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  • Truth is stranger than fiction.

    “Truth is stranger than fiction”…. The first time I heard this phrase was in the Hindi cinema – “Aankhe”. I little believed this at the first hearing. As life moves on it has thought that all the conventional knowledge that we gain in every day life has not let us imagine every possibility. I think it biases us so that we don’t get going with an open mind, expect and accept all things that can come out.

    The knowledge that we gain in sciences today doesn’t explain every thing that we see. Every time we try to explain the off mark understanding will put us in paradoxes. Solving this paradox gives us a different but a better understanding of life. We have got to be open-minded.

    We expect something based on our previous experience and understanding, but we have some thing to learn when we get some thing that we have not expected. The unexpected may be a good one or a bad one; but it’s actually the lack of optimism or the prejudiced thought that stopped us expecting stating it as fictions.

  • R. K. Narayan

    I had read a few short stories written by RKN as part of the curriculum in school. I loved his style of writing, very picturesque style. You an actually vialize the surrounding very precisely.. the description he gives is that good.
    His novels range over a lot of topics… The most famous being “The Malgudi Days” and “Swami and Friends”.
    Reading his books is always a pleasure for me, I dont generally read novels but he is just too good.

  • “Dar ke age Jeet Hai” – The Mountain Dew ad

    I love this ad for its workings made a lot of sense, I dont car about what it is about but the wordings are just too good.

    The wordings are something like this:
    “Dar kisko nahi lagta.” “Dar dekh ke kiska gala nahi sookta?”
    “Jo hekte hein unhe dar nahi lagta vo Jhoot bol rahe hey. Dar sab ko Lagta hey”
    “Lekin jo log Dar se age nikalte hey, vohi jeet ko pate hein.”
    “Dar se mat Daro, Dar ke age Jeet hey”
    This is just a capsule to get us rid from our fear, Beyond fear there is success, there is achievement. So “No Fear” has to be the mantra for success.

    Love the wordings a lot.

  • BangaaraDa Manushya.

    Its been a long time since I had brought the CD. But found time to have a look at it. I did watch it some 2 weeks back. Here are some things that I take from it.
    It was a path breaker and also a record breaker in a lot of aspects. Gives the concept of Co-operative farming, I think its was a major message that the director wanted to convey to his audience. I am not sure it was taken up by the people, but if it had been taken it would have made a lot of impact on the people.
    The charcter played by Dr Raj, is a vey mature one. Though he has done a part of his education at the city, he understands that responcibilities that are immediately to be fulfilled carries a lot of message to those who think they loose their dignity if they stay in a village!!!
    Every person in life would encounter a lot of false publicity once he reaches a certain level of popularity, We have to handle these situations in a mature manner.
    Well this is just a small bit of the vast number of messages it gives… Its a must see in case you like kannada movies.

  • 1/0 is infinity

    Well I am writing this not coz no one knows but coz it will help some who dont know to understand it.
    It is said that 1/0 is infinity. Well actually it only tends to infinity and is not exactly infinity, but can safely assumed to be based on the proof.

    The proof is simple:
    1/(1/10) = 10
    1/ (1/100) = 100 note 1/100 < 1/10 and the result increases from 10 to 100
    1/ (1/1000) = 1000 …
    so on…

    The basic understanding that can be derived from here is that as the denominator gets smaller and smaller the value get larger.
    Assuming that zero is the smallest possible value possible, 1/0 has to be infinity….
    Simple right!!! [:)]

  • (a+b) squared

    Hey this is only for better understanding… may be some of those who find it useful can pick it up from here… not my original work, but this is the way I understood it!!

    We have had the identity:
    (a+b)^2 = a^2 + b^2+ 2ab
    Now to understand what this identity means, I used the graphical repsentation,
    Now we can assume safely that ‘a^2’ represents a sqare of side ‘a’

    So as well should (a+b)^2, but then what does the identity mean?
    Well it means that to make a square of side (a+b)^2 just given geometrically to be proven.
    ok that should be simple rt!!!
    a figure with area ab will have to be a rectangle
    so,
    To form a sqare of side (a+b)^2 we have to just add up the geometrical figures 2 squares one each of side a and b.
    But then we have to have the space that can be filled by rectangles with side a&b… we have to have 2 such.. so there fore we have
    (a+b)^2 = a^2 + b^2+ 2ab
    ie
    sq of side = sq of side + sq of side + 2 rectangles of area
    a + b a b a * b

  • diffrentiation

    Well this is my understandin of Diffrentiation…. its easy if we understand this.. but the graphical method is undoubtably the best if thought properly.

    x^2 when diffrentiated gives 2x.
    Ha ha, where the hell do you think this will be used, I can use it more better only if I understand it well na!!
    ok the understanding can be got simply by replacing by numbers say I replace 1000 instead of x.
    so x^2 should be 1000000
    ie
    x = 1000 => x^2 = 1000000

    Now assume I increase x by 1
    so we have x = 1001 and so x^2 = 1002001,
    ie
    x = 1001 => x^2 = 1002001

    so we see that the change is just most significantly 2*x* the change + a miniscle number
    The number being more smaller the change becomes very prominent only on the 2x part.
    so that is why we have
    derivative of x^2 is 2x
    Similarly we can get the description for x^3
    and so on!!!

    You may ask…
    x = 1000.5 => x^2 = 1001000.25
    which is not 2x!!! well that is why in the first principles of diffrentiation we do have to devide by the inc. and then ignore the very small value when compared to the large value. So that we can approximate the change at any place to be 2x.
    ie the change is around 2*x*the inc!!! inc being small, and then normalizing using the small inc (very small but not zero!!!) we realize that the change is just 2 times x …. why normalize?? coz that will make it more generic rt!!! [:)]…said in other words… we have now made the change in the whole values as independent as possible of the minute changes!!!.

    Well all this is just gimic.. the actual meaning of a derivative is the rate at which somethign is changing…
    Lets understand it better by taking a line say y = x
    the derivative is 1….
    it means that there is no change of the rate at which the slope is changing.. its constant.
    Now if we have a parabola say y = x^2
    Lets see this
    x 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

    y 1 4 9 16 25 36 49 64

    dX 1 1 1 1 1 1 1

    dY 3 5 7 9 11 13 15

    dY/Dx 3 5 7 9 11 13 15 — we see that the values are all odd integers and can be represented by a straight line so the derivative of a parablola is a line..
    It is at each of these minute intervals if we calulate the slope.. the rate at which the slope of the prabola changes we get that to be a straight line.

  • Swaminomics

    Swaminomics is a comman man’s economic dosage that is part of TOI editorial. Thanks to “Swami” – Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar.
    He write all this thoughts in such a simple and clear way that you understand the current policies and strategies in a very clear manner. Its his simple style that makes him so close to all the readers of Times of India. He gives his views in a very clear and intellible manner. Worth reading to know more about the economic state of India, in case you are not a pro but just want to brush across and have a few opinions on them.
    Swaminomics I think not just comes from his name but the purpose seems to be to attract the “common man” called – Swami!!! and the economic policies that impact him.

    The link to the online editions of the articles by Aiyar is : http://swaminomics.org/