Today is an auspicious day in the Hindu Calender. It is the birth anniversary of Bhavaani, a manifestation of Paarvathi, wife of Shree Rudra.
When was studying in high school, our English language textbooks contained many stories from abroad. One was about Hachiko, a dog in Shibuya near Tokyo in Japan. This dog was pet of a local person. This person used to travel to Tokyo for work daily. Hachiko used to see him off at Shibuya Railway Station when he left for work and receive him when he returned to Shibuya every day. On one day, he didn't return. Hachiko waited long after this, and passed away.
As a gesture of respect, local people constructed a statue of this faithful dog in front of Shibuya Station.
Faithfulness of dogs is well known. Decades ago, there was a Gramophone Records Company (in New Jersey, USA) that made the painting of Nipper, a dog, listening to it's master, globally popular and coined 'His Master's Voice'.
I was surprised to find Nachiko featured in this evening's episode of 'Dive in Tokyo'.
Nachiko
Today is International Water Day. It is a well known fact that we abuse, waste and pollute water in different ways to fulfil our self centred needs. In my earlier posts I have described how self centered and greedy rogue business people drained ground water by using powerful machines to construct an apartment complex adjacent to the complex in which I resided.
Like we do in our Indian culture, people in many cultures respect rivers and oceans. Unfortunately this respect is gradually and drastically decreasing.
It is high time that individuals, communities and Governments act to protect natural water resources.
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Today is a very auspicious in the Hindu Calender. It is the anniversary of the day on which Shree Mahaa Vishnu incarnated as Divine Fish trillions of years ago.
This morning I was viewing Money Mind on CNA TV Channel. It featured workplace toxicity and burnout in today's context. In spite of advances in Technology, workplace pressure is some thing that many employees are subjected too. I was no exception. I remember how except when working in PREPARE (A Chennai based NGO), Poorna Prajna High School, Yelahanka, Bengaluru, and Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Government of Cambodia, I was subjected to unethical employer pressure leading to my resignation from the posts held by me.
I think that such TV Programs should be viewed and concepts implimented by employers and employees alike.
Youngsters often think that being modern means abandoning our age old culture and traditions. This happened even in my college days during the late '60s.
I came across a very interesting and educative serial on DD National Channel. I think that the series is based on Shree Raama Charitha Maanas. It was nice to see Shree Raghavaachaareejee Maharaaj in the series. I tried to provide a link to the episode, but in vain.
Shree Raam's life history is very spiritual and educative.
Jai Shree Raam🙏
It was nice to be back viewing Lumumba's Africa on Russia Today TV Channel. In today's episode, Prof Lumumba explained how western countries exploited African countries. He mentioned how in 1980s USA supplied Maize, that was not fit for human consumption.
We had a similar situation in our country in the 1950s and 1960s. People of my age would remember USA's PL 480 etc. It was due to our own agricultural scientists such as Dr M S Swaminathan that our country's agrucultural self sufficiency improved significantly.
The Western exploitation continues in all developing countries including India.
