Lokee

காணின் குவளை கவிழ்ந்து நிலன்நோக்கும்
மாணிழை கண்ணொவ்வேம் என்று

குவளை மலர்கள் காணும் தன்மைப் பெற்றுக் கண்டால், இவளுடைய கண்களுக்கு தாம் ஒப்பாக வில்லையே என்று தலை கவிழ்ந்து நிலத்தை நோக்கும்.

"யாயும் ஞாயும் யார் ஆகியரோ?
எந்தையும் நுந்தையும் எம்முறைக் கேளிர்?
யானும் நீயும் எவ் வழி அறிதும்?
செம் புலப் பெயல் நீர் போல
அன்புடை நெஞ்சம் தாம் கலந்தனவே"
-- செம்புலப்பெயனீரார்

I find this book interesting Red Earth and Pouring Rain. The title of the book is derived from this poem it seems. Looking forward to read this book.

A. K. Ramanujan's Translation:

What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
Did you and I meet ever?
But in love
our hearts have mingled
as red earth and pouring rain.

"கன்றும் உண்ணாது, கலத்தினும் படாது,
நல் ஆன் தீம் பால் நிலத்து உக்கா அங்கு,
எனக்கும் ஆகாது, என்னைக்கும் உதவாது,
பசலை உணீஇயர் வேண்டும்-
திதலை அல்குல் என் மாமைக் கவினே."


பிரிவிடை "ஆற்றாள்" எனக் கவன்ற தோழிக்குக் கிழத்தி உரைத்தது
--வெள்ளி வீதியார்

I don't want to smudge this sacrosanct version by translating :)
I referred to Tamil lexicon developed by University of Madras and here are the meanings

கலம் : பால்கறக்கும் மூங்கிற்குழாய்க் கலம்
நல் ஆன் : நல்ல பசு
என்னை : என் தலைவன்
பசலை : தலைவன் பிரிவால் தலைவிக்கு ஏற்படும் நிறமாற்றம்
திதலை : தேமல்
அல்குல் : இடுப்பு
மாமை : மேனி
கவின் : அழகு

I am disinterested in establishing that my perception is dominant or persuade people with my views. If some of my views hurt anyone, I seriously apologize for it.

If there is an entity that is responsible for every action in this World, then only two plausible reasoning exists.

1. The Holocaust, Genocides and other brutal events would have also been scripted by so called divine spirit. Then, such entity is no different from a psycho. Some even promote that such entity shows us both the good and bad ways and that we make out of those options but to me, if you guide a person with two options, knowing that the alternative will be miserable, you are simply a psycho, enjoying others’ miseries by fallibly misguiding. All good deeds, if it had done any, would necessarily vanish or would be annulled.

2. No such entity exists.

By reasoning #1, I don’t want to benefit from such a tainted entity, if at all it exists. Therefore better suffer than benefit from it.

By reasoning #2, I don’t expect any miracles to happen J

Either way, I think my stance is right. So I maintain “agnostic atheism”, believing myself and happily attribute every success or failure to my own decisions.

Furthermore, Genocides, The Holocaust, Revolutions and Imperialism suggest that “only fittest survive”. This principle sounds valid to the recent wars, the political oppressions in many countries and even to the “dynamics” in the organization we work and in many day to day scenarios. But still I feel essence of life is in firm struggle in such environments, for we don’t have any other good reason to survive. All these struggles evolve us (or later generations) to be the “fittest”, after all no one is born fit or ever fit.

However, I view religion and few rituals as something different in fact with great reverence. It “was” coded well but was transformed as it reached us through our ancestry. It was a code of conduct and a guide for better living. The underlying reasoning was not appreciated or passed on, while simply dictated rules were forced for generations. This fundamental gap stops me accepting at its entirety. I don’t simply ignore them but, follow whichever that answers the questions spawned from my “little brain” (there are people who simply escape claiming “outside our reasoning” philosophy).

I was looking for a GAIM plugin to support music status feature similar to GTalk. With Music Tracker plugin, I was able to get this feature working on my google, hotmail, yahoo accounts.
Initial versions of this plugin used XMMS Infopipes, which took much of system resources. Version 0.2.2 is quite good and it uses libxmms instead of info pipe.

1. Download from here
2. Extract tar -xvjf musictracker-0.2.2.tar.bz2
3. Compile
• cd musictracker-0.2.2
• ./configure
• sudo make
  
• sudo make install
  
4. If you dont find libxmms.so in /usr/lib and you have something like libxmms.so.1.3.1 make a link as
• sudo ln -s libxmms.so libxmms.so.1.3.1