Social equality

When we hear the word 'social equality' general thought we get is something like uplifting poor, education, land for all, healthy consumable at affordable price etc. However Indian politicians have found shorter means of achieving equality. To bring down the rich to the beggar's poverty, eradicate good education for all, etc.

The latest such measures were implemented in the railway dept. Few years back the train transactions were automated and made accessible through internet. People need not have to stand in queues, they could just click few pages and book the tickets or ask someone to click those few pages. Saved lot of time and effort; I am sure the dept would have benefited very much with the reduction of work load.
New minister took in charge. Somehow she found online utility as inequality to poor. Hence brought in many changes to the system - mainly to cause inconvenience to the online commuters. For eg, when you query for seat availability, you are put in a virtual queue for few minutes before the page gets loaded!!

Most likely the word bureaucracy was coined after seeing the Indian administration. God save our country.

Kural 28

The greatness of a person can be gauged by the wisdom/books he or she leaves behind.

Puppies got a home

There is a sad and a horrific story behind these puppies. On the seventh day of their birth, a visitor came and took special interest in them. With a hood, fang and a lengthy body .. a cobra!! The mother dog tried its best to chase away, but its barking failed to drive out the snake. It stood one feet from the ground with a big hood. It was able to catch a puppy. Hearing the continuous barking, people gathered and drove away the cobra.

After that the dog family got a new home. One less puppy the family became. They are resting under a shelter. Hopefully the puppies would grow up and stand tall.

Kural 12

Second chapter is about necessity of rain, titled as "Glory to rain" aka "the rain dance".

Second kural of this chapter is a nice tongue twister, with repetitive words. Many would recite this fast but may not know the meaning. Here it goes .. The rain involves in the process of generating food for all consumers; to add to that, the rain becomes food in the form of drinking water.

btw, this site has the English translation which is most apt and clear. Instead of doing a literal word to word translation, an attempt is made to convey the original message.

Kural 6

I used to read a page from my Kural book. Trying to make it a daily habit. (I remember my grandpa used to do that). Thought I can share 1 kural out of 10 each day. It would be a random one among the 10.
The thing I like in Kural is the abundant wisdom packed in a concise format. Apart from this, we will be able to pick up a subtle message or context out of it. It would be a new dimension to look upon and enjoy. Let me try to show such cases here.

The first chapter is devoted to the god. The sixth couplet talks about virtue and abstainism. May be interpreted as a definition of god, one who has control over the senses and with pure virtue; folks who adapt god's path will have a great life.
Another way to look at this kural is, one who controls the senses and leads a virtuous life will enjoy a prolonged joyous life.