500+ days in jail.
Bail denied. Again.
Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu, a spiritual leader and an ISKCON monk, continues to languish behind bars in Bangladesh while the world watches.
When even his lawyers are intimidated, threatened and silenced in court corridors, what justice are we even talking about?
Is advocating for the rights of the Minority Hindu community a crime? When a saffron-clad soul is treated like a criminal for raising his voice, the world CANNOT remain silent.
I appeal to the Government of Bangladesh to give medical aid and, more importantly, access to fair justice to Chinmoy Krishna Das Prabhu immediately. May he be granted bail at the earliest.
And to all the pseudo-secularists and Selective Human rights Activists around the World who flood timelines overnight, wave watermelons and trend hashtags on cue, your silence can be still heard. Apparently, your humanity has a filter.
@bdhc_delhi@UNHumanRights@UN_HRC@UN
#FreeChinmoyKrishnaDas
There are questions about where Zoho is developed and where the data is hosted and who hosts it. There is a lot of false information we want to correct.
1. All the products are developed in India. Our global headquarters is in Chennai and we pay taxes in India on our global income. As a global corporation headquartered in India, we have offices in over 80 countries and have a strong presence in the US which is a big market for us.
2. Indian customer data is hosted in India (Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, soon Odissa). We have over 18 data centers globally and they host the respective country or regional data. We are committed to hosting each country data in their own jurisdiction.
3. All our services run on hardware we own and software frameworks we developed, on top of open source like Linux OS and Postgres database.
4. We do not host our products on AWS or Azure. Arattai, specifically, is not hosted on AWS or Azure or GCloud. We use some of those services for regional switching nodes to speed up traffic but data is not stored in them. We are adding many such "points of presence" (POPs) as we speak.
5. Our Zoho Developer account in the App Store and Play Store lists our US office address because the account was registered in the very early days of those stores by one of our employees in the US just to test them out. We never changed that.
We are proudly "Made in India, Made for the World" and we mean it🙏
He worked 24x7 for 3 years. He reached to every part of Tamil Nadu. BJP vote share is now 19% in Tamil Nadu & when he took charge it was just 8%.
Tears in his eyes means a lot.
But he will come back. Annamalai is the future of Tamil Nadu .
I love him & will always support him .🔥♥️
உயரிய சாஸ்திரத்தை, அதிமேதாவித்தனமாகச் சயின்டிபிக் காரணங்களைக் கூறி, குறுகிய வட்டத்துள் நுழைத்து பேசுவது சாமர்த்தியமல்ல. அதுவும் ஒருவகையில் நிந்திப்பதே என்கிறார் MBBS படித்து டாக்டராகி கற்ற தொழிலையும் செவ்வனே செய்து ஆன்மீக உபன்யாசமும் செய்து வரும் Dr ஶ்ரீ உவே வெங்கடேஷ் அவர்கள்.
The first Ram Navami after the Pran Pratishtha in Ayodhya is a generational milestone, weaving together centuries of devotion with a new era of hope and progress. This is a day crores of Indians waited for. Innumerable people devoted their lives to this sacred cause.
May the blessings of Prabhu Shri Ram always remain upon us and guide our paths towards righteousness and peace, illuminating our lives with wisdom and courage.
The place where our PM @narendramodi ji listening to the Kamba Ramayanam verses is where the Ramayanam was recited first time (Arangetram) by Kambar.
It is said that when Kambar sung the verses on Narasimha avatar “அண்டம் கீறிச் சிரித்தது செங்கட் சீயம்! - the Lion laughed when the pillar was broken” those who were present there objected saying a lion can’t laugh. At that instance, the Narasimha in the Mettazhakiyasinger Sannidhi laughed giving the due recognition to Kambar’s poetry & his Ramayana.
A divine place this is !
Beautiful Tamil of Aandaal Naachiyaar and the science in her poetry is narrated even more beautifully!
Long live the glory of Aandaal and her language.
A friend who'd visited Bharathi's birthplace at Ettayapuram shared this image from there.
Mahakavi's prayer:
"Devas, bless me to always stay rooted in these qualities:
The elderly's maturity,
The middle aged's mental strength,
The youth's enthusiasm
and
The child's heart."
❤️
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi met Team India in their dressing room after the ICC World Cup Finals at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat on 19th November.
The PM spoke to the players and encouraged them for their performance throughout the tournament.
(Video: PMO)
I go to Srirangam temple often. There is a particular gopuram (tower) in srirangam that is painted fully white. It is called Vellaigopuram in Tamil.
#Srirangam#Vellayi
The story goes as follows..
There was this temple dancer named Vellayī (her name means white woman in tamil). When the sultanate forces invaded Srirangam temple, Pillailokācārya secretly hid the main idol of ranganathaswamy and was beginning to carry it elsewhere. But the Sultanate forces had arrived and 12000 people had died fighting. The ācārya needed some time to distract the sultanate forces so that he could transport the idol to elsewhere.
Vellayi said she will distract the sultanate forces and buy time for the ācārya. She first led the muslim forces to the place where precious jewels were shown. Then when the sultan wanted to pursue lokacarya for destroying the idol of ranganathan, she started dancing, distracted him and led him to a temple tower. Then, she pushed him to death from the temple tower. Then to prevent getting raped by the sultan armies, legend has it that she shouted "ranganādā" and jumped herself to death.
Eventually the Vijayanagara forces came and defeated these Muslim armies. Upon hearing the tale of Vellayi, the Vijayanagara emperor decided that the tower from which she fell from shall always be painted white in honor of her memory (as her name Vellayi means white in tamil).
Whenever I go to the srirangam temple, I enter and exit via Vellayi's gopuram only. The other gopurams are splendid but the valor of that woman attracts me the most.
My father said few times upon seeing that gopuram "How can someone die for their God? Guess I am of too low birth to understand such intense feelings of bhakti emotions".
I get emotional whenever I see Vellayi's gopuram.
St Augustine said only Socrates was the true philosopher since he was ready to die for what he believed in. I think people like Vellayi are the real philosophers. She might not have authored erudite treatises but i think it is people like her who attained the peak of insights.
I ask the same question as my dad asked. I create a mental picture of Vellayi and try to empathize with her, whenever I see that gopuram. But I realize, when it comes to that self sacrificial act, that i am too low to comprehend that bhāva fully.
@labstamil@Kunthavi5