Everything

No matter what we do, who we are, if we are giving our best, then we are everything to  our India.

Na Mo

With Narendra Modi, as the New Prime Minister, India enters a new phase. Even with neutral political affinity, I am hopeful, this new leadership will bring about the change to make India  to be a country to live in and die for.

Our democratic process have grown from strength to strength and the Election Commission did an excellent job to ensure the democratic process is perfectly operated. A proud achievement. Within no time, I hope and pray, each aspect of India excel.

Good Luck India! Maa to all of us.

South India

Finally a chance to visit South India and some of the Archaeological Survey of India Monuments and World Heritage sites. Wonderful experience.

Nellore, Andhra

Nellore looks peaceful these days. After the Telegana bill passed in the parliament, security forces were deployed at every corner of the state. In Nellore too we can see them at every main junction.

Peace prevailed.

Lost for long

Let me share a wonderful experience I had while I was working in Saudi Arabia in the early 2000's. I was with a dairy company called Al Marai, doing extremely well and happy with life. In Saudi as you know, there were not much entertainment and I was leading a very monkish life when the satellite channels on TV happened to me.Even though I was working there for awhile then, it was only in that period I could afford to have a TV and a dish antenna without hurting the money I sent home to my parents every month. Till then, my imaginative world was the English books I have read and the English movies I have seen in India. The world outside and the people and their language and culture has always fascinated me. So naturally, you can guess, how happy and excited I was when the satellite channel offered me the whole new world of European TV.

I remember, some times I have spent my whole weekend just watching TV, the documentaries, serials, movies and news without ever being bored. I even tried to learn some new languages much to the ire of my colleagues who thought it was a glorious waste of time, I should be trying to pick up some new accounting qualification like ICMA, which the Irish company I was working for was encouraging all of us to do whole heartedly.

In one of the channels, I don't remember exactly which one Arte or TV5 or DW, HRT or the many Italian channels, in one of them they used to show a movie about Arabs or with some Arab back ground which I used to enjoy very much. Since I did not understand the language, I did not know what the movie was about, which language they were playing it in, the only thing I know was it has so much of stories within the movie in different cultural context and I liked it very much.

After my time was up in Saudi and during my rest of the travels, I kept searching for that movie, even in these later years, most of the art stuff which I have come across and learned about was basically from the search for this movie. Sadly, I never came across the movie, which was dear to me not only for the movie itself, but for the time of my life, which I used to have when both my parents were alive.

Surprisingly, can you believe, I stumbled on the very movie Yesterday while reading a blog www.atomiccaravan.blogspot.in

It is Paolo Pasoloni's "Arabian Nights".

:)

It also made me realise, I am way out of the main stream when it comes to keeping myself updated about the world I live in.

History

Medival History

Amazing how some good hearts have stored information for all to use. I was recently compiling notes on Indian history and was amazed by the quantity of information available.

New Year

Arvind Kejriwal is new hope. India trying to break free from the conventional stereotypes of politics and trying to do something different. We need this kind of creative and original thinking in all walks of life. The existing and age old political parties will redefine themselves and come back with a different perspective which will be very good for India, they will. Perhaps thats the greatness of India.

I am hopeful and looking forward to a new India, emerging as a Nation and model for the world.

My recent inclination for the historical studies is certainly influencing my thoughts for the spirit of India to break free and be what it once was.