*From To Sathish*-Sathish's new movie Info & Pics pg20! - Page 51

Thanks for Ch. 14.
Aashritha's flashback is indeed tragic...
with the unexpected betrayal towards the end being a real shocking twist...

My fun guesses:
1. Bala is Aashritha's real son snatched away from her soon after his birth and just before her death.
2. That means the culprit Bala is searching for is actually his own dead mother.
3. Mani invariably becomes entangled in the murder case...
and in a bid to rescue him from trouble, Aashritha decides to get rid of Bala and close all evidence.
4. She follows Bala to his house...and sees him bond closely with his mother, Chitra.
5. Aashritha sees Chitra for the first time since her death.
She was the same woman who Aashritha worked for in the city as a household servant...
she was there in the delivery room when Bala was born and took him away...
and she was the last one to see Aashritha alive.
6. That makes Chitra the next target to kill.
7. Maybe Bala would go out of his way to protect Chitra.
8. And maybe Aashritha would go out of her way to protect Mani.
9. But together, Aashritha and Bala would have a powerful, unique bond to reckon with...
10. I just haven't figured out how Shalini fits into all of this...
maybe she oscillates between Mani's and Bala's love and completes the epitome love triangle.

Wow...this is so much fun...
my imagination is running wild here...

Will wait and see how the story unfolds...

Sardar strikes again


C.A.T Exam question:

Spell the word "COW" in 13 letters.

Scientists got mad calculating it..

Even Professors couldn't answer..

Lecturers said that it's a wrong query, printing mistake, etc.

Toppers got confused..

Average students' minds went blank cursing the question setters..

Below-Average students committed suicide, unable to solve it..

But a Sardar gave a cool answer..

"SEE O DOUBLE YOU"

Kejriwal's letter to Mukesh


Dear Mr Mukesh Ambani,

You have recently sent a defamation notice to a number of TV channels. Their "crime" is that they aired the press conference held on the 31st October 2012 and 9th November 2012, by Prashant Bhushan and me, live. In our press conference, we presented before the country how you had illegally pressurized the government into increasing gas prices. We also told the country that your associates and your companies have accounts in Swiss banks where black money had been stashed away. Many TV channels aired our expose live. All these TV channels have now received defamation notices from you.

I find it quite perplexing. If you felt that you have been defamed by what Prashant Bhushan and I said, then we are the real culprits and, if you had to send a defamation notice, it should have been to us. The TV channels merely broadcast what we said. Despite this, instead of sending us the defamation notice, you have sent it to the TV channels. It is evident that your sole purpose of sending this notice was to steamroll the TV channels into subservience.

The people of India want to ask you some straight questions:

Is it not true that the list of those who have accounts in Swiss Banks, as received by the Government of India, includes your name and the names of your relatives, your friends and your companies?
Is it not true that a balance of Rs. 100 crores is shown against your name in this list?
Is it not true that you have paid the tax on this amount after this list was received by the Government?
If the above is true, as we suspect it is, it proves that you have admitted your guilt. As per the law of the land, you should be tried and, if the charge of tax evasion is proved, you should be sent to jail.

However, this would never happen. Why? Because the Government of India is intimidated by you. You have been reported as saying that the Congress Party has been bought by you - it is your dukaan, to be precise. You are right. according to some media reports, Mrs. #Sonia_Gandhi sometimes travels by your personal aircraft. People believe that Mr. Jaipal Reddy's ministry was also changed because of your influence.

Why only the Congress? Even BJP and many other parties are in your pocket. Earlier, Mr. Advani used to make a lot of noise about Swiss Bank accounts, but since your accounts have been exposed, BJP has suddenly gone quiet. BJP has not mentioned a single word in the Parliament about your accounts.

It appears that almost all parties are afraid of you. Most leaders are scared of you, too. However, the citizens of this country are not scared of you. All parties could be your dukaan but India is not up for sale. India is ours, it belongs to the people of this country. You can purchase political parties and political leaders with your money but we will not let India be sold.

You say that the TV channels have tainted your reputation by airing our press conference live. That's wrong. I would urge you to answer this question honestly - Did #Prashant_Bhushan, myself and the TV Channels defame you or did you defame yourself through your own misdeeds?

1. In 2002, you gave 1 Crore shares with a market price of Rs. 55 per share to Mr. #Pramod_Mahajan at just Rs. 1 per share. This was a straight bribe to get "Full Mobility". When you were caught, you took back the shares. Presently, the matter is In court. Didn't you defame yourself by doing this?

2. You have made your multistoreyed residence on #Wakf_land. This land had been set aside for an orphanage. You have stolen the right of poor and orphaned Muslim children. Didn't you defame yourself by doing this?

3. A few gas wells belonging to the Country were allotted to you in 2000. You were supposed to extract gas and give it to the government. The gas belongs to us, the people of India. We are the owners of this gas. You were only a contractor appointed to extract the gas. However, cleverly you became the owner of the gas. You started "selling" the gas to the government.

Because the Congress is in your pocket, it always bowed before your bullying. The Congress kept increasing the price of gas under your pressure and the nation kept wailing. Because of you, the prices of electricity, fertilizer and cooking gas kept rising. When it crossed all limits, Mr. #JaipalReddy opposed you. He was the Minister for Oil and Gas at that time. You got Mr. Jaipal Reddy transferred. Because of you many things have become increasingly expensive in India and the people are groaning under the load of these high prices. Do these shenanigans suit you? Do such acts not defame you?

The list of such illegal acts done by you is quite long.

The majority of the traders, businessmen and industrialists want to do their work honestly. But the system forces them into wrongdoings. But when a businessman like you brazenly subverts the system for his personal benefit, the entire industry and business world gets a bad name.

You are on one side with immense wealth. On the other side are the people of this country. The people have now awakened. Fire is raging in their heart. History is witness that whenever there has been a clash between money and such rage, the rage has won.

Kindly do not try to intimidate the media of this country. There may be some mediamen who may have done wrong things themselves. Such media-persons may succumb to your pressure. However, the majority of media persons keep the interest of the Country at heart even today. They are not going to capitulate so easily. History is witness that whenever the judiciary, bureaucracy and legislature crumbled, it is the honest fourth pillar, comprising such media-persons that kept democracy alive.

You have invested in some media houses directly or indirectly. It is possible that these media houses do your bidding. However, the journalists working for such media houses will not barter their integrity so easily.

What is your dream? Do you want to become the world's richest person through dishonesty? Suppose you became the owner of all the wealth in this country. Would that make you happy? Happiness does not increase by accumulating more and more wealth. Happiness comes with sacrifice. If you stopped doing business dishonestly and contributed your wealth for the development of the nation, this country will remember you with pride forever.

With regards,

Arvind Kejriwal

QUOTES,NOTES AND SILLY MUSINGS

Why,who,what and where are a few important questions that arise at a certain point in life and stay with us until the end.Consciously i tried and still am trying to find a reasonable answer which would put out this fire that burns constantly.Some days while i walk and as the chill of the early dawn soothes my skin,i tell myself this is cool and so worth it and i am glad i am alive.Somedays as i sit watching the sun come up in all of its glory,i sometimes look at the dogs who sit and lie by my side " guys,are you seeing this ".But sadly the dogs dont turn towards the sun and prefer to stare at me and some longingly look at the few biscuits remaining in my hand.Well i sadly shook my head and thought,poor animals they are missing something so beautiful.Well one day a dog whom we have named buddha,but i prefer to call him HUNDI,for he is a mixture of a hound and a naughty mongrel walked with me and both of us caught a beautiful sunrise.As i was watching hundi nuzzled my ear and a thought flowed from his touch.It felt as if he was saying,the sunrise is important to you,but for me and the other dogs you and your company is much more important and valuable.simple,beautiful profound and yet i struggled with the message from the wise dog.So many factors complicate out thoughts and ultimately the very basic need of survival rules them all.



Flying at Night by Ted Kooser

Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
back into the little system of his care.
All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
tug with bright streets at lonely lights like
his.




"But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer." Viktor E. Frankl,

To draw an analogy: a man's suffering is similar to the behavior of a gas. If a certain quantity of gas is pumped into an empty chamber, it will fill the chamber completely and evenly, no matter how big the chamber. Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the "size" of human suffering is absolutely relative." Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step - Lao Tzu

"Not all those who wander are lost." J. R. R. Tolkien

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." Viktor E. Frankl,

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible." Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

"In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice." Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

In a mother's womb were two babies.

One asked the other: "...Do you believe in life after delivery?"

The other replied, "Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later."

"Nonsense" said the first. "There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?"

The second said, "I don't know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can't understand now."

The first replied, "That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded."

The second insisted, "Well I think there is something and maybe it's different than it is here. Maybe we won't need this physical cord anymore."

The first replied, "Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere."

"Well, I don't know," said the second, "but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us."

The first replied "Mother?" You actually believe in Mother? That's laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?"

The second said, "She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist."

Said the first: "Well I don't see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn't exist."

To which the second replied, "Sometimes, when you're in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above."

om namah shivaya - Shiva and me

It has been 19 years since the day i first met him and started walking beside him.I met him in 1995 January 2nd week,Someshwar temple on the outskirts of Mangalore.The meeting was an accident i thought at that time and yet moments later i knew it was destiny that i reached that destination.

The year 1994 was a bad year of misadventure for i ventured into a business with a friend who turned out to be just the opposite.Come to think of it all the years leading to 1995 have been bad or filled with misfortune but those are stories for another day.someday when i am old and withered and i need to unburden myself i will write about those years.but right now my shoulders are strong and my soul is full of energy and positive charge and i have no time to be sad and depressed or dish the same out to people who read my thoughts as posts here in my page.

January 1995,me and a close friend of mine called Seeni decided we would go for a small trip to Ooty of Kodaikanal on my faithful two wheeler yamaha rx 100 tcx 8150.Geetha was away at work in Calicut and since i was home alone for about a week i thought okay and Seeni and me took of on our road trip.On our way seeni suggested we will see a bit of kerala before we went to ooty and so our first halt was at palakkad or palghat as it was called then.The moron seeni after a beer and while having dinner started to bug me by repeatedly begging,"satish,satish goa polama.goa polama,"My response was "o..a,nee enna loosu p...(fill it up according to your imaginations.).ooty enge irukku,goa enge irukku.Now there is one thing you need to know about seeni and that he is a master in strategy and psychological warfare and poor in most of the other things.He looked at me and said " imagine how our other friends will react when they know that we went to goa and came back on our bike.If we don't do it now,we will never be able to do it and if just manage to do it,we can talk about it for the rest of our lives.Now you should understand that the only reason seeni was pushing me towards goa was he somehow wanted to see naked women tanning themselves on the beach.Maybe it happened but i am sorry nudity or going around topless was outlawed in most goa beaches and probably done in private beaches.

The difficulty in going to goa was that it was nearly 800 kms from palghat to panjim and the sad part was seeni was not a very good bike rider and i would have to do all the bloody riding.Reluctantly i said ok and next morning we set off towards goa.We had agreed that we would not ride after sunset unless the destination is nearby and we reached mangalore at about 7.00 pm and checked in into a small lodge.After dinner i spread the road map on the bed and was reading aloud the places we would pass and told seeni that i doubt if we will be able to reach panaji or panjim as it is called now by evening.He said nothing doing,tomorrow night we are going to be in goa,eating and drinking and sightseeing (you can imagine the sights he had in his mind and sorry in my mind too).

Next day morning after breakfast i went down to check on the bike and found the rear tyre was flat.I cursed loudly at our bad luck and realised that reaching goa would be now out of the question.I went into the hotel and asked the receptionist if there was puncture repair shop nearby and he said there was one around the corner,but it would open only after about 8.00 am.Since it was just 6.30 am seeni and me decided to walk around,have a cup of coffee and also finish breakfast.mangalore bisibelabath and mangalore coffee.magic people real magic.

It was about time for the roads were getting busy with traffic and me and seeni came back to the hotel and then i don't know why but just like that i asked the receptionist if there was any famous temple nearby we could visit before we left mangalore.He said there was a temple called someshwar and it was about 4 to 5 kms from the hotel.See now things started happening and things always happens due to a reason and due to the will of a higher
power.I have always been good in history,places and important events.Hey come now,i am not talking about the current satish but the satish in january 1995.See this knack for remembering places and its names came from the games me and my cousin brother pradeep used to play with our world atlas.Each would take turn it telling the other to find a place on the the map and we would go on like this for hours.Sometimes we used to go along with our elders for shopping and left
alone in the car while off they went,we used to play games like trying to find a shops name around us.

So the ego,the arrogance for i don't know how else to call my state of mind led me to tell seeni " someshawar temple is very famous and lakhs of pilgrims visit it every year".I told him someswar temple consists of a huge statue and seeni said okay we will have to see it.So off we went after getting the flat in the rear wheel fixed and we kept going and going.I was confused for i thought the someshwar statue was huge and could be seen from a distance and finally tiring we stopped to ask directions for the someshwar temple and with it we arrived at a small hill or you can safely call it a huge mound.Steps were leading up into the temple and seeni and me looked at each other and then realised that something was very wrong here for that small rise of rock could not have hidden a huge statue of someshwar.Slowly we spoke to a few shopkeepers around and then realised that we had,sorry i had made a huge mistake for i had mistaken someshwar for shravanbelogala which was about 230 kms from where we stood.seeni kindly said,paravaille idhuvum oru kovil thaane.poyitu vaa.

I left seeni with the bike and luggage which was tied down on the tank and on the carrier and dejected i slowly climbed the stairs.i entered the temple premises through a small doorway and stood all alone with the town and people below me.It was about 10.am in the morning and the temple was deserted and that was when things happened.A slight breeze started blowing and picked up speed and i started walking towards a small temple in the middle of the compound.I stood as the wind continued to pick up speed and a few tiny bells hanging on the pillars started tinkling and soon there was tinkling all around.to this day i have no explanation as to that moment for the closed doors opened and i met him,finally or for the first time.first time in this birth or countless births i have no clue.Something dropped away from me,some strange burden flew away and for the first time i realised i was not alone,that i was never alone and well that everything and everyone has a purpose.The search was over and slowly everything fell into place.

Just as i stood there outside the small temple staring at the shivalingam inside,i thought to myself,poor god he is also alone as alone as me.I turned to see a kutty pujari with a nice potbelly coming towards me and i guess he was very happy to see someone visit the temple.He asked me my name and i said satish.He smiled and said shiva has come to see shiva.Wondering what he meant i asked him the same and he said Satish means lord of sati and the lord of sati or parvati is shiva and that is why i jokingly said shiva has come to see shiva.

Born into a telugu family the only gods i knew intimately were ganesha,lakshmi and narayana.Growing up i hardly visited any specific shiva temple but i got to se him regularly in a vinayagar temple in mahalingapuram.When i was came to live in chennai at the age of five,our house was next door to the iyappan temple in mahalingpuram,yes the same one and we lived in the next compound but strangely we never visited that temple for iyappan was a strange god to us and we kept away from things we did not know.But just down the road where the flyover over kodambakkam road now ends is the vinayagar temple which i am talking about.When one enters the temple you see three shrines,ganesha on the left,muruga on the right with shiva in the middle.Growing up this was like our family's weekly destination apart from the karumariamman kovil in thiruverkadu.In my hundreds of visits i can't recall standing before shiva and praying to him for most of my prayers used to be to ganesha or lord hanuman.i feel sad now that i wasted all those years of visits not talking to him or praying to him.

om namah shivaya - Shiva and me

part 2

Boy meets girl,girl meets boy and they fall in love.For want of a better expression i will take liberty and use this love to describe what i felt.The first love in everyone's life is one of the most beautiful time in a human being.Love in all its forms is a wonderful emotion although strangely abstract.When in love as lovers find themselves ,they tend to go mad and operate differently in all levels of life.Well if not love i have no other word to describe what i felt on that mountain.Funnily i went up as who i was until then and i came down as someone else.Something touched me,something whispered to my senses and left that memory permanently seared in my thoughts,and just like that shiva and everything about shiva filled my senses and thoughts.

The next few days were a blur for me.At one point seeni asked me what was wrong and i said i had no idea.I didn't confide in him about what had happened for i thought he would make a joke of it and plus it felt sacred that moment which i had experienced and didn't want to share it with anyone else,at least not for the time being.We reached goa and spent a few days wandering the beaches.Oh i have to tell you that seeni rushed towards calangut beach to catch a few nude women sunbathing and stood there in silence.parking the bike i walked upto him and saw the beach was totally deserted and huge boards stood proclaiming that nudity had ben strictly banned in all goa beaches.See,i was married and well you know a little bit worldlywise about things,ahem,well you get it dont you.But seeni was a bachelor and a shy one to say the least.Well heartbroken seeni was but that was it.Nothing much or more happened on that trip but for my experience.


When i started this chapter i began with the subject of lovers and yes i have to dwell on this topic for like all those who fall in love with someone or get obsessed with something i too fell head over heels for this abstract entity.Until that point i had never been a very religious person.Yes i recognised all gods and went to the temple whenever the urge came over me.When i lived with my family we devoutly followed all festivals and important days set aside for gods and goddesses.Ekadasi,amavasai,krishna jayanthi,varalakshmi pooja,vinayagar pooja etc were all celebrated but sadly i remember those holy days by the sweets or special food they used to prepare.Payasam,vadai,poli,lemon rice,vegetable pulao,adada thinking of those yummy days is making my mouth water.But all the rituals i had witnessed and practiced were of no consequence and like when you are in love everything lost focus and only the god shiva was in sharp focus.My wife,work,responsibilities everything went out of the window.I immersed myself in books about shiva and saivism and entered the nursery section in the worship of shiva.I started wearing this huge rudraksha malai,orange dhoti and slowly i started moving away lost most of the time in meditation.Since we lived in a two bedroom house i converted the other room into a room for shiva.Whenever i saw a idol or a framed photo of shiva i had to purchase it.Then the madness to see shiva in all his forms in as many temples took over me.Poor seeni was the scapegoat and meekly he went with me and i travelled oh god i really travelled.Where i was running to or running away from i had no clue for all that mattered to me was temples,darhsan and the intoxicating peace it brought me.

The road led me and seeni to thiruvannamalai and girivalams and soon like a speeding train leaving behind stations on its singular run towards its final destinations i sped.Wow,thinking about it and writing about it now i am not sure if i will be able to do so much travelling today. ekambareswarar kanchipuram,Srikalahasti,Thyagaraja Temple, Tiruvottiyur,brihadeeswara temple thanjavur,thiruvanaikaval temple trichy,Meenakshi Sundareswarar ThiruKovil,Madurai,uchi pillayar temple,samayapuram mariamman temple,Sattainathar Temple, Sirkazhi,akasa lingam chidambaram.my aging memory fails me but there a few photos lying around somewhere of all the temples i visited.My pilgrimages did not stop only with shiva temples but to all gods,only if they happened to be conveniently nearby.

Fully in the grip of this new found intoxication i failed to see that matters were coming to a head,most importantly my marraige was crumbling.i guess it was obvious when one of the two is missing most of the time.but that was for sometime in july and the months leading up to that junction were filled with an important trip to kerala.Yes, vadakkumnathan temple,vaikom,kaduthuruthy,ettmanoor were a few of the important temples i visited for peace,in yearning and for a clue.i have no idea what clue or what puzzle.


And than just like that geetha put the question in front of me.Choose what you want to do with your life.choose whom you want.shiva or me.Well i was heartbroken,sad and depressed but thankfully it all worked out okay.That important incident of which i cant divulge more details of made me realise lots of things about life and put everything into perspective.

We all have responsibilities,priorities,duties towards our family and loved ones.That incident made me realise that i had been selfishly indulging in my own wants and needs,ignoring my duties.But i soon mastered the art of deception,maybe that is why i am in the acting business.I learnt to be both a good husband and faithful devotee.I perfected the art of bigamy and had two loves in my life and led and still lead a perfectly happy life.


There is so much i can write about my experiences but i am sorry that it will just pass you like a surprising summer drizzle.They are experiences and understandings that each one must feel and learn by themselves.I have this message which i constantly tell willing ears.Spirituality is a relationship between a soul and god.It is a secretive affair and a happiness that is meant only for one's own satisfaction.Let me put it more simply the relationship one has with the god he or she worships must be secretive and its privacy guarded like a husband and wife would guard their sex life.One does not go around telling even his closest pal that he did this or that with his wife or lover.Maybe some do but those people are the exceptions.I think my wife knows it but she understands now that my voyage as is my life is not just to be with her but also my own personal trip to getting my own answers for all those questions that plague me.


Those days of orange dhotis,rudraksha maalais and mad search for shiva has gone and has now settled into steady dialogue with me and my soul where he resides.When people fall in love ,the beginning moments are spent in mad smooching,huggings and all kinds of foreplay.The early years of marriage are somewhat similar,but once the physical lust dies down you start to see beyond the physical self.you start to see the soul of your lover for what he or she really is.You fall into steady rhythm which are the golden years of marriage.thus i am in my golden years of my relationship with the god i worship.


In the words of the singer leo sayer "When I need you, I just close my eyes and I'm with you.And all that I so wanna give you ,it's only a heartbeat away" i too have come to that stage where temples and rituals don't matter to me anymore.No,i still regularly go to the temple.what i mean is i can sit at home and think about god or i could be shooting and right in the middle of scene and still connect with him.I have left the symbols for the simple minded and i humbly say this,that these are all my own thoughts and i have no opinions on others or how they go about their lives.

To be continued

GRANDFATHER TO GRANDSON

GRANDFATHER Go hide, your teacher is coming as you
bunked school today!

GRANDSON: YOU go hide... I told her YOU PASSED AWAY!

sister and brother

Sis : what are you going to gift grandma on her b'day?
bro : A football.
Sis : but grandma does not play.
bro : On my b'day grandma gave me Bhagwat Gita. Do I ever read that?

HOME TRUTHS!

1. BEDROOM smells After MARRIAGE:

1st 3 yrs---Perfumes, Flowers,Chocolate,Fruits..
After 3 yrs---Baby powder,Johnson's, Baby creams, Lotions,Baby oils..,
After 15 yrs---Zandu Balm,Vicks,Iodex,Relispray..
After 40 yrs---Agarbatti..., incense.

2. Four stages of marriage:

Mad for each other,
Made for each other,
Mad at each other
Mad because of each other

3. What's Marriage?
Answer- MARRIAGE Is The 7th Sense of Humans
That Destroys All The Six Senses
And Makes The Person NON Sense..!

4. Definition Of Happy Couple -
HE Does What SHE Wants?
SHE Does What SHE Wants.

5. Wife: Dear, this computer is not working as per my command.
Husband: Exactly darling! its a computer, not a Husband!!!

6. Mistakes
'Laughing At Your Own Mistakes, Can Lengthen Your Life."-
"Laughing At Your Wife's Mistakes,Can Shorten Your Life."-