PHILOSOPHIES IN A PARADOX

With Donald Trump trying to recreate GoT in real life, I sometimes wonder whether he is an ardent fan of Rahul Dravid. Either way, economists today are pushed into a downward spiral with current events in USA and epiphenomena in Eurozone which has lambasted the fundamentals of globalization for one more time and hopefully not for one last time. When communalism was brought down along with Berlin wall in 1991, many countries concluded that their only saviour has to be globalization and industrialization. The west is the best and its best for the rest to follow the west, as policymakers never had any cogitation towards alternative economic models other/better than globalization. But this is facing more of a dire anti-climax in recent years as we may well see the denouement of globalization. In fact, not far down the line, we will witness governments pretending to practice globalization on a surface level only.

Globalization means, “The process by which businesses develop international influence and start operating on an international scale”. But the ground reality is “Globalization is feeding America for its own expansion and when America falls, they bring the whole world down”. Like a butterfly effect, in 2008 someone residing in Sydney leading a content life with happy family lost his job because of someone’s greed in the USA to build condos by availing loans in his dog’s name. By that time, we should have realized that globalization is nothing but a cyclical trap of growth at its peak and recession at its worst (except for America), as any country at any point of time depends on some other country, who are depending on every other country. There can never be a common economic model for all the countries, as each country has the burden of their own cultural & ethnic history with geographical gifts.

With a crisis of self-identity becoming the biggest shortcoming in this globalized economy, branding a nation is an important job for any country. Not many identify America as a colonized nation who exchanged weapons for gold during the second world war but as a country of Coke, Mickey Mouse, McDonald's, KFC, Google and Microsoft which has created a mirage that America is the greatest nation in history. Similar was the case in India. Until Smiling Buddha was detonated in 1998, we did not have a strong international outlook. Soft power alone cannot exist without a backing up of hard power, else a country will be tagged as an impotent nation. The best example is Japan.

No doubt many countries today cannot match the technological advancement of America and we may even find pride that millions of Indians have contributed to it, but that doesn’t mean we should follow them blindly to reach the pinnacles. It is high time we recognize the difference between Globalization with Americanization. At times I wonder how European settlers, who massacred aborigines, having no obligation towards American patriotism, have successfully influenced the whole world in the name of America itself? What we are practising today is Americanized way of life assuming that this will lead us to amelioration. Right from clothing, Americanization has already entered our kitchen through our ignorance. It is just like a tiger thinking that it can lead a long life like a turtle and jumping into unknown waters.

Like every individual, even countries have their own identity. But globalized etiquette has masked a shame on any culture that isn’t American. India and China have revolved around as world economic superpower till 1700AD. (from 1AD to 1750AD 50-60% of world GDP came from these two countries). But after the intervention of imperialism, we completely lost the track. Once manufacturing, economic, agricultural and a cultural superpower have turned into a feeder for the manpower to the developed world.

Why am I saying all these? Because globalization, even though started for a great cause for humanity is turning out to be a parasite. You may still question me that globalization is the reason for electronic, space and industrial and medical revolution. No! We would still have witness these even without globalization that is being practised today. Exchanging of goods has always been persistent throughout our history and we can’t argue upon the fact that only globalization has brought forth this phenomenon. Globalization has only increased wealth inequality. Nothing else.

As the Trump saga catching up the pace, even if he doesn’t last for the next term, I believe that his policies cannot be negated by his successor. I predict Americanizing America for the Americans has to be the moto for their future. As my father always says, “Know your family and geographical history and half of your life’s journey is complete”.

I would like to conclude saying Its Individualization and not globalization, is the solution for this. With the geographical gift from our mother nature, we’ve the potential to sculpt India into both agricultural and manufacturing superpower. We can no longer blame the education system for our incomprehension and with the world of internet at our tips, we can either educate ourselves about ourselves, or we can also choose not to do so and enjoy the current state. But imagine the next generations growing without knowing our embellished past. The decision lies in our hands.

The Deceit

(Human, Evolution and about Few Forces above us)

Mankind is the luckiest being on this planet as of today. Even after almost 99% of all species on earth were wiped out in the event of “Great dying”, we somehow evolved from our ancestors, particularly animals. Maybe if dinosaurs were canny enough to invent a machine travelling at velocities higher than that of light and pushed themselves through time to this day, they would have then realized that, contrivance of such kind of machine was a huge blunder. They wouldn’t have had any courage to see their whole race in obsolescence. Troodon, which is considered to be a genius amongst all dinosaurs could never have digested this phenomena and blamed itself for veracious Theorizing of Relativity, if this time travelling event had been authentic enough. Maybe mankind would feel the same if they invent such kind of machines. But we don’t have to worry as something tagged “Time Machine” is never going to surface itself from mankind’s prodigy. Let’s take for an instance. Till today there’s nothing called Time Machine in practical world unless you’re inside a TARDIS with The Doctor from Gallifrey. If mankind invents such machine he’ll be more eager to know about his future than his past. Maybe few historian of future will be researching our present. Maybe he takes interest to visit to see us. By this time he should have been here. But we find no one. Which means there’s nothing called a machine which considers time as a physical quantity and moves back and forth inside it. So shall all be happy that the secret of future is still intact and Gods shall be happy that they’ll still be respected.

But who were we before this present evolution? If we ask that question to Darwin he’ll answer we were evolved from monkeys. If we ask that same questions to religious thinker we’ll get most innovative answers of all time. Abrahamic followers will say earth was created in 4004 BC and God created sun and stars and moon and planets only after creating earth. Hinduism says universe is 11 billion years old (which is almost close to currently accepted figure of 13.8 billion years). They involved all such measuring units like Kalpas and Yugas. Though these kind of theories of measurements were first rejected by various people initially, this value has sustained and has found its apex in today’s world. History is full of everything and history never repeats itself. If history had repeated itself, then historians and people could have no duty to perform on this earth. Various evangelist theories in order to deconstruct India have rejected any science involving in our history and always tried to convince us that out to lunch Europeans were superior to us. Till today we’ve always trusted and believed in that and all our educational systems and institutions are all based on the traces left behind by the imbecile Europeans. In fact one will be awed if I say even the names of various political institutions who create all menace across India, are all based on the faulty theories of the westerners. We lost our rich identity of our past to extreme extent that if you go to a child and say that “Boudhayana” in his book “Sulpha Sutra” has stated Pythagoras theorem even 600 years before the so called great Pythagoras himself, the child will give a gaudy glimpse of its disbelief. No one is ready to believe that our ancestors were in a situation where science and religion went hand in hand.

This can be explained by five stages of our mind. The stages are namely Proof, Knowledge, Reality, Memory and Sleep. Our mind does not accept anything without proof and with that proof gains knowledge and knowledge opens up reality which stays in our mind as memory, but why does sleep has anything to do with this? Actually it’s the most important routine one has to do every day. Try not sleeping for days you’ll know the real discrepancy. I’ll tell you a short story which I myself built up inside my mind based on my own views of pragmatism and lets all see whether we accept it. This story has passed each and every stage of the above five barriers.

We all must be familiar with ten avatars of Vishnu. If we see those sculptures and painting in many temples of India they seem comical. All we see is a balderdash in name of God and Religion. A human with fish legs called Matsaya Avatar. How awkward it sounds, human with fish body! How could he answer his nature calls or how he could have possibly walked? A common mind seeing those pictures make them laugh for rest of their life. Oh wait! I haven’t even started yet! The second one is called Koorma Avatar. Now comes the next one with the appearance of a tortoise. The great Lord Vishnu who is considered to be the safe guarder of the universe takes a form of a tortoise. In fact it is considered as a bad sign of luck in many parts of south India if a tortoise enters our house. Now this indirectly proves that the Lord Vishnu is considered unlucky. The third is Varaha Avatar. A Boar which holds earth in its nose. Go to kid and say once world was saved by a pig. He or she will laugh its ass out. Fourth is Nrisimha Avatar. Half lion and half man. I’m already bored of half man and half animal stories. Fifth comes Vamana Avatar, a dwarf. Great Lord takes a form of Dwarf to save earth from the clutches of Mahabali. Thankfully the next four involves all human lookalikes. Parashurama, Rama, Balarama, Krushna. The tenth is yet unknown calling himself “Kalki”. There are also Upa-Avatars such as Nara Narayan, Narada, Kapila and 9 more which also includes Buddha according to many.

In today’s world of advanced technologies where science is God, almost no one has any time to hear all these idiotic idiosyncrasies in name of religion. We Indians are even been influenced too much by westerners. In fact all the learning we learn today are their influences and they have been successful in creating an image that however great we Indians once were we won’t be able to accept it. Various bogus theories such as Aryan invasion and Dravidian aborigines have taken deep roots inside our culture that one can hardly be able to eradicate such spurious theories from our day to day life. In fact many academic institutions have taken huge steps to teach these concocted concepts that we as Indians have lost our identity that today we search ourselves in places where we really don’t belong to.

Fine it’s time for myself to confess that I myself have been too much into western ideologies that I found myself in a situation where I have to decide and change path. After I took the diversion came a new thought process. A process which was hugely influenced by the western thought but now with an Indian identity.

According to me the best ever theory ever proposed by western thinker is the “Theory of Evolution” by Charles Darwin. But wait! Have we Indians proposed anything similar like this before? We all know we are not even close. First thought which goes into our mind is that “We are inferior to Europeans and mighty Americans and so as a result we couldn’t have been anywhere close to where they stand”. Let me take you where I bashed my Gods earlier in this precise.

Today science accept the fact that life on earth first formed as a result of amino acids in water. Then after few billion years from water it slowly evolved to sustain itself on land which we are familiar of. Then occurred the event of “Great Dying”, which wiped out almost everything. Then after billions and billions of years, after evolutions after evolutions nature finally selected we kind of humans to sustain. A selection by natural process. Here we are calling ourselves “The Cro-Magnon” or the “Homo sapiens”, meaning skillful genius race.

But wait! Has anyone noticed a striking similarity in above paragraphs? I think almost no one has! And if you have done it then you deserve my sincere appreciation. What we Indians wrote and drew and sculptured in temples is what Scientist claim today. And one thing where I have to appreciate them here is they have rightly named these processes in general. They call this research. Yes! You heard it! They’re right. Read it again. “Re”search. What we once searched and safe guarded is again being repeated in name of intellects.

In Vishnu’s first avatar he claims to be fish, Matsaya Avatar. Was He dumb and naïve to state such stuffs? No! Never! Life first originated in water doesn’t mean necessarily fish. But in order to make it simple and understandable our ancestors stated it fish, as first thing strikes in our mind when we say fish is water. The same water from where life originated. Then slowly the life from water gradually saw land. Its desire to evolve made it possible to stay sustainable in both land and water. This is second avatar of Vishnu called Koorma Avatar, meaning tortoise, an amphibian. After life slowly developed on land, after few billion years there was a great calamity which wiped nine out of ten species on earth. This was called Great Dying. This runs parallel with the third avatar of Vishnu, Varaha avatar. Varaha Avatar states that earth (Bhoomidevi) was stolen by a demon named Iranyakshan (twin brother of Hiranyakashibu who plays a huge part in Nrisimha Avatar). Iranyakshan was then slaughtered by a pig faced god named Varaha. Here Varaha is hypothecated to sustained species from the Great Dying and Iranyakshan to the event of the Great Dying itself which destroyed Earth (Bhoomidevi). After few billion years, after species evolved in time they never formed mankind in a single day. Initially they were just animal contaminated beings. This is the fourth avatar called Nrisimha Avatar which is a half lion and half man. This depicts the same fact Darwin proposed in his theory that mankind was evolved from animals. Though the nature of animals vary from these theories the silhouette of these theories remain the same, that we people had animal ancestry. This avatar kills Iranyakashibu through the faith of Prahaladhan. Then slowly these beings slowly formed higher species, today we call them human and here comes the fifth avatar Vamana Avatar, which is dwarf. We humans weren’t even humans when so called evolution took place. The physical state we are in right now wasn’t the same before 5000 years. We were much taller and much stalwart before five millennia. But before 50 millennia we were even shorter than our present structure, like a dwarf. The growth of humans is always proportional to the oxygen content in the atmosphere. Not only humans, even small beings such as worms were once much larger in size due to the oxygen content in atmosphere. The dwarfs were inception of evolution. After few billion years again after changes following changes in nature, these dwarf species evolved into something of even higher order and we all know what dwarfs evolved into, in the process of evolution. The following syllogistic figure shows how evolution of species` runs parallel with the Avatars of Vishnu.

The next four avatars involved no evolution physically but they attacked more of our inner `mental evolution. The second Yuga named “Thretha Yuga” was the time when Rama gave birth. Though He is famed for killing the skilled administrator Ravanan, He is unknown for many dharma He laid down in his kingdom. Those structured way of leading life rules, sustained man to survive till the end of third Yuga “Dwapara Yuga”. Rama dharma always involved deeds like “Good to everyone”. But at the end of Dwapara Yuga good people were continue to do good even after another person does the opposite. If this had continued the negation would have outplayed the positive, making negative sustain. But in order to make mankind sustain Krushna did something miraculous. To put it short in simple terms he said, “Just replicate what you get. If you get good then reciprocate it. If it’s the opposite then do the opposite”. I’ll explain it with a small epitome. When Ravana ran out of weapons, Lord Rama said that the fight was done for the day as He was no more interested in defeating a person who had nothing to defend with. But in his next Avatar, Krushna, He commanded Arjuna to kill Karna when Karna was busy in rescuing his chariot which was stuck in ground. But the similarity between these cases are that both decisions were taken to force the sustainability of Dharma. Even today we are following the dharma laid by Krushna with or without our knowledge. And for this proof just go and slap a kindergarten kid. He’ll try to slap you again. If this is a scenario for a kid imagine the situation of a matured being. We always have seen this as the sculptures and drawings but never interpreted in the way I have explained before. We have always drawn away from our grounds and found ourselves in the state of instability. Today’s world is the exact mirror of Krushna’s teaching- Bagavat Gita. One knows how one can lead his life in each and every situation without any exceptions.

Avatars are not for religious sake. They are actually evolution of mankind and species. Each avatar depicts each of the states of specie’s evolution, both physically and mentally. Though there are showcased wrongly in various places, in my point of view, I still believe in the fact that this is a result of misinterpretation of facts of physical appearance of various avatars, as evolution took place within ourselves but the core truth cannot be blown away.

By

• K.PRASANNAVENKATESH

God complex

When you look at the history it’s always been like a sine wave, going to its peak of foolishness at one period and to the peak of genius at the other (right now we are at the peak of foolishness).

There are two kinds of people: theist and atheist. India has influenced this planet both scientifically and religiously in various ways. Who is Rama? Who is Krishna? They were just humans. But their deeds to this world made them God. They were pure to their conscience and influenced common men. It’s us who made them so called “God”. Why did we do this? People from their respective ages have seen great men of their time who did incredible things to move the man kind forward. When we search for such people today we’d probably end up as a fool because great people are dead. People today of different sect follow their own God. But all these activities we’re doing today had a point of singularity, a particular point where all these began.

When you ask Stephan Hawking about singularity, he’ll say that the point of singularity is Big bang because scientist believes that everything had started from there. Latest report suggests that CERN has found out that they’ve been successful in recreating so called the “GOD PARTICLE”. So what’s GOD PARTICLE?  It’s a particle which has parity but has no spin. According to Higgs Boson when the universe was created at the moment of Big Bang there were some specific particles which had the property and characteristics of changing energy (from big bang) into mass. This led to the life. According to the SHASTRAAS and VEDAS our body is mass and our soul is energy. We Indians invented this even before the European scientists who are struggling today to make it. They were not sure of what these particles were made of and so they named it GOD PARTICLE. When they went further deeper into the exact instant of Big Bang scientists found out that the particular event betrays all Laws of Physics that various men and women had thrived hard to find since our early ages. It remains unexplained. This is called GOD’s action. Anything unreachable or non-preachable to mankind is GOD. Aristotle and Ptolemy were the early proposers of the PLANETERY MODEL put the Earth at the centre and the remaining celestial bodies around it in circles. When asked what’s beyond them he just said that it’s beyond the eyes of the human and his inability led people to come to a conclusion that it must be hell and heaven which must be present beyond these stars. So right from the early ages what men had failed to explain has come under the GOD’s department. Later after the discoveries of Copernicus and Galileo that it’s Sun and not the Earth which is at the centre heaven and hell stuffs vanished. They moved away from us gradually. Today they are completely vanished.

As new inventions happen God is getting away from our minds thinking science is superior to God and we people tend to forget religion & God are one and the same. But Gods must be wiser by making sure that the ultimate questions of mankind are never answered making everyone believe that there’s some power or force above us who’s been dominating us. If scientist successfully explains “God particle” it’s no more a God particle rather it becomes just a particle. But the problems are never ending. After the recreation of the God particle this might further drag onto other unseen problems. This is the one which we are seeing for the past two thousand years, a solution to a problem just rises a new one. A fundamental paradox is hit. Men lost the flash of genius long ago, from the day on when he started to think he’s superior. What we Indians “searched” and found before 6000 years is the same as today’s scientists are trying to prove. Probably today these activities in the name of seeking new knowledge rightly named “re”search. You can put forward a worthy argument about the developments going around us. But you already know the answer. These are just a form of NEGETIVE DEVELOPMENT.

People who lead men to the transition from dark ages to the age of illumination played an important role. Some examples of such men are Rama, Krishna, Jesus, Allah, Buddha etc. Today they are simply remembered as GOD. People followed their footsteps and realised what is life. So to remember those men passed great men’s Legacy to the upcoming generations. The next generation must have been lazy one. So they built Temples to remember them forever. I think this might’ve been the so called the point of singularity, indeed the birth of GOD.

The moment of genius was once originated in India. When Europeans were trying to communicate with each other through drawings, we Indians were playing with numbers and science. When they tried to construct a manuscript, we people were well advanced in technologies like nuclear weapons (even today scientist record some strange nuclear radiations from the dead bodies of the people near western part of Rajasthan where Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro were present. When they did the carbon dating it was found that the nuclear radiations were 5000 years old. This strangely may coincide with the exact age of our great Epic MAHABHARATHA. Also the end of the civilization was near to the date of the occurrence of the great MAHABHARATHA WAR. A warning to those who say MAHABAHRATHA is just an imaginary story). We Indians were well advanced in all departments. It was BOUDHAYANA during 500 BC told that the square of the largest side in a triangle is just the sum of the squares of the other two sides.  The problem with us is we don’t believe in these stuffs and just say that it’s poor Pythagoras who stated this theorem. You people might have heard about VIKRAMAADITHYA who is famous for his tales with demons. But he’s unknown for the other stuff which is in his name. “VI” means “CHANGE”, “KRAMA” means “DIRECTION” and “ADITHYA” means “SUN”. Thus the actual meaning of his name is “CHANGE IN THE DIRECTION OF SUN”. We all know that Vikramaadithya ruled over Ujjain which is exactly present in the region of “TROPIC OF CANCER” where the sun actually changes its direction when travelling towards north.

Still we refuse to believe them and continue to follow Europeans and Americans blindly saying they were the one who thought us everything. We Indians have already found out what is life and this might be the probable reason why we have such a long list of Gods, simply because there were great people were present in INDIA more in numbers than any other country. We people don’t understand this and just follow blindly the idiotic western culture. But why am I saying all these? Simple, only if we come to know where we come from we’ll know who we are. Only if we know who we are we can feel who God is. All those theories proposed by Indians before two or three millennia can never be disproved (almost every theory except for few) but on the other hand ancient theories proposed by G(r)eeks and Latinas were all not true (some of them are being disproved even today). I’m not criticizing them but I want to stress these points to those who believe rather.

Life is a reciprocating machine. What you do is what you get. At some point of time in your life you’ll realise it. Even atheist accepts it. There is some unknown RECEPROCATING FORCE. Scientists don’t know the exact answer for these events. But common people know the answer for this. It’s GOD again. But we people don’t understand this and today we fight among ourselves on who is greater. Instead of educating our upcoming generations with the unworthy western culture we should try to educate with our Indian roots in order to know who we were and who we are and understanding the quest of “What is God?” Unless we find out who we are we can’t understand God. The people today don’t understand it and just fight with each other in name of God and thereby expanding the space between people. Divided we fall and today mankind is falling. Forcing an individual to undertake conversion to their religion is happening in front of our own eyes and the disgusting part is that we remain a faithful spectator. Unless all these cruelty ends and a new era is born where people were together during the early ages of mankind, one can’t feel GOD.

By

 K.PrasannaVenkatesh

Note of thanks

Friends,

          It’s been a week since my heart cried, while my eyes stood still watching my friends cry. If I can simply explain my college life through Roger Penrose’s words, it’d be something like this. “Nothing can escape the pull of gravity of the EVENT HORIZON in the BLACK HOLES. All the MATTER and even LIGHT is crushed down, gets attracted and becomes so dense at a particular point in its centre. This is called the POINT OF SINGULARITY”. Till today I can’t find a way out of your intense pull of kindness, respect and love. So I got attracted through your event horizon of friendship and at last we all became ONE. This is keeping us united…today…tomorrow…and forever.

          Where do you expect me to start? I can start from individual, but it’ll never end. It just like counting the number of galaxies in the VIRGO SUPERCLUSTERS. The individual count goes on. I’d never thought that I would possibly make through these four years. Almost every night I thought of terminating my Engineering and had an opinion of pursuing Charted Accountant.  Everyone around me were disappointed for choosing this college initially, because they felt that this college can’t fulfil my potential. Books, newspapers and football were my only companions. After 12 wonderful years at school, college was something similar to talking about quantum mechanics to a kinder garden kid. Everything was against me and I still can’t find right words to detail those nightmares. Simply saying, I was like a righted handed bear (usually bears are left handed). But Charles Darwin was quite right in his “Evolution of the species”, in which he stated about “Survival of the fittest.” But what makes someone fit to survive? In my case it was YOU. Without you I would’ve ceased long back.

          At this stage I would like to share a small story. About the “THEORY OF EVOLUTION.” Today in polar bears are white in colour. But research says there was a time when Brown polar bears existed. But what happened to them now? They are extinct. But why? The answer is simple. Because Ice is white in colour. Stupid enough? Nah! The answer involves a stroke of genius. Bears has to feed on its preys to survive. White bear attacks its prey, catches and eats it. But you can argue brown bear can do the same. But it actually can’t. The prey can easily identify the brown bear in the midst of the white ice while it is difficult for the prey to spot the white bear in the midst of the ice. The prey could easily escape from the brown bears while it’s difficult to escape from the claws of white. As eons passed the survival probability of brown bears deceased. The white bears took its place. A simple white colour decided the survival of the whole goddamn species. Yeah! This is what called the “Survival of the Fittest.”

          Still can’t complete the circle? In the above story the white bear is me and the brown bear is my fear of failure. And YOU are the ice. YOU made me survive. You killed the brown bear and made it possible for me to sustain. Though the story is different after four years as lot of things changed, the change needed a Catalysts. The mental reaction which involved the transformation from oneself to another needs catalyst in form of friends, particularly in a new environment.

          My college life was nowhere near to those portrayed in movies and I thank GOD for that. If it’d been the same, I would never have got a chance to enjoy the other side. I think it’s time for English language to adapt words from other languages as it has failed me provide me with right words to explain OUR pristine relationship.

          Those encouragements and praises whenever I appear on stage and rebukes if it turns a failure, to those days when we sat at canteen to execrate our staffs while writing their respective assignments. Days before exams. Internal tests = Mr.Bean. Days when invigilators maintain close radius not knowing that we’ve “Already done the job”. NO-DUES. Most importantly the Staffs of almost every department, in the event of hearing our comments, would have increased the probability of suicidal commitments.

          I had wished for a college life, as enjoyable as my school days. But I was wrong. Instead it followed an ARITHMETIC PROGRESSION on a positive scale and the “COMMON DIFFERENCE” here was YOU again.

          Amongst you, I would’ve spent only few seconds, others few minutes, others few hours, others few days and my closest have spent years, while others with just a simple elegant smile. Still you made it possible for me. You’ve indirectly lived for me even without your knowledge. I can’t end this precious draft saying THANK YOU because it has become too formal unlike our relationship.

With tears,

Prasanna Jinku

INSPIRATION

          “Who’s your inspiration?” I asked. Krishna, who just turned eight yesterday coldly replied “Stephen Hawking”.

          The answer would be ordinary to those who are normal, but not for a person like me. The first question which blazed my mind was “So! You do like Black Holes?” and the answer from Krishna thwarted me completely. “No! I hate mouse”. No one seemed to understand the joke, but I did. The Black Hole Krishna was talking about was completely different from the black hole I was talking about. Come on! They are just separated by few million light years, I told myself. I should’ve stopped there, but my tongue was bit quicker than my thoughts. “But who told you about Stephen Hawking?” I asked. “My teacher! Last week she told everyone to consider Stephan Hawking and Isaac Newton as their inspiration and answer the same to those who asks such question”. All I could do was turn back and walk towards my home.

Inspiration doesn’t work like that. Once Arsenal legend Dennis Bergkamp told, “You don’t love a football club for its trophies or for its player, or for the history, or for your friends. You support it because you find yourself as a part of it: found a place where you belong”. The same applies to one’s inspiration. You just can’t choose a random figure and tell everyone going on road that he or she is your inspiration. It’s something connected to our inner conscience, deep in our sub-conscious mind such that in each of your idol’s activity you find yourself (I find myself in Jose Mourinho). People today select their respective Idol just because he/she has an excellent physical appearance, incredible skin tone and best body language and as a result Bollywood and Kollywood stars have become their role model (mind blowing!). It’s not like select a job and work toward it rather it’s like get a salary for what you’ve worked for. It’s an aftermath problem occurring in the middle of our journey of life. Inspiration can be anyone. My father consider “NATURE” as his inspiration. Inspiration can also be a coincidence. If you people have noticed my very first line the name “Krishna” and number “8” had a perfect coincidence, as Krishna was the eight child of Devaki and Vasudeva.

          Everything depends on our interests and our goal. I prefer the former as the most influential tool for this scenario. Interests are just like a drug-addict and the only difference is that you don’t have a centre for curing your INTERESTS as we’ve one for the drug addicts. Once you get into it you just can’t pull yourself out. It goes deep. A specific type of Bamboo in Africa, takes five years to grow three feet but after that the growth is significant. But what was it doing all this time in its first five years? Scientists later found out that it is actually the time taken for its roots to penetrate deeper into the ground to support its stem in the future. Similar are our interests. All humans have interests when they are young. It is nourished and matured as time passes. But due to various circumstances these interests might turn into so called “Hobby”. Once it becomes hobby, then crisis arrives. The crisis is not immediately felt. It’s felt when we show our HOBBIIES to our grandchildren sitting in our lap. Though our hands skim through our hobbies our heart will be saying, I should’ve never turned it to become a hobby. I should’ve stayed and continued with my interests. But that’s too late. You’ve missed a lot. Hell-a-lot…

Our interests leads us to our real inspirational figure. If our interests become our carrier then someday our inspirations can be our rivals. But this is not the same in everyone’s life today. They choose their carrier for money and beauty. The inspiration considered by them at this stage is fake. It’s just like Krishna in the above case. You’re forced and not free.

Today we can learn from others failures but only successful people can be our Idol. This is because you’ll learn how not to do from the failures but the real deal of doing it comes the successful.

Let’s travel a bit. A few ten thousand years ago. Where our first men were trying to walk. They know nothing about success and we all know what a knowledge of a cave man possessed. Fast-forward today we find at least billion successful people and we’ve a wide variety of people from which one becomes our idol according to our mind-set. This drastic change makes me wonder. The most intriguing question is what this is supposed to do with inspiration? The answer is “Everything”. Now it’s time to take back my words in the previous paragraph. For early men, failure must’ve been their activity which is completely opposite to the success we’re dealing with today. Those men must’ve taken the bravery from the failures of their predecessors and consider them idol. They eliminated their predecessor’s failure and slowly increased their success probability. His followers increased it further. There came a stage where men learned to do success as their activity and now was the time successful people were considered their inspirations and now here we are…

One day, we’ll accidentally notice our idol’s face on a crushed paper on a road side amongst the traffic. Our legs, even without our knowledge twists its direction and we find ourselves running for it, turning deaf ears to the traffic constable on one side and even to our parents on the pathway. Though we know that we’re going to get screwed later that day, we continue our run. Finally we pick it up and read it. We’ve our parents on our right shouting at their peak and the traffic police on our left adding fuel to the fire at his best, still we act like nothing has happened and carry on with that piece of paper. Only after we are done, we come back from the elevated state to the normal state. And that my friends is the real inspirational person in your life. Simply saying, we’re not normal when we see “THEM”.

    BY

K.PRASANNAVENKATESH

Sher"locked" in You!

(inspired from various readings and tv series)

 If you are reading this perhaps it is because you have read some of the exploits of Sherlock Holmes, or just watched an episode of Sherlock or Elementary and thought to yourself ‘well that seems easy enough but how to start’. The first thing that must be understood is that most of the deductions made in the Sherlock Holmes universe are only made because they are scripted. that is not to say that to make such insinuations is not possible but rather that it was created by somebody stewing over a manuscript for many days or weeks. Meanwhile you only have a window of a few seconds before you receive an exasperated glance from a third party for staring at them for too long. Furthermore, when you make a deduction you must tailor your observations to that person, while key areas on the body may give you clues about the person (hair, hands, shoes et cetera) your customized observations will reveal infinitely more. I think the best part about deductions is that your ‘victim’ does not even need to be in the room, a person’s work area, there utensils and even their writing can be a window into that persons lives. A person’s body language is also a handy tool at our disposal, not only the kinds of things such as: covering mouth= shocked, but rather eyebrows raised = wants to talk. With the mastering of all tools at our disposal comes a more frequent (and more importantly) more accurate deductions. observing small details, a understanding of graphology, a broad knowledge of everything (but only the things that are important) and a grasp on body language will aid you in your quest      

     The main reason I am writing this is due to my growing aggravation towards the other ‘crash course on deduction’ blogs and how-to websites. They consist of one of the two: “This is how you learn how to master the art of deduction, first you need to look at small things or something, next you need to know everything, a study of body language will be of help, knowing how to do handwriting analysis might do something. After you do all that stuff you like guess about stuff and you will get it right magically” (now granted I did just say the same thing in the former paragraph but with a lot more elocution, but never fear i shall be expanding on my topics in others posts). Then there is the blog that says: [must be read in the most omnipotent voice you can muster] “I am amazing, and can look at a piece of paper with a different language on it, then look at another one with one word missing and I can tell you what word……. Oh yea and deductions. [you may now resume regular reading voice] Now there are many good blogs out there, but you sometimes need to sift through all the gay fan fiction in order to get the real meat and potatoes of the idea. so I created this blog as a simple guide to the art of deduction. (if you have any questions or comments I would like to hear them, if you have any concerns or negative feedback you can scream them into your pillow). Lemme give you ten simple steps to mirror your duductionist locked inside you!

Step 1:

Develop your intellect. While Sherlock Holmes is a lot of things, he is nothing without his mind (the rest is merely appendix). If you are going to be Sherlock Holmes, you're going to need an IQ roughly over twice your height in inches, and you're going to need to know how to use this intellect. It's all well and fair to be smart, but being intelligent (that is, the ability to process information, not just random factoids you've kept around for no reason) is key. But don't worry, you can build this up... it simply takes practice. The brain is a muscle: exercise it.

Step 2:

Develop keen observational skills. The other half of Holmes' utter genius (apart from actually being a genius) is his ability to pick up details, and then transpose fact into conjecture, using the science of deduction. Learn to spot these details which become facts, and use intellect to narrow down possible causes until you've extrapolated something about that person which you didn't previously know.

Step 3:

Learn people. Being a genius and highly skilled is only half the fun. The most important part, and what really makes Holmes, well, Holmes, is the fact that he knows just how to go about showing it. It's not what a man has done, but a man can make you think he has done, that truly matters. Learn the art of showing what you know... without making it obvious that you are insecure about yourself and are showing off to gain approval from others. This is key.

Step 4:

Be anti-social. The other side of learning people, is that moment in time when you realize you understand people so well you'd rather talk to a skull (well, I say friend...). Part of Holmes' charm is that he has none, and frankly, the only way you can get your work done is if you stop going to parties every weekend. You will need to learn to spend hours, days on your own. Hey, it can be fun! Right, Yorick?

Step 5:

Move to London, UK (if you're not already there.) While you're at it, you should probably acquire a middle or upper class British accent if you don't already have that, either. It's really rather important.

Step 6:

Acquire some chemistry lab supplies, or access, and of course some knowledge of chemistry. Chemistry is utterly important to Holmes, and now especially in this day and age when chemistry can be used to analyze blood, soil, pollen, et cetera, it is imperative to have an excellent grasp of all things chemical, to aid in you in crime solving

Step 7:

Delete your hard drive, and empty your attic... metaphorically, of course. Your mind is your storage device. Normal people fill their attic with all sorts of useless junk that gets in the way of the useful things. Streamline; you need only know anything related to your profession, everything else is extraneous and thus useless. It doesn't matter if the Earth goes around the Sun, or the Sun goes around the Earth, or 'round and 'round the garden like a little teddy bear... it's not IMPORTANT, Holmes!

Step 8:

Learn to play the violin. This will simultaneously aid you in thinking, and provide a fun way to torture anyone around you (if it's three in the morning). Also, plucking diminished chords can cause flies to fly counterclockwise, once you've caught them all and put them in a large glass bottle.

Step 9:

Break up with your significant other. Holmes really considers himself married to his work... and you, as Holmes, obviously must share this view. You are only allowed one tentative yearning relationship with a criminal who outsmarts you on multiple occasions.

Step 10:

Find a sidekick, and then get him to move in with you. A doctor would be best, or at least someone who's been around some action (and you should be moving into an apartment... I mean flat.) It shouldn't be too hard to find an army doctor recently in Afghanistan, these days. Your sidekick will be used for bouncing ideas off of, and saving you, should the case ever arise.

By

K.Prasanna Venkatesh

What is imagination?

                 (from our friend Adithya Chandrasekar)

Imagination – a spontaneous uncontrollable flow of electrical impulses that are interpreted by the brain to give vital solutions to complex problems, to help ignite an already creative mind, to help in understanding complex concepts. So what is this imagination? All of us have it, even a new born begins to imagine things when it just comes out of the mother’s womb. It is said that a man imagines more than the number of breathes he takes in a lifetime. A study conducted on the average life of man proves that the average lifetime of man is somewhere around 3000-3500 weeks.

There is no a specific frame of reference within which we could fit all that an individual imagine. Our imaginations are so random that sometimes we even forget what we had just imagined. We sometimes imagine the weirdest of things. Have we ever wondered, giving respect to the most curious specie of the animal kingdom from where these thoughts or ideas that occur in imagination originate? Most of these thoughts seem to have no basis or proof. They could be thoughts about aliens or a flower growing upside down with their roots above and shoots below. Most of what we imagine are not cohesive with any logical interpretation.

Imagination has no rules or set frames within which the thoughts originate, as I stated previously they are just random. The more and more I keep questioning the more it would become unclear. Therefore, one possible reason why these random, illogical, mysterious thoughts occur is because we have an indirect link with what we imagine. Our imaginations could be something that we have seem or experienced when we were in a different time zone or in one of our past lives. Humans are said to think and imagine in a specific unique pattern. Those weird thoughts that we imagine sometimes could be due to our experience with something similar in a different world in some past life that we have lived there. Sometimes these thoughts give ideas to the most complex of problems. If we do a deep logical research, then we may find that most of these thoughts have followed a similar pattern in becoming solutions.

I consider imagination as a great gift that encompasses time and civilization. Man is free to imagine whatever he wants. Imagination is the only means by which one can transgress stereotyping, laws, rules and so on. It is said that in ancient times if people really were disciplined and principled then whatever they had imagined became true. God has given us this great gift as a means of consolation whenever we feel helpless. It is up to us to use this gift and realise whatever we imagine.

Ancient Indian scriptures indicate various instances where yogis used to surpass time and travel to different places just with the help of their imagination. This is a proof of what imagination is capable of. If imagination has to be put to good use then it depends on the free will of the person. Imagination helps us to find solutions to complex problems only because it takes the victim of a problem outside the problem and makes him/her to view the problem from a third person’s point of view. I prefer to interpret this imagination as the all-pervading consciousness. The more one imagines and observes the more one’s free will has matured. Imagination composes of both good and bad and it is left to the discretion of the imaginer to use his free will and decide which to use.

Imagination is also used in solving criminal cases where the investigating individual after visiting the crime scene imagines himself to be the criminal and tries to enact the entire crime scene which in many cases has helped solve the case. So what is this imagination? I hope I have partially answered your question.

Imagination is a unique experience that is to be understood and those who understand their imaginations become great men. All that I have stated above may be factually correct or could have been my imaginations about imagination. Thank you for reading hope to have kindled your imagination and creativity.