LOVE

We all love to be loved!

The joy of loving is sweeter. Dogs know it. I wish I could communicate with an elephant. It is great fun, having an elephant at home.

Tusks must be thick, widening outwards, should not grow downwards. The longer the trunk, the better. Head must be voluminous. The height is the most valuable assset. In pooram festival, the tallest animal stands at the centre and fetches extra money !

In Keralam, no one will buy a lady elephant,  sorry. 

Love between friends is unselfish, as also between a brother and sister. They demand nothing. They are ready to give anything.

I love the charactors whom I created in my stories. Once I start typing, they acquire a charactor of their own.

Between lovers it is an ethereal attachment, sweeter than music ! But only till marriage. Will there be an undemanding wife ? My sister Devasena is such a wife, a noble charactor !

WHY IS KRISHN BLACK ?

THIS IS PURE FICTION
Imagine Bali’s son discussing with Sugriv’s son, the plight of their country, after it was subjugated by the Aryan north.
Bin Bali :      Our fathers failed to antcipate the events to come. In the epic  Ramayana, they call us monkeys ! How shameful.
Bin Sugriv : They  got renegades like Hanuman and Vibhishan, in their attempt at domination of the south.
                  The story about the abduction of Sita was a lie.
                  Ravan will die if he touches a woman against her will? why did she not jump out of the aeroplane?
                  Yes, but what shall we do now ?
                  We shall take revenge. I shall be born as the son of Vasudev and you as the daughter of Drupad, and make the Pandavas and Kauravas fight each other. The whole of north Indian Aryans will fight on one side or the other, until only widows and children will remain alive.
                  But our colour will expose us. We shall be caught and killed.
                  My flute will mesmerise their women and make the men impotent.
                 I shall assume the guise of a woman and make the Pandav brothers dance to my tune.

The above imaginary conversation was meant to high light a fact, glossed over by most pundits.
Before the Krishna cult became almost universal in India, following the great poet Jaydev’s Bhajagovindam, some time in the sixteenth century (I always write from memory, as I am not in the habit of maintaining a notebook. Mistakes in names and dates are bound to happen), the prevailing deity was Lord Shiva. The author might have deliberately chosen the two villains of the story to be shown in black colour, to show his anger against these two charactors. There was a war, not earlier than three thousand years, and the exact reasons are not clear. The intention of the author was to show to the world, the horrors of war, and not to deify any body. He wanted to say that, whatever the cause, war is always despicable.

 Today this message is very relevant. Wars are thrust on us by arms manufactorers and their henchmen.
Any reader who examines the role of these two black charaters, will inevitably come to the conclusion that Krishn and Krishna are the villains. After the publication of Bhajagovindam, things became confusing. How can  God be blamed as a villain ? So there was an attempt to white wash Krishn. Now, no one will agree that he is black. My wife, to whom I mentioned this, argued that Krishn is blue and not black !
 Geeta was afterwards inserted in the epic, in order to justify Krishn. In all the rest of the book, he is referred as simply Krishn. In Geeta he became Shrikrishn. I have been influenced by Kuttykrishna Marar’s Bharataparyatanam, in which charactors in the book have been mercilessly exposed ! He painted Karna as the only one, who remained stead fast to his principles. (the late K.P.C.ANUJAN BHATTADIRIPAD, my close friend, whose untimely departure caused me unearable pain, gave me the book to read) When approached by the wily Kunti, to hand over his protective shield, given by his father Sun to save him from all evil powers, he gave her what she asked for, paving the way for his own death.

 He remained stead fast to his friend Duryodhan to the end. As Mark Twain said: every one will be on my side, if I do the right thing. He who backs me even when I do wrong, is the true friend.(not the exact words)
The relationship between Karna and Duryodhan is an example of true friendhip. Krishn even offered him the the Crown, after the war, if he sided with Pndavas; he point blank refused. Vibhishan would have eagerly accepted it !