Monday, May 23, 2022

Thinking and imagining about a girl through economic lense, ie via commonsense

A girl is like a river,clean gently flowing river
Life flows in her and glows
Without her presence as life partner
Life giving force there is neither life nor love
Like nature she is full of life love and grace 

She is like a beautiful rose with the thorn
Small wonder then she has both fragrance and
Her sense of autonomy and freedom of action
You can neither wound nor offend her finer sensibility

So there's opportunity cost in marrying and living
A lot of give and take, great deal of tolerance, patience and perseverance and real understanding that she is not
Commodity or thing  to play with and show custom driven
Arrogance  and dominance over female body as his territory at his will, unmindful of her likes and dislikes

While loving a girl or getting  trapped by arranged marriage
Kindly remember the cost benefit on the emotional quotient and lament thereafter:
 Not being able to do what we thought or
Not being able to think what we did

Getting an ideal partner is just like searching for 
Full moon on all days of the month,
The age old saying that in friendship ones patience
Sustains friendship between the two also holds good
Is more relevant on marital waters.

When one is momentarily insane the other muse excessive
Patience and exercise utmost restraint on tongue
And wait for a moment to laugh away the problem
Shedding ego and the one who initiates first to defuse the tension,
Invariably is the winner of the game and saviour of life game

Traditional rivers have gone dry or disappeared
And looted and raped by inhuman development
Native rose is no longer there
Divorce has become a catch word or phrase
Which crops up at the slightest excuse in hitech
Glass curtain economy
More than the  girl the boy has to invest time in 
Understanding the girl and provide freedom.

All said and done ,where is the girl for eligible bachelors
Real bachelors doing tapas for a girl with all prayers
Suddenly girls have become scarce and not reachable
By decent and honest means and caste barriers play
 The road block draining life of many youngsters..

Will rivers flow and traditional roses thrive and  give life
To the broader humanity
I repeat girl, like nature rejuvenates life force 
And help create a better world as articulated by
Sangam literature



Thursday, May 12, 2022

A letter to my Motherland from Adelaide 1

My dear Motherland
It is my honour and privilege to write from a land  Australia a continental world within a world, where your children thrive and survive rendering work earning livelihood without the oppressive hand of bureaucracy and regulatory mechanisms.A beautiful country with incredible coastlines and hospitable people.

Unlike my parents and grandparents I was born in your womb when you were freed from British rule.You had become independent then and our first PM who built you from the scratch, and evolved as great statesman of international repute is now ridiculed by political upstarts and illiterate in economics not aware of  the nuances of devaluation or demonetization but having an inflated ego and misplaced arrogance to fool the people for long  by telling lies and cumulative lies.
When I type this letter Sri Lanka is burning in the wake of deep seated economic and political crisis and this is a lesson for any power mongering politician leading life with the escort of thousand cars, and virtually sapping the energy, sensibility and dignity of people by savage taxation and papering the rich and the corrupt..

Let me go to the text..
You are a vibrant nation, more young and more spiritual as compared to other nations in the world . Yes my dear, great mother land, union of States rich in diversity and different culture..while others are ageing you have a youthful population

In technical language of economics you have the favourable demographic dividend, meaning large youthful workforce which must help generate more output and employment and GDP must make a Quantum jump.In the language of Lawn Tennis it is advantage India..
Oh my dear are you in that position?Is the suggestion mooted in some circle,....go and sell pakoda will be a right way of exploitating your potential as if there's nothing in your bosom to raise fruitful jobs..
I can only remember Poet Bharathi and Pattukottai kalyanasundaram and lament how honesty is penalized and dishonesty is given bonus a la C N Annadurai.
To be continued.