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Unsettling Early Days of Trump’s Presidency 

By Kollengode S Venkataraman .................................................... 2 

Paintings on Cosmic Design 

By Premlata Venkataraman ............................................................ 8 

Desi Transitions: Insider Trader Rajat Gupta Comes out of Jail 

By Kollengode S Venkataraman................................................... 10 

Pittsburgh Sahana’s Successful Fundraiser 

By Subash Ahuja........................................................................... 14 

Veerashaivas — Rebels Against Orthodoxy in India 

By K S Venkataraman ................................................................. 17 

Today’s Rebellion is Tomorrow’s Orthodoxy 

By K S Venkataraman .................................................................. 20 

On Frenemies and Frenemity 

By K S Venkataraman ................................................................. 21 

Shyamaa: Tagore Portrayal of Passion Ending in Tragedy 

By Siba Ray ................................................................................. 25 

Bharatanatyam Recital Explored Race Relations 

By Erika Lanke .......................................................................... 27 

One-of-a-Kind Delectable Shehnai House Concert 

By Rishi Nigam .......................................................................... 28 

On the Cover: The annual Pittsburgh Arts Festival in spring coincides 

with erratic thunderstorms. So, parodying the arts festival and rains is 

now a Pittsburgh talking point. When I went to this year’s festival on the 

evening of Friday, June 2, a pleasant and dry day, I saw people enjoying 

under a canopy of umbrellas in rainbow colors at the Gateway Center. 

This idea is an import from Portugal. It was an attractive outdoor visual 

art. — Premlata Venkataraman • 

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Unsettling Early Days of Trump’s Presidency 

People are incapable of rationally responding to frequent, erratic 

changes even in their personal lives — in their careers, health, 

marriages … — all occurring around the same time. They become numb 

and focus on how to get through the day. When these changes do not immediately 

affect them, people ignore them even when these changes have 

long-term consequences for them personally. That is what is happening 

since Donald Trump became the president. Ordinary folks — not people 

in the news business, politicians, partisan types or news junkies — simply 

have withdrawn, as if this is happening in some other country far away. 

But late-night comedy shows are having a field day with grains of hard 

truths underneath the supposedly humorous quips in these shows. 

Trump’s harshest critics are not only liberal writers of the New York 

Times and the Washington Post, but also traditional conservatives like 

the Wall Street Journal’s editors, David Brooks, Bill Kristol, and many 

others. GOP members of Congress are adrift, thinking about their own 

survival in next year’s mid-term elections. Only right-wing radio and TV 

talk shows are singing the paeans of praise for Trump. 

With his erratic management style, Trump’s White House staff 

work under fear, insecurity, and embarrassment. These are 

the most loyal people willing to be the fall guys for their boss. When 

they try to shield their erratic boss — we understand this is in their job 

description — they contradict themselves often within the same day and 

become caricatures. Trump’s press secretary Sean Spicer is one example. 

His Secretaries of State and Defense are in the dark on key foreign policy 

decisions till they see them in the media. 

With Trump’s obsession over not getting favorable news coverage, he 

runs his administration by nocturnal tweeting. His staff wake up each day 

wondering which bizarre comments of their boss they need to defend. 

Nearing his six months in office, thousands of jobs in the Trump 

administration are vacant, many needing Senate approval, including 

ambassadorships, usually given as return favors to big donors in the election. 

Many offices of federal prosecutors are also vacant. People have


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withdrawn their nomination; many don’t even want to be considered for 

key appointments. These are normally jobs coveted by people driven by 

commitment, ideology, ambition and adrenalin. 

When in Europe in May, Trump castigated publicly his NATO allies 

for not paying their share of bills, something many US presidents 

have done, but in closed-door meetings. Savor the irony. Trump, in running 

his business, was not a model for financial or professional probity. His 

businesses centered on gambling filed for bankruptcies several times. 

After WW II, the victorious US formed the NATO military alliance, 

driven by its national self-interest, willingly footing the bill to achieve its 

two geostrategic objectives. The first was to contain the inevitable military 

power and political influence of the Soviet Union, its WW-II ally. Remember, 

Soviet Union too was a victor in WW-II after suffering the biggest 

loss * in the war. The second unstated objective 

was to prevent the re-emergence of Germany as 

a military power, and keep Germany on the its 

side. After all, Germany’s military growth culminated 

in the disastrous war * . The US achieved 

both with NATO. The alliance was against the 

Soviets; and the US kept Germany within NATO, with its largest military 

presence (outside the US) in Germany, nearly 50,000 troops. 

Trump’s disastrous public performance in Brussels — targeted to satisfy 

his domestic audience — might have sowed the seeds for the re-emergence 

of Germany as a third military power in Europe having its own geostrategic 

interest that may not align with US interests. Listen to what Angela 

Merkel said in Berlin the day after Trump’s Brussels speech: 

“The times in which we can fully count on others are somewhat over, 

as I have experienced in the past few days. And so, all I can say is that we 

Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands… Of course we 

need to have friendly relations with the US and with the UK, and with other 

neighbors, including Russia... We have to fight for our future ourselves, 

for our destiny as Europeans. Where Germany can help, Germany will 

help, because Germany can only do well if Europe is doing well.” 

The Trump presidency hastens the US decline as the sole Super 

Power, which was already declining slowly. The US’s dependence 

on its military muscle rather than on diplomacy to retain its global influence 

has the opposite effect. The simultaneous rise of other global power 

centers and alliances are already challenging the dominance of the US. 

* 

Note: 80 million deaths, totally. 26 million in Soviet Union alone, 8 million 

in Germany, 6 million in Poland, 2 million in India, 18 million in China, 3 million 

in Japan, and a minuscule 0.45 million in the UK and 0.41 in the US. 

— By Kollengode S Venkataraman • 

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Adding a New Feature 

At the suggestion of Harish Saluja, 

we are starting a new feature. Indian 

languages are a treasure trove of 

short poems on diverse topics. We 

welcome readers to submit poems 

to share with readers under these 

guidelines: 

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

The poem needs to be short (10 to 

18 lines). 

Give it in the original script: Malayalam, 

Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, 

Gurumukhi, Gujarati, Oriya, Bengali, 

Devanagari, Shahmukhi… 

Give an easily readable English 

translation in freestyle or in 

verses. 

Give the citation of the poet and 

his/her time. 

If you have written the poem your- 

self, that is even better, even when 

it is bitter. ;--)) 

Enquiries: ThePatrika@aol.com • 

Ego — By Juginder Luthra 

Kill the ego before death overtakes you, 

Then see the joy of living. 

Seek inside and see image of God; 

What’s the point wandering here, there? 

Same God who lives in me lives in you; 

What benefit of giving different names? 

Religions, rituals are created by humans. 

What use has Reality for different titles? 

Wherever you look, you see 

God’s manifestations... 

Perceive who is embedded in them. 

Your thinking is much smaller than His. 

Accept what is acceptable to Him 

Surrender the reins of life to 

the One who runs the universe; 

He creates, sustains, destroys and 

then creates new. 

One who is transient has no need of ego; 

Kill the ego before death overtakes you, 

Then see the joy of living. 

Note: For lack of better method, God is referred 

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Paintings on Cosmic Design 

By Premlata Venkataraman e-mail: ThePatrika@aol.com 

Shanthi Chandrashekar (photo on the left), an Indian- 

American visual artist living in Maryland, had her paintings 

titled “Cosmic Design,” inaugurated at the Lantern 

Studio in Downtown on June 2, and concluded on July 2. 

In the inaugural reception, I talked to Chandrashekar. 

Explaining her art, Shanthi said, “Cosmic Design is 

an outcome of my fascination for the unknown, be it the 

journeys of the subatomic particles or the mapping of black holes. In my 

multimedia work, I explore the scientific concepts with ideas ranging from 

the microcosm to the macrocosm, 

from quantum mechanics to relativity 

and from singularity to infinity, 

juxtaposing of science and art.” 

Shanthi graduated with a master’s 

degree in physics from Chennai, 

India. She grew up near Kalpakkam, 

near Chennai where nuclear physicists 

work, who inspired her. Her paintings 

capture the mysteries of the universe 

through patterns and symmetries with 

repetitive figures representing the 

universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. Her paintings are mostly pen 

and ink. But she also has some in acrylic and some done on handmade 

paper. 

Her paintings immediately bought to mind fractal dimensions and the 

brightly colored kaleidoscopic glass images under high magnifications 

to the person accompanying me. He 

is a materials scientist. A few images 

reminded me of the transverse sections 

of in plants in botany. 

Shanthi says, “I try to find answers 

to the big questions in our lives, 

philosophy and religion through my 

paintings.” 

Definitely an interesting exhibit in 

town for the Indian community and 

for others as well struggling with these 

eternal questions. • 

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Desi Transitions: Insider Trader Rajat Gupta 

Blames the Aggressive Prosecutor and the 

Jury System for His Jail Term 

By Kollengode S Venkataraman 

Rajat Gupta 

Rajat Gupta, alumnus of IIT-Bombay (1971) and Harvard Business 

School MBA (1973), was the youngest and the first foreign-born managing 

director at McKinsey & Co. He was barely 45 

when became the chief executive of McKensey. His 

background is the stereotypical Bengali Bhadralok 

— his father was a journalist and professor, and his 

mother taught in a Montessori school. 

His parents died when he was in his teens. He was 

brilliant in his studies. 

His meteoric career on Wall Street as a foreignborn 

Wall Street executive was a model for ambitious 

Indian business school graduates. He was a board 

member at Goldman Sachs, Proctor & Gamble and AMR (the holding 

company of American Airlines); and he was in many big-banner global 

philanthropies fighting AIDS, TB, malaria… 

Gupta is also a convicted felon. In 2012 Gupta was given a 2-year 

prison term and a one-year supervised release, plus a $5 million fine for 

insider trading. The jury convicted him for colluding with billionaire Raj 

Rajaratnam, the hedge fund manager 

of Galleon Group, then one of 

the largest hedge funds. Gupta’s net 

worth at that time was around $100 

million. Savor the irony that Gupta’s 

parents, as reported in the 

Economic Times in India, were 

communists. 

In his first interview after 

coming out of prison, Gupta 

talked, not to any US print media in 

New York such as the Wall Street 

Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon Group (L) and 

Rajat Gupt (R) with US Treasury Secretary 

Henry Paulson (Center) in his Halcyon days. 

Journal, New York Times, where he made his mark in his career and his 

millions, but to Vikas Dhoot of The Hindu. The interview was published 

in March 2017 under the title “Had a Good Time in Prison.” See here: 

www.tinyurl.com/RajatGupta-Good-Time-in-Prison. 

In the interview, Gupta blamed the “politically ambitious” prosecutor 

Preet Barara, “the signs of the time,” and a judicial system and a sys- 

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Gupta’s nemesis Preet Barara, the US District 

Attorney. Gupta blames him for his incarceration. 

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tem of juries that “don’t really 

understand necessarily sophisticated 

financial crimes” for 

his guilty verdict in the inside 

trading case. 

The case against him was for 

trading privileged information 

— he was a director at Goldman 

Sachs and many other big 

corporations — with billionaire 

Raj Rajaratnam, manager of 

the hedge fund Galleon Group. 

Rajaratnam is serving his 10-year jail term in the same case. 

Gupta conceded to Dhoot that he wouldn’t have gone to jail for sharing 

information if he was more careful about whom he trusted: “If I were to 

fault myself, I would say I trust too many people.” After all, he was sitting 

on many corporate boards with access to policy-level privileged information 

of the business world having the potential to make huge profits, if 

you know such privileged information ahead of others. 

After his prison release, he went to India, where he was accorded 

a homecoming welcome by his friends and associates in New 

Delhi, who are among the richest 

and most famous. See here: www. 

tinyurl.com/Gupta-HomeComing- 

AfterJail. 

“We welcome Rajat wholeheartedly. 

I don’t know of another 

PIO [person of Indian origin] who 

has done more for India. Fairly 

or otherwise, he has served his 

term. We have to move on in life. 

Forgive, forget and let things go,” 

said Mr Analjit Singh, DEO of Max 

Indian, to the Economic Times. 

Rajat Gupta with India’s Prime Minister 

Manmohan Singh. 

Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal waxed in exuberance, “He [Gupta] 

has served time for an offence which he continues to challenge in courts. 

I am sure Rajat will find a renewed purpose to use his skills. He drew 

strength from Bhagwad Gita through his difficult time which, I hope, will 

shape his future.” Mittal also said Gupta brought to bear his position as 

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Pittsburgh Sahana’s Successful Fundraiser 

By Subash Ahuja e-mail: subash.ahuja@gmail.com 

It was prime time for Pittsburgh SAHANA when it presented an evening 

of enchanting Bollywood Music in a well-attended program on May 20, 

2017 at the Marshall Middle School in Wexford. The fourteen-member 

band with its live orchestra took young and old alike down memory lane 

from Shankar-Jaikishan to Shankar Mahadevan. Many in the excited crowd 

were on their feet dancing in the aisles and wherever. 

The Sahana team taking the final bow. Graphics: Bala Kumar, Allison Park, PA. 

Girish Godbole, an entrepreneur in technology companies, and Nakul 

Ranade, a marketeer, emceed the program, humoring the audience with 

Bollywood trivia. The vocalists — Akshay Hari, a two-time Sa-Re-Ga-Ma- 

Pa finalist, and Vaibhav Karandikar, Asha Rajawat, Gayathri Shriram and 

Nakul Ranade — although referred to amateurs, were truly star quality. 

While pursuing their love for music, they have been giving concerts 

since 2009, successfully raising funds for various charities. They raised 

around $25,000 in this concert for the Association for India’s Development 

A view of the audience in the program. Graphics: Bala Kumar, Allison Park, PA. 

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and with 36 chapters in U.S. cities. AID volunteers before the program 

talked about the various women’s empowerment projects they operate 

in India. Over the years, SAHANA has raised over $110,000 benefitting 

various charities in India and the U.S. 

Originally formed ten years ago as a loose group of music enthusiasts 

by Shriram Murthy, an engineer, and his wife Gayathri, an 

accountant, when they first moved to Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh SAHANA has 

grown into a full-fledged band with a mission. Arunkumar Sanjeevi and 

Niveditha Mohan, both physicians, have opened their house to the group 

for their meetings and music practice. 

Remarkably, the youth members of the group — Vikaas and Samyukta 

Arunkumar, and Keerthana Shriram — inspired by Pittsburgh SAHANA 

and their parents, have taken lessons in piano, guitar, drums, keyboard, 

saxophone and trumpet in their high schools. Now they are part of the 

group. Ganesh Narayanan, deft on keyboard and drum pads, and Chockiah 

Suresh, facile on his guitar, are the remaining valuable members in the 

ensemble. The SAHANA musicians plan to continue making a difference 

in people’s lives through entertainment while having fun with their passionate 

interest in music. • 

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An Endemic Feature in Indian Music Programs 

For-profit entertainment programs based on Indian film music are 

popular, with tickets sold in the thousands in big cities. In these events 

the emcees go to great lengths to introduce the songs with details and filmi 

trivia — the year and films in which they appeared, the playback singers, 

the music directors, the actors who lip-synched for the song... even 

vividly describing how the song was picturized. One thing they often miss 

is crediting the lyricists (kavis) who penned these memorable songs. 

This was the case in the Sahana-2017 event also for very many songs. 

In the review two years ago on Sahana’s 2015 fundraiser, the Patrika 

wrote this (Full review here: www.tinyurl.com/2015-Sahana-ReVu): 

“Indian film songs describe different moods — joy, pathos, irreverence, 

sarcasm, humor, irony, paradoxes, and the dilemmas of 

life — often conveying great insights into life’s complexities. Some of 

the really good ones are as good as paid sessions with psychologists. 

So, lyrics are the heart, soul, spirit, and the very life of [good] film 

songs... ... [Hence] leaving out the names of the lyricists who penned 

the masterpieces ... ... while mentioning the names of the films, music 

directors, and the singers who simply lend their voices... is inelegant... 

Sahana can correct this quite easily in their future programs.” 

Using songs without giving credit to the lyricists is discourteous and 

unfair to the lesser-known poets. This topic is worthy of a stand-alone 

article. — By Kollengode S Venkataraman • 

We sent the above to Sahana’s Mr. Girish Godbole. His response 

is given below. Readers can make their own judgment. 

“Mr. Venkataraman’s opinion is right that a lyricist (“kavi”) is a key 

contributor to a song. However, in criticizing the Sahana-2017 event for 

not mentioning the lyricist of every song, he seems to have missed the 

point that it was a live entertainment show which was “emceed,” not 

“announced.” An emcee’s role is to make an entertaining introduction 

to the next song while following the theme of the show and linking the 

various items like a beautiful seamless garland. This is exactly what the 

emcees of Sahana 2017 Bollywood Show did. The advertised theme of the 

show was “Shankar Jaikishan to Shankar Mahadevan” — clearly a theme 

focused on music composers. The emcee’s narrative mostly talked about 

the music composers, their styles, their sources of inspiration, etc. In a 

handful of cases, where it was particularly relevant, the emcees mentioned 

the lyricist’s name, and in one case even the original lyricist’s name in 

the original Punjabi song. The rest of the emceeing was appropriately 

focused on making it funny, entertaining and interesting in line with the 

theme and spirit of the evening.” • 

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Veerashaivas: 12 th Century Rebels Against 

Religious Orthodoxy in India 

Kollengode S Venkataraman 

V 

.S.Naipaul, the celebrated writer of Indian ancestry from the 

Caribbean, wrote a harshly critical book on India in 1964: India: 

An Area of Darkness. Then, in 1977 he muted his critique by writing 

another book, India: A Wounded Civilization. His understanding of India 

culminated finally in India: Million Mutinies Now, the book he wrote in 

1990 at the end of his own long, inward journey. Here he portrays ordinary 

Indians he interacts with struggling against great odds to change the 

stifling systems. The land of darkness morphed into a mutinous land. 

No wonder many anglicized Indians think India was static and resistant 

to change till Turkic, Afghani, and Mongol marauders brought Islam in the 

10 th century and the European colonizing occupiers brought Christianity to 

India in the 16 th century. For them, real reforms in India started with the 

europeanized, persianized Rajaram Mohan Roy (early 19 th century.) 

In reality, though, since Vedic times, India always had a native intellectual 

tradition of people campaigning for change whenever society became 

ossified or exploitative. The teachers of the Upanishads, Jain Teertankaras, 

Gautama Buddha, Sankara, and Ramanuja are great examples, if you consider 

the social condition of their times. Such rebellions are in line with 

the Hindu idea of the need for periodic reforms: “I make myself appear 

again and again to restore Dharma whenever Dharma decays and corruption 

becomes widespread.” Rebellions are built into the Hindu ethos. 

In this tradition of rebellion come the 12 th century Veerashaivas in 

Southern India, against the Vedic Brahmin orthodoxy. The movement got 

its impetus through the works of Basavanna, Allama Prabhu, and Mahadevi 

Akka. Anna (elder brother), Akka (elder sister) and Prabhu (gentleman) 

are respectful appendages to their names. Some scholars believe Jedara 

Dasimayya 

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(10 th century) was a forerunner in this Movement. 

asava, Allama and others used to meet at the Anubhava Mantapa 

(Pavilion of Experience) in Kudala Sangama, a temple town, now 

a pilgrimage place in Bagalkote district in Karnataka State. They debated 

on Bhakti (devotion), Jnana (Knowledge), and Vairagya (detachment) for 

bringing egalitarian changes in society. 

The Veerashaiva Movement campaigned against the ossified caste division 

of its time. Even though millennia ago, this division had a rationale 

for organizing society in terms of skills, it got stratified as “high” and 

“low” castes in later centuries. By the 10 th century India, the system was 

further fossilized, based exclusively on birth. 

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The Veerashaivas rejected the authority of the Vedas, the need for 

an intermediary priest and empty rituals. It was a radical idea, like 

today Jews, Christians, and Muslims rejecting the need for rabbis, priests/ 

pastors, and maulvis to get through life’s transitions. The Veerashaiva 

idea of Godhead is Shiva, the Supreme One, who causes the entire gamut 

of creation, preservation, and dissolution, going in endless cycles. 

Even as they rebelled against the ossified Vedic system of their time, 

Veerashaivas accepted its cultural bearings such as pursuit of knowledge, 

logical analysis, bhakti, jnana (wisdom); discipline, contemplation and 

liberation; karma and rebirths; and the need for Gurus in Man’s spiritual 

quest. The teachings of the Veerashaivas are in Vachanas, literally “Sayings,” 

some of which are iconoclastic. Kabir Das, Ravi Das, and Bulleh 

Shah, also known for their acerbic iconoclastic verses, came many centuries 

later, in the 15th, 16th, and 18th centuries, respectively. 

In one of the vachanas, Basavanna, using vivid imagery, sarcastically 

reproves the Vedic Brahmin priest. In this, the priest, who worships fire 

as divine, has no qualms cursing the fire when it suits him. Basava himself 

being a Brahmin only shows he was, indeed, a true rebel. Here is the 

vachana, first in Kannada: 

The contents of the Vachana in English: 

The pandit in his house worships fire as deity, offering cooked rice 

as oblations to the fire; 

The fire goes wild with the flames burning down the house. 

They dump the gutter water and dirt from the street to douse the fire, 

and scream for help from all around. 

Forgetting their worship, they curse the fire. 

O, Koodala Sangama Deva (The Lord of the Meeting Rivers)! 

Veeerasaivas are scattered throughout the Peninsular India in Maharashtra, 

Andhra/Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala. 

In today’s Karnataka, the contribution of Veerashaivas in primary, secondary 

and tertiary education (arts, science, engineering, law and medicine) 

is substantial. Their impact in Karnataka’s public life — arts, literature, 

politics, and administration — is important too. Their presence and impact 

in other parts of Southern India are also noteworthy. 

It is ironic that Veerashaivas, who fought so passionately against the 

cast system, ended up being a dominant caste in Karnataka. More on 

this on page 20.. • 

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Today’s Rebellion is Tomorrow’s Orthodoxy 

It is one of the paradoxical twists in all reform movements all over the 

world — whether religious, social, political — that the rebels rising against 

the orthodoxy in their times eventually end up as a sect by themselves, or 

a subset within the system. They create their own traditions, and after a 

few generations, are constrained by their own orthodoxy. 

A few centuries after the Buddha’s death, his followers split into the 

Teravada and the Mahayana. They further split into the Vaibhashika, 

Sautrantika, Yogachara, and Madhyamika schools. The Sri Vaishnavas of 

Tamil Nadu, who brought about rebellious reforms in the 11th century, 

morphed into their own inviolable orthodoxy and broke into two groups 

— the Northern and the Southern sects — with doctrinal differences, with 

each group having its share of temple properties. They have taken their 

fights — they may appear trivial to outsiders, for that mater, even to many 

insiders — all the way to the Indian Supreme Court. 

The Veerashaivas, after rebelling against the caste system in the 12th 

century, are today a caste by themselves. The Sikhs too, who defied the 

caste system in 15th century to become a religion, internalized the caste 

system de facto. Christianity too has many breakaway groups: from the 

Catholics, the Eastern Orthodox sects (Russian, Syrian, and Greek), Lutherans, 

Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Anglicans, Anabaptists, Calvinists, 

Methodists, Baptists, Fundamentalists, Charismatics, Quakers, Mennonites... 

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These divisions are political, social, and/or doctrinaire. 

n India, the atheistic Communist movement offers another fascinating 

model. India’s Communist Party was formed to fight feudalism, inspired 

by the 1917 Russian Bolshevik revolution. In response to the souring 

relationship between Soviet and Chinese Communists in the 1960s, they 

split into CPI (loyal to Russia) and CPM (Marxist), loyal to China. Soon the 

atheistic CPM, like a religion, splintered into countless groups — Naxalites 

(Charu Majumdar), Naxalites (Pulla Reddy), CPI (Marxist-Leninist), CPI 

(Maoists), Revolutionary CPI... ... See the long list of Communist Gotras 

(clans) here: www.tinyurl.com\Communist-Gotras. With their patron saints 

the Soviet Union dead and China becoming capitalistic, Indian communists 

are Rgasping today to be relevant in politics. 

eligious, social, political, and economic reform movements are 

like hurricanes, starting in nondescript spots in oceans with nobody 

recognizing them. Moving through warm ocean waters, they become large 

masses of swirling clouds with immense energy. They make landfall with 

great force causing enormous damage, and move inland, only to lose their 

strength and dissipate into smaller clouds causing only drizzles. After some 

time, the next hurricane arrives. — By K S Venkataraman • 

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On Frenemies and Frenemity 

By Kollengode S Venkataraman 

Recently I came across a syrupy multiserial-forwarded e-mail from 

India, this time on Friends and Friendship. The oozing syrup in the e-mail 

was too much for me. That triggered me to explore a paradoxical relationship 

everybody recognizes and nobody can escape from. This unnamed 

complex relationship, present in all cultures, now has a portmanteau word 

in English for those in this relationship – frenemies. The actual definition 

of frenemy depends on the dictionary you go to. Here are the examples: 

1. Merriam Webster: one who pretends to be a friend but is actually 

an enemy. 

2. Google.com: a person with whom one is friendly despite a fundamental 

dislike or rivalry. 

3. Wikipedia: “Frenemy” is an oxymoron and a portmanteau of 

“friend” and “enemy” that can refer to either an enemy pretending to be 

a friend or someone who really is a friend but also a rival. 

4. Dictionary.com: Informal; a person or group that is friendly toward 

another because the relationship brings benefits, but harbors feelings of 

resentment or rivalry. 

From the nuanced differences in these definitions, it appears, the 

meaning of the term is still evolving. There lies the problem: no matter 

in what sense you use it, readers can internalize it in different ways. 

From frenemy we can also coin an abstract noun frenemity, like 

enmity. Frenemity is known only among Homo sapiens, both the 

male and female species. The male species have this when they are in the 

same competing business as among news bureau chiefs of NBC, CBS, and 

ABC. Frenemity exists among doctors or lawyers in the same specialty 

practicing in the same town, or between editors of the NYTimes, WaPo 

and WSJ. In sports among QBs of football teams of comparable ranking. 

It is common among musicians, writers, dancers, actors everywhere, and 

among politicians vying for the same office. When two people in the same 

profession are unevenly matched, the one perched on the perceived higher 

level often has condescension toward the other. Often, the other guy/gal 

perceives the condescension. Those perceiving themselves to be below 

reciprocate with envy that can contextually morph into hatred. This oneway 

relationship is not frenemity. For frenemity, these love-hate feelings 

have to be mutual among equals. 

Even though frenemity is gender-neutral, people watchers arguably 

believe Hfrenemity is more prevalent among women. 

ow do you identify your frenemies among those with whom you 

interact socially? You can start with the points below. You can 

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add your own to embellish the list. 

• Frenemies love you sometime and hate you some other time. But it’s 

not always this simple — they can love and hate you at the same time. It can 

be more complex: when you love them, they hate you; or vice versa. 

• When two frenemies love each other at the same time, it is all honey. 

When they hate each other simultaneously, it is all vinegar. Worse still, 

it can be caustic lye. 

• If the spouses of frenemies are normal friends, this can lead to awkward 

moments between the spouses. If they are not careful, frenemies will drag 

their spouses into their orbit. If these gullible spouses take sides, eventually 

they too end up as frenemies. 

• Frenemies, whether they love or hate, are always in each other’s 

thoughts; they constantly try to read each other’s minds, and try to stay one 

step ahead of the other in the social game they play. When they misread 

the other, it can lead to awkward interactions between frenemies. When 

these interactions happen in public, they are hilarious to onlookers. This 

is what nourishes gossips. 

• Frenemies care for you, for sure; but your frenemies also can be gleeful 

in your misery, particularly when they are in the hate-you mode. 

• Your frenemies are not from your family, thank God. If they are, they 

Frenemies... ... Continued on Page 29 

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Insider Trading... ... contuinued from page 12 

With Ratan Tata (L) in a commencement 

ceremony of Indian School of Business 

Gupta founded in India. 

the head of a global consultancy to 

focus on issues like public health and 

education 

A 

in India. 

fter being released early 

from prison in late 2015, 

Gupta was sent to complete the sentence 

confined to his home. In a letter 

to his buddies on January 1, 2016, 

Gupta shared his prison experiences. 

The letter was recently made public. 

Here are excerpts from his letter: 

“[On this] New Year’s Day... I could not but reflect on my time 

in prison … A difficult chapter of my life [comes] to a close. The 

last eighteen months have taught me a lot and I will mostly remember 

it as a joyful time, full of camaraderie, laughter... I have forged some 

deep friendships that I will keep for the rest of my life. I learnt many 

new skills and was able to teach fellow inmates a few too. 

“Even though the [prison] regime tries hard to ensure that the 

prison does not become a community, most of us look after each other 

and help whenever we can… … 

“In the last 18 months, I lived in three different facilities, nine 

months in a low security prison, two months in solitary confinement 

and seven months at the main prison. 

“As a result, there was a great variety of living situations, experiences 

and people I encountered. Every place has its own peculiarities 

and culture. There were a few experiences that I will never forget, 

such as the first gay couple who wanted to get married despite the 

reticence of the regime in the prison… … It turned out that one of the 

men was not gay at all. It was a ruse 

employed in order to get transferred 

to some other facility. 

“Well, in addition to reading, 

meditating, and working on writing a 

new book, I learnt many new skills 

including some new card games ... I 

also took up chess again, after 50 

years… … I even learnt some new hood 

[Black slang] language like, ‘Let me 

see that’ — which means give that to 

me. ‘Riding together’ — which means 

eating and cooking together. 

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“Overall, I am glad to be leaving here, but I had a good time. In 

a very strange way, I will miss the place… 

“Necessity is the Mother of Invention. It’s so true in prison. The 

exquisite dishes that inmates can cook using only the microwave… we 

only had access to the microwave oven. I enjoyed a variety of cuisines, 

Mexican, French, Asian, Spanish, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Italian and 

of course, usual American foods.” 

“I had a world class trainer who pushed me into shape doing squats, 

sit-ups, push-ups and the like. I have had expensive trainers outside 

but no one as good as this guy who cost $5 an hour. 

“As they say, life is a series of experiences. None is inherently good 

or bad. It is what you make of it. This experience has been good for 

another very important reason. The love I received from each one of 

you (my friends) during this difficult time and you should know it means 

a lot to me. Let me close by wishing you a very Happy New Year.” 

In Rajat Gupta’s letter to his friends after leaving jail there is no remorse 

— because that would imply accepting guilt. The tone of the 

letter is as if he went to jail as a Satyagrahi like Mohandas Karamchand 

Gandhi or for Civil Disobedience a la Martin Luther King Jr. Gupta went to 

jail for nothing noble. He went to jail for greed, as an arthagrahi (pursuer 

of wealth) by indulging in abuse of privileged information. 

Fascinatingly, one sees in Gupta’s letter the ability of the human 

psyche to compartmentalize personal behavior into watertight chambers, 

even when the contents of the chambers are in blatant contradiction. This 

is similar to priests being caught in pedophilia when preaching public 

morality from their pulpits, or when our Congressmen take conservative 

stands displaying moral rectitude in speeches, when in their personal lives, 

their behavior is just the opposite. When we try to understand such inner 

workings of human mind, it is disconcerting. In looking at Rajat Gupta, 

are we looking at ourselves? That scares me. • 

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Shyamaa: Tagore Portrayal of Passion 

Ending in Tragedy 

By Siba Ray, Murrysville, PA 

On April 22 and April 23, the Nandini Mandal’s Nandanik Dance 

Troupe presented Rabidranath Tagore’s dance drama SHYAMAA. The 

Kelly TStrayhorn Auditorium in Pittsburgh was the venue. 

he story revolves around Shyamaa (Nandini Mandal), the court 

dancer, instantly falling in love with a handsome merchant Bajrosen 

(the talented dancer Hari Nair from Toronto) from a neighboring 

country, the moment she sees him. Many men of substance in the kingdom 

amorously desire the gorgeous 

Shyamaa. Among 

them is Uttiyo, a young 

man in the neighborhood, 

willing to do anything 

to please the dancer 

to draw her attention, 

even though he has never 

met her. 

The drama starts with 

Bojrosen acquiring Indramonir 

Haar, a priceless 

necklace from Suborno Dwip (literally Golden Island). Bajrosen wants 

to gift the necklace to the bride of his dreams. 

Meanwhile, there is a theft of jewels from the palace and the queen 

wants them back. The royal guard, Kotal (played by Kumudini Venkata 

on Saturday and Paushaly Sau on Sunday) and his men catch Bojrasen. 

They want the necklace, which Bajrosen refuses to part with. Chased by 

the royal guards, Bajrosen runs for his life along a river, when he comes 

across Shyamaa and her friends. 

Shyamaa’s heart sets on Bojrosen the very moment she sees him. The 

palace guards arrest Bojrosen. Foisting a false case against him for pos-


sessing the invaluable necklace, they plan to execute him. 

In her desperate attempt to save Bojrosen, Shyamaa lets her admirer, the 

young Uttiyo (played by Roosa 

Mandal), take the blame for the 

theft. Uttiyo is put to death. 

Shyamaa and Bojrasen leave 

the country, with the merchant 

oblivious to how he was saved 

from imminent death. Love 

blooms between the two, but 

Bojrosen is inquisitive about 

how Shyamaa managed to save 

him from the clutches of execution. 

When he keeps on asking 

her how she secured his release, 

Shyamaa finally tells Bojrosen 

what she did because of her love 

for him, and the sacrifice of Uttiyo. 

Bojrosen is filled with guilt 

for Uttiyo’s death, and is disillusioned. 

He rejects Shyamaa’s love. 

Having lost Bojrosen’s love, Shyamaa too is disenchanted with life, 

having been the cause of Uttiyo’s death, Rejected by Bojrosen, she too 

decides to leave. Bojrosen is left to live in remorse, deprived of love, 

happiness and peace. 

Behind the straight story of great tragedy, the story is a metaphor for 

life itself: the queen and the royal guard Kotal are unhappy not getting 

what they want, with Uttiyo even dying for Shyamaa. And Shyamaa and 

Bojrosen, the main characters in the story, also end up very unhappy after 

getting Swhat they want. 

ingers are critical for any dance drama. For Shymaa, the foremost 

exponent of Rabindra Sangeet, Pramita Mullick, from Calcutta, 

trained in Shanti Niketan, was the female singer, with Agnivo Bandopadhhay 

of Rabindra Bharati University as her male counterpart. Their 

well-modulated singing (in audio recordings) of Tagore’s Bengali verses 

elevated the quality of the dance drama. 

The main dancers all performed very well, among them Nandini Mandal, 

Hari Nair, Roosa Mandal as well as Kumudini Vankat and Paushaly 

Sau. Also, the large number of Nandini’s students — as flower girls and 

the sakhis, palace guards and others — showed great energy and passion 

in their roles. Hari Nair, as Bojrosen, nicely brought out the pangs in his 

heart depicting the sense of guilt for the death of Uttiyo and his inability 

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to forgive Shyamaa 

for Uttiyo’s 

death. 

was an en- 

It joyable program. 

That over 

400-plus people, 

many of them 

from the American 

mainstream, 

bought tickets for the program is a testimony to Nandini’s reach in the 

larger Pittsburgh community. Not many Indian dance programs in this 

town can make this claim.• 

Bharatanatyam Recital Explored Race Relations 

Erika Linke, Squirrel Hill, PA 

On May 3, 2017, Ms. Anjal Chande, founder and director of the Soham 

Dance Space of Chicago, gave two original dance recitals she wrote and 

choreographed. Chande, a renowned choreographer, composer, writer, 

and performer, has crisscrossed the world dancing at events from Washington, 

D.C. to Mumbai. 

The first piece was Out of the Shadows: A Colored Solidarity, a compelling 

work of dance, performed in McConomy Auditorium at Carnegie 

Mellon University. The dance piece, premiered at the Smithsonian Institution 

in 2016, was inspired by Colored Cosmopolitanism, a work authored 

by Carnegie Mellon professor Nico Slate. This book traces the transnational 

struggle for freedom linking India and the United States. 

Slate’s book recounts Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay’s experience traveling 

by train in the American South in the 1940s. When directed to leave the 

Whites-Only section of the train, Chattopadhyay stood her ground and did 

not change train compartments. This episode stirred Chande to develop 

and choreograph this story into a dance piece. This dance piece, inspired 

by Chattopadhyay’s experience, moved the audience. 

Race, the second dance – also original - is a work in progress. The choreographer 

used dance to explore issues around race and racial identity. 

Professor Slate and Ms. Chande paused between each dance and invited 

the audience to share their response to the performance and to pose 

questions on the piece. 

To view the recital in its entirety, CAUSE (The Center for African- 

American Urban Studies and the Economy) posted the taping on YouTube 

at www.youtube.com/watch?v=or2fI7ggohs. • 

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One-of-a-Kind Delectable Shehnai House Concert 

Rishi Nigam, Pittsburgh, PA 

Rishi Nigam moved to Pittsburgh last year after earning his MS in engineering management 

from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is a consultant in the healthcare industry. 

Interested in music, he is working on his own album. 

Recently I got an incredible opportunity to listen to 

Ustad Hassan Haider Khan on the Shehnai, accompanied 

by Pt. Samir Chatterjee on the Tabla. I attend music 

concerts often, but this pure classical recital transported me 

to a musical realm I have never been before. 

Ut. Khan comes from a musical family. His great grandfather 

Ustad Sajjad Hussain Khan was the first Shehnai artist to take the 

instrument to Europe, playing it to Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace. 

Khan’s father, Ustad 

Ali Ahmad Hussain Khan 

is a Banga Bibhushanawarded 

Shehnai maestro. 

The young Khan 

has performed around the 

world and has recorded 

Shehnai for music directors 

like A.R.Rahman. 

Pt. Samir Chatterjee and Ut. Hassan Haider Khan in 

the recital. Photo: Nidrita Sinha 

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Yet, I found him so easy 

to talk to. 

Pt. Samir Chatterjee, 

widely known for performing with eminent artists and as a soul-capturing 

soloist, accompanied UT Khan on the Tabla. I have been listening to Tabla 

performances for many years, but Pt Chatterjee on the Tabla in the recital 

made me completely fall in love with the instrument. His encouraging 

support to the young Khan enhanced the overall 

ambience of the evening. 

The concert started with pure Indian 

classical ragas and ended with beautiful 

semi-classical and folk pieces. Towards the end, 

Chatterjee briefly gave a background of Indian 

classical music, how the shehnai is made, and 

how challenging it is to play the wind instrument 

solo for three continuous hours. 

The shehnai recital was special because this 

was a house concert in Irwin in music connois- 

Sohini and Ahiri Ghosh provided 

the critical shruti support. Photo: 

Nidrita Sinha. 

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Indians, they are your sambhandhis, particularly when they belong to the 

same caste, or the same socio-cultural group in a different Indian language 

(as when a Tamil marries a Bengali/Gujarati/Punjabi/Kannada/Telugu, 

and in its varied permutations and combinations). The caste identities add 

another toxic dimension. Or they are your oarpadis or oar-agatti (Tamil), 

oori-gatti (Kannada) or jethanis (Hindi), or todi-kodalu (Telugu). 

• Though frenemies are not your blood relatives or relatives by marriage, 

they can be more lethal. 

• In interacting with frenemies, women appear to be more sophisticated 

than men in navigating the turbulent, turbid frenemity waters. You realize 

your frenemies have long memories, because you have a long memory. 

• Frenemies are ready to share your pains; they share your pains with oth- 

ers who know you well, more so when they are in the Hate-You mode. 

Whether you hate your frenemies or they hate you, you learn to 

live with them, because you cannot live without them either. As 

you read through this short piece, if the images of your own frenemies, or 

the images of your friends who are mutual frenemies flash through your 

mind, don’t blame me. — By K S Venkataraman •


Shehnai... ... continued from Page 28 

seur Samar Saha’s aesthetically decorated living room. The audience got 

immersed in a pleasant journey in ragas and laya for three hours in the 

intimacy of the house-concert. The proximity of the stage gave the artistes 

an instant and intimate rapport with the audience. 

Before the recital, in a good-natured way, Pt. Chatterjee looked around 

and spontaneously picked two young girls, Sohini Ghosh and Ahiri Ghosh, 

from the audience, and “volunteered” them to provided shruti support, 

which they obliged for all three hours of the recital. 

I heard the two veteran artistes doing things I had never heard before, 

surprising me every time a new piece started. This gave me a rare opportunity 

to talk to them later. For me as a music producer, a music learner 

and a passionate music lover, this was God-sent. The evening ended with 

a delightful dinner and desserts making it a splendid event. • 

India Day Gala on Sunday August 13 

Venue: The Cathedral of Learning in Oakland 

Time: 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm 

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Keerthana Shriram Wins Music Awards 

Keerthana Shriram, an eighth grader at Franklin Regional 

Middle School, has earned several awards for her skills 

on the trumpet, saxophone and piano. Her lessons on the 

piano started when she was 5 years old. This year she was 

selected by audition to perform at the Seton Hill Honors 

Concert and Jazz Bands, where she played the trumpet 

and saxophone. She was one of the select students from 

Franklin Regional to perform at the WCMEA County 

Chorus festival this year as a soloist. She also won the 

'Outstanding Jazz Soloist' award for the Alto Saxophone 

at the Music in the Parks Adjudication at Cedar Point in 

May this year. She also won 

First Place in the PMTA piano competition in 

April. 

Keerthana is also learning Sanskrit, Karnatic 

music, and Bharatanatyam. She is the youngest 

member of Pittsburgh Sahana, an ensemble 

of musicians focusing on Indian film and light 

music in their spare time. • 

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Ha!! 

From The Hindustan Times, June 4, 2017: Rahul Gandhi, the great 

grandson of Nehru, who wrote The Discovery of India, and the de facto 

president of the Congress Party, was in Chennai recently. On his strategy 

to fight the Bharatiya Janata Party, this is what he said: “Nowadays I study 

the Upanishads and the Gita since I am fighting the RSS and BJP.” 

More condescending was his comments on Tamil Nadu, its people 

and culture. While appreciating the people of Tamil Nadu and their language, 

Gandhi said, “I have decided to start watching Tamil movies, read 

about the culture of Tamil Nadu people.” He can start from this common 

Tamil proverb Vathiyar pillai makku, vaidhyan pillai sikku, meaning,“The 

teacher’s son is a born idiot, and the doctor’s son is chronically sick.” 

Was the Europeanized Rahul confessing his ignorance of India’s spiritual 

underpinnings, its composite history, literature and languages? 

Here is our Donald Trump, in his own words, some before he became 

president, some during the campaign and after becoming president: 

On his beauty: “Part of the beauty of me is I’m very rich.” 

On his daughter: “I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps 

I’d be dating her.” 

On the collapse of society: “Even if the world goes to hell in a handbasket, 

I won’t lose a penny.” 

On John McCain, a PoW in Vietnam: “He’s a war hero because he 

was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” 

In Jerusalem, while meeting Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin in his 

first foreign trip after meeting with Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia: “Just 

got back from the middle east.” Jerusalem is in the Middle East. 

On his wealth: “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as 

a way to keep score.” 

“Everything in life is luck.” Yes. You are a living proof. 

On Vladimir Putin: “[Putin] is not going into Ukraine, OK, just so you 

understand. He’s not gonna go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it 

down. You can put it down.” Donald Trump on July 31, 2016. But Russia 

had already annexed Crimea in a 2014 intrusion into Ukraine that left 

thousands dead. • 

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