Happy Birthday Tamal Baran -

Hari Bol Tamal Baran-ji!

Happy Birthday!

Have a nice one!


Viva Ernesto Che Guevara!

Dandavats. All glories to the Vaisnavas.

Radhe Radhe! I wish you and your family a terrific year and increasing service to Sri Radhika and her dear devotees.

Aspiring to serve the Vaisnavas,
Rasaraja dasa

Viva o aniversariante! Viva!

Tamal Baran Das ki JAaaaaaaaaaaay!

Another Birthday! So soon! So your's is right after mine -- I have to remember that.

I wish you a great fulfilling year. Happy Birthday, Tamal Baran-ji!

Happy Birthday also from me all the best!

Happy Birthday DadaJi! Hope you have a great day my friend !

Thank You all very, very much for posting your best wishes. I am honestly touched, because all of You are my real and only family besides in a first place my Gurumaharaja, wife, son, mum, sis and brother.

Each one of You : Hari Saran and wife- thanks for being here all these years,
Rasaraja - thank you very much for being nice and kind friend, whom i personally know from 1994 (uups...it's 10 years now...),
Sadhaka 108 , a kind and nice person, to whom i never did actually write a proper letter (and i deeply apologize for that personally to you now), and whom i like as well as Hari Saran, and also because they are both from Brasil, country in which i have family, which is country of best football in the world, best music and best martial arts in the world, including worlds best martial arts families whom i totally respect Gracies and Machados, and also country which is connected to my birth country Croatia, as many people from Croatia left to live there at one point back in 19th and 20th century.
Obrigado muito muito para seus mais melhores desejos, nos somos
sempre uma familia e um tribe. Unido nos estamos!
I hope i did got this above right for you....


Dear Malika Dasi, which is a natural and original Vaisnavi mother,
Ramapriya Didi, who is disciple of Sripad Tripurari Maharaja from Poland,

and in the end... of course one of nicest people i have met over the net, namely Brajamani das or Bhakta Brian-Bri. Bri, i can honestly write to you here, on this Forum, that you are a rare friend and person.

I wish to extend my deepest thanks for this occasion to Madhava for being a also a very caring devotee, siksa and friend, a very, very special Gurubhai,

Radhapada Das, another dear Gurubhai which helped me to become what i am, Nitai Das and Jagat . If there was no Jagat and Kundali Das in my life, i will never have my eyes wide opened.

To all the others i forgot i am sorry, and thank you all so much again. I am very touched, because i worked hard whole day today, and finally came to check this mail at 21.00pm tonight, and it was a wonderful feeling.
The best present ever....

Happy Birthday, Tamal Baran das!

Bright Blessings for this new year of your life! May all your birthday wishes come true!

Blessed Be--

Tapati

Happy Burpday!

Dear Tamal Baran-ji,

That was a good surprise to know how much you like Brazil and are getting around with the Language, great!

You are one of those great devotees that certainly Sri Goura is personally shaping and shaping, day by day…

All the best Tamal-ji!

This are my humble wishes, but you surely deserve much more!

I really don't have a word now.....i am totally touched and honoured....

Many thanks dear Tapati Dasi, and dear and always funny Babu.... the guerillha theatre peace keeper!

Speaking of Che, my father saw him in person in 60es, while Che was visiting places in Yugoslavia, of which Croatia was then one part. Che visited factory in which my father was working as a young student, and later returned to that factory as a lawyer. He had nice picture of him besides his other original and autographed photos of people like US and Russian astronauts, Rory Gallagher, Jimi Hendrix and others. My father Brahma Das, has died before three years and i never got those nice photographs back, due to my uncle going through my fathers stuff before myself and my family.


For others i wholeheartedly recommend this great movie:

http://www.motorcyclediariesmovie.com/ a movie about great friendship and love for people.

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Nice to know you had such a cool dad. My experience with Che was not a personal, rather it was through the median of PC (communist party) in Brazil.

For the militants of PCB, Che’s and Castro Ideologies was the fuel to the mind for the creative youth of the time. We use to go to factories, school and university to incite conversations and distribute pamphlets, that could make people to start to think about the political (trap) reality, which was being operated by the dictator regime. And right under everyone’s nose, while they were watching soccer, (the fever of the country) was then unseeing being manipulated by the dark-media, while corruption and unnecessary violence by the authorities was taking over.


Music festival and underground movies at the time (made by Super 8) was the getaway to get together and be actualized for the next step. We were very young and still in high school in Sao Paulo, and that was already middle 70’s. So, we did what we could, but the older guys in the 60’s, they were deep serious about the whole thing...

In Rio, in the year 1969, one of the most audacious operations took place. You probably heard about Fernando Gabera, militant and author of "O Que e’ Isso Companheiro” wherein he (Gabera) narates the operation of how they acomplished to kidnap the American Ambassador, Charles Elbrick, to call the attention of the international media for the internal politic problens.

They successfully did and in the end the Ambassador became respectful to the PCB’s ideology. Well, the USA authorities forced him to leave his diplomatic post; he also became a threat to the imperialism.

Brazil at that time was under a military regime; repression and depression. However, that generation somehow, managed it with brightness!

I have not mentioned the musicians and poetas like Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, Joao Gilberto, Gilberto Gil, Rita Lee, Vinicious de Moraes, Lo Borges, Tom Jobin, Elis Regina, Pablo Neruda and many other who helped to chill out the mind with the colling breeze of their songs and poems...



The movie: "O QUE E ISSO, COMPANHEIRO? (FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER)
October 1
Brazil, 1997 (110 min)
Directed by Bruno Barreto

Because we’re so conditioned to think of September as a month dark with portent – the start of World War II, the Munich Olympics, the Allende coup, 9/11 –the English-language title of Bruno Baretto’s 1997 film O QUE E ISSO, COMPANHEIRO? is misleading. Based on a true story, the film focuses its attention on what doesn’t go wrong when a group of idealistic Brazilian leftists kidnaps the American ambassador, masterfully played by Alan Arkin. The American isn’t ugly. The radicals have personal lives. The humanity of the characters shines brightly. The film is claustrophobic – most of it takes place in the safe house were the ambassador is held prisoner – and extraordinarily tense. The performances of the Brazilian cast manage to suspend our judgment of the characters they play. And Arkin makes the captive an ambassador in the best sense of the word: an inspiring model of honest, informed diplomacy.”

http://www.lib.unc.edu/house/mrc/films/ful...p?film_id=10862

Movie Review by Edwin Jahiel:
http://www.prairienet.org/ejahiel/fourdays.htm

Fernando Gabeira;s Bio:
http://www.gabeira.com.br/gabeira/perfil/bioeng.html

Sorry for the long text and thanks for the link

Also, happy happy (joy joy!) birthday from both of us here at Radha-kunda.

I have something special for you from guru-manjari for the occasion, check your e-mails.

I told Baran that you deserve much more, didn’t I ?