Monday, October 31, 2005

Bhagwan
















It said " He reigns " when I got this image from another blog. Couldn't resist though. Any better ideas?
Personally I liked Bhagwan best in the 1950's movie song " Shaam dhale, khidki tale, Tum seeti bajaana, chodd do.. " He was quite awesome back then.. Especially in Albela, along with Gita Bali which had that super number ' Shola jo bhadke, dil mera.. '
In an allegorical masterstroke his parents decried the Wand-happy School-teacher image that God was made out to have , when they named their child Bhagwan Dada .

Mujhe Bhagwan mein bahut vishwaas tha, until his movies began to falter.


Read about the making of Albela, the movie that made Gita Bali a star and a tribute to Bhagwan at http://www.screenindia.com/20020215/ftrib.html





No offence meant to any athiests. Agnostic comments welcome. Unitarians too. And everyone else.

Wednesday, October 26, 2005

E! news reports:

Mick Jagger is rumoured to have spent all his millions wooing a supermodel with cocaine.

Today Mick, is a half baked Disney name. Wrong sentence.

Today Mick, is as heartbroken as he is bankrupt, for he hasn't been able to convince the object of his affection to reciprocate his love.

Pithily put, A Rolling Stone gathers no Moss.

Kate,meanwhile, in the absence of Jagger's millions, can only get Pepsi.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

To be or not to be [pshaw!] Whether -That is the question

'Weather', the word, has some interesting history.

The word for Weather was originally Whether. And for good reason.

Weather was called Whether because of uncertainity.

It was used synonymously with the word 'whether', that we all know, for ages, before somebody decided that there was money in it. These chaps decided that they needed to modify the spelling to gain respectability.

And thus Whether became Weather.

So the chaps on TV or the Radio station are only Whether Forecasters. And as we all know from Heisenberg's uncertainity principle, Uncertainity cannot be accurately forecast.
Heisenberg was himself quite uncertain of the whole thing but he couldn't blame himself for that, as he had already proved that uncertainity was not predictable, unless it was. But one could never tell, for sure.

So don't worry about the Weather/Whether in Pondicherry or wherever else you are going, but do pack an umbrella.

*Dan Brown Inspired Info:*

The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa. --Heisenberg, uncertainty paper, 1927

Or, to put it simply : Ek ka pata toh dooja laapata { to understand the true poignance of this situation please watch Hindi movies where the mother/elder sibling/father/benevolent maid etc etc realize that they have lost one or more little children at the Kumbh Mela(which, incidentally, was invented by Rajshree Productions as a film setting for losing kids/parents/lovers etc. The Kumbh Mela as such has no historical relevance and was initially created as a film set in the 1930's before it grew into popular legend and culture as a place where pious people performed rituals in the water and young voyeurous lechers checked out all the women in their wet clothes. Its a good thing though and everyone goes home satisfied) }

The idea behind Heisenberg's Uncertainity principle, struck Heisenberg as he finished cooking an elegant meal for himself. This thought, though, enabled him to create prize winning science papers, while most of us just add more salt when struck by the very same thought , " Something's missing " .