Six months later

With a new government at home and one six months old elsewhere, the losses of the new year are worthy of our remembrances. Here is a "in his own words" piece with links to his acceptance speech (video and text) four years earlier.

Vajpayee, Advani, Bush, Blair, the father/s of Indian economic reform are all dead and gone. Our children are our future. Let us wake up now at least.

The cursery that butch built

I was advised to take this post off the blog that i write for Parth. Copied and pasted.

The site at www.turoks.net requested me not to right click this page. Please feel free.

Perhaps one of the most interesting words in the English language today, is the word fuck. Out of all the English words that begin with the letter 'f' ...fuck is the only word referred to as 'the f word... It's the one magical word. Just by its sound can describe pain, pleasure, hate and love. Fuck, as most words in the English language is derived from German ...the word fuieken, which means to strike.

In English, fuck falls into many grammatical categories:

As a transitive verb for instance.. John fucked Shirley.
As an intransitive verb... Shirley fucks.

Its meaning is not always sexual, it can be used as...

An adjective such as... John's doing all the fucking work.
As part of an adverb... Shirley talks too fucking much.
As an adverb enhancing an adjective... Shirley is fucking beautiful.
As a noun... I don't give a fuck.
As part of a word... absofuckinglutely -or- infuckingcredible.
And as almost every word in a sentence... Fuck the fucking fuckers.

As you must realize, there aren't too many words with the versatility of fuck...such as these examples describing situations such as:

Fraud: I got fucked at the used car lot.
Dismay: ahhh fuck it.
Trouble: I guess I'm really fucked now.
Aggression: Don't fuck with me buddy.
Difficulty: I don't understand this fucking question.
Inquiry: Who the fuck was that?
Dissatisfaction: I don't like what the fuck is going on here.
Incompetence: He's a fuck-off.
Dismissal: Why don't you go outside and play hide and go fuck yourself...

I'm sure you can think of many more examples.

With all these multi-purpose applications, how can anyone be offended when you use the word. We say use this unique, flexible word more often in your daily speech.

It will identify the quality of your character immediately.

Say it loudly and proudly: FUCK YOU!

Five important rules, at least, for men.



1. It's important to have a woman who helps at home,
who cooks from time to time, cleans up and has a job.

2. It's important to have a woman who can make you
laugh.

3. It's important to have a woman you can trust
and who doesn't lie to you.

4. It's important to have a woman who is good in bed
and who likes to be with you.

5. It's very, very important that these four women
do not know each other.

I cannot stop myself from copying this on to my livewriter or whatever I finally ship this from. I have always cherished each moment that I have spent reading your writing, and I will breathe my last holding a wisp of something you would have at least thought of if not put in writing by then. Satish would agree too, I am sure, as would Hardyk and his mil

lions.


Recently I read an interesting polemic article in the American newspaper New York Times (25/03/2008). Written by Natalie Angier, the text is based on the research of prominent biologists and psychologists concerning monogamy. The conclusion that they reach is impressive: conjugal infidelity is present throughout the animal kingdom.

And that’s not all: studies have shown that certain species “pay” for sex, while others reward their “lovers” with presents and affection. To complete the picture, jealousy and machismo are also to be found there: females are violently attacked if they copulate with another partner.

Of course we are not animals, but the similarities mentioned above are very revealing. Some of the more interesting parts of the article are worth transcribing.

1] Many species are raised from a very tender age to marry someone chosen by the family. They fly and play together, they sing and dance together. In other words, they are raised to impress the community with proof that they were born for one another.

2] Nevertheless, social monogamy is rarely accompanied by sexual monogamy. DNA tests carried out on monkeys, birds and wild animals, when their descendency is examined in the light of modern science, show that between 10% and 70% of the offspring was fathered by someone other than the resident male.

3] Professor David Barash of the University of Washington in Seattle states that: “in the infantile world, infancy. In the adult world, adultery”. For a long time, swans were believed to be a model of fidelity. Through such DNA tests, it has been concluded that not even swans are immune to temptation.

4] The only completely monogamous species is an amoeba - Diplozoon Paradoxum – which is found in organisms of certain fish. Barash explains: “male and female meet while still young, and their bodies literally merge as one. From then on, they are faithful until death do them part”. In this case, death coincides with that of the fish that shelters them.

5] The “oldest profession in the world”, as prostitution is known, is also present in the animal kingdom. It is common to find males that shower their females with presents: rodents, caterpillars and insects. But when the same male decides to have, shall we say, an extracurricular affair, the lover receives better presents than the companion.

6] The law of competition also applies to the animal world: if supply is great, the price comes down. However, if there is a shortage of females, they become objects of desire that deserve the best and most sophisticated rewards.

Please understand that I have transcribed in this column the result of research conducted by scientists and psychologists specialized in studying animals. All of us can – and should – have our own opinion with respect to monogamy. We can all say that we are a highly evolved species, which is absolutely true. The only thing that we can’t do is to blame science for showing results that often contradict our way of thinking!


Hope you found this making a totally new sense of our midweek hump.

This is what I determined over the months leading up to 2009.
1. Meet the old man. Spend time.
2. Kaikan for the members of Somajiguda.
3. Khairatabad or Koti to become districts by 2010.
4. Somajiguda to become a chapter by 2010.
5. IPC for AP Area
6. KBR and Begumpet MDs to meet regularly with Somajiguda MDs.
7. AP Area Choir.
8. Study the five major writings in 2009.
9. Plan the years 2030 - 2065.

REVIVAL OF BUDDHISM IN INDIA

Outlook, the wonderful rebel magazine from the South, has done it again. It has a different cover story on the website and a different one on the newsstand. Interesting fact. The online version has the Revival of Buddhism story as the lead cover story and the political and electoral debacles of the communist parties of India (all shades) as a second lead as can be seen in the top left inset of the cover graphics on the website. However, if you pick up a copy from the newsstand, you will find the Buddhism story in the inset and Hammered and Sick as the main cover story (uniformly red though). Here is google's cache of the index page for this issue so you can see the cover images for yourself.

One guess is that they wouldn't have expected the reds to go online to check if they were still bleeding online as they were in print.

Anyway, heartening to read about the growth of "new age" Buddhism in the land that Shakyamuni Buddha hailed from.

Read the whole story here.

Indian Express explains the gakkai in India

Over 37,000 people in the country have been chanting their way to happiness. We look at how the Buddhist mantra, Nam myoho renge kyo, has become a movement in itself

It’s half past ten on a sticky Sunday morning when an assortment of men and women between the ages of 25 and 45 troop into a plush apartment in Delhi’s Friends Colony locality. The living room has been cleared of furniture and glasses of water are placed in one corner. One among these 40-odd people leads a Buddhist chant —Nam-myoho-renge-kyo—to a chorus for ten minutes. It’s followed by a short speech on the significance of the Soka Gakkai International, a global association that promotes the philosophy of the 13th century Japanese Buddhist, Nichiren Daishonin, that has found resonance in India among over 37,000 people.

The forum is then open for all gathered, people begin talking about their problems, sharing experiences about how this prayer has transformed their lives. For one and a half hours, twice a month, members of the Bharat Soka Gakkai gather on Sundays in different parts of India, (there are chapters in over 50 Delhi colonies alone), to chant, talk about life and their sorrows and to gain strength to surmount problems, together as a group.

Read the full Indian Express story here.