tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-353766712024-02-20T04:02:10.763+05:30ARCHETYPES INDIAWe discover India, thereby ourselves, through community, culture, environment-ecology-energy, natural and human habitatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.comBlogger278125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-60460996040341618022016-08-05T11:00:00.000+05:302017-04-12T16:51:00.716+05:30DYNAMIC WATER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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A drop of water moves in liquid, vapour, solid forms.<br />
In the oceans it moves up and down, in currents – hot and cold. Vaporized it goes to sky. It drops on ground, percolates in the ground, moves in streams – visible or invisible – to ponds and oceans, or in plants, our bodies… in gutters of urban habitats, but there too it moves. It lives in the collectives. Water moves, also, in my body all over constantly: in blood, sweat, vomit, urine, faeces…<br />
Water is dynamic: humans too are dynamic, being waterborne.<br />
Yet I take water for granted; I don’t notice!<br />
Water is an element to meditate upon.<br />
― Remi de Souza (11-11-2013) <br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.595793699999998 72.232208900000032 19.5561737 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-63264875532228254792015-12-25T16:30:00.000+05:302015-12-26T10:48:59.957+05:30TO MAKE A CELL OF GOOD LIVING: All Seasons' Greetings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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‘Make a cell of good living in the chaos of our world”, said Eric Gill, as I remember it. I read it in my early twenties, some decades ago. It remained inscribed like an affirmation.<br />
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I had then just finished a course in architecture at a college. Enthusiastically I started to look for an ideal, model cell in places, books and journals, and with the masters of architecture. But soon I realised this cell is beyond floor-wall-roof. Inevitably I turned inside. Consciously I started peeling off a layer after layer. Alas, there was no cell there except my gaseous ego. It brought me to tears like a peeled onion.<br />
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Lo! And here too, within me, I found chaos. My body and mind riddled by some or other ailments and maladies: of ignorance, taboos, models or dogmas, indigestion or malnutrition; of teeth or skin or eyes or nose or stomach or some other limbs; and victim of epidemics such as war frenzy or cricket frenzy or flu, and so on spread by a city – market – media – mod culture. And over them all there presides my omnipresent ego, whatever, wherever I am.<br />
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I have been moving, almost all my life, to places: cities, villages, forests, coasts, monuments and ruins. I have been moving in the First World, the Third World and the Fourth World in India. I never crossed the borders if India.<br />
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I have been fortunate to share warm hospitality of numerous anonymous people. The affirmation never left me. It would appear any time any place like the pop ups on the Internet. I realise now and then while moving in the real world and virtual world, the affirmation is as valid today, even more than ever before, as maybe it was hundred years ago. On the way slowly emerged a resolve: <br />
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© Remigius de Souza | Mumbai | 25/11/2005 <br />
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Note: 1. Quoted poem above is by the author.<br />
2. About <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/jul/22/art.art" target="_blank">Eric Gill</a> by Fiona MacCarthy, The Guardian, Saturday 22 July 2006<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.5957917 72.232208900000032 19.556175699999997 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-39590855023498242002015-02-19T11:30:00.000+05:302015-02-19T11:30:07.159+05:30Remberging Gopal Krishna Gokhale<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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He spent last decade of his life to pursue for ‘Compulsory and Free Primary Education for All’ in India. He had to face opposition even at home. Finally, he succeeded to bring a law at Privy Council.<br /><br />At early Twentieth Century, in his time, there were 2% educated people in India. In 1947, we were 400 millions. Today there are about 400 millions illiterate people. (I do not believe any statistics based on Sample Surveys.) I wonder those who are literate use their literacy in modern India?<br /><br />I am sure my primary education at my native village in vernacular – Marathi – was possible by his efforts. I gratefully remember him now, and, whenever the issue of Education comes up.<br /><br />He was mentor of Gandhiji; his mentor was Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade. What a great continuity! Gnadhiji introduced Basic Education... However, bureaucracy failed to implement it with relevance.<br />
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I learnt spinning and weaving during primary education, in Konkan where cotton is not produced. There Basic Education in Farming — Agriculture, Aquaculture and Horticulture or Forestry — should have been more appropriate. <br /><br />
Read More >> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopal_Krishna_Gokhale" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopal_Krishna_Gokhale</a><br />
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Drawing your house with a stick or lime powder on ground yourself is elementary way to start designing. Children used to play <i>'ghar, ghar'</i> (home, home) once upon a time, and find a right place. It's basic instinct. Now they play games on mobile phones (in cities).<br />
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A student of architecture was writing a thesis on topic 'Spaces for Children'. She gave one of several examples of children used ‘umbrella' for the game (in urban areas) for ‘house’. To build a shelter – a basic need – is an instinct, animal instinct.<br />
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You don't need a measure tape. You are the life-size measure and scale, both. '<i>Anguli, viti, haath, vaav, purush,</i> 'foot' etc. are ancient <i>Desi</i> scales of measurements.<br />
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You can also make a Model back at home. A lump of prepared clay for a model is excellent. A model in clay could be modified while working. Take care, when not working on it, to keep it moist and soft by covering it with damp cloth. For scale and proportion, take a paper cut-out of a human figure (picture) and fix with pin on the clay base of the clay model.<br />
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Many sculptors make 3D 'sketches' of their concepts in clay, not only on paper. See for example, Henry Moor. They believe clay, wood and stone are living materials, not POP or concrete.<br />
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(I introduced 'clay model' at Architecture College (AOA) in 1990s. Now, Malak, my friend, builds mud houses!).<br />
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I advocate self-help housing for EWS (Economically Weaker Section) projects by the Agencies - NGOs and Govt. Many people in the bracket of EWS, e.g. those living in slums, are peasants; they have skills in building and maintenance of their houses. Building by self-help, with limited budget, is most economical system.<br />
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The fact is peasants practice Life-size Planning and Designing their Houses and Habitat. This practice has been going on for millennia. They are successful because they are one with Lind-Water-Life. But who could convince Agencies? They make paper plans because they want to control the resources, which are provided by Mother Nature – Srishti.<br />
I am not an activist. Being vacationist I believe in action by self – by myself.<br />
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I am not a scholar, historian, expert or activist. I see history or its result or its residue in the Present, which is in flux. </div>
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In one word, it is mismanagement. Mumbai, like India, is large, too large, for Agencies to manage on borrowed models of development from the Waste, and information from text books. It is not based on the study and field work of ground realities, success and failures. <br />
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However, I may add an important aspect that is rarely mentioned. In Mumbai's 130 million people, there are about 60 % people who are squatters and slum dwellers. <b>They struggle, not fight, but to save their lives from being 'wasted'.</b> They 'recycle' the inorganic waste of the city, and even organic waste in the city.</div>
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They have a tragic history behind them of hundred years, perhaps more.
They show 'life wasted’ living in subhuman conditions in the 20th &
21st centuries in one of the ancient civilized societies! They are the
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Twenty years ago I thought if Mumbai recycled human excreta, it could replace five mega- factories that make chemical fertilizers, today many more with increasing population.<br />
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Mumbai's Slums & Squatters display their faith in Indian Democracy by being Self-reliant with Dignity more than the elite. </div>
Mumbai's more than 60% citizens are Slum dwellers & Squatter, a fall-out of The First World India's Development & Progress: What an irony! <br />
Slums in Mumbai are self-help townships, where many skilled, semi skilled & unskilled building workers live, who built Mumbai over decades.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com1Dadar East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.014276873389296 72.85340567829598519.006770873389296 72.843320678295981 19.021782873389295 72.863490678295989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-46321545456557850502014-10-12T11:30:00.000+05:302016-12-02T15:38:11.705+05:30Why wage Energy Wars?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Work expends energy. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But to question the two aspects, the Work and the Energy, the logic rarely reaches its inevitable end or to its Death. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If all must die, why should not their logic die first or come to an end?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Any action or work ― cook, eat, drink, wash, bath, walk, mate, farm, garden, read-write, see TV... make money or artefacts in real or virtual world - consumes energy. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some works are for mental and physical need; some are mere wants, which are transient. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some actions are constructive. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The destructive acts too are easily called creative! </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Why wage Energy Wars? End the Work of Evil Wants!</span></b></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Remigius de Souzahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17628941862303023774noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.5957917 72.232208900000032 19.556175699999997 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-32516466356926792082014-04-10T14:00:00.000+05:302014-11-12T14:26:34.881+05:30Many Avatars of Corruption<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Power breeds Corruption; to put it other way: ‘hunger for power (and profit)’ breeds corruption.<br />
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Corruption is not limited only to 'cash and kind' as is popularly known or assumed. There is also 'Intellectual Corruption' caused by ideologies – isms, dogmas, religions, colour, race, language, regions, cults, faiths and greed for Power & Profit.<br />
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Intellectual Corruption, which is mainly noticed among the elite, is immeasurable form of corruption. History is witness; for example, ‘Holocaust’ in Nazi Germany, in the recent times.<br />
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In modern times, of course, the forms and vocabulary in these contexts have changed. For example, goons/mafias/slumlords extort money by terror from the wealthy as well as weaker sections of society.<br />
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The Intellectual Corruption of the Elite</h4>
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While Food, Shelter and Clothing are primary needs of all the living beings, including humans, they are also equipped by Nature with FIVE AUTONOMOUS FUNCTIONS – <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2009/05/lowest-common-multiple-3-work.html" target="_blank">WORK</a>, <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2009/05/lcm-4-perpetual-crave-for-rest.html" target="_blank">LEISURE</a>, <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2009/05/lcm-5-health.html" target="_blank">HEALTH</a>, <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2009/05/lcm-6-learning-to-learn.html#uds-search-results" target="_blank">LEARNING</a> and <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2009/05/lcm-7-propagation-or-survival-of.html" target="_blank">PROPAGATION</a> for their sustenance and survival. There is no other authority over these autonomous functions.<br />
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However, the civilized societies in general, and now, in modern times the Industrial Civilization, through its tentacles or tools (governments, institutions, legal aids, science, technologies, industry, trade and market) has taken control over these Autonomous Functions, even of the humans, to capitalize for power and profit. These tools encroach upon even in private domains of an individual and the collective. <br />
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Civilized Society by its very structure of centralized power of class/caste has the seeds of this corruption from its beginning 5000 years ago. The ruler class/caste collected taxes from the ruled – the weaker classes/castes for their protection, and the clergy class/caste performed worships, sacrifices and offerings on the altar of deity for the salvation after death of the believers — the so-called commoners. <br />
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Corruption in the Governments</h4>
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If the personnel of a democratic government (legislators – ruling and opposition, executives, judiciary, law & order and other dept.), the government undertakings and institutions, planners and experts, during their duties could remember and think that they too are citizens of the nation, much of the burden, e.g., corruption, on the heads of the ‘Other’ citizens will be reduced.</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Constant Surveillance is the Price of Power.” — Alistair MacLean</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: red;"><b>Unlimited Power — Unlimited Piracy</b></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Antidote: If people want to keep the power in their hands, they must continue to exercise constant surveillance over the governments, at least in the age of democracy.</span></i></blockquote>
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Corruption starts at the Top rungs of societal organization. It then trickles down, like infamous theory of 'Trickle-Down Economy'.<br />
Therefore, the movement against corruption, also, must start from grassroots – the masses.<br />
Nelson Mandela too started the fight against corruption — the Appertained, which is intellectual corruption — at the bottom, the Masses.<br />
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But where is such a charismatic leader like Mandela or Gandhiji, who is ready to go for the personal suffering? Mandela had suggested: ‘study – study – study (the ways of the enemy)’! Who is the enemy in a democratic nation? What about Anti-corruption Law? But who shall enact such a law?<br />
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The moral of all the flashing media stories at present 2014 Election Season is: As a saying goes, one may fool many, but one cannot fool all, all the time. Politicians' Hidden Agendas (of ideologies and/or practices) is a known issue. Particularly ryot — India's large majority — cannot be fooled, though silent they may seem. Because they are witness to the ground reality they face daily.<br />
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Do the media adequately represent rural population of 833,087,662 persons living in the 638,588 villages, spread over 3,287,240 km2 area (Census 2011)? This large majority compels the power-hungry politicians to run to form alliances.</div>
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We Indians may be theist, atheist or agnostic. Some may or may not believe in deity-worship, yet we believe in hero-worship, by our mindset of ages. The politicians take advantage of this Indian mindset (See; Illustrations).<br />
In the present election propaganda, BJP or NDA has fielded a prime ministerial candidate; Congress or UPA has fallen for the bet!<br />
Imagine, among 1200 million people there are only two candidates posing themselves to be Prime Ministerial candidates! It reminds us of Team India’s 12 cricket players out of 1200 million citizens!!<br />
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None thinks about our democratic setup is for electing a prime minister from the elected MPs; it is not like electing a presidential candidate as in the US. This indeed is a bad precedent, which could lead to a dictatorship of a dogma. This is dangerous for Democracy.<br />
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The worst example of Intellectual Corruption </h4>
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Industrial Societies monopolize earth's resources that belong to all the living beings that terrorize life on earth. It also colonizes weaker regions. Their modern creed – Science – so far could not discover how to use Seven Billion-plus ‘Human Energy’.<br />
Is elite India following its lessons from the West? This calls for our unbiased introspection.<br />
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NOTES:<br />
Illustration 1- Image Source: Internet<br />
Illustration 2- Image Source; Hindustan Times | READ MORE >> <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/modi-plans-building-world-s-tallest-statue-in-gujarat/article1-1122437.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BJP links campaign to Sardar Patel statue | 28 Nov 2013 | Hindustan Times (Mumbai) </a><br />
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Remigius de Souza<br />
Mumbai<br />
09/04/2014</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com4Sardar Sarovar Dam, Gujarat 393155, India21.830278 73.74722199999996521.822907999999998 73.737136999999962 21.837648 73.757306999999969tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-61748253082241846592013-12-07T10:00:00.000+05:302017-07-28T09:06:17.654+05:30Parenthood as Vocation! Any takers!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Career oriented parents</h4>
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In a faculty room, once a gossip was going on. I'm half attentive to their talk, while going through exercise papers. Someone, a married lady said, 'better take a baby from shelf'. It caught my attention, but I didn't move my head. It was an unfamiliar elite talk in fashion. There was a lump in my throat. A feeling of nausea was building up inside. At last, humans too are commodity now!<br />
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The statement, ‘Taking a baby from shelf’ is like taking ready food packets from a grocery shop; It is an occupation, not a profession, and not at all vocation; it is a labour unpaid-for. <br />
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It amounts to building up career, by default, if not design! What is the motivation behind this temptation? If it is a newly found freedom by the elite, it amounts only falling in fire from frying pan! To understand this, we need to go beyond established rationale of our decadent, fragmented mass society.<br />
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Without going into details such as, single mother or single father, live-in relationship, contract marriage, family planning, population explosion, sperm donator, surrogate mother, child adoption etc. We go straight for the parenthood.<br />
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Propagation is a plan by Nature</h4>
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Procreation or Propagation is directly related to the survival of species. It is one of the Five Autonomous Functions bestowed by Nature to all the living beings – plants and animals (human animals included). The other four autonomous functions are Work, Leisure, Learning and Health. These, of course, are facilitated by Nature's schema of Environment, Ecology and Energy for the survival of species.<br />
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For example, a cat shift her just born kittens (they are born blind) to safe places to protect them from male cat eating them. Birds – male and female parents – feed their chicks in the nests, until they learn to fly. A lamb, as soon as born, stands on four legs and starts jumping and running around. Fishes lay eggs or fries in shallow waters among reeds etc., in hundreds or more; their survival rate is unenviable.<br />
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And plants! They are the most blessed species: they propagate in various ways. Some of them are pollination by birds, animals, insects who survive on them! Dormant seeds, in millions, germinate as soon as rains begin. If uninterrupted by humans, the plants could grow into wild forests. They could engulf mighty buildings, monuments such as, Angkor in Asia.<br />
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Perhaps the human infant faces most precarious conditions from the birth. S/he is fully dependent for their survival on others. Tarzan myth indeed is exemplary, about parenthood.<br />
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Formative Age and Learning </h4>
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The most pertinent question remains. Can social institutions, such as schools, orphanages, hospitals, homes for the aged etc. compensate the need for parenthood?<br />
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Family is not an institution, it is basically a unit of a community — a cohesive collective — which gives identity to every individual. The Institutions such as schools, governments etc. are faceless enteritis, where an individual cannot have ethical or moral relationship. For this reason they offer titles and awards.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Formative Age</td></tr>
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Family and Community, both, offer building up and flowering of the new born persons at their Formative Age, with culture, values, morality, character, altruism, life supporting skills. This is best illustrated among adivasi – tribal communities. This 'action of building and flowering' of a person is not possible for any school in 'mass education system', even if one may claim to be progressive! They produce 'graded stereotypes'.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thus teaches Buddha</td></tr>
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By our mass education system, designed by the experts who are brought up by the same system, we too think within the same system — within the box. This goes on and on for decades, except for few adjustments and readjustments.<br />
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Family or Household</h4>
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Thankfully Industrialization has successfully turned traditional societies into homogenised mass society, split the joint family into nuclear families, and finally, ended the family too.<br />
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Now, a 'family' is popularly called 'household'. It is a unit in the 'Mass Society' not a Community’. Household could be anything: even a group of migrant youths or adults in search of skills, jobs in towns or cities. They have no identity other than their 'occupation'. It is variously called, for example, 'housewife', not mother or grandmother. There the matter ends for the purpose of various surveys; it is useful data for the managers of the country's affairs.<br />
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In a country like India, there is so much diversity because of disparity in access to education. It is not that the so-called masses are uneducated: they do sustain by their education, though unrecognized by the system or the government!<br />
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Who is supposed to think in such a scenario? Any person — a citizen, young or old — can use creative thinking going beyond the stereotypical daily actions and notions. Everyone is blessed by creativity and personal space; even while doing daily mimicry in occupation.<br />
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If everyone practices Creativity, then perhaps Democracy shall begin at grassroots, not at the top rungs of social hierarchies!<br />
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And the children! We make them carry heavy school bag packs, books, notebooks and the subjects... added by the periodical whims of the educationists, and now gadgets such as mobile phones and computers. We want them to be better citizens, before they come of age! In return what do they receive? Chaos perennial!<br />
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Complexities of modern urban society pose many challenges to parents. By admitting children to schools at age of three, their social life begins even before they have developed many physical and mental faculties. They enter into an alien world. We hardly know how it influences their Formative Age. A child depends fully on exposure s/he gets, first, at the family and immediate neighbourhood (streets included), then follows the peer group. Later on their public life that begins in formal education which is ready to influence them!<br />
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Parenthood is Vocation, not an Occupation</h4>
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We need to assess and re-asses social situation again and again in the present flux. It may vary for each person or family in each strata of society. The overall situation, however, creates Alienation and Identity Crisis. In such a situation, parenthood is not an occupation, but a vocation which calls for attention, thinking, and meditation; and to reach wise strategies; it may change with every child, and every parent!<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.5957917 72.232208900000032 19.556175699999997 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-59551347263570902013-10-01T10:00:00.000+05:302016-12-02T15:47:12.952+05:30City and Civilized Society and Their Rise and Fall<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b> </b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Vasco de Gama after wining the war at Mahim Fort, sent his solders in Mahim Village, to massacre the passing villagers on the streets. He just wanted to terrorize the people. Later the missionaries followed him to preach ‘Good News’. <br /> Later Mumbai was given in dowry by Portuguese Royalty to British Royalty. Where is Portugal? Where is Great Britain? Where is Mumbai?</i></span></div>
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<b>City is a Symbol of Centralized Power</b></h3>
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City, primarily, is a symbol of Centralized Power in Civilized Societies, since its inception. What V Gordon Childe, archaeologist, calls 'Urban Revolution' is the birth of Civilization some 5K years ago.<br />
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The rise and growth of Civilization also goes with Urbanization, which is City as a human habitat.<br />
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Since then city has become a parasite on its region for its sustenance. In the Modern Times, the so-called Global Cities and mega-cities have spanned their dominance over lands even beyond their immediate regions, far and wide, even across their sovereign borders, across the continents and oceans. They manage this aggression by remote control from the Board Rooms in mega-cities.<br />
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Civilized society, as is known, is based on the division of labor, social hierarchies of the ruler and the ruled, classes/castes, or the Classless society and the Underclass. Even in democracies in historical times the slavery did exist. Here Democracy is misnomer. <br />
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In recent times democracies did go for colonizing, by various means, weaker nations, now called Third World. In 5000 years indeed Democracy has not come of life.<br />
However, in India the unarmed Buddhist monks, in 200 BC, colonized other countries by religious thought of nonviolence. </div>
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<b>True Democracy</b></h3>
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How could any civilized society practice democracy in true sense? It possible only when 'the People are the Means and Goals’ for the well-being of all the living beings. Only then democracy is possible. Neither the means nor the goals could be economy, technology, market, exchange rates, foreign affairs... blah, blah, blah. State is only a facilitator.<br />
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In spite of the presence of all the institutions to manage society, the chaos and strife never ended. It will never end if the mindset of a power oriented society does not end, and accept democracy in total.<br />
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To bring this change, needs introspection by the power-classes. Here the writing of constitutions, acts and laws are useless. Perhaps, a beginning of process to Decentralization of Power would help.<br />
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There is no escape from chaos until the responsibility and right to equitable distribution of resources should be rested on the shoulders of the Collective (what we customarily call Civil Society).</div>
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<b>The End of the City</b></h3>
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The size of The Collective, therefore, must have Human Scale. In other words, it will be the 'end of the city' as a human habitat; it is inevitable. With Information Technology this is not impossible. The obvious factor is, it should begin simultaneously at the top and the bottom rungs of the collective.<br />
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This is not a Utopia. It is being practiced by aborigine communities (cohesive collectives) for millennia: There is a lesson to learn for the present consumerist societies that splurge finite resource that belong to all living beings – the inmates on the Earth.<br />
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In the past, the feudal powers promised security to the subjects of their material life, and the religious powers promised salvation - Moksha - after death.<br />
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Now these are replaced by the governments (by design or default, the corporate powers) promise physical security, and science with machine-money-market, the new clergy class, promise happiness.</div>
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<b>Post Script</b></h3>
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The young people, who begin their homes, generally begin by taking loans. We are speaking about our great urban middle class. They buy a house by taking loan. They would acquire gadgets, furniture, furnishings… etc. by taking loans. This is called 'lifestyle'.<br />
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Happy are those who receive fat inheritance from their old parents!<br />
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When the young begin their adult life, they are past their spring-time – youth – in building up their career. Where does this debt-trap end in the rat-race of life-sucking competition, in the saturated market?<br />
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They acquire training for their careers on the assembly-lines at educational institutions. However, they hardly have any life-supporting skills, either from the institutions or their families, during their youth. Hence, even for common cold they run to the experts/specialists. This is called Third Ecology, which is outside Natural Ecology.<br />
What a mountain-high ego!<br />
<b>Who is supposed to think of posterity?</b><br />
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Remigius de Souza | Mumbai | 17-09-13</div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">House of Tetya Nusa Koli and Its Environ </span></h3>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Aborigine-Adivasi
Culture is so rich that it should be understood as World Heritage and should be
preserved. For more than 10K years, or perhaps from unknown time, they have
been living in Harmony with Nature. But now in the hurricane of development on
western model it is doubtful how long will they</b> last!</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Here is a <b>glimpses of one of the tribe in their house and habitat:</b> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Aborigine House and Habitat </span></h3>
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<li>House is living area. Habitat is open work area, mainly forest, wetlands and farming. </li>
</ul>
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<li> In contrast the urbanite have mostly enclosed spaces /places for work, education, leisure... etc. in divisions.</li>
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<li>The fundamental cultural difference between Adivasi Community and Civilized Society is paramount. This is neither recognized nor understood by the State. </li>
</ul>
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<li>The peasants in villages, too, have their homestead as workplace - farm, wetlands, pastures, forest... like Adivasis. They, however, belong to civilized society, divided by class and caste.</li>
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<li>It is vital for the State to understand this unique trait of Adivasi (aborigine) culture in its total governance and administration while dealing with Adivasi Habitat. </li>
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<li>Adivasi's Ancestral Right to their Habitat must be recognized as their Fundamental Right. This indeed must not be superseded by the civilized society. </li>
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<li>Bhills are one of the largest tribes in India.</li>
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<li>Community is Cohesive Collective, where family is primary unit; hence, it is an Extended Family, where none suffers Identity Crisis. </li>
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<li>Among adivasi communities there is no Division of Labour, as in Civilized Societies. </li>
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<li>They acquire life-supporting skills by experiential learning, and receive their time-tested ancient wisdom from their families and the elders of the community, at early age. </li>
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<li>Community Participation works in every aspect of individual, family and community living such as, housing, farming, leisure, learning... etc. </li>
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<li>Adivasis make their own flute, bow and arrows, bead ornaments, and tools for household, fishing and farm utilities...</li>
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<li>Finally, adivasi could give authentic anthropological account of their tribe and community. The rest is civilized interpretation, or rather imagination! </li>
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<li>Land and Waters give sustenance to all the living beings and culture to humans. Hence Biodiversity brings Diversity of Cultures. There is no superior culture. </li>
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<li>Remarkable Communication System: within a couple of days a few thousand (Narmada Dam affected) tribal would gather, at Medha Patkar's call for public meeting on the day. </li>
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<li>Societies, Unions, Associations, Corporations... or civil societies are not Communities, or those floated on Internet in the wilderness of World-Wide-Web. </li>
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<li>Everyone in Adivasi - Aborigine - communities dance and sing at will. Why should they watch cinema-video at cost, price, value or worth of elusive time or money? </li>
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<li>Adivasis - aborigines - don't believe in 'Ownership of Land (Water)'. They build live fences to protect crops from animals. </li>
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<li>Concept of Ownership of Land by a person / group / State has no ethical or moral ground in the realms of Srishti - Mother Nature. Revenue Survey Nos. brought by the British Rule is an immoral act. </li>
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<li>Tribal house, when obsolete, goes back to earth, recycled, and some of its parts are reused. Nothing is wasted. This is Natural Way. Modern science and technology do not reach anywhere near. </li>
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Read MORE >> <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2010/06/bhills-holi-festival-in-satpura-ranges.html" target="_blank"><b>Bhill's Holi Festival in Satpura Ranges, India</b></a></div>
<b><a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2011/02/india-largely-country-of-immigrants.html" target="_blank">India, largely a country of immigrants says Supreme Court of India</a><br /><a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2010/05/warli-house-and-habitat-1.html" target="_blank">TRIBAL HOUSING: BUDDHA AND THE ART AND SCIENCE OF KARVI HUT</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.These photos may seem familiar on this blog. However, they have many dimensions. More you look into the Way of Living of Adivasis more is revealed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. When my classmates, college mates, colleagues were going abroad to US, EU, OZ, Middle East… I was going into interiors in search of ROOTS, to aborigine hamlets in forests, to see the beginnings. I went with humility of a child; I was/am not a scholar but scholastic. It brought me transformation. They changed my life, way of living-working-thinking, initiated me to their faith, or whatever you may call, without any rites and rituals...</span><br />
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Read more clay, cow-dung silos >> <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2009/04/clay-cow-dung-grain-silos-of-gujarat.html" target="_blank"><b>Clay–Cow dung Grain Silos of Gujarat</b></a> <br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Gujarat, India22.289367850995866 71.97274278124996320.411853350995866 69.390955781249957 24.166882350995866 74.554529781249968tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-81483297764084604972013-07-10T10:30:00.000+05:302013-07-10T10:30:04.783+05:30Scratch – Creative Games for the Young and Old<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Scratch: produced by the MIT Media Lab<b> </b></h3>
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<b>Create stories, games, and animations<br />Share with others around the world </b><br />
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While Scratch is primarily designed for 8 to 16 year olds, it is also used by people of all ages, including younger children with their parents.<br />
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<b>About Scratch </b><br />
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community. <br />
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Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century. <br />
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Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge. <br />
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Scratch is designed especially for ages 8 to 16, but is used by people of all ages. Millions of people are creating Scratch projects in a wide variety of settings, including homes, schools, museums, libraries, and community centers.<br />
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<b>For Parents </b><br />
Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program and share interactive media such as stories, games, and animation with people from all over the world. As children create with Scratch, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically. Scratch is designed and maintained by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab. <br />
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<b>Links:</b><br />
<a href="http://scratch.mit.edu/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://scratch.mit.edu/about/ </a><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_language%29" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_%28programming_language%29 </a><br />
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<b>Text and Images:</b> Courtesy MIT Media Lab<br />
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Even the wealthy nations face economic crunch</h3>
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<b>There exist Five Economies in India, of course, not officially recognized.</b><br />
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1. The Fifth World India Economy, of the displaced & marginalized ryot, that started emerging during the benevolent Firangi Raj, and grew at accelerated rate, now, during Swa-Raj. It survives by recycling the waste / effluence left by the elite.<br />
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2. The Fourth World India Economy, of the aborigine tribes, which started in ancient times and continues; it has been disturbed by the governments.<br />
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3. The Third World India Economy, of the agrarian society in rural India. It has been self-sustaining until colonized by Industrialization. Now it is in chaos.<br />
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4. The First World India Economy, which rules the Nation. It is internationally recognized. It is also visible in the countrywide chaos in equality.<br />
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5. The Gray Zone Economy, which is variously called: Black Money, secret accounts in foreign banks, scams and frauds, extortion, etc.<br />
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What is the rate of Rupee in each of these five Indian Economies?<br />
Before answering this question, let us remember that currency, any currency, has no tangible value. <br />
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J. K. Galbraith (one of India's rare or very few friends) described India's society at the start in one of his essays (Ambassador's journal: a personal account of the Kennedy years): there is a horizontal line that divides the society. There are a very few above the line, and a large mass of people below it. <br />
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The rupee symbol <span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-language: MR; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'₹</span>’ is a graphic representation of Galbraith's words which documents the shameful and drastic inequality and injustice.<br />
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A 'Vastu' expert opined, the horizontal line on Devanagari letter ' र ' is inauspicious to India. The Experts fumble!<br />
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Alas! None thinks of the 'Centralized Power' is a basic feature of Civilized Society since its birth 5K years ago, also called 'Urban Revolution', which has also proved to be inauspicious to 'Land, Waters and Life' on the Earth!! <br />
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(30-06-2013) <br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com2Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.595792699999997 72.232208900000032 19.5561747 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-74928410209155151552013-06-22T04:30:00.000+05:302013-06-22T15:32:04.135+05:30India’s Population Uncensored<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here population explosion unlimited<br />Many Family Planning options employed<br />All Planning remedies get tired<br />Once an obstacle of Auspicious Time worked<br />But now through all seasons and times<br />Marriages happen 24x7 on TV serials</span><br />
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(18 February 2013 | Mumbai)<br />
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This is not an intellectual verbal acrobatics, but poetry in real life experienced and encountered by all my senses. Clearly, this is a word-caricature of Indian disparity or absurdity on several fronts, which cannot be caught in a photograph or a movie or in a fat discourse. Call it a poem, or a parody, if you wish, that defies rules of classical or romantic literature.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.595792699999997 72.232208900000032 19.5561747 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-45866957745152753212013-04-21T14:31:00.001+05:302013-04-21T14:31:38.591+05:30Discourses (Mod Age Haiku)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We, the civilized, love scriptures, philosophies etc. They provide plenty of food for dogmas. Countless commentaries pour in, just as in the past from the elite cream of civil societies. Particularly in the ages of technologies such as, Paper, Printing, ET-IT... and Mass Media etc., there is a lot of churning and chewing of old bones that go on and on.<br /><br />The spread of Mass Higher Education and easy money adds on to the volumes. They talk standing on a platform, while ignore what is bellow. They provide ample quantity of Quotes. It hardly has either face of and/or insight into People.<br /><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com2Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.5957902 72.232208900000032 19.556177199999997 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-15449721597454355972013-04-03T13:00:00.000+05:302013-04-06T21:43:47.788+05:30Mumbai for Women by Women<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Remi’s open thinking on the issue</h3>
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<i>We appreciate the initiative “Mumbai For Women” by The Times Of India and IndiBlogger. We, however, feel women should take the lead for the action; hence “By Women” is added.</i><br />
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Mumbai and its Centralized Power </h4>
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Mumbai's area, population and its socio-demographic-economic diversity are mind-blowing or rather mind boggling. But above all of them is its magnitude of power, or of the centralized power above the regions far and wide.<br />
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We have heard that 'power breeds corruption'. Power in every possible aspect of public domain shows corruption, not only economic but even intellectual, which may appear in form of dogmas. <br />
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The powers, legally or illegally, cause atrocities on weaker sections. The apparent causes could be any ? land, water, language, region, caste, religion etc.; gender is one of them. <br />
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We have seen children are made to beg by gangsters. Women and children become soft targets for atrocities. <br />
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Here we are addressing an issue of atrocities on women. These may be prevalent in patriarchal societies across times and places with difference in degrees. We are familiar with names of Sita, Draupadi etc. There have been cases of Sati, child marriages etc. in some societies.<br />
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But now the scale of atrocities is unprecedented.<br />
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For example: <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/India/SC-slams-govt-for-equating-housewives-with-beggars/Article1-576857.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SC slams govt for equating housewives with beggars</a> (HT, July 24, 2010) <br />
It (SC) has also taken strong exception to the government clubbing them with prostitutes, beggars and prisoners in the Census.<br />
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I had seen the Census Survey of India of 1980, which mentioned this category. It also categorizes women them as ‘non-workers’, while in reality their share of work larger than males. Perhaps this practice has been going on since British Raj. Hopefully it might have changed now.<br />
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We can certainly say this is an act of offense (even by oversight or negligence) by the Government of India.</div>
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There are the First World India, Third World India and Fifth World India (of the displaced and marginalized), and also the Fourth World India (of Adivasi – aborigines).<br />
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The Fourth World India is living in the backyard of Mumbai. Their women visit Mumbai, almost daily to sale forest produce, so that they can earn some cash for the family. Aborigines never settle in urban areas.<br />
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Of course, they are also living in the National Park at Borivali, since ancient times, long before Gautama Buddha was born.<br />
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Hence, we could say the Fourth World India, too, is now in the jurisdiction of Metropolitan City of Mumbai, by Design or Default, to expand Mumbai’s centralized power. Their status, however, in the city is not defined, or is forgotten.</div>
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Mumbai's Grey land-use zone – slums – proliferated in urban areas</h4>
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This is the fallout of legal actions taken by the successive governments since Nehru Era, or even earlier during British Raj, for the Industrial and Economic Development. This has been done without due Rehabilitation of the affected, which creates social, economic, regional imbalance, beyond doubt.<br />
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It has also created a class of neo-rich, who indulge in splurge, consumerism… and indulgences! One may take a walk in Mumbai and be an eyewitness to the overpowering disparity and despair.<br />
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This is an assault on the weaker sections of the society; by default it affects women.</div>
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What is the role of 'For Women'? </h4>
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If we recall Mumbai’s role in shaping India's freedom, there are many events. Here we mention only one: 'Quit India' movement that started at August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai. We deliberately refer this to Mumbai.<br />
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This is part two: 'For Women'. Forget men. Women must take the lead 'For Women'. This is not an elite kitty party. But the kitty parties also may join in.<br />
The last part ‘By Women’<br />
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The women should take initiative and start the action. This third part may need some input: 'Learning from the People'. Women in Mumbai, however, should decide their agenda and their course of action. This is not an activism, but it calls for “action” at a personal level, first!<br />
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Learning from People: Women in Rural India</h4>
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1. Among the aborigine communities there is No Gender Discrimination, no prostitution, no female foeticide. Widows and divorces can remarry. The youth (males and females) receive instructions about sex and marriage from the elders.<br />
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Besides, no one in their communities suffer from ‘Identity Crisis’, as in the Industrial Societies.<br />
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2. We have heard about 'Chipko Movement' started by Chandiprasad Bhut. Women of Bishnoi tribe in Rajasthan practiced it long ago.<br />
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3. Sitayana, instead of Ramayana, is composed in 'Ovi' form of poetry in Marathi by peasant women in Maharashtra. They speak about the injustice done to Sita by Rama (compiled by Tara Bhavalkar).<br />
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They indeed go beyond popular faith and/or beliefs.<br />
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4. Other example: Peasant women forced to shut down the 'licensed' (Read, Legal) liquor shops in their villages, in many parts of the country. They were harassed by their liquor boozer men in their families. <br />
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Everything legal does not necessarily mean to give justice.<br />
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Urban women, irrespective of their social-economic-political status, must take the lead and run this movement.<br />
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Action Plan for the Authorities</h4>
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<i>Any adult may check how <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2012/12/formative-age-of-person.html" target="_blank">the formative age</a> has influenced her/his personal course of life; and also find out about the others - known or well-known persons.</i> </div>
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The criminals should be clinically examined by the social and psychiatry scientists as an ongoing research. What more a sick and decadent society could do?<br />
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Each offender/criminal should also be treated as a mentally and physically sick / lunatic person. Each one should be treated as a case-study, as if rare / rarest offense.<br />
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The details of their Formative Age, work and leisure activities, their companions, family background, education, socio-economic conditions... should be investigated.<br />
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In short, find out what leads them to commit any crime/s against females in the society. May the criminals be young or old, irrespective of their status in the society, higher the status of the offender rigorous should be the investigations.<br />
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The findings and results should be made public.</div>
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Investigate Social Aspects in Multimedia</h4>
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Multimedia, here, include the cinema, television, Information Technology outlets, such as Internet, games on computers. Most vulnerable exposure to violence (hand-in-hand with love) takes place in cinema and 24x7 television programmes.<br />
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Women, being familiar with TV programme, should investigate and evaluate the programmes – serials, news, advertisements etc. On the TV there is always a band running that appeals the viewers for their objections.<br />
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Finally, it is necessary to come out of UTOPIA as well as leave the Web of VIRTUAL REALITY, and come down ‘DOWN TO EARTH of Reality’.</div>
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What is most essential is one has to go beyond personal likes and dislikes, and look at the whole issue Holistically beyond personal, in the Collective Domain.<br />
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Remigius de Souza</div>
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<b>Note:</b><br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-05_UsEH6zsE/UWBIzCD5lNI/AAAAAAAAFcA/1cX-A-4zLKA/s1600/Heroine+of+the+Desert.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-05_UsEH6zsE/UWBIzCD5lNI/AAAAAAAAFcA/1cX-A-4zLKA/s1600/Heroine+of+the+Desert.jpg" /></a><b> 'Heroine of the Desert' by Donya Al- Nahi</b> - I am reading this book (in Marathi, translated by Shobhana Shiknis). It is Donya's own real life story of her mission to bring back the children to their mothers; this is an Action, not merely activism. <i>It is an example what a woman can do for the justice to women in distress.</i><br />
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Read More >><br />
<b>1.</b> <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2010/11/emergence-of-fifth-world-india.html" target="_blank"><b>Emergence of The Fifth World India</b></a> <br />
<b>2.</b> <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2011/04/indian-schooling.html" target="_blank"><b>Indian Schooling</b></a><br />
<b>3.<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Nature</a></b> (Science weekly) has recently published a special issue, <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/women-in-science-women-s-work-1.12547" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><b>Women in Science: Women’s work</b></a>. A special section of Nature finds that there is still much to do to achieve gender equality in science (06 March 2013).</div>
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Picture or Word is Virtual Reality</h3>
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Both are symbols. We assume its meaning by convention or as per our level of perception. Its Reality however is complex and multidimensional.<br />
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A word or a picture, sculpture, photo or movie... in many avatars – old / new – though they may seem to be attractive, it is never permanent, it is momentary, it is far from ground reality. <br />
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It is, therefore, necessary to go beyond it, experience and check it in the real world, keeping personal likes/ dislikes, beliefs, habits, dogmas away. This may help us enrich and develop our perception of reality. It also reveals us many dimensions of reality. This makes constructive creativity in thought and action possible, for anyone. This much is certainly possible for us, irrespective of our calling – a prince or a pauper or a pundit. <br />
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A word or a picture has limitations in an infinite space and in linear time. Over a period of time the meanings and references of words too change.<br />
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Instead of watching and enjoying a virtual reality in whatever forms, and to create its memorial means to be a victim or a slave of virtual reality, to get entangled further in its dragnet constantly. In other words it is living in the past, in other words, is to deny the present – to deny living Life itself.<br />
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In the present state of mechanical way of living, not only human life but also life of all living beings is being exploited. At such times any idea, theory, dogma, law, act... all could turn into terror and extremity in various ways at personal, societal, local, regional and/or global levels. It is no surprise.<br />
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A fact, any fact, continually changes; it is never a state of truth. Truth can never be caught in word/s. Truth, which is caught in words, does not remain truth.<br />
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Is there a way out from the drag-net of Virtual Reality?</h4>
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Thinking 'within box' of a belief in civil society does not offer any answer! The beliefs are built over ages as customs, though they may be relevant in the bygone times. Not only the natural environment but also the social, political, economic environment goes through constant change.<br />
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However, civilized society is historically based on centralized power of class/caste and division of labour. Through ages this has never changed. The instrument of Virtual Reality is designed to support the present <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2010/06/centralized-power-unlimited.html" target="_blank">class of centralized power</a>.<br />
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Imagine what was the population of India before the Aryans came, or even before the emergence of civilizations in India 5000 years ago? Later, invasions by many races continued to follow until the recent times of colonization, and now it is neo-colonization.<br />
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The warfare between Aryans and Non-Aryans, variously named in Indic languages, was primarily racial. Hitler in Germany is an extreme example of dogmatic Aryan extremity. There may be more... <br />
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In the social sphere it may be worth to consider: how far the four Varnas – classes – of Vedic times, in the following centuries, took ugliest dogmatic extremity in castes, sub-castes, and sub-sub-castes! Cases of discrimination against women, by way customs of child marriage, Sati, parda, and atrocities by high castes males on the women of low castes are many. For example, after Kurukshetra war, Dhrutarashtra’s last rites were performed by his illegitimate son, because all his hundred sons were dead (Mahashweta Devi, After Kururukkshtra). <br />
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Siddhartha Jatakas have many stories that explicitly condemn women; they were denied entry to the Sangha.<br />
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The Industrial Civilization has perfected its system of colonizing the masses through their education system. Learning is autonomous function of all the living-beings. But the British-made mass education system that we continue to follow is a primary cause of alienation of all those produced on assembly line of mass education. It produces the Culture of Contentment that leads to the alienation from the ‘Other’, may they be their kin.<br />
Now there is wave of Virtual Reality through multimedia. It depends upon how to put it for constructive use for the well-being of all.</div>
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An Example: A Song, a Movie & Real Life India</h4>
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Words, tones, meanings, emotions form a song. Then, could 'Chuk de India', the song be moved out from the movie? What is exact difference between to make such a movie and to happen in real life at entire India? Mere hollow slogan! Noise pollution inside out! </div>
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There is no other school like Family. There is no other college like Community, where the Family is its unit. There is no other Guru like Mother Nature.<br />
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However, when Family, Community, Society and Mother Nature are assaulted by the faceless power-hungry class, then what shall be the fate, who shall be the saviour of the new born or the yet-to-born? Or would that be their God (or branded gods) and the religious institutions founded by the civilized societies - civilizations?<br />
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Only a Community, i.e. cohesive collective, with autonomy could offer freedom from present Identity Crisis.<br />
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The so-called virtual communities on Internet Web sites are a magnificent illusion; it pampers only Ego, not a valid way out for the identity crises, but entangles more in Virtual Reality. </div>
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Could the affluent educated parents, elders and the youth build up such a community or several communities, of course, in cities?</div>
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End piece: Every person is creative</h4>
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In a democratic republican State every person must get opening to her/his creativity. That goes without debate.<br />
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Creativity is not a prerogative of any class, race or any particular person – a genius. There are no hierarchies. It means that all the affairs of the collective must be changed from the root. Here the role of a government is merely of a facilitator without any bias.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Life is larger than all Arts, Sciences, Religions, Philosophies, trade, techs, State... through times and places.</span></i><br />
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8 March 2013<br />
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<b>Note: </b>'<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture_of_Contentment" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Culture of Contentment</a>', an essay by J K Galbraith describes American society believes it is classless, and ignores its functional Underclass. Aren't we, some of us lured / influenced by American Affluence! <br />
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LOOKING BACK, the event – 15th August 1947 – now seems an end, and not a beginning.<br />
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Symbolically and virtually, when the President of India walked into the Outhouse of the British Empire, i.e. Viceroy's Palace (renamed ‘Rashtrapati Bhavan’), it was an insult to her people, who continued to live in 5, 57,000 villages and in the slums and even below poverty line. Their fate was sealed as second-class citizens. There erupted a trade in a new guise to take over the feudal mastership, a scramble for power and profit, and a stream of sugarcoated slogans.<br />
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The intellectual corruption, therefore, cannot be measured.<br />
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Architects and planners belong to the same stock of rulers – looking for clues, inspiration, models, collaborations, and approvals… – and aid from the West or otherwise from the bygone past.<br />
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Who does care for the living present and posterity!<br />
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It begins with formal education, which conspires to breed a hybrid monoculture, far from creativity.<br />
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The only hope for freedom is the millions who silently resist, suffer, protest, prevail, sustain without coming into the fold of the ruling minority. In-spite of the onslaught of the environment, ecology and energy at the hands of development planning that continues to fail (to bring wellbeing to the majority).<br />
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There is hope, if millions are taken into confidence: if there is collective creativity which is an Indian tradition and heritage and a collective introspection.<br />
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There is hope, as some signs of change appear on the horizon.<br />
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The so-called Rashtrapati Bhavan Estates deserve to be returned to the people for the fit use of public fairs, fun and frolic and its part for a museum of enslaved past, for the posterity to learn from. Then perhaps the Indian Architecture of freedom and democracy will emerge?<br />
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(This note was sent in response to: “Write about a building(s) or urban development which you feel has had a lasting impact on post-independence Indian architecture”, a request by Indian Architect Builder, and published in its special issue, “50 Years of nation Building”, August 1997, p.69)<br />
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<b>NB: </b><br />
It took 15 years to realize part of a my wishful thinking. There is a news: <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Rashtrapati-Bhavan-Mughal-Gardens-set-to-open-for-public-from-February-16/articleshow/18484715.cms" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rashtrapati Bhavan Mughal Gardens set to open for public from February 16</a><br />
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Read More>> <a href="http://remidesouza.blogspot.in/2010/01/urban-renewal-in-regional-context.html" target="_blank"><b>Urban Renewal in the Regional Context</b></a><br />
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Note: The image above is from Internet.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Rashtrapati Bhavan, Raisina Hills, New Delhi, Delhi 11000428.614342 77.19980399999997228.1684395 76.554356999999968 29.0602445 77.845250999999976tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-4838155013090452182013-02-10T11:30:00.000+05:302013-04-11T10:07:39.793+05:30Mother Nature With Us Forever<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">PRAISE MOTHER NATURE<br /><br />The home of Mother Nature has no gods-idols-hero worshipers<br />In biotic - abiotic nature comprehend Supreme Spirit personified;<br />She is ever visible, audible, edible, tactile, sexual...<br />Progenitor, boon to mortals, Dance of Life and Death, too;<br />Mother Nature embodies one Language–Dharma–Scripture–Law;<br />She is Primal Guru–Primal School–Open Book, freely available to all.</span></b><br />
Remigius de Souza | Mumbai | 25-12-2009 </div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Civilized
Societies are so obsessed with boundaries that they decorate. add on
ornaments, make memorials out of them and applause them, such as Great
Wall of China, which is no more than a symbol of feudalism!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Similarly plants and other animals too
don't recognize human societies' boundaries and social hierarchies. The
domesticated animals - chickens, cats, cattle, goats etc. - too don't
recognize them, except when they return 'home' in the evening. <br />
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Bacteria, in hordes, enter our guts when we start taking external foods,
other than mother's milk, in our early childhood; they make colonies
there.<br />
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Hopefully, we behold 'Nature' beyond 'greenery' of gardens, farms,
woodlands, remaining forests, and wetlands; beyond Wordsworth's poems,
Turner's paintings, beyond photographs / movies / videos for visual
pleasure; howsoever advanced they may be, they are not alternatives to
Nature,<br />
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They may help us to recall our beautiful/terrible experiences of Nature. <br />
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Life Sciences and archaeology, with their advances, also help us to know more about Nature and our place in Nature.<br />
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Perhaps we realize power and dreary aspects of Nature in cyclones, cloud
bursts, earth quakes, lightening, tsunami and Climate Change (which is
not fiction).</span><br />
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First observation of Nature</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Any first hand contact with Nature at elementary and personal level is a
good beginning, may it be watching self in body-and-mind; no rituals,
no auspicious timings, no mantras, no special settings and sitting
postures are required. Just observe with attention and compassion, as
both body and mind are our tools and we are their custodians. There is
no mystery; we are part of Nature just as the ‘greenery’ outside.<br />
We can carry on this observation any time, or through out a day. </span><br />
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Second observation of Nature</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We, Indic people, believe in Five
Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air and Space. The best option is to
observe plants and be in contact with then.<br />
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Better still for us is to actually sow a few seeds from kitchen in a
small tin / plastic / earthen pot/s (at different seasons) and help them
grow. No need to refer any manuals.<br />
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Every seed may not germinate. Watch them, see them sprout, take care,
feed them sunlight and water. By and by, we come in contact with
Elements, together with saplings, thereby with Mother Nature.
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Agricultural Revolution at Nature’s Lab</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Ten thousand years ago half naked humans domesticated wild plants and
animals, and Agricultural Revolution began in a most trying natural
conditions.<br />
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It did spread all over the world (without Intellectual Property Rights attached).<br />
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Civilized Society did not exist then. Rise of Civilization which is also
called Urban Revolution followed Agricultural Revolution five thousand
years later.<br />
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Industrial Civilization was born just a few hundred year ago, where we
belong. We received our learning on the Assembly Lines in Mass Schooling
System.<br />
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Isn't it a high time to get acquainted with Mother Nature – Srishti?<br />
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(12/09/2012)</span><br />
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<b>Note:</b> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While writing this post I came across this blog-pot “<a href="http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/humans-and-nature-can-the-gulf-be-bridged/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Humans and Nature: Can the Gulf Be Bridged?</a>” (The New York Times, Feb. 5, 2013).
The very title shows how the west / westernized / the urbanite etc. is
divorced from nature. (Please see my comments on the post.)</span><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">~ ~ ~ ~ ~</span> </span></b><br />
©Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com2Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.5957847 72.232208900000032 19.556182699999997 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-72798635709755420162013-02-01T11:30:00.000+05:302017-05-28T15:47:38.012+05:30<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Architects, Planners plan, draw, paint beautiful 2D, 3D images, with landscape, served on a platter to public. In the course of time there came 4D - moving images - with emergence of technology (ET-IT).<br />
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However, a building becomes an Act of Law, when a project - a house, road, flyover, bridge, dam... or a city materializes on the land, according to the Law. That doesn't happen to texts/pictures unless the culture police protest and/or vandalize them.<br />
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How many indeed do see this situation beyond the standards and bye-laws? Or did I ever see?<br />
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This question has been following me for a long time. It kept on lingering at the back of my mind during the busy hours on drawing board and leisure days of long travels. <br />
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Sometimes the question would surface and quietly recede, leaving a tingling feeling, an astringent taste! I made several mental notes as well as notes on paper over the years. They referred the places & people together, witnessed across the life-span.<br />
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I also wrote several stories/poems – metafiction – on the subject of Land, Waters and Life. Each time the question would reveal some clue, stilt it remained.<br />
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‘Architect’ is a legal title in India for a few decades now. However, ‘Architecture’ is not is not subjected to legality!<br />
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The Land is under the jurisdiction of Land Revenue Act. Its label ‘agricultural land’ changes to 'non-agricultural land', used for building construction. Its tenure changes in the land records, which obviously it is meant for higher taxes. The law was originally designed by the British Raj.<br />
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Hence, Land becomes a Commodity. Our ancient belief / faith / sentiment of 'Mother <br />
Land' — also as “Vande Mataram” depicts — , then turns into a mechanical ritual of 'Bhoomi Pooja' – worship of land – whether a cultural custom or religious ceremony. Its cultural or religious sanctity is long lost into oblivion.<br />
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None, either the orthodoxy or the religious, ever came to her - Mother's - rescue.<br />
Wars are waged for ownership of land though. Our 'cultural police' are quiet on the issue for long, long lost! <br />
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The adivasi – aborigine – communities in India, and elsewhere too, continue to believe that 'no one – an individual or a group – has right to own the Land', behave and live for millennia. The onslaught wrecked on them by the civilized societies, for the past five thousand years, did not change their belief, behaviour and way of living.<br />
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Architecture - What is it? Basically a Shelter!<br />
Personally for me architecture has been only a Utility, a means for survival. I don't hold that ‘title’ any more. I was, perhaps the 1ST “Idiot”, long before Aamir Khan’s movie, “3 Idiots”, came; I had unceremoniously walked away from the first day of final, qualifying examination.<br />
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They – the aborigine – believe, behave and live, 'Walk the Talk', whole heartedly in harmony with Mother Nature to sustain living.<br />
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Land Revenue Act and its instrument 'Land Survey Maps' have been more sinister than the black law, the 'Land Acquisition Act' that followed. It was a sinister blow to the ancient 'Unwritten Law of Mother Nature'.<br />
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©Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.5957902 72.232208900000032 19.556177199999997 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-44925428256741444002013-01-18T10:30:00.000+05:302015-04-05T20:01:48.459+05:30LEARNING AIDS IN BOOKS! <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Survival and Life in Mumbai – Daily Bread</span></h3>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Squatter Mother, Child and Hearth, in Mumbai</td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two
generations have born and grew up in Mumbai in subhuman conditions. But
no one knows how to give them fair deal as citizens of this great
nation. </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In
Mumbai about 60% persons live in "Grey Land Use Zone", which is illegal
or unrecognized. They landless, homeless, displaced and marginalized in
their motherland. The elite are chasing them away everywhere.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Precious
childhood learns life-supporting skills in the nursery school of Life
itself: there is no better teacher anywhere. What memories would they
carry as they grow-up? Who knows? They may not have entered even the
Census Survey of India.</i> </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The marginalized and displaced have no demands even for their needs </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">from anyone.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This
hawker on street has her kin and clan and close-knit community
scattered in city: They don't suffer Identity crisis, though homeless in
their Motherland. </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>"यही मुंबै मेरी जान ।"<br />This Mumbai My Love!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>This street vender, though s/he may be illiterate, but knows well:</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>about 'survival' (meaning, to live sanely) better than 'Authority';</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>about what things sell in this metropolis;</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>about life that teaches lessons in the country-wide-classroom;</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>about authority that is a faceless entity;</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>about glossy paper books that fail to teach lessons in Real Life, Down to Earth;</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>about the pampered kids pushed to live in the Virtual Reality, day in out;</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>And about how to save to her portable shop, from the baton... </b></span></li>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nSf3QWTrbWg/UPTytt4E-gI/AAAAAAAAE3M/8AH9LAXt7m0/s1600/Learning-aids-in-Mumbai-3.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nSf3QWTrbWg/UPTytt4E-gI/AAAAAAAAE3M/8AH9LAXt7m0/s400/Learning-aids-in-Mumbai-3.jpg" height="300" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Street vendor in Mumbai</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>There are many dimensions to this frugal figure acquired through the glorious past, an Epic Poem in Person.<br /><br />The
elders hardly have time to take their kids to nearby places to look at
vegetable & fish market, grocery shop, gardens and parks - though a
very few, paddy farms on the outskirts of the city/suburbs or town,
which offer innumerable variety in every aspect described in these
glossy books, and much more.<br /><br />Poor kids! Despite affluence they don’t have grandparents who could help, nearby... <br /><br />Children
have countless curiosities — questions, keen observation with all their
senses, above all, their spontaneity and innocence!<br />But before long,
before they see, experience and understand the real world around them,
not even their immediate neighbourhood, they are pushed into Virtual
Reality: Ready canned food, drinks, spices, views in TV, cell phone,
MP3, Info-Technology.<br />At a tender age of 2-3, they are admitted into a
public domain called 'nursery school', when they are not even
introduced to their kin and clan: So they become 'smart' guys 'n gals.<br />This is rubbing salt on the wounded cohesive collective by the demise of joint family.</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Can a school impart social values, which kinship and community could inculcate without a paid lecturer?</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Could the Industry & Trade remove this social lack of values and morality?</b></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>Can a physicist
and an economist sitting on high chairs at the helm of country's affairs
provide answer with rockets and global market economy?</b></span></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><b>∴ The elders, each one, should try to find the answers.</b></span><br />
(08-01-2013) <br />
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Life
is larger than all Arts, Sciences, Religions, Philosophies, trade,
technologies, States... through times and places, — Remigius de Souza</div>
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©Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Mumbai, Maharashtra, India19.0759837 72.87765590000003618.5957877 72.232208900000032 19.556179699999998 73.52310290000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-78639091510916440412013-01-04T11:30:00.000+05:302016-12-23T10:56:42.637+05:30Jama Mosque at Mandu: Music in Structure<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Great Mosque as Place in Public Domain</h3>
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...in the then existing kingdom. I looked at it before, and now too, as a citizen first and as a 'worker' to earn livelihood in architecture and town planning, once.</div>
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In the realms of Ethics and Aesthetics, whenever I look at it, this edifice as an event overwhelms me.<br />
In the realms of Environment - Ecology - Energy in Nature and Life, I have yet to reconstruct it as then existed.<br />
The NOW, however, exists as remains of history before us. Could we reconstruct with the missing elements, in Holistic Way? <br />
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The following snippets in photos and notes are a Virtual Reality, with many speaking blank spaces!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elevation-1, Jama Mosque, Mandu</td></tr>
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There are no applied decorations or embellishments here. The structural system, the true arch, itself creates intrinsic beauty to this place.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-03SVFkyO7sg/UOUEbcX2znI/AAAAAAAAEvY/xoKqQpQU3wE/s1600/2-Jama-at-Mandu-10-w.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="424" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-03SVFkyO7sg/UOUEbcX2znI/AAAAAAAAEvY/xoKqQpQU3wE/s640/2-Jama-at-Mandu-10-w.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elevation -2, Jama Mosque, Mandu</td></tr>
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It is evident in arches, domes, vaults... that make the whole structure with bare simplicity. <br />
The structure moves in harmony at different levels, and it lifts us up as in “Aazaan”; that is the beauty of the place.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">External View: Jama Mosque, Mandu</td></tr>
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The tropical sunlight plays an important role in traditional Indian architecture, whether it is intricate surface carvings in relief or austere plain finishes to early works.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Courtyard: Jama Mosque, Mandu</td></tr>
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There is a saying, 'Architecture is Frozen Music', which we witness here.<br />
The aging by centuries doesn't touch beauty. <br />
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The domes, I presume, may have been once covered with blue pottery tiles. There is another structure — tomb / mosque — at this complex that has a few blue tiles still left.</div>
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However, any artefact needs maintenance with care, in the spirit of place. Any restoration should be carried with sensitivity.</div>
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Jama Masjid is a religious building, hence also public place for all, all the people — the rich and the poor. We notice a remarkable difference between Jama and civilian buildings, palaces etc. Jama Masjid is still in a sound condition, and the other buildings, royal houses... are now in ruins or fast turning to total ruins.</div>
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The sense of proportion and scale executed in buildings, in longevity of the two domains — public or the Collective and the private — by the then feudal powers, and their builders, are indeed remarkable.</div>
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Compare the two in this reference, today's Power-holders in the secular, socialist and democratic India, and the situation of the public places — water and wetlands, public distribution system (PDS), healthcare, play and games (example: CWG), education, transport systems etc.</div>
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Look at the places under the domains of the power-holders' classes, and in the public domain. Look at the squandering of the scarce resources of the Earth, for their power, profit and self-glorification, which is neo-feudalism, anywhere. One glance is enough to understand for any sane mind!</div>
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Wealth comes from the soil — grain and/or mineral, not from a mint. What comes from the mint — currency — has no tangible value.</div>
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I visited Mandu decades ago. Perhaps now there is some facelift—gardens with lawn, flowering shrubs etc. in fashion, being a place of tourist interest.</div>
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Most important part of the whole complex is the 'water management', which I could not document. This part, then, was covered with wild growth of trees, vines and shrubs, and almost impossible to access. I very much doubt if the authorities even attempted to restore this 'historical water conservation system'?<br />
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The entire complex at Mandu was executed by the Indian artisans. There were guilds of artisans or builders in historical times. They carried traditional knowledge and wisdom through generations. Vastushilpa or Traditional Indian Architecture, includes houses, palaces, temples, gardens, water-bodies, town planning and related subjects.<br />
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Mandu or Mndavgad is situated on the top of Vindhya Ranges.This region between Vindhya and Satpura Ranges had a dense forest. It is the ancient habitat of many adivasi communities - aborigine tribes. Forests are their lifeline.<br />
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Most of the forest cover is lost. It still continues to vanish. There great demand for timber to build cities. The civilized societies in modern times continue to deforest these hills is visible in these photographs. So also there are many hydro-electric projects for the wants of urban habitats.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">© Remigius de Souza, all rights reserved.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00213628127739279346noreply@blogger.com0Mandu, Madhya Pradesh, India22.348269833632283 75.39730310440063522.346433833632283 75.394781604400634 22.350105833632284 75.399824604400635tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35376671.post-17273887541693197082012-12-25T00:30:00.000+05:302013-10-29T08:43:11.153+05:30Formative Age of a Person<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"A child's feet are seen in the crib" (The feet show child's future) — How the child would lead life in future — a Marathi idiom. It indicates people's belief in fate. Isn't there any responsibility of the parents / guardians, teachers and society to help child's development? To say tradition is always best is merely a dogma.<br />
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Even plants turn around in search of light for their growth. In crowded plants each finds its way; sometimes they grow straight up and higher, sometimes bend around, in the direction of light. There are no quarrels, fights, arguments! (If there are any, we do not understand their tongue.)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This tree is on my usual walkway. During monsoon a beautiful creeper grew in the hollow of its trunk. One day found it vanished: Perhaps a dutiful street sweeper had removed it. At the same time new shoots grow from the trunk and roots. </span></div>
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Wherever there is natural thick tree cover, especially in the mountain ranges, there we get to see such a scene, also in a mass plantation. In cities, too, on the street pavements, the transplanted saplings (from nurseries) helped by watering, invariably grow in various directions.<br />
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Municipalities probably do not know the right "places and spaces" for the growth of various plants. Oh, those who don't know about the appropriate 'place and space' for the growth of humans, how could they have any concern for the plants?<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On pavements of Mumbai/ two generations of the displaced and
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There is an idiom, 'under a great tree other plants don't grow'. However, it is applicable to plantation by humans. Actually, it refers to great persons, or humans, certainly not great trees.<br />
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In a natural forest, a great tree supports many a animal and plant species. <br />
Cut down a great tree and see what happens. It not only destroys Life of so many species, but also, affects environmental balance, reduces ground water, causes desert to expand, droughts and famines begin...<br />
But what is it to the egocentric, greedy power-mongers? No regrets or shame! If poor ryot starve, it is not a spicy news story!<br />
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Mother Nature, 'Srishti', provides resources (and autonomous functions) for the sustenance and protection to all the species — their body and mind — in their schema, may they be bacteria or human species. Her management is not at all like that of selfish, power-greedy civilized societies. Not even their gods (of human species) can interfere in Mother Nature's affairs.<br />
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Nature, here, isn't romantic greenery in poetry / fiction. Just as Mother Nature occupies all the known-unknown universes, so also is within us.<br />
She does, so do we, want us to grow in body and mind, which requires appropriate 'place and space'. </div>
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Here, 'place' is not area, i.e. sq ft/sq m area by government rule book. And 'space' is not 3D box/block in geometry. </div>
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First example is of the collective, and second is of an individual. These are two far ends of recent examples from civilized society. <br />
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1st. In Vietnam a generation was born on the war field, grew up with gun and fought war with the US. The US lost the war.<br />
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2nd: Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of former Baroda State. His relations with British Raj are well known. His comprehensive development work for People is more eye-catching than his worldly wealth.<br />
Who was Sayajirao? A boy, from a humble family, adopted in the royal family to be a king!<br />
What is the use of mere wealth of a rich person without right formation? Truly he was 'Rajarshi', Sage-King or Sage-Statesman.<br />
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Between the two ends in the above two examples, it may be worth to examine a million cases. But the advance societies/experts stop short at sample surveys. In their tongue there is no idiom, 'as many persons that many characters'.<br />
Otherwise they often publish reports, about Internet, TV, cell phone users etc.<br />
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There is a third example, outside civilized society. Here it is mentioned only for record though most important. Most people are not familiar about them. They are the aborigines, 'adivasi', communities in India and the world. Their communities and culture have beginning in the remote ancient times.<br />
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<b>Notes:</b><br />
1.The poster was written while I was writing a number articles on education during past three decades.<br />
2. This post is translated from the original post published on my Marathi blog: <a href="http://remichimarathiboli.blogspot.in/2012/12/blog-post_21.html" target="_blank"><i>REMICHI MARATHI BOLI</i></a>.<br />
3. I have written few notes about the aborigines in India. Some are published in print and on this blog.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">"Never Depend On Strangers".<br /><br />"Remember Son, if you ever need helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm."<br /><br />"And if you want your dream to come true, Don't Sleep."<br /><br />"I met all challenges, reaped rewards and found myself with everything a man could ask for including an outstanding collection of doubts, misgivings and ambivalence in all sides."<br /><br />"A penny is a lot of money if you haven't got a cent."<br /><br />"1+1=2 fine in the school. At home 1+1=2 What?"<br /><br />"1 pair of skates = 12 violin lessons."<br /><br />"1 phone call = 1 carfare to a museum."<br /><br />"4 movies = 1 shirt."<br /><br />"1 bicycle = 10 pairs of eyeglasses."<br /><br />"5 ice-cream sodas = 2 pairs of socks."<br /><br />"You mustn't lie, but you don't have to tell the truth either. Just keep your mouth shut."<br /><br />"For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people."<br /><br />"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness."<br /><br />"For slim figure, share your food with the hungry."<br /><br />"For beautiful hair, let a child run fingers through it."<br /><br />"For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone."</span></span></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poverty inflicted by the powerful classes of civilized societies by various means -wars, famines, monopolizing the resources of the Earth for their greed for Power and Profit on the weaker sections.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Poverty by Choice to live by taking minimum resources from the earth for the survival and living in harmony with nature, like the aborigine - adivasi - communities of the world.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Choose only one necessity now out of two or more options for expenditure. </span></li>
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<li>Until the age of eighteen it went on like this. By then I had acquired skills in farming, cooking, house maintenance, etc. besides hundreds of errands that village kids are involved. At this level self-help is the cheapest and most economical option available for those who face scarcity.</li>
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During the study at college, learning and working to support education went together.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even after the college studies, there never was surplus to splurge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These strategies took shape during childhood. There was none to advice, no newspapers, no radio. One learns by watching what others do, whatever is happening around, thinking and learning by self-access.<br /><br />I was six year old then. My mom, with my brother in arms, and I were displaced, marginalized and became landless peasants. We walked barefoot to another village. From that time on I was earning (working) while learning (schooling), mom's young helper.<br />ECONOMY IS NOT MONEY.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was war time away in other continents. Yet in remote far away corner of our village its brunt was felt. Happily we were in village. It was far different economy then. The Land, Water and Plants did provide to those who were ready for the BROWN CALLER VOCATION. </span></div>
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NOTE: In 1985, I borrowed this autobiographical book from public library. I should have noted the publisher's name etc. The book was written soon after World War II. I have been going through the resource crunch. No one was there to advice me. But I knew the difference between Needs and Wants. This advice is speaking my mind.</div>
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