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I cannot say I am a great admirer of MJ, though some (which means many barring an equal many ) of his dance steps have been astonishingly fluid and graceful. But a few of them have been quite obscene and a few others were quite stupid, like vigorously working on a hand pump in water starved Nanganallur! I abhor his excessive attention to his outward appearance and complexion and the hundreds of surgeries he went through and scores of pills and injections he suffered to look more handsome or more fair complexioned. It is his music and dance that were really his strength but he thought he has not done it all till he looked what he preferred to look like. When people get abundantly rich in the fine arts category they become jittery reclusive, frightened alone and aloof. Huge wealth does not distort the mind of a balanced person like a Narayanamurthy or you-know-whos. In some cases the women these rich scions marry had been undoing of many a billionaire. I do not know if these stinking rich class has restful sleep when they suffer from their special problems. If I have a small and insignificant worry, I lose lot of sleep. I still wonder how people can live with murders and cheating at the back of their minds. Wealth and popularity has not given peace to people like Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley or Howard Hughes. But there are few like Bill Gates who enjoy their immense prosperity by doing meaningful charity work. Our scions are inclined to donate diamond crowns to already rich temple deities. Not for them medicines for the poor or education for the unlucky.
K G Yagnaraman.