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Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Onam
My dear friend vallabhi has posted about onam here. , I guess she says it all. :) - don't have any thing to add :)
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Saturday, August 21, 2004
going home,
/me is going home..... :)
still one more week left for onam, but just one more week,, and i am HOME :) :D ¶ 4:12 PM 1 Comments
still one more week left for onam, but just one more week,, and i am HOME :) :D ¶ 4:12 PM 1 Comments
Thursday, August 12, 2004
Empires crumble,..
If history can teach us any thing, It is this,
no empire on earth survived for very long compared to the history of established modern settlers. [starts at about 7000 BC.], The institutions too suffer the same fate, Most start with a core of people who believe in the central Idea/s?, and are bound by it. The commitment and loyalty to the institution or the empire begins to erode slowly, In many cases, The erosion is accelerated by the perception that the institution or the empire does not fulfill the central Idea as strong as it did during the time of its founders, which becomes a self fulfilling perception. As the time goes on, the things that were taken for granted are slowly questioned, and things that were questioned and understood once, are slowly taken for granted and ritualized. This process too accelerates the decay of the institution. As the empire reaches the stage when the core begins to rot, the central figures who guide the destiny of the institution/empire begin to concentrate on petty things that serve to reduce the glare of the rot with in. They too, thus fritter away the life energy of the empire and thus shorten the life span of it.
We see it happen every day in our life, and we read about it every day. Former institutions that were once mighty are pushed down. Educational institutions that once had great teachers now have people who rely on short sighted beurocracy to hold on to their positions. Politics was the first to fall after the independence. The institutions like army who were once thought to be above the lowly deeds now have men who regard themselves above the law.
Empires like USSR frittered away their energy in things that did not matter to their survival and fell quickly, [Perhaps US of A is on that path now.] May be even we Indians are on that slope. We have people in north (Kashmir), east(Nagaland/Manipur), south(TamilElam& Maoist) and west(Gugarath-VHP & MuslimTerrorist Orgs) who question the very idea of Indianness.
As each empire crumbles, the after shocks last for a very long time, if the result of that crumble was multiple entities, each of which could command significant power and could hold on their own. The case of Kerala, my native land after cheraman perumal, seems a case in point, But it seems that the shocks last much lesser if there is a single strong entity that arises when the original institution crumbles, so that the minor portions have to depend on it for survival. That entity is able to reduce the chaos that succeeds the dissolution of the empire. USSR is a good example of that kind of break up. with Russia acting as the dominant force. Chinese too were fortunate to have a long period of strong central rule, though by different dynasties.
It is not my attempt to document what is happening around me, but perhaps to suggest a way around, so that even if the main entities disappear, we could save some of the information or society that formed around it,
Perhaps we should pave the way for the newer entity to rise even while the older one is still going strong? It wont be possible once the rot has started, as the people into whose hands the control goes at the time of the rot will tend to have a priority towards maintaining their power than to save the institution or the empire, They would most likely regard the seed of new entity as a threat,
The way to do it might be to have the Institution have this seed in it even while it is forming and spreading its influence, so that it will carry the new seed which will break apart the old shell when the time has come, and rescue at least some portion of the old society its ideas and knowledge. It should be done in such a way that when the rot starts, the seed is able to maintain itself and even become a minor power center inside the main body, and should be a facilitator in the ultimate breakup.
The time of chaos when the dissolution comes will possibly depend on how perfectly the seed is able to grow into the shoes of the old as the old decayed.
info:
chinese
egyptian ¶ 2:35 AM 2 Comments
no empire on earth survived for very long compared to the history of established modern settlers. [starts at about 7000 BC.], The institutions too suffer the same fate, Most start with a core of people who believe in the central Idea/s?, and are bound by it. The commitment and loyalty to the institution or the empire begins to erode slowly, In many cases, The erosion is accelerated by the perception that the institution or the empire does not fulfill the central Idea as strong as it did during the time of its founders, which becomes a self fulfilling perception. As the time goes on, the things that were taken for granted are slowly questioned, and things that were questioned and understood once, are slowly taken for granted and ritualized. This process too accelerates the decay of the institution. As the empire reaches the stage when the core begins to rot, the central figures who guide the destiny of the institution/empire begin to concentrate on petty things that serve to reduce the glare of the rot with in. They too, thus fritter away the life energy of the empire and thus shorten the life span of it.
We see it happen every day in our life, and we read about it every day. Former institutions that were once mighty are pushed down. Educational institutions that once had great teachers now have people who rely on short sighted beurocracy to hold on to their positions. Politics was the first to fall after the independence. The institutions like army who were once thought to be above the lowly deeds now have men who regard themselves above the law.
Empires like USSR frittered away their energy in things that did not matter to their survival and fell quickly, [Perhaps US of A is on that path now.] May be even we Indians are on that slope. We have people in north (Kashmir), east(Nagaland/Manipur), south(TamilElam& Maoist) and west(Gugarath-VHP & MuslimTerrorist Orgs) who question the very idea of Indianness.
As each empire crumbles, the after shocks last for a very long time, if the result of that crumble was multiple entities, each of which could command significant power and could hold on their own. The case of Kerala, my native land after cheraman perumal, seems a case in point, But it seems that the shocks last much lesser if there is a single strong entity that arises when the original institution crumbles, so that the minor portions have to depend on it for survival. That entity is able to reduce the chaos that succeeds the dissolution of the empire. USSR is a good example of that kind of break up. with Russia acting as the dominant force. Chinese too were fortunate to have a long period of strong central rule, though by different dynasties.
It is not my attempt to document what is happening around me, but perhaps to suggest a way around, so that even if the main entities disappear, we could save some of the information or society that formed around it,
Perhaps we should pave the way for the newer entity to rise even while the older one is still going strong? It wont be possible once the rot has started, as the people into whose hands the control goes at the time of the rot will tend to have a priority towards maintaining their power than to save the institution or the empire, They would most likely regard the seed of new entity as a threat,
The way to do it might be to have the Institution have this seed in it even while it is forming and spreading its influence, so that it will carry the new seed which will break apart the old shell when the time has come, and rescue at least some portion of the old society its ideas and knowledge. It should be done in such a way that when the rot starts, the seed is able to maintain itself and even become a minor power center inside the main body, and should be a facilitator in the ultimate breakup.
The time of chaos when the dissolution comes will possibly depend on how perfectly the seed is able to grow into the shoes of the old as the old decayed.
info:
chinese
egyptian ¶ 2:35 AM 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Kerala
I was thinking recently about Cheraman Perumal. The last emperror [Chakravarthi] of Kerala,
He was one of the original Tamil princes.[ Chera Chola and Pandya].
He converted to Islam during his rule [Arabian merchants who came to kerala converted him,he went to macca and adopted Islam from Prophet Nabi himself.] Before leaving the shores of Kerala, He partitioned the country into many, [actualy twelve but the Indipendent centers that came into existence were these], the venadu swaroopam [kanyakumari-thiruvananthapuram] and perumpadappu swaroopam[cochi.] with small other centers too in the north like Comorin, Kollam, Ely (Kannoor- and later Kolathiri),and Malabar (Samoothiri).
The Kerala history never had a later time when the whole of Kerala was united again.
Later vasco-da-gama landed in calicut and The Dutch came in and constructed a fort in cochin, They utilized this power vacuum to establish their own power centers which ruled over the place,.. And this later made it possible for the British to annex the whole of India,
If only the first Chera Samrajyam [empire] had survived, we might have had the history flowing in a very different direction. ¶ 3:00 AM 0 Comments
He was one of the original Tamil princes.[ Chera Chola and Pandya].
He converted to Islam during his rule [Arabian merchants who came to kerala converted him,he went to macca and adopted Islam from Prophet Nabi himself.] Before leaving the shores of Kerala, He partitioned the country into many, [actualy twelve but the Indipendent centers that came into existence were these], the venadu swaroopam [kanyakumari-thiruvananthapuram] and perumpadappu swaroopam[cochi.] with small other centers too in the north like Comorin, Kollam, Ely (Kannoor- and later Kolathiri),and Malabar (Samoothiri).
The Kerala history never had a later time when the whole of Kerala was united again.
Later vasco-da-gama landed in calicut and The Dutch came in and constructed a fort in cochin, They utilized this power vacuum to establish their own power centers which ruled over the place,.. And this later made it possible for the British to annex the whole of India,
If only the first Chera Samrajyam [empire] had survived, we might have had the history flowing in a very different direction. ¶ 3:00 AM 0 Comments
Monday, August 09, 2004
Accident (again!)
Got into a real nasty accident today, I was turning into the office after giving all necessary road signals and such and a lady [and a little child] in a scooter rammed into my bike, The lady was hurt, with blood coming out of her nose and mouth but it seemed that the child was unhurt, My bike went for a toss, and I landed and bounced on my head . I usually am too lazy to wear the helmet, but do not know why I chose to wear it today, If i had not, that accident would have proved quite nasty. Since the onlookers saw the whole accident, I was able to leave after making sure that the lady and child was ok,
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