Ambimama - India

The Indian government has finally reponded to the attrocities on Indian women. Especially in Gulf and other Arbabic countries. Every year millions of women from southern states of Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh go to Gulf countries to work as house maids. nurses and teachers.

They are all exploited by the employers and given no salary (already on poor salary), tortured mentally and abused sexually.

So the Government of India has put a ban on women below 30 to enter countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Libya, Sudan…well a long list of Arabic countries.

This exposes the treatment of women by the Arabic culture. And sure I appreciate the Government in taking proper steps.

A few days back there was news that Amte, a great social worker from Maharashtra was denied a US visa due to his his economy status.

Amercians have a feeling that to do community service (social work as it is called here in India) one needs a lot of money. On the contrary in India to do social work you need a strong mind, faith and above all mercy in your heart.

Once your goal is known to the people, money flows in automatically. People take care of you.

Maharashtra association in USA had sponsored Amte and wanted to honour him. He had been doing great work for 33 years helping the leprosy affected and poor people creating employment opportunities. He himself gets an honorium of Rs.3000/- per month. This amount sure is not accepatable and the US Consulate applied their rules and denied him a visa.

Then the Association explained and the Bombay Consulate apolozised and delivered the visa to his home in Nagpur which is several kms away! That is a fantastic job!

But today’s news item says two top men in Senate are trying to pressurize the US government in denying Hi-B visas to employees of Wipro and leading IT companies. This is because the skilled Americans are denied jobs.

I really cannot understand this. This means Americans themselves admit they are not as skilled as the Indians. And in a project the team which is doing it in order to complete must go to the spot (USA, UK or any where in the World) and complete the job. Suddenly no new face can enter and complete the job!

I have seen many oil companies in Gulf allowing many Europeans from abroad and complete the projects. Even in India one can see experts from abroad coming and completing the on-going projects. So what is wrong in our experts going there?

Sure the Senate and US government must understand this simple aspect!

I was tagged by fellow bloggers to come with an article on R. K. Narayanan’s “Malgudi Days”. Here…

R.K.Narayan is the famous subtle comedy writer from Bangalore. His famous Novel “The Guide” was made into a film, in which Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman have acted. I saw the film when I was young and in Bombay (Mumbai).

And I have never missed seeing his “Malgudi Days” which was shown in DD. Girish Karnad acts as the main character in the serial. The opening music, a mild flute note, the Malgudi Railway station in Mysore and Malgudi are all imaginary places and the entire small series of incidents makes you smile, laugh or enjoy.

The subtle comedy by R.K. Narayan is more than P.G. Woodhouse offers.

Malgudi-O-Palooza is a nice way to celebrate R.Knarayan’s 100th year celebration.

R.K.Laxman, the world famous cartoonist for Times of India daily, is the brother of R.K.Narayan. Laxman’s common man character is very famous all over the world.
In an interview to DD some months back on Doordarshan R.K.Laxman with his wife spoke about his experiences, life and work. Such a simple man! When he was invited to Germany the man at the airport to receive him had just the symbol of common man as his display to make Laxman find the person waiting to receive him!

I really miss the golden days of my childhood when my father sent me to look after his sick uncle (wonder what is his name? ambimama!). My village, the streets, the landmark “Ottai Pana Maram” (Tall standing out Palm tree) exactly resemble “Malgudi-O-Palooza”.

I remember to have walked daily 6 kms to buy medicines and other home needs during my stay of one month! There was only a small transistor to listen AIR (All India Radio). And the news read Sarojini in her authentic voice, followed by carnatic music and some film songs! And drama in Tamil.
“Malgudi-O-Palooza” really takes me back to my golden days when life was simple, enjoyable and responsible.

Here, I tag five others to write on this topic:

Ammani
Ramya
Sambhar Mafia
Upon Extrospection
The Mottai Boss

Uma started all this here.

I really miss the golden days of my childhood when my father sent me to look after his sick uncle (wonder what is his name? ambimama!). My village, the streets, the landmark “Ottai Pana Maram” (Tall standing out Palm tree) exactly resemble Malgudi.

I remember to have walked daily 6 kms to buy medicines and other home needs during my stay of one month! There was only a small transistor to listen AIR (All India Radio). And the news read Sarojini in her authentic voice, followed by carnatic music and some film songs! And drama in Tamil.

Life was simple, enjoyable and responsible. Simple gadgets! Less worry. More time to laugh, visit temples and pray.

R.K.Narayan is the famous subtle comedy writer from Bangalore. His famous Novel “The Guide” was made into a film, in which Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman have acted. I saw the film when I was young and in Bombay (Mumbai).

And I have never missed seeing his “Malgudi Days” which was shown in DD. Girish Karnad acts as the main character in the serial. The opening music, a mild flute note, the Malgudi Raliway station in Mysore are all imaginary places and the entire small series of incidents makes you smile, laugh or enjoy.

The subtle comedy by R.K. Narayan is more than P.G. Woodhouse offers.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl