This has been till date the most interesting piece that i have ever read. Never imagined people doing that to Robindra Da. Sick, funny & hilarious to imagine.
Beethoven’s contemporary, Goethe, is reported to have said, famously, "more light" as he lay dying: these words created a lasting impression, to the extent that Rabindranath Tagore wrote to his niece Indira, "How I cherish light and space! Goethe on his death-bed wanted ‘more light’. If I am capable of expressing my desire then, it will be for ‘more light and more space’." (11) Indeed, it is Tagore’s "space" that, in his final moments, was being violated by his admirers: as they tugged at the poet’s beard, so that each might get a specimen of the great man’s hair, Tagore is described as imploring and admonishing them with the words, "Chede dao, Chede dao", "Leave me alone! Leave me alone!"
source: http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/History/Gandhi/HeRam_gandhi.html
Monday, January 29, 2007
Many Ramayanas
Many Ramayanas
A list of languages in which the Rama story is found makes one gasp: Annamese, Balinese, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khotanese, Laotian, Malaysian, Marathi, Oriya, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Santali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan—to say nothing of Western languages. Through the centuries, some of these languages have hosted more than one telling of the Rama story. Sanskrit alone contains some twenty-five or more tellings belonging to various narrative genres. Add plays, dance-dramas, and other performances, in both the classical and folk traditions, the number of Ramayanas grows even larger. Camille Bulcke, a student of the Ramayana , counted three hundred tellings.
Subtle differences in Ramayanas:
Valmikis - Ram is not god, as this is a human avatar he is bound by certain rules
Kampan/Tulsidas - Ram is god
Jain Ramayana - Ram is a sage and will not commit any evil. Hence Ravana is killed by Laxman and laxman goes to hell for this.
Source: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/
A list of languages in which the Rama story is found makes one gasp: Annamese, Balinese, Bengali, Cambodian, Chinese, Gujarati, Javanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Khotanese, Laotian, Malaysian, Marathi, Oriya, Prakrit, Sanskrit, Santali, Sinhalese, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan—to say nothing of Western languages. Through the centuries, some of these languages have hosted more than one telling of the Rama story. Sanskrit alone contains some twenty-five or more tellings belonging to various narrative genres. Add plays, dance-dramas, and other performances, in both the classical and folk traditions, the number of Ramayanas grows even larger. Camille Bulcke, a student of the Ramayana , counted three hundred tellings.
Subtle differences in Ramayanas:
Valmikis - Ram is not god, as this is a human avatar he is bound by certain rules
Kampan/Tulsidas - Ram is god
Jain Ramayana - Ram is a sage and will not commit any evil. Hence Ravana is killed by Laxman and laxman goes to hell for this.
Source: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3j49n8h7/
Friday, April 07, 2006
Mumbai & AutoRickshaws & Fares
I have lived in Mumbai for almost 4 years now. All along auto rickshaws have been my primary mode of transport. The reasons for using rickshaws numerous... that for later.
Today I was reading an article on how the meters are manipulated. After having travelled on the same route for almost a year I can say fairly confidently that at max 1 in 50 auto that you get in would charge you the correct fare.
Not that the auto-wallahs are not honest. They take you by the normal route. They charge you what’s on the meter... but here's the catch... the meters are tampered.... I used to wonder how they manage this... They at times will even return things that you have dropped in the auto...not always but many a times...
this is what I learnt from on auto-driver:
the gear that is used to calculate fare is supposed to have 18 teeth...but normally any auto will have a 16 teeth gear... and some too honest ones will have 14 teeth gear...
you can do your own calculation.
2nd auto-driver gave me another insight:
reduce the tyre diameter...the wheels revolve more and so the meter runs more. I am not sure about this but this is what he told me...
Some of these guys also made allegations against the RTO/meter manufacturers
Fashion Week
i can't understand what the noise is all about. It happens. The weirdest part is the half of the country is going mad searching for the video of the incident.
What Title!
After numerous attempts at blogging ...with various pseudonyms...and bouts of laziness...have ended here...
hopefully...
hopefully...
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