Free Food; Free Housing; Free Education; Free Marriage; Free Health; Free Coaching; Free Land; Free Tickets; Free Consultation; Free Electricity; Free Water; Free Insurance; Free Pension…etc. This is the essence of the modern governments and the modern people. Welfare or ill fare? When something is free, understand that we will end up paying a big […]
Author: Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy
The Shop on Main Street (Obchod na korze) – 1965
The story begins in 1942 in a small town in Slovakia. In the wake of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, a separate Slovak state has been established. Its president fell in line with the Nazi’s race laws. The key regulation is the policy of “Aryanization”, kicking Jewish business owners out and transferring their property into […]
Il Postino: The Postman
I am no hero or heroine or director fan. I am a fan of good films. I appreciate any good film in any language. Is this movie Charming or romantic or unique or tragic or beautifully acted or sweet spirited or moving or uplifting or funny? I would say it is the combination of all. […]
तोकूँ कॉटा बुवै / TOKU KANTA BUWAY
JO TOKU KANTA BUWAY, TAHI BOYE TU PHUL TOKU PHUL KE PHUL, BAKO HAI TIRSHUL जो तोकूँ कॉटा बुवै, ताहि बोय तू फूल। तोकूँ फूल के फूल हैं, बाकूँ है तिरशूल ।। Rough Meaning: Who pricks you with nail, prick him with a flower. You will get back flower for flower; and he a trident […]
What is the Name of our Country?
What is the Name of our Country – I met the charming young ladies at Native Village, Nookapalli. Their mothers came as daily wagers to do the construction work. Their (i.e., the daily wagers) names are M/s Radha and Mallavva. These three charming beauties came to meet their mothers. They are M/s: 1. K. Santhoshi, […]
Friday, 13th June 1941
13th June 1941 – Date of Birth of my Father. Had he been alive he would have completed 83 years, and would have begun his 84th year. What is the day on 13th June 1941? It was Friday! Friday the 13th?! No wonder, and very appropriately he never believed in God. And 13th June 2023 […]
Nothing Succeeds like Success or Nothing Fails like Failure
Everybody wants to be successful. The biggest menace and the worst drug (more dangerous than Marijuana and Cocaine etc.) is the intoxication of success. All people pray the god for success. There are 1.40 billion populations in India. There is but one God. All the people pray the same God for Success. For example: All […]
PADMA PURAN – A HINDU WIFE’S DUTY TO HER HUSBAND
The Puranas ancient religious poems, are the Bible/Quran of the Hindus. Padmapuran is one of the important texts of the Hindus. It is one of the 18 Puranas. Padmapuran describes in detail a wife’s duty towards her husband, and it is thus translated as: There is no other god on earth for a woman than […]
The Last Wish of Sunil Gavaskar
This is called the Goosebumps moment. I will not say anything but to reproduce the cricketing legend Shri Sunil Gavaskar. This is his last wish: “In the final moments of my life, I want two minutes to see two things: “One is Kapil Dev lifting the world cup in 1983, and the second is MS […]
So long…Reddy Saab!!!
Gone to father’s house this morning at 6.30 am, as usual. Yes. I do miss him. In the cot he slept, in the plate he ate, in the wooden chair he sat, in the left over unused sealed medicines, in the stale smell of his closed house, in the calendar that is forever stuck on […]
