Saturday, May 24, 2014

5 things to do for the society - an hour weekly?

1. Plant and water trees, plants at home and near our home for the area atleast one. My neighbour planted around 300 trees and he water them regularly. Atleast I could see in my road he has planted on both sides plants and he water them. The mountain near our home people regularly on saturday and sunday water the plants. When they can take out sometime why cant a housewife or everyone of us? UNLESS SOMEONE LIKE YOU CARES A WHOLE AWFUL LOT, NOTHING IS GOING TO GET BETTER.  We might end up creating artificial towns and cities :( as shown in the movies. Ok that is little too much ;)

2. Reduce and Recycle. Separating dry and wet at home/source level before disposing it.

3. We went to the public library in Chengalpattu children's section, it has decent collection of books but awful arrangement. Cant blame them, British council library in Pune is no less then I guess its of no use to think about a public library. Whole collection of Enid blyton, children encyclopedia, Harry potter collection, Tulika books are kept here and there not in order. One has to go through everything to select book. Why cant we volunteer our children and involve ourself in organizing a library? is it not feasible if there is one closeby? It took less than half hour to organize one shelf.

4. Never throwing garbage on the road ever.

5. Note to self: Stop writing about all these and start doing something about it :p

Feminist view of Kannagi statue

I was listening to "take it easy policy" song...In the song there is a line, we have Kannagi statue but not Seetha's (Kannagi silai than ingundu seethaiku kallal silaiyethu?) True Kannagi burnt Madurai for her husband. Seetha proved herself pure by going in to the fire. In a Malechaunistic society obviously they will order and make a statue of Kannagi only :p. She burnt Madhurai along with innocent kids and good human beings???
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Another story Shiva's, Shiva will cut Ganesha's head in anger! What kind of god will kill a little boy out of sheer anger and just to prove his power? if there is any other inner meaning i really would like to know. In most of the stories bad guys get to see the god easily. Kamsa, Hiranya Kasibu....all Rakshashas they get killed by the god, whether killed or blessed they get to see the God easily. Good people has to do thapas for years like Pagiratha? Why?

Indra's story if i start I will go nuts..he is the one who made mistake and punishment is to Agalikai? and many more story can be read in Vinayagar puranam we just started and put a full stop immediately after few pages.
Swami vivekananda seems to be reasonable but Is bramacharya or all those things taught to  him can only be followed by Vivekananda cant it be followed by women, again women is degraded in the story here and there, I guess it was written by a guy. Whether in Mahabharata/Ramayana any story women's condition is pathetic, what they did is not even close to the punishment they got and in India woman have curfew, girl children are still raped in buses. Pathetic. I dont even know whether to continue saying sare jagan se aacha...Really?