Remembering Mother Teresa...

Today, August 26, 2010, we step into the birth centenary of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta - a simple nun who came from the Ottoman Empire to Calcutta and showered love and care to the poor, orphaned, sick and dying for 45 years. Let's all remember her and work for love and peace as she did...

Works of Love are Works of Peace

Check to the Stalemate

Most of us might have been familiar with the Indian Crab story. It is the story about how a fisherman kept a basket with crabs  uncovered, and when asked about not closing with lid, he replied "They are Indian Crabs; If one tries to climb up, the other will not let it go and they will pull it back in, hence there is no need for a lid". All right, It is a old story, probably used to teach kids about unity and it is outdated now as India and Indians have improved a far better level. But this story came to my mind when I heard about Vishy's Doctorate Controversy. Asking nationality about a man who made his country proud and an upstanding level in International Chess arena is totally out of sanity.

He appeared to be little hurt when the nationality crisis started and his wife Aruna Anand had immediately faxed his passport and it was sent to the HRD ministry immediately. Treating persons like Anand in this manner will surely disappoint them and their career. Though he had controversies around his neck he tackled 40 mathematicians  beat 39 of them, drawn a match to Srikar Varadaraj - a 14 year old teen from Bangalore. Anand looked cool all around the play and said "I always played under Indian flag and held Indian passport right from the time I took my first overseas trip. I came here to play chess and to enjoy the conference. So let us leave it at that". Aruna later said "Every time he plays a match, the tricolor is placed beside his table, and when he won the world championship, the National Anthem was played. He never bothered about these awards. But asking to prove his nationality is disappointing."

HRD minister Kapil Cibal apologised  to  Anand and  said "I told him that we are sorry for what has transpired. It should not take time [to implement such decisions], but sometime it happens. He has done India proud like Arjun Atwal [who won a top professional golf championship in the U.S. on Monday]. We should be proud of those who climb the heights of global excellence and keep the Indian flag flying.” Meanwhile, Vice Chancellor of the University of Hyderabad Seyed E. Hasnain met Mr Sibal on Tuesday to sort out the issue. He said "There was a system failure, but things have been sorted out and he [Mr. Anand] will be given the degree,”, as clearing the deadlock.

Thanks for Cibal to end the controversy in a smooth manner. Most of the Indian sportsmen prefer to stay in Europe as most of the world tournaments takes place around the continent. By means of just staying there, doesn't mean they are not Indian citizen. They work from outside the country to make the country proud and up on the stage. We have excellent individual sportspersons and they should not be constrained within the sub continent. Only few Indians take sports as their career. It would be better if we let them have some freedom and help to get expertised with International arena. It is every Indian's responsibility to upgrade other Indians. Let an Indian be an Indian....

Happy b'day India...

Mother India has completed her 63rd year and today stepped into 64th. She has been giving us everything needed for survival - food, shelter, peace and so on. It is our duty to remember the martyrs who shed blood for Free India. Here are some pictures of the First Independence day celebrations. 

The Union Jack is replaced by Indian Tricolour flag on Aug 15,1947

Jawaharlal Nehru, Lord Mountbatten, Lady Edwina during independence celebrations

Jawaharlal Nehru's 'Tryst with destinies' speech on Midnight of Aug14,1947

Nehru sworning in as PM of India

Mountbatten and Lady Edwina on their way to celebrations

Troops presenting arms to Lord Mountbatten

People around Raisina hills, New Delhi

People along Red Fort

People gathered near Red Fort

Photos: Chathriyan

"FREE INDIA IS BORN" these were the Hindu headlines on August 15, 1947. It is good to see them again in today's newspaper. Hats off to The Hindu.

Happy Independence Day, I love my India, Jai Hind....:)

08.08.08

It was the date I was transformed from a school boy to a college student. Two years had gone as a wind, making me feel the breeze. Wonderful friends, colorful environment, funny moments, tricky thoughts, sleepless nights, late wake-ups, flunked up GPAs,... It is all awesome being here. Thank You Friends.... Thank You CEG

Route to Square...

Favourite Cover Drive...

Suresh Raina lofted Welegedera's delivery above the fence to end up with squaring the series. It was once again a LBW series for India. Not Leg Before Wicket but Lose Before Win. They lost their first match defying Murali's spin and Malinga's yorkers, drawn the second with an excellent debut century from Raina and masterful double centry from the Master himself, and won the third by nicely guided team performance and a saviourship century from Laxman. This series has digged out some batsmenship from Indian bowlers. Ishant, Ojha's kill time strokes, Mithun, Mishra's value adding runs are top hills for Indian batting though they have done underexpected contributions with the ball. Mithun seems to have some all rounding abilities. It would be nice if the board turnn its gaze on to him and bring him up.

What a victory Mahe!!!

But here once again Mahela Jayawardene gave some "Arnold's" kind of comment on India's aggression in the second test. He had written in Cricinfo that "I was disappointed. I thought they might go for an early declaration and make a game out of it, which they didn't. I think they are not as aggressive as a No.1 team should be...". He talked like he wanted a result with India declaring earlier. If Sri Lanka needed result they should have declared when they crossed 450, which they didn't. It seemed like they played the second test for centuries and records which was evened by our Master Sachin. He had also mentioned that they put a lot pressure on India forgetting how Sangakkara and Mahela's faces turned pale with Ishant and Ojha on crease trying to extend the defeat into draw. All I say is let India bat first and think they scored 500 up, then you will know who in the world is best at pressure building. At the end of the article he added "....as long as we know we have beaten a No.1 team in a test series. It would be a feather in our cap". What a contradictory mind. Beauty is that he paid well for his brainy thoughts in the third test. He couldn't do what a bowler Mendis had done in 2nd Innings. It was as if no Srilankan batsmen know how to bat in a Test Cricket. They scored more runs and made big partnerships in a dead pitch and were cut root down by new born spinners in a sub-continental pitch. What a pity......!!

Thats where I always hit...!!

On a whole the series ended up with 1-1 with India safely retaining its 

position and Sehwag getting both Man of the Match and Player of the Match. Hope for the best in the tri-series.

What makes us live???

'Salvation lies within', these are the words Bob Gunton says to Tim Robbins holding The Holy Bible across the bars in Shawshank Redemption. It is not that the verses in Holy Books leading us to live out the life, but the hope we have upon them. It is the trust on things that makes us live. The first breath we took, first step we walked, first scribbles of us, in every other first things we had done involves trust. But which makes us much pessimistic on trust is negative thoughts. When we feel the present insecure and hard, we imagine a future that is even more tailsome and exhausting. According to the Law of Attraction as in the Secret film, it is our thoughts that makes our life. When we think of getting lost in a chaos, we are. Instead of thinking in a pessimist's way, we can imagine a harmless, joyous future which makes us feel better so it makes us better. One may ask 'what is in imagining about pleasant future  when we are a grave helpless?'. The answer is a simple question as Morpheus says in The Matrix 'What is Reality?'. If we think what we see, feel, hear is real, it is true that reality is just the electrical signals pass from neuron to human brain. Thus brain fools us about the outer world with its own rules. Your imagination should never make you feel you as little grain of sand in the Universe, it should make you feel the whole Universe is hanging in your hand cups. Now just close your palms and look into the dark space available between them. You can just feel like holding the whole Universe inside. That's the power of imagination. It doesn't mean the thoughts cheat you, but they help you to unveil the secret of living. The Universe always tell you the truth "your wishes might come true". Optimism can make you to the top, without making you feel like climbing up. It is not that the seed under the ground fights the sand to grow. It just trusts that the gravity will pull down the sand grains surrounding it, and so it happens.

Be hopeful, Think positive & Live the life...

'While there’s life, there’s hope'

-Marcus Tullius Cicero 

Back to Business

Later fortnight of May had gone and now June is on its voyage back. It is once again a new semester starting with July, and I'm going back 300 miles away from home to Chennai, to continue with the work of studying given to me with an investment of time and support of friends. And from now for the next five months, I am not going to be all alone, I am not watching any movie alone, I am not sleeping all day, I am not fighting with silence. Once again the race starts and I'm on board to enjoy the joyous July...

Life looks Beautiful when our eyes are shut...

Super Heroes...

'They cover their face with mask and never show them in public' - this is the unwritten theory and basic characteristic of every super heroes like Superman, Spiderman, Batman...etc. But they are all fictitious characters. What if we could see one of those in our real life - showing different face in different occasions, can we??. Knowingly or unknowingly we are living with these kind of super heroes in day to day life. Yes, it is simple truth that we can consider every single living being with the existence of sixth sense in this earth, precisely the human beings, are super heroes. Difference is that they do not wear mask to cover up their real face but they simply talk - usually backbite - and not every human works for humanity like super heroes. 

We have seen some good people who don't want to show their face and working for social enlightment. We have seen ashrams which are adopted by unknown faces. We have seen some nicknamed writers like Kalki, Sujatha who never wanted to boast their names in public. But being in the same society we can observe these unknown ideal souls are no longer exist in today's selfish world. Selfishness has become the earth's identity which was once patience. We work for ourselves and we live for ourselves. I don't say it is wrong to be living for one's own happiness, but it should never interfere others' life not even through words. To be like a human, we should learn to be true to our conscience. If we can't be true to ourself, how is it possible to be true to the society?, how is it possible to be a human?, how is it possible to tear off the mask?. 

So friends, stop showing off if you were and be true to your conscience, let's make the world a better place for humanity. Be a Super Human.

A Blog in Tamizh...

Hi friends, I have been watching Tamizh(thanks for Vignesh Venkatesan for reminding me it is Tamizh and not Tamil) Semmozhi Conferrence. In a flash I got a thought of creating a Blog in Tamizh. So now your favourite Arun Vignesh has created a new blog - "தண்தழல் வெண்சுடர்" - and this blog is only for thoughts and strictly not for personal experiences.
Visit this blog at www.arvithamizh.blogspot.com.

5 Days 3 Novels...

It is really difficult to be alone during holidays, I prefer to do the difficult things to the easier ones... From 15th May to 15th June, it has been one month since I left college. During these days all I have done is sleeping well, watching movies, 15 minutes per day to learn four-wheeler driving - the only useful thing I think, and sleeping again. To avoid these tireless sleep I had decided to read Novels and I did. 3 Novels in 5 Days - actually 5 and a half - was not hard as they were written by great writers and as two of them were in Tamil.

Started with Digital Fortress - I agree it is too late to read this one but the later two i am going to say are far too late - had given a good techno-thrilling experience and was finished in almost one day. Then I decided to read 'Ponniyin Selvan' written by Kalki. I agree it is really one of the best Tamil historic novels and it will ever be. Every word had it's own meaning and I was dragged back deep in time. It is almost 'Live in and feel It' type. 5 volumes of imaginary facts... Inspired by Kalki I read another one of his historic novels 'Parthiban Kanavu'. It looked like a continuity of 'Sivagamiyin Sapatham'. He had almost done research in Pallava dynasty. He made them more twisty and drifty. They are more like stories than histories...

I am bored of reading... What to do now??? Oh!! thank God, I've got some work in designing poster for Kurukshetra 2011...(I'll explain about that in my next post... till then WAIT!!!)