767 Hans India deserves appreciation for their efforts

By and large, I, this ybrao-a-donkey held a broad view that Media worldwide tends to be inadequately conscious to their social responsibilities. For that their weakness, I often indulged in rationalising and justifying their apathy and callousness, to the monstor of Capitalism. Media Editors, being paid servants of the Investing Corporates, are not given free hands in deciding on the Content they publish, unlike jhompdi bloggers like us. Though comparisons can, sometimes, become obnoxious and odious, owing to use of bad similes or puns, yet I am tempted to use one simile. While the Media parrots will be silver-caged parrots, though fed with cashews, we the jhompdi bloggers tend to be sun-tanned, rain-drenched, cold-frozen unbound parrots chased by ravens.

HansIndia dated 27th May 2016, 30th May 2016, proved to be an exception from the general image of Media. They published the above photograph of a woman in Khammam District climbing up a well, like a creeper to fetch water. This photograph should really open our eyes, to the situation prevailing in India Today. Fortunately, the Govt. of Telangana seems to have responded to the Photo published by Hans India, and have arranged for supply of water tankers to the Village.

Those who have seen the Mahatma Gandhi film directed by Richard Attenborough can recollect one scene in the film, where Gandhi was travelling in a train. Train stopped on a bridge for sometime. Gandhi got down to have a look at the River. There he found an almost-naked woman who was drying her saree in sunlight, as she had only one saree, which she daily washes and wears. It is said that moved by the plight of that woman, Gandhiji too became semi-naked.

Earlier, Eenadu Telugu Newspaper too published a few photos which depicted the dire conditions of people hovering around dry wells for drinking water. But these type of news make only some sporadic seasonal appearances, rather than being recognised as a serious daily problem of harsh existentialist reality.

Governments too do not pay much attention to this serious existential survival question, because their minds always revolve around Industrialists and Corporates. Today, Mr. Cook of Apple, and Mr. Satyam Nadella are the Chief Gods of Indian Prime Ministers and Chief Ministers.

TAIL PIECE धूमकेतु తోకచుక్క

HOW CAN Mr. K. Chandra Sekhara Rao, Chief Minister of Telangana lag behind? Mr. Narendra Modi is spending millions of bucks for educating INdian people to make them learn that the country is changing (badal raha hai). Mr. Aravind Kejriwal has spent hundreds of crore to publish the achievements of his Delhi Rule, by releasing advertisements in South Indian Newspapers. Everybody knows about a similar habit of Ms. Jayalalitaa.

Today, the Telangana Government released FOUR FULL PAGE ADVERTISEMENTS in Newspapers. It is not clear, whether they have released such four page ads. at All INdia Level, or at least at South India level. By doing this, the Governments are not only throwing away public money into drains, but also are wasting imported newsprint which is scarce.

Mr. Chandra Sekhara Rao is successful in his foreplay with the Media, by throwing some moolah at them. Now, it will be the turn of the Chief Minister of Residual Andhra Pradesh, Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu, to pay the Media. People say that at least two Media Houses are his own. Whether he owns them or not, they have become his trumpeteers. If he releases big advertisements only to his trumpeteers newspapers and TV Channels, what will happen for the Enemy Channel and the Enemy Paper? Since, he will not like the Enemy paper and channel, to receive the circari lucre, the advertising binge has to wait till the Enemy Newspaper and Channel is punished by Courts in the cases pending against them.

Subject to corrections and deletions. A lot more is to be added. To continue. सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంది.

398 Nature Cure has utility but should not end up as fad प्रकृति चिकित्सा ప్రకృతి చికిత్స

398 प्रकृति चिकित्सा कितना शास्त्रीय है ?
398 ప్రకృతి చికిత్స కొంతమేరకు ఉపయోగకరమే, కానీ అది వ్యక్తుల జీవితాల్లో ఒక వేలంవెర్రిగా, కాళ్ళకు బందంగా తయారు కాకూడదు.



Photo courtesy outlookindia.com.

First I shall give a link to a very apt, beautiful, critical piece of article on the fad of Nature cure which is growing influenced by TV preachings.  This article is from Andhrajyothy.com, one of the the top three dailies of Andhra Pradesh.

पहले मैं, प्रकृति चिकित्सा के सनक झक पर, एक मुँहतोड, सुंदर, विवेचनात्मक व्यास के लिंक दे रहा हूँ।  यह तॆलुगु में है।  आंध्रज्योति तॆलुगु अखबार दिनांक २७.११.१४ में छपा हूआ है।  मैं आगे दिनों में इस के अनुवाद और इस पर एक सुदीर्घ टिप्पणि देने के लिये कोशिस करता हूँ।

http://www.andhrajyothy.com/Artical.aspx?SID=53597&SupID=25

The issues raised and answered in this article are worth pondering over everybody who is concerned about finding solutions to the problems of health and medication, amidst the ghastly system of modern medical industry.

इस व्यास में उठाया गया और जवाब दिया गया अंश, आधुनिक वैद्य और चिकित्साशालाओं से थका हूआ, और आल्टर्नेट चिकित्सा या आरोग्य पध्धतियों को खोजनेवाले को  बहुत चिंतना योग्य और महसूस है।

ఒక లోకోక్తి ఉంది.  యముడు ప్రాణాలను హరిస్తే, వైద్యుడు ప్రాణాలనే కాక, బ్రతుకుతెరువు మరియు ఉన్న ఇల్లు వాకిళ్ళను కూడ హరిస్తాడు.  ఆధునిక వైద్య మరియు వైద్యశాలా పరిశ్రమల విషయంలో ఇది అక్షరాలా నిజం.  ఆధునిక వైద్యంతో విసిగిపోయే, ఆధునికేతర వైద్య మరియు ఆరోగ్య రక్షణ పధ్ధతులను వెతుక్కునే వాళ్ళ కొరకు ఇది చాల చింతనీయమైన వ్యాసం.  ఇందులో లేవనెత్తి, జవాబిచ్చిన అంశాలపై ప్రతివారు ఆలోచించి, తామేమైనా వేలం వెర్రిలో ఇరుక్కొని తమ శరీరాన్ని, ఆరోగ్యాన్ని పెనం లోంచి పొయ్యిలో పడేసుకుంటున్నామా అనే విషయాన్ని గురించి ఆలోచించాలి.

నేను కూడ ఈ విషయం గురించి వ్రాయాల్సింది ఒక వేయి పేజీలు దాకా ఉంది.

Today I shall touch one item.  आज एक ऐटम को क्लुप्त रूप से अनुशीलन करता हुँ।  ఈరోజు ఒక అంశం గురించి సృశిస్తాను.

First a slide-show on  drinking water, courtesy: rediff.com.
http://www.rediff.com/money/slide-show/slide-show-1-special-thirst-for-water-images-from-around-the-world/20120323.htm#6

It has become a fad for some health-conscious persons to drink six litres of water per day, because a TV preacher is strongly urging his viewers to drink six litres water per day.  This seems to be unreasonable, because humans need to drink water on the basis of the constitution of their individual bodies.  This need may vary as per seasons, type of food consumed, condition of their skin pores, condition of their kidneys, their body fluids, etc.  Very often, body itself seeks water whenever it needs and sends us signals from brain, we feel thirsty, and drink water as per body's responses.  Unless there is a shortage of water or surfeit of water, the decision on how much water is input into the body, is not a conscious deliberated decision.  This is a part of our natural instinct.

We can say this body-instinct-dictated natural behavior in babies, and very young children.  Howsoever strongly a mother may impose her views on the baby/child it will not drink/eat more than what its body decides and dictates.

I recall my own personal experience when I was a around three years child.  At that time, I didn't allow my grandfather to feed me with dairy products such as yoghurt (curd), butter, cheese.   To deceive me he used to hide a small ball of butter in a morsel of jowar + hibiscus canabinus + clarified butter (ghee), or a small ball of curd in a cud of jowar + garlic-chillipowder + clarified butter (ghee) and thrust into my mouth.  The moment the taste of a dairy product touched the taste buds on my tongue, I used to protest and vomit the stuff.  This hatred for dairy products continued till I was ten.

Then, inexplicably, as a ten year boy, I started consuming dairy products without being pressed by anybody, but my body started repelling onion.  This time it was like a conflict of the Calvin (in the Calvin Hobbes Comic fame) against his baby-sitter and his parents, I too had to fight for my food without onions.  My parents liked onions very much and there were never curries or soups without onions, on any day in the home.  It was a hell for me.  My parents' dictum, it was reasonable for them, was to say:  For your sake, why should we forsake onions?  If you have an abhorrence for onions, you segregate them when you eat, and consume the remaining.   But the segregation work was not easy.  It will be like picking out corrupt employees in an Indian Government Office and segregating them to push them into innocuous seats.  Instead I preferred to segregate the vegetable pieces from the heap of onions.

Fortunately, this hatred for onions disappeared when I went to Hyderabad for livelihood, when I was 17.  May be, the maxims: Necessity is the mother of invention or,  sweet are the uses of adversity.

Suppose, if we persist with this type of choosiness in eliminating unwanted food items from the stuff sold in our hotels, in a plate of puri served with boiled potato curry (different varieties such as kUra, kurma, sAgu etc.), we can find only onions and no potatoes.  When onion prices go up in India, that too happens quite frequently, what we can find in these puri curries?

Incidentally, if a person has to drink six litres per day of clean drinking water (in Guntur tea stalls, its price is Rs. 4 per litre), we have to spend Rs. 24/- on water alone, or carry a big Milton Jug of 6 litres, to wherever we go on our job.  Gone were the days when street taps used to profusely ooze out or shower out water .  In fact, British Government made an Inns Act (equivalent present day Hotels), (still in force, but redundant in our current business-driven world), which says that Inns have to serve free water to one and all including wayfarers, and  cannot refuse if anybody tries to drink free water from its tables.  Mr. Modi's Govt. may repel it now treating it as an obsolete piece of legislation.

The remarks made in the above article, about the habit of drinking water while eating food.  Both Indian Nature cure and Ayurveda Systems discourage it on the ground that digestive juices get diluted when water is drunk with meal, and that meals will not be digested.  A thumb rule is made out that water should not be drunk within 2 1/2 hours prior to and after a meal.  The reasons given in the article to support the idea of drinking water intermittently with meal, against the dicta of the TV preachers not to drink water during meals, are worth considering.

My point of view is: Body knows best when and how much water to drink.  Our bodies are more analytical than our TV preachers.  Body may call for more water when hot foods are eaten (these are UshNa vIryam in Ayurvedic language, eg. pepper, chillies).  Consumption of oily stuff may also warrant drinking of more water.  Madhura rasa foods (sweet taste foods such as sugar, jaggery, honey) have a tendency to satiate thirst and body may not call for more water after consumption of Madhura rasa and tikta rasa (bitter taste).  On the other hand, lavaNa (salt), katu (hot) tasting foods may need more water.  They seem to have a tendency to dehydrate body.

The amount of physical exertion will also influence body's demand for water.   This is because when we do some physical labor, we sweat, and water gets excreted through sweat pores, and we need more water to replenish.   During summer, sweat glands work more and hence we may feel more thirsty.  In winter, kidneys takeover, if they work well, we may feel thirsty.

IMPORTANT AYURVEDIC DICTUM WORTH CONSIDERING AND ANALYSING

50% of body should be filled with solid food, 25% with water and the remaining should be left vacant.  This vacant space will be used by gases released in the digestive process.  Else, there will be no space for gases, if the entire stomach is loaded with food and water.


Water scarcity in Telugu Land

Photo courtesy Outlookindia.com.



To see a beautiful article at the above outlookindia.com, click: अवुटलुकइंडिया में मुद्रित एक सुंदर व्यास को देखने के लिये क्लिक.  పై బొమ్మ ఉన్న అవుట్ లుక్ ఆర్టికిల్ చదవాలనుకునే వారికి లింక్, క్లిక్.


http://www.outlookindia.com/printarticle.aspx?240637

Wherefrom we can get six litres of clean drinking water per day? हमारे को हर दिन छे लीटर पीने पानी कहाँ से मिलेगा? మనకు రోజుకి ఆరులీటర్ల శుభ్రమైన నీళ్ళు తాగటానికి ఎక్కడ నుండి వస్తాయి.
Summary:  We cannot make a hard and fast rule that a person should drink minimum six litres of water per day.  No max. or no min.

To continue सशेष సశేషం. 

377 Naidu gArU, pl. send some water wagons to Giddaluru

377 శ్రీ చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు గారూ, దయచేసి కొన్ని నీళ్ళ వాగన్లను గిద్దలూరు సమీప గ్రామాలకు పంపండి
३७७ श्री चंद्र बाबु नायुडूजी, कृपा से कुछ पानी वेगॆन्स को गिद्दलूरु भेजीये





Now, that Visakhapatnam is gradually recouping back to normalcy, it is time for Chief Minister of Residual Andhra Pradesh Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu to look the problems of the dry District of A.P. - the Prakasam Dt.

ఇపుడు క్రమక్రమంగా విశాఖపట్నం సాధారణ పరిస్థితికి తిరిగి వస్తున్నది కాబట్టి, శేషాంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ ముఖ్యమంత్రి శ్రీ చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు గారు, శేషాంధ్రప్రదేశ్ లోని కరువు జిల్లాలైన కర్నూలు, కడప, అనంతపురం, ప్రకాశం వంక కూడ ఒక సారి చూస్తే బాగుంటుంది. 

अभी विशाखपट्टणम् क्रमशः साधारण स्थिती को वापस आ रहा है । अतः शेषांध्र प्रदेश मुख्य मंत्री श्री चंद्रबाबु नायुडु को राज्य के प्यासे और सूखे हुए रायलसीमा और प्रकाशं जिले के दिशा मे देखाना होगा।

The businessmen and the industrialists of Visakhapatnam know that Rs. 1000 crores are being sent by Mr. Narendra Modi, and they know how to share among themselves.  They also know that another Rs. 10 billion are on the anvil and they can easily share it with the officials and politicians.   Hence, Mr. Naidu need not worry about Visakha any more.

విశాఖపట్నం వాణిజ్యవేత్తలకు, పారిశ్రామికవేత్తలకు, శ్రీ నరేంద్రమోడీ గారు రూ. వేయి కోట్లను పంపారనీ, ఇంకో వేయి కోట్లను పంపబోతున్నారనీ తెలుసు.  వాటిని తమలో తాము ఎలా పంచుకోవాలో తెలుసు.  అధికారులతో, రాజకీయనేతలతో కలిసి ఎలా మింగాలో తెలుసు.  అందుకని శ్రీచంద్రబాబు నాయుడుగారు విశాఖ ఇలైట్ గురించి చింతించన్ పని లేదు.

विशाख पट्नम के वाणिज्य पतियों को और उद्योगपतियों को यह समाचार मालूम है कि, श्री नरेंद्र मोडी एक हजार करोड रूपये भेजे, और उस से अतिरिक्त हजार करोड रुपये रास्ते में हैं।  उन करोडों को कैसै भांट लेना उन पतियों को सुपरिचित है।  अधिकारियों और नेताओं के साथ कैसा खाना उनको माहिर विद्या है।  इसीलिये श्री चंद्रबाबु नायुडू को विशाखा अभिजात वर्गं बारे मे चिंताग्रस्त होने का जरूरत नहीँ है। 

Acute shortage of drinking water in villages near Giddalur.  గిద్దలూరు సమీప గ్రామాలలో త్రాగునీటి కొరత  गिद्दलूर समीप ग्रामों में पीने पाने के कमी

Media is reporting that in villages near Giddaluru of Prakasam Dt. are experiencing severe drinking water shortage and that the people are worshipping GangA mAta for rains.


ప్రకాశం జిల్లా గిద్దలూరు సమీప గ్రామాలలో, త్రాగునీటికి తీవ్ర కొరత ఏర్పడిందని మీడియా వార్తలు సూచిస్తన్నాయి.  గ్రామాల ప్రజలు వర్షాల కొరకు గంగా మాతను వర్షాల కొరకు పూజిస్తున్నారట.

मीडिया के समाचार के अनुसार, प्रकाशं जिले, गिद्दलूर समीप ग्रामों में पीने पानी के तीक्षण कमी है और लोग वर्षओं के लिये गंगा माता को पूजा कर रहे हैं।

Mr. Naidu may have to appreciate that in kali Age, worships, however sincere they may be, need not fetch rains.

కలియగంలో పూజలకు వర్షాలు కురవటం కష్టం అని శ్రీచంద్రబాబునాయుడు గారు గుర్తించటం అవసరం. 

श्री चंद्र बाबु नायुडी महोदय यह मानना पडेगा, कि कलि युग में पूजाओं से वर्षाओं को मंगना मुष्किल, शायद असाध्य है। 



Hence, Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu should endeavor to send drinking water to these places in 50 to 100 water-tanker fitted goods trains.

కాబట్టి శ్రీ చంద్రబాబు నాయుడు గారు, ౫౦ నుండి వంద నీటి ట్యాంకర్లను తగిలించిన గూడ్స రైళ్ళలో గిద్దలూరు ప్రాంత గ్రామాలకు మంచినీటిని తరలించటానికి ప్రయత్నించాలి.

इसीलिये, श्री चंद्र बाबु नायुडू पचास से सौ टेंकरवाले रेल गाडियों मॆंं गिद्दलूर समीप गाओं के लिये पीने पानी भेजने के लीये कोशिश करना चाहिये । 

Drinking water for these tanker trains can, perhaps, be loaded at Nandyal (KC Canal) or at Kurnool (Tungabhadra River) or Prakasam Barrage at Vijayavada (Krishna River).

ఈ నీటి టాంకర్లకు మంచినీటిని కర్నూలు తుంగభద్రా నదినుండి గానీ, నంద్యాల దగ్గర కెసీ కాలువ నుండి కానీ, విజయవాడ ప్రకాశం బ్యారేజీ దగ్గరనుండి గానీ లోడ్ చేయించి పంప వచ్చు.

इन पीने पानी के टेंकरों को पानी कर्नूल तुंग भद्रा नदी, या नंद्याल कॆसी कॆनाल, या विजयवाडा प्रकाशं बेरेज (कृष्णा नदी) से भर सकते है ।

We have a  recent history of sending drinking water wagons from Vijayavada Prakasam Barrage to Chennai. 

మనం త్రాగునీటిని విజయవాడ ప్రకాశం బ్యారేజి కృష్ణానది నుండి చెన్నై నగరానికి తరలించిన ఇటీవలి చరిత్రలు ఉన్నాయి.

हम विजयवाडा प्रकाशम बेरेज कृष्णा नदी से चॆन्नै शहर को टॆंकर्स मे पीने पानी भेजने के अतीत इतिहास है।

Will Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu ask for another 1000 crore for carrying out this task from Centre and keep his fingers crossed till funds are received?  Let us hope that he will not do so.

శ్రీచంద్రబాబు నాయుడు గారు ఈ పనిని చేయటానికి,  కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వాన్ని ఒక వేయి కోట్లు పంపమిని అడిగి అవి వచ్చే దాకా వేచి ఉంటారా ?  ఉండరు అని ఆశిద్దాము.

श्री चंद्र बाबु नायुडू यह काम करने के लिये केंद्र सर्कार को एक हजार करोड रूपये भेजने के लिये पूछ कर, उन करोड आने तक इंतजार करते ?  वैसा नहीं होगा, हम आकांक्षा करेंगे।