Anari

• Watched the above movie after downloading on Tata Sky Video-on-Demand service.
• Yes people I bought a Tata Sky Video on Demand HD + Transfer Box.
• With the box I can record shows and movies.
• I can watch another channel while recording one channel.
• There is only one wire attached to the box.
• I used to think that there would be required two wires at the back for carrying the signal.
• But maybe that was the earlier box.
• With the box which I have now, there is only one wire.
• Also I can download movies and shows using the home Wifi.
• So Anari movie I downloaded and watched.
• This 1959 movie of Raj Kapoor is relevant even today.
• How people do not care if people live or die for making money.
• Disaster means more profit for them and they become greedy.
• Also the villian keeps chanting "Hari Om Tat Sat" but still wants disease to spread and so will make money out of selling medicines.
• When another medicine which looks exactly the same but actually is poison enters teh market they do not recall and tragedy happens.
• That is the story. Worth watching the movie.
• But the owner of medicine factory has change of heart and accepts his fault in the end and that makes the difference.

Vietnam War Documentary

• Watched the Vietnam War Documentary 10 part series on Netflix.
• This was made in 2017. 
• Narrated by Peter Coyote it is a must watch.
• Link is here 10 part series
• I will say this is a must watch.
• And no matter where you are in the world you should watch this.
• This is a story which will remain hidden unless you watch this documentary.
• You should watch this documentary before you die.
• Many myths about the Vietnam War will be dispelled.
• Like I used to think US did not involve itself hard enough and so it lost.
• But fact is it gave all it got.
• Everything short of nuclear weapons. Chemical weapons like Agent Orange included. And also Napalm.
• Napalm was such a weapon which peeled the skins of the enemy. And perhaps vaporised anything in its path.
• Agent Orange made vast tracts of green forests into "orange" and made it easier to spot the rebels also called as "Viet Cong" from air and then drop bombs into them.
• US pounded Vietnam like no country was ever pounded before.
• Three million tons of explosives were dropped more than Japan and Germany combined during/from WW2. 
• In 1960's and 70's in the backdrop of Cold War, US was a close ally of Pakistan
• You feel US is all powerful and could have prevented the breakup of East Pakistan and West Pakistan.
• But the fact is by 1971 the US was deeply divided as a society.
• US COULD NOT HAVE INVOLVED ITSELF IN ANOTHER WAR. PERIOD.
• I deeply admire the bravery and courage and determination of Vietnamese people. I have now got deep respect for them.
• They fought so hard for their independence.
• First they fought the French and DEFEATED THEM and then they fought the most powerful country of the world United States and DEFEATED THEM.
• For the Vietnamese the Vietnam War started as soon as WW2 ended (1945) and ended in 1975 a total of 30 years.
• Perhaps Vietnam is the only country to defeat the Americans the most powerful country of the world.
• Salute to the Vietnamese.
• Indians have sacrificed nothing in comparison for independence.
• But I have read somewhere that British atrocities files have been systematically destroyed over the decades and years.
• In that sense Americans also deserve my salute.
• Because the Americans have chronicled the war and preserved the records.
• I AM 100% CERTAIN THAT NO OTHER COUNTRY WILL PRESERVE THE WAR RECORDS LIKE AMERICA.
• Even if US lost the war the details of war and atrocities and massacres are preserved.
• The makers of the documentary Ken Burns and others have done a great job for the human race. I am deeply grateful to them for making a documentary like this.
• Certain scenes deserve special mention
• Like the scene where military veterans began throwing away their medals at Capitol building after opposing the war.
• Just When North Vietnamese began entering Saigon and the war was about to get over, how the American helicopters piloted by American and South Vietnamese pilots made a dash to the "Flotilla of ships" including aircraft carriers and there was no space to keep them on the boats and so they were dumped to the sea.
• Since the then South Vietnamese President gave a call to lay down weapons when Saigon was invaded and there was no massacre.
• How wars were fought in sparsely populated areas like hills and jungles which were lost as soon as bloody battles were fought and the forces withdrew.
• Another when Life magazine published the photos of the Americans who died on that particular week in Vietnam. More than 200 photos.
• Americans gave their full force to the war. Pounded them with all it got. Let there be no two thoughts about it and STILL THEY LOST.
• I think Trump and all future potential Presidents of US should watch this ten part documentary.
• The story gives the learning that no matter how powerful you are you can still be defeated.
• Body count of the enemy is no measure of success.
• Three million of Vietnamese died compared to fifty eight thousand Americans. AND STILL US LOST.
• 300,000 of Vietnamese are missing and that is a hell lot of people.
• 1500 missing from America and America cant stomach it. Just think three hundred thousand.
• Those of North Vietnamese who became missing perhaps because their bodies got vaporized or turned to dust or their corpses were disposed of the Americans and South Vietnamese following pitch battles using bulldozers.
• It also shows how the Americans fought the "Orientals" just because they looked different. BUT STILL THEY LOST.
• The more I think about it I am inclined to believe that inspite of what happened Pakistan still got together with US to defeat the Soviet Union in Afghanistan and gave the Soviet Union their own Vietnam.
• THERE CANNOT BE A MORE GREATER ALLY FOR AMERICA THAN PAKISTAN.
• Israel is a natural ally for America. And post defeat in Vietnam, America got more and more involved in Middle East.
• Maybe that is what the Jewish think tank wanted. Folks like Kissinger and those who headed the anti-War movement were mostly Jewish and so I learnt.
• Their aim was for America to forget South East Asia and concentrate on and get involved in a massive way in Middle East and the oil rich countries.
• And America is a big giant which came with full force to protect the small giant of Israel.
• Similarly presently in 2018 Pakistan also does not want US to leave Afghanistan.
• As long as US is in Afghanistan Pakistan knows that India cannot attack it with all its might and subdue Pakistan. Before that happens, US will get itself involved as their military would be next door in Afghanistan.
• Back in 1979, popular revolution in Iran overthrew the American puppet Govt of Reza Shah Pahlavi.
• Iran probably got their inspiration from US defeat in Vietnam. They understood that America is not that invincible as they thought. If tiny nation of Vietnam could do it so they could and did not need to be puppet state of US.
• Indira Gandhi was also an astute leader who got the courage to dismember Pakistan after seeing American catastrophe in Vietnam.
• She knew divided America (among pro war and anti War) could never a pose a threat to India.

Hijacking of Gods by Aryans

• This post is to point out how Gods existing in India have been hijacked by the Aryan invaders over the past 5000 years.
• One example I can point out is Sri Jagannath.
• Another I can point out is Lord Balaji of Tirupati.
• Another one is Udupi Sri Krishna.
• The striking resemblance between Udupi Sri Krishna and one African statue holding a spear is strikingly similar.
• Due to these Aryans all Gods are same and as Sri Krishna. Or so we are made to believe.
• We do not dispute that God is everywhere and God is same.
• But that is no reason to "convert Gods" into the same mould as "Lod Krishna" and so on.
• If we see that the west cost of India is somewhat close to Africa.
• And also science says that all human beings originated from Africa.
• Few people from Africa maybe landed in the West Coast of India and established the Udupi deity.
• Then the Aryan invaders came from Central Asia and "converted" the God and temple into one of their own and that is the tragedy of story.
• They erased the history.
• The African inhabitants who came by sea merged into the Aryan society or dispersed into the mountains and jungles and became the tribals.
• African people who landed in India during that time could not resupply but Aryans came from central Asia by land and could grow stronger and stronger unopposed.

Sabarimala Row

• I will say this Sabarimala is an artificial problem created by BJP.
• BJP is anti-Hindu party and it is high time people realise it.
• Basically Hindu believes in Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam means the "World is one family"
• But BJP differentiates between "Us and them".
• And they take hardline position against Islam and Christian and Sikhs and Buddhists and other non-religious people (atheists)
• But when it comes to Hindu they do not work for equal rights.
• What is the logic that for Islam they are willing to put bread winners of the family in jail for "Triple Talaq" whereas for Hindus they are denying or protesting entry of women into the temple of Sabarimala.
• It is like their God is not God and our God is the one and only God.
• Their customs are illegal whereas our customs are holier than thou.
• This is double standard to say the least.
• According to me women deserve equal rights as men.
• All religions other than Hindu give more rights to women then we assume to believe.
• Also non religious like Communism also gave equal rights to women.
• In Communism you work for your rights and entitlements does not matter who you are and where you came from.
• It is only Hinduism which differentiates too much between men and women.
• And Hindu hardliners who are mainly Brahmins want to keep it that way.
• BJP think tank of Brahmins is following the British way and British East India company policy of "Divide and Rule"
• Their aim is to disturb the status quo and create ripples in the mud and then gain from the chaos ensuing.
• According to me women deserve equal rights as men.
• And why should rules for Sabarimala temple be any different.
• If we go to Udupi temple or Tirupati temple or Jagannath temple surely we find women and children jostling and pushing to have darshan and all.
• Surely same can be done for Sabarimala.
• The key game is of power.
• Disturb peace in Kerala where the BJP is unable to register its presence.
• Divide the people sentimentally and religiously.
• So in elections they will get all the so called "Hindu" votes.
• BJP is playing the game.
• Firstly raising the bogey of women's entry through its sources and then getting it approved through its stamp of Supreme Court which the State Govt is bound to follow.
• State Govt never wanted to intervene in people practices in the first place.
• But use Supreme Court as a tool from exterior to force Kerala Govt to act.
• Supreme Court is another institution which the BJP can be credited to have destroyed systematically over the years.
• And then activate the cadres in the home state of Kerala against the rulers which are non-BJP.
• Paint the Communist Govt as anti-Hindu.
• People should read between the lines.
• BJP is anti-Women and anti-minorities.
• In lust for power it is willing to destroy fragile society balances.
• It does not stand for equality.
• They stand to impose their own version of "Hinduism" which is not in the true sense.

Amritsar Rail Tragedy

• I will say that Amritsar rail tragedy is a man made tragedy made and done by the Indian railways.
• I will say it was done deliberately and with malicious intent.
• In this age of technology it is fool hardy to think that Railways will not know about a huge gathering on the tracks.
• The main thing was the trains to slow down to perhaps 20 or 30 kms per hour.
• What was the need to rush at 160 kms per hour.
• What is the use of signalling system if it cannot detect such a thing.
• I feel the driver should be sacked.
• Enquiry should be able to find out who gave the "Green Signal".
• Ideally the signal should have been orange and the train should have slowed down completely and should have blown the horn prominently allowing the people to move away.
• But when the train is coming at such high speed exceeding 120 kms/hr, people will have no time to react.
• There should be magisterial level enquiry to find out what happened.
• I will say since Railways which is owned by the Center and BJP is refusing enquiry is all the more glaring.
• BJP has done it deliberately to discredit the Congress Govt in Punjab.
• BJP kills Indian citizens for votes and power.
• Since election is there in 2019, BJP wants to make a issue out of a massacre by Railways and point it to Congress Govt.
• BJP has systematically destroyed Indian institutions over the last four years.
• Railways is just one of those institutions.
• I have seen in a railway crossing when people did not move fast enough, the trains from both directions stopped.
• This happened in Lingaraj Temple Road crossing when I was going by Talcher-Puri passenger and in opposite side from Khurda Road was coming Duranto express.
• I got down at Lingaraj station and was crossing the overhead bridge to exit the platform when I witnessed this.
• If trains can stop at such a case, why they go at 150 kms per hour at Amritsar.
• What is the rush?
• The rush is to kill the people and discredit Congress and Sidhu and Captain Govt.
• Shame on BJP.
• If Congress had been in power then BJP would have led massive protests and heads would have rolled.
• But in BJP no one is accountable or will ever be held accountable.
• BJP will blame the Congress Govt in Punjab while the Railways is owned by Center.
• I was refraining to post anything on Blogspot on politics.
• I was expecting things to sort out themselves.
• But this BJP-RSS Govt is making things from bad to worse and I just cannot take it.
• This tragedy of monumental proportions has jerked me off from my seat.
• In situations like this silence is not golden.
• Being silent is actually being complicit in the crime. Crime of murder.
• Where state institutions have been used as a weapon. Weapon against the people to massacre people.

Fury, Full Metal Jacket

Joined Netflix yesterday and have watched two movies as mentioned above.
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Fury (2014)

• What a movie. As the name suggests it shows the "Fury", fury of man against man.
• Or the fury against Nazi Germany
• It is worth watching if one has the stomach for it.
• I must say that I liked the movie and it is highly recommended

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Full Metal Jacket (1987)

• This is also an excellent movie.
• I feel this movie can divide the people of the world into two halves.
• Those who have seen Full Metal Jacket and those who have not seen Full Metal Jacket
• Stanley Kubrick is excellent filmmaker
• I just realised he also made Eyes Wide Shut.
• This movie is worth working.
• Thank God that such movies exist.
• It captures human race in its moments.
• Moments like the Vietnam War.
• Else the events would get lost in history.
• Basically underlying message in Fury and Full Metal Jacket is the futility of war.
• But Fury makes the war heroes out of victims and Full Metal Jacket shows the victims as victims and not heroes.
• Even if the belligerents belong to the opposing party they are still heroes.
• I mean even the winners are victims because of the fact of PTSD (post traumatic Stress Disorder) which is the outcome of horrifying incidents people faced in war.

Passengers

Passengers

• Watched the above movie on Amazon Prime Video.
• I liked the movie.
• Definite good way to pass time.
• But I felt that there is big flaw in the movie and that is that both the players ( hero and heroine) could have survived.
• I have made the below table:

• Particulars	Years	Hero	Heroine
  Age When they Came out of Pod		30	25
  When they saved the ship	2	32	27
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	35	27
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	35	30
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	38	30
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	38	33
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	41	33
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	41	36
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	44	36
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	44	39
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	47	39
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	47	42
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	50	42
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	50	45
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	53	45
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	53	48
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	56	48
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	56	51
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	59	51
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	59	54
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	62	54
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	62	57
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	65	57
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	65	60
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	68	60
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	68	63
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	71	63
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	71	66
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	74	66
  Taking turns 3 years at a time	3	74	69
  Final 2 years	2	76	69
  Arriving at planet destination	88

• As is visible from the above table, when they arrive at destination planet 88 years later, the hero would be 76 and heroine would be 69 and surviving.
• The trick was to use the pod and taking turns three years at a time.
•  Since there was only one pod, only one would be inside and preserve his/her life by going to sleep.
• Then the other.
• Like this taking turns they would have survived.