உச்சிமுதல் பாதம் வரை
பச்சைமலை மேனிகொண்டு,
கச்சிதமாய் அழகுவைத்து
மெச்சிடுவோர் கொஞ்சிடவும்
துச்சமென நினைப்போரை
வச்சக்குறி வார்த்திடவும்,
குச்சியினை குழலாக்கி
அச்சுதனாய் அறம்போற்றி,
மச்சாவதாரம் கண்ட
அச்சமில்லா அனந்தனை,
பிச்சகப்பூ மாலையிட்டு,
இச்சகம் இயம்பாமல்,
மிச்சமின்றி வழிபடுவோம்.!
மெச்சிடும் மெய்ஞானம்
நிச்சயமாய் நெஞ்சினிலே,
அச்சிட்டு அகமகிழ்வோம்.!
ப.சந்திரசேகரன்.
An insensitive leader, a thoughtless mob and a tethered police force,could be called the trinity that consumed the lives of forty-one people in the political road show of the fledgling TVK political outfit.An insensitive leader because of his ill mannered challenges during his brief speeches arousing emotions, his instant disappearance from the scene of tragedy,and his video address 68 hours after the fatal event, with more challenge to the Chief minister than remorse for the tragedy.
Political leaders can emerge from any section of society including the tinsel world. But who emerges, what kind of political mindset he has,and what are the distinct features of the political front that one embarks upon, constitute the sustainability of the political formulation.
Thoughtless crowd, because of its matchless unruly movement,breaking light roof tops, jumping on tree tops,and rushing even to generator spots,as shown in video clippings. Tethered cop because they were overpowered by a careless crowd and probably cautioned by the government,not to resort to detrimental handling of crowd moves, and precipitate the course of events.
A political party should be born in the interest of people and society, to generate newer,positive aspirations, besides fulfilling existing expectations. No party can blossom with the sheer stench of unseating a rival,or occupying the seat of governance purely to enjoy power.
Any person with an entrepreneurial mind frame would naturally give priority to the primary objectives of their proposed enterprise in its genesis, and the foremost programme of action before triggering their mission to move on.A political party needs both a vertical and horizontal structure. Vertical in the sense that it is like a ladder with several rungs from top to bottom.
Horizontal in the sense that from every rung of the ladder the persons in charge of the rung, keep an eye on widening their vision from the ladder's respective stand point, for the management of the horizontal space occupied by the members of the party.This is how the political management of policies, issues,and members of most political parties have been carried on in Tamil Nadu, since the independence of India.
The biggest question to be placed before the TVK in this regard is, whether it has such a vertical and horizontal structure. If it says 'yes',then such a gory tragedy claiming so many lives,through a mere crowd pulling orgy, would never have happened.Crowd collection,crowd control and crowd management are the three fundamental factors of the inclusive body of any political party.Without this,only chaos will prevail and casualties will happen.If any political party fails to realise this,it will fail in its very formation and sooner or later,find its doomsday.
Just as the trinity that caused the massive tragedy in Karur,the aftermath of the tragedy is also shrouded in a kind of trinity.
1)Like a newborn baby aspiring to become an adult,by skipping adolescence and teenage,an untested political outfit straightaway dreams to reach the reigns of power,shunning ideologies policies and programmes, just raising the forefinger with fancied utterances towards a frenzied mob.This agressive launch,with mere self aggrandizement ignited by film popularity and fan craze, is highly symptomatic of dangerous consequences.
2) A seven decade old party, bullied from several quarters purely based on ideological rivalry in the form of insinuation intimidation and financial injustice, is weighing the pros and cons of the Karur event so as to avoid any undue damage to its regime.
3) An ambitious alliance group without many takers,is aggressively waiting for any situation that would give it an opportunity to strengthen its roots for electoral battle, and unseat the present government, by grasping any event that comes to its convenience.
It is this trinity after the Karur tragedy,that is playing a game of chess.That the present ruling dispensation has done its utmost justice to the victims of the tragedy is well known to all.The crux of the whole issue is that the people are as much important as any political party, even if the fact, that the people are more important than mere political propaganda,is ignored by the parties concerned.
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"The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk" says Joseph Joubert., When anger roars, peace reverses its course. The power of anger kills the reasons for anger. Short temper goads a person to jump into hasty conclusions whether the conclusions are right or wrong. A quick-tempered person quickly loses his image, however good he is, and whatever be the causes that triggered his temper to burst.
One's short temper might have been exposed to reasons such as discourtesy from others, especially youngsters, or falsehood, or ingratitude, or injustice. But all these erroneous reasons would be wholly immersed in a sudden burst of anger, that unduly victimizes someone good at heart, but naive in reflecting his goodness.
The evils of life are quite often capable of hunting down the emotions of every just person, with a heart full of love, but a mind expecting recognition of the undemanding love, blended with submission and humility. However, when submission and humility are taken for a ride by an incident of insult, an inbuilt resistance in the form of self- respect, arouses anger at short notice, and instantly short temper is born.
If submission and humility surpass self-respect, and silence prevails, the image of goodness survives at least for the self-satisfaction of the individual. Instead, if short temper repeats the tale of insult, it results in breakup of relationship as friends and family members.
One may not be greedy, envious, treacherous or mean-minded. But still if one is short-tempered, it nullifies the absence of the preceding evils in one's mind frame. Backstabbing is a common occurrence in friendship, family relationship, business promotions and politics, though the last in the list is the first in harboring backstab modules. But in all these cases of backstabs, we could notice the wilful suppression of short temper because betrayal and short temper cannot travel hand in hand.
According to Swami Chinmayanandha "an emotional person reacts. An emotionally balanced person responds". But Sir Isaac Newton says, "for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". Even a renowned poet like William Wordsworth has two definitions of poetry. One of his definitions says, "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings". The other definition is "Poetry is emotions recollected in tranquility". Reflection of short temper also depends upon two things. How a person normally is, and what the situation that triggered his short temper was.However, diplomacy is an easy exit way from the highways of short temper.
Two theories will go a long way in preserving the union of minds. Wherever peace prevails a temperate mindset with unquestioning submission to silence, is the most pragmatic procedure in maintaining healthy human relationship. On the other hand, wherever pretention, untruth and injustice are obvious, anger has to arise at least to create a balance between the harming wrongs and beaming right waves.
No revolution would have been possible in the world, against overall or exclusive exploitation, if sensible anger had not been registered against inhuman practices and foul patterns of behavior. Anger is only an ignition and not a long-term solution. But without ignition there can be no drive towards breaking the diabolic blocks. Anger without hatred expires at short notice, as short temper. But motivated anger coupled with hatred, is like malignant cancer and has to be surgically done away with. To conclude, the long and the short of short temper is that it is both cranky and cathartic.
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Whenever I visited the US I used to go to the house of my son's friend in Naperville, Chicago, and the remembrance of my trips to that friend's house would be incomplete, without a mention about his dog,called Mango. The beauty of Mango is its craving for caressing, as the cats normally yearn for. It would come and sit near me and keep its head in my lap and expect me to caress its head. Whenever I stopped doing that, it would take my hand and keep it on its head for caressing. It hardly used to bark. Nor would it unnecessarily wag its tail. All that was wanted was, caressing.
There are as many dog lovers around the world, as there are lovable pet dogs too. In fact, my love for dogs stops with Mango, because keeping any pets at home is a greater responsibility and my wife and I do not want to be irresponsible managers of pets. However my reluctance to keep pet dogs cannot exclude the fact that of all animals, dogs constitute a trinity of intelligence, sensitivity, and gratitude, which quite a lot of us are found to be lacking.
Today the presence of a huge population of dogs, especially stray dogs, has become a burning issue knocking even at the doors of the courts, for judiciary intervention. Debates are also going on as television shows, involving the pros and cons of the increase in dog population, especially that of the stray dogs, indulging in a kind of gang war.Their nocturnal barking causes extreme nuisance to elders and the ailing.Besides they keep biting pedestrians especially children and interfere with vehicular movement mostly that of two wheelers,resulting in many accidents that end up in fatality too.
We are living in fast changing times.We happen to face challenging woes,engulfing a vast section of humanity living under pressures of meeting their daily needs.They are facing divisive factors of various kinds, hitting them on their faces, and from behind. To keep the body and mind at ease, seems to be the foremost priority now.
Without prejudice to lovers of pets of all kinds,and without hatred against any living beings, it should be reasonably stated that routine risks in each one's life have to be addressed with due concern for all, including dogs,and those who are seriously affected by dogs.
The local administration cannot be expected to bear the entire brunt of a paradoxical issue combing physical danger coupled with emotional empathy. Good sense should prevail upon everybody to accept that emotional empathy cannot be exclusively stuck to love for dogs, but it should also include sympathy for fellow human beings.
Avoidance of public feeding of dogs by owners of pet dogs, and prevention of a conglomerate of pet dogs and street dogs, will do a lot of good as a first step in not giving room for dog menace, rising from the side of dog lovers. Sterilization of dogs, creation of more dog centers could be left to the management of the municipal forums. Rich dog lovers can part with a monthly sum for the municipal maintenance of dogs. If funding cannot be relied upon, dog fodders can be liberally donated on a monthly basis.
The basic principle of life is "live and let others live" and not the slogan 'survival of the fittest'. Not all of us are animal or bird haters. In fact, animal lovers are more in number. But the problem is, a minority people among these lovers, claim their rights over those of others and try to exploit the social media and debate forums, by even comparing dogs crossing the roads, to children doing the same. If parents are expected to take care of their wards, does not the same expectation apply to dog lovers too? Let not our dogged love for dogs, make us monstrous haters of fellow human beings. To conclude in a nutshell, nuisance today is more from a fanatic section of upholders of pet theories, rather than from real pets.
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இனிய ஆசிரியர்தின வாழ்த்துக்கள்.
பிரம்பைத் தவிர்த்து
வரம்பை விதித்த
வகுப்புகள் கண்டு,
அறம்பல ஆற்றி
பள்ளிகள் போற்றும்
ஆசிரியர் தமக்கும்,
உயர்கல்வி உயர
அயராது உழைத்து
பல்கலைக் கழக
மாண்புகள் காக்கும்
ஆசிரியர் தமக்கும்,
ஓய்வினில் இருக்கும்
அக்கால ஆசிரியரின்
இக்கால வாழ்த்துக்கள்.
கடமைகள் ஆற்றி
உரிமைகள் காத்து
உயர்வுற்று வாழ்வீர்.
ப.சந்தியசேகரன்.
HAPPY TEACHERS DAY!
From the kinder Garten, the mind that heartens,
Belongs to those, whose inside steadily enlightens
The learning process, from within the four walls,
With a glow and flow of knowledge that enthralls.
Budding minds, blooming with delights and devices,
Eagerly keep looking forward to progressive prices.
Teachers at every stage, become solid meeting spots,
Strengthening the bonding of brains, to clean the blots.
We live in uneasy times of educational embezzlement
As Knowledge theft and minds' rift, pose embarrassment.
The real teacher seems to find himself in a boiling pot
With past glories staying as sediment, at the bottom slot.
When every day, a relevant teacher has to meet tough tides,
An annual teachers' day greets him for his stalwart strides.
P. Chandrasekaran
'To fill the bill' is 'to be helpful and useful'.
But when murky bills make truth ruthful,
They fill the legislature with love and war.
Amendments often fuel fire,creating a spar.
There are baleful bills that break the peace,
Keeping only their treasury benches at ease.
Torn bits of proposed bills strewn in the house,
Track the volume of dissenting voices that rouse.
The 'I' and the 'Me' are ghosts of a healthy democracy.
They are invisible entrants with their policy of secrecy.
So long people want their days to go on without issues,
Many a bill will peep in and pass out as pampered news.
The pages of history print the postmortem of ruthless rulers
Whose body without a soul,could only lift their lousy collars.
P. Chandrasekaran
