Dear Friends,

I would like to take this opportunity to inform our readers about : What is the meaning of 786?We have often heard and seen that ‘ 786 ’ is used by muslims all over the world. It is taken to be a lucky mascot.
Some associate it with the movie ‘coolie’, where amitabh bachchan wore a 786 badge.

But there are rarely few who know what 786 really means.

The roots of this number lie in the ancient Indian heritage. In India, there has been a mathematician named, Aryabhatta.
Aryabhatta, was not only a mathematician but also a numerologist. He concluded that every alphabet, whether a vowel or a consonant, has a phonetic value which can be expressed in numerical terms.
He, therefore, calculated the numerical values of the alphabets in Sanaskrit, Persian and Hindi.

Substitue the values assigned by him in ‘Bismillahir Rahman urRahim’ and what do you get obviously ,786. This is the Numerological reason behind the lucky number 786. So every time one writes 786, one means ‘Bismillah….’ Which means “I begin my work in the name of god. May god help me.”

It might be surprising to you that NUMEROLOGY IS AN ANCIENT INDIAN SCIENCE which originated around 4000years back in India.

So now tell me why do all saints add 108 as a prefix in their name ?
Why do we have 108 beads in a maala ?

Hope this is informative for all of us.

WHY WE NEED A HINDU INDIA?

Our powerful nation is a legacy of a long lost Empire and I say long lost because our ancient empire was a VEDIC one (HINDU) and stretched from present day west Afghanistan to South-east Asia. It was a proud one, one of intellectual people, a rich & a vibrant culture, prosperous civilization. But sadly what we see today is a fast shrinking culture that now retains only about 50% of the total area of the Vedic civilization notwithstanding the people of other cultures that are polluting our own. India as a region has only been identified as a country of people who are possibly the first to have a literature as great as the Vedas, Purana, Upanishad, great epics like Mahabharat, Ramayana not to forget many small literary writings that are a wealth of knowledge that covered all topics ever to encountered by humans from the food to be eaten for a healthy living to the optimum shape of a flying machine (vimaan)! Such was the grandeur of the people that they built the finest cities in Taxila, Mohen jo daro, Harappa, Vaishali, Kashi, etc. Ayurved, Yoga are popular means of a healthy living nowadays that even the west strictly follows and scientists have recognized, the scientific discoveries like the Pythagoras theorem, the planets and even the atom were already among discussion among the Vedic scholars. And, where are we now? The present status of the country suggests a different picture altogether.

THE PRESENT PLIGHT:

At present our country is a potpourri of different race, culture and religions. All these foreigners are the cause for our sad situation now. The way we keep giving reservations to the so-called minority community poses a great danger to the indigenous community of the country. We keep appeasing the other community and that has been a way of getting votes during elections. These people from the muslim, christian communities keep converting Hindus by literally bribing them with sacks of rice if they convert to their religion. In fact when the Kashmiri Hindu pandits were driven from their own homeland there wasn’t any hue and cry over the issue and no steps were taken for the same the way it goes for when the riots happened in Gujarat. Agreed, no form of killing of any people is relevant but justice is to be just and equal in all measures. As stated by the articles of S.Gurumurthy that when the head of a militant organization operating from a madarasa in U.P was about to be arrested by a police troop they were pelted with stones in retaliation after which the arrests were stalled! Why, because that would hurt the minority community!! What is more intriguing is that the state government later apologized for the incident.
Had the treatment been equal when the head of the Sankara mutt, shri Kanchi Shankaracharya Jayendra Saraswati was arrested for reasons that are yet to be confirmed by the courts the issue wouldn’t be in this article. But surprisingly there wasn’t any protests by the media, which otherwise would have blamed the government for hurting religious sentiments. In fact of all rubbish news came up in the media about the case and the shocking fact was that the arrests were made on Diwali, 2004. Can you imagine an Islamic leader arrested on Id? The world will turn topsy-turvy by the events that would follow. Even if the person has committed a crime really then there is a code that governments follow in the case of a religious leader. All this for the state government to create a secular image and capture the vote banks of a population that is predominantly anti-Brahman. But the present government has a secular policy that invariably means appeasing the minority at the cost of the majority (HINDUS). That is, you insult the Hindus by, asking for a muslim leader in Bihar even if it has no relevance to the governance of any state, by increasing the reservation to the muslims at Aligarh Muslim University, by crying for muslim reservation in the job sector i.e., both private and public (as proposed by the Andhra pradesh government), by modifying facts of atrocities committed by the muslim conquerors on Hindus in the history textbooks for children, so as not to hurt the minorities.
All the above facts are provoking and the Hindus are silent and patient only because their traditions teaches them so. The facts of the demolition of a thousand temples by the muslim invaders is all hushed up by the government but the babri masjid demolition is raked up again and again and is not allowed to be forgotten by the people themselves. And what do we get in return by these pets of the secular government? Lakhs of policemen are deployed by the governments on Hindu festivals in preparation for any eventuality to be committed by again the minority community! The Kashmir for which we spend millions of dollars both in civilian and military involvements only produces militants and separatists (the government respects these people!!)I believe I need not explain the above picture I received in a mail last week.When the country was partitioned in 1947 (which again was for the betterment & appeasement of the minority!) it was on the pretext of a muslim Pakistan and a Hindu India. The former is a reality while the latter is seen as a nightmare by the secularists (funny, considering a muslim Pakistan was a dream land for the minority). Now, consider the aftereffects of the creation of a Hindu state in India (viz., not far away, god willingly).The nation will treat its Hindus with due respect considering they are getting treated like second-class citizens now. The present reservation policy will be done away with a one that considers only the economic status of the person. It is a paradox that in a secular state that you need reservations based on caste when people of all caste, religion & creed are to be treated equally! The ancient scriptures will be treated with more respect and will spread at grass root level. Besides when a country with a majority population of muslims is free to be declared an Islamic country, why can’t we with 85% Hindu population be called a Hindu nation? It won’t hurt anybody (minority community) and is only a matter of recognition to the people and the culture that have shaped the land for centuries and a step towards the revival of the proud Empire that once was.

Let the message spread! P.S: The above articles only reflect the author’s (Vivek) ideas and not that of any political party or organizations. Any comments are welcome to the following id:Vivek1086@rediffmail.comVivek201086@yahoo.com

WHY WE STILL NEED A HINDU INDIA?!

There are people in the society, the pseudo-secularists argue that the hindutva forces are on the same platform as that of the Islamic terrorists!!. Well, to start with one has to really differentiate between a terrorist organization and one that has a cause like the VHP, Shiv sena. Let me tell you one thing Islamic organizations like jaish-e-mohammed, lashkar-e-toiba have an ideal, a cause but one, that it believes can be achieved only by terrorizing it’s enemies, by spreading violence, by infiltrating territories belonging to other countries. These are the organizations that ought to be banned, not the VHP or the Shiv sena! The hindutva organizations have a motive for which they educate people of their own community, not go on a killing spree of other community people! When terrorists attacked the akshardham temple in Ahmedabad, when about 50 people of the shiv sena were burnt alive at godhra, when the ram mandir at ayodhya was attacked and the idol almost destroyed and, when thousands of Kashmiri pandits were made refugees in their own homeland, there wasn’t a single Islamic organization (not the terrorists, but the Islamic welfare organizations) that opposed or condemned or even felt sorry for the acts committed by these so-called jihadis who only spoil the name of islam. The fact of matter is that when a muslim terrorist is shot down at Ahmedabad, the Islamic organizations cry fowl at the government blaming them of igniting communal violence and even proclaim the dead terrorist as a martyr!!
The truth is that the country is nurturing serpents that will one day cause the partition of that nation again on the basis of security of islam. We give them reservation, care for their sentiments, give at most security to their places of worship (for reasons unknown!, fearing threat from the Hindus?), spend huge amounts of money for the development of Kashmir and what do they give us in return? They fuel hatred towards the Hindus, kill them at will, insult them, and what more, wherever their population is the majority they demand independence (Kashmir)!! The reality we face today is that when a Hindu dies, nobody cares but when a muslim dies, charges are made against Hindu organizations, secularism is suddenly at threat, and, the communal violence that follows is blamed on the Hindus!! So, it is time we realize our own value as Hindus, of being the majority, and more importantly as being the indigenous people of this country.
Today when we worry about the decline in the Hindu population, the CPM calls it baseless. Well, it should be noted that there are the pseudo-secularists who blame the RSS of being intolerant, of being over reactive and of nurturing dangerous communal enmity. Let me make one thing clear, centuries ago it was the muslim fanatics who drove out the Zoroastrians, Shia muslims, and then the Jews were driven out by the Christian fanatics! And where did they all come? Well, the so-called intolerant Hindu community provided them with a home! We got a fantastic gift for that. Pakistan is lost, Bangladesh is gone, and, Kashmir is hanging at knife’s edge! Even today, the Christians in Mizoram have replaced the original tribes and the regions of Assam and west Bengal are flooded with Bangladeshi refugees (muslims) and have even overthrown the Hindu majority!! We do not want a Pakistan-II. But the time has come that we come to terms with the fact and the fact is that we are providing too much room to the minorities to play their cards wild! Something has to be done or else our grand children will call Assam and other northeastern states as foreign countries!

Author: vivek1086@rediffmail.com

RESERVATION: HOW CONSTITUTIONAL IS IT ?

RESERVATION: HOW CONSTITUTIONAL IS IT?

Young citizens of India are very much aware of the provision made by the Government of India called Reservation! A boon to some while a curse to others, it is one of the ace cards of caste politics used often by politicians to gain political vendetta. Nowadays days we have reservation in every sphere. How beneficial is it to the nation in the long run, does it achieve its cause, what harm does it do, and, above all is it constitutional? I shall give my ideas in the following paragraphs.
When a reservation is provided to a particular community either for education or jobs it is done so as to relieve the community of social burdens and to earn a respectable place in the social hierarchy. We have 15 percent reservation for scheduled castes in the public job sector. Long ago when the nation was newborn the majority of the population, that of backward castes was poor and oppressed. The leaders therefore decided to grant them reservation in education. This provided the oppressed with a neat platform to come up in life. Later, the same community began enjoying reservation in the job sector too! So the people got good education as well as great secured jobs, all provided by the government.

All this sounds good for the tribal, scheduled castes etc,. Later vote bank politics came into play and the politicians began granting reservations to the Muslims, Christians etc,. The surprising fact was that the Muslims and the Christians came to be listed under the backward caste category!! These religions are not supposed to have any caste of their own and they even proclaim this very proudly! But when it comes to getting easy jobs and education they are no
backwards. Today, only about less than 30% of the seats in a government education institution is via open competition (except the IITs). Now what all this reservation does is it makes the job all the more easier for the already well to do Muslim or a scheduled caste family. These people study pathetically, get about some 60% and get a seat in some top ranked institution! Later they also get a govt. job with ease. Good for one generation, but the thing becomes more annoying when the son of the above person is provided with the same provision.
The question is, does reservations really help the oppressed or is it a case of nurturing a single community even if it is not worth all the facilities! What about the people who burn the midnight oil and score great marks but only get into some average institution, just because they are from the forward community? We thereby lose precious talents for our industries and our workforce consists of people who simply do not deserve their jobs. There is a proposal to give 5% reservation to Muslims in the public sector. On an election promise made by the Andhra CM YSR Reddy an attempt was made to provide 15%reservation to Muslims. But thanks to the judicial system the High court put down the move saying it was unconstitutional!
Ours is a socialist, democratic, SECULAR, sovereign republic. Secular means that the state does not have any discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, race or religion! But what happens here is a total paradox! The state gives reservations on the excuse of safeguarding secular interests!!! At what cost, I ask, at the cost of quality manpower? The reasons the IITs are a success story is because they have no reservations (there is a proposal to introduce one)! The talent coming out there is pure and based on hard work. The private sector has no reservation and companies insist on quality manpower because these are the people who will help achieve success for a company internationally. When, the company is forced to take a candidate even if it does not feel he/she is capable, the standard of the company falls.

More so it is a question of challenging the rights of a private establishment to choose its own workforce!! It is important for the govt. to give reservations on the basis of economic status and not based on castes. The socially backward may not be economically backward and the socially rich need not be financially well off!
PS: These are the authors own viewpoint and do not represent the feelings of any community. Any comments are welcome to vivek1086@rediffmail.com

Swadeshi vs globalisation

Swadeshi vs globalisation

Bharat Jhunjhunwala

THE globalisation lobby holds that swadeshi is outdated, it indicates an unwillingness to upgrade production facilities to global standards; and Indian industrialists love swadeshi because it enables them to sell their shoddy products at exorbitant prices. The car industry is considered a classic example — fuel-inefficient Ambassadors and Fiats ruled the market until Suzuki came in with new technology and models.

The criticism is valid. In the 1980s, swadeshi helped protect inefficient domestic industries. It is obvious that the quality of goods available in the Indian market has undergone a dramatic improvement since the economy was opened up in the 1990s. The quality of cars, television sets and textiles has improved tremendously.

There are three ways of introducing competition and breaking the `backward' mentality — domestic competition, free trade and foreign investment. Swadeshi involves embracing domestic competition and free trade but rejecting foreign investment. However, foreign investment is a different ball game altogether.

Consider the car industry. The Tatas had sought a licence to manufacture passenger cars, but it was rejected. The result was a duopoly between the Birlas and the Walchands. Had the government promoted domestic competition and the Tatas had produced the Indica 20 years ago, the country might have emerged as a major car exporter by now. It would have been the ideal policy.

If domestic competition does not bring forth the desired upgradation, the second step should have been to allow import of cars. This would have either pushed the Birlas and Walchands out of the market or forced them to upgrade. Free trade is beneficial.

India would have had to earn the dollars to import the cars. That would have led to increased exports in other high-skill labour-intensive sectors in which India has a comparative advantage.

The objective of free trade should be to provide an `optimal challenge' to domestic car manufacturers in the above instance. Very low tariffs can deny legitimate protection to a nascent industry and nip the domestic challenger in the bud. Very high tariffs could encourage inefficient production. With such an orientation free trade becomes an instrument to cajole domestic entrepreneurs to adopt global standards.

The swadeshi objection is to foreign investment. Certainly this policy also provides goods of global standards as happened in the 1990s. But there are other long-term negative effects that need to be considered.

Foreign investment leads to wealth repatriation by MNCs in the form of overpricing imported components, royalty payments and profit repatriations. The trade unions at Maruti have been stressing this fact which, unfortunately, mainstream economists have refused to look at.

This strategy had disastrous effects in Africa, which received huge FDI flows in the 1960s but became a basket case in the 1970s. Similarly, Latin America received huge foreign investments in the 1970s and the 1980s, but the 1990s proved to be its `lost decade'. Domestic competition leads to increased production in the same sector and free trade leads to production in export
sectors. However, foreign investment leads to neither. Some statistical studies have found no impact of MNCs on technology.

Thus swadeshi seeks domestic competition, and free trade-led globalisation and opposes foreign investment. The fundamental contradiction of the present foreign investment-led globalisation is that it grants free movement for capital while hemming in the people within national boundaries. It is inevitable that many developing countries will lose their capital to other
countries while their people stay put.

There are only two ways that the good of the people can be secured. The ideal
method would be to allow the free movement of labour and capital.The second way is to keep the capital of each country within its borders and develop, howsoever slowly, on a swadeshi line while adopting policies of domestic competition and free trade. Swadeshi stands for domestic competition and free trade and is against foreign investment.

This has to be understood clearly by the proponents of swadeshi, who often oppose free trade, and the opponents, who ignore the disastrous long-term effects of foreign investment..

(The author is a New Delhi-based freelance writer.)

Culture - Mantra

Mantra

What is Mantra ?
Mantras are the chanting
of specific words which helps to condense dispersed energy. Chant is a sound vibration which awakens a particular energy in human. According to Physics everything we touch is a field of vibration with different rates of intensity. Hence this vibration can be used to change our mind and health. We become what we repeat. Like in some personality building books it is given "Tell your
mind daily that you want do …… in …….. many days." This repetition eventually develops strong desire for that thing we want to achieve. So this is a process of building strong attitude. The same is done by mantras and to be said more than these management techniques.

How does it work ?
There are several Mantras that our Rishis have given us. Each Mantra corresponds to certain purpose. The only thing is we need to know what we want to achieve. The words present in our Mantras correspond to names of God or Goddess. The important thing to be noted is that each & every word present in Mantra has effect on our health & mind. The vibration produced by each
word has particular frequency & has effect on particular nerve in our body and thus energizes them. Repetition of these Mantras strengthens our nerves and provides us with inner strength. Meditating with these mantras strengthens our mind and helps in awakening that sleeping mind (sub-consciousness) which a normal person can't achieve. When this mind awakens person experiences that joy which can't be expressed in words.
There are different Gods for different Mantras and we visualize that particular God depending on what we want to achieve. Like Saraswati Mantra helps to increase knowledge, Hanuman for good health etc. The only intention behind these Mnatras is to get good for ourselves. Even hearing Mantras has good effect on us.

There are both good & evil in this world. Evil is said to be the negative thoughts that take shelter in our mind. These negative thoughts acts as blockage and eventually retard our mental & physical health. In such circumstances people generally approach poojaris/Acharyas and they tell us some Mantras to chant for some time. Have any of us tried to analyze this purpose? No. The reason is these words when chanted repeatedly create a sort of vibration that
activates particular nerves and removes the blockage caused by negative thoughts and refreshes our mind & body. Even when tensed or suffering form some diseases we can make use of these Mantras. Through medicine it can be cured temporarily, but through Mantras permanently. In today's world also when science has developed so much we can get various
instances to see the miracle of Mantras.

Culture - Ekadashi

EKADASHI

Ekadashi
As human being requires some rest at certain intervals of time to relax his mind and body, in the same way our Digestive system also requires some rest at regular intervals of time and this is what we call fasting. Our Rishis were very much concerned about our health and had designed various ways keeping it fit, out of which fasting is one. They also fixed the day on which it has to be done. This day is called Ekadashi, the Eleventh day from Full-moon or Black-moon day. Now this has been proved scientifically. Below are the details.

Scientific Reason
According to calculations moon moves 12 degrees in 24 hours. On the eleventh day he will be between 120 - 132 degrees. This position of Sun-Moon and Earth is called Tricone (Triangular Position) stithi. During this period moon has maximum influence on Earth. Moon is known to influence mind and water. You might have observed that on Full-Moon Day or Black-Moon Day tides in ocean are very high. It is due to the affect of moon, the power of attraction by moon is very high, which has been scientifically proved. Since human body is made up of 80% water it is also affected by moon, especially on that particular day. Very delicate Digestive organs are more attracted, due to which food does not digest properly if present and human body suffers from various diseases. To avoid this it has been suggested to fast on that particular day. By fasting body develops heat which helps in destroying various micro-organisms harmful to body. By depriving the body of food for a time ,the organs of elimination are given opportunity to expel, unhampered, the overload of accumulated waste from the system. During fast body feeds upon its reserves. Being deprived of needed nutrients, particularly of protein and fats, it will burn and digest its own tissues by the process of autolysis or self-digestion. The building of new and healthy cells are speeded up . The capacity of the eliminative organs is greatly increased as they are relieved of the usual burden of digesting food and eliminating the resultant wastes. You might ask why on that day and not on other days? The reason is obvious. From that particular day the attractive power of moon starts and as said "Precaution is better than cure". In order to avoid any health related problems in future fasting has been suggested on that day.

References :
Researches made by Western Scientists on "How health improves by fasting" "....Starvation is a form of medical treatment was mentioned as long ago as 400 B.C. by Hippocrates, the Greek father of Medicine and the people have been arguing the pros and cons ever since." "....One firm believer in it is Grant Sarkisyan of Armenia - He used controlled starvation to combat many diseases including Diabetes, obesity and Gangrene often drastically reducing the usual doses of insulin and even cutting out altogether. His cure consists of first a Spartan diet and then a growing amount of food based on the patient's individual needs."Source-D.H. 29-1-1978
Dr. Arnold Eheret, the originator of the muscusless diet healing system, describes it as " nature's only universal and omnipotent remedy of healing" and "nature's only fundamental law of all healing and curing. " In fact this was known and told by our ancestors long before Hippocrates or Dr. Arnold Eheret.
How do we perform this Fasting ?
This falls on the eleventh day from Full-Moon or Black-Moon day and we can get this information from Panchanga. On this day neither food is consumed nor water . Next day early in the morning food is consumed. This is the actual way to perform fasting. But this can't be performed at once, we need to practice this. If not possible to fast completely some food in the form of banana or milk is taken, but in limited quantities.

Who can perform this ?
Anybody on this earth who is born as Human being. This is not concerned with any particular religion. It is common to all human beings. This is a way to be healthy.


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CULTURE

Culture is nothing but the rules and regulations that are to be followed as a human being. There are many Religions in this World and especially in India. Culture is the base for all religions. These are those rules which our Rishis found out after years of meditation. By their continuous effort through meditation & chanting of Mantras they were enlightened. With this special vision they saw the use of these rituals and they preached us what they got after many years. Since in those days people were more inclined towards religion and followed all rules strictly our Rishis preached these with the base of Dharma. Might be they thought since people are afraid of God and doing sins it is better to preach with the base of Dharma, so that people will not move away from it even in their dreams. But as the time changed the way people lead their lives changed and their way of thinking also changed. People started moving away from Dharma slowly. They started violating the rules one by one. Since the work done by man changed they could not find time to follow all the rituals and today the time has come where many people even are unaware of these basic rituals. It has gone so further that we do not believe in that. We believe it only when it is said by outsiders. In many cases the situation is people follow some of the rituals but do not know the importance of it. Since they do not know the importance they don't explain it to their children and this continuous from generation to generation. But now the generation is such that they don't believe until they are proved scientifically. So here I have tried my best to convey the scientific reasons for some of the basic rituals. Below are some of them.

References : Books of H.K.S.Rao


Anyone who wishes to know more details about these things can read the books of Sri H K S Rao(Books are in Kannada no idea whether they are printed in other Languages also)


Address :M S ChakrepaniS/o H K S RaoMoudgalya,

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ಕವನ - ೪

೪. ಕುಡಿಯದಿರಿ ಎಂದಿಗೂ ಪೆಪ್ಸಿಕೋಲಾ
ಎಲ್ಲೆಲ್ಲಿಯೂ ಈಗ ಇದರದ್ದೇ 'ಕೋಲಾ'ಹಲ
ಅದರಲ್ಲಿರುವುದು ಹಾಲಾಹಲ
ಕುಡಿಯುತ್ತಾ ಆಗುವಿರಿ ಹರೋಹರ

ಕವನ - ೩

೩. ಸರ್ಕಾರ ನೀಡುತಿತ್ತು ಪ್ರತಿದಿನ ಶಾಲಾ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ
ಮಧ್ಯಾಹ್ನದ ಊಟ
ತಿಂದ ಮಕ್ಕಳು ಮಾಡಿದರು ಓದಿಗೆ ಟಾಟ
ಮಲಗಿದರು ಕೇಳುತ್ತಾ ಪಾಠ

ಕವನ - ೨

೨. ಎಂದಿನಂತೆ ಬಂತು ದೀಪಾವಳಿ
ಮಾಡಿದ ಅಳಿಯ ಮಾವನ ಮನೆಗೆ ದಾಳಿ
ಮಾಡಲಿಲ್ಲ ಅವನು ಜಾಗ ಖಾಲಿ
ಮಾವ ಆಗುವ ತನಕ ದಿವಾಳಿ

ಕವನಗಳು - ೧

ನನ್ನ ಸ್ನೇಹಿತೆ ಬರೆದ ಕೆಲವು ಕವನಗಳು

೧. ಅವನು ಮಾಡಿದ್ದ Degree
ಆದರು ಅವನಲ್ಲುತ್ತು hungry
ಏಕೆಂದರೆ ಅವನು ಹೋದಲೆಲ್ಲಾ ಇದ್ದದ್ದು ಒಂದೇ
ಕೆಲಸ ಕಾಲಿಯಿಲ್ಲ ಹೋಗ್ರಿ

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ಒಂದು ವಾರದ ಹಿಂದೆ ಅವಿರತ ಗ್ರೂಪಿಂದ ಒಂದು ಮೈಲ್ ಬಂದಿತು. ೭-೭-೭ನೇ ತಾರಿಖು PVR ನಲ್ಲಿ ರಾತ್ರಿ ೯:೨೦ಕ್ಕೆ ಸುದೀಪ್ ಅಭಿನಯಿಸಿದ #೭೩ ಶಾಂತಿ ನಿವಾಸ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಪ್ರದರ್ಶಿಸಲಾಗುವುದೆಂದು.ಅದು ರೋಟರಿ ಕ್ಲಬ್ ಸಹಕಾರದೊಂದಿಗೆ ಅಂಥ.ಸರಿ ನನಗೆ ಹಾಗು ನನ್ನ ಅಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಎರಡು ಟಿಕೆಟ್ (೩೦೦ /- ಒಂದಕ್ಕೆ , ಯಾಕೆ?) ಖರಿದಿಸಿದೆ.
೭-೭-೭ ಬಂದೇ ಬಿಟ್ಟಿತು.ರಾತ್ರಿ ೭:೩೦ ಆಗಿತ್ತು.ನನ್ನ ಅಕ್ಕಳ ಮಗಳನ್ನು ಅಜ್ಜಿ ಮನೆಗೆ ಬಿಟ್ಟು ಇನ್ನೇನು ಹೊರಡಬೇಕು ಆಗ scooty ಯ ಹಿಂದಿನ ಚಕ್ರ ಪಂಚರ್ !!! ಸರಿ ಸರ್ವಿಸ್ ಸ್ಟೆಶನ್ ಗೆ ಹೊದ್ವಿ.ಮನೆ ಹತ್ತಿರಾನೆ ಇದ್ದುದರಿಂದ ತಳ್ಳಿಕೊಂಡೆ ಹೊದ್ವಿ.ಅವನೊ ಶಟರ್ ಹಾಕುತಿದ್ದ.ನಮ್ಮ ಅದೃಷ್ಟ ಅವನು ಗೊತಿದ್ದ ಕಾರಣ ರಿಪೇರಿ ಮಾಡಿದ.ಮನೆ ಇರೊದು ಆರ್.ಪಿ.ಸಿ ಲೇ ಔಟ್ ಅಲ್ಲಿ.ಇಲ್ಲಿಂದ PVRಗೆ ಹೊಗುವ ಹೊತ್ತಿಗೆ ೯:೩೦.ನಮ್ಮ ದುರಾದೃಷ್ಟಕ್ಕೆ ಅವತ್ತೆ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಟ್ರಾಫಿಕ್ ಸಿಗ್ನಲ್ಸ್‌ಗೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿಹಾಕಿಕೊಂಡೆವು.ಆದರು ನಮ್ಮ ಅದೃಷ್ಟ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಶುರುವಾಗಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ,ಕಾರಣ ಸುದೀಪ್ ಬಂದಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ !!
ಆಶ್ಚರ್ಯ ಮಾ.ಹಿರಣಯ್ಯಾ, ಸುದೀಪ್,ಚಿತ್ರಶ್ರಿ,ಅನು ಪ್ರಭಾಕರ್,ವಿನಾಯಕ ಜೂಶಿ ಎಲ್ಲಾ ಬಂದಿದ್ದರು.ಸರಿ ಅವರನ್ನು ಜನರ ಗುಂಪಿನೊಂದಿಗೆ ಮಾತನಾಡಿಸಿ, ಅವರ ಆಟೊಗ್ರಾಫ್ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು ತಿಯೆಟರ್ ಒಳಗೆ ಹೊದೆವು.
ನಾವು ಕೂತಿದ್ದು ೭ನೇ ಸಾಲಿನಲ್ಲಿ, ೭ ಹಾಗು ೮ನೇ ಸೀಟ್‌ಗಳಲ್ಲಿ.ಎಂಥಾ ಆಕಸ್ಮಿಕ!! ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಶುರುವಾಗುವುದಕ್ಕು ಮುಂಚೆ ಬಂದಿದ್ದ ನಟ,ನಟಿಯರ ಹಾಗು ರೊಟರಿ ಕ್ಲಬ್ ಮುಖ್ಯ ರೊವಾರಿಗಳ ಪರಿಚಯವಾಯಿತು.ಆಗ ತಿಳಿಯಿತು ದುಬಾರಿ ಟಿಕೆಟ್ ಬೆಲೆಯ ಉದ್ದೇಶ.
ಈ ಸಹಾಯಾರ್ತ ಬಂದ ಹಣವನ್ನು ೨ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಕೆಳಸಗಲಿಗೆ ಉಪಯೊಗಿಸಲಾಗುವುದು:
೧. ಶ್ರೀ ಕ್ರಿಷ್ನ ಸೇವಾಶ್ರಮ ಆಸ್ಪತ್ರೆ - ಜೆ.ಪಿ.ನಗರ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ನೀಡಲಾಗುವುದು. ಅವರು ಈ ಹಣವನ್ನು ಪ್ರತಿ ದಿನ ಒಬ್ಬ ಆರ್ಥಿಕವಾಗಿ ಹಿಂದುಳಿದ ರೊಗಿಗೆ ಉಚಿತವಾಗಿ DIALYSIS ಮಾಡಲು ಉಪಯೊಗಿಸುತ್ತಾರೆ.
೨. ಚಾಮರಾಜ ನಗರದ ಯಲಂದೂರಿನ ಬಲಿ ರಾಯನ ದೊಡ್ಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ವೀರಪ್ಪನ್ ಇಂದ ತೊಂದರೆಗೆ ಒಲಪಟ್ಟ ಗಿರಿಜನರಿಗಾಗಿ ಕಟ್ಟೀಸಿರುವ ಸರ್ಕಾರಿ ಶಾಲ ಮಕ್ಕಳಿಗೆ ಪುಸ್ತಕ,ಬೆನ್ಚು,ಇತ್ಯಾದಿಕೆಲಸಗಳಿಗೆ ಉಪಯೊಗಿಸಲಾಗುವುದು.
೧೦:೩೦ ಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಶುರುವಾಯಿತು.ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಬಹಳಾ ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ಮೂಡಿ ಬಂದಿದೆ.ಮಧ್ಯಂತರ ಬಂದಾಗ ಚಹಾ ಹಾಗು ಬಿಸ್ಕೆಟ್ ಇತ್ತು.ನನ್ನ ಅಕ್ಕ ಪಾಪ್‌ಕಾರ್ನ್ ಬೇಕೆಂದು ಹೇಳಿದಳು.ಸರಿ ಜಾಸ್ತಿ ಹಣವನ್ನೇ ತೆತ್ತು(೫೦/- ಅಬ್ಬಾ ಒಂದು ದಿನಆರಮವಾಗಿ ಹೊಟ್ಟೆ ತುಂಬಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಬಹುದಿತ್ತು!!) ದೊಡ್ಡ ಪಾಪ್‌ಕಾರ್ನ್ ಅನ್ನೇ ತೆಗೆದುಕೊಂಡು ಹಿಂದಿರುಗಿದೆವು.ಸಿನಿಮಾ ಮತ್ತೆ ಶುರುವಾಗುವುದಕ್ಕು ಮುಂಚೆ ಒಂದು ಚಿಕ್ಕ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೊತರ ಇತ್ತು. ಬಹಳ ಮಜಾ ಬಂತು.ಮೊದಲ ಪ್ರಶ್ನೆಗೆ ನನ್ನ ಅಕ್ಕಳೇ ಕೈ ಎತ್ತಿದಳು;ಚಾನ್ಸ್ ಸಹ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿತು.ಸರಿಯಾಗಿ ಉತ್ತರಿಸಿದ ನಂತರ ಒಂದು ದೊಡ್ಡ ಬಕೆಟ್(ನಾವು ಕೊಂಡ ನಾಲ್ಕರಷ್ಟು)ಪಾಪ್‌ಕಾರ್ನ್ ಉಡುಗೊರೆಯಾಗಿ ದೊರೆಯಿತು.ಇವಾಗ ನನಗೆ ನಮ್ಮ ಸ್ಥಿತಿನೊಡಿ ನಗಬೇಕೊ , ಅಳಬೇಕೊ ಗೊತ್ತಾಗಲಿಲ್ಲ!!!ಸಿನಿಮಾ ೧:೩೦ ಕ್ಕೆ ಮುಗಿಯಿತು.ಎಲ್ಲೂ ಆಕಲಿಸಲಿಲ್ಲ.ಚೆನ್ನಾಗಿ ನಕ್ಕಿದೆವು.ಪ್ರೀತಿ ಪ್ರೇಮ ಅಂಥ ಜಂಜಾಟವಿಲ್ಲ.ಕೊನೆಗೂ ನಗು ನಗುತ್ತಾ ಸಿನಿಮಾ ತಿಯೇಟರ್ ಇಂದ ಹೊರಬಂದೆವು.ಅವಿರತ ಗ್ರೂಪಿಂದ ಹಿಂದೆ ಬೇರು, ನಾಯಿ ನೆರಳು ನೂಡಿದ್ದೆ.ಇವತ್ತು #೭೩ ಶಾಂತಿ ನಿವಾಸ.ಹೀಗೆ ಒಳೊಳ್ಳೆಯ ಸಿನಿಮಾಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರದರ್ಶಿಸಲಿ ಎಂದು ಆಶಿಸುವೆ.ಮನೆಗೆ ಆ ಚಳಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಾತ್ರಿ ಬಂದಾಗ ೨:೩೦. ಆ ಆ ಆ ಅ ಮ್ ಮ್ ಮೈ ನಡುಗುತಿತ್ತು.ನನ್ನ ಅದೃಷ್ಟ ಮರುದಿನ ಭಾನುವಾರ.ಎದ್ದಾಗ ೧೦:೦೦ !!!
ಒಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ೩೦೦/- ಕೊಟ್ಟು ಹೊಗಿದಕ್ಕು ಸಾರ್ಥಕ. ರೋಟರಿಯವರ ಉದ್ದೇಶ ಒಳ್ಳೇದು, ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ನಮ್ಮದೂ ಕಿರು ಕಾಣಿಕೆ.