A view from the Hotel window on an early morning Sunrise time … Thro the widow glass
i was able to click this Memento with my Mobile camera ….Thanks to my mobile .
K.Natarajan
17/06/2019
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வாரம் ஒரு கவிதை ….” சுய தரிசனம் “
சுய தரிசனம்
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கண்ணாடியில் பார்க்கிறோம் நம்
முகத்தை தினமும் .. திரும்பத் திரும்பப்
பார்த்து ரசிக்கிறோம் …அது சுய தரிசனம் !
கண்ணாடியில் தெரிவது இல்லை நம் சுய ரூபம் !
பார்த்தவுடன் தெரிவதில்லை நம்
சுய ரூபம் தன் மூக்கு கண்ணாடி
வழியே நம்மைப் பார்க்கும் அடுத்தவருக்கும் !
நம் கண்ணாடியும் காட்டுவதில்லை
நம் சுய ரூபத்தை ! அடுத்தவரும்
பார்ப்பதில்லை நம் சுய ரூபத்தை அவர்
கண்ணாடி வழியே !
நம்மைப் படைத்த இறைவனுக்கு மட்டும்
தெரியும் அவன் வசிக்க ஏற்ற இடமா நம்
இதயம் என்று ! நம் சுய ரூபம் என்ன என்று !
இறைவன் வசிக்க ஏற்ற இடமாக நம்
இதயத்தை மாற்ற தேவை ஒரு சுய
பரிசோதனை …சுய தரிசனம் நமக்கு !
இதயத்தில் இறைவன் குடி புகுந்து விட்டால்
ஒரு கட்டண தரிசனமும் தேவை இல்லையே
நமக்கு அந்த இறைவனை தரிசிக்க !
K.Natarajan
in http://www.dinamani.com dated 12/06/2019
வாரம் ஒரு கவிதை ….” சித்திரம் பேசுதடி …”
சித்திரம் பேசுதடி …
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நீல வண்ண சித்திரம் என்னை
விண்ணிலிருந்து பார்த்து ரசிக்கும்
மனிதா நீ மண்ணில் என்னை சிதைப்பது
என்ன நியாயம் ?
உன் பூமித்தாய் கேட்கிறேன் உன்னை
உரிமையுடன் ! நீ இருக்கும் சோலைவனம்
விட்டு வேற்று கிரகத்துக்கு செல்கிறேன்
என்கிறாயே ! உன் விண்வெளி போட்டியிலும்
பூமி நான் சரித்திரம் படைப்பேன் மனிதா !
ஏன் தெரியுமா …சித்திரம் நான் உனக்கு
மட்டும் சொந்தம் இல்லை … உன் பிள்ளைகளுக்கும்
நான் சொந்தம் ! புரிந்து நடந்து கொள் மனிதா !
நடராஜன்.K
in http://www.dinamani.com dated 06/062019
06/06/2019
Morning Breakfast for my Winged Guests at my Terrace …..
Every Day a Group of pigeons wait for me to serve Food to them on their Table and Floor . of my Terrace.
On one such day i videographed their presence thro my mobile camera .
May like to see and Share
K.Natarajan
03/06/2019
வாரம் ஒரு கவிதை ….” இரட்டையர் “
இரட்டையர்
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முகம் ஒத்துப் பிறக்கும் குழந்தைகள்
இரண்டு ….அவர் இரட்டையர் !
குழந்தைகள் முகம் பார்த்த உடன் தெரிந்து விடும்
அவர் இருவரும் இரட்டையர் என்று !
புறம் ஒரு முகம் அகத்தில் வேறு முகம்
என்று இரு முகம் கொண்டு ஒரே ஒரு
முகம் மட்டும் வெளியில் காட்டும் மனிதர்
சிலரும் உண்டே நம்மிடையே !
புரட்டி புரட்டிப் பேசும் இந்த “இரட்டியரை”
சொல்ல முடியுமா “இவர் இரட்டியர் ” என்று ?
Natarajan K in http://www.dinamani.com dated
22/05/2019
வாரம் ஒரு கவிதை ….” பார்த்து நடந்து கொள் …தம்பி “
பார்த்து நடந்து கொள் …தம்பி !
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காசை தண்ணீர் போல செலவு செய்றான் பாரு
இப்படி ஒரு சொல் கேட்டோம் நாம் ஒரு காலம் !
இன்று காசு கொடுத்தாலும் தண்ணீர் இல்லை !
தெரு குழாயில் தண்ணீர் பிடித்து தாகம் தணித்த
காலம் மாறி கையில் வாட்டர் பாட்டிலுடன்
சுற்றுகின்றோம் இன்று !
தண்ணீரை காசு போல கணக்கு பார்த்து செலவு
செய்யும் காலத்தில் நாம் இன்று !
தண்ணீருக்கு வந்த நிலைமை சுவாசிக்கும்
காற்றுக்கும் வர வேண்டாம் ..தம்பி !
பார்த்து நடந்து கொள் தம்பி ..
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ஒரு வாரத்துக்கு தேவையான ஆக்ஸிஜன்
சிலிண்டர் ஒன்று இலவசம் உங்களுக்கு சுவாசிக்க
என்று தேர்தல் நேரத்தில் கட்சிகள் எல்லாம்
அறிவிக்கும் அவலம் நேர வேண்டாம் உன்
காலத்தில் !
பார்த்து நடந்து கொள் …தம்பி நீ !
K .நடராஜன்
17/04/2019
மற(றை)க்கப்பட்ட உண்மைகள்! – வீட்டில் விளக்கேற்றுங்கள்!….
‘விளக்கு ஏற்றிய வீடு வீணாய் போகாது’ என்று ஒரு பழமொழி உள்ளது.
வீட்டிலும், கோவிலிலும் ஏன் விளக்கேற்றுகிறோம் தெரியுமா?
தீபத்தின் சுடருக்கு, தன்னை சுற்றி உள்ள தேவையற்ற எதிர்மறை சக்திகளை ஈர்க்கும் சக்தி உண்டு.
அவ்வாறு ஈர்க்கும்போது, தானாகவே, ‘பாசிடிவ் எனர்ஜி’ அதிகரிக்கும்.
நம் சுற்றுப்புறம் தெளிவாகவும், பலத்தோடும் காணப்படும். இரண்டு நாள் வீட்டில் விளக்கேற்றாமல் இருந்தால், வீடே மயானம் போல் தோன்றும். எல்லாருமே சோர்வாக இருப்பர்.
நம் உடலில் இருக்கும் ஏழு சக்கரங்களில் மூலாதாரமும், சுவாதிஷ்டானமும், நல்லெண்ணெய் விளக்கு ஏற்றுவதால் துாய்மையடைகிறது. அதேபோல், மணிபூரகம், அனாஹதம் இரண்டும் நெய் விளக்கு ஏற்ற, துாய்மை அடைந்து, நற்பலன்களை அடைகிறது.
நம் உடலில் இருக்கும் நாடிகளில் சூரிய நாடி, சந்திர நாடி, சுஷம்னா நாடி ஆகியவை மிக முக்கியமாக கருதப்படுகிறது.
* சூரிய நாடி, நல்ல சக்தியையும், வெப்பத்தையும் தருகிறது. சந்திர நாடி குளுமையை தருகிறது
* சுஷம்னா நாடி அந்த பரம்பொருளுடன் சம்பந்தப்பட்டு ஆன்மிக பாதையை வகுக்கிறது
* நல்லெண்ணெய் விளக்கு ஏற்ற, சூரிய நாடி சுறுசுறுப்படைகிறது
* நெய் விளக்கு, சுஷம்னா நாடியை துாண்டிவிட உதவுகிறது
* பொதுவாக நெய் தீபம், சகலவித சுகங்களையும் வீட்டிற்கு நலன்களையும் தருகிறது.
திருவிளக்கை எப்போது வேண்டுமானாலும் ஏற்றலாம்; இதற்கு தடையேதும் இல்லை.
ஆனால், பொதுவாக மாலை, 6:30 மணிக்கு ஏற்றுவதே நம் மரபு.
சூரியன் மறைந்ததும், சில விஷ சக்திகள் சுற்றுச்சூழலில் பரவி வீட்டிற்குள்ளும் வர வாய்ப்பிருக்கிறது.
ஒளியின் முன் அந்த விஷ சக்திகள் அடிபட்டு போகும். எனவே, அந்நேரத்தில் விளக்கேற்ற வேண்டும் என்கின்றனர்.
ஒரு நாளிதழில் வெளிவந்த நிகழ்வு இது: அமெரிக்காவில் இருக்கும் தன் மகனின் வீட்டுக்கு சென்றிருந்த ஒரு தாய், மாலையில், மகனும் – மருமகளும் தாமதமாக வீட்டுக்கு வருவதை பார்த்தார். இருவரும் வேலைக்கு செல்பவர்கள்.
ஒருநாள் மகன் முன்னதாகவும், ஒருநாள் மருமகள் முன்னதாகவும் வருவர்.
மகனை அழைத்து, தாமதமாக வரும் காரணம் கேட்க, ‘உனக்கு இதெல்லாம் புரியாதும்மா…
‘எங்கள் இருவருக்கும் பயங்கர, ‘ஸ்ட்ரெஸ்…’ இருவரும், ‘கவுன்சிலிங்’ போய் வருகிறோம்… ஒரு மணி நேரத்துக்கு அந்த டாக்டருக்கு கொடுக்கும் தொகை அதிகம். மிக சிறந்த டாக்டர், அவரது சிகிச்சையில் எல்லாம் சரியாகிவிடும்…’ என்று கூறினான்.
அதற்கு அந்த தாய், ‘நாளை அந்த டாக்டரை பார்க்க போக வேண்டாம்; சீக்கிரம் வீட்டுக்கு வரவேண்டும்…’ என்று கூறினார்.
அடுத்த நாள் மாலை, வீட்டுக்குள் நுழைந்த மகன் – மருமகள் மூக்கை சுகந்த மணம் துளைத்தது.
இருவரையும் கை கால் கழுவி, உடை மாற்றி, பூஜை அறைக்கு வருமாறு கூறினார், தாய்.
அவர்களும் அவ்வாறே செய்தனர். மணம் வீசும் மலர்களின் வாசம்… அழகான தீப ஒளி நிறைந்த அந்த அறையில் சற்றுநேரம் அமர்ந்து, இருவரும் தாமாகவே கண் மூடி அந்த சூழலின் இன்பத்தை அனுபவித்தனர். பின், கண் திறந்தபோது, ‘கவுன்சிலிங்கில் கிடைக்காத அமைதி கிடைத்ததாக சொல்ல…’ தாயார் மகிழ்ந்தார்.
இன்னொரு விஷயம்…
வீட்டில் பெண் குழந்தைகள் இருந்தால், அவர்களை தினமும் விளக்கேற்றும்படி சொல்ல வேண்டும்.
இப்படி செய்தால், அவர்களின் முகப்பொலிவு பன்மடங்கு கூடும். விளக்கேற்றிய வீடு, வீண் போகாது.
– பி.எஸ்.புஷ்பலதா in http://www.dinamalar.com
natarajan
This image of a migrant child went viral. Here’s the story behind it……
Photographer John Moore, who took the picture that has come to symbolise the horror of the new family-separation policy in the United States, reveals what happened that night.
A two-year-old girl in a bright pink shirt is crying. It’s the middle of the night, and she’s only visible thanks to bright lights, likely from cars and cameras. She’s sobbing, her head tilted back in fear as she looks up at a strange man touching her mother. But nobody can soothe her.
This image of a Honduran girl crying as United States Border Patrol agents search her mother has come to represent the heartbreak being experienced by illegal immigrants separated from their children.
Pulitzer prize-winning photographer John Moore has been documenting the immigrant experience for a decade, riding along with both Border Patrol agents and immigrant trains in order to get the story.
Speaking of the image, he speaks about the June 12 ride-along that resulted in the emblematic picture — not to mention the other heartbreaking photos he captured of this mother and child.
That fateful night
On June 12, after seeking access, he accompanied Border Patrol agents to the banks of the Rio GrandeRiver on the outskirts of McAllen, Texas.
Waiting with the guards for hours, he finally heard rafts coming across the river. They waited a little longer and then suddenly moved in to see nearly dozen of them – mostly women and children.
Describing that moment itself, Moore says, “Most of these families were scared, to various degrees. “I doubt any of them had ever done anything like this before — flee their home countries with their children, travelling thousands of miles through dangerous conditions to seek political asylum in the United States, many arriving in the dead of night.”
While the agents were trying to get the families into buses, he finally spoke to one woman who identified herself as a Honduran. She was travelling with her two-year-old. “The mother told me they had been travelling for a full month and were exhausted,” says Moore, who speaks Spanish. “They were taken into custody with a group of about 20 immigrants, mostly women and children, at about 11 pm,” he was quoted as saying to Getty Images FOTO.
Describing what happened next, Moore says, “Before transporting them to a processing center, transportation officers body searched everyone and the mother was one of the last. She was told to set the child down, while she was searched. The little girl immediately started crying. While it’s not uncommon for toddlers to feel separation anxiety, this would have been stressful for any child. I took only a few photographs and was almost overcome with emotion myself. Then very quickly, they were in the van, and I stopped to take a few deep breaths.”
Moore says he doesn’t know what became of the 2-year-old Honduran girl, adding that the asylum seekers he photographed likely had no idea of the new “zero tolerance” policy that has led to families being separated from their children, since they had been travelling for a month under harsh circumstances.
Source….www.rediffmail.com
Natarajan
Chennai’s pavement football stars….!!!
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com meets Chennai’s all-girl street children football team who competed in the Street Child World Cup in Moscow.
Their home may be on a pavement, but their eyes are bright with hope for the future.
Helping them through their rough times is their love for football.
In fact, these Chennai lasses have recently returned from Moscow, where they participated in the Street Child World Cup and won one of the five matches they played.
Their happy smiles mask the hard lives they have led.
One of the girls has been rescued from a child marriage, another from a stainless steel vessels manufacturing factory.
Two had to cope with a drunk father while two were abandoned by their fathers.
Their strength to face their circumstances came from practising advocate Paul Sunder Singh.
Singh’s abiding desire to help Chennai’s street children resulted in Karunalaya in 1995.
His hard work was noticed by the state government and, three years later, they gave him a grant that would allow him to look after 50 children in a shelter. The home now has 60 children.
“We encourage sports. It teaches both competition and discipline,” says Singh, who has a doctorate in criminology.
“We want to give these children a normal childhood and games play an important role in this effort of ours.”
Karunalaya only shelters runaway children from Tamil Nadu; the others are sent back to their home state.
“The biggest problem these children face is that they don’t have birth certificates,” Singh says. “As a result, they don’t have community certificates either and cannot benefit from government aid or schemes.”
“We get them admitted to schools through the Right To Education Act, but the schools want birth certificates which we cannot provide. All they have is Aadhar cards as the government is pushing that. Sadly, the government does not consider our problems.”
IMAGE: The team won one of the five matches they played at the Street Child World Cup in Moscow. Photograph: Kind courtesy Karunalaya
The Street Child World Cup, which was first held 2010, takes place in the city hosting the FIFA World Cup before the much-watched international tournament begins.
India, this year, was represented by an all-girls team from Karunalaya.
This is their third International outing.
In 2014, they sent a boys team to Street Child World Cup in Rio de Janerio.
In 2016, they sent a team of five to participate in the first-ever Street Child Games, also held in Rio de Janerio.
This year’s participants
share their story in their own words.
IMAGE: The all-girl Karunalaya football team. Photograph: A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com
Sangeeta, 18
I came to this shelter as a child after I was rescued from a steel factory where I was working.
I don’t stay here now. I stay on the pavement at Waltax Road (near Chennai Central railway station) with my mother.
My father was a drunkard who abandoned us.
My elder brother is working and my younger brother is also being educated by Karunalaya.
I studied in a municipal school. In my 12th exams, I got 798/1200 marks.
I want to do BSc in physical education as I like games. Karunalaya is helping me to find a sponsor for my education.
I learnt football in the summer camps that Karunalya conducts.
Nirosha, 15
I study in Class 9.
I was working and looking after my two younger brothers when I was rescued and brought to Karunalaya.
I am here since two years. Before that, I used to stay on the pavement at Mint Street (in Chennai’s commercial centre, George Town).
My younger brothers also stay here.
I study in the Church of South India school.
I have been playing football for two years now.
My mother is a daily wage earner. My dad abandoned us years ago.
Lakshmi, 17
My parents are ragpickers.
They could not repay Rs 2,000 that they had borrowed from a moneylender so they tried to get me married to him.
I escaped to the house of a friend, who also on stayed on our pavement near Koyambedu market.
I was rescued from my friend’s place and brought here four years ago.
I scored 248/500 in my Class 10 exams. I have opted for the arts stream for Class 12.
Later, I want to study social science and become a social worker.
If I get the opportunity, I will continue to play football.
Indu, 14
Karunalaya volunteers used to give tuitions to poor students near my place; that’s how I came to know about them.
My father works and my mother is a housewife.
My elder brother is in college and my younger brother is in Class 7. My father pays for their education.
I have been playing football here since two years.
Every year, we have a tournament in which every street has its own team.
I was lucky to go to Moscow to play. It was a great experience.
Masiya, 14
I am studying in Class 10 and my brother is in Class 11.
I stay on a pavement at Kasimedu.
My father has left us. My mother is a house maid.
I have been playing football for two years.
In Moscow, we managed to get by with English, but some of the other teams spoke different languages.
The matches were played in a friendly atmosphere.
This was the first time I travelled by plane.
Tamilarasi, 14
I am in Class 10.
Karunalaya has been helping me for the last two years now.
My father is a drunkard. When my parents separated, I stayed with my mother.
I have been playing football since two years. I am a good defender so my position in the team is a fullback.
S Gomathi, 14
I study in Class 9.
I stay with my family.
I have been coming since 18 months to play football.
The trip to Moscow was fun. The food was very different, but it was tasty.
We were there for 10 days. We stayed in a nice hotel.
This was my first World Cup.
Every year, we have an inter-street tournament in Chennai. I play regularly. I love football.
Ishwari, 15
I am staying in this shelter since four years. My younger brother is here too.
I have two elder brothers who have started working.
I am studying in Class 10.
My father left us long ago. I have been playing football for three years.
Geeta, 15
I have been with Karunalaya since two-and-a-half years.
My father is a coolie in the market and my mother is a maid.
I am in Class 10 and, later, I want to study science.
I have been playing football since two years and this game is my future.
Source….Ganesh Nadar in http://www.rediff.com
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A Woman of Many Firsts: Meet India’s First And Oldest Cardiologist!…
Stent, heart bypass surgery, heart attack…all of us have heard these painful terms amongst our loved ones at one time or another. But these were uncommon a generation ago.
So, what happened? How did we reach here?
In an attempt to understand the status of heart disease in India, Priyamvada Chugh reached out to India’s first and oldest cardiologist.
Meet Dr Sivaramakrishna Iyer Padmavati, who turns 101 this month, and still goes to the National Heart Institute in Delhi every day,which she founded in 1977.
Born in 1917, Dr Padmavati fled with her family from Burma to Coimbatore in 1941 during World War II. With the passion to make a difference, she studied medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Harvard Medical College in the USA with cardiology pioneers Dr Helen Taussig and Dr Paul Dudley White, respectively.
While returning to India in 1952 was a personal decision, it was the turning point for cardiology in India.
She has been the face behind several firsts:
- The establishment of the first cardiac clinic and cath lab at the Lady Hardinge Medical College, Delhi.
- The initiation of India’s first Doctorate of Medicine in Cardiology.
- Setting up cardiology departments at the prestigious Maulana Azad Medical College, GB Pant Hospital, etc.
- Founding the All India Heart Foundation, Delhi.
The list goes on. She accomplished all this in an era when cardiology was an unknown territory for most Indians, let alone for a woman.
To this Dr Padmavati says, “I pursued cardiology because there were very few courses available to women when I went to college, unlike today.” She was honoured with the Padma Bhushan in 1967 and the Padma Vibhushan in 1992 for her contributions to the field.
Having witnessed drastic changes in the incidence of heart disease in India over the last century, she says “Things were different earlier. Physical activity and a healthy diet were the norms. Now, times have changed.”
Burgers, fast food, and buttered paranthas, with eight hours of sitting in front of a computer, aren’t making things any better. As we move towards a machine-driven lifestyle characterised by increasing levels of stress, we invariably embrace unhealthy nutritional habits where heart diseases will only be on the rise.
Diseases of the heart have become the biggest killers of the modern times. According to reports from the World Health Organisation (WHO), heart diseases kill 17 million people around the world every year, and this figure is expected to rise to 23 million by 2030. The numbers are as horrific in India where 32% of all adult deaths are due to heart diseases.
Worryingly, heart disease in Indian youth is increasing rapidly, with 50% of all heart attacks occurring under 50 years of age and 25% occurring under 40 years of age.
So, what causes heart disease? Dr Padmavati answers, “The biggest reasons for heart disease are obesity, hypertension, diabetes and tobacco abuse.” High level of blood cholesterol is a common sign among obese people. Being a bad fat, cholesterol tends to get deposited in blood vessels, making them thinner and causing an increase in blood pressure, which weakens the heart.
Similarly, high salt intake also leads to increased blood pressure and eventually heart failure. Guidelines from the WHO recommend getting no more than 2.3 g of sodium a day, which is just one teaspoon of salt! As Indians, we are consuming almost twice that amount per day!
Another red flag for heart disease is high blood sugar, which gets converted to fat by the liver, raising the risk of heart disease. The American Heart Association suggests that we should consume less than 36 g of sugar per day, which is equivalent to just a single serving of a Rasgulla!
Can you imagine how many times the daily requirement of salt and sugar you have already consumed today? Studies show that exercising as little as 30 minutes every day decreases the risk of heart disease by up to 30%.
Limiting the intake of sugar and salt and increasing physical activity is the only way forward.
Another recommended strategy to strengthen our heart is by having at least 500 g of antioxidant-rich fresh fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes, pomegranates, spinach, grapes, etc. daily.
Several campaigns across the globe have been fighting these risk factors to reduce the incidence of heart disease. For instance, the Daily Mile Scheme, initiated in Scotland, is ensuring 15 minutes of morning run for school students across Europe. Norway has hiked the tax on sugar by 83% at the start of 2018, with products like candies and chocolates being taxed at almost $5 per kilo. In Finland, low-salt food options in the supermarket carry a “better choice” logo, and high salt foods have a mandatory warning sign.
In India, we neither have a sugar tax, nor a policy on salt consumption. So, for us Indians who worship food and love after-meal naps, it is time that we adopt something like Namak Cheeni Kam aur Exercize Zyada, karo apne Heart se ye Vaada (cut down your intake of sugar and salt and increase your exercise, make this promise for your heart).
Source….Health Heroes – This article is part of a series to celebrate some of India’s most amazing doctors and to understand the incredible work they are doing. http://www.the betterindia.com
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