Hoorray!

॥ श्री रामचन्द्र कृपालु ॥ श्रीरामचन्द्र कृपालु भजु मन हरण भवभय दारुणम् नवकञ्ज लोचन , कञ्जमुख कर कञ्जपद कञ्जारुणम् ॥ १ ॥ कंदर्प अगणित अमित छबि नव नील नीरज सुन्दरम् । पटपीत मानहुं तड़ित रूचि - शुची नौमि जनक सुतावरम् ॥ २ ॥ भजु दीन बन्धु दिनेश दानव दैत्यवंशनिकन्दनम् । रघुनन्द आनंदकंद कोशल चन्द दशरथ नन्दनम् ॥ ३ ॥ सिर मुकुट कुण्डल तिलक चारु उदारु अङ्ग विभूषणम् । आजानुभुज शर चापधर सङ्ग्राम - जित - खर दूषणम् ॥ ४ ॥ इति वदति तुलसीदास शङ्कर शेष मुनि मनरञ्जनम् । मम हृदयकञ्ज निवास कुरु कामादि खलदलगञ्जनम् ॥ ५ ॥ मनु जाहीं राचेउ मिलिहि सो बरु सहज सुन्दर साँवरो । करुना निधान सुजान सीलु सनेहु जानत रावरो ॥ ६ ॥ एही भांति गोरी असीस सुनी सिय सहित हिय हरषीं अली । तुलसी भावानिह पूजी पुनि - पुनि मुदित मन मंदिर चली गोस्वामी तुलसीदास Fortunate I am, to be born in this land! Fortunate I am, to immerse myself in Bhakti, and in the thought of Īśvara . And how c...

One of the first news report I read this morning is this - http://indianexpress.com/article/india/politics/muslim-techie-beaten-to-death-in-pune-7-men-of-hindu-outfit-held/#.U46d2V4S8zI.twitter It immediately elicited a flurry of responses along expected lines from the usual, useful idiots. Even the basic courtesy of expressing condolences for the dead person and the bereaving family was seen to have been forgotten, in their haste to tie their favorite punching bags to the conspiracy. They did not stop to think that the outfit named here had as much probability to be NOT related to RSS or any other parivar organizations, and could be floated by anyone, and funded by anyone. Not that the useful idiots ever demonstrated an ability to think. Now they are also demonstrating their insensitivity to loss - because it is a loss only to someone else and not to them. Without digging back on their 1400 year history, and with events of only the 21st century, we can conclude that the follow...

I thought of a lot of titles for this post: "Ache Din Aane Wale Hain" "Iss Bar Modi Sarkar" "Time for a new India" Some more are running around in my head. But the most predominant emotion in my mind was - relief. When the election dates were announced, I couldn't wait for this day - the counting day - to come sooner. Now that it has come and is almost over, the feeling of euphoria has given way to relief. As of this moment Modi is taking 268 colleagues along with him to the Lok Sabha for sure, according the Election Commission of India 's website. In a few more minutes, that number will change to 280. This is a big relief, since to run a government - the central government or The Government of India - he needs only 272 members in parliament. Along with the MPs from his allies, that number is somewhere beyond 330+. The trepidation and the excitement I felt yesterday when I penned the previous post were long gone - in fact they were dis...

For 2014, I wanted to read at least 100 books. Across genres, in both English and Tamil. Accessibility was not a problem, since I have bought a large number of books in the last 2-3 years. However, I forgot to consider that this is an election year. Over the last 2-3 months, I have been deeply immersed in following the people, the trends, the incidents and everything that a huge election like this brings. I was totally sucked in. As an ardent supporter of Modi and BJP, I wanted to take part in this process much more intently, though in the end, all I could do was go to the polling booth on voting day and press the button. I was so immersed in it, that I even forgot to complete and publish this post, which i started to pen last month! Anyway, now that elections are over and results are out - technically, they came out yesterday since it's already 12 AM on the 17th of May, 2014 - I can now go back to my books. I seriously have to go back to my books! It's not like...