సంస్కృతీ మార్పులు; Writing and Publishing; Drunk and Drive Cases;పరిణితి చెందిన రసహృదయము

సంస్కృతీ మార్పులు

చీరలు కట్టుట చిరాకు నవ యువతులకు
పంజాబీ డ్రెస్ పరమానందం పడుచులకు
కావచ్చు తేలిక మరియి సులువు పంజాబీ డ్రెస్; 
అలాగ జుట్టు విరబోసుకొనుట సులువు జడ వేసికొనుటకన్న

కుమారిలైన కూతుళ్ళకు పెళ్ళైన మనింటి కోడళ్ళకు
దుస్తుల ధారణలో మనం సలహాలివ్వరాదు;
జడ వేసికొనుట, బొట్టు, పువ్వులు పెట్టుకొనుట
వారి వీలు మన ముచ్చట కాదు; ఇక్కడ తెలుగు తనము
జిలుగుతనము జాన్తానై: అసలు సంస్కృతియే మారిపోయిన
నేడు ముసలాళ్ళ ముచ్చటలు ముదితలకు కారాదు బంధములు

మగవారు ధరించుచున్నారా పంచెలు, పెట్టుకొనుచున్నారా బొట్లు
పిలకలు, ఇతర పాత భూషణములు? అని ఎందరో ముదితలు ముందు
కాళ్లకు వేయుచున్నారు బంధము; మగ ఆడ కజ్జాల మనసులతో
ఆప్యాయతలు ఆత్మీయతలు దృష్టిలో లేక కయ్యాల రోజులు

గడుపుచున్నారు; కుటుంబము ఎవరికీ పట్టటం లేదు; కుటుంబము లేని
సంఘము లేదు; వ్యక్తి లేని కుటుంబమూ లేదు; వ్యక్తి, కుటుంబము,
సంఘముల మేలు కలయిక సమాజము; కానీ నేడు స్త్రీలు, పురుషులు
విడి విడిగా కుటుంబరహిత సంఘముగా బ్రతుకుటకు ముచ్చట పడుచున్నారు

ఇచ్చవచ్చిన రీతిలో బంధ రహితముగా బాధ్యతారహితముగ బతుకుటకు
ఉవ్విళ్ళూరుచున్నారు; పాత మాటలు పెద్దల సుద్దులు నేడు పనికిరావు;
ఇప్పటికి సరిపడ సంస్కృతులు నిర్మించుకొనవలెను; కానీ తరము తరమునకు సంస్కృతి
మారిపోవునను ఇంగిత జ్ఞానము కలిగి ఉండవలెను; విడి విడి బ్రతుకులకు

పెద్దపీట వేయవలెను; మారుచున్న అభిరుచులు అభిలాషలు నిత్య నూతనముగా

నిర్మించును సంస్కృతిని రోజు రోజూ; పాత క్రొత్తగుట నిమిషమాయె నేడు

ఏదైనా ఎవరైనా ఇష్టపడి చేసిన ముచ్చట గొల్పును
బలవంతమున ఇతరుల ఇష్టము మేర జరిగిన వికటించును
అసలు జరగనే జరగదు; గతకాలపు మధుర జ్ఞాపకాలు
శాసించరాదు నేటి వర్తనలను ప్రవర్తనలను; బ్రతుకుటయే
భారమైనది; ఉద్యోగమునకు వెళ్లి వచ్చుసరికే ఓపిక మిగలకున్నది;
ఇంటికి జేరుసరికే సమయము మిగులుట లేదుమరి దేనికీ

ఆధునికత సంస్కృతికి వ్యతిరేకం కాదు
ఆడో సంస్కృతి; పాత చాదస్తములకు ఆనకట్ట

ఏది అందము ఏది చందము అనునవి మారును
తరము తరమునకు: మనందరమూ అది గ్రహించి
ఏది ఏవిధముగా జరిగినను స్థిమితము పోగొట్టుకొనక
ఎవరి తీరులో వారు బ్రతకవలెను ఇతరులను బ్రతకనివ్వ వలెను
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Writing and Publishing

Writing is a vice. Many have this vice. Writing is not only a vice but also compels us to publish what is written. There are hundreds of writers and poets who are writing, composing and publishing. But very few are read by readers.

Internet has been helping many budding and senior writers and poets to have audience. The sales of the published books of many writers - budding or senior - are not encouraging. Still many of us write and publish.

That is why writing and publishing are compared to vice. Like any other vice it possesses the individual. The desire for recognition is one of the chief reasons.

Most of the writers and poets do not expect money from their publications. It is enough for them if they get some recognition as a litterateur. Readers and critics are critical and essential for the success of a writer, poet.

Despite lukewarm responses from readers and critics, the spirit of the individual creator is not affected and one continues to create. Writing though is an art, is currently not remunerative. Literary work's eminence and quality are also not gauged well and properly. Let the tribe of litterateurs is encouraged based on the utility and quality of their works.
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Drunk and drive cases

It is foolish to conduct counseling to drunk and drive individuals. They are quite aware of what they are doing and are doing that way carelessly. Government must straight away punish them. Showing lenience will not change their attitude. And we must note all the drunk and drive cases are connected with celebrities, rich and "elite" and posh citizens who have degree certificates and had been to prestigious educational institutions.

Police and government must not show their naivety by condoling their wishful and willful crime of drunk and driving. Police it seems are also considering the drunk and drive cases as elite culture and are going slow in punishing them Wasting time for counseling to these willful drunk and drive cultured individuals is showing sympathy to wrong and arrogant people who have no respect for lives of fellow humans and law.
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పరిణితి చెందిన రసహృదయము

రచయిత పేరు చూసి రచనల చదువు అలవాటు నేడు;
పుంఖానుపుంఖములుగా పుట్టగొడుగులులా పుస్తకములు
ప్రచురించబడుచున్న నేడు మనము ఇంతకు మించి
ఏమీ చేయలేము; ఎవరు గొప్ప రచయితో ఏది గొప్ప రచనో

ఎవరు నిర్ణయింతురు? కొందరు విమర్శకులు, కొందరు
పాఠకులు; రచన గొప్పదనము పాఠకుని ఆస్వాదనా గరిమను
అభిరుచిని తెలియజేయును; అడవిని గాచిన వెన్నెల చందమున
ఎన్నో పుస్తకములు నిర్వ్యాపారముగ ఉన్నవి; సాహితీ రంగమున

మన రచనలను చదివించుకొనుట ఒక కళ;
ఆ కళ చేతకాకపోతే మిగులును ఒక చెదిరిన కల
వ్యసనమై పట్టిన రచనా వ్యాసంగము ఊర్కోనీయదు
బరుకుదుము ఏదో ఆత్మసంతృప్తికై అలవాటుగా;

అందుకే త్యాగరాజులు రామదాసులు అన్నమయ్యలు
పోతనలు పురాణ కవి పుంగవులు ఆత్మతృప్తికై రచించి
భగవదర్పణము చేసిరి తమ కావ్యములను రచనలను
విశ్వశ్రేయ: కావ్య పరమార్ధం; ఇది కవనమున ఉన్న
నేడో రేపో చదివెదరు రసికులైన పాఠకులు ఆసక్తి కలవారు
రచనా సామర్ధ్యము కలవారు పరిణితి చెందిన రస హృదయము కలవారు
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The Lure
The political scene of Indian nation is so poorly being managed by present politicians that they are proving themselves inefficient to solve the problems of the citizens as a whole and at all; are giving false hopes to celebrities from various entertainment industries with some popularity feel they are the saviors of the nation and its citizens.
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The Course of Life

Many of us feel that the course of our life most of the times is not going as we desire and chalked out but some way different and we are compelled to adjust to the reality. This dispirits us; but we have to move on channeling our strength.

POET AND VERSE-COMPOSITION

POET AND VERSE-COMPOSITION

Poetry is the sublime expression of the poet’s experience. “naanrushikurutekaavyam” is an ancient Sanskrit Saying. It means: Only a well-versed and meditative person with aesthetic heart can compose poetry.

Poetry writing itself is a kind of Upaasana (Meditation). Through poetry writing the poet evolves into a matured human being ably seeing and gauzing persons, things, events, philosophies, religions, spirituality and ideologies around and in him both passionately and dispassionately depending on subject of creation. Thus he is both subjective and objective in composing verses.

Aesthetic and romantic heart, commonsense and all round knowledge in literature together with proficiency in the language of verse-composition and an idea about world and worldly things and happenings around make a charming poet. The poems shine with all kinds of feelings, thoughts, experiences, moods, senses, intuitions silently, through words and illumine the reader’s mind and touch the heart.

All the poets possess pleasant traits to be an enchanting composer of verses.  We enjoy, relish, feel with, concur, fall into contemplation and many amicable moods are created in us while going through poets’ compositions.

The slender work of verses of any poet is a treasure house of tender feelings expressed with grace, sensitivity and insight. The personality of the poet peeps through his every verse.

The distillation of observations and feelings will be done so gracefully and enchantingly that we feel pleasant by going through the poems in the compilations.

A poet is both an entertainer and enlightener. Though most poets write under the compulsion of their nature for self-satisfaction, their outpours and compositions will be interesting to many a discerning reader. Readers get both charmed and their intellect gets sharpened when they go through the verses.

A poet is also a human being. He possesses thirst and hunger. He will have family responsibilities. He/she will have his or her social obligations. One has to take care of all these and then in the midst of these has to fine tune time to compose poetry. Money is essential to quench his thirst and hunger and discharge family responsibilities. These are not the times when one can make poetry-writing a livelihood. One has to do some other job and then write poetry. Living and being engaged in literary creation are different. Ninety nine percent of poets do not have the luxury of earning money by taking poetry-writing as a profession. And thus they cannot meet the obligations of taking care of themselves, their family and also discharge other social responsibilities.

A poet can spare and spend time in poetry-writing only after providing a comfortable life to his near and dear. Under present circumstances it is not possible to have a full-fledged life of poetry writing. One has to write poetry and take care of his family simultaneously. Many famous and popular poets of today do other jobs for their livelihood and then also write poetry. Now-a-days there are no poets who continue writing great poetry despite they and their family members suffering from poverty and hunger. There are almost no people who made poetry-writing their livelihood.

There have been many poets from all societies and civilizations who wrote poetry despite being poor and suffered from lack of minimum amenities. The great Tamil poet, SubrahmanyaBharati is a shining example, wrote poetry as an Upasana, and was many times not able to make his family members free from hunger and depravation.  But Rabindranath Tagore is a rich person and never knew the pangs of hunger. Sri GurajadaApparao, the famous Telugu dramatist and poet though was serving a royal family, created literary master-pieces.

What all needed to be a poet is to have a touchy, responsive and compassionate heart. And one must be able to feel for the happenings around and become one with them and express. Poverty or richness or serving others for livelihood will not come in the way of composing everlasting poetry. Many famous Telugu poets have written cine songs for their livelihood. Even Sri Sri, Arudra, AcharyaAtreya the champions of Marxist ideology have to resort to this anti-proletariat professions. Cine producers have provided the necessary money for their livelihood, though cinema is not in tune with socialist ideology. So, “dhanamoolamidamjagat” -Without money one cannot survive in this world and has to compromise his ideology for earning money to take care of body and family. In the absence of money one cannot even survive let alone writing poetry.

Thus how far the poets who do other jobs for livelihood and are part-time poets can commit themselves to their ideologies and influence the society with their poetry is a big question mark. We have many poets who lead cozy lives but still “feel” and write about dalits, women’s liberation, socialism, communism (though these two are now not so popular isms) and proclaim to belong to a narrow section rather than to belong to all humanity. 

“Viswasreyahkaavyaparamaartham- the poetic work must profess the welfare of all humanity and creation”. Such works are becoming rare. “Ramaneeyaarthaprapadikasabdahkavyah- Even a single word pregnant with aesthetic and bliss-giving meanings is also defined as poetry and poetic work. A poet has to present both aspects in one’s own poetry for the welfare and joy of all and also for self-satisfaction. 

The poet par excellence pervades and dwells in his creation of magic. Alive or not and eternallythere he lives. Though his body like a log becomes inert, the body of his poesy has no death to meet. In his body of ephemeral existence originate intuitions that foreverlast. It is his leather case which stops breathing; and not his eminence which breathes ever in silence.

The passions and emotions trickle from his words to fill a stream of harmony. Though retires for eternal sleep he lives eternally reclining on the couch of his poetry. Nature is his beloved and friend; frolicking he plays with words; the flowing Godavari and the stormy sea obey him and set ripples in his alphabet. He is the worthy successor of literary tradition and excels his predecessors

Cultured and aesthetic lovers of poetry remember and chant his sublime lines and heart-fully celebrate his melodies, brilliant and divine.