Monday, 29 January 2018

Troll Modi Govt regarding Evolution

Troll Modi Govt
  • The subject of this post is "Troll Modi Govt"
  • I will tell why this BJP-RSS Govt is like a troll.
  • Firstly they disrupted an existing Govt. read UPA through false allegations like Commonwealth Scam and 2 G Scam and Coalgate Scam
  • After they grab power they are unable to achieve anything substantial and so they go about wild throwing up of issues.
  • Like Beef, "Ghar Wapsi", Love Jihad, Cattle Slaughter, Triple Talaq etc
  • Still that is not resulting in any tangible results.
  • Fools don't realise that if beef is not available, people will eat mutton, lamb and chicken anyway.
  • Also farmers get hurt but that is another issue.
  • There is now no need for a farmer to own cows anymore as he cannot take care of his family in times of distress forget about the cattle.
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  • But forget all the above.
  • This post is about the remark a central minister made that Darwin theory of Evolution is junk.
  • That it should be abandoned.
  • Now what the minister is trying to do is act like a troll.
  • Inspite of BJP-RSS Govt in center, tehy are unable to achieve anything.
  • Inspite of 100's of crores spent in foreign visits and PR publicity blitz, the fact is NOBODY CARES.
  • I mean people have respect for India and its culture but that is all.
  • In CNN and BBC and Russia Today Channel nobody is giving coverage to India.
  • It is same like it used to be.
  • India still remains the former colony of Britain.
  • All the effort is translating to nothing.
  • Thus troll Modi Govt is using evolution as a plank to get into the world stage.
  • It also wants a global debate on evolution. WHAT A JOKE!!! This Govt is.
  • It is making a fun of the people of the world.
  • It wants to gain prominence in the world through this kind of wild statements which people all over the world must realise that it is coming from Modi and BJP and RSS themselves.
  • That Minister is only a plank and a tool and a pawn.
  • By doing this... the think tank of RSS and Modi included wants to tell the world that "we have emerged"
  • Nobody can debunk the theory of evolution.
  • But by wanting to engage intellectuals and the global community in the debate it wants to prove that they are the be all and end all in this scheme.
  • I mean everybody will acknowledge that BJP-RSS and Hindutva brigade is the ultimate structure in evolution and that is dangerous.
  • What happened in India is below:
  • 1.India was a collection of kingdoms.
  • 2.British came in and unified the country.
  • 3.But they had to leave as they got too weakened after two World Wars.
  • 4.While exiting they gave the country a railways, Postal Service and Army.
  • 5.Congress leaders kept India united for decades through secularism.
  • 6.Now Hindu leadership has emerged and plans to rule India for 1000's of years.
  • 7.Thus Hindus are ultimate in evolution.
  • Since the theory of evolution latches on "survival of the fittest", BJP-RSS-Modi want to tell that Hindus are the fittest among all and they will inherit the earth ultimately.
  • They want to say that any other culture is inferior to them.
  • And that is the purpose of this evolution debate.
  • Modi and BJP and RSS never debunked the theory in the first place.
  • Western leaders and think tanks kindly keep note.

Friday, 26 January 2018

Modi Stroll on Republic Day

Modi Stroll on Republic Day
  • This blog post is dedicated to the Modi Stroll on Rajpath on Republic Day after the celebrations were over.
  • I was watching the Republic Day Celebrations from Rajpath at Delhi like every year.
  • Same I have been seeing since childhood ever since I have watched TV.
  • But I never saw a shameless act like demonstrated by PM Modi.
  • After all the guests were despatched like the leaders of ASEAN countries following the President of India.
  • Final one to go was Vice-President.
  • The Modi's vehicle came and he refused to leave.
  • Shameless act.
  • Waving at people all in smiles.
  • It was like he had won the World Cup match, alone.
  • He is the most selfish person the whole world.
  • And later news channels also covered this supposed "bravado".
  • It is like Modi is politicising an event like the Republic day.
  • The day Modi has won the election and become the PM is the blackest day in the history of India.
  • And it just keeps getting better or is it worse.
  • Later in news it was covered like he did a 2 km stroll around Rajpath "breaking protocol" as if it was a favour he was doing to the public.
  • Okay Modi is fair and some people may find him beautiful and attractive he is all glowing like his beard is shining and skin is all white but man there is a limit to that.
  • Modi also shamelessly knows where the cameras are and never loses a chance to grab the spotlight.
  • The Doordarshan has also become a parrort of Modi Govt and shamelessly broadcasted the stroll.
  • I for one could not watch it and turned off my TV set immediately.
  • Already before the show began there were full promos from Doordarshan showing only Modi Modi and Modi.
  • In one of the promo after Nehru they directly skipped to Modi omitting all the PM leaders in between.
  • It is crazy the way Modi has taken over the airwaves.
  • It totally questions the intelligence of us as a nation.
  • Even when we listen to FM radio there is Modi Modi everywhere.
  • Now Jan 28  on Sunday there will be Mann Ki Baat.
  • Already there are hundreds of ads on every Channel radio and Tv for that.

Mahadayi River Issue and Mahanadi

Mahadayi River and Mahanadi River
  • This Mahadayi river issue shows how the BJP is a party which does not care about the people.
  • Now Mahadayi river is a river which is 79 kms long, 27 kms in Karnataka and  52 kms in Goa.
  • It is known as Mahadayi in Karnataka and Mandovi in Goa.
  • Same river flows into the Arabian Sea.
  • Now if we compare the distance of the river in Goa it is 52 kms.
  • Now Karnataka wants to divert some water to interior North Karnataka which for centuries is a water deficient part of the country perhaps stretching for hundreds of kms.
  • What is population of Goa?
  • It would be 2 or 3 million but if we think about North Karnataka it would be in tens of millions.
  • Goa is on the windward side of the Western Ghats
  • Goa receives maximum rainfall.
  • But North Karnataka is on the Leeward side and monsoon clouds get blocked by the Western Ghats and there is very less rainfall.
  • Now tell me does BJP not want to solve the problem of the people and farmers.
  • Of what use is the river water when it flows to the Arabian Sea.
  • While the BJP Govt is in center and Goa, there is Congress in Karnataka.
  • Tell me is politics important or solving peoples problem?
  • In same case if we look at the in Odisha and Chattisgarh dispute, BJP is diverting Mahanadi water to interiror Chhatisgarh.
  • There is again BJP Govt in Chhatisgarh.
  • There is a difference between issue in Odisha Chhatisgarh and issue in Karnataka Goa.
  • It is documented that in Chhatisgarh BJP is diverting the river to industrial use and private rich industry. 
  • Odisha farmers and common people suffer as the river water they always expect to flow now runs dry.
  • The length of Mahanadi in Odisha is in hundreds of kms and not 52 kms like Mahadayi in Goa.
  • There is more dependence of Mahanadi in Odisha as there is a history of erratic monsoon in Odisha. 
  • Goa will always have the water and a 77 kms river will never run dry. 
  • But Mahanadi stretches for hundreds of kms and goes through farming areas and towns and villages as well as forest areas and entire ecology will be affected. It also feeds a delta and it will be catastrophe.
  • What I want to say that for the greater benefit Mahadayi river water should be diverted.
  • But Mahanadi should not be diverted because Chattisgarh will consume all the water and nothing will be left for Odisha.
  • Odisha needs the water for its poor people unlike Chhatisgarh which wants to use it for industry. 
  • Similarly Karnataka needs it water for the poor and water deficient people in interior North Karnataka unlike Goa which has plenty of water anyways..
  • In Odisha millions of people are dependent on Mahanadi river.
  • In Goa they have other rivers as well and Goa will not be affected much as Goa is 3700 kms area which is less than hundreds of districts in the country like for example neighbouring Belgaum district is 13,000 sq kms plus.
  • And they have abundant rain as the onset of Monsoon happens very fast on the windward side of the Western Ghats.

Baijant Panda expulsion from BJD

Baijant Panda expulsion from BJD.
  • What happened Baijant Panda was expelled from BJD by the supremo Naveen Pattnaik.
  • It is a welcome move.
  • Baijant Panda was taking his position in the party for granted.
  • In the same time he was running wild with BJP.
  • It is like the saying "Running with the hares and hunting with the hounds"
  • In this case the hare is BJD and hounds are BJP.
  • I feel Baijant Panda was given a task by Modi/BJP.
  • His task was to bring BJD along with BJP.
  • Modi must have told Baijant Panda.
  • If you come to BJP alone you are of no use to me. But if you bring the entire BJD party with BJP then nothing like it.
  • And that was what he was working for.
  • His salary in crores as owner of IMFA and he is among one of the top CEO's of the country.
  • But money did not give him satisfaction.
  • He wanted to screw the party of BJD from the inside and take it along to BJP.
  • That move would be like termite work.
  • In other words hand over BJD party in a silver platter to Modi and his gang.
  • He could never had become CM if BJP would have won.
  • Surely Jual Oram or Dharmendra Pradhan would not have allowed it.
  • But make the BJD party alliance with BJP and rule (and loot) the people of Odisha as a joint venture.
  • He was using Twitter and Facebook to the max and airing his views.
  • It was like a holy war he was waging against the BJD and misusing his position.
  • Nothing like for the BJP when they have their man in the inside who is treated like a prince and does their dirty work which their own leaders can never accomplish from the outside.
  • I feel what Baijant Panda should have done is delete Twitter Account and should not have aired his views and hurt the party, state in the process.
  • Showing off too much in Twitter had its consequences and now Baijant Panda will have no option but to come out in the open against the very party which nurtured him.
  • Modi project of using Baijant as a "bakra" fails where his task was to bring the entire party along.
  • What... is life not possible without Twitter?
  • Is Twitter this much important that you will risk all your future for it?
  • That is what Baijant Panda has faced.
  • I feel he was playing with fire and chances of getting burnt always are there.

Phullu

Watched one movie and that is Phullu.
  • This 2017 movie is what Padman is.
  • And I believe Padman should pay royalty to Phullu.
  • Why? Because it has brought the concept of a village person creating his own sanitary pad and distributing it to village folk. 
  • As Kamaal R Khan has said earlier, if Kunal khemu was the star of Tubelight the movie would have made 1 crore but due to Salman Khan it made 150 crores.
  • He also said if Aftab Shivdasani was the star of Tiger Zinda hai, the movie would have made 2 crore but again due to Salman Khan it managed 302 crores.
  • Thus what KRK says that due to star power the movies run in India.
  • What is true in South India is also true in Bombay based movies or Bollywood.
  • Here the stars of the movie are in Filmistan movie.
  • Overall the movie is good movie.
  • The hero loses his heroine due to bad hygeine but his project is a success.
  • I feel Padman would be dragging it beyond some cases of failure and it would be success all along.
  • This movie Phullu highlights the struggles and only shows the success toward last 2-3 minutes of the movie.
  • This can be watched once without any problems.

Monday, 22 January 2018

India Pakistan conflict

  • If any Govt. wants to genuinely help the people of India tehy should work for India Pakistan peace.
  • If they are not working for India Pakistan peace it would only mean they are for War.
  • And War is deadly.
  • Like what is happening over the past few days.
  • India in the hope of "teaching Pakistan a lesson" is attacking border posts along the Line of Control (LoC)
  • Now Pakistan is retaliating, not the same place where India is attacking but it is attacking India along the International border (IB).
  • India and the people living along the border never expected that and the result is catastrophe.
  • People have to abandon their homes, schools, wells cattle sheds, farms and go inland.
  • They are being made refugees in their own country, not due to Pakistan but due to supposed bravado which is not so but actually is foolishness of India and its current Indian leaders.
  • India is claiming that they are being well fed and looked after and wants to build bunkers.
  • Fools they should realise that people living there want to lead normal lives and not live in bunkers and all.
  • More so called bravado will result in more casualties.
  • Even if one person this side of the bortder dies, it is the death and murder of an Indian citizen and who is respionsible?
  • It is not just Pakistan but also the Indian leadership who is refusing to talk to Pakistan and only wants to demonstrate its military prowess.
  • Of what use is military prowess if it cannot result in peace.
  • Thus the blood of Indians is due to the so called hype demonstrated by current Indian leaders.
  • There is no glory in war.
  • War results in casualties. If people don't die they get injured.
  • And it leads to amputation of limbs and requirement of blood and deployment of doctors and nurses in those areas.
  • Loss of livelihood of civilians.
  • If any Indian Govt wants to solve Pakistan issue, I will say the way to go about it is reopen the negotiation and make LoC as International border.
  • We have to recognise the current LoC as India-Pakistan border.
  • Further inform UN that the problem is resolved and make changes in the official Indian map.
  • Open trade routes, not only along Indian Kashmir and Pakistan Kashmir but also link to CPEC i.e. One Belt One Road Initiative.
  • Let there be trade and commerce and people will abandon the need to wage war and there will be development.
  • Which the current BJP Govt is not doing.
  • BJP Govt has made relation with Pakistan difficult.
  • BJP wants to keep India Pakistan tension simmering and then be in power by highlighting the differences between Hindus and Muslims. and polarising society.
  • I recently read the data that Visas issued to Pakistan have dropped to all time low and now number around 30000 but Visas issued to Bangladeshi have swelled to 1 million.
  • What is this?
  • Why this difference?
  • Surely we as North indians share more in common with Pakistan than Bangladesh.
  • That is the game of vote bank politics BJP is playing to be in power.
  • But I must say that people living around the International border in Kashmir, the situation is horrible and only peace and talks are the only way forward.

Big Flyovers vs Small Flyovers

  • I will dedicate this post to the construction happening around the world which are related to flyovers.
  • With great sadness I will like to say that mankind has still not reached the stage where they have perfected a way to build small flyovers.
  • I stay in Bangalore and I will give one example.
  • That is of St. Johns Hospital Signal.
  • They built an underpass near Madivala Ayappa Swamy temple.
  • They were planning to build an underpass at Koramangala water tank signal.
  • After lying in limbo for more than one year, that underpass was abandoned way back in 2013.
  • Now what we have at Koramangala water tank.
  • It is the same old signal.
  • But now they are going to build an elevated road read long flyover which will rise after the Madiwala Masjid and get down after Ejipura signal on Outer Ring Road.
  • Below that long flyover there are seven crossings and/or signals.
  • That is precisely my point.
  • Why not build seven or perhaps four small flyovers instead of one big one.
  • The answer lies here: We as humans have not mastered the technology to build small flyovers.
  • Anywhere in the world it is not possible.
  • Humans can build big and long like Electronics City 10 kms flyover but when it comes to building just a small flyover which may be 100 or 200 metres in length we do not have the resources or the technology.
  • That is a failure of the engineers and the scientific community as a whole.
  • In fact we as a human race should collectively hang our heads in shame as it is collective failure.
  • My personal opinion is that if you cannot build small flyovers, do not build any flyover at all.
  • At least do not build for private vehicles like cars and bikes.
  • If you can and should build flyovers build for Metro.
  • Much of the new Metro being built in India is elevated type.
  • If bridges are to be built, build it for metros where trains will run ferrying hundreds of commuters and certainly not for private cars where often there is only the passenger-driver-owner travelling.
  • Bridges should be built where there are obstacles which are non-human in nature like water body, river or valley when linking from one mountain (plateau) to another.
  • Just building bridges over dry land and signals is a waste of resources and is the result of bad planning. 
  • But metro is a different kind of vehicle (train) and requires a "dedicated corridor" for safe running and so the bridge has its meaning.
  • Building long flyovers for private vehicles only makes encouragement for more and more private vehicles and result is catastrophe.
  • Big flyovers ruin the scenery of a place and shift the traffic jams down the road.
  • Sometimes we find jams on top of the flyovers and that is horrible.
  • Tunnels are okay but there can be disasters on tunnels as well like we saw in the Sylvester Stallone movie "Daylight".
  • Best is Underpass cum flyover like in Dairy Circle.
  • Govt should encourage more underpass cum small flyovers.
  • Now white topping of the roads is good because road life is increased and in the abscence of technology to build small small flyovers, it is the next best thing.
  • If you do have to get trapped in a jam why not in "white topped" road.
  • But, huge flyovers are ugly and mess and can never solve the traffic problems.

Sunday, 21 January 2018

Fredrick, Haathi Ka Anda

Watched two more movies.
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Fredrick
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV Miniplex HD Channel after recording in pen drive.
Movie is okay for a one time watch
  • The hero looks like Prabhas of Bahubali fame.
  • The heroine looks like any other Kannada actress.
  • Movie is technically okay but not mentally.
  • I could watch and enjoy it but I doubt if any other person can enjoy it even 1%.
  • Movie deals with human i.e. girl trafficking.
  • Movie does not show what happens to the business in the end because our hero has committed suicide after heroine is killed.
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Haathi Ka Anda
This 2002 movie got downloaded into Tata Sky box when pen drive was attached.
In other words it is part of Tata Sky gift to its customers through Video on Demand service.
  • Movie is a gem and great for communal harmony.
  • In a perfect country all religions will co exist and people from one religion can easily visit the homes and be friends with people from other communities.
  • In this movie, there is a Chacha who looks after a makeshift bookshop.
  • And the child actor who is hero is from another community.
  • The book which assumes prominence is Alif-Laila or Arabian Nights.
  • I remember even we had that book in childhood and it is full of stories.
  • 101 stories or perhaps 1001 stories.
  • That book guided us through the better part of our childhood in addition to Tinkle, Amar Chitra Katha, target magazine and Encyclopedias.
  • This movie is a must watch.
  • A bit like the earlier Nederlands movie I was talking about i.e. Fidgety Bram.
  • Should be seen to be enjoyed.
  • In what way similar in the sense that the story is punctuated with small small stories in animation mode.
  • And the title proves that Haathi is not made to give Anda i.e. elephant may be majestic but they are not made to lay eggs.
  • However good we may be, there is always something where we may be lacking. That is the essence.

Ponyo, Fidgety Bram, Risen, Tum Bin 2, Heropanti

Watched five movies as mentioned above.
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Ponyo
This movie was watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand Service where we leave pen drive overnight and movie gets downloaded.
I would like to say that and mention Game of Thrones here. And quote Tyrion Lannister that "Lannister always pay their debts" similarly Tata Sky always pay their debts.
We take a package from Tata Sky it could be any package, Mega pack or Dhamaal Mix. In the process Tata Sky gets indebted to us. They don't have to. But it is a matter of principle. We are their customer or client. And they repay their debts royally. My respect for Tata Sky has only increased inspite of the fact the no porn channels are available due to the culture present in Asia and South East Asia and Middle East. But that is a different issue.
  • This movie is an animation movie from Japan and a must watch.
  • It deals with a sea Goddess and her husband who was once a human.
  • They have several children who are fish with human faces.
  • One of them is Ponyo.
  • Actually her name is different but when she ends up in land the human boy names her so.
  • And they fall in love.
  • So the Goddess and her husband decide that if her love is true she must give up her magical powers and stay as a girl.
  • So it is must for the equilibrium between land and sea.
  • One cannot stay at both the places.
Overall a good movie and I must thank Tata Sky for showing it to me.
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Fidgety Bram
This movie was watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand Service where we leave pen drive overnight and movie gets downloaded.
  • This is Nederlands movie with English subtitles. 
  • More I see Dutch movies I feel Nederlands and England will be having more in common then let us say German and English or French and English.
  • Wonderful movie.
  • The child is bright a bit like "Taare Zameen par" kid.
  • And the school teacher gets injured and a new teacher comes along and everything is just fine towards the end.
  • Must watch movie.
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Risen
This movie was watched on Amazon prime Video.
  • A Roman general is assigned to bring closure to Yeshua case.
  • And what we see in the movie, he reaches the site when Yeshua is in the cross.
  • And he personally inserts the sword into the right side chest of Yeshua and looks him in the eye to see that he is dead.
  • And then the body is kept in a cave where there are two guards gaurding.
  • Then the body disappears.
  • The stone is such huge that a dozen men could only move it slowly.
  • But later a guard confesses that the stone was thrown away like a small pebble and there was a flash of light unlike he had seen in this life.
  • After that our hero finds Yeshua in a gathering and they were told to go to Sea of Gallilee where he would revisit them.
  • There he shows himself again and tells them where to find the fish and cures lepers as well.
  • Overall a very good movie and one cannot but eyes fill with tears when Yeshua is shown on screen.
  • Yeshua makes us believe that Yahweh exists.
  • Must watch movie.
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Tum Bin 2
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV by recording on pen drive.
Unlike Tata Sky where the movies get downloaded automatically. In Airtel HD+ box we get to decide what to record.
Tata Sky + box is also available but it is too costly i.e. 10000 INR and to get the full benefit in Tata Sky + box you need to have the costliest package.
But I believe you can record all the content in the world but what is the use if you cannot watch it.
  • This movie deals with a heroine who loses her lover in a ski accident.
  • Subsequently another person comes along and she falls for him.
  • later it is known that the original hero is alive.
  • Then it is known that the second hero actually is the cause of the first hero accident.
  • And so due to confusion, the movie goes around in circle till the first hero prevails.
  • It can be watched if you have a lot of time to spend and relax.
  • Movie is shot in Glasgow and that makes it worth while. If it would had been shot in and around Alibag it might have ended up as a B-grade or C-Grade movie
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Heropanti
This movie was watched on Airtel Digital TV by recording on pen drive.
  • I had seen the movie earlier but I had forgotten a bit.
  • Movie deals with the honour killing aspect where people who marry without the parents wishes or outside the caste are hunted down and killed.
  • In addition to female infanticide where girl children are killed either through abortion or after birth this honour killing is blot on our society and human race.
  • In the movie there are two daughters of a "Chaudhary" uncle.
  • One of them runs off at her wedding.
  • I will say if you have to run off why to choose wedding day. Surely there are a lot of days before that.
  • Running off on wedding day is an insult to parents and guests and then grooms party that is what I feel.
  • Next is towards the second half when the couple is caught it not shown what happens to them only the uncle tells that the daughter is "dead to him". 
  • But it like a split second when the first daughter tells that she is pregnant that the shooting is stopped. 
  • Else the person of the Uncle was getting ready to shoot him.
  • A little delay and the gun would have gone off and human internal matter would have got decorated on the street.
  • What if the gun would have shot the lover of the first daughter?
  • In the end then the second daughter who has fallen for our hero gets married to the hero.
  • And who decides it? It is a duel between the arranged groom and hero and the hero prevails and so Chaudhary uncle decides for the hero.
  • I will say that is crude way to decide the hero.
  • It is akin to honour killing and the like.
  • A duel will decide who gets the girl.
  • Then in the last frame we get to know that the earlier daughter and her lover are alive when the hero asks Chaudhary uncle for forgiveness for them.
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Monday, 15 January 2018

Google Translate for News Part 3 (concluded)

  • Now I had Chrome installed both in PC and Android Phone.
  • My phone had Samsung browser and so I replaced it with Chrome.
  • Then I could access the Google News China version, Bangla version, Brasil version, Arabic version, Russian version, etc.
  • But what I saw that the translation was not upto the mark.
  • I mean Chrome did a job but there was no parallel in Firefox where there was no add on for the same. 
  • It was like stepping into the future.
  • It was like a peek into the future.
  • By translating a page we could get a view from the other side.
  • Language is the key to open many doors.
  • And we could get a view of the perspective from the other side.
  • Let us face it with English there is little space to maneuver.
  • I mean we see the news channels on TV there is not much difference unless it goes from business channel to politics channel.
  • But Google translate had its drawbacks.
  • You could get the gist of what the news was but when you read it properly you find that the grammar has gone for a toss.
  • If you keep reading such kind of bad English the way the Google translate does the job you may lose whatever you have learnt from childhood.
  • Your entire schooling, college and material read over the years you will forget.
  • You will know an English which is horrible and "out of this world".
  • In the end you may have to get admitted to a mental institution or mad hospital.
  • you don't want that do you.
  • It is like the TLC song, "Don't go chasing waterfalls listen to the rivers and lakes we're used to"
  • Or the Embrace song "Come back to what you know"
  • There are so many differences in the world and we need to acknowledge the differences.
  • Our knowledge limited through the medium of English.
  • Without English language we are nothing.
  • Sorry Google translate, due to the job you did I took a peek to the future and then came back to the present.
  • It is like "Back to the Present" and not "Back to the Future".
  • We need to celebrate what we have and know and that is through the medium of English and not try to venture into other languages using Google Translate where the English Grammar goes for a toss.

Google Translate for News Part 2

  • Such activation, deactivation, reactivation, deactivation seems alright on paper.
  • But the truth is it is like a countdown which is just intolerable.
  • I mean why you need to have an account when you have to wait for full four weeks for activation and deactivation. It is madness.
  • Better to not have account at all.
  • Or better still have an account but don't follow any one and don't use it.
  • Only when you have Twitter installed on phone you will use it.
  • Else you will use it when you follow certain people and Twitter sends you mail.
  • Yes Twitter does that.
  • When you follow some people, Twitter sends email with "highlights" of what they have been been posting on twitter.
  • Then you can click those links and read on twitter.
  • But when you do not follow anyone Twitter will send no email and when you do not have Twitter on your phone you do not read anything.
  • And you have still the ID which you want and nobody can take it.
  • Now I was relying on Twitter for News when I unfollowed the porn accounts.
  • When I do not follow anyone how do I get the News?
  • The answer is Google News.
  • I have been getting news through Google since 2010 end.
  • In 2013-14, I did not have Twitter and used to type news.google.co.in
  • There all the News was there, I had to just change the edition and get the news of that region. 
  • Since my language is English I could only access and enjoy the feeds from limited countries like Australia, US, UK, Nigeria, Malaysia, Pakistan and some more apart from India.
  • The feed of "other languages" were out of the question.
  • Now subsequently over the years, Google Chrome has managed to build a tool where entire webpage is translated.
  • So I re-installed Chrome.
  • Yes I had removed Chrome because I had observed when Firefox Quantum came in, it was not working fast enough but web reports mentioned it otherwise.
  • So I suspected that "Chrome" was slowing down "Quantum".
  • Let us face it in an alternate universe all people would be wearing the same clothes and using the same operating system and/or browser.
  • But this the world we live in.
  • And Google Chrome is jealous when we use Firefox Quantum and wants to tracke what we do with it and hence slows it down.
  • If we use Chrome there is no slowing down as the tracking happens by default.
  • So the solution was that to Reset my PC which has Windows 10 and that option is available and so begin fresh with Firefox Quantum.
  • Microsoft Edge is there anyway by default.
  • I will continue in part 3.

Google Translate for News Part 1

  • I have done quite a few things over the past few weeks.
  • Initially I had a Twitter account which was opened in Sep 2017 and I had other two accounts which were opened in Oct and Nov 2017.
  • So I had total of three Twitter accounts.
  • Incidentally for opening a Twitter Account all you need is an Email.
  • Telephone is optional.
  • So I had three Email accounts for three Twitter accounts.
  • One of those Email Accounts no longer exists ( I deleted).
  • Before that I went ahead and deleted one Twitter Account.
  • After that I had two Twitter accounts.
  • One was the "good me" and the other "evil me".
  • Evil me followed a hell lot of Porn Accounts on twitter and it enabled an endless supply of porn in the Twitter feed for free.
  • Hell why do you need to pay for porn. Just follow few accounts on twitter and voila you get all the porn in the world.
  • Now in December I felt what is the need to hide.
  • Surely when it is available on Twitter I am free to do what I like and then deleted another Twitter.
  • And I merged the accounts by following all the people in just one account.
  • Earlier I used to work with lists but creating a list on twitter is a pain and so I decided to follow all without any lists.
  • Also the rate in which I delete Twitter account and reopen is stupendous and lists go when I delete a particular account which created the list.
  • Now I decided to leave it to Twitter to decide what to show to me.
  • Incidentally that is what Google and Facebook also do. I have known that since 2011.
  • The "feed" which I see is unique to me and that is what they do.
  • Around Christmas, I got a post on twitter in which a model had the crucifix i.e. the cross up her ass. I tolerated it and then came a post in which the model was pissing on the cross.
  • That was too much.
  • To put it simply that was sacrilege.
  • Now how do I tackle it.
  • Surely I cannot keep on watching it because lord will punish me on Judgement day.
  • I thought why I did not die before watching such a sacrilege.
  • I felt it is the work of the devil.
  • I may not be Christian but on that day I knew I could not work or think against Christianity or any religion for that matter.
  • After that I decided to begin afresh and deleted the Twitter account and opened a new one with limited following on my side.
  • Mainly I was following news sources from Pakistan and China like CCTV, Business recorder, Dawn etc.
  • Then out of the blue Trump pounced on Pakistan. And that was too much for me to handle.
  • Then I decided that I will leave Twitter for ever.
  • Surely before 2014 when Modi got elected I did not have Twitter and was using Blogspot to air my views.
  • But then I felt that I will lose my ID i.e. @anupsabat on twitter.
  • So I decided to log in before the mandatory 30 days period got over and reactivate Twitter and then deactivate it once more.
  • I will continue in the next post (kindly bear).

Thursday, 11 January 2018

The Goal, Nono the ZigZag Kid, Christmoose Story

Watched three movies as mentioned above.
Incidentally all three movies were watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand Service
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The Goal
This Irfan Khan 1999 movie was watched again and realised that it is just too good.
Few more points were noted in the second watch.
  • Irfan gets injured and so he becomes a coach due to love for the game.
  • The class mentality is more prominent in football and when the "class is eliminated" in football it is the ultimate elimination. 
  • In cricket "class mentality" can creep in less as it is "gentleman's game" and anyone who dons the cricket gear is another league altogether.
  • Significant injury resulting in loss of play will be lesser in cricket I feel.
  • Irfan joins as a coach due to his friends calling and towards the end it is shown that his friend is not pleased when the team loses and so he walks away and returns the money offered to him as advance.
  • We are inclined to believe that the money returned by Irfan is "less expenses" as the bundle appears a bit smaller than 50 100 rupee notes. But the truth is we will never know.
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Nono the ZigZag Kid
This is Nederlands movie so I assume it would be in Dutch language with English subtitles.
Thoroughly enjoyable movie. I liked it.
It is like a fairy tale movie and many decades are merged like 60's 70's 80's 90's that is whhat I felt.
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Christmoose Story
This is Nederlands movie so I assume it would be in Dutch language with English subtitles.
Thoroughly enjoyable movie. I liked it.
It is like a fairy tale movie and the moose is actually the one who pulls Santa's cart to deliver gifts.
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Monday, 1 January 2018

Alliegant, My Friend Totoro

Watched two movies as mentioned above.
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Alliegant
This movie was watched on Amazon Prime Video.
This is the third and final installment of the Divergent series (for now).
Movie is left in a stage where there can be sequel.
But what I saw on the net there was few box office number and so they are not bringing a fourth installment.
But few unanswered questions could have been answered if there was a fourth installment.
I guess the movie got to complex for ordinary people to understand.
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My Friend Totoro
This movie was watched on Tata Sky Video on Demand service where we leave a pen drive and movie downloads automatically.
This is an excellent Japanese animation movie.
It can verily be an European movie.
It is like a fairy tale movie set in Temperate lands.
Plus it has Asian elements like paddy fields and mountains like Vietnam or Philippines.
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