Sahasra-namam

Recently, attended a discource titled "Lalitha Sahasranamam - A vendantic perspective" by Shri. Swami Tattvavidananda, a desciple of Pujya Shri. Dayananda Saraswathi Swami.
The interesting thing in all these Sahasranamams (1000 names or lord / Godess) is that these names belong to the three categories. 1. Mythology (has a story behind), 2. Rituals , 3. Philosophical.
Some names are given to the lord as he took those mythological forms, some for the rituals being performed to make him / her happy and the last is the vedantic or philosophical manifestation of the lord. I recite vishnu sahasranamam, but never thought in terms of these.

Naming Roads after Actors

Read a recent news item that the TN govt. is planning to name roads after the leading actors Kamal & Rajini. Kamal is a great actor and Rajini is a great human being. However, looking back, doesn't TN have any other person to name the road after? Its not be-littling them, but what examples are we setting to the next generation? Can you name ONE person in the recent past that the govt. named the streets after? Don't we have Dr. M.S Swaminathan? Don't we have Dr.Abdul Kalam? Don't we have Mr. Sujatha - the writer & Scientist? The pathetic state of TN is if you want to be great, then you have to become an actor. Is this what we want our kids to become? The cine industry is having an exorbitant say in the govt. in TN while no other industry / section of the society has such an influence.

Some recent events and my thoughts

This time, I want to write what my mind went through when I read recent events...
First is the outpour in BJP regarding the book written by Mr. Jaswanth Singh. Whatever he wrote, may be correct or may be wrong but there are certain thing that is better remain unsaid. We all know that RSS and their idelogues (folks in BJP) are so pained by the partition of India and till today they don't agree to it. This was quite evident when a reporter in Pakistan shouted"Pakistan is not complete without Kashmir", Vajpayee retorted saying "India is not complete without Pakistan" during the now infamous Lahore Bus trip. Whether one agrees or not, it is a fact and you need to base your policies on the reality and not on what you would like the situation to be. How long one can mourn the dead. BJP and the leadership rather than beat Jaswanth Singh, should have taken this approach saying "India is not complete without Pakistan" and may be whatever Jaswant says is correct and these are all hypothetical situations. I would say the BJP leadership didn't react in the correct way.
Having said that, there are two reasons for the downward trend facing BJP.
1. Vajpayee did NOT unequivocally come in support of Advani. He should have and in my opinion he has did great injustice to the party. He should openly campaigned for Advani during last election.
2. There are no more second rung leaders to Advani in the same way how Advani served Vajpayee. This is a reality and Advani should have realized this and run the party based on this fact.

The second aspect, that troubled me was the current management of Subiksha losing control of the organization. This was serving as a classical example for a home grown business from an IIT / IIM person. It is sad to see this blowing a death knell to it.

The third is the wonderful game of tennis in the finals of US open. Wow! Del Potro showed off all the qualities of a naive but a hard charging new bee. Federer was showed off that how a champion would play. However, I could see that his game was not the same as he was missing his serves and making unforced errors. We have to wait and see whether Del Potro is a raising star or a one-time anomaly. Good Luck to both as I love tennis.