Knowledge and money

Classical laws of Physics tell us that the Power is inversely proportional to the cube of the time.
"Knowledge is power." => Knowledge = Power
"Time is money". => Money = Time
Does this mean who has knowledge will have less money and all the millionaires are idiots?

It may be partly true because minnows always think money is real precious treasure. But the power which drives the entire world is the ultimate treasure of knowledge. Grab it and you will rule the world irrespective of your material possession.

Open mind => Innovation

People when debate about the requirement of changes to the existing policies or some other controversial issues become too much aggresive and impatient. If you have formulated some opinion on any issue, it is very difficult to be open minded and listen to all. And at last judging impartially is even more tough job.

One who is receptive to even non-sensical ideas(according to the person) can only bring most of the innovation into the world. Because nothing seems sense when a new idea is proposed initially. Take for instance, when open source software product Linux based server was first intoduced in the market they were very inferior. And now, they are threatning the market share of big giants like Microsoft and Sun. This is due to Red Hat and other guys' tremendous determination to nurture their dream product to become successful.

The Painter Of Signs

Ram, a bachelor and a man of modern ideologies likes his painting nameplates job, meets different kinds of customers during his job. He gets obsessed with a woman named Daisy, a devoted Population control staff. His romantic thoughts and hilarious deeds to win her finally worked well. His aunt warns not to marry as the girl is of different caste and she has ran from her parents for her favor. He didn’t care the words of his aunt because he loves Daisy and he wants to marry her. But what happens at the end? To know it, one needs to read R. K. Narayanan‘s “The Painter of Signs”.

Ram’s aunt is really very good character that depicts typical Indian old people’s ideology. They spend their whole life to bring up their children and get involved so much in them that they don’t have any other aims in their life anything else, except worship God at the end of their life. Though they are more learned in spiritual matters they still can’t change some old dogmas. I think almost every person behaves like this at some point of time. Well, the age of reason may help to some extent to change them. But I really surprise to observe about their contentment at the end of their life.

Many incidents make us laugh. When talking about Family Planning campaign, Ram thinks whether she wants to control population or copulation? Though it’s a sleazy joke, the author played with words very well.

The lead roles in the novel can not always be rational or ideal. All the stories don’t end as expected, similar to real life. I wonder why sometimes humorous stories have some bizarre end.

Serendipity for God?

I read the dictionary meaning of “Serendipity” as “Fortunate discovery by accident”. A beautiful word, isn’t it?

We discover a lot accidentally or just by chance. Famous scientific discoveries like X-rays by Nobel laureate Rontgen, Radium by Madam Curie, the reason of “Eureka by Archimedes” etc., are serendipitous. The first meeting of the hero and heroine in our films, who later fell in love is also entertaining serendipity. Most of the times, we too even stumble upon the new persons, concepts and later they become our life’s best friends.

Is the serendipity for us a meticulous plan of God, powerful driver of this world? Does the God too have serendipitous experiences? If so, then what can they be?

Some words from a film called “Serendipity” – Life is not merely a series of meaningless accidents and coincidences, but rather it is a tapestry of the events that accommodate in an exquisite sublime plan.

I like to be a penguin, not like a lion

Almost in all the animals females have the upper hand in choosing their mate. For example lioness chooses the king of the pride, strongest lion as the mating partner. The lioness just watches the fierce fight between the lions and will have the fun. And at the end who ever wins, lioness likes to have the winning lion. Of course Darwin's principle of "Survival of the Fittest" is the obvious reason for this phenomenon.

But do you know, in Penguins as the male population is very low. And so females fight among themselves to get the male as partner and males will have fun time to watch. So males have more choice.
Well, in human beings who has the right of the choice? Man or woman?

Another interesting fact about penguins is that they are strictly monogamous for about one mating season. Hey, one more important attribute in Penguins is that both parents, male and female take responsibility to protect their child when it was egg and infant. But in most of the animals like lions, mother takes care of their children. In human beings who will take care of their children? Mom or Dad?

My opinion: I need both mom and dad. I like to be penguin, not like a lion.

Show red card to evil

I hope I should not have had written anything about the Mumbai train blasts. After the football mania, suddenly when I listened to the news about the blasts happening one after the another, like goals (actually fouls) in football. I thought I should at least appeal the referee to show the red card to the masters behind the foul play.

There is no world with out evil and no place with out war against it. Some times it shows its prowess and some times it gets imprisoned. And it is a recurring activity in the wheel of time.

What will ordinary people do other than returning to their work? I too don't understand about the concept of "resilience".What is greatness or specialty in it? The family and friends of the affected grieve and others show sympathy. And with in a day or two, every one becomes busy in their life, sympathy remains same and may later even becomes apathy. May be, a few will become like Udham Singh to kill an official terrorists like British General Dyer. You can read and observe history which just repeats but in a new costume.

Police has to prepare well to deal these kind of incidents. Any way they are getting experienced by more and more of these kind of incidents. I still believe intelligence sources are doing well, need to get alert a bit more. Still its a war, one who takes apt decisions in time, will be the winner of the day.

I bow and salute to those who helped the affected people...

Successful X Failure

What is failure and success?
When can you say, that you are a failure or successful?

We set some goals, and if they don't happen after some attempts, people will term it as failure. I see something to analyse the previous statement. Goals are set but do we like them or do we suit to accomplish the goal is a big question. Only God knows the answer to the question.

Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore left "Fairchild Semiconductors" after many failed attempts to introduce new technology processors in the company. A great failure, wasn't it? They started a company in 1968 called "Intel Corp" which means corporation of intelligence and is now the leader in the microprocessor world. Failed persons had created a great dynasty and now treated as succesful leaders in the industry. And some day, another company X, may come and grab its whole market. Then they are again treated as a failure. Failure and sucess is just relative to the time. Failures can become successful and viceversa. "Never think about the result, think about the plan of action", a wonderful quote but demands great mental strength which in turn makes us more mature.

Do animals revolt against humans?

"Grand Pa, Tell to Steve that humans are not animals. He is not agreeing to that even after telling him a lot", complained Bharat. "Yes my child, Steve is correct. Humans are social animals, the most intelligent among the animals. That is the reason humans rule the world."

I saw my grandson's face showing pity towards me. "Poor Grand Pa, You too don't know the fact. My teacher while teaching a lesson said that this world consists of human beings and animals. If humans are also animals why would she distinguish?" said Bharat.

At first I was surprised by seeing my grandson giving importance to each and every word what his teacher said in his school. We do give importance to words when we care for them. For a while I thought for the reason in what context his teacher might have said so. Then I said, "We always say 'king and the people' and in saying so we give special attention to the king. Similarly in this case, humans are the rulers of the animals.

"Then we are in great danger. We have to face revolution", said Bharat worriedly. I asked "Why do you think so? What happened? We are not at all in danger".

"Yes Grand Pa, just like in the story of Subhash Chandra Bose which you told last night, when British rulers acted as dictators and denied fundamental rights of Indian people Indian revolution was born and fought against the British army". When we saw a snake passing in our garden, grand ma told me that this was a forest two years ago but we built houses here by clearing trees and killing wild animals. So according to your story, when king becomes a dictator and does not allow people entitled with most basic fundamental right "Right to live", then a revolution starts from his people. Then animals might be thinking to start the revolution."

I was astonished to listen to the words of my little grandson. "Bharat, Bharat come fast, breakfast is ready", shouted his mother. He disappeared from the room in a second but not his words. Will animals start revolution against humans killing them for our personal gains? No, never. Animals are real social animals which allow us to live in their habitat. But we cruel intelligent humans are destroying their habitat. Some day it becomes inevitable to do revolution against us.

LOTR - Tourism in India

There are many travelogues in the local book store which inspire us to visit the historical places around the world. But most of time we don't read those books unless we are very much interested to know about the place or intended to visit it. I think these books promote only a meagre proportion of tourism.

The news headlines such as "New Zealand tourism doubled due to J.R.R.Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, Dan Brown's controversy novel boosted European tourism" are quite interesting. The tourists are more intrigued by the nature's wonders and ancestor's secret puzzles. Of course there is no specialty in people showing the interest on the places of crypts and it not at all new. But the amount of interest is worthy to note. Internet and other media is also playing vital in arousing enormous interest.

One 0f the Rings

Well, I thought it is a new phenomenon and I was wondering why not a similar attempt can be done to expose the marvellous Indian temples to the world.

Bhakta Kannappa

After thinking more about it I realized that this phenomenon is not at all new to Indians especially to our ancient kings. All the temples which are built by the mighty kings of our country tell us some interesting magical stories, some real and some myths with paintings, sculptures depicting them. These stories are famous bed time stories for kids told by mother, grandparents. The kid gets inspiration to visit at least once those places in his life time. As the transport was very bad during olden days, visiting Kashi, Amarnath, both Lord Shiva's sacred temples is considered as life time mission. Currently you can observe thousands of devotees visiting temples daily. These are the results of great folk tales of several generations. And I can say temples play an important role in Indian tourism.