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;)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414208942899443346.post-53133568020060727842017-05-20T11:22:00.000+05:302017-05-20T11:22:01.336+05:30The One On His Birthday!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their places, in
so much that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for
the logical question of things that grow; one side holding that the ship
remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has really been a long time
since there was a post on this blog which made sense! That being said, there
are no guarantees that this one will. Hello to all the readers and also to those
who have stumbled upon this page of obscurity while searching something meaningful.
A lot has changed since the last post. There have been times when I was having
an immense urge to share something, at length, but couldn’t. Life really sucks
when things like that happen. The quote above comes from a very famous
philosophy of Ship of Theseus. It is rather self-explanatory and will leave the
deeper research and reading to the readers, once they are out, reading this
mediocrity!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But why have I shared this quote?
Over some time, I have been feeling a bit like it. Things have changed, piece
by piece. There is a point beyond which a change breaks you down. Shatters the
very thing that you recognize yourself with. Maybe one breaks down to just
rejig himself and come out as someone better. It is a hope. I am not yet at
that stage of hope though.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have become that Ship of Theseus.
No more am I recognizable to myself. While the flesh remains the same for the
rest, the soul has turned inside out. I have all those planks removed and
replaced. I have the existence and the clashes of my own identity. I am at the
cross roads with my interests and compulsions. I am lost in my own ocean of thoughts
while there are anchors all over me. While the water splashing on this ship
tries to change its much-appearing stable course, the real direction still
remains unknown to the sailor himself. Each splash taking away those planks,
one at a time, and my consciousness replacing it with its own construct. I am
not arguing with you, I am arguing with myself to why I am arguing with you. I
am not loving you. I am merely arguing with myself that I do know how to love. Neither
do I know things nor am I trying to be intelligent. I am merely arguing to
where I stand in these winds of obsolescence. There are no shores for this ship
and nor am I looking out for them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The concept seems clear now that
the concept is lost. The very foundation of this construct called life seems
like a tedious exercise of self-acceptance and self-consolation. The constructs;
talent, achievement, goals, hope, failures, limitations, etc. all seem to be
nothing more than continuous reminders of why I am still the same ship, which I,
actually, am not. There is no point in defining myself with those things for
they have rather changed the entire thing without even me knowing it. Change is
constant, hence, there is nothing like existence. The ship keeps changing to
its core and not just the planks. The question whose answer I seek is, is this
a conscious effort of change or it is so involuntary that it actually laughs at
our idea of “existence” and “identity”? I have consciously tried to observe the
changes that I feel I have undergone and it is horrifying. There are no good
changes, there are starker realizations about what I really am. Some five
minutes with myself, all alone and eyes closed, and I saw more than an ocean
ready to take this ship apart. There is absolutely nothing that can stop it. It
does not have any laws of the world. That deafening sound of those water droplets, leaking through those cracks of the ship. Each drop feels like a huge hammer hitting on every single vein. All alone on the ship and still I cannot hear my own scream. There is no option of jumping in the ocean as it does absolutely nothing to the ship. It may end the sailor but not the ship that has sailed along with him. What there is, is a chasm or an
abyss, unimaginable. There is nothing where you can start from the
scratch and feel good about it. There is nothing like a road not chosen for the
one that has been chosen at that moment has not been the same ever after. How
to define right or wrong choices is becoming annoyingly inexplicable to
me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes, I look at an anchor
and start feeling good about its ability to protect ships in the middle of the
storms. But here, the anchor, that appears to protect you, drags you in a
direction so sporadic and inconceivable. You see a few more ships which appear
happy in that direction, but they are no more what they were when they left the
shore. They have survived the storm by taking that proverbial anchorage and
kept themselves afloat. They have accepted that their ships are no longer what
they started with. Ironically, they do not even care what they themselves have
become. What has driven them to such a great and happy place? Is this the same thing
which I am consciously refusing to accept to lead a better life? Have I become
so adamant for my ship that I cannot leave it even if it gets torn apart? Am I
hurting the ship too? Yes, I am hurting it. Why? I have seen all those happy
ships that have changed their courses just because the anchor made them to. I
have seen those happy ships that have accepted their new planks to be better
than their older ones, which the ocean makes them appear to be damaged. Shall I
give in for a newer better ship for something that I hold dearer? Maybe I am
doing it. Maybe I should not be doing it at all. But then, would that be the
existence of that ship I came with?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do such questions do? They
have made me question myself at all levels. Those damaged planks are no longer
the question since the removal of one of them will actually diminish my own
existence. An existence, myself, have not been very certain about but sure
enough to sustain it in the same form. I am not being obstinate. Again, I see
at all those ships sailing at a cruising speed, away from the direction, they
thought they had etched. So, I decide what I need to do. Those ships have
accepted the methods that work and have moved past their destined shore,
cleverly. My ship sways under my own conflicts and those stormy winds that are
compelling me to change. This is what I wish to do. Without those internal
conflicts, I cannot get out and fight with the external and natural forces. I
wish to accept everything aloud that I am not the person that people are
seeing. Maybe I was, but now I am not. There is not an inch of talent left in
me. There is nothing left in me that is worth for anybody. There might be
unintentional but assured acts of disappointment from my side. There will be
actions which will appear disturbing. There will be thoughts that would sound
horrifying but thoughts that will keep this ship intact in this storm of
physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual storm. Without the existence of this
ship, I am not even the right ship that reaches the right destination. But why
should I do all these?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To keep this Ship of Theseus, the
way it was meant to be!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Signing off<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414208942899443346.post-27289315064947020592016-07-31T13:51:00.002+05:302016-07-31T14:27:41.035+05:30Free Knowledge: Something We Deserve<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Education is the key</i></div>
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<i>The true sign of knowledge is not intelligence</i></div>
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It has been a really long time since I had a moment to pen down my thoughts and share it. Practically, there were no issues that didn't catch my interest but weren't as strong as to share my opinion on with all of the readers of this blog. Greetings!<br />
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P.S.: Knowledge in this blog has been accepted as a misnomer to information just the way our weight is measured in kgs in our routine which should be actually N (newton) ;)</div>
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Certain things happened several days ago. A very famous peer-to-peer file sharing site, or in layman's term torrents' hosting site, named KickAss Torrents went down. A very predictable incident of a <i>chor-police </i>drama where the alleged <i>chor </i>mistakenly revealed his identity via purchasing with valid credentials on iTunes and so on. Suing the person for almost $1 billion dollar for infringing copyright and probably various other DMCA complaints. There are a million online pirates who do such things but when the FBI and a billion dollars are involved, and where a huge user base is affected, the news turns into a thriller-story, everyone needs a bite of.</div>
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(Source: <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/12243592/kickass-torrents-artem-vaulin-founder-arrested-domains-seized">https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/20/12243592/kickass-torrents-artem-vaulin-founder-arrested-domains-seized</a>)</div>
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Certain things happened several months ago. Dubbed as the PirateBay for research papers and journals, Sci-Hub.org was shut down with a complaint filed by one of the leading research journal publishers Elsevier.</div>
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(Source: <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/">https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-complaint-shuts-down-sci-hub-domain-name-160504/</a>)</div>
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Certain things happened several years ago. Considered to be the cradle of knowledge and learning of the modern human civilization, Harvard University officially gave a statement that with the rising price of research journals, they cannot afford the subscription, especially for Elsevier.</div>
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(Source: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices">https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/24/harvard-university-journal-publishers-prices</a>)</div>
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So what is in these incidents of piracy and copyright infringement? Why is it such on rise? Is it really cool to pirate someone else's work? The answer to the last question may seem an obvious NO. But as I am not really asking you, so my answer is a YES. It is cool to pirate stuff, especially journals, papers, articles, news, advancements, INFORMATION.</div>
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All the file-sharing sites, dubbed as piracy-encouraging business, were not practically "pirating". If a person, well acquainted with the internet jargon, would read then they are just torrent "hosting" sites. Not going into the technical definitions of such, a simple example can be cited as that of a courier boy handing away the parcels at requested and corresponding addresses. Most of the torrent sites and sites like Sci-Hub.org do not encourage piracy but believe in free knowledge. Taking a bit of a philosophical turn here, we can never "acquire" knowledge but what we can really do is be well informed. Information is the part of knowledge. Information can be true or false, which is for the curious to find out. But can something exist if there is a void? Can something exist if the thing isn't even initiated or born yet? So, those banned, shut-down, disputed websites were the part of the process of gathering information, be educated and filter out the nonsense and ultimately lead to a path of knowledge, corresponding to that field.</div>
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The reason for starting this post with those two quotes was that although we know that such a gem of an idea exist, we cannot implement it. The entire world is running after a newly-invented business of Big Data, wherein huge corporations will practically invest in knowing its user-bases' activity a.k.a knowing about us a.k.a being informed about us. Ironically, they will create services in which the user will pay for the so-called facilities they provide and in turn, give away their precious data or information to them. Why? Because that information is power for them.<br />
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Now, let's come back to the line of a normal user or a common man. How does one know about things? The probable answer would be using devices involving our five senses and brain. What if the information is not palatable to one of those five senses and hence, inaccessible to brain? You lose having that information. So what? Not everyone needs to know everything, isn't it? No. We need to know EVERYTHING or atleast try to be informed about EVERYTHING. The pandemonium happening around us is the result of such misinformed or less-informed people, who probably have not accessed situation and read about it because they fall in the "no-need-to-know-all" category. That creates a huge problem. Every now and then, I come around few people who are impressively well informed and are difficult to shove illogical arguments to but at the same time, there is a mass that hardly is concerned about what one talks and maybe, rest the argument with an absurd remark that the stuff does not concern them.</div>
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People and government see piracy as a bad thing because it does not give credit to the owner or its distribution is not righteous, which actually means they cannot be profited. I am going to give an example of myself which most of us will relate themselves to. I like reading and I am also a movie enthusiast. A few days ago, I started watching Joaquin Phoenix's "Her", then went to watch my favorite series of "Mr. Robot", and at the end of the day, I was reading an e-book version of "Tao of Physics" by Fritjof Kapra and then, before going to sleep, had a quick look at the latest New Scientist magazine. Do you think, I can afford them? Frankly, I laughed at myself on asking that question and No, I cannot afford them. So what should I do? Ethically, I should work hard, earn money and spend it later on such magazines. That's a great plan. What if I need to know a few things now like reading about say this, "<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130840-400-the-junk-that-makes-you-human/" target="_blank">You are junk: Why it’s not your genes that make you human</a>" or "<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130830-200-internet-30-how-we-take-back-control-from-the-giants/" target="_blank">Internet 3.0: How we take back control from the giants</a>" or "<a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130820-200-collapse-has-quantum-theorys-greatest-mystery-been-solved/" target="_blank">Collapse: Has quantum theory’s greatest mystery been solved?</a>". Ethically, I will have to wait for my curiosity to be satisfied.</div>
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Piracy, although a criminal concept in a bureaucratic society, is a boon which many people fail to acknowledge beyond watching movies. Believe it or not, your genius friend is not subscribing to each and every article he knows because an $800 p.a. subscription of a single science magazine out of many of his liking is not financially possible for him. He has a knack for economics but cannot purchase a $500 p.a. the magazine yet possesses information about the same and probably, will guide you in investment too. He loves tech but cannot afford another $200 p.a. for a tech magazine. He loves philosophy but cannot afford books of those great people, who once mentioned knowledge is free, because they are long gone and their "heirs" are now minting money on those philosophical writings. An average avid reader would have to spend at least $1000-$2000 or more, depending upon the interests, on acquiring those information rich magazines and books. An average per capita <a href="http://www.financialexpress.com/budget-2016/economic-survey-2015-16-how-per-capita-income-grew-fy16/216442/" target="_blank">income of an Indian is just above $1300 p.a.</a> Which means, an average Indian can never afford to have a good source of information or to pursue his liking is financially and economically impractical. So, the only barrier of that impracticality is overcame by the so-called criminal piracy websites, which do not charge a thing for their services. Maybe show ads for their revenue generation and service providing expenses. </div>
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But what is the end result? One gets the latest issue of New Scientist (July 30) from <a href="http://downmagaz.com/news_magazine/89098-new-scientist-30-july-2016.html" target="_blank">downmagaz.com</a> or one would get a bunch of assorted movies of one's liking from torrent-hosting websites or one would get J. Krishnamurti's book of "<a href="http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=4C133CF4B8CA1FF40882F1840024EB51" target="_blank">The Impossible Question</a>" from libgen.io. All in all, much needed and much loved information is being transferred. That priceless information is getting a priceless dissemination, which it requires the most. It is not only satisfying the interest of the avid but also generating an audience, viewers, readers who will start appreciating the material or start recommending it to others. The current swarm of conspiracy theories and their acceptance in every other field is the result of an uninformed mass. The first step of knowledge is to accept that one knows nothing and the second step is to start knowing and observing. There are blessed souls in the world who have taken the first step in that direction but cannot move ahead because of such restrictions and inaccessibility of information, judging and knowing which, they may be awakening themselves and the others. Patents, copyrights, loyalties, etc. are the hindrances for everyone. Unfortunately, the near future does not seem to limit them so, people will need to "steal information" and garner "stolen knowledge" and lead a life of "stolen intelligence". It reads ridiculous in your mind, doesn't it? </div>
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The more I thought about this, the more I felt great for our sages and scientists of the past. It would be a great thought experiment if every scientist and saints of past, would have put a cost on their piece of parchment. What if Galileo would have started cashing in for his theories which have been the foundation of our modern day science? What if saints and sages would have put up a price-tag or copyright infringement notice on their books? What if Ayurveda would have been exclusively available to the ones who would have been able to pay? What if the polio vaccine creator Jonas Salk would have taken a patent for his drug or Ray Tomlinson would have done the same for Internet? What if Aryabhatta or Al-Khowarizmi would have patented/copyrighted their invention of zero and algorithm, respectively? The world would not have existed in the same way as it does right now. Think about not knowing the Law of Inertia or what f=ma would mean or of Adam Smith's principle of economics or Chanakya's philosophy or Ayurveda or Homepathy and so on. It would be a simulation of what was universe like before the Big Bang. It is unimaginable not knowing things but steadily, we are approaching such a reality, thanks to ideas like copyrights, patents, intellectual property rights, credits, prior art, etc. Every single piece of paper, in any format, must be free to everyone. That would be the first step for the human kind to eliminate issues like global warming, terrorism, extremism, lack of empathy towards each other, scientific dumbness, miscommunication, etc. Think about these problems and you will realize, all of them exist because of an uninformed individual. Ekalavya had to learn and master archery without the blessings and presence of Guru Drona. If that's the thirst for knowledge and if we have learnt anything from that epic story of Ekalavya, let's pledge that we support free knowledge dissemination as a tribute to Ekalavya.</div>
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Towards the end, I am going to recommend something I really love and has always cheered me up, the Laurel and Hardy. I could not afford their box-set, so you know what I did? Of course you know what I did! ;)</div>
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Let me know how much you liked/hated this post. Good to have a few words from the audience too, isn't it? ;)</div>
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Auf Wiedersehen</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414208942899443346.post-35160957840484640532015-06-05T09:46:00.000+05:302015-06-05T09:46:57.862+05:30Traversing into that Pathless Land!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Namaste!<o:p></o:p></div>
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After a long time, this page is
going to see some activity. It had been a dry spell and a lot of things have
happened. No, I was not busy. I had numerous thoughts and ideas that I had penned
down to write them here. But there is always a sense of such things sounding
irrelevant and obscure to a greater mass. Though a following of some tens of
people may not be considered big, I do sincerely consider it to be more than
what I had ever expected. Let’s be realistic, no one likes to read about the
thoughts of a layman by taking pains to visit his blog and read through his tedious
writing. But that is an option available to the audience whether or not they
choose to participate, but not to the mind which is responsible for exhibition
of those thoughts. Throughout this entire dormant state, I have been travelling
places all over the virtual world. With an increasing curiosity in the idea of
deep web, I had been in a state of continuous searching and researching about
the life and its versions, available to us on this very Earth. This particular post is one of the many ideas, my serious notes, about delimiting Truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Truth, like the Light, has always
fascinated me. When someone talks about a person telling truth, the thoughts
that come to my mind are about the perception of the listener/believer, the
point as well as frame of reference he stands and puts the speaker into, and
the force of acceptance, which the listener/believer wants. These were “my”
methods of listening to anything that was marketed as Truth and was sold for
monetary or spiritual or emotional benefits. It is definitely easy and reliable
to assume that <b>The Truth</b> can be
twisted and it might even lose its meaning when retold with some inconspicuous
lies but my question always was “Was this really <b>The Truth</b> or somebody just mirrored something, I expected to hear?” There will be umpteen
instances in our lives where one single sentence or even a single word or even
a mere Yes or No will be accepted easily as truth. Probably, that was what you
and I wanted to hear. It is simple science. The path of least resistance is
always chosen and preferred. And so are our perspectives, bounded with so many
assumptions and eternally denied limitations of ours. How can you tie your
hands and legs and still expect to swim into a vast ocean? So what do we do? We
make our own swimming pools and bath tubs and criticize the ocean for having a
thousand dangers. So, I tried to sort things and then jumbled them once again
about my thoughts on Truth. Yeah that’s right. We can’t leave things sorted
just because that sorting follows our logical mindset. We need to scramble them
a lot to generate different possibilities of our logic and its validity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Truth, maybe, is like an
equation. An equation which may become more and more bizarre if you keep adding
variables to it. Now, one cannot keep adding a thousand Xs and Ys just to get
an answer. So we draw limits. We restrict our equation with several
assumptions. For Truth our assumptions are our memory, our physical prowess,
our senses, including the mysterious sixth sense and all the hidden ones about
whose existence, we are currently unaware but have somehow mingled amongst
these limitations. Now adding to these assumptions and limits, we
knowingly/unknowingly add our expectations. If I am having a hundred variables
to determine one particular Truth, I will try to, first of all, contain the
weirdness to my five senses. I will add a sixth sense factor which will give me
a let out if my version of Truth does not hold true. And at last, I will add my
expectation variable, which, actually, is a constant! Now think this. Am I
really going to find <b>The Truth</b>? Will
this method really work for all the possible scenarios and inconsistent
behaviors? Is this foolproof? Does this method have a variable that will be
able to limit the influence of my senses against knowing Truth? Will this
equation hold true even if the Expectation variable becomes redundant? And several
more questions which will lead to the similar discussion. Even two persons will
see a beggar differently. One may be using his senses to judge him of being a
true beggar deserving sympathy and help whereas the other person might dig deep
into his logical train and come up with an idea of the beggar being phony and
the antisocial purposes for which he might use the money. Which one of them is
right? Both? None? Did anyone of them dig deep enough to satisfy their
curiosity and coming up with ultimate Truth? No.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Am I going to offer a method to
know Truth? Absolutely, not. What I may offer is a thought of not following any
cults or religions for knowing Truth. Why add more limitations to our already
set limiting factors? They set up with an ideology or a path or a process which
it says to follow for knowing <b><i>their </i></b>versions of Truth. Much of the
religious philosophies are only as old as we humans are, still we fight for our
survival and existence. Keeping that thing in mind, one should adopt the
philosophy of viruses which have been in the Universe since the first molecule
came into existence. Aren’t they the ultimate Truth of survival? People who
follow science will get the point that there have been numerous incidents where
a well-established method is challenged and overthrown to pave way for more
accurate method, which in turn gives us more precise results. No one can offer
Truth or even a foolproof method of knowing it because it cannot simply exist.
There is nothing like an absolute Truth or an absolute Lie, unless we confine
ourselves with boundaries. Something that gives result, which may explain the
condition of that time, isn’t Truth. It is mere our logic. We need to accept
that we are definitely trying to refine our logic but it is nowhere near the
perfect Truth or even the perfect Logic, something that is infallible,
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Religions and cults are
pathological and to some extent pathetic. They all tend to sermonize us to
restrict our lives in one way or the other to achieve <b>The Truth</b>. Does that mean that <b>The
Truth</b> is so condensed that it cannot remain valid under myriad conditions?
If that really is the definition of <b>The
Truth</b>, there is no point in wasting our time. Truth is out there somewhere,
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Many of my points might be
arguable and won’t be coming up easy with most of us. We all have been taught
how to “know” <b>The Truth </b>ultimately
by a bunch of people whose knowledge is impeccable on the literature which
profoundly restricts our thinking. That is really amazing and depressing at the
same time. But there cannot be achieving without refining, isn’t it? Who said
that this write-up is <b>The Truth</b>?
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In this season of misleading political manifestos, promises, agendas, etc., I, myself, tried to lure some of the greedy brains to read something that may mean more precious than an iPhone! Safely, no one can sue me here because I didn't make any inappropriate remark on any inappropriate political reader. That is saved for the further reading, provided you buy the premise that this post has actually nothing to do with building an iPhone.</div>
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As usual, passing the time in the scorching summer of India, I was unusually invited to attend a regular academic conference where "they" were keen on "bridging the gap" between students and industry and were "mapping the brains" of their students. Now, as far as Indian inferiority complex and English language's jargony is concerned, such titles always attract the people who are NOT associated with the hosting institutions and are "invited" to attend their "brain storming conference", just because they "sound good". And just like the misleading title of this post and like you, misled readers, those industrial people (some of them out of certain obligations), attended the said conference.</div>
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Without falling off the topic, the conclusive terms coming up every now and then were those above mentioned jargons, which the management kept on repeating like some holy mantra. But I sensed something very awkward there. They wanted the industries to help the students to guide them for the projects. The industries will define, the students will work and boom, the problem ends a better society develops! Had it been that shit easy, Africa would have been the leader in innovation. [See TedTalks video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT6vIq6_1OE" target="_blank">You Don't Need an App for That</a>] The problem they equivocally and ambiguously discussed was the indisciplined approach to involve theindustries to get the students. The management sent out some erratic ideas which rather than being out-of-the-box were actually closing-the-box-for-eternity ideas. Amongst some 50 faculties as qualified as M.Tech/PhD, I was probably the only one holding a B.E. and a project coordinator. So there wasn't much of a case to put forward, when I had raised a doubt and was ephemerally heard while the listener picked up his nose in this already dry environment.</div>
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I have a primary question. Why would an industry, give you their problems? Why would they rely on a Bachelor when they can have the same thing, effectively solved by a better, experienced person? Amidst the haphazard policy framework, our industries lack the corporate social responsibility. One can easily blame them. I wouldn't.</div>
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Let's take this example. Why do you pick up a smartphone from Apple or Samsung or Google or Blackberry, when even a simple PDA was enough? Why do you purchase an Samsung S4 when you already had S3? Why would you think of purchasing an iPhone 6 in 2014 when you've already purchased the 5S in 2013? Some call it splurging, some call it utility and the others are Indians because for us, the name itself is enough! For anything to sell, the consumer must need to have a strong reliability </div>
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An intelligent consumer, will definitely keep in mind the above points and maybe start saving for a product sufficing all the above mentioned criteria. But the other splurges, the wrongly philanthropists, don't. The essence of the idea is briefly shown in the figure below:</div>
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The point is, when Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Narayan Murthy or Azim Premji become philanthropists, they don't turn themselves into ascetics. They are developing a model where not only their money is being poured into something fruitful, but in a way, it is actually helping their firm to innovate in different areas and fields. [Excellent interview at TedTalks: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSL-iIskEFU" target="_blank">Bill and Melinda Gates</a>]. In an indirect sense, they are innovating to create a wider scope and arena for their firm and towards the entire economy [Read the abstract: <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014829631300115X" target="_blank"><i>The role of innovation in driving the economy: Lessons from the global financial crisis by Angela Hausmana, Wesley J. Johnston</i></a>]. If one thinks deeply, this connects somewhere with the academic institutions and their ties with the industries. An academic institute should be able to produce more innovative output (students) rather than focusing on (read, just!) policies to make the students innovative. Somewhere, down the line this is not going to happen.<br />
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The current educational system is destroying the curiosity, thereby strangling innovative approach of the students. Even one of my previous posts focussed on the same idea. It is a simple. How are you going to sell a product if it is as conventional as a decade? Will you purchase a Nokia 3120 at a price of Rs. 5500 in 2014? Will you purchase a Maruti Van priced at Rs. 5 lacs in 2014? Can you even think of selling a day old product at the same price as purchased? Unanimously, the answer is "No" for all the questions. If you, as a customer, do not purchase a product that is even a day older, how can an industry pour its earning into a system that is teaching them technology almost 20 years older than what they are using now? What is the meaning of giving the students a project of working on speech recognition software when they have a hard time decoding a simple C/C++ program? What is the use of asking a mechanical engineering student to design an aerodynamically efficient car when he hardly knows anything about the structure of the car? In this time of universal crisis and slowdown, industries are not that wealthy anymore.<br />
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Personally, I find the idea of fingerprint recognition in iPhone 5S as supremely idiotic. Although a great admirer of Apple products, but this really is a gimmick for any hardcore smartphone user too. But still, it can be sold. It has a new, innovative feature something the other competitors do not possess, yet. The leaked iPhone 6 is supposed to be made of Sapphire Glass, superior to suddenly-turned-into-obsolete Gorilla Glass. The quality of the glass being, it is the second hardest material after diamond! [Read: <a href="http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/545568/20140329/iphone-6-release-date-killer-specs-features.htm" target="_blank">iPhone 6</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphire#Transparency_and_hardness" target="_blank">Sapphire Glass</a>]. Isn't this a heftily paying innovation? What's the source? Curiosity. Apple designed and patented its own process to manufacture sapphire glass on its flagship iPhone 6. [Read: <a href="http://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/WO2014047479" target="_blank">Apple's Patented Sapphire Glass Manufacturing Design</a>]. There can be no money without competition. There can be no competition without new products. There cannot be new products without invention/innovation and there cannot be innovation without curiosity. See? There is no formal education in the cycle! ;)<br />
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That conference literally bored me to death by discussing the policies that can be framed to "make students innovative". Due to certain ridiculous circumstances, I had to bear the entire 3 hour ridiculous movie of this great innovators. A movie that was so realistic to get a mention in IMDb's Bottom 100!<br />
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Lastly, I want to bust a myth popularly termed as "Knowledge" in 2014. What we, as a students, are gathering, is simply information, which has been misnamed as knowledge! With all these Googling, Wikiing and App downloading, it is just that shared information being passed on. Try searching the patent sites (e.g. Wipo, USPTO, etc.) about the ideas you have or ever had. You will see, what the world really is!<br />
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Flick Suggestion: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1645089/" target="_blank">Inside Job</a>. A gorgeous, Academy Award Winner documentary, which although has no direct connection with the post but actually shows the curiosity of director, which has lead to a fabulously researched and awesomely made documentary. Must watch!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414208942899443346.post-73120626907772350222013-10-06T20:51:00.001+05:302013-10-06T21:10:45.296+05:30Sissy Secularism vs. Apathetic Atheism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For the first time, I am addressing my nice bunch (modest 14!) of readers as critics. There is always a reason behind such change. Why? One, "Change is Constant" and Second, "God doesn't play dice with the Universe". In no case, I be alleged of proclaiming myself as God. This is what Einstein tell. But again, Bohr jawed him by saying, "Stop telling God what to do with his dice.". So at the end, sorry for the detour, but again, Hello Readers.</div>
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Secularism is no new word for any of us. Mostly, the Indian definition of secularism actually limits us to ponder thinking ONLY about the minorities and their welfare. Had it been "Minorities" only, there would've been no problem. But unfortunately, we know what exactly is happening. There is no point in discussing about the same as here we are not one those demo-weird-cratic poly-retard-cians. As the elections of 2014 knock at the door and harder knock the knocked heads of our Indian political drama, something usual occurred in Muzaffarnagar of Uttar Pradesh. Following the proud tradition, the riots were labelled as more political than communal (there is an invisible line differentiating those two things, don't you think?!). Hullaballoo of everything and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalo_(word)" target="_blank">Mahalo</a> for nothing!</div>
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Since independent India's inception (I think our independence is dream too and we are given sedatives named Superpower India!), secularism has been the root of more vices than the virtues it carries. Be it Gandhiji (meticulously, ignored and no, I don't give any importance!) or Sardar or Lal Bahadur Sastri, all of them have been infected with this virus named secularism. Let's just define the word: </div>
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<i><b>Secularism:</b></i> the principle of separation of government institutions, and the persons mandated to represent the State, from religious institutions and religious dignitaries. [Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secularism" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>]</div>
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<b><i>Secularism: </i></b><span style="text-align: left;">a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations [Source: <a href="http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=secularism" target="_blank">Princeton Edu</a>]</span></div>
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What my thought was about the way of changing the word itself. Why not be an atheist state rather than a conglomeration of colorful religion and their ever colorful conflicting doctrines. Not philosophizing, but I believe that apathy garners more impartial behaviour than love. You can love the evil blindly (e.g. Dhritrashtra) but you can be an apathetic and be more impartial (e,g, Krishna). Mythology has its own power but what is wanted is a philosophy where there is no religion in ruling the state. Religion means believing deeply in something. It maybe a human, animal, object or even an emotion (that's why we pray smileys! :P ). But atheist encapsulates none of them. It is like a crystal clear water of river, where the imperfect pebbles and the perfect stones can be separated. It is like fire which will melt everything, regardless of gold or rust iron. Love is always blind, apathy cannot be. Love has a pair of spectacles corrected by the numbers their sympathy is measured, atheism or apathy is like glasses of Leonard Hofstadter (Trivia: Leonard Hofstadter has spectacles without glasses! The Big Bang Theory Trivia).</div>
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Let's assume that for a second, India becomes an atheist nation, where the only thing that matters is the rules prescribed in its constitution. Now visualize this. A road nearby your home is broken beyond repair. Thousands of people are stranded and chaos seem to be never ending. An old man has to detour to his home in the perspiring hot summer due to that road. You cannot go to the movies because the rickshaw or the bus just can't enter. The reconstruction is currently impossible because there is a religious place situated amidst the road. Neither can they divert nor can they demolish. But if the laws are apathetic to the religion, the site will be demolished and the road will be prepared. No one can do anything. Why? The laws will dictate that neither of the religions be given importance in the work of government. Think what will happen to that noisy, blasting and irritating <i>garba </i>parties then. Think, what will happen to communal riots when communal word itself is purged and is a criminal offence? I think that's the utopia of India.</div>
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This is a thought that is never going to be reality, because it will defeat the entire post 1857 Indian history. It shall put the father of the nation behind the bars, will hang its first prime minister just for signing a treaty, will smother the current Indian "progress" (aka congress (a.k.a is antonym known as, for here only!)). It will slit the throat of those vociferous but hollow religious leaders who are leading the cattle of 120 crores to Hell, which they say as Heaven. But again, that's the theory of relativity!</div>
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Quite after a long time! Ideally, quite after a long space-time. But who cares to be that precise. Even with the modern knowledge, we are still going on with our weight represented in kg, whereas even a school boy knows that the unit of weight is Newton. I was recently
watching <i><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268978" target="_blank">A Beautiful Mind</a></i>, starring
Russell Crowe and playing the character of great mathematician John Nash. I was
awestruck in one of the marvelous scene of this extremely pleasant movie. In
one of the scenes, he and his group are observing the college girls and imagining
various “games” with them in their mind. The approach is perfectly boyish. All
for one (duh!). Now, there is the complexity of human brain and behavior. All
the other group members are trying to woo one same gorgeous blonde and so the
normal world problem of “Who goes first?” comes into existence. Born genius,
all those math wizards put on their thinking cap and ponder over the problems
playfully yet deterministic. But as they are mathematicians, there moves to
woo are as real as their hypothetical theories. Nash is already stuck with his
career hitting a dead end and is mentally somewhere else already. The
atmosphere of the bar is hardly any concern to him. But just at that instance,
in his subconscious, he starts to think about the problem his friends are
having. They propose using a very famous the then economic model of father of
economics, Adam Smith. Simplistically speaking, the model proposed that if each
one of the group members played for his own interests, the whole organization
will be benefited. Enter the genius, Nash. Sublimely and with his day dreaming
eyes, Nash declares that Smith is wrong as his theory seems incomplete. He
proposes a theory which initially radicalizes the thought process of his group
for achieving their target. Then, he storms out of the bar thanking that blonde
in a real genius manner i.e. looking into her eyes momentarily and with utter
thinking train rumbling fast in his mind and eyes. From that little incident,
he proposes a theory which technically, uproots the 150 years of backbone
theory of governing dynamics of economics. Rest is history. Brilliant movie, but
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I was listening
to my mum, talking about her mother, my nanny. She told that even without the
formal education, she was so brilliant. Though being a sub matriculate person,
her common sense was par excellent. I almost hope that most of the readers will
agree with this thing that their forefathers, or even their fathers and
grandfathers were much “cool” in common sense and knowledge. I was listening to
my mum, with great gusto. A minute later, after she left, I was immersed in my
thinking. I started with our ancient Indian scientists, rolled towards
Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Hawking. Then I started to think
about them more when suddenly my mum came back and asked me about the iPad and
its gorgeous performance and features. I then had my “little” speech of 20
minutes starting from modern computation and retrospecting the Shockley et al
inventing transistors and silicon chips and logic gates and binary. When I
informed her about the working of binary system in computers, she was amazed.
That watery sparkle in her eyes gave me a shudder of greatness. Of what?
Greatness of how those early geniuses came up with such mind bending ideas. Who
would have thought of processing information in just 1 and 0? How can someone
digitize everything into 1 and 0? I, myself, was thoroughly amazed that I knew
them. And I was disappointed too because I ONLY KNEW them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Thoughts are
like wild fire. They destroy and also reconstruct the entire landscape. I was
flying in my own ideas and a question arose in my mind. Are we advancing or
retreating in science? In music, there is a prelude or an overture that slowly
starts any piece of music to thrill the audience. Subsequently, starts the main
piece or the symphony which spellbinds them. And then, the finale, an obvious
ending of a masterpiece. I started comparing music and science, as both of them
have a huge impact on thinking humans (HR fans, bitch please!). Science started
with genuine curiosity of ancient humans. Some of them assumed what they
thought and kept on hauling that idea as the reason. Some over smart tried to
get some basis. Experimenting, checking the authenticity. And when the notion
fell apart, they began to re-search about the probable explanations. This is
how science ever came into existence. Mild curiosity was transformed into
strong emotions to know. Ironically, also to let down the theories proposed by
the enemies. But of all that, we got was the science of everything. Religion is
also a science of living a life with utmost humility and intelligence, all
rolled into one. I marveled and relished the yesteryear inventions and was
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The pre Newton
era was actually the most controversial phase of humans in science. Zillions of
theories put forward. Millions discarded. They injected God element to ignore
the unexplainable phenomena. Then come the rationale like Copernicus, Galileo
and Newton, who changed the way the human race, would ever think. Newton never
had a calculator. Neither had he had access to super fine resolution telescopes
nor did he have any electronic devices to help him out nor did he have internet
access to various forums and ask “Why did that apple fall down and not go up?”
Let me rephrase it, can we do the same? Things, right now, are so simple. You
have a doubt, you search on the Internet, ask on various forums, have an easy
access to various libraries, Skype and what not. Just imagine, how would have
Newton formulated his laws without super sensitive sensors. Without <i>Mathematica</i> or without any references
available from Google or Wikipedia. Furthermore, he never had any scientist
buddies on Facebook or a group there, who would verify his papers, theories and
suggest him solutions! Neither was there any group on Facebook during Galileo’s
time that would protest against the church or sign an online petition to save
Galileo’s work from being burnt! The overture of Science was just getting
better, bigger and thrilling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The symphony
began between late 18<sup>th</sup> and early 19<sup>th</sup> century, when brilliant
minds like Bohr, Rutherford, Einstein, Planck and almost incredibly brilliant
minds were born and came into action. It maybe the Industrial Revolution that
is being considered that has redefined us but I strictly believe that this
whole lot of scientists were the backbone of what we say, the modern science. Those
who are even a little bit familiar with quantum mechanics would know how hard it
to visualize is. It is just stupendous to think so much out of the box. Dual
nature of light, photons, orbitals, existence from zero, black holes, quarks,
gluons, leptons…Oh! I am exhausted. Most of the theories were tested in an
unsophisticated environment, without computers and circuits. Relativity! One
word and we bow down with respect and thorough amazement. (People always argue
about relativity’s real life utility. I say, “Just give it a little space-time!
;)”). The explosion created by Einstein stirred the entire world just like the
by-product of his theories, the atomic bomb. Newtonian Universe was in a head
on collision with Einsteinian Cosmos. Ramanujam was almost a poor man with
richest brain, which boggled the minds of high profile mathematicians like Hardy.
Chandrasekhar proposed an elegant theory of Chandrasekhar limit which the
arrogant Eddington refused to believe till eternity. Von Brown created rockets.
Destructive at first, that maverick invention is reason you can read this blog
at home without suffering the pain to see me in person! So on and so forth,
clashes of human intelligence and actual smartness led to some of brilliant fireworks
of brains. Ford introduced the concept of assembly line which is the foundation
of current industries and production. People enjoyed, the world progressed. They were all INVENTION.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Coming in the
early 20<sup>th</sup> century or the 90s, the humanistic progress was throttled
with the groundbreaking discovery of computers. The telephones, cellphones and
all those amazing devices came into existence due to Shockley et al gigantic invention
of transistors in the mid-20th century. Nerve bending computational speed and
complex data calculation and accumulation changed the way we used to see the
world and vice-versa. Music was revolutionized. Movie making was
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and nothing to grieve, but this is the thing I am concerned about. The human
life and its progress started with meager curiosity. We landed on invention and
now it is in the phase of innovation. Thing is, invention is a phase where
something maverick comes out. To summarize, invention is like the Big Bang
moment. It may not be having any strong factor or base, nothing at all in the
time before. Right now, people are obsessed with the word innovating and
creativity. They throw those words relentlessly and freely. Yes they are
important. Innovation is very important. Modification, ramification, changing
the perspective, yes, is important. But, have we invented everything? Is
everything already invented that we need to just modify them now? I highly
doubt that. Current concern is this thing. Apple and Samsung are two giants
whose locking horns are giving the geeks orgasms of electronics. What I have
observed, that nowadays, the only thing that is coming out is the apps. The
high end graphics, the superb touch, this many GHz, that many cores and CUDA
and teraflops and petaflops but no ground breaking invention like transistor.
No path breaking theories like gravity. No unnervingly brilliant ideas like
quantum. We are just flowing with the flow of river or to be frank, like a
flock of sheep. The only difference is that some of the sheep are thinking a
little different. We have encased our thinking to the limited theories that we
know. To the limited devices we can improvise. But can we have a device, just
as astounding as computer, now? Unfortunately, even innovation is being subdued
by resurfacing of creativity. And creativity is dryly apprehended as designing
a little better with totally a consumer utility based logic. Seems that
consumerism is the main culprit here. Moreover, we are losing the magnitude of intelligence too. With reference to my mother's inputs about my nanny's times, people had a greater common sense and practical knowledge. Of course, they weren't all that geeky smart but the overall intelligence and reasoning of the mass was stronger. Right now, the intelligence of a handful of mass is staggering. You can't compete with them but the common man is really turning into a stupid common man. Their mind has been purged from the quintessential common sense. I always ask my mum in a sarcastic but genuine worry tone about who is going to follow the legacy of cooking now. Their delicious hand made cooking is also becoming extinct, as a greater mass of fairer sex is getting involved with job. I have the same worry about invention. Legacy lost? God, hope not!</span></div>
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Nash didn't
overthrow Smith’s theory for money. Einstein didn't oppose Newtonian mechanics
for any monetary gains. Chandrasekhar didn't argue with world class physicist
Eddington to achieve any financial appreciation. Ramanujam died poor. All these
examples point us out that in the race of earning money; we have devolved from
inventors to innovators. Furthermore, innovators will be converted to mere
formula restricted designers. All of the things that changed our entire human
race’s thinking were not just to encash money but were the fruits of original
and myriad brainy thinking. Tesla is nowadays considered to be one of the
greatest innovators. But his genius was more in the arena of inventor rather
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Ever since the last post, there has been a significant amount of change in our lives. News have already changed. Lots and lots of information. Science, religion, politics, anything that shared a common wall with the Time, has changed. Some sounded louder and some were faint. Some of them had a party and some of it mourned in silence. The Time saw it, heard it, felt it and then kept moving in the endless infinitely dimension Universe, remaining passive at the back of the wall. India and Indians, experienced some best moments and some worst scenarios.</div>
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I am not going to talk much about Delhi incident. The entire Internet has been filled up, like a compendium of the ideas, frustration, protest, vulgar writings and much much more about it. The entire world saw it, felt it and has remained stuck to its routine. The news channels telecasted endlessly about the girl and her condition. Twitter and Facebook went nuts by continuous sharing of the type of punishment, people wished. Adding fuel to media's <i>havan</i>, our begrime politicians passed comments and stole the limelight of that victim by being dissented by the public. The entire humdrum of the incident turned into a sadistic bonfire for Sodom festival. The rallies were stoned and curbed. Candle light marches. Guys, stop there. Give your mind a break. Think. Who are you dealing with? You're dealing with one of the most corrupt and filthy generation of bastards who can rape anyone and still make it a case of consensual one or in their own "Lalu chaap" humor, sperm donation. You're dealing with a dark species of inhumane, who are literally million times cruel than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi_Amin" target="_blank">Idi Amin</a> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_Tepes" target="_blank">Vlad Tepes Dracul</a>. Hitler has been continuously epitomized as the face of cruelty and inhumanity but I bet that the world hasn't seen Hitler's Big Brothers, yet. </div>
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I came across this film named <span style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073650/" target="_blank">Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom</a> by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001596/" target="_blank">Pier Paolo Pasolini</a>. I still remember this film for two things. I will go for the second thing first. After watching this film, I failed in my class test of one of my most favorite and mastered subjects. I still recall that I nearly puked while giving that exam and was so uncomfortable, that I almost decided not to attend the other day. Now, this might seem a hyperbolic reaction but I assure you that no one and absolutely no one can watch that movie for more than 15-20 minutes. Come to the first thing. I will never ever forget the horror, depicted in that movie. It isn't just the gore that makes it intolerable, the way it is so grim, so ever horrorealistic that maybe you would (at least I felt!) want to format your brain and make it sure that you never watched it. </span><span style="text-align: left;">So what about it? I recalled the same movie after this Sodom festival of Delhi and the first thing came into my mind was that it was quite equivalent to few scenes of the movie. Although there is no point in discussing this thing here but I believe that the perpetrators shown in this movie are perfect mirror images of our politicians. No hyperbole here and no unrealistic comparison. </span>In the movie, the sadist ministers, who have abducted those unlucky souls, perpetrate unbelievable and unimaginable atrocities on them. It's done one by one. And the ones who are chosen are punished and enjoyed by the others like them, who are in line. That means, the left ones rejoice (or are forced to rejoice) because it isn't their day and they are spared. The punishment dim the word gruesome, setting aside a newer definition of sadism. The leftover group isn't spared. They are made to sit in their own shit and things that might make your stomach bereft of food. But their turn is on the next day, again in couples, a girl and a boy. Again, the remaining group torture them and laugh at it. It goes painfully on and on.</div>
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Drop the candles. Put on an empty AK-47. March now. Show that this guns are just empty at this moment but may empty your bodies if we suffer injustice. This isn't uncivil. This is perfectly civil. You're not going to use a weapon unless you're in need of self defense. Don't show your frigging candle. Don't burn those effigies and all. Cordon a police station. House arrest them. Make them do the justice and the inquiry. People, you give the deadlines for the case. You set the courts. You set the morality values. It needn't be democracy, it needs to be the "YOU"th now. If it isn't "U", it isn't "US". Think this; a female CM (Sheila Dixit), a female behind the curtains PM (Sonia Gandhi), a female Police and former Interpol (Kiran Bedi) and still their safety is at stake. Well, we people maybe intelligent but we are severely dumb to our own selves. We march and protest silently when these dogs of Hell laugh and derogatorily comment. Worst feeling and idea, which I got; maybe that girl was "kept" alive for the TV TRPs and when the politicians show that she was ruining their limelight, they started pissing from their foul mouth. They will keep cornering this case. Will increase diesel prices so that you start redefining your budget. Will make India-Pak match super exciting, so that the TRPs and the attention will be diverted. Maybe, by 2014 election, a series of bomb blasts, scams and God forbid, but a 26/11 attack might be hosted so that this Delhi case is forgotten.</div>
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<b>MovieBank: </b>Came across Stanley Kubrick's "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066921/" target="_blank">A Clockwork Orange</a>". Thought for a moment that such treatment might be helpful to set our pee-liticians straight. But the end justified that we still live in India.</div>
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got married. The best joke I found on it was people telling to Saif’s children,
“Congratulations! <i>Aapko mummy hui hai!</i>”
Maybe that’s what they needed after their real mom, Amrita Singh, was abdicated
from the position of Nawabi (I don’t think this is the correct feminine form of
Nawab, but it’s okay.). At the end, the media got what they wanted, the couple
already has what they wanted and I got what I never wanted. Boredom. But when
the best option are Internet and a Windows 7 Ultimate running PC, then fudge
the son of the badge called TV.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is being celebrated just in the way, UPA celebrates scams. Everyday, the faces are
new but the story is same. Politics is much more interesting than Navratri.
Here there is no <i>garba</i> but a fast
moving DJ <i>dandiya </i>which actually
needs no music to play. Available for free on TV, we still waste money to go
for <i>garba</i>. God will help us again.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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at CEPT, went for a <i>Navratri </i>celebration
with my dear friend. The purpose was of meeting and playing just for a while.
Had fun because CEPT-Ahmedabad is one of the most creative institutes in entire
India and to enjoy it, one either needs to be inside the college or should have
huge money plus great contacts, to get in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a terrible accident. Two people, man and woman, both were in sitting position
trying to stand up, amidst the dumbfounding situation and trauma of sudden
accident. A Skoda had flung them almost in the air. Just to paraphrase the
accident, the car’s bonnet got a big man-size dent and the windscreen got
damaged as bad as Manmohan Singh’s reputation. As usual, the crowd gathered and
was trying to revive them up. We were operating under the assumption that
someone had already called 108-Emergency service. At that time my friend
silently uttered in my ear, “Shall we go? <i>Late
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train of thoughts was stopped by the statements of my friend. I was so angry
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front of my eyes. Me getting injured badly and people would just make a
sympathetic hiss and leave because their job was not allowing them to attend
any such “nonsense”. The company has a reputation of having many workaholic
people who don’t have any other life than the one with the laptops and
desktops. Files and folders. PowerPoint presentations and statistical
conundrums. Their life ends at the desk and the office itself. I am not in a
corporate job. But certain rules are too convoluted in each and every nook and
cranny of universal job culture, that whether you’re a peon or a Picasso, you
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“time”, if it compels us to leave our loved ones in lurch? What is this “time”,
which forces us to abandon a suffering person on the road unattended just
because it may cost you your one dear leave? What if that leave was too
important for you because one of your family members got some problems and you
had to leave? What is the use of you getting salary, if you cannot buy that
time? I know one cannot buy time but at least one can try to buy some sympathy
by spending that money? But is anyone doing that? Not a single person.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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head, higher than cloud nine, if we’re working in a MNC. I would rather say we
are behaving like an ostrich, which hides its head in soil during any calamity,
so that he cannot sense danger. Great. I was so shocked that how much helpless
and useless can I be, if such really important incidents, which in some cases
may mean life or death, remain neglected just because of the petty leave or a
day’s salary. I don’t want that and I won’t do this from now on. Any such
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of parents, who </span><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px;">couldn't</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> spare their one day of their busy days or take a
leave, when he failed his driving lessons and still got a license from a bribe
bitching police man. It’s not only parents, it’s that police man too, who </span><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px;">couldn't</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> take a leave or rest and went berserk by giving license whoever came
that fateful day. I believe. People love that bastard, who killed so many
people beneath his car, number of times, and is now running some organization
for “Human Being”. We </span><span style="font-size: 17px; line-height: 19px;">aren't</span><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"> hypocrite. We are the damaged dipsticks.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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The political humdrum is already creating a noise of criminal intensity. Pitt congratulates India's cheap class Saifeena. At that point of time, I really felt that Pitt has no work to do now. On the other side, I also assumed that this must be a media hype. I have observed that no foreign actor ever pays heed to what Rajat Sharma and company people spread. I was wondering if India TV would come up with a news item like the Brangelina gate crashing the wedding of Saifeena. The "Coalgate" was easily side tracked by the announcement of FDI in retail and the staggering Rs. 5/liter hi-hi-hike!</div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">I have a bet over here. Ask any youngster who says that he/she holds a secular view. And the most common answer is that they believe in all religions to be treated equally. I would rather term it as polytheism. But the nomenclature isn't a specific topic of interest here.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">The worry is that no one understands what it is. I don't even care if you're secular or not. Just because the "cool people" say that they are secular doesn't put you in a crack to accept it without using your brain. Everyone is entitled to have their opinion. But what opinion? What do they know about secularism?</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">This time I felt that the people talking about secularism/polytheism are the people who lack in knowledge of all the religions that encompasses and defines their secularism. I was with this book by some Iranian Ayatollah and read a few topics. The topics on foresightedness and its virtues were almost as good as any <i>Vedas</i> or the <i>shlok</i>s of <i>Bhagvad Gita</i>. But you know that there is a trend. To blaspheme any particular religion has become a sign of you being secular. Our shithead Central Government has always been pro-minority. Now here comes the debate. How are they secular then? If they aren't considering any religion as their fundamental identity, how come they favor the Christians and the Muslims? If they really don't care about any religion why there is a 55% reservation based on the caste and religions? Why is it like that if there is a panel of deserving advocates, who coincidentally happen to be Hindus, it is forcefully changed to an entire Muslim one, just because they can prove them secular?</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">Many many other questions on the list to make this blog unreadable. But this is the truth. We all know this. Why has UPA delayed the death sentence of Kasab? Just because they can get sympathy of some minorities? What is the use of that minorities, who have a soft corner towards such a son of a bitch? A bastard who attacked an entire nation's mind and soul and even profoundly the heart of a small boy to his 80-year old grandfather? If this is what the minorities need, just because that attacker belongs to their community, then I believe that we all should be ready for an internal war. Today it is a Muslim favoring a similar caste terrorist. Tomorrow, it can be a Dalits favoring the Naxalites, who might kill a DRDO scientist. So what kind of secularism is there?</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">Taking a political turn here. BJP and RSS have always been criticized as the fundamentalists and extremists of Hindus. I still remember the Kandla storm incident when the foul smelling dead bodies, completely distorted due to the fungi on them, were efficiently cleaned up by the workers of RSS. No one else showed up. Did they see whether the dead person was a Hindu or not? But here comes the game. Congress, the worst progeny of some slut, doesn't care because it wants to fill its seats using the minorities. They have never shown this and why should they? Right? </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">Fuel hike, astronomical scams, black money and all the banality of the bastard Congress politicians will be eclipsed when the elections will arrive. Reason? The minorities will vote them just because they think that this spineless swines will "protect" them. Isn't it mentioned that the Haj be carried out without any help from anyone? Without borrowing money? Without going into a flight? Definitely.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">But one more tragic side. The well know majority isn't the real majority. To get their names written in the good books of "intellectuals", the so-called and so wrongly called Hindus, have started blaming and carving their own scriptures. If Rushdie cannot write "Satanic Verses" then who the hell was that rascal M.F. Hussain to paint "Bharat Mata" as nude? But with the tears in the eyes, he was well praised by our "cream" layered intellectuals. Blaming Hinduism is the shortest (and kind of proven) path to sit on the bereaved seat of popularity. We don't even care. Worst thing!</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20px;">I once had a dream to be an intellectual. When people will share my ideology with respect. When I will have a single word having an impact of millions of action. When my smile will put the devils on sleeplessness mode. But if this what the definition of intellectual people, then I decline and deprive myself to ever pursue the dream of becoming one. I am bestowed by a religion, by my own <i>Bhagwan</i>, inherited from my own respected and revered ancestors and I won't leave it unless my He calls me back!</span></div>
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There is and idea about the oldest profession ever in the world. The answers are a bit ambiguous and not much related to the blog. But recently, I was thinking that what was the oldest pass time activity. There are several answers including consuming some narcotics. Don't know what Egyptians used to have but quite know that Indians have always been fond of "<i>Soma ras"</i>. Kind of elixir (FYI: Elixir has the etymology from the words al-iksir. Quite Arabic!)</div>
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Suddenly, I heard few known yet unknown college mates of mine who were bragging about how they "let go" the golden opportunity they once had. I got that. The oldest pass time was bragging. Gasconading. The word. The meaning of the word is small but the consequences are quite an elixir. It is a kind of euphoria that people feel while bragging. But afterwards, when that "OMG! You know him!" disease takes up a hold you just turn into a can't-even-die Whitney Houston syndrome. Egotist and bragging seem quite a similar. But the thing is that ego is sometimes a driving force whereas a brag is nothing sort of a pass time which may turn wrong and turn your life into Jumanji. God forbid. Just how P. Chidambaram and his fellow sinner Montek Ahluwalia bragged about bringing economic reforms. They sure brought reforms for themselves.</div>
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None of the buddies pay any attention to him first, except me. This led to a great conclusion number one in my mind. People don't pay any attention to whatever you brag as they are more interested in making others listen to their hypothetically accomplished Herculean tasks. So after few vain attempts that man saw the tends-to-zero interest amongst the surrounding flora and fauna (except for a beggar girl asking to let him lend a nickel which he "might" have got via Infosys or DLF!). He turned in a manner in a way that would put even Pierce Brosnan to shame. The name is Bond. Vagabond. I introduced him to my mind myself. But his face was like "No. No. I am the Bond." I was at that time quite shocked that with such people in our life, we can't win an Oscar for style. He was more of a Chuck Norris and even a femto-meter ahead of Rajnikant. He said, <i>"Aapko DLF ya ICICI ya Infosys mein job chahiye?" </i>Such an offer can't be seen even in a <i>mela </i>except in the spam mails. Just to enjoy the session, I jumped with an affirmative exclamation. I am good at falsely boosting people, I guess. He got a contract! He turned to other friends (and especially the girls with us) and said, <i>"Aapko bhi job mil sakta hai." </i>Definitely man. We aren't living in Taliban infested Afghanistan. I have a friend who is quite a quick-mouth. She was almost going to ruin my fun by telling that man that he was a <i>chalta-firta jhooth ki factory </i>when I signed her to keep a bit quite. The conversation went at least half an hour in which my first obvious question was how did he know such people to which his reply reflected a hypothetical nepotism running in Infosys. I clarified that he wasn't working with Satyam. He knew Mr. Murthy's son and had played with him. My first reaction to that answer was like that of Veeru's dialogue in <i>Sholay</i>, <i>"Gabbar koi bakri ka bachha hai jo doda aur pakad liya?" </i>But let the man finish. At the end of our "fruitful" conversation, he handed his obnoxious, unpardonable, offensive and ridiculous e-mail ID which I can't write here. Few girls wrote it just to look kinky to him. According to me, he was trying to look kinky to them. Anyway, they haven't installed my brain software, so viruses are obvious. He left with a call to the Dean of IIM-A, Sameer Barua, telling his friends needed admission in IIM-A and the man on the other side of the phone assured him that even without them passing CAT, he would get them in! Awesome! Shall I laugh or go home and install a disc in my brain to format it?</div>
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But this is it. Initially, bragging was considered to be a vice. A person, incapable to do any work, used to brag and the society used to kind of outcast him, verbally. Now it is a modern way of marketing. Rules change and so changes the game. Ultimate results though are based on the efforts put on getting the right results (legally and ethically is optional nowadays). But that's it. Ethics are antiques, which no Parsi uncle sells nowadays. A fool fools another fool. That befooled person is ready to get fooled. It is a cycle. No one cares. This is rampant everywhere. Education, governance, defense, innovation and every damn thing. Democracy is the constitution of tomfoolery. It fools people. People are fooled by the people for the people and with the people.</div>
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<i><b><span style="color: red;">Did I fool you? Am I bragging about my blog? Do pin point me out because I am not democratic! Rate this article and exercise your true birth right called Vote!</span></b></i></div>
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Since the discovery of particle "resembling" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson" target="_blank">Higgs-Boson</a> at <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cern" target="_blank">CERN</a></i>'s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_hadron_collider" target="_blank">Large Hadron Collider</a><i>, </i>the world has not changed its course. The science of everything. People are actually bashing the experiment saying that the same amount of money could been utilized for the "betterment" of "society". I don't give a damn. Scientists need to satisfy their curiosity but the society is just a jibber jabber of sad souls. Moreover, because they haven't studied anything well, they find it difficult to digest science and then digressively talk about how the superior mortals are pouncing upon their hard earned money.</div>
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I have a superior respect for the scientists not just because I am a science student, not just because I have always dreamt of being one but because they are the only people who are theoretically and practically applying what they have learned. Below is a poster, which I made for the lesser mortals who haven't even seen how much complex is the entire machine. I am not going to discuss Higgs-Boson (I plan to do it in next post) here. I will try to make you people think about certain pretermit things.</div>
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When a mathematical process for e.g. 1/3 yields results like 0.33333...the result is called irrational number. To sum up, a number that cannot be expressed in the "<i>a/b</i>" format is called irrational. Now for normal people and even for an exam oriented student, there is as such no significance of the digit after 5 decimal points. True. The result will be 0.33333. Multiply it with 3 again and you will get 0.99999 and then round off to 1. Swell. But if you have a little bit of time to pass and even to spare a little thought, think, where did the smallest part go? When will you get an exact 1? After five 9s? Ten or million 9s? Is it that important? The scientists at CERN, will hurl protons at <span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">99.9999991% speed of light. And NOT at the speed of light. Do you know what does that mean if we hurl anything at the speed of light? Its mass becomes INFINITE. This is the importance of irrational numbers. </span></span><span style="background-color: white;">But the only people bothered about this glitch are the scientists. Check this article </span><a href="http://www.emis.ams.org/proceedings/PME28/RR/RR082_Zazkis.pdf" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white;">. It is actually a paper. It doesn't answer the question exactly but it does effort to get to it via simplicity. Till then for a layman, the irrational number is nothing but a "compulsory" round off process.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Ever since I have read about the de'Broglie and Pauli's exclusion principle, the only thing I could imagine is Bravo! Heisenberg, Bohr and all that people (Einstein and Newton are too great to put here). They have visualized some of the tiniest objects that human mind can imagine. But again who bothers? de Broglie's principle is used for observation of particles at nano-scale. For many people, Einstein's theory is <i>E=mc</i></span><i><sup><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">2</span></sup></i><span style="background-color: white;">. They have hardly thought that for each and every massive particle, hurled at a speed near to light, the implications are as huge as either dropping a bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki or using 1kg of Uranium-235 instead of polluting environment by burning 1million tonnes of coal. Newton's theory of gravity has also defined friction. Now 99% of times, the fairer sex is involved in accident due to skidding and slipping. Hahaha. No offense. Both of them involve friction. But do we really care. Why our tyres have that grooves and that dude in bike race has smooth tyres? They haven't given it a damn. Quantum mechanics is so powerful that if any research takes place at nano-scale or even at more minute level, the products obtained will be terrifically supreme. Heisenberg's Uncertainty principle is also valid in real life. Either you can masturbate or piss. But you can't have both at the same time. (I might edit this for a better example)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">One of the most beautiful and most confusing parameter in science, spiritualism and even in laymanism is time. No one can define it. What we call time is just a numerical representation. We can't see it, touch it but do feel it when it run out of our hands! Newton tried. He won the battle till 19th century. Einstein tried and now he is winning.<span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span></span></span></div>
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just passed few seconds ago! Whoa. Fascinating. Einstein defined it. But common man didn't read it. Scientists proved it but who wants to see that? Now let's see this. The GPS device which the brats flaunt in the iPhone or GPS devices are accurately tracked to several millionth part of a second. If the satellite delays even a millisecond in orbiting, there would be a delay of 1 millisecond in providing information in each device. Assuming 1million GPS devices, the delay would mount to few minutes to few days. What would be the use of GPS then? Haah. This is how ISRO, NASA and all the space agencies monitor your life. Similar case can be observed in cellphone. But who gives a damn? Only if the message from your lover doesn't reach on time! L.O.L.</span></span></div>
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I don't need to tell anything about this invention. This is all that you're reading this post or shopping online or researching genuinely or plagiarizing or watching movies...Actually the uses of Internet and computers are limitless. But we care for that only when we need it. iMac and iPhone aren't derivatives. They are science. Your touchscreen is made of matrix arrangement which has a particular function assigned to be performed when it is touched. Who gives a damn?</div>
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I don't think that science has limits. I, at the same time, believe that "religion + science = life". One can't keep of bragging about either of them and degrade the other. If science if tool then religion is a manual. If religion has facts then science is the fact finder. If science is life, religion is air and water. But without life, does water and air can have the importance? I don't think so.</div>
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<b><u>Movie</u>: </b><i>"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/" target="_blank">Pi</a>" </i>a movie on the life of a mathematician. His discovery and his effort to understand the world. Awesome thriller from Darren Aronofsky!</div>
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<i>"Not so long ago, I was called upon by one of my near dear friends that I had obtained a nice distinction (8.59/10) in the last result of my bachelorhood. Ain't that nice? Well it sure is."</i><br />
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We live in a world which not only fascinates us but also sometimes acts in such a peculiarly impractical manner, which WE are not allowed to do. Basically, we're not a celebrity who can mow a car and still act in "Bodyguard" or the one who can leave his wife in lurch and still conduct a super nation-wide <i>rona-dhona </i>show, "Satyamev Jayate". We are like Sadhu Agashe of <i>Ab Tak Chhappan</i>. We do what we are told to and our ultimate result should be what people expect from us. <span style="background-color: white;">But this is what OUR world is about. Outside, people who are our bosses, teachers, archenemies and all that marginally seniors are free to what to do. Till this moment, I felt that by entering in to a good university, your life can change. But there are more ramifications in this belief that the changing of Moon's phase. So basically, my point is, we have suffered a surrealistic "not-once-in-a-blue-moon" conundrum.</span><br />
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As mentioned earlier, I passed my graduation in a hypothetically nice institute. My ambition was fulfilled. Though that notion of it being nice was shattered two years ago but still the idea of getting placed in a centralized university placement drive was quite a new fun for me. Now, life is like you standing in front of a cinema hall with ticket. You enter that hall and the movie starts. But you're never sure that is it the same movie that you expected to be going on. Had <i>Rowdy Rathore</i> or <i>Dabanng</i> released with notices to keep your brains at home, we would have been delighted. Duh! Well, that's it. You may have a magnificent imagination of working in a Large Hadron Collider (shown in initial part of <i>Angels and Demons</i>) but end up in the poop-party of <i>Slumdog Millionaire. </i>Awesome/Awful, isn't it?<br />
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On 15th June 2012, Friday at 9pm (of night!), I was duly congratulated about my result. Most of my friends were deadly happy for what an astonishing result they got. On 30th June 2012, Saturday at 5pm (of evening!), I was duly re-congratulated for an overall, foolish increase in grades done by my university. I was so angry. My counterparts were extremely happy because of the marks that increased in their mark sheets. I was going to be "benefited" too but I had a reason to hue and cry. As a mature person, would you appreciate that how a university can turn the results like their re-sluts? They were afraid of students who may uproar for the dumb results they provided us previously. They are now covering up and compensating us with astronomically and preposterously <i>Avengers </i>style action packed markings. If Hulk existed, my univ's VC would be counting the turns of intestine in Hulk's colon.<br />
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When the entire student fraternity was rejoicing, I gave a thought on this one. How can a university change marks overnight? Was there a doubt? Have we really got what we deserved? What further implications will this educational cockamamie will have on our future and even the univ's future? <span style="background-color: white;">There is an answer, I tried, for all of the above. Life is fun but truth is 99% depressing. And when we try to believe that we have 1% nice truth to hear, we're expecting. So again we get depressed. So, duh! Allow me to solve a gritty problem in a sweetie manner:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">When a university changes marks and even the entire grading system, overnight, it means that there was a Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll who has now taken the hold. A university should never act like a politician, giving lectures and then retreating from what they told. Our initial grade in that subject, with very minor exceptions of even lower grades, was BC. Now, last evening, they suddenly shot us from a BC to an AA (excellent) grade. No exceptions! This was more than ridiculous because now though everyone had their marks shot to a new height, the benchmark remained the same. People are happy because of their superb CGPAs and all but a point to be noted fellas, which even I encountered in some interviews. In your resume, the recruiters check everything except your marks. They know it right? I was fascinated if some student was rejected because he hadn't achieved a first class was a proud owner of it by yesterday evening. Isn't it a joke on him?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Now we Indians have a basic disease what I may term is as over-enthusiasm. (The Gujarati word which I wanted to translate here was "</span><span style="background-color: white;">હરખપદુડા". I couldn't find the word for it, so please note!) The university has been declared one. In previous semesters, the results were announced in such a great haste as if they were going to miss a bus to fame. But at that time, the outcomes were bad. Poor marks and over-the-brain checking practices played foul. Now, when the students started to smell a rat, the university took shelter in a nice burrow from where they started hurling </span><span style="background-color: white;">hyperbolic numbers of percentages. This time they surpassed every inch of stupidity that you can expect from an abnormal human being. They added a no-scientific subject, which had something to do with the Junior Kindergarten knowledge of ours. Gave it a considerate space, siding our normal core subjects. And then, they played foolishly by announcing the result a fortnight before the final (which I doubt now!). Why? They sure had a doubt that some students may go for rechecking where their hip hop of checking pattern will be crucified! So? Increment. What a silly nilly billy way to fool and at the same time make the students happy?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">There is a simple one word answer to this. NO. (You will get the answer of this NO in various parts of this blog. Keep reading).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Now, getting a great grade is quite nice in an institute where the is a difference between a dumb and an intelligent one. I do discriminate them not on the basis of the marks they have got but on the inclination towards the education they possess. By doing this jugglery, the university will hold no respect in students' minds. They will constantly feel that they will be saved from failing. No. They will be saved graciously with a garden full of marks. All flowers but of plastic. Good to show, nothing to smell. This will also create a notoriety amongst the students and a disrespect. A university that works like a lunatic with a crystal ball in hand is not the one a real person would believe and pay heed to. This is what that will happen. Happy go lucky will be a routine syllabus! </span><span style="background-color: white;">But what will happen at the industrial levels where the professional qualifications do matter? The scenario will be grim. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Let us take a case here. Imagine a room having 10 students who have achieved a minimum of 8/10 grade points. They are going to be interviewed. Of them, 6 have nothing to do with intelligence and their grades. 2 are good enough to get what they deserved but got what a little bit more. And the last 2 are perfectly deserving candidates. Now, the HR people enter and start calling the candidates. Let us assume that the 6 non-deserving candidates get the first chance to appear. They mumble, they fumble, they tremble and they tumble out from the interview. Do you believe that the HR will have any great feelings for the remaining 4 candidates who may/will fare better? The minimum target was set by HR as first class. But what if the number of students having first class is more than the total number of employees in that company?!?! Hahaha. </span><span style="background-color: white;">In future, the companies will then cease to believe upon the marks. They will either take their own tests or what can be worse, can blacklist a specific university for their swashbuckling behavior in evaluating students and their intelligence. So basically with a greater than 8 point grade, you will be nowhere, unless you really got something.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">Assume that a student has a doubt in a particular sum while writing my paper. The sum may carry 10 marks in a paper of 70. In exam, he cannot afford to lose that marks just because he doesn't know the exact method to solve it. He completes the sum with a different approach. Now when the exam finishes, he would try to get his doubt solved. But before that time, he is showered with great marks. The doubt vanishes. He assumes the sum and the method to be correct. The doubt will remain unsolved and will rise exponentially when the same mistake will go unverified and unsolved. So a time will come, when he will complete his degree with a great doubt totally unsolved because the university result asked him to be satisfied. He too got satisfied and there remained no doubt! Whoa! Can we imagine that? The only thing that can save that student is he disregards the marks and embraces knowledge which includes rectifying mistakes, criticisms, counter-questions, null doubts, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b><u>Film for today</u>: </b>Check out the movie named <i style="font-weight: bold;">"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258197/" target="_blank">Exam</a>"</i>. It is strong enough to show what the world wants and what the hell you do instead! A true masterpiece. A must watch for those who know that they have a grayish, freaky, thumping matter called Brain.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">(Loved/Hated/Bored? Why don't you anchor your comments boat on my shore!)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414208942899443346.post-2847819341648071722012-06-21T10:38:00.001+05:302012-06-21T10:47:02.529+05:30Kevi Rite Jaish Shanghai? Via Common Man!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Ci sono un sacco di cose nel mondo, che alcune persone, possono o non possono, capire. Per tutte queste cose, ma etichettarli come pazzi. Inutile dire, questo include anche i film.</i></div>
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Such things do happen with the films too. I used to scream and say that Indian filmmakers, apart from a bunch of roses, should either stop making films or start reading novels and make films. An original idea needs a great deal of research and time. After watching the trailer of "Rowdy Rathore", I was almost convinced with a fact. Our film makers are suffering from "creative impotency". <span style="background-color: white;">But </span><i style="background-color: white;">Bhagwan ke ghar der hai, par andher nahin. </i><span style="background-color: white;">Since two weeks, I was continuously getting irresistible to watch two movies. One was my favorite Dibakar Banerjee's long awaited </span><i style="background-color: white;">"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2072227/" target="_blank">Shanghai</a>"</i><span style="background-color: white;"> and the other was a really superbly crafted and acted "Urban Gujarati" film named </span><i style="background-color: white;">"<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2365873/" target="_blank">Kevi Rite Jaish</a>". </i></div>
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The gist of the reviews for both this films remain that an original, observation based idea like <i>Kevi Rite Jaish </i>or a film based on the novel, viz <i>Shanghai, </i>can create wonders. Both of them are unique and well woven. Whereas the <i>Rowdy Rathore</i> shows were houseful in all the 3 screens of any cinema, <i>Shanghai</i> struggled its way to a single screen and a mini theater only. With a crowd of hardly 25-30 people for <i>Shanghai, </i>I had a mixed feeling of sadness and happiness. I was sad because this was the only response a fabulous film could gather, just because it is based on politics. I was happy because there would not be any unnecessary hooting or shouting. <i>Shanti se dekhke aaya. </i>Initially, I doubted that <i>KRJ </i>might falter to this idiotic mayhem of <i>RR</i>, but fortunately, it retained the interest of peoplw due to its short, sweet and light but serious subject of a boy twisting and turning stones to reach USA because he is a <i>"Patel".</i> I wish <i>RR </i>should be banned for spreading notoriety. I still don't get it why the "cool" Indian generation hates politics. Don't you wanna know that the person who chews up your money, whether he is a rascal or a real benefactor? Don't you wanna know whether the person ruling on your head is an Angel or a Demon? Yeah. Why would you bother? When the concern of a nation is "Why Aish put on so much of weight?" or "With whom Deepika is linked now?" or "Who is going to win the IPL?", <i>utha le re Deva, utha le. Obviously, mere ko nahin. Inn logo ko utha le!"</i></div>
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As I am out of business nowadays (I have given the exams of my final year engineering and I don't want to be in any business for some time either), you might get this <i>absurdum</i> dose of my idle mind. In recent times, paper has gone costly for scribbling whereas entire Internet is offering free space like SRK offering costly liquors in his sponsored IPL parties. He doesn't know what he is doing, though people say he is an excellent marketeer. Same here and there. Well, as he has won (or fixed his winning and whining over MCA officials) so people will close the case.</div>
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The world is so interconnected that sometimes I doubt whether the Internet really does something. When Modi does something, entire media (of far western Honolulu too!) start jumping over various opinions, pros and cons. I recall a theory named Butterfly Effect, which I won't discuss here. Few people have told me that when you write a blog you should be aware that you shouldn't waste free space. I am still confused. Does virtual space really matter? Where were we? Yeah, we are interconnected. Just like Captain Aldo Raine and Shoshanna Dreyfus of "Inglorious Basterds". Hahaha...</div>
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Now few days back, when the virtual world was all full with the anti-price hike of the black gold. When the petrol pumps were overflowing like the lavatories of Dharavi (here too, there were cries of "Jaldi bhar" instead of "Jaldi kar"!), when the news channels were pseudo-brooding with their so-called "all time free" unknown(!) intellectuals and politicians instrumented with a wireless mic (creating an illusion that this Third World King country is hi-tech), there was an entire young generation in a very unoriginal, peaceful ambiance where no one was going to hear them. They were at the CAFÉ.<br />
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I was actually rolling over the road with my natural wheels, when I just oversaw a bunch of young people in a nearby café. All were of age groups of later 20s and early 25s. A narrow gap which just interested me. Normally, I don't take coffee and that day too, I didn't have one. Entering the café, the waiter welcomed me with a smile of American and warmth of an Indian boss. I was more comforted than what my boss would have done. But I took a chair and asked for a juice. Initially, I tried to over hear their conversation but I couldn't make it out. They were busy discussing the English songs and transferring them via their cell phones. iPhone is so cheap nowadays that Jobs must be fuming in heaven. So goes the story.<br />
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One girl from the group, with an unscrupulous attire (maybe to impress people that she belonged to either NID or IIM or equivalent intellectual society present in Ahem..Ahem...da...Bad!) stood up for order and an equivalently unscrupulous boy stood up too. I see, women are most protected in India. Just leaving and paying the bill, I was just going to take the bill when the boy said, "Isn't this reedeekyulous? Pay-troll prizes are going upsie and downsie everytime. <i>Aam to kemnu chalvanu?</i>" Now see the spellings above are meant to be spoken in the way they are written. English still doesn't exist and hence exits from many part of the Indian sub-continent. But the American accent is awful. Kidding aside, the girl replied, "Eaah(!?!?!), God known <i>kyaare khatam thashe aa badhu.</i>" I was tempted to ask them something. As I said previously, I am unemployed-by-choice nowadays, so I can pass time as much as I like. I again sat down with a mineral water bottle. (Coffee and juices are almost Rs 80-100. What am I gonna do for petrol then? :P ). They kept jabbering. <i>"Sonia ane Manmohan are stupid. Rahul is naaeeece. Youth power chhe ena ma. Modi ma pan chhe pan e center ma naa aavi shake." </i>(Translation: It means the usual!). I asked them, "Sorry for the interruption, guys." and I was faced like a criminal against Interpol. I got it. English. So I started, <i>"Sorry dude, </i>(That brought a smile on that boy's face) <i>pan tamne nathi lagtu k kharekhar petrol ni jagyae koik alternate shodhvu joie?" </i>(Translation: Don't you think that we should use some alternate other than petrol?). The girl shook her head so enthusiastically that I was well confirmed that she was going to be the next Ford of green cars. The answer, <i>"Eaah. Aapne diesel cars vaaparvi joie. Plus aapne helium cars pan vaapri shakaay." </i>And I greeted them, "Very correct (!)" Smiled and got away.<br />
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When people enter the café, they get a image that they will be portrayed as a bunch of intellectuals to the other mass. India is suffering from a mass difference that they are class. The confusion is just the same which you felt in getting the last line. A thick rimmed glass, <i>rudraksh mala </i>or the substitues<i>, </i>kurti and jeans and for boys Tarzan type beards and all that won't make them "een-tail-actuals". They don't know what they are talking about. They just start the conversation and keep misguiding each others.<br />
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Our teachers used to tell us that we should talk in English, no matter how much right or wrong we get with the grammar. This doesn't apply to facts and actions. They have an impact. Reprimanding a step, with a view to get in the pseudo-class mass can be precarious. This may not effect if they have a group, similar to themselves. But if ever, they encounter a really knowledgeable person, their souls and lives will run out of their bodies. My question is that is it really necessary to have half-knowledge than some less perfect one?<br />
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<b><u style="font-style: italic;">P.S.</u>: "Kahaani" </b>fame Khan aka Nawazuddin Sidduiqui won the Best Actor award at the Cannes. But we were too busy in making an uproar over Aish's weight or Mallika's next wardrobe malfunction at the Cannes. We are weird but are being made more, as if this was less... ;)<br />
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This time I have taken up in hand a topic, never ever taken before by me. Hence there is an earnest request that if at any point I am wrong, do point me out.<br />
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I was surfing through the web when a thought just went through my mind. The last depression in world economy (aka <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression" target="_blank">The Great Depression</a>) occurred around 1930s. All we (as far as I believe none of my readers were there in 1930s!) know is just the history. But the thing what bites the most is that within a nominal span of less than a 100 years, we are again facing the crisis of worldwide depression. This actually depicts something.<br />
The western economic laws are quite weird as compared to the other parts of the world. I am not going deep into the Indian economy system because it sustained us even after a long time (before this Western idea came here).<br />
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Point one. When you think about a currency note (say Rs 100), think for 2 mins. That Rs 100 note has basically no face value. It is just a piece of paper whose per unit production cost may not be exactly equal to the value which it carries in the market. Funny, isn't it? You buy things using a note which has probably got no monetary importance of its own, except the fact the we hallucinate it with that large Arabic numeral.<br />
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The second point is about the idea of consumer being benefited in competition. This is probably the most falsely accepted idea in the entire western economy. Let us take an example. Say I am a service provider of cell phone SIM cards. I have a friend and another rival to compete in the market. Now according to the Western economy, the customers will be benefited when three of us bulls will lock horns with each other to defeat each other. What if the bulls come out together secretly? What if their horns are merged to a bigger powerful system of weapon? What if we three simultaneously increase the price? BAAANNNG! Customers have no choice other than us. Let us add another scenario in this about the foreign investment. This is the answer of Western economy laws to my argument. Are you sure? Take an example of any foreign company that has taken up a day to day life commodity market to make it tough for the rogue money minders. Nope. It can't be happening. Either they haven't survived or they followed Darwin's law. Survival of the fittest and joined the money minting policies of the others. Customer is killed with a white sword now.<br />
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These are just the three points which I feel are the main (and severely harmful and inevitable) drawbacks of Western economy policies. As far as I feel, their laws are more of complicated mathematics and statistical equation rather than psychological approach between consumer and company. Trust and business have a very fine and an effective bond. Even today, people lend money on trust and if anything goes wrong, that trust is redeemed. This isn't economy. This is abstract way to keep the money flowing. This is the real economy.<br />
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I heard from somebody that USA has already flunked the gold standards and is now minting the dollar notes as per its whim. Wow! My next question was, how can they do it? Aren't they flouting rules of economics? Why won't the other countries protest? The answer was, USA is a Godfather at the moment. If its building gets a small crack, other countries will collapse to nothing. Simple example of <i>"Teri bhi chup aur meri bhi chup!" </i>That's how "do the barrel roll" (that was a Google trick ;))<br />
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Other drawbacks do include the loan rates, interest calculations, multiple commodity exchanges, hyper sensitive stock indices (which actually shouldn't concern a country. It's only for that company) and so much more. I really think that the Western economics should be re-written with psychological factors added to all its important aspects. Just think, another Great Depression in 100 years. That means that the theory didn't even last more than most of the humbug scientific theories. A shame.<br />
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And as I am writing this post, India's rascal government has already hiked Rs. 7.50 in petrol, surging the prices to almost Rs. 77 (normal petrol). We are going to meet the same fate. Plus, we have already subtracted honesty.<br />
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Though the results aren't out yet and I have just finished my written exams of engineering., I am in a certain hope that I will be an engineer (an official one!) within few months. Isn't that great? (Don't answer. It is rhetorical!) Rather than a story, this "four-year-sentence" was allegorical. Converted humans to dumb animals which were re-converted into inanimated ones. In a "nuts""hell", you don't come to a conclusion. You just end up sighing with a marksheet in hand and a typical student smile on face.</div>
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The world like to live in fool's paradise. And only the fools can think that there is a paradise or hell. Well, it always has been a controversial topic. The thing I would like to discuss is the short-term-nostalgia which the students feel while leaving their college. Short term because in this era of fast transport, ultra fast virtual devices and a steep drop of human emotions, one cannot remain nostalgic longer than a few hours (few seconds cannot be an exaggeration!). But that's the truth. You love your college? Yes we do. Why? Because we had some best friends of our lives. What makes them the best? Their nature, their behavior, their help, etc. List is as long as the scam list of UPA government. College is not just for fun, dudes (I personally don't like using that word), it is a shape changing or a path guiding device. I am not going to talk about the idealistic "ejj-you-kay-shun", I just wanna say that for >90% of students, college is no big deal other than making friends having a merry time, making GFs/BFs (use where appropriate), applying for jobs, exams and all that shit! (I personally find this word very nice!)</div>
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So what's new? I say, NOTHING. People are repeating their school days games. They have just gained expertise in it. I see a very narrow mind set street leading to a very big multi-lane highway of escapism. Haaah! (Idiotic. Must be your first word.) Let me explain it.</div>
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When you enter a college, you are to be carved into a superior human being (just in thoughts and actions and good behavior, of course). I don't think that any god blessed parent should expect such things from college teachers. For the record, T-E-A-C-H-E-R-S and C-H-E-A-T-E-R-S set a perfect anagram of each others. So, you need to rely on your surroundings. But who the hell is interested? In my college days, even I have suffered of this marijuana named friendship, which has given me superb merry time experiences. But it just taught me one thing. Every man, for himself. It's idiotic. All the time, canteens are filled with hullabaloo and jesting around. Continuous use of "F" word, doesn't give you an "A" in your column of power.</div>
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In this damned country named India, you just need to scream your tonsils out for work getting done. Add to the woes, your teachers act like a raging bull in china shop. I wish I could...Guess work up to you. As far as I have met my counterparts, they have always gained a step-mother behavior from that blood-sucking college. There should be Anti-Ragging committee against teachers too. Why not? Aren't the splicing your brain out?</div>
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But you know what, just like a scrap-valued Hindi movie, we have friends. That word has lost its meaning. Facebook is the new medium. The word "Friends" and "Friend Circle" has become a status symbol (must be surprised as since when students have status, na? Facebook status, is what I am talking! :P ). There is actually an unproductive criminal wastage of time in college. Especially in India, much precisely in Gujarat and accurately in all colleges. Motto has become: Eat, Shit (Sheet for Civil and Mech students!) and Die! That's all. You don't get knowledge from anywhere. Isn't it strange? Friends have become a word and a part of life which hurtle us into the chasm of escapism. In my mind, the image of a friend has just reduced to a Bollywood chocolaty boy or a bubbly girl, who remains good for nothing throughout but just gives you an unnecessary teeth showing exercise (P.S. Smile and Laugh are very pure words. They don't provide it). Then what's the big point in having 3 friends or 300 friends? Western culture has given enough importance and sanctity to friendship, unlike ours. We can't even copy right. Copyright or copy right? :P</div>
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Sometimes I get so much frustrated when my questions go unanswered, that I wish to hang all the professors to partial death. There is a trick in partial death idea. They feel the pain and then live further to revive it continuously in their mind. (Tarantino might make a movie on this, I guess!). Truth is that nowadays, college has reduced to a filmy style fun making site, where our money is wasted, teachers behave as devils, friends just enjoy and depart and at the end of the time, you are reduced to a nonsense nostalgic chap who has obtained nothing considerable than all the above garbage.</div>
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As far as time is concerned, I am not a person to be followed or appreciated. Irregularly irregular but this two negatives don't make a positive difference! Trash, I know but <i>kya karein</i>. <i>Control nahin hota!</i><br />
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Less than a fortnight ago, Indian media suddenly whacked my TV and killed my mood mercilessly. "SRK dentained at US airport!". Their hype was more like "<i>Arre! 2012 aa gaya kya?!" </i> and then started the reflection of Indian culture which can be termed in one simple, derogatory and irritating phrase:<br />
Personality Cult.<br />
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The media was all ready to sue the people who held the epiglottis of that Adam's Apple wala Khan for 2 years (seemed to me like years rather than hours!). Media was more furious than Al-Qaeda after Osama's death or the LTTE after Prabhakaran's death! Reason: An Indian superstar got detained on US airport for 2 hours.<br />
Congress sycophant, Rajiv Shukla, snarled "<span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: -webkit-auto;">SRK's detention at US airport inappropriate!"</span><br />
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So it goes. We are so much smitten by personalities that we have always overlooked their vices and have accepted them as their status and style analogy. Shitty isn't it? Yes it is. When Aamir made <i>"Delhi Belly"</i>, I was damn sure that it will get a maverick critic review and so it achieved. That man is a clever one. He has set up an aura around him of intellectualism and perfectionism. Damn smart he is cause he knows that we are more than 1 billion idiots!</div>
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SRK on the other hand is a real-life clown whose face is hidden behind his protruding nose and his over-smartness overflowing like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morvi_dam_failure" target="_blank">Machchu Dam of Morbi</a>! Disastrous, not only to himself but also the people entangled with him. Creating such a hype of a foolish issue was uncalled for and then he suffered some serious wrath! He is a creative marketeer whose 90% energy is being utilized to create hypes, confusions, fake celebrity brawls, fights and what not.</div>
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Readers! The last post on The Dumpyard i.e. "Lost and Found: It's Yore v/s Your" (<b><a href="http://the-dumpyard.blogspot.in/2012/02/lost-and-found-its-yore-vs-your.html" target="_blank">click here</a></b> to read it) ended up with a
complete, but bit less, postmortem of the "modern old" generation's
view on the "lost young" generation. An obvious demand was and is
that then what is the solution? Should the youngsters be allowed to roam free?
Allowed to do whatever they do? These questions are humbug and hold no good
when the matter is as sensitive as guiding the path of the youth. These
questions are some of the most superficial ones which hardly deal with the
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<b><u>Q-1</u>: What the young generation really needs?</b></div>
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<b><u>A-1</u>:</b> Time. Every human generation has evolved. We have the
scientific base of Darwin's theory of evolution. Mistakes make us to learn new
and better things. The best example supporting this argument in a funny way is
the advertisement of Mentos (<b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohRd6MmBZ5g&feature=related" target="_blank">click here</a></b> to watch the video), which shows that how the arrogance of a donkey aids
the growth of a monkey to man! LOL...It is just entertainment but no. For all
and once, even we know that the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
occurred due to the ambitious approach of the, the that time young Russians,
who are now basically, the old people. They were doing something that gone
awry. But does that mean that the entire generation of that time be blamed?
Nope. Check the computers. They have grown from dumb to super smart in
successive generations. Human beings are also like that. The young generation
is yet in its beta-version, trials and errors. But then, as the genius Albert
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A-2: Blame game. Shaking the confidence. Apparently, one
can't work when a bunch of elder, rather being guardian, start bullying them.
Continuous pestering and then saying it, "We, elders, care for you!"
is not going to make a negligible difference too! Even in the culture of
mindless fauna, it is very important that there is no nagging of the baby else
they won't ever be out due to the loss of confidence and abundance in fear.
Abandon that, grey hairs! Please!</div>
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A-3: This question is as important as the entire topic
itself. The young generation needs to check that whether the above two
conditions (precisely, questions) are satisfied or not. If not, then just go
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Yes. That's it. No need to be afraid of anything. There will
be a thousand fingers against you but that two V fingers gesture, surpasses the
world's worst criticism. You need to be faithful in your work. Whatever you
take up, do it as if that is your life. Don't overdo anything as even the
Nature doesn't like that. Definitely, be polite to elders and do listen to
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To sum up, every previous generation blames the present
generation and regrets about the future of the next to next generation. If that
is human nature, then definitely, we are not going to have another Einstein or
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Hello 2012 livers!<br />
The first post of 2012 is taking place on 1st day of the 2nd month of the year, in which we all are expected to be converted to dust and dumped to The Dumpyard! Hahaha...Well researchers have proved that the entire 2012 is a hokum, just like the announcement of inflation going down, by the Indian government. So here we are, to pay more for everything and to do more than anything, beyond limits. Happy New Year!<br />
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Let's begin with a news article this time, read <a href="http://ahmedabadmirror.com/article/78/201201252012012523124492b7c7b265/The-lost-generation.html" target="_blank">The Lost Generation</a> by Pravin Mishra. Some of the readers have read this and I would like that you scratch your head and recall that. But in nutshell for all, it is an article that was kind of blaming youth and their short term adoption towards the dazzling ephemeral life of celebrities and attention seekers. Usual for me. That article was quite interesting as there always has been a phrase, "Generation Gap" which we all know. What hit my head and turn me into the Tony Montana of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/" target="_blank">Scarface</a> was that at each and every line there was a pseudo intellectual blaming of youth. Every present problem was indirectly a product of youth. I am going to conduct a cruel and visceral postmortem of that article by putting down some lines: (By the way I also had an opinion published on the same in the same paper. To read it, <a href="http://ahmedabadmirror.com/article/78/201201252012012523124492b7c7b265/The-lost-generation.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.)<br />
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<u><b>Line</b></u>: <i><span style="font-size: small;">They jump into the ‘Cat’ race and then the rat race without having any idea of where the race leads them to.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">That's a very great word, "Cat race". Human beings will be prosecuted in Hell (definitely!) by animals in Heaven under the accusation of blaspheming their names! Haha. Getting serious now, define "Cat Race". This blog won't answer, you yourself have to answer that and keep it in your mind. Cat race is seen in each and every field of today's world. A vestigial impediment in education and livelihood, especially. How the young generation is pushing the "Cat Race"? Ask yourself, if you're a parent, haven't you wished that your child be the topper of his class? If you're a child, haven't you seen a gleam in the eyes of your parents when they hear something delightful from the parents of your counterparts? Don't you wish to push your limits and prove yourself? Don't the parents feel that by personal tuition, their child may score better? Anyway, the point is that the creation of rat race or cat race is based on fulfilling desires of the older generation. Stunned? An example. Why it has become inevitable to achieve >75% in HSC now? Why graduation was considered to be a great qualification in early 80s or 90s, whereas it has become a necessity to become masters now? Why the livelihood of a person has rose so high? Young generation? No. Older generation. The reason is their unnecessary craving to "stress" their child to success. Their fault? No. Fault of the parents who had a Baker's dozen of children. Corruption? Yes by the rulers born between 1940s and 1970s. Isn't it true? The elders won't understand that the politicians of their "batch" are sucking their "batchmates" and killing their children's progress with corruption. Many a lot things that are existing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Line</b></u>: <i>(Today's youth)....</i><i>are comfort-seeking unconcerned species with single-point agenda of accumulating wealth in their lives.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Bullshit! More and more young people are much getting addicted to a peaceful life rather than accumulating money. A great sense of content is rather prevailing. To the extent that they risk their entire savings to start up something innovative, which maybe a non profit organization. Comfort seeking? I ask the young generation of Mumbai local trains? Are you in comfort seeking mentality? No. Ask a young teen studying in Std. 12. Their parents will admit that his entire day is much much busier than theirs. Ask a corporate executive? No, just see him and you will tumble looking at his schedule.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Line</b></u>: <i>Patriotism is participating in candle light protest without fully understanding the cause.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">This line is a bitch. Check Indian politicians' corruption list and then accuse the youth. I don't favor candle march, myself, but at least they are doing it. Not like the politicians, government officials who are in their "1 year minus from being sexagenarian" age and who are not even interested in listening to problems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><u><b>Line</b></u>: <i>With iPod plugged into their ears the
urban youth today has turned deaf to the real world. They are busy
talking or texting but are disconnected to the world around.</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">What? See the other way people. The youth is frustrated everywhere. The only thing they ask for is not love but a drug that will distract them from the danger that they are being thrown into an ever lasting chasm of grim life, where they won't hold respect. Where no one will understand them except their peers. No one will try to be their guide but definitely the elders will be there to nail them, because it is young generation. An iPod wearing youth is depiction of how the elders turn a blind eye to their grievance, leaving the youth no other alternate but to ignore themselves. That iPod studded youth is a potential suicidal person because he has nothing more than his own ears, which have gone deaf amidst the silent high pitched slap of the previous generation. Where the numbness in their ears have accelerated their reason to lose belief in others and start afresh on their own. A silent heart rending cry that will slash the souls of the previous generation blaming them, leaving the civilized "elders" dumb founded and stirring their souls!</span><br />
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bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and,
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Dr. Hargobind Khorana, the Indian Nobel Laureate, passed away on 9th Nov 2011. It is that the demise of such a genius Indian was neglected by the media for some very trivial and pesky coverage of celebrities. It is indeed very lamentable and would wish media to draw its attention towards Indians who have created a history in world and left a mark. A Nobel Winner for Medicine, Dr. Khorana's work was a great boost for the entire genetic engineering and the pharmaceutical field. He solved the mystery of Human Genes in three letters; U, A and C! These custom-designed pieces of artificial genes are widely used in biology labs for sequencing, cloning and engineering new plants and animals. A company can order a synthetic gene from any of a number of companies. One merely needs to send the genetic sequence to one of the companies to receive the desired sequence. The entire clone engineering received a major boost due to this. he received the Nobel Prize in 1968 along with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley.<br /><br />But who cares!<br /><br />R.I.P. Dr. Khorana! India will remain indebted and so will be the entire world<br />
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Infinitely stupid and an arrogantly retard movie. Why? Because I had hopes? Naah. When it is SRK, I just hope a good Hindi copy of English movies. So just in that hope, I zip zap and zoomed to Wide Angle, a prominent theater of Ahmedabad. The moment I entered, I felt that I am going to see a big budget movie, full of VFX. And I was a bit confident that SRK may not excel in acting, but VFX wasn't his arena and hence I wished an adrenaline packed action!<br />
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Adrenaline? I needed an Aspirin. The entry video (mind it, Video!) is such a dumb piece of SRK type comedy, that within 1st five minutes, the films starts to get on your nerves. That too in such a way, that you start worrying that whether the film is going to start or not. Frankly speaking, I was a bit confused. I had heard of RA. One first and the last time, when it was declared that SRK was up-to something. My idea during the 1st scene was that maybe, as happens in Bollywood, Kareena might have been dropped out of it. But Sanjay Dutt wasn't there in my dreams! I was a bit baffled. But when I saw a copy of Batpod driven by our own SRK, I got that. The master copier was on the way. But that horrible dream of SRK's son (he was tooooo! :) Irritating! :( :P ) is, I mean, in no case it develops your interest in movies. Papa The Great <i>chhaap</i> comedy, sounds cliche.<br />
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Story is cliched. A father tries to prove a hero in his son's eyes. Purely imperfect. SRK doesn't strike a single chord, not even a <i>besura</i> <i>taal</i>, in his character of Shekhar Subramaniam. Accent is horrible and funnily mediocre. I can't understand why a South Indian is always postered as "Aiyai yo", "Yenna", "Appa" and "Rascala"? Why? It seems that RA. One was there to compete Robot in terms of IQ (Irritating Potential)! Mind blowing RA. One scored 300! :D<br />
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In the middle of torture, comes an interval. Post interval, the movie gains a momentum for a little time. But the script doesn't follow "Law of Conservation of Momentum" and turns to a momentary impulse, losing gravity and poking fun on its own script! Exalted. Why? Because that is probably the last straw on the camel's back. Kareena (I never liked her acting) is more funny when she gets emotional. That small kid, is an un-originally idiot "dood". Rampal is quite nice, contrary to my belief. And seriously, he is much much much better. Shahana Goswami, you are wasted. Sorry for you.<br />
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To sum up, SRK's movies are nothing else but a self sung melodies of praise and whose notes are copied from Western movies like TRON: Legacy, Terminator, Iron Man, Transformer, The Dark Knight (esp. that 1st Batpod scene) and what not. Too many cooks may spoil the broth, but it is okay, unless you have to pay heavily, like 2.5 hours and some Rs. 150. My verdict is that, people who say "We should praise an Indian film's effort" please make yourself comfortable in this hula-hoop of blatant sensationally promoted mindless, second-rated movie. Please SRK, do something original like <i>Kabhi Haan Kabhi Naa, </i>or <i>Baadshah</i>, but for God's sake, don't play with people's money. RA. One is nothing more than a thug movie, which robs not only your money but also your precious Diwali, mood, fun and jeers at the capability of an Indian movie's damn fool replica of several benchmark flicks!<br />
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Offlining!<br />
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*Dump*<br />
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;)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414208942899443346.post-48650590363627753782011-10-06T23:52:00.000+05:302011-10-20T10:18:53.013+05:30iRequiem For An iDream<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><i>Requiem</i></b>: A song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person<br />
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<i><b>Dream</b></i>: Something which Steve Jobs redefined (without going to sleep)<br />
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There is something in the title of this blog, I hope which most of you might have understood. "i" is no longer just a letter. "i" is no longer in capitals. "i" is iPhone, "i" is iPod, "i" is iMac. "i" is Steve Jobs.<br />
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Steve Jobs retired from Earth on October 5, 2011. I was shocked at 7am today (6 Oct.) when I saw in the headlines that Jobs quits Earth. Though I am neither any "i"-product user, but as many laymen, I have always been fascinated by them. It isn't that smooth scrolling of the iPhone, that touches your heart. It is the background of a two-time cancer patient's impatience towards innovation that steals the heartbeat. To idealize innovation is good and necessary, but to put innovation in practice is difficult. But DIFFICULT wasn't the word in Jobs iDictionary. He was a man with DIFFerent CULT.<br />
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As usual but with a heavy heart, I posted a tribute to Jobs in my ScientiFreak SMS channel. I was really sorry. I became much sorry when some messages reverted as "Who was he?", "Oh :(. Who is he?" It isn't just the ignorance of people. One cannot expect each common man having knowledge about such CEOs or Chairman. But then....Nothing.<br />
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Steve Jobs was admired widely for his extreme determination in fighting the cancer battle, twice (Liver and Pancreas). But what I liked the most of him was the innovation. You may have instances of numerous people who might have fought cancer with zeal, but Jobs wasn't one of them. He innovated till his death by placing an iPhone 4S in market. Many people will add that as a product gimmick or whatever, but I say, that "iPhone 4S" means an "iPhone 4Steve".<br />
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Apple's product are probably the most expensive consumer products (I have a dream to own a MacBook just because it is priced at >= 1 Lacs :) Wish me luck!) But the second you just see them (not even touching it), you will feel the ambiance of creation. You feel the aroma of a continuous dying spirit which may not be seen henceforth.<br />
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It isn't that only Apple has lost him. The entire Orange has also lost him. (Orange as described for the shape of Earth)<br />
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Well, who am i (should I write I or "i") to tribute such a great soul? No one pays a tribute to him. But yes, the coming years will hear a ring of a faint echo of Steve in the field of IT and Computers, when a force of invention will be felt to be at rest.<br />
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My quote for Steve:</div>
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"Steve Jobs hasn't died. He has just innovated himself from his ailing body to a cleaner and greater soul!"<br />
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R.i.P Jobs<br />
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Offlining<br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414208942899443346.post-90774018433332387452011-09-07T23:59:00.000+05:302011-09-07T23:59:44.294+05:30Why you shouldn't be an Indian? (Part-1)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Today I came across one of the
harshest (and but obvious, expected) reality of Indian mind set. I saw a
future, which most of you might never have thought of. Or even if you had a
pinch of this bitter prediction, I am proud to have you as my subscriber! :)<span style="font-family: Wingdings;"></span></div>
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India:</div>
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A country where problems aren’t solved, where
problems are considered to be appetizer or a daily dose for becoming active (!)
and prove yourself as a powerful person. A place where not only wretched
politicians are corrupt but the entire population is corrupt. It isn’t only the
illiteracy; it is also the education which creates the problem. It isn’t only the
uncivilized people; it is also some so-called civilized divas, which are meaner
than wretches.</div>
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Whenever you see a growth chart
of India, mind it very well that it is like calling a 12<sup>th</sup> failing
person 12<sup>th</sup> STD genius. It is like describing Einstein or Newton as
fools. It is like reversely writing GOD and then praying that. </div>
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India is a
country where even <2% are honest. It is even a greater figure, so let us
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A disturbing incident, I would
not like to mention here, occurred tonight, leaving me a hopeless and a
psychotic idealist whose ideas were treated like some perversions. Whose
suggestions were ridiculed to the apex of their sheer bastardliness. I found a
solution to one of the simplest and most rampant problem in the most foolproof
way. It didn’t take even a minute to come across that answer, but I can’t stop
swearing that how meanest and most negative people can create problems.
Solutions should be found out by taking the worst possibility in mind. Design
it for future expansion and then give approximate safety space. But here, it is
like cross arguing. It is the blame game which just doesn’t end.</div>
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I am in no mood to write further (and so I have made this post in parts) as
it is a “The Dumpyard” and I don’t want to make it as dirty as India (You have problem with this? Sue me and I will be the 2000000th case. Nothing more!)</div>
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Good Night and Have a nice day
tomorrow!</div>
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*Offlining*</div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>Sniffler</u></b>:<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A person who is suffering from congested nose and breathing heavily.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><u>Metadata</u>: </b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Data about data.</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><i>“Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with running nose”</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-left: 3.0in; text-indent: .5in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">-Mikhail Kalashnikov</i></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">The man who said the above lines, invented our terrorists dearest AK 47! I laughed at it initially but not any more. *SNEEEZEE* (Handkerchief aided cleaning of my nose). Hell the climate, where neither rain falls and nor the rain from someone’s nose stops! Aware are the people who don’t think what they should and who talk they should not! Interestingly, nothing happens when you want to get out of a pathetic situation. Neither your phone rings, nor there comes an alert about your result, nothing! Absolutely nothing. Well, lemme start now what I am talking about.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Once upon a time, in the month of July 2011, a boy named Chinmay, was sitting at a café, waiting for his friends. Unfortunately, they didn’t show up but the heavy rain did. Stranded all alone, he was unable to think of what to do, when he called at his home, to inform about the situation. He plugged his divine headphones and started listening melodious remixes. But there was a devil, the Sniffler, about whom Chinmay didn’t know. He came with a wrecked elder voice of scolding and in the attire of a really sophisticated (deceptive) man. So he the conversation goes:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Sniffler: Why you people hear to this nonsense headphones all the time?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Chinmay: Excuse me? Sir, are you telling this to me?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Sniffler: See? You don’t even know who is clling you! (Loudest , heaviest and wettest sneeze ever arrives)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Chinmay: Ohh. I am sorry! I didn’t…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Sniffler: You have a cloth piece or kerchief?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i>(Chinmay frowns in dilemma. What if he will say “No” to that old man? Nope. He will bombard lecture. Nope!)</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Chinmay: Of course. Take this. (Giving with an expression of not wanting to receive it back)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Sniffler: Good. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(No Thank You).</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Chinmay: You gotta cold? Cough too?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Now starts the climax of the story as the devil shows his real face of pathetic dirtiness, his sadistic pleasure of making someone to puke, his harsh wet coughing voice which is the icing on the cough cake.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Sniffler: You don’t know. Three days before, I was all wet in rain. Upto here (shows his drenched thighs on which there are some twigs!). When I was at you age…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Chinmay: (Interrupting to save himself of the “Good Old Days” lecture) Ohh my God! What happened after getting drenched?</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Sniffler: Oh…I went at my home then. But the next day, when I woke up, I saw that my pillow was covered with thick yellow stinking mucus from my nose! (Chinmay pukes from the soul but doesn’t show) Then I went to the basin and sniffed it out. It took approx half an hour to clean my nose. (Chinmay just tries to say about doctor) No doctor can do that. It was pathetic. Then I used my brain. I kept sneezing like this (gives free and full demo). And there came out pint of mucus! (Unfortunately, it was repeated too! Yuuccckkk!) I did that for an hour. Then, slowly I started feeling good. (Chinmay sneezed. Surprisingly, he gave a handkerchief. Wonder!) But yesterday, again my entire handkerchief was rot. There was fungus and mucus around it and it turned into a hard starched-like cloth. I cleaned it and you can see now as you are using (Chinmay cries from the soul but again, doesn’t show) and it’s as good as new! Then…</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">The story is too long to be told and too pathetic and nauseating to hear. I would like to conclude here. That old man got me jitters and shivers with his “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Delhi Belly” </i>talks. I don’t remember how he stopped and how I was saved. I came home by keeping my eyes down of furious lightning. So, I don’t know how the time passed and I was saved from getting passed away. Ending with something, not like a poem:</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">I was the victim of the heavy rain.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">I was the victim of my friends ignoring pain.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">I was the victim of that dirty Sniffler’s talks.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">I was the victim of “Sniffler’s Metadata!”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Offlining (Sneeze)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">*Dump*</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">;)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-414208942899443346.post-883687334262595382011-07-15T19:15:00.000+05:302011-07-15T19:15:10.229+05:30The "Bayooon" man! It isn't a child's play now!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Hello folks!</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I am happy to see myself again writing the blog and seeing you reading it happily (go on. This time I have summin’ different to say). Every time, I have one or the other idea about the surroundings and think like, “OK. What’s the big deal about it?” attitude, because most of the things have lost their meanings and are just a living/non-living objects which are in this world fulfilling other people’s desire and then get thrown away. Kind of depreciation, you know.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">I was taking an evening walk near my house, when I surprisingly saw a modern child with a modern mother, standing near a balloon man and his mother was willfully purchasing balloons for her baby. The boy shouted in his cheerfully humming and unclear voice, “Bayooon!” (Yeah. Children of such age SHOULD speak like that and not in a sophisticated parrot voice, new mothers! It’s their innocence). The way that baby pronounced balloon was so mesmerizing that even an aged wrecked and wretched person would start loving balloons. Wow! It was a rainy weather and wet all over. And there lied the soothing smell of the wet soil and the soothing symphonic shout of the child! It was just an event that was as rare as a gamma ray burst (SPOILERS: ANTI-SCIENCE people can skip this line but can read “blue moon” instead of gamma ray burst).</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">This case is very rare. Really, I haven’t seen any mom-child pair buying balloons or any such things which were natural pleasure in yore. I have seen mom talking over her cell phone and her child looking blankly at the traffic honking. I have seen a mom bargaining with the store owner and the child listening to music with an iPod or so. Or in worst case (comic too!), the mom is fighting with the store owner and the child is crying loudly. You all can assume what the mum next step can be. Yep, you are right.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Karate classes, swimming classes, academic tuition right from 1<sup>st</sup> grade, mental math classes, singing classes, dance classes, social networking (this should be considered as a censored material just like an adult film with same age limit restrictions) etc. and what not. Really speaking, the meaning of the phrase <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“A child’s play”</i></b> has drastically and has contrarily changed now. All this should be legally banned for a child below 10 years of age or so. The strain which the parents are applying on them just ruins them. Recently, I have observed that the small children aren’t crying, they won’t pine for things. They have become blank. This is extremely dangerous. It is spoiling the entire innocent generation. The ultra modernization of the tech world is definitely going to kill them. Placing an iPod or a BlackBerry or gifting a MacBook Pro, is not going to make your child survive in this world. The real talent is brain which blooms in gardens, friends, fights, fun, drenching in rain, playing (not on PC!), buying “bayooons” (I am kinda like this word from the core of heart now!). I know many of the readers may argue that the child won’t be competitive if he doesn’t go to classes. My answer: Have you heard the word “saturation”? Yes. That’s the word. None of us is going to feel but the perpetrated (read: A child performing “modern acts”) will produce a silent shrill which will slit our soul. Biologically too, a child’s mind is too under developed to fulfill his parents’ desire of achieving a black belt in karate at the age of 9 or becoming Ian Thorpe at the age of 7 or dancing for 3 straight hours.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">But I know none of the parents are going to think about this. And I am not going to give you any example which will make it clear. Why? Coz you don’t wanna think and I don’t wanna say.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Step Up</u>: </i>“Delhi Belly”. A movie not recommended even for adults and ONLY for PERVERTS! Cheapest and meaningless movie with a very ordinary storyline and extraordinary use of swear words. (Your socially active child of 10 will discuss <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Delhi Belly</i> on Facebook, won’t he?).</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><u>Tribute to innocent childhood voice</u></i>: "The Cuppy Cake" Song (Click for the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjhZa8--G8">video</a> and for <a href="http://beemp3.com/download.php?file=1183656&song=cuppy+cake">Mp3</a> download)</b>. <b>Watch or listen to revive the child in you, if any. Hahahaha!</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Offlining</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">*Dump*</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">;) </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1