HSS and IITS

when hindu news paper had a tough competition with other new entrants which was sold for rs.1, hindu continued to sell its paper for rs 3.50. that's how a good teacher will always be. it has nothing todo with good teachers. these are some reflections over the present iit's hss system.

in the final semester of my MA i was eager to apply somewhere other than pondicherry. but i never had a dream to join in iit's or any elite institution. one fine afternoon, while i was crossing the dept of economics in PU i found the notice about the MPHIL program offered in one IIT. i thought "i wouldnt make it but anyway let me give a try". actually after studying international relations i had an aspiration for development studies and the degree also hold that name as development. i spend two years in that iit. but beleive me, they neither taught planning nor development. it was a course of soci-economic-psychological phliosophy of social science. in that two years i learned a lot about HSS in iit.
the purpose of iit is to give socio-economic and political awareness to the technology students. if we make a question of 20 starting with who is the present vice-president of india to who is the author of freedom at midnight? iam sure most of the technology student feel this paper more tougher than the JEE and JAM. it is not their fault ,it is the hss dept that is not serving the purpose. then what this big shots in the hss dept are doing?

.... sir, are u free this week? anbarasan i have a conference in cambodia, next week iam going to chec republic and iam attending a conference in european union. may be i will talk to u next month.
these people literally using the brand name for their personal gains. and they are not doing their jobs which are assigned to them (literally teaching to students)

TECH FRIENDS ATTITUDE TOWARDS HSS:
"arae!! why are they having a dept for social issues? we can understand by reading news paper." exactly i heared from my close friend. this is not his fault but the dept gave a message like this, to those technology students. some of my friends openly asked, why your professors are talking too much and confusing :)?
once in the class prof asked how can we develop those tribes in forest? one guy very cooly told give them jeans pants and t-shirt and allow them to access to technology. i was shocked. these people are trained to count the numbers they even see growth in terms of increase in GDP rate (can we consume cement and steel). so it is hss dept responsibility to make them understand the reality. some how one day these students will be in the panel of policy making either in the corporate world or in the government sector. are these HSS dept not cheating the students and the governments(god the amount of money flow in iits's are unimaginable) by not providing the proper information about the society and transformation. if we ask a teacher in hss iit about dalit development and reservation, this will be their answer "take those variables of crimes against dalits and govt expenditure and run a correlation and regression analysis, go for a t-test and u can see whether u r hypothesis accepted or not. so here the empowerment is over. how come few formulas can define social problems? the stafss in the hss are trying to imitate science model( obiviously understood as model for scince).

hss could be more interesting by having film clubs ,debate clubs and enviro clubs for mtech and btech students. that can serve the purpose more than running a regression. these clubs are seperate from extracurricular activies. becuase here the abled person guding them to learn the social issues. i am sure there are interested technology students in society and environment because i see fellow friends read news paper in hostel common room every day:)

LEARNINGS
1) iit is not a suitable palce for a serious social science students,for teachers left to them.
2) iit is good if at all ur topic is one way or another related to technology and society.
3) HSS need to rerpair its baahhh image in iit's (mostly u feel like walking in godown)
4) the very big attidude that teachers having here is " nobody going to ask me why?"
5)the technology students literally lack interest in social issues in india and in world that becuase the courses floated are wague and uncatchy
6) All the iits must make it compulsory that every technology students must undergo studies on indian social problems, enviromnental problem and technology impact. (6 credit must make compulsoryfrom hss.)
7) the research and international papers must be a free time activity for the teachers , they could concentrate mostly on teaching to students.
8) international trips and conferences must be minimised 3 in a year, becuase now a days only students and bulidings are there, teachers are busy outside the institution.
9) there must be a grievence cell for students regarding their academic performances
10) staffs should never have consultancies on behalf of iit brand name.

these iam putting forward only because iam also a stakeholder and one way another the victim of hss and moreover a wellwisher of IIT'S.

A JOURNEY FROM BC TO 4

for the past few years the casteism consiousness increased in me. that because of my stay in iit's. untill then i was not aware of this phenmenon. because student culture in universities are different. my recent low track record made me to really bad about my credentials. honestly iam not brilliant. i take time to understand stuffs but hard working.

what is troubling me is that,am i passing a message that i am using SC as a shield? from my deep inside of my heart let me say that i never like to use anything as a shield. because i strongly beleive in the shield of god. i think its time to reveal some naked truth.

BC GRADE

in my mphil grade i got BC grade. technique i used for research was both qualitaitve and quantitative. santhosh helped me in quantitative technique. not me alone he helped another one guy in fulfledge. when i was asked to give the hard copy to the examiner, my guide told me " you dont talk anything to him, i will talk to him" . i beleived him blind faithly. the examiner came for via-voce. my god! the sort question he asked was horrible and he started to interfere from introduction slides onwards. any fool must be given 15 to 20 min to put his view first. when i looked at my guide he commented " that's how we will ask you should able to answer it". viva was over. the foreign university asked my grade sheet for further prcedures. so i went in the evening to get my grade sheet .my guide very cooly asked what grade you expect? i told him it's not me expecting but they were asking AB grade. again he told "you never said this to me" !!! feel happy that u passed, i struggled a lot to get this grade, you got BC grade. honestly i told every of my move to him. when i heared my grade literally i felt like crawling over the floor and cry. please think from your son and daughter perspective. will you feel happy? but then i told him thank you so much sir, i never forget you in my life. the politics behind this is again a gutter.

let me ask a question,if any one doubt my subject knowledge call all those who got 9.something and AA,AB grades and ask questions on planning and development. this is not out of arroance i am saying, but i dont know how say it.

0 TO 4

i was wonderstruck how i got this muuuuuuch mark in research methodlogy. let me confess that i am not learning any ROCKET SCIENCE here. it's nothing but any approach to conduct a reaserach thats'all. because of my personal commitments (definitely my parents never been a stumbling block) i came a month late and within a week i have to face minor exam. the term paper one is we have to submit literature review of our research work. how come a student decide his topic(narrowing down) in a month and and they have to submit for minor one. me what i had done i took my mphil lit review and submitted. he gave me 0 telling that plagiarized term paper. when i went to talk to him like a broken old music record he told the same" this cant be accepted" and finally he asked anbarasan actually what u want ? then i walked out from his room. for the second term we have review the methodlogies that are used in our studies and what we are going to use? so i wrote composite index, gini coefficient, correlation, ols regression and finally i told i will be using multivariate analysis. i am sure iam not going to use this technique. i was given fooooour marks. i dont know how they sent such big marks through email.

trust me so far i never learned anything that could help for my research.

what i understood is, these days it is easy to get marks in social sciences provided u shuld have a cell phone and discussing ability. !!!

these are my reflections of our systems.

OUTCOME

1)least twice in a class hour he says " in IIT KANPUR..." it seems he is having more hold over his institution than himself. we need to sell ourself not our institutions.

now i remember subramanya bharathi poem

sathikal illaiyadi papa....... eti udhaithu vidu papa avar mukathil umizthindu vidu papa.... .

THE POWER OF DISCIPLES.

i dont know anyone spoke about the power of disciples. everyone of us know the power of almighty, guru and gods. but there exist one power which is the forceful power can be named as the power of disciples. simple concept yet really important. they said shiva is nothing without shakthi, true. but same mythology says that shiva shattered shakthi's body into pieces when she went against the call of shiva. the logic behind is simple. the two forces must moves in the complementing manner, when any one force goes against another one, then there exist choas and disaster. this is applicable from family to environment. ie., from family to society, society to state, state to nation, nation to internatinal and finally the circle completes with environment. when our greedy forces goes against the environment forces then disaster is ensured. similarly the power of disciples too has this effect.

1) a hero/heroine remains hero/heroine aslong as the fans want him/her to be.

2) the preacher remains as a preacher as long as the listeners ready to listen

3) similarly a guru remains close to god as long as he has good disciples.

everyday i get up,my first work is looking at my guru face and i say a small tamizh phrase. i know clearly that my guru speaks bengali,hindi,english but not tamizh. however it is not that because of tamizh phrase my faith had forsaken. this is force that iam talking about. evryday my prayer through him, keep him close to god.the disciple force without his knowledge pushing him towards divinity. the analogy culd be since the demand frm one centre is incresing the gpvt gives more subsidiary and financial assistance to serve further effectively. the crowd for ramakrishna math and other spritiual org has a vast difference. that clearly says good disciples leads to good spiritual centre. so naturally in such a places the vibes will be soothing and relaxing. this is mainly due to the disciples. because thier faith and belief over the order keeps those sanyasis in right track. like mushroom many spiritual masters crop up and it will be interesting to see their disciples crowd:)

since huge amount of transactions taking place through a particular order. the master(god) will definitely take care of the leak proof channel. so guru's spiritual highness is automaitcally raised by their disciples faith. another one interesting fact is, if the group is more demanding naturally without his own will the forces pushes the facilitator further. so it is always important to allign with good order, good people, good guru and good disciple.

VEL,VEL!!!

this is purely for informative purpose not to hurt anygroup or their practices.

RECENTLY iam facinated by how village gods of tamilnadu is getting fabrication in hinduism. we are hero worshippers and we always tend to relate/identify our god with ourselves. now for the past few years new fabrication is taking place in village communities. our gods reflects our apperances and our life style. for instance we offer ciroot, liquor and first invitation of marraiges are pasted in his permises. the feast are usually non-veg mostly pork or mutton. again the food served first to him and then peple will have their feast.so its like everything is surrounded by our god as central axis. now new things are happening that many are may not aware. JUST CAREFULLY OBSERVE THE FOUR PHOTOS.

1) the first photo is our clan deity called veeran, see his face and body and dress.similar way look at other statues too.

2) come to the last statue(unpainted one) and see the difference.

now i was shocked and bit worried abut our culture after seeing the last statue. iam not going to blame anyone but only to record. the last statue has poonool( sacred thread) that only brahmins have. why we hesitate to identitfy ourselves with hindu god is this poonool(sacred thread). the hindu god is wearing poonol and the priest alone wearing the poonool, and others are out. whereas so far our village gods are eactly like us. they eat like what we eat,and drink what we drink. so i had very proximity towards our village gods. the last statue shows the infiltration of hinduism into our practises.compare the first staue and the last one which as 25 and above years old. the first statue is pleasant and really giving godly look and sitting with magiesty,but the last statue gives a demonic look with exactly dravidian appearances that temple archietect use to make demons statue over the temple vimana. since it is our GOD he embedded poonool for him too. now whether the village couldnt able to find the old statue cnstructors or the skilled people vanished in time. which made the village people to rely on this temple archietects. u might feel why he is so obssesed with poonool( sacred thread)? a christian is alowed to wear all his religious symbols similarly islam higly advocating everyone to have thier religious symbols and buddhism too. if so, then why hinduism is not allowing everyone to have poonool.?

when i spoke to my grandfather and few friends about this new issues. everyone asked me the same question "why u r taking it so seriously?" my grandfather told it's just a design. but i feel this another attempt to take away our last assest,our god. small example. lord muruan was actually a tribal god his only concert is valli a tribal chieftain daughter. later on the marriage of deivanai and murugan clearly says about the aryan and dravidian fabrication because deivanai was deva gula lady(lady of deva chieftains). another one example is VILLUDAIYANPATTU village near neyveli township. this is the only murugan temple in the world where lord murugan has villu(bow and arrow) as weapons, which belongs to hunters. in another places he has spear(vel) which needs accuracy in throwing while running, means more learned period of tribals(later vedic period). now this tribal temple cmpletely changed into hindu temple.

this happened in satya gana sabai too, they even started to do rituals which vallalar is against. there were complaints that the priest even placed a small lingam and worshiped it insted of the divine light. then by our CM intervention it was restored to older practises.

the civilization dies when the group loses its language and culture.

TERRORIST, TERRORIST, TERRORIST

any clear cut definition for terrorist? who is a terrorist, ok lets start like this, who was the first recorded terrorist?kain in biblical story who killed his brother. so since he killed his brother we could call him as terrorist. next situation. an army soldier who suppose to protect us, entering into your house and engaged in cruelsome rape of your daughter and your wife, so to protect yu and your family you take a knife, since you killed someone,youare also a terrorist. isn't it funny. this is how we are branding people.

in this case all the world leaders are terrorist becuase one way or anther your gvernment faciliated the killing by arms and amunitions. every bite of the first orld food there exist the blood stain of third world civil wars. from wher those groups are getting well sofisticated advanced weapons? leave obama administration, so far earlier governments played in such a way that america's headachae is our headachae. waging war inthe gulf has a hidden motives and how can we expect that they welcome us. it's like you are entering into neighbours house and commanding his wife, any man will react to it. so the first world must stop its hipocracy and genuienly it must work to stop violence in the third world. instead of blaming them as terrorist.recently i read an article on what made the americans to wipe the native american poulation-the reason given by the author was security for their family members and for their accumulated land.

a country had crippled for three decades in civil war and it lost more than 10 million people in the process. since you shot your own foot, the super power started to ban every organisations as terrorist. that too the island organisation had formed a defacto government as mao in china once formed defacto government. how long an oranisation sustain its guerilla war tactics. but the org managed for more than 25 years thinking that one day the dawn will be there. again we showed our hipocracy by just neglecting them. some might say the head was adament, like he was not ready to comedown. let me ask a question, how about our case(kashimir ke darthi rani haye..... NCC song) are we not cultivating this attitude in every eneration to follow? for us one law and for another seperate law. how kashmir became a prestige issue similarly for that org also "seperate state" became an prestige issue. in international relations state as an actor and non-state as an another actor. naturally here state will align with another state similarly if we dont support the geneune cause ofthe people then the state itself pushing that people organisation as a terrorist organisation.

so it is very clear that the states made the people organisation as a terrorist organisation. so can we call this as state sponsored terrorism? somehow the things got complicated and the organisation got into the trap. it is the first world and the third world geneune leaders responsibility to give a life line them. there are 192 registered countries in UNO, who is going to affect if 193rd country register.

CONSEQUENCES

how this 193rd country plan had been put down by our diplomats. our diplomats are always good(particularly our neighbours) in staying close with centre at the cost of US. whether we benifited out of our nationalism or not ,our neighbours benifited a lot. they always projected us bitter people inorder to stay close with centre power. so they coined a " fake theory " as if the island formed a seperate then that might damage our unity. the last state of the country too will demand seperate state. this is the funniest stuff that i ever read. today i say we are highly happy and content with the mainland and no one is willing for another 1961(demanded seperate state).gone are those days, we are happy and content here & our brother&isters dont want to suffer because of this fake theory.

so it is high time for our leaders to consider andview this issue without any partiality. because develpment is accelerated by peace. peace in the state, peace in the country ,peace in the neighbourhood , peace in the region and peace in the world..

our brothers and sisters fought and died with the dream of small land. as the majority in the island insult us as house keepers of europeans(french) it is you all genuine respnsibility to make the martarys dreams to come true.

i request the king to forget the bitter past and work for the genuine cause of the people. and ofcourse the whole world is looking obama as a messiah of peace. so we are also looking you with the same attitude.

NO MORE HIPPOCRACY , DONT NEGLECT THEM WITH VIOLENCE AS REASON. it was an option forced by the state.

BLACK OR WHITE

(this is the black spirit(kulla karuppu) that i spoke about,beleive me i was bit nervous when i clicked, you can find the papper tied over his weapon, this terracotta statue alone not cemented and it is the oldest one)

the concept of black or white is intersting , it depends on the region where it gets conceptualised. for instance our gods are black starting from shiva to black spirit (actually it must start from otherway aruund.) but the foreiners calls eveil as black and black magic and they gave a black colur for evils where as we gave white colour for evils(mogini, aavi etc). it is human tendency to alieanate by colour and shape which actually not belongs to that groups( examples : dasuys, dasas, dravidias) certain group of people were seen odd from the dominant group and those odd groups appearances were used for peculair issues. it's like we laugh at monkeys and monkeys laugh at us.

moreover the climate plays a major role in determining the colour. whether we are naturefreindly or not, nature always remain as our friend. how?

if you are in the deep southern part of india you cant sleep after seven ,the scrotching sun starts in that case our skin develops a melanian pigment which adds dark complexion.it is also responsible for stamina. from my childhood onwards i had a doubt how come people like our complexion getting medals for america ,you know when i got answer? in loyola college that too from tamizh ayya (tamil teacher) then only i understod there is big breeding business exist.

it is no that other race has less stamina , it is safe to say black skin has got more stamina gifted by nature. following the same understanding we tamil village pepoles are hero worshippers, our gods are brave and war veterans (veeran, agni veeran, ayyanar, karupu etc). some one who gaurded our villages might died in war or might completed his life cycle .in order to comemorate them we set a stone or a statue like him and the people believe their spirit will continue to gaurd us. thats how black spirit is very famous in tamil village.

the mystery part as follows. let me explain what i had seen. i was too standing on the crowd. one persons wife started to behave very badly (troublesome) and she became uncontrolable so the man went to the kulla karuppu kovil to ask about it. the person who stood over the nails footwear closed his eyes and started to narrate that on the northside of wall there is a crack and inside it there is an amulet(a small sheet), the man further said you remove it and burnt it. thinks will be alright. then the victim asked how do i know who had done it?. then the person over the nail sandals explained tomorrow there will be a fire accident in his home from that you will come to know , for everyone of our surprise it happened. if the person further want to intensify the punishment then he writes his appeal and ties in the hands of kulla karuppu. once if the punishment was given then we have to thank him with garlands, ciroot,liquor and lamps. if the mistake is on our side then the ordered punishment will return to the person itself. it's like computer progamming "punish the culprit" no matter who the culprit,even the culprit is on the same side it punishes(there are incidents of even fatal). did we have any white spirits like this? :)

this is not explained to get scare but real tamil village remain unexplored. being a student of history i have some idea of real sources that lacks to construct history.

stop modernizing sabarimalai

lord ayyapan is alive ,ayyapan devotees are alive only problem is corporates and governments.

my first trip to sabarimalai was in 1989 walked in 48 miles continuosly for three years then during tenth public exam holidays (1999) and twice during 12th std and now 2010. so i observed sabarimalai for three decades and its progress. more than bhakthi and revenue sabarimalai is ecolgically sensitive spot and it is true the ayyapan is awesome and lovely. swami vivekananda told "the advancement of science and technology is a blow to religion". it is not a blow to religion but blow to religious people. coz as always we confuse with faith, money and fast track lifestyle. "we all have strength but god alone has power"(from iranian movie). people took sabarimalai lightly as like travelling to other pilrimage spots.

IN 1980'S & 1990"S

how they took sabarimalai fasting?

men lived only in temples ,they hardly spoke to their wivies( including my father)

they just put off all their senses

teachers wont beat in the class if you dnt do home work

they dont attend any family ceremonies

along with the men their wives too strictly follow the woes

i had seen even polices walking in bare foot in duty

everyday all the devoties assemble in temple and they practice certain ways to keep thier spirit up, like singing songs praising ayyapan and getting blessings one from each one. kids are affectionately treated as manikandan (kid ayyapan)

the whole method is coined in such a way that they stay away from the society for a month and they rejuvenate thier body and mind

finally when we start a journey that was highly exiting irrespective of age and caste people fall under our foot when we hold our irumudi(the two packs, one with ghee cocunut)

and when the van starts the women used to cry and they dont say see u later. we wish each other sami saranam

IN 2000

i found huband and wives traveling together some to the extend of traveling in bikes

ayyapan became secondary concern and they paid more attention to their business

there was dilution in everything,usually women encourage to get concession from gurusamy (experienced head person of the team) according to family sentiments women are right but not from spiritual point of view.

heared frequent incidents of accidents on the road sides

fasting became not a big issue, there were more hotels in hills as compare to earlier

IN 2010

many factors gave a blow to the morality of ayyapan devotees

first and foremost nithyanandha factor ,i myself seen many seen me with suspicious eyes, women delebrately adjust their saree and blouse in front of me ,this clearly shows the earlier devotion and fear had gone.

lot of jubbies are seen

and lot of PET litters!!!

cell phone, MNC's bottle drinks,a long que of eatable shops in the hills really irritated me in the recent journey. there was a drastic develpment in the hill path(-ve) since the journey made easy the crowd incread and naturally god move away from that place because anything that gets institutionalised corruption prevails.

PERSONALLY

i still remember my father told to my uncle "i had seen him(me) with such a joy only in these seven days" and added he is not showing this interest in studies.

when i went during 10th std there were jeeps from kumuli ,erimeli to pampa. that journey was ok and the hill too not polluted much. my recent journey is much disturbing the first irritation was that gold plate (liqur mafias are becoming business magnets) there is a concrete leveled path leads to temple (i never expected this) this cretated a stinky urinal smell everywhere. earlier while we walk we attend natures call either near to a big tree or to a bush but now the cncrete paths and iron side pipes allowing the devotees to piss on the side of the road. i was worried that i was greatly missing what i had in my childhood.

whatever it is when we climb the holy 18 steps and see the face of cute ayyapan wwoww all our hardships vanish just like that. that will tempt us to see him again and again.

in the return journey i dont want to miss those childhood adventures so i left my father to walk on the concrete path and started to walk in the donkey pass (the route which donkey take to climb the mountain) awesome experience i had seen those big big trees and plants and felt happy.

traditionally sabarimalai is a SACRED GROOVE concept. our ancestors followed this idea of sacred groove. in order to protect the forest and the species both flora and fauna they declare certains certain hills and forest as sacred groove. they name those area as under the influence of certain spirits and we are not supposed to disturb that.

some may ask then god is not for everyone?

god is for everyone but not everyone should pollute his residing place. this can be understood by nature selection. nature always choose group of people to protect its human race and tradition. we have to be natural friendly and strong to be the part of natural selection otherwise nature itself will eliminate us.