Lullaby to a Stone!

A folk song or lullaby to this Gundappa (stone) runs like this:-

   Reigns supreme the ragi stone
   life saving is the grinding stone
   cleans our life the washing stone
   ever-sustaining is our dosa stone
   Jo! Jo! to you, stone supreme!

Stones in Indian Culture

Nature-worship of Indians in everyday life is ever-surprising. Stone-implements of different shape and size were essential in everyday life. Craddle ceremony was one occasion when the ancients gratefully remembered the bounteous nature .

It is a pity that in India where a stone was worshiped as a gift of Mother Earth, earlier, gangsters and mischief mongers take recourse to throwing stones at public and private property, mainly buses and government buildings to show their protest of any kind, at times for silly reasons. This leads to unnecessary, or uncalled for violence. Most of the stone-throwers go unpunished, due to political reasons, in Gandhi's land of non-violence.