A ‘Fiction-but-not-so-fiction’ Conversation with MY Dad, I NEVER had

                                                     Dear Folks,

Happy ‘Gandhi Jayanthi’ to ALL brethren on MOTHER Earth. Shri.Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has already become God-like in India, there’s a temple for HIM in Orissa. 

This week I was fortunate to listen to the Madras Management Association(MMA) organized talk at ‘Deccan Plaza’ by  Dr.Prithika Chary on “Work-Life Balance” . Enjoy cherishing her website www.drprithikachary.com The talk was ‘divine’ for me and would WANT to share with you all – Both the wonderful thoughtful PPT as well as the commentary from ‘Yours Truly’. Would surely make a change in your hectic lifestyle and make everyone THINK. Thank you ‘magnificent’ MMA and Dr. Chary for that awesome ‘motherly’ sharing(s) – all from the ‘healthy-heart-and-sharp-mind’ of India’s FIRST Women Neuro-Physician AND Neuro-Surgeon! Intend to carry her interview as well, if am destined to meet her.

Now kindly refer to the ending phrase(s), in the last but one paragraph, in my first blog dated Sep 11, 2010. After an after-thought, didn’t want to expand on “The Tsunami-The CWG-The Fall of the Cong Government” prediction. But, today, my Dad, somewhere in the Cosmos, wants me to explain in the form of a ‘Fiction-but-Not-so-Fiction’ style of writing - through a conversation between me, Ravi and him - Late Venkatraman Krishnamoorthy.  Enjoy the ‘never happened’ conversation and do ‘mull-and-munch’ over the content – ‘The POWER of the Universal Energy (ies) in THE Cosmos’, Negative Energy in particular.NOW, please relax and Read on....

Dad (Venkat): Sunny,”You seem have made some prediction I love to hear”.

Me (Ravi): Yes, dear Dad. Could be controversial. Hence kept quiet. Didn’t wish to upset anyone’s applecart nor hurt someone’s back-side, even inadvertently. You SEE,”I have my Mom-like qualities as well, apart from your ‘gusto’ Dad”.

Dad: Son, ‘Democracy is ALL about freedom to use one’s brains’ – You said NLP taught you TO UNLEASH the ‘benevolent and CREATIVE Right brain’, in particular, isn’t it? Apply your RIGHT Brain and write, son. Go and make your point across, without offending anyone, like your ‘Academician Mom-like’ or ‘Doctor Chary-like’. And if possible, make people THINK. And then ACT.

Me: If you SAY so dear Dad and dear Mom, So shall I.  Dad, “My prediction is that the current Congress Government in India will FALL or PULLED DOWN, even before the next elections - DUE to either “man-created” or “nature-orchestrated” catastrophe”, I envisage during the “Co(mmo)n-Wealth Games” to be held in a couple of days from NOW. NOT because of the ‘con and corruption’, not because of a single toilet roll costing 100$, not because of the “banana-republic” style of functioning, but purely on the Humongous Negative Universal Energy WE generated to OURSELVES!!!

Dad: Hey, everyone is talking 24/7, of ‘con to corruption, dengue to even sleaze’ – And, you are mentioning about some Energy?? Explain Sonny.

Me: Dad, you know the power of Universal Energy – They could be categorized as Positive, Negative and Neutral, just like in Electricity-Our Human Eyes can’t SEE! There is, however, one more Energy in the Cosmos and that’s Peace Energy, which is irrelevant in this case. The so-called Jihadists and OUR ‘Naxal brothers’ need the latter in plenty, though.

Dad: Where and HOW is THE Humongous Negative Energy generated NOW, Ravi?

ME: Dad, using Almighty’s laptop, ‘google through’ a sample of these very few (social) media reports that appeared, few or NIL in the South of India though.

http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/42-workers-paid-with-life-for-commonwealth-games-42327

www.sacw.net/article1592.html

www.dailypioneer.com/.../Brit-media-bashes-India-for-CWG-mess.html

www.mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/sengupta190710.htm

www.d-sector.org/article-det.asp?id=1228

www.cwg2010cwc.org/factSheet.php

www.twocircles.net/?q=2010sep15/stop_playing_life_and...

www.opendemocracy.net/.../impoverished-delhis-commonwealth-games-threatens-to-be-economic-disaster

And more…                                        

Picture Courtesy-www.NDTV.com

This is enough for you Dad. Else you will erupt like a Volcano! Dad, you would have observed watching from Vaikundam(Heavenly abode), the plight of the 1 Lac ‘impoverished  WORKERS‘ who have toiled hard for months – To CREATE CWG-From Airports to Rail to Stadia to just about everything requiring human labor- Their Sweat and blood. And TOIL. Without SLEEP last one month. Most, paid a pittance Dad, when compared to others in the construction sector – Also, NO ONE to take care of their ‘work-led  injuries’, some proving fatal as well. Simply, to me, they looked worse than “Cattle Class”, staying in inhuman conditions with filch - with just 1 toilet for 114 people!  Can u imagine, NOW, Daddy?

Daddy, Everyone missed the Negative Energy that is being SLOWLY generated, ‘day-in-and-day-out’ by these “Shining India’s-bonded laborers” (Sic). Instead, MOST wanted to hang the Kalmadi(s)! Dad, the butt of joke doing the rounds in India is that  - “Even if Shri. Kalmadi wanted to hang himself, he CANNOT  - as  the ceiling would collapse” – Daddy, because of the “shady”,  “shoddy” and “short-cut” methods adopted!

The WORKERS exploited to the Core. By ALL!  Including YOU (the reader) and ME – The honest tax payer(s). All for making SOME Indians smile and GET RICH AND RICHER. That’s a pseudo-smile and a self-destructive one, we will know shortly – That too,  after 70,000 Crores(Only) ‘gulped’, MANY ‘down-the-drain’! Few like the Delhi-metro, may SERVE for the already ‘cramped-and trampled’ Delhites, though.

Dad: “Hey, hold on. As once a ‘worker-friendly’  ‘Union Leader’, in The Ordinance Factory, Trichy in the 60’s, 70’s and early 80’s, my blood boils hearing this. Lemme some have water”. Wait a minute Da…

Dad:  So, those 1 Lac SOULS were exploited, RIGHT? Some to their last drop of blood they could shed – All for a few “rotis”?? THINK Ravi, “One tenth of that money would have made all Indians graduates, da”!! I also saw thousands of peasants, one’s who seek alms, the homeless etc, were driven out of Delhi - Was that right”? ADD their wrath as well – tales of woes and CRIES of DESPAIR!

Me: You were / are always right ‘on-the-dot’, dear Daddy. Awesome visualization power you had/have.

Dad, NOW, should we have to wait for a mathematical genius like Ramanujam or John Nash Sr. (Watch Beautiful Mind, if you haven’t) to calculate the humongous Negative Energy Generated in Delhi’s(And thereby’s India’s) Cosmic plane as a result of the reasons enumerated above???

Dad: Son, Have you read the story of ‘Why the Tsunami struck of the Coast of India in Dec  2004’?

Me: I didn’t miss reading that piece which appeared in a Thamizh magazine. It’s reporter interviewed a granny in the coast of Andhra Pradesh and asked “What and WHY she feels the reasons FOR the un-usual and never heard Tsunami”?(that left a wider trail of destruction, across the Indian Ocean)?

Pat came her reply: ”Sir, here, especially among the fisher-folk, women and children are in despair, mainly DUE to MAN and  the society”.  The  ’Mother Ocean’(Kadal Thaai) could not bear their CRYING-IN-DESPAIR, the women’s ”Ever growing breast-beats”  - Some because of their Drunk Daddy’s, some Animal-like Husbands and some criminal-like SONS as well.  The society, thanks to the ‘go-between-brokers’, always by default, paid a pittance to ‘their catch’. So even the patient ‘Mother Ocean’, in a fit of rage, unable to bear any longer - the continuous wails of women and children, destroyed and annihilated the entire stretch, in just a matter of seconds  (It’s also the same story in Thailand or Srilankan coast(s) as well, I understand. Off a different exploitation, though)

Dad: So, are YOU equating the REASON the ‘never-gone-to-school’ granny GAVE to that of what’s gonna happen to the CWG and its aftermath to Govt. Of India(GOI) as a result of this ‘massive and mindless’ man-made EXPLOITATION of the IMPOVERISHED SOULS?

Me: Absolutely Dad. Both that granny and NLP taught me the same thing – Of the power of the Universal Energy, especially the humongous power of Negative Energy, an individual/family/state/Nation/humanity should AVOID! Simple Dad. Very Simple. No “templates” for my reasoning!

Dad: CWG or no-CWG, I for one, after WHAT we went through during “Emergency” in  the 70’s, would be relieved if the “High Command Culture” comes to an end in the grand-old political party of India and everyone’s given the freedom to use their brains for HUMAN good. Especially ‘The benevolent Right brain’ as you SAY. That’s not only privy to our ‘colonial cousin’ @ 10,Downing Street or their nephews in India  @ 10,Janpath(Sorry, it must have been 7,Racecourse Road! – Error however, not regretted)  We shall then would have evolved as a Nation and be POWERFUL, with our Wealth created through Wisdom! Thereby, ‘Inclusive growth’ and NOT this type of ‘Exclusive growth’!

However am happy that even in THAT PARTY, that some ‘erudite statesmen’ like Shri. M.S Iyer, Shri.  J.Ramesh do use their BRAINS, even when they were / are elbowed or shadowed. HAD they BEEN in some other party, THEY would’ve been in a better stature, da. Anyway, that’s their ‘call’ and their WANT. But, do convey my salutation(s) to them.

Foot Note: I stick to what’s discussed between me and my Dad, in this never-happened conversation. However, the ‘humane human’ in me prays that nothing uneventful should happen during-and-after CWG in India, the ‘Cramped Capital’ Delhi in particular. I also HOLD the opinion that Hyderabad, with the status of a Union Territory would be the Ideal Capital of the modern prosperous India! That’s like  getting two mangoes with one strike! More on this later…

Jai Hind! Jai Bharat Mahan! And, ‘Vande Mataram’.

With Love

Ravichander Venkatraman

‘Democracy is ALL about FREEDOM to use one’s Brains’ – The ‘benevolent and Creative RIGHT brain’, in particular.