The Udupi district
administration has imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of CrPC in
areas around all high schools in the district from Monday till Feb 19, 2022. The Karnataka government on Saturday extended
the holidays for all pre-university colleges till February 15 as a preventive
step to maintain peace in view of the raging hijab controversy. The Karnataka
High Court is scheduled to hear the case tomorrow. In an interim order, the
court had restrained students from wearing any religious attire in classrooms
of colleges where such attire is prohibited, until a final order is given in
the case.
Bringing religion in to
politics and attempts to derail Hindu community is not exactly new. Way back in 1923, a movie was produced by
Thomas Gavan Duffy – showing India and its culture in negative light – it was
Catholic propaganda against what they considered as Pagan culture - written by
the Irish lay-priest Thomas Gavan Duffy together with Bruce Gordon as a fund
raiser for the Paris Foreign Mission Society in Pondicherry. The plot tells of a reprobate called Ram who
is converted to Catholicism by the exemplary conduct of the local priest during an epidemic. Much of conversions happened using miseries of
people especially during pandemics !
No post on the movie but
some remote connection to this great day – ‘Masi Dwadasi’ at Thiruvallikkeni –
the day of Thirukkalyanam of Srimannathar and Sri Vedavalli thayar.
Since the start of this
century, two disease outbreaks have been caused by new coronaviruses that made
the leap from animal hosts to people, mutating in the process to latch onto
human cells. Covid-19 is the third. Medical science is fighting
back with the tools it has and building new defences. Even before
the Covid-19 pandemic, the WHO had called the 21st century “a long history of
scourges”, pointing to the re-emergence of the plague, which killed 200 people
in Madagascar in 2017, and the outbreak of new viral diseases such as severe
acute respiratory syndrome (Sars).
The daily Coronavirus
tally fell below the 3,000-mark in Tamil Nadu on Saturday with the State
recording 2,812 fresh positive cases. Chennai and Coimbatore, among the 38
districts, accounted for the maximum of 546 and 523 new infections
respectively. Meanwhile, further relaxing Covid-19 restrictions, the Tamil Nadu
government on Saturday announced that classes will resume for students of
playschools and nursery (both for upper and lower kindergarten) after a gap of
two years. The state government also did away with restrictions in virtually
all sectors, with hotels, restaurants, bakeries, cinemas, theatres, shops,
showrooms, jewellery stores, clubs, gyms, indoor stadiums hosting sports events,
beauty parlours, salons and amusement parks being given the nod to function
with 100% capacity.
Society limping back to
normalcy is a good sign and WE pray that Covid 19 corona and other diseases are
wiped out of society and people live happily ever. We fall
the merciful feet of Lord Ranganatha. Today is a special day – Masi Shukla
paksha dwadasi – the divine celestial marriage of Lord Ranganathar and Sri
Vedavalli thayar.
இம்மைக்கு ஏழேழ்
பிறவிக்கும் பற்றாவான் *
நம்மையுடையவன் நாராயணன்
நம்பி*
செம்மையுடைய
திருக்கையால் தாள்பற்றி*
அம்மி
மிதிக்கக் கனாக்கண்டேன் தோழீ நான்*
In Nachiyar Thiromozhi,
Andal elaborates Her dream marriage with the Paramapurusha, describing the
rituals associated with the marriages. She speaks of that Great
Sriman Narayana, the One who owns us all, the One complete with all Kalyana
Gunams; the One to whom we all should get attached not in this life but in all
our births; Andal dreams of Her Divine Marriage with the Lord. ~ and that comes
true on Panguni Uthiram day.
Here are some photos
taken during Sri Ranganathar periya mada veethi purappadu today. . இன்று மாசி மத சுக்ல பக்ஷ துவாதசி - இன்றைய நாளில் ஸ்ரீவேதவல்லி தாயார் ஸ்ரீமந்நாதர்
திருக்கல்யாணம். திருவல்லிக்கேணியில் ' இன்றைய புறப்பாட்டின்' - சில படங்கள்
இங்கே.
~adiyen
Srinivasa dhasan (Mamandur Veeravalli Srinivasan Sampathkumar)
13/2/2022
PS : In earlier days, puranic and
religious stories were being filmed. Andal Thirukkalyanam was a Tamil
film released in 1937 by Saradha Films, directed by R Prakash.
Raghupati
Surya Prakash Rao (R.S. Prakash), son of the renowned travelling cinema
exhibitor and builder of the first permanent cinema hall in Madras, Raghupati
Venkaiah Naidu, was sent by his father to London to learn filmmaking.
Travelling thence to Germany he got an opportunity to view the early cinemas,
returned with a 35 mm camera and set up
, the Star of the East studio in
Madras. His first picture was
mythological 'Bhishma Pratighna' (1921), produced by his father. The
overtly Catholic propaganda film 'The Catechist of Kil-Arni' (1923) is also
believed to have been directed by him in collaboration with an Irish priest
Thomas Gavin Duffy, for a missionary organization in Pondicherry. He did many films including - ‘Gajendra Moksham’, ‘Bhakta Nandan’, ‘Samudra
Madanam’ ‘Dashavatar’, ‘Draupadi Vastrapaharanam’ – and in 1937
- ‘Andal Thirukalyanam’