"పరుగాపక పయనించవె తలపుల నావా....కెరటాలకు తలవంచితే తరగదె త్రోవా !
ఎదిరించిన సుడిగాలిని జయించినావా....మదికోరిన మధు సీమలు వరించి రావా !!"

Democracy at its best..........

I was planning to post on the results of great month long "marathon" elections in India, the largest democracy in the world.

Finally, it was National Congress Party whose centralist agenda brought them back to power in this election. But, the great thing that happenned to India in these elections is the fact that the mandate was very clear and given almost clear majority to the UPA front led by national party Congress. It was an astonishing and shocking defeat to all opportunists and small regional parties that shall be commended. The ever power hungry and manipulative regional leaders like Deve Gowda, Lalu yadav, Paswan, Mayavathi, Mulayam singh, Chiranjeevi, KCR of telangana rashtra samithi, CPI, CPM, Sharad Pawar, Raj Thackery, Jayalalaitha etc. all have taken much deserved blows.

This is a great (almost) unanimous mandate in the country that has (literally) 100s of religions, 1000s of languages, sects and regions. It is heartening to see such a long marathon elections conducted very peacefully by the election commission. While there still some unclean and tainted politicians who got elected to the parliament, the government in next 5 years would be stable and hopefully deliver the things that benefit the people of India.

While L.K.Advani fought hard to bring his right-wing party BJP to power...it was his parties several blunders of succumbing to regional parties and sacrificing their original nationalist agenda that brought mandate against them. The once home minister shamelessely agreed to divide states like Telangana just to agitate people and come back to Power. People are tired off this dividing politics. This is a fitting lesson to all manipulative politicians.

Finally, commend all the brave officials who conducted their duties across the mountains and small rural villages to make this happen...

నాణ్యమైన జీవనము

నాణ్యమైన జీవనము నల్గురికి ఆదర్శం
స్వార్ధరహిత జీవనమే జీవిత పరమార్ధం ''నా"

నీ కోసం జీవిస్తే నీతోనే సరేసరి
జనం కోసం జీవిస్తే మరణమే లేదు మరి ''నా"

ఆరోగ్యం, ఆనందం కలగలిసిన జీవనాన్ని ఆహ్వానిద్దాం
విలాసవంత విచ్చలవిడి జీవనాన్ని విసర్జిద్దాం ''నా"

ప్రేమ, అభిమానాలను పదిమందికి పంచుదాం
మానవతా విలువలు, ప్రమాణాలు అందరిలో పెంచుదాం ''నా"

డా. రామకృష్ణంరాజు కలిదిండి

mesmerizing music performance..Raga kedar.

Friends,
I came across this great music performance.. Take a ride to the tranquility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTURGyPZqrU&feature=related

Jai ho..

Several stars from India rocked Academy awards (Oscars) this week. The movie "Slumdog millionaire" bagged 8 Oscars. Rasool, Rahman and Gulzar are on the list of Oscar winners for their personal talents. Also the movie "Smily pinky" won the Oscar in documentary category. Most notably A.R.Rahman, "the music legend of India", won two Oscars for his music scores.
Even though Rahman scored several better scores before, it needed a movie of "Oscar values" to bring him the winning smiles at Los Angeles. There were some useless controversies raised (as always) about the movie. I don't understand why the critics wont see the movie in a cinematic/artistic sense ? All politicians who never cared about poverty in their backyard suddenly gets offended when a movie pops up showing it. Better they spend their energies in eliminating slums rather than creating useless controversies.
We shall all recall Rahman's words at the stage after winning the Oscar : "In my life, I always had a choice between love and hate and I chose love." Great message to the masses from a great legend of our generation.
Jai ho Rahman, Jai ho Bharat.

Let Love rule..

Love, any time, is the best expression !
Love, any where, is the best spoken language !!
Love, to anyone, is the best gift !!!
Love, in any market situation, is the best investment !!!! :-)
Therefore,
Love, in any form, is the essense of life.

Love yourself and love everyone...
Happy Valentine's day.

A historic moment....Messiah of hope..

Yes, change has come to America !

In next few hours, we will see a new president in the office of world's oldest democracy :

Barack H. Obama.

47 year old to be the 44th president of USA. He will be the 1st "non-white" to be the president of USA.

Oh boy, what a privilege to witness these historic moments. What an incredible election to follow for last 20-24 months. World witnessed beauty of democracy during the countless debates and discussions to elect an able and eligible politician into America's highest office. The long and historic election campaign between Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain further strengthened the foundations of democracy. One has to commend and admire the great vision and mission the country's forefathers had while establishing a truly time-tested constitution and democratic principles in this country.

During campaign, Mr.Obama had been expressing his liberal views and energetic message of change. Some impressive items on his resume : Gifted Speaker, Lawyer, An Author, Basketball player, Community organizer, successful Senator and a great husband and father. Is it not impressive enough ! As a matter of fact, I am proud to be one of his millions of supporters who contributed in their own little ways to bring a tide of change. In the end, the mandate was crystal clear : People need change from the "hard talking", "war mongering" and "crazy spending" government. Hope he would bring some change and reverse the course to bring the much needed liberal balance to the country and to the World.

Of course, there are real challenges ahead waiting for him !

Multiple wars, terrible economy, rising debt, rising unemployment etc. etc.

Lets congratulate Mr. Obama and wish the best for his time in office.

Only time can tell how this "Messiah of hope" delivered.

Never think there is anything impossible...

"Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin – to say that you are weak, or others are weak."
"Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear."

Very special quotes from a very very special monk who once lived on this earth : Swami Vivekananda. Its his birthday tomorrow (12th Jan). What an inspiration his life is. He simplified whole essence of complex Vedanta and inspired millions of souls. Just like the sound of "big-bang" still circling in our universe, spoken words and messages of Swami Vivekananda keep circling and inspiring souls of several generations even after his physical demise. For more on this greatest monk of mankind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda

What a fantastic individual with a strong body, sharp mind and an insurmountable spiritual knowledge. Irrespective of your belief and origin, just spend couple of hours reading his life story and his writings, you would appreciate the time spent and enormous positive energy he would bring out of you. Lets celebrate Birthday of this special monk by remembering his message to humanity......Happy youth day.......................

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."
"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. "
"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. "

"Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God."

"The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him -- that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."

"It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. First, believe in this world -- that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you are not understanding it in the right light. throw the burden on yourselves! "

Congratulations to Jaya Prakash Narayan..

A new chapter has opened in Indian politics.
A new era of true democracy has started.
Dr.Jaya Prakash Narayan (JP) has become India's first democratically elected party president of a political party. He won the presidential elections held in the Loksatta party in Andhra Pradesh.
The true democratic manner in which the party elected its president has set new precedence in what has become "family owned and operated political party democracy" in India. Unfortunately, sensation savvy Indian media did give little importance to this important milestone in Indian politics.
True democracy is the only solution to elect able and stable governments who will fulfill the aspirations of billion plus people. Existing political parties who have been ruling the country for the past 50 years have unfortunately become family kingdoms. This is a not good for real democratic principles whereby the best get to lead the parties and so the country.
Lok satta, which is the brainchild of JP himself, had been proponent of clean politics. JP himself stood for election to presidency along with two more party members for the post of president. Can we even dream to have such elections in other parties in India ?
Loksatta may be lacking media limelight due to its "clean" message. Media always wants to give its very important front pages to sensational news and printing irresponsible statements of irresponsible politicians. Time has come to give Indian public a break from their sensational propaganda and start encouraging real discussion and motivation to countrymen towards real democracy, which is what dreamt by India's freedom fighters and martyrs.
Let democracy blossom.

Happy new year 2009..

Dear friends,
May there be a shower of happiness, tsunami of joy and heartful of memorable moments
in this New Year 2009.

Ravi

Stock pics..

Economies of almost all countries are slowing due to global financial crisis. Per recent "official endorsement" , US economy is in recession (GDP shrinking instead of growing) starting December 2007. Finally ! its official. There are already several theories (as always) about depth and length of the ongoing economic recession. Many people already hate the term "Wall street". Numerous conservative radio talk hosts across the country have started arguing demerits of Capitalism. While no question things are bad..are they really that worse ? Is the world coming to an end ? Well, may be not. Or may be not "so soon" ! (considering Al Gore's Global warming prediction of increased CO2 levels causing global demise)....BTW, I admire Al Gore for his efforts in bringing worldwide awareness about Global warming.
While I too suffered setbacks from recent market meltdown (Of course, everyone gets impacted directly or indirectly).. I would think there are real good investing opportunities out there in equity markets considering last several months of "over selling". Remember, humans always "over react" ! That's why pundits think there exist wild swings of booms and busts. I don't claim to be anywhere close to market experts.. But, I thought I would share few companies I thought have little longer term future and their current stock prices are well worth ownership for potential gains. Below are 10 decent picks along with their recent values.
Again, the disclaimer is : Do your own research and pick your winning horses (if any)...
Good Luck ! :-)

విశ్వశాంతి వర్ధిల్లాలి..

మిత్రులారా, మానవత్వం మరచి ముష్కరులు సాగించిన ముంబై మారణకాండ ని
ముక్త కంఠంతో ఖండిద్దాం..
గుండె ధైర్యం దండిగా ..చావు ని సైతం లెక్క చెయ్యక .. వెన్ను చూపని పోరాటంతో ..
ఆగంతకుల ఆట కట్టిన .. సాహస వీరులకిదే ..శత కొటి జోహార్లు.. సహస్ర కోటి వందనాలు..

సర్వేజనా సుఖినోభవంతు ...

మిత్రుడు,
రవి దాట్ల

Sarvejana Sukhinobhavantu.....In the wake of Mumbai attacks...

Global citizens across the world are shocked with the cruel acts of terrorists in Mumbai last week.

I would like to kick start my blogging by paying tributes and deep condolences to one and all effected by this unacceptable and intolerable acts of the bunch of brain-washed (animals !).
My heart goes to all the brave men and women who fought with those mad perpetrators to save thousands of lives by sacrificing their own lives.

There is NO (simply NO) place for such acts of taking innocent lives.
Even if anyone gives Zillion reasons... there is NO place for such acts in humanity.
Let peace and harmony be prevailed on this wonderful God creation called Earth.

As we quote from ancient Sanskrit Vedas..
SARVEJANA SUKHINOBHAVANTU (Let all humans live in peace and prosperity).