Some Truth on Crisis

PS:  Will update this page for the next few days.   Watch this space and read how people work so hard, and yet media has its focus on creating panic.

So, this is going to be short or not so...but with a specific point.  I have two other posts that I am working on, but thought of sharing this, this week.

A friend wrote and said that BBC is talking about the dire situation in India because of the Chinese virus (people are so afraid to call it that).

The fact is that India is a 1.3 billion people country.  With huge disparity in the wealth and prosperity status.  Yet, the country has mailed vaccines to other countries in the last 3 months.  I know of thankyou notes from officials and citizens from South Africa, Brazil, Morroco, Canada, Israel, and Pakistan. USA got quinine --last year.  

India rode the first wave very well and had very little damage.  The new virus strain is something that the people were not prepared for.  While the situation is dire, it is also getting better at the same time as the following tweets will tell you.  But will the international media cover it?  No, it takes immense pleasure in putting the country down.  I have seen it over and over again. 

The world fears China, and thinks India can be put down.   Also, because as a nation it is rising.  It is defying colonialism.  Its rising respect for Hinduism is also a mark of self-confidence.  The young are reading texts, not considering it superstition.  

Many of our simple ways of Nameste, as a hello rather than a handshake, and eating no jhootha (meaning a lie, is also used when you eat out of the same plate, use a spoon used by someone else, drink out of the same bottle, generally very kosher.  What we eat has to be pure and untouched.  I still carry that in my life.  I used to laugh that my little nephew would not let me drink out of his glass.  But all these habits are ancient Hindu habits of cleanliness.  I remember being appalled at seeing people taste food while cooking, and putting the same spoon back in the pan. Both in Africa and in the US.  The same applied to the body.  A shower in the morning, and clear ideas about who to get intimate with. All these practices are valid even today and especially in the times of pandemic).

The following tweet is about how miseries of global south is usually used in international media.

And you can listen to a podcast that talks about an American 

journalist calling a picture of funeral pyres "Stunning" Having fun at other people's pain.  

The following tweet is correct misinformation provided by a leading Indian journalist Barkha Dutt in Washington Post.  So, BI forces--Breaking India forces in collaboration with western media do this. 

But the western media is having a field day by focussing on the hard times in these pandemic in India, even as the situation gets better.

Here read this and see how common Indians are helping each other for no money...no glory.  Just driving folks who are migrant workers, live in squatter settlements, and driving them to the hospital.  Jai Bharat means, Glory to India. 

Magazines like India Today are heavily funded by people who are anti-India (yes many of them are Indians).  So behind these names India Today, Times of India (called Toilet Paper of India by young Indians)--and they hardly see the news in context.  The aim is to defame the country and its primary religion.  Mr. Frawley is an American and a noted Hindu and an Ayurveda (medicine based on Indian texts) practitioner.  Lives in India and often comments on the situation. 

The following tweet refers to the Vice President of the US. Chitti, means mother's younger sister (aunty)in Tamil (I think). For all her Indian-ness that she used to get votes from Indian Americans, not a peep about helping India.  

here is an Indian American lamenting how disappointed he is the way the US has responded despite being helped by India only a few months ago. 

So, here is one Indian tweeted after the above tweet. 

मैत्रीं भजत अखिलहृज्जेत्रीम् आत्मवदेव परानपि पश्यत । युद्धं त्यजत स्पर्धां त्यजत त्यजत परेषु अक्रममाक्रमणम् ॥ जननी पृथिवी कामदुघाऽऽस्ते जनको देवः सकलदयालुः । दाम्यत दत्त दयध्वं जनताः श्रेयो भूयात् सकलजनानाम् ॥

Here is what it means:

https://youtu.be/zbjAkaec7Lc
Maithreem Bhajatha , Akhila Hrujjethreem,
Atmavadeva paraanapi pashyatha
Yuddham thyajatha , Spardhaam Tyajata , thyajatha Pareshu akramamaakramanam
Jananee Pruthivee Kaamadughaastey
JanakO Devah Sakala Dayaaluh
Daamyata Datta Dayadhvam Janathaah
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam

Raaga - Sung in Ragamalika
Tala - Adi

Though it is not possible to translate the song into English and still preserve its original meaning to the fullest extent, sources available from the WordWide Web suggest the following translation:

Maithreem Bhajatha Akila Hrith Jeththreem - 

to Cultivate Friendship and Humility, which will conquer the Hearts of Everyone.
Atmavat Eva Paraan api pashyata - 

Look upon others similar to yourself.
Yuddham Tyajata - 

Renounce War
Spardhaam Tyajata -

forsake Competition
Tyajata Pareshwa akrama aakramanam - 

Give up Aggression do be aggressive
Jananee Prthivee Kaamadughaastey - 

Mother Earth yields all that we desire,

'Kaamadughaastey'-

she gives that all the things we desire (cloths,food etc)
JanakO Deva: Sakala Dayaalu: 

- There is only one father in common,god he is Our Father, is very Compassionate to All (PLEASE NOTE, NOT JUST KIND TO BELIEVERS)
Daamyata - 

practice Restrain yourself
Datta - 

So, Donate your wealth to others
Dayathvam - 

So, Be Kind to others
Janathaa: - 

Oh People of the World
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam -

May All People of this World be Happy and Prosperous.
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam - 

May All People of this World be Happy and Prosperous.
Sreyo Bhooyaath Sakala Janaanaam - 

May All People of this World be Happy and Prosperous.

Maithreem Bhajata मैत्रीं भजत is a benediction composed in Sanskrit by Jagadguru Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati, renowned as the Paramacharya of Kanchi.

The song was set to a Ragamalika by composer Shri Vasant Desai. It was rendered at the United Nations on Oct. 23, 1966 on the occasion of the UN day, by Bharat Ratna Smt. M. S. Subbulakshmi and received a standing ovation.

Source : wiki

CONCLUSION: Watch media....listen to the news, still always be wary.  The best thing is to take care of those around us and love people.  That will make a better world. May you all be happy, prosperous and very healthy