Peeing at Public Places? Your "Big Brother" is Watching

Yes. Be careful!

Our "Big Brother" is watching you. He will not spare you, wherever you are, peeing at public places. He will catch you red-handed in your spree with his camera and immediately let the whole world know about your act. He is not bothered by your whatever problems and helplessness.

He will catch you in the remotest of the remotest corner to dismay you and enjoy the occasion.

You might be unable to control your urgency.

You might be unable to find any public urinal point in-spite of your great search.

And, at last, with no other option, you had to get to a very remote place where nobody is in your visibility and which is not on the main route of the public.

You might be very honest in finding the remotest place to meet the urgency and you might not be willing to do the act but unable to resist.

So you will sleekly begin releasing yourself taking God's name.

But, you, poor chap!

Without your knowledge, you might have been captured on a camera by the Big Brother.

For some glimpses, see these links to know how they are working:

http://epaper.deccanchronicle.com/articledetailpage.aspx?id=1889203
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http://epaper.deccanchronicle.com/articledetailpage.aspx?id=1874043

Reasons For Peeing in Open or At Public Places

There are many reasons for the acts of people peeing at public places - both unavoidable and avoidable. Let us look at those reasons.

Unavoidable Reasons for Peeing

• You have to travel long distances to reach destinations and feel the need to relieve yourself.
• No toilets are available during your journey.
• If, any available, they are too far for you to reach.
• Health problems cause frequent urge to pee.
• Winter cold atmosphere makes you unable to control the urge.

Avoidable Reasons for Peeing

• Lack of civic sense.
• Lack of awareness about hygienic life.
• Careless attitude.
• Not meeting urge before starting a journey.

What About The Big Brother?

Does the Big Brother think of these issues, while he is clicking the photos?

Does he care for those unavoidable and uncontrollable circumstances that lead to their behavior?

No, he is simply interested in clicking and getting it published for some self-interests.

He can not think of addressing their problems. What has he done to solve their problems or provide them awareness? On the reverse side, he is humiliating them by publishing the acts. Not aiding to solve the issues. Only complicating the problem.

People like me can control urges and hold it for 4, 5 hours.

But, I am worried for those who are unable to do so. What else can they do?

What About Our Administration?

If anything happens, the first thing administration thinks of is to impose fines and erect banners warning not to urinate there.

But where should he go?

Does the administration provide any proper alternatives?

Can they provide toilets at each half-a-kilometer distance to meet their needs?

Until they can provide such alternative arrangement, they have no morality to restrict people.

Even though this problem may be very serious from the health and the civilization point of view.

Some Tips to Public to Avoid Peeing at Public Places

1. Visit your bathroom before starting your journey.
2. Avoid drinking water before starting, especially in winter and rainy seasons. You can have it on reaching your destiny.
3. Try to relieve yourself on the way when you find a toilet, even though you may not feel the urge.
4. Practice controlling to hold the urge till you reach your destination. It can be of much help to you always.
5. And, the more important advice is not to release yourself at dirty and unhygienic places. It is more dangerous as you can contact diseases. Often, people think it is already rubbish there and so nobody will object to your releasing there. But you are endangering yourself by doing so.

Advice to Big Brothers and Media

Try to solve the problem instead of running behind helpless people peeing at public places to make them dismayed.

If you can, give some awareness to the person about hygienic habits and how to face the situations.

Put up the issues before the administration instead of troubling people. 

Makar Sankranti Greetings

Hi, friends.

It's festival time for four days continuously from today 14th January to 17th January 2015.

The harvest festivals and the cattle festivals.

Bhogi Festival

Makar Sankranti Festival

Mattu Pongal


Kanum Pongal



Enjoy the season with family members and relatives happily.




Wish You All

A Happy

Holiday Season

Wish You All

A Very Happy & Prosperous

Bhogi and Makar Sankranti

Happy New Year 2015

Hope this New Year 2015 will bring lots of happiness and fortunes to you all.

The year 2014 has been a year of much destruction and bad luck to many of us. The horrible Peshawar school attack by Taliban militants, Malaysian and Indonesian planes going missing or crashing with hundreds of passengers on board are very terrific incidents.

Added to these human-made tragedies were the natural calamities of cyclones like Hudhud in India & Nepal, and some other severe cyclones in Australia, US, and Canada combined with ice storms left many people disturbed and homeless along with huge destructions to properties.

Some pleasant and great events in 2014 also took place like Narendra Modi becoming PM of India with a thumping majority which was a record break event.

Further Malala Yousafzai, a teenage girl getting the Nobel Peace Prize was a great happy news to all

Other great events in 2014 include the sending of Mars Orbiter Mission by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) most successfully at a budget cost is a very great event of the year.

Let us hope the year 2015 brings much more successes to the betterment of our world.

And let there be Peace and Happiness all over the world in coming days.


Once again wish you all

A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015  

Dhanurmasam in Vaishnava Sampradayam

Vaishnava Sampradayam

Vaishnavas are just like Brahmins. But, they worship Lord Lakshmi Narayan instead of Lord Shiva. Vaishnava sampradaya means the traditional practice and lifestyle of those who follow the doctrine of Vaishnavism. Lord Vishnu is their God and they believe Him to be the superior Almighty of all Gods.

Vaishnavism

Vaishnavism is based on the doctrine and school of thought which preaches that Lord Vishnu or Sriman Narayana is the Supreme Power and Saviour of this universe and you can attain moksha or peace and tranquility by worshipping and obtaining his grace.

Sri Ramanujacharya is the Founder of this Vaishnavism.

What is Dhanurmasam

Dhanurmasam is a month considered to be very auspicious for worshipping God and possessing his grace and attaining moksha. Vaikunta Ekadasi falls in this auspicious month which is considered as a very great time for directly reaching God through winning his grace. This Dhanurmasam is called so because it is the month during which Sun is in the Dhanus Rasi. A rasi is known as an astrological sign. It is held in astrology that Sun passes through 12 rasis in one year. So, each rasi is equal to one month. There are 12 months and 12 rasis in one year.

The month during which the Sun remains in the Dhanus rasi is known as Dhanurmasam. 

Normally, this Dhanurmasam falls during the period of 16th December to 14th January, every year. This period is very auspicious for Vaishnava sampradaya people.

Importance of Dhanurmasam

During dhanurmasam, Andal or Goda Devi, one of the 12 Vaishnava Alvars, worshiped God with true devotion and utter love and married Him on the culminating Bhogi festival day(the final day of dhanurmasam). Andal literally means one who ruled over God with her pure and innocent, untainted love towards Him. She wore the flower garlands to verify whether they are good-looking or not and then only offered to God.

She worshiped God by composing 30 hymns on all 30 days praising His glory in her own Tamil Language. It is a kind of taking a spiritual bath herself in God's grace all those 30 days and winning His Love and heart through a marriage.

So, this month is considered as very auspicious by all Vaishnavas for performing puja or the worship to attain Salvation from all worldly problems.

You may view the full story of Andal Clicking this link.

How to Perform Dhanurmasam Puja

Dhanurmasam is to be performed on all the 30 days starting from the day Sun entering the Dhanus rasi and ending on the day prior to the sun entering the Makara rasi.

The day Sun enters makar Rashi is celebrated as Makar Sankranti.

One should get up early in the morning and after bathing, wear pious clothes and cook the Pongal for offering to God. Prior to that, the house and neighborhood need to be cleaned and a feeling of the religious atmosphere is to be created for experiencing a better spiritual feeling and divine happiness. You may decorate your house with flower garlands and mango leaves, etc. House entrance needs to be taken more care of. The door entrance wooden frame bottom portion (threshold or doorway) can be decorated by applying turmeric paste and spots of kumkum or rori. Rangoli is done in front of the door entrance to bring a beautiful look to your house entrance. There is a tradition of placing Gobbillu in the rangoli throughout the month of dhanurmasam. It gives a religious and spiritual atmosphere to your house.

I am dealing with only the Vaishnava method of doing Dhanurmasam in this article. So, to know more about Sankranti or Makar Sankranti for a general public, you may visit this link -
http://vnktchari.blogspot.in/2014/01/pongal-or-makar-sankranthi-festival-of.html#.Vn5ao7Z95kh


Preparation of Pongal

Pongal is made up of rice and moong dal. For one cup of rice, you may add a quarter of moong dal or even less. Cook it in a cooker just like cooking your daily rice. After it gets cooked, you will have to top it with the black pepper and cumin that are fried in ghee. Then, you will place it before God.

Worship at Dhanurmasam

Worship God with your regular prayers. The sanctum sanctorum should be kept clean and auspicious. You may decorate both the seat of God and God himself with flower garlands and flowers. You may also worship with loose flowers while chanting hymns. Read the 30 hymns (or pasurams) composed by Andal known as Thiruppavai with devotion if you can afford lengthy time at worship.

Generally, most devotees recite one pasuram or hymn each day (related to that day) and then offer agarbatti sticks' incense and then show the oil lights to God. So, on the first day, you will recite the first hymn, the second day the second one and like that.

Thereafter, offer the Pongal to God.

After doing this, you will light the Kapur or camphor and show it to God reciting the mangalasasanam.

You will have to recite the 29th and 30th hymn while waving a hand fan to God with a towel or any artificial leaves to provide cool air while taking rest.

Then, you will take the offerings of prasadam to eat yourself and to distribute to others.

This is the way of doing it all the 30 days.

On some special days during this month, some extra dishes are also prepared like Sweet Pongal, curd rice, tamarind rice, etc along with the normal daily Pongal.

You will find the days mentioned in the Tiruppavai book mostly. Generally, the special auspicious days are considered to be day 1, 3, 9, 16, 24, 27, 28, 29 and 30.

Malala Yousafzai | The Youngest Noble Peace Prize Girl from Swat Valley, Pakistan

Malala Yousafzai has become a household name today in all corners of the world. She has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize award recently for her great service at such a tender age of only 17 years. This shows how special and different she is amongst those billions of people.

You may wonder why I am talking about this now after so many days of her receiving the Nobel Peace Prize. I have been thinking of blogging about some inspiring people since many days. And now, I thought why not start with this our little girl Malala, the lovely daughter of our whole world.  I got this idea the other day when I was watching the Nobel Peace Prize celebrations (re-telecast) aired on VH1 during which she was there giving inspiration to the audience about her activities. So, I am here writing about her.

Malala Yousafzai has grabbed news in limelight since the attack on her by the Taliban militants in 2012, even though she has been very much active since her childhood on social activities. Let us have a look at her life till now to understand what is special in her.

She was born in the year 1997 to a Sunni Muslim Pashtun tribal family in Swat valley, a popular tourist spot of Pakistan. Her father is a school owner running a chain of schools there. He is a poet and educational activist himself. So, naturally, she got much of her education under him. She got interested in politics and social activities since her childhood.

The Taliban militants were predominant in Swat valley since her young age, banning social rights to women and girls like the freedom to speak, right to education and going to public places, etc. They suppressed them too much rigidly. Yousafzai got much disturbed about all this. Even at such tender age, she was worried about her fellow students and their miserable conditions.

When she was in 7th class, she began speaking publicly about these atrocities through her blogs. With her father's consent, she wrote blogs for BBC website during the year 2008, keeping her identity anonymous as per the advice of the blog administrators. In those blogs, she blogged about the atrocities of the Taliban militants- how they banned television, music, and schools for girls and women and how they created a fear complex among them. There were too much insecurity and terror for them in Swat valley and around. She publicly attended one or two press conferences also where she talked about these issues and stressed the need for restoration of rights to girls and women.

In 2009, there were two battles between the army and the Taliban militants in the Swat valley known as the First Battle of Swat and the Second Battle of Swat.

During this period many schools have been destructed and there was a rule of terror all over the areas. The entire place took to a deserted look as all schools and establishments have been closed and people fled from the regions to safer places. Those who stayed could not move freely and had to hide for their lives. Yousufzai described all these incidents in her blogs and later in articles of New York Times. A documentary was filmed by New York Times based on her reports.

Through this documentary, she got more publicity and the militants were angry with her and her father. Her father got a death threat from the militants to restrain from the social activities. With this threat, Mala's courage and determination increased and she decided to become a politician to serve the people and save them from the oppression.

Malala continued her struggle against the oppression of girls and women by giving public speeches and interviews without fear. Her father also supported her in all her activities. She began gaining popularity internationally.

She was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize in 2011, even though it was awarded to some other one. She became famous as an advocate of human rights and girls' rights for education.

Pakistan Government awarded her with National Youth Peace Prize in December 2011. A school was named in her honor and a campus for IT was set up on her request in the Swat Degree College for Women.

The Taliban militants got much frustrated at all her activities and her increasing popularity.

So they decided to kill her.

One day on October 2012, when she was in her school bus, they shot at her after asking for her by her name as per the news. She was shot in the head seriously which damaged her brain, neck, and the shoulder also very badly.

Her condition was very serious and even after the operation, the chances of her survival were doubtful. So she got shifted to the United Kingdom for better treatment in Queen Elizabeth Hospital of Birmingham. She was in a coma for one week. Her treatment continued for 2, 3 months. Then slowly, she recovered and got discharged from the hospital in the first week of January 2013.

Malala Yousafzai continued her campaign after she became normal from Birmingham itself.

The attack made her more popular among the whole world and all governments of the world realized the need to make Girl-Education a statutory law.

Pakistan government also introduced the Right to Education Bill for the first time in their history. They also announced a huge reward for any information leading to the arrest of the attackers who shot her.

In July 2013, Malala appeared at the United Nations Summit and addressed an elite group of educationists and leaders of the world on the right to education.

Her speech created much waves and awareness among top leaders.

Then, in the subsequent months, she met Queen Elizabeth and Barack Obama also along with his family members and inspired all of them with her mission.

She has been awarded many awards and prizes for her works. She started Malala Charity Fund to help the girls and women all over the world.

In October 2014, Malala got the Nobel Peace Prize as recognition of her great services at such a  tender age of 17. She is the youngest ever to receive this great honor.

Now, from the above, we are able to notice some rare qualities in her which make her a special child worthy of applause.

• She has undergone a lot of mental tension and physical torture and in spite of that, she did not get afraid of the circumstances that surrounded her nor did she feel insecure.
• She cared for others more than herself in that tender age of her which itself is great quality
• She wanted to do something to make her people live a secured and happy life instead of indulging herself in her own enjoyments of life.
• She developed the guts to face circumstances for the betterment of her people.
• She took the problems into public limelight by boldly discussing the atrocities made on girls and women community by the militant groups. 
• She did not care even for her life and continued her mission even after the brutal attack on her life by the militants.
• She suffered all the pains of the wounds and operations conducted on her brain and body in her fight for life for such a long period of 3 months and did not lose courage and hope.
• All these incidents only made her more determined and strong by doubling her willpower to fight more vigorously for the cause of human rights and education for women setting aside all her own personal enjoyments that others would have preferred at this prime teenage period of her.

Malala Yousafzai is a special girl prodigy of our present world who should be taken as an inspiration by all of us in making our world a better place to live.