Virundhum, Marundhum, Moondru Naal

 These lines came floating down the airwaves one morning, and it's translation would not have a similar effect. (try it)

It may have been  voiced with a reason at sometime to someone, but it sure let my imaginations wander.

I have heard some wedding celebrations did go on for three days with feasting, and even remember when a treatment for an ailment was for three days, or just three doses.

Things have gone for a lot of spin, to even point at what direction, or a spot we are in!

There is not a day without feasting, and treatment for an ailment is an on going process.

We can atleast know there was a time, when such a line was made, and is a possibility again, with our will and involvement in the future.  

A year long production...... For an annual event

 In these days, cash and consumerism has infiltrated into every profession, from begging alms to offering charity, and everything in between.

Many an, once a year event happens,  planning and preparations go on, all through the year in expectations. New designs, smokeless crackers, sugar free sweets, cream less ice, eggless cakes, and more innovations every year.

Starting with new year, and finishing with Christmas, to start again is pocket filling, and bank rollings, with Deepavali, Easter, and all the "thallu padees" In aaadi and amavasais.


Surely the medical mafia would not want to be back lagging in this, with all their biochemical and metallic combinations.

The winter winner for many a Big Pharma in a continent is the flu vaccine, the strains for the next season are miraculously predicted, and a year long production is rolled out,( for the next year) with the fear mongering advertisement drummed in advance, and the noise picked up to continue jabbing the scared ones, to pulling up their sleeves, or lowering them.

It is all a team, if one fails, he would be side lined, going with the flow is the game, or perish.

Monsoon is on the horizon, another few months, there is something for someone, somewhere.

P. S.
The old adage was, "make hay when the sun shines" The new one is, " With the rains, sprouts many a new trade". 

Liberation or empowerment

 In many a society, gender rights are unequal, one is pampered and favoured, the other is guarded, fenced and restricted.

Now education, awareness and media are bringing to the front this inequality.


To garner support some firms, political parties, people who want to woo crowds, have started using a term empowerment.

Power is a term meaning strength, to destroy, to crush, to battle, to put down and instill fear.

Maybe the people actually want liberation to do what they want, to be creative, to sit and talk at the same level and to be treated as equal, same opportunities, less restrictions.


You may get what you want as a reaction to what is present, but we men know, power brings on destruction, keeping you segregated, loss of friends, always on the lookout, to see who is going to topple you.

Bringing on war and it's aftermath, fear and hatred.

Many individual families are slowly moving towards understanding and liberation.

Once you begin to taste power, there is no limit to it's border, liberation is safer.

Do the activists mean liberation or  knowingly ask for empowerment?

Assurance of health, or insurance for/against sickness.

 Health insurances are getting sick, earlier the health insurance companies survived because majority of the subscriptions, was by the healthy, young, and the middle aged.

Even now they are the majority, but they are not healthy, very soon all insurance companies, will start finding loop holes to prevent paying up, raise premiums, or close their business.

Sickness insurance would be an apt word, they talk more about illnesses they cover, there is no word about staying healthy, in their brochure.

Our health can only be in our hands, an impossibility for someone else to take up responsibility.

Instilling fear of the unknown, to join. Strange business, but this is the present and the future.

Moonlight trek

 Earlier if I was planning a trip, I never used to tell it out, lest something or someone spoil it, no one does, but I thought so.

These days I damara adichify it, so that whatever happens I try to make it, as it has now become an issue, I must make it.

That is how this evening trek was announced to everyone I could meet, and to those I could notify in electronic words.

Place was siddarmalai, time was 6.30 pm, day saturday,fullmoon day, the encouraging gang was on the way, starting punctually I slowly climbed up the path in single file, giving way to those climbing down the slippery route.

The crowd was so much to cause a trek jam, which made time, double the usual.
The climb up to the mountain top was exhilarating, with the moon rising, and it's soft light illuminating the path.
With no one to manage the traffic, the descent was slow.

I just reached down, accepted a half a plate of variety rice, from a charity offer, of whom, there were in large numbers for the day, offering food to the pilgrims.

Finishing the dinner I drove two minutes, and the down pour of rain started, I side tracked to a tinned shelter, and typed these lines in tune with the tapping notes and electricity shut down.

The search for Truth ..... A pilgrimage

 Life moves with faith in every step taken, and trust with every beat of the heart, drummed.

In these times of so much information available, and the tensions of dissatisfaction building up, the search for Truth is in us all.

What is found to be true, be it in philosophy, or  a variety of sciences, is soon realised to be , "not this.. not this".

In such a state practically everything needs an evaluation, a music, a poem, a trek.

We are not what we were yesterday, so we cannot expect others to be so. Maybe pets are a way to truth, with us being more understanding, they are a comfort to be with.

What is left, are inanimate objects, maybe a reason for our falling for gadgets, with new inventions, they too pass.

Our forefathers realised religious practices and rituals, as a path to realizing truth.

Could Nature be the ultimate Truth that is, and through it, All  !

The truth realised by another, can never be ours, maybe it is awaiting for us to discover.

Truth is within Ourselves and in our Awareness, may we search to realise It.  

.......One lone voice

 The fear of a heart attack is so high on the list of death, or it's near survival, that anything  to blame in co-relation, is accepted as satan himself.

Only when the fear is taken away, will there be a chance for anything sensible to enter.

The culprit on stand, ready for execution is cholesterol.

Having been first noticed in the gall bladder as a solid substance along with the bile, it was named so. ( chole.., bile, ester...solid, ol... Suffix for alcohol)

At sites of inflammation, the oily balm like substance is sent to soothe the site.

It's presence in the heart vessels, bringing on the occlution, is reason enough for its blame.

It being a part of every cell, all hormones, enzymes, and a factor for every natural process in the body, is an invisibility.

In a highway if there is an accident, bringing on a traffic jam, and a stand still, what is found at site?

Ambulance, paramedical, doctors to help the wounded, and police to ease the flow.
Are these the cause of the traffic jam?

It may seem to be, but the real reason lies, in the state of the highway, the speed of the vehicles, the sideways, and more.

If we are going to blame the doctors and paramedics, and their team, we will see that they fail to respond in future, at all injury sites.

May we work hard( study and experiment) and take precautions to keep our internal and external selves healthy, and safe.

But first keep the fear away, and keep studying, ask questions, and make small intelligent changes, experimenting with food and life style modifications.