Caste, Religion in the IT savy India

When Indian bureaucrats make their tours in other countries, they proudly say that India is a secular state, bears with all religions and people treats every religion the same. But is that the truth happening in India?? If i remember right it has been more than 50 years since Periyar led the protest for a group of temple to enter a temple in Vaikkom, Kerala. The latest incident to show how entrenched religious stupidity is in India, ironicall comes from Kerala too- from Guruvayur. Just 15 days back, Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapakse and his wife visited India and as a part of their trip they planned to visit the famed Guruvayur temple. It seems the temple board made a big fuss about the religion of the visiting dignitaries. Guruvayur Devasom has made it clear that they are stepping from the rules of the temple to allow non-Hindus into the temple. (if you guys have been to that temple, they would have a board hanging outside that NON-HINDUs NOT ALLOWED). They seem to have said that if Mrs. Rajapakse was a not a buddhist, they have to perform purification ceremony to purify the sanctum santorum. It seems that the Srilankan President had to call the Cheif Minister of Kerala and clarify that his wife is a buddhist.
Well, what age are we in?? I am surprised that there are still people who keep doing this kind of stuff and the government keeps mum.. If India lives by what it portrays (being secular), then dont they have to enforce that within the compound of a temple everyone is the same (irrespective of religion)?
I shall quote one more incident in this regard. In the last month, my sister had the chance to take her 2 American friends to our singara Chennai. It seems her friends wanted to see our Kapali temple, see its architecture and get a feel for what is done in the temple. You know what happened? The priest in the Kapali sannadhi told my sister not to bring the 2 foreigners inside the temple? Well, as far as i know the temples come under the Tamilnadu Hindu Endowment Board, which doesnt have any line in its charter about foreigners and temple entry. For a fact I have seen lots of foreigners inside Kanchipuram Kamakshi temple (which comes under the same board). It is good to do things to nurture your tradition, but what good will that be if you dont let outsiders see it and appreciate it?
When would our makkal practice what is their in the books or the government enforce what it bradishes to the outside world? To end with, I quote Mahakavi Subramanya Bharathi's lines which has been often sung but as things seem not yet been thought about and rectified.

"Sadhi pirivugal solli - adhil
Thanzlvendrum melendrum solvar.
Needhi pirivugla seyvar - angu
nithamum sandaigal seyvar

sadhi kodumaigal vendam - anbhu
thannil sezhitidum vayyam
adhara vutringu vazhvom - thozhil
ayiram manbhura seyvom"

Varuthu Varuthu Velagu Velagu - BCCI the Bully

First big apology for not posting for long time.. all the blame on my advisor for tying me up with work work work..enniki i made my mind to post something..so here it goes..
All the cricket afficandos might have noticed that BCCI in the last 2 weeks have moved from mere permanent member of BCCI to THE MEMBER of BCCI. First came the election of Sharad Pawar into the chief post in BCCI.. then i suspected something big is surely gonna happen in near future.. the first inkling of that came in when BCCI clinched a massive sponsorship deal from Nike sending the Indian cricket team the top brand in the world. Then to put a full stop to all the yearly quarrells among the TV channels for who should get what type of broadcast, BCCI said it would reisuue all the tenders for broadcast right for this year and would produce the broadcast from next year.. well edhu ellam okay na, next comes the master stroke.. BCCI said ICC champions trophy is not its cuppa tea and cant particpate in it..to make matters worse it roped in Cricket Australia, Pakistan Cricket Board and England and Wales Cricket Board to have regular series..well for all these, ICC has been relegated to a muted spectator and have sent the customary letter to BCCI sec Niranjan Shah..may be in the next few years it wouldnt be surprising if they move ICC to India.. ICC is privy to the fact that South Asia (mostly India) generates 75% of all its revenues and they really cant morachufy them..
its pity to see ICC being treated like how UN is treated by US..but one thing is for sure, if things go this way, Indian cricket fans are sure to be treated royally with some awesome matches between big teams like Aussie, England, Pakistan in a regular interval..
well, in a different beat..what is the plan with Pakistan board officials with respect to preparing picthes..2 test matches and close to 2000 plus runs and no results yet.. either Pakistan is afraid to lose a match or they are tacktufully pushing results to the last test in Karachi.....if Pakistan goes on like this, no country would be interested in playing there..