Answers to the Logo Quiz V posted on 17 December, 2007:
1. Sri Ramakrishna Math
2. Mozilla Thunderbird
3. Merill Lynch
4. World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
5. Penguin Publishing
6. Peugeot
7. Dove Soap
8. TVS Motor Company
9. Puma
10. The Printers (Mysore) Private Limited
11. Bacardi
12. Squirrel Mail
Congratulations to Santhosh VM for getting all the answers right.
Visit the Quiz Page on RwB.
Compilation & Design: RK
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Collage: RK
It was truly a refreshing experience attending the Pravachana Maalike (lecture series) on ‘Sri Daya Shathaka’ and ‘Sri Nrsmhavatara’ by the eminent scholar Sri KS Narayanacharya over the last 20 days held at Sri Venugopala Krishnaswamy Devasthana, Malleswaram. The back-to-back lectures was really a boon to all the listeners. Sri Narayanacharya’s mastery over the religious texts and his sharp memory even at the age of 74 is amazing. It is a pleasure listening to the intricate details he gives about the Vedas, Puranas, Samhitas, Upanishads, Itihasa, Kavya, sacred scriptures, the mythological and historical characters between the lectures. The audience love it when he connects the historical/ mythological events/ characters to contemporary events/ characters.
Eg. 1: Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashyapu were brothers in mythology who wanted to acquire land and get all the wealth and positions. We see two brothers in politics today going in the same line.
Eg. 2: Sages (Agastya and Vishwamitra come to mind immediately) in the puranas travelled all over the world. So why can not today’s sages travel too?
The manner in which he quotes from various books, shaastras, vedas… is simply mind-blowing. I enjoy when he sings a few shlokas at the beginning of each lecture. He chooses rare raagas for each shloka to go with the meaning.
I feel really fortunate and blessed to have been attending Sri Narayanacharya’s lectures for sometime now. It is impossible to express in words the feelings one gets while listening to his lectures and reading his books.
May god’s grace be upon us
Bellur Ramakrishna
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A list of few books authored by Sri KS Narayanacharya:
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CD-DVD list of a few of Sri KS Narayanacharya’s lectures:
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Hello Friends,
Hope you are all doing fine. I’m enjoying the blog hiatus.
Last weekend, yours truly was interviewed by a fellow blogger Ms. Poonam Sharma for the blog Being a Blogger (BaB). Answering the questions, I got nostalgic. It was nice to remember RwB’s blog story.
Thanks Poonam, for a neatly formatted questionnaire and also for the interview.
Posting the link here for the benefit of my readers (thanks to my friends who have left a comment at BaB).
Over the last 10 days, I attended a lecture series on “Daya Shathaka” by the eminent scholar Sri KS Narayanacharya held at Sri Venugopalakrishnaswamy Devasthana, Malleswaram.
From November 25th to December 1st (6pm-8pm), he is starting another series on “Sri Nrsmhavatara” at the same venue. All are welcome. Kindly treat this as a personal invitation.
God bless us all
Regards & take care
Bellur Ramakrishna
Dear friends,
As you might have already got to know, this is the 400th post on Rambling with Bellur. With much gratitude, a sincere ‘Thanks’ to all of you.
It’s now been 18 months since RwB has been up and running. I’ve truly enjoyed posting here and have been thrilled you have been coming to read it. Thank you for taking time out to check in with me. Also, special thanks to people who have linked to RwB.
The response I have been getting from you all has made me feel really great to be in the blog community and I appreciate it so much.
Sharing knowledge is so important and it is really heartening that RwB has got excellent contributions by way of articles, Rangoli designs, cartoons and photographs from endearing readers. I have thoroughly enjoyed posting them and reading your insightful and appreciative comments.
Earlier in the day, I was going through the comments you all made to the 100th, 200th and 300th post. Really heartening that so many of you have been with me throughout my blog journey.
Yesterday (Nov. 1), RwB got its 2,00,000th hit. (For those of you interested in stats, it was on May 25th when this blog got its 1,00,000th hit, a week before the first birthday.)
On this day, I take the opportunity to announce that RwB will go on a blog hiatus. You will agree that it is time for me to regroup and recharge.
Thank you all for your visits and till we meet again, best wishes for a healthy life ahead.
Warmest regards,
Yours humbly
Bellur Ramakrishna
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Timeline & Stats:
May 31st, 2006
RwB is born
July 18th, 2006
Shifts from ‘Blogspot’ to ‘WordPress’
August 30th, 2006
Starts the ‘Quiz’ section
November 9th, 2006
Gets 2559 hits on a single day, courtesy Helmets!
November 23rd, 2006
Touches the 100-post mark
April 16th, 2007
Touches the 200-post mark
May 9th, 2007
Starts the ‘Rangoli’ series
May 25th, 2007
Gets One-lakh hits
May 31st, 2007
First Birthday
August 3rd, 2007
Touches the 300-post mark
November 1st, 2007
Gets Two-lakh hits
November 2nd, 2007
Touches the 400-post mark; RwB takes a blog hiatus
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by Latha Vidyaranya
We often come across people after speaking to whom we feel so drained of our energy! Perhaps we can call them ‘energy-vampires’! They keep talking to us endlessly about themselves and their woes and constantly complaining on somebody or something that they seldom allow us to talk in between and make a contribution to the talk. It becomes a monologue rather than a dialogue. In spite of getting bored and irritated with such people, we continue to give them our precious time thinking that we are in some way obliged to listen to them. S/he may be our friend, our sibling or our own parent, especially mothers, who go on talking about their past difficulties or their present poor relationship with another child or in-law or about anything else that least interests us. But we simply surrender to them and continue to give them our time.
STOP! We are in no way obliged to listen to them always! It is fine to give our ear to somebody who may badly want to share his/her difficulty to lighten their emotional burden. We are doing a good job by helping them to relieve themselves of some life problem that they had been suppressing all these days. In fact at the end of the session they feel so grateful to us that we were patient enough to listen to their woes and perhaps even gave a few valuable suggestions to overcome those troubles. It is perfectly laudable.
But not so laudable is lending our time to listen to the same old stories of our own kith and kin day in and day out! We have every right to withdraw ourselves from such people because we are ending up as victims ourselves! This surely is an abuse on our time! Please understand that as adults we all have our own priorities set and we need time and energy to reach these goals. We can not let someone eat up all our time and constantly weep on our shoulders. We have an obligation to help them realize that it can not go on and on and that we will not be available to them henceforth to discuss things that may not have any solutions and that we are all obliged to cope with certain of these difficulties that have no visible end. In fact we are doing a disservice to them by developing a kind of dependency in them upon us.
Once this is stated matter-of-factly the ‘energy-vampire’ realizes that each one of us adults is responsible for our own upliftment or digging our own graves! We all have to draw energy from our own inner resources and help ourselves out of difficulties or learn some coping strategies. They need to very clearly see that their continuous outpours everyday with us is creating distances in our own relationship with other family members. Others (our spouse, our kids) have an equal right to demand our time, all of which is currently being drained by this particular person. You can not let other relationships get damaged because of your misplaced priorities on this person’s woes. Please wake up now and keep people at right distances and allow yourself the precious time and space that is very much required for your own growth.
Latha Vidyaranya’s articles featured on RwB:
(Latha Vidyaranya is a Special Educator and Counsellor and has founded ‘Empower Counselling Centre’ in Malleswaram, Bangalore.)
Lifebuoy, Amul – Taste of India, Rasna, Hamara Bajaj, NECC, Nirma, Vicco Vajradanthi, Boroline, Liril, Lux (featuring Sonali Bendre), Cadburys, Nescafe, Siyaram, Golden Silks & Saris, Kailash Wet Grinder, Dhaara, Mahila Griha Udyog, Cema bulbs… (I can go on and on)
One thing the above brands have in common (apart from the fact that they all gave hit ads in the ’80s) is some memorable ad jingles. Ever since my teens, I have loved the ad jingles and used to hum them any time of the day. Now after working in ad agencies, I have got to know how much effort goes into the making of an ad, and how much survey and audience research is done before one sees an ad on newspaper/ TV or hears an ad jingle on the radio.
Some ad jingles have a very long life span. They get registered in our minds and refuse to go away. They start controlling our minds without our knowledge. With the amount of research and rigorous tests that goes into the making of some ads, no wonder some jingles/ punchlines encompass our lives.
Would really love to know your favourite ad jingle/ punchline.
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