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Re: Rechurning Turbulent Waters of Mahabharata Studies: Removing Poison, Revealing Nectar

maheshcr — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 08:36:29 -0000

A post that does justice to the workshop. I had attended the one in Bangalore and wish I had opportunity to go through the 4 day one! Look forward to reading the unabridged Mahabharata and adding to the efforts of Adluri and Bagchee. Thanks for the post and the exhortation to action!

Re: Dharma, Might, Devotion And More: Baahubali 2 Is The Embodiment Of Bharatiya Culture And Values

maheshcr — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 12:45:47 -0000

Watched the movie...the review is inline with what I saw. Stunning and subtle at so many places..just watch it..

Re: The Hands That Think

maheshcr — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 01:06:04 -0000

Wonderful...I really liked how scientific advances are presented with context. Also, it has been my experience in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga that as one progresses, the various parts of the being..the limbs for our context, gain an intelligence all their own. There is no thought as one would normally think, but an intuitive action possible...and the limbs grow to gain a character all their own, more or less integrated according to stage of the sadhana. And I have found many mantras that situate a Deity or a Power in various positions in our being to be of great help. Almost like a invocation or installation of a certain power in our being. And your last mantra quote fully resonated with me.

Re: The Divine Response

maheshcr — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 06:28:26 -0000

The title is a tad misleading/inapt. Otherwise a good collection of perspectives. And why only women?

Re: Stories of Faith: The Shrine Of Tirupati

maheshcr — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 01:16:04 -0000

Liked the points about architecture. Some more illustrations would be nice, will make people pay attention to details and appreciate heritage more.

Re: Between The Ganga And The Volga: A Soviet U-Turn On Yoga

maheshcr — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:59:40 -0000

When it comes to Yoga, being a researcher is as good as a librarian holding books on Quantum Physics...utterly irrelevant to the practical realisation of its implications.

The Western worldview struggles to go deeper than surface reasoning and Meera would be a classic example of an Indian learning a narrower view of Indic knowledge.

Re: Everything Is Consciousness: Notes On Kashmir Shaivism

maheshcr — Sat, 05 Dec 2015 12:28:40 -0000

Wonderful overview. Would love to read more on the various Tantra Shastras in this style of exposition.

Re: Parrikar’s I-Day Broadcast: Hollow Clichés Aren’t Good Enough

maheshcr — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:30:54 -0000

Seems the Forces developed spine to speak out after the Govt change at Center?!

Re: India Needs To Break Free Of Menstrual Taboos

maheshcr — Sun, 16 Aug 2015 13:09:44 -0000

Completely agree with you. And firmly reject all the spiritual/mystical/religious justifications given to treat this natural phenomena with prejudice...

If men had this happen to them just once they would have never written or build rules to discriminate women on this factor...

Re: The First Westerner To Graduate From An Ayurvedic College

maheshcr — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 12:48:37 -0000

The Aghora Trilogy was a key influence in my inner evolution...thanks Dr.Svoboda!

Re: Narayana Murthy's wake up call: Why India needs to move from 'jugaad' to real innovation

maheshcr — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 14:16:38 -0000

I see Murthy's intent here, trying to goad us into a discussion on what needs to be done to bring lasting innovation. That said, I feel organisations like his(Infy, Wipro, TCS et. al.) have contributed significantly to this malaise, especially when they could have done so much to improve the quality of work that gets done in their organisations. Of course this mediocrity is not unique to Indian IT services firms, most large companies end up being tangled in this nonsense..with scale come the unwashed masses.

IT services firms are mostly about increasing billing and nothing more. Ask Murthy how much open-source contribution his organisation has done so far? How many patents filed that gives them a competitive advantage? What original technology have they brought to life? Any significant product that is considered world-class..for which one can charge a premium?

Does Infy have the capability and people to do this? Of course it has, there should be at least 10% of people who could easily roll with the best in the world. But the culture is all messed up in these IT services firms. Right from recruitment, how people are trained(or not), how their utilisation or lack of it is dealt with, what kind of work is expected out of them, incentives to gain deep technical skill, leadership at every level that understands technology deeply and so much more. No point trying to ignore this!

Murthy's time would be well spent if he showed us how world class innovation can be done at scale in an org like his, rather than playing to the gallery and dropping ideas that firms like his have no clue how to handle. Of course I get that Sikka is trying to deal with this problem but the roots of "go with the flow" run deep and it would take a lot of time to unroot them for excellence to take root across the organisation.

Re: Data modeling with multi-model databases

maheshcr — Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:46:48 -0000

Am compelled to try ArangoDB purely on the strength of this post. Awesome, thanks a ton Max!

Re: Anyokti: Sleight Of Hand, Sting Of A Bee

maheshcr — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 01:14:19 -0000

You Sir are drunk, drunk on poetry! :)

Re: Thus An Age Was Born

maheshcr — Wed, 03 Jun 2015 13:13:46 -0000

My upvote for showing up the Emperor...and linking to Sri Aurobindo's piece...

Re: She Gently Fell Asleep

maheshcr — Sun, 31 May 2015 13:48:48 -0000

Bengal Renaissance provided the intellectual and cultural backbone for our uprising...but it spent itself in a few hundred years..and its blind worship of past genius did not allow newer powers to emerge..and hence started the decline...and its love of superficial systems like communist thought was its downfall...that society is doomed, barring a push from an exceptional movement that invigorates mind, heart and soul....

Re: When Poetry Went Viral In Medieval India

maheshcr — Tue, 05 May 2015 13:36:50 -0000

Perfect. Bless you. Also, for those of us with rudimentary knowledge of Sanskrit...reading the script does not help at all..the sound is a bunch of monosyllables painfully assembled like reluctant school children for a play...could you please recite and share..would help appreciate the sounds..I understand its too much to ask for though...keep going.

Re: Bhairavi: The Ragini Amongst The Ragas

maheshcr — Sun, 03 May 2015 13:33:12 -0000

As someone ignorant of musical taxonomies, I would love to have this be illustrated as above, with samples, would be an immense service to showcase diversity of musical traditions of our land. Would love it if you took a crack at it!

Re: Mareecha: Deer Of Gold, Master Of Sorcery

maheshcr — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:25:00 -0000

I believe Sita liked the skin of the Deer. Hence Rama's response to shoot it. Remember, these are folks in a forest and their vow of being exiles in a forest and the cultural mores of those times made it a normal event. Viewed from a modern context it seems rather crude, but one has to judge these things with some subtlety.

When converted morons pose such questions, ask them why the bread is body of their god and the wine his blood. This same logic is used by tribal and ignorant people when they use potions made of Rhino horns to give them better **xual impulses...exact same logic. This is how the tribal and barely evolved animal-man would have thought. Eat the Elephant so you can become strong like it and so on. Utterly no subtlety, barbaric even. The blind Abrahamics celebrate the handful who had some sight. And we have had ancestors who affirmed their experience of finding the oneness of everything with their Atman.

Acquire knowledge and fight back such ignorant morons, that should be our Dharma.

Re: You Can Pick Fights With Our Gods

maheshcr — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 06:06:01 -0000

And the line "But the God of Sanātana Dharma is a pliant, doughy entity who assumes the form the devotee finds most fulfilling"...is just beautiful in its meaning and form!

Re: When Shiva Showed Ravana His Place

maheshcr — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:27:42 -0000

Beautiful post...please continue highlighting heritage in sculture 'poetry in stone'!

Re: How To Be Funny In Sanskrit

maheshcr — Wed, 25 Mar 2015 12:06:02 -0000

Utterly brilliant start...am hooked already. Please continue this Suhas...if ever you need a fan to pep you up give me a shout :)

Re: "SharePoint = Collaboration? Not Always"

maheshcr — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 04:35:51 -0000

Good article. It is an empirical observation that tools don't impact teams as much as their innate drive to accomplish and change does. Tools are facilitators and enablers, without proper culture and policies the tools remain sunken investments.

Ben Fried, CIO of Google, touched upon a related topic(on how culture and tools are intertwined) in a recent interview, my thoughts on that interview are here[1].

[1] http://maheshcr.com/organis...

Re: Big Data and the Role of Intuition

maheshcr — Wed, 25 Dec 2013 12:09:03 -0000

Tom - Spot on. Especially with unstructured data, even if data volume is not huge, with no explicit metadata to guide our thinking, it is intuition that proposes a possible landscape of meaning that might exist. Without this as yet fictional map one would not have a basis to proceed further. This is almost like Science Fiction guiding direction of scientific research where intuition/inspiration precedes reality and concrete understanding.

Re: Introducing Quran.js | Thruput | Garbage In, Garbage Out

maheshcr — Sat, 05 Oct 2013 09:13:02 -0000

"So that our discourses about religion are no longer discourses of the ignorant."

That is just perfect. Tolerance follows understanding.

Oh, nice work on the technical bit too :)

Re: Learning to Speak Shrub - Issue 6: Secret Codes - Nautilus

maheshcr — Thu, 03 Oct 2013 14:45:11 -0000

You had me at the first line, "Entomologist Richard Karban knows how to get sagebrush talking". The density of concepts packed here is stunning.

Science with its precision approaches, explains or aligns with the intuitive, inspired utterances of Eastern mystics.