The Squirrel & The Hawk

email from Gallege De Silva  Brilliant -   Absolutely fantastic..How the blazes was this filming done?...Think seriously about it..folks…It should win ALL the Oscars & Golden  Globes for BEST SHORT Film…..     Nature as it is, the ‘hunted’ lives to see another day!!      The filming is just extraordinary!             https://www.youtube.com/v/XBEyCr5AoIs

Buckingham Palace.

Wonder how many people dust the furniture!! - Lesley Sirimanne

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Photos, winners all the way.

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AMAZING photos !!!

       

I cannot imagine how they ever manage to pick a winner in this contest...exquisite photos

National Geographic Photo Competition..... 2013

http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/05/2013-national-geographic-traveler-photo-contest/100516/

Talking to water.

Can water be affected by our  words ???


Check this out!! Unbelievable.
 

 

 

 

 

Can water be affected by our words and intentions?   In Bddhism we know that when we Chant Pirith Verses into water, making Pirith Pan, we get a remarkable effect into it and we can cure sick people by letting them drink it. See below how scientifically it is true – your words of wisdom. Interesting watery molecules...death n life in the power of the tongue demonstration.      Can water be affected by our words? Dr. Masaru Emoto, a Japanese scientist, believes so. And he has proof.                                                       Dr. Emoto took water droplets, exposed them to various words, music, and environments, and froze them for three hours. He then examined the crystal formations under a dark field microscope. And he took photographs.     The results were totally mind-blowing.     Here’s a photo of ordinary water without any prayer spoken over it. The molecular structure is in disarray.                                                                                The photo below is water after the prayer was said. It’s simply breathtaking.         Dr. Emoto also exposed water to Heavy Metal music. Here’s how it looks like. Looks sad if you ask me.    Here’s water exposed to classical music and folk dance music. Looks much better, right?         Next, Dr. Emoto stuck a piece of paper with these words: “You make me sick. I will kill you.” Here’s how the frozen water droplets looks like under the microscope…        Below is how water looked like with the words “Love” over it. The difference is amazing.        This is Polluted water…     This is water from Lourdes , France . Utterly beautiful, right? Wait A Minute—  Aren’t You Made Up Of Water? Yes! 72% of your body is made up of water. Imagine how your words affect your own body. When you say, “I’m a failure,” or “I’m hopeless,” or “I won’t get well,” imagine how these words weaken your health.  It’s not only water.  Dr. Emoto also experimented with cooked rice. He placed one cup of cooked rice in two airtight jars. On one jar, he wrote, “I love you,” and on the other, “You fool.” Everyday for 30 days, Dr. Emoto would say these words to each jar of rice.  After 30 days, the “I love you” rice was still white. But the “You fool” rice was so rotten, it was black. How can you explain this?           Kind words and kind thoughts has such a remarkable power. Practice it. If you are a Buddhist start playing a CD containing pirith to water and drink it everyday. Not only pirith but even classical music played over water will be better. It should be same for Christianity and other religions too if hymns or stanzas are recited.

Paddy harvesting, Sri Lanka.

 Attached photo of paddy harvesting in the east.

The reaping is  entirely by machine and out come threshed paddy for
packaging straight into bags.
 Husking paddy is at the nearby rice mills.
There is a profitable symbiosis, the millers readily advancing the large
amount of money ( I think it is about Rs 11000 per day to hire a thresher)
needed to hire machinery as they get to buy and mill it soon after. 

The machine is dubbed the 'Kamatha' as it does all the work of  the
traditional manual cutting and threshing formerly often using oxen. 

A kilo of rice- kekulu- ranges from around Rs 40 up. Of course no stones or
weevils.

In comparison, a kilo of wheat flour is over Rs 100 and no one misses it
much- many having more rice meals. At that price, no one ever dilutes haal
piti appa or indi aappa! 100% haal! 
Ah and rotti and pittu too with some lunu miris.

Though I love that fresh spongy wheat floour bunnis with a sour plantain, or
more modernly the crusty sugared kimbula bunnis or gnana katha ! ( Will be
seeing ya at Mihintale this weekend!)

The govt. does gives a large subsidy as fertilser.

With this set up, it is profitable to farm paddy unlike decades ago when the
poor got their measure of free rice from Burma and Thailand making farming a
losing venture.

Then we also depended on subsidized wheat flour from America under that
famous-infamous- Pl 480 scheme.   

Recalling the 1940s the inimitable Lakshmi Bhai sang the satire; 
' herali bathala tika nupurudu amma, rata haale buth kaala.... kiri nethi
hinda rata kiri deela."

jksw

The rural peasantry which harvested the paddy manually is now unemployed.
PGV

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Freedom and India.

Extract from Chapter II of Dr. N.S. Rajaram's book

" The Freedom Movement

Just as ancient and medieval history have been distorted under Congress patronage, history of the Freedom Movement has also been dressed up to favor the Congress and the Communists. This distortion has the following three parts: (1) Building up the role of Gandhi and Nehru while suppressing the contribution of others, notably Subhas Bose. (2) Whitewashing Gandhi�s terrible blunder of supporting the Khilafat Movement and the atrocities of the Mopla Rebellion that followed. (3) Whitewashing the treachery of the Communists. We can next take a brief look at each one of them.

It is commonly believed that it was the Congress Party through its various movements like the Quit India Movement of 1942 that brought freedom to India. This fails to explain the fact that the British granted independence only in 1947 while the Quit India Movement had collapsed by the end of 1942. The question that naturally arises is� why did the British leave in such great hurry in August 1947? The answer was provided by Prime Minister Clement Attlee, the man who made the decision to grant independence to India.

When B.P. Chakravarti was acting as Governor of West Bengal, Lord Attlee visited India and stayed as his guest for three days at the Raj Bhavan. Chakravarti asked Attlee about the real grounds for granting independence to India. Specifically, his question was, when the Quit India movement lay in ruins years before 1947, where was the need for the British to leave in such a hurry. Attlee�s response is most illuminating and important for history. Here is what Attlee told him:

In reply Attlee cited several reasons, the most important were the activities of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose which weakened the very foundation of the attachment of the Indian land and naval forces to the British Government. Towards the end, I asked Lord Attlee about the extent to which the British decision to quit India was influenced by Gandhi�s activities. On hearing this question Attlee�s lips widened in a smile of disdain and he uttered, slowly, putting emphasis on each single letter � "mi-ni-mal." (Emphasis added.)

The crucial point to note is that thanks to Subhas Bose�s activities, the Indian Armed Forces began to see themselves as defenders of India rather than of the British Empire. This, more than anything else, was what led to India�s freedom. This is also the reason why the British Empire disappeared from the face of the earth within an astonishingly short space of twenty years. Indian soldiers, who were the main prop of the Empire, were no longer willing to fight for the British. What influenced the British decision was mutiny of the Indian Navy following the INA trials in 1946. While the British wanted to try Subhas Bose�s INA as traitors, Indian soldiers saw them as nationalists and patriots. This scared the British. They decided to get out in a hurry.

(Attlee repeated his argument on at least two other occasions, including once in the House of Commons. During a debate in the House of Commons, he told Churchill that he would agree to the latter�s suggestion of holding on to India if he could guarantee the loyalty of the Indian armed forces. Churchill had no reply. The Labour Prime Minister was as much an imperialist as Churchill, but more pragmatic, prepared to see the writing on the wall.)

This will come as a shock to most Indians brought up to believe that the Congress movement driven by the �spiritual force� of Mahatma Gandhi forced the British to leave India. But both evidence and the logic of history are against this beautiful but childish fantasy. It was the fear of mutiny by the Indian armed forces � and not any �spiritual force� � that forced the issue of freedom. The British saw that the sooner they left the better for themselves, for, at the end of the war, India had some three million men under arms. One would have to be extraordinarily dense � which the British were not � to fail to see the writing on the wall.

So, as the great historian R.C. Majumdar wrote, Subhas Bose with his INA campaigns probably contributed more to Indian independence than Gandhi, Nehru and their movements. The result of Subhas Bose�s activities was the rise of the nationalist spirit in the Indian Armed Forces. This is the reason why Nehru, after he became Prime Minister, did everything possible to turn Bose into a non-person. He wanted no rivals. 

Nationalism and distortions in Indian history : causes, consequences and cure

http://www.worldcat.org/title/nationalism-and-distortions-in-indian-history-causes-consequences-and-cure/oclc/54822070

Author:	Navaratna Srinivasa Rajaram
Publisher:	Bangalore : Naimisha Research Foundation, 2000.
Edition/Format:	Book : English : 1st ed
Database:	WorldCat
Summary:	With special reference to nationalism in India between 1919-1947 preceeding Indian indepenedence.
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Subjects	India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947. Nationalism -- India -- History. Nationalism.