with Sri Ganesh

To serve, With your noose and your goad And your wand and Your scepter Of light And of dark, Dispenser of a difficult But necessary Wisdom – Sri Ganesh, You attract, With your gentle cheerfulness, Till you snare and lead And propel With your knowledge, To each according to their Real capacity By the Law of Increase...

... One of the young men surrounding the Panchayat came back a while later to apologize to me and show me, in his own limited way, a little support...

- 25-07-12:

... Huge banners have now been placed on both sides of the road and the road crews have been repairing and patching up, all to impress a visiting Minister whom the AIDMK people want to support – and so, Jayalalitha’s picture is all over the place again: this is no longer something I can stop on my own, so I must wait it out... ... Praveen has offered Rs. 100/- and a French visitor, Rs 20/-...

Very gracefully, Sri Ganesh, You reach out To bless – You have conducted The Yajna And gathered The clarified and accepted Offerings And you have

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