Re: nalupu

uday bhaskar (srijna@hotmail.com)
Wed, 23 Jul 1997 03:22:53 PDT 

hari kRShna gAru wrote:

>     This is with reference to Sri Uday Bhaskar's latest message about 
>     si.sI.SA's reference to the "skin" of "kOkila". As I have already 
>     said, implication of kokila's "skin" is a necessary inductive 
device. 
>     This is the first time I have ever heard anyone referring to a 
bird's 
>     skin (be it in Telugu or English, I dont know if Sanskrit, our 
>     language of inheritence, has a usage like the "skin of a bird"). I 
>     know of a bird's external coating being referred to as "Ikalu" in 
>     Telugu and "plume", "plumage" or "feathers" in English. It is my 
>     impression that "skin" refers to what lies below the external coat 
or 
>     plumage of the bird. I checked the Webster dictionary, which by 
>     definition allows the skin of a bird to include its plumage - but 
I 
>     have not seen anyone applying the word 'skin' to birds in this 
sense. 
>     Either we refer to the feather/plumage of a bird or never refer to 
its 
>     "skin".
>     
>     It is fair to say that #si.sI.SA# insisted on a non-black color on 
the 
>     #kOkila#, rather than a non-black *skin*.
>     
>     
>     T. Hari Krishna 
>

Well, I am sure you have heard of "skinning a chicken"? but seriously, 
plumage, Ikalu, or skin, essentially, are all elements of one's body, 
which is one way by which people, or animals, have been "classified" 
into "jAtis" or "races", or as in the Indian system, as "varNAs" (lest 
you forget, this term literally means color). 

May I respectfully point you to Sri PSRK's post about vAstu, and how if 
you do not like the essense of an argument but can not rebut it on its 
own terms, you take an irrelevant aspect and go off on a tangent?

Dear sir, my point here was that a natural congenital condition (in this 
case the color of the "plumage" of the kOkila) has been bemoaned as a 
handicap, and thus is reinforcing the popular notion of black being an 
undesirable color to be born with (like blindness is an undesirable 
condition to be born with). By the way, I don't flinch from saying that 
blindness is an undesirable condition to be born with, just as poverty 
is an undesirable situation to be in. On the other hand, there is 
absolutely nothing wrong with being born black, or in being black.

Regards,

Uday "SIta BhAnuDi siri vennela kiraNAlalO aSIta varNAnni vedukutunna 
udaya BhAnuDu" Bhaskar

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