PANCHAAMRITAM 103

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PANCHAAMRITAM 103
Pancha is five in Samskritam, Amritam is nectar

Poornima, Kali Yugaabda 5108, Vyaya Margazhi 19 (January 3, 2007)

ONE

Shanmugapriya, 22, of Periyapalayam and Franklin, 28 of Tiruvallur were in love. She is a B.Tech and he, a car driver. Parenets of both the boy and girl were vehemently opposed to their love. So, the young ones formalised their wedding at the Registrar's office in Chennai on November 1, 2006. Parents of the girl lodged a complaint with the Tiruvallur police that the car driver had abducted Shanmugapriya. Going by this complaint, the police arrested Franklin's parents. The girl's parents threatened the boy's parents with murder. Terrified,.the newly wed couple decided to end their lives. On November 3, they both attempted to commit suicide at the Kasimod fishing harbour. Fishermen, who noticed this, saved the boy and girl and took them to the George Town magistrate court, seeking protection to the couple's lives.

Based on a report in DINAMALAR, November 5, 2006

TWO

Auto (autorikshaw) driver Shri.Danasekaran of Mandaiveli, Chennai, walked into Nungambakkam police station and handed over 5 sovereign gold jewels and silk sarees valued at Rs. 50,000. These belonged to Smt Jayanthi, who had left them in Danasekaran's auto that she had hired to go to Nungambakkam. Assistant Commisioner of Police Shri. Ramasubramaniam gave away Rs. 1,000 to Shri. Danasekaran in appreciation of his honesty. (DINAMALAR, December 12, 2006). 2. Auto driver Shri. Arul of Pozhichalur, Chennai, went to Sankar Nagar police station and handed over an 8 sovereign gold chain lying unclaimed in his auto. Smt. Manikkodi Anandavel of Tiruchy saw a report of this in the newspapers. She had been anxious as to what happened to her gold chain that she had misplaced while she traveled by Arul's auto on December 26. Manikkodi was greatly relieved when police restored her chain to her. She praised Shri. Arul for his honesty and gave him Rs. 1,000. (DINAMALAR, January 3, 2007).

THREE

Shri. Suresh, 22, of Ambur, Tamilnadu, Bharat, noticed a dangerous crack on the rail while he tried to cross the railway track on December 7, 2006. At once he gathered three more persons (Rani, 60, Dinakar and Srinivasan of class 7). All the four held aloft a red coloured saree and started running along the track in the direction of an oncoming train. They ran for half a kilometer, when the engine driver of the Tiruvanandapuram-Chennai express noticed the foursome waving a red cloth. He stopped the train that carried over 1,000 passengers including a number of Ayyappa devotees. The Railway Protection Force officials and the passengers expressed their gratitude to the four for saving the lives of all (DINAMANI, December 8, 2006). 2. On December 3, 2006, three children of Thane Pawan railway station 5 kms from Muzafarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, Bharat, (Nishint, Shakti and Sagar) noticed half a metre length of railway track badly broken near Thane Pawan station. They informed officials at the station. Railwaymen rushed to the spot and repaired the track and cleared the track for traffic in this Muzafarnagar-Saharanpur section. A major accident to a train from Delhi bound for Saharanpur was thus averted (DINAMANI December 5, 2006).

FOUR

Meet Shri. Gandhirajan, Sub Registrar, Virudunagar, Tamilnadu, Bharat. His desk at his office displays a board that announces `BRIBE NOT ACCEPTED. BRIBE IS UNLAWFUL'. He feels that bribe money is harmful to the wellbeing of the bribe taker's family. His no bribe vow has a spiritual background. Ten years back, his family had to face a problem. He worshipped at the town's Mariamman (Kali) temple and prayed to Mariamman to solve the problem. He took a vow that he would lead a Gandhian life if the problem is solved. He keeps his word all along (DINAMALAR, December 15, 2006.)

FIVE

1. Shajeena, 24, a suave and shy Muslim girl of Nayayikulam, a suburb Trivandrum, kerala, Bharat, recently created history by securing 79 percent marks in the M.A Sanskrit of the Kerala University. With the duppatta drawn over her head, and with sparkling eyes she says that she is really in love with Sanskrit, the wonderful language of Bharat. She had to face conservative members of her own religion. But her father, Shahul Hameed, a casual labourer, and her mother, Suhara Beevi, a housewife, stood behind her and encouraged her. " The study of Sanskrit purified my thoughts. I became more and more humble. I now realize that all religions take one to God through different ways," she emphasizes. (From a report in haindavakeralam.org - December 14, 2006). 2. Misbah Fathima has a master's degree in Applied Mathematics but wants to teach Sanskrit. Nuzhath Fathima, her sister, who is doing her master's degree in Electronic Science, is also studying Sanskrit. At the Murthuzaviya Educational and Cultural Foundation on Big Street in Triplicane, Chennai, where the sisters learn Sanskrit, there are as many Muslim youngsters as Hindu youth enrolling to learn the ancient language. Currently, over 140 students in the 6-35 age group are learning the language to sit for Kovidh examination conducted by the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. "Most of them take Sanskrit out of interest," says the Foundation's correspondent G.S.M.P. Khadri. (From a report by Smt. R.Sujatha in THE HINDU, September 22, 2006).

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