letzter schamane

Die Suche nach dem
tanzend Gott
By Sylvie Bantle

(Vienna,12-10-2007: pakkanar, is the pen
name of vararuci given by the greatest of
all folk story tellers, indian, gunadhya, time
unknown, could be of early Christian years. he
wrote in an aboriginal language of central india.
his work brihatkatha, which is considered the
origin of kashmiri somadeva´s katha
saritsagara (ocean of story rivers) reportedly
had over one hundred thousand tales strewn
together. katha saritsagara had on the other
hand no more than 24,000 tales. satanic
verses author salman rushdie,who remained
under a mulla fatwa, got inspired by this
collection and haroun al rashid´s arabian
nights to write his haroun and the sea of
stories to mollify muslim sentiments after
his verses but without success.vararuci
who became known as pakkanar in kerala,
had twelve sons from an aboriginal, therefore
untouchable woman. the shaman story is a
shaman fantasy. vararuchi was none other
than, the man who wrote sanskrit grammer,
as comentory of cryptic suptras written
two hundred years before him by panini, on
the basis of fourteen =pratyahara= sutras,
reportedly he heard as shiva, the first of
all wild god´s mini hand drum was played
after his free dance.vararuci is said to have
lived around maurya chandra gupta´s time.
another name of vararuci is katyayana, son
of katyayini. vararuci was said to be so
intelligent he could understand everything
at once by yoga, meaning the capacity to
apply knowledge in life, which he was
endowed with at birth, we can revert to it,
yoga, the much mis-interpreted system of
thought some other time. now listen to Sylvie
Bantle´s own story.Sylvie is a german writer,
film maker etc but in one word, a creative and
traveling person,who has made india her
second home.kulamarva balakrishna)

von Sylvie Bantle, Muenchen

Seit 1977 reise ich nach Indien. Im
Januar 1995 werde ich auf einem
‘Dorffest‘ in Kerala Zeugin, wie eine
Tanzerin beim Tanzen in Trance
fällt und die Zuschauer ehrfurchtsvoll
»Shiva! Shiva!« murmeln. Hatte ich
Shiva tanzen gesehen?

Das Erlebnis laßt mich nicht los. Den
tanzenden Gott sehe ich nicht mehr.
Der Umbruch Indiens zur Moderne
scheint die alte spirituelle Welt zu
verdrängen. Als Reisende aus dem
Westen beobachte ich, was der um
sich greifende Einfluß aus meiner
fortschrittlichen Heimat, was
Globalisierung in diesem Land bewirkt.
Ziehen sich die Geister zurück?
Inzwischen mit dem indischen
Maler Alexander Devasia verheiratet,
mache ich mich gemeinsam mit
ihm auf die Suche nach jener
Trancetänzerin. Ihr unvergeßlicher
Auftritt liegt sechseinhalb Jahre zurück.

Ich finde Subhadra in einem kleinen
Dorf am Ende der Welt, so scheint es,
und dennoch mitten im überbevölkerten
Kerala. Die Menschen leben hier
- noch - im Einklang mit uralten
Gottheiten und Ahnen-Geistern.
Diese Welt balanciert im Gleichgewicht,
männliche und weibliche Gottheiten
nehmen den gleichen Rang ein. Das
Mysterium bekommt an diesem Ort
einen großen Platz zugewiesen,
vollzieht sich vor aller Augen z.B.
bei der Heilung von Krankheit und
bei Dämonenaustreibung durch
Trancetanz, Gesang und Trommelmusik.

Hier sehe ich den tanzenden Gott wieder!
Ich erfahre, daß es gar nicht Shiva war,
den ich vor vielen Jahren auf dem
Dorffest tanzen sah, sondern ein
anderer tanzender Gott: Pakkanar!
Seinen Namen habe ich nie zuvor
gehört. Dieser tanzende Gott ‘weiß
alles Über den Kosmos‘ und
ist der müchtige Schutzgeist der
ehemals kastenlosen Korbflechter.
Ich lasse mich von Subhadra unterrichten
und tanze mit ihr. Neben mir gerät sie
in Trance. Ihr alter Vater ist der Guru,
der die alten Lieder kennt, die
Geschichten dazu und noch viel mehr:
Er ist einer der letzten Schamanen!

Ein Jahr später besuche ich das Dorf
wieder. Es ist viel geschehen in
diesem Jahr. Der 11. September liegt
dazwischen und hat einiges deutlich
gemacht. Die Geschichte von der
Suche nach dem tanzenden Gott
scheint sich vor meinen Augen wie von
selbst in das große Thema Weltgeschehen
einzufädeln: Überall ziehen sich die Götter
zurück! In allen Bereichen. Das Alte
und das Neue führen Krieg, weil die Welt
aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten ist.

Auch im dörflichen Leben der Gottestänzer
sind Veränderungen erkennbar. Inwischen
gibt es im Dorf einen zweiten Fernseher.
Die Einladung der Hauptstadt zum großen
Onam-Festival ist in diesem Jahr
ausgeblieben, weil der Staat sparen
muß. Die jungen MŠnner wollen nur
noch gegen Bezahlung tanzen, nicht mehr
für den tanzenden Gott!

Was geschieht mit einer Welt, in der die
Götter nicht mehr mit den Menschen tanzen
können?

Als Guru Kutty Ashan über die Zukunft
nachdenkt, laufen ihm Tränen über die
Wangen. Als Analphabeth hat er die alte
Kultur verbal weitergegeben, nichts ist
aufgeschrieben. Den Großteil seines
alten Wissens wird er mit ins Grab
nehmen, denn keiner seiner Schüler hat
die nötige überzeugung, das Erbe der
Ahnen weiter zu pflegen und seine
Nachfolge anzutreten.

Bevor ich abreise, will ich von ihm wissen,
was er dazu meint: Ziehen sich die Götter
zurück?

Er weiß eine betörend schlichte Antwort.

Anderthalb Jahre später ist es dann
geschehen, der alte Meister ist tot, mit
ihm das alte Wissen im Grab.

»Kutty Ashan war der letzte Schamane!
« sagt Subhrada, »Die Zeiten haben sich
geändert, niemand glaubt mehr daran…«
(end)

bible & qur´an

may female piss
be on their faces!

= what the bible says=

if a woman does not cover her head,
she should have her hair cut off;
and it is a disgrace for a woman to have
her hair cut or shaved off, she should
cover head. a man ought not cover his
his head,since

he is the image and glory of god;
but the woman is glory of man.
for man did not come from woman,
but woman from man;
neither was man created
for woman but
woman for man.

for this reason, and because
of the angels,
the woman ought to have a
sign of authority on her head
(1.corinthians 11:6-10)

what the qur´an says

o prophet! tell your wives
(including the child one .kb.)
and daughters and the women
of the believers to draw their
veil all over their bodies.
that will be better, that they
should be known so as not to
be annoyed (by who.kb?)
(qur´an 33:59)

this message i get on this sunday
14-10-2007 by muslim bridges
with an enclosed alleged ramadan gift.
i did not want or get any in fact.
my response was quick and at once
the world had got the terrorist gift on
the eve of the muslim feast day
a hell fire and blood bath
at the holiest sufi saint moinuddin chisti´s
shrine at ajmer, in india in which two
innocent pilgrims died. another fifteen
devotees were seriously wounded!

as if to rub salt into this insult, the implied
claim my mother was made for my father
for being raped by him! what a cheek!

i write back led by normal feminist anais nin or
de bouvoir the mostly victims of cruel genital
mutilation (gmf) muslim women from
maghreb should piss on the faces of
the cube god and his prophet
drenching them with suffering female urine
to make the feast indeed very sacred!

but the message bounces as undesirable
implying we are here only to applaud
the ugly mullahs of the burnt bridges!
i am compelled to go public in response.

then comes a nasty report on that greatest
and best of mothers of our time

sonia gandhi
taken for granted denial of human rights
to her lovely indian children
for the simple reason they are born
to nice unassuming parents
coming from the most decent family
in india´s comtemporary history.

what a shame on agence france presse
(afp)

this note comes from me as the sole trustee
of =taravadu taranga trust for media monitoring=
--klamarva balakrishna (end)

nobel peace prize 2007

recognition for decent politics

By Sree Sreenivasan
South Asian Journalists Association, New York

Vienna,12-10-2007(As expected the Norwegian
Nobel Committee has awarded this year Nobel
Peace Prize to Former U.S.Vice President Al
Gore to share with United Nations
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC). The recognition of Albert Arnold (Al)
Gore´s contribution is in itself an implicit censure
of President George Bush, who became the
President by controversial means of combativeness!
I see this glaring since the Norwegian Committee
is known to be under the influence of the U.S.
political establishment for long. Al Gore
deserves congratulations for heralding
a new kind of political leadership.The
IPCC for an initiating intergovernmental role.
Thank you Mr.Sreenivasan. Kulamarva
Balakrishna)

A few minutes ago, I got a CNN.com news alert:
"The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to
former Vice President Al Gore and the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
I went immediately to see the exact
wording of the official citation. Here's part
of the press release:
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided
that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be
shared, in two equal parts, between the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore
Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate
greater knowledge about man-made climate
change, and to lay the foundations for the
measures that are needed to counteract such
change.

The South Asian connection here is that the
chairman of the IPCC is an Indian scientist
Rajendra K. Pachauri. In yesterday's New
York Times, reporter Mark Landler mentioned
the possible winners for this year's prize:
= Among those hotly rumored as candidates
are three climate-change evangelists: former
1) Vice President Al Gore; 2) Sheila Watt-Cloutier,
a Canadian Inuit who has warned of the threat
to Arctic wildlife;3) and Rajendra K. Pachauri,
an Indian scientist who leads the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, which assesses the
risks of greenhouse gases for the United Nations.=

Dr. Pachauri is the Director-General of The Energy
Research Instititue, New Delhi. The IPCC
chairmanship is an elected post.

More on Dr. Pachauri, who is 67, is in his TERI bio, in
Wikipedia; and a US government climate science site.

A couple of possible reasons for Pachauri's name
being left out. One is that the Yunus and ElBaradei
have been running their organizations for much longer
periods of time (Pachauri only became head of
IPCC in 2001) and were the most public faces of
Grameen and IAEA respectively - in fact, the ONLY
public faces. (end)

an ex-muslim writes

a letter to humans

By Ali Sina

Dear fellow human,

Today humanity is being challenged. Unthinkable
atrocities take place on daily basis. There is an
evil force at work that aims to destroy us. The
agents of this evil respect nothing; not even the
lives of children. Every day there are bombings,
every day innocent people are targeted and
murdered. It seems as if we are helpless.
But we are not!

The ancient Chinese sage Sun Zi said,
"Know your enemy and you won't be defeated".
Do we know our enemy? If we don't, then we
are doomed.

Terrorism is not an ideology, it is a tool; but
the terrorists kill for an ideology. They call
that ideology Islam.

The entire world, both Muslims and non-
Muslims claim that the terrorists have
hijacked "the religion of peace" and Islam
does not condone violence.

Who is right? Do the terrorists understand
Islam better, or do those who decry them?
The answer to this question is the key to
our victory, and failure to find that key
will result in our loss and death will be
upon us. The key is in the Quran and
the history of Islam.

Those of us, who know Islam, know that
the understanding of the terrorists of Islam
is correct. They are doing nothing that their
prophet did not do and did not encourage
his followers to do. Murder, rape, assassination,
beheading, massacre and sacrilege of the dead
"to delight the hearts of the believers" were all
practiced by Muhammad, were taught by him
and were observed by Muslims throughout
their history.

If truth has ever mattered, it matters most
now! This is the time that we have to call a
spade a spade. This is the time that we have
to find the root of the problem and eradicate
it. The root of Islamic terrorism is Islam.
The proof of that is the Quran.

We are a group of ex-Muslims who have
seen the face of the evil and have risen
to warn the world. No matter how painful
the truth may be, only truth can set us free.
Why this much denial? Why so much obstinacy?
How many more innocent lives should be
lost before YOU open your eyes?
We urge the Muslims to leave Islam.
Stop with excuses, justifications and
rationalizations. Stop dividing mankind
into "us" vs. "them" and Muslims vs.
Kafirs. We are One people, One mankind!
Muhammad was not a messenger of God.
It is time that we end this insanity and
face the truth. The terrorists take their
moral support and the validation for their
actions from you. Your very adherence to
their cult of death is a nod of approval for
their crimes against humanity.
We also urge the non-Muslims to stop
being politically correct lest they hurt
the sensitivities of the Muslims. To Hell
with their sensitivities! Let us save their
lives, and the lives of millions of innocent people.
Millions, if not billions of lives will be lost if
we do nothing. Time is running out! "All it
takes for evil to triumph is for good people
to do nothing." Do something! Send this
message to everyone in your address book
and ask them to do the same. Defeat Islam
and stop terrorism. This is your world, save it.

The ex-Muslim Movement (without comment
it was from those who believed and felt let
down .kb.)

report fellowships

SAJA offers 20,000 dollars

Vienna,05-10-2007: SAJA Group Inc., a non
profit charitable organization registered
with the State of New York Charities
Bureau, invites serious journalists
to participate in depth report projects
which it intends to support upto USD
20,000 in fellowship grants of between
3000 and 7000 dollars.

Announcing the fellowship, Mr.Sree
Sreenivasan of SAJA said the fellowships
were open for free lancers as well as
staff journalists. He made it clear that the
fellowships are not restricted to South
Asians only.

SAJA group commenced giving in depth
reporting fellowships three years ago in
the wake of =tsunami= disaster. It is funded
by SAJA members,(South Asian Journalists
Association) .

This year the group got an additional funding
of 20,000 dollars a year by Mahadeva Family
Foundation.The support of Kumar Mahadeva
and Simi Ahuja, who had been part of the group
for over a decade," is critical to the SAJA´s
core mission of covering South Asia through
its fellowships" said Ms.Deepti Haleja,
the group´s president and Associated Press
news woman.

The dead line for project proposals has
been set as 31-10-2007. The candidates may
get in touch with SAJA Awards Chairperson
Prof.Sandeep Junnarkar by
sandeep@journalism.cuny.edu

Mr.Sreenivasan used the occasion to seek
financial support from journalists and
corporate entities .
(end)

islam against the world?

faith freedom international

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,03-10-2007:( In our new world, we are
all accountable.Information revolution caused
by IT has given us opportunities to expose things
that have been hidden from public gaze for long.
For example, Hindu langoti monkeys in India used
TV and film media for projecting their foolish and
untenable concepts of the religion making them
a laughing stock.They also caused a false identity
pride among the followers,in the full glare of
opponents knowing the fraud.The cohesive
society got divided but they remained exposed.
Now it is the turn of Islam to go under a similar
glare and submit accounts.The following piece
is intended to point out where accounting is
needed.ed.)

Who set Islam against the rest of the world? Who made
the mobs absolutist authorities on Islamic religion? Who
is responsible for the suffering caused as the result?
Validated answers to these questions need to be
addressed by the world to prevent a disaster that
humanity can not afford to face.

When the highly regarded arab news edited and
published by Dr.Khaleed Al-Maeena from several
centres in the Kingdom of the Keeper of the Holy
Places (of Islam) and abroad in addition to a world
wide web net,a claim made and expressed there by
a contributor that =all terrorists are muslims,
although not all muslims are terrorists= points
at the serious challenge we can not ignore.

Legitimacy

First about religious records as foundation for the
derived authoritiy.Just as Hindu puranas, meaning
news in the past,are made up of gossip made on
the alleged narrations by god himself to a bird,a
fish or any creature other than human.The Islamic
=hadith= similarly has no validating means behind it.
There are gaps between events and recording.These
accounts recorded are of no significance because
they are collected at random without allowing any
room for judicial impartiality.

For example almost 25 percent of the =hadith= is
derived from an interested party,namely the last of
the eleven legal wives of the mpbuh.This child wife
of the mpbuh is so much involved in early Muslim
politics of intrigues either in eating honey, mating,
or of statements of true religious impact.She has
participated in the first civil war of the Muslim
Republic.She, famed as Camel Warrior,has lost
the war decisively.How come =hadith= attributed
to her can remain unchallenged?

Mother of Islam

Khadija bint Khuwayled,( tul Kubra) the foremost
leader of Arab traders of her time, a woman
of nobility with endlessly generous heart, inexplicably
has been shut out behind the curtains of history.
How come? She had a cousin,Waraqa bin Nauful
who translated Bible from Hebrew into Arabic,
in Syria or about who had not believed several gods.
She was influenced by him and had picked up and
acknowledged Al-Saidq and Al-Amin first and foremost.
When angel Gabriel crushed him with surprising revelations
through whispers to a point mpbuh started sweating,
it was she who covered him up to give comfort.

She gave mpbuh, a companion from among her
first born ones in addition to giving him own children
both male and female, although the two males
did not survive long enough.She was there to deliver
him from Islam´s birth pangs.What justification
mullahs of all hues can give in almost insulting her
by denying human rights to Islamic women? As if
to rub salt to the injuries caused, mullahs refuse
to acknowledge a mother as deserving respect.If
they did not, the dispute in India on singing
=vande mataram= would not have arisen.

Idols

About not idol worshiping credo: There were 360
idols in Arabia getting worship in pre-Islamic days.
359 were destroyed.One was set up on a pedestal
under curtains, getting the name of Kaba.another was
erected across the bridge as satan´s representation.
What about the angel, Gabriel who brought the god´s
message to the sole human messenger? What was
his sin not to be recognized?

These apart,what makes the routinely black marketed
Zam Zam water so special like Ganga water of the
Hindus?

Rule of Law

If the rule of law is based on sharia, which itself is based
on undependable gossip of interested parties justice
remains perpetually denied.Even yesterday´s head
hunters, I mean Nagas, have given up the practice of
cutting of heads of girls belonging to rival villages to
accept modern system of justice.What prevents some of
the hard core Islamic countries entertain old cruel Arab
tribal traditions, making way to other tribes like North
West Frontier Agency territory of South Asia enforce
their own cruelties against their folk? Pakistan under Gen.
Zia ul Haq whipping as punishment was introduced.
He however, did not prevent Pasthun citizens of
Pakistan lending money, which is to say the least,
remains un-Islamic.

We have heard and read the cruel punishments were
meant to be deterrent.But with all the public beheading
practices in force,the reality is that the Kingdom of Keeper
of Holy Places has corruption, even among the Virtue
Commission members.Routine crime and even lawless
territories are flourishing under the domain of foreigners
there!

It is because of this, a world wide web of Muslims
under the umbrella of Faith Freedom International has
taken birth in the wake of 11-09-2001 Islamic suicide
attacks.The ancient jamat or juma meaning republic
is vanishing into thin air to smelt itself with modern
democracies.It is a welcome development. May be
today, FFI members may not identify themselves to
escape assaults.But soon they are to come into the open
in the Netherlands and other parts of Europe and
Americas and to cover the whole world.(end)

ahimsa palatschinken

a dosa for gandhi birth day

Vienna,02-10-2007:This is meant to make
a vegetarian meal in memory of Mahatma
Gandhi. Ingredients:fine wheat flour,baker´s
yeast,salt,chopped onions, tomato,cucumber,
spinach,mushrooms or bambu crumbs,okra
melanzani crumbs etc.
First mix wheat flour with salt and baker´s
yeast. Use half tea spoon of margarine on
pan, spread the thick flour mix on heating
pan quickly place the chosen required
vegetable crumbs on the spread. Let it
heat and roast for a minute and turn it for
less than a minute, the dosa or palatschinken
is ready.
It can be eaten with pickles of lemon, olive,
chutney pastes, or honey, marmalades of
any kind.Supporting drinks: wine,butter milk
of Turkish or Indian type,or fruit juices of
choice.Even tea or coffee would be suitable.
Advantages: self made,easy and whole some
vegetarian all based on tenets Gandhism.(end)
-Kulamarva Balakrishna