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abhaya Hunt The Winter 2020

  The 2020 population count was a stellar accumulation of unimaginable numbers. It outlined the total population of the country sweeping 1.3 Billion in numbers. Given the gradual and imminent increase in the population over years we can approximate the numbers to have touched the ceiling limit of 1.4 million  – given the 50 births per minute record rate.      As obvious as it sounds, the census was not only about recording the total population. It counted the total males, females, poor, rich, healthy, sick, young, old, homeless … ah, the homeless. Let’s pause and have a look at what the report has to say about it.    It is defined in the report that the homeless are those who do not live in houses, but rather stay on pavements, roadsides, railway platforms, staircases, temples, streets, in pipes, or other open spaces. There are 1.8 million homeless people in India consisting of single men, women, mothers, the elderly, and the disabled. Let’s put this in perspective, alright? As I

Mathru Devo Bhava

Ebbs and flows are part and parcel in the cruise of life. Voyager’s intention is to hold the steering tight, face the mighty inevitable storm, sail through the torrential rains, beat the oceans in its own game. Srimati Alivelumanga Thayaru steered her ship through the mightiest of oceans, bent the societal flows, helped others build their ships and sail along with her, and in the end on the inevitable day as her ship sank her soul swayed away and mixed itself with the blue sky and started it's journey to God's Adobe to resonate the meaning of life forever. If it’s not clear yet, it is his holiness Sri Sri Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swami ji's mother who is in the details. Like mother, like son. Many a time, Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji shared with everyone about his mother who permitted him to take sainthood (yathya:sram). He is ever grateful to his mother for happily letting him choose to serve the cause of his acharya, and not limit him with a unit family. Lovingly known as &qu