random thoughts (continued)

The news papers flashed thenews of death of Rajhesh Khanna and my thoghts flew to the days when i became an admirer of Hindi movies. Yes The movie Aradhana and the ambience of Safire theatre of yester years came in mind in lightning speed.I have admired Rajesh kahnna for many things and most imprtantly his subtle ways of cmmunication of his love feelings.ARADANA, AMAR PREM AND ANAND are movies which i have time and again seen in thosedays which left lifelong imprints in mind.After death of Sivaji Ganeshan and Savithri Ganesh of TAMIL CINEMA the death of Rajesh khanna unsettled me .And tehn came to my mind the famous couplet of Thiruvalluvar. 'THIS WORLD IS FAMOUS FOR THE FACT THAT HE WHO LIVED YESTER DAY IS NO LONGER ALIVE TO DAY" and hence the urgency and the need to live each day to its fulfillment. That takes me to an achievement of sorts by one of my nephews who had spent his lonely time in Malaysia to focus on Haiko poetry and carved a niche for him in a short span of time .He already had a BOOK to his credit on Haikoo in 2012 and his name Ramesh Anand is a well known name in Haikoo circles in more than half a dozen countries.That indeed is an attainment poiting to the way in which our energies can be dovetailed. The question which i often ask myself , thanks to my favourite authors Balakumaran and Jeya kanthan (in reverse order) is as to whether i have lived my life with a purpose. And the question keeps raisng more often after retirement since more time is available to ponder.And when i look at the list of rsponsibilities that i have to discharge, the passions that i have to justify and the goals that i have set for my self (which ofcourse keeps cahging) i can say with contentment that i have always been scoring more than 80% in my self appraisal. And that is good, because the moment i rate my self as 100% achiever, i think life will become boring. And i wonder as to why our scientists keep spending their time and energy on things which have been settled long back, (when there was no modern equipments and lab to support their findings)in INDIA. WHETHER it be discovery of God particle, or the discovery of likely availability of water in MARS AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.Indian sastras talk about 14 logas (worlds) , seven above and seven below the earth.And what is now being unearthed is one of the 14 worlds probably.And the amount spent is in trillions of dollars which can very wellbe pent to remove the poverty of crores and crores of population on this earth itself. And the types of crimes being committed which are on the rise is a cause for concern.The recent incident in Gauhati SHOULD MAKE US TO HUNG OUR HEAD IN SHAME.tHERE used to be classes in yester years imparting moral instructions and value systems to the students.But now in modern worldwith every student as well as their parents under a series pf pressures to perform and excel, there is no room or time for imparting values.I pray for the reversal of this trend if this world is to remain worthy of living. More thoughts to flow>>>