guests of al-himrani

austria india society
evening events
--summer

Vienna,Monday,February 11,2008:I have before me a
calender of the Elisabeth Al-Himrani´s guest list for
Summer under the Austrian Indian Society.All talks and
conversations tv istyle no extra visuals however.The
first on the guest list is Magister Johan Peter Preiss,
a painter on February 20 19 hours at Herrengasse 6-8,
Stiege 1, 10th floor, Door number 57.Mag.Preiss is a
teacher of drawing and painting in Krems
Bundesrealgymnasium.His artistic works are on the style
of Fantastic Realism.His works are in collections
world wide in five continents.But before everything else
he is from =Gypsie caste of Sinti=.His mother tongue
is communicable in India, because as the Austria-India
Society says = theoretically= gypsies are of Indian
origin.However, his language is understandable to
some Indian is not theoretical but real.

On March 12,Dr.Avtar Singh Seth also 19 hours at
the same place.Theme Sikhism.April 16, the time
and place the same but guest is open.On May 14,
time place is the same Bharati or Bharatia Kapadia.
She would be holding an individual exhibition of
paintings at the Sigmund Freud University Vienna
Schnirchgasse 9A 1030 Vienna,from May 7 - May 28,
will be the guest.No paintings there but meeting.
Finally on June 11 Amassador Dr.Herbert Traxl will
narrate his 30 years of experiences in India as a
diplomat,and Ambassador probably as private man
and a son-in-law, he might be accompanied by his
Indian Kathak dancer wife Shovana Narayan.Note
down the dates,place and time.Details later as and
when.The gathering place opens around 18.30,
entry free but donations are always welcome.(end)

no shame Buddho?

mamata you live on earnings of slave trade?

Buddhodebo´s kakdwip girls













sold to Gopalganj, Bihar for
two thousand dollars a piece!
(courtesy Old Lady of Boribunder)

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,Monday,February 11,2008:Left Front
Buddhodebo´s strong arms people´s democrazy
on the right Mamata´s mobocrazy West Bengal
is a hell.Even Biharis manage to buy ten to
fifteen year old females there just for fun yaar.
Why do you live Bengali politicos? To harass
a decent East Bengali girl,Taslima Nasrin
who showed compassion to your like third
class humans? Formerly only Bengali widows
are dumped in Mathura and Brindavan as secret
prostitutes of Hindu priestly class.Thanks to the
not so holy, the Old Lady of Boribunder,=vriddhanari
pativrata= old, devoted to =hisbend=daily,
The Times of India you are exposed. How many
Kakdwips,crow islands you have in West Bengal
exporting female children for gain? Open your
account books, Bengali politicos.

Bengal of Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam,
West Bengal of the late Dr.Bidhan Chandra Roy,
of the universal soul, the late Mother Theresa
and now Journalist Dominique Lappierre what
a fate to that old Capital of the East India
Company? Where is TV istar Sitaram Yechuri,
Marxist Leninist Lunkhanjar?How much you
taste Indian =exceptionally= tax paying middle
class, what you call petite bourgeoisie salaries?
Hulcut randede!

Make amends.See that not a single girl or boy
from your area is enslaved. See that the
proud West Bengal reaches at least national
average in the quality of life, abolish man carts
as taxys pulling man on the streets.If you can not
do that go jump into the Hoogly River with
old Jyoti Basu, you reach heaven yourself
to witness the dance and music of Ghritachi
Menaka Rambha and Samba etc angels.

I am surprised just for the sake of Amar
Sonar Bangla language Taslima wants to
live among you cruel criminals. Other wise,
I would only advise her to interact with
the rest of decent Indians and feel safe and
secure. (end)

panty padlock

Pope Benedict XVI and King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia,the male face of a saudi female,
at the Vatican.

since when protection
is violence?

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,Sunday, February 10,2008: A proud Saudi
woman writing for Al-Watan daily of sand land
kingdom of Saudi Arabia of the custodian of holy
places defends the elaborate system of female
panty padlock out side the country and inside
the country to please the Virtue Commission
members, being carried by a =maharam= delegation
as a status symbol like that of the Her Highness
Queen accompanied by half a dozen delegations.But
may I ask wahabi mullah hadith vertical gossip
experts,who carried in Jahilia and later in early
Islamic Umma the panty padlock of Khadija bint
Khuwaylid alias Khadija tul Kubra,the employer
turned wife of the future and then current Prophet
Muhammed,May Peace be Upon Her,MPUH
for short?Had similar delegations protecting her
when her =hisbend= Muhammed went leading
her business caravan into Syria and beyond?
Will the hadith vertical gossip Wahabi mullah mob
explain?With authentication that is.Did Muhammed
when he was not yet the Prophet, carry the key of
his elderly wife´s panty padlock with him as legal
=maharam= that is a delegation of caravan? Who
had before him in the Jahilia kept the panty
padlock? It may be of special interest to the United
Nations Special Rapporteur Yakin Ertürk, because
she has to come to a conclusion that basis is not it
proper?

Now the text of Omima defense:
(courtesy:arab news)

well defended
by Omima Al-Jalahma

=I thank the United Nations Committee on the
Elimination of Discrimination Against Women
(CEDAW) for their serious attempt to evaluate
the social status of women in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia and their appreciation of the
Kingdom's initiatives to issue legislation that
grant women rights. I must be thankful for their
efforts in seeing positive things in my country.
Yet that doesn't mean I must be quiet concerning
the unfairness of CEDAW's report against a
country where women are given their rights
fully, unlike women in many other countries,
including those in the West (which should remain
unnamed for obvious reasons. kb)

I sense the jealousy of many Western and
Eastern women I meet in international events
when I tell them that my male colleagues - who
financially take care of their families - earn a
monthly salary equal to what my female
colleagues and I make. Equality in the salary
scale for men and women has been achieved
in an admirable way in the Kingdom. I usually
see resentment on the faces of foreigners when
I question why they can't convince their leaders
that women deserve the same amount of money
men take, (it is lost on Omima that equal payment
for men and women is protected by law almost
everywhere in the world,she can ask space woman
Sunita Williams,when she gets a chance to travel
in space with her maharam delegations.kb)
especially when they do the same jobs as men
with the same amount of effort, efficiency and
time and they have the same qualifications.
I ask how they accept being paid less when
they work an equal number of hours and
achieve the same results. What I understand
according to their laws is that they are paid less
simply because they are women. (Is that so
Condoleeza Rice?.kb)

Yes, I'm a pampered (under panty padlock)
Saudi woman. Being pampered isn't just because
I'm a human being,but because I'm a woman. (A
woman in Saudi Arabia is not a human Omima?kb.)
This is my official status. As for my social status,
( as no human woman.kb) there are some social
violations that may affect some women (for example:
the Qatif girl.kb.) But they also affect men. They are
usually a bunch of social contradictions that defame
the country's view and they can't be generalized to
describe our society. The reason why these
contradictions exist is that people are ignorant of
the sublime constitution of the Kingdom (machinery
of female genital mutilation for example ! kb.)that is
based on Islam, which elevated the value of the
(male) human being and took into consideration the
natural differences between men and women. These
differences as we see and understand complement
each other.

As for the woman's independence in making
decisions, I say that the law protects her financial
independence (nothing else for toilet going decision
etc she is dependent on her delegation,mahram kb.)
and her academic freedom.The consent of a male
guardian isn't necessary for a woman to pursue her
studies at Saudi universities. In fact, her degree isn't
given to her guardian unless she signs an
authorization letter for him.(In Japan there is an
unwritten law that when woman studies after her
marriage her=hisbend=gets the graduation
certificate kb)The allowance the students
- men and women - receive while studying in
public universities that are $266 a month are not
given to the legal guardian but directly to the
students (thanks to the invisible Allah).The student
also chooses what field she wants to study without
her guardian's permission or consent. As for
inheritance, the woman - no matter how much
money she has - isn't forced according to the
law to financially support her family and not
even to contribute to household expenses.
If she supports her family financially, then
she does it willingly out of love like Khadija
bint Khuwaylid she can also pay for her =hisbend´s=
new love mates acquired to protect them of
course.kb).But no law can force her to do so.
Islamic law (that is Sharia kb)states that a man
inherits twice as much as a woman inherits.
However,in many other cases she inherits more
than the man when he's the one responsible for
financing her needs (like her imrpisonment at home,
the expenses of genital mutilation surgery
etc.kb) irrespective of whether she's richer or
poorer than he is.

As for women having a mahram (male legal guardian),
I really laughed about CEDAW's objection to the idea.
I'm a Saudi woman who doesn't leave the country
without having an official delegation (male legal
guardian, mahram is then plural please note.kb) that
takes care of me and looks after my needs when traveling.
Having a mahram is just like having official delegations
accompanying VIPs and political leaders. If Britain's
queen or the American president agreed to travel
without a high caliber delegation that included
security, diplomatic, media and administration
cadre, then I might agree to be deprived of my
mahram.( in other words every Saudi genetically
mutilated woman is =a her Highness=followed
by security holding panty padlock,diplomatic,
media and administration cadre that is an
imported slave house maid.kb)

The Higher Education Ministry's condition to
have a mahram when women travel to study
for their scholarships costs the country fortunes.
The ministry spoils Saudi students by granting
them and their mahrams costs of living, academic
expenses and tickets.The ministry gives a monthly
income to the mahram and if this mahram is a
husband, then the ministry takes care of the
husband and the children too. Seriously, is
there a way to indulge a woman more than this?
And guess what? Any student's mahram can
pursue his education and be granted a scholarship
by the ministry.

What I'm trying to say is to explain a Saudi
vision of a Saudi woman that hopes to receive
proper respect from CEDAW and its allies. I
also hope that what I wrote attracts the
attention of Yakin Ertürk, the special rapporteur
of the United Nations Human Rights Council on
Violence Against Women. At the same time, I
wish that women around the world could find a
tiny bit of the pampering I receive (with padlock
in the hands of delegation maharam. kb.)here
being a Saudi woman.(Please do not consider
this is a soft plea for female conversion into Wahabi
Islamic Jihad.kb)

- Omaima Al-Jalahma is a member of the King
Faisal Faculty and member of the Shoura Council.
her Email: omima@alwatan.com.sa

fart sells

sarasvati beats lakshmi

her mother-in-law (from Indian Outlook weekly)

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna, Saturday, February 9,2008:Friend author journalist of Opec fame Khalid Hasan writes even marketable farts sell as books in India. I am not surprised even superstitions sell. When I wrote my book A portrait of Bombay´s Underworld in 1965 M/S Manaktala & Sons did not pay me any advance but sold during the first week of publication at the Bombay Oval Maidan book fair over nine hundred copies.The same time the late R.K.Narayan considered India´s Anton Chekov´s book Guide was released but did not sell as many copies.Then it became a film starring Dev Anand.It is selling names.As for my book, M/s Manakatla´s,who folded up but did not pay me.I went to a court of law.Then in order to save himself Mr.Manaktala issued ten rupee checks to prove to the court he is willing to pay but unable. Look at the list of authors made by Reddy,whose editor Vinod Mehta wrote about Bombay´s red light district,subject of a chapter on my book on the subject after my book was released.On the same subject Benedict Costa, a friend and colleague employed by the Illustrated Weekly of India wrote another book on same red light district.The sales figures I would know.All to say marketing is a trick.I wrote for The Times Weekly an article on how Indian slave traders imported poor Nepali girls to the Golpitha in Bombay.That article was made into a film by Mira Nayar as Salam Bombay with the portrayed =Solahsaal= sixteen year old with branded breast exposed by my photo as the pimp lifted the girl´s breast cover for all to see.Nayar did not show the courtesy of acknowledging. I saw the film after several years of its release, in Vienna.I could have taken The =Venice Festival Awardee= celebrity director to a court of law but it was late because of time bar.I say this all to give a perspective.There should be agents.There should be names. There should be gambling Dalal Street istyle.Look at my friend M.F.Hussain. He was trapped to make his own paintings´ copies and count two billion rupees a year on 200 copies.That was his undoing.Now he can not return to the lawless country that is India.In my book, A Portrait of Bombay´s Underworld edited by Arun Gandhi,then working as Chief Sub Editor for The Times of India, I had called only Bombay city as a lawless city.Now the whole of India has to be crowned by that title.Today´s India has no drinking water but it thrives medicating on cow´s urine.Its politics and business is a garbage business out right.Less said of the conditions the better.In any case let my readers know how cash flows in India´s dry rivers including the Mithi sludge river closed to the sea but encroached by building sharks.Less said is the better.I give the text sent to me by Khalid Hasan.The text follows:

indian book market
flowing with cash


Sheela Reddy of Outlook India has a rundown
of all the hefty advances Indian publishers are
doling out to writers like Nandan Nilekani,
Dev Anand and Amitav Ghosh these days.
From "Words Worth Millions":
Something funny is going on in the famously
tight-fisted circle of Indian publishers. For
the past few months, they have been punting
dizzily on manuscripts by untried Indian authors,
coughing up millions of rupees in advance royalties.
The buzz about the boom in Indian advances has
spread so fast that publishers and literary agents
heading West with Indian manuscripts are
swerving right back home, demanding five and
six-figure dollar advances that rival those in the
UK or Europe.

With six or seven big publishers here all fishing
in the one small pond of Indians writing in English,
book auctions are now very much a part of the
publishing trade here. Till a year ago, publishers
in Delhi usually waited for their annual forays to
the Frankfurt or London book fairs, hoping to
catch the eye of a literary agent or publisher
who would be generous—or stupid—enough to
part with Indian rights for next to nothing. As
beggars, they didn't count for much. "They
wouldn't even give us the time of day when we
approached them," recalls a publisher in Delhi
ruefully. But now, it's their day in the sun. "All
of us get at least four or five queries a month
from agents and publishers abroad who think
a manuscript might be of interest to Indian
readers. Of these, at least two turn into full
-scale auctions," she says.

This will be big news for journalists with India-specific
projects in mind. Here's mine: a motivational book for
India's emerging middle class called, get this, "The NRI
Guide to Riches, by Sam Patel." Followed in quick
succession by "The NRI Guide to Early Retirement,
by Sam Patel," and "The NRI Guide to Home Opulence,
by Sam and Darshana Patel" (obviously there are no
actual Patels, just models for the book cover).

So where were we? Here's a list of authors Sheela
Reddy names, and their nice, chunky advances.
Now we get everything in India!

Palash Mehrotra - The Butterfly Generation
$20,000 (Rs 8 lakh)
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
- $35,000 (Rs 14 lakh)
Tarun Tejpal - The Story Of My
Assassins - Rs 22 lakh

Dev Anand - Romancing With Life - Rs 15 lakh

Nandan Nilekani - Imagining India
- $35,000 (Rs 14 lakh)
Amitav Ghosh - Sea Of Poppies
Trilogy - $110,000 (Rs 44 lakh)
Tony D’Souza - The Konkans -
4000-5000 pounds (Rs 3-4 lakh)

Shrabani Basu - Victoria & Abdul
- $16,000 (Rs 6.3 lakh)

Now, just how significant are these numbers?
On one hand they're far from what some of
these writers would get in certain Western
markets. But not all; Tarun Tejpal's Indian
advance was larger than what he reportedly
was offered by an Italian publisher. And for
literary fiction, $20,000 to $30,000 for a first
time author, even in the U.S., is nothing to
sneeze at.

More importantly, for hundreds of potential
authors in India who may have been reluctant
to enter the industry earlier, because they simply
couldn't afford to, these figures will be serious
motivation. I can think of former colleagues at
my ad agency in Bangalore - the classic frustrated
copywriter - who could only dream of leaving
their jobs behind in the 90s in order to take on a
book project. The standard line was that they'd
have to move abroad to pursue their true passion.
This has led to many of the best-known Indian
writers being NRIs, and that will most certainly
change.

An advance, by the way, is not necessarily the
total amount one makes off a book - it is merely
how much one is paid up front in order to take
the time to complete a book. At least here in the
U.S., in order for the author to make more money,
s/he has to sell a certain number of books before
beginning to see royalties. Early on, the percentage
earned per book will be on the low side, and will
inch up as certain sales thresholds are crossed.
And often, when one receives a low advance, they're
more likely to start receiving royalties earlier on
than if they'd gotten a big advance.

As Reddy explains, the increased advances are
generating substantial buzz. A bidding war broke
out over rights to Aravind Adiga's White Tiger,
"a slim fictional tale, in the form of a letter written
by a village-born driver to the Chinese premier,
giving his version of India's global economic boom."
Harper Collins finally won.
But winning The White Tiger is not a decision she
[Harper Collins' VK Karthika] regrets, even if
it means selling 40,000 copies of it in hardback
—not altogether impossible, as recent successes
have proved."The White Tiger has great commercial
potential, a novel that can speak to anyone, anywhere.
And don't forget, it includes paperback sales as well.
We'll recover our money, even if it takes two years."
The competition for rights to Amitav Ghosh's trilogy
was more complex.
Ghosh's agent, Barney Karpfinger, asked the six
major rival houses here to not only read the
manuscript of the first in the trilogy, Sea of Poppies,
but demanded a presentation from each of them:
on editing, marketing and positioning on their lists.
After that, the bids. It was perhaps the most fiercely
fought bidding war on Indian soil for an Indian book,
soaring to new and unprecedented heights. It closed
or rather, was brought artificially to a close—somewhere
in the region of 1,10,000 dollars (Rs 44 lakh). For
the first time, the winning bid was slightly lower
than the losing one. After a point, as the winning
publisher, Ravi Singh of Penguin, puts it, "It's not
only about money, but what you bring to the
table in terms of editing and marketing."

Reddy also addresses the changing market
conditions brought on by a middle class readership
of some 300 million people, along with higher prices
for some books (like Dev Anand's presumably
scintillating autobiography), allowing publishers
to recover advances fairly soon.(end)

lata mangeshkar

bhuttos children
in mumbai?

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna, Saturday,February 9,2008: I did not realize
the truth of Raju Bharatan´s claim that had we
presented Lata Mangeshkar to Zul Fiqr Ali Bhutto
Lata Mangeshkar in a silver plate, he would have
settled Kashmir problem once for all after he
fled to Pakistan.But we did not realize he was
going to be the boss in Pakistan to cut that that
country to his size.But before he left for the land
of the pure he had sowed wild oats in India a bit.
That is how to explain the presence of so many
selfish divisive skunks like Raj Thackerays
in India. Other wise how to explain their narrow
mindedness? They could beeasily ruling India
as Maharashtrians if only they were a bit open
to the rest of the country.If they had cared for
votes in outside Maharashtra.When Bombay
was built by Jamshyd Tata by reclamation and
by electricity,air liner, hotel,Institute of Fundamental
Research and every else from the very scratch
there would have been no Bombay now.In Bangalore
he set up Institute of Science, silk farming,
in West Bengal he set up Jamshhydpur for
steel industry. Indian shipping he made to come on
its own by defeating the Japense fleet on
China trade.That was Tata, the annadata.

But the marathi bums after Yashvantrao Chavan,
would have nothing but usal pau, their golpitha
and their Lalbag-Parel Tamasha theater.The
rest is their Tulsipipe Road,Madanpura,Khetwadi,
and finally Shivaji Park and Kalanagar.That is
the Marathi pride.Raj is talking about turbans
and Tamil yandugundu.Why not he should not
have pride for the washing and urinating mori
of Ghasitaram Kotwal? Why not Peshwa urine
smell is of course great perfume.

Bhandarkar,Kelkar,Tilak,Ranade,Paranjpe,
Pandita Ramabai Saraswati,Vinoba Bhave,
Phule and Ambedkar, in the recent times leaving
out Bombay Parsis, so many Maharashtrian
celebrities have enriched India as a whole. Then
surely as Raju Bharatan wrote Zul Fiqr Ali Bhutto
must have planted his early teens seeds in
Bombay CKPs before leaving.What a pride
ancestry for Maharashtrians!

Look at what Bhutto made out of Pakistan? The
east was dark.So he would cut away Bangla Desh.
His daughter felt she could do better by working for
still smaller Sindh Pakistan.She was shattered and
buried there as Mohtama.In Bombay of course we
have Mohta market! Those who can not set up
a proper drainage system for Bombay, can insure
proper drinking water upply that thugs need indeed
to be proud Maharashtrians.These Maharashtrians
have water supply for Pune thanks to Sir
Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya.Not to a silly Peshwa
of S.G.Barve´s type,Kalapani Savarkar type.
Good for nothing chors.Sala chors they remain.
What a fate for such a nice people
who are the true inheritors of Gopalakrishna
Gokhale? (end)

knowing & practicing

disneyland is no christianity
nor idli dosas are hinduism

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

=vakratunda (crooked nose) =mahakaya=
(huge belly) = koti surya samaprabha=
(10 million suns´ light giver) =avighnam=
(do no obstacles) =me deva= (to me god)
=sarva karyeshu= ( in all my works)
=sarvada= (always.prayer!).
Vienna,Saturday,February 9,2008: My nephew
by marriage to my niece Jayalakshmi, Sri
Gajanthodi Srinivasa Bhat has opened a
Pandora´s box for me.I am being helpful.So
in the first place I want to make it clear I am not
a practicing Hindu although I have a better
understanding of =sanatana dharma= meaning
the eternal religion, what now known as Hinduism.
Make no mistake Hinduism is not based on
fairy tales like Easop´s fables,Milarepa´s
stories,Pancha Tantra or Paishacha origin
Katha saritsagara of the twelfth century. Neither
Christianity can be traced to MacDonald or
Burger King or even to Disneyland! It is all a
mix up of the worst kind.Anant Pai´s Amarachitra
Katha may be a best seller in our times but it
can not be taken as a source to Indian culture.
Nor for that matter M.T.V.Acharya´s Chandamama
picture stories.

First sort out things to get a perspective.The current
Hinduism under practice is based on Agama
Shastras.They are three in kind.Vaishnava,Shaiva
and Shakta.Vaishnava agamas are divided in
four ways.These are Vaikhanasa, Pancharatra,
Pratishtshasara and Vijnanalalita.With interactions in
practice they have come to settle in five variations
incorporating all the three branches of Vaishnava,
Shaiva and Shakta systems. These are 1.Saura,
2.Ganapatya,3.Durga,4.Vishnu and Kumara traditions.
These are called Panchayatanas. In the South
Kumara or Murugan is more popular.In the Karnataka
region the Shakta Dugrapuja is special.India wide
Ganapatya is universal.So is Vishnu´s various
representations.Saura is rare in image worship but
it is universal in the form of Sandhyavandana or
worshiping of sunrise, midsun and sunset thrice daily.

All these are forms of divine worship.These apart there
are some 16 samskaras for high birth individuals
to undergo in a life cycle, commencing with pregnancy
of the mother ending with funeral ceremonies.These
are meant to be practiced if one has to make pretense
to be a practicing Hindu. Just do not make mistake
once again, fast food chains are convenient eating
joints just the same way we take in India on the railway
platforms,where the trains stop just for few minutes,a
chance to buy curd rice called Bagalabath for quick lunch.
For good meals there are elaborate high quality restaurants
where a lunch or dinner today will cost upwards of
a hundred dollar per person. I think hardly an Asian
living on half an average salary can afford them.

Now coming back to practice,our practice of
worshiping Shaligrama or divine phallus symbol
in the form of linga, male genital used in impregnating
the female mate is about one thousand years old
Shaiva tradition.It is from this tradition Lingayats,
or Virashaivas branched out with reformist movement
of Basaveshvara.That is the secret of current strong
rivalry between Vira shaivas and Vaishnava brahmins
in north Karnataka.Our being shaivas that is Shaligrama
representative linga worshipers we came to southwards
by Banavasi route. Daily we worship shaligrama
and occasionally worship female counterpart Durga.
The mother cults Nadavas or Bunts mostly worship
mother goddes Shri Durgaparameshvari and the
lowest castes Mariamma.

I remember a banker of the position of Deputy Manager
at the State Bank of India in New Delhi sold me
foreign exchange for Austrian Schillings about twenty
years ago.He gave me change on correct exchange rate.
But his knowledge was so great that the reciept
he gave me was for =Australian Schillings= thus committing
three errors in a single shot! In the first place Australia is
east of India,Austria is to the west.Second Australia has
dollar as currency.Third Schilling was at the time currency
of Austria.That in sum is the scholarly Indian expertise
in practice! Although Indians get almost half salary in the
U.S. their input is worth only one third.Dont be misled.
By the performance standard an average Indian is
paid more than his worth.Sorry some times truth may hurt.

Coming back to sanatana dharma of the Hindus, it is
traced to the Vedas.There are four vedas.These are
elaborated in prose by Brahmanas.Then again aranyakas.
In the later stages these aranyakas lead to Uapaishads,
concluding in Vedanta.But the Vedas have six body parts
and six vision parts to help in assembling and dissembling
them.These are called samhita shruti, meaning heard
parts.Then come smriti or memory parts.Third are in
the series are agamas,which we are mainly practicing today
with some sprinkling of the shruti and smriti parts.In
shruti part there is no image worship.The importance there
is for fire.We consider fire is the mouth of gods.With
the advent of Buddhism just about six centuries before
Christian era fire worship made way to figure worship
to avoid animal sacrifices.The images then exploded
into three hundred thirty million in total in 1930s.Today,
I am sure these number over a billion! I would suggest
to any practicing Hindu to learn about it a bit.As quick
reference I can only point out to Mr.V.A.K.Aiyer´s Hindu
Scriptures presented through a table of vedas and
their branches as a tracer. Of course one can find
some details as practiced in the first part of my
=autobiography of egotism=(end)

Comment by Gajantodi Srinivasa Bhat
with my response:

Mava,(uncle) it was never attempted to contain or
explain Christianity or Hinduism in just burger or
idli dosa terms. it was just an example to favour
diversity of culture by giving an example of food -
something with people are obviously passionate about!
Nevertheless, the information fountain that springs
from you and the veracity and groundedness with
which you bring it forward is a joy to read. People
read a lot but very few digest and are able to really
understand and bring out reality. Far less, admit it,
especially if it comes to one's own.That is the
hallmark of a great critic.

Coming to Indians, I was reading quite a few of
your posts and felt sad to understand your
heightened criticism of Indians in particular.
Agreed, Indians may not be all that professional
at times, but it is true that today, keeping aside the
spiritual and thought leadership of ancient times,
keeping aside the corruption that is a part of our
daily life for a moment we can reflect on the following
facts :

Indian IT professionals are huge in number in great
multinational companies.Indian managers are doing
very well in MNCs abroad as well as in India.

Indian doctors perform some of the most complicated
surgeries in the world and foreigners are also coming
to India to get them done.India is a nuclear power.

India is exporting a lot of affordable life-saving drugs
to third world countries, which MNCs would otherwise
fleece them for.India has an evolved central bank, a
strong currency.

All this would not have been possible if we have 1.2 billion
lazy Indians on board, like you mentioned in one of
your posts!

Not to dwell on just the positives, of which the above
is just a shortlist, there are still the negatives like the
unprofessional approach in several areas, corruption,
pollution, etc.

The hangover of miscued socialism, wrong brand of
democracy - too much time and money wasted on
multi-party system, certain concepts no longer valid,
has its toll even today.

India is not one country, it is several, but still united
due to our history and colonial past.There are bound
to be inconsistencies and regionalism, especially when
the languages are so many. Still, we are united (hope to
remain so!) and definitely a regional power and a world
economic force.

Now, coming to the Assistant Manager of State Bank
of India, whose geographical knowledge was not quite
up to the mark - his crime was to not know or get
confused at the difference between Austria and Australia,
just look at this report:.
(the report is only recent available every where.kb)

The knowledge and awareness levels is suspect even in
the great Great Britain, once a power on whom the sun
never set! This is not to condone the Assistant Manager,
who is supposed to know at least the countries whose
foreign exchange he was dealing with. But even among the
learned doctors, even in developed countries of Europe
and the USA, it is not uncommon for them to operate on
the wrong eye, leave an occasional pair of scissors
inside the stomach. So, why is it that we feel so aggreived
when an Indian does it? The answer is simple.We, like anyone
else, like our children to be perfect. It's our own people,
you see. That is why it is difficult to condone. That is the
way to perfection.Will we ever achieve it? Going by
history, that will never happen, not in India, not in the West.

I am sure you will find a lot of holes in all that I have said.
That is the way it is. I am another person who is not perfect.
I am a person, period. Just like any other person.

If I were to aim for perfection, this mail would never
see the light of day.

Love,Srinivasa

Pandora's helper!

My response to Srinivasa Bhat

I have left out the recent report on the ignorance of
U.K.school kids on Churchill or Mahatma Gandhi and
other figures since it was only last week. Perfection
is an ideal. We should not give up just because we
are alive, we must keep striving at perfection.Besides,
should we celebrate ourselves that as ignorant we have
more companions? China is ahead of India in many areas,
since I was not there I can not confirm it.Besides, the
second world is dead almost twenty years ago. But we are
still =third world= and being in third class we should be
proud or face facts and amend? Amendment can be
made by individuals not by mob.Mob provides cover
without responsibility.

Europe is uniting but India was united by colonialism.So
Raj Thackeray and others want India to be cut into
small bits and pieces!They seems to be Bhutto´s
children. I am unable to understand the logic
of defending disintegration of India.So do try to digest
unpleasant facts and amend if I may be permitted to
say so.
-Kulamarva Balakrishna

hitler lives

sad reality of parashurama´s
legacy


Archibald Fenner Brockway 1888-1988
The statue of the great pacifist in
London above.

By Kulamarva Balakrishna

Vienna,Friday,February 8,2008:Evidences
are coming to light that hateful Hitler survives
in this world.Sad but true.As the new year
arrived Arun Gandhi became the known
symbolic victim celebrity.I am reminded of
the great British parliamentarian Archibald
Fenner Brockway ,whom I had the privilege
of meeting in the late sixties when he visited
India as official guest of the country, under
Indian Council for Cultural Relations.Brockway
was born in Calcutta. He was a pacifist and
advocate of India´s freedom.Between peace
and war he chose war against Hitler! He felt
Hitler´s fascist challenge had to be met.Hitler
was defeated.But it is strange,Hitler´s hate
mongering survives among the people whom
he wanted to see eliminated from the surface
of earth.Now they do not like to be told the
truth that is there as day light.

May be there was a Hindu Hitler thousands of
years ago.I say this because, there are no
evidences except vertical gossip.He was
said to be a Bhargava brahmin.His father was a
quick tempered Jamadagni perhaps just living
north of Bombay near Narmada River.It was
by the river Renuka, the mother of Hindu Hitler,
Parashurama,today considred an incarnation,
saw an amorous king Kartavirya Arjuna
playing with his female playmates on the river
bank erotically.Renuka was tempted to stay
watching.When she returned home late, her
=hisbend= Bhargava Jamadagni got wild.He
called his sons to behead the mother.Of the five
sons the elder four would not oblige their father.
Then finally the father asked the youngest
Parashurama, the name derives because this
son had a fascination for using an ax as
weapon.Without batting an eyelid the firebrand son
beheaded his mother.The father was pleased.
He asked the son ask for rewards.Son sought first
his father to give up anger.The father accepted
this.As the second reward he asked the father
Jamadagni to revive the dead mother.He did.It is
this mother Renuka who made a name and a
temple in Southern Maratha district of Bijapur´s
Saundatti in pay homage to her as a goddess.
She is considered the goddess of sex workers.
Female sex workers are considered female
sadhus.When they become old they carry on
heads brass images of the goddess Renuka
to wander about in the villages as female sadhus.
Most of Bombay´s sex workers come from
the catchment area of this temple.The sex workers´
district is know as =golpitha= and their advocate
educated at the Golpitha University of Bombay!

As for the ax wielding son,Parashurama, by
throwing his ax into the sea he is said to have
reclaimed Konkan region of India´s west coast
from the sea Bombay included.Before that,
he is said to have made an L.K.Advani type
foot march throughout India killing all men
of warrior caste.It is said in Mahabharata,
as a result warrior caste women were
then ravished in =hundreds and thousands=
by brahmin rapists.Looking at Thackeray clan´s
behaviour in Bombay, one should think may
be these are Parashurama´s =aulad= (children)
if one imports =urdu= words into these Muslim
hate good for nothing idlers as Bal Thackeray
incorporates and adds to his first name the urdu
/persian origin word =saheb=.

I come to write this because some one with a
special liking for cheating,which is codified by
the numbers of 420 in Indian Penal Code,IPC
for short, married the con man´s code into
Mahatma Gandhi´s name to give his e mail
identity and approach me.It is said con men as
non violent by criminologists.But in today´s mixed
breeding they also can be cruel to use =theft
technology= as the most powerful nation on
earth does in covert partnership with terrorists.
That is sad Hitler rules even to this day.(end)