1000 Some Reflections on this World and India

Ms. Priyanka Chopra, Climbing Star from Bollywood to Hollywood, is entitled to her own ways, to make quick greenbacks, but why all this hullabaloo about conferring Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards to her? Dadasaheb Phalke was the Grand Old Man and the Pioneer of Indian Film Industry of the EARLY 20th Century. Government of India in 1969 constituted a 'Dadasaheb Phalke Award', the highest in the Indian Film World. Ms. Devika Rani, the heroine of the Indian Film Industry in its infancy was the first Recipient. Greats like Satyajit Ray, Shanta Ram, were among its recipients. Usually, this Award is delivered and received from the President of India, the Head of State. The latest recipient of the Award is Telugu Film Director K. Viswanath, who has produced many memorable off-the-beaten-track classical musical films. It appears that our Heroines and Heroes are not willing to wait till some of them get the coveted award from the Government of India. A parallel 'Dadasaheb Phalke Academy Awards' have been created to quench the thirst of the ambitious stars who have made big bucks in India or abroad, or both.

Who approaches whom for these Awards? Who pays whom for these Awards?

Indian Citizens know something about the traditional Official Dadasaheb Phalke Awards, announced and conferred by Government of India, as the Conferment of the Awards by President of India gets wide publicity both in Print and Electronic Media. But they know very little about the "Phalke Academy Awards". While this is so, a new category by name International Acclaimed Actress Award seems to have been introduced for accommodating the BollyHolly star Ms. Priyanka Chopra.

Did Ms. Priyanka Chopra approach the Academy for an Award? Has the Academy approached the actress on its own volition?

Ans: Not known.

Did Ms. Peecee donate any bucks to the Academy to induce them to introduce "International Acclaimed Actress" Award?

Ans: not known. Ordinarily, awards carry some citation, some cup/trophy/memento, and some cash. That means, the Academy has to incur some expense on these counts. Is Ms. Chopra reimbursing them their out of pocket expenses. Ans: Not known.

Is the Phalke Academy is so publicity crazy, and publicity starved, that it is compelled to invite Ms. Priyanka Chopra, so as to 'pull crowds' for their functions

Ans. May be.

Both Print Media and Electronic Media are giving so much publicity for this event. What proportion of it is paid News, and what proportion of it is free news?

Ans: Not known.

Related Links

Click here to go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dadasaheb_Phalke_Award

Click here to go to http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/hindi/bollywood/news/priyanka-chopra-to-be-honoured-with-dadasaheb-phalke-academy-award/articleshow/58889422.cms

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Do Yogis need Sofas, Carpets, AirConditioners, Curtains to console mourning family members of a martyr?

Ans: It appears so. For this question, this ybrao-a-donkey is incompetent to reply. Only the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, who is a self-proclaimed Yogi, can reply to this question.

Related News Link

Click here to go to http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/ac-sofa-carpet-put-up-at-slain-bsf-troopers-home-removed-after-yogis-visit/articleshow/58672836.cms

Click here to see the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JigqGpRm12A

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Today's Telugu verse

From Sumati Satakam, by 14th CE poet BaddenAmAtya.

సిరి తా వచ్చిన వచ్చును siri tA vaccina vaccunu
సలలితముగ నారికేళ సలిలము భంగిన్ salalitamuga nArikELa salilamu bhangin
సిరి తా పోయిన పోవును siri tA pOyina pOvunu
కరి మ్రింగిన వెలగపండు కరణిని సుమతీ! kari mringina velaga panDu karaNini sumatI !!

Approx. English gist: 1st line: When wealth comes, it comes,
2nd line: a la the water (juice) in a coconut fruit.
3rd line: When Wealth goes, it goes,
4th line: like the pulp in a stone apple fruit swallowed by an elephant.
Note: It is a 14th Century CE Deccan belief that when an elephant swallows a stone-apple, without breaking its stony epicarp-pericarp, it digests the fruit's pulp, and excretes a hollow fruit.

Purport-Discourse: When wealth comes it comes silently. When it leaves, it makes no noise. Everything takes place silently, as if it happens stealthily. So, the sofas , air conditioner, carpet, curtains, all have come and gone like 'siri'.

To come back and continue adding / deleting / modifying . सशेष. ఇంకా ఉంద.

635 Who said that India is poor? कौन कहा भारत एक गरीबी देश है । ఎవరన్నారు భారత్ పేదదేశమని.

According to News Reports, one Gold Merchant in Visakhapatnam is paying Rs. 150 million (Rs. 15 crore) for a one day advertisement shooting, to their brand ambassador, film star Ms. Rakul Preet Singh. Are the Gold Merchants of Vizag fools? Or are the gold buyers of Visakhapatnam fools? Why does gold need a certification by a film star? This is a Mad Mad Mad World Indeed! Is her certification a hallmark?

समाचार पत्रों के अनुसार, विशाख पट्टणम में एक सोने की व्यापारी , अपने सोने को बेचने के लिये, एक दिन के विज्ञापन फिल्म षूटिंग के लिये, उनके ब्रांड अंबासॆडर फिल्म स्टार राकुल प्रीत सिंग को रू. १.५ करोड दिया है। अगर यह सच है तो, यह सवाल उठता है कि, विशाख पट्टणम के सोने के व्यापारी लोग मूर्ख या मूढ क्या ? नहीं तो, विशाख पट्टणम के सोने खरीदने वाले जन मूर्ख या मूढ क्या ? सोने को, क्या एक फिल्म स्टार की सर्टिफइकेशन होना ? यह एक पागल , बहुत पागल, महा पागल , परम पागल (जैसा वीर चक्र, महा वीर चक्र, परम वीर चक्र हम शौर्य और देश केलिये त्याग को हम गौरव देते है,) इस मूढीभूत देश को, राज्य को, शहर को, वैसा हम पग्लीपन को गौरव देना क्या ? उन फिल्म नटी की सर्टिफिकेशन एक हाल मार्क है ?

సమాచార పత్రికలలో వస్తున్న వార్తల ననుసరించి, విశాఖ పట్టణంలో ఒక బంగారం వ్యాపారి, తన బంగారు నగలను అమ్మే టందుకు, ప్రకటనను షూటింగ్ చేయటానికి, కేవలం ఒక రోజు యాడ్ ఫిల్ము షూట్ చేయటానికి, తన బ్రాండు రాయబారి అయిన నటీమణి రాకుల్ ప్రీత్ సింగ్ గారికి రూ. 1.5 కోట్లు చెల్లించారుట. ఈ వార్తే నిజమైతే, జన్మించే ప్రశ్న ఏమిటంటే, విశాఖ పట్టణం బంగారు వ్యాపారులు తెలివి గలవాళ్ళని ఇన్నాళ్ళూ అనుకుంటున్నాము, ఇపుడు వాళ్ళు ఇంత మూఢుల్లాగా, మూర్ఖులలాగా ప్రవర్తిస్తునారా. వారు విశాఖ ప్రజలను, సినీనటి శిఫారసు ఉంటే తప్ప బంగారు నగలు కొనని వెర్రి వెధవలుగా సంభావిస్తున్నారా. లేక విశాఖ ప్రజలే, సినిమా నటీమణుల రికమెండేషన్ ఉంటే తప్ప మేము బంగారం కొనమని మొండికేసుకు కూర్చున్నారా. ఏది ఏమైతేనేమి విశాఖ ప్రజలకు రూ. 1.5 కోట్ల క్షుర కర్మ తప్పే లాగా లేదు.
The Citizens of Chennai were reported to have paid to Ms. Priyanka Chopra Rs. 65 million for participating in 2014 New Year Bash. May not be anything new. How about 2016? Which stars the citizens of Chennai will invite for the 2016 New Year Bash? How much will they pay to the stars? Will the city go ablaze and gaga? Only recently, the City has tasted the worst of Floods of the last 100 years! The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, Ms. Jayalalitaa is reported to have asked the Centre for Rs. 24,000 crore (Rs. 240 billion) for rehabilitation and reconstruction.

२०१४ नई साल को आह्वान देने के लिये, समाचार पत्रों के अनुसार, चॆन्नै के सिटिजॆन, एक होटॆल् के द्वारा रू. ६५ मिलियन (६.५ करोड्) फिल्म अभिनेत्री प्रियांका चोप्रा के दिये। उस में कुछ नई नहीं होगा। अभी २०१६ के बारे में क्या कहना ? चॆन्नै किस किस ताराओं को कितने करोड समर्पण करके बुलाकर, २०१६ को आह्वान दिलाते हैं, हम देखना ही है। कुछ दिन पहले ही, चॆन्नै एक शताब्द में बडे बाढ में आदा शहर डूब गई। समाचार पत्रों के अनुसार, तमिल नाडु के मुख्य मंत्री कु. जयललिताजी सॆंटर से रू. २४,००० करोड् मदद मांगी थी ।

2014 లో నూతన సంవత్సరాన్ని స్వాగతించటానికి , వార్తా పత్రికల ప్రకారం, ఒక్క హోటల్ వారే, బాలీవుడ్ తారామణి కు. ప్రియాంకా చోప్రాగారికి రూ. 6.5 కోట్లు చెల్లించారుట. భారత్ లో అలాటివి కొత్త కాకపోవచ్చు. కానీ 2016 సంగతి ఏమిటి. చెన్నై పౌరులు ఏఏ నట చంద్రులను, నటీ మణులను, ఎన్నెన్ని కోట్లిచ్చి ఆహ్వానించ పోతున్నారు. చెన్నై నగరమంతా ధగద్ ధగాయమానమై ఇటీవలే సంభవించిన, శతాబ్దంలో కెల్లా అతి ఘోరమైన వరదను మర్చి పోతుందా. తమిళనాడు ముఖ్యమంత్రి కు. జయలలిత గారు, నగర పునర్ నిర్మాణానికి కేంద్రం నుండి రూ. 24,000 కోట్లు సహాయం కోరారుట.

Who said that India is poor? कौन कहा, भारत गरीबी देश है ? ఎవరన్నారు భారత్ పేద దేశమని ?

tailpiece धूमकेतु తోకచుక్క
Polling might have been completed in Telangana State for electing MLCs from the Local Bodies Constituencies. Of course, as everybody knows, there are strong indications of TRS sweeping the results.



What is to be wondered is: the predicament of the CPI Central Committee Member, Shri K. Narayana. Expecting support from TRS and Mr. K. Chandra Sekhara Rao, in the post new State Formation Scenario, Mr. Narayana and his party obsessively participated in the Telangana Movement, forgetting that CPI is NOT ONLY A NATIONAL PARTY, but ALSO A PARTY OF WORKERS AND SOCIALISM. CPI's wish of a new State has been fulfilled. CPI also expected great electoral gains from the People of Telangana, apart from the TRS Party. But nothing of that sort happened. CPI and Mr. Narayana's hopes have been dashed. Now, according to news reports, Mr. Narayana has started blaming TRS for not supporting CPI.

What is the lesson from this? nishkAma karma sEyarA nAyanA ! (Oh man! Work without expecting fruits. This is the lesson of Bhagavad Gita).

Another more ugly thing observed in this CPI MLC Contest Episode:
The Party selected, for its Khammam Constituency, the owner of a Medical College, as an MLC Candidate. That might have been done on the hope that a Medical College owner will be able to buy voters by distributing wads of notes. In spite of that CPI may lose.

CPI is supposed to be , at least theoretically, a Party of Workers. Not a bourgeoisie party. Then it should have contested with a Worker Candidate, irrespective of winning or losing. Can't CPI find at least one worker to contest, though he-she may be incapable of buying votes?

Earlier, CPI's name appeared in the list of Receptors of Donations from Liquor Contractors in Khammam District. That investigation has been pending for a long time, as Congress Party bosses are also involved in the Liquor Donations Scam. But with that experience, Left Parties should have stopped taking donations from Liquor Contractors. Did they? Probably not.

CPI and CPM should have contested all the seats for which elections are being held. (I always hold an irresistable opinion that Left Parties should contest only for LOK SABHA AND RAJYA SABHA. Reason: The type of reforms which are to be brought about , such as Removal of Private Property, Removal of Monetary System, Removal of Marriage System, Treating every Indian Citizen as a Govt. Employee, Guaranteed FREE food, clothing, shelter, old age security, education, health, rest and recuperation , transport, to every citizen, are possible only if Left Parties get an absolute clear majority in both Houses. There will not be much use in coming to power at State or Municipal or Local Administration Levels. ). But yet, if the Left Parties want to contest State Level, Local level elections, they should invariably contest all the seats, nominating WORKER CANDIDATES everywhere. They may not be able to buy votes like the bourgeoisie candidates. Yet, they will make a beginning in developing contacts with People. Losing deposits will only be an initial temporary phase. There should also be competition among / between all the Left Parties, so that people can have a choice among the Worker Candidates. By entering into electoral arrangements, this choice is going to get restricted. Consequently, the voters will have no alternative except to elect other bourgeoisie candidates.

To continue. सशेष. సశేషం.