STRAIGHT TALKS

Some  have repeatedly accused me of purposefully hiding the great achievements of the great Congress party of India to India. They hold a long list of achievements, beginning with the independence movement. They call me a subterfuger and that is ironic because such hiding, twisting, manipulative skills were the key characters of most of Congress claims on India since her formation in 1885 as an elitist club and as a joint venture with Colonial British to seek jobs from the rulers. Congress was not launched to fight for India’s independence and an aura was later carefully created that the Party was launched to fight for India. Congress were Voluntary slaves of the British who crowned themselves as Saviours of India.  To those foreign to Indian political system, let’s clarify that Congress in India is a political party  and not some representative or democratic parliament as it was elsewhere. Congress Party was and is a Colonial legacy and was not antithetical to it. ...

Are you one of those who open main door first thing in the morning in search for your newspaper?  Do you get flustered if it hasn’t yet arrived?  Do you get glued to the paper unmindful of other happenings at home?  Then you surely have a mind that is habituated or addicted to newspaper. What we don’t realise is that our addictive mind searches for titillation or sensation that all addictions bring. Addictive newspaper reading under pretext of thirst for information and news could be one too. Newspaper addicts probably enjoy high sensations, are very argumentative, hold strong emotions and get impatient by even superficial logic.  I know that because I was an addict for five decades. Had read newspapers without fail and on some days, I read ten newspapers, in detail. I was addicted to newspapers and my profession compelled me to scan them every day for three to four hours, every working day. But recently, I unsubscribed to all and started enjoying my exis...

Timelines for Hindu heritage and history often have proved challenging to the human mind and are often an expose of the limitations of mind. So too are the details of the appalling tragedies inflicted by greedy Europeans on Hindu civilisation as well as the earlier Muslim rulers. They have cleverly been erased by the invaders along with stupendous hindu achievements. Worse is that today hindu achievements are ridiculed as non existent while anything western is hailed as progressive including adultery. So, it happened to one of the six abodes of Lord Karthikeya popularly known as Lord Muruga, at Tiruchendur. A temple believed to have been carved out of rock on the style of Ellora now appears to be a shade of its wonderful past. The main guilty were the Dutch known today to the world as Netherlands. The Dutch after facing repeated defeats by Portughese were limited to Ceylon. In February 1649, the Dutch attacked Portughese in India and occupied Tiruchendur and Tuticorin. After the ...

If you were ever revolted by the plethora of roadside statues in India, then credit for this ever rising craze should go to that one man tsunami that brought about that infamous “Statue Culture “ to EV Ramasamy Naicker known as Periyar to his followers. As was usual with Dravidian politics, this focus and obsession of statues  ironically began as an anti idol movement to reason out faith and beliefs of Hinduism to pamper to Islamic and Christian fundamentalists and as admiration of anything western.  Breaking of idols of Lord Ganesha in Salem when Congress ruled Tamilnadu and India during early 1950s didn’t elicit even murmurs of intolerance as Hindus were subdued for over a thousand years and Secular congress was a mere continuation of that colonial British rule that was indifferent and insensitive to majoritarian Hindu sentiments. EVR called Idols as lifeless stones and called out those beliefs of honouring and worshipping them as crass and superstitious. Because of fundam...

-Excellence is about standards, high standards- If someone ever thought that Tamilnadu’s first premier engineering university is a place of excellence, that thought was result of successfully planned deceit and building of a myth by constant propaganda unconnected to any kind of facts. From frequent name changes starting with PAUT to AUT to the present name as well as to the sadist changes about the jurisdiction and structure of university, the focus remains on the size and the physical grandeur of an institution. All dramas related to AU lead to a single conclusion: ANNA university has been a toy in the hands of Dravidian politicians since inception , where the learning of science of engineering has been marauded by twisting systems, lowering of standards to facilitate populism, where teaching gets vandalised. AU is a perfect example of the rotten pudding called Tamilnadu.  Let’s give due credit to the university on facts. ANNA University is a brand. The main...