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ಇದು ಎಂತಾ ಲೋಕವಯ್ಯ

ಇದು ಎಂತಾ ಲೋಕವಯ್ಯ ದುಷ್ಟರನು ದೇವರೆಂದು ಕಂಡಾಡುವರು ಶಿಷ್ಟರ ದ್ರೋಹಿಗಳೆಂಬರು ಅನ್ಯಾಯವ ನೋಡಿ ಸುಮ್ಮನಿಪ್ಪರು ಪರರಿಗೆ ನ್ಯಾಯವ ಕೇಳರು ದೇವರ ಹೆಸರಲಿ ದಾನ ಧರ್ಮ -ಅಲ್ಲಲ್ಲ ಹೊಡೆವರು ಕೊಲ್ವರು ಇದು ಎಂತಾ ಲೋಕವಯ್ಯ

What about

Actor Aparna Sen was seen saying in a TV channel “I don’t want to do what aboutery”. The context was celebrities writing an open letter to the prime minister asking him to reign in the people who are lynching the minorities in the name of Jai Shri Ram. But I want to. I have so many what abouts. What about the remaining billion Indians? Do they condone murder of innocent people just because they belong to another religion?  What about the news channels ? When they can show a small incident 24 hours and have war like discussions about trivial matters, why are they never condemning these killings? What about the Arnabs and Navikas who have declared themselves as representatives of people of this nation? Why are they not talking about these ugly incidents happening in this nation?  What about our beloved politicians - of all color and creed? When they time to perform drama for 15 days for saving or grabbing kursi, don’t they have time to condemn these ghastly events and try to stop such fu

To sir..

I am being tempted a lot to blog about Netflix shows. But I am not some simple minded woman whose only form of entertainment is tv and Netflix. So. I am re-reading the classic “to sir, with love” and really appreciating it this time.  Braithwaite is young, talented, educated. Yet is unable to find proper job. Because of his skin color. Whenever he goes for an interview, when interviewee sees him face to face, he politely rejects him. It is incongruous you say . People are not descriminated because of their skin color any more. Of course, it is from an olden era. The story happens in post-world war England.  But is it really incongruous ? What did us president say a week ago? Ok, ok those foreign people are not broad minded like us Indians. We don’t insult others, no matter who they are. We just beat them up a liiitle bit, until they are liiitle bit dead. And only if they try to hurt our mother - go mata.  Don’t beat me yet. I am not an anti-national. And definitely a hindu. I am ready

ಕುರ್ಚಿ

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ಇವತ್ತಿನ ಪ್ರಜಾವಾಣಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮ ರಾಜ್ಯದ ರಾಜಕೀಯದ ಕುರಿತು ಕವನ ಮತ್ತು ವ್ಯಂಗ್ಯ ಚಿತ್ರಗಳು.

Tathastu

We all want fair skin and dark hair. And our benevolent God is quirky and has a great sense of humor. He granted my wish and said tathastu (so be it)  after all these years. And gave us fair hair and dark skin!

Repeat

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ಡೊಂಬರಾಟ ಸಾಕು

ಇದೆಂತಹ ಪರಿಸ್ಥಿತಿ? ಒಂದು ವರ್ಷದಿಂದ ಬೇರೇನೂ ಕೆಲಸವೇ ಇಲ್ಲ ಅವರು ಸೂಟ್ಕೇಸ್ ಕೊಡಲು ನೋಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಇವರು ತಪ್ಪಿಸಲು ನೋಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಅವರು ಸರಕಾರ ಉರುಳಿಸಲು ನೋಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಇವರು ಉಳಿಸಲು ನೋಡುತ್ತಾರೆ. ಈ ಘನ ಕಾರ್ಯಕ್ಕೆಂದೆ ನಾವು ಇವರನ್ನು ಆರಿಸಿ ಕಳಿಸಿದ್ದೇವಾ? ಈ ಡೊಂಬರಾಟದಿಂದ ಯಾರಿಗೆ ಏನು ಪ್ರಯೋಜನ ? ನಮ್ಮ ನೀರಿನ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ, ನಮ್ಮ ಬರದ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆ ಬಗೆಹರಿಯುವದಾ?  ಸರಕಾರ ಉರುಳಿಸುವ ಬದಲು ನಮ್ಮ ಧ್ವನಿಯಾಗಿ, ನಮ್ಮ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಹರಿಸಲು ಆಳುವ ಪಕ್ಷಕ್ಕೆ ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡಿ. 

ಸುಳ್ಳು

ನೀತಿವಂತ ಬಾಳಲೇ ಬೇಕು ಸತ್ಯವೆಂದೂ ಉಳಿಯಲೇಬೇಕು ಎನುವ ಮಾತು ಬರಿಯ ಸುಳ್ಳೇನು? ಈ ಹಾಡು ತುಂಬಾ ಹಳೆಯದಾದರೂ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆ ಇವತ್ತಗೂ ಪ್ರಚಲಿತ!!

Yet another puzzle

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Can you find the missing number?

Another puzzle

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A price of a shirt and a pant is 10$. Price of a shirt minus prize of a pant is 8$. What is price of a shirt multiplied by price of a pant?

A Puzzle for bored souls

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The weight of one brick is equal to 1kg plus weight of half a brick. So what is the weight of one brick?

Angels or Demons?

May be I should not have watched the film "The Pianist". The film is based on the autobiography of a Polish Jew Musician Wladislaw Spilman. He is a holocaust survivor and the movie describes the events of German occupation of Poland and the aftermath. Where Jews are moved to camps. Then some of them are moved in a train to a place never to come back. My feeling was why don't you kill them once and for all. Why torture like this? And the more important question was how and why does man become such a cruel monster? Not one Hitler. But the entire SS army! How does such a thing happen where people lose their humanity completely and become beasts? Is man an angel or a demon? Or both. Is there some way to stop people from becoming demons? I think all the religions were basically efforts for converting humans to divine or at least to keep them human. But they have got twisted and tweaked beyond recognition now. Or their spokespersons are not being honest. God, who e

App shop

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App, app, app! You have an app for everything now. But how do you install them? How do you uninstall?  You have to get hold of a grand kid and beg him to install. But where are the grand kids? They are with their parents in a far off city. If only there were some shops - “play store”s  which sell these apps.  I think I have found such shop. Here you buy the apps by kilo and pour it into the mobile and shake it. Ella tamashegagi. Ha ha ha

cloud seeding

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No rain What is happening to Karnataka and Bangalore? What will we do if it continues like this? There is a statement from government that they will start cloud seeding from July 15. If you remember similar promise was made last year. Then the project was cancelled as the clouds were not thick enough. So why not start the program early and try something to ease the panic around water problem. Govt has called tender for two years I believe. Read more about cloud seeding in Wikipedia