Marugela...Musugela

Generally, when a film doesn't become a hit, the efforts of many wonderful people get wasted. More so, when the film doesn't have a star cast. The beautiful songs in them doesn't reach the audience much.

I love melody songs a lot & last week I came across one such beautiful number. The song was from the movie 'Alludugaru Vacharu', released way back, in the year 1999. The film was directed by Raviraja Pinisetty & the cast includes Jagapathi babu, Kousalya & Heera. Keeravani provided the music for this film & lyrics are penned by none other than Sri Seetharama Sastry garu. I feel really bad that I didn't know this song all these days. Unfortunately, the video of the song was also not available on YouTube.


Am always been a fan of Sastry garu & his lyrics and this song made my respect for him soar many times.

Today...on his birthday...this is my tribute to an amazing human being & one of the best lyricists Telugu Cinema has ever produced.

Here's the lyrics:

Marugelaa....Musugelaa
Marugelaa....Musugelaa

O chandhamama... O chandhamamaaa...

Manasuna mallelu virisina vela
mamathala pallavi palikina vela
Mouname mohana raagamayevela...

Marugelaa...mabbu musugelaa
O chandhamama... O chandhamamaaa...

Maataki andhani oosulu leva..chupula lona
Chupu cherani seemalu leva...oohala lona

kanuchupulo chigurasalu
baruvaina reppallo bandhinchaku
madhi veedhilo swapnalaki
sankellu veseti jankendhuku

ooyalalupe mrudhubhaavale
upiri theeganu meetevela
Mouname mohana raagamayevela...
Marugelaa...mabbu musugelaa.....

Kanchana kaanthula kanchana bata kanabadaledhaa
kommana kusina koyila paata vinabadaledhaa

Uli thaakina sila maadiri
ulikuliki paduthondhi yedhalo sadi

chali chaatunaa marumalleki
maaraku puduthondho emo mari

chenthaku chere sumuhurthaana
aasalu theere aanandhaana

Mouname mohana raagamayevela...

Marugelaa...mabbu musugelaa.....

Chiru in Congress

Last week all newspapers were filled with the news that Chiru's PRP is merged with Congress. Since then, all my friends & family members started calling me to make fun of me. All this is coz, me being a hard core fan (may be not jus fan...probably AC). And, all of them still remember the hype I created when PRAJARAJYAM was formed on 26 August, 2008. I did my bit for PRP in making sure that all my friends & family members cast their votes for PRP candidates. Anyways, none of them won...that's a different issue.

But, when they heard the news that Chiru is merging PRP with Congress, all of them started calling me (as if, am the personal secretary for Chiru...Of course, I used to behave like that). And, the sad part is, all of them now feel that their PRECIOUS votes got wasted!!!

That is the reason, I thought of writing this blog.

The basic reason why cine stars join politics is to be in the lime light (which they have got used to all their career) even after their twilight years in the film industry. Stars who have money start their own party & those who doesn't have much, join the existing ones. Chiru is no exception. He also has a live example in the form of our own ANNAGARU (Sri NTR).

So...it is with these expectations, that Chiru started PRP. Nevertheless, it was a brave decision. But, he had a toughest opponent in the form of YSR. Chiru's glamour was not enough before YSR's might.

Even when he lost the election, Chiru didn’t hide his face from the press. He put up a brave face even though everything went wrong for him. But, going forward, the press started ignoring him. As always, maintaining a party which has lost elections is a herculean task. That too, with the hype with which he created PRP, it became even tougher. As days went on, the Telangana struggle started, some of his party MLAs started moving out. The rest are waiting for an excuse to jump. Even his brother Pawan Kalyan deserted him after the election defeat & never turned up at the party office. And, obviously, Chiru might have felt that he should not have started PRP at all & should have continued his acting career.

At that point of time, YSR died in a helicopter crash. Rosaiah became our new CM. As we all know, he never behaved like a CM. KCR saw an opportunity to make some news, and hence started agitation for Telangana. And the outcome…the state went to dogs.

Congress missed YSR badly. They needed a mass leader. Congress high felt that party was losing grip over the state. Added to that, YS Jagan Mohan Reddy was wooing MLAs to support him to become CM. They replaced Rosaiah with KKR. But, even then, the wafer thin majority that congress has in the state assembly was not sufficient to dodge the threat posed by Jagan Reddy. They saw an opportunity in Chiru and his PRP.

They re-started the process which YSR started (to woo PRP to join Congress).

So, when the proposal for the merger came, Chiru saw a ray of hope. Not because of the posts offered to him, but, he saw an option to let go off the burden of maintaining a failed party like PRP. He knows for sure that, by 2014, PRP will have only one MLA left & that will be himself. So, if he don’t act now, he will lose all his popularity that he has gained all throughout his career in films. People start saying all non-sense things like...'he should not have entered politics, blah..blah'. So, Chiru might have also thought that he looses his credibility by joining Congress & his fans will never accept this. But, that seemed the only way he can continue his political journey. And if, by Sonia ji's grace, if he can get any major role in state politics (Deputy CM or CM candidate for 2014 elections), fans will be happier then.

Congress needs a mass leader… Chiru wants a platform to showcase his strength. The result – CONGRESS + PRAJA RAJYAM = CONGRESS RAJYAM

Chiru's decision to merge his party with the Congress, for him personally, is after all not a bad decision. But, for people who voted for him, who believed that he will bring a change in the political scenario of the state, leaders who joined him from other parties…this was a BIG disappointment.

In a way, am happy for Chiru & not so happy for PRP. The climax could have been better.

Long live Democracy!!!

Jai Chiranjeeva! Jai Hind!!

ATM Inventer 'John Shepherd-Barron' died

The man credited with being the inventor of the world's first "hole-in-the-wall" cash dispenser has died, following a short illness.

John Shepherd-Barron, who was born in India, to Scottish parents, had been living in Portmahomack in Ross-shire.

He died at Inverness's Raigmore Hospital on Saturday, at the age of 84.

Mr Shepherd-Barron came up with the idea for a cash machine while in the bath. The first ATM machine was installed at a Barclays bank in London in 1967.

'MAHA KAVI' SRI SRI

Srirangam Srinivasarao (Telugu: శ్రీరంగం శ్రీనివాస రావు) or Sri Sri (born 30 April, 1910) was a popular modern Telugu poet and lyricist. He was born into a traditional Telugu Brahmin family from Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. Srisri is said to have taken the "telugu literary band wagon that travelled in roads of kings and queens into that of muddy roads of common man"

On his centenary birth anniversary, here's my tribute to one of the greatest poets of our time.

nEnu saitham prapanchaaniki samidhanokkaTi aahuticchaanu
nEnu saitham viSva vrushTiki aSRuvokkaTi dhaarapOsaanu
nEnu saitham... nEnu saitham.... nEnu saitham

THE THIRD EYE

The magnetic third eye that attracts attention

When Greek philosopher Pythagoras reached Egypt to enter a school -- a secret esoteric school of mysticism -- he was refused entry. And Pythagoras was one of the best minds ever produced. He could not understand it. He applied again and again, but was told that unless he goes through a particular training of fasting and breathing he cannot be allowed entry.

Pythagoras is reported to have said: "I have come for knowledge, not for any sort of discipline." But the school authorities said: "We cannot give you knowledge unless you are different. And really, we are not interested in knowledge at all; we are interested in actual experience. No knowledge is knowledge unless it is lived and experienced. So you will have to go on a 40-day fast, continuously breathing in a certain manner, with a certain awareness on certain points."

There was no other way, so Pythagoras had to pass through this training. After 40 days of fasting and breathing, aware and attentive, he was allowed to enter the school. Pythagoras reportedly said: "You are not allowing Pythagoras in. I am a different man; I am reborn. You were right and I was wrong, because then, my whole standpoint was intellectual. Through this purification, my centre of being has changed.

From the intellect it has come down to the heart. Now I can feel things. Before this training I could only understand through the intellect, through the head. Now I can feel. Now truth is not a concept to me, but life. It is not going to be a philosophy, but rather, an experience -- existential."

What was that training he went through? The technique was as follows: Attention between eyebrows, let mind is before thought. Let form fill with breath essence to the top of the head and there, shower as light.

Pythagoras went with this technique to Greece, and really, he became the fountainhead, the source of all mysticism in the West. This technique is among the deep methods. Try to understand it.

Modern physiology says that between the two eyebrows is the gland that is the most mysterious part of the body. This gland, called the pineal gland, is the third eye to Tibetans. It is the Shivnetra, the eye of the Shiva, of tantra. Between the two eyes there exists a third eye, but it is non-functioning. You have to do something to open it. Otherwise, it remains closed.

Close your eyes and focus both eyes on space in the middle of your eyebrows. Give total attention to it. This is one of the simplest methods of being attentive. You cannot be attentive to any other part of the body so easily. This gland absorbs attention like anything. If you give attention to it, both your eyes become hypnotised with the third eye. They become fixed; they cannot move. The third eye forces attention. It is magnetic. Your attention is brought to it forcibly. It is absorbed.

It is said in ancient tantra scriptures that, for the third eye, attention is the food. And once you feel that the gland itself is magnetically pulling your attention, it is not so difficult. For the first time you will see thoughts running before you. You will become the witness. It is just like a film screen: thoughts are running and you are a witness.

EPITAPH - what will be yours?

An epitaph is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively. Some are specified by the dead person beforehand, others chosen by those responsible for the burial.

Here are a few Notable epitaphs -

• Alexander the Great
• "A tomb now suffices him for whom the entire world was not enough"

• Clyde Barrow (unknown) - 1909 - 1934
• "Gone but not forgotten."

• Mel Blanc (by himself)1908 - 1989
• "That's all, folks!"

• Andrew Carnegie (unknown)
• "Here lies a man who knew how to enlist the service of better men than himself."

• Winston Churchill (unknown)
• I am ready to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

• Emily Dickinson (herself)
• "Called back"

• Eazy-E (Eric Wright)
• “We loved him a lot. But God loved him more.”
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• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• "Free at last. Free at last. Thank God Almighty I'm Free At Last."

• Frank Nitti (unknown)1881 - 1943
• "There is but no life without Death"

• Osho
• "Never born, never died: visited the planet earth between December 11, 1931 and, January 19, 1990."

• William P. Rothwell (unknown) from Rhode Island:
• "This is on me."

• Frank Sinatra (by himself) - 1915-1998
• "The best is yet to come."
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• Alexander Vasilyevich Suvorov - 1729-1800
• "Here lies Suvorov"

• Lucius Cornelius Sulla (by himself) - died 78 BC
• "No better friend - No worse enemy"
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• Kurt Vonnegut (himself) 1922 - 2007
• "THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC"

• Harry Potter family's tomb (in the film)
• "The last enemy that shall be defeated is death"

23 March - MATYR'S DAY

On this day, three brave young men gave their lives for the nation. Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged on this day in a Lahore jail.

They wanted to die so that their death would inspire the youth of India which in turn will unite them to fight the British Empire.

Today would mark 79 years of their sacrifice. Pay your tributes to the three revolutionaries, who laid their lives so that their posterity saw the dawn of Independence.





INQUILAB ZINDABAD!!!