Subramanian Swamy

Subramanian Swamy is born in Mylapore,Chennai.There was a brave,patriotic poet,writer and independent activist named "Subramania Bharati" popular called as "Mahakavi Bharati".Our subramanian swamy also a brave,straightforward politician.This makes me to wonder the immense power of the name drawn to the person.

He is a secular person although he firmly believes in Hinduism.His wife is a parish,his younger daughter Suhashini haider (print and media journalist,worked in CNN IBN) married to Nadeem Haider,a follower of Muslim religion,yet she follows her own religion.This shows his family's view on religion.

He has completed his PhD in Economics from Harvard university.He seems like liability to any political party as he goes against corruption by any people and lodges a case against any person.Tamilnadu's CM Ms.Jayalalitha,Indian national congress leader Mrs.Sonia Gandhi,Rahul Gandhi are few people against whom he has filed cases.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

China faced a most turbulent situation once the majestic Han 

dynasty fell.The "Middle kingdom" was now separated as 

"North","South west" and "South east".These three kingdoms 

fought for their internal power,survival and warfare that are 

captured in numerous historical and fictional works.

Among all these "Romance of three kingdoms" is very famous and 

worth mentioning.The Main character of this story is the most 

eminent and brilliant military strategist from south western state 

shu han.He was Zhuge Liang,chancellor of Shu Han state.

The year is 208 C.E and the army of northern china's wei state is on its way to capture the southern part of china to make the middle kingdom again with this empire.When it reached the mighty yangtze river it camped there and awaited for the battle to happen.


Across this yangtze massive river lays the shu and Wu states.Sensing the threat from northern empire,being outnumbered by the north these two states made a temporary coalition to counter attack them.

Zhuge Liang was given a task of coming up with the strategy to save the south landers of china.Generals of Shu and Wu were waiting for him to formulate a plan.

The Wu army asked zhuge to arrange for 100,000 arrows to attack the northern army.They told him that since it seems like impossible task we give you 10 days to come up with a plan of getting 100,000 arrows.zhuge calmly said just give me three days and no more.

He spent 2 days in preparing 20 swift boats with 30 soldiers in each boat.He surrounds the group of soldiers with dummy soldiers like scarecrows.

Third day he went with these boats towards Yangtze river.Heavy fog was near the enemy side and it seemed like blanket on the river.Zhuge asked his soldiers to make a noise by beating battle drums.Frightened by this ruckus and blinded by fog,enemies started firing arrows endlessly towards the direction of noise.

Finally loaded with 100,000 arrows the boats headed towards their home shore.Upon asking how he came up with this brilliant plan he answered as:
“A good general must be well versed not only in battle strategy, but also in astronomy, geography, divination, and the principles of yin and yang,” Zhuge replied. “I foresaw the heavy fog three days in advance, and so formulated my plan.”

Proxy Wars

Cold war is actually fought between two super powers,USSR and USA.Cold war is actually a grudge feeling against each other after WWII.This term is used to describe the relationship between these two countries although they never fought with other.

Proxy wars are war happened between other countries but with each side getting support from different super power.E.g: Vietnam war,Korean war etc.

Korean War
One  can see korean war as a result of the cold war or animosity between two super power nations(USA and USSR) emerged at the end of WWII.At the end of WWII,Japan lost the war and relinquished the power to hold Korea.And hence it ended up as northern part of korea occupied by USSR became north korea and southern parts occupied by United states became South Korea.

USSR has different ideology which claims on communalism so north korea became communist whereas South korea occupied by US became Capitalist.Naturally there was tension among these two super powers fearing that other would occupy the entire korean peninsula.

Both sides thought that the division is temporary and the outcome of elections would bring the unified korean government.Whereas soviet did not trust the UN monitored elections of 1948.Democratic government was set up in South whereas in north self declared communist leader became supreme power.Both US and USSR stepped out in 1948-49 by giving control to these governments.It's the fate of korean country that the separation for ever became salvage as a result of the non korean super powers in the World.That enmity between two nations still on going without realising the fact that it all started by the people who don't belong to Korea itself.

At the same time,there was a revolution going on in china,communist occupied north korea started supporting china by giving refuge to the leaders escaped from china.Whereas US supported nationalists who were fighting against Communist.At the end,Communist won china in 1949.This boosted the communist guerrillas and took up the next task of acquiring the south korea.They won the territory.This brought US,USSR and China into the war,though none of these nations declared war against each other.

After nearly 4 years of the war,the sides moved back to the 1949 arrangements in an armistice signed in 1953 that also provided for a DeMilitarize Zone (DMZ) between these two rivals.

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

 NATO is formed to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through Political and military means.It was formed in 1949 specifically for collective security defence strategies after WWII.

NATO was formed to counter the soviet union during the cold war.There was a fear that soviet union would attack European countries during cold war and thus NATO came into existence.

NATO accepts members of Europe and North America continents.It provides a unique link between these 2 continents for consultation and cooperation in the defence and security and the conduct of multi national crisis management.

The main players of NATO are its member countries only.There are currently 28 members.

Collective Defence

It's committed to the principle of attack on one or many of its member countries are considered as an attack against all.This is the principle of "Collective defence".It is mentioned in Article 5 of the washington treaty.So far,article 5 has been invoked once-in response to the 9/11 attacks in the United States.

Non NATO members of EU countries:

Among the European union,there are few countries which are not members in NATO.They are Ireland,Finland,Sweden,Austria,Malta and Cyprus.

Compassion

My day started with some one asking "Madam,here even MLA and other people are taking money from us-handloom workers" to a compère on a random regional channel.Reaction from the compère was worst and spoiled my day.She condescendingly said as "he called as if giving complaints like no power or no water to EC board or Public works department".Just because its comedy channel it does not meant you can make a fun of your callers.Without them there is no business for you as well as your channel.

That compère could have handled this situation better by saying she understands his problem and could have false promised as she could do something about it.Nobody in her channel will sue her for that.Caller talked about it because he wants to inform this to some people who has high power to act on it so he chose media to disclose.He is not some insane to call you for some song or comedy scene.

If

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,  

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ 

-Rudyard Kipling

Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,

That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,

In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, its age-old pain,

Its ancient tale of being apart or together.

As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,

Clad in the light of a pole-star piercing the darkness of time:

You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.

At the heart of time, love of one for another.

We have played along side millions of lovers, shared in the same

Shy sweetness of meeting, the same distressful tears of farewell-

Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you

The love of all man’s days both past and forever:

Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.

The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours –

And the songs of every poet past and forever.

-Rabindranath Tagore

I fell in love with Tagore while reading this poem at first read and every time i read it leaves an impression that only very few can be a poet.It's a innate skill to play with words to evoke a sense of feeling to readers.