Porambokku - T.M. Krishna - A song to raise awareness for environmental causes

[shankarank]

We have not in sourced strategy , thinking , talking and even language! We need externally educated scholars with their ideologies and agendas on the pay roll of global think tanks.

For this Ennore project there would have been a big 4 consulting firm ( a Mckinsey for e.g) with a million pay out. Then billions pour in. To solve this issue there will be another big 4 engagement - millions out and then billions out !!

Lets first change that!

In the U.S, a taxiwala company Uber is trying to disrupt auto ( why own a car which sits idle 80% of the time) and finance ( payments gateway) and may be the Nadar Annachi ( grocery delivery also) both and attracting talent from Google and Facebook!

[shankarank]

All of them doing Yoga in west - will also find the ways to increase and preserve the telemoric length and live longer.

They won't even use it to sleep on the floor or cotton quilt to reduce consumption of synthetic foam beds! That is why they are changing the name to mindfulness and patented it as well! Mindful of what? There is no union with anything but their bodily comforts!

They exist materially consuming for ever like Charvaks - borrowing for ever from Asian household savings in addition to their own retirement savings invested as bonds!

Who will pay their social security, retirement income ? Mutual fund (FDI!) returns from emerging economies.

Once the land is barren like a desert, or floods once in a while - the desert faith agencies will come to your aid and show their benevolence!

[rajeshnat]

Write up in The Hindu for TMK is always guaranteed. This writeup is published on Jan 19,2017
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... 057857.ece

[varsha]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suresh_Heblikar
http://www.ecowatchindia.org/aboutus.php

two decades and running

[arasi]

On the word itself: it's obvious that the english spelling of the word புறம் போக்கு was coined by the british to make it easier for them to say (as Pembroke). Hasn't it been changed to purambokku (puRam pOkku) in TN until the present day? Or, is it used in more than one way?

[varsha]

http://www.svym.org/history
Three decades and running
Many years ago I visited the home of one of the remarkable doctors in Bangalore.After the meeting I discovered we both were traveling to Mysore , next.
For him a weekly ritual.
The doc politely declined my offer of a lift in my car.
We have agreed upon the most suitable way to reach our site and held on to it for thirty years.Every additional resource on hand , we would like to be channeled in terms of support.As I travel by bus I am sure of the faces that will be keenly waiting to receive me
Year after Year
Decade after Decade

VGV
Hope you feel better about world your grand children have inherited

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[shankarank]

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There is a need to explore and imitiate lifestyles, consumption patterns and health system of tribals...

Happened once upon a time forced by circumstances. When Burma was being bombed during WWII - the escapees hailing from Deep South India were advised by the tribals to eat what apes eat and drink what apes drink until you are thru the forest!

sampraptE sannihitE kAlE nahi nahi rakshati DukkrinkaraNE

One of them made it - my mother-in-laws father. A person - a Comp Sci Prof retired who the former mentored still talks to me and shared that.

He also shared other stories like his attempts to use context free grammar to produce a translator in the 60s to translate Mandarin to Hindi for the Indian Defense so they could eavesdrop on the enemy only to be rejected because of some British rules regarding a physics degree or such and also a secretary who wanted to place his relative in that position looking at the pay. The project was given up.

He also shared stories on how in a Village in Nellai district where he hailed from - people did not place trust on themselves when asked to contribute and appoint their own person to oversee the effort to de-silt a pond that collected water from Temples and streets - as the district administration was willing to provide equipment at the intervention of this person!

[vgovindan]

varsha,
satsangatvE nissangatvam
nissangatvE nirmOhatvam
nirmOhatvE niScala tattvaH
niScala tattvE jIvan muktiH

Few are those who get this satsanga - and that too in their early age.
Surely the saying 'nAllAr oruvar uLarEl avarporuTTu ellArkkum peyyum mazhai' - Even if there is one virtuous person, for his sake, it rains for everyone - is not false. That is the hope of the World.

Such souls are blessed.

[vgovindan]

Suresh,
Harmony - https://youtu.be/JbeRRAvaEOw

[shripathi_g]

I actually felt a bit odd ( half way guilty) enjoying the music since that is not the point of the video, just the vehicle. I very much wish he ( and/or the lyricist) did not drag in the Make in India point since it is going to distract from the main message. That is so stupid of them to do that. I say that irrespective of one's politics, a lot of times what to leave out is as important as what you leave in.

What I thought this conveyed was, let's not use "Make in India" as an excuse to destroy the environment.

[sureshvv]

What I thought this conveyed was, let's not use "Make in India" as an excuse to destroy the environment.

Loved the "Vadai sudaraan" expression and abhinayam and raga. All went very well together

[vasanthakokilam]

I actually felt a bit odd ( half way guilty) enjoying the music since that is not the point of the video, just the vehicle. I very much wish he ( and/or the lyricist) did not drag in the Make in India point since it is going to distract from the main message. That is so stupid of them to do that. I say that irrespective of one's politics, a lot of times what to leave out is as important as what you leave in.

What I thought this conveyed was, let's not use "Make in India" as an excuse to destroy the environment.

While that point is worthwhile making by itself, the relevance and connection to the main theme of the song is quite tepid at best. The issues that the song is about are much broader, long standing, intractable and serious than what his political nemesis has achieved using such slogans like 'Make in India'. Such a forced linkage and taking an irrelevant political pot shot contributed to diluting the main message. In any case,it is only a minor aberration in the overall scheme of things.