1035 What for is collyrium / kohl (kATuka - kAjal), when there is no food to belly-stomach (kaDupu)? What for is 'immortality' when People eke out a precarious existence of semi-starvation?

For the benefit of those who do not know about 'Telugu Language' or 'Telugu Indians':-- Telugu is a language mainly spoken in India, and also all over the World, by about 100 million People. Its ancient and Medieval Literature, I believe will be more in quantity and quality, than the English Literature or French Literature or Literature of any other European Language. The State of Telangana, in India, has a few days back completed a four day jamboree called "World Telugu Conference" (WTC. We should not confuse ourselves with World Trade Center of the same Abbreviation). Though it is titled "World Telugu Conference", the Telangana's Virtual Sultan, his Two Princes, One Princess, have not invited the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State, which has more number of People who have Telugu as Mother Tongue. Not that, Mr. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh would have come, even if invited, because the two leaders have a peculiar relationship of two cats fighting for the same piece of flat pancake. Strangely, the WTC and Shri Chandra Sekhara Rao have also forgot even to mention about Late Shri Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao, who made some semblances of fighting for the Self-Respect of Telugu People. In his moments of self-aggrandizement, Shri Chandrasekhara Rao, seems to have forgotten not only about the political Role of Late Shri N.T. Rama Rao, as the Former Chief Minister of United Andhra Pradesh, but also his Contribution as Hero of several Mythological films depicting Lord Rama, Krishna, Vishnu, Shiva, Ravana, Duryodhana, Arjuna, Brihannala, Bhima, and historical characters like Shri Krishna Deva Rayalu, Warrior of Bobbili, Warrior of Palnadu etc., which has nothing to do Politics.

What could have been the total expenditure incurred on the World Telugu Conference jamboree?

I estimate it at Rs. 2,000 crore (Rs. 20 billion or about $300 million!). If my estimate is excessive, Shri Chandrasekhara Rao, can always release a White Paper, and also place all the details on the Telangana Government's Website.

Did the Poor People of Telangana ask for a World Telugu Conference? Whose pockets will the WTC Bills fill? Ans: Some TRS Leaders who might have taken the Contracts.

కందం. కడుపునకు కూడు గానక
పడి మిడిమిడి మిడుకునట్టి బడుగున కియ్యా
ఱడి అమరత్వంబేటికి
కడుపిట గాలంగ కంట కాటుక యేలా.

In Roman Script: kaDupunaku kUDu kAnaka
paDi miDi miDi miDukunaTTi baduguna kiyyA-
raDi amaratvam bETiki
kaDupu iTa kAlanga kanTa kATuka ElA.
from: Koravi Goparaju, Simhasana Dvatrimsika కొరవి గోపరాజు, సింహాసన ద్వాత్రంశకము.
This verse has a story behind. A poor Brahmin went to a Kali Temple, and did penance praying Goddess Kali. When the Goddess appeared before the Brahmin, he forgot the prime purpose of his penance and his approaching the Goddess. When she asked him to chose a boon, he asked her for 'immortality'. The Goddess gave the Brahmin a fruit, and told him, by eating it he and his family will attain immortality. The Brahmin went to his cottage, gave it to his wife, and explained to her that they could attain immortality by eating the fruit. Wife was agitated and irritated, because she was anxious and afflicted with anguish about hunger and poverty. She was not worried about immortality. The above verse is the reply she gave to her husband: What for is immortality, for the Sufferer of Poverty, with no food for the belly, and those who are eking out an existence of semi-starvation. When the stomach is burning with hunger, what for is collyrium (Hindi: surma. Telugu: kATuka), for eyes?. The wife is very clear about her first priority.

One bitter Truth: Some people have compared Shri KCR to Shrikrishna Deva Rayalu, the first half 16th Century Vijayanagara King-Emperor-Ruler.

Very few People know that Vizianagara Kings thrived by encouraging prostitution. According to one school of history, i am not sure, how far it is correct, Vizianagara Kings had about 12,000 soldiers. The Kingdom was paying their salaries, by using taxes collected from about 12,000 Prostitutes in the Kingdom.

Now, our 21st Century Modern Krishna Deva Rayalu-s (KCR in Telangana and Chandra Babu Naidu in Residual Andhra Pradesh) are thriving by encouraging Pubs, Bars, etc. etc. what not? in the name of Tourism. Our Honourable President of India Shri Kovind praises them immensely.

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1022: 50 BJP/NDA MPs may not rebel against BJP/NDA Top Leadership- Discussion

Triggers to me, for my this blog post, are: 1) Discussion in Telugu News Channel TV9, on 3rd Oct. 2017, 8.30 p.m., about the developments in BJP, and the Economic Development Arena of this country. Link to see this TV9 discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCH_zZN205Y. 2) Full page advertisement released by Govt. of India, and the Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, in the DeccanChronicle.Com, print Edition dated 3rd Oct. 2017, Page7, on the occasion of laying of Foundation Stone for 13 NH Projects costing Rs.4153 crore (Rs. 42 billion), at IGM Stadium, Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Photo courtesy DeccanChronicle.Com. My sincere thanks to them. Interested Readers can visit the Epaper of the DeccanChronicle.Com. The aforesaid TV9 discussion has also a marquee line saying 'laka laka laka' (Telugu language). One of the participants expressed a view that if the top BJP Leadership does not initiate corrective measures, there is a possibility of about 50 Ruling Party Members moving away from BJP, in case BJP fails to win Gujarat Elections, and that 50 Senior Members are waiting for a Right timing. The Participant praised the performance of the Govt. of Shri Modi, upto the point of Demonetization.

Personal views of ybrao-a-donkey which are not intended to be imposed on others.

I am not a supporter or hater of Shri Narendra Modi, our Hon. Prime Minister. I am too small a fry to do that. But the TV9 Discussion linked above was very lively, and they have expressed some very valid points. The Representative of the BJP Party, who participated in the discussion, faced a tough situation amidst the criticism by the other two participants, and the penetrating questions by the anchor, who has made tremendous fair and frank effort to elicit replies from the BJP Representative.

Is it really likely that 50 Members will raise against BJP Top Leadership?

Ans: This may not happen for the following reasons:--
1) MPs of all Parties have spent millions of Rupees, to get elected to the Parliament. Revolts by Lok Sabha Members can lead to Mid Term Elections. Fresh Elections means, fresh burden of expenditure. They have to recover their 2014 Election Expenses, and add more bucks for the 2019 Normal Elections. The Prime Minister himself has pledged a slogan, 'na khAtE' or 'na khAnE dEtE'.(English: Shall not EAT, nor will allow others to EAT). Then, how the 2014 MPs are going to recover their expenses? By toppling the existing Leadership, and going for a New Prime Minister who will 'khAtE' and 'khAnE dEtE' (Will Eat, and allow others to Eat), --some MPs may wish for. But, they cannot speak about or canvass for that openly, because that may lead them to face fresh troubles.

2) Like many Indian Voters, Indian MPs also may not shift their loyalties, unless there are some financial motivators. Such financial motivators may run into Crores of Rupees. If at least 100 MPs are to be purchased to change their loyalties, Rs. 1,000 crore (Rs. 10 billion) may be needed. Such billions, only Industrialists and Business Tycoons can pay. As on date, Industrialists and Business Tycoons seem to be fully happy with the present BJP Leadership Dispensations. Even if some dissatisfaction exists among some Industrialists and Business Tycoons, still they have not lost hope that the unhappy features in Govt. Policies can be corrected and retuned to meet their needs.

3) If sufficient number of MPs do not jump over the fence, there is a danger of Defecting/ Rebel MPs facing Disqualification.

Today's politicians are very much practical politicians. They know very clearly on which side, their bread is buttered.

Advertisement released by GOI and GOAP (see the above picture)

It is strange that the above Advertisement contains the photographs of Shri Venkaiah Naidu, Vice President of India, Shri Nithin Gadkari, Union Minister of our Road and Water Ways, and Shri Nara Chandra Babu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Conspicuously absent is the photo of the Hon. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose photo we see ubiquitously (omnipresent) everywhere, nowadays.

Is this omission to add PM's photo, deliberate or accidental (inadvertant)? Has Mr. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu, lost his patience with our Hon. PM? Mr. Naidu is eager for funds from Center. He has Great Plans for Construction of New Capital for Andhra Pradesh, at New Amaravati. Besides, he has revised the Estimates for the Polavaram Project to Rs. 50,000 crore (Rs. 500 billion or about $9 billion). He does not leave any occasion, in Meetings to ask the Central Ministers for funds. These repeated entreaties by Mr. Naidu for Central Funds, might have irked the Central Leaders, because their antennae are focused towards Gujarat and Karnataka, in particular, and the BJP Ruled States in General.

There is also the debt burden which the Residual Andhra Pradesh inherited, after forced bifurcation of the United Andhra Pradesh in 2014, both by Congress and BJP at Centre, against the wishes of the People of the Residual Andhra Pradesh, while outstanding debts have been divided in the Ratio of Populations of the Two New States, income-yielding assets, Income Sources, Central Institutions have gone to the Telangana State, along with the Hyderabad City which was developed with combined funds of both the States. Though both the BJP and Congress promised to compensate Residual Andhra Pradesh for their deprivation and destitution, nothing solid was done by the Centre.

Why Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu is not getting appointment for Interview with the PM?

Of course, to reply to this question, Hon. Prime Minister may not have time or energies. Mr. Naidu can answer. Let us hope that he will answer.

There are News Reports which indicate that Mr. Chandra Babu Naidu is not able to get an appointment with the PM for the last one year. In the above TV9 discussion, there is also a mention that Central Govt. Officials are asking from the CM of AP, for 'Agenda' for the Meeting, to examine the scope for fixing an appointment with PM!

Residual Andhra Pradesh, after its bifurcation from Telangana, has lost its strength of MPs. The number of AP MPs has got nearly halved. Now, Residual A.P. is only a small State, among 28 other such Entities. Central Leaders are too busy elsewhere.
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1008 Sacking of Mr. IYR Krishna Rao, as Brahmin Corporation Chairman, has lessons not only to him, but also to the Global Bureaucratic Community, and Government Pensioners

Though what I write here appear to relate to the Sacking of the Top Retired Indian I.A.S. (Indian Administrative Service) Bureaucrat, Retd. Chief Secretary of Govt. of Andhra Pradesh,--from his present post of the Chairman, Brahmin Corporation, the basics, circumstances, situations, principles, trends etc. apply not only to Indian Bureaucrats, but to all types of Employees and Officers worldwide, by whatever designations they may be called, whether in Private Sector or in Public Sector. There are lessons not only to be learnt by Shri Krishna Rao, not only by working-at-present Bureaucrats, but also for Retired Bureaucrats, both in Private Sector and Public Sector.

We shall start with a Telugu language Verse, a language spoken by 100 million people across the World.

Poet: Telugu Poet Dhoorjati, Period Approx. 1451-1550 CE.(Period earlier than even William Shakespeare and John Milton. Book: Sri Kalahasti-Iswara-Satakam (A book of 100 verses addressed to Lord Kalahastiswara, the deity at Sri Kala hasti, near Tirumala-Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh).

రాజుల్ మత్తులు వారిసేవ rAjul mattulu, vAri sEva
నరకప్రాయంబు వారిచ్చునం naraka prAyambu, vAriccu am-

భోజాక్షీచతురంతయానతురగీ bhOjAkshI caturanta yAna turagI
భూషాదు లాత్మవ్యధా bhUshAdu lAtma vyathA

బీజంబుల్ తదపేక్ష చాలు మరి bIjambul tat apEksha cAlu mari
తృప్తిం బొందితిన్ జ్ఞానల triptin ponditin gnAna la-

క్ష్మీజాగ్రత్పరిణామ మిమ్ము kshmI jAgrit pariNAma mimmu
దయతో శ్రీ కాళహస్తీశ్వరా! dayatO SrI kALa hastIsvarA !

Approx. English gist: Oh Lord KAlahastIsvarA ! Kings are intoxicated persons (with power). Their service tantamounts to Hell. The paraphernalia they bestow such as women, chariots, horses, gold ornaments etc. are seeds of self-anguish. Let there be end for all such things. I am satiated. Kindly, bless with the Wealth of True Knowledge.

ybrao-a-donkey's personal views not intended to be imposed on others

It is not clear whether the Great poet DhoorjaTi left the service of the Vijayanagara Kings, soon after the death of Srikrishna Deva RAya in 1519 CE circa. But the above verse was apparently penned while Dhoorjati was still in the Court of Krishna Deva Raya. Yet, the above verse might not have been written from the personal experience of Poet DhoorjaTi. In spite of Democles Swords hanging over their heads while serving kings most Telugu Poets continued to serve Kings, because there was no alternative. Where could they go, leaving royal patronage! dina vecca mE rAju tIrpa galaDu (Which king will provide for the daily provisions to the Kitchen?).

But this cannot be the case of the Indian Bureaucrats of the 21st Century. They are well cared after by the Government. Though they may not get their salaries on par with Private Sector CEOs, CFOs of Glamorous Corporates like ICICI Bk., TCS, Infosys etc. they need not worry about their food, clothing, shelter, old age security, health care, children's education etc. Many Govt. Officers and quasi-Government Officers know well that they will be good for nothing outside, and their skills are unemployable in Private Sectors, except for liaison and brokerage services for getting work done in Government. Besides, above everything, if they learn the art of their profession, they can amass enormous wealth through bribing and kick-backs. For that reason only they learn sycophancy from their Seniors, and try to excel them so that they can occupy their chairs as soon as they retire, or sometimes even before the Seniors retire.

I do not wish to say that Mr. IYR Krishna Rao is a sycophant. That will be libellous and scandalous. What I have written about is the general environment prevailing in the Indian (probably even Global) Bureaucratic Arena. IAS-IPS_IFS-IRS caste, Banking Caste, and other Top Officers should not be angry with me for writing this. On the other hand, they should look for black sheep among themselves. The behaviors of some black sheep, can vitiate a whole environment, just as a drop of venom can render a potful of milk deadly.

Mr. I.Y.R. Krishna Rao knew his art and science of playing his Cards well. During his about three decades of service, he has won accolades from his Superiors, both the IAS tribe, and the Politician tribe. He has climbed the rungs of the Executive Ladder with a quite swift felicity. He was rarely sidelined into loop-line postings [derogatively called Shiva-Alayams in Telugu language. Reason: In Andhra Pradesh Shiva Temples tend to be poorer when compared to VishNu temples. Shiva is offered only bilva leaves and ash, whereas VishNu idols (eg. Lord Venkateswara) get all the gold and precious stones) Hence, postings which have no glamor or no additional income such as Director of Museums, Archaeology become loopline]. He had occupied prestigious positions like Executive Officer, Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam, the Richest Temple in India, and the Second Richest in the World after Vatican City. Whatever be the Behind-the-scene affairs, even as Chief Secretary to the Govt. of A.P., he was treated with honor, prima facie.

To Continue in Part 2 of this piece.

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1007 Voters of USA ought to have elected a President like Mr. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh State, India

The People of the United States of America have in a most unexpected manner elected Mr. Donald Trump as their President. Now, some of them must be enjoying it, and some others must be regretting it. This month only, the People of the United Kingdom have given their throne to their Tory Leader Ms. Theresa May, albeit with a reduced majority, below her expectations, and gave a lift up to Mr. Jeremy Corbyn and the Whigs. In France, the Nation which broke the Prison of Bastille in 1789, they elected a somewhat mild Centrist Mr. Emmanuel Macron to their Elyse Palace. But none of them in their nearly 300 years of Democracy might have seen a leader like Mr. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu, the present Chief Minister of the State of Andhra Pradesh, India, a very Senior Politician in the Field of Politics since 1978. None of the three i.e. Mr. Donald Trump, Ms. Theresa May, Mr. Emmanuel Macron can match Mr. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu in any respect. Only Mr. Narendra Modi, the Present Prime Minister of India can outclass him.

To understand the acumen of Mr. Nara Chandra Babu Naidu, the following quotes will be enough:--Link:--Click here to go the full source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/if-you-don-t-like-my-govt-don-t-take-pension-or-use-roads-built-by-us-andhra-cm-to-voters/story-h2hi37hTT1th4BhyjPDN4H.html. Title of the Report: "If you don’t like my govt, don’t take pension or use roads: Andhra CM to voters"
Here are a few quotes:--

You want to enjoy pensions given by me and travel on the roads built by my government. But you don’t want to vote for me. How is it justified?

"...If you don’t like my government, don’t take the pensions and don’t use the roads..."

(To his Telugu Desam Party Workers): "...If they don’t vote for us, ask them why … even after getting so many benefits from us. I will not hesitate to ignore such villages that don’t vote for us...."

"...Why do you still crave for the money distributed by corrupt political leaders and vote for their parties? How can a 500- or 1,000-rupee note given by them change your fortune?..."

"...Some political parties are luring voters by distributing money, which they had earned through corrupt means. I, too, have the capacity to pay Rs 2,000 or even Rs 5,000 per vote to the people..."

"...For that, I have to indulge in corrupt practices and loot 100 times more from the people. But I will not indulge in such corrupt politics. ..."

So, American Citizens: Do not use your Health Care! So American Unemployed!!! Do not take your Unemployment Beenefits upto US$450 per week given by your State Governments, if you are not going to vote for the present rulers.

So, British Citizens: Do not draw your Health Benefits from the British Health Budget of Pounds 110 billion ! Do not claim your Unemployment Benefits ranging from Pounds 60 to Pounds 80 per week!, if you are not going to vote for the present rulers

So, French Citizens: Refuse your Health Benefits under Protection Universelle Maladie (PUMA). Kindly refuse your Unemployment Allowances upto Euro 6,000 per month, if you are not going to vote for the present rulers.

For those who wish to study "Cash for Vote Scam" of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, here is a Wikipedia Link: Click here to go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Cash_For_Vote_Scam.

American Voters, British Voters, French Voters may have to learn a lot from Indian Voters

Here is a quote attributed to Mr. Arvind Kejriwal, the 2017 Chief Minister of Delhi:

"...If Congress or BJP candidates offer money, do not refuse it. Accept it as it is your own money and there is nothing wrong in getting it back. If they do not offer money, go to their offices and ask for it. ..."

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