Marketing Technology

Recently have been arguing with some of my friends over how our countries are being slowly and steadily geting victims of 'market' economy for Technology.As one could easily see, if there are products they need market to sell and this market is nothing but people...to sell a product a need is most of the time artificially created by the very sellers..but all these are unknown to buyers and they simply 'thank' these sellers...not known to the ill effects of these technology..
Its so sad to see especially when these people are someone who had a glorious past and whose forefathers built temples which stand tall and strong even after 1000 years...and they have many scriptures of wisdom still preserved...
Anyway..while looking at the Kigali streets and how its people hand pick and clean those gardens or with a brooms or simply a knife to cut weeds...its so wonderful just as Mahatma Gandhi adviced India's vast population not to depend on technology which will take away jobs and create other evils(environment or social) or as adviced by Kanchi Mahaswamigal to assemble infron of the temple and clean every week-ends...but I guess our people whose education is from the 'western' influence will want to have the 'technology' imported to bring machines and chemicals and polythenes and what not, all possible technology and then claim to clean our streets? not realising how much of damage we are bringing to our own and future generation....
We must realise where to have the technology and where not...and I remember during a class discussion, the Professor asked a question, 'What happens to family when it depends on technology instead of family members inside kitchen'...I quickly gave the answer as 'Break up of family', and the Professor said, 'Erosion of family'...yes the 'Technology Erodes the family and breaks it up or just that family is no more there' and thus Science,Technology and Society its start up as a discipline in western countries itself is a clear proof that they have realised to some extent the damage the technology has done on society...but just as the Professor lacked courage to write in words what she said, and instead spends millions and millions on do research...the west is never going to accept all the damage this science/technology has done...it needs a spiritual flood which shall clean the minds from its dependency on matter....untill then the marketing of science/technology will continue and the damage only spreads to the rest of the world? Is any Indians listening...for here people if they want with genius brains could turn the tide at any moment...who knows....but so far we see only that they continue to be under the 'hypnotic' education they had received for 200 years....

Deiva Thamizh Naatinile

Ever since I listened to this and ever since any incidents that pains me as it happens in Tamil Nadu, this song sung by MS Subbulakshmi comes to my mind. The song tells us how the God's divine land of Tamil Nadu( Vedam Niraintha Tamil Nadu of Bharathiyar is just as appropriate) is swayed by ignorance to a level where even insults is taken by its people as praise and glory to such a low level of ignorance the people have fallen..This is exactly what one feels each time when one reads/hears about something that really pains....but even just as the song says, Deiva Thamizh Naatinile....there are always hopeful of other news/incidents that happen and tells us that its really the God's divine land...and as in Deivatthin Kural as flowed from Kaanchi Mahaswamigal, this land even if at times gets swayed by modernism or any 'ism' it has always come out shining with double brilliance in its work of enlightening the people of world...and as he said, thats the history of Deiva Thamizh Naadu.....while explaining the greatness of Tamil Nadu, Kanchi Mahaswamigal tells how when someone migrates to another land from Tamil Nadu, they easily accept and adopt the new language and in few generations their children forget Tamil language....but when someone comes and lives in Tamil Nadu, they never forget their own language and even after many generations, they still keep speaking their own language....Tamil Nadu does not force its new arrivals its own language...it let the new arrival to live with its own glory...not just that it allows and preserves any great piece of work of the arrivals.....and he quotes how Saints Thiyagarajah's songs in Telugu is preserved by Tamil music lovers...and no doubt again Bharathiyar said it, 'Sundera Telunginil Paatisaithu' what a glorious contribution to another language by this Deiva Thamizh Naatin one of the greatest sons.

Kigali streets a lesson to learn

When I was about to come out of the airport, I was told that polythene bags are not allowed by the Rwanda customs...True to it I have been seeing roads of Kigali clean even to challenge Singapore (in the roads I have seen so far)....Its not merely the cleanliness but also the message on using paper instead of polythen...because when I went into Naakumat the 24/7 shopping center there too there was no polythene bags but instead things were packed in paper bags. This is what I was thinking why in other countries this is not done...while we talk lot on environment if we don't use papers or mud cups(like in Kaali gata) instead of plastic/polythene bags...
This also reminds me on our ways of talking a lot on child workers, and never bother to talk on child acting and making money...the worst of all is when film makers make film on the same subject of child labour using children in their films...how could they ever justify it?
Anyway our countries have lessons to learn from Kigali streets on cleanliness and there is nothing much to add now...

Nadodigal

Couple of Months back while I happen to be in Chennai I happen to see the film...Certainly it was not my interest....and this is certainly a big surprise to many who know me from my college days...when I happen to see quite a lot...
Anyway with an interest to see what the new Tamil movie makers have to offer to Tamil audience I wanted to give a try...I knew that Tamil film industry has a talented great artists who could simply take away the audience out of this world into their screens....But after watching the movie....nearly 30% after it started I just felt that our industry really lost it rythm...of its past talented artists....what I read and heard about the movie later was much shocking to me , as pple are all in praise of this film...not surprising though....pple have fallen down and they are not aware of how they have fallen down...Now let me open up my secret which gives me the confidence to write all these....I watched this film after many years of not watching a Tamil film...I can't even rememeber when or what the last Tamil film I watched before this...so with all the expectations and to see the same story line or theme of film I was seated there....but I was shown that many years have passed and a new generation is out there....who really don't know what they are all doing and how their productions are sub standard in comparison to earlier ones...and it just reminds me of my father's own opinon when I was a kid...