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TAKE 5 Take a break! The world has turned topsy turvy Life seems reduced to a senseless ritual Man seems to have  turned against man It seems a pure jungle. There is an ignorance and perversion that seems to have permeated every moment and space of our existence The very air we breathe seems polluted with this ignorance and perversion. 'Society' has failed us, 'Government' has betrayed us, 'Civilization' seems to be leading to some perverse reality, 'Knowledge' has only pitched and divided man aganist man 'Relationships' have lost meaning, leading to estrangement 'Religion' seems dogmatic 'Philosophy' seems escapist. The only assured thing seems to be an inglorious and sorrowful end as ‘innocent victims’, at best to some natural calamity, or may be to some ‘human-error’, or most likely  as victims to the wantom perversiveness of man against man. Man against life. Is there any hop

To all Bird / Nature lovers, I would like to recommend a book, 'The Rites of Autumn' by Dan O'brien- #theritesofautumn. It is about how a peregrine falcon born in captivity is nurtured and prepared to get back to wilderness and survive on its own. It is a poignant story of man, a bird and the landscape.  I think it is a book that will also be therapeutic to the malaise of our times  :-) (noisy-world-on-our-face kind of malaise.) I first read it more than 20 years back and I am re-reading it again since I desperately felt the need for the therapy myself. It is a very old publication and is available on amazon.com. If anybody is interested in buying and reading it I request they dont read any other review since I feel it might lessen the impact/feelings that would come from the full reading of the book. I assure you it is a great book for nature lovers. I think it is available free in PDF also - but with the caveat that PDF would spoil the special charm of this st

My MADurai-  Temples, Vadais' and blaring speakers !!! “enna ooruda ithu ! che!”  A typical Madurai morning morns to blaring speakers..for some godly festival or to an inauguration of some tea-kadai!!! Nothing new, this happens almost everyday. -Something is celebrated everyday, and everyday the speakers blare somewhere in the neighbourhood. That’s the only way this city knows to celebrate. Sound. Noise. “enna ooruda ithu ! che!” Correction - Madurai is no city, just a bursting, bumbling, over populated village. And this place has got temples in every direction you see, and in all sizes. This place is not just ‘a Temple city’ as it is traditionally known, but truly a city of Temples. And the Gods revel in blaring speakers.   Today it is goddess Saraswathy, tomorrow it may be the street-corner Mari-amman, and the day after that it might be one ‘muni-samy’. I think that all the Gods that might have been conceived in the entire universe in its entire history are here. And