Parenting tips for NRIs

 Elli manakalukirado ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಮನಕಳುಕಿರದೊ( M N Kamath, translation from Geetanjali) (youtube.com)

The song “Elli Manakalukirado” is a translation from Rabindranath Tagore’s “Geetanjali.” It was translated by M. N. Kamath

The above is just a copy - paste and I dont know the lyrics of Tagore. But the translated song in Kannada is also so beautiful and perhaps better than original. My sincere thanks to the translator and singers for the melodious rendition.

This song in its first line or in the entirety talks about what is the ideal situation for confidence, creativity and progress of human beings. NRI friends or fellow Indians in India please get to awakening.

"Elli Manakalukirado" meaning where mind is not having inhibitions (fears)

"Elli Tale Bagirado" meaning where head is not down or submissive (meaning no suppression  or being in freedom)

"Elli Tilivige todaku toradihudu alli" meaning where knowledge is not hindered (where learning / skills or knowledge is not blocked for learning or available for those who seek. ex:education)

These 3 are birth rights for any child to grow in confidence. This comes only when the children learn things from their family and surroundings of the same tribe at least in the early stages of life. Please do not prevent your children from learning at least one Indian language thoroughly, allow them mingle with speakers, enable them to understand India through an Indian language and not in English. Make them read Indian books in Indian language (at least 1 we have 17 +) from Indian authors. Self pity and inferiority complex is fatal for any 0 to 15 years old. 

Just take a statistics of how many second generation NRIs are as successful as their 1st generation? less than 100%? Reason is lack of identity and self consciousness (as I may be less equal amongst natives).

Confused Desis in other countries (PIOs) struggle in various ways. They want to be white they are not, they dont want to be brown, but it cant genetically happen. (they are not arabs in gulf, do not look asians in Japan/Korea and so on..)

They are smarter than many, they dont know how to establish it, they are privileged to be from a rich heritage - they simply dont know and did not have opportunity to experience the positive side of it, all because of parents who dont teach them anything Indian - language, values or etiquette. One can be in mainstream culturally or otherwise, also being aware of his/her own roots.

sad sad sad  :(  :(   :( 

Butterfly effect and assassination attempt of Donald Trump

 There was an assassination attempt of Trump last week and immediately I received several video clips in my whatsap groups that showed the slow motion of Trumps speech - Head Movement - Gun shot events. Well.. this writing can be boring unless you heard of butterfly effect theory and how it is related here.

My pastime for any lazy day is to run through contents of personal finances and I was watching Americal rappers' riches to rags story on YT. One rapper was saying he never regretted anything out of loss of money because it was butterfly effect that gave him and his family a lot of learning. I had picked 'butterfly' from there.

Back to the assassination attempt video, while Trump was talking about statistics of illegal immigrants, he just turned his head, the very moment the bullet hit his right ear instead of passing through is skull and ending him for ever. The ban on illegal immigrants is one of his election manifestos he worked for or rather tried to implement during his first term. Needless to say, that cause just saved his life for that moment whether it saved any Americal citizen from unlawful illegal immigrant or not. So, it is always good to do things that you are convinced that it is good for long run, no matter how many oppose it. If it doesnt save others, it definitely saves you. I quote this example. A small manifesto line saving a glorious life of Trump..is like a butterfly tapping its wings creating a tornedo elsewhere!!

I admire Trump as a politician for the reason that reportedly he is one POTUS who had more assets before he became the POTUS than after his 1st term. Also, for another reason for his prophetic clarity of his political view and what he would do being in a prime position - from an interview of his younger days. When money or personal ambitions are not the motive for a one's action or words, you can trust the person on face value!!

One word on the assassin - Assassin, a 20-year-old, visibly with golden hair looked like a White American, named like a White American is so short sighted like a tiger in Indian Reserved Forest that attacks the forest officer who tries to protect him from poachers just of a small fear or for his instant hunger. White Americans will lose their identify, culture and livelihood (freedom) if the liberal policy to illegal immigrants does not stop in few years. It would eventually with legal immigrants also, because demography changes anyway. But this young man is anyway a tiger of the reserved forest for sure.

We have similar such voters in India who are just so shortsighted of their lifetime and quick gains from Congress and left oriented governments that practice minority appeasement. So, there was attempt of assassination for Modi also. 

This short sighted, instant gratification motive for quick gain either in India or US will act as those trivial causes like a small butterfly wing tapped now, eventually creating totally un-expected (or uncalled for) eventualities in near to distant future. 

When future becomes history and only leftists write the history, we will have (or now have) no lessons to learn from the facts.

Namah Ayodhyaadheesha Shree Ramachandra Dasharatha Kakustha!

 

Naasadiya Sooktha

Srushti se pehle kuch nahi tha..

sath bhi nahi .. asath bhi nahi

Antariksh Bhi nahi.. tha Aakash bhi nahi tha..

...When I was growing up my passtime was Doordarshan.. Today I am hooked to YouTube, so choices are more. Since choices are more, I dont remember what I binge watched. Those days are like, every show that you watch, lasts as long as the grey cells do.

My quest to find truth is never ending. Dont think I am searching for purpose of life kind of stuff.. It is simple things like day to day issues and truth - lie aspects in interpersonal issues, people around me and such trivial level only. But it matters a lot for the moment. That is required to keep us going.

This world is a stage of evolution from nothingness. From nothingness to creation, from creation to beauty and bounties, from beauty and bounties it created desire and greed, from desire and greed created truth and un-truth. When the creation ends- entire evolution goes back to nothingness... like it says in Naasadiya Suuktha.

How creation goes back to nothingness? May be because of natural calamities, extinction of food, extreme weather due to our own mistakes with eco, or may be any other natural causes. If nothingness is a permanent change, then rest of the stages of evolution is temporary. Therefore next invention in spiritual world should be to find out our form or identity in nothingness. 

Now search this song in Youtube.. if you understand Hindi, it is an intriguingly melodious and philosophically stimulating song!!!

Srshti se pehle kuch nahi tha..Sath bhi nahi Asath bhi nahi..

Narendra Modi - Yugapurush

 Well... literally... One yuga means 25920 years they say. By that definition, Yugapurush means a man of the Yuga. Like any other Modi voter, I too, have an exaggerated, overwhelming adulation for him for all his leadership, interest, extremely hard-working spirits, more than all for highest sense of nationalism.

I was doing internet research and wanted to prove my point why he is Yugapurush. :) (on a lighter note) as per my definition. Even if you don't like him, please take a close look at this.

1st one is our ancestor from Harappa times (Previous Yuga), a noble man of then. 2nd one from Kaliyuga.. is our contemporary, Prime Minister of today.

Just watch the facial features, folks. Nothing much has changed. Even style of trimmed beard.!!!!

Neighbors at war - Lockdown time

Jesus, they say, said 'love thy neighbor'. ...HE is son of GOD so, he could. For normal people with normal emotions and normal difficulties and normal or below normal temperaments, loving their neighbor is like starting with a spiritual awakening. Its not going to be easy. 

Neighbors, we wish and pray that should be helpful only when we seek, shouldn't be nosy, shouldn't be noisy, shouldn't be curious, shouldn't be (NEVER EVER PLEASE) jealousy. ..Shouldn't be aggressive, shouldn't be encroachers, shouldn't be stalkers, shouldn't be ...list is long..

I used live in an old BDA colony in Chandra Layout, which used to be a humble place of dream location for Mangaloreans (because of proximity to Mangalore highway), retired teachers and clerks from places all over Karnataka. Unlike strictly vegetarian demography's of Jayanagar or Basavangudi, this area had simplicity, humbleness and little spiciness of Coastal restaurants for Mangalorean restau-preneurs. Well, as years passed by, area gets more crowded and humble single floor houses grew tall as much as up to 5 with their new owners and the problems grew 5 fold too. 

Things get dearer when they are scarce or rare.. yes? I always wished and day dreamt that all my neighbors should be so rich that I don't get noticed when a new TV or Fridge delivered at my door step, nobody gets curious when an average car of price range much below BMW/MERC gets parked near my gate, nobody counts how many times pizza delivery boy bells my door in a week, how many packages per day flipkart, amazon delivery boys drop in, how many times airport taxi has a pick up. ...well...

All until a millionaire buys a 4 storey house that was newly built, sharing my compound.  Bangalore is a millionaire hub. When the house was built we had normal troubles of noise and dust for 10 months. It was ready in no time. Now genie granted a millionaire neighbor and opening an altogether different experience. As such new neighbor and I are equals. He is multi millionaire by global standard currency like pound and I, that of single local currency. That is only and a galaxy of difference. The new guy rents an adjacent house on the lane and changes every standard of the lane. Domestic help raises her charges, flower, prices at vegetable cart, electrician/plumber charges, even so, pizza delivery boys expectation of tips..yea..now 5 storey tall...

The new house was just envy of few and new guy goes on a demolition drive to 'customize' as per his standards. The stylish wooden works gets dumped in no time... walls and windows under concrete cutting machine... the TRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrr. GRRRRRRRrrrrrr... STREEEEEMmmmm.. sounds were full of my ears and head making me and better half dumb and deaf. We spoke in sign language and wahtsapp living in the same house.. our house was full of concrete dust and soon they filled our lungs..In the meanwhile I had several battles with mason, laborer, carpenter, plumbers over dust, noise, wreckage of walls, encroachment of my terrace.. and at every BHHOOOM...I ran to see my compound behind... it looked like a fresh bomb blast debris... and at every instance of my calls to HOYSALA (POLICE), they promptly arrived to collect penalty...

2 years pass by... several change of plans ...in between concrete cutting machines don't stop..so do my complaints.. I try to reach the owner. His driver of a BMW (top end version) arrives, dressed up in a neatly cut safari suit and a latest version of mobile phone in his hands (I guess the price... more than that of mine.. ) gives the same excuse in few shorts words and vanishes at the same speed. The rich guy is SO busy that he arrives by late night and leaves by dawn..and no one has seen him picking his newspaper by the gate... and I don't give up my effort to confront him face to face..

Time passes by and world welcomes corona and gets locked up inside...and so do I. TRRRRs/GRRRRS/STREEMs/BHOOMs dont stop.. in fact numbs my family's brain. No work from home, no con call, in fact no calls from the house and we seek who could we go to and stay with.. Well.. people feared corona may transfer by phone..they unwelcome phone calls, they unwelcome people.. they welcome only hand sanitizers and masks.. When there was news of corona death tolls and of hospitals bills surpassing that of 1 or 2 cancer patients', nobody is empathizing our agonies and woes of dust and noise...expected is that free advise for a sample..."it is expected you see.. for a short while .. just be a good neighbor.. when the 5 storeys get ready..just see the land value..your networth goes up.."

After celebrating 3rd anniversary of noise and dust, my better half and I, decided to quarantine ourselves from dust and noise, went on relocation drive...trying to love, the neighborhood once was humble and simple, this time distantly... like rest of the world.. staying at far away home.

I remotely praying that all millionaires who think of this area... "Please EXIT"...

Strong will - miracle man

Lance Nayak Hanumanthappa Koppad ...quite a few sites open in google if you key in this name. He is Karnataka's pride, army's miracle man and a brave heart.
Indias defence forces are previledged to undergo highest standard of HR training... in every aspect..not only combat techniques.. I have always dreampt of making it available for general public.. those who quit defence after mandatory ten years service also dont share it.. or i dont see it... these skills are highly useful for academic and corporate world..but they are not commercially available. It is a big loss to the industry and society.
Defence research is in every area. But there are so many things that can be socially or commercially relevant. Unfortunately it is not on the access to commons.
I hope someone thinks about it. We may win some more medals in olympics, we may produce some best statesmen, leaders and change agents of society...
I have observed that one idea,thought or phylosophy generates at same time at multiple corners of the world and reaches the masses.. i wish this wish of mine comes alive.. mirrorring my thought, getting to reality... reaching the masses,.. amen!