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Where are we headed as a society?

In news yesterday..

 --26 year old Alagesan stabbed a college student, 20 year old Aswini. He was apparently in love with Aswini, who refuses to marry him and hence he stabbed her.

 I am wondering since when did love get vengeful and fatal?

The stabbing culture seems to have trickled down to school kids too.

---Yesterday, a 12-std student named Arjun came to the exam hall and was stabbed by fellow lass mates Karthik Raja and Saravana Kumar. I don’t recall a time when stabbing and school children appeared in the same sentence.

 What is more troublesome? feel free to pick your choice,

--two stabbings in the same day

--Both stabbings are involving educated people

--In general stabbings are involving children (either as victim or accused)

 I think it is safe to admit that our education system has reached rock bottom...or wait should we wait for kindergarten kids to stab each other before we can admit the fact that our education system needs revision in terms of teaching what’s right and wrong?

 Actually, we did hit something close -

---- last month in Lucknow, a 11 year old girl stabbed a 1-standard boy to get a holiday?

 --- last year, a seven-year-old Pradyuman Thakur, a Class 2 student in the Ryan International School, was found with his throat slit near a school washroom. "The police have charged a 16-year-old student who, they say, believed that a death would force the school to put off an exam and a parent-teacher meeting he was desperate to avoid."

To think about it, how sick of school kids have become to take out each other's lives just to stay away from school.

But why should the child take all the blame and be punished? What about our schools? The education department in the country?  parents? our society ? CINEMA??

Will any of these guys take any blame?

Here's a thought. I think as a standard principle children should be banned from watching Tamil Cinema & Cinema people should stop involving themselves in governance of state. Period.

While some may argue that there are some good Tamil cinemas and banning Tamil Cinemas is an unnecessarily harsh standard. I think, the 98% crap in Tamil Cinema does not justify the 2% (that's an exaggeration by the way) good that may come out of watching Tamil movies. There was a time when heroes were hard working guys, weren't drunkards, didn't use abusive language, didn't kill the women they "loved". But now, Tamil cinemas have to have these elements to make money. When they are in such a "money making" business, it is not fit for children. Please, for the sake of the sanity of our future generation, let them stay away from all this nonsense.

While we adults are busy debating and deciding whether alcohol consumption, killing each other, the narcissist culture of thriving on "likes" for selfies, the compulsive behavior of sharing every little personal detail on social media etc are good or bad, why not just leave the kids alone to have their peaceful childhood. Please, it is a humble request.

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Bowing to God

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Agara muthala ezhuthellam, aathi bhagavan muthatre ulagu.

-Thirukkural 001

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I am trying to understand Life…not just mine, any form of life. I have searched/read a bit and it looks like the answers are there in my own backyard – left behind by our ancestors - Tamilians. “Thamizh” is a very old language, and Tamil Culture was a very advanced one. So advanced that we in our modern world can’t even imagine such a race of people existed! They were top notch in science, education, business, but most important of all they were best at understanding life. They followed nature closely and observed and documented all of their learnings for us to follow. But unfortunately, we have just chosen to ignore all of their work. In this blog I am going to attempt at touch on the wealth of knowledge that was left behind by our ancestors.  Most of my work here will be what I learnt from my Guru. Any mistakes are my own.