The Order of the Crutch

History
Originally uploaded by Dilip Muralidaran.

Shri Nathuram Singh Godse. This very word spells disgust, anger and hatred in the minds of people all over the world. How funny History is selectively twisted to make a hero out of someone and villian out of another. Nobody ever talks about the shit Jawaharlal Nehru did by bringing in the mandal commision. Nobody talks of Indira Gandhi’s High Handedness by declaring ememrgency in the country unnecessarily. No one cares about Gandhi’s blind eye to Pakisthani Soldier’s raping and killing innocent women and children in 1947 shortly after freedom in sindh.

Its quite funny sometimes how we declare communal and secular opinions. Anything HINDU in this country seems to be communal, Anti-Hindu seems to be secular. Anti-Brahmin more precisely.

The day is not far away as i see it when we will see a second rate india. This day we declared reservations on the basis of caste and creed compromising merit, this day we set the future of india to the darkest deeps of mankind.

I do not know the authenticity of this speech but if at all this is true then its worth the read.

http://ngodse.tripod.com/defense.htm

Read on, be enlightened. History books dont always state the actual facts.

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Corn Roaster
Originally uploaded by Dilip Muralidaran.

Have you guys ever seen the Corn Roasters in the Besant nagar beach? I’m sure you must have. Fascinting stuff isn’t it? Looks like fireworks from a distance, reminds me of deepavali when i see this. Well if you come check out Flickr there is a ritual of corn roasters in besant nagar beach. I wanted my version of this too and here it goes. All you do is reduce the shutter speed to 1/6th of a second or something slower than that (if ur hands dont shakle much) and what you get is magical. Sparks flying around all the place. This of course i used a tripod since i cant stand with a slow shutter.

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The Solitary Reaper
Originally uploaded by Dilip Muralidaran.

Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! for the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.

- William Wordsworth.

This was precisely the words that came to my mind when i saw this. I was driving along the ECR Scenic Beach way today to test some panorama shots. I came upon this lonely stretch filled with beautiful white bungalows ending with a tinge of blue from the sea. I drove towards the blue and i dragged my scooter into the sand and unpacked my gear. and lo… there she was in front of me… a lonely boat. Wrecked, broken, deformed yet full of vigour and beauty. She sits there to be healed by the hands of the fishermen who own her. I felt a sting of sorrow all of a sudden, she seemed someone like me. Lost and forgotten, living the glory in the dream.

Days are not too far ahead when this maiden will sail past the blues ahead to see the golden ray, where the sun goes down the line of the horizon….

So will i be flying away to see the world that i belong….

And BTW this is my First Panorama Shot. Used Autostitch to compose the image and i find it to be quite neat a tool.

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Corn Roaster
Originally uploaded by Dilip Muralidaran.

Have you guys ever seen the Corn Roasters in the Besant nagar beach? I’m sure you must have. Fascinting stuff isn’t it? Looks like fireworks from a distance, reminds me of deepavali when i see this. Well if you come check out Flickr there is a ritual of corn roasters in besant nagar beach. I wanted my version of this too and here it goes. All you do is reduce the shutter speed to 1/6th of a second or something slower than that (if ur hands dont shakle much) and what you get is magical. Sparks flying around all the place. This of course i used a tripod since i cant stand with a slow shutter.

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Man’s Whim, Nature’s Cry…
Originally uploaded by Dilip Muralidaran.

I Posted this picture last week on Flickr and it became an Instant Hit, so much it entered the EXPLORE pages of Flickr and stood at 173 on the top 500. Many Fav’s and appreciations. Funny how truth about how we treat nature is widely accepted but seldom addressed.

Here is what i wrote for this pic:-

A Hanuman Langur at the Childrens Park sits on a artifical branch of tree within a Cage. As i look throgh these veils of steel i wonder why that poor monkey even deserves this place. For starters this is one of India’s Engagered Species.

Good: Its safe at a zoo far away from chances of being extinct

Bad: Why does it even have to be here, its all our fault in the first place…

Ugly: They don’t care to feed the poor sod properly…

This Picture is dedicated to this langur friend who resides in his jail.

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Flickr International Meet with Divya Babu #2
Originally uploaded by Dilip Muralidaran.

At last finally another blogging opportunity. I did something very exciting last sunday. I have a couple of Photographer Friends in Chennai out of Flickr contact. Several so abroad and one of them is Divya Babu. She lives in Kaula Lmupur, Malaysia. She is now on a vacation to india and had to stop over chennai shortly. We met up at the Chennai central Station for a brief 15 minutes and said hi to each other and shot some pictures. You can see them here at http://www.flickr.com/photos/dilipm

Luv,

Dilip.

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White Flowers for the Dead, originally uploaded by Dilip Muralidaran.

This is one touching place you guys need to see, the WBC in chennai. War Memorial Burial Ground for the ones who gave thier lives during the 1914 – 1918 war. I went to this place on Independence Day at around 6 PM. It was all dark and eeire place with no living sould except for me. Lay down at the grass pitch and i could feel the love of these patriots.

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Hi Bloggers,

This post is my first on BlogSpot. With this I start my blogging routine in life. I decided to pick on the topic of marraige because my cousin Aarthy was recently discussing love on her blog and I decided this would be a good place to start on a relative topic and a similar note.

I recently stumbled upon some weird occurrences in life. Even though this is not the first time it happened this time it got a bit far serious.

People have these prefixed notions on things, one of the funny ones being a Physically Disabled person like myself SHOULD marry another Physically Disabled person and “Vaazhkkai Kuduththufy” to the other unfortunate person. A relative of mine had approached my parents and talked about this to my parents. My parents fearing my reaction wanted them to talk to me directly since it was sensitive enough for them too.

How rude they even judge marraige as “vaazhkkai” (life) for a woman, the male doministic attitude of having a woman as a sex and child birth machine still hasn’t changed in this contry.

Now the funny fact is this. I was convinced by this relative of mine that the girl was quite wealthy and kind at heart and she would be greatly benefited to be with a person like me. Whilst i appreciate her concerns for me i wonder what makes people get into these calculations and then be dissappointed when their math goes wrong.

Being the quintessential me i said NO instantly and was looked upon as if “Neeye Kalyaanam Pannikkalenna Vera Yaaru Kalyaanam Pannippaaa…”

Well not being really rude here firstly i have no bloody idea of getting married now. Secondly i dont believe in arranged marraiges, i have a swear word for them but dont wanna use it here. Thirdly i find it funny how much say third parties have in india with regards to a person’s love life. Be it relatives, parents, friends and in some rare outrageous instances neighbours !

Anyways coming back to my part of the fun ride, i often end up in a quarrell with people when they claim i should “vaazhkkai kuduththufy” for a physically or mentally challenged woman. Agreeing that this is the best thing any human being can do, the ultimate sacrifice but why me ?

Its quite unfortunate that no one even cares to look at my side of things and readily judge me to be a good samaritain in thier own context and expect me to love upto thier assumptions.

I have been living this way with cerebral palsy since birth. I have been fortunately quite an intelligent kid and donned the geek hood as a teenager and happily where i wanna be progressing to my destiny. Now having said this living ME is not easy because you always have a permenant reminder of IMPERFECTION in you. Every step you take and fall is a question thrown at you capabilities that burns down to the physical YOU.

My take is whatever my cousins and friends, the ones who REALLY love me say imperfection is a part of me and that is no deniable fact. I don’t want to dwell with another example of imperfection.

Everywhere i go i find meat heads complimenting me, “I’m inspired by your talent even though you are handicapped”, i mean what the **** there are so many things noticable about me but all u can see is that im lame, duh !

So coming back to the “vazhkkai kuduththufication” matter… have these people who judge whom i should marry ever think about my wife and me when we are 50 years old??? Both of us would need help, both of us would need nursing and both of us will be really in a more unfortunate position from the health point of view. How can you even not think of this fact and go ahead and blantantly argue about my indifferent attitude.

Its unfortunate that even after 59 odd years of independence we act as if we are in the 1700′s. I seriously dont understand how this attitude comes to our indian folks and where it comes from.

Anyways this is my 2 cents on a silly issue that i found happening to me a couple of months back, wanted to crib about this somewhere long time back and finally i found this place.

Thats all for now folks, will come back for more cribbings.

Luv,

Dil…

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