Let's Make an iPhone in Rs. 699!

Hello Readers,

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.

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.

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: You Don't Need an App for That] 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.

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.

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 

1. In company 

2. Product's validity over the time 

3. Product's utility

4. Innovation/New features

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:

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: Bill and Melinda Gates]. 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: The role of innovation in driving the economy: Lessons from the global financial crisis by Angela Hausmana, Wesley J. Johnston]. 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.

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.

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: iPhone 6 and Sapphire Glass]. 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: Apple's Patented Sapphire Glass Manufacturing Design]. 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! ;)

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!

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!

Flick Suggestion: Inside Job. 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!

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Sissy Secularism vs. Apathetic Atheism

Hello Critics!

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.

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 Mahalo for nothing!

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: 

Secularism: the principle of separation of government institutions, and the persons mandated to represent the State, from religious institutions and religious dignitaries. [Source: Wikipedia]

Secularism: a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations [Source: Princeton Edu]

One thing that obviously catches the attention is that the both of the definitions "reject" religion in secularism. What we are facing is the loophole politics of the definition. Let's follow the Indian mutilated version of secularism.

Secularism in India: Citizens have complete freedom to follow any religion, and there is no official religion. The Government treats all religious beliefs and practices with equal respect and honor.

[Source: Wikipedia]

Wikipedia has garnered more criticism than praise for its authenticity. So, I went to download the Indian Constitution for the same. Here is something more revealing, more than just the definition.

"Subject to public order, morality and health and to the other provisions of this Part, all persons are equally entitled to freedom of conscience and the right freely to profess, practise and propagate religion." [Source: Indian Constitution, Page 485 "Right to Freedom of Religion"]

The only part I want to emphasize is that in the right to freedom of religion, specifically mentioned is the propagation of religion which technically, legalizes all the religion conversion business. Well, does legal or illegal really matter in India? That's an LOL.

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).

About The Pic: Arjuna pondered deeply on Krishna's suggestions. He was mesmerized when he saw the different avatars of Vishnu. What are the chances that he would have been Krishna's blind follower if Krishna had shown this before? What are the chances that Arjuna would have been more sure about Krishna than his Dhanurvidya (skill of archery)? That's the same with monotheism and polytheism/Indian secularism. Our Constitution is mesmerized by so many religions. Maybe, it has blind faith in them more than the power of its own self.

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 garba 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.

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!

Comments are welcome and obviously that means, at least some one is reading! ;)

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Science: From Overture to Symphony. Now to Finalé?

Hola Amigos,

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 A Beautiful Mind, 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 still a tragedy to a great extent.

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.

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 getting chills of nostalgia.

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 Mathematica 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.

The symphony began between late 18^th and early 19^th 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.

Coming in the early 20^th 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 revolutionized. Everything was revolutionized. It was INNOVATION.

Nothing to prove 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!

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 than innovator.

Anyway, the world is moving fast. Hoping for a better future of science and better definition of invention.

Must see: Apple's WWDC XIII keynote. Something for the readers to get spellbound beyond words. Enjoy!

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The Private Proclamation

Hello Readers,

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.

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 havan, 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 Idi Amin or Vlad Tepes Dracul. 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. 

I came across this film named Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom by Pier Paolo Pasolini. 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. 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. 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.

Saw the similarity? I did. I hope you will find it too. Maybe the movie was in 1975 and since then everything has changed. But I found this. I found that that group of hostages are like our people and but of course, the perpetrators are our politicians. Just like them, they found fun or were unmoved by the plight of their fellow hostages. Cause they knew that it was their turn next and they couldn't do anything. We all are in the same boat. The movie shows a prostitute who sing songs erotic stories which arouses the politicians. I mirrored them as the media and people who have lost senses of their tongue and lead to horrors. They say, it arouses. Ergo, compared to the tongue torture of our PM, son of a President (sounds like S-O-B, right?) and many others. Indian people, we are being sodomized. I am not accounting this thing for the recent unspeakable Delhi horror, I am actually seeing that we are being inflicted upon at each and every phase of life. We are those unlucky Salo souls and we won't do anything because "Chalo, humare saath to aisa nahin hua! Thank God!". Rallies, candle marches, signing petitions, are you people freaking idiots? If this had to happen and awake these bastards, we would never have needed this. 

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.

But guys, do we really remember that?

MovieBank: Came across Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange". 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.

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The Humanity Hogwash

Hello Readers,

I had this blog already written before a fortnight ago (as you will feel the "bump ahead") but...Come on! Do you need to ask for everything? Certain things have no reasons, which is my another way of saying, that I got a bit lazy to transfer this post from laptop to here. Anyway, the thing is the examples/incidents maybe "old" but not the topic.

The Indian Brangelina got married. The best joke I found on it was people telling to Saif’s children, “Congratulations! Aapko mummy hui hai!” 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.

Navratri 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 garba but a fast moving DJ dandiya which actually needs no music to play. Available for free on TV, we still waste money to go for garba. God will help us again.

The other night I was at CEPT, went for a Navratri 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.

Next day, as usual as my routine, I was heading towards my college with my friend. On the way, we saw 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? Late honge toh ek CL (Casual Leave) pad jayegi. Vaise bhi apne kuch nahin kar sakte yahan. Chal.”

I was looking at that ghastly face of both fortyish people. One can’t imagine their condition for sure. My train of thoughts was stopped by the statements of my friend. I was so angry but was he wrong? No. Was the rule right? Yes. Were we behaving the way we should have behaved?

I saw this scene in 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 need to get in time.

I thought, what is this “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.

We might be having a 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 emergency should be and would be attended.

People were discussing that what a #$%* that driver was who hit those people. I believe he was the son of parents, who couldn't 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 couldn't 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 aren't hypocrite. We are the damaged dipsticks.

Maybe, God will give us a leave, one day, from calling ourselves humans.

“Man is God’s most beautiful creation”

-Told by whom? A Man!

Signing off

*Dump*