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No cigarettes - Advice from late writer Balakumaran

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Two years after quitting smoking, my heart was severely affected. I had a blockage. I had a bypass surgery in 2000. If I had been a smoker then, my death would have been certain. I was able to cope with the operation by quitting smoking and improving my health. Then, for ten years, my life flowed beautifully without any problems. In 2011, due to blood clots due to diabetes , I had a second bypass. Because I had practiced breathing exercises, had knowledge about breathing, walked briskly every morning and evening, and did gentle exercises, I was able to overcome the second bypass. But in 2012, the next test. The cigarettes I smoked at the age of nineteen showed their toxicity at the age of sixty-six. They proved their perversity. The entire base of the lungs was covered in mucus caused by nicotine. The lungs were not working at full capacity.  The ability to do so was gradually lost. Along with this, mucus congestion took its toll. Breathing difficulties occurred. A situation where...

Happy Ugadi

 Happy Ugadi.  Yugadi is the beginning of Kali Yuga.  Kali Yuga ends its 5125 year and beginning of 5126 th year today. Yugadi is considered as the day that denotes the beginning of Kali Yuga and over time it has become the New Year of the Telugu language. Telugu is considered by many to be a very sweet language. In Telugu, all words end with a vowel like Italian. That is why the English called it the Italian of the East due to the sweetness of this language. An unknown poet in Telugu has said this. *The sweetness of the Sanskrit, the sweetness of Tamil and the musky fragrance of Kannada are all in one, which is what makes Telugu so special* Happy Telugu New Year to everyone *Happy Telugu New Year to everyone* Happy Ugadi to you and your Family யுகாதி திருநாள் நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்.  கலியுகத்தின் தொடக்க நாள் தான் யுகாதி.  கலியுகம் 5125 முடிந்து 5126 ஆம் ஆண்டு இன்று தொடங்குகிறது. யுகாதி என்பது கலியுகத்தின் தொடக்க நாளாக கருதப்படுகிறது காலப்போக்கில் அது தெலுங்கு மொழி பே...

Reasons for Brahmins population which is very low in Tamilnadu

 There is no correct figure about the percentage. In normal as per the media news and from different sources, population is around 2 to 3 percentage. There were several reasons for this. 1. People who born in this community needs to be strict vegetarian, lot of restrictions in food habits, needs to follow some rituals which are daily mandatory, for the maximum it is difficult to follow. So they try to go away from brahminical customs by the way of intercaste marriage etc. 2. Nature itself limitize the Brahmin population. Broken mirror is broken, joining it again is difficult. In rest of the communities even if they indulge in intercaste affairs, they can include the new member and accept them in their community. But for a Brahmin, if he/she indulges in intercaste marriage/affairs then he/she lost their charm and again they cannot come back to Brahmin community. This is the another reason. 3. Karma plays the major role in Brahmin life. As per sastras to born in Brahmin community,...

Tamil Brahmins - Supporters of Regional party or National Party

  Brahmins would support any political party which had the nationalistic interest, there is no point in asking the question whether it is national party or regional party. Till early 1990’S Brahmins were supporting the Congress party , because it fought for independence. Even congress party was called as brahmins party by DMK cadres , till Rajiv Gandhi was alive. Congress party leaders like Indira Gandhi was called by karunanidhi as 'கிராப் வெட்டிய காஷ்மீரத்து பாப்பாத்தி' which means 'crap hair styled Kashmiri brahmin woman '. Rajiv Gandhi also coined as பார்ப்பான் it means brahmin which was used by Dravidian parties in a hatred term. Hence, Brahmins of past generations were supporting the Congress party, until Rajiv Gandhi period and also for some times when congress was under the rule of narasimha rao . Still I remember , when I was doing 5th standard, during 1989 elections , Jayalalithaa was contesting in rooster symbol , congress also contesting alone in assem...

BAD GIRL movie - Degrading brahmin customs

  A look at the movie  Bad Girl . (Upcoming tamil movie which would be screened shortly in theatres). I heard through websites that the  movie is made to justify the degradation of Brahmin culture by a Brahmin woman . This is nothing new. There are some successful movies that have caused such degradation of Brahmin culture. 1) Ithu Namma Aalu 2) Sethu 3) Saami 4) Vedam Pudhithu 5) Love Today (a Sathyaraj movie that came out two years ago). 6) Tenkasi Pattanam 7) Aravindan 8) Raja (Ajith movie) 9) Alaigal Oyvathillai These are some of the sample movies mentioned above. In all of these,  a Brahmin woman/man is shown marrying or falling in love with a man/woman from another community . Those film stories and the scenes with good cinematography, good story flow and humor etc,  promote intercaste marriages. Why do I say this? Sometimes, if you go to the theater and get stuck, you can't get up (your friends will ask questions or the door in the theater will be close...

Definition of Brahminical Food

 Satvik food, which mainly excludes the certain vegetables and food items which develops thamasa and rajo gunas. First we should know which should be excluded, as I born and brought up in Tamil Brahmin family and I list it out such items. First items are the vegetables and fruits of foreign origin like 🥕, beetroot, 🫑,bacroli,radish, 🍅 etc Onion , bottle gourd and 🧄 also should be avoided, which is the restricted food for Brahmins even though it had a Indian origin. All types of chillies also comes in the list. Why i know these because when I was kid during 1980’s some times my grandfather brought the vegetables from the shop, in his list it contains avaraikai (broad beans),ladies finger, raw banana,bitter gourd,colocasia etc…list goes on. For ceremony Brahmins uses the vegetables only of Indian origin (for spiciness they use pepper instead of chillies). As a Tamil Brahmin I have listed above food items. Due to strict orthodoxness old Brahmins would not take the outside food, th...

PM shri Schools - Politics of Dravidian parties

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  PM shri was accepted by DMK and as per the statement from central minister Dharmendra pradan, that group of mps headed by kanimozhi met him and provide agreement on State Government side. Please find the official press release statement stating that DMK government had agreed the PM shri schools to be opened in tamilnadu. As the state election are nearing by next year (2026) and there are many law and order problems, atrocities against the dalits were increasing and corruption in tasmaac etc, in order to divert the people attention DMK will do all these tactics by making U turn that their government will not allow PM SHRI schools in tamilnadu. Anbil mahesh, dmk’s educational minister also personally met the central minister Dharmendra pradam. Please find the above photograph. Suppose if PM SHRI schools has any personal benefit and personal business opportunities like cbse schools, then alone DMK will accept. All these are political game, as usual in all my posting I end with ...

EVILS OF THE brahmin INTERCASTE Marriages

  EVILS OF THE brahmin INTERCASTE Marriages There are many views , articles , postings expressed against the intercaste marriages even though the number keeps on increasing in the count. There is no blockage for this. But many not realising if we do so we would have lost the brahminical charm . This article makes the clear view of how we lost the customs and heritage which is long lasting if we do so. We see the harms that happened/ Setbacks to brahmin families. 4 Such examples given in this posting. Marriage- 1: (I will not take off my shirt) One brahmin girl had a love affair with the non-brahmin boy. Parents advised the lot but she does not turn around. so the brahmin family had a talk with the boy's family and got the approval to perform the marriage in a brahminical way. When times came for the panigrahana sastrigals asked the groom to take off the shirt to wear sacred thread in the bare body. But the non brahmin groom refused to take off his shirt. The girl's family ...

IS MISA act Implemented during emergency is a golden period in Tamilnadu?

  MISA  stands for  Maintenance of Internal Security Act . It is abbreviated as  MISA . DMK  members often boast that they have faced the  MISA  atrocities, but let's look at what actually happened during the  MISA  period. Indira Gandhi suddenly declared an  emergency  in 1975, when she was convicted by the Allahabad High Court and was about to lose her position. Emergency  is generally declared only in  times of war or when there is an extraordinary situation in the country . These are ways to bring an emergency, democratically. But Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency when she was convicted and was about to lose her position. During the  Emergency, you cannot speak against the government. The Indian government can arrest anyone as a precautionary measure and does not even have to give a reason for it . Emergency was misused in the northern states. Congress used it to take revenge on their political opponen...

When EWS implemented in Tamilnadu

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  There is no EWS quota in tamilnadu for engineering and medical for tamilnadu students. If medical seats are filled with neet score and it was decided by Indian medical council then e w s quota is applicable. But in Tamil Nadu State quota the EWS QUOTA is not applicable. Tamil Nadu State politics is dead against this e w s quota. In All the Tamilnadu government services , the EWS quota had not been created and also Dravidian politics usually oppose this. I have approached few Brahmin leaders as well but they said some lame excuses like it is not possible and also cost them more in supreme court, if they filed the case. Please find the below. So many people thought that EWS quota is only for Brahmins . But actually many other communities including muslim and Christian will benefitted from this. Like Subramanyam Swamy some influential person needs to help poor upper caste people to get the EWS quota in Tamilnadu by filing the case in supreme court. He voluntarily helped deek...

Some Brahmin personalities Supported DMK

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DMK means the party comprises of anti Brahmin agenda, there is no doubt in that. Party leaders with no reasons attack Brahmins in their tv channel talkshow, public meeting etc, it is quite natural. Hence maximum Brahmins are opposer of DMK. But there are few exceptions in this too. In bjp there are Muslim leaders and they're occupying mp,mla posts and holding the good party position etc. Similar to that even in DMK some Brahmins were there, but they were not elevated to leaders in that party(even no Brahmin councillor in DMK), that is the difference between bjp and DMK. We will see now some exceptional Brahmins who supported the DMK. V.P.Raman ( Venkata Pattabhi Raman ) Please find the above photograph, V.P.Raman, Brahmin who also one of the architect in framing the DMK party constitution. He also served as advocate general of tamilnadu government . 2. Chinna Kuthoosi , a veteran journalist and a Dravidian thinker . Born as R. Thiagarajan in a Brahmin family, he served as a te...