Another wicket goes down

At the outset, sorry , if i have misled some one.

This post has got nothing to do with cricket.
Ofcourse the strange coincidence is that when i started penning (or typing!!) this post, the hot news of Dhoni's engagenment with his (s)c(h)ool friend on the night of 4th July at Dehradun has started doing rounds.

This post as i said is about some other wickets falling down. Those who are familiar with tamil nadu , must have been keenly watching and at times wondering about the Religious gurus and their ways of life.

It all started with a bang on one of the Deepavali nights in the Holy City of KANCHIPURAM , when the Hindu community in general and the brahmin community in particular witnessed one of the greatest shocks.It was when the Sankarachryas were arrested by the police(under the then Government of TAMILNADU Under Selvi JAYALALITHA'S REGIME )for alleged involvement in the murder of a priest which took place in one of the temples. Subsequent interrogations revealed so many other facets (which is not the subject matter of this post). SUFFICE TO say that the accusations relate to morality of the individuals concerned.Now almost several years have passed since then.Several appeals,counter appeals, interrogations , defence witnesses and witnesses which turned hostile and to add to that list (last but not the least), one of the famous women writers who was a witness for prosecution then (Ms Anuradaramanan) breathed her last , in the recent past.Thus the whole case is likely to fizzle out, as it stands now.

Then came the news of one of the archagars (again from KANCHIPURAM) getting caught in compromising postures inside the sanctum sanctorum.The vedeo clippings are stated to have been a key source of revenue for several vedeo shops in KANCHIPURAM and later in several parts of chennai and superbs too.Here again there were juicy news items in several news papers and TVs and then it lost its steam.

To add to the basic instincts, then came the FLASH BROADCAST of Swami Nithyananda's clip with one of the heroines of the yester yers MS Ranjitha.This story has again lots of twists and turns including an anticlimax of a claim to teh effect that Swami NITYNANADA is neither a male nor a female.Hence no charges of sexual escapade can be levied against him!!There were also allegations of millions of Money laundered, involvement of foreign elements ansd so on and so forth.Slowly the acton scene shifted from Chennai to Karnataka and then ,the usual silence.No body knows when the truth will be out.

Add to this list, the latest, BANGARU adiglar(affectionately called as Amma by his disciples) arrested during this week for running educational institutions with out proper approvals, for amassing huge unaccounted money,for having failed to maintain proper tax records and so on and so forth.

The list is endless. But at the same time in most of the case real truth never comes out, either by design or by accident.MANY A TIMES it is suspected that there is always a political vendetta behind such events. Let me ask the following questions to drive home my point.

Except the case of the archagar Devnathan, all others about whom i have made a reference have reached their fame and name over years.Their followers which started like drops became ocean in no time.The educatuonal institutions, the hospitals , the trusts which they run have come to stay over aperiod of time.Are we to believe that the Government was not aware of all these all along?If it be so , it is a shame on the rulers to have allowed it to have grown to this extent.If it is not so, it means the rulers got what they wanted all along and now there is a tiff and hence the fall out.Here again it does not speak well of the government.

AND AGAIN THERE ARE MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS.The intimacy between a male and a female is their personal choice.Yes, to some extent one can say that preachers should be role models. But all of us are aware that preaching is done for others and not for self.Our political leaders themselves will vouch safe for this statement.And that being the case, who gave the liberty to any one to get hold of such intimate moments and to broad cast (and take a hike in Ratings for their channel viewership?).Some of our political leaders them selves have children with out marriage, practice a life of polygamy and what audacity they have got to sit in judgement over others. Is it because that in the name of secularism, to woo the minorities, the majority religion is targeted??

There are issues of more paramount imporatnce. Drinking water is gooing to be the biggest problem in days to come.More and more fertile lands are slowly becoming deserts. there is no substitute available for power. and load shedding is the order of the day. Infrastructure creation is pathetic. Our rulers act like monkeysMahatma's favourite) when it comes to seeing good , hearing good and speaking good.And their time and energy is spent in claiming ONE MORE WICKET!!!