May I request you to save the topic of my write up and not take it away to a completely different subject. YM
On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 3:19 PM Narayanaswamy Subramanian < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear folks > > "Imitation is the highest form of flattery," is a popular saying. > > Sri Rajaram Krishnamurthy could not resist reproducing in part what I > wrote about him on 30 July 2020:- > > 'Unable to withstand any longer the agony of the unrelenting thrusts of my > iron-hooked goad, the bleeding "senile madcap 'K R IRS' " has surrendered > to the inevitable indignity of total surrender. The rutting-mad > bull-headed pachyderm in *musth* has bit the dust. > > 'Please bear with me while I intone an apt requiem. > > 'This is from Sir Walter Scott, the English aristocrat's "The Lay Of The > Last Minstrel". > > > *"..... Go, mark him well;* > > *High though his titles, proud his name,* > > *Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;* > > *Despite those titles, power, and pelf,* > > *The wretch, concentered all in self,* > > *Living, shall forfeit fair renown,* > > *And, doubly dying, shall go down* > > *To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,* > > *Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung."* > > 'I had earlier earmarked for our late lamented demented zero-hero a > fitting extract from English "Lake" poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla > Khan":- > > > *".... All should cry, Beware! Beware!* > > *His flashing eyes, his floating hair!* > > *Weave a circle round thrice,* > > *And close your eyes with holy dread,* > > *For he on honey-dew hath fed,* > > *And drunk the milk of Paradise." '* > > > S Narayanaswamy Iyer > On Sunday, November 22, 2020, 02:16:01 PM GMT+8, Rajaram Krishnamurthy > [email protected] [Iyer123] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Sir > It is not IAS or non IAS etc; everyone is assigned a role in the life > as varna and the task has to be carried out to the best of their abilities > without desire to encash out of way and in the service of the persons > assigned to. I was a lecturer in the beginning for a few months and in that > short period (Mayavaram) I could get a few students of acceptance; after > many years when i was travelling as IRS between Mambalam and Meenambakkam, > 3 persons came near me in the train and asked do I remember them; I could > not; then they added, we were very weak students but because of your advice > to day we are in a remarkable positions; and one was a junior IRS in > customs and central exercise with whom I got introduced on that day; then > after that short stint I came over here; so as a lecturer one produces many > pillars of the society raising the standards as IAS IRS are all one of them > sir. K R IRS 221120 > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 11:21, Markendeya Yeddanapudi < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Sir, > I am not IRS or IAS material.In 1960,I wrote the IAS examination and I had > to write a three hour essay.I chose the topic 'Leadership in Democracy,and > I scored a mark which I think can never be exceeded in the other way.I got > exactly zero,which I think no other candidate in the History of the UPSC > equalled. > I started my essay,on Democracy as rule by scoundrels,of scoundrels and > for scoundrels,among scoundrels,with scoundrels etc.I got ZERO in the essay > paper,while in every other paper I scored above fifty percent.Today also,I > get very few responses. > YM > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 10:44 AM Rajaram Krishnamurthy < > [email protected]> wrote: > > Sir > You are raising a question in each article; "to breathe, > smell,sense,perceive symbiotically with other organisms participating in > the smell conversation, in smell based exchanges and debates? Do we have > one university among the thousands of Universities, where the Biosphere is > given its emotion laden smell voice?" > I Just thought it would be right to think this way also hence this > one. Before I write I wish to present 2 beautiful poems in English, though > I could have taken the sanskrit versions also; for thinking why? 1 By the > fame SIR WALTER SCOTT (LAST LINE "UNSUNG" IS A HIT); 2 RABINDRANATH TAGORE. > Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, > Who never to himself hath said, > This is my own, my native land! > Whose heart hath ne’er within him burn’d, > As home his footsteps he hath turn’d, > From wandering on a foreign strand! > If such there breathe, go, mark him well; > For him no Minstrel raptures swell; > High though his titles, proud his name, > Boundless his wealth as wish can claim; > Despite those titles, power, and pelf, > The wretch, concentrated all in self, > Living, shall forfeit fair renown, > And, doubly dying, shall go down > To the vile dust, from whence he sprung, > Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung. (w s) > 2 Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; > Where knowledge is free; > ..........Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way; > Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit; > Where the mind is led forward by thee; > Into ever-widening thought and action; > Into that heaven of freedom, > My Father, let my country awake > There is life to lead on this earth; and certain things have to be > learnt as required; well; does it bound one to cry hoarse when things in > the society go astray?; where did the courage disappeared and made the > people , the learned silent ,without a protest, to stop the NONSENSE?; > Where were the courage hid behind from calling a halt on injustice right > under your nose?; one has forgotten to breath the good air and it is not > the education; becoming senseless to smell is not out of the education > model but because of the locked by self silence, lest shall be a target of > abuse or ill treatment or do not wish to be on either side or let me > survive; when people prove that the Darwin theory is correct, survival of > the fittest would arise only by allowing the others to burn, there the > sense of smell is switched off. Nandrum theethum pirar thara vaara, good > and the bad are one's own making. K R IRS 221120 > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2020 at 07:29, yeddanapudim [email protected] > [Have-A-Heart] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Marks, Grades, Merit > > > > Is there any University, where marks and grades are awarded on the > student’s capacity, to breathe, smell,sense,perceive symbiotically with > other organisms participating in the smell conversation, in smell based > exchanges and debates? Do we have one university among the thousands of > Universities, where the Biosphere is given its emotion laden smell voice? > > A tree, plant or even a blade of grass does not have a Brain like us the > humans. It is constituted to smell, sense and feel and converse through > feelings only. Wherever there is scope on Lithosphere (land) and also on > the floors or flows of the Hydrosphere (water),we find,plants,trees etc,the > fountains of feelings. > > Mother Gaia feels and expresses emotions, through the Biosphere. > > She cannot grow a single nut or bolt, the feelings-less monster parts. In > the name of science we have repudiated our emotional bond to Gaia, and are > now busy destroying all forests for rapid economic growth. The lunacy has > become so pervasive, we express feelings too, mathematically and > mechanically.Today,to understand trees and plants, the student must arrest > himself/herself in books only and study the mechanical designs and > structures of trees and plants, by examining the severed branches or leaves > or flowers. That plants live mainly in feeling and emotions and they can > converse by smells, is news to the students of Botony,who view them as > mechanical structures. > > The mechanical view is today’s glorified scientific view. The days, when > sons, daughters, parents, wife and husband, are studied as mechanical > structures is not far off. 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