> Yeah, let us move to some lighter messages ... sps
Do we have cryptic crosswords in tamil? In my college days, we used to solve Hindu crosswords that used to take more than 1 hr easily, and was worth it. But all the tamil xwds that I have come across are fill-in-the-blanks type, like you either know the answer or don't know. We can probably try and come up with cryptic xwords for the newsletter!
> > Seen discussions on Periyava and Periyar... also discussions on > untouchability .. referred to as a practice in Hinduism.. Who ever > undergone this "caste" based is bound to feel the pain. I think it is > slowly getting healed and recent POPULAR Weddings are Pointers .. > > I have read in the Exodus, Orthodox Jews do not touch even Steel.. sorry > Iron. > > My grand mother was avoiding touching her own kins about two decades back.. > My father blasted me for having touched him on a karthikai Vridham day.. I > have given freedom to my kins / kids to be with me always ... > > Of late, I am avoiding even my closest relatives with physical contacts - > like even touching through fingers / hand shaking etc. > > Over the years, we feel we have developed some POTENCY (people use the > word Charge) and again over the period of time, we prefer to retain than > transferring through contacts.. I hesitate to touch things - including > papers which are touched by several prior to me... including my kins. > > It is a different kind of REALISATION which one gets by certain > occurances .. like the PAIN of UNTOUCHABILITY, the advantage of avoid- > touching also can be realised by own experience alone ... > > Such popularly known "BIG" Personalities might have experienced over a > period of time several things which they might have thought fit to share .. > > After all when we do not know something, we assume it is not there .. we > have less knowledge of certain ignorances .. No hard feelings to any one > including Dear Naren .. >
Why should I have hard feelings??.. If you feel advocating "untouchability" is a good thing to retain the "potency" / "electric charge" / "whatever", good for you..
I can understand if due to medical/scientific reasons doctors/nurses/persons dealing with others with infectious diseases that can spread through physical contact to practise "untouchability" that too for just the period of time of the disease.
But to assign an entire class of people based on birth to do menial jobs and then to practise "untouchability" so as not to lose "electric charge/ potency" hardly qualifies as a desirable trait for "BIG" personalities..
I am sure there are cryptic crosswords in Tamil also though I don't think I could solve even a single word(I never had any formal education in Tamil). But as a lifelong fan of Hindu crosswords, now I am thinking it might be a good idea to have PS crosswords in English also. Maybe as a part of the newsletter. Anyone interested in working on that?
Dear Ms.Veena, I had earlier asked you to if you could do this, along with the quiz. If the answer is Yes, then, I request that you try and keep it simple, since this is for the younger generation to start with.
Dear SPS and Naren An interesting concept about the potency and charge ....I do see Jeyedrar and other big leaders bless people by touching their heads as a asirvatham!!!
As for doctors We do wash our hands between patients and these days they recommend an alcoholic gel as a substitute to repeated washing with soap rendering our hands rough and dry...I can tell you that its not nice....
I dont know about India If I dont shake hands with the people I meet here its taken as an insult I had to change my ring to the left hand because some of the burly guys really squeeze the life out of you...
Another thing SPS which I have learned personally after coming to UK is the value of touch or more importantly Hug...when I was in India I can hardly remember the times I have hugged my mother nrother or sisters....We all would get atight hug and kiss frommy dad every birthday...
But I realised the importance of that when i came to UK...Then the wife and the kids...These days if I walk into the house Ashu will come running and say 'Do you need a hug you look tired...." That small tender hug matters so much I realised what I had failed to give my parents and siblings....
A hug tells it in so many ways.....Is my opinion... But I will remember not to break your policy when i see you on my next visit It would be a nice Irukkai koopiya vanakkam....
May be when I grow and grew I will understand the importance of what you re saying but being in the proffesion I am in If I stop touching other people I stop to exist!!!I cant perform not cutting remote operations!!!