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Hello all those who are reading this.

The address of my blogs has changed and I have shifted from blogger to WordPress. The new address is 

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Brain vs Heart: How to decide?

We encounter decision making situations almost all the time. And we make decisions based on instincts, previous outcomes or purely based on emotions. Seldom we decide using logic.

The catch is logic at times fails you and instinct can be the winner which is kind of counter intuitive itself.

But based on what I have seen around me including my own life the following are my observations. You are free to disagree with me.

Almost all my life I have decided mostly based on emotions. And whenever I did so I faced failure. And whenever I have used solid logic and calculations I have come out victorious.

In my opinion when it comes to matter of relations, affection, love and such abstract human emotions one should let emotions decide.

But when it comes to career, studies, and anything that requires more brain than emotions let your brain do the work and keep emotions out.

We generally do the opposite and when we do so we lose.

As Sherlock said, "emotion is a chemical defect found on the losing side". He is pretty much correct.

If it is about love vs studies choose studies.
If it is about love vs career choose career.
If it is about family vs love let your heart choose it.

Main point is don't let heart rule where brain does the best work and vice versa.

Year 2018 - A wisdom gaining year- Money is everything

16-01-2019/23:13

Hi dear.
I finally submit to the fact that money does matter in life. What doesn't matter is whether you are a good human being; whether you are a good teacher; whether you are ready to sacrifice your dreams your everything for your family or anyone else; you don't have money you are a no-body.

Good times earn you a lot of friends/relations. Bad times earn you the wisdom to see through the friends/relations.

And it is these momentary bursts of Bad times which actually teach you the life's actual lessons.

No matter how good you are in your life, job, or practically any aspect of your life at the end money matters.

The following song from the movie Bluffmaster (original) sums it up so clearly.

Na biwi na bachcha, na baap bada na maiya, the whole thing in life is bhaiya sabse bada rupaiya.

Bin rupaiya ke mister teri mummy ka pyaar jo paida karta tujhe to par kabhi na kar sakta tujhe yaar

doctor laut jata jo fees na milti agar, tu ma ke kokh ke andar hi reh jata har baar

kyuki jo kiya tujhko paida wo ishwar hai na maiya the whole thing is that ke bhaiya sabse bada rupaiya

haath khaali agar tu mar gaya meri jaan, na agni tujhko chhuegi na dharti hi degi maan

sach ye hai mere bhaai yeh khudaon ka ghar teri daulat ne banaya to khus hua allah bhagwaan

tu is duniya ke khaatir jodey ja aana paiya the whole thing is that ke bhaiya sabse bada rupaiya

aaj kahan ka nation aur kaahey ki dharti maiya the whole thing is that ki bhaiya sabse bada rupaiya


It hurts to submit to this fact that is staring right at my face. People will respect you if you have money. You are a drunkard, a chain smoker, indulge in every immoral act --but you have money --- you can buy everything.

People say money can buy a house but not a home because home is there where family is. But at the end of the day if you are earning just not enough then the same family which makes the home will see you as a necessary liability.

People say money can get you a bed but not sleep. Never mind. It can buy you sleeping pills.

Money can buy you visit to expensive hospitals but cannot buy you health. Bull shit! With enough money you don't have to worry much... you will not be depressed, not worry about future... not worry about your own family turning their back against you. And health is all about a calm mind. With money behind you you will have a calm mind.

People say money can buy you an expensive car but not a relation to sit with you in the car. Who cares. I still have the expensive car.

Just when you think your life getting sorted out--the bitch that life is will kick your balls and show you a new perspective.

Sometimes i wonder why i never cared about getting more money. I wish I had though about money as a good thing to start with may be i wouldnt be facing what i am right now.

2017 - The year as it was

2017 was one heck of  a year. Started off on a good note as our science project simply swept all national level competitions and ranked no 1 in cbse science exhibition as well as got selected to the top 25 of national children science congress. It was a real high time and probably the only high time for Amity International School because afterwards things started going down.

The bloated ego of a megalomaniac forced the pillar of our school Ms. Veena Mishra to resign from her post of Vice-Principal and become Coordinator at Amity, Noida. Loss for one became Gain for another. The result was not a single science or math project went anywhere. People were clueless about odyssey of the mind competition. And for the first time in 6 years the school didnt hold the annual function. Ofcourse the architect behind all these was driven out by a megalomaniac with a huge ego. And the worst part is that the chairperson of amity group has blind faith on this megalomaniac. Anyways soon after I resigned and with God's grace working as a content developer for Kunskapsskolan Eduventures Pvt. Ltd.

Am creating audios, videos, PPTs, PDFs and a lot of things for students to understand Physics.

Towards the end of the year another problem hit me with my mother, son and father becoming seriously ill and for almost 10 days I was stressed beyond a point where I was about to break down emotionally mentally and physically. But by year end things started to look up.

Hopefully 2018 will be a much better year.

Thats all from my side folks. 

Creation V/S Destruction: A story of how human beings are getting better at technology. A story that never really took place.

The gate was at the verge of being compromised. Hundreds of thousands of people were banging against it. The air was thick with slogans in favor of the meeting which was being held indoors and people felt that the meeting too, like the previous ones, would end in a stalemate. But this time around things were going to be pretty good.

Inside the building was going on a high level meeting of demi-gods with the gods. On one hand were sitting the representatives of the human beings, Indra and Surya. On the other hand were sitting Brahma and Vishnu. Shiva couldn't make it as he was still to emerge out of his trance.

Indra, "Dear Vishnu and Brahma, please listen to  the grievances of the human beings. They say that your creation of human beings is full of mistakes and pot holes and one particular human has been vociferously stating that the entire design of the human body is flawed and lacks creativity. He is the one who is responsible for spearheading the entire movement."

Vishnu, "But it is not possible to change the human body design so easily and rapidly. It takes time. loads of it. Moreover why change a design which has been so successful that even we Gods and demi Gods feel like taking avatars and staying in the bodies. So just one man says something and you are out to change the design."

Surya, " Dear Vishnu ji, what you are saying is correct but the man has logic on his side and we are unable to break through it. So please either make the changes or have a chat with the man itself."

Vishnu, " A man?? A human is responsible for this? How is that possible? "

Surya, "Vishnu ji it is not only possible but is actually happening. This man died of a head injury. He says that the very design created by the trinity is flawed and they, human beings, should have a better designed body. He has also proposed a design and insists it is better. "

Brahma, " This is preposterous. A meager human beings will teach me how to design. I don't see any merit in this. I have more important works to do so can't talk stupid with these human souls. I am leaving."

Surya, "O Brahma ji. Please try to understand. Work has come to a standstill. All human souls have refused to enter the Yam Lok. They say they want a better body next time they reach Earth. A long line of pending applications has gathered up. Chitragupta has gone on strike stating he can't go on like this. He will not take care of so many applications at one time. An argument between Chitragupta and Yama has left the work of Yamlok on hold. Unless something is done we are staring at a major trouble. So kindly sit down and help us find out a solution to the problem."

Brahma relents.

Brahma, "Ok Surya, tell me what is the entire case and what do you want me to do?".

Surya, "O Brahma ji, I think that very human being will be in a better position to tell you the entire episode. May I call him in?"

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A yam doot comes running. The huge door of the Yamlok is opened up. The yamdoot asks the man to come with him.

As the man enters the door the huge crowd of other souls go berserk. They are over joyed that finally they are being heard. Cheering and slogans can be heard as the man disappears behind the door.
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Surya, " O human you have been a chance to present your point. So go on and answer the questions by Brahma ji"

The man looks around bewildered. The Gods and demi gods around him are seated in a hierarchiacal order. The central three figures are at higher pedestal showcasing that they must be the trinity. The rest look almost the same. The central figure speaks out, " I am Brahma, the creator of the entire world and you. And I got to hear that you have incited protest among the souls here stating that my creation is flawed? If so then prove it and tell me how to rectify it? But before that you will have to prove beyond doubt that my creation is actually flawed. So go on human, I am all ears, as are others."

Man, " O Brahma ji. My name is Shubham. I was born in Bengal but was brought up and studied in Uttar Pradesh. I as a child was very very energetic which led me to face a number of accidents. I broke my leg thrice, my jaw bone once, my spinal disc got dislocated later in my life and what more to say. But the worse was that I lost many a loved ones to diseases like cancer and multiple organ failure. One of my aunts developed gangrene in her foot and she died due to its poisoning. And I died because of an accident in which my head was badly damaged and i couldn't recover. And this all is your fault. I came to the conclusion that it is the flaw of your design that had killed so many people who could have been saved. So its your fault that so many people have to suffer all kinds of pains and sometimes die. "

Brahma look bemused and bewildered at the same time. "Dear Human, tell me why and how am I responsible for your and other's pains? It is your own karma that causes pains ...."

"Dear brahma ji, sorry to interrupt. I am not talking about the Karma Cycle philosophy. That is a problem in itself but not a point here. All i am talking about is the physical pains. See your design, the HUMAN BODY, is a unibody design. A normal human being is born with no spare parts. So it is like if a soldier during war gets hit by a bomb on one leg then that leg has to be amputated. WHY? Why amputated? Why can't it be replaced? Why have you made us with a body that has irreplaceable parts? "

Brahma was speechless.

Brahma, "Wait a minute. The entire creation is like that. I have created it in such a way that all creatures can evolve. The most basic design is the same. Even an amoeba has the same things that a human being has. Unless you are unibody .. a single structure how can you grow? How can all organs communicate and work effectively?"

Shubham, "Oh come on. Look at it this way. My aunt got gangerene and it spread. She died. Imagine a part that doesn't work and you just replace it. No fuss. A hand is not working. Replace it. Kidney not working. replace it. Brain not working. Replace it." 

Vishnu, "But we have given you intellect with which you  have been able to work out how to amputate limbs without much pain and even vital organs like kidneys and liver can be transplanted. So why this fight?"

Shubham, "Why amputate and devoid one of the body part forever? And the transplantation hardly works. You have this mechanism of the body fighting a transplanted organ. So a person eventually dies."

Vishnu, "But that is how it is? Our creation doesn't allow any more flexibility."

Shubham, "That is the problem. So why not fix it?"

Brahma, "But that is not possible. I cannot change it like that. I have created a framework and let it work out its way. I cannot change it now. "

Shubham, "In that case i will keep the agitation going till you find a way out. this creation of yours is clearly not correct. "

 Brahma to VIshnu, "What this man is saying makes sense but the design is more or less perfect. It has worked since eons. Not just humans but every single animal has this design."

Vishnu, "But Brahma ji i think there are a few animals who have the ability to regrow their bodies when some part is cut short. Hydra is one example. Lizards can grow their severed tail. Even humans can grow their liver back. So why not the same with the entire body?"

Brahma, "See when I designed this body I had to keep in mind a very important thing. Human beings are not supposed to be immortals. What this human is arguing about is that humans should become immortal. imagine if a human had his head crushed and can replace the head with a new one then he will never be dead. A non working heart or any vital organ can be replaced and the person will never be dead. If that really happens then do you really think the planet will be able to sustain so many living beings? It will not just stretch the resources but will simply destroy them. Just a few billion existing human beings have destroyed millions of my creations then imagine how much destruction will hundreds of billions of humans do? This body is meant to be destroyed. Only destruction can be the beginning of every creation cycle. The universe had to be destroyed many many times before too in order to create a new one. So one has to be within this cycle of creation and destruction or else utter irrevocable destruction will happen and we will be out of resources to re-start the creation process. So this bodily design is the most perfect design I could have thought about which adheres to the principle and cycle of birth and death. "

Brahma turns to Shubham, "Dear son, what you say is not only logical but makes sense from where you stand. but from where I stand your suggestion will simply make you immortal to the changes of space and time and that is not possible. When you have taken birth, death is inevitable. This is the law of nature. You will become old, your organs will suffer degradation and fail. This is the ultimate law we are all bound to. Even we are not permanent. In your time scale we are immortals but in our time frame we are also replaced and we also die only to be replaced by someone else. We all are a part of this huge cosmic dance and we cannot do anything. "

Shubham, "O Brahma ji, if death is inevitable then why have you instilled in us the fear of death, the love of life, the bondages with others around us? Why have you given us suffering?"

Brahma, "I didnt not give you suffering. Pain is an inevitable part of life. But suffering is optional. You suffer because of attachments. But I have also given you all the method of escaping the suffering as well as the  the cycle of life and death. Since i cannot circumvent the nature of Nature I cannot adhere to your request how ever logical it may be."

Shubham, "O Brahma ji, I agree to all your logics and explanations. But what about the main problem I brought to you. That is one problem you didn't solve. Kindly do something so that human beings stop suffering."

After a lot of thought Brahma Ji replied.

Dear Shubham, I, though don't agree completely that my creation of unibody structure is wrong, give you some options. 
See creation is not something that happens spontaneusly. It takes time specially on the time scale of Earth. So to fast pace the problem I will give Human beings the ability and insight to do what you think is wrong. I will give them the knowledge to create body parts artifically. I will give them the knowledge and insight to create Artificial Intelligent Robots and you can make them the way you want to, with replacable organs. I will bestow upon Human beings the knowhow to replace limbs and replace them so that the body doesn't reject them. 
I cannot fast track my own creation but I can give you the leeway to have your own methods to play around with my creation and create your own ones so that at some point in the future you can play my role as God of Creation and the AI Robots will be there to ask you questions and then we will see whose creation is better. 
Do we have a deal???

Shubham, "O Lord, I accept your deal whole heartedly and I only pray to you that grant the souls to go into that Earth where the future will be as defined by you. We may not remember as human beings what we talked here but we will be able to see and understand what is going on out there and then when we meet next probably either I will accept your creation or you will accept ours. "

Brahma, "Ok dear Shubham. I agree to what you say. Now end your strike and let us do our work."

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As Shubham comes out of the gate of the heavens and declares the deal there is euphoria that next time they go into the world again they will see a new future ahead of them.

The work finally resumes in Heavens and the world awaits the new technology that human beings have started to peep into. 

Let us see where we are headed. 





 

Why I will never let my Son become a School Teacher ....

I followed my heart.
I became what I wanted to.
But today it seems it is the biggest mistake of my life.

I am a school teacher and teaching had always been my passion. This is what I can do the best. And that is precisely what I have been doing all these years. And the repercussions have been so bad till now that there are times I wonder why I became a teacher at the first place. And this is what has forced me to make up my mind that I will indoctrinate my son from an early age against becoming a teacher. At least a school teacher. And here are my reasons.

1. Society and Family.
2. Salary
3. Administration
4. Students
5. Parents

SOCIETY and FAMILY

The people who remain close to you always is your family. But what happens when they are the ones who term you a failure simply because you followed your dream to be a teacher?
When I talk to people i find I am taken for granted, and people actually make fun of me. For people en-mass a teacher is a person who is a failure in everything that he has done and hence a teacher. And I don't disagree with them completely because now a days mostly (99%) of those people become teachers who have either tried and failed or simply didn't want to do anything else.

People think teaching is like taking a walk in a park... except that it is a Jurrasic park....

SALARY

How much does an average PRT/TGT or PGT makes?

Peanuts. Yup peanuts. I am presently In a school that somewhat adheres to Central Pay Scales. So I am still kind of better of than my not so lucky counterparts.

Digest this. The teachers who taught me get 25K less than what I get as a teacher. My experience about 10  years. Theirs is about 25 to 30 years or more.
One of the least paid jobs is that of a teacher. In an average school a teacher gets paid way less than whhat a peon of a government job gets.

 ADMINISTRATION
Thats the real pain in ass. School admin which includes school owners, Principals and Admin people look down at teachers as if we are donkeys to be used as beast of burden. Principals tend to forget that at one point of time they were teachers too. The funniest part is You ask for a raise and they will point out all kinds of mistakes that we have ever made. And the moment you ask for a leave you become the most important person in the entire school as if the school will come to a standstill without you.

STUDENTS

I have come to the conclusion that never trust two kinds of people in school. The school administration and the students. They will say one thing in front of you and the exact opposite behind you. Though not universally applicable  it is a recurrent phenomenon. Students don't listen... and you cannot punish them. One particular case I came across has the guts to literally blast and challenge the principal ... i will do what i want to... what can you do?. So understand what we teachers are in front of such students.

PARENTS
We can handle everyone but the parents. There was a time when a poor grade by a students will incur wrath of parents on the students. Now we are forced to give good grades to students even if they perform badly. Else parents will say "we pay you. why cant our kids get good marks".
My reaction... go to hell. 

I will never let my son be a school teacher. Nopes. No way. he can be a peon if he wants to or anything else but a school teacher. 

Happy New Year - 2017

My friends have played a vital role in my life. They pulled me out of ignorance. Some real stupid, idiotic, form of ignorance. Today let me describe one.

The year was 2000. I was into my 18th revolution around the sun. And was doing ok in physics, bad in math and pathetically in chemistry in my school. Had to give up biology in favor of computer science. But still was going ok.

I always searched for explanations to anything and everything that i saw around me. One such thing was HOW ARE BABIES BORN? Now I knew they initially reside inside MOTHER'S BELLIES. And probably they were taken out after cutting open the mother's bellies. (Well I was only somewhat correct about it. Not completely). But the biggest question that bothered me was HOW DID THE BABIES END UP INSIDE THE MOTHER"S BELLIES IN THE FIRST PLACE?

As a scientist that I was in those days I had my own theories and they were backed up by solid evidence that i could gather from TV shows and Movies.

Man and Woman get married and almost a year later they have a baby. See the hypothesis stand proven. What was my hypothesis?

WHEN A MAN MARRIES A WOMAN AND THEY TAKE ROUND OF THE YAGYA FIRE GOD PLACES THE BABY IN THE BELLY OF THE WOMAN. 

Bingo. It always was the case as I saw in TV.

Then one fine day my hypothesisi shook a bit.

I saw a christian marriage and a muslim nikah. In both cases there was no fire. So i was pretty perplexed.  

Another point which I was not sure was why some of my friends used to talk about using the device during sex. My idea of sex was limited to kissing.

So I had a double problem. WHAT HAPPENS DURING SEX? HOW BABIES END UP IN THE MOTHER"S BELLIES? 

I knew by my own logic that take-a-round-of-fire-to-get-baby-in-belly was not on solid ground and something was amiss.  
 
It looks like yesterday only that for the first time I went to Satyam iWay (a chain of cyber cafes in the early 2000s) and for the first time I opened up a website with my friend.... let us call him P for the sake of hiding his identity. The first ever site I opened or rather I was introduced to was worldsex.com. I was aghast, baffled, ecstatic, infuriated, curious and ... well every emotion you name and I had on that day in front of the system. With a whopping Rs. 60 per hour in 2001 it was a very costly one hour but we were enlightened. Specially me.

At the age of 18 for the first time in my life I now knew what to do with my device. I mean i came to know what exactly is it used for. Till that day I was pretty much unsure as to what happens exactly with the device of mine.

So one of my questions was solved. What happens during sex? 

But the question that was bothering me was about the babies.

So one fine day, near about 1st or 2nd January I called up by best friend AA and asked her the question straight away.

She laughed and blasted me at the same time. I told her she being a female should be able to answer it better.

The best part was that I had studied in Biology chapter on Reproduction that when Male Sperm and Female Eggs meet a zygote is formed and then foetus and then baby. But in my infinite wisdom I totally didnt connect the dots.

So on that day AA gave me a step by step GYAN of what happens.

COmbined with my newly acquired knowledge from the enlightening site worldsex.com and the explanation from AA I now knew what happens.

I felt stupid. I mean I cannot explain in any better term how foolish I felt.

In fact in many movies the touching of two flowers also made me think was the reason of child birth.

SO while P gave me the BRAHMA GYAAN of the use of device..... AA gave me the gyaan of what happens thereafter.


That was 17 years back. Now when I look back I feel so stupid of myself.

But then i think i was better off a kid than a grown up person. As we grow up our minds corrupt.

Wish I could remain a child always.

Anyways Happy New Year folks..... May you too come out of ignorance.... whatever it may be...

Let Us Go Digital

In the wake of Modi government's decision to ban the usage of 500 and 1000 rupee notes a severe liquidity problem has got created. Here I am not going to discuss whether the decision was right or wrong. rather I will try to tell you guys how to free ourselves from currency note related problem. How we can do a lot of work without currency notes.

Like millions of people in India I was too hit hard and with money in bank but nothing in hand I was at my wits end as I didnt know what to do. But then the solution hit me.

India is the country with second most number of smartphones. Number of smartphones that we have is almost the same as the number of households in India and much more. So let us see how to get over the current problem using tis device.

Rice, wheat and similar essential commodities ran out in my home. So what I do?

I downloaded GROFERS APP and ordered all materials online. I paid using my debit card and viola in 4 hours I  had the materials delivered at my door step.

Tomorrow there is a puja in our home. We were desperate as we didnt know how to buy fruits. And then I got the answer. SPAR hypermarket in Gaur central mall sells vegetables and fruits. So I went there and bought all that we needed and paid using my debit card.

Medicine was  the next problem. There are plenty of online stores and some pharmacies which accept money through PAYTM. I downloaded the PAYTM app and put money in it. Then went to a store that had PAYTM acceptance. I bought medicines from there.

Similarly travel was a problem. So I bought petrol using my DEBIT CARD. While I used OLA and UBER app to book cars for my family and paid online.

With Jan Dhan yojana most households have atleast one account with a debit card. Why not use it?

Guys it is high time that we become less reliant on cash and move towards becoming online.

This can be done by anyone and everyone who has a BANK ACCOUNT/DEBIT CARD and a SMARTPHONE.

Folks let us not create further havoc and panic by lining up near banks and use our brains to solve problems.

As for daily wage labours are concerned they are the ones bearing the burnt of this historic decision but things will smoothen out in 7 to 10  days. Let us not  whine about what is happening and rather let us take a decision to change our pattern of buying things.

Hope this helps.

Newton's Third Law and the mess that people have created.

I, being a student and teacher of Physics, keep studying everything over and over again. And this habit of mine though seems stupid to many has actually given me rich rewards by giving me deeper insights into many a laws and theories of Physics.


It so happened that a couple of days back I was studying Newton's laws again just following my habit. And there I came to a rather bizzare conclusion. The books and authors who have written the definition of Newton's third law have got it all wrong or atleast translated it wrongly and the third law doesn't make sense.


To make my point let me tell you how it all fared.


I simply out of curiosity went on to look at the original way in which Newton had written the laws in LATIN.

Here is the original words of Newton Third law.


 Actioni contrariam semper et æqualem esse reactionem: sive corporum duorum actiones in se mutuo semper esse æquales et in partes contrarias dirigi.

  Now I pasted it in Google Translate and this is what I got.


To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts .This kinda rattled me. What we study and what I have been studying and teaching all my life is something like this.

To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Now for the first time in my life it didn't make sense. I mean the above statement.


What sense does it mean, " ..... equal and opposite reaction..." .
 Its a meaningless statement. Someone made a historical mistake of trying to shorten the law and ended up making it meaningless.

Let us analyze the two horrendous mistakes.

1.  There is absolutely no mention of the direction. It is left to the assumption of the reader the opposite means direction is opposite.

2. It is also left to the imagination of the reader that equal means equal in magnitude and that equal doesn't mean same direction. So a beautifully crafted statement by Sir Issac Newton was horrendously translated and then shortened into something that is meaningless and grossly wrong.

So here is what Newton tried to convey which I feel should replace the prevalent definition.

To every action there is a reaction; which is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction, and takes place on two different bodies. What do you say???  

God.... Creator or Destroyer ???

I was sitting beside the window today and was enjoying the cool breeze and the spray of rain water on my face. The world look infinitely more beautiful than it looks on an average day. And I thanked GOD. Almost immediately I was filled with the following thought. Had no other option bbut to sit and enjoy yhe day while thinking about the following.

This is the most potent weapon of all time.

A weapon of mass destruction.

A weapon so powerful that Nuclear Bombs look puny in front of it.

A weapon which has killed millions or may be billions over the course of human history.

A weapon mightier than any mythological weapon ever mentioned in any mythological texts found across the length and breadth of human race.

A weapon which has nothing to stop it except complete annihilation of human race. Complete OBLITERATION.

The weapon is GOD.

I don't know if GOD created the world and the human race, but I am damn sure it will one day destroy us.
Think over it......

The Maggi controversy. Truth or Hysteria...

The Maggi row is raging on. People are dumping it as if it's a bundle of cyanide about to kill you.

That's another thing I find it pretty amusing. Specially the reaction of the common people.

This reminds me of a story.

One day Naren (Swami Vivekananda in his childhood days) and his friends were playing as usual near the banyan tree. The kids used to climb up the tree and vault back.

To stop the children from doing this the old man of the home one day told them that a ghost resides in that tree and whoever climbs on it is killed by the ghost.

Hearing this all the children immediately stopped climbing the tree except Naren.

The children asked Naren not to climb else the ghost will kill him. Naren climbed the tree and told them "What an ass are you all. If there really were a ghost in the tree it would have killed us all long before the old man told us the story. "

Same here. We have grown up eating Maggi.  Every Sunday the breakfast was of Maggi.  Every alternate evening Maggi soup style was the favourite snack. And yet we are as intelligent as an average indian is. An entire generation has grown up eating Maggi and nothing happened and all of a sudden people are burning Maggi just coz some tom duck n harry has found lead and msg content higher than permissible limit. Oh please. Give me as break. 

I know people will blast me for this post but then just think if passive smoking .... polluted water.... polluted air.... carbide grown fruits.... And chemicalised vegetable doesn't kill us.... Maggi surely won't. ...

Give it a thought.

Will the ghost kill us now after the story has been told?? Think  !!!

Whatsapp on your PC

Bluestacks..... Virtual Drives and what not.
Here comes whatsapp with a neat trick.

Here is what you need to do.

Step 1. Go to any browser on your PC/Laptop/Tablet and type web.whatsapp.com

Step 2. A QR Code will be seen on the screen.

Step 3. Open your whatsapp on your mobile. Hit the right lower button on the mobile to reach the status/profile menu. There you will find WHATSAPP WEB.

Step 4. Click on whatsapp web and scan the QR Code on your PC Screen.

Step 5. Your mobile whatsapp has been synced with your PC.

Now you can keep your mobile away and enjoy whatsapping while working on your PC.

NOTE: You need to keep your mobile data connection active else the sync will be lost.

Forgive and Forget

Hi there.
I am a typical human being with all human failings. I have made an ass out of myself several times in the past as I keep doing now too.

Many a times I have hurt people by my actions, and sometimes by the lack of it. But almost everytime that I have hurt someone it was not because I lied to them, but because I spoke the truth. And I have come to the conclusion that speaking truth might not be such a good thing after all because most people don't have the guts to digest the truth; they would rather be prepared to live with a lie all their life.

On the other hand I have always been prepared to know the truth and, though with great difficulty, I have always been able to digest the truth and come out unscathed. But there is one particular trait of mine which I am yet to find in another person from all those whom I have met till now. FORGIVENESS.

In this 33 years of my life I have been hurt several times. Most of the times by my close friends, buddies, relatives and other very close ones. And every time I have been able to forgive them. Though I remember everyone of them and their mischief but that is primarily because forgetting is a difficult thing specially if your brain doesn't want to forget. But forgiveness is something that comes from within. And the best part is that I have been able to not only forgive them but also become as usual as before the incident(s) happened.

To my dismay I have rarely, and probably never, been forgiven for my mistakes. Strange as it my sound my friends against whom I made the mistake I have always asked for forgiveness but to no avail. And I am yet to figure out why.

I have been told, "I can never forgive you for what you did. but i thought its better to move on. but we can never be the same again. what is lost is lost. "

Strange. From my side it is usually, "Chal chord na baba. galti har koi karta hai. ab har cheez dil pe le lunga to jee liya main. (Leave it buddy. Everyone makes mistakes. But if I start cringing to every mistake then it will be difficult for me to live.)

I wish to get hold of a friend who would just be like the way I am. 

Flipkart is surely fooling us all or making a fool of themselves.

Look at the pic given below. And decide for yourself.

How to increase sensitivity of s pen on galaxy note 3 and note 3 neo

I recently purchased a Galaxy Note 3 Neo and though I am yet to explore it completely I am completely floored by it.
But one thing that depressed me was that the stylus or the famous s pen was not as sensitive as it is on note 2. So I decided to tweak the pen myself.
The following is what you need to do.
1. Take the stylus out.
2. Pry open the small button just above the tip.
3. You will find two circular potentiometers there. The one towards the tip needs to be rotated anti clockwise to increase sensitivity and vice versa.

 Above is a pic of the things I required to make this work.

But in fact all you need is a sharp and extremely small screw driver.

 

4. Once you are done with it you will have a much increased/decreased sensitive s-pen.

Enjoy. 

Plague Inc.

I just now played the game PLAGUE Inc. The most nefarious game I ever played. It is about designing and spreading a disease so as to destroy the entire human race. Couldn't kill everyone at the first go. But will try to make better diseases and try to kill more n more people.
It was though fun.

Out of FB n Whatsapp n into twitter...

Check out shubham chakraborty (@chakrabortyshuv): https://twitter.com/chakrabortyshuv?s=09

Hell in Distress

A simple story.
Once there was a library. There were many magazines which were subscribed and readers could read them.
One day a reader got hold of PLAYBOY magazine and he protested and said that this magazine should not be there in the library.
So the librarian decided to remove ALL TYPES OF MAGAZINES from the library.
No Science Reporter,  No Youth Today, No India Today not Business Weekly nothing.
All magazines were removed.
Do you think the librarian did the correct thing by removing all magazines when only the required one was to be restricted????

Something similar happened this year at Ghaziabad Kali Bari where the GKB Samitee members took a decision of not allowing GIRLS ABOVE 12 years age from PARTICIPATING / PERFORMING ON-STAGE because some Tom DIck or Harry objected to the DANCE performance of ABOVE 12 YEARS GIRLS during Saraswati Puja day earlier this year.

In the month of August me and five friends of mine from Sanjay nagar Ghaziabad, decided to do a small play which we wanted to perform on stage during Durga Puja celebrations at Kali Bari Mandir at Sanjay Nagar, Ghaziabad.

Unfortunately after we had taken requisite permission and time slot of ten minutes on Saptami, we were suddenly told that we can't do this as we had two GIRLS in the play over the age of 12 years.

Now someone in the commitee took a rather regressive and anti feministic step of restricting dance performance of girls to an age of below 12 years.

First of all I am always against such steps as they are regressive and anti women. Anyways we went on to argue that our play was just about 10 minutes in length and there was no songs or dance involved. But to no avail. Who ever in his infinite wisdom took this decision was way too adamant and probably lost his common sense for good.

But the funniest and most frustrating part was that this infinitely stupid rule applies only to GIRLS OF SANJAY NAGAR and not everyone else. So all the performers being called from outside were exempted from this rule. Good for them.

Someone, whoever is the infinitely wise being, who took the decision about not allowing girls from taking part forgot that he was to define it as DANCE and not PERFORMANCE.

I couldn't believe my ears that PERFORMANCE and DANCE are synonymous.
Ahhhhh.....

Anyways, my brother had written the script and directed it. We performed it in Debashri's home and videoed it. But by the end we had grown so frustrated that we decided not to even show it on projector as someone said from the committee that even projection may not be allowed as it had a girl in it.

I am just wondering if people like them ever were to come to power in centre India will be Talibanised without the need of Talibans setting their feet on our nation.

Here is the video. Watch it and decide for yourself what was so wrong in this. We have performed it without proper costumes. So the stuff is stripped down.

Thanks for watching and reading.

One of the most disappointing days of my life.....Godrej U Sonic ....

In the year 2006 I worked on a project in which I created a machine which used extremely low amount of detergent to clean clothes. The machine worked on Ultrasonic Waves. Later Prof JV Rao of NITRA (Where I was doing this project) told me to discontinue this project as he could not see much scope of the work. So he asked me to submit a project report.

I was naive and hence I did as told.

Later I found out that many people have done their research on that machine after I left working on it. And they were doing their PhD under JV Rao only.
Next I found out that he was trying to sell the technology to a few washing machine companies.

And now 8 years later I saw an advertisement GODREJ U SONIC.
Exactly the same thing that I made in 2006.

I can't describe to you my disappointment, my anger, frustration......

I am feeling defeated. Lost.

Village

There was a time when i used to die to come to my village. My friends and relatives were all here. My grand parents and others were my favs.
Today as i am writing this blog i am doing so because i am not habitual of crying and the heavy heart is required to be opened up to someone.
No one is here.
My grand parents are long gone.
So are my friends. Some married off some left the village. Some have vanished into thin air.

I stood at the center of my village n found a creepy feeling creep up to me. So much has changed. Walls have come up where trees used to be there. The pond has shrunk to half its size. The age old tree giving shade to the shiva idol has been cut down to be sold in the market.

The field where we used to play hardly resembles its own self now.

This is not the village i knew and loved.

Not my village any more.