Beauty n Brain Sunday, Sep 30 2007 

The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think!

Great volumes have been written about beauties and brains.

A friend recently asked me ‘How do you prefer your life partner to be’?

I believe understanding and caring is of a higher priority than being beautiful or intelligent. Of course who doesn’t like a beautiful and/or intelligent wife, but whats MORE important in life is mutual understanding and mutual caring between both the partners.

‘So, How about an understanding, caring, beautiful and intelligent partner’?

Hmm… There is an equation in chemistry. PV=nRT :)
It is an equation which represents an ideal gas. Unfortunately this ideal gas exists only in theory. In other words, it is a hypothetical gas!

By the way, I am not saying that guys are perfect either.

But life is an art, where one can find everything in nothing. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. And if the brains that interpret these eyes are wise enough, then one can see beauty everywhere.

Life partner is not selected in a beauty contest or in an IQ test!
My own definition of LIFE is Lovely Interesting Festival on Earth, and we all are here to celebrate this once in a lifetime festival.
And when there is WIFE in one’s LIFE, its actually W(Woman) replacing L(Love)

Kisi shaayar ki ghazal, dream girl ;)

Bhagat Singh – An Unsung Hero Friday, Sep 28 2007 

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They Came, They Saw, They Conquered Monday, Sep 24 2007 

The Men in Blue did it for India. India has won the first ICC 20-20 Cricket World Cup Championship. Click here to watch the final over of the finals :)

One needs a fire inside to win, and Indian team definitely had that fire as was visible throughout the tournament. Nobody dreamed that India would make it even to the finals. THEY CAME without much noise and fanfare. A young side with a relatively new captain. There were no big names in the team like Sachin, Ganguly or Dravid! They were just kids, nanne munnhe pyaare bacche :)

A team effort and a wonderful captainship is what is required for a team to win. And Indian team had that wonderful team spirit and an able leadership of the boy from Ranchi, M S Dhoni. The team continuously reevaluated the options and made necessary changes throughout all the initial matches. And that’s when THEY SAW an opportunity lying out there.

And that’s when they started to turn things around. Look at the beauty with which India made a comeback!

First, Yuvraj Singh set the tone with his six sixers in a single over in the match against England! Advertisity cause some men to break, others to break records! Yuvraj was THE tough man, and England got a taste of his toughness.


Six consecutive sixes by Yuvaraj against England

Next, by defeating South Africa which till then had never been defeated in this tournament they caused a major upset in the tournament. South Africa were shocked when Indians knocked them out of the tournament! South Africa had the additional advantage of being the host team, as the matches were being played in South Africa.

Then, an even bigger upset was caused by Indians when they defeated Australia in the semi finals. In fact Pakistan atleast gave a good fight in the finals against India. But Australians were hit for lots of great sixers by the Indian batsmen, and the Indian bowlers kept Australian batsmen wondering how to take runs! I think that the turning point in this match was the wicket of the Australian batsman Andrew Symonds who was proving to be dangerous to India.

Nobody expected that a relatively inexperienced India would win against the mighty Australia. The truth is, Amateurs built the ark, but professionals built the titanic ;)


Stunning catch by the Indian player Dinesh Kartik in the match against Aussies


Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh hit the Aussie bowler Bret Lee for the longest six in the tournament

Finally, the grand final, a high voltage match that contained almost every possible combination of spice and anxiety of cricket. It was another typical Indo-Pak cricket match. The cup kept oscillating, sometimes in favor India and sometimes in favor of Pakistan. Indians kept their cool, Dhoni played with all his cards kept close to his chest, and finally THEY CONQUERED. Indians proved that success is failure turned inside out :)

I feel that the decision to send in Joginder Sharma to bowl in the last over against both Australia and Pakistan were master strokes by Dhoni. He has proved that he has a great cricket brain to be a successful captain. A captain who takes well calculated risks. He probably knows that those who are afraid to fall will never fly!

The dream of this 20-20 world cup trophy designer Amit Pabuwal from Jaipur, India came true with the trophy he designed being brought back home by the Indian team.


20-20 Hindi News glimpses about the final match

The Jharkhand Government (Dhoni belongs to Jharkand state) has announced that Captain Dhoni will be given the first Jharkand Ratna award. BCCI, the cricket board of India has announced 2 million dollars of cash price to the Indian team!

Indians also maintained the record that till to date Pakistan has NEVER defeated India in any world cup cricket match :)

But look at the statement which Paksitani captain Shoaib Malik made after loosing the match. He said First of all I’d like to thank people back home and the Muslims around the world. We gave our 100%. Now what the heck is this of bringing religion into sports? Whatever it meant, an extremely unprofessional comment.

Actually with just 6 runs required in 5 balls in the last over, the match could have gone either ways. But the major disadvantage for pakistan was that it had no more wickets to spend, and Indians wonderfully made use of that fact! Infact the match was actually won because Indians kept taking pakistani wickets at regular intervals, and this made it possible to India to defend a score that was not really that big. Sending out Afridi for a duck who tried to be aggressive as soon as he came was another major turning point in the game. Probably Afridi thought that he will do another Yuvaraj on Austrialia ;)

Click here to watch the final over of the finals.

Below are few glimpses from today’s India-Pakistan finals. Chak De India! Who needs a coach now?


A sixer by the Indian batsman Gautam Gambhir


A direct hit by the Indian fielder Rohit Sharma

Induced Bigbangs Sunday, Sep 23 2007 

Never take your life seriously. Nobody gets out of it alive anyway :)

Not only people die, even civilizations die, even planets die, stars die, and so does the universe too!

Once I had written an article called How to avoid death, and some cool guy commented on it saying “Death can be avoided.. if ppl stop reading ur bullshit posts:)

Now this article is about, How to avoid death of the entire universe !

The universe is powered by the stars in it. Everything exists in the universe only because stars are there keeping things in action, providing light, energy and material. Even the heavy elements that make up our bodies are remnants of supernova explosions from stars. We are all made up of some stardust!

When somebody once asked me “what is your age?”, I replied “a couple a billion years”!

Every single quantum particle in my body was created during the bigbang! I was created along with the universe! I only got reassembled in my current form recently :)

You understand this truth, you have got the nirvana/salvation.

But even this universe will die one day. Even if there is no big crunch and if the current universal expansion continues forever, and even if antimatter continues to stay away, all stars in the universe will one day finally run out of fuel. There wont be new light anymore! Life on planetary systems cant survive, because “no sun” means “death of earth”.

Long before the universe dies out, Sun will be dead. Sun will run out of fuel in another 5 billion years. So what after that? Hopefully, we would be an advanced civilization by then, and would relocate to some other star. Or we can even try to refuel our Sun by bringing fuel from some other nearby nebulae.

But think about billions of years after that where the entire universe has run out of fuel and there are no more live active stars, but only stellar remnants! If human civilization is still existing then, then it will have to face a freezing death!

Michio Kaku in his book Parallel Worlds suggests escaping to other universes in the neighborhood of our universe, probably we can use wormholes for that.

But this option is feasible provided we have practical established ways to move between universes. Is there any even more simpler way?

Well, I think we dont have to try to escape to another universe in order to escape the death by freezing due to the absence of active stars in our universe. I think we can use blackholes as our ultimate saviours!

How?

Well, by using the big bang principle. By creating controlled subverses or sub-universes inside our universe.

All we need to do is to trigger a big bang in the blackholes that exist in the final days of our universe. A new big bang inside our universe will create new material and fuel for new stars! As simple as that :)

So we need to ensure that we have large amount of enough black holes for this purpose to create sustainable universe forever. Everytime we need to prepare long before the end of the universe by throwing in all the debris of already dead stars into some blackholes. We also need to time it correctly, because we dont want the blackholes to evaporate by giving out ‘blackhole radiation’.

So universe can be converted into a controlled creation and evolution of stars. Of course we need to ensure that the blackholes that will be bigbanged are not too large and that we are out of the reach of the part of the universe where this controlled blackhole bigbangs take place. Then, once these induced bigbangs create new matter which will be predominantly hydrogen, then we can use it to create and/or fuel new/existing stars :)

Also we always need to ensure that there are enough number of black holes in the universe, so that we can create more bangs later as required.

What needs to be analyzed in this approach is
a) How to induce a bigbang inside the blackholes?
b) How to deal with any anti-matter that might be produced.

Research in this direction should also give us good information about how our own universe was created in a big bang. Or was it the work of some aliens who induced a bigbang in a blackhole in a much larger universe?

Finally, if we are able to control our universe in this way, and make sure that it never dies out due to lack of fuel for stars, then intelligent life in other parallel universes will be following Michio Kaku’s suggestion. They all will be attempting to migrate to our universe when all stars in their universe run out of fuel ;)

The Nature of Nesara Saturday, Sep 22 2007 

Nesara in Kannada means Sun. And this song below from a very old kannada movie about sunrise is one of my most favorite songs. An amazing music with a great melody and wonderful lyrics.

So thought will share this beautiful song with you all. Nesara Nodu means ‘look at the sun’ in Kannada.

An update on Rationalism Saturday, Sep 22 2007 

Rational thinking is thought based on logic supported by scientific facts and evidences.

But many rational thoughts depend on whether the science has expanded and investigated into the areas that are currently being debated.

And over a period of time rational thoughts become irrational and vice versa.

A millenium back it was rational in Europe to think that earth is flat! Today its irrational all over the world.

Before Einstein people used to think that time is an absolute phenomenon, that is the time taken for one second is the same all across the universe! Thanks to relativity, that is not the case any more. Time runs slower at Goa compared to the speed of the time on top of the Himalayas. Its called ‘Time Dilation’.

Many people who do not know about quantum mechanics still wrongly believe some thoughts to be irrational, while actually today they are rational thoughts verified and validated by science!

Let me give you some examples.

Is it irrational to think that walking through a wall is possible?
Is it irrational to think that somebody in India can instantaneously convey a message to somebody in USA without using any known external medium of communication just by using the thought process?
Is it irrational to think that something can pass through two adjacent holes at the same time?
Is it irrational to think that one thing could be converted into another thing by supplying required energy for the process?
Is it irrational to think that one can alter the outcome of a process by just observing it?
Is it irrational to think that if you know how fast something is moving in a given direction, then you CANNOT predict accurately where it will be after a given amount of time?

If your answer is ‘yes’, then you have to update your knowledge base supporting rationalism, because as per quantum mechanics the answers to all the above questions are valid, rational and possible.

The answers to the above questions are quantum tunneling, non-locality, wave-particle duality, particle decay, wave function collapse and uncertainty respectively :)

Probably non-locality exists because at a quantum level the entire universe is a local phenomenon!

Secular India Saturday, Sep 22 2007 

The ongoing controversy over the Sethusamudram project actually had to be a rational debate over the economic benefits of the projects V/s its negative geographical impacts, ecological destruction and loss of a heritage site.

Now, thanks to the irresponsible affidavit by the government of India and to the politicians of DMK this rational debate has turned into a communal issue full of hatred statements and counter-statements, and of accusations.

Based on this scenario, here is a thought about secularism and India.

I think that the countries all over the world can be categorized into three groups based on their secular (or religious) nature.

1) Religious Countries – Countries where the religion practiced by its majority people has a say in the functioning of its government and the definition of the law of the land. In other words, the government is influenced by the religion practiced by its majority population.

2) Secular Countries – Countries where no religion is given preference over other religions, and the government is neutral in terms of religions, and the law of the land is same for all people irrespective of their religion.

3) Pseudo Secular Countries – Countries where the religion practiced by its majority people has NO say in the functioning of the government but the law of the land is different for people depending on their religion. In other words, the government is influenced by the religion practiced by its minority population.

Now we can debate as to which category does India belong to?

Political Hypocrisy of DMK Wednesday, Sep 19 2007 

Karunanidhi, who just few days back declared that ‘Ram is a myth‘, is a classic example of a politician who makes extensive use of the fact that ‘Public memory is short lived‘, to his greatest advantage.

This same chief minister of Tamilnadu Mr Karunanidhi, who today wants the Ram Sethu to be destroyed to build the Sethusamudram canal, had written a forward in 1972 to the district gazatteer of Ramanathapuram district saying “It reflects our civilization and is a mirror of the society“! In the gazetteer it has also been stated that “Lord Rama appointed Raja Rama Sethupathy of Ramanathapuram as Trustee and Guardian to guard the Rama Sethu Bridge“!

But today he says ‘Rama is a myth’, and so the Ram Sethu should be destroyed! Well, Karunanidhi is an atheist and also does not believe in God. So shall we go and destroy all the temples, churches and mosques in India?

What a name for what a man! Karuna that too Nidhi! For a person earning his livelihood by betting on the artificial Aryan-Dravidian divide, somebody please tell him that Karuna (Compassion) and Nidhi (Treasure) are Sanskrit words. All he knows is to win the elections by distributing freebies like television sets using the government money as if the money spent on it is his own.

Want to know more about Karunanidhi? Click here

A Vedic Qmech Riddle Wednesday, Sep 19 2007 

aṣṭau śloka sahasrāṇi
aṣṭau śloka
śatāṇica
ahaṃ vedmi,
śukau vetti
sanjayo vetti vā a vā

This is a verse from the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata. It means that there are 8800 riddles in Mahabharatha, and that the author vyasa, and Shuka know the answers to all the 8800 riddles, while Sanjaya might know answers to some of those riddles!

In other words, there are a lot of riddles and puzzles in the vedic texts!

I was pondering over the answers to some of the quantum mechanical riddles in the vedic texts, and this thought came to my mind… then I thought that instead of directly putting it down in the form of straightforward words, why not put it in the form of a riddle instead?

So here it is, try it ONLY if you are interested in quantum mechanics

Thanks to the quantum mechanical divinity, non-locality enables superluminal communication between distant neurons, the recognition and the application of which transforms a human into a superhuman…

You crack it and its yours… or you may call it some crap and forget it ;)

Ramsetu – NDA vs UPA Wednesday, Sep 19 2007 

Now the political blame game has started regarding the controversial Sethusamudram project where the current Congress led UPA government is planning to build a canal called Sethusamudram by destroying the ancient Rama Sethu.

One of the blog readers provided this news item according to which, the Congress is blaming the BJP of hypocrisy saying, it was actually the BJP led earlier NDA government which sanctioned this project, and today the same BJP is opposing this project!

This is what I call, lying by saying partial truth.

It is of course true that it was NDA (led by BJP) which first approved the Sethusamudram canal project in 1998.

But the truth related to the controversy is a bit more than just that.

The project approved by NDA in 1998, DID NOT include destroying the Ram Sethu bridge, it was under UPA that the project location was altered to destroy the Ram Sethu.

There are totally 6 options available to build the Sethusamudram canal of which first 5 options pose no threat to the Ram Sethu. NDA had selected option 5 recommended by NEERI in 1998.

Today NEERI suddenly proposes option 6 to be used instead, and this requires destruction of the Ram Sethu, and not only that, option 6 is more costlier than option 5! Why is the UPA going ahead with this change? Why was this sudden change required in the first place?
See http://sethusamudram.gov.in/Images/Map1.jpg which shows all the 6 options. Look at the quality of this image on the very SSCP government website! Have they deliberately smudged the markings of option 5 and 6, or is it a poor quality scanning?

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