Mirror on the Wall

PEACE What is peace? If I put the question to a Hindu, he will quote the famous Shlokam, “Om Shanthi shanthi shanthi hi”. This statement means, let there be peace. Peace must be there even when times change. If there is no devotion, let there be devotion. If there is death, there shall be birth. If there is darkness let there be light. Everything will go in its due course. Whatever happens, let there be peace. The answer by a Christian would be,”It is one of the Biblical virtues”. Every Sunday mass will be characterized by the conveyance of peace to each other.  There is a hymn in Christian faith, “make me a channel of your peace”. Channel of peace literally means a instrument of peace. The very name Islam means peace. Peace is a great virtue in Islam. People who are cross with each other must make peace at least on the day of Ramzan by wishing Id Mubarak. Peace is a divine virtue. If it is not so, why religions have to speak about peace? Being so greatly influenced by th...

BAHUBALI FEVER: I had a visual treat the last Sunday. I watched the first part, two years back. We had been waiting two long years to watch this magnum opus. Almost all of us in our locality were struck with the ‘Bahubali Fever’. When people meet, they speak naught but only about “Bahubali”. The way the actors strived hard to bring out the best; costumes of the characters, the settings and the visuals.   Another thing that illuminated my thinking was the women characters in the movie. All the women are typical Indian women of the past. Right from Sivagami Devi(Ramya Krishnan) to Devasena (Anushka Shetty) to Sanga(Rohini). Defending themselves and being selfless mothers. After watching, I was reminded of the tri-aspects of the great psychoanalysts:  Jung and Freud. Sigmund Freud has given three qualities. Last Sunday I had a chance to watch the mass movie Bahubali. I found the Freudian tri paths in the characters. They are id, ego and super-ego. Id is the immediate ...