in atheist numbers along with closure of churches in the west as well as heart ripping stories of rape and molestations by pedophile pastors, Jesuits and evangelists have wrecked havoc on the belief on the Holy Bible and on Lord Jesus Christ....

Shri Chandrasekara Saraswathi of Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam , the finest among sages of the last millennia, continues to touch and heal the lives of believers going beyond the limitations of caste, religion, linguistics and nations. Devotees are struck in awe when incredible stories of His miracles are shared by Queens and Kings, Presidents and Prime Ministers as well by celebrities of many hue and colour. Having experienced His miracles first hand, I went about on a search to know the other common lives that were blessed by our Sage but hitherto were never revealed in public. This is compilation of a series of first hand reports. Hope you will be inspired by this narration. All the stories are real life incidents and are verifiable. Story #1 KBR worked in TVS group of companies at Madurai. A devotee of Mahaperiyava, he would visit him whenever work permitted but all his decisions centred on the grace of Mahaperiyava. His first child, a daughter was afflicted by polio and he thou...