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V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-89701055190061076242024-02-15T21:58:00.000+05:302024-02-15T21:58:02.500+05:30Creatures of the Current by V. Shruti Devi FREE in ebook format from 14th - 18th Feb., 2024<p>Greetigns!</p><p>To celebrate 25 years of having written Creatures of the Current, the ebook format of the fable is FREE for all readers from the 14th - 18th of February, 2024.</p><p>Do visit my other social media sites for info. on my participation in the ongoing #NewDelhiWorldBookFair2024</p><p>Here's a link to Creatures of the Current:</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LZHE6YS" target="_blank">Creatures of the Current ebook FREE from 14th - 18th Feb., 2024</a><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Enjoy!</p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-65466294008468130472024-01-17T20:57:00.002+05:302024-01-17T20:57:30.989+05:30Link to YouTube: V. Shruti Devi on her latest non-fiction book<p><a href="https://youtu.be/Sm8TAeil67E" target="_blank">V. Shruti Devi on her latest book, SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION</a> </p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-22480924001176453342024-01-10T17:23:00.002+05:302024-01-10T17:23:29.831+05:30My latest book, and a link to free copies of the e-version of the book!<p> Greettings, all!</p><p><br /></p><p>I'm thrilled to share with you, a link to my latest book, SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION: Fashions in Law, Politics, Environment, Winter/Spring 1998</p><p><br /></p><p>Further details may be accessed via the following link:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CR2Z54NS" target="_blank">SPIRIT OF THE CONSTITUTION By V. SHRUTI DEVI</a><br /></p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-48208585642263207032023-11-03T11:43:00.000+05:302023-11-03T11:43:04.609+05:30On Annexations, my Twitter Post (X Post)<a href="https://x.com/ShrutiDevi/status/1720321521946710401?s=20" target="_blank">My Twitter post regarding International Law and Annexations</a>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-42122932088984825622023-10-29T12:31:00.001+05:302023-10-29T12:31:38.859+05:30V. Shruti Devi's #NextBook, a video announcement by the author, made fro...<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/k224sPoIfdo/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/k224sPoIfdo?si=bYWcHLZHVjBBVDJb" frameborder="0"></iframe>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-40296120486798237682023-10-02T16:32:00.001+05:302023-10-02T16:32:22.102+05:30My tribute to my aunt, Kusum, who passed away on 1st Oct., 2023<p> My Facebook post this morning:</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">My aunt, KUSUM DEBI (V. Kusumanjali Devi), the Chennai-based artist, my father's sister, a Princess of Kurupam, passes away:</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">With profound sorrow, one announces the demise of my father's sister, Kusum, who died in Chennai on the 1st of October, 2023.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Born on 11th November, 1950, in Kurupam, she was the daughter of Raja V. Durgaprasad Deo and Rani Sobhalata Devi of Kurupam.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><span style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>Educated in Madras and Baroda, Kusum (Nini Ata to me), studied and taught Fine Art.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Schooled at the prestigious Presentation Convent, Church Park, Mardas, she went on to do a Bachelor's Degree in Fine Arts at the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary (FMM)'s college, Stella Maris, in Madras, and a Master's Degree in Fine Arts at MS University, Baroda. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Kusum taught Fine Arts in Stella Maris College, Madras for a while. The renowned Chennai Artist also exhibited her work in New Delhi in the 1980s at places like the Lalit Kala Academy, and at Triveni, participating in group and solo exhibitions, and was interviewed by Doordarshan in the 1980s.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">The themes of her work were initially mostly from Nature, using oil paints on canvas with palette knives.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">She taught drawing, painting, and art to students at her home studio for many years.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">In her early life, she'd also experimented with designing and producing leather bags and purses under the brand name of Sheepsling, hiring craftspeople to work out of a home garage in Chennai, and availed of the opportunity to pursue a brief course in Ceramics in the USA in the 1980s.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Kusum was loved by her friends and family, had a large heart, and was often a self-appointed "sounding-board" for all her friends and extensive circles who needed a sympathetic ear or word of advice.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">She also had great empathy for the downtrodden. An urban princess from a bygone era, she made it her earthly endeavour to extend the goodness that she associated with being a princess to all those around her. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Cooking was one of her therapeutic exercises, and she revelled in dishing out large quantities of gourmet food on festive occasions, for the domestic staff, friends, relatives, and anyone else on whom she chose to bestow her indulgence. This, while living the life of a regular citizen in a modest apartment in Chennai, driving her own car, and standing in queues in government offices to pay routine bills. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">On one of her Orissa-living stints, she even experimented with the home-pickle-making business with a cousin of hers, but the world of art and Chennai drew her back.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Kusum suffered form diabetes, and in the last few months of her life, had been hospitalised on occasion. A toe had been amputated. Once out of the hospital, where she had been attended to by my mother, Preeti, and my other aunt, Sucharu, she was at home, in the expert care of nurses. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Two of her sisters, Pushpa and Sucharu, had visited her from outstation a few days before her demise. She passed away peacefully in the presence of her friend and neighbour, Ruby. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Family members rushed to Chennai the day she expired. The funeral is scheduled for this morning in Chennai.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">My childhood memories of Nini Ata have always been fond ones. My first cousins from my father's side, and I, used to be most entertained by her on our holiday trips to Chennai. Childhood friends from Delhi might remember her as Abracadabra, as that was the "magic chant" that she used to use, to have little gifts miraculously fall into our laps while we closed our eyes, clapped, and sang out her rhyme! It became a word of it's own: Lets do Abracadabra!</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I had the opportunity to learn about great art and artists, and sit with her during her art shows at galleries in Delhi when I was a very young school student, asking gallery-goers to write in the Visitors' Book, and explaining her paintings to the good folk of New Delhi way back when.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Nini Ata was married for a short while long ago, but returned from Calcutta to Chennai and lived with her mother. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">She was very attached to her mother, and was emotionally devastated when her mother passed away ten years ago. Poetically, just the day before Nini Ata passed away, a special final Shraadh Pooja had been conducted in my grandmother's memory at a famous temple, a Shaktipeeth, near a river in Odisha, by our family.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Nini Ata was a feisty soul, did not always mince her words, and was always very clear about what her opinions on matters were. She regaled in watching political news programmes on television, and telephonically articulating her media-inspired opinions on varied subjects. She had her loyalties.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Nini Ata loved all her eight nieces and nephews equally. Old-fashioned "good manners", politeness and effortless sophistication were her hallmarks for those who knew her.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I write on the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, and remember one of the inspirational cards and quotes Nini Ata had sent me when I was a child. It was a hand-made card, cut out in the shape of a shoe, and it said something to the effect of: I was complaining that I had no shoes, until I saw a boy without legs.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">On many of our lengthy phone conversations in the past, I'd communicated to her, my world view on the role of society in an individual's life, and the role of the state. I pointed out to her, how I've always worked to achieve all the elements of Free Healthcare for All in my work, and what the many elements of free health care ought to include.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">Strangely, I had been considering attending a social event in Chennai on the date that she passed away, but finally decided not to go for the Chennai chapter of my St. Stephen's College alumni reunion.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">As I write in solitary splendour at The Fort, Kurupam, and as she transfers to other realms, lighting up the space in the crematorium, probably as you read, You Can Have The Cadaver, I say...Abracadabra!!!!!!!! </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">I share with you, a photograph of a photo of her, that adorns one of the walls here at The Fort, Sivvannapeta, Kurupam, where she was born.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none !important; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none !important; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;">- V. Shruti Devi (Kusum's brother's daughter)</div></div><p><br /></p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-46060642531782231672023-09-20T18:42:00.001+05:302023-09-20T18:42:43.908+05:30V. Shruti Devi, Adv., Supreme Court of India, Member, AICC, on #WomenRes...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/fBlxRxQxIrA?si=ZIk12l1CMNm0jSTV" frameborder="0"></iframe>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-21589449108638373742023-09-16T11:09:00.003+05:302023-09-18T20:16:43.497+05:30My diplomatic raised eyebrow w.r.t. the recent Kirkus Review of my book, Earth Republic and a link to the full Kirkus Review<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">This is what I just posted on Facebook, 16th Sept., 2023:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space-collapse: preserve;">CALLING THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLISHING AND JOURNALISTIC WORLD!</span></p><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The exceptionally critical trashing of my book, Earth Republic, by Kirkus (in the unlikely circumstance of it all being a tongue-in-cheek way to signal only geniuses, that THE book of the century is here!), leads one to wonder if there's any extraneous diplomatic or political angle involved with reference to the stance of the reviewer.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">This is a 2018 book, but I chose to send it to Kirkus only this year.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">One <span style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><a style="animation-name: none; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;" tabindex="-1"></a></span>wonders whether the review reflects a powerful nation's utter refusal to accept that India is rising! </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">This is the note I wrote "about the book", when I submitted Earth Republic to Kirkus for a review:</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">"EARTH REPUBLIC: Chatter from the Capital's Cauldron (and Beyond), is a non-fiction book that approaches the underlying themes of democratic governance, natural resource management, and world peace through a set of semi-autobiographical essays.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The book, at one level, places the author's country, India, and the author's own socio-cultural milieu and experiences at the centre-point of global solutions to be crafted and sought.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Areas of concern related to biodiversity, environment, approaches to reading the law, ways in which to deal with emerging technologies, and the expansion of democratic values upheld by the spirit of the Constitution of India are dealt with while talking of local, personal, and world events. </div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The overall time-range that is commented upon is from the 1970s to the year of the writing of the book, with futuristic intentions.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">Most of the titles of the ten chapters are self-explanatory, and draw the reader into sometimes niche observations that might fit well into an emerging global jigsaw that holds up optimism, and even immortality via real life, spirituality, and science!</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">The style of writing is conversational and informal, with pan-Indian accents that are most discernible in the many hyphenated phrases that are used.</div></div><div class="x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="animation-name: none; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; transition-property: none; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">For its socio-cultural and linguistic content, the book would also play the role of essential reading for the History of English Literature, while making a welcome bid for setting many conversations going, and flagging key issues, to deliver to the world, Peace!"</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;">And here's a link to the full Kirkus Review, received yesterday:</div><div dir="auto" style="animation-name: none; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none;"><a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/v-shruti-devi/earth-republic/" target="_blank">A link to the full Kirkus Review of Earth Republic</a><br /></div></div>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-88662527891779661032023-09-06T18:13:00.005+05:302023-09-06T18:13:54.780+05:30My initial personal opinion on #OneNationOnePoll<p> For my initial personal opinion on #OneNationOnePoll, please click on the link below:</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/rOAwMCXODvs?feature=share" target="_blank">A Youtube link to my personal opinion on One Nation One Poll </a><br /></p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-50201943168641043542023-08-26T13:16:00.002+05:302023-08-26T13:16:38.481+05:30A link to a written interview I gave to an Odisha-based website, on my writing, politics, and lawyering<p> A link to a written interview I gave to a website, on my writing, politics, and lawyering:</p><p><a href="A link to a written interview to a website, on my writing, politics, and lawyering" target="_blank">V. Shruti Devi's written interview to Interview Times, an Odisha-based website</a><br /></p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-72219006092258286772023-08-21T22:16:00.004+05:302023-08-21T22:16:27.063+05:30V. Shruti Devi's comments welcoming and analysing the Supreme Court's Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/2otq6Mb9-hc" frameborder="0"></iframe>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-47352607603667012402023-08-17T13:19:00.003+05:302023-08-17T13:19:49.110+05:30Images Jan - July '23 (Politico-legal)<p> A link to a Youtube post, including to a free Subscribe button:</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/IHxoGHfs628" target="_blank">Images: Jan - July '23 (Political)</a></p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-7257415760814966422023-06-29T22:29:00.002+05:302023-06-29T22:29:30.298+05:30Shruti's Eid Mubarak message 2023 with opinions on the Uniform Civil Code<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TdsavkjcC4I/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/TdsavkjcC4I" frameborder="0"></iframe>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-38852839633060733332023-06-06T19:33:00.005+05:302023-06-06T19:33:45.452+05:30Shruti Devi's environmental concerns, 2023<a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/W4sMKizwtHw?feature=share" target="_blank"></a>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-91928190410894082962023-01-24T18:23:00.005+05:302023-01-24T18:29:30.166+05:30A link to Shruti Devi's message on India's Girl Child Day (24th January)Shruti Devi's message on India's Girl Child Day (24th January), 2023:
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Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-22052827850916798162022-11-14T23:20:00.001+05:302022-11-14T23:20:32.318+05:30Children's Day message from Shruti Devi (14th Nov., 2022)<p>Greetings on Children's Day, 14th November...here's a link to a video message from me for social media from my Youtube channel, "Shruti Devi":</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/CoEyOHg3qmc?feature=share" target="_blank">Children's Day message from Shruti</a></p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-80218015240095846062022-10-25T00:29:00.002+05:302022-10-25T00:29:56.121+05:30Divali greetings from Shruti: An approx one-minute video from Youtube<p> An approx one-minute video:</p><p><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/wAeYE0Wbh8o?feature=share" target="_blank">Happy Divali from Shruti Devi</a></p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-27726264908630131722022-10-17T15:55:00.000+05:302022-10-17T15:55:06.921+05:30Shruti Devi after voting for Congress President at AICC, New Delhi, 17th...<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/g3Q08qAeelY" frameborder="0"></iframe>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-57802542002346185512022-09-29T15:59:00.004+05:302022-09-29T15:59:49.841+05:30Shruti Devi on one aspect of the emerging law on Abortion in India 29th Sept., 2022<p> Youtube Video:</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ShrutiDevi/status/1575407858614960128?s=20&t=-doWfqkjJP5Sm57lzCFUDg" target="_blank">Shruti Devi on one aspect of the emerging law on Abortion in India</a></p>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-81297859610266032952022-09-28T13:59:00.001+05:302022-09-28T13:59:48.819+05:30Shruti Devi's views, in general, on the banning of organizations<iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/zwX6R6nor_w" frameborder="0"></iframe>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-62463180828237161202022-09-23T16:13:00.002+05:302022-09-23T16:13:31.094+05:30Shruti Devi on Democracy and Truth Youtube #Shorts<iframe style="background-image:url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IuB9ax9X2eU/hqdefault.jpg)" width="480" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/IuB9ax9X2eU" frameborder="0"></iframe>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-53038925448154311642022-07-29T10:37:00.005+05:302022-07-29T11:38:29.820+05:30A link to a quick listing of the 4 books I've written<p> </p><p>Click on the link below for details of the books I've written, now uploaded on Linkedin:</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shrutidevivyricherla_author-of-the-following-4-books-1-creatures-activity-6958648780132888576-4pQy?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/posts/shrutidevivyricherla_author-of-the-following-4-books-1-creatures-activity-6958648780132888576-4pQy?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZpmH0xU5aFXmQN71q-4QPs5UnPhzBLAvcdsaya1K6xfLWCPh-fgCDKxF4l3jDj0YFn96TxfgwH5IUyHA8bOIs0houQknMGT979K_lx_RBrmVZrA_N_iy96Sc00CtjlhrXfTsDy0aPg1TicEz2FSnTXhkje_3qpbMB8tqCzUPMCCmFDhBlC9EsuI/s3507/Deep%20Wood%20Trance%20by%20V%20Shruti%20Devi%20front%20cover%20of%20green%20book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3507" data-original-width="2631" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvZpmH0xU5aFXmQN71q-4QPs5UnPhzBLAvcdsaya1K6xfLWCPh-fgCDKxF4l3jDj0YFn96TxfgwH5IUyHA8bOIs0houQknMGT979K_lx_RBrmVZrA_N_iy96Sc00CtjlhrXfTsDy0aPg1TicEz2FSnTXhkje_3qpbMB8tqCzUPMCCmFDhBlC9EsuI/s320/Deep%20Wood%20Trance%20by%20V%20Shruti%20Devi%20front%20cover%20of%20green%20book.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Deep Wood Trance by V. Shruti Devi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipO5OHQBtaONuffriKBI6QpimbNbts5NWNJkwHB6Z0vgQh-nSwEfRGUFKAetslN_ae5lecjhwxD1ndmGjoXJjji_HxaP-GTgNiTX1Q36oSG7vHEOgMcHd2kI9NHTSSL8DTxPM02lF84BQITFh5FMbO1y6C6YKpGVTDVCCOp-eTq4v2qbQqq2SeVM4/s1397/deep%20wood%20trance%20array%20date%20cropped%20off%20(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="1397" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipO5OHQBtaONuffriKBI6QpimbNbts5NWNJkwHB6Z0vgQh-nSwEfRGUFKAetslN_ae5lecjhwxD1ndmGjoXJjji_HxaP-GTgNiTX1Q36oSG7vHEOgMcHd2kI9NHTSSL8DTxPM02lF84BQITFh5FMbO1y6C6YKpGVTDVCCOp-eTq4v2qbQqq2SeVM4/s320/deep%20wood%20trance%20array%20date%20cropped%20off%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><p><br /></p></div>V. Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-43194861435069014542022-07-16T10:30:00.006+05:302022-07-16T16:44:18.878+05:30Vision Document vibes in short fiction: NYE 2199, Planet Earth by V. Shruti Devi<p>NYE 2199, Planet Earth </p><p class="MsoNormal">Written by V. Shruti Devi in May, 2022 and edited by V. Shruti Devi on 14th July, 2022</p><p class="MsoNormal">[All *s (randomly numbered, at this point), denote likely web-based interpolations by criminal offenders, unless the author wrote with trance-like inspiration!]</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Of the myriad Realities that humanity knows to seize through methods scientific, pseudo-scientific, and the <i>Ikkat</i>-like greyness that interweaves these apparently repugnant-to-each-other non-dichotomies, there are approaches of quantum physics, with it’s space-time-and-all-other-permutations-and-combinations dimensions, and then there are yogic and other similar non-documented processes in eastern cultures on earth, especially in areas that are thought of as Asia. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">While the present moment is, indeed, the joker, at this point of time, one is focused on the story that is being written for the reader who will access it via temporally and spatially predicable contours (although those could be altered either by the now-quite-clichéd industrially constructed time machine/s, or via humanly-gained <i>siddhis</i>- abilities akin to a set of super powers). </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The realities one creates using one’s mind are likely to prevail and hopefully gracefully conquer realms of space-time and beyond, conjuring future truths, in the light of which to create comparatively more durable norms, worlds, ways of existence. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">These thoughts were being communicated in the year 2023 to practitioners of yoga in a grove in the Eastern Ghaat hill ranges of India, as they embarked on a session of learning Sheetli: a simple yogic pose and action that draws breath to create a cool sensation within the human body, even in the midst of a scalding and radiating spring or autumn. By a semi-retired-young world leader. A woman who had concocted the exact mix of chutzpah, intention, and social-distancing (in a non-Covid sense), to be able to carry out these activities, as well as prosper through equitable means, and in a sustainable manner, in the times that she inhabited. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Just as they had learnt lessons in Constitutionality, Democracy, and Human Rights from her at the turn of the previous century, a different set of students (who were, at one level, a part of the same biosphere, and thus identified, so some extent, as a collective harking back to the gene-pool and philosophical conglomerations of her 20th Century learners), were keen to explore siddhis when they were not planning for the future and single-handedly, in a joint-the-dots-with-all-those-in-solidarity kind of way, maintaining the world order in the interest of their own survival, to begin with. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Think indigenous art, think all hemispheres, think galaxies. Read the heavens. No mindless penance, but a confluence of common sense, the knowledge of yogic siddhis, and access to the best of wisdom from the world of quantum physics. (Herbs and wicca were floating at a nebulous everywhere-zone).</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">She conjured holograms of all the tarot decks that she’d known, and, more recently, created. Drew cards that were somehow energized out of their slivery planes in their packs that juggled images of the vulpine, feline, canine, bejewelled, wind-swept, [armourized]*, knighted, coronated, silken, lunar-lit, ;coin-scattered, floral, choral, coiled in, overbrimming]* symbols. Land-bound caravans of nomads [and yes-mads]* hurling into constellations, from there, with tales to tell, and prophecies to shimmeringly declare.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Memory brought to her, scenes from the Universal deck: prosperity on farms, scenes outside huts, glorious-looking images of plenty: grains, luscious fruit, rivers, fish bearing, rainbow-lit streams, and entire epic lists that would constitute Biodiversity (and some CITES-endangered lists that would also gain epic proportions). </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">In the troughs and crests of human activity, eddies and whirls of such realities had been achieved. Humanity had used its genius to find ways in which to soften the blows of undiscerning Nature, and to conjure a flurry of papers, decrees that helped meet the needs of women, children, the differently-abled and everyone else, universally, to survive in dignified or semi-dignified ways, depending on how such things were defined. That much, they had been able to achieve. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">But the narrative continueth! </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Fundamental questions need to be re-asked. The impacts of collective action (local collective action) on the individual, for instance. Much of what is perceived as being wholesome, and abundant, and steeped in a deep knowledge of Nature and the ways of the earth often translates to making the will of the weakest individual within a system subservient to the goals of the strongest within the same system. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">It could be an agricultural practice. Wouldn’t a more ideal world be one where each individual had Options, rather than the partly-empathetic exoticising and glorification of the continuation of inescapable human toil and labour? </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Tarina (or Taru), the semi-retired-young world leader, put this question to the group that had gathered to brainstorm. They hailed from various continents, and almost half the participants belonged to indigenous communities who had been working on planetary governance for a while. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thus began the Constituent Assembly Debates for the Planet (which, by the way, already had an unwritten Constitution and a sort of shadow everything- government, bureaucracy, constitutional monarchy, even!) </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">This entire transmission was put on Pause. There was loud clapping, the new year’s eve revellers of the year 2199 burst into applause. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Feasting on steaks made of lab-made meats, and swishing down [chilled]* home-made wine decanted to perfection and marketed by safety-standardized home-brewers across the globe, they savoured the aromas and moods of a past earth. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Mahua flowers, toddy, cacti…not always brewed, but regulations had helped eradicate hooch tragedies triggered by e-waste, battery-fermented poison. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Not capable of being decanted, either, and so the matrix shakes itself out some more, turning spirals to rudimentary nursery-shapes, and unleashing a confetti of diagrams to the ether to vapourize, solidify, elucidate itself in it’s own words, to the void.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Those yogis had turned into spirits in the ever-expanding multiverse, and a correlation between spirit and unseen energies as comprehended by modern science had been made. In such a world, to continue to procreate and experience the struggles of material existence was a matter of choice as far as the procreator was concerned. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Other planets, more cultures, worlds, in a sense, had all been discovered, and some were being communicated with, and interacted with. Not very different from the planet’s past, sociologically speaking [, except for the opportunities of bungee-jumping, roller-coasteering and surfing the waves of astoundingly foreign scientific revelations.]*</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Much like the perfectly-brewed, recipe-shared and decanted Coorgi and other home made wines, specific temperatures and certain atmospheres were needed to ensure supreme-quality brews of Reality.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">And as with every disruptive opportunity, decanting could just shake up the entire mass of juice, and create the same old clarity, or push humanity, and viticulture up the era spiral by a very precise and calculated decantation process. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Not to mention the Discipline needed to responsibly consume these victuals. So, no Prohibition in the year 2199, only strong will-power to drink just the right amount, and to thus abstain from a larger gobblement, so to speak. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">As a famous semi-clad barrister and world leader pursuing truth, freedom, and non violence, and opposing racism, had once said, or also said (in these approximate words), there is enough for everyone’s need, but not for everyone’s greed. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Well, that might have been the case in the year 2023, but the planet had crossed all such material barriers decades ago. The air was fresh for human consumption, waterbodies of all kinds [and sizes]***** had been revived and recharged, a diversity of plants (and not monocultures), had risen from a transitory morass of degeneration, ruin, and waste. Fauna and avi-fauna responded to human interventions, and began to co-operate with anthropocentric endeavours to recreate bounty. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Critical Mass had made its presence felt. Things needed to be Visualized once the need for amendments, environmental action, and a mix of seemingly opposing ideas and stances had been resolved, and unequivocally registered into consciousness.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The conviction was created. The visualizations were practised, and the sought-for change then became an inevitable reality.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Such things have happened before, and will continue to kick into action time after time, era after era.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Energy sources other than those drawn from fossil-fuels or nuclear energy had been obtained. This had been made possible because research to create other forms of energy had been given top priority. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Once the energy conundrum was solved out-of the-box, via technology, everything else fell into place.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The misfortune of some human beings being subjected to hard labour: be it within [the great walls of]******** agricultural and industrial production, or subterranean unpleasant activities such as cleaning and manual scavenging, had been made completely redundant and not-necessary (vote banks can be diverted to other, more humane driven concerns). </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The reasons that [thinking and knowing]********* people at large chose to stay tuned into their physical bodies was to explore the siddhis a body could acquire. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">In order to retain this reality and these bodies, the global temperatures that climate activists argued for in the first quarter of the 2000s were relevant. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The new year’s eve party, 2199, was an [open-house**********] open-air event, set in the outdoor, on a stormy evening in a biodiverse forest. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Solar and other-powered [energy rays***********] devices (a few decades ago, solar drones used to be used for this), were set on an outcrop, for party goers to “pluck” the natural and gourmet produce from the trees and plants that engulfed the area. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">(On another note: most fruit and vegetables are naturally covered with what appear to be extraordinarily advanced and eco-friendly packaging materials, [whose multi-temperature controlled refrigerator do we earthly beings inhabit, and where are the manufacturers,]************ were there any instructions for over-heating that the spacecraft forgot to airdrop?!) </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Other snacks that harked back to the planet’s heritage passed them by with automated discretion: ragi chips, barley wafers, roasted corn in five hundred different colours, rajma beans in another eight hundred hues, and so on…minced vegetables cooked in hollow bamboo, yam cutlets, roasted sweet potato with lime (good for a cold), shots of tulsi (basil leaves), crisp lentil patties with coconut chutney, and refrigerators-full of defrostable, or air-friable, or solar-cooked, or just plain freshly-made food did the rounds. Year 2199 managed to retain such diversity. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Human siddhis had been discovered, realised […most people now knew how to be conscious of how and why the human body was assessing materials, textures, quantities, characteristics, of elements, and to thus comprehend the readings better.]*************</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Who, then, had been left out? What was the sense of unease at this 2199 NYE party? </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">People were dancing to various world tunes, incorporating the sounds of nature, of electronic winds, and of sonic waves. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Levitation was an everyday art, and dance-forms were at a never-before stage of complexity made to look effortless. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Those who couldn’t make it there in their material selves were present in holograms, or in spirit. Connectivity went beyond the planet. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Even in 2199, those with different abilities had been overlooked in some spheres. These might have been highly accomplished and erudite people in past eras. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Those whose denied [themselves a peek into]* the existence of undiscovered sciences because of their intellectual vanity.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Or maybe their totally justified concerns regarding ethical science. In the name of ethics, the brakes must be applied to much of so-called scientific advancement. If not, you might solve climate change, but at the cost of the human rights of some. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">It’s often a question of one person’s human rights over another person’s human rights. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">There is inter-generational equity to be taken into consideration while calculating whose side you might be speaking on. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The World Community had, somewhere around the year 2032, finally reached the target of being able to retain cultural and democratic [political]**************** diversity while efficiently planning and employing natural resources for planetary consumption through peaceful means and dialogue. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Once this was achieved, climate change and every other world problem was solved with greater speed and [thoroughness*****************] efficiency. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Biases in human thought and behaviour: racism, dishonesty, chauvinism, and jingoism of any kind, were a thing of the past. This was brought about by a kind of reformatting of human minds and attitudes through various means, ranging from the natural progression of ‘social reform’, to the chanting of, and meditation on specific mantras to create renewed awareness on a variety of states of mind, thought processes, behaviours [, and topics].******************. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Such was the setting of the party, and many were the oppressed, and this was because of the controversies that still raged, regarding intellectual property, the control over the means of communication, and the impediments to activities connected to being able to convey facts to the masses. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">In a much-decanted world, such concerns gained weight, and at the root of these concerns, was the idea of what the appropriate degree of calibration of the individual and the collective ought to be. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Snatches of conversation at the 2199 NYE party could be heard: the constituent assembly debates of the earth constitution…it had placed a great emphasis on the concept of the Public Sector that the country, India, had used for governance. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">This could be a metaphor, now, for the nature of human existence. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">With surveillance-related technologies that can read and communicate directly to the human mind, privacy, and, indeed, the very quality of human consciousness, had been [almost irreversibly]********************* eroded. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">At the turn of the century, revellers wanted to know what it had actually been like, to be an original human being…with their original limbs and organs, teeth, and thoughts-to-themselves. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Was it even possible? To be a free body, to go anywhere, untraced, to be able to make decisions in free range? </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The trade-offs were possibly justified. The so-called gains: Security, Justice for all, Equality. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">While automated refreshments and beverages made their way around the party arena, people mulled over these thoughts with gravity. It’s what you do when you’re on the cusp of another century. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">With various forms of time-space travel, and highly advanced levels of wiccan and other practices, there was the need to be constantly alert to the malfunctions that the hyper-new scientific age wheeled into existence: The fluctuations of quantum scramblers, and the unsatisfactory refragmentation of goods and beings in mundane transportation processes, for example. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">But travel had never been fool-proof for human civilization. And dreams were always just that- dreams. Once upon a time. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Much of the chatter on the cool, rainy, weather-and-climate-perfect evening was about how to phase out paperwork from the previous centuries, that had purported to create land titles in private property on the moon and elsewhere, and about the condition of the rings-of-garbage around various planets and their satellites. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Concerns regarding the status of the documentation of semi-human beings, genetically modified beings, and original human beings, and the kinds of rights that each of these categories ought to enjoy were accentuated by the presence of characters from these transitional configurations of being human. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">It was sometimes possible to differentiate from amongst these broad but almost indistinguishable categories from the manner in which they responded to the curated menu that was in circulation: a deep-rooted cellular memory of the authentic taste and texture of organically grown, non-genetically engineered grains, or fruit, or vegetables, and a plethora of human-made dishes was more likely to be accurately divined by an original human, even if programmes to make all such distinctions were fed into the genetic and other programming of other creatures. But associated memories would vary from individual to individual, from point-of-time to point-of time, and would thus need an infinite number of permutations and combinations to replicate. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Some foods and beverages had been created for the occasion using beyond-earth elements and materials, and all those attending the 2199 NYE party would be the original connoisseurs of those products. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">They would also be the first group of entities to have the opportunity to team those offerings with the ready-made desserts, pasta and innumerable so-called multi-cuisine delicacies growing on some of the trees of the biodiverse if ‘slightly’ genetically modified forest (a paradox in itself), grown with zero human drudgery. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">There was small talk on the nutritive and health-benefit value of everyone’s diet. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Cocktail-party oral traditions of the human race that continue, and that have served to aid and assist medicinal healers of yore, and gourmet aspirants of the hyper new scientific age alike. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Anecdotes of cooking, eating, planting, harvesting, tasting, launching, gather Chaucerian weight.</p><p class="MsoNormal">Robots will remember to sing. Instruments of all cultures will be loaded into the software. Clearly, the fact that the barbecued (or rotisseried) delectables were made of synthetically manufactured meat pointed towards the fact that the planet had embraced some form of vegetarianism. How that stance had been arrived at would be quite another story. Just like almost miraculously achieved universal healthcare, instantly uploaded education, and the space for unusual belief-systems [against the onslaught of cold science]********************* would be.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The planet had moved on, long ago, from substantial materials to energies, for most of it’s product-manufacturing. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The debate was no longer about extractive industries, but about upholding the quality and quantity of invisible energy fields and forces, and making sure that none are adversely impacted by these usages.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The skies were clean and blue, there was just the right amount of clear water and sunshine, no toxins or pollutants singed the air. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">A large part of the solution to the threat of climate change, years and years ago, had been brought about by climate activists agreeing with the arguments of those who opposed civil nuclear energy. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Climate activists had lagged behind, for many years, on accepting the fact that the production of civil nuclear energy in the way that the 21st Century produced it, was more damaging to water security and the health of the planet than most other known human activities were. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The deadlock amongst environmentalists was overcome when climate activists also became anti civil nuclear energy activists. This led to new research and solutions for the best energy mix for the planet.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">As these histories were being recounted, and the new century was being ushered in, there was a din near the time-fountain. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Gate-crashers from another era barged in, flashing cell-phones and colourful gemstones, talking in languages that sounded like inter-stellar breezes. They were from the planet’s recent past, and had arrived at this location, apparently because of poor signals. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">After communicating this, as was customary, to the time-fountain protocol system, they made a hurried exit, but not before registering [wholesome]********************** visions of the century that beckoned. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Their impacts on time, and vice-versa, was an area that was still inadequately researched and documented. Time would tell. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Conversations moved on to the feasibility and efficacy of the time-fountain and its protocols. A never-ending host of variables there. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">There were at least two hundred people attending the party. Although they were from various continents of the planet, there was a collective consciousness that they emerged from, very like the students of yoga from the film on the planet’s history. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Their conversations would be your clue, dear reader, to the many characters across centuries, who would think and say and do what these characters do. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Some voices might have been more shrill, out of necessity, in their questioning of matriarchies and patriarchies, and other such feudal and closed-in societal formations, where breaking out of a system is seen as a great victory, especially when it’s by the weakest individual, and a perpetuation of a system, albeit in the name of honouring Mother Earth, actually works to choke the spirit of the tiniest aspiration of creative energy. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Show me a small farmstead that works on the best of ecological principles, and I will show you a little girl or boy who has had to not dare to dream of life other than the back-breaking, person-nullifying green spinach-sprouting fertile land which, by the way, belongs to nobody, at one level. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">[There is a time and a place for an order to step back to, and simmer or freeze, or ice powder at.]***********************</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The Climate Crisis was solved. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Those who allowed biodiversity to flourish on their private urban and rural plots amidst towering concrete for as long as they had a fighting chance to live life, and to do so without earning any marvellous carbon credits; </p><p class="MsoNormal">those who opposed civil nuclear energy; </p><p class="MsoNormal">those who sacrificed years of their life to ensure that the wheels of global governance ran on the correct rails, irrespective of whether they found time to document their activities, or be credited for their efforts; </p><p class="MsoNormal">those who had the sense, and were fortunate to have the ability to speak truth to power; </p><p class="MsoNormal">who questioned malpractices in administration…these were some of the kinds of people across the planet, who made the real difference. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">The other big difference was made by the growing display of intelligence by the non human inhabitants of the planet. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Theories have abounded, over time, about how and why Covid 19 came about, and whether it was Nature’s way of giving the human race it’s first warning to slow down. </p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">This vital realization gradually dawned on all of humanity: That there is a misplaced sense of superiority in instant nirvana, snappy or speedy results, crisp storylines, plots and eventualities, media-friendly attention-grabbing structures for action punctuated with milestones, and [neat]************************ products-to-show. 2199 understood that [some brands of mediocrity might overshoot passing comets in their haste, amplifying sound and fury.]************************* </p><p class="MsoNormal">reality and sustained strategic thought and action saved the day, not budgeted drama. There might have been very few visible characters, but there sure was a narrator [who drew the veil]**************************! Thus ended the Tale of the Year 2199. …………………………………………………………………………………………………..</p><p class="MsoNormal">A photograph of the night sky in 2018, around the time of the Quadrans Muralis meteor showers. </p><p class="MsoNormal">Photo by V. 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Shruti Devihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12079242136845868369noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3661097882822810260.post-20187485019878338602022-07-03T11:15:00.000+05:302022-07-03T11:15:08.094+05:30Key points on the Rashtrapati election I made at an Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee meeting via Zoom on 2nd July, 2022<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Key Points of What I Said at the APCC Meeting via Zoom on 2nd July, 2022 on the Rashtrapati election in support of the combined opposition candidate:</span></p><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">1) Greeted all those present at the Zoom meeting, including the PCC Pres., AICC Secy-in-charge of AP, Meiyyappan garu (approx 43 attendees); </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">2) Said I was attending it, mainly to address the topic of elections to the post of President of India and VP of India; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">3) That, as the PCC Pres. had already mentioned, it's a secret ballot for the upcoming election; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">4) That people present were well-read, and I did not need to read out Articles from the Constitution, however, please note that Secret Ballot means no anti-defection; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">5) the constituency for this post consists of MLAs and MPs, and that although INC doesn't have legislators, I urged those present to consider it their self-styled own duty to campaign with their contacts nation-wide;</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">6) Most importantly, I said that I speak on behalf of many All-India tribals, and that I was clarifying that just because we are tribals, it does not mean that we would support a tribal from the opposite camp; </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">7) While campaigning, you could impress upon individuals and regional parties, esp. members of all the regional and other left parties in Andhra and Telangana, that if they do wish to support a Tribal Woman from Odisha for VP, we could provide them with name/s</div></div>V. 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