Give it a thought...

raman's_voice

Ever wondered why everything nature creates has an inverse? Why every black has a white,every summer has a winter? Being a little more scientific there, why does every electron have a proton? Well,the answer to this one is probably the answer to all of these...just to cancel out each other and maintain the neutrality of the universe. It might be nature's conspiracy to remain unaffected as a whole,to remain neutral, and here's where I intend to mention the funda of matter and antimatter, which quite a lot of you would already be knowing,and hopefully an equal number would be ignorant about.OK,so to begin with,every matter that exists is said to have an antimatter associated with it, the same way every electron has a proton, and its said that they cancel each other the same way too. Moreover, if a matter and antimatter are allowed to get in contact, they are supposed to perish into thin air, cancelling each other thoroughly with no remains whatsoever. Now this might seem like a total hypothetical funda, but let me tell you, it has already been created. So speaking in absolute non-technical terms, to everything, there exists an opposite, an opposite capable ofcancelling it out.This existance of antimatter theory has quite succesfullyexplained the creation of universe out of sheer nothingness, and even the bigbang and the primeval atom theories.But I would like to mention here that this article is not just about the matterand antimatter and I do not even intend to make it just for the people who are into science.Its just intended to put forward the view that if I am happy for some reason or because of an event that has happened, you might be sad for the same. To put it more clearly, the nature's law of creating everything in opposites can also be applied to human emotions and feelings and happenings and to the life as a whole. Lets say, if Bangladesh wins a cricket match against India(which seems very probable considering India's current state of the game), total happiness of the Bangladeshis might be cancelled out by the distress of the Indians.And this leads me to another funda, somebody might want to say that the 'n' people of a small country like Bangladesh being happy would not be able to cancel out the sadness of whole 'm'(m>>n) people of India. But probably its the intensity that matters as well. Physically speaking, it might be that the people, though being less in number are more happy, probably because their country hardly wins any matches, and the Indians are not that sad, because now they're used to all this, so the total happiness might just equal the total sadness.And ofcourse such a thing does not happen everyday, the probability of such an event happening therefore is too low.To explain this a little more clearly, lets say, every emotion or feeling has particles associated with it, lets call them emoticons for a while. If one's happy, he can be considered to release some happiness emoticons and so forth for other emotions as well.So the net result of emoticons released should be zero by the 'law of conservation of energy' ,thus accounting for the neutrality of nature. This might even explain statements like 'spreading love around','sharing your sorrows', and so forth. Something similar to the regular mutual induction laws in science.But there's one exception to all of this, the Entropy, which as is said, always increases in a universe. One of the common arguments given is the existance of amultiverse. Its said that as we gradually discovered the presence of other planets,then galaxies, we might just, in near future discover that this is not just the only universe that exists. It might just be the subset of some other huge body and other universes might even prevail. And there might be a universe where the Entropy might decrease, hypothetical it sounds, but you never know the future,as Stephen Hawking says.Now we come to spirituality and religion and Godliness.Has anybody ever noticed that every religion has signs absolutely symmetrical(read that in 'Angels and Demons', infact a lot of stuff i wrote has been derived, or rather inspired from that). Consider the age-old cross in Christianity, or the Chinese yin-yang, or even our own Swastika. Nature loves symmetry, and so do we, because the faces that attract us the most are the most symmetrical ones(heard this on Discovery once). So the subconscious, or our human nature, or we the humans as a whole,who, again being a part of nature, if can love symmetry, why not the nature as a whole, we have the same soul afterall(thats what Paolo Coelho says afterall,and atleast i believe him). I know thats a bit too philosophical, but that leads me to a much loved topic, Ambigrams.For those who do not know,ambigrams are words written in such a symbolic way so that they, when read after rotating them 180 degrees, still be the same. Its said that the world's best supercomps are even incapable of creating one but human minds can...I mean even you can, I have tried and have been successful. Its all about the gifts that have been bestowed upon us by nature. All I want to say after this entire crap is these are solely my fundas and i do not want anybody to agree but I want everyone who's reading this to atleast give a thought and appreciate the symmetry that exists.And afterall...half of you agreeing with this shit and half of you not would prove my theory anycase....that everything that exists, exists in pairs, an opposite entity always existing to cancel out the effect of the first one.Nature loves to be symmetrical and so do we!!

General Category- the new backward class

raman's_voice
I am totally exasperated. Soon the world renowned institutes in india - the IITs & IIMs would be the harbour for all those who still feel themselves as backward and incapable to compete with their counterparts who look alike them , just with a slight difference in their last name- the caste. Wait, let me go back to the books of civics where we came to know about SCs or STs or Harijans as gandhiji used to call them. No doubt, they needed upliftment but it has been 60 years now. Are'nt they still capable? We are taught in our school not to practice casteism but this is what our government is doing . Why to give anyone a special treatment? If you are reserving seats for them are'nt you telling them all the time that they are below standard. Its like giving money to a beggar - since you can't earn it , take it in charity. Even if they get those admissions , jobs, they are constantly reminded at their workplace about their low standard and referred to as SCs. Nobody seems to realise the fact that knowledge is gained by a person's will to learn it. It has got nothing to with caste. What people argue is that these people don have access to good schools, they can't afford education. So would'nt it be better to provide them the infrastructure.Where is all the money going which our government spends on shiksha abhiyans? I think it all goes in the bellies of politicians and to make the situation even more worse we have a new bunch of people who feel socially inflicted - the OBC(other backward caste). 'Backward' , i don understand in what sense.

The recent proposal put by HRD to increase the reservation upto 49.5% is to give general category a status of backward caste. Obviously, after this it would be 50-50. Mr Arjun Singh , i think i have a better plan. Why don't you jot down all the castes in india and divide the seats amongst them according to their population?When you can't put everyone in general category ,let's make everyone backward, atleat that would be a less biased decision. I don't have much idea about backward classes but i know a one in my native state- the jats. These people own acres of land and can easily afford to educate their children but everyone in india wants to have a jugad - to make their work simple.See the politics behind all this . These people have come up with a proposal but not yet passed as they know its illict and with elections on head non one wants to take risk of the oppositon. Opposition - not from other political parties as they also know these people form a major part of their vote bank.

Sometimes i think that the way they are uplifting these people , a day would come when all the people excluding- SCs , STs, OBCs would be termed as the backward class.

saturnalia 2006

SAT was rocking . I just spent a night over there but the atmosphere was mesmerising. The whole setup was too good as compared to the events we had encountered in first two years. It is a giant leap though not good enough to reach to the top but going on these lines we can reach there. One thing that needs to be aplauded is less interference from authorities. With couples hanging around everywhere, girls out till 1, Rocking music , star nites, are something we had never seen in our times . I am waiting for next SAT 2007.

you need guts for that

Recently there was so much fuss regarding sonia gandhi's resignation from the post of chairman of national advisory council. most of the people regarded it as political powerplay but whatever you say this lady certainly has some guts. i cant remember any name of any indian politician who has resigned under such circumstances . she had done it earlier by giving the post of PM and now she has again proved altruism by this act. Many more politicians come under the same scanner but they can't do the same after all they have the corrupt indian blood which keeps them glued to their posts.