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The Second Jaliyanawalawag of India : Eram

2012-01-26T19:06:00.000-08:00

The matter is taken from
http://bhadrak.nic.in/eram.htm

The place Eram is very near to my native place.
So, I want to tell my blog readers of my place and
people .........
RAKTATIRTHA ERAM

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The Second Jaliyanawalawag of India
Location:-

______This famous place of sacrifice located at 16 km away from Basudebpur of Bhadrak district. One side of this land is bounded by the Bay of Bengal and the other three sides are surrounded by two rivers the Gameye and Kansabansa. Secured by these natural boundaries this place is used as a citadel by the freedom fighters. Due to these natural boundaries it is not so easy for the police and the administrative persons to enter in to this place. More over there is an open field bounded by three sides' with one gate in its north east direction, which was used by the freedom fighters as a place of public meeting. Starting from 1920 prominent nationalist leaders of ODISHA like Utkalmani Gopabandhu Das and Utkal Kesari Dr. H.K. Mahatab perform public meetings at that place for several times to propagate the Gandhian ideals of freedom struggle.

The Unpleasant Incident:-
_____During the time of Quit India Movement this field of Eram was frequently used by the freedom fighters for public meeting and agitation against foreign rulers. On 28th September 1942 there was a huge gathering at that place. Afraid by this gathering a police force from Basudebpur police station, lead by DSP Kunjabihari Mohanty march towards Eram. As like Jaliyanawalawag here DSP Kunjabihari Mohanty acted as General Dayar and opened fire to the huge gathering at 6.30 pm, who were performing the agitation against the foreign rulers in a peaceful way. Since the field was bounded from three sides therefore no one able to get escape as of the field and within some minutes 28 persons get dead on the spot and 56 get injured, another person among the injured get dead later on. Among the dead include one woman named Pari Bewa, who is regarded as the only lady martyrs of ODISHA.
Here the situation is very much similar to that of Jaliyanawalawag and the numbers of martyrs were also just second to jaliyanawalawag. Therefore Eram which is popularly known as Rata Tirtha (The Pilgrim of Blood) after this unpleasant incident was truly designated as the Second Jaliyanawalawag of India.

The Martyrs:-
..1) Pari Bewa , Eram, Basudebpur
..2) Gopal Chandra Das , Padhnuan
..3) Biswanath Das , Padhuan
..4) Bijuli Das , Padhuan
..5) Hrushikesh Behera , Padhuan
..6) Madan Palai , Padhuan
..7) Ballahaba Behera , Padhuan
..8) Magha Mahalika , Padhuan
..9) Bhua Majhi , Padhuan
..10) Kali ajhi , Padhuan-Kumarpur
..11) Radhu ahalika , Padhuan-Muladiha
..12) Dhruba Charana Dey , Padhuan
..13) Basudeb Sahu , Padhuan
..14) Hari Behera , Padhuan
..15) Dibakar Panigrahi , Guda-Kesagadia
..16) Krushna Chandra Swain , Padhuan-Kumarpur
..17) Bhaban Rout , Padhuan-Nandapura
..18) Nidhi Mahalika , Padhuan
..19) Brundaban Panda , Padhuan
..20) Upa Mallika , Nuangan
..21) Krupasindhu Behera , Sankharu
..22) Rama Majhi , Padhuan-Kumarpur
..23) Mani Behera , Padhuan
..24) Kati Sahu , Iswarapur
..25) Ratnakar Pani , Sudarsanpur
..26) Mani Pradhana , Suan-Sudarsanpur
..27) Pari Das , Suan
..28) Sankar Mallika , Adhunan
..29) Gobinda Rout , Artungan

Ref. Sangrama Bhumi Bhadrak ( a book in Odia)

Banchanidhi Mohanty :: A Nationalist Poet of Odisha

2012-01-26T01:10:00.000-08:00

Shri Banchanidhi Mohanty was also a nationalist poet of Odisha. He took birth in Eram near Basudebpur of Bhadrak district on 20th April 1897.Shri Banchanidhi Mohanty was popularly known in Odisha as Jatiya Kabi(The National poet).True to the Gandhian spirit he was also directly involved in the Indian Freedom Movement and took part in the Salt Agitation and was sent to jail by the Britishers. He left this mortal world on 19th April 1938 for heavenly abode.

Today Tweets at hmcs_hcu

2012-01-24T19:26:00.001-08:00

If you can't help what's going around then atleast help what's going on within!

Cheers
hm

SaralaDas MahabharataRe Bhanumathy Swayambar

2012-01-23T22:38:00.000-08:00

"The Marriage of Bhanumathy in Mahabharata of Sarala Das" Digbalaya (Odia Literary Magazine) January 2012, 50-54.

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From my tweets

2012-01-23T19:58:00.000-08:00

Follow me at hmcs_hcu of twitter.com ....

The way I need a smart abstraction for devising a good theory that way I need a good God for smart living!

Now, with so many political parties portray India of Mahabharat age with so many kings and chieftains. They only in need of a Kurukshetra!

Let me tell you, my son and me are great fan of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose -- we'd have been different led by him - a political conjecture!

Honest, Chetan Bhagat's works do not attract me - I know his books sell well; probably for his management of literature ....

Can the definition (of literature) be different for locality to locality? Could be ... ? Shouldn't be ..... ?

Is literature all about reminiscences and love ? Rushdie (issue in JLF) in search of a definition of literature ....

Sunday is dreadful for animals in India as many go for non-veg that day ....killings and killings .... of lifeless birds ...

Something one mayn't either eager to own or disown - that happens in large part of one's life; if not then life is not complete with.

I'm not worried of cricket loss as it's of croerpati's game; there is no sports but business!

Dei Hara Mo-GalaRe : "On garlanding Me"

2012-01-20T22:46:00.000-08:00

Published in "Sagarika" January 2012 page 65.

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On garlanding me eevery year
Giving different shapes and colors
the way dearness allowance comes now and then
looking for government employee!
Do you really love
on garlanding?

Or is it just a means
that simple eyes don't understand,
but I do - as you singof my love
standing behind fogs of unusual days
I only hear -
hear that unsync songs and
you are caught
I see in your eyes
that scans hideously.

The show of giving is
the pride that nakedly covers up
your desires
that comes on cat-feet
to collect and collect;
others know or not
I know what you hide
behind while giving up!

But, alas!
It's late form me to know you
when the garland has trned to
a python.
I can't abandon it
nor I can bear the load of your
love;
I count the days of perspiring
skeletons; I wait for
Maharaj Bali who can give
but not to collect and
with touch to turn
this python
to a garland
and to a real garland.

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Development of a city has always a special meanings to
some for making money. The poem questions the well-
wishers on what it meant of development. Like in India
fo rany city the course of a ring road brings in oppotunity
of business for seekers. Planners land up in building
a grey city loosing out greeneries and human touch. Can
there be a day that will make a python (ring road hanging
on the neck of a city) to a garland? The poem on behalf
a city aspires for ....
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Socially responsive resource usage: a protocol

2012-01-18T22:25:00.000-08:00

My exploration to Computational Social Science: A Research paper

Sharing of state resources like natural resources and developmental funds, needs to be inclusive as well as traceable. Further, for sustainability resource rights are to be enforced. For the purpose, a protocol for resource usages is proposed and shown that the protocol could be made adaptive to empower people by cooperation, collaboration and self help.

Find at http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1964527

Rakta Kain (First Part) "The Red Lilly"

2012-01-17T22:04:00.000-08:00

The first part of this story is published in
Prabha SarjanaJanuary 2012 - An Odia Literary magazine
published from Bhubaneshwar

Abstract: Two friends Sourav and Alex have come to Bangalpur in connection with bio-physics research that can grow agriculture stuffs of wants at a place irrespective of its environmental conditions. Idea is globalization of agriculture so that wherever it's cheap than corporate houses can grow any stuff of global demand. The story in the second part brings in corporate farming.
In first part: Sourav has come to a village Bangalpur (my village) with his friend Alex to carry out research in a farm, belongs to Alex's father who is a multi-national industrialist in corporate farming. Sourav is a second generation of Indo-American with strong reminescences of his grand father Hrudananda who is no more. Hrudananda never chose to migrate to USA with his son Prof.Sobhan Patnaik a renowned biologist. Alex is a research scholar of Prof.Patnaik. Sourav is a particle physicist with special interest in bio-physics. Both have intiated a collaborative research and Alex's father provides financial as well as infrastructural support. Sourav's girl friend Elsa with special interst in Odishi and Indology does not approve this kind of research that is against nature.
Sourav on reaching Bangalpur feels a strange attraction to the place. And feels the nature is even sensitive of his presence and keeps entertaining. He keeps joking with Elsa telling the nature may even arrange a girl friend like Elsa. Elsa dissaproves it as if she has premonition of what supernatural force happening there and it will support her conviction on corporate farming and forcible localization of global phenomena.
The village Bangalpur is almost empty leaving few ageds for massive migration due to blatant urbanization and systematic annihilation of agriculture for blunt and erratic policies of globalization. An old man Dhusa has shown ineterst on two young guys and keeps meeting them. And when he knows of corporate farming and commercialisation of research in agriculture, feels very unease; dissuades them. Dhusa keeps telling of a person who was having a strong link with the village. Dhusa always remembers of that infront of Sourav in process of discussion. With this Sourav starts remembering his grandfather with whom he had a very pleasant childhood. Granfather used to read out stories on web-chat from Bhubaneshwar when he was alive. And Asapurna, the grandmother of Sourav had a big role in raising Sourav in USA. At the same time, she had to leave her husband at Bhubaneshwar as he never agreed to live away towards his the last part of his life. Asapurna remebers her husband and laments his obstinacy. Nupur the mother of Sourav, understands the agony of her mother-in-law and hopes somehow she can do something to get over it. In the mean time, Elsa an American has become a God-sent angel. ( More will be in next part .... )
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Two More Avataras

2012-01-16T23:09:00.000-08:00

This year I have two more Avataras :
Odia Strory Writer
Odia magazine editor.

Wish will have enough skil
before I retire to Odisha.

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Wish You Good Times!

2012-01-02T01:17:00.000-08:00

Dear Visitors

Thanks a lot for visiting my blogs
for 2011!

Wish you will have good times in 2012
with your family and friends.

And will visit my blogs. Promise to give
you some good ones this year.

I'm planning to venture with Odia Stories
this year.

Looking forward to listen you more and more!

Wish again best times ahead !

regards
Hrushikesha

Thekua Sapan: Dreams of Rabbits

2011-12-21T00:34:00.000-08:00

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Published in NAMASYA
an annual literary Odia Magazine from
Simulia - my native block in Odisha.

The Hosts on the Occasion - Housewarming

2011-11-30T00:45:00.000-08:00

Some of My Students for the Occasion

2011-11-30T00:43:00.000-08:00

Guests -- An Arrival

2011-11-30T00:40:00.000-08:00

Some Guests

2011-11-30T00:38:00.000-08:00

Some Little Guests

2011-11-30T00:31:00.000-08:00

Hospitality

2011-11-30T00:28:00.000-08:00

Preparing for Puja

2011-11-29T01:25:00.001-08:00

preparing for Puja

Breaking Coconut

2011-11-29T01:24:00.000-08:00

Entering new Home

Formalism .... On breaking a coconut

Some Puja Rituals

2011-11-29T01:04:00.000-08:00

Homa

2011-11-29T00:54:00.000-08:00

Oh God ! - Pure like Fire

Invoking the purity - thy sit with us within!

Humble Prayer

2011-11-29T00:42:00.000-08:00

Me and My wife ...

Wishing
Oh God .. . Make the homes better for all

The Deepam ...

2011-11-29T00:40:00.000-08:00

Light - The Begin with

The Entrance ..

2011-11-29T00:39:00.000-08:00

Prayer -

2011-11-29T00:38:00.000-08:00

Oh God! Please live with us all through ....

A Prayer

2011-11-29T00:36:00.000-08:00

An invocation to Lord Ganesh!

Initiation to Sacred Ceremony

2011-11-29T00:34:00.001-08:00

2011-11-29T00:32:00.001-08:00

Offerings to Sacred Fire!

House Warming

2011-11-29T00:31:00.000-08:00

A Prayer to Divine - Omnipresent to be present on the occasion!

Ghara Puja

2011-11-29T00:05:00.000-08:00

Lord Jagnnath is being Worshipped on House Warming

To MNCs Friends

2011-11-24T11:45:00.000-08:00

Globalisation has brought in MNCs (Multi National Companies) to India. It's true for any developing coutries. It's so for cheap population and natural resources Indian cities now offering. Policy makers believe MNCs bring more FDIs. And it's a short cut for India to get into prosperity. It's not long before polticians keep telling India an emergine super power- With millions of hungry mouths ! Everybody has right to dream -both our policy makers as well as MNCs.And Indian roads has started looking at variety of cars, roads clogged, smoky and dusty to bring untold miseries of health hazard. And at the same time MNCs started looking at cities and grabbing prime lands.
The cities like Hyderabad has lost all the natural landmarks- beautiful natural rock formations. Land =- everybody wants. As if the very square inch of Hyderabad city si going to be looted. The city cries of loosing twhat it has kept untouched for millions of years.
MNCs are well wishers - the general belief what glonbalisation has brought in is getting a beat with plummeting rupee value. Citylike Hyderabad has lost its beauty believing on friendship of MNCs . It's true MNCs are not like Sudama (the poor friend of Krishna) who came to Krishna for friendship not for money. And after meeting Krishna he left with emty hand. And that's the friend - who knows how to honour friendship unlike Shakuni who were with Kauravs to finish them, but not really tfor the sake of friendship!

That's what this poem tells for Hyderabad ; published in Prabha Sarrjana Novemebber 2011.

Our House at Hyderabad

2011-11-24T10:39:00.000-08:00

Puja Scheduled 27th Novemeber 2011

Anjali (my wife) is giving finsihing touch to her dream house.

I'm there just standing by ...

Ama Ghara - 1

2011-11-24T10:27:00.000-08:00

On the Rocks Front Page

2011-11-14T08:41:00.000-08:00

She is there

2011-11-14T08:22:00.000-08:00

This story is written by Sri Vakul , my son studying in BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.

Vakul's Story (She is there)

2011-11-14T08:11:00.000-08:00

On Rocks - Editorial Board

2011-11-14T08:01:00.000-08:00

This is a student magazine from BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. My son Vakul Mohanty here is in Editorial Board.

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What a decision it was!

2011-11-03T08:54:00.000-07:00

A month back I guess, read in The Hindu, London mayor saying
Mahatma Gandhi was wrong. He was wrong of saying India's
future was in villages. We have also proved him wrong. Seems
to be a fatalist, but true it is desisigned to be that way.

Villages have started melting, almost by design. Plagued. Villagers
more young ones have started deserting. India has to be urbanised the best
brains in planning scratch their heads and allocate huge sum for it.
And at the sametime, every square foot of its (city's) body is being
auctioned every next day at higher price.

Rulers giggle. Talk about ring roads after ring roads around city. They
are blessed to gather more and more lands and carve the course of these
roads along their lands. It's also destined to move that way with the
magic wands they hold for 2 rupees (for a killo rice ...)

Real estate developers fatten. Poor
individuals pay through nose to put themselves in mid-air like
geo-synch satelites. Stationed for ever unfloding hands like solar
panels seeking miracles from unknown quarters - God is there for
every Indian!

In the poem 'Kemiti Eie Nirnaya Tumara? - What a decision it was?'
a city asks of rationality in making it grow and putting ring roads one
after another ' those pythons spew fire and smoke every day to make
life miserable - a wild growth for benefit of few ....

The poem is published in 'Sagarika' October 2011 Puja Sankhya ....
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Morning Walk

2011-10-15T10:32:00.000-07:00

This Odia Poem is published in 'Digbalay' Odia
Durga Puja Special Issue:

It talks of how urban life style has made people robots. The
arm chair jobs have cursed people with all types of ailments
like BP etc. And people in hurry have taken up morning walk
Yoga and listening to Baba's discourses once they were laughing
at. But, they don't have that fresh morning with rays on dew drops
clinging to threads of spider-nets on wet grass; the freshness of
mroning is lost, even for kids as public expensive schools in cities
start collecting kids early morning as they provide breakfast service
as the busy parents can't make breakfast even!

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A Review of Madhyahna

2011-09-14T11:20:00.000-07:00

My second Odia poetry book, Madhyahna is published in 2010. This book has poems mostly on mid-life blues, an assessment after one travels a half-way in life. Not necessarily, it's of my life, but it takes on generalized issues.

The review by Dr.Patra on Madhyahna is published in Gokarnika July-Sept 2011 issue. I'm told
the journal is of 40+ years old and regarded well in Odia literary community. It's my pleasure to thank the reviewer Dr.Patra and the magazine editor for the review and publication.

Not only, dr.Patra many have shown unusual interest in a poem, Ajagar (Python). While writing this poem I was also very much perturbed as well as surprised on imagery the poem waives around. The other poem
Mukha (Mask) is also interesting to the reviewer.

I'm sorry for non-Odia followers of this blog as the review given below is in Odia. I'll translate it some time soon.

regards
Hrushieksha

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NagaRi KaNduChhi

2011-06-11T07:56:00.000-07:00

The City is CRYING

I have composed nearly 70 poems on Hyderabad, the city where I have been since 1984. In many poems of the last three volumes, the imprint of my village in Odisha is seen heavily. Being reminded by Anjali, my wife I decided to write on Hyderabad. Most of these poems carry the words of a migrant that has moved to city from rural India. And also talks of the agony of a city due to indiscriminate expansion, that has been there now for many cities (like Hyderabad) in India

This poem, talks of the present of a city due to heavy expansion at the cost of greenery, erosion of culture and livelihood of people those who are living in villages around the city. The wide 6-lane ring roads are the pythons who spit fire and smoke everyday making the the city environment poisonous. Everyday, water table shrinks down by an inch. It aspires for judicious expansion taking care of greens and interest of poor.

The poem is published in SAGARIKA - Odia literary magazine, May 2011

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Obviate to Oblivion

2011-06-05T04:54:00.000-07:00

'MaNile ThaKuR NamaNile KuKuR' - a say in Odia telling
'Believe it, then the God else a dog!' - says the inherent
strength of a belief. The institute of India democracy,
believed with utmost sanctity as an institute of functional
democracy, is caught in a belief-disbelief tangle so much that
aam Admi (commoner) to big-admi, all have an
obvious feel, telling what else can be expected of it now
(from monkeys holding Salagram - a kind of stone pebble
considered auspicious for Hindus) !

A recent book India's parliamentary democracy on trial,
by an erstwhile insider, the former Union
Home secretary Sri. Madhav Godbole tells the ailments of
these institutions. It's needless to say of
the law makers and the proceedings they enact in.

In-actions with right mix of wrong-actions by these actors
have made ample space for Annas and Babas to come to the
rescue of the beleaguered citizens of this great country, that
we claim again again to be sure we don't forget. Hopefully,
they will succeed at-least for the sake of goodness!

But, would the awakening (dictate?) that flows from Jantar Mantar and
RamaLila Maidan obviate the grand structures pushing them to oblivion?
The Great Indian soul must be watching with a lot of breathless anxiety! Will the soul whisper the mantra for sanity at the ears of who keep visit
for the sake of rituals round the year ? Let the goodness prevail............

Hrushikesha
another musing with a hope at gazing blue sky
dotted with floating clouds of hope at the end
of hot Hyerabadi summer!

World Class

2011-06-04T22:50:00.000-07:00

Last month a union minister known for tongue-wagging (-in-cheek-speaking?) [1]

had a barb for IIT,IIM faculty - telling them not world-class, but for self, was benevolnet

towards IITians, though many question their utility for their changes as migratory

birds to USA or IIMs, while very few are in real love with science and technology.

Interestingly, the observer has forgotten to place current of self in any standard

(are our ministers of world class?). Fortunately, another came to rescue of faculty

for it belongs to the domain of his ministry.

Again adding to the issue, yet another barb came from a recognized (though his

detractors say 'sarkari') scientist - who tells not more than TEN Indian scientists

are world class [2]. Till now, there is no report, to my knowledge on this issue.

Seems there is some truth in all these statements. After Saha-Bose_Raman era, in

recent past, the science in India is nil. The science in India now, almost a

patchy work - a bit of twist to a published work! Meet a professor in any Univ./

Institute in India, to hear the standard advise - Go and do the survey first and learn

what and how they have done!

Who are these 'they's? Mostly from west - we look for science and technology. In

default 'they' project world class - the class that belongs neither to Indians

nor to their problems !

Hrushikesha

a Sunday Musing

References:

1. http://www.samachar.com/Jairam-IIT-IIM-students-world-class-not-faculty-lfyjP8cafhi.html

2. http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2066308.ece

Aprahna _ Foreword (English)

2011-05-25T08:32:00.000-07:00

This is the English translation of the foreword to my Odia poetry book
Aparahna (The Afternoon). The foreword is by Mr.Ramaknta Ratha, an
Odia poet of eminence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakanta_Rath
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The Light in Afternoon
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The poet Sri. Hrushikesha Mohanty, himself has told of his intimacy with poetry in preface of this book. One day, the poetry knocked at his door and suddenly it came in. Since then everyday, during his walks in lonely nights, she comes; both keep talking while walking along in solitude. Then, both sit across the study table and keep talking. That makes the poet realize the self, the present and the future in a way, that is unique to him . The intimacy of a real poet with poetry is always like this. That relation is neither realized by the wish of the poet nor by his/her efforts; it happens at the wish of poems. Sri Hrushikesha is blessed for this realisation and intimacy with poems, that has come to him on its own .

The new style (of his expression) I told before is visible in plenty in this volume. The inner-self (KabyPurusha) has revealed itself again and again from traditional bounds and rituals. He has not completely wiped off the past rather understood the present and has made the both complement each other. It's not true the poetics has moved heavily towards self (individualism); for the poet, the personal relations have meanings. But that relation is very different than that what he had before. Now these are much more meaningful. It has pains of the past. One suffers while searching self in it. But one has to return to present. If life is a drama, one has to look for the scenes and the director of the drama. Unconvinced poet has indulged in self questioning . The poet is restless in self search and almost always in off-beat mood!

The poet who travels such a large space within him, has uttered self with his uniqueness How can it not be? He has not been writing poems for the sake of writing poems rather he has been obliging the loving calls of poetics. I congratulate the poet and wish him the best.

Ramakanta Ratha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramakanta_Rath

Aparahna Cover Pages

2011-05-24T08:10:00.000-07:00

Foreword by Sj. Ramakanta Ratha

2011-05-24T08:07:00.000-07:00

About SjRamaknta Ratha

Aprahna Preface

2011-05-24T08:03:00.000-07:00

Aparahna Preface

2011-05-24T07:50:00.000-07:00

Selecting Vice-Chancellors

2011-04-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

(Note: This is a personal view only!)

Indian hierarchical society always favous a recipe of power
and so also academia (many). Inherently, academia has less power but
just at the time of getting grey, power in Indian academia lurks
and for many it remains illusive.

For some lucky and manipulative ones, the illusion may turn reality (DB!)
if one is at right side of fortune. The right side is measured on the basis of
many real factors (that are behind the screen) like caste, religion,
connections etc. etc. But on selection, the selected one starts singing
sermons, recites the names of Stanford, Oxford and Cambridge to drown
the community with obfuscate calls for turning the university to No. ONE!
Amused academicians with tongue-in-cheek have to listen
(for no other choice) to such oratory. And some of them
return to in the same words at the end of episode. But, the university
remains (if fortunate enough) at the same for future.

A university does not probably budge to change to the whims of the
selected one for it having grey or colored image; and as it decides
to run the business as per the wish of their gurus - (they
behind the curtain are the real honchos).

Search committee - the best heard term like GoM (Group of Ministers)
is one of the most wonderful committee for academia of higher learning.
The committee is of GoDs to select another GOD for academia! It could
turn to a snake for frogs begging the Lord a GoD to their better uses.

GOD loves to be an authoritarian and and prefers mostly to live in hierarchy,
(most of the GODs). That's why GODs thrive in Indian society for its well
marked hierarchy. What happens if GODs turn to democracy and so also
the process of vice-chancellor selection adopts?

Once search committee proposes some names; each of them should talk to
University community of their dreams for the university and globally, for
the fast changing knowledge society. Ideally, if a candidate does not have
its own dream then is not welcome!

On hearing dreams, community must vote and select
the best dreamer - not an executive who can't even put a stroke using
its own brush and paints! Modern way of selecting somebody is not a top-down
but a bottom-up process.

Indian Universities need to embrace a lot of changes; if they want to
be bit closure to reality of Stanford!

(Note: This is a personal view only!)
Hrushikesha
(Bishuba Sankranti)

Key faces of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption crusade

2011-04-09T01:55:00.000-07:00

Key faces of Anna Hazare's anti-corruption crusade

Anna Hazare's anti-corruption campaign, which has captured the imagination of the nation like no other, has some high-profile faces lending it weight and substance. Here are the key faces:

Anna Hazare: Kisan Bapat Baburao Hazare, 73, is popularly known as Anna Hazare. The iconic Gandhian is known for his contribution to the development of Ragelan Siddhi, a village in Parner taluka in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district. He was awarded a Padma Bhushan in 1992 for turning it into a model village. On April 5, 2011, the 72-year-old began a fast-unto-death to exert pressure on the government to enact a strong anti-corruption law that will see the appointment of independent ombudsmen at the centre and in the states to deal with cases of corruption. He broke the fast after 97 hours after the government constituted a joint panel of ministers and civil society representatives to draft the law.

Swami Agnivesh: Born as Shyam Vepa Rao on Sep 21, 1939 in Sakti in Chhattisgarh, the saffron-clad activist is best known for his work against bonded labour through the Bonded Labour Liberation Front that he founded in 1981. He is the founder of the World Council of Arya Samaj and is associated with the United Nations Trust Fund on contemporary forms of slavery. A former lecturer at St Xavier's College, Kolkata, he joined the Hindu Reformist Movement in Haryana and became a legislator. He is an also a proponent of the inter-faith dialogue and is a member of the board of the Elijah Interfaith Institute. His entry into the corruption crusade has mobilized mass opinion.

Arvind Kejriwal: The 1958-born is a crusader for greater transparency in the government. The graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur is popularly known as the RTI or the Right to Information Man. He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emerging Leadership in 2006 for empowering citizens to fight corruption by holding the government answerable to people. On February 2007, he was named the CNN-IBN Man of the Year. He is associated with a non-profit anti-corruption group, Parivartan.

Kiran Bedi: The 1949-born is India's first supercop. She is known for her sweeping reforms in New Delhi's Tihar Jail to rehabilitate inmates and integrate them to the mainstream. She became India's first woman Indian Police Service (IPS) officer in 1972 and retired from service in 2007. A television presenter, Bedi is also the founder of Navjyoti, for welfare and preventive policing in 1987 and India Vision Foundation for prison reforms. Hazare's crusade has inspired the former tough cop.

©Indo-Asian News Service
Courtsey: http://www.samachar.com/Key-faces-of-Anna-Hazares-anticorruption-crusade-lejmK7gcabc.html?source=recommended_news

Play For themselves Only

2011-04-08T20:51:00.000-07:00

Sure, many will not agree with me on this blog.
Still, I will tell you my observations during
Cricket World Cup.

My civil contractor, who visits our house these days
as we have taken up some construction work,is a cricket
premi - I guess as he asks about scores, to his disappoint
he finds our indifference to cricket.

But, he could not control himself and requested my wife
to make him watch semi-final and final on our TV during
his visit to construction site. Thanks/Shame to media who put
India-Pakistan cricket match as 'mahaYudha'; unfortunate
(sports) journalism!

Next day after world cup as the contractor came to our house
Anjali (my wife) asked him, 'you must have enjoyed yesterday's
match.' Then he tells, 'what's to us madam? Foolishly, we spend
so much time for them forgetting they are playing for their own
(plots, cars, Bharat Ratna, money ....etc. etc. etc.)He put
a signature of distaste on his face and walked away to his
works!

Hrushikesha

A different captain is Shri Anna Hazare

2011-04-06T10:54:00.000-07:00

A different captain is Shri Anna Hazare leading a fight against corruption.
that our country has been passing through hugely at present. Sri Anna, who on call of Swamiji
(Vivekananda) threw away his suicidal note and started his life anew to bring light
to many in his native villages. Sri Anna possess nothing but handled missions of
crores of rupees - unbelievable. Seventy two years old has taken up fast till death
with an aim to cleanse India of corruption. Hats off. Indians need to rally behind him
as they did for Cricket World Cup. It's a bigger CUP India is badly in need since
1947. Probably Swami Vivekananda is looking through Annaji for the India he dreamt of.
And Gandhiji must have whispered to Annaji wishing him the success.
Let it come TRUE ...........

My support and sincere regards to Annaji

Hrushikesha Mohanty

let a chemistry make a right alloy ..........

2011-04-04T23:35:00.000-07:00

If Ratan Tata does not share chemistry with Maran, so does he share
that with Raja? A natural question comes. Whatever, it's but it makes
any loving citizen sorry to see Tata's at this position. Jamshedji must be
turning in his grave with utter discomfort; so, also me a fan of Tatas for
their much advocated social responsibility.

Has Ratan Tata diminished the stature of Tata, betrayed the love the
countrymen, in general. Time will say, hope will not disappoint.

The question is on the mess, that prevails. The stream does not flow and the flow is
muddy. Anything, you look through this looks also so. And so, is Ratan Tata now

Let the goodness prevail in Delhi, mud gives a way to clarity and
so the original color comes out be it anybody ................ .
And at last, let a chemistry make a right alloy ..........

Hrushikesha Mohanty
(In response to Ratan Tata's statement at PAC yesterday)

Congratulation Mumbai Police Commissioner Arup Patnaik!!!

2011-04-03T09:12:00.000-07:00

I have told last about Mass Management in my blog posted in March responding to a failure of AP police in controlling a march by Telengana activists that resulted to a very indecent situation- breaking of statues of the prominent people the land of Andhra Pradesh has given to us.

I am very concerned of security at mass gatherings. For mass, I was afraid of a darshan of Lord Balaji in Tirupati. However, that brought a punishment, Lord made me standing at a stretch for 13 hours carrying my little daughter around 12 years back. Similarly, I get weird thoughts when I visit Mumbai - I'm afraid of huge population and gatherings. Infact, I love to spend time alone with books (not really technical ones!!!).

This time, I had similar fear of gatherings at Wankhade Stadium for cricket world cup final match in Mumbai. Heard about unprecedented security bandobust there; still I had a fear always. With God's grace everything went on well and Team India won the world cup. Though, I have no such fascination to cricket, still I am happy and congratulate the team. More, I was relieved, it went off well without any security problems.

Mumbai police must have worked very hard. They are unsung heroes. Incase God forbid, had there been any problem; there would have been rain of curses to them. But, in case of good work nobody told of them except the union Minister of State for Home Gurudas Kamat. I'm very much thankful to him. He understood, success story for these unsung heroes never comes to front whereas, their lapses roll the headlines. It's always true for who work at the back, away of publicity.

Congratulations to Mumbai police commissioner Arup Patnaik and his team!!!

Hrushikesha Mohanty

ICDCIT 2011 (2)

2011-04-02T07:33:00.001-07:00

ICDCIT - 2011 (1)

2011-04-02T07:28:00.001-07:00

Walking Straight

2011-03-11T08:44:00.000-08:00

Very few can do that - walking straight. Rather
now, the walking other way is a practice.
Even, a kid now can't walk straight for the
unreasonable load of schoolbag. So, also elders have
load of their creations. Carrying a load, particularly
for the self created one, it's always difficult to
walk straight. So, it's today!

Mr.Gandhi could take on the crowd walking straight
into frenzy mass at Noakhali. The time has changed
now. One needs a heavy police bandobast to do so.
Now, even present creed will not dare looking at the
fiasco, the police faced in AP, to foil the MM.

Our country loves mass, the hallagolla of it
be it festivals, political or cricket gatherings.
Controlling mass is a vital subject of study.
Walking straight is a proven noble technique the father
of the nation has shown. Can present genre follow it?
Walking straight into the hot spot needs courage and
leadership; not that stems from Delhi!

Hrushieksha Mohanty

Concerned at 80

2011-03-09T08:30:00.000-08:00

Shri Karan Singh on turning to 80 years old speaks out the following --
'India has so much to offer to the world and yet I feel a sense of frustration among our young people,' Karan Singh told a select gathering at the Teen Murti Bhavan.

Reference: http://www.samachar.com/Karan-Singh-turns-80-PM-releases-documentary-ldjuRtfcheb.html

I'm amazed to know, he realizes it now. Isn't clearly visible? Where will today's youths look forward for role model? (there are nobody except cricket and bollywood heroes). Infact, today's youth mostly look forward to these two as else only vacuum persists. Citizens have raised their hands up in despair!

Ha! Will ruling class emulate Vivekanandaji to give a clarion call to youths? It's a matter of laugh ......... I remember a very famous Odia poem in this context:

dehe mandakini raja lagai
Gram sukariki hoiba gai;
JagaTe keBala Jane HasiBe
EHi TaHuM Phala.

It says, on putting a coat of the mud of Ganga river, a pig can't change to a cow!
Only it will make it a laughing stock!
Hrushikesha

To Commentators and Tormentors

2011-03-06T08:29:00.000-08:00

Dedicated to
all the whispers behind me!

There have been some people who showered kind words on my
initiation of journey to literature. It's natural in this
world to have some who are acidic; they are my commentators
and tormentors!

The comments are acidic and pungent. Some question my
rationality, some criticize saying me busy in poem-
engineering / poem-programming. Some even openly undervalue
my works saying - 'yes, your book is lying somewhere. I'm very
busy!'

I gave my books initially to some for assessment, hoping that
will give me strength and self-confidence. (Ofcourse, some
were kind to say good words, to encourage). But some were pungent.
Hearing them initially was risky. To my good luck, I got good
reviews from eminent litterateurs. And now,really I'm not
at risk of any acidic commentators.

Tormentors say I don't do Computer Science any more; left
software engineering for poem-engineering. Ha! Ha! they are
unaware, poem can not be engineered. Creativity is not like
writing a patchy research paper. In a research paper you claim -
'I have done this that, better than all'
but creativity doesn't claim, 'I' doesn't exist in it;
only beauty of creation prevails. It leaves itself to the world
for interpretation. Creativity makes one humble.

It has made me conscious of the vast world full of varieties
of exciting things, blue sky, free birds, flowing streams,
sorrows and pains, crisis in ethics, discolored dews, fading roses,
hungry mouths and threatening gunpowder smells.

Here, the creator does not claim points for promotion or awards.
The creator beholds the creation with bliss of love!

Commentators and tormentors; for me Computer Science is for living
and Literature is life. I don't measure myself in metrics specified
by somebody. I have my own. I eulogize this beautiful world with
sanctity of creation. Please, leave me alone! I love to be a loner
in my journey.

Hrushikesha

Pandu,Kunti O Banabasi:Mahabharata Eka Bhina Drushthire-1

2011-03-05T06:14:00.000-08:00

This article is published in Nabapatra (Nov.-Dec. 2010) issue Pages 32-39.
It has been made to two parts. I'd request you to follow the next blog part-2
of the article.

Let me confess at the beginning that purist may not agree with the thesis
I have put forth in this article. Pandu's death in absence of Kunti is attributed
to the prolonged warfare he used to raise against banabasi (tribal). Pandu
stationed himself in forest to subdue tribal. Whereas Kunti has fairly working
relation with tribal. Kuti has gone to Hastinapur to persuade Gandhari not to
put cover on her eyes permanently. In the meantime, Pandu has been killed. I
have taken some quotes to say that there was prolonged fights between Pandu
and tribal. And it could be as a result of revenge tribal took for Pandu's
cruelty at tribal using sabdVedi Bana
sound-tracking-missile.

I have followed Sarala Das Mahabharat in Odiya.

(Please click image for better view)

Pandu, Kunti and Banabasi: Mahabharata Eka Bhina Drusthire-2

2011-03-05T06:00:00.000-08:00

Not Above the Desires

2011-03-04T13:57:00.000-08:00

Buddha gets puzzled at the accusation made by an old
lady. She accuses- Your claim self above the desire is
hollow. Your hands are not clean. Your mind lacks clarity.

Buddha claims - ,Mata! I have no desire. I have left family,
I have left the palace. I don't even store my next meal. I always
think for humankind. How can you accuse this way? How can you
question my integrity, Mata?

The old lady retorts - Your desire of Nirvana is a great desire.
You can't remove sorrows in this country by preaching inaction.
You yourself have not taken up your responsibility, Lord Buddha!

Ruining the country by showcasing inaction for Nirvana is your sin -
Lord Buddha! She walks away with a curse on her lips. Buddha looks
with profound bewilderment in his eyes.

I work for my country, I think for commoners. I have not stashed away
fortune. My hands are clean. I have no desire. Where is my wrong?

Someone whispers from other side of the bed -
it's your desire for the History!

New Coverpage of Aparahna

2011-03-03T09:03:00.000-08:00

This page is designed by Sri Sahil Mehta, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus. Sahil is in third year and friend of my son Vakul. Shail, Vakul and bunch of their friends bring out a e-magazine. More about their creativity can be found at http://www.scribd.com/doc/46374575/Ltgtr-New-Year-05-01-11

Thanks Sahil for this cover page.

My esteemed visitors: If you have any comment on this cover page
please advise on.

regards
Hrushikesha

Kunti, Pandu and Prabaha

2011-03-01T05:02:00.000-08:00

(Kunti, Pandu and Prabaha; Hrushikesha Mohanty Sagarika, Vol. 6, No. 2; Feb 2011, Pages 57-58.)

Click on Image for better View

Telling, I have developed interest in Mahabharat, is naive.
I have listened all about it from my grandfather in my
childhood. Time has flown away. And life has started
asking different questions at me at this junction. I caught
hold of 'Difficulty of being Good' of Gurucharan Das. This
again aroused my interest in Mahabharat. On my visit to
native place, I collected Mahabharat from my mother. She was
looking at me with puzzles in her eyes. At my residence,
Anjali, my wife advised not to keep all full set at home.
This is a stigma of Mahabharat - full set brings conflict;
there is a hearsay. As if there is less of conflict in this world!

Whatever, it could be I started reading
it in evening studiously. Its stories are fascinating. I
decided to look through these stories the past, the human
mind, dharma, issues in society. I will tell, it's a treasure.

I'm in Adya Parba only. I stumbled at the unique story of cursed
Pandu - Kunti and Madri can't have kids from Pandu. Pandu prepares
bed and asks Kunti to make use of the boon - the garland she got from
Rishi Durbasa, and to get conceived. It's baffling - to think. Isn't it?
But, Kunti and Madri did the same. Pandu left house for the nights they
invited Gods and had kids from them. The kids are known as
Pandavas. Imagine, what made Pandu to take such a bold decision.
Imagine, how society took Kunti as one of the Pancha Maha Sati (among the
great woman of Virtues: Kunti, Mandodari, Draupadi, Tara and Ahalya).
It's baffling. In this article, I have taken the help of this story
to show the boldness of continuity,
the way it prevails. It prevails for justice and peace. That is
Pandu, Kunti and Continuity.

I'm glad to say here, the abstract poem I have got from the story
is well appreciated and some said it's a new style. I got few calls
from Odisha, saying that. I'm happy of it. My next article on Mahabharat
will come in coming issue of NabaPatra.

To my English readers: wish me, I will write its English version soon!

regards
Hrushikesha

Madhyahna in New Arrivals at Sagarika

2011-02-28T21:39:00.000-08:00

ICDCIT - 2011 at KIIT Bhubaneshwar

2011-02-21T07:26:00.001-08:00

Myself with Prof. R.K.Shyamasundar, TIFR Mumbai
at ICDCIT 2011

ICDCIT 2011 at KIIT Bhubaneshwar

2011-02-21T07:17:00.001-08:00

With Dr.Achyuta Samanta Founder of KIIT University
Prof.Raja, TIFR Mumbai the Program co-Chair and Invited Speakers of ICDCIT (International Conference on distributed Computing and Internet Technology 9-12 2011.

New Odia Good Books in 2011

2011-02-21T07:08:00.000-08:00

If you are in Odisha, I will recommend you to have thse good Odia books
released this year

1. (Novel) Garba Karibara Katha by Hrushikesha Panda and
2. (Essay) Odia Jatira Jibana katha by Hara Prasad Das
3. (Novel) Magna Mati by Pratibha Ray
4. (Short Story) Mugdha Nadi by Supriya Panda

Hrushikesha

Aprahna Cover Page

2011-02-21T06:07:00.000-08:00

I'm glad to post the cover page of my third collection of poems called 'Aprahna'. If everything goes fine, the book should come out of press by the end of March 2011. I have requested some established renowned Odia poets to comment on the poems; during my recent visit to Odisha in this month I have given them the ready-to-print draft. Wish me GOOD LUCK please!

REGARDS
Hrushikesha

Beeper is Nupur Now

2011-02-02T08:02:00.000-08:00

We had a cute black cow with thick coat and heavy neck to tie a jingling bell with much love that brought so much fun and fond for me at dawn and dusk in my childhood days in village of rural Odisha of those days.

Later, we put nupur (paunji) on my little daughter's feet to see the glory of her ankle and for jingling around our house, though later being grown up she found it not very trendy.

I'm bit old fashioned always as my wife puts cut remarks on me; to my understanding or misunderstandings it is true I'm not trendy. I always liked nupur around ankle still hope my grand-daughter will put, still better if my daughter-in-law will decide to wear it around her ankle.

But, to my surprise, US diplomat at Hyderabad commented 'radio beeper' is a trendy anklet for Indian students. These students are duped by a fraudulent US university engaged in money laundering. US believes these students have gone to that University primarily for visa, to get into USA - the dream land still lower middle class Indians aspire; and so why the diplomat issued such a nasty comment.

It's a national shame to know Indian students are being treated like animals and their movement are monitored by beepers, US authority has tied radio-tags on their legs. Indian Govt. has raised a protest. US didn't budge at it, obviously; as it's US.

The point is why at all, our students decide to go to US enmasse. I understand the point of some bright students going to join a good school for learning. But, what is the point of paying and joining to such a trivial University! Is it the craze of parents or students or of time? God knows. But true, Beeper is Nupur now!

I wish them honourable homecoming.

Hrushsikesha Mohanty
2nd Feb. 2011

Even a Whisper Was Enough

2011-02-01T09:09:00.000-08:00

Time was such in Tretaya, even a whisper was enough. Could it be unjustified. Still, the King Ram took it serious as he felt his subject had a cause to suspect his conduct - well it's not he, of his wife. The comment was on Sita, that night the woman cited when her husband had an aspersion on her character for her absence at home. She claimed how King Ram didn't have such doubt on Sita though she lived almost an year at Ravana's place. King Ram heard it during his night walk in disguise. He used to have such walk to comprehend reality of life among his subjects. He was shocked at this allegation and decided to abandon Sita. He didn't decide to put a committee for buying time for a report on the allegation the woman was making on Sita. Ha! it was not an elected government and Ram was not a PM. But, now many may question on the decision King Ram made.
But, the story has a spirit. The spirit of undoubted integrity, that King Ram wanted to have among his people. Now, my dear guests you can guess where we are now in comparison to Tretaya Yuga of King Ram when even a whisper was enough. We have traveled a long distance in time line from Tretaya to today when even charge-sheet does not matter specially for those who are cut to be role-model.

Thanks for your time; looking forward to your comment
regards
Hrushikesha
1st February 2011

Making of a Call

2011-01-31T09:31:00.000-08:00

Give Me Blood! I Promise You Freedom!!
At a rally of Indians in Burma, July 4, 1944 this was the statement Netaji made at the great rally where he was elected with acclaim as the leader of the freedom movement in East Asia. The speech infused new life to a movement which had been weakened by internal dissensions. Sad, this time we didn't get enough time to remember him being amidst of the scams. But still, the call he made, is even now electrifying for both young and old.

Recently, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi gave a call,"Give me ten years of your life and after that you will be very proud of your contribution."[1]

I'm not sure how many will take up the call. A country needs a call at times for making its pace of progress accelerating. Unfortunately, something has gone wrong with us so that a call like this becomes a no-call.

It requires a soul searching. I think here I should quote the call President Obama made to his country men, "Your Country Needs You" - an inclusive call, a call of sacrifice and call of a glory that all cherish. Making of a call brings difference into!

[1]http://www.indianexpress.com/news/give-me-ten-years-of-your-life-and-ill-make-you-proud-rahulgandhi/743522/3

Hrushikesha Mohanty
31st january 2011

We and Our New Car

2011-01-31T09:02:00.000-08:00

Making of World Order of Your Own

2011-01-30T08:32:00.000-08:00

At Davos, Wipro Chairman Azim Premzi, expressed his disappointment at US [1], alleging of its double standard on global trade practices for products and services. US wants third world markets to open up for US products (like Microsoft Window etc.) while it does not want to give space to India for getting into US service sector. Saying simply, US does not want to allow body shopping for Indian IT companies. President Obama wants his people to get job. Azim Permzi is right for complaining of US treating Indian IT companies as IT-Sudras (as they are in services)and possibly one can express distaste at IT-Brahminical attitude of US.

I agree but wonder why India IT-Companies are not moving up in value chain from
IT-Sudra to next step up. It sounds castiest remark! I'm sorry. But, this question Indian IT companies must put to themselves. They can't expect or should not expect
easy money and the same time benefits from tax payers. Much later, Russia came to
IT export business and it is at the point to match with India. You don't make a IT-giant writing GUI codes!

At a position you make a global-order, you don't ask for it. US knows it much better!

Hrushikesha Mohanty
30th January 2011

1. Ref. http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/software/emerging-economies-are-fed-up-of-west-lecturing-premji-/articleshow/7370077.cms

Not living for the Next Salary

2011-01-28T06:48:00.000-08:00

"On a cold night in a quiet town, 71-year-old Jeff Knaebel crept into the ruins of an ancient Buddhist meditation center in northern India, doused himself with a flammable liquid and set himself alight to protest what he called cruelty in the United States and India." (Taken from 28th Jan 11 www.samachar.com)

It's sad, an admirer of Gandhi- the Father of the Nation, had to take such a decision
being scared of Indian police and disgusted with both US (the country of his birth) and India (his chosen country for Gandhi).

Sri Jeff Knaebel wrote to his friend Sri Desai,"By my death I send my answer to the rulers of the Corporate State who value property and profit more than human life. ... They will no longer control me," said the letter, given by Desai to The Associated Press. Desai said he received the letter a few weeks ago but did not know Knaebel had any immediate plans to die.

You can call him something else, but sure he is very sensitive; the persons like
him are sure different than many of us who just live for the next salary!

Hrushikesha Mohanty
28th Jan 11

Celebrate India

2011-01-27T03:03:00.000-08:00

At Davos, somebody said today, 'celebrate India'. Seems, it's too bad or timid to tell the same inside India. The point is who celebrates and for what. True, all of one billion plus there will be no sure cause to celebrate. But, a good portion of them should have. If the celebration is for very few, then of-course that is there in Davos for those neo billionaires !

It's also true, instead of celebration of rise in our economy alas with double digit inflation in- spite of all the efforts of the best degree holders in Economics, the country is plagued with curse of scams. Some say, it is bad to tell bad of ours in public; like some being ultra-patriot, used to object Satyajit's Ray's movies, though they now feel proud of him owning Oscar. They fear telling openly of scams may de-motivate investors. But, they forget Investors decide to come to India for its openness. The real celebration of India is to deliver justice to billion mass, by wiping off the scamsters!

Hrushikesha Mohanty
27 Jan 2011.

Some Said

2011-01-26T23:33:00.000-08:00

Shakespeare.....
"Never Play With The Feelings Of Others Because You May Win The Game
But The Risk Is That You Will Surely Loose The Person For Life Time".

Napoleon........
"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people,
But because of the silence of good people!"

Einstein.........
"I am thankful to all those who said NO to me Its Because of them I did it myself.."

Abraham Lincoln.........
"If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world"

Shakespeare..........
"Laughing Faces Do Not Mean That There Is Absence Of Sorrow!
But It Means That They Have The Ability To Deal With It".

William Arthur.........
"Opportunities Are Like Sunrises, If You Wait Too Long You Can Miss Them".

Hitler.....
"When You Are In The Light, Everything Follows You,
But When You Enter Into The Dark, Even Your Own Shadow Doesn't Follow You."

Shakespeare.............
"Coin Always Makes Sound But The Currency Notes Are Always Silent.
So When Your Value Increases Keep Yourself Calm Silent"

Dr Abdul kalaam........
"It Is Very Easy To Defeat Someone, But It Is Very Hard To Win Someone"

Taken from Internet - Usual Disclaimer floows
Hrushikesha Mohanty

Your Country Needs You

2011-01-26T03:21:00.000-08:00

I have chosen to work rather than gluing to TV. Felt, that's sure my country needs first. But, still there is a need of formal celebration both in every sphere starting from personal occasions to national and international occasions. I saw on Internet a few photos claiming to arise patriotic fire in onlookers. True, the show the celebration puts up is colorful. But, how is it understood, is difficult to guess. Has it raised the level.

Today, there was a piece of news on US President Obama giving a call to US citizens telling,
"Your Country Needs You", in the context of competing with India and China, to maintain
US superiority in Science and Technology. The four words "Your Country Needs You" - is certainly
capable of awakening the fire within.

Alas, the leaders in India fail miserably. Some of them say with tongue in cheek, some of them
lack clarity and some of them prefer to keep mum - so for many Indians these celebrations remain
meaningless while struggling for daily existence!

Nobody tells and very few Indians feel the words: "Your Country Needs You"
Wish that will not be true for long.

Hrushikesha Mohanty

Of Being Irrational

2011-01-22T22:00:00.000-08:00

All preach to act as a rational. There is a good old phrase
'Human is a rational being'. I agree. But, sometime I feel
there is so much life being irrational that science denies.
A dream of the Lord, makes a person on high spirit. But,
rationalist will surely question it and also will give
a theory of action of a dogmatic mind. May be they are
True. But, they don't give me my Happiness.

Similarly, since long I was playing trick of Santa visiting
our house with gifts on 24th Dec. night till my kids found
it wrong. But, we missed a lot of fun in our house since they
became rational.

On beatification on Mother Teressa I was happy. I see a lot
of happiness and affection looking at her photo. I believe
she possess a kind of divinity. Rationalist, may not agree.
Recently, The Hindu published a beatification a story of the
Vatican Pope.

The same, The Hindu published since the last two days
on Makar Jyoti at
Sabarimela where an unfortunate tragedy struck this time.
The news paper has declared it man-made with inconclusive
interviews statements collected from some people.

The point is whole issue of tragedy has got diverted. Such
tragedy can happen in any mass gathering. Hill top, Tirumala
gets a huge crowd round the year. So, also public
rally / cricket matches. get huge crowd. Our police must be
trained in crowd management. Curriculum should be there for
kids to learn how to behave in a crowd.

What's the point of questioning on divinity of Makar Jyoti?
Let people realise it and take decision on their own. And let
us leave those, even if one thinks them irrational, to seek
solace on their belief followed so strongly following a month long
self-control and penance.

There is so much life being Irrational!

Hrushikesha Mohanty
23rd January 2011

On Today's Malavyas'

2011-01-22T09:26:00.000-08:00

Lt. Gen Rath broke down hearing the verdict today pronounced by ," General Court Martial (GCM) Presiding Officer Lt Gen I J Singh." I can understand the pain Lt.Gen Rath must be having. The credibility of his total illustrious career is just washed away for issuing no objection certificate, for 70 acres of land adjacent to Sukha miitary base, to a private builder who floated a trust - Agarwal Geetanjali Education Trust - to set up an affiliate school of the prestigious Mayo College in the area. Lt.Gen Rath blames the system, and pointer aims to the then Chief and babu's defence minstry. The issue is grave certainly. And another Adarsh Scam is on our face now!

But, here I'd like to make a point on a set of people who over night have become messiah for the cause of education. A similar case is of Vedanta University by Anil Agarwal. He has asked and Odisha Govt has agreed to provide 4000 acres(or 6000 acres???) of land on Puri-Konark marine drive for Vedanta University. Anil Agarwal has certainly become educationist for prime land! God knows why does he require so much land. I have seen Universities in Europe, they have come up in very small patch of land. How many acres of land NUS, Singapore has?

There could be so many such bad examples of today's Madan Mohan Malavya's !

Let me give a good example. Yesterday, I rang up to Sj.Bankim Chandra Moharana, a retired high school head master in my native place. He was teaching a group of students, training them for tenth exam. He does not charge. On the top of it students from far places, stay in his house.

I wondered education is still alive not with these Today's Malavyas' but with people like Bankim Sir!

Hrushikesha Mohanty
22nd January 2011

Aparahna - The Third Anthology of Odia Poems

2011-01-20T05:54:00.000-08:00

I'm glad to say, my third anthology of Odia Poems
is getting ready for release in 1st quarter of 2011.
These are contents of the book here:

Return of the Arrows

2011-01-17T08:39:00.000-08:00

Pushing me away off the Milkway
what you murmur in haste at my ear
I couldn't get, but later realized here.
All these sprout, and I feel the need with a sigh
to live in this prolonged but limited play
where living is a cocktail of hopes and addictions,
the dry thirst of a cactus to grow in desert
or to flow as a hidden stream within.

Oh! the benevolent, so your offer of five arrows
for my shrunken soul that shot from trembling fort,
so many bled and many got wounded
and some fell silent and some got defeated.

Now, I an assassin, a Chandashok dance
while my deceived moments lament
and I put a dark dot on calendar hung on my wall
and I know, I'm a sophomore waiting for the call.

The day the wall denied for more, I with horror
counted the dots; thought should I curse to myself ?

But without, I remain restless to return those arrows
that has made me a Karna of my sorrows!

Are you there with loose skin folds in disguise
or being a frightened Kunti? Don't ask me, is of no need
when my defeat is carved, long before in.

Still, I lived with raised bow and shooting arrows
to write my Mahabharat carrying the loads –
the loads of my senses.

Oh! the disguise, I'm disfigured and dazed
at your razor-look and my flesh falls off in red balls.
Since long, there waiting dogs and jackles for flesh
but now the cool and repentant Kurukshetra asks
the cause of war and the cause of bloodshed;
with my hung head I confess no gain, no gain with these arrows.

But, both Kurukshetra and the war are mine,
the fight is mine and the needful arrows were to shine.
But now, no more and not more I need
and ready to give up the arrows I greed.

Let the drops of light kiss me again and again
to turn me to an Outsider for the soft touch and warmth
before I rest on this silent pathway
here I kneel down and offer - take those away! Take those away!

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This also appears at Muse India, Jan-Feb 2011
http://museindia.com/viewrep2.asp?id=29574
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Being a quark

2011-01-17T08:36:00.000-08:00

Thrown off the Milky Way got this form?
Hurling my legs and hands I asked in intense
to deep blue sky, 'who'm I? Tell me why?'

It doesn't tell, remains silent as ever,
and makes me run around without a cover.
My quest follows for a reply.

My horoscope gives me a way
but it installed me to dictate
for my utter discomfort.

Inch by inch I'm pushed off
not to emerge but got submerged
in humdrum of the world I created.

Me the outsider hangs around at the periphery
being invisible as the one in busy traffic square

looking for a way as the signals glare.
Unknown my past, and so also future.
Today, the dot eager to explore.

I, the aggregate of love-dews
see empty around when
the door-frame denies entry anymore.

Then why’m I here? What for?
Am I a droplet? A shadow to vanish in deep blue sky?
Still, like to float around today as a dot.
Like to bake my cake on my hearth in Sun
and search in night for lily in moon
even I'm a quark exist to vanish soon.
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It has appeared in MuseIndia Jan-Feb 2011
http://museindia.com/viewrep2.asp?id=29646
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Review of MadhyahNa

2011-01-03T05:14:00.000-08:00

Please click on images for better view.

This is the first review of MadhyahNa -
the second anthology of my Odia Poems.
The review is published in Namasya-
the literary Odia magazine published
by Mahatab Sanskritika Parishada, Simulia.
The review is done by Sj. Bankim Chandra Moharana.
Sj. Moharana has received the Best Teacher award
by the President of India for his life time
contribution to teaching. His encouragement
has been a driving force for me
in my literary pursuit.

Semane ThilaBele O PaRe

2011-01-02T23:34:00.000-08:00

Published in 'Namasya 2010' - annual literary
magazine from my native place Simulia.
This magazine is brought out by

Mahatab Smruthi Sanshad Simulia.

Editors:

Sri Bankimchandra Moharana
Sri Chittaranjan Mohanty
Sri Akshya Kumar Panda

Time Cooks all Beings!

2010-12-22T00:00:00.000-08:00

The year 2010 is coming to an end. It's true time flies
and flies so fast that soon one forgets past. Mortals like
me fail to recognize the same happened earlier several times
- that is what Krishna told Arjuna in the Kurukshetra - in the
battlefield of Mahabharata.

Still, we don't forget so much to find the repetitive life
patterns enacting in every life. That has led me particularly
to midlife melancholy and self-questioning. In this state of
mind, once I asked my mother whether she felt satisfied of
being to herself. She didn't take my dilemma of life to her
and replied something very casually. What I could get from her
is, 'What else it could be?' Probably, she feels satisfied on
performing her swadharma and with char-dham pilgrimage. But,
in today's world swadharma has become I-maker's dharma that extends
to all the four-stages of life. Swadharma made by I-maker may
not have dharma at all; this is what I feel being vexed with
the happenings in almost every field of contemporary society.
Morning news papers and news media are enough to mirror the
both self and civil society in today's world. All these have
added to my midlife melancholy. The questions: What for I'm?
What did I do? What should I do next? Should I just float
along with the current? Or just enough to have a life in front
of a idiot box or Net-chat - an inconsequential life! True is
'Time is passing fast without waiting for you to decide.'

Is a being inconsequentially discreet? Does past extend to
future through the present (or makes a detour)? Does time bend?
If it can, then how much I can? Towards the end of the year
I find some peculiar questions for me: Do I have a right for this
birth? Either does the creator have? These questions
linked to my first question - Am I discreetly random?

These could be bizarre questions. My midlife melancholy may lead
to a search for truth of life. But as it now, the truth is :
Time cooks me. Time cooks all beings!

Wish you a very enjoyable search in 2011!
Happy X-Mass and Happy New Year!

Hrushikesha

Selection Mallard

2010-12-18T00:07:00.000-08:00

All had their own Gods for comforts except frogs at early days of creation.
After creation, Vishnu made many sectarian Gods and delegated his power under
specific SLA (Service Level Agreement) to take care of types of creations. The
last day of these delegation season, was a leaky day (not really like Wikileaks)
and frogs were enjoying rains with croaking, jumping and swimming across the watery
world and forgot to visit Vishnu for their own God. But, soon realised there was
danger in so much leaks and needed their God for rescue. They rushed to Vishnu, but
by that time Vishnu was retiring along with consorts on his favourite snake-bed floating
in milk-sea; and at the croaks of frogs he got annoyed, showed a log as their God.
Frogs carried the log with pomp and gaiety and soon got fade up its inertness.
And then went to Vishnu for change of Boss. Again for disturbing his luxurious nap,
frogs invited his wrath of choice - a snake God that makes frogs run for
rest of the life.

And that's the problem when most of the institutions don't make their own Gods (Bosses)
and rely on somebody; - so the Public Sectors, Universities, Institutions and many
more in our country.

In the Realm of Swadharma 'Integrity'

2010-12-15T21:23:00.000-08:00

PM has let us down on question of integrity: Gurcharan Das
Taken from : http://www.samachar.com/PM-has-let-us-down-on-question-of-integrity-Gurcharan-Das-kmqbMgeafji.html

We have a Prime Minister who has been admired for the last few years, but today we have been let down by him on the question of integrity," he said, while speaking at an event organised at IIM-A.

Two years ago, he (PM) knew about the greatest scam in the history of Indian telecom sector and wrote a letter to (then Minister) Mr Raja telling him what was wrong. Today he appears helpless and but that is not what we expect from our leadership, Das said.

A Full - Circle

2010-12-12T23:40:00.000-08:00

A Canadian yoga teacher traces her Indian roots
Taken from
http://www.samachar.com/A-Canadian-yoga-teacher-traces-her-Indian-roots-kmmlTpigggc.html

New Delhi, Dec 12 (IANS) Shobha Rae had two missions when she came to India from Canada - complete a yoga teachers' training course and seek out her relatives for whom she had launched a search four years ago.

For Shobha, freedom of information (equivalent to right to information) administrator for Vancouver city, her first trip to India was a mission of sorts. She wanted to connect with the Indian side of her family with whom she had lost contact.

Shobha's grandfather Bhairon Rae had gone to the Fiji Islands in the 1890s; Shobha was born in Fiji but migrated to Canada in the 1970s. She knew that the Rae family had relatives in India; her father, Rajendra Rae had visited the ancestral village, Baijudhia in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh, over 20 years ago and told his children about his trip.

But India was too distant to think about then, and Shobha and her siblings listened to their father's experiences and forgot about them. In 2004, Shobha began thinking about her connections to India; her interest had been triggered off by reading a book and listening to a lecture by Rajendra Prasad of Fiji who had settled in New Zealand.

Prasad had spoken about his discovery of the indenture system that took his ancestors to Fiji and his own search for his ancestral village in India at the launch of his book on the subject in Toronto, Canada.

Shobha was deeply moved by the story of indenture. She said, 'We were never taught about the Indian community in Fiji. In school we read British history, European history, ancient history, but we were never told about the indenture system and how Indians were brought to Fiji. I resolved to find out more about my own family history.'

She began by contacting her cousins and other relatives to ask them what they knew about the family history. Finally, a cousin in New Zealand, Nirmala, recalled that she had jotted down some information that Rajendra Rae had given after his trip to India.

There was a phone number for Gorakhpur, and Shobha eagerly dialled the number but found that Ram Naresh Rai (the Indian part of the family spelt their name as Rai) had moved away from the house. That seemed to bring an abrupt end to the search.

Shobha then came in touch with a social organisation in Canada which helped her hire a researcher in India to search for the family's village in Uttar Pradesh. The researcher located Baijudhia village and sent her the address for another relative in Gorakhpur, Banwari Rai.

Shobha sent Banwari Rai a letter in Hindi and promptly got a reply with an invitation to visit India. She began making plans to visit India and decided to take leave of absence for a month-long yoga training course. She spent over a month at Rishikesh to attend the yoga programme and then made her way to Gorakhpur.

At Baijudhia village, Shobha met a large number of relatives, but she was most gratified to meet Shivmurthi Rai, her father's first cousin - her grandfather's younger brother's son.

'I was taken by surprise when I met my grandfather's nephew,' Shobha told IANS. 'I had not known about him; he is my dad's first cousin. It was an emotional reunion. I was deeply moved at meeting him because I felt that I had a father figure still alive.' She met a cousin, Nagendra, who had a strong resemblance to her grandfather.

Shobha was gratified to find that all the relatives had instantly taken her into the family fold. As she sat with the women relatives, Shobha was pleased to find that the women of her Indian family were strong-headed and independent-minded.

'I was surprised by one of the young girls of the family. She spoke fluent English and told me that she wanted to join the army and go to the National Defence Academy. There was a lively debate among all the women relatives who had gathered there about her joining the army, but she sounded so confident when she spoke about her ambitions.'

Shobha exchanged e-mail addresses and phone numbers with her cousins in Baijudhia and Gorakhpur and the extended Rai family - from Canada, India, New Zealand and Fiji - has promised to keep in touch.

(Shubha Singh can be contacted at shubhasingh101@gmail.com)

Some Quotes

2010-12-12T22:14:00.000-08:00

Materialism, a Terror of Consciousness, Bhavan's Journal December 15, 2010

1. The paradigm of materialism has not only come to be enshrined at the heart of the physical sciences, but has also exerted its influence on all branches of scientific thinking. Page-28

2. Life is that which is not in conformity with its environment but in defiance of it! Page-32

3. The signature of life is that it does not like being buffeted by material forces; it stands up to them and attempts to harness them. Moedrn humanity reflects the culmination of this process. Pge-33

Politics: The greatest Myths

1. He said GDP, per capita growth rates and national poverty line are the "three dangers facing the people of India".
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/India-is-prospering-but-not-Indians-Aiyar/719140/

Calling of a Lesser

2010-12-03T07:07:00.000-08:00

In a village of long history there are a variety
of people engaged in many things initially guided
by the village ethics, as the villagers use
to claim often, of having a rich virtuous past
particularly when something real different hunt them.
Probably that's take shelter.

Among a lively group of kids
there are a claimed virtuous student and another hated
one. The later usually gets engaged in all unaccepted acts
including copying in exam hall, for which he takes
punishment. Once, he found the virtuous boy was
engaged in the same copying. He felt bad and told
the boy that was bad. But, the claimed virtuous one with
arrogance reminds the other that he is not having
moral authority to advise.

A thief has lost moral authority. But an ostensibly
noble loosing all sanity of ethics claims to remain
on high moral ground! Calling of a Lesser is always
a No Call?

Hrushikesha
3rd Dec. 10

Class Creators

2010-12-02T10:05:00.000-08:00

It was a lovely morning on east-coast after night-long downpour.
Cool sea-bridge with freshness of washed flowers was flowing
through my spacious guest house. And I proceeded to dining hall
for breakfast- a formal one. Never, I'm used to it from childhood
- leave aside current days. I always find self in short of time
even after precisely planned morning destined to run for office
gulping a part of breakfast. But that day was special having a
couple of vice-chancellors on breakfast table. For me, if you
say or can say so, that is a luck or coincidence as I usually
keep away from power corridors. I find it suffocating formal,
probably for my upbringing in informal atmosphere in my village,
you can tell it my ..............

The issue I want to put before you is on the table talks happened
in that morning. I should quickly add here a bit on eating habits
many of us follow in India after accepting dining tables and discarding
our old habit of eating with elegant style of squatting. I remember
there were many formal procedures to be obeyed starting from laying
of asanas (small carpets) to spreading of food items on leaves. Now,
we don’t teach kids how to behave on dining table as we have no time
for it but for the idiot box. Now I remember- I developed distaste with
my the first job for its unbearable scenes in company canteen. I can’t
bear the sound of noisy chewing, sucking of all five fingers and throwing
of rice balls into mouths (seeing that, old coal engines come to my mind).
Near our dining tables, we don’t expect witty table talks. That morning,
I had to bear with some of those that I don’t like on dining table.

Excuse me, I have strayed bit of the main theme I plan to tell you.
That's, now the parameters of efficiency of a Vice-Chancellor is being
measured by the amount of money he could spend in his tenure, for building
thousands square feet of floor space and for recruiting hundreds of
teachers, for starting integrated courses/centres (as we have finished
many govt. undergraduate colleges) and finally for the number of shops set
in campus. One was vying against other reeling out their statistics.
There was a vice chancellor of a state university. Found, he was
keeping silent like one of the three famous monkeys but listening
to others in melancholy. The truth is only some central universities
corner so much funds proclaiming themselves as first runners. Ill
funded state universities are on life saving drugs, in shambles.
Many students from Odisha proceed to central univs at Delhi,
Pondicherry and Hyderabad. Seems, we are in the march of creating
a class of society trained at universities of different grades
created artificially by folly of potential of excellence!

Arrogance of Numbers

2010-11-29T01:48:00.000-08:00

Numbers are wonderful for mathematicians, also for politicians.
Democracy has added colour (importance) to numbers. To win one
has to be numerically more (could be by proxy or some high tech
means) on EVM. But, people get confused as number somewhere
is despised. That is how numbers (albeit, natural numbers)
play such subtle roles. A country (unfriendly) wishes to
overrun the other just by number (of people/ bombs/ war-heads/
terrorists). Numbers one can create, make or purchase.
It's only simpletons who only counts numbers like a kid writes on
it again and again on a slate to make it fat only without a change
in its numeric value. A disgusted child of those days, later
grows up to tame the numbers. Taming of numbers is a game of
wises played on stock,law making houses, corners and cross roads
of life. Stronger your muscle better you a number tamer.
Our rulers are no less in it. You can tame the world as long you
have arrogance of numbers? The arrogance of numbers made Duryodhana mad,
plunged Dhritarasthtra to pitch dark and made Bhismha lonely
on the bed of arrows.

Arrogance of Numbers does not make the world - world
rests on 'subtle of Dharma' Is Democracy the only answer?

Hrushikesha Mohanty
29th Nov. 2010

India and 'I'

2010-11-21T21:46:00.000-08:00

It was Cool morning today after Kartik Purnima.
We here in doyens colony where I live, are lucky
to have a sprawling colony with 1km stretched straight road well
suited for sahari health walks. I always prefer very late night walk.
But today, I came out in morning to see a scene which is not very
uncommon in India - peeing by road side. But, it was disgusting
to see a young guy on track suit doing that. From the arrogance
of dress, I guessed he must be manager in a IT company.
My colony hosts many of them. They prefer to be here on rent, for
the colony is very near to IT hub of Hyderabad Gachhibowli.

It struck, is really India changing? If changing for what? Even
an educated and prosperous guy is so uncivilized.

Seems, India is for 'I' i.e IPod, I20 and IMax. And that is the reason why there
are so many problems; we have not still learnt to say
'we'.

Ofcourse, scam is a different issue, still it has something to do with I.
I don't care!

Hrushikesha

SILENCE

2010-11-18T00:50:00.000-08:00

Silence brings out beauty of life. One when engaged in self-search,
turns silent for rest of the world. That's why a silent person is
revered. Do you count me stereotype? You are right on your own rights!

I remember, how threatening is silence in childhood schooldays when
I heard, 'pin-drop silence'. For a post-colonial churned out like me,
being inclusive- for many of us, anything told in English, turns so important.
So, also silence! And for that many of us including me are praised
- 'what a nice guy! Look at him how cool sitting without even a
slice of sound.' Actually, I was silent that time and now even like many,
for not being engaged in bigger truth in life, (if exists than market)
but for simple scare. Well, I'm not alone. There are many like me.

In times of 'Mahabharata', it's disturbing to understand why Vishma Pitamaha'
was silent in 'Kurusava' the court Kuru King Duryoadhana at the time when Draupadi
was going through Talibanic treatment in full public -the court itself.
Unfortunately or fortunately or coincidentally there were no such media
as we have today. Well, if you are too much market oriented like we do
with cricket having IPL etc. you can think of a reality show on
'Kurusava'.

I was making this proposal while sipping tea over a lengthy afternoon on
a holiday. This I always prefer adopting new habitat leaving my village
where the time was at my side for chatting, atleast that time; though many
point out that village has already changed. I reluctantly agree as I don't
find so when I visit my village for getting ample of simpletons around me to
chat and chat and chat.

Anyway, the act of chatting in market economy is never social as I'm used to.
Any chat, without return is waste. So, for chatting I bring out topic that
atleast hypothetically promise returns. Coming back, I proposed a reality
show on 'Kuru Sava' emphasizing heavy return on each episodes of reality show.
Good thing, there will not be many dialogue as SILENCE is the reality there.

Somebody, rudely shook me telling - it was old rotten idea. In reality,
there is pervading SILENCE that leads stealthily, particularly this is
for the land of Rishis- India.
Here, you keep SILENT till being bitten wholly by termites and then you
write an EPIC. Don't you see being written off-and-on now?

I looked forward to another - as we only chat and chat.

Hrushikesha Mohanty

Follow the Greats

2010-11-17T07:15:00.000-08:00

17th Nov. 2010

We always tell- Follow the Greats! Is a common one-liner heavily laden with
both moral and social responsibility? Mainly, for commoners as it's believed
they don't or can't distinguish but prefer to follow Greats' footsteps. In
our epics, that to in any culture there are Greats as if purposefully carved
out for these commoners. Commoners also so piously agree with these Greats.
Inafact, from childhood they are so told. If you see, practically this is
a workable thumbs rule. Possibly, for that the rule was being followed.

Always, each culture (now, aproximately synonym to country) seeks to add
new Greats to the list of Greats. Like, we have added M.K.Gandhi etc.
This is done, to make the list compatible to the present time. Reasonably,
well thought action. Isn't it?

As the time passes, seems the definition of Greatness changes. Particularly,
in current time. Let's narrow down the scope to our country. On asking,
kids to spell out name of Greats of today, they get thoroughly confused.
May be in this contemporary world, a word like 'Purushotam' well let me
not be gender biased 'Narotam'has no meaning. We don't think our (political)
leaders great, not acharyas (teachers), not dhanatwaris (doctors), not
litterateurs not not .... I have not talked of commoners as we see them
not entities - just dumb followers. In haste, I should mention that atleast
for vote sake we don't do that being a functional democracy / anarchy.

Coming back to Greats' greatness, we now-a-days resort to a technique
of refinement. We say he/she's good in so and so but not so in this.
He's a good doctor but not good parent. He's a good professional but
not so in politics. This makes me believe a person is like a composition
of many distinctly different elements and to be great in each dimension
is not possible. Then judging a wholesome Greatness is an outdated quest?
You will, atleast I will agree to consider this scheme of evaluation is
too hard like judging the difference between 'erring' and 'wrong-doing'.
I will prefer to leave it to a linguist. Well, it is a dichotomy to look
into slices of a person when for convenience we look for globalisation.
Still, for a meaning of Greatness, I agree to narrow down the scope to
the field of operation. Like, I will say a minister is great if he is
doing his ministerial portfolio in a great way, so for a doctor,
teacher or for anybody in his/her profession. But, can we say a
doctor great if he's inhuman? Can you say minister great if he/she's a
liar even if is a great performer. That's a big question. Isn't it?
That's the confusion.

Here, I remember an episode happened to me. In school my father asked,
'how did you do in today's Math exam?' I replied, 'Did well in Geometry
and algebra.' Father understood what it meant. Similarly, like me, many
in this country understand what and who is Great to be followed.
Not getting anybody? It's perfectly OK if you are following media
everyday. Neither done wrong nor erred. Scratch your head for semantics;
and the best use of semantics is to serve for the self.
Then you are the Great, found a Great - that's the moral of today's
world but not to be followed by commoners for better life and bright
tomorrow.

Hrushikesha Mohanty

Yak

2010-11-09T04:05:00.000-08:00

The Poem 'Yak' published in Nabapatra,
Sept-Oct 2010 issue. This magazine is
published by Odisha Cultural Academy,
Rourkela, Sector 5, Rourkela - 2. The
editor of this magazine is Sj.Debendra
Mohanty. The magazine is in its 48th year
of publication and well known for its
social sensitivity. He can be contacted
at 0661 - 2641 053.

The poem Yak has got lead during my visit
to Gangtok where for the first time I saw
Yak in life. Till then, I like many only knew
'Y - for Yak,' what a rhythmic childhood learning!
Seeing the simple and benign creature I got
amazed at their painstaking life - a compromise
with life like many of our people strapped in poverty
leading a resigned life.

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MishiBaKu BinduTie Hoie

2010-11-03T04:41:00.000-07:00

The poem "MishiBaKu BinduTie Hoie"
- "To Get Merged Being a Point"

has appeared in 'Sagarika' Odia Magazine
October 2010.

This is the first poem of 'Aparahna' -
the third anthology of poems scheduled
for release in 2011.

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Thanks for your reading
regards Hrushikesha

KaliRa Subasa

2010-10-27T05:54:00.000-07:00

"The Fragrance of Tomorrow" - Odia poem published in Digbalaya, Puja Sankhya 2010.

ANSWERS

2010-10-25T07:17:00.000-07:00

This story written by Vakul is published in ROCKS, BITS Pilani(Hyderabad Campus.

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