some local politics

Haven't made fun of Indian politics for ages. So today some woman poured acid on a male politician, makes a change. A few days ago a senior constable poured acid on his ex wife for trying to leave him. She should have called the police. And in Goa two versions of the same story, one about half naked belly dancers entertaining cops at the opening of a new cop shop. The other in the Deccan Chronicle says it was a more restrained affair, an internationally renowned impressario had brought in some international dancers (well ok from the Ex-soviet union and baltic states in the days of Communism they would surely have been dancers) and they had put on one of their shows for free because it was for the cops to an audience of 200 VIPS. Probably both versions were true, ah it's all about angles of view.

There have been a couple of stories on Irom Chanu Sharmila or possibly Sharmila Chanu I can never work out whether it's postnominal or antenominal. There was a week long festival in Imphal, Manipur led by activists there on Hope and Justice, and the culmination of tag based hunger strike sympathizers by Meitei women. Or empathizers. Plus a three day film festival here in Bangalore. The Hindu of all papers seems to be her strongest supporter but you'd have to search to find any stories about her. She was down to 37kg two years ago. And she is quite tall. I am a lot shorter she is close to half my weight. The internal organs start to be devoured. She is 39 but life expectancy even if she stops now. But this is western science she is a yogin she may live ten thousand years.

Aurobindo argued if you practised integrated yoga long enough your physical body became redundant replaced by a luminescent supramental body of light. Once while meditating in his room during a storm while everyone else was rushing about batting down the hatches, when they came to his room he was sitting meditating away and the calm progressed to the doorways and windows not a drop of rain entered. If you believe my translation of the french. I listened again to My body my weapon. I don't think she is going to end the fast until they repeal the law, and I don't they are going to repeal the law.

I am set on sending her Arundhati Roy's last book, Listening to Grasshoppers. They don't like her in India. Never liked her novel, God of Little Things it won an Western Award which always pisses off the locals. She never wrote another novel. It's a book on how India's democracy has failed and unless immediate action is taken there will be civil war. There is a battle of ideas going on now. Fascism always a populist ideology has replaced mainstream hinduism, but thankfully most hindus are very secular and ashamed to admit to being Hindu, bit like Muslims in the West. So yes I'll send her that one after I read it to her. It sounds depressing but I'll probably agree with it. A criticism I had read in one review today, I've read a few reviews of the book is, but Adivasi Dalits and the poor all vote in large numbers. India is the largest democracy in the world if our democracy was failing then they would stop voting. What a wanker. Nobody really bothers to vote in England because it is at its guts a democracy, the mother of all fucking democracies. Voting has nothing to do with democracy. It's a ritual. In true democracies a magicko-religious mystic communion. And in India a fucking sham.

Fuck ahimsa in language. These cunts can murder rape and torture and all the fucking bastard cunts in the West worry about is will they reduce their emissions and continue to buy our goods and sell raw materials to us cheaply. The only stinking fucking slimy fucking cunting bastard complaint anyone will raise is but does the man really have to swear so much. I am giving this Vipassana meditation my best efforts till June and then I can just sink back into the more relaxing Syriac chanting of the office thrice daily with Grammar and general reading inbetween.

Oh I was going to mention to Sharmila Chanu that the Power and the Glory was on the recommendation of the MD of Karnak Books, New Age and Yoga a sub-speciality and if she ever were to write her own Yoga book they would be happy to publish it. Well I'd pay for that one even if Karnak are too professional to introduce mad dreamers to the moribund hypocrital selfish and poisonous zeitgeist of the West wait a second it would be a coup for Karnak at last an actual bona fide ghost sister magicko religious yogin symbolizing the eternal battle between good and evil in her body, with a good photographer or accompanying CD, I dunno publishing is your business, this is the real mccoy not some green goddess in a bloody leotard for overweight middle age housewives to tighten their butt and improve their orgasm. It's got Karnak books written all over it, if she writes it.

Some bloody Astronomer has published some arsehole nonsense to quieten the souls of Hollywood saying not to worry the Mayans didn't predict the end of the world in 2012. How fucking stupid can you get. Why don't these arsehole idjit wanking scientists just stick to the stuff they know. The occultation of Venus will start here and end here. And leave the whole cataclysmic end times orthodox end of the world sheep and goats and demons and apocalyptic daymares to those who have gone insane on too much meditation. That bloody scientist better watch over his shoulder for the next few years in case some counterangelic entity in a petty mood with no appreciation of human humour decides to take it personal.

Damn it I must get some more serious plans about some kind of specialist dark entity counter-spiritual forces six thing team to do something for Sharmila Chanu, one of them some kind of ex Seraph who sits in the corner brooding just wake me when the killing starts, we aren't going to kill anyone Seraph - what is his name anyway - then WHY HAVE YOU SUMMONED ME, you are here just in case things get a little more complicated but we are certain that all will see reason and the various counter measures will stop any scenario mumble mumble how does he do that stare thing- that's what they always say just wake me when the killing starts.

Oh and one will be the slightly dippy sounding older female I am talking googolplexi of years here, always seems to misunderstand everything and tries to be helpful but with an edge, has that eery voice that lingers too long on the vowels and is constantly trying to overpronounce consonants a caracature of British english, yet it's not so much that she is incredibly stupid or naive more that she is an ultrasupraintelligent quantum level being so she exists only as a continually shifting possibility aware of the fragmentary temporary insubstantial nature of reality so keenly that she is never really certain in which reality she is dwelling because in truth at the core level she isn't, and she can be really handy in close quarters hand to hand combat. Not sure about the others just take anyone stupid enough to come along.

So I am assuming it's ok to put that on the inside cover of the power and the glory just the bit about if she ever writes a book in English and it's on Yoga well you'd publish not the rest not sure if Meitei really like western pseudo shamans interfering in their snake dance rituals. Amateurs she will think who would bring a Seraph and a quantum being to a knife fight. I'd hate to fall out with you over a woman Ollie even though we know this is inevitable