Excellent Language - Ram Gopal Varma writes an open letter to Pawan Kalyan

Hey Pawan,

Before talking about ISM, I must confess that I have long been obsessed with the idea of you starting a political party. I have always admired your honesty and integrity, and yes, I was also mesmerised with your speech at the launch of Jana Sena party.

When I heard that a book called ISM was going to be launched, I was truly ecstatic. Being a voracious reader since childhood, I finished reading Immanuel Kant, Arthur Schopenhauer, Descartes, Wilhelm Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Baruch Spinoza and Ayn Rand back in my engineering college days and moved on to various modern day philosophers, who thought forward in terms of applied philosophy, to aid the world in restructuring rapidly changing societies.

A far superior advancement in those thought processes of all those earlier philosophers is what I actually expected from your ISM. And why I expected that was because of my adulation of your near perfect instinctive intellect,which I have been observing in you ever since I have known you. But when I finally got to read ISM, I was appalled at the elementary school understandings of the great social philosophies articulated by Raju Ravi Tej.

Please note that I am primarily addressing Raju Ravi Tej because he has the primary credit as the author of ISM.I have chosen to express my views on ISM on a public platform only because I have always communicated my views about you through such platforms.

From your gestures, your lines, your expressions and even your pauses at the Jana Sena launch, I can tell you that you have more instinctive wisdom than what is there in the whole of that entire-most-non-explanatory book I have ever read in my life called ISM. I am sorry Pawan, but you truly don’t need the over used crutches of here dead and there gone philosophies and that too so falsely represented by Mr Raju Ravi Tej.

I truly believe that maybe because of your busy schedule, you neither read Arthur Schopenhauer’s ‘The World As Will And Idea’ nor Immanuel Kant’s ‘The Critique Of Reason’ and just depended upon Raju Ravi Tej’s extremely superficial misreading of it. The basic fact of the matter is that your instinctive originality has been corrupted by his school boy interpretations of Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics, Kant’s Epistemology, Marx’s Dialectic Materialism. To make matters worse, your original thought process has been diverted into a very wrong direction by his complete non understanding of existential nihilism.

Please understand that the best of yesteryear philosophies have already been absorbed into the evolution of modern societies and what is needed now is 100% pure Pawanism and not an adulterated version of it and that too so haphazardly done by mis-representing and mis-interpreting pseudo philosophical understandings of second handers. Philosophy, in its simplest form, is a pursuit of truth, but truth by itself cannot be absolute in an ever changing society. Ayn Rand said, “The pursuit of truth in general is not important but the pursuit of a particular truth is important which helps you in reaching your intended goal.”

Ninety percent of ISM doesn’t have a single goal oriented direction pointer in comparison to your arrow like vision, which was so clear in the inaugural speech. But the same was absent in the second speech. I suspect it was because your first speech was more you and the Vizag speech was more him (Raju Ravi Tej). Also, the very thought of moulding a relevant ISM for today’s requirements to be based on outdated philosophies of bygone eras is like wantonly carrying an unnecessary and fatal burden.Bruce Lee,who, incidentally, apart from being a fighter was also a philosopher, once said, “Knowledge should be used like the steps of a ladder to climb up. You should leave the step behind once you climb up. But if u keep collecting all the steps you have climbed upon, their combined weight will one day not let you climb further. You should never carry what should carry you.”

Pawan, I mentioned Bruce Lee because I feel you share his focused intensity and dynamic integrity. Bruce Lee’s style is unique because he refused to be influenced by others. I really wish that you understand that only what you feel yourself, and how you express it yourself will be your own unique philosophy. As a well wisher, I implore upon you to get away from diversive, destructive and corruptive influences. Lastly, I want to tell you that yes, I am thoroughly disappointed with ISM but I still have tremendous faith in Pawanism.

source: TOI

RGV's objective might be just this (a free promotion through his followers, like me), but he richly deserves this following!!

What is Chandrababu Naidu (in short CBN)?

What do we REALLY know about our former chief minister NARA CHANDRABABU NAIDU ?

Today being AP's formation day, thought of sharing something unique about the state (CBN - The CEO of Andhra Pradesh).

Upcoming Graduates, Graduates, IT Professionals, Govt & Private Sector Employees everyone should know about the great leader who is the real person behind today's ANDHRA PRADESH (IN EACH N EVERY SECTOR)!! 

"In the entire 400 years history of Hyderabad, ever since Mohd. Quli Qutab Shahi built the landmark Charminar in 1591, Chandra Babu Naidu since then, is the only personality to bring techno-fame to Hyderabad by establishing the HITEC City which has put our city (Hyderabad) among the most sought after investor destination of India - a feat quite remarkable of politician in today's pathetic batch of politicians of India.

No wonder this model Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh was cited as one of the top 50 stars of Asia by the Business week Magazine and his efforts in promoting Information Technology in Hyderabad has been commended by several international magazines, including Time. The counrty's youngest Chief Minister, at 48, son of a farmer from Naravarapally District, an M.A. and Ph.D in Economics, Mr. Naidu is already a global name. In fact no other state is being marketed to investors the way A.P. is Multimedia presentations, information on CD-ROMs, personal interaction with Industrialists, and industry associations have become a part of Naidu's weekly schedule. Naidu's biggest coup is the decision of Microsoft to come to Hyderabad, thanks to the presentation he made to Bill Gates. Thereafter it has been very easy to convince other computer majors like IBM and Oracle. For all that Mr. Naidu has been done for the Hyderabad leap towards Information Technology, we at Reach-out Hyderabad along with all our site visitors, do acknowledge his vision and hereby given him a standing ovation while declaring him as our choicest Maiden business Personality of the month." - 

Every Politician is not a Corruptionist! A PM who Paid when sons used Official Car...

A true meaning of a politician!

New Delhi: At a time when Indian politicians make news for corruption and misuse of power comes a book on Lal Bahadur Shastri, the country's second prime minister who was so upright that he deposited money in government coffers because his sons had used his official car.

The incident has been captured in the book 'Lal Bahadur Shastri: Past Forward' (Konark) by his son Sunil Shastri, a Congress politician and a former minister in Uttar Pradesh.

Sunil Shastri says he used to imagine having a big luxury car commensurate with the status of his 'babuji'(father) and Lal Bahadur Shastri did get a Chevrolet Impala for official use.

'One day I told babuji's personal secretary to ask the driver to bring the Chevrolet to the residence. We asked the driver for the keys and went for a drive,' he says in the book.

Lal Bahadur Shastri later confronted the driver, saying, 'Do you keep a logbook with you?' 'When he nodded, babuji asked him to note the distance the car had run the previous day. When the driver said 14 km, he advised him to note it 'for private use' and then asked amma to give his personal secretary the amount applicable to be deposited in the government account.'

Lal Bahadur Shastri ruled from June 1964 to January 1966, dying in Tashkent where he had gone to sign a treaty with Pakistan after the 1965 war.

The book is replete with instances of how the late Shastri lived - and the values he embraced and preached.

The son recalls how Lal Bahadur Shastri had shed tears upon meeting an Indian soldier badly wounded in the 1965 war with Pakistan.

'I don't have tears in my eyes because my death is near ... but despite being a major I am not able to stand up and salute my prime minister,' the younger Shastri quotes the soldier, who was on a hospital bed, as saying.

And then it was the prime minister who could not control his own emotions. That was the only time he saw his father cry, says his son.

There are many interesting anecdotes on Shastri in the book.

* Lal Bahadur Shastri was told by his mother of his marriage in May 1928 only after he reached Varanasi. 'He was surprised and told his mother that she should have at least asked him once before finalising it. Anyhow since his mother had decided, he said he would abide by her wishes.'

* When Lal Bahadur Shastri's wife decided to learn Hindi, she paid the tuition fees by dispensing with the domestic maid and doing the household chores herself.

* Lal Bahadur Shastri often handed over to his wife his khadi kurtas when they became unusable and asked her to make handkerchiefs out of them. 'He lived on the simple philosophy of 'waste not, want not'.'

* In true Gandhian style, Lal Bahadur Shastri travelled like a commoner in trains even when he was railway minister. 'He lived according to his principles.'

* During the independence struggle, Lal Bahadur Shastri protested when his wife smuggled two mangoes to him when he was in the Faizabad prison. He was angry because it was illegal for prisoners to have anything other than jail food.

* Despite his preoccupations as prime minister, Lal Bahadur Shastri was a family man who devoted time to his mother and others when he returned home. It helped him get over the day's fatigue and worries.