PD Ponders

ಸ್ವಂತ, ಸಂವೇದನೆಇಲ್ಲದ ಹಾಗು ಮೊಳಕೆಯೊಡೆಯದ ಭಾವನೆಗಳು ಬೇರು ಬಿಟ್ಟಿರುವ ಆಳದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾನವತ್ವ ಬರುವವರೆಗು ಭಾರತೀಯತ್ವ ಒಂದು ಕನಸಾಗೇ ಉಳಿಯುವುದು. That was an ordinary day like any other, had a not so stressful day at shoot. So had taken out my laptop & was doing some research on 26/11 attacks. Also saw lots of tweets by RGV, movie trailers & was appreciating the craftsmanship of RGV. Performances of Nana & the boy who plays Kasab were impressive. Read a lot of positive feedback about the movie everywhere. Even I saw the small but well discussed tweet conversation & the bonding story. Was really moved by how the Maula song illustrates the madness of terror & terrorists. It got me to think about their life, why & how anything like this was possible.  Soon it was evening tea break, few more scenes were shot, pack-up was announced & was coming back home. The peaceful & usually crowd-less residential area of Raja Rajeshwa...

When we were young crackers were a luxury & was rationed like many things those days, like cement, bajaj chetak's etc. My fathers youngest brother Gopanna used to do the collection from my dad & eldest brother Gundanna aka Doddappa to buy crackers. He was an over organised man for his age. He used to buy exact number of crackers to the last bijilee & sparkler.  We were 14 kids in the joint family representing excietement equal to 10 timess what my daughters have now. It was division of cracker time on the eve of Balipadyami, the first day of deepavali. We boys got all the dhaam dhoom crackers & the girls got the sparklers, flowerpots etc. We had to split crackers later on for Bali Padyami, Narakachaturdashi & a small little lot for tulasi puja which falls after a month after Deepavali. I was always the first one to run out of crackers & then eye on the crackers of other cousin brothers, sometimes stealing them too. On the first day me & favorite cousi...

Jai Shri Seeta samet Jai Ramchandra dev (Hail Lord Seeta and Hail Lord Ram)... Many wishes to all in love and to all of you a very joyful Valentines Day. .. With all the calamity of pink chaddi's and what not, I just figured that the first ever marriage done by Ram Sene (not led by Mr. Mutalik ) was of Mr. Ram and Ms. Sita .  Well those who talk about love being an offence and show of love in public a bigger offence have a lot of stories to learn from our mythology.  I think I should mention the name of Lord Krishna who was known for being an outright exhibitionist of love. There are many other instances which I can think of like birth of Karna, Hanuman's son Mritsanjaneya , Lakshmana and Shoorphanakhi list is endless and I have already had numerous debates with my acquaintances about each of this case. But I think what Hindutva has preached from years is the concept of freedom.   Hindutwa in technical terms is Open Source where as other book based religions (...