tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76606522024-03-08T07:56:40.504+05:30Alea Jacta Est !!!!my life.my views.my online diary.Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-24541885937685723812022-09-05T16:09:00.004+05:302023-03-17T18:00:16.471+05:30On Teacher's Day<p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia;"> On Teacher's Day, a lifelong student remembers:</span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia;">1. </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia;">Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, our first Vice President, Second President and eminent academician who amongst other positions of prominence in World Academia including stints at Calcutta University, Andhra University, Oxford, Benares Hindu University, before his political career culminated in the office of the President of India, but <span face="sans-serif" style="font-size: 14px;">his greatest accomplishment was a near universal love for him and his role as a Teacher!</span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">It is in honour and memory of this eminent and universally popular Teacher that we celebrate his Birth date as Teacher's Day in India.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">2. My first Teachers: My Mother , my Father<span> , my Sister, my grandparents, my Uncles and Aunts, Cousins and my extended Family.</span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">3. My Friends with whom many a lesson was learnt together.</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">4. All the books I had the great fortune of having easy and unfettered access to because there was hardly any family member who wasn't also a bibliophile and all the authors who have enriched the fabric of my mind with tales and stories real and unreal, with arguments simple and complicated, with theses alien and familiar...</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">5. All my teachers,, Seniors, Peers, and Juniors at the various schools and institutions I studied in:</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">Fatima High School, Vidyavihar, Mumbai ; Hindu School , Indiranagar, Chennai; Air India Modern School, Kalina, Mumbai; The College of Engineering , Pune(COEP); The Indian Institute of Foreign Trade(IIFT), Delhi.</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">6. All my Bosses and Colleagues, Mentors and mentees at all the places I've Worked at:</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">ESAB India Limited, T.I.M.E pvt. Ltd., Olam International, Vanguard Business School, MIT Group of Institutions/ MIT-WPU, Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, GITAM University</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span><span style="font-size: 14px;">7. </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">One Mr. Freddie Mercury, who was born this day in Tanzania in 1946, who is arguably the greatest entertainer that ever walked this planet.</span><span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> And one who fiercely</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">And also, last, but not the least:</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia;"><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="font-size: 14px;">8. All </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;">my students over the years, who have always taught me more than they have learnt from me.</span><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.2px;"> </span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">If we are as a nation to rise and march to our appointer tryst with destiny, the encounter will never be one that we can claim satisfaction to unless this precious breed of teachers in India is encouraged, feted, respected and revered.</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;">Wishing all teachers everywhere in India and the world a very happy Teachers Day!!</span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><span face="sans-serif"><span><span style="background-color: #444444; color: white; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p><br /></p>Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-41544800779436564902022-08-03T12:45:00.003+05:302022-08-03T12:45:47.618+05:30On Escaping Technology<p> There's no escaping it.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can't escape technology. Just like you cannot escape gravity...</p><p>But wait, technology can help you escape or at least ignore gravity..so you CAN escape Gavity.</p><p><br /></p><p>But does that mean you escape Technology??</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlhWPzIwYnSg-dTvJknycdF8miliTjhy4jMpGadmO5htwmcN42uieEVKnktMT69gZ9zqvzJwB1tg88U_IbMyipcx9aDmNbFfVlh79iu99XfBs2yY_zYu0cUCPh43yVevV4anAmOMTMPuZHLRm24ijuhUbOnMMFNKouuK6Nn5m4y0QPFYmi01s/s800/kardashev%20scale.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlhWPzIwYnSg-dTvJknycdF8miliTjhy4jMpGadmO5htwmcN42uieEVKnktMT69gZ9zqvzJwB1tg88U_IbMyipcx9aDmNbFfVlh79iu99XfBs2yY_zYu0cUCPh43yVevV4anAmOMTMPuZHLRm24ijuhUbOnMMFNKouuK6Nn5m4y0QPFYmi01s/s320/kardashev%20scale.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p>On the Kardashev Scale where potentially we have hypothesised till stage 7 , which is interesting but purely academic bragging because anything beyond stage 3 is not even worth remotely speculating about unless we have plans that span trillions of years.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No Chance...is what I feel....</p><p><br /></p><p>your thoughts??</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-57423785008377635932021-03-10T08:42:00.001+05:302021-03-10T08:42:34.852+05:30On the "Best" Government Ever.... <div>The "BEST" Government Ever?!!</div><div><br></div><div>In a little over seven years of Modi's government, the grand narrative of the "best government ever" lies in absolute tatters doesn't it??? </div><div><br></div><div>On any measurable metric this government's track record is dismal. And that's me being kind. </div><div><br></div><div>When I read the built up narratives released by this government, many of which are so tactical, fluid and fast changing as reactions to their failed policies shift from reduced trust, to dissappointed acceptance, to muted murmurings of dissension to outright protest, the one constant that strikes me is a total inability of this set to do a serious cost benefit analysis.</div><div><br></div><div>On issue after issue reading the government's stated cost benefit analysis draws a unsuppressable gasp of disbelief. And often, unrestrained laughter, because I confess my humour stems also from very dark places of late... </div><div><br></div><div>It's as if they don't even care to hide the fact that the costs will be borne by the poor, the migrant labourer, the farmer, the soldier, the student, the teacher, the average taxpayer, the minority, the oppressed castes, the tribals , the doctors, the artists, the journalists( an almost extinct species in India today - something I'll again blame this govt. for!), the lawyers, etc. and of course any dissidents foolhardy enough to oppose them, while the benefits will be suborned almost entirely by the government, its cronies and those with whom its playing a flirting game of footsie in order to expand the space occupied by government.</div><div><br></div><div>Their tag lines when they arrived were "Acche Din Aane Wale Hai", "Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas" and "Minimum Government, Maximum Governance", three truisms that this government used so cleverly to come to power but abandoned so totally once in power in a volte face so brazenly overt that my mind is sincerely impressed by those who (pretend to?) miss this hypocrisy.</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, one must concede that they are themselves alive to this reality, notice how the refrain nowadays has become "Desh Khatre me Hai, Hindu khatre me Hai?, Modiji( And most recently the slip showed when it became Ambani ji) khatre me hai?". Honestly, not noticed it yet??</div><div><br></div><div>The real question is, if that's their current claim then let them answer from whom, and the answer to that my friends is this government </div><div><br></div><div>If you as government are so fragile skinned that dissent of any measure or manner is anathema to you, it essentially is clear that you fear those who you promised to protect and act on behalf of.</div><div><br></div><div>If you as a government are therefore afraid of being exposed for the lying fraud that you clearly are, then so be it..</div><div><br></div><div>Be afraid, be very afraid indeed, because the truth always eventually outs! </div><div><br></div><div>And though YOU never respected this land, and its many diverse ethoses and values, YOU should at least remember the most powerful motif of the symbols of power you wield, the motto of our nation, which is " Satyameva Jayate!" ( Truth alone Triumphs!) and be reminded that in your constant lies and prevarications, YOU represent the worst Anti-national influence this country has seen in long decades...</div><div><br></div><div>Is this really the government we want to entrust further crucial years of our nation, our polity, and our social trust to?</div>Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-17187898014276582662020-09-11T11:44:00.000+05:302020-09-11T11:44:01.930+05:30On Chaos and Order<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>The Fascinating Mandelbrot /Julia Sets:</b><br>
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Anyone who's been following my blog knows I have this unending fascination with the Mandelbrot Set...<br>
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Watch the video below, as one steps into the world of the Mandelbrot and Julia Sets. If Spock were around I'm sure you would hear him say, "Fascinating!"<br>
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WATCH THIS VIDEO FIRST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfteiiTfE0c&t=163s<br>
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The process by which the Mandelbrot evolves is sublime, magical, mathematical and above all mystical. Arresting. Mind Expanding. Mind Creating even. Truly Powerful. And exceptionally, exceptionally beautiful. And so , so simple. Who would have thought all it took was to plot an equation as basic as z= z^2 + c. Mandelbrot would have, of course!<br>
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And as he best put it himself in his inimitable french accented english and mischievous imp like smile, " I can see things that nobody else suspects, until I point out to them, "Well, Of course! Of Course!" but they haven't seen before! "<br>
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DO WATCH THIS AMAZING PBS NOVA DOCUMENTARY =>> : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbK92bRW2lQ&feature=youtu.be<br>
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<b>On Order and Chaos:</b><br>
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The play between Order (Cosmos) and Randomness (Chaos) is ages and aeons old. Time and Space are thus but partitioners - partitioning infinitesimal segments of infinitesimal segments within this play. Wheels within wheels.Layers within Layers. Levels upon Levels. Like Warp and Woof. From the smallest point the mind posits to the largest Universe the Mind can conjure and all in between. Are they all connected ultimately?<br>
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The process where boundary fluctuation and turbulences give an illusion of interplay locally. But the interplay isn't local it's everywhere for every ordered system a boundary. At every boundary turbulence, at every turbulence , chance, randomness and Chaos.<br>
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Chaos or Cosmos? Randomness or Order? In effect the Mandelbrot is a very structured arrangement of geometric points (because as anyone who has played with Mandelbrot/Julia Animators will know, each and every point on the mandelbrot set corresponds exactly to corresponding points on any given Julia set), but, there are fascinating caveats to this order, like for instance, the unbelievably detailed and deep self symmetry, the profusion of details that proceeds when you zoom at any given point of the graph, or the fact that the boundary of the set is infinitely detailed / long / slipping into and out of the Mandelbrot set itself in a bizarre and unpredictable manner!<br>
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<b>So What is it all about Ultimately?</b><br>
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And so, making leaps elsewhere from there, as Mandelbrot would I suspect, no doubt approve:<br>
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Does the Mandelbrot Set tell us something about the very nature and structure of the very fabric of our Space-Time Continuum? Is it a set that brilliantly illustrates the Transition from Chaos to Cosmos and its complicated transition from one to the other and vice versa? Is the set merely a tool to examine self similarity? Or does it say something about our Universe? Predict a Grander Order? Explain a Small Chaos?<br>
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This universe. Our grand mystery. Is really quite simple a story perhaps? And does the Mandelbrot have interesting multiple takes on this story?<br>
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This universe. Our grand mystery. Is really quite simple a story perhaps? And does the Mandelbrot have interesting multiple takes on this story?<br>
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I really don't know about late old Benoit..but I would really like to think so!</div>
Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-50058166683135797202018-12-06T06:37:00.001+05:302018-12-06T06:37:16.427+05:30On Twenty Years Ago, again...<p dir="ltr">We're less than 48 hours away from our school reunion, and this one's special!</p>
<p dir="ltr">8th of December marks the 20th year reunion of the Hindu Senior Secondary School's class of 98 ( If you passed your XIIth from there, as I did) and at first approximations it looks like the quorum is going to be well past the 50 mark. That's a lot of folks making the pilgrimage back to our alma mater given that there's a really huge percentage of folks stationed overseas.</p>
<p dir="ltr">A huge huge vote of thanks is in order for those who've devoted a huge amount of time and effort to make this happen. It will be a crazy party and an awesome get together, I'll get to meet a lot of peeps after twenty years, some even longer given that there's folks coming who were classmates till Xth, VIIIth, etc..</p>
<p dir="ltr">But the true icing on the cake will be the chance to meet some of the most dedicated teachers I've ever had the privilege of learning under ( I can say this with some basis having studied at 3 different schools across Mumbai and Chennai - with two stints at HSSS, Indiranagar, Adyar)</p>
<p dir="ltr">Will update this blog later sometime this week with pics from what promises to be a hugely rewarding and rejuvenating journey down memory lane... </p>
Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-13832824852774868192018-11-13T17:16:00.003+05:302018-11-13T17:16:48.010+05:30An Ode to Cleopatra...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
To darkness' questions, light shall attempt an answer,<br />
Scarce else in all this cosmos is equipped to scale,<br />
The summit of the climb the questions pose...<br />
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To the stench of our daily lives, even a bloom can rejoinder,<br />
Nothing putrid nor fetid nor rank stands a chance,<br />
Against the seductive virtue of a fragrant tuberose...<br />
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To Caesar's fervid anxiety to comprehend and still this entirety,<br />
Only one force will deliver resolution,<br />
There is only one Cleopatra in all this unending infinity,<br />
As everyone but Cleopatra knows...</div>
Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-33490130303544893582016-04-18T09:17:00.001+05:302018-11-27T10:58:34.147+05:30On my mind right now<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr">Ya Nizamuddin Auliya <br />
Ya Nizamuddin Salka <br />
Kadam Badha Le <br />
Haddon Ko Mita Le <br />
Aaja Khaalipan Mein Pee Ka Ghar Tera <br />
Tere Bin Khaali Aaja Khaalipan Mein <br />
Tere Bin Khaali Aaja Khaalipan Mein <br />
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Rangreza, Rangreza, Rangreza, Ho Rangreza <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun <br />
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Jab Kahin Pe Kuch Nahin Bhi Nahin Tha <br />
Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha <br />
Jab Kahin Pe Kuch Nahin Bhi Nahin Tha <br />
Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha <br />
Woh Jo Mujh Mein Samaaya, Woh Jo Tujh Mein Samaaya <br />
Maula Wahin Wahi Maaya <br />
Woh Jo Mujh Mein Samaaya, Woh Jo Tujh Mein Samaaya <br />
Maula Wahi Wahi Maaya <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun <br />
Sadaq Allahu Al Ali Al Azim <br />
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Rangreza Rang Mera Tann Mera Mann <br />
Le Le Rangaai Chahe Tann Chahe Mann <br />
Rangreza Rang Mera Tann Mera Mann <br />
Le Le Rangaai Chahe Tann Chahe Mann <br />
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Sajra Savera Mere Tan Barse <br />
Kajra Andhera Teri Jaan Deewa <br />
Sajra Savera Mere Tan Barse <br />
Kajra Andhera Teri Jaan Deewa <br />
Katra Mila Jo Tere Dar Barse <br />
O Maula, Maula <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun <br />
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Jab Kahin Pe Kuch Nahin Bhi Nahin Tha <br />
Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha <br />
Jab Kahin Pe Kuch Nahin Bhi Nahin Tha <br />
Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha <br />
Kun Fayakun Kun Fayakun <br />
Sadaq Allahu Al Ali Al Azim <br />
Sadaq Rasur-Hul Nabhi Hikari <br />
Salallah Hu Alayhi Wasallam <br />
Salallah Hu Alayhi Wasallam <br />
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Ho Mujhpe Karam Sarkar Tera <br />
Araj Tujhe Kar De Mujhe <br />
Mujhse Hi Riha <br />
Ab Mujhko Bhi Ho Deedar Mera <br />
Kar De Mujhe Mujhse Hi Riha, Mujhse Hi Riha <br />
Mann Ke Mere Yeh Bharam <br />
Kachche Mere Yeh Karam <br />
Leke Chale Hain Kahaan <br />
Main To Jaanu Hi Na <br />
Tu Hai Mujh Mein Samaaya Kahaan Leke Mujhe Aaya <br />
Main Hoon Tujh Mein Samaaya Tere Peeche Chala Aaya <br />
Tera Hi Main Ik Saaya Tune Mujhko Banaya <br />
Main Toh Jag Ko Naa Bhaaya <br />
Tune Gale Se Jagaya Haq Tu Hi Hai Khudaya <br />
Sacch Tu Hi Hai Khudaya Aa <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun Faaya Kun <br />
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Jab Kahin Pe Kuch Nahin Bhi Nahin Tha <br />
Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha <br />
Jab Kahin Pe Kuch Nahin Bhi Nahin Tha <br />
Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha Wahi Tha <br />
Kun Faaya Kun Kun Faaya Kun <br />
Sadaq Allahu Al Ali Al Azim <br />
Sadaq Rasur-Hul Nabhi Hikari <br />
</div></div>Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0Bengaluru, Bengaluru12.971599 77.59457tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-18947526333382409662016-04-13T10:27:00.000+05:302016-04-13T10:35:43.706+05:30On the Chess Match of the Gods<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Feynman compares our quest to understand nature to observing a chess match between Gods</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As all chess players know, it is far easier to understand the rules of chess than to select the best move in tournament play.</span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nature's "GAME" is much more complex than chess. Perhaps we will never understand precisely why everything happens, but a good first step is to try and understand the rules of Nature's game: Nature's </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">fundamental laws.</i></b> </blockquote>
~~~~ <b>Robert Piccioni ( Physicist )</b><br />
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Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-89266666680078785852016-02-28T19:39:00.001+05:302016-03-01T18:53:23.004+05:30On A Response to my previous Post by Prabhu Narasimhan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Arka – my response to your recent blog. Publish this as my rejoinder to yours if you will.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“What if a group of people started shouting misogynist slogans in a college campus citing evolutionary evidence. Or what about a group of students abusing a particular Abrahamic religion on their beliefs on rational grounds. What about taking this one step further and a group of students actively condoning rapes in Delhi citing idiotic things like women wearing inappropriate clothes and speaking about due process of law being violated in the judgment on Nirbhaya case. Would this all constitute freedom of expression?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As Arka says we as a country have been known as a land respecting a dissenter. So should we allow these above hypothetical protestors their right to protest however distasteful it might be. Or does the Government of the day follow the constitutional process.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">In this whole debate, what has been conveniently forgotten is the facts and the law. Whilst the facts may be in dispute in many cases (and here) the law is clear – the Indian constitution allows for freedom of expression. But that freedom is not unfettered. There are a number of limitations – public order is one, sovereignity and integrity of the nation is another. In other words, utterances which can disrupt public order or statements challenging the sovereignity and integrity of the nation is not permitted under the freedom of expression right in the constitution. The sedition law is an additional limb in the IPC – whether utterances which are not constitutionally protected (I.e. seditious statements) should be criminal is another question. There is a rich body of law which sets out when it can be criminal.Supreme Court has ruled that the sedition law is constitutional. Now of course you can differ with the judgment but the Government has law on its side here.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Now coming to the JNU saga which has been hijacked by the left and losers (I.e. Congress Party which itself has a rich tradition of preserving freedom of expression – remember emergency), what is beyond doubt is that pro Afzal Guru slogans were shouted at and slogans challenging the sovereignity and integrity of India were chanted – in fact live on the television studios I have seen students and supporters of the arrested group say as much to that effect. That to me is not freedom of expression. Those are statements challenging our constitution, contempt of court and now I use the term – anti national.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Now what does “anti-national” mean – we the people of India resolved to ourselves and gave to ourselves our constitution. That created in us a nation following a set belief set out in our constitution. Now our constitution does not say we are the best country in the world or that we are superior to others – that is pseudo nationalism and jingoism. Let us not confuse jingoism with nationalism. Nationalism essentially means to protect our values. In an increasingly hostile world, we have to strive to protect our freedoms. I am all for wide interpretation of freedom of expression.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">By all means debate intellectually where Afzal Guru case was handled correctly by the court and due process of law followed but do not call the hanging as state sponsored murder. That is challenging the constitutional role of the supreme court. By all means intellectually question the idea of India but to ask for it to splintered strikes at the heart of our constitution and the nation we created ourselves.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Finally, these students whose virtues Arka sings paens of are I do not think very humbly Gandhi shouting slogans against the British – they are shouting slogans against themselves and their own constitution. Fine by me as long as it does not cross certain lines. Public order (aka in my example earlier shouting distasteful slogans against religions etc. In my first paragraph) is not acceptable. Neither are statements challenging the sovereignty and integrity of the nation. To do so is inciting public disorder and challenging the very constitution that gives them the right to express.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Finally, if Kanhaiya and co are right to shout any slogan, surely other extremist on the other side can shout for Kanhaiya to be thrashed and killed. If violence happens in Kashmir because of students flaring up temperature there does not have any causal link surely lawyers beating up Kanhaiya also can claim no causal link against those who shouted for that to happen. Freedom of expression does not extend to inciting illegal acts or condoning them. Any sloganeering against the integrity of the nation needs to be handled sternly where it takes place in Government funded institutions. Modi and his Government have got this one right.</span></div>
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Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-79372692729856637652016-02-27T06:46:00.001+05:302016-02-27T07:01:12.083+05:30On Umar Khalid and the Right to dissent<p dir="ltr">First , watch this video:</p>
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<p dir="ltr">Now, please tell me, who dares paints these kids Anti-nationals without first painting themselves buffoons plus thugs plus enemies of reason, with the same brush!!</p>
<p dir="ltr">As long as we have been in existence as a people our respect for the dissenter, or the other view has always been more inclusive than any other nation known. The standoff vs. Modijis Govt. and the students at JNU is a special point in the case to be made about the attempt to stifle dissent and the fallow hope of trying to make a bankrupt ideology sound good by using "sexy" words like Patriotism and fear mongering terms like "Terrorists" , " Antinationals", " Jihadis", "Maoists" etc. </p>
<p dir="ltr">All the same while the attempt is on to malign and denigrate any differing viewpoint be it Secularism "Sickularism" or the voices that cry foul when personal liberties are trampled - the so called Anti-nationals and Reservationists- the folk the RSS and BJP right wing hardliners would "Shoot at Sight" (Their actual words!). </p>
<p dir="ltr">But here, in the video shared above, contrary to the media painted image of some medieval Islamic unschooled Umar Khalid and his equally silly followers at JNU doing some seeriously seriously stupid and objectionable things, you see an Umar Khalid addressing an audience of students that took my breath away when I heard him speak here [the first time I took notice of this issue really - as I'm. breaking my self imposed hiatus from Political posts on the web! :) But I really had to!]</p>
<p dir="ltr">We are dealing with educated, balanced and suave students here at JNU. Students who've done far more than merely read books and pass exams. Students who have applied their minds and thought about what they are being taught and how things are unfolding in the Nation and the World around them. Students smart enough to know their rights and the tenuous limitations that curtail those rights illegally. And as youth they quickly spot the bluffs they are and impatiently give tongue to their frustrations. But THAT IS THEIR RIGHT!</p>
<p dir="ltr">As Umar Khalid, the student at the eye of the storm over the JNU issue states - " Anti-nationals of the world unite!" - in peace. It's time. We've seen enough and more bloody wars as a species all these last hundred odd years. We can't handle another such century , let's be clear!</p>
<p dir="ltr">If being Nationalist means one has a monopoly on what the Truth is and What the Right is, then it's time to break this fake monopoly.</p>
<p dir="ltr">No man, no club, no group, no mob, no school, no religion, no university, no nation and no group of nations even can ever claim dominion or monopoly over what's the Truth. Nor over what's RIGHT.</p>
<p dir="ltr">These students are fighting for what's RIGHT. The irony of their raising Leftist slogans isn't an irony at all unless one subscribes to the rather bankrupt view that Capitalism is somehow a far better system. It may have proved be longer enduring than Communism but is it really any better??</p>
<p dir="ltr">One must remember the greatest examples of how great either Communism or Capitalism can be are respetively a bankrupt war mongering Nation that collapsed in the early 90s and a bankrupt war mongering nation verging on collapse perhaps very soon unless it changes its direction drastically.</p>
<p dir="ltr">These Students are inpiring. In them one is confident, the future of our country is secured. They have guts and conviction. Poise and inner steel. More Power to them. More Power to them!</p>
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Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-35628764264696236352016-02-15T12:09:00.000+05:302016-02-15T12:11:12.451+05:30On what's on my mind currently about ( what was on my mind frequently in the past about ( what could be on my mind always in the future about ( what's going on in my currently about (...... and so on ad infinitum<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-12733720383316482462014-06-02T12:51:00.000+05:302018-09-18T07:16:10.950+05:30On where to invest around the world... <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I recently stumbled upon a parameter of tracking investment worthiness of countries aroun the world called the Baseline profitability index. Developed by Daniel Altman an economist, journalist, academic, and international bestselling author somewhere in the year 2012-13</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">So how does the BPI work? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">What are the best places globally to invest in by this metric? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Where does India rank in the global standings? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">The answers to the question above can gleaned by having a look at the article linked to below:</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/05/07/introducing-the-baseline-profitability-index/<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br></div>
Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-45769861734925092992014-04-25T22:15:00.000+05:302014-04-25T22:15:51.234+05:30On my Twitter face-off with Dr. Subramaniam Swamy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-88263288077830056572014-04-23T00:36:00.001+05:302014-04-23T01:09:45.205+05:30On Facebook Feuds, Politics and Anniversaries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It's increasingly evident to me,<br />
That the world that we live in is a crazy place to be,<br />
Where the things that should bother us don't,<br />
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Where Facebook feuds on politics,<br />
Leads to amusing dramatics,<br />
Where annoyed friends and bemused strangers,<br />
And discussions on corruption and glorified arrangers,<br />
Can lead to unfriending wives,<br />
But tell me, Do I then forget the lives?<br />
That were in so plenty lost a while ago,<br />
Do I forget their stories, let them bother me no more?</div>
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There's reasonable folk that tell me what's decent,<br />
Is to let it drop since it's no longer recent,<br />
But tell me the price of a memory,<br />
One that clings to your soul,<br />
Like an Elephant left alive without its ivory,<br />
Does it still ever completely feel whole?</div>
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And they say that the Grand Pachyderm,<br />
Rarely forgets a friendly turn,<br />
Yet docile as his majesty no doubt seems,<br />
When rampaging wild to protect his dreams,<br />
Surely forgets no slight either,<br />
And he shouldn't neither<br />
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To you I pose this wicked teaser Manali,<br />
One that I am inadequate to frame completely,<br />
Is it right for us to keep quite or turn away,<br />
When finally the moment is here for us to stay-to have our say?<br />
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Together with you it's been a fairly long innings,<br />
And yet trust me this is just the beginnings,<br />
You've been my rock when I faced fear,<br />
You remain my strength, my hope, my verse,<br />
My joy, my reason to be, my now, my here<br />
My conscience, my muse, my soul, my Universe<br />
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Like tall trees whose canopies entwine,<br />
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I need you near me, I need you to be mine<br />
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Here's wishing you a happy 6th Anniversary , my love...<br />
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<p dir="ltr">This one will be far more impressive and exciting than the last one some 500 years ago.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">2. C/I/A account for close to 40-50% of global population whereas Renaissance Europe only accounted for much less and dealt with advances that weren't too impressive to India/China /Muslim Middle East as well as parts of Africa!</p>
<p dir="ltr">3. The world (especially the developing & third world countries) is unhappy with the existing status quo of growing inequity and rising Gini indices in country after country globally - from 1st world to 3rd world without exception!</p>
<p dir="ltr">4. Bretton Woods and subsequent interest based financial system is a huge ecological and economic disaster waiting to destabilize the world- and there are far better alternative models for growth that have been practiced for social and economic benefit of societies- alternatives that are still relevant and superior but are pushed away from mainstream discussions due to the clout of certain vested interests!!?</p>
Arkus Caesarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13993844296877027376noreply@blogger.com0Bangalore Urban,12.888959 77.54983tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7660652.post-48972362060540624682014-01-15T07:56:00.001+05:302014-04-04T15:06:22.172+05:30On the importance of Arvind Kejriwal and the next 90 years of India's future<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
First here's a glimpse of the mindshare that one Mr.Arvind Kejriwal has captured of mine over the past 6 odd years -<br />
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Arvind Kejriwal is an absolute bloody outsider without an iota of political ability, he can rabble rouse all he likes but he will never win a single seat, he will never fight elections - all he can do is wave RTI documents in the face of Delhi's entrenched political coteries. He will never matter, in fact he won't survive more than for a few months!<br />
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Arvind Kejriwal is an opportunistic jackass using the Anna bandwagon to win petty points with the congress government over the lok pal.. Also, the way team Anna is going about it is JUST plain wrong. Due process and parliamentary/ legislative oversight exists for a reason in a democracy right? AK is a frikking jackass </div>
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For most people religious festivals are nothing but pretexts for families to get together. I am part of this club.<br />
Therefore, it's amazing that because of one small kid who had the misfortune of having his head lopped off by his Old man whom he rubbed the wrong way in order to protect his mother's modesty, I get to meet family and friends in Mumbai<br />
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Mumbai- the city of dreams. The place I call the home of my soul. The city where I feel like kal-el does when he's on Earth. The city that has everything going for it except the traffic, the crowds and the weather. But the traffic's orderly, the people are the coolest and the weather has the Mumbai monsoons on its side. Mumbai, you are family too- and boy am I glad too see you again!!<br />
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Reminded me of places that I wish to visit and restaurants that I want to eat at ( most everything reminds me of these two things). Usually I want to Visit places simply because i have heard of a few good restaurants at said location. Given below are a few cities and reasons why, as also listed are the (very few :D) good restaurants in Bengaluru that Manali and self haven't yet had a chance to sample the fare at.<br />
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#1 : Tokyo - With 247 Michelin Starred restaurants and being the home of Sushi/Sashimi and a chance of Fugu perhaps (I dare say that's a must for me if Tokyo happens) and hence the official food capital of the world<br />
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#2 London/Paris/NewYork - Not the recent hindi film starring Ali Zafar and Aditi Hydari but the three most visited Metropolises in the world. Museum/Art /Theatre buff that I am the reasons for visitng here aren't restricted to food BUT some of the best restaurants in the world are here for sure. And having been pampered with the finest French & Italian cuisine in west Africa while I was there ( Trust me very very few restaurants in India understand good Italian and French Cooking) definitely Paris seems the gastronomical pick of the three ( incidentally Paris is also the city with the second most Michelin starred restaurants after Tokyo - so there!) BUT London has the Savoy Grill (a mecca for any Wodehouse fan) and the Fat Duck ( Anyone who has enjoyed food at Caperberry in Bangalore ?) and I'm sure New York is home to some of the finest restaurants as well<br />
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#3 Melbourne/Sydney - You've seen Masterchef Australia, mate? - That's why!<br />
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#4 Sao Paulo / Rio de Janeiro - Ok no purely food motives here. Just want to go to Brazil (ideally in 2014 and 2016)<br />
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#1 Shiro - <b>No idea</b> why Manali and I haven't yet been here !<br />
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#2 Jamavar / Zen / Zanotta - The Leela Palace is too out-of-the-way but have heard good things about these three restaurants so maybe a detour is in order and on the cards ?<br />
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It has been close to nine months since I've moved to Bangalore, from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso (my previous pit stop). So how have the three-quarters of a year past been - professionally it has been nothing short of mind blowing - doing as I am at Vanguard Business School stuff that my dreams are made of makes it so much fun, BUT there is a small caveat. That caveat is my cyclic love-hate relationship with Namma Bengaluru.<br />
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The fact is that about a day into my arrival in Bengaluru I fell in love with the seraphic weather of the garden city.A week into my stay I had made peace with the City's traffic and the sad fact that it slept at 10 p.m. and was dead by 11:30 p.m.( Not that I was at all thrilled with this development). A month into Bangalore, I began to literally hate the city's guts from the deeps of my soul. Now, that abhorrence has given way to a dull numb sensation somewhere left of my right shin. I am now ready for the next emotion on this roller coaster ride to take hold of me - only - even I don't know what that emotion is going to be.<br />
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Enumerating my Bangy Blues a bit further, I seem to find I can safely classify my positives in one category and my negatives into two, viz. :<br />
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If there is a Metropolitan City anywhere in the World with perfect weather then this is it, this is it, this is it. Nitpicking pundits of the Anti-Bengaluru camp will rush in here to point out the severe pollen infested nature of Bengaluru's climes and how it debilitates any asthmatic the moment he enters Bangalore's airspace, but, at this juncture I clarify, I am not asthmatic, and I couldn't care about the handicaps imposed by this aspect of Bengaluru on people bronchially, alveolically or asthmatically challenged, because to me the Weather here is supremely refreshing and rejuvenating.<br />
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In fact the weather here is so so good that it partly nullifies the two huge negatives I am about to enumerate below. People who know me will know the tremendous currency I place on having decent options for entertainment post working hours, which for me is THE definition of a good city to live in. The fact that I am not detesting every ticking second in Bangalore means that yes, in short, the weather is <b>that good</b> !!<br />
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Back when there was nothing but primordial goo , even back then, two things existed - Angry birds and Headless chicken.<br />
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Now, living Bengaluru traffic is a special combination of Cars,Truckers, Bikers, Pedestrians, Traffic Cops, and- wait for it....Bengaluru's specials - The tractor hitched pull cart that could carry anything from Iron Rails to Grass to Water , the perambulating Bullock/cow, and of course the Jaywalker. Each of the above mentioned elements to Bangy traffic (except the serenely supreme Cow who is a respected and loved entity for precisely this reason) is part Angry bird and part Headless chicken, the exact proportions may vary but then a more detailed description of each category will only increase my stress levels so I'll let it go...<br />
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The non-living components of Bangalore Traffic involves weird one-ways, dangerously ill-lit roads, poorly placed and illegible signposts, road dividers that cause more accidents than prevent them, and there's also that ethereal sense of bewilderment that faces most Bangalore newbies when they ask bystanders for directions ( this one's my favourite Bangalore peeve by the way - that 3G navigation tools are selling like hot cakes in India is largely due to this in Bangalore at least!)<br />
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But while still on traffic woes I recently read <a href="http://georgethomas.blogspot.com/2011/10/eternal-riders-of-pune.html#links" target="_blank">THIS</a> pretty funny blog by George Thomas on his recent experience of Pune traffic, and i want to underline that Bangalore Traffic is by far worse, much more most worstest !!<br />
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Namma Bengaluru is fast asleep at 10 p.m. This fact of Bangalore (which is reputed to be a pretty fly place for partying , and was in fact the first city to boast of a massively touted pub culture) depresses me so much that you'll excuse me if I don't write too much on this and brings things to a quick close on this front.<br />
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If Bangalore can get it's traffic act together (the recent Metro inauguration augurs new hope although that hope is at least another 5 years coming because the current opened metro stretch doesn't really mean much to Bangalore's traffic woes) and find a way to stay awake beyond it's rather tame curfew limit of 10 p.m. i could learn to love this city a lot. Coming from Mumbai (which I have always considered my home and barring miracles/ cataclysm will always in the future continue to hold as my home) it's unlikely Bengaluru will catch up with Mumbai's frenetic and unbelievably varied nightlife very soon BUT I'm afraid a couple of all-night biryani joints doesn't count for much and Bangalore needs to get its act together in this department before I can unreservedly call Bangalore my home away from home<br />
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Today marks Diwali, possibly THE most important festival in the Hindu calendar. Diwali marks mythologically the slaying of Narakasura, a powerful villain who reigned unrivaled for long eons until Krishna decided to declare war on his impregnable fortress and eleven akshauhini of troops single-handedly ( or with Satyabhama as some versions note) atop Garuda that formidable steed of Vishnu. Narakasura's death at the hands of Krishna ( or Satyabhama as some versions note) came along with the boon to have his death day celebrated for all posterity as the festival of lights and hence Naraka Chaturdsahi or the festival of lights a.k.a Diwali became a real big do in Indian tradition. Interestingly, Narakasura's defeat also resulted in Krishna's wife count swelling by 16,100 wives as a result of the fact that Narakasura had 16,100 princesses imprisoned in his castle/ fortress.<br />
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You've always been my most ardent fan - not the googly eyed variety, but the serious kind -the kind that can and most inevitably will give sharp feedback when warranted.<br />
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You've been there for me when the going was tough and you've kept me grounded when the going was brilliant.</div>
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You've led me by your example while you've pretended to the world that you follow me around.<br />
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You've been my sartorial editor, nay my sartorial Hitler (can't recall the last time I was allowed to buy clothes of my choice), and while I'm not convinced this is a good thing, I do quite often get compliments for sharp dressing- so thanks for this as well!</div>
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I am afraid I love you a lot more than I think I do. And the real fear, is that I think even that might not be enough to compensate for who You are.</div>
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To know you, is to love you - and I do.<br />
I do.</div>
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