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Samsu, Temples and Indians

This article is a targeted message to a targeted group of people.

“Sarva manggale mangalye siveh sarvarthe sathige, sharanyeh triyambake devi narayani namosthuthe”

” I salute and take refuge in Narayani, the three-eyed one, who gives all auspiciousness, who is herself auspicuous and who fulfils all desires”

After chanting this last liner loudly, the priest walks towards you with a tray containing some holy ashes and fire. You start putting in some money, bribing God to fulfill your wishes. Then all goes back home, start watching porn, drinking beer and smoking pot and act like you’re one holy man.

The above happens in bigger temples.

A few hundred meters away…

A few Machas who could not afford cheap liquors starts thinking how to make some money out of Indians. So they went around looking for some huge tree, and finding one suitable tree, they tied a saree around the tree. They go around stealing bricks and then build a small pondok, and immediately start spreading rumors that God had landed there. A few dumb Indians immediately start worshipping the tree, circling it 500 times a day and putting in all their hard earned money.

And then one girl will get possessed out there.

 Immediately one goat is brought in front, and it is sacrificed , suck all the blood, and bless all the Indians there. In the years to come, more samsu Machas will join in, and more goats will be sacrificed, and in the bloodbath, everyone will be in joy.

Until…

Your local council moves in and gives you a notice for you to move out from the temple because the temple is built on Government’s land. Immediately all the samsu Machas will get pissed off, because their source of income will be jeopardized. Eventually the pondok get demolished, and then…

A few pictures of the demolished pondok is captured and highlighted all over by the political parties that Hindu places of worship are being demolished. When I looked at the pictures, I couldn’t stop laughing looking at how stupid some people can be.

If you look at all this so called temples  that is being demolished , it would have been a small family temple, with a few statues here and there and very poorly maintained. It would have played significantly nothing in terms of benefiting the society .

MIC jumps in accusing PKR that they’re not doing enough to secure the places of worship for the Hindus. Hindraf; being them, immediately comes into picture with several protest , two hundred letters to the King, 1 million summon against the Government, and a few newspaper articles that Indians are being marginalized. Despite the way Hindraf does things, they still command some respect from me.

On the other hand; MIC, with some of their youth members, whose trap is shut before for any other issues related to Indians, will suddenly start fighting because Hindu temples are being demolished. Being shameless, they will get whacked right away after highlighting the issues and they will go back into hiding.

Listen carefully.

We have enough TEMPLES! We have enough temples to cater all the Hindus in Malaysia, in fact almost all the temples in Malaysia had been built luxuriously. None of these temples are getting demolished, because they’re built legally with proper documents. If you decide to build temples beside longkang, then don’t kecoh kecoh when Goverment wants to demolish your structure.

The significance and importance of Hindu temples is at stake because of how little respect we have for our temples and culture. If you start building things wherever you can find trees and ant hills, then wouldn’t people laugh at us? If even me being a Hindu is laughing at this, what about the rest?

All the so called parties championing Indian rights; just shut the fxxx up. Enough of flaming the Indians, if you’re going to do something significant and want to fight for the future of Indians, then build our schools right! What is the fxxxing point of fighting for shrines being built inside a jungle or beside a drain? Are you’ll that dumb?

It is highly time for you to think for yourself, look at the condition of our Tamil schools. See the number of children’s being trapped in estates and do not have enough to eat. Where is your concern about them? Isn’t education supposed to be our utmost priority?

Do you really think by donating to all this temples you will get blessed and have a real long life? Do you think by sacrificing a number of goats will actually bring happiness in your life? Look at the condition of our schools.

Don’t you feel ashamed? Don’t you feel pity for kids who can’t afford to buy uniforms?

It is good to see the young generations of Machas picking up things on the right track, unlike those dumb so-called shameless samsu Indian champions.

The moral of the story is: Children’s are equivalent to God. Why give millions to God whom you’ve not seen, when you have millions of ‘Gods’ living around you whom you can see and help?

Source : email 

When Tamil schools will no longer be needed

November 2, 2012

FMT LETTER: From Sharmalan Thevar, via e-mail

Tamil schools have been in existence before independence. The main purpose is so that children of Tamil background get to learn in their own language. Those days, most of the English medium schools under the British were managed by Christian missionaries.

Some parents wrongly assumed that sending their children to missionary schools will get them converted. So they preferred Tamil schools. Besides, it is often the nearest to their homes in the kampungs and estates.

Back then and even now, Tamil was never made a mandatory subject in Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan (SRK) and Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK).

Although SRKs and SMKs offer People’s Own Language (POL) classes for Tamil and even have Tamil language associations, the majority do not learn the language in these schools. Hence, you see most Tamils from SRKs and SMKs are unable to read or write in Tamil. Nowadays, it is even rare to hear them speak Tamil.

A few of us are exceptional. Some of you are probably the few odd ones from non Tamil schools who have some sense of ‘Tamil patru’ left in us. We grew up that way and learned Tamil on our own.

We make the effort to learn its history and be connected. However, we cannot expect everyone to be like us because most children need to be pushed to learn something. Only few will learn on their own.

This then makes everyone feel that one should go to Tamil school if they want to learn Tamil. Perhaps this is why people get emotional when speaking about Tamil schools. The schools are seen as the last bastion to defend Tamil language in this country. Many even think that if we abolish Tamil schools, Tamil language will be dead in Malaysia.

This can be solved if Tamil is made mandatory in every SRKs and SMKs. If that is done, then Tamil schools will no longer be needed.

The majority of Indians in this country are Tamils. The Ceylonese are also Tamils. It is just that these two groups with the same mother tongue came from two different countries, India and Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Hence, Indian and Ceylonese which were originally terms for nationality got carried on as race in official documents.

To add salt to the wound, we do not identify ourselves as Tamils in official documents. Therefore, there is a tangled situation here. Since we do not identify ourselves as Tamils, we cannot demand for Tamil language to be made mandatory for every Indian student in Malaysia. Because, not all Indians are Tamils. Most non Tamil Indians are not interested to have Tamil language made mandatory for their children.

Many may argue with me saying that Chinese are also divided on languages as in Hokkien, Cantonese, etc. yet they can unite and learn Mandarin. The Chinese have many languages but Mandarin is a common language for them. Unlike the Chinese, we Indians do not have a common language or even a common writing script.

Looking at this situation, we can only make Tamil as an optional subject in schools. Which means students can choose if they want to skip it. If we make it optional, then majority will not learn it. Keep in mind that we are living in an era where most parents feel that it is okay not to learn Tamil.

It is also not right for us to force the Malayalees or Telugus to learn Tamil if they do not want it. I will be most happy if they change their mind and say “Let Tamil be the common language for all Indians in Malaysia”.

If they do not agree for Tamil to be made mandatory despite it being the language of the Indian majority in Malaysia (over 80%), then I think the only solution is to demand for a separate race identity called Tamil instead of Indian or Ceylonese in all official documents.

With a Tamil population of almost 1.5 million, we can then look at the government and say “Okay folks, we will convert our 523 Tamil schools into SRKs nationwide, but make Tamil language mandatory for all Tamil children in every Malaysian school”.

Our aim is to preserve Tamil language and to prevent it from becoming a dead language. Until we can make Tamil mandatory in every SRKs or SMKs, we have no choice but to let Tamil schools to exist.

Health benefits of curry leaves

It's customary for most of us to simply remove curry leaves from our food, well you shouldn't be doing that! Here are the reasons why.

New Delhi: Curry leaf is an essential ingredient in Indian cooking especially in South India. However, it’s customary for most of us to simply remove and throw the leaf from our food and not consume it. Well, you shouldn’t be doing that! Wonder why?

Curry leaf has many medicinal properties. It stimulates digestive enzymes and helps break down food more easily. Have a glass of buttermilk mixed with a little hing (asafoetida) with a few curry leaves thrown after meal for good digestion.

- A good remedy for nausea and indigestion. Extract juice of curry leaves, squeeze a lime and add a pinch of sugar.

- Chew a few leaves every day to lose weight

- Curry leaves are also known to improve eyesight, so make sure you do not throw away the leaves while eating. It is also believed to prevent cataract.

- Curry leaves are also good for hair growth and colour. If you don’t like its raw taste, you can buy the curry leaf powder widely available in the market and have it with hot rice. You can also make it at home. This will prevent pre mature graying of hair.

- Alternatively, you can also add a few curry leaves to your hair oil and boil it for a few minutes. Applying this hair tonic will keep your hair healthy.

These are just few of the many benefits that the curry leaves possesses. Include this in your daily diet for better health.

-Agencies

Malaysian Indians and gangsterism

Gangsterism in Malaysia is increasingly becoming an insidious problem and is highest among the Indians. This social ill can be nipped in the bud but tragically, many are taking the easy way out and not doing much to curb the problem. They condone it and actually use rowdism for guileful purposes, that is, deep political machinations that hire henchmen and the extant gangs supply the manpower, which can be said to be the core of gangs’ survival. It is another topic altogether so let’s not get beside the point.

Indians account for the highest number of prisoners in detention centers throughout the nation albeit making up 7.1% of the Malaysian population. It is disturbing. A significant proportion of Indian youth here is heading the wrong way and if it doesn’t get remedied soon, it would become a plague.

Fights occur over a glance from a member of a rival gang in a coffee shop or restaurant or on the street, which is interpreted into a challenge to fight and like elephants in musts, they fist each other like a bunch of barbarians and then brag about it, comparing scars to determine who is the strongest. They think they deliver heroism when all they actually deliver is nincompooism. They think by pledging an alliance with a particular gang would bring them money, fame and women.

Gangs group together at a pre-designated spot and disturb girls, get drunk, litter, and just be a public nuisance but as far as they are concerned, “This is the life.” The words decorum and decency is alien to these fellows. All they bring is sheer opprobrium and they are oblivious to that. It wouldn’t be erroneous to say that Tamil movies influence the mushrooming of gangs here via subtle yet substantial indoctrination.

The heart of the problem lies in the failure of prioritizing of Indians here. They fail to understand that the procurement of a solid education is one step closer towards a gilded life and not having the politically correct mental sieve; instead of taking the good in Tamil movies like patriotism, responsibility towards family, community and nation, being a good doer, respect towards elders, how to treat people right, benevolence and other virtues, our youth only absorb the violent sordid semblances in such movies and etch all of it in their subconscious mind.

Foremost of all, movies, no matter Tamil or English are purely for entertainment, an escape route from daily stress. Can you fly like Superman or shoot webs from wrists like Spiderman? So, what makes Indian youths here think that they can fight off 100 baddies alone like Rajini, Vijay, Surya (Tamil movie actors that are often hailed as heroes by young Indian men) and whatnot? Where have their sense of reasoning gone to?

The Tamil movies like Vattaram, Pokkiri, Polladhavan, Manggatha and Billa are prime examples that promote and propagate gangsterism. Again, mental sieve plays a part and it’s either our youth are not taught to have one or too stubborn to have one. Our youth seem to think that what Vijay (He is the Indian answer for Jet Li) does on screen, he is able to do in real life. They seem to be oblivious to the fact that Vijay does what he does on screen is to cari makan (earn a living). Period! Parents, elder siblings, uncles, aunties, grannies and grandpas please drill it into our youth in the hot blooded age that real life is different from reel life.

Even Hollywood movies has overdoses of violence but it is often not brought up into the context of festering gangsterism here, perhaps because aruval (a machate with an inward curled tip which resembles the moon crescent) is cheaper than a machine gun. Kung fu movies are also not given much emphasis probably because young Indians males here don’t have the finesse to kick butt in style.

Paradoxically, Kung Fu was brought to China by a Tamilian known as Bodhi Dharman. I got the historical highlight from a Tamil movie as well. You see what I mean by having a mental sieve? Buang yang keruh, ambil yang jernih. (discard the murky and take the clean and clear) Many of our Indian youth here are clear on not taking the clean onboard.

Everything begins at home. If Dad comes home drunk everyday and smokes pot at home, his son would do exactly that. If Mom is always in front of the TV watching Tamil movies and serials while telling the children to study, only the bodies of the children will be at the study table, their concentration will be on what movie or what serial is going on now, involvement in homework, next to nothing.

Children and youth are like monkeys, ‘monkey see, monkey do and monkey retain.’ It applies at all levels, so, parents, do lead by good examples. Sending your children to tuition and thinking that you have done your part doesn’t solve their problem of incompetency in academic undertakings. As a parent or a guardian, you have to be there for your kids. Teachers and tuition can only do so much because, at the end of the day, you are responsible for how your offspring turns out, a graduate, or a gangster.

If you are apathetical about how your kids carry themselves outside the confines of your home, you are unknowingly pushing your kids further away from home and it is only at this vulnerable point that you lose your children to social ills. Don’t drag your kids into the rot of gangsterism and other vices either by ignoring or influencing their conduct that levitates on the going of an orgy of self destruction because ultimately that is what gangsterism is and no amount of protection money and ransom and extortion can save them.

It is not enough to tell kids to study well. When it is time to study, either parent must sit together with their kids and show interest in what are they are poring and writing even though you have no idea of what is your kid is studying. If you show interest in their education and couple it with active participation, you are sending a strong albeit a tacit message to your kids that you take their education seriously and they will begin to take their education seriously.

Another mistake Indian parents here make is not telling their kids how hard they work to provide them with necessities. Parents mean well, they don’t want their children to know the hardships they go through in order to give their kids the best life but this begin concealment would turn malignant in the long run. Indian youngsters here must know, appreciate and apply the value of honest, upright and decent effort and work and that there is no going around it.

Indian parents, mothers especially, please communicate with to your kids; ask how was their day instead of being glued to the idiot box airing Marudhani, Mandakini and whatnot. (I don’t watch Tamil serials hence I do not know the proper titles of the serial but they are seriously interminable. A kid would be born and start school by the time a Tamil serial concludes and the plots turn brain to mush.) Include them when making family decisions and listen to their opinions and consider them. Form a think tank at home. Make them feel worth and give them recognition.

Which kid doesn’t crave recognition from their parents? Get to know their friends. And learn when to be a friend to your kids and when to be a parent. Meet their teachers in school sporadically, from time to time to keep your kids on their toes and give your kids the ability to draw a distinction between what is right and what is not. When this kind of attention is oozed upon your kids, they won’t seek attention from outside, which almost always turns out to being with a wrong company and getting decadent.

Some educated, overzealous Malaysian  Indians proclaim of wanting to shoot these mere kids involved in thugism to death. Then what is the difference between them and a gangster? See, wrong approach, driven and amply seasoned by the age old Indian over sentimentality. We bear the responsibility to educate and enlighten our youth who are in gangs and those ‘gangstar wannabes’, pun intended because that’s what our Indian boys think. If they become gangsters, it would grant them stardom and that they are virtually immortal. We must make it known to them that gangs are nothing but cesspits of purifying waste.

We point out that our youth have lost their culture but isn’t it our civil responsibility to teach our Indian youth the good values that exist in our culture steeped in glorious history?.

Harishchandra, who is recounted in Hindu religious texts as the 36th king of the Solar Dynasty, Surya Maharishi Gothram was a great man. His legend is highly held as the yardstick of an ideal life. Harishchandra had two unique qualities. The first being, he kept his word and never went back on what he uttered as a promise. The other being, he never uttered a lie in his life. He underwent severe, resolve crumbling adversities in life and yet never flinched in upholding the aforementioned values and finally found everlasting bliss.

The story of Harishchandra is a gut wrenching and awe inspiring one and it moved and motivated one of the greatest man that ever lived, that is, Mohandass Karamchand Gandhi later known as Mahathma Gandhi who was deeply influenced by the virtues of telling the truth which is the essence of the story of Harishchandra and in turn, promoted ahimsa (non-violence) during the struggle of India to gain independence from the British.

Tell these stories to our youth before they get the predilection to get involved in violence or even resort to crime for a living for we have an illustrious history. It is not cool to be a gangster; all it brings are broken bones, premature death, jail sentences and great ignominy. Put education first, be virtuous and seek enlightenment from wholesome resources. Maybe then our Indian youth would stop idolizing and worshipping Bentong Kali, have funerals with newfangled gangster tributes that are nothing but pure crap and finally cease from inundating prison cells as opposed to the population ratio here