My Trip to Greece 1

After staying in remote parts of India namely the Himalayas as well as jungles in tribal areas of Jharkhand and Chattisgarh for more than two years i decided to become a part of the mainstream again.

But before that I wanted to travel abroad specifically to Greece to view the Greek Architecture and study about Greek culture as well as interact with Greek scholars on Greek philosphy.

I talked to my daughter about my travel plans. She was supportive but she asked me to take international travel and health insurance from Apollo DKV. She also asked me to carry with me a matrix phone connection to keep her constantly updated about my health and where abouts.

I granted her both wishes.

I started my travel from Athens, the capital of Greece. Athens had several places for my interest like

The Acropolis, a Unesco World Heritage Site, was the ancient fortified town of Athens, dating back to the Late Bronze Age, and the site of the best buildings of the Greek Classical age: the Parthenon, the Erectheion, the Temple of Athena Nike. If you attend a university in the European Union, bring your ID and you can enter for free. The normal entrance price is 12 euros. This ticket also gives you entry to the Kerameikos, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Roman Agora, Ancient Agora, and the nearby Theatre of Dionysus. If possible, get there early to avoid heavy crowds, and summer heat when relevant.

The Ancient Agora— The site of the Ancient Agora in a very green space and a very beautiful view of the Acropolis. You will see the Temple of Hephaestus, the best preserved ancient greek temple, the Attalos Stoa, the museum of the agora which is a reconstructed ancient building. From the agora you can walk towards Acropolis. Extension of the agora is the Roman Forum.

Syntagma Square— Check out the Parliament building and the newly-restored Grande Bretagne Hotel. Also, catch the changing of the guards in front of the Parliament every hour on the hour. Their uniforms and walking style is fun to see but make sure you don't stand on the wrong side of them if you want to take a picture.

The Kerameikos— The site of the ancient cemetery of Athens. It also houses the Dipylon Gate, where the Panathenaic procession would begin. It has a museum showcasing many of the grave stele and other archaeological items found on the grounds.

The Temple of Olympian Zeus— Only the ruins remain today. The 1896 Olympic Stadium and Hadrian's Arch are located nearby.

Panathianiko Stadium— The stadium that housed the first modern day Olympic Games of 1896. Its an enormous, white, marble stadium, with a horseshoe configuration stadium.

Lycabettus Hill— A 200m hill bordering the Kolonaki district. You can reach the top by walking or by a funicular railway [small ticket charge]. There is a cafe-restaurant with a great view of Athens towards the sea. From halfway up looking towards the sea there are astonishing views of the Parthenon with the blue of the sea glimpsed between its columns.

Re Introduction

I have not been posting regularly on this blog for last three years as I was living in remote parts of India where access to basic necessities is also limited and hence to internet too. But now i am back in civilization and hence i would restart my blog.

So here i quote my original introduction again.

Darsnik is an overview of centuries of human history, culture and philosophy. Indian culture was an amazing phenomenon that thinkers all over the world wanted to know in depth. Today this millennia old culture is getting distorted and tarnished by an abnormal mix of the western materialistic madness, called Modern scientific view of life.

At this juncture, the darsnik's version of this western of view of life is essential from the Indian ancient view.

My effort will be to present in this blog the view of the Indian, called the argumentative Indian by Amartya Sen.

You can contact me at darsnik at gmail.com.

27. Commentaries on Books

27. Commentaries on Books
The Prosody of the Telugu and Sanskrit languages explained

References to authors
In this book CPB referred to 55 authors. The Editor G.N. Reddy, and Bangorey regret not having included the whole list. Even a cursory glance at the list of the fourteen authors (out of the 55) included shows how utterly unconnected these people are with the subject matter of the book. This reference is a clear proof of the pedantry of CPB, besides an unthinking editorship. The aim of CPB is to impress his readers that he has studied all these authors at one time or other, a cheap way of impressing the British students for whom the book was meant. We have seen the type of riff raff who used to come, with very little scholastic background. This is the sure way of gaining some upper hand over them because, CPB is certain that none of them would have had a glimpse of these books. The pity is our editors, who have with them the comments by Caldwell, have succumbed to this childish way of CPB of impressing people.

The rejection by the College Board of this book has not been brought out by the editors. The College Board obviously knows the shallowness of CPB and the useless ness of the book. It was eventually published decades later.
“Although he devoted all his life, energy and money to the study of Telugu and virtually rescued from oblivion almost all the major as well as minor classics of Telugu literature, we paid little attention to his work.” The above sentence is one of the most obnoxious lies and contains so many elements each one of which is a vicious untruth. I have pointed out such lies at various places, but I shall deal with them again briefly.

1. Firstly there were no signs of Telugu literature facing oblivion. Please see chapter 17.
2. Secondly that the Mss were all illegible and faulty is not true. I have checked from 14 GOML catalogues, and find that more than 50 % are in acceptable readable condition even in 1932, not to speak of in 1832.
3. The editors do not want to analyse and find the real truth behind this perfidious game of Mss collection. Please see chapter 13. Palm Leaf Manuscripts.
As per CPB the Telugu standard in Madras College was deplorable, and yet he hardly scraped through. He himself said he did not read or own a single Telugu book for seven years, till 1828. He also said that he learnt nothing in the college in 3years. These being the facts, it should be researched as to who wrote this book. We must keep in mind his own statements of using amanuensis in Cuddapah showing his inability in writing in Telugu script.
Incidentally is there single a book, even a page written by him in Telugu script in his own hand? If so why is it the researchers did not put a sample facsimile, as they have done with the English writing and even the first posting letter to Cuddapah?
After the publication of the first edition of the book, Prof. Dr. SALVA KRISHNAMURTY, M.A., M. Litt, Ph. D. wrote me on this point on follows: “Early in my career (1952-53), before I entered Collegiate Teaching Service, I did a stint of service at GOML, Madras – 5 describing Col. Mackenzie’s collection of Mss. When I had the opportunity of seeing many, if not all ‘the CPB’s collection of Mss. With his occasional remark / comment in English. But I have not seen even a single page of his Telugu writing. I have never considered CPB as any kind of a scholar in Telugu”.
“I believe, with the honourable exceptions of Orientalists, the results of the exertions of these civil servants have been motivated by their career / administrative exigencies or their desire to propagate Christianity. The benefits of their work have been marginal and secondary”.
“Your book has pricked the bubble. Whatever may be the averments of CPB – enthusiasts I believe it was the poor pundits who did almost all the work”?
It was easy for him to make someone write the whole book using one of his beneficiaries. This was a practice adopted by Campbell, as well as the genius Morris, according to CPB who castigates them for using the natives to write and usurping the credit. So why do we think he is above this practice? If his movements from station to station, Vs the dates of Mss parishkarana are all tallied any one can see that he did NOTHING, except write a page or two of COMMENTS on the book.
This trick of blaming others of stealing authorship is as old as Adam. The thief joining the crowd shouting loudest of all,” Catch the Thief, Catch the Thief” is an old joke in the Hindi movies. CPB is exactly that type who put his name to whatever book he got hold of. So many were already available as can be seen below:
1. Benjamin Schultz was the first European to bring out printed books in Telugu.
2. Carey of Serampur published a Telugu grammar; on this was grounded Pritchett’s… printed in 1819.
3. Teloogoo Grammar. A.D. Campbell in 1816 Reward 15000/-
4. Lexicon Dictionary – Andhra Dipika… M. Venkayya – (3500Rs. reward)
5. Translated the above as Dictionary – WILSON – 1821 15000/-
6. Based also on Reeves E. Kannada Dictionaries.
7. Gentoo Vocabulary and Grammar – William Brown 1818.

‘Since my grammar was written in 1840, two or three works have been written to supersede it.’ CPB condemns them and states that his own second edition though amended at nearly every page was the best. If it was so good how come that every page had to be amended? Doesn’t it show some thing wrong with a grammar that needed amendments of every page? On top of it he states that he reincorporated some parts, which he removed in the first edition. That is the grammarian for you one, who removes rules as redundant and reinstates after a few years. What happens to the generations of students who studied the earlier versions? But our biographer doesn’t ask these questions; he doesn’t even deal with the issue.
All the same let us take the underlined sentence. A grammar is written of a language, which has more than 1000years of known literature, and for which there are at this point of time over 15 or more grammars to refer to; and he has over 10 Pundits working. Yet he finds that in about 12years every page of his own grammar had to be amended or added to. What do you make of the First Version? Do grammars get modified / amended every decade?
Stretch your imagination and think of Panini’s Sutras getting modified – even every century!! Such is the person who is projected as the saviour of our literature. Simply, and to put it bluntly, he has no clue of what he was doing to the language, which his mind could not grasp and out of sheer frustration and dejection he went about maligning every one and every issue connected with the language.

Look at the preposterous statement: -
“As I proceeded I had to make my own tools to write my own Grammar and Dictionary”. This is a misleading assertion. As brought out there were enough grammars and dictionaries already and he used all of them as bases. THERE IS NOTHING ORIGINAL either in concept or execution except that he messed up so much that they are no longer of any use for man or beast. They are on the dung heap of forgotten history already.

27. Commentaries on books E. C P Brown by Dr V. V. Subrahmanya Sharma

27. Commentaries on books E. C P Brown by Dr V. V. Subrahmanya Sharma
This is a book published in 2003.There is a photograph alleged to be of C.P. Brown’s office room. This is utterly ridiculous filled with latest sofa sets, godrej tables etc. and smacks of a misplaced hero-worship. Out of a total of 76 pages excluding the two thick glossy covers, there are only10 pages on the life of CPB, and 8 pages on his works, and 4 pages on his will and postings etc. which may be termed as biography. Most of it is inane stuff. Apparently the book was written more for personal satisfaction of the erudite scholar. There were 23 boys 25 girls in the orphanage looked after by D.B. He served only for about two years when he was asked to leave it in August 1788 and concentrate his attention towards missionary work (Why was he asked to leave is a question to be looked into as he was actually brought to India for this job? Was he making money? A moral behaviour?). He was appointed presidency chaplain in 1794. The same year, his wife died. The Fort William College started by Wellesley (1787-1805) imparted elementary knowledge of Indian languages. D.B. became a provost in the college in 1800 and left the job in 1808. The statement by Dr. Sharma that he continued as a provost ‘till his death’ is therefore not correct and I wonder how the learned Dr. Sharma wrote that. In fact his request to let him work without pay was also turned down. D.B. left no property due to “entire income spent for charitable purposes” is a canard being spread without any evidence. Such adulatory LIES about British are due to psychological bondage under which we Indians are still suffering. I have proved elsewhere in Chapter 11 that even if 10 guests were to be with him throughout his Life, the prices being such it would not have made a dent. In fact there is a very strong case to investigate if he had a few concubines, as was the general practice with at least 70 % of chaplains who had easy access to easy women. Dr Sharma quotes CPB, “From childhood I was taught to correct errata and fill up deficient passages in books. The driest enquiries had the greatest charms for me”. This is a typical child’s job and instead of going to a school, CPB spent the boyhood at home and later bluff the world that he learnt all languages at home! The author says, because of the corrections, of errata Brown could undertake and pursue literary activities of immense importance for the growth of Telugu language and literature as he got his first appointment in the Telugu region. Let us analyse this insipid statement.A boy, sits at home, no school, no work, and corrects errata. What knowledge of a language of any topic is gained? The fact is they had no schools to go to being more or less an occupation army, after Plassey in 1757. Have a look at CPB’s obituary, which says he had a practical knowledge of Persian, Hindustani and Sanscrit not scholarly knowledge. There is a gulf of difference, between practical knowledge as against scholarship, which our learned Dr. Sharma should know. If boys can become scholars living at home, 90% of schools can be closed and converted to Reading Rooms!! If collection of manuscripts and getting them corrected is a great service we may as well stop creativity and dump thousands of manuscripts in schools. There are thousands of them in various Manuscript Libraries! I shall skip most of the stuff repeated, by Dr. Sharma from the two other biographies, of Rao and Bangorey.But the most farfetched, ridiculous and blasphemous idea in this book is that Brown had a reverence to the Goddess Lalitha, throughout his life. Publication of Lalithopakhyanam under the title of 'The legend of Venus' is an insulting title given by CPB. Venus is the Goddess who was lovesick and runs after Adonis and this is the typical western way of degrading the Hindu Pantheon. But the pity is how could a Telugu pundit, Dr. Sharma say so if it is not to sell CPB to the Hindu public to do Pada puja to this Lalitopasaka. The putrid mind of CPB must have conceived of portraying the most powerful deity of the Hindu Pantheon as a love sick Venus. This methodology of insulting Hindu Pantheon is continuing from those days till now. Ahalya Sankrandanam, as Bangorey points out was printed for the erotic poetry as also Sasanka Vijayam. CPB gathers Kavichoudappa satakam, along with others. The aim is to tarnish our gods and goddesses, bring out whatever dirty poetry is written. And our biographers call it literary service. I understand that in the Dictionaries also such blasphemous notions exist. See the western Henry Millers, the Harold Robbins, the Mary Anne’s and you can see the havoc being wrought by them. This is the mind that CPB had which conceives of portraying type of Goddess Lalita, held in the greatest veneration by the HINDU as a VENUS. And the writer doesn’t even condemn the sacrilege. All this in spite of the fact that CALDWELL clearly stated that CPB had an anti HINDU mind. Five pages covered V.P. Sastri, a teacher and R.G. Sastri another teacher. While dealing with the former the author says that Telugu verses and lyrics mesmerised the mind of C.P. Brown while Brown himself never said so! And how can a person who was learning alphabets, to pass a compulsory, elementary exam start becoming music minded in the class? Are the alphabets taught in a musical fashion? The most reprehensible statement is “that CPB was admired and adored as an incarnation of the Goddess Saraswathi by the learned Pundits in India”. It is insult to make such unfounded assertions based on pauperised shameless writers who have sunk into a pitiable state of slavishness due to poverty, begging for food all the time. To take the views of such demented poets and calling them learned pundits is it self an insult. The author does not seem to realise the contradictory statements of the write up on Vedam and Ravi as opposed to CPB’s statements like lack of dictionary, insufficient grammar, and worthless native books and pedantic teachers. How could the author talk of Vedam as a giant of knowledge and yet accept CPB’s derogatory statements. Doesn’t he see the contradiction? There are four pages reproduced from a fourth class Telugu book published in 1934. It is redundant. However we can see how many erroneous ideas have been pumped into the young impressionable minds of the students of those days probably conditioning them as evidenced by Bezwada Gopala Reddy. I am only repeating the errors in that book, without any detailed comment – 1. He is extremely intelligent (not correct).2. Learnt more than necessary Telugu (not correct).3. Gave lot of money to Pundits (absolutely incorrect).4. There were no dictionaries then and so he makes one with lot of troubles (totally incorrect).5. He was not fond of praise (not correct).
Dr. Frant Gaetaho Morales in his article temoans the fact that we are not careful in using our language particularly when it relates to the West and our inter relationships. DR. Sharma has used words, which literally poison the mind of the poor Telugu children. For example: Brahmayya Shastri, the Telugu master calls Brown a Saraswati, and this Saraswati has not written one single Telugu book!! Or a paragraph in all his Life. Publication of religious books was being discouraged in the presses owned by missionaries and Government. P.H. Shastri seems to have established in 20 April 1840 a press named Viveka Darsham. He also published a few ancient classical works. Similarly B.S. Chari also authored Sabda Ratnakaram. The author mentions seven books in Telugu script published by P.H. Shastri. By and large writing small paragraphs on twenty-one Telugu Pundits of that period is the only asset in this otherwise meaningless monograph.

27. D. CP Brown’s History by J.H. SASTRY

27. CP Brown’s History by J.H. SASTRY

The biography of CPB by Dr. J. Hanumat Sastry secretary of CP Brown Memorial Trust was published by the Telugu Academy, Hyderabad in 1992.

Sastry included a photo of a painting of Caldwell irrelevant to this book, he also printed a for good measure, a dilapidated building in Cuddapah, in which CPB lived for only 1-½ years in 1828-1830. The book abounds in misleading statements, un-spelt innuendos, and exaggerated views – most of which were created, and propagated by the British to denigrate and disintegrate the Indian composite culture and unity as we have seen already. Highly evocative Telugu words are used to create an aura round the cult figure of Brown, as a saviour of Telugu literature. An atmosphere – often derogatory and uncomplimentary to Telugus were created in the book. My comments are made with a view to removing the flawed impressions that the readers will be prone to and put the biography in proper perspective exposing the Lies and exaggerations. Sri. Sastry starts with a statement – “Also the Indian society in those days was unbalanced and rid of Caste / Religious animosities and blind beliefs”. By "those days" J.H. means obviously CPB's days i.e. 1821-1850. As we have seen in the Andhra of 1800-1900 the whole population was totally demoralised and trampled upon and was fighting for its very existence. How then can the author write such a ludicrous statement? Is there any evidence whatever of a "Caste ridden Society" or "a religious animosity?" or social strife. The whole population was fighting to exist. Thus we can, at the outset, see the "Imprinted" "Indoctrinated” mind of the writer in psychological bondage to the colonialist, in it as the SAVIOUR. That was not the real state of that time.

Caste Question It is time we discuss this issue. As these loose statements do untold harm to the living society. Swadharmo Nidhanam Shreyaha is what we always harped on. In the worst case, and giving the worst interpretation if we take it as advising the castes to pursue their Dharma, is it harmful in any way? If a Kapu, who is the protector of a land or a Reddy a leader of people or a Brahmin who is the keeper of the values and the Sastras do their Dharma will it not result in a more cohesive and less competitive society? Were they not all fighting together under Shivaji or Krishna Deva Raja or Baji Rao or even Narasimha Reddy?Historically there was no evidence of any inter-caste animosity or caste wars in Indian society till the advent of the British. Let a group of people of all hues sit and study the history of all the wars that took place all over the country from 1200 till 1800. A period of 600 years, during which millions died, and it will be crystal clear as to how the whole nation fought as one, and it is the Brahmins who were killed for Just being Brahmins. It is time we establish a forum for debate and research and clear the poison that is still being made use of by the politicians, and writers.The people resisted the British in three wars joining with the Marathas or with Tippu or with the Nizam, till all these powers unfortunately fell. It is not possible to fight wars of that nature if the society has no unity and is caste ridden. It is high time we study our history even at such local levels carefully before adding our own mean understanding and biases of today.So-called radical historians like Romilla Thapar make much of Harihara and Bukka as reconvirtees to Hindu fold as if that was a crime even if true! If it is a Truth is it not a great pointed to the desired possibility today when millions of Muslim can return to their roots? Is it not a reform to be recommended than looked down upon? Where are the radicals be Romilla?
Free School Business JHS, as do all others presents this event or starting school in Cuddapah as an epochal event for which CPB should be worshipped. Nothing can be farther from the Truth. These schools are the forerunners, the seeds sown to destroy Hindu Culture. We have seen CPB’s hatred for HINDUISM, the origin of Haileybury College and the Howell’s the missionaries who came to reap souls – what a phrase!!Starting a school is not starting a game on a whistle blow. Umpteen questions arise and it is the duty of a biographer to investigate the issues before words like magnanimity, altruism, and large heartedness is showered.
Where were the schools located? Where did the funds come from? Who were the teachers?What were the pay scales? Did he pay them?How and why did he think of schools within months of going to a place?What was the motivation? Who ran them? Does one start a school just for the heck of it?Who prompted him to start? When and why were they closed?Besides languages what else were they teaching? What are the books?Who ran them in his absence? After he left for Masulipatam?Why is there not a single letter by KR on Schools?Most of these questions arise because it is now confirmed that starting the schools was the first activity to spread Christianity. Even today we gullible Indians feel that the Missionary Schools, Convents, Hospitals started by funds from Bushes, are Great contribution without realising their undermining of our very cultural existence as a Nation / Urban / Rural unbridgeable divide being created without any cementing force of Culture and Language or Religion or even simple ceremonial ethos. What nitwits are created in the convent only JESUS SAHIB knows? Gandhiji wrote--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Even Dr. Ambedkar the arch iconoclast was for a unified Indian Culture not for this anti national ethos, which craves for a daily bread as if that is all that is needed for existence as a Human Being. Why are such questions not tackled, particularly by JH who happens to be in Cuddapa?CPB mentions that the schools had to be closed due to financial irregularities. What are the details? Committed by whom? And what action was taken? How can we authenticate a biography, which totally glosses over all such issues, and repeats his statement only of ‘I have started free schools”. JH had obviously NOT even bothered to know about how the British planned the destructive Engines at Haileybury.
Religious FeudsIn this very period - 1830 Sri. Narasimhareddy rose in a revolt as he and his father were made paupers overnight by taking away their Jagir fetching Rs.300000 per annum and giving a pension of 950Rsper annum. He fought the British with the help offered by Muslims. A major event like this shows a total absence of "Religious feuds". How then did JH add religious feuds? Similarly, a keen look into the Macdonald murder case also indicates a plot by Bishop Havell, or his followers to create a Muslim -Hindu feud by putting a pork piece in a masjid. It backfired, as the Muslims smelt the mischief and instead of gunning for the Hindus went after the missionaries. Does it show religious feuds?Thus even when there is not an iota of proof for caste or religious dissensions, authors make the innuendoes doing tremendous disservice to the society and the nation. TODAY’S society is more caste ridden due to politicians and careless writers like JH and the media. In 90% of villages today the caste is only seen in voting pattern and not in day-to-day living. In fact the Brahmin is the fugitive and there is hardly existing except in the school registers, which are actually perpetuating more to harass than help!
Blind belief (Mudha nammakam)This is another idea injected by JH. I wonder what he means by “blind belief” except throwing in words for a negative picture of the society. CPB boasts of his Sabbath. Was it not blind belief? This son of a Christian Missionary was in fear of being jailed and was giving alms to Fakirs to save himself from imprisonment. Is it not blind belief?Is a virgin birth not a blind belief?Is Immaculate Conception not a blind belief?That each one of us is a sinner is not a blind belief?We rise on a judgement day from the grave is a logical belief? All of us we are sinners at birth is a fine concept?How irresponsible of the author to throw such unthinking epithets at the society that was devastated and thrown into abject poverty by the British.
Ignorance everywhereJH makes a statement "Ignorance was everywhere" while he has NO evidence to say so except the scores of times that CPB stated. Is it not the duty of the writer to know that in 1821 in a survey by Collector's it was known that every village in Madras had a school? And everybody was going to a school for 5 years minimum? And that the British destroyed the entire education system by reducing the revenue accruing to the Villages to run Schools and by a land revenue system which was considered the most tyrannical in the entire world? Did JH know that there were books being written in 52 different subjects? That there were 8 libraries in that general area? What sort of ignorance is talked of? And on what authority? {Dr. Salwa Krishnamurty asked me to attach a list of the 52 subjects on which books were written. These are therefore given below in this edition-}
Slave trade This is another epithet that JH used that in the British ruled parts of India “Slave trade” was abounding. It is a most irresponsible statement in connection with the Indian society in Andhra. This misleads the reader of today giving him an idea of a highly degraded society. But JH is least bothered about the Truth. The Truth is it is the British in India who were engaged in this nefarious, shameful practice exploiting the poverty-ridden society having themselves generates the poverty. This slave trading of missions etc was indulged in by the British only and NOT in the rest. K.V. Rao mentioned that in CALCUTTA the British were indulging in the practice of buying or selling slaves openly through advertisements in papers!
There is also mention of children caught in villages and brought to Calcutta in boats to be sold. He also mentioned of each Briton keeping an illegitimate family – obviously bought women confined to the outhouse. There is a description, how these women leave the bedrooms in the morning etc. This is the heinous practice by the colonialists trading in human FLESH. There is also a further mention of illegitimate children. THIS is the slave trade with a capital S and Dr Sastry despite the fact that he bases his book on Dr Rao’s attributes this heinous trade to Andhras. He should make an open apology for this great distortion of fact. CPB’S Stature JH repeats Bangorey “in these days, Brown College might have been called a University!” What an abominable idea! The building in which CPB lived only a year, was hired out from 1830 onwards. There were not even 8 or 9 people including the mali working at any time. CPB never even visited the place after leaving it in Feb 1829 for TRICHINOPOLY. It was for sale but no buyers were found. All details are also known to JH. How then can he repeat this statement! Why does he insult our UNIVERSITIES, which sprawl in over 2-300 acres; with 3-4000 students and upward of 300 teachers?
Some awkward financial questionsJ H says that CPB’s colleagues were corrupt, money minded and immoral and CPB alone was honest, selfless, and service oriented like his father a philanthropist who died poor etc. Every word in this statement is wrong, and not substantiated by any evidence. Yet CPB was the one later suspended, and he was the one who contracted 60000Rs. debts, and bordered on being jailed. ! Why are the suspension orders being glossed over by the biographers? Sastry adds that, “Since from the beginning, he was straightforward”… How can such blatantly unfounded statements he made and on what authority? He was suspended and was never sent to Andhra.
PoemsFrom page 62 to 70 there are 25 poems. They are all in praise of Brown and show the writers’ cringing, crawling and grovelling behaviour. Most of them probably did not have any idea as to CPB’s rank or position since they call him a ‘king ‘a maharaja’ an emperor etc. It is unfortunately an indication of the level to which even reasonably intelligent people have fallen. It is not so much an indication of Brown’s greatness, but an indication of the fallen culture of Andhra poets of this “court”. These decadent Pundits who lost their self respect to be called Poets is an insult to the world of Poesy of Andhra which produced a Potana who scoffed at a kings patronage saying he will not sell his Kavya kanya to a Karnata Kirata; they are an insult to the name of a Srinatha who could say, even on death bed, that his arrival in heaven will make the Poet of the Gods worry. Similarly another lot of poems, 15 of them, collected by CPB, (some) show total lack of propriety, cheap in diction, and are lascivious and crude. DAVID BROWN – A Maha Pundit? A Social Worker?The books says, David Brown was a Pundit in Greek / Latin and was ingrained in Social Services from student days. This is a blatant lie. See DB’s life in brief; a son of a farmer, with no educational qualification, unemployed gets ordained, married maintains his wife with loans from friends to feed. The author skips over all these facts - Why?So WHERE AND WHEN DID HE get ingrained with motives of SOCIAL SERVICE? Why is it felt necessary by the biographer to extol D. B.? Who was one amongst thousands of such people with hardly any qualifications who came as to India, to mint money, to loot and scoot? Let us see some venerable priests, for ex: “one chaplain, Mr Blamshard, after a service of a little more than 20 years, carried home a fortune of 50000 pounds”. Another, “Mr Johnson, after 13 years of service, took with him from CALCUTTA 35000Pounds”and a third, Mr OWEN at the end of ten years, had amassed 25000Pounds.” Remember they all came to convert the natives, the idolaters, the sinners, and the uncultured Indians! So the social service motivation is sheer bunk and utter nonsense. It is a tragedy that our writers do not bother to analyse anything, before printing this rubbish. These facts are so thoroughly obfuscated, that I am certain not one Andhra knows that the loot by chaplains was in crores of Rupees. Could the Guntur Famine take place if all this wealth was not looted? Probably the Muslims were angels compared to this scum. The fact that none of his five children went to any school at any age is covered up by vague statements that they learnt at home etc. It is on death of Brown that they went to England. That CPB could not do well even at the age of 23years in the Madras College is proof of lack of early education, absolute mediocrity or even dullness, as spotted by Caldwell. The book abounds with unacceptable statements like”” David Brown died of ill health due to work without any rest”. Who said that? What for are these thrown in? What sort of overwork is meant, under what evidence? When he was removed from the job of a marshal he appeals for retaining the job without pay and yet he was not employed. That is overwork? All these misstatements are capped with’ his pay was spent on guests!!’ What sort of an image does the author want to generate? Build up a personality cult to show that later he was a pauper because of his generosity? Or is it to cover the fact that the family needed money to travel? Or that his job of 23 years is nothing much to write home about? Did they not know that for every marriage performed a chaplain gets money besides pay? JH writes that DB’s death caused a lot of pain to the people as he had got a lot of good will. What is the source and truth behind such statements? DB hardly had any such appointments that could generate goodwill of the people, his chaplain ship was stopped and he was removed from Marshal’s appointment. He left little money. Where then is the need to build up DB ‘s admirers etc?? As a father of a great guy CPB?? KONDUR CHIDAMBARAM of Mogallur donated one cartful of books to CPB Karnool Rangareddy – a great library. Raghavachari of Vallapadu – a big library. Gajeiella Reddy of Cuddapah – a big library. Chincholi Appanacharyulu – a big library. Cuddapah Gudipadu in Lakshmipati – good library.CPB purchased the libraries of several individuals at cheap rates:1830 Machilipatam Koti Venkanna's wife sold a whole library for 370/=1834 Yanam, Majeti Sarvesalinga library 150/=Peddapuram Avasarala Venkatrao 796/=Yet JH has the temerity to say that CPB spent a fortune on books. CPB was a hard-shell Christian observing Sabbath days strictly. He translated Bible – The Gospel of St. Luke etc. He never at any time expressed his regard for Hindu scriptures. Regarding Vemana also, he did not say anything regarding his Vedanta and said Vemana belonged to Jangam sect.Dr. Ratnakaram Balaraju, a note scholar of numerous books writes – “Having been subjected to foreign rule (ruled by Arabs, Muslims, Moguls and the English etc. for more than 700 years) Hindus lost their national identity and have become slavish minded. Even now they are not free from that (darkness – delusion) servile mentality. They are almost denationalised (Atma vismruti). They have abandoned the spiritual achievements of their forefathers and began to ape the English manners and their way of life”. Dr. Krishnadhan Ghose, Sri Aurobindo’s father may be taken as a typical example in this regard. He became an atheist and wanted to make his children Europeanized. He decided to give all his children a thoroughly English education and sent them to England. Sri. Aurobindo was only seven years of age when Dr. Ghose had given strict instructions to Mr. Drewett no to allow his sons to mix with Indians or to know anything about the Indian way of life. Such was the degeneration of Hindus and Indians then and they believed that English character was ideal. All the Europeans who came to India and professed loving service to India and her culture had actually spiteful tendencies in their heart of hearts. They wanted to convert India into a Christian country. They are still at it.Lord Macaulay in a letter dated 12th October 1836, Macaulay wrote: “Our English Schools are flourishing wonderfully. If our plans of Education are followed up there will not be a single idolater (Hindu) among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence”. Western Education was introduced in India after Macaulay’s minutes on Education (1835) had come as a corollary to the policy of admitting Indians to the administration under the charter Act of 1833. Macaulay believed that English Education was sure to destroy the faith of young students in their past. He therefore strongly recommended the introduction of English Education. Macaulay’s imperialistic dreams were never fulfilled. In the same year 1836, the same Bengal Province produced Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (1836-1886) who not only enlivened Hinduism in Bengal and India but also spread it in Macaulay’s west.Max Muller: Suggested that the followers of Pratap Chandra Mazumdar should call themselves Christians He wrote to Dr. Milan (1867 Feb 26) “India is ripe for Christianity’. He wrote to Duke of Argyll!! India must be conquered again by Education… Hinduism is doomed”.In that situation, JH says that CPB appears to have collected 36 Puranas / itihasas. As a responsible writer, working for resurrection of CPB is it not time to avoid vague inanities like’ ‘appears to have’. CPB got Vasucharitra printed in 1844 and Manuchartra in 1851, Harischandropakhyanam (1842), Vyjayantivalasa (1849), while they were ready about 15 years earlier in Kadapa! Where were they all these long years? By this time Printing Presses were quite active. Kalapurnodayam, Tara sasanka Vijayam, Vijaya vilasam; Kuchelopakhyanam (4) when were they published? Even today no one knows or speaks about them. Even Rao say, Bhagavatam seems to have been printed through him or words to that effect. Is it being responsible? Someone writes that “It is no exaggeration in saying that there is no old Kavyam in Telugu literature on which Brown’s stamp is note there.” This is a PREPOSTEROUS lie and sheer slavery to degrade our literature, which is so vast. It is an insult to the Vavillas, and a host of other publishers. JH says that CPB used to donate up to 500/Rs. This is a lie. At that point of time CPB’s monthly pay itself was around 600Rs. It misleads the public because that CPB gave to the beggars when he was scared of imprisonment at one stage and it was due to sheer superstition that the charity may help him that he gave alms to Fakirs. JH has put in the biggest lie in this book by saying in P. 42, that he took 60,000/= loans for collection of books and to look after the Pundits. This is an unacceptable, blatant lie, unsubstantiated any where by anyone else. This fib must and should be expunged from the book. The debt was contacted by CPB who was returning it at the rate of 2000 per month. He himself said in 1844 that his total expenditure on this hobby was 30000/at one place. (20000 / in his appeal against suspension) It was G N Reddy who increased the figure to 40000/ in an article in 1954. AND NOW SHASTRIJI makes it 60000/= Can the authors mislead the readers with impunity like this without making even elementary calculations? The least they should try to investigate is as to who gave so much loan and on what security. Remember HAIG delayed paying even 250/- for the Tent till he got from the EIC? JH also says that CPB was a Pundit in 24 languages, which is another blatant LIE. Considering all the material that we got so far his acquaintance with even 8 languages is difficult to prove. Remember CPB himself says he started learning Bengali at 30yrs of age! Sastry writes, - By 1826 his Salary was 525/= Plus allowances. He used to take loan from someone to return the loan of some other. The salary not being sufficient he used to borrow for literary work. These unproved lies cannot be accepted. By this time he had NO LITERARY activity whatever, Vemana and Grammar were on the cards, both published by the EIC. Can JH quote any one single text, any one writer prior to 1826 working for CPB in Cuddapa?JH says “in order not to have any hold up in literary work and to ensure it to proceed smoothly, he brought a Bungalow in Cuddapah. “In this Bungalow, is One corner Room a little literary Factory was working; Pundits with Palm leaf Mss in front of them, making better copies and writing Vyakhyanas …”. This is a ridiculously skewed image altogether there were only 7 people of Cuddapah and nearby working here. That too the activities were at a stand stile from 1830 within 11/2 yrs of purchase of this Karmagaram. HE also conveniently forgets that there were 6 more such bungalows and even getting some one to rent out was a problem as per KR’S letter in 1830.To sum up, I cannot but say that the book repeats all the lies in the original biography, and such irresponsible writings should be stopped and discouraged in the interest of our great literature.