The times they are a'changing..

I wonder what Kareena would have to say to this!

Photo from livejournal.com

"Legally beaten up". Yeah, quite literally with law books!

In an unprecedented incident in Karnataka Judiciary the advocates on Monday held the 'Judiciary' hostage by locking two judges of division bench inside the court hall nearly two hours and forced Chief Justice to cancel judicial sitting.

Legal correspondent of The New Indian Express Aravind Shetty jokes that people were "Legally beaten up". Yeah,  quite literally with law books!

Judicial procedings of the High Court has  resumed afternoon with police protection, City Police Commissioner met Chief Justice and provided additional security.

According to Chief Justice PD Dinakaran, who's presently got his hands full with the allegations of land grabbing leveled against him, "There was no confrontation between bar and bench. We have given justice to both litigants and advocates by disposing the cases."

After witnessing how two deeply anguished Judges ( Justice Gopalagowda and Justice BV Nagarathna) were locked inside the court hall Shetty has coined a new term. Advocates Custody. (The existing  terminology has Judicial Custody and Police Custody). This is a new addition to the lexicon.

Senior counsel Ravivarma Kumar who narrowly escaped by violent  attacks from the advocates said that rowdies are hijacking the advocates association of Bangalore and urged the High court should initiate contempt against the erring advocates.

CNN IBN Camera Man Venkatesh was however not so fortunate to escape the "Rowdy Elements" and  was badly beaten up.

Kamsa is now wonderful chief minister

Looks like the political drama in Karnataka has come to an end with the Reddy brothers and Chief Minister BS Yeddyurappa coming to a consensus a while back. A few minutes back G Janardhanareddy, who spearheaded the dissident faction and dragged the whole of Karnataka BJP to the central leadership stated  that "Everything has  been resolved. We will work with our WONDERFUL Chief Minster for the State and the politics of the state." Yeddy repeated pretty much the same thing.

What a joke! This is  Yeddyculous!

It has been only little over a week since the Reddy Bro's  called BSY "Kamsa"-- the demonic uncle in the epic Mahabharatha.

NOTE: Updates will follow.

Where callus meets calculus

Right now I'm at Sarang. We (me and my mother) came here last night. A lot of commotion downstairs woke me up this morning. When I came down, I found that everyone was engaged in cleaning the house and tidying up things. Then came break fast. As I'm writing this post, few of the kids (studying at Sarang) are learning Geometry from Gopalkrishnan Maash and the rest are playing hide and seek outside. Gautham and Anuradha are setting up a their computers. Later some children will go learn Kathakali make up. I stopped learning (the conventional sense) the day I had a choice. Now I can hear Mrudangham playing in the background. This is a wonderful place to be. Thanks to this alternative learning school, none of the children will grow averse to learning.

For those who do not know about Sarang,

DNA of Sarang

There is a thirst for learning written into the human DNA. Based in Kerala, South India, Sarang Alternative School has evolved into a learning centre which tries to quench this thirst while giving importance to ethics and humanity. The children may reach out to the ends of the universe, but only with strong roots in the earth of ethics. Sarang believes that real education is possible only within a democratic family and looks at life as the basis for its curriculum. Emphasis is given to art and cultural education as these are essential to boost self confidence, creativity and a positive vision. Sarang is also slowly developing into a centre were students from all over the world can stay and learn various Indian art forms, martial arts, cooking, organic farming, environmental regeneration and traditional healthcare.

You must have come across many such institutions and NGOs, but I'm telling you this is the real deal. Check them out at www.saranghills.org.

“The school’s not a factory
Nor the teacher a labourer!
The student’s not a commodity
Nor the parent a manufacturer!”

-- Gopalakrishnan maash and Vijayalakshimi teacher

Game on!

Cartoon from Abstruse Goose. This is exactly what I used to feel when I was in class.Somewhere it also reminds me of Sumesh. I wanted to make games too. But not anymore.