Saturday, September 14, 2013

Hanging criminals only solution?

Lot of debate is going on whether death sentance is right solution. I agree with those argue in favour of NO death penalty. I suggest that these criminals should be used for new drugs trials. All along drug trials used to be done on volunteers who were paid for presenting themselves for studing the drug effects on various parameters which a very risky proposition. However they ready either to get cured by the new drug which promise to cure a particular disease or for the loor of the monetory reward. These persons can be auctioned to the companies who want to put them on clinical trials and give to them highest bidder. Proceeds may be given to the victim family. This way these criminals can be put to good use of the society and victims family can be taken care of better.
Deshpande

Friday, September 6, 2013

Bhuleshwar temple visit

Hi,
Yesterday was our marriage anniversay ie 2nd Dec. This time we had decided that we will celebrate without any pllanning. Hence we woke up like any other day. Harshu was the 1st to call. unusually very early this time. Kokil forced us to hae quick breafast & move out of home as early as possible. though they r 600 kms I was unable to resist.
Before starting from home she rang up and told that is a place called Bhuleshwar the place is on nagar road. Inside bus when asked for ticket to Bhuleshar conductor expressed his innocence of not knowing the place. Immeidiately i contacted Sumit and called him only to know that it's in on solapur road.and we have to get down either at urali or yavat and go some distance off the main rd. by that time it was past 11 am. i had to force sharda not 2 change the plan. any way we had'nt travelled much towards nagar road.
from swargate we boarded urali kanchan pmt bus. when v reached urali it was about 1 pm. it was there that v came 2 know that d place is nearer to yavat.
one private jeep driver offered 3 take us yavat. from there he suggested us 2 take a private vehicle for which they will charge rs 300/400 for up and down. while moving towards yavat co passengers and the driver went on telling the greatness of the pace. because of the noise of vehicle and more because of the lack of understanding the village marathi I could only gather that people in distress visit the place. there is belief among the people that  if u keep the prasad below some thing in the temple which is hidden from the any body's view for a few minutes, a small piece of prasad would disappear. if that happens it is taken that what ever the problems we taken to d god is solved. he said it is very difficult 2 go since there r no buses 2 d temple.and is about 15km fro yavat inside.only yavat 2 saswad bus goes on that road.even then after getting down from d bus one need 2 walk 3/4 km and is on a steep hill. he some how managed 2 convince hard ship that lay ahead of us. when v were very near 2 yavat the jeep driver himself offred to take us the temple for a price. after a bit of negotiation v decided 2 take that journey and engaged him 4 d ride. he asked us 2 buy some sweets pheda ( prasad)though d road was freshly made metal one, it was quite steep and narrow at places and deep valley on one side of the road. on reaching the place where d bus unloads d  the passengers going to the temple, d driver told us that from this spot v have 2 climb the remaining distance and d height. i felt that it would have been really an herculean task! there is no shade on the road side
from a distance d temple look like any other temples we had seen. he drove the remain distance we halted very near d temple. d driver also came along with us inside. since he was from yavat he doubled up as a guide. out side d temple very large bell was hung at a small height. on banging, d sound it emitted was so much loud but very cooling 2 d ears.we bend our head 2 make entry into the temple. after that turn 2 the right or left and climb 7/8 steps. from there again u move some distance we reach the sanctum. sanctum. there one senior person a priiest was seated on one side and 3 young persons were in his front. in front of us he lifted a ling like round stone and kept d prasad in d pit and again closed the pit with that stone. after a few minutes d priest opened the stone and took out d metal cup with prasad. prasad was as it was. d priest was trying 2 console those persons hat if they had come before 11 am they would have been successful in getting d good omen. this might have given some solace to those people. but any way they came out of the sactum with out turning their back 2 d god. next was our turn. same thing happened 2 us also. and d same expaination to us as well!
after coming out of d sanctum we took d rounf the temple. we were amazed by the carvings on he walls. they were really great. but felt extremenly sorry that every statue was broken!!! not a single statue i saw in a full for. thoug from out side the temple looks average built  inside it is quite big and unique in terms of it approach to the sanctum. d drive told us that we are not supposed to take full round of shiva temple, hence we turned half way and came out of the temple.