Nellai Suresh puts in black and white

Cho is perfectly right when he often repeats that by saying DMK is a family, Karunanidhi means just one family that is his family. All is out in the open today with MK's charges against Marans and the latter's counter offensive. It was all hearsay but now it is official. It is the money that was the reason for the split. MK and his family were given 'just 100 crores (one billion rupees)' for offloading their shares in Sun whereas they were worth several billions. And Marans say that it was under MK's suggestion that this was done. Again the opinion poll that infuriated the mob was creating divisions in the family, as per MK. And how brazenly he defends the killing of 'innocent' people in Murasoli office by the mob? No remorse whatsoever? Hey Ram, agreed that politics is the last refuge of scounderals but is it also the last refuge of remorseless murderers? Nepotism is the byword of MK now (and for that matter for the past few decades). He wants to run the party for his family. And the poor buggars in the name of party workers are striving to keep the family flag up and running. If you look at the other side, it is the Sasikala and family which provides the alternative (JJ will only be a head). Is it that even God cannot save this state?

There was a beautiful article by the Crusader P Sainath in the Hindu of 20th Nov 2008, about how the Big Oil and Big Auto of US are taking the taxpayer to ransom. He explained in detail how the auto industry and oil industry systematically destroyed public transport and converted electric traction to oil based traction. Just to sell their cars, they created a dream of every one owns a car. And today, ozone layer is getting punctured. The Iraq war, he says, very aptly, would not have happened, if the national product of Iraq was asparagus instead of oil. He also laments that the public health care was similarly systematically destroyed by the Big Pharma. Unfortunately, we in India want to emulate that model and do not want to improve the public transport model. Health care is becoming costlier and costlier and out of the reach of some 200 million, though India is touted as a medical tourism hub. Canada is a very good example of how public health care is much cheaper and within the reach of everybody. Sainath ends his article by inviting us all to the Jurassic Park of Autos and Ideas because these metal lizards are compared to the ‘Terrible Lizards’ that existed once. But unlike those creatures which were neither terrible nor lizards, who did not engineer their own destruction or the earth’s, these metal lizards are very much taking the globe towards extinction. This article is a must read. As an aside, he talks of the bail out plan to banks being misused for declaring bonus to bank CEOs. He also cites how their favourite PM Dr Singh was shouted down by the media for suggesting limits to CEO salaries. All in all, it all points out to unsustainable development of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. For a long time, I believe that Indian system of development was always based on sustainability and cyclic symbolized by the Trimurtis of creation, protection and disposal in a harmless way. Probably the Indians of the early days, knowingly did not explore much on crude and its derivatives knowing well its ill effects.

I have a lot of faith in humanity. It gets reinforced every now and then by some insignificant events. I was sitting in the airport watching the TV. It was NDTV. Suddenly I heard a voice from behind requesting me to change the channel to Sun TV. A woman was not able to reach the button and so requested me. She wanted to see Mahabharat which would be telecast at that time. When I turned to see who it was, I got the shock of my life. It was a burqa clad Muslim women. I was emotionally shaken but my faith in humanity increased. It is not that all Muslims are terrorists or hate other religions. The common Muslim is still an Indian enjoying the Indian culture, mythology and even gods. Long live Bharat Mahaan!!!!