After 3 years Tamil Nadu Government revives 6 am shows for Tamil films:is it meant for excess demand for the cinema obsessed Taml fools or supplier's greed to mop up and squeeze the maximum money in the first week of new movie release?

The title of this blog will convey what is at stake. It is not a surprise  that à person who came from film industry and became CM just like that backed up by social media warriors well manufactured and begging the young children by molsting their mind( i use expression like molesting of currencies by speculators ) and requesting them to cajole dad  mom chittappa  periappa and uncles to vote for him and make CM.

He has revived the scheme and brought change, welcome change for the steadfast fans and money mongering producers qnd distributors.

Already TN has been soaked into drugs and third rate cinema  although a few good movies have also started coming

6 am is not the time for movie or tasting liquor or watching mobile. Even if the people want sorry  die hard fans want the government has got a social responsibility to regulate and monitor the social health of the society.

I approach this subject purely from economic view and heath concerns.

I also read that for a road showrun by the CM many college students were roped in just to see the handsome face and not to hear any thought provoking speech.

Cinema industryis now competing wth politcs industry  which has been already criminalized and corrupted by hoolgans as shown by various reports.

At a time when education has becme costly  inflation has made heavy in roads into family budget and getting job is a life tie activity  mre focus on cinema  and clamour for raising raising the price of ticket without controlling black money deals  this kind of feverish enthusiasm to allow 6am show does not make much sense.

The youth discovers beauty and power in the movie and does not unravel the inherent potentials to update the knowledge.

Speech prepared for one of my grand daughters which is important : Being good or becoming great and famous

Good morning / afternoon. Learned judges, my dear teachers and  fellow student friends.

I stand before this August assembly to share my thoughts on the topic given with the help of Tamil literature i have learnt in my primary school days.

Which is important 

Being good or 

Becoming great and famous?

If good people are also great and famous that is simply great. That will be an ideal combination but alas it is not destined to be in real life with a few exceptions.

I have learnt  fro scholars, " great men ar almost always a bad men ". I know that ine can't generalize like this  but the fact of the matter is that it is invariably so.

Saint valluvar says that unless we leave behind our legacy and fame  after death there is no meaning in our birth and it is good that we were not born.

Yes i know that becoming great and famous is important. But an  equally important thing is that being good and doing more good things are more important. But unfortunately those who get the chance to enjoy power and authority go astray and become bad human beings. Power corrupts and absolute power gives misplaced arrogance and corrupts absolutely in a reckless manner. They do not mind  not becoming good because they prefer to remain bad and want to get rid of good from circulation. This is what Gresham Law means... Bad money drives good money from circulation. I would say bad drives out good.

Being good is more important than becoming great and famous because one will get real joy and bliss in life only by virtuous acts and good character. Aram is more important.

Good people desire to lead a virtuous life, remain honest, do not envy wealthy, or covet another person's wife. They may not be rich but will not forget charity. They will not be angry for flimsy mistake of others. They will only give and not grab from others.They will give and forgive and  forget all the unpleasant deeds of others. They will feed the needy and hungry  subject to the budget constraints.

They will have trust and Faith in friends once they were chosen. They will emulate the great ones only when they are good. For them there's no envy or hatred towards anyone. They will never lie or give false promises which they can't keep. They will speak only truth and aways keep the good of the society in mind.

They will not talk ill of others nor forget gratitude. Every word they speak will be good and beneficial and all their earnings will be through honest means. They will refrain from doing anything bad.

Thus far i have articulated the view that being good and Righteous is far more important than becoming great and famous by the fraudulent route. I have marshalled my arguments from Avvaiyr's Athisoodi and valluvar's Thirkkuràl.

Sir i will be happy to remain good and honest rather than being and becoming great and famous by treacherous deeds.

I make a request to my beloved fellow friends that our Language Tamil is the greatest ancient one full of the pearls of treasure... We must dig them  eat them by chewing slowly relishing the life every moment.

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Concluding part of the story of the Happiness multiplier a term i have coined

THOUGH the hut was reduced to ashes by the fire  poor man's spirit was not shaken and in no time he rebuilt it with renewed vigour and sheer hard work. The boy was the witness to watch  this miracle and he was amazed by the way in which his father reinvented his work ethics and relied on his only capital physical strength ie the labour power.

Having been a witness to the tenacity and inordinate capacity to wotk as also love the humanity the young boy was determined to take his dad as a role model.ie he decided to study well get into a good job and also render service to the society.

His countrymen eventually elevated him to the position position of the President of the country. All these happened on account of a simple smile springing from  the beautiful face of one girl..

PostScript 

This was the story of a 13 year old girl from Barbara Hawk told by Madan in Q &A section Aananda Vikatan dated October 19 1997.

This was an exercise for me in translation.

It was not merely a mechanical translation.. I got into author's frame and mind and added further refinement without wounding or offending the spirit of the write up 

In my original write up at that time i wrote 

Link the story with the spillover effects in open economy macro economics.

After sending voice message to Pàul Raja in London i am completing the blog which i began after returning from morning walk 

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A story read long ago and translated into English.. An example how a happiness multiplier works

A lady gently smiled at a person looking depressed. Rejuvenated by her smile his heart got lightened. Instantly he remembered the timely help rendered to him by his old friend. Reaching home the first thing he did was to write a letter to him thanking his friend profusely.

The said friend who was dining at a restaurant took this letter from his pocket and read again. He was so overwhelmed by the sentimental concern and love expressed there in, he became happy and offered a heavy tips to the bearer.

This served  as an incentive for the server to work harder and for longer hours.Highly impressed with his  work performance the owner of the restaurant came forward  give him a lump sum bonus. As it happened to be his first bonus the bearer decided to share fifty percent of the amount with  his best  lesser privileged friend.

The impoverished friend , propelled by this benevolence  while returning home saw a small puppy trembling with cold under heavy rain. He took  the puppy with  all affectionate concern  and reached his hut.

The same night when the hut got fire the small puppy barked at high pitch and woke up the master and his son

Battery needs to be charged in The Tablet 

To be continued.

we need poet Bharathi's Righteous Anger, the anguished anger part

 As a person i have been disorderly orderly and regularly irregular in going for morning walk.

I see many young and the old people regularly owning the beach for a while every day both in the morning and evening.

Today when i started my scooter it was just drizzling... Had tea at coffee 99 shop and went to beach... Then it started raining heavily. With rain coat covering the head and chest i didn't mind the rest of the body sweetly bathed by the fresh rain water.

I saw many youngsters and some middle aged ones too wearing T shirts labelled a slogan

No to Drugs and say yes to life in Tamil

Casually translated it boils down to this.

We also this kind of Marathon in chennai sometime ago.. But the irony was the gentleman who came as a winner was found later in the last few days with a huge quantity of drugs worth nearly 1000 crores. Different estimates were given say 300 or400 crores. It seems he belongs to the ruling party.

I don't know how many years the law enforcement agencies will take to punish these wrong doers.

It is disgusting and frustratingly irritating that the chief minister of a state or the prime minster of the country have not opened their mouths.

These rulers coming from not good background, soaked in politics of hatred blame the previous regime  not just yesterday  but yesterday 's yesterday regime..

The media  print as also the social side do  not articulate enough to help cultivate awareness as to how to sentence the anti social and anti national elements because they are sprinkled across the parties and the ruling segment is in a privileged position withou being caught and punished immediately.

Marathon running is good.

But it must not be notional

The scoundrels who are in it have no right toindulge in it as if they are 24 carrot gold.

How many youth running are good  honest  and committed to the family and to the country 

Do they know their power and beauty

Do they have any sense of duty and responsibility 

Can they distinguish between reels life  cinema and real life.

Why good leaders like Nallakannu or honest IAS officers kind do not merit any attention 

Why the the judiciary remains a silent spectator or bystander.

Should not they come forward to collar the criminals, the so called crimininalised segment of politicians  bureaucrats and bankers 

People must cultivate poet Bharathi's Righteous Anger.

To be continued 

sorry i have been neglecting my blog writing

For long Facebook consumed my time and i didn't use Tablet and today i have charged it.. Let me confess that i have accumulated a great deal of academic debris and i am weighed down by sheer volume. Today i wrote on UN in order to draw attention to CNA's quote.

I know there are quite a few who do care to see the blog. I must write periodically articulate on varied themes and share my views.

Hope the wise and benevolent destiny will guide and goad me to actively involve in academics  notwithstanding my declaration that on August 6, 2026 i officially i retired from academics.

on the modern Militiarized, diseased and contaminted mind of Rogue rulers in killing civilians

The world has been undergoing a remarkable transition and transformation under the weight of technological revolution and more recently  different variant of Artificial Intelligence..

Will  it do more good than harm? Will machine the creation of human intelligence be able to think feel and act like super human and outsmart  humans.

They are no longer hypothetical questions but crucial issues  confronting the world today. More particularly in the Post -truth world dominated and frustrated  by the militarised,dehumanized  and diseased mind of most of the fascist rulers all over the world.

Come to think of it, issues like, palestanians cry for recovery of their home land and Ukarine's helplessness in the face of Russian arrogance and folly, disturbs our mind and dim our hopes for the evolution of decent, well balanced international political and economic order.

More importantly the crass silence of the global south in not voicing the reasoned response and support for the cause of palestaneians is puzzling and  frustrating.

The Middle East is sitting on volcanoes of prolonged war. The US which aids and abets Israel war machine to kill the innocent civilians does not have any moral right to police. It's blindfolded and bemused by the presence of a monster called Trump, and his anti immigrant labour policy and his crude plea for heightened protectionist tendancies which has made globalization as a mockery. At a time when developing south and emerging markets are willing to allow themselves to be raped given their urge to earn export, the world is getting deglobalized selectively to protect the industrial powers of the affluent bloc.

The general allegation that Japan in the distant past and china of more recent vintage have been consistently destroying the international trading world with its single minded drive towards Mercantilist conquest is now applicable to the U S,emerging as a rogue state. The US and many others in the global economy creak beneath hopeless burden of debts and deficits, vaulting inflation, escalated food inflation and all nations experience great supply shocks.

America's persistent deficits to leach away saving,drive up consumption and suck in imports. It took a long time to reduce interest rate as inflation was stubbornly refusing to fall  and weakening dollar did not give much space through international Fischer effect.

The real cold war is between the U S and china and india is caught between devil and deep sea..

The leadership is keen to annex states under BJP rule by hook or crook  and not worry much about belligerence of china and the series of insults and humiliation stemming from it.

There are signs that china is willing to listen to reason and use diplomacy to defuse tension and moderate US romance with india.It remains to be seen how far and hiw long china will play this hide and seek game.