TRANSLATION OF MY LOVE POETRY

Refer to my earlier blog posted here titled "Valentine's Day". Below is the English version of the poetry I earlier presented here in Telugu. The ones in blue are in Telugu and the following are in English, for your reference. None of the pieces I sent to Eenadu got any prize. I have no reason to blame Anantha Sriram. I can understand the dilemma of a judge in such a context. Everybody can't be a winner. It also means that those that could not win a prize are not winners. In most of the cases, the judge is to be pitied because a true person should never judge others' creativity in a comparative stand.

Manassu Geeche Vichithra Chithram Prema

Hrudhayam Likhinche Pavithra Pathram Prema

Kalalaku Kalhalhaku Jeevam Posedhi Prema

Amruthaanni Vishaanni Samangaa Chooshedhi Prema

Okari Kosam Manasaara Edvagaligithe Adhi Prema

Manishini Manishigaa Unchagalige Prapancha Prakhyaatha Mandhu Prema

Love is an odd picture drawn by one’s mind

Love is a sacred letter scripted by one’s heart

Love is the lifeblood of dreams and arts

Love considers both ambrosia and poison alike

It is love if one can cry deeply for another

Love is a world-famous medicine/liquor that can keep a man like a man forever...

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Neevu Naa Theeyani Ice Cream

Nenu Ninu Veedani Bubble Gum

Manam Kalisi Puttani Pranaya Kavalalam

Kalisi Brathike Prema Pakshulam

You are my sweet Ice Cream

I am your inseparable bubble gum

We were love twins that did not born together

We are lovebirds that are going to live together

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Naa Madhilo Cherina Nee Roopam

Naa Gundello Velige Kaartheeka Deepam

Neevu Naaku Cheruvaina Dhooramaina

Naa Aathmaku Praanham Pose Dhevatha

Your image which entered my mind is

Like the traditional Indian Kaarthika lamp that shines in my heart

Whether you are near or far from me

You are my Goddess vitalizing my soul

VALENTINE'S DAY

Valentine's Day is fast approaching. I knew about this special day about five years ago though my association with the concepts of love, its expression and the related experiences that form part of our sweet memories at a latter stage, is age-old.

I also observed some Hindu fundamentalists condemning this day tagging it as bad and westernized. I am not with their views or acts in this regard. If a day can unite people and help us promote love and prosperity across the regions and cultures, let's not oppose it. We must live together, love others, and die after living a happy life as far as we can manage it.

Love is an essential element in our body and mind. We must not bury it there. Let's express it to the deserving ones and feel that we belong to many. There are no restrictions upon us to love anybody. Liberty, equality and fraternity can be achieved when we love others fairly and decently and permit others also to reciprocate the same in a manner they like to do it.

I am not a great poet or writer. I put my absurd or abstract or dreamy ideas somewhere so that others can interpret them as per their knowledge, standpoint or imposed preferences. I have the habit of writing this and that in my mother tongue Telugu also, now and then. Being a regular and devoted reader of the famous Telugu daily Eenadu, I often check for any contests they conduct for their readers. It is happening this time also.

They publish a special feature titled "Eetharam" every Saturday, exclusively with content related to youth in India and how they are progressing in thier lives or in positively impacting others's live. Improvement at personal level or contributing for the development of our society or nation is what all an energetic and visionary youth can do for this nation.

Last year they invited love poetry in Telugu and offered some cash and consolation prizes celebrating the Valentine's Day as a newspaper at their end. I sent an entry by a post card but it was not selected nor even published in it. I did not mind it because it is the task of the appointed judge to finalize some as winners. That time it was Chandra Bose, a young and considerably famous Telugu cine song writer, that scrutinized the entries and decided the prize winners. I love him for his skills and experience in his field because I can't write even one influential or attractive cine song like him.

This time it is Ananta Sriram, a very young lyricist writing interesting, influential and attractive songs for Telugu films and other occasions, that is going to act as the judge for the selection of winners for this Valentine's Day entries at Eenadu's office at Somajiguda in Hyderabad or elsewhere in the twin cities. This fellow wears thick glasses and I presume it could be because he is affected by some level of sight problems due to excessive reading or hard work in some other front to enrich his skills. I read about him in this daily only once. He originated from simple and testing background of family and society. He eventually turned a self-starter and self-made man. I love his creative, polished, sensitive and soft words addressing participatns of the famous "Black" program on Eenadu television channel, along with two other invited guests.

This time the prizes from Eenadu newspaper are as follows:

First Winner: A cash prize of 2000 rupees.

Second Winner: A cash prize of 1500 rupees.

Third Winner: A cash prize of 1000 rupees.

Ten consolation prizes, the nature of which is yet not declared by them.

Ananta Sriram is youth. Mr. Chiranjeevi Raju is also youth (serving 33 any problem to consider me so or what!). The deal looked fascinating to me. A postcard costs 50 paise in India. There is a spark/speck of creativity in me that emerges once or twice a year. So, I moved ahead this morning seeing the related ad in Eenadu.

The last day for receipt of the entries at their end is 10 February 2009, Valentine's Day falling on 14 February 2009. Perhaps Ananta Sriram works hard for three days to finalize the winners, going through the heavy load of entries received on postcards.

This afternoon I posted three postcards: One written by me and on behalf of me, the second one written by me but sent on behalf of Srujana Devi and the third one partly written by me and sent on behalf of my great artist friend Veeranjaneyulu.

Veeru is so sensitive that he asked me not to add his name or address on the postcard. I wanted to kill him secretly but my common sense and conscience did not allow me to do it. This artist fellow, whom I know for the last eight years or so, loves beautiful girls and females a lot and paints everything adding exceptional beauty to it but he does not like his name also being added to some poetry pieces also which he strongly feels in his heart. He got two girls as inspiration for his paintings. One belongs to Visakhapatnam district and she was married some years ago. The other one belongs to Bihar, who studied at the University of Hyderabad at our time and thereafter moved to the US marrying a software engineer in their community. I don't reveal her name because Veeru kills me. He believes that admiration is so sensitive issue that one should not share the related person's name also before one's death. What a shame to India and its sensitive people and artists? I am quite different from him. I shout/bark like a dog if I like somebody and some did/may not like it. Not a problem.

What is meaning to human life if you don't love anybody and say something to her or him. Come on! We don't live for 200 years. We live short. We must make it beautiful and tasteful using the resources God provided us inside and outside us.

So, I would type out my piece of poetry on love, which I sent to them this afternoon as my entry, in Anglicized (I forgot the right word to use here)Telugu here under, first:

Manassu Geeche Vichithra Chithram Prema

Hrudhayam Likhinche Pavithra Pathram Prema

Kalalaku Kalhalhaku Jeevam Posedhi Prema

Amruthaanni Vishaanni Samangaa Chooshedhi Prema

Okari Kosam Manasaara Edvagaligithe Adhi Prema

Manishini Manishigaa Unchagalige Prapancha Prakhyaatha Mandhu Prema

On behalf of Srujana Devi:

Neevu Naa Theeyani Ice Cream

Nenu Ninu Veedani Bubble Gum

Manam Kalisi Puttani Pranaya Kavalalam

Kalisi Brathike Prema Pakshulam

On behalf of my artist friend Veeranjaneyulu:

Naa Madhilo Cherina Nee Roopam

Naa Gundello Velige Kaartheeka Deepam

Neevu Naaku Cheruvaina Dhooramaina

Naa Aathmaku Praanham Pose Dhevatha

The second piece representing Srujana Devi is entirely written by me but sent on her behalf with her notice and acceptance. I would let you know who this person is on 23 March 2009 posting a long blog on this blog site. Some might already know it.

The piece sent on behalf of Veeru is not entirely his own. He told me a small sentence being inspired by my information that I am sending two entries from my abode to meet the challenge posed by Silent Killer Ananta Sriram. I refined his words and put his heart in another format adding the second and the fourth lines from my heart. He liked it. I often feel like killing him because he is so sensitive that he often fears/hesitates/doubts even to gift a bunch of sweet bananas or grapes or apples to some beauty he likes, thinking that she might not know how to eat them. Ooph! He was living in 14th century! What a friend I got? How long and how far can I educate him when my own love stories and attempts turned bad many times. Oh God! Save me from this sensitive creature.

I shared these pieces of poetry in Telugu quite in advance with you to let you believe that I write some stuff in Telugu also now and then to awaken others and make them believe that I exist on this earth and feel something toward some people or things now and then at least. Do or die! Chiranjeevi does it!

I know that many of my blog readers are not familiar with reading, writing or understanding Telugu but I leave the suspense to you. You can consult some of your Telugu speaking friends or acquaintances and beg them to translate the feelings and notions and the spirit of this poetry for God's sake, if not for your sake!

In case, you turned helpless in the process, I would post the essence of each of the lines of three pieces of poetry, some time before or after this Valentine's Day.

While Ananta Sriram struggles with my pieces of poetry and other entries, you must do your part to understand these pieces and me in a way because I wrote them mostly.

I would inform you if this young and dynamic judge chooses me, or my two agents, as some kind of a winner. Work in progess. Take diversion. Sound Horn Please!

Get moderately mad or manageably sad or appreciably creative this time also to express your love to your beloved one/s in a manner that does not disturb or hurt other/s directly or indirectly. After all God gave us this precious life to feel it and share it with others on some occasions at least, if not on all days and nights. Make it happen and thrive! Yo yo!

My innocent and tricky and mischievous brother Chiranjeevi and ditto photo Nagarjuna often remark at me, "This creature does not write in Telugu or what? What a shame? He is living and breathing in Andhra Pradesh! Should we ask him to flee to some desolate island or what? Let's give him time!"

I got an occasion to pay these two creatures in the same coin. Shyguy came out with his set of little poetry.

Hurray!

I have won the match.

Thanks for your patience!

With courtesy,

Datla Chiranjeevi Raju,

Hyderabad,

5:40 PM IST.

SHOCKING GIRLS

Do you want to shock girls?

Are you an average man?

These questions are posed to Indian men. I read these and related questions attached to an ad while checking my Yahoo Mail this afternoon. They want men to buy Vimax to increase their potency enhancing the size of their reproductive organ.

I found this ad, the related human figures and the challenging questions funny.

The world is down with economic recession. Big Boss Barack Obama is struggling hard to rescue the US citizens.

In India, the general election season is drawing close. Political parties are busy discussing strategies and alliance possibilities and difficulties.

Indian male software engineers are unable to find suitable brides to marry early. Job seekers are looking for jobs and the current holders are trying to retain their positions.

There is no scarcity of burning issues in India or abroad. We all know how to create them, suffer due to them and then try to resolve them. We are all challengers from this perspective of human struggle to continue living somehow. At this juncture of many issues, increasing the size of the male organ did not fit well for me.

According to the general knowledge I gained reading books, the satisfaction for a couple in intercourse does not depend on the depth or the lengths of the respective genitalia. Some of the following factors determine how close and happy a man and woman can be in their conjugal lives:

1. Mutual trust that the other is dedicated to him/her only in matters of bodily pleasures.

2. Sustainable financial positions for both the partners supported by others as well.

3. Being away from extra-marital relationships, each imposing rules upon oneself.

4. Finding time to communicate and share the feelings and emotions of each other.

5. Keeping fit physically and mentally taking every measure possible for the same.

6. Having rational, ideal and scientific thinking on what keeps both happy in bed.

7. Clearly knowing and practicing that intercourse has to be humanly, not brutal or sadistic.

8. Treating each other as a lovable and sensitive creature than an abnormal s.x maniac.

A boy and girl or a man and woman can be happy and comfortable as long as they find each other admirable for many reasons, making s.x just a little part of human life. Extremist thinking in any branch of human activity leads one to suffering and other related disorders. Doing something more is not necessary in all the cases because if you run endlessly, you would die somewhere. S.x also belongs to this list of topics related to human life, affecting it in a positive way. If you do it moderately, you remain a good human being. If you do it extremely with one partner or many partners, you would lose taste for it in course of time. Slow and steady wins the race.

There are a hundred ways for boys to please girls, not only s.x:

1. Love them honestly.

2. Appreciate them decently.

3. Be friendly with them ideally.

4. Serve them devotedly, not expecting anything back from them.

5. Write classic poetry admiring their features or qualities.

6. If you want to marry them, prove them why you deserve to marry them.

7. Give them enough time to think and get back to you.

8. If they never got back, may be there are some reasons for why they can't accept you.

9. Believe that they are more sensitive and vulnerable than we boys and men.

10. They are still struggling for space. Help them grow and love you proactively one day.

11. Their wearing revealing clothes is to allow you to see their beauty, not grabbing it.

12. Their silence or negligence toward you might be to hint you that they are helpless.

13. They can love all but can't express it to all because they are not public property.

14. They too have preferences and priorities in their lives. Consider them individuals.

15. They remain bitches forever if you call them so. Know why they became so.

16. Their very presence might keep you happy. Let them know it fairly.

Sensitive lovers can add their points to the above list. There are broadly three kinds of males in this world:

1. Those that project themselves as great boys and men because they had s.x with many girls and women.

2. Those that did not have s.x with many girls and women but tell others they did so much in that direction to prove their potential to the other side, wrongly or rightly.

3. Those that sleep with the right partner only for the right reasons for leading a right life always.

From the three kinds of individuals, those that belong to the third category help build a healthy family, society and nation. Admirable India at large.

Shocking girls in the wrong way leads to unrest and barbarism in a society. Attracting all in the right ways helps us build a healthy, peaceful and prosperous society.

If we are trying to build a happy and secure society, it is not for other girls and women but our mother, sisters, aunts, wives, and sweethearts. We can't live happily always sitting or sleeping in our home but by going outside and interacting with others. Often, we form part of others, for some others. When others think and behave badly, we suffer. Keeping others happy is in our hands. No tablets or tonics can help us that way but self-tuning ourselves to the extent that we never hurt others knowingly, directly or indirectly.

Vitality and beauty are in our body and mind, which God gave us.

They receive admiration when we use them for the right causes.

I don't know how far Vimax can do it?

Perhaps you can think on it!

Datla Chiranjeevi Raju

Hyderabad

6:00 PM IST

CHEATING GUARANTEED

This evening I bought half a kilo of grapes at a hawker's pushcart opposite Secunderabad railway station. I asked him to allow me to check his weighing machine to know if he was using a right one. He spoke some words in ugly Hyderabad Hindi meaning "If we do such checks, both get troublesome". I did not give him a fake twenty-rupee note! I did not know why he gave me such a meaningless answer for my simple and rational question. Got the grapes weighed on a machine while getting back home. It weighed 420 grams only. I understood that most of the other hawkers and store operators are also cheating in the twin cities. For them earning money can be possible only through cheating. I felt angry with these rogues and idiots cheating me on a daily basis, wherever I go to buy something. In this context, I ran my thoughts a little ahead to check in how many ways cheating is being perpetrated against citizens of India like me, daily. Part of the lessons worked out are furnished below for your awakening:

1. Doctors operate upon a mother to take out her child, mostly just to get more money from the victim. How many deliveries are normal these days in hospitals. You can count. It means the very entry of a human child into this bad nation is corrupt and fraudulent.

2. When we try to admit our little ones to convents, the heavy fees are cheating. Because you want your child to study, you need to pay whatever they demand, silently.

3. Once into school, college and university education, how many of you believe that your teachers are teaching you well and that your answer sheets are getting evaluated correctly for giving you the marks you actually deserve. Education turned cheating and great business to many today. This is another facet of natioalized public cheating.

4. When you try to marry, you don't believe that everything being told by the other party is correct. You would be ready with the simple assumption, "It is common these days. It's ok. The girl or boy might have slept with any number of ...before marriage. It is enough if he/she would be fine after marriage. I can't get married if I look for v.....s only. Purity must not be my primary option these days, in many things". The very foundation of marriage system turned unbelievable. Show is enough for all.

5. Your children expect a lot of service from you as a parent. You expect more than that from them for whatever you are doing for them today. It is a kind of family business. You get them educated and want them to become great earners to get rich and resourceful partners during marriage stage. It means you are not serving them selflessly.

6. How many Indian sons and daughters care for their old parents the moment they know that there is no property with them or any kind of use because of their extended existence on this holy soil of India. They turn waste burden to you. Your life and your personal enjoyments are more important to you than spending with them or thinking about them sometime. You need your parents to serve you. They turn helpless as they grow up toward the ultimate call. Cheating at work between children and parents.

7. Police cheat you when you go to lodge a complaint saying better you avoid making things more fussy and lengthy. They advise you philosophically and professionally, "These things are common today. Leave it!".

8. You go to a lawyer when helpless in some direction. He takes the case ahead only if it is viable and that he gets something worthwhile in the process. The more the chances of getting profit from his client, the more his interest in that particular case. Whether you win the case or not, you must pay him the fees. He is a strict professional. He lives cheating others and misguiding others nicely. Advising others in a way which brings him money immediately or after some time. 60% of the lawyers and judges in this nation belong to this category. When justice itself is unjust, where do you run for dharma?

9. Democracy in this nation is another biggest game of public cheating. It is for the richest, of the influential and by the strategic. Check the records of promises and opportunist alliances of the contestants in different election campaigns. They tell a number of lies to attract you, to cheat you. They do everything spending the public money, your money, but they act before you as if they are sacrificing their lives/individual properties for you. Is it not a big circus in our nation? Voters vote to a party only when they foresee some immediate benefit out of it. Rulers contest in an election only when it is lucrative to them in comparison to other things they can do. Intellectuals spend their time discussing this public cheating. What a bloody game we are encouraging and watching in this nation?

10. 80% of the hospitals in this nation, posting huge profits every quarter and growing rapidly, reached that stage through absolute and organized public cheating. The cost of an operation depends on your ability to pay the doctors and buy the medicines they prescribe. They conduct operations even upon dead bodies if they know that the patient's dependants can bear the heavy bill before the discharge of the corpse. How many of you know why a medicine or operation costs something? We pay them whatever they demand? No questioning or rationality at work? They are doctors. You must act the role of a helpless listener and doer when they dictate you. Are our doctors cheating or saving us? When your supposed savior eats you when you go to him for food of life, who is there to help you?

11. Hindu temples are a good sign of big cheating. How many of the frequent visitors of these temples are not criminals or sinners in some field. They go to temples to seek the forgiveness of the presiding deity. I personally know many scoundrels, rogues and cheats that go to temples not feeling guilty of the sins they are committing outside the temples. Otherwise why this much of unrest and crime and curruption in this nation?

12. The relationship between an employer and employee is another facet of public cheating. Many employers I encountered during interview phases encouraged me to turn a cheat. They ask me to re-write my CV or pose such questions which I need to answer with sweet lies. I join them for more salary and comfort but tell them other rubbish for their professional satisfaction sake. They recruit me for their immediate pressing needs but pose as if they are saving me from a turmoil giving me a job with their company. I interacted with many cheats during the last four years. I simply think, "These innocent kindergarten kids are trying to teach lessons to a senior professor. What a plight of the employment industry?". If somebody is asking you to fine-tune your CV or work experience details, formative/lucrative cheating is at work. 70% of the employees currently working in various companies in this nation belong to this category.

13. Teenage love is another game of cheating. You love a girl or boy with some choices on your mind to be present in the opposite creature. He or she looks interesting and charming to you when he or she complies to whatever you like in any person or in that particular person. You find him or her more attractive as long as he or she is fine-tuning himself/herself as per your wishes or orders. If you practice unconditional love toward your beloved, for the sake of being idealist in that direction also, it can't be considered love by other common lovers because unconditional love means accepting the other as he or she is. That is the love you feel and express toward every creature you come across. Then there is no point of any special love toward any particular creature from you. Then how can both of you only be considered lovers by other common lovers. So, if you believe that you are in love with somebody more than others, it means you are subjecting yourself to a kind of self-imposed cheating. The only merit of it is, it is good cheating for yourself. We like that cheating for some reasons. No debates are expected.

14. I did not find quality or rationality in many products and services I am buying from different outlets these days. They cost differently in different places. Demand and supply or helplessness from my side often decide how much I can be cheated by the other party. I saw things at railway stations, cinema halls and other restricted/sophisticated public places costlier and less qualitative than those available in competitive and open markets in the same area. It means many cheat you when you go to some places by choice/helplessness. You buy things at the prices they impose just to keep up your image there (not questioning the injustice from the other side considering it a petty issue, though it is not really, because he is cheating many like you on a daily basis).

15. I wonder at the publicity of the government agencies. They say that consumers have many rights. Why should you alert them to know about their rights instead of punishing the criminals in the public places. It is like sending a rapist into our house and then informing us to call up the police when he is getting ready to rape somebody in our house. How funny and helpless our lives turned in this nation! Police officers died in the recent Mumbai terrorist attacks. Madam Sonia changed the CM of the state and Chidambaram took up the crucial portfolio at the center. They gave money and awards to the victims. Instead of doing their duties perfectly as politicians, they are compensating the victims of their polluted and immoral governance. They pay you five lacs if you die in a big train accident which caught the attention of the media but not even one rupee if you humbly go to a public bank and seek a loan to live on your own. They need security to give you loan but feel happy to compensate you when you die because your burden on this land is over with your death. Is this not public cheating of the governments we are honoring/bearing?

16. When millions of poor and helpless Indians are suffering due to lack of essential needs of their lives, we are watching cricket and doing such other bloody stuff in this nation and paying them hugely in different tournaments. Think how much of public money is being spent for the most essential needs of many and quite useless demands of a select few in this nation. We are honoring sports persons like Sachin and Sania with prestigious civilian awards because these celebrities and the sports they are representing are substantially contributing to the prosperity of this nation. Is it not? They are greater than thinkers, scientists, philanthropists, idealists, social reformers, admirable statesmen and such other real dignitaries of this nation, who help build up a strong India soon and so we are honoring Sachin and Sania with these awards. Is this not public cheating being encouraged by us, the youth and the builders of this nation? Think on this issue seriously. You would clearly know how you are cheating the helpless Indians in this nation. If you encourage wrong people and useless idiots in this nation, we can never become "super power" in the real sense of the terms used.

You can add your list of things to the propositions given above by me. If there are a multitude of disorders and demerits in this nation, and if we remained a poor beggar country even after 60 years of independence to our nation, the reasons are quite evident.

We are spending huge amounts of money and deploying security forces on unproductive things/persons and encouraging useless idiots in many fields.

If you prepare a huge list of every kind of considerable celebrities in this nation, checking how they earned money, earning money and how they are spending it, you would know how we are growing and shining as it is being publicized in the print and electronic media about India.

We are allowing cheats to cheat us more at various levels and trying to project it as the real development of India.

In this nation of organized public cheating, my worry about a hawker cheating me selling me less amount of grapes can't be an issue no?

India is a nation of issues from every quarter and in every phase of human life. One that can face them perfectly lives for many years unhappily and one that can't withstand such series of organized frauds around one dies early out of self-pity.

So, to live in India, today, happily, you must know one thing:

To cheat others in the best ways you know

Or

To live being cheated by everybody thinking that it is your fate

The ball is in your court.

The ball in my court is invisible to me.

I am blind.

I am helpless.

I can't kick it out or keep it there.

What a pity?

With love,

Datla Chiranjeevi Raju,

A victim of India.