INDIAN ROMANCE IX RANJANA'S STORY

Rajana and Raju were neighbours in Bhangel villiage close to Nodia (sattelite city of Delhi) Despite Raju's history of crimes Rajana married him a few years ago. Raju was sent to jail in connection with a armed robbery and Ranjana, who doted him, actually studied law to get him released from prison. A month ago, Raju was sent out on bail.
On passed Wednesday, laywers on Nodia court struck work demanding that the police recover the body of Ranjana who practised incourt and was missing. Police investigation resulted in in a confession of Raj Kumar alisa Raju that he killed his wife in Faridabad , dumping her body in a dry well in Palwal. He then covered the body with dry grass, poured 5 l of Diesel and burned the body late on Wednesday night.
Raju told the police that he strangled his wife because her social status was higher than his and he wanted his wife to quit pratice.

PREGNANT WOMAN DELIVERS IN TRAIN

Because of being Dalit and not being able to deposit 500 rupee as admission fee to a governemental hospital a pregnant woman, was sent away and had to deliver in a train.The woman's husband Vijay Kumar rushed on Thursday his wife to a community health centre, where nurses asked for 500 rupee for getting admitted. As he was unable to pay the couple was bluntly told to leave and the delivery had to take place in the train of Jhijak area of Kanpur

GUJARAT's "FREEDOM OF RELIGION ACT"

For the one who don't know: Gujarat is a state in India. Religious laws in India are made by the individual states. New rules have been published in the Gujarat Governement Gazette and are effiective since April 1 2008. From now on anyone wishing to convert to another religion, will have to tell the state governement, what is the reason and for how long they had been following the religion they are renouncing. Failing this will be declared offenders and and prosecuted under criminal laws. The law makes it obligatory for a priest seeking to convert someone to take district magistrate's permission to avoid prosecution and police action. The priest will have to sign a detailed form providing personal information on the person wishing to convert. Wether he/she is minor, scheduled/tribal,martial status, occupation and last but not least monthly income !!! Forced conversion will bring the priest 3 years behind bars. The rule stipulates that only after the governemental admiminstation has been given in one month from the time of application the priest will be allowed to make the conversion ceremony. Failure to apply would lead to 'prosecution for an offence" authorizing a police officer to start inquiring and a sub-divisional magistrate to prosecute the offender. The rules are silent on what happenes if the administration does not reply in one month and also if the believer just want to quit religion to become agnostic or non- religious. For those still thinking Hinduismus is a peacefull religion please look at this 2 min video , that might change your mind.
http://www.ibnlive.com/videos/40019/saffron-brigade-beats-up-christians.html
I realy dont understand why this news is not published in Western newspapers, we still honour India as the world- largest democracy, but freedom of religion is one of the basic elements of a democracy and in this " Freedom of Religion Act" everything is done to jeopardize one of the basic right of a democratic country. Please stop calling it like that. Additiona info on http://www.worthynews.com/christian/india-hindu-extremists-forcibly-re-convert-christians/ http://www.worthynews.com/christian/india-rajasthan-passes-new-anti-conversion-bill/ http://www.compassdirect.org/en/display.php?page=news&length=long&lang=en&idelement=5310

INDIAN ROMANCE VIII- THE HONOUR KILLING

Sonal had married Ganesh Raut a few months ago in disaccord with her family. Her parents are from a dominant Maratha community while her husband belongs to the Mali community.
The 19 year old girl was brutally murdered by her uncle for marrying a boy from a lower caste, the crime took place in Lavale Village
The unrepentant Ganesh Buchade, Sonalis maternal uncle confessed the crime, telling the police she had to die has she brought disrepute to the family.
Sonali was forcibly taken from her husband’s house by Buchade and others, she was told that her mother was ill and she has to go with them, after refusal she was attacked with a chopper with the family members standing around.

MEDITATION- DIFFERENT VIEWS

Meditation is just the courage to be silent and alone.
Slowly, slowly you you start feeling a new quality of yourself,
a new alivness,
a new beauty
a new intelligence wich is not borrowed from anybody,
which is growing within you.
It has roots in our existence
Osho Rajneesh

Meditation is concentration and reflection and these must be inward, not outward. meditation is the instrument we need in order to go inside ourselves
to search for that what is beyond ourselves.
Some people want to meditate because they have a disturbed mind and they want a peacefull one.
They do not know what a peacefull mind is or the real nature of peace.which is restfull and can produce the same effect as sleep;
this has no connection with wisdom.
They only want to be free from their restleness, or their tiredness, or their frustration.
It would be better for them to take a couple of sleeping pills for these not only work faster but produce the desired result without any effort on the part of the sufferer.
Other people think of meditation as a kind of therapy curing physical or mental diseases
and altough this may happen occasionally it is not its primary function. Modern medicine with is chemical remedies and techniques has far greater efficiency in this field.
Now we shall go back to the reasons of meditation.
Meditation will only be usefull and worthwile if we are serious about finding ourselves or if we are searching for our selflessness.
If we are earnest to find that thruth- not for our own satisfaction, but in order to help other people who have not find it yet-then it is worthwile to study meditation and to pratise it.
But if our motivation is not pure, meditation will just be a waste of time, for it cannot be used to serve any worldly aims such as the obtaining of pleasure or power
Samdhong Rinpoche
Budhist Meditation
The Theosophical Publishing House

THE ELEPHANTS A VERY SAD AND AN ELUSIVE ROMANTIC STORY

The sad story
Three people were trampled to death when an elephant ran amok at the Irrinjalakuda 'Koodalmanikya' temple The festival drew as each year a large number of domestic and foreign tourists. The police identified two of those killed as Kausalya, 75, and Nidheesh, 20. "The third person's identity is yet to be confirmed. His face was crushed beyond recognition," an official at Irinjalakkuda police station said. The jumbo, which continued the rampage for about two hours, was calmed down by the mahouts and chained.

The tusker with the name of Thiruvalla Unnikrishnan (which such a name I also could make amok) was brought to the centuries-old temple as part of the annual festival celebrations. The elephant was provocated and turned violent after a drunken spectator caught its tusk Aditionally four persons were injured in the stampede when terrified devotees rushed out of the temple premises to escape the rampaging elephant.


The romantic tusker story
The 26-year-old tusker had entered Chittaranjan town a few days ago, triggering panic among the residents. Wildlife officials were called to drive him out but the beast had other plans—it’s the mating season and he was lonely. He was tall, dark, handsome and wild at heart. She was cuty, good-looking, bred, not all that coy. And it was love at first sight.
Early Wednesday, he raided Olympic Circus, which had set up camp in Kumarbazar area of Raniganj, smashed through the tin walls and stormed the stable, where four female elephants were confined. His eyes rested on Savitri—four years older to him—and goaded her into fleeing with him. The huge tusker, straight out of the jungle, raided a circus freed the female elephant and eloped with her to make a cosy home by a pond in Raiganj. This tale of untamed love has yet another bizarre twist: a second female elephant, said to be "very attached" to the one that fled the circus, has broken down and is grieving for her "mate".
To be followed

DAILY ENCOUNTERS IVX- THE BIGGEST VINEGRAPE OF INDIA

Seen in Bangalore inner city , a real masterpiece

DAILY ENCOUNTERS XIII THE SAVEST WAY TO TRANSPORT A LADDER

In an earlier post I gave already one example now both examples for comparison

DAILY ENCOUNTERS XII - THE BATH IN GANGA

On the road from Dehradun to Delhi, with stop in Hardiwar

THE STREET AS EXTENDED BUILDING SITE

Maybe due to missing laws, but I rather think due to negligence and lassez- faire of police almost all building site download the cement, sand, bricks, iron beams and all other stuff needed to build a house on the sidewalks and even till the middle of the road. Even worse once the building is finished, nobody feels responsible to clean the mess. The result you can see in the pictures.

A young boar takes the opportunity to take a bath in the mud created by a leaking water line. Obviously he did not want to be on the picture since he was trying to escape. I am sure if I pass there next weak leak will still be there to the merriment of the boar.

I should not be too hard on the Police, in the Sunday Times of today was written, " NOIDA (this is one of the satellite cities of Delhi, comparable with Gurgaon) POLICE AS NO PHONES OR PETROL FOR PATROL..... Almost all police stations in the two districts have had their phones disconnected years ago for non-payment of the bills. Some station officers have arranged private mobile phones so that police stations can be contacted. The solitary jeep in every police station in Ghaziabad (another satellite city of Delhi) gets a mere 100 l of fuel every month. Another 20 to 25 l can be procured with special sanction of the district police chief."

Of course under these circumstances, police simply has no time to control the mess trying to organize some fuel.