Ertugrul Resurrection

• Since June 29, 2020 I have started watching Ertugrul Resurrection Season 1.
• Till today I have completed 66 episodes.
• Initially started watching on Netflix but then realised that those episodes were available on Youtube and so took Youtube Premium subscription to block ads and now downloading on Mobile and watching using Youtube.
  
• My target was 1 episode per day which means season 1 which contained 77 episodes should have got completed around this time.
• But I guess I am behind and it will take some more time to continue balance episodes of 11 number.
• But I could not wait anymore for writing a blog post about it.
• So my observations that is a very good show and everyone around the world can watch it.
• I have watched "Game of Thrones" and verily this Ertugrul can be compared to the very best in the world.
• While "Game of Thrones" or "Star Wars" is mostly fiction and shows supernatural or "mind blowing" technologies but this show is based on history and perhaps excluding Ibn-Arabi's visions most are real and nothing supernatural.
  
• This show is not just about Turkish history or Muslim history but it is part of collective human history.
• The story is about Kayi tribe which went on and establish one of the greatest empire the world has seen the Ottoman Empire which lasted around 500 years.
• If we see what is a Tribe? Tribe is something which is social and man is a social animal.
• India though it is diverse is also like a tribe, the "Indian Tribe"
• We share some common characteristics which makes us a "Tribe".
• We can learn a lot watching Ertugrul.
• We learn we are more like Turks then we would like to admit.
• Western concept of individualism have no meaning. 
• Family matters to us.
  
• In a tribe there are different peoples, some are fighters some are shephards some dye cloths or indulge in business and so on. Much like the "Caste system" of India.
  
• PM Imran Khan recommended Pakistanis to watch the series in the month of April.
• Also PM Modi has been pointed out that he is also sporting an Ertugrul beard.
  
• Earlier I used to think just Shia vs Sunni or Arabs vs Persians but it is not that simple.
• Turks have origin in mythical region in Central Asia and their Otuken mountains.
• I remember when Naughty Boy/Sam Smith video came out Sam Smith video they showed a mountain and that mountain was in Bolivia 
• https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/devilsminer/mountain.html
• This mountain is near the city of Potosi in Bolivia. The music video also deals with the Lord El Tio
  
• When the music video came out I was imagining that it was shot in Mongolia the location of legendary Otuken mountains and the El Tio shown in the music video was an ancient God.
• But it was Bolivia. And the music video was Native Americans plus Spanish origin.
• At the opposite end of the earth to where Mongolia is located which was South America.
• Seeing origins of Turks we can say they are closer to China and Russia through Central Asia then to Arabs who were based in Arabian peninsula, so what if they have embraced Islam
  
• But there is no doubt in Diliris Ertugrul.
• The Turks have origin in Central Asia.
• And due to their location, they came directly in the path of Crusaders who wanted a land based route through "Asia Minor" to Jerusalem.
• Yes people the entire Crusades and people flowing from Europe towards Middle East was for Holy Lands which is now areas surrounding Jerusalem which are the lands surrounding Israel and Palestine.
• The legendary Knights Templars who used to take drugs and give them to their prisoners and make them Assasins and they used to carry poison like Cyanide which they used to take when caught and people believed they worshiped Baphomet all is shown in the series.
• Land based route was through Asia Minor while sea routes were through Cyprus or Egypt.
  
• Much is there to learn from the show.
• The character of Kurdoglo is most complex. In fact one can write a full post on Kurdoglo.
• Kurdoglu used to think about benefit of tribe and so he orgainsed a "rebellion" or "coup of sorts" to take over power from Suleman Shah the father of Ertugrul.
  
• In Depeche Mode video "Try walking in my shoes, you'll stumble in my footsteps"  they have shown a mountain with a Castle
• In Ertugrul they show the Templar Castle at Amanous mountains.
•  Also we see hooded people walking around like we associate them to Middle Ages.
• The character of Mario is straight out of Middle Ages.
• Likewise several characters have their own stories. Unfortunately I cannot write about all of them.
• I will say just watch the series to get to know more about the characters.
• Character of Omar who was Claudius and converted after meeting Ibn-Arabi is also too good. 
• Also Aleppo is shown in the movie and feels much like the city which we romanticize about in "Arabian Nights".
• Arabian Nights is a collection of stories from Arab lands in Middle Ages.
• So far till Episode 66 they have shown areas around North East Syria and South Central Turkey.
• As the series progresses they would show Istanbul and Mongol invasions also.
• When the Kayis takeover Constantinople and convert it to Istanbul that would be a great feeling.
• I will say it was only due to Turkey and taking over of Constantinople and Asia Minor, Europeans were "forced" to "look elsewhere" to "fulfill their dreams". 
• That gave way to proceeding towards Americas and circumnavigating the globe and Colonialism where the might British Empire emerged and inter European rivalries led to World Wars.
• The loss of "Asia Minor" is the single biggest event in World history we realise after watching Ertugrul.
• So many things including colonisation of the world's vast territorries or emergence of Communism might not have happened if Europeans and Christians had not been defeated in the patch of territory known as Asia Minor.
  
• Though several attempts were made to "seize Turkey" through force like the "Battle of Gallipolli".
• Turkish War of Independence was the most decisive War in getting restoration of Turkey as a nation.
  
• More recently in 2016 there was attempted Coup in Turkey and I am glad it got failed.
  

Redrum, Door Ke Darshan

 Watched two movies as mentioned in the subject line. Both the movies were watched on Tata Sky Bollywood Showcase HD Channel.

Redrum: A love story

• This movie deals with a hero who is a rockstar plus a drug addict.
• Movie is set in Delhi.
  
• The heroine falls for for him and it is fatal.
• Hero also ends up shooting himself using a cop's gun.
• The cop gets injured in the process. 
• Tom Alter plays the cop part. More specifically he is part of Narcotics Bureau.
  
• The hero has got unresolved issues from his past life.
• Movie is okay for one time watch.
  

Door Ke Darshan

• This movie is comedy movie.
• This movie is also set in Delhi.
  
• A household has an old woman who is in coma for 30 years.
• She wakes up and the Doctor advises against any shock, so the people of the household act as if six months have passed which is 1989 when it is actually 2019.
• Slowly the old lady knows the reality on her own and it is happy ending altogether.
  

Tera Intezaar

• Watched this movie Tera Intezaar on Tata Sky Bollywood  Showcase Channel.
• Starring Sunny Leone and Arbaaz Khan this movie is okay for one time watch.
• Shot in exotic location like Mauritius and perhaps Ramoji Film City, this movie deals with post death how a person becomes a "ray of light" following his death and extracts revenge.
• This movie assumes too much.
• The twin brother dies but main brother is alive.
• If not careful this movie can drive you crazy.
• As the double role is only revealed after all the villains are killed.
• You may feel "you have now seen everything" and be inclined to shoot yourself.
  

China Growth Engine

•  The subject of this post is titled "China Growth Engine"
• This is to outline the fact that for the past two or three decades the world was growing.
• It was not growing on its own force but important to note this growth was due to the growth of China.
• China was growing at furious pace and countries and people of many countries were being dragged to economic prosperity in the process.
• I will give an example. In March 2020 markets crashed.
• Subsequently the markets have roared and risen to great heights.
• In a market like this any share you buy would have risen.
• Some shares have risen more than others. Some rose by 50% some by 10% and still some by 100%.
  
• The China growth engine is similar to that.
• Anyone which attached itself to the China engine as a "bogie" or hopped for a ride on this "China engine led train" would have faced growth and develpoment.
• If China grew by 10% or 15% countries doing business with China would have grown by 2% till 10%.
  
• If a developed country like US or Japan grew by 2% it would be too good for them.
• While little backward country like India or Botswana would have grown by 7-8% and that would be too good.
• Thing is being associated with China was good for the world economy and the economies who associated themselves with China.
• It was good for world trade.
• It was like "outsourcing" the manufacturing jobs to China who are experts and world leaders in manufacturing sector.
• Much like India is like a leader in IT and Technology where processes are outsourced to India.
• "Outsourcing" is based on this concept where you do businesses with what you good at and leave processes like payroll or call center and back office to offices in places where it does not matter whether it is Brazil or Phillipines or India.
• Knowledge of English is required for soft skills which places like Ireland and India have.
• But for "manufacturing of hard core technology items" China is world leader and world knows that.
• Decoupling from China will be disaster for world economy and will affect different  countries in different manner.
• I will say for US, Japan, Australia, Europe it will disaster as their costs will increase and no country can match China in manufacturing. 
• They have high hopes on countries like India. I will say they don't know India. India is a country which is known for lethargy and "leg pulling".
• India like "crabs in container" story where crabs keep pulling each other down and so no one can escape.
• I am not sure whether Japan or EU or Americans would like to enter India where they will be laughed at behind their backs. Indian culture is like that.
• And decoupling from China will be disaster for country like India.
• They have to buy technology from South Korea or Japan or Germany which will be more costly for developing country.
• I am using RealMe phone which if same capacity (RAM and memory) if I would have bought Samsung would have cost at least 70-80% more if not double.
• India has more to lose if it decouples from China than developed country.
• Once again I would reiterate that India and China need to work together as Asian nations to enjoy the benefits else they will face a "new imperialism" where one will be used against the other by bigger powers.
• India if it somehow manages to keep the "imperial nations" out it will lose even more as these "predatory nations" will charge more money to India for defence procurement.
• Precious money needed for India development will be have to be diverted to defence.
• India will have development growth rate even lesser than so called "Hindu rate of growth" a term which was used in India before liberalization in 1991 in teh age of "mixed economy".
• The future of India is showing now.
• Few people (who will be Indian) will be controlling entire Indian economy and fruits of development and wealth will be concentrating in these hands.
• And India will have play with wooden toys as latest toys from China would be prevented reaching India just to take toys as example. 
• But same concept is applicable to entire gamut of technologies just like toys.
  
• India is on reversal path not to earlier to 1991 but to proverbial "stone age" like they show in TV serials of Ramayana and Mahabharat.
  

Stopped watching WWE

• People this post is to outline that I have stopped watching WWE once more.
• Now we need to go to a bit of history.
• When Cable TV came to India after 1991 and the First Gulf War, WWE was one of the shows people in India got exposed to.
• In TNT channel they used to show WWE or WCW shows.
• At that time I did not use to watch either WWE or WCW.
• I used to watch MTV and Channel V.
• Fast forward several years, I moved to Hyderabad (1996), Mumbai (1998), Chennai(2002) and finally to Bangalore(2004) and at no stage of life was I following WWE or watching their matches.
• I used to watch movies or visit Cinemas or watch Music Channels.
• Then in 2008 I took Dish TV and in 2013 I took Videocon D2H, then again I never used to tune in to Sports Channel for WWE.
• But I new WWE existed and WWF earlier became WWE.
• Then in 2014 I took Tata Sky Connection and I began to watch WWE.
• Why I began watching WWE because it was a thing which was "regular" and punctual".
• WWE shows happened every week as a pattern.
• First there was Monday Night Raw, then Tuesday Smackdown, then Wednesday NXT and the Main event and WWE Superstars (I used to catch up online as it was not being shown on TV).
• In 2014 at 11 PM they used to show on Ten Sports Mean Gene Okerlund and Rene Young co-hosting a program which used to show past WWE matches and stuff.
• Watching programs like above can generate interest in the Genre.
• Then the programs used to repeat every week in newer and newer episodes.
• Slowly we get to realise that "the latest" is all that matters.
• Same is applicable to news as well to WWE.
• So from 2014 till 2017 I used to watch WWE regularly. Not only WWE but also TNA Impact.
• I saw how WWE was being shown 2-3 days later and then they began showing live.
  
• In 2017 what happened, Carnival Cinemas began giving "Moviecard" which allowed you to watch unlimited movie in theatre.
• Since Carnival Cinemas was located 15kms away in my town, I had to make a choice. No longer was it possible to watch WWE and movies at the same time. I had to drop watching WWE to enjoy movies on big screen.
• That continued till 2019 when there was world cup of cricket and India defeated Pakistan.
• Soon we were bombarded on social media with images of Kohli
• Doing it since the early 90s
• That was it. I subscribed to Sports Channel once more and began watching WWE once more.
• Because we can get sick with certain images and we want more images and video to get rid of the "sickness"
• WWE stars were a different class together and they used to fight to prove themselves and not make poses like we get bombarded with them and I continued watching WWE till the Covid Pandemic hit. 
• It was okay with no audience, again with the WWE trainees around it was also okay.
• But when thunder-drome debuted it was too much to swallow.
• In a sense you see wrestlers watching people who are watching them on the screens and you are watching them at home. 
• You are watching on your screen watching people on their screen watching wrestlers watch people watching them on screen while they are wrestling.
• It is the future and future can drive you crazy scenario emerged.
• Also the Rey Mysterio-Seth Rollins feud was too much for me to digest.
• Since I used to record on Tata Sky Box and watch at leisure I began forwarding the breaks and then began forwarding the entrance and then fights I used to watch at 2 x speed and then 4 x speed and then for Rey-Seth segment full fast forward at 32 x speed used to happen.
• The commentary used to missed during the fast forwards but whatever the superstars used to say I used to hear.
• Compared to Fast forward on Internet or Youtube where only 2x is supported with dialogues, it Tata Sky maximum speed is 32 X with no sound support only visual can be seen.
• Recently I watched the full show at 32 x speed and then I realised why bother at all.
• Just stop watching and problem solved.
• I had recorded several programs of WWE and Impact Wrestling in 320 GB built in Hard Disk Drive in Tata Sky, I began deleting all those.
• And the Hard Drive which was 100% full became 50% full.
• Thus I have stopped recording, watching, following WWE and Impact since last week.
• Maybe when live audience returns or WWE begins moving from place to place like earlier pre-Covid times, I may come back to watch, I just don't know for now.
  

Coffee with D

•  Watched this movie "Coffee with D" after recording in Tata Sky box.
• I had watched this movie but guess I had forgotten about it else I would not have recorded it in the first place.
• Once I started watching the movie the movie began coming back.
• But still could not make out how the movie ends.
• Had to watch till the end to find out.
• Movie ends when D changes his name and begins life as a common man to enjoy the fruits of simple life.
• D is biggest don of India or biggest Don India has ever seen.
  
• For him to begin life as a common man he fakes that he dies of heart attack in live interview.
• Wonderful concept and only some maturity level is required to understand it.
• No way any child will understand or enjoy this movie.
  

Trump and The Pandemic

•  The subject of this post is "Trump and The Pandemic"
• I believe that this pandemic Covid-19 and Corona Virus are inventions of a sick mind who have hatched this plan to get rid of Trump in 2020 US Elections.
• Trump may refer to it is as "China Virus" but we have understand what is meant by "China".
• He is not targeting China as such what he means is that this virus and its concept is "foreign" in nature.
• I have a feeling that if he is reelected he will order inquiry into the Virus and its origins and many people would be held accountable and blame can be pinpointed.
• The origin of this Virus is hatched by devious minds who want to undo the changes Trump has done in America and prevent him from coming back.
• Since people like Bill Gates are taking deep interest in this their motives must be questioned.
• And recently Bill Gates has remarked that 90% of people will not die of Corona Virus as such but will die from other reasons.
• Only 10% will die of Corona Virus according to Bill Gates.
• Bill Gates by telling this is escaping accountability.
• In case enquiry is held, no way anyone can hold Bill Gates responsible.
• If Democrats win what will happen that the news media outlets will simply stop reporting about Corona Virus and it will be shown as having "magically disappear".
• Then Democrats will take credit that it was because of them Corona Virus and Covid-19 was brought under control.
• It is time people take a good look at this.
• Corona Virus originated just for a "regime change" exercise in United States.
• If it was not working they brought in race issue and George Floyd case.
• If the issue was dying out they have brought in Jacob Blake case now.
• Thus both pandemic and race issue are being used to target Trump.
• It is time for the world to look at this.
• United States should not fight endless wars.
• The purpose of Covid-19 is to change regime in US and conduct wars in foreign territories with a compliant Govt. and puppet president in Washington.
• Covid-19 is not that lethal.
• People die of other causes and they are being marked as Covid positive.
• There is supply disruption of medical facilites and many people are dying due to lack of care and that is being marked as Covid casualty.
• If Trump gets reelected and conducts inquiry I am sure the details would come out.