Ideas & Views

Let me make a declaration. With this small piece of my blah-blah, I do not intend to hurt anyone's religious sentiments. I dont know whether the reader(that is you) is an ardent follower of Hindu rituals and observe its prescribed austerities. This piece is just an outcome of the Chinese Tantra targeting my inbox, the fourth I had received in a day. Today's teenagers seem to question everything under the sun and more so when it comes to following or adapting a religious faith. It is commonplace to hear teens screaming ”Jesus!" or just " Jeeez!!", when excited or shocked. Hindu elders even accepted this practice as long as they dont hear 'shit' . Coming to the crux, belief in sending spiritual mails is nothing but out-right foolishness. Let me baptize these spiritual mails as 'spimails' for my convenience. Indian teenagers and just-turned adults are into the habit of getting easily fascinated by anything that is foreign to our culture. Who s...

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown One of the finest story-tellers of our times, Dan Brown, is stunning with this suspense science-thriller. More so as an English Teacher. His expert research on the technical matter of the novel took me by surprise. Those who had missed reading the flap of the backcover would only conclude that here is another novel from a great computer scientist (an open challenge from Dan Brown to Bill Gates though!!). Unlike Michael Crinchton, Dan Brown cleverly refrains from wandering away into sheer exaggeration and technological impossibilities. Thats the genius in him. There is more to learn than to merely read. Clearly Dan's way. I have not heard of NSA before, not that there is 'Nothing Special About' it.For those ignorant-pots like me, National Security Agency or NSA, is a top-notch U.S Govt agency like CIA/FBA that holds the world's most precious and exclusive data - data about the country's various spies covering the vast Earth , enemy ...

Timeline- Michael Crinchton As the name goes, the story is a scientific fiction. An ingenious figment of imagination after a thorough study of tomes of research journals and papers, Timeline is a pure fancy how of quantum theory. There are two underlying concepts of physics elaborated and exploited in this novel. Quantum theory (especially for the not-so-physics minds) is that there are multiple universes existing parallely. We are part of just one universe and the objects in other universes are not visible to us. Then how do we know them? We come to know of the existence of other universes because of the interaction between them. As an example, Crinchton explains the interference pattern obtained by a single ray of light passing through a slit (remember high school physics!!) as a result of the interaction with the quanta of some other universe. Secondly, Time is not a variable at all. It is rather a constant from the time the universe is created!!! now, now, it is very diffic...