The child devotee Prahlada prevailed on his father, Hiranyakasipu that the Lord Vishnu was omnipotent and omnipresent. Hiranyakasipu questioned his son’s faith. He hit a pillar and wanted Prahlada prove his point.
Narasimha unfolded Himself from the pillar with a mighty force that baffled Hiranyakasipu.
In a discourse, a scholar quipped that had Prahlada delayed his prayers, the Lord would have appeared in his full form, instead of half animal and half celestial!
The most handsome of Gods of the Hindu pantheon is Rama.
An unknown Telugu poet has described Rama as the finest of Gods too.
Elephant is black
Its tusks are white
Rama seated on its back
Is the God finest!
Goat meat is tasty and according to ancient belief has medicinal properties too. Bone soup is good for joint pains, lungs for respiratory problems, kidney for renal trouble, liver for sluggish liver and the list goes on.
Science considers this as trash and says goat meat is cholesterol rich and is no good for heart. But the goat meat lovers have their tongue dominate science.
“Why are people afraid of walking up the tower of Pisa?”
“It’s a leaning tower! You’ll fall.”
“You’ll not, if you stand on its shadow!”
Tonnes of human waste are dumped on the rail tracks everyday.
But thanks to mother nature.
The micro-organisms convert the substance into harmless elements.
You would hardly feel that such an obnoxious material ever existed at all, if you happen to walk on the rail track, the next day!
There are three people with whom you have to open up and talk.
The barber, the tailor and the doctor have to be told as to what exactly you want.
Sculpture art is a science. The principles of sculpting are well defined and the sculptors have a methodology for varieties of stone. They have a diversity of tools for sculpting.
It is customary that all sculptors are trained in power and precision grips before they take on the stone.
Folk lores talk of sculptors meditating and choosing a particular part of the day before they break the stone. The stone assumes the shape of clay and becomes soft for the sculptor. This is beyond grasp of science.
The spring-board for success is determination.
Olympics are the arena where determination assumes human form!
When R.K Laxman, the cartoonist celebrity arrived in Hyderabad, I went to see him and request him to visit Heart Animation Academy. Laxman readily obliged.
We were driving in a car when he asked me about the location of the Academy. I said it was in the MLA colony.
After a while, we entered the vast MLA colony. Laxman looked thro the windshield and pointed at a construction activity. He asked me what that site was meant for.
I said it was going to be the future Police quarters.
Laxman with a grimace on his face said, he did not like Policemen and Politicians and they were hand-in-glove people.
I asked why?
His reply was, “Look here. The Police quarters are being built in the MLAs colony.”
One ant to another:
“What are you watching so intently?”
“I’m watching Crickets”
“What are they doing?”
“They are playing cricket”
“What’s so special?”
“They are playing without a ball and a bat!”