Time Machine

Dear Cheeniya Sir,

Lovely post,is an understatement ,.The plethora of topics you come out with is stupendous.Sir and the way you put your thoughts into words,Im sure if HG wells is born again, he would say "Im a dimwit and wouldn't dare discussing about Cheeniya Sir".

Fantasy and world of dreams begin with birth.I have seen moments of the eyelids of new born infants and its said that they are dreaming about their previous birth .Now only a parapsychologist may see sense here, but it is so incredible.

I remember a famous dialogue from the hit film of the movie Silsila starring Big B,in which he says," Main aur meri tanhaiyee aksar yeh baatein karte hain, Tum hoti tho aisa hota, tum hoti tho waisa hota...." I think solitude ,provides the perfect backdrop for a few moments of peaceful fantasy.Infact these moments of solitude are welcome when we wish to fly to our fantasy land hoping that these arent dreams but reality.

Yes there are definitely those who spend a lot of their times reminiscing about the sad times. If the sad or tough times are remembered as a weapon to instil strength in one it is fine , if it is used to fill remorse into your life then i think it only deepens your worries and is a negative way of looking at things.

Wonderful posts Sir .I flew into a different land for a few moments and enjoyed my flight.

Love,
Your Mol

Cheeniya Sir,
Rightly said that 'memory' and 'dreams' are the time machines..which we need not buy. it is inbuilt...
Just as anyother thing, we don't put in to use which is available to us...including the brain...
Lucky enough that we don't remember 'all' the things, otherwise, imagine the destruction it would have brought...
Dreams....our dreams are only limited to our experiences, more than that ..it wouldn't go..moreover, it is an unexplored world....we don;t have any experiences regarding that....but for memory is concerned...it can be rewinded because we went through that experience...

sriniketan

Originally Posted by Devika Menon

Dear Cheeniya Sir,

Lovely post,is an understatement ,.The plethora of topics you come out with is stupendous.Sir and the way you put your thoughts into words,Im sure if HG wells is born again, he would say "Im a dimwit to be discussing about Cheeniya Sir".

Fantasy and world of dreams begin with birth.I have seen moments of the eyelids of new born infants and its said that they are dreaming about their previous birth .Now only a parapsychologist may see sense here, but it is so incredible.

I remember a famous dialogue from the hit film of the movie Silsila starring Big B,in which he says," Main aur meri tanhaiyee aksar yeh baatein karte hain, Tum hoti tho aisa hota, tum hoti tho waisa hota...." I think solitude ,provides the perfect backdrop for a few moments of peaceful fantasy.Infact these moments of solitude are welcome when we wish to fly to our fantasy land hoping that these arent dreams but reality.

Yes there are definitely those who spend a lot of their times reminiscing about the sad times. If the sad or tough times are remembered as a weapon to instil strength in one it is fine , if it is used to fill remorse into your life then i think it only deepens your worries and is a negative way of looking at things.

Wonderful posts Sir .I flew into a different land for a few moments and enjoyed my flight.

Love,
Your Mol

Dear Mol
You have pointed out a very fascinating aspect of what goes on in the minds of infants. We can see them smile happily for a second in their sleep followed by a look of anguish for a fleeting instant. I tend to agree with the view that an infant is yet to break itself free of the memories of its past birth. When it becomes more and more aware of its present, the new people, new relations and new feelings, the memories of the previous birth just fade away. Whatever be the acceptability of this theory, no one can deny that it is a fascinating phenomenon.

Solitude is, of course, a perfect launch pad to take off in our Time Machine. We do not want to be brought back forcibly into our present by outside disturbance. No wonder it is said that 'Solitude is bliss'!

Travelling in a Time Machine back to our days of misery and agony is like going to Ethiopia for honeymoon! The choice is ours to select a delectable destination either of the past or future!

Thank you Mol for all your lovely words about my rambling!
Sri

Originally Posted by Sriniketan

Cheeniya Sir,
Rightly said that 'memory' and 'dreams' are the time machines..which we need not buy. it is inbuilt...
Just as anyother thing, we don't put in to use which is available to us...including the brain...
Lucky enough that we don't remember 'all' the things, otherwise, imagine the destruction it would have brought...
Dreams....our dreams are only limited to our experiences, more than that ..it wouldn't go..moreover, it is an unexplored world....we don;t have any experiences regarding that....but for memory is concerned...it can be rewinded because we went through that experience...

sriniketan

Dear Sri
That is a very rationalised view of why we prefer to travel backwards in time rather than to the future. I agree that it is the fear of the unknown that prevents us from straying too far into the future. I guess that it can be only the sci-fi writers' cup of tea! It is what that makes them produce stuff like Star Wars, Star Trek and The Close Encounters of the Third Kind. But delving into the past is something that all of us do effortlessly though we do not go too far even into the Past. It is possible that it is due to our fear of losing our way back to the present that acts as a deterrent to being a very ambitious traveller!
Sri

Dear Cheeniya Sir,

Hats off to you for a wonderful piece. If I had a Time Machine, I would want to go back to the simpler lives of the past days - perhaps to my parents' or my grandparents' generation, rather than what I foresee, as the more complicated, faster life that the future holds :)

Not that, I am afraid to dream of the future or something....but I find more beauty and charm in the past than in the future. Some of yours and Chithra Ma'am's blogs transport me back to your times, which I really love and wish to experience first hand again if possible. I want to be in a world, where books are still hugely popular & Internet book reading and browsing does not exist, where we don't have to pay a fortune to experience unpolluted air and greenery, where Indian culture and traditions and religious prayers echo in every home, where women like me knew how to make pickles and vadaam at home and didn't have to depend on shops because of our inability to cook etc etc etc.

My list is huge indeed. Perhaps this is why I like to watch 'Malgudi Days' rather than "Star Wars":)

Thanks for bring back the nostalgia...
With love
Pavithra

Originally Posted by mkthpavi

Dear Cheeniya Sir,

Hats off to you for a wonderful piece. If I had a Time Machine, I would want to go back to the simpler lives of the past days - perhaps to my parents' or my grandparents' generation, rather than what I foresee, as the more complicated, faster life that the future holds :)

Not that, I am afraid to dream of the future or something....but I find more beauty and charm in the past than in the future. Some of yours and Chithra Ma'am's blogs transport me back to your times, which I really love and wish to experience first hand again if possible. I want to be in a world, where books are still hugely popular & Internet book reading and browsing does not exist, where we don't have to pay a fortune to experience unpolluted air and greenery, where Indian culture and traditions and religious prayers echo in every home, where women like me knew how to make pickles and vadaam at home and didn't have to depend on shops because of our inability to cook etc etc etc.

My list is huge indeed. Perhaps this is why I like to watch 'Malgudi Days' rather than "Star Wars":)

Thanks for bring back the nostalgia...
With love
Pavithra

Dear Pavithra
You have indeed given enough and valid reasons for a journey back in time. All the progress in science and technology takes man farther away from Nature. We now have to pay a hefty sum to be closetted in an oxyginated cabin to overcome the effects of pollution. Pure drinking water now costs money. Just board your Time Machine and travel back a hundred years when you will find all good things of life are available for a song and even free. You will find the atmosphere always fresh and fragrant with pure air. Now travel forward by a hundred years when you will find these things costing a lot more.
Quo Vadis, Pavithra?
Sri

Dear Cheeniya sir ,
“

Who am I, a dim-witted amateur writer, even to attempt such a venture?”

- Please don’t hurt the feelings of your fans by making such comments on yourself . You are a good writer , able to bring all the navarasaas in your writings – especially humour ! No doubt !

I

can not help quoting Anton Chekhov here:“Time will pass, and we shall go away for ever, and we shall be forgotten, our faces will be forgotten, our voices, and how many there were of us; but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.”

Yes . Whatever we fantasize or yearn to get is sure to take form in future ( sooner or later ) . One of the old movie songs , sung by N.S. Krishnan & T.A.Madhuram proves it : “ buttonathattivittaa rendu thattile idiliyum coffee namma pakkathil vandhidaNum – kattilukkumele fanu kaathusuthaveNum kaalangaattum karuviyum veNum “ – Excepting idlis in plates ,all her wishes have come true now ! ! ! .

Nivedi ‘s fantasies tend me to take further steps - like .. the washing machine doing the job of pressing the clothes too & making us all the more lazier ! How would you like it ? I remember the movie ‘ maya bazaar ‘ – Gatothgajan , getting the food ready in a split of a second for pleasing the gowrawaas! Microwave ovens , food processors are doing the same things at present ,na ? ! ?

Unfortunately we do not make use of these machines to launch ourselves on a flight of fantasy but only to travel back and forth within the short time span of a hundred years or so. It is like using the world’s most sophisticated aircraft to shuttle between Chennai and Arakkonum !

- ..ok .. I ‘ll use the Time Machine to travel some several hundred years back to fantasize that might be I was the Great Jansi Rani (for veeram) , the Great Avvaiyaar ( for wisdom) and the Great kavikkuyil Sarojini naidu ( for kavidhai – which I ‘m interested in & planning to write in IL – of course in tamil ! God save all of you ! ) Is it fantasizing or fancying ? Pl . clarify my silly doubt , sir !
Regards ,
Indhu.

Originally Posted by indhusri

Dear Cheeniya sir ,
“- Please don’t hurt the feelings of your fans by making such comments on yourself . You are a good writer , able to bring all the navarasaas in your writings – especially humour ! No doubt !

I Yes . Whatever we fantasize or yearn to get is sure to take form in future ( sooner or later ) . One of the old movie songs , sung by N.S. Krishnan & T.A.Madhuram proves it : “ buttonathattivittaa rendu thattile idiliyum coffee namma pakkathil vandhidaNum – kattilukkumele fanu kaathusuthaveNum kaalangaattum karuviyum veNum “ – Excepting idlis in plates ,all her wishes have come true now ! ! ! .

Nivedi ‘s fantasies tend me to take further steps - like .. the washing machine doing the job of pressing the clothes too & making us all the more lazier ! How would you like it ? I remember the movie ‘ maya bazaar ‘ – Gatothgajan , getting the food ready in a split of a second for pleasing the gowrawaas! Microwave ovens , food processors are doing the same things at present ,na ? ! ?

- ..ok .. I ‘ll use the Time Machine to travel some several hundred years back to fantasize that might be I was the Great Jansi Rani (for veeram) , the Great Avvaiyaar ( for wisdom) and the Great kavikkuyil Sarojini naidu ( for kavidhai – which I ‘m interested in & planning to write in IL – of course in tamil ! God save all of you ! ) Is it fantasizing or fancying ? Pl . clarify my silly doubt , sir !
Regards ,
Indhu.

Dear Indhu
When fancy borders on the realms of impossibility, it becomes a fantasy. So, the role of Jansi Rani would be a fantasy for you because she was an ace horse rider like Desingu Raja! It is hard to imagine you riding a horse! The other two will be fancies and even I can fancy you as Avvaiyar and Sarojini!

NSK and TAM were real visionaries. Whatever they have fancied are happening though we have gone farther ahead in this 'buttona thatti vitta' matter. We are now in the age of touch screen and our scientists are already working on mind-activated gadgets.

In that film Maya Bazaar, it is not Gadothgajan who is getting the ffod ready but his henchman Elumalai. Gadothgajan only arrives there in time to finish off all that is lined up for the Kauravas!

And thanks a lot for your opening remarks. You are indeed a great ego booster!
Sri

Dear Cheensaar,

Originally Posted by cheeniya

Who am I, a dim-witted amateur writer, even to attempt such a venture?

After seeing this post being nominated in FP by no less than our Chithra, have rushed to read this. And these opening lines do not gel with me..you and dim-wit..? If you are that, than I must be the Surpanakai!..Ok!! See what my flight in time machine did to me!

Once again, you contemplate and explore themes that the likes of me do not even dream of. Yes, I do dream and also forget my dreams in the instant that I open my eyes. As for day dreaming, I have done that aplenty and have paid the consequences in terms of a burnt and charred kitchen, totally damaged car and other such insignificant things....
Next time I go on such trips, I shall certainly take care to be seated in a safe chair in a quiet room, all belted and bolted! Shall also not inform my hassled hubby as to from whom I got the advice to travel in the time machine, not the one he adores, but as advised by you!!

Originally Posted by cheeniya

but our sufferings will pass into joy for those who will live after us, happiness and peace will be established upon earth, and they will remember kindly and bless those who have lived before.”

Well, I am slightly, no, totally confused by this quote! How can my passing leave peace and happiness behind. Having not contributed any noteworthy recipes nor blogs nor points to ponder about? I am sure that the insurance folk who had to compensate the havoc I have created due to my fantasy flights will not be blessing me either!

But knowing you, you must have some hidden ideals that my pea brain is unable to deciper! Chekov, bless him, is lost on me!!

Great post as usual Cheeniya sir, always a pleasure to read your lines.

L, Kamla

Originally Posted by Kamla

Dear Cheensaar,



After seeing this post being nominated in FP by no less than our Chithra, have rushed to read this. And these opening lines do not gel with me..you and dim-wit..? If you are that, than I must be the Surpanakai!..Ok!! See what my flight in time machine did to me!

Once again, you contemplate and explore themes that the likes of me do not even dream of. Yes, I do dream and also forget my dreams in the instant that I open my eyes. As for day dreaming, I have done that aplenty and have paid the consequences in terms of a burnt and charred kitchen, totally damaged car and other such insignificant things....
Next time I go on such trips, I shall certainly take care to be seated in a safe chair in a quiet room, all belted and bolted! Shall also not inform my hassled hubby as to from whom I got the advice to travel in the time machine, not the one he adores, but as advised by you!!


Well, I am slightly, no, totally confused by this quote! How can my passing leave peace and happiness behind. Having not contributed any noteworthy recipes nor blogs nor points to ponder about? I am sure that the insurance folk who had to compensate the havoc I have created due to my fantasy flights will not be blessing me either!

But knowing you, you must have some hidden ideals that my pea brain is unable to deciper! Chekov, bless him, is lost on me!!

Great post as usual Cheeniya sir, always a pleasure to read your lines.

L, Kamla

Dear Kamla
You ought to know that Time Machines do not take off from kitchens and bathrooms and such brittle man-made spaces. They take off from a quiet beach, the mountain sides or the vast sand dunes of some awesome desert. You will not leave behind, from such places, any charred remembrances of your take off!

And my dear Kamla, dont you know that the entire population of the world is classified into two? No, no, not the literate and the illiterate. I mean the ones who make you happy when they come and the other when they leave. Chekov's statement covers both categories. What category we want to be classified as is, of course, our own choice!
Sri