Thursday, August 31, 2017

Singapore 60's: Andy's Pop Music Influence: Papa He Loves Mama: The Original by Donald Peers - Video from: loadsamusic (Tuesday, November 30, 2010)

I simply hope this would be the last time I should forget to post a comment in time! The song mentioned here is "Papa, He Loves Mama" by Donald Peers. The sentimental import of  the message, very clear in the immediate reply that it elicited, still gratifies me!



Monday, August 28, 2017

tamilhindu.com: ஆனைமுகனும் தமிழ்ப்பண்பாடும் (August 1, 2017)

Somehow, I almost forgot to post the following comment.
 This is a Tamil spiritual article by Aravindan Neelakandan. Here, my identity is முராதீ, which is Muradi 'spelt' in Tamil.
Had my memory not failed me as above, it would have been placed before this.

Swarajyamag.com: To Fight Love Jihad, Women Must Be Informed What Happens To Their Rights In A Sharia Marriage (Aug 18, 2017, 10:36 am)

My apologies, again, for having forgotten to post this prior to this item.*
Somehow, here at last, I was able to clear* the software spam filter, after two failures. It is here that I stumbled upon an apter name for how my comment was shaping up in general: meta-comment.
Here is the article which allowed* my response to dovetail with its Comments section:

To Fight Love Jihad, Women Must Be Informed What Happens To Their Rights In A Sharia Marriage*

This whole turn of events obviously gladdened, and also humbled, me a lot! Also, please note that I've borrowed many words in big chunks from my rejected comment whose copy is here.
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Sunday, August 27, 2017

PGurus.com: फ़तवे वाली मा – ये है ममता दीदी! (August 25, 2017)

Another Hindi cartoon where, as one might notice, the criticism from my side is out of genuine concern for proper execution.

PGurus.com: अब रेल पटरी से नहीं उतरेगा! (August 24, 2017)

The medium of communication here is Hindi. I have commented in Hindi as मुरादी, which is Muradi written in Hindi.

PGurus.com: No escape for Karti! (August 15, 2017)

My comment is a bit different here, trying to center around the cartoon itself:

No escape for Karti!

PGurus.com: What happened in Gujarat RS election… (August 10, 2017)

A cartoon attracts less response, it seems, compared to a written article. Even then, comments are inclined to fan out rapidly into multitudes of opinions and counter-opinions.

What happened in Gujarat RS election... is a small illustration of this.

Swarajyamag.com: They Are Wrong Again, This Time About Shiva (Jul 31, 2017, 6:07 pm)

I desiderate in my own self what


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Swarajyamag.com: India’s ‘Guru’ For Centuries: Moving Beyond The ‘When’ Of Mahabharata (Jul 25, 2017, 7:52 pm): Deleted Comment!

First and foremost: I'm sorry, it would have been better had I posted this link before the previous one, but, anyway, this link refers to what repeatedly took down my comment with each of around 6 attempts I made to get and stay online!
What I actually witnessed every time I posted my comment was something like: the comment managed to 'stay' online barely a few moments when the whole page quivered, flickered and then flushed the comment out of sight! Contacting the Help Desk (by email) was absolutely of no avail. I accepted defeat and stopped any further attempt after around 4 days of feeling being stonewalled.
Here is the link to the article which wouldn't take along my comment:

India’s ‘Guru’ For Centuries: Moving Beyond The ‘When’ Of Mahabharata

And here is a copy of the comment which provoked the ire of what I take to be a computer spam filter:

The Comment Taken Down As Spam

Posted multiple times over two days
My honest appreciation, with satisfaction, of the 'ethical'ness, 'creative intellectual'ness and 'soul'fulness being endorsed and exemplified in this article, in regard to our great epic Mahabharata epitomizing best our ancient and ageless vedic philosophy, tradition and culture.
Same time, here's my genuine grief, along with concern, regarding my being a mere, mute witness to so many people, especially our own native Indians, grouping and turning hostile, nonchalantly and mindlessly, to whatever has been by nature or name, vedic or Indian! Most of such people, most of the time, simply parrot back and forth words which they know, comprehend or apply only poorly. Their gut-churning and gruesome howl merely echoes whatever sounds they pick up from coteries and cliques foreign and alien to our own Bharatavarsha. Some examples of such sounds are: science, technology, logic, arts, society at large (chiefly, the deprived, downtrodden, oppressed, victimized etc sections), realpolitik (eg, humanism, communism, feminism, minorityism, globalism and modernism), tolerance and affirmative action.
Even a light scrutiny would give away the hidden ambitions of the folks: they talk the talk, but don't walk the walk! They quote logical theories, but promote magical and mass hysteria among common people gullible because they might (have been exhorted to) feel duped, deprived or unconciliated, be ill-advised, ill-mannered or unfriendly, and also among common people receptive because they might be young, inexperienced, untutored, unaware, open, liberal or empathetic. The  villainous folks hail glory to their chosen groups, but wail gory end to all others. They appear passionate, persuasive and silky in public, but they seem to become phlegmatic, evasive and slimy in private. All of them preach humanism, liberalism, globalism and abolitionism, but practice chauvinism, parochialism, nepotism and colonialism. They all speak in one voice common welfare, but seek one by one private wealth. They act, assist and accrue wages as agents of the Abrahamic nations, but only to abhor, attack and annihilate the Sanatana Dharma holding together over the millennia the very fabric of their own nation, people, society and families.
In conclusion, the yawning gap and huge void between India's illustrious and unforgettable past and its inconspicuous and unmemorable present is a stinging and stunning pointer to the distressful and deplorable disconnect between India's legendary potential and live performance, where Abrahamism assaults Vedism, materialism mutes idealism, servility puts down assertiveness, fake blurs out reality, ridicule rips apart rigor, envy blanks out energy, fanaticism shuts up fantasization, disregard wipes out design, and disbelief disrupts deliberation (and so on and on and on).
Breaking free of all the above shackles (and a lot more not enumerated there) will be India's first steppingstone toward regaining its past and lost glory. Jai Hind! Jai Bharat! Aum Shantih Shantih Shantih!

Created: 13:54:00 UTC, Sunday, August 27, 2017
Please read this along with the above

MediaCrooks.com: Naked Dictators (Thursday, July 27, 2017)

Here is the link to the article which accepted my comment:

Naked Dictators

I even managed to garner one appreciative response to my comment! In fact, this comment was nothing but a clipped portion of a much larger write up I had prepared for this MediaCrooks.com article, but never finished and posted, which revealed to me these innate tendencies of my mind: (i) it, almost always, spread its thoughts out in all directions, (ii) it made me worry about my thoughts straying off focus, but (iii) it gave me happiness by covering larger areas of analysis and providing wider aspects of comprehension, and eventually (iv) it indeed emboldened me to write freely and  randomly, and thus keep a bigger reservoir of write ups which then could be sliced and spliced as needed to generate appropriate comments or even articles themselves.


Created: 13:06:06 UTC, Sunday, August 27, 2017
Please read this along with the above

MediaCrooks.com: Chinese Gandhis (July 11, 2017): Deleted Comment!

The Mediacrooks.com apparently accepted my comment posted in the wee hours of Tuesday, July 11, 2017, only to delete it at dawn! I bounced the rejected comment back, but this time, on to PGurus.com where it found immediate acceptance, I feel that PGurus.com has a very liberal, or very little, moderating policy, which I find quite democratic.
Anyway, the link to the Mediacrooks.com article, warding off my comment, is here:

Chinese Gandhis

Thus, the comment found its ultimate place in this PGurus.com URL!

Created: 10:00:26 UTC, Sunday, August 27, 2017
Please read this along with the above

PGurus.com:Why were Government lawyers absent in SC when Vijay Mallya’s case was called? (July 11, 2017)

Why were Government lawyers absent in SC when Vijay Mallya’s case was called?

made me brood over the situation backdropping such events, prompting me to present this comment, which might have a universal validity in addition.
MRD was still my online identity.

 Created: 08:26:26 UTC, Sunday, August 27, 2017
 Please read this along with the above

Saturday, August 26, 2017

PGurus.com: Where have thou gone, Bengal? (July 9, 2017)

Here's the link to the cartoon titled:

Where have thou gone, Bengal?

I think this is my earliest ever comment that I wrote in response to an online publication. I still remember myself poking around in the cartoon, long enough to pick up a sure and safe target to aim for! Now I realize that my correction would have been better, had it been "Whither hast thou gone, Bengal?"
MRD was my online identity till I changed it to Muradi.

Created: 13:34:26 UTC, Saturday, August 26, 2017
Please read this along with the above

Tuesday, August 22, 2017

About my online comments

In the posts following this one, what I intend to do is to give the URL, along with the title, of  the online publication evoking my comment, if the comment (i) is published, and (ii) stays so. As to the comment which (i) doesn't clear moderation, if any, or (ii) appears first online but is taken down immediately or after a varying time interval  thereafter-- depending on whether it falls victim to a not-so-smart automatic filter not aware of my ambitions at all, or worse still, a human-simulation that hunts it down, or even when (iii) the URL link is no more alive-- I would paste a copy of the jammed, shamed and gamed, as well as any URL-orphaned, comment, on this blog. I suppose 'spam' is the euphemistic tag that my dear, departed comment gets on a typical occasion.
As time passes on, as my experience with such treatments meted out to my attempts grows, and, of course, as also my perception, knowledge and interpretation of it all matures, I would wish to return and revamp this post regularly.
For any time in consideration, as my predicament having currency would goad me, I'd be, say, with a rejected comment, tempted to protest that these bots (= robots) as well as despots (= humans) are blind to most of the sincerity, the commonest form that truth assumes, that is left in this world. One bad experience and a good reflection on it, is sufficient to infer that it is pretty difficult to request and realize relief from the distress of rejection. As for the computer that blocks my comment on its way, I would say, "It's okay, it's unhuman!"; but the human behind, beside(s), or instead of the software, about whom I'd utter, "Ah, this is inhuman!", could find me very expendable or exasperating. Either way, I'm being stonewalled-- any action from my side: rebound reaction; no action: no response. It is a stalemate and checkmate situation. What and where I am on this planet, and also what and where my cause of grievance is, determines how bad I'd feel and how likely and quickly I'd get redress. And concerning a dead link, I am sure I should, without delay, get into restoring a copy of my comment to this blog site.
That my comment tended to take up hues of a meta-comment, I stumbled upon this realization, as it encountered a few repeated deletions from a few sites which, in my opinion, mistook it for being spam, off-topic, or otherwise.

Created: 09:12:56 UTC, Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Updated: 07:34:06 UTC, Sunday, August 27, 2017