Happy Republic Day!
It is good that some notable figures from karnataka have got fair due by way of awards.
SM Krishna's award is well earned. he does not belong to his community alone.
he has done well by the state and would have done even better if nature
and Raj kumar did not create hurdles.
he had vision, he had state interests at heart but perhaps lacked a perspective of long range.
so it is with most state leaders.
Bangalore was, is their success as well as failure.
come, come all was the call and they came in droves.
a bit of Bombay was implanted here.
Kadugodi was Whitefield.
now it is a minefield of opportunists.
rarely is any thought given to the groundwater levels of the city, especially the extended city.
why extend the city at all , one wonders.
they had their setups and their local colours.
well, the name of the game is power , first, middle and last.
and all parties are equally guilty.
the other awardees, Sudha Murthy and Dr Bhyrappa are known to me by reputation.
one respects those who swim against the tide.
the lady has to be appreciated for chalking out her own course from student days.
born in a family of doctors, she deliberately chose engineering.
when the Tata firm telco put up a notice at the Indian institute of science
inviting candidates with the codicil , women need not apply, she wrote to JRD TATA.
and the condition was waived .
still later she pledged her jewellery to raise cash for the fledgling company she founded along with her husband and a few others .
Infosys was one of a kind and still is .
as chairperson of the charities she is quite active.
she does remember that the college where she studied had no rest rooms for fair sex.
she constructed a few.
her deceptively simple attire has put off a few prima donnas who go more by show than content.
DR Bhyrappa has thrown fresh insights on Mahabharata.
they may not go down well with the orthodox but that is precisely the point.
the yardstick of originality.
the awards have also brought to wider notice the contribution of some artisans and artistes.
i am happy for another reason also.
the fourth guru in our Parampara, Sri Kamalesh Patel, has been awarded the Padma Bhushan.
for his excellent work in rejuvenating human values thru his Sahaj Marg meditation network.
we have perhaps the biggest meditation centre in the world at Kanha, near Hyderabad .
anyone interested in this training is welcome, and the training both online and offline is free.
to me personally the just concluded republic day has been one of good cheer.
may this cheerful phase benefit all of us , we, the people of india who have given ourselves this constitution.
