231. Doesn't that civet know that Pinarayi Vijayan is residing at Cliff House...?

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Doesn't that civet know that Pinarayi Vijayan is residing at Cliff House...?

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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Doesn't that civet know that Pinarayi Vijayan is residing at Cliff House...? Kerala’s Marxist Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said during an official ceremony on 29 February 2024 that a civet was regularly urinating on his ironed white dresses. He did not say whether he was in it or not while. He also said that if he put a glass of water on the table to drink, it will come and sprinkle it with holy water. No one went to ask if his ironed shirts were usually just left on the table plainly, if always a glass of water was left on a table uncovered, if this urinating was done only on his clothes or on all others’ clothes also, if the Thondi Evidence was handed over to the Cantonment Police Station and a Mahazar registered accusing anyone of conspiracy, and if anyone was booked and arrested without bail on this account, because everyone knows from seeing and hearing a lot about him since he assumed charge of Chief Minister and went to live at this governmental official residence that he is going to tear down this Cliff House and build a new one there, to pocket a lot while spending a few millions of people’s money. People also know that this speech hinting a civet problem in his official government residence is a foreword and preface to it. For a long time now, the hints for dismantling and rebuilding this fine governmental residential building has been dropped here and there vaguely by him and his immediately surrounding cronies: he has been building up momentum and preparing people for this extravagance.

Usually, when someone tells such a story, that part of his name containing that place name would immediately and invariably be changed from Pinarayi to Marappatti (Civet), which is usual for the people of Kerala and in accordance with their custom. Don't know if it has already been done. The author indeed knows of a person near Palode in a Laksham Veedu Colony whose name was thus changed by people to Marappatti Vijayan since he was never in the habit of leaving a civet coming across his way alive and not cooking it.

These grand palaces were built during the Travancore royal rule and given to these Ministers and Chief Ministers as official residences by the government of Kerala- regardless of the facilities they had in their own houses where they were born and raised in, without asking how many rooms there were in their own houses, whether they had toilets, whether they had electricity, whether they had pathway for a car or didn’t even have one for a bicycle. Anyway, these ministers and the chief minister are dissatisfied with these houses. Why doesn’t the Chief Minister ask for the royal family-held Kowdiar Palace for his living? Civets are their problem! It is Elephants and Tigers passing through the houses of the people who elected them and temporarily handed over their own powers to them- entering their houses and snatching them away. After receiving salary for solving such problems, these ministers and the chief minister say civets are their problem!

 
Written on: 29 February 2024 and first published on: 02 March 2024

Original article written in Malayalam and first published on: 29 February 2024:

SM 1545. ക്ലിഫു്ഹൗസ്സിലു് പിണറായിവിജയനാണുതാമസിക്കുന്നതെന്നു് മരപ്പട്ടിക്കു് അറിഞ്ഞുകൂടേയെന്തോ....! https://sahyadrimalayalam.blogspot.com/2024/02/1545.html

 

 

230. India’s EVMs help only the Bharatiya Janatha Party and their Hindu Theo-Corporatocracy!

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India’s EVMs help only the Bharatiya Janatha Party and their Hindu Theo-Corporatocracy!

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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Recent electoral experiences in India proved that India’s EVMs help only the Bharatiya Janatha Party and its Hindu Theo Corporatocracy. It’s now proved beyond doubt that without electronic voting machines there would have been no BJP victories and BJP governments. Now the Election Commission of India becomes angry whenever and wherever people and political parties demand re-introduction of ballot papers in stead. Why should they become angry when people demand an electoral process which they feel have served them well through decades?

This article was written on 21 May 2019 when India was going through a Parliament election and waited five years before publishing to see if the allegations against the BJP of manipulating electronic voting machines for victory would be disproved which it was not. Every election since then- from State Assembly Elections to the local Self-Government Body elections only proved that the centre-ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is more widely using EVM manipulations for election victories and also allowing this concession to be used by their Hindu Raashtra Allies like the Marxist Party in states like Kerala.

Even though the electoral process and the democracy in India is older than any but those in the USA, it is still not even considered a full democracy like Norway, Iceland, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Switzerland and Finland.

Why is India not included anywhere in this list of nineteen countries considered and accepted as with a full democracy? Other that the rigged electoral processes and accompanying corruption, what prevented India from emerging as a country with full democracy?

Written on: 21 May 2019 and first published on: 05 March 2024

229. Charles Baudelaire’s L'Invitation au Voyage-Invitation To Voyage- Recast In True Poetic Form

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Charles Baudelaire’s L'Invitation au Voyage-Invitation To Voyage- Recast In True Poetic Form

From Les Fleurs du Mal- Flowers of Evil 1857

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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Charles Baudelaire’s L'Invitation au Voyage-Invitation To Voyage- Recast In True Poetic Form

 
From Les Fleurs du Mal- Flowers of Evil 1857

My 'child, my sister,
Dream 'of the sweetness
Of 'journeying down there to live together!

To 'love at leisure,
To 'love and to die
In thë länd which resembles you!

The 'watèry suns
In threatèning skies
Have 'for my soul the charms so mysterious,

Of 'your treach΄rous eyes
Shining through teárs.
There, 'there’s nothing but order and beauty.

Glea'ming furniture,
Po'lished by th'years,
'Would decoræte our chamber;

The 'rarest flowers
Min'gling their perfumes
'With vague 'scents of ämber,

O'pulent ceilings,
'Mirrors profound,
Splendor of the East:

All 'would be speaking
'To the soul in secret
'In her sweet 'native mother tongue.

There, there's nothing but
Order and beauty,
Luxury, calm, and sensual pleasure.

See 'on the canals
'Ships with furled sails,
Whose 'inclination is vagabond;

'It’s to satisfy
Your 'least desire that
They’ve 'journeyed here from the end of the world.

The 'low setting suns
Paint 'all the champagnes
The canals and the city’s whole expanse

In 'hyacinth and gold;
As the 'world falls asleep
In a hot light. There’s nothing but luxury,

Calm, and sensual pleasure.

NOTE: There have been so many translations of the Flowers of Evil (Fleurs du mal) first published in 1857 by the French poet Charles Baudelaire- some capturing the exotic musical content in them, some not. If it cannot be sung rhythmically by people through generations who love to sing and love poems, it does injustice to the poet in whose mind the tune had originated first and words followed to give it repetitional scope and permanent verbal form, thereby making it pass through times. Unlike Edward Fitzgerald’s fine translation of Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil lacks in fine truly musical translations. At least this writer feels so. Here is one poem L’Invitation au Voyage- Invitation To A Journey- recast from an existing one translated by William Aggeler in 1954, recast by this author decades earlier for personal singing. Imperfections and impurities are mine, not the original poets’ or the translator’s.

Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil 1857 is a hot book of sensuousness, considered (in his times) as ‘an insult to good manners and morality, the central theme being sensual human love. Some even consider them as prose poems- the same mistake they made with Kahlil Gibran. Baudelaire is known for his eroticism which does not much manifest in this here poem.

Baudelaire’s L’Invitation au Voyage is a poem which has been translated so many times. Meaning, music, words, atmosphere- nothing can be sacrificed in a translation. The sublimity and poetical elevation which exists throughout the poem have to be cherished, retained as such. Not all translations have done this.

Invitation to the Voyage imparts the reflection of an antithesis of the ordinary world, an impossible and indefinite place, through a series of undefined images. Like the later age English poet W. B. Yeats in his The Lake Isle of Innisfree, he would escape and flee from this tiresome world and go to and settle in that quiet and timeless island of solace. The only difference with Yeats is that in Baudelaire’s place of retreat everything is created in the likeness of his sweetheart and material. treasures, this The furniture, the luxury, the perfumes, the flowers, the rivers, the canals, the rich cargo-carrying ships, the sailors’ songs, are manifestations and likenesses of his lover. In his imagination, in his poetry, everything there is made in the image of his lover.

That Baudelaire was inspired by Dante is evident. Only Dante’s Christianity and purity touches not Baudelaire. Where Dante is moral, Baudelaire is immoral and amoral, justifying why his book The Flowers of Evil was once banned in France during the Second Regime, six poems including Lesbos, Women Doomed, To Her Who Is Too Joyful, The Jewels, and The Vampire's Metamorphoses in it were censored, suppressed and removed from the publication, and the publisher and the poet fined 300 francs each for ‘controversiality, immorality, breaking with tradition, dealing with decadence and eroticism, focusing on original sin, obsession with death. Only his aspiration toward an ideal world was let go’! T. S. Eliot found his ‘density of language, thought, feeling and astonishing clarity’ captivating.

Since this is not an academic work, Baudelaire’s French original is not included alongside the recast translation in English.

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Written in 1982 and first published on 31 May 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

228. The price India paying for the existence and survival of the one and only Hindu nation in a world of Christian and Muslim nations

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The price India paying for the existence and survival of the one and only Hindu nation in a world of Christian and Muslim nations

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

 

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India under prime minister Mr. Narendra Modi has been signing so many trade contracts with so many countries, all at a loss to India and always at a profit to those countries involved, as a convenient measure of bribing the senior government officials and politicians in those countries to reassure their cooperation. It’s bribe in disguise at the expense of India’s treasury. And there are financial aids also to those countries from India which never are checked whether those projects are ever undertaken in those countries and completed or whether the monies transferred in cash or in kind were siphoned out by the leading politicians there. It’s another form of bribe camouflaged as foreign financial assistance from India. It is the price India is paying for the existence and survival of the one and only Hindu nation in the world under an undemocratic and totally ruthless theo-corporate leadership, in a world of hostile religions, in the midst of Christian and Muslim nations.

Once Iran was doing this and their main ware of trade was oil given away at rockbottom prices to her allies. Becoming over-confident of these allies’ support in each and everything the Muslim fundamentalist government in Iran would do, they began exporting terrorism. And when things became real hot for the world we saw what happened: there were UN sanctions and total embargo imposed on Iran and none of her supporters could do a thing. Countries like India under Narendra Modi and Russia under Vladimir Putin tried to help them for a while but their efforts were not sufficient to help Iran outwit the embargo imposed on her by other and major countries. That is what the UN and the world pressure is there for- to circumvent the special interests of and tacit agreements between one nation and her trade allies and ensure the safety of the world. Today Iran does not try to export terrorism in the name of Islam as effectively as it had been doing earlier. The world’s pressure is still powerful in spite of the same aggressive, undemocratic and dictatorial feathers in similar countries like Iran, India and Russia flocking together at the United Nations Organization. When the time is ripe for taking action against an aggressive country to ensure the safety of other countries, the UN will be forced to take action whether it likes it nor not. Otherwisw it will be suicide for the UN. North Korea, Iraq and Iran are the latest examples.

America did the same diplomatic and trade maneuvers with China and both governments were happy for a time. Tradewares flowed freely between these two countries and both American and Chinese corporates profited; and politicians in both countries were pleased. Then it was revealed that American politicians were trading not in potatos and carrots but trading in American industrial and scientific secrets with Chinese corporation though the American administration later conveniently termed it ‘stealing’ American secrets by the Chinese. Politicians in the administration of both countries lined their pockets but it finally became too hot and burdensome for the American treasury to bear. Then was there the American embargo on Chinese exports to America and the Chinese doubling and tribling taxes on American goods imported.

India under the Indian National Congress’ regime was extremely cautious in her dealings with China. As a result there were no major Chinese aggressions on India’s border since 1964. Then the Indian National Congress was defeated in the elections and a Hindu theo-corporate regime came to power. They found it very unpleasant to rule India on fascist lines and at the same time watch constantly and guard China’s activities on the border. So they changed India’s foreign policy, at least at her China Desk, and tried to please China and keep her at bay by signing so many trade agreements at a loss to India, even allowing the Chinese to purchase large tracts of prime industrial land in India like the Americans once did. Thus the BJP administration in India lowered their guard and see what happened! The Chinese authorities never stopped firing at India and moved their readymade villages and settlements to further inside India since then. The BJP government could do not a thing. Not one square inch of Indian land annexed by China in these operations could be regained by the Hindu administration. Today the Hindu administration in India does not know whether their big neighbour China is a friend or enemy. And fearing China they spend billions more of dollars to buy expensive military fighter jets from France- all poor diplomacy in keeping China at bay unlike the experienced Congress government successfully did for decades. China is cashing in their chips knowing well that the fundamentally religious and friendless Hindu theo-corporatocracy ruling India can do nothing but play their tune.

Every intelligent intelligence agency in the world was aware of a militant group’s taking-over of Afghanistan when the American army withdrew. India’s interests in Afghanistan is not decades-old but centuries-old. Knowing well there would be an Islamist take-over, this Hindu administration in India was investing heavily in Afghanistan. Then what happened? When Taliban took over, there was no exemption for India: India too had to evacuate her citizens from Afghanistan at haste before they got killed. Isn’t India’s financial assistance to countries like Afghanistan a move to make possible a Hindu regime’s existence in a world which is thickly saturated by hostile religions? Aren’t the roads built in Afghanistan by India easing the imposing of Islamic fundamentalism there by the aggressive militant religious ruling groups there?

 
Written on 24 October 2021 and first published on: 07 November 2021

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Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.

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227. When people die there have always been people who praise the killers as heroes!

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When people die there have always been people who praise the killers as heroes!

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

 

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One of the Marxist Party’s suporters’ and members’ arguments in praise of the Health Minister K. K. Shailaja is that under her Kerala effectively controlled the spread of Corona virus in Kerala by March 2021. If that had happened, there would not have been anymore spread of the virus and a resultant lockdown in Kerala during May 2021. So, even party members differ in their opinion on whether she was a success or not in controlling corona virus during December 2020- April 2021. How could they say she was a success when there never was abatement but a relentlessness in the spreading of this virus throughout Kerala, except in departmental statistics for the month of March 2021 to suit her reelection, and they are all lying in their death beds?

There are electoral victories and moral and fair victories in elections. Marxist Party members, sympathizers and propagandists picture Health Minister K. K. Shailaja’s victory in the 2021 state assembly elections with the highest margin from her native constitunency as a moral victory and a sign of her success in controlling epidemics in Kerala. Since the outbreak of Corona Virus in Kerala the heath department got one full year to create infrastructure to meet its second outspread which had been predicted far earlier. But still in 2021 May, notably after the assembly elections and her party’s victory, the health department had not installed any of the needed infrastructure and admitted that unless a lockdown was enforced there was no way to treat the increasing number of patients in hospitals and their coming to hospitals has to be prevented by curtailing their freedom of movement. If some people in the state and in a legislative constituency consider this an act of courage and wisdom to be applauded, then let them elect her again to the state assembly with the highest margin in the state! Let them earnestly believe that this is what is believed to be success and that she is a great success as a heath minister!! She squandered precious available time of one full year and an unlimited source of state and central resources within which time and utilizing which the could have put in place an endless line of hospital beds, oxygen plants, staff, and everything else required to treat any number of people in-hospital but for her. Today, as of the day of writing this article, the death rate of corona virus-affected people in Kerala is 95 per day and already 6053 dead, thanks to a pig-headed health minister and a chief minister. They compare this death rate with other states and declare that is is satisfactory comparatively! When people die there have always been people who praise the killers as heroes.

Written and first published on: 14 May 2021

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226. Kerala’s 2021 Marxist victory was central BJP’s creation and now state BJP is running the state!

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Kerala’s 2021 Marxist victory was central BJP’s creation and now state BJP is running the state!

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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Kerala’s Marxist Party opposing the Hindu party is a deception: it’s election victory IN 2021 April was at the mercy of the central BJP and the state BJP is now running the state. The Kerala’s 2021 Marxist Election victory was not in anyway against the BJP’s Central Government or this Hindu Political Party, but at the mercy of this Hindu theo-corporate political party. For many years Kerala’s Marxist Party has been perspiring to win the confidence and patronage of this Hindu party by becoming a Hindu party itself. First it ordered its cadres through a central circular to infiltrate temple committees to push back RSS cadres from there. Then it introduced plantain trees and palm leaves in their functions and processions to please BJP and keep the Hindu tradition going. Before the elections it changed its policy to Pro-Hinduist and began to abuse and condemn the Muslim minority in Kerala to the delight of the Central BJP. It even began to legislate Forward Caste Reservations to sabotage the prevailing Communal Reservations in Kerala to please the Hindu party.

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In the 2021 assembly elections this party sought central BJP’s assistance, got central investigation agencies’ cases against them freezed, got hold of BJP’s election manipulation licenses, even got the state BJP’s votes in constituencies, and won. Even in BJP strongholds like Mancheswaram, BJP got zero votes in many booths in this election which was not at all inconceivable because they pooled every vote to make the Marxist Party in the state win. These votes did not go to Congress for they lost the election. Those votes all went to Kerala’s Marxist Party and created their landslide victory, in addition to the Centrally Licensed election manipulation doing the same. Further, to celebrate this victory, Kerala’s Marxist Party ordered and organized a first-ever Lamp Lighting Ceremony throughout Kerala, as a typical token of gratitude for the Hindu party’s patronage. Now after the election the Sevabhaarathi Wing of the RSS and BJP is organizing and controlling traffic on roads and inspecting people’s travel passes at Palakkadu standing beside the Kerala Police because they know the government is their’s and that Pinarayi Vijayan’s Marxist Government’s victory was their victory, making use of their multiple helps ranging from the Central BJP’s to the State BJP’s. That was what they already had predicted far in advance in this election: that they will have thirtyfive (Marxist) MLAs in the assembly and rule the state! If anybody in the Marxist Party in Kerala does not like this ruling of Kerala by the BJP this way, they can straight go to the Arabian Sea, jump in, and swim to Africa!

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Hardly anyone ever thinks that the concerned party’s men would concede to the above arguments and facts and sit inert without presenting their own convoluted arguments and facts divulged through the prominent media of Kerala which now stands derobed, without a stitch on, after shamelessly spreading for long this party’s government’s little gains and suppressing their huge multiple crimes. But partymen failed to explain why their Chief Minister suspendd from service the seniormost Secretary to Government-cum-his Principal Secretary in connection with his clandestine associations and deals with a gold-smuggling team which brought to Kerala tons of gold and other contraband accoutrements disguised as diplomatic cargo through foreign embassies during party’s rule through airports, defying Customs with the help of official assistance from the Government Secretariate, and why he was detained and remanded in judicial custody for months without bail as ordered by the court. They also failed to explicate the Chief Secretary-led top-level team's investigation report, explaining how the IT Secretary-cum Chief Minister’s Principal Secretary engaged in nefarious activities with smugglers, disgraced his government position as the highest-ranking Government Secretary in the state, and why he was recommended to be suspended from service and all the out-of-ordinary appointments he made in the past initiated to be investigated. They simply denied publicly-known truths and reiterated that there never were repeated incidents of gold smuggling in the state and no very highly-placed officials in the Chief Minister's IT Department, particularly a handful among his close associates and regular accompaniments, were never in jail and that they never confessed to multiples of crimes, hoping that by simply denying them the recorded facts and statements in various courts would go away. They like to say and dream that they were all fabricated cases, made up by the central investigative agencies to tarnish the political saints of the party who live with not a blot on their scutcheon, wishing all the while the various corruption-smuggling and homicide cases filed in courts will vanish the same way the SNC-Lavalin case of some 300 crores rupees’ corruption vanished for a time.

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Every crime- especially economic crimes- the Marxist Party government committed in Kerala was executed through some women of considerable length and breadth. If fact such voluptuous and promiscuous women were permanent fixtures in the party’s government and administration and their lure and languor were made official by appointing them in key positions exclusively created for them with ridiculously exorbitant salaries. They were the prime attractions, the cynosures of all eyes, in the Chief Minister’s and many of his subordinates’ foreign tours and travels for ‘initiating and settling things’. Thousands of media photographs and news videos native and from abroad vouschafe this. Still the proponents of this stained administration repeat to inculcate that this is a virgin holy administration untouched by women when compared to the Congress-led previous administration! Flesh was the frontal selling merchandise of this administration as it is everywhere in the world in facilitating huge financial deals with foreign companies and consultants. Flesh-with-brains was the selling force behind this administration, the revolting details of which are still being unravelled in judicial courts through statements and confessions made by the accused and their cohorts in multiple crimes. Even the one woman who made money through scams on behalf of the previous government was this party’s spy- a Marxist Mata Hari- who now made money out of more brilliant scams in this Marxist Government.

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Will continue…..

Written on and first published on: 11 May 2021

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225. If they cannot live without loudspeakers, let them marry them and take them away as wives and go on honeymoon- never to return.

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If they cannot live without loudspeakers, let them marry them and take them away as wives and go on honeymoon- never to return

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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If they cannot live without loudspeakers, let them marry them and take them away as wives and go on honeymoon- never to return. If a religious institution cannot function without mike sets, let them- who always quote ancient texts and reiterate that customs and rituals cannot be changed or modified- quote where their ancient texts refer to the use of modern eqipments like loudspeakers as rituals in temples, mosques and churches. The objective of their worship, craze and love for loudspeakers is not religious piety but commercial greed. The only base for this lust and love for loudspeakers is Electronic Hypnosis- a slight disorder which can be treated by trained psychiatrists. Have anyone ever seen anyone in a religious house sit there in front of their deities or no dieties and vocally sing the songs, hymns and chants which they claim are an integral part of their worship? Such groups were there only before the advent of loudspeakers; now they are no more.

Long tired of the mike set worship from an SNDP temple (it’s a communal organization of the Ezhava community in Kerala- the ‘Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana’ Yogam, founded by the famous and brilliant poet and social reformer Narayana Guru), this author once went straight to one of their public programmes, ascended the stage and captured the microphone from a speaker, and challenged any one of the leaders on the stage to sing from heart at least one poem written by Narayana Guru. None of them could, because none of them knew any. Still they claimed they were devout Sreenarayaneeyars! It is easy to talk but it is not such easy for them to prove themselves in a public test. They were all farce- united for looting money in the name of Narayana Guru! That is the case with any religious or communal group. They can only play tapes of recordings through loudspeakers but cannot themselves repeat them from heart because they do not know a line. That particular programme mentioned here ended in many things including there being not a stage there at all within minutes because they were totally exposed through a single operation. No religious leader in Kerala will survive such public direct tests and there are many such tests which a citizen can employ. Even if government and the courts are slack and slow in curtailing the use of loudspeakers altogether- decibel or no decibel- there are other ways for citizens to stop them in which governments or courts cannot meddle in.

Written and first published on: 25 January 2021

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Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.

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