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What does India still need to learn from its history?

2014-01-01T11:00:00.002-08:00

We are more often than not referred to as a ‘fractured and frantic species moving down the path of destruction.’ It’s surprising how easily people say that, and what is more surprising is the number of people who would readily agree to such a preposterous proposition. It is like the society is not left with any more flesh at all. It’s is as if the bones that are meant to hold us up are the only things we are left with. And when no hope is left, we turn around and ask a question. A question that bears an almost equal stupidity in terms of what is and what isn’t tangible. “Did we learn something from our past?”.

Aristotle once said, “a man can never cross a river twice, because the river will never be the same, nor will be the man” and though lesser quoted in various places, this is probably one of the most important quotes of the century second only to of course, “we haven’t intertied this planet from our ancestors, we have borrowed it from our children”. The problem that we as a population face change day by day. Our forefathers had the luxury of having a fairly constant scene of quite some years. That made learning easy. You had what was essentially a textbook field. Which is why textbooks were successful in the first place. As time went by and we entered the post modernistic era, we stand in a dynamic world where problems change by the minute and what we read yesterday becomes redundant before the date can change and that is what makes learning form the past mistakes a task that is not only intellectually changeling but also taxing to the society at the same time. Taking lessons from the past would mean vulnerability to circumstances that don’t even exist today. I am not dwelling upon a proposition for completely discarding history but the trouble still remains that a lot of what we experienced yesterday is experience that today is almost useless. This can be substantiated from the fact that a lot of corporations today are complaining about the employability of students once they finish their education. Companies are of the opinion that the students today are only qualified on paper and that the real world problems are too much trouble for their tiny little brains.

These factors hurt us even more when we have a developing country to feed. Not only do we have more frequently changing problems, we are also short of the solutions that others have access to due to a relatively stable economy. This unstable economy is something that cannot be cured overnight and something whose solutions are not referred to in the history that we have lived. Coming back to our point, the introduction might have made it clear that I believe that the solutions to our problems today cannot be directly derived from the happenings in the past. Neither do we have books and epics that can grant an exit in the form of a poetic magnum opus. The learnings that we can derive though are different and I will sought some liberty in terms of defining problems and solutions as and when we progress along this essay. That shouldn’t be much of a pain for conventional wisdom has anyways abandoned us and a different purview is all that we probably need.

Let us first define what ‘country’ we are talking about. This involves not only the Republic of India and all the terrain and exclusive economic zones covered hence but also the countries that we are in relations with. (That’s pretty much the entire world but still a certain set can definitely be defined.) This change in definition becomes essential because several favors rendered by countries to each other today are in some way or the other a form of barter when either now or at a point of time in future we shall be expected to pay them back even if it costs us our integrity. This being said, their problem and shortcoming become our headache as well to quite some extent. Let’s move on to the secondary domain of the problem that we have. This is the domain of the stakeholders. Now the stakeholders in the country are not only the people who reside in it and hold nationality but are also the ones who indulge in any kind of trade relations or other interactions that positively or negatively affects the nation. So we have an almost clear picture about where to look for the problem and centering whom we should deal with. It is most irrelevant in abstract sense as the domain is too large. But let’s look at it from a very objective point of view in the following section.

The world as a whole had changed over time and what has changed it more than anything else is communication. The way that we converse and the speed at which news from all around the world travels to places has changed. This causes a special problem for the target group we have in study here. We have always been relatively backwards in terms of technological or social growth when we look at the last two centuries. Backwards relative to the living standards of the west and the advancements in their social structures. Now this isn’t really a problem until the comparison starts. We have a state where the communication about advancements is so fast the people start expecting great things from everywhere all at once and it is a fact hard accepted in the realm of sociology that not all news is supposed to be taken seriously by a society. We as a nation have started expecting way too much out of our social fabric while the amount of maturity required in the foundation of our social structure has yet not reached a point where it can cope with that change. This leads us to where we are today. The potential as an economic and technological giant that we see in ourselves isn’t exactly flawed but it is to some extent wrongly approached.

This is where learnings from the past come into play. Let’s start by talking about the trend of development in the world vis-à-vis the national growth. The world got automobiles somewhere back in the 19^th century. India on the other hand had the first locomotive place somewhere in the late 19^th century. The world saw its first flight in 1903 by the Wright Brothers. India on the other hand still extensively used bullock carts till the first quarter of the 20^th century. Automobiles did make an advent and with a lot of panache but they were what 100 acre mansions today are for a common man. It’s not really the question of how fast the world moved than it is about how fast we coped up. As we move to the post-independence era, we saw the slow growth of most industries under strict governmental control while the rest of the world had already hit full scale industrial revolution, and that too privatized in the early 20^th century. This was also one of the reasons why the first and the second world wars were able to move to such a large scales.

Now move to the very recent history where in less than a year of the launch of the curiosity rover, we have launched the world most cost efficient mars mission. We still haven’t been able to land on the planet but nevertheless the leap was large and gained appreciation from all over the world. We are catching up, but we are doing so in a very polarized manner. Our advancements in all the fields are fast and promising but they aren’t exactly ours. It is like taking pills for power because the body can’t generate anymore of itself.

What we need to learn from the past is to slow down a little and rethink where we are going. Where we as a country need to be and what we want ourselves to be in the next 50 years. Being caught up in the global turmoil is not going to cause us any good. It will instead make a scapegoat out of the country for its resources and push us further into the past. That is a very caustic statement to make but it will most probably be the violent result of the actions that we decide upon today. When we look at brain drain as a socio-economic problem for the slowdown of the nation’s growth, we must also realize that the motivating factors for emigration are not only individual selfishness based but have a greater social grounding. The dent in drapes of delusional reality hit upon us when we take a closer look at the emigration trends over the last few decades. But let us not delve into those numbers as they will not provide much insight into where we want our learnings to come from. Rather, let’s have a look at the way we have changed the way we look at things. Consumer goods today have a very polarized trend in our country. They are mainly marketed on the basis of two properties. First is the fact that they have been developed in or R&D in insert-developed-country-name-here or second, that they have been made from insert-name-of-indigenous-never-heard-about-jungle-here. Nowhere else do we find the distinction based upon made in your country vs. not made in your country. And the surprising thing is that both of them equally sell well. Figures of the same are out of the scope of this essay but are readily available in the public domain. And the selling trends for both have seen a divide in the class of people who buy them and this has a direct relation with the availability of the products. When FMCG goods of non-indigenous making were not readily available, their commercials featured scenes that would appeal to the elite while today the exact opposite has happened and a trend of the more ‘so called knowledgeable’ people is to go for goods made with as little machine intervention as possible. Funny as it may sound, the Mughal and British rule has superimposed a sense of ‘elite in rarity’ than in ‘quality’ amongst us. We need to rewind to times that we have forgotten already and peek to where we had a perception that was truly rational. Times when we were intelligent enough to make paths from dense forests than to follow on the paths already laid by narcissists and nitwits of a totally different level. We need to look at what wrong this form of government has done to us and to our thinking in the name of democracy. We need to put the right people in the right places and put or money where our heart is. This is not only a talk about idealistic restructuring. It is more about reorienting what we as a nation want. Incentives have been our sole drivers as we have been oppressed for several centuries altogether now. We need to remove that tarnish and find the true spirit that lies beneath.

And how do we do it? Glorify the government. Make defenses more desirable as a profession, put governmental autonomy into the right hands and have the judiciary run on interpretive-constitution and not on bull-heading into notions. What we need more than anything today, in times of a crisis where we as a nation might lose our identity, is to make sure that we know who we are and what we can do if we look at the right places within and around us. As I said before, being in a world where things change by the minute, it is simply not possible to adopt a game plan right from the past and throw it over the present. But what we can derive out of the times past is the motivation that brought us here and that which can lead us forward.

As a note of conclusion, all that I would like to say is, we don’t need to follow developments that happen around us but we need to rise above them and particularly avoid disrupting elements. Kill anything that comes in way and use the corpse to cross the mud. Extremism is not quite advisable for a democracy, but sometimes, we have to do what is necessary. As Dante rightly said in his works, “the darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of a moral crisis”. We are at the cross roads of that crisis. What we do from here onwards will matter not only to us but to all the generations yet to come. So let’s look back, correct and move on.

Parth Trivedi

The Ultimate Defense Mechanism

2013-11-25T04:17:00.003-08:00

It’s been quite long since I talked about the human nature. One of my most favorite topics simply because it is just so inexplicable. There are few other parts of philosophy that even come close to this form. Now if you are a biology teacher who has taught me, I have already bugged you with this question. If you are a saint, I have already told you a million times over that you are wrong and that if I were to agree with you we would both be wrong so let’s just skip to the end where I pose the problem statement over again for those of you who have just joined the debate.

Take the human body for instance. We are composed of the brain and of the organs in the rest of the body. We have voluntary and involuntary think centers that make sure we poop alright. That being said, we comprise of the basic understanding and comprehension of our surroundings and of the phenomena that cause it to be so.(the understanding might not be correct but it at least has us convinced that it is). If we break down this supercomputer like functioning down we could see that we are essentially made out of the organs and in turn tissues. There tissues in turn by cells and cells that are controlled by the center called the nucleus which gets the code of what to do via a sequence of enzymes and amino acids called the deoxyribose-nucleic –acid (DNA for short). Now into this code is more than functioning. The essence of existence and the mere tendency to live on remains within this code and more than that multiple copies of it tend to work in tandem in order to generate the results that we see today as a massive civilization. A simple chain of a handful elements (no literally handful, mainly carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen) has been capable of inducing the tendency to keep living within the organisms and I think that it is more than conscious that drives us to be that. Now let’s just say that we as a species were driven to behave in a living tendency as such and taking that as a null point, we are to discover what keeps us that way. Let me take you a little deeper into this. Humans have always been developing defenses for themselves. We have always, as a species been on our toes when it came to protecting our assets and interest groups knowing that one day, inevitably, we shall perish. What makes this more interesting is the methods we device for the same. Now in a recent video by V-Sauce on YouTube, I saw him mention how, what sets humans apart is something which is very fundamental. Our ability to ask questions. Now scientists have been able to train chimps to count, to express, and even to an extent to feel emotion and convey it in the precise manner. But the one thing that they haven’t been able to do even to the species that is second most intelligent to humans, is to induce the ability to ask questions. I have always had this theory that our will to know everything around us is more than just a human factor and a few days ago while driving, it struck me! It is the ultimate defense mechanism. What made humans evolve, what made them stronger and more agile and adaptable than other species to a certain environment is their ability to ask questions. Now I am not stating this biologically or as a theory in general to be universalized but it is worth giving a thought.

Early on in the process of going around doing our own business, we as humans catered to the fact that we needed a defense mechanism simply so that we can strive and be alive for as long as we want. And what we figured more than any other organism was that we needed information. We needed a constant flow of knowledge of things around us and things around those things and then things around them in turn. We ended up hardwiring knowledge gathering into our predecessors and today we see ourselves are explorers and expedition makers and the wanderers of tomorrow. We have seen, through history that more we know about things, the safer we are, everything else kept constant. And it perpetuates into our lifestyle.

Now the root of me writing this article was actually to figure out why we happen to have a tendency to survive, and I somehow ended up thinking about all of this and then wrote that down. And that very same thought process stands as testimony to our ultimate defense mechanism. Our ability to ask questions. And more so, our incessant and frustrating morbidity to answer them.

Bhaag Milkha Bhaag: Changing the Course of Indian Cinema

2013-07-14T14:13:00.000-07:00

So here we are. I don’t review Bollywood movies a lot. Actually this might be the first one that I am sincerely doing and so you can say that they have made it big this time. Yes, we are talking about the much babbled about, much tweeted about and much updated about, “Bhaag Milkha Bhaag” the biopic of a legendary runner who was crowned the ‘Flying Sikh’. Now I won’t get into the particulars of the real life story on this one. We will keep it a ‘movie’ review, stick to the purpose. As of where the motivation to watch it comes from, it was an early morning call and I hadn't even taken a shower when someone just randomly asked me to go for it and then here we are.

Biopics have always been an important part of the cinema. Every cinema. Be it any language, biopics help us look into the past from the perspective of the movie maker and the facts about the life of the person in scope. They not only serve the purpose of cultural preservation, they also provide us with the opportunity to make an alternative take upon what had happened. Alternative journalism is picking up a lot these days and is certainly remotely linked to alternate perspective biography making. So let’s get down to it. The movie that a lot of people have been waiting for.

The Intro

You can expect this one. A race. (Meh!) As the title tells us, it is a movie about a runner and so it makes perfect sense to start it with a race and more so with a race that our protagonist does not win. The beginning has the required impact. The force of the scenes is impounding to the senses and you do get indulged into the process. In fashion of a recent trending dialogue, “You had my curiosity but now you have my attention.” Talking of what happens next would be a spoiler and so it would be enough to end this one on that it is fairly intriguing. There are following sequences of the runner entering into the army and making a living of pride. From the first half an hour of this monstrously huge movie, you realize that it is constantly going to shuffle between the very far past, the far past, the past and the present. Yes, there are literally flashbacks in flashbacks. It’s like a whole different level of “flashbackception”. Jokes apart, that innovative style keeps you hugging your seat for long enough.

Experimentation, straight to the point and interpretive cinema, the movie easily snatches an 8 on 10 for this section.

The Plot

Well now. There is nothing new in this plot. You know that it is going to be about a guy who is going to run the f**k out of every track on planet. But yes, that doesn't really stop the whole bandwagon from keeping you entertained. There are beautiful pieces of humor and emotion along with tragedy and thought assimilation that bring a lot of new perspectives to the table. That is what I was talking about in the previous review as well. To have a very simple and predictable plot allows the screenplay writer to experiment and mingle with the rest of the intricacies of the movie. You have a lot going on in terms of the aspirations of the runner, they are more defined by the story than by the character of the protagonist. The order and system of scenes and therefore the overall plot has a lot to do with the pleasant experience (as opposed to its simplicity). It will give you a lot of emotional twists and turns but not many that you just weren't expecting. The depictions of the times he spent on the rehab camps and his earlier days growing up in the village and falling in love put a stereotypical Bollywood tag to the whole process. Not saying that it never really happened, but then you just happen to roll your eyes on the seat and think, there had to be one right?

For this brave endeavor and the zeal in the plot to carry on with the ability to get you to think about it. The plot is not that bad a job at all. Fetches a 7 on 10.

The Characters

A lot of people are going to jump on me for this one, but then that’s how I feel about it. Farhan Akhtar has not played such a great role here. The expressions are stone like. Whenever he smiles it feels as if someone has given him a tonic. The reason that even after a fallacious role play he gets so much of applause is, as I told you above, the story. The process of him rising above everyone is what makes you love the character. The sheer charm of the victory takes your heart away, the adrenalin that the race pumps is all that has you going. As for the rest of the characters, the general commanding the small group of soldiers in the beginning does a great job in entertaining the audience along with the coach and almost everyone else who has been roped into the process. There is richness in character because there is diversity in place. Any less diversity would have made it downright boring. For the simple yet splendid interplay of people and the taught story line with so much going on, I give it a whopping 8 on 10 for this section only because more than depth in character they have dwelled into the expanse and thought laterally, something that helped in a movie like ‘The Green Mile’ as well which was more about an amazing story than about an amazing Tom Hanks.

For everything new, for facing the odds of thinking so much and so making everyone work together and in the tandem of the flow and tone of the movie, I give it a 7.5 on 10 for the characters.

The Screenplay

Fabulous. Sweeps all grounds. Haven’t seen an Indian flick with a better one. Go just to see how shifting from one time frame to the other can be made so enticing and elegant. They have left no space of jarring scene transitions and the whole scope of the writers’ pen fits very aptly into the brains of the audience. Especially when the people of our viewership have the attention span of a nail and a hammer. Things cannot get better for a director when he has such a powerful screenplay in hand with such a diverse character pool. But then in the process of doing everything nice, they face those typical movie sins. Oh god there are so many! They show the partition time (1947-not that you don’t know, just mentioned it for the math) where Milkha seems to be somewhere around 13-14 years old at the max. And then the first Olympic that they show he won is said to take place somewhere in 1953-54 if I am not wrong. This gives us a 6 year span between the two instances where young Milkha goes from becoming a skinny Punjabi kid to a fully grown bearded/braided man in the army who is already winning medals and respect. I is just a little jarring. But even when I get over that analogy, the place where he goes to drop Sonakshi every day after fetching water is apparently an 8-10 line broad gauge railway track. Hold on a moment. Wasn't it supposed to 1950? Where the hell did they get so many lines from and that too in a remote locality? Never mind. Let’s get over that as well. But then the movie is full of such stuff. You can see Farhan driving a 2012 model of Bullet back in 1956. That too in Pakistan where he does not have a valid drivers’ license and not to mention the fact that he found someone to give him that bike in the first place.

Long story short, the sequence of events a beautifully arranged but sometimes those glitches take away the charm. 8 on 10 (one less than what I wanted to) simply because if they had so much of thinking, a little more wouldn’t have hurt.

The Feels

It feels great. Watching it that way. Seeing him overcome his obsessions and controversies, moving on, pushing forward and keeping the spirit high, really makes you feel great. And then the realization dawns on you that it is indeed a true story. Some of it might be recreation-oriented for cinematic purposes but then essentially at the core of it, all that really happened. The movie is densely gratifying and motivating. It has put a new front to the Indian cinema and more such shall follow from talents hidden from the camera as of now.

Farhan has done a great job in setting up a stage as well as setting up a standard. I give him 9 on 10 for this path breaking endeavor. Averaging all the sections, we get to an overall ~~ 8 on 10. A must watch, take as many people along because this one is super fun in company.

some old stuff while i was clearing my hard drive

2013-07-08T20:36:00.001-07:00

and now do i find time to write once again
in the midst of my examination does this wild thought of going through the odd bearings of my mind does summon my fingers on this not so friendly keyboard of mine
and well
to be honest
i wont be talking anorexic crap today
i have somehow been trying to grow out of it into an intelligence that can use words with four or more syllables with sense
and that in fact, trust me, is not an easy task
had it been i would have applied to write the script for the next season of "the big bang theory"
yet, here is am, suffocated by a string theory of my own
yes, my personal and as you might me expecting a complete jeopardy of the original, "the string theory"
yes, it sounds nerdy, yes i realize you no longer feel like reading this
but come on, give it a shot,after all, that's the case with more than half of the blogs you subscribe to
at least in the want of interest you might just read the whole thing
so yes, the theory that proposes the whole world can be divided into strings and that yes, all of us are connected
most certainly, a very self obsessed phenomena
...

Despicable Me 2: You Barely Expected Something Like This

2013-07-07T12:23:00.002-07:00

There is always an incentive to not growing up. And of course there are its own drawbacks of being despised by the society for being inconvenient to them by differing from their ways. Overall, there is always a need for ways in which one can escape the mundane. The brains today have gone so stale to routine instructions, that to strike a chord, satire is one of the very few resorts left.

This then explains why animated movies play such a huge role in the movie industry. Not only is it pleasing to the eye and a much creative arena, animated movies provide the audience with a portal to escape. I know that this is a very common thing to state but then let us appreciate the fact that a huge audience of these movies is people in their 20s’. Not going much into demographics and mass psychology. Let’s get down to the adorable deal.

The Intro

This is something you usually expect to be awesome. It is necessary after all to build a gripping premise for a movie to come. But boy can an intro get any better. They knew people are there for the minions and they threw those little yellow devils of cuteness on the screen right in the first frame where the logo of “Illumination Entertainment” (the production house) comes in. My friend and I were there together and from that very frame, we lost it and the next time I took a breath was when I got up for popcorn. This is just to say that intros to a movie do not get any better these days. As expected from the continuation of the last movie, our protagonist Gru has been shown to have given up all the evil work and has settled with the three girls (Agnes, Lucy and Margo) living a peaceful life using his previous resources to engage in an enterprise of bakery. Blah blah blah.
Bottom line: Adorable setup for a yet to come amazing story.

I give it a 9 on 10 for showing something really great, though clichéd yet synthetically appeasing to the eye.

The Plot

If you’d ask me how the plot is, I won’t have much to say. The usual part where the villain is going haywire and secret services called for an ex con-man to settle the deal and the con refuses cause he now has a happy family but the services just won’t let go cause they are the typical arses we know them to be. And then there is the attractive and yet quirky female secret agent/partner who will end up falling in love with the protagonist. Really. It’s all as predictable as the hand of the government in a scam these days. Don’t go to watch a great plot line. If Nolan has been your deal across the days and if the mundane cuteness does not attract you. Stay away!

For the awh! So predictable scenes and the overused stereotype in movies I give it a 6 on 10 for the plot.

The Characters

A total stellar in this section. The movie has everything it takes to make a character rich. Everything that you want to form a sketch for a cartoon. The ethical inclinations of each person in the movie can well be extrapolated by the viewer into any circumstance that they can think of which really pays off for keeping the cinematic part of the movie uplifted especially after the predictable plot upset. And while we are talking about the characters, the minions steal the show every time they show even half of their body on screen. The makes have done a great job with them. Each and every move, expression and unique perspective is put into play. All that you can possible do is laugh off the edge of your seat as bubbles of sugar and love burst in your tummy with rainbows above your head. There is always this doubt as to why would a super villain invent such adorable and cute looking helpers. But trust me. When they aren’t on screen, you’ll literally miss them.
To add to their richness and diversity, Agnes’s character has been portrayed beautifully. The girl is an absolute angle, again as the stereotype of the youngest of the lot goes and yet, her dialogues set her apart from any other toddler seen on screen.
Gru still maintains the panache of a villain within a changed man. His class sustains, although they have shown his frustration to be a bit too not like him at one point, you can grant them that much.
As for the rest of them people, their work is only made easy.

For this amazing development, this one takes a 9 on 10 for characters.

The Screenplay

Again, a weak plotline does not leave much room for a screenplay to evolve within a predictable sequence. But then again, as there are upsets, there are bigger surprises. The best thing that this movie does is filling in the gaps. While you do not have to bother about thinking where the story is going, your mind has a lot of room left for analyzing the current scenes and that is where all the magic is happening. And quite so, that is why this movie is the one that just cannot have spoilers. Everything good about it is between the story lines. It is only when you go to the movie and let it engulf you, will you enjoy the comforts of comedy. So on this most rare of occasions, we have a movie that has fared badly on a plotline but amazing in screenplay comparatively.

I give it a 7.5 on 10 for all that it pushed for.

The Special Effects

Technology, Art and not to forget the expertise of the Artists who make these movies has grown way too much for us to say anything about the special effects. The CGI looks spectacularly well blend. The theme is maintained constant across various designs of shots in the movie and we do see reasonable amount of detail though not as much as one would expect from a great animation. But then the point is to keep you focused on the main deal and not let you squander off anywhere.

For the very integrity of design, story and the fabric of the animation I give it a 8.5 on 10 for this.

The Feels

This is where we sum it all up. I have never seen a movie so rich in content of humor. It lets you loose ends and forget worries while you laugh your rear end off in a plethora of humor. My 130 bucks worth of tickets could not have been more worthwhile for an animated movie. Everything just seemed to fall in place. They have taken the daily life and successfully transformed it into a visual stellar. Seldom do you find movies like these.

For making me happy after a long time, for keeping the head held high for animated movies and for helping people realize how important it is to never grow up, I rate the movie an overall (averaging scores in each section) 8 on 10.

That makes it move into our category of must watch before dying type of movies.

The First Day

2013-05-20T03:11:00.001-07:00

The first day of the internship and I am typing away this blog post. Yes, pretty much an amazing office with good people. My officer and mentor are both nice people but as of now, at lunch time I felt like that new kid in school who nobody will sit next to :P haha

The rest of the employees around here seem to have no idea whatsoever of what is going around. Most of the time all I can hear is marathi chatter and nothing else. But expectations are high. The feeling you get when you enter the ground floor of the building is exceptional :D The full corridor has models of drill ships and rigs made by Transocean. Pretty amazing I would say. Another feel good factor about this place is the fact that Starbucks is only a walk away, just in case I am feeling too tired :D

Anyways thats it for now. Not wanting to speculate or judge way too much on the first day, this is PT signing off.

Iron Man 3 The review that Just cant wait! ^_^

2013-04-27T12:29:00.001-07:00

Movie Name: Iron Man 3

Release Date: 26th April 2013

Genre: Action/Sci-Fi/Thriller

Director: Shane Black

Writers: Drew Pearce and Shane Black (screenplay), Stan Lee, Don Heck, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby (comic books)

Stars: Robert Downy Junior, Gwyneth Paltrow, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingslay

PS: Don’t worry, there aren't any spoilers :)

Yes! Finally! The exams have ended and there was no better way to celebrate it. They did not end on as high a note as I was expecting them to, but then, celebration isn't to be kept off like that. So yes! Shinjali booked the tickets for all the nine of us! So a huge shout out thanks to her for doing an excellent job! Because I actually made a "duh" face in front of a friend who was there in the line to get the tickets thinking that he could in the first place. So old school. Haha, Never mind. Lets get down to the good stuff! The Iron stuff that I was talking about. Excellent. The first words that I would say about the movie. Not because of the hype, no, not at all. But because of what I saw. So all the goodness of Iron man three crunched for you within a few words. Here we go! Enjoy the review!

The Intro

It starts on a note that you don’t really want an Iron man movie to start with. You see now, seriousness isn't exactly RDJs' style. But then, something's are pardoned when you are doing something that big. So well yes, it starts off with a narration but then goes into the same groovy Stark tone. The style of speech and the modulations are just perfect and I absolutely adore the man for that. But lets not get biased here, it could've been better. You might end up feeling a little superficial in the beginning and not really getting into the movie, but give it time. Let yourself sink in. It might take a little longer than you thought but then the whole point of coming to a movie is letting yourself get consumed in the aura. So let it do that. Let the intro pass. All the magic and good stuff is right around the corner.

I give the intro a 8/10 that extra point for trying something new.

The Plot

Not that fabulous. Not particularly that awesome. No. But then great nonetheless. Why am I so jumpy about my statements? Like I am dancing from one foot to the other? Because well, that’s what unbiased looks like! Haha getting over it, we were talking about the plot. Staged in something fairly sensible and relevant as well as appealing. Terrorism and a plot of the 'dark people' creating super soldiers is what you can expect when you get into the build up of the plot. It is very fluid. I have to say that the movie makers have done a wonderful job at making the movie watchable and feel-able. One thing that I don’t very much like about the Nolan movies, especially the Batman series is that there is distinct disconnect between parts of the story. Although that is a very well calculated and distinguished art that puts a lot of fabric to the story, but then, it might not allow you to enjoy it sometimes. Its just a different kind of cinema but then comparison was only because both of the cinemas have come down to super hero movies and more or less been equally successful, at least in the word of mouth and hype part. (TDK might have been a tad bit more on the hype side because of Nolan's popularity and given it had the content) So yes, the plot is lucid. It dawns upon you and it needs you to embrace it. This one of the plots that isn't so audacious about falling upon you. You just have to let it in. And you'll have fun. Trust me, this movie is all about having fun and all about the way RDJ puts the image of the 'Steel Soldier'. As you'd expect, there is a lot of 'SUIT' and a boat load of JARVIS (Just A Really Very Intelligent System) jokes.

Overall there is this lack of pure story. Whether the movie stands without its animation and start-cast just as a story is a huge question that I am not very willing to answer. I would give the plot a 6/10

The Characters

Yes! They are what make a movie! Especially one like this! Tony Stark is a stellar. Ben Kingsley is stunning as expected. Flawless performance by the two of these. Pepper and the 'girl-who-pretends-to-be-a-friend-but-is-with-the-bad-guys' have also done a great job. But then there was a lack of commitment to the role. That's just what I felt. You may have a totally different opinion and we still might both be right. (that’s what I love about diplomacy) The world is ready for only one change at a time. (why am I quoting the Prestige here?) The characters so hold their earlier feel. Its like going back home for a series lover. The same amount of weight and groove to the set up as it was earlier. Wonderful consistency with the characters and the overall feel of the movie. There isn't really anything wrong with the characters if you'd ask me. So they get a cheesy 8/10 for that one! (you don’t score a 10 until you do a Prestige or an ESOSM)

The Screenplay

Yes! This is one part I want to talk about. The screenplay is not distinct. It’s the same old formula. Good guys, bad guys, good guy kills bad guy, he's still not dead, good guy gets hit bad, we all start whining, but wait its not over! There is a super sexy and super exciting, super confusing nevertheless, and super whiplash (read kickass) end of the story. Tried and test formula across ages and populations. Nothing new to add to it. Only the part where he narrates, that's new for Iron ma, but I cant take it as a significant improvement. As the plot grow, so does the screenplay, but only to a threshold. It wont take you very far from what you could image. Some very good thinking has gone into the making and sequencing but not as much as you want. Not the "super duper shit I did not see that coming" kind of good. I wont spill beans here because for this kind of straightforward work, talking about it is as good as telling it all. So I'll just contain all the spoilers.

For all the punches and screen-shifts along with the impounding suits and flying around shoot sequences and so amazing work and placement of Montage sequences, I give it a 7.75 for screenplay!

The Specials!

Okay. Now. Take a deep breath, relax, don’t panic, don’t think too much, don’t move, and make sure you have your seat-belt on. Especially if you're watching it in I-Max 3D. There is some really, really amazing special effects work that has gone into it. The plot, the story and the overall scene marries with the effects really well. It all makes sense and all of the tweaking gadgets have a reason for being where they are. Everything placed and shot perfectly. As my friend Gayatri insisted (and I thank her or that) we waited back for the after credits scene and all of the rest of the theater had left (so dumb) which is where I noticed that they had a whole skydiving team! For a total geek material skydive that they have shown in the movie and they call it 'Barrel of Monkeys' Totally worth whatever tickets you have spent, this scene takes it all in. All that you can do is jump up and down and make sure you don’t die screaming! It is down right one of the coolest diving scenes you'd have seen till date!

Apart from that I'd like to dedicate a whole paragraph for the Suits! Damn, there are some really nice makes right there. Spell bounding special effects and absolutely amazing CGI. I bow down to whosoever thought it the way it is. The protest outside the Oscars is now totally justified and I am on their side. The people who make the imagination of the director look nothing but "REAL" deserve a standing ovation. I personally applaud all the efforts that have been put after this movie. Without the effects, it is nothing but a bunch of self obsessed people fighting for a bar of chocolate.

I give this a 9.5/10 (yes a 9.5! Not even Life of Pi got this!) simply because of the Integrity that the effects hold with the story which makes it so enjoyable.

The Feels

Now the Part where we sum it all up! Great experience! Beautiful movie, great dialogues, great entertainment. If you want to take your brains out, put them in your shelf out and then go watch it you are going to enjoy it! If you want to take your brains with you, you'll enjoy is even more! Haha! It is great for a good feel. Makes you scream for the flying suit and the way it jumps to his self obsessed (not to mentioned beautifully toned) hell of a body. Well planned, and nicely executed. The movie is great! No other words, just fabulous. If you have time, go watch it! There is nothing like it this weekend. Unless you're interested in what the Indian cinema has to offer with the sorry ass cleavage of some out of the scene heroines in a desperate movie (read Ek thi Daayan).

My overall rating? 8.5/10 or maybe 4.25/5 is more adaptable to your senses :) 4-1/2 stars are perfect for this flick!

Hanuman: The Faith and Beyond

2013-04-14T10:46:00.000-07:00

I am an atheist. A very pronounced one indeed and some believe it extremely Hippocratic of me to write on 'Hanuman' and his perception today. But then I am the little rebel everyone hates. On a more serious note, this article is more about the few faiths in Hinduism that are pure and undoubted. Faiths that aren't stained by personal gains, faiths that have purity and an essence of understanding. As much as I hate the misconception within them, I cannot help but applaud the extent of emotion and innocence that they bear.

The next thing that you might endure to ask will be, "why this all of a sudden?" and well, the answer lies in that fact that while I was introspecting upon the way I perceive my culture and the way I would preserve its integrity when it comes to presenting it to someone not from this background, I need to have a sound and unbiased understanding of what it stands for what what its original purpose is.

So let us start with the background of Hanuman for those of you who do not, or only partially know this India's first superhero! The story goes way back into the Satyug or the first Epoch of time in the Indian mythology. They tell me that there are 4 epochs in general and that there is a mass destruction after every fourth epoch ends (known as the Pralay: the destruction after the Kalyug). And the saints who have lived eons hence claim that there have been 27 pralays till date and so the cycle keeps going on the same way again and again and again. And so my loved ones, the concept of parallel universes is not so new to then Indian culture. Coming back to the point, the inception of Hanuman is said to be in the early Satyug when Ram was also born. Hanuman is said to be a Rudra avatar of Shiv or to be clearer, a vibrant incarnation of the god of destruction. Said to be born to accompany Ram in his voyage that was precast to enervate the evils of Ravan from the planet, it has a more interesting back-story of Parshads or the gatekeepers of Vishnu being cursed but that'll be too off track and i will talk about it some other day. For now, Hanuman was born to accompany Ram on a voyage. But our purpose here is not the story. Our purpose needs us to jump to the end of the Ramayan or the story of Ram's life. It was the time when peace had been established in the world and Ram had decided that his time had come and he must leave. Hanuman was the most devoted follower of Ram and the love they shared was beyond the scope of gauges we can understand. So when Ram declared to go to exile and then vanish, Hanuman lamented, begged him to stop, said he was incomplete without his lord. And he was right. The purpose of his birth was to serve Ram. And to be a savior of the weak. To be left like this would leave him without a goal to look at. That was the moment where he did what is today the pose of most of the pictures he is fabled in. He sat on one knee and tore apart his chest to show that Ram and Sita lived in his heart. As humbug as it may sound, it is deductive of love that we share in absolute devotion. To every human on planet, there is an entity that he wants, and needs more dearly than anything else that he has by any means. Now this is the time that we get to part of faith. Ram said to Hanuman, “while i go, you must live on, while i perish, you must continue to serve your purpose, a new purpose, the one of true humanity and true devotion." Hanuman stood baffled Not exactly understanding the nuances of what was to come, but very certain that it will be the to the best interests of the universe as a whole. “You shall live till eternity, and protect my disciples, live on for every single person who believes in the truth and material of god, live on for every form of life that has conscious of our presence." The words aren't exact, but the meaning more or less is.

That is the reason Hanuman has such a huge number of followers on this planet. There is more to the ape-man than a simple devotion. He has been left on the planet as proof of the god particle. He has been left on the planet as proof that when you have faith and when you have the willingness to accomplish something, forces as strong as that of the creator himself cannot stop you, for you are in all terms his masterpiece.

This stature that Ram left Hanuman with, was taken very seriously by the Hindu religion and it is, in its solemnity the most secular following ever built. Requiring no or very less maintenance the temples of Hanuman are always built in the most unexpected places and crevices where people are most probable to face fear. Somewhere in the middle of forests, on lonely roads, on twisting and winding paths to mountain tops, whenever there is fear, we have seen Hanuman standing there. Waiting. They say that if you have faith in him, he WILL come. If you believe he is there, he will be. And for all practical purposes, he does prove to be right. Now I won’t tread into superstition, but the fact that you believe in something so basic and so down to earth, makes you realize the ground realities of your actions. When you go ahead and take a stand of accepting your fears, you look at the bigger picture. You do not directly find strength, but you certainly find peace. That is what Hanuman is all about. Finding peace in the reality of situations. When you do that, when the holistic image is clear in front of you, there is a sense of new found responsibility. And that is where you get your strength from .The acute punch of all the power you could ever imagine, channeled through your veins into your muscles is all because now you know, what you are fighting for. The truth of the matter and the humanity that lies within it, that is all that life is about.

The Ramayan or the story of Ram has 7 chapters or 'kands'. The fifth chapter is called the 'sunderkand' or 'the beautiful-chapter'. It is all about the relationship and adventures that Ram and Hanuman had together and it is the most frequently chanted part of the whole scripture. What is worth noting is that today, whenever devotees plan and sit for a chanting of this chapter, there is custom of putting a miniature pillow somewhere near the idols they pray in front of. The more life-size-liking people use a whole chair kept empty and near the place of prayer with a direct view of the idol of Ram. The purpose is, people believe so, to keep a place for Hanuman to sit. Pretty amusing at first look. But we can do so much to understand the deeper reason to it. They believe that whenever there is a chant of Ram, He comes, to hear and to indulge in the bliss of being reunited to his lord in the purest form of love. And the more interesting part is that they believe in it and arrange for it in very regard. It is beautiful, how they have respect for feelings more than that for actions. The sentiments of Indian men and women are tampered with at every stage of life and the only reason none fight back is that they are too vulnerable to possibilities of the negative outcome of an event. We as people, fall prey to prayers only because we do not see our fears in clear vision. The Ape who was meant to show people their fears and push them to overcome is today referred to as an eradicator of fear. One who shall protect you and your family against all odds and all that you need to do is pray. Faith has a bent meaning of being an umbrella to rain. No one enjoys dancing in the face of showers anymore. The easy life, people think is available in the chapters of the epics, why search for it in hard work and perseverance when you can get it in chants and idiotic conservatism. Religion is a virtue; it is never a physical attribute. It can influence your mentality and psych but never your potential.

This is all ladies and gentlemen. Hanuman: The Faith and Beyond was only meant to question. You shall give me the answers :)

The Dictator- A Review that Just Had to Come!

2013-01-26T11:19:00.002-08:00

Lets Get down to it!

Once in a while there comes a movie that you havent heard of anywhere but you simply cannot resist the feeling of getting and watching it. I don’t really know how but it is a movie watcher's sixth sense. Yes, The Dictator is one of those amazing movies. The moment I was about to get it, I knew that it was going to be amazing. And boy did it turn out to be that way. Although I must tell you the fact the it is not every reviewer's delight. It has certain very peculiar sour spots that you feel like absolutely hating and skipping but then again if you come to think of it they have their own importance in the whole story. So let me take you through the experience. Here it is people

The Dictator- A review that just had to come!

The Intro

There are things in this world that are funny, then there are things that are amusing and then there are things that are absolutely hilarious. And when you are in utter indecision of what to say on top of rolling on your back laughing, there is the dictator comedy. From the very beginning, the movie is a satire about a middle eastern nation with an overly ambitious dictator. Although the movie is not quite about the dictator. It is more about the how the world sees one.

The Plot

Very old. That’s all you can say about the plot as such. The whole setting is so old school James Bond that you can tell the story. But then it had to be that way. The message that the movie is looking forward to convey is something totally dependent upon how much meaning the viewer can make out of the scenes shown. There are innumerable references to every kind of shitty international politics that has ever taken place anywhere across the world. One only needs to see it. The plot is beautifully well set. The locations and the technical aspects, although very few, have been very well handled. There is crispness in transitions, there is understanding of what is comfortable for the viewer and there is an even better understanding of how they can make the person on the other side of the screen go red with embarrassment. One word of caution, do not! Watch it with your parent/kids around.

The Characters

Again, this being a satire, there wasn't that much need for character depth as a general proper acting would suffice but the team has certainly taken a step forward towards understanding what was needed and imparted a considerable depth to the character of the dictator. There are points where you will be surprised by the way he acts and the way he carries. There are some, if you might call them, "mood swings" in the characters, but they somehow fit into the story very well and so at the end of it all it goes as a plus point to the movie.

The Screenplay

Now here is where the real gold lies. This is massively amazing screenplay. There is precision in what they show and at the same time there is an element of uncertainty that makes you want to sit and watch the movie unlike a lot of other such movies where you just don’t feel like sitting through the damn thing. More often than not, it is the humor that holds you down and yet, there are distinct events of brilliance and pin pointing blames to sections of the international politics that have openly dealt into the lobbying for their own profits. The dictator has a story that will make you laugh like nobody's business and at the same time tell you that the scene is not one where the nations of the world are holding hands sitting on the back of a truck being driven by the UN as they silently drive off into the sunset through the dry meadows.

The Feels

Now, this is the section I made for myself, just to give you a broader idea of the movie and yet avoiding to being way too general. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a pleasure for a Saturday evening and it was time well spent. Though I would definitely want some improvements in terms of view ability and how they could've deleted certain scenes and could've covered a much bigger audience base. But then maybe they wouldn’t have been able to give you the picture that they wanted. We would never know what it would've been otherwise. But if you don’t mind semi-porn, it will certainly serve your tastes very well.

I will give it a comfortable rating of 8.5/10.

So fetch your popcorn and make sure you keep water alongside cause you don’t really want to choke on the corn you see ;)

Premium Rush: Review - I know its late!

2012-12-09T12:03:00.000-08:00

Getting Started

A sloppy evening that had no intentions of a productive inspiration was passing by like any other and there had to be something that I could do to kill the damn thing. As would most of you suggest, and as i have developed a liking towards public opinion, I decided to watch one of the recently downloaded and not watched flick, "Premium Rush". Honestly speaking, I was expecting nothing but a desperate cycle rider, but honestly I got a lot more. A mixture of fun, frolic and a lot of running around, I here, present to you the review of Premium Rush, a movie about how to get hit multiple times in the traffic.

The Plot

Coming down to what the story is about, the plot is based on this graduate good looking hero who works for a delivery service. Now this isn't your run of the mill FED-EX services, these are premium level people who ride around on bicycles around the New York city in order to make things reach a place when they need to get there. Naturally, for the fun part of it, there are several shots of raging-with-fire cycle machinery and a race-like line in between and you have to give in to the fact that 98% of the movie is on the roads. It is about how the protagonist is asked to deliver this receipt which is apparently a part of an illegal money transfer chain and he gets into trouble (predictable) and then the rest of the plot is what you could easily judge.
For the predictability and the sheer over-usage of the 'transported on pedals' concept, I will give it a 2.5/5 for the plot-line.

The People

Equipped with a very good looking group of males, and a severely poor eye candy of females, the flick is not for those who want some visual relish. As far as how they act is concerned, it is very fair for a movie like this where expression is not playing a major part. The conversations are quick and to the point and the movie does not do crappy sequences of meticulous processes that some of the action lovers terribly hate and yet which is put into a majority of movies as it is a great cinematic tool. (for those of you who didn't get it, it is about how the camera constantly follows one person, no dialogues and meticulously shows his activities to give the viewer a perception of his state and status and mental conditions)
Not being very pesky about the whole thing, I would still give it a 3/5 for the people they used as everyone did a fair job.

The Effects

This is one of the smaller yet most award winning part. The effects that they have shown for the maps and the kind of animation that moves with each of them is something which is pure pleasure to watch at. The effects give you a gush of adrenalin and you are left in the state where you want to grab your bike and ride as you GPS takes you to 'Infinity and Beyond!'. The time animation is something that you'll like in particular and the color combinations and movements of the title and subtitle texts are also very cool. For the effects to look this smooth and good, and for avoiding their over-usage and for some very beautiful on bike and stunt shots and an awe inspiring picturization of amazing driving, I will give it a 4/5 for the effects it has used.

The Overall

Now comes the final showdown. The movie that seems to be made in the count of a few weeks without much spending except for permissions to shoot on roads seems to be surprisingly gripping and exciting. You have this really wonderful bubbly feeling from within to go and ride your good old bike one you're done with watching it. Though there are a few glitches technically and apart from that a few concepts like that of the flash mob in the end that seem to be a little under-used, you will always find yourself entertained and in a constant thought process. It does have very predictable loose ends, but you have to keep in mind that the movie dosen't really you much time to think about what is going to happen next.
Gaining on the wonderful story and loosing upon predictability with an edge in effects, this movie gets a 6.7/10 overall rating. In qualitative words, worth, the disk space in the good stuff folder, especially for people who grew up loving movies like 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar'.

So if you got a good free Saturday evening, go ahead and watch it, feast your eyes.!
That's all for this one folks! See you next time!

The Sign Painter

Life of Pi: A Ranted Review

2012-12-06T21:05:00.000-08:00

The much anticipated and much awaited was at last seen. The last day of exams and I was pretty sure that this was the right way to spice it up. 1645 hours at the PVR cinemas, the ambiance has never failed me and the richness of the place makes the experience way better. Coming down to the account of the movie, all was in high spirits, as long as it started. Beginning with Irfan Khan as the aged (somewhere in his 40s) Pi, the story starts with him cooking for an author who had come over to ask him about his story. Apparently there is this character called 'Mamaji' who had sent him there. Nevertheless, the next five minutes of the movie have been wonderfully thought about. The shots of a pool and beautiful raytracing and animation will leave you in awe (of course there is more to come). A very animated story if you'd ask me. It grips you, yes, and at the same time, it never leaves you. It tries putting you in awe, but if you'd ask me, you never really get there. The rest of the movie is about how Pi, our Mr Patel travels through the seas to get to his destiny after being shipwrecked, something that all of you already know about.

So this review is not about the story but rather about the movie and the type of cinema that it has brought to us.
I would first, before I officially begin, like to congratulate Ang Lee on this leap of courage for making this movie. It is a spectacle one shouldn't miss, especially in 3D and if possible, definately in IMAX. Moving forward, it is a beautiful concept. The emotions are alive, the expressions are rich, not in their sheer communication, but in their realism, their minimalism, and their exquisite carelessness of the fact that someone behind the fourth wall is trying to interpret them. That is one of the most beautiful things about the movie. In as few words as possible, it gives you stories, feelings and a plethora of confusions at the same time.

The story in isolation, with the screenplay and the script is splendid, I give it a 4/5 for that. Or maybe even a 4.5 if only they could stop stereotyping the naive thinking of Indian kids. Not all of us are that plain and we dont deserve to have a general impression of that. Nevertheless, it is a very pleasing sight to look at.

Coming down to the sort of cinema that we are looking at. Splendid again, beautiful, mystical. There are, sometimes, so many things going on, on the screen that you fight to take a look at every part of the frame before the shot changes. Beautiful animation, wonderful viewports. Getting a little technical, the kind of materials that they have used, the tracking algorithms and the meticulous thoughts that have been put into thinking what will go best is the most amazing thing about the animation. It comes close to the transformers on those grounds. PS: I am not stupid enough to put it next to the Avatar like some of those paid blokes in news channels have done, this is still not the movie of the decade.

The animation in isolation for its serenity, and integrity with the scene will steal your heart. It gets a 4.5/5 for the animation.

Now comes the final showdown, and I don't know how, but this movie drastically fails at an overall rating as far as my meter goes. Here's the point now, there is beautiful story, there is beautiful animation, but somewhere the story and the animation don't marry each other. The integrity and the reason for those beautiful and splendid scenes to be there just does not make sense. An island full of meal-cats now that might have some substance from visual sides, I was awestruck when I saw it on screen, leave alone the man who saw it himself, but then, what is it supposed to mean? The general and poor minded audience like myself fails to fathom the depth of that shot. Lighted up waters and things like that are certainly beautiful and unveiling as far as the mysteries of the pacific are concerned, but when you have already sensed the richness and meaning behind all the lines said, your mid just wont take in something that has no connection to the message at all.For the immense lack of simple connection between the beauty and the story and the negligence to end the story makes me keep wanting more, makes me keep saying it shouldn't end like this! Its the times when you've done so much and then you simply scream! No! No! you morons! stop doing this to a great movie! The tiger's departure makes no sense, Pi's restructuring of the story makes no sense at all in heaven or hell. I might be way too stupid to understand, bu then, I believe I am the general audience.Once again, congratulations to Ang Lee for trying to elevate the sense of cinema of the people of the world but I can only do so much to give it an overall 6/10 for the reasons I stated above.

But yes, please please do go and watch it, it is amazing cinema :)

The Sign Painter

The luxurious Journey

2012-10-15T07:48:00.001-07:00

Here I am off to the journey to Petrotech 2012
Boring as it may sound, people are trying to make it interesting, deliberation to amusement is all around and need I say the aura of the all time popular Indian railways is never less charming. The magnificent fragrance and the clean and beautiful ambience always inspire us to write good things about it. And I on the other hand like the boring lot am typing away on this slim little pod that Mr Jobs has been very generous to design and execute. Yes this is a pointless post and it is supposed to be a mere reminder to me in the future that I once had a trip this exciting :D
May the verbosity of the sarcastic prevail
Have a good evening people

Understanding Time 1.1 The Present and its Problems

2012-09-19T14:23:00.002-07:00

One more sleepless night and one more blog post, this time a little introspective, a bit off the track. Almost like all the others that I write, but this time, a little more interesting. This time, lets not keep it about me or the things around me. Lets not even keep it about things that matter to you or the rest of the world. Lets not drop opinions. Lets not pose ourselves and the forefathers of a future. Let us just be beings. Cause what philosophy from Mahabharata says is that in any dimension, there are three "Kaals" or times. The bhoot kaal or the past, the vartaman kaal or the present and the bhavishya kaal or the future. Togather, they are called the "Trikaal" or the three times. The lord says in the scripture that the one who has knowledge of all the three of them at the same time shall become a "Trikaal Gyaani" or the one who know of all three times, and hence shall become as powerful as Himself. In short, he gave humans a task to accomplish. To get to something. Now, we clearly aren't even close, and will probably never really get there. The reason why? Well, most of us fail upon:
#1 accepting the past
#2 Apprehending the present
#3 "Thinking" we know the future
Clearly, going this way, we aren't really going to get anywhere. The key is starting from the middle and moving sideways. That way we do get a little amount of control or at least the illusion of control over our life. So, start with the apprehension of the present. Start with the perfect understanding of the present. Now that again has a problem. Logically speaking, we cant live the present, just like we cant live the past or the future. We can only live their idea. Time is a tricky bitch, you see. If now is 2:30:58 then the iota of time before this time is past, an iota more is the future and the duration for which this will last is only how spread our resolution of time is. So in the time you take to understand the present, it has already turned into the past. And you cant even start with the future cause it wont really work you see. It hasn't all these years of exsistance really. So what do we do? How do we come to an understanding of the science behind the present? Clearly, if there is a solution, we can all agree to the fact that the solution is a bulk and quantum general explanation that can be hence applied to every moment so that when it comes, instead of spending time in processing it, we directly get down to execution.
Now, if there is a bulk explanation, it has to be applicable to every moment in time, whenever, wherever it happens and in whichever order it does. Now such an explanation and understanding would need a lot of thinking to do. First of all, we must find properties of time that are uniform all across, right from the Big Bang to the Big Crunch. I am not advocating any theory here. This is simply to express the extent. You might as well use your own reference. What property of time now, remains consistent all through?
Here we encounter hurdle number two for understanding the present. You cannot possibly gauge the parameters for a certain quantity and see what affects it by using it in the pretense of judgement in the first place. Our scope for understanding time, cannot be time. Just like you cannot ask a person questions about himself and judge his persona considering all of that to be perfectly true. You have to use an independent unbiased method. You have to maybe install cameras without their knowledge or some kinda crap to get away with.
So lets get this straight. I am asking you to understand time, from the very beginning of time, without taking time into consideration at all so that the observation is precise, or probably derive some kind of a correction we can apply on our observations so that they maybe converted to the real thing.
This here friends is the research part. The method of the experiment. Here is where the bounds of a theoretical philosopher lie. Here is where you need an experimental philosopher. Someone who can design an experiment around the theory to make it true. And I as a matter of fact am searching for that one person. Someone who can help me understand the present. A way to explain it, universally with perceptible variables and proper logic. Where observation is not a limitation and where the tools for explanation are beyond the reach of a common mind.
I am searching for that one method friends. Find it and you'll be 33% god. Find it and you'll probably become, the most powerful being. The being who, by the power of truth, while living, can conquer the universe.
V Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici

The Sign Painter

Performance Prediction Part 1.1 Understanding the Instantaneous GOR

2012-09-16T14:47:00.002-07:00

Deep into the night and I have nothing really to look forward to. It is turning out to be sleepless. Boring you tube videos cannot help me and I on the other hand am supposed to study and so will jump on to show you guys this post. Something reservoir engineering, is what I thought i would keep it as. Dont mind the grammatical errors in here. This isnt exactly an ideal time when you expect attentiveness.
So, drive mechanisms are the words for the day!
And as and when the formation of a secondary gas cap comes into picture, the material balance equation starts to dawdle. This mainly happens because of the term 'm'. There isnt much the equation can do about it you see. It has been pre-decided as the gas in place to the oil in place ratio. put straight into the equation. One reason why the MBE is so simple for most volumetric reservoirs is that the term 'm', takes with itself any of the pain that might try poke its nose into your estimation. But when your reservoir starts to roll, there aint gonna be much concerning for the simplicity of calculations. There the constancy of 'm' is put to test and as the more perceptive of you might have judged by now, it sort of collapses.
So, what do we do?!
Do away with the 'm'?
Hell no.!
That'll be a nightmare! that little thing has saved us pains all through when the reservoir was static and wasn't churning out black gold. We cant just let it go cause some bloke in a shirt says it wont work !
So we resorted to what was closest to 'm' all the time. Just round the corner, we have the good old GOR (gas oil ratio for the more dumb among you) more aptly represented by 'R'. But this isn't the solution really
R only provides a means to meaning. Now, our approach has become more dynamic. Now, the formation of a secondary gas cap seems more appreciable. But we cant even move until we don't have something dynamic in hand.
So, point #1 : we need a dynamic gas oil ratio.
Hold on. The problem dosent really end there. Even after we have a dynamically adjusted GOR, we are still not sure about the now constantly and rapidly changing saturation within the reservoir. And without a proper knowledge of the saturation, even a dynamic GOR wont be of much use. All that we have at hand though is the cumulative oil and gas production.
No wait, actually, its just the cumulative oil production. Bah! save yourself the pain of a cumulative gas production, you already have that little magical kitty named the dynamic (instantaneous) GOR.
So now, just before we step into reservoir performance, we need one more small tiny weeny thing.
An equation that gives a relationship between the saturation and the cumulative oil production
and we'll be all set to go.
So, point #2 : an equation that relates the saturation to cumulative oil production.

Let's start by trying to understand the Instantaneous GOR. Clearly as the name goes, it'll be the ratio between the rate of the total gas being produced at any time (SCF/day) to the rate of total oil being produced at the same point of time (STB/day). The units arent really that big a deal, you just need to keep the consistency right. You might just use the formation factors from the lab data and write the above in terms of RB/day. Dosent really matter.
Coming down to the equation. We are well aware of the instantaneous solution GOR which we very proudly every time jot down as Rs. What will differentiate this from the instantaneous GOR though will be the free gas flow rate and the free oil flow rate once the reservoir fluid gets to the surface.

So we can have GOR = Rs + (Qg/Qo)

where GOR = 'instantaneous GOR' SCF/STB
Rs is the gas solubility or the solution gas oil ratio or whatever you like to call it.
Qg is the free gas flow rate. Mind it, thats a rate as we needed a dynamic value and so the units are SCF/day.
Qo is the oil flow rate again naturally in STB/day.
So while the units to the inst. GOR essentially remain the same as before, we need to understand the fact very carefully that what it represents has completely changed.

Now, the total gas production rate can be given by

Qg = qg/bg + Qo*Rs

pretty simple to understand i suppose.
oh and qg is the gas production rate in RB/day.
The oil production rate with hence be
Qo = qo/Bo

So, our inst. GOR or simply R = [(qg/Bg) + QoRs]/qo/Bo

or R = qgBo/QoBg + Rs

You might as well go ahead and proclaim me to be stupid enough for using the extended form of Qo= qo/Bo when i was anyways going to write them togather in the final equation. But since Mr Ahmad did give a very reasonable explanation for that.
We can now comfortably use the Darcy's Law and write

qo = 2*pi*Ko*H*deltaP/ Vo*ln(Re/Rw)
The terms here have their usual meaning except for Vo which is supposed to look like the oil viscosity. Pardon me i am too lazy to import the symbols into the post as it is already 3:10 and i am starting to have a craving for icecream and pizza.
Nevermind, using a similar equation for the gas flow rate well, we can have the more comprehensive form of the inst. GOR as
R = KgVoBo/KoVgBg + Rs
(the V again for viscosity, i skipped the complicated multiplication. its too tedious to type, and its just baby terms cancelling out each other. Something you can very well understand just by looking at it. )

but woah!
we did the stupid thing once again. For the reservoir that we are trying to get a solution to, the presence of a gas cap seriousy affects the value of H, the height term as the permeability becomes relative to the wetting phase and so there are huge changes in values with the change of the non wetting fluid viscosity.

So you can jolly well go ahead and add the term of Hg and Ho as two different terms, as if it makes the thing look any prettier.
So that ends the discussion to the solution of the first hurdle towards performance prediction of reservoirs.
I will get back to you soon enough with the second point of the equations to saturation.
PS: thats when i get it.
Till then have a nice time.!

The Sign Painter

United States: 236 Not Out

2012-07-07T00:36:00.000-07:00

July 4

United States: 236 Not Out

Chidanand Rajghatta

Of course! The fourth of July and we were expecting an article on the independence of America. So here it is. Written by an Indian about the perception of an American, it is sort of hard to really rely upon in terms of judgments about the people of the states. But then of course, it did provide an outlook towards what a general population feels about their country. 236 years of independence and to them it still feels like yesterday. The author suggests that a majority of the population is bent upon thinking that their country is the best in the world and does not have any idea about the social evils that are poised to take the American society to a downfall. We may look at it as a lesson. The simple reason being that a lot of Indians today look at the states as a benchmark, many a times ignoring the social evils that prevail in that country. No doubt, they prevail here as well, but those are age old evils, as we have a history backed by a culture, theirs are rather urban cultural influences. The author does come about to say that some of the greatest inventions of the 21st century have been done in USA by their citizens, but there is also the vivid and known fact that their population is strongly multinational and they have a lot of diversity in terms of the people and their respective origins. This also gives them a very good advantage in terms of manpower skills. But we as a country on this day need to realize that me must go ahead and provide a more friendly environment for business establishment and expansion. We must harbor new thoughts and profess ethics that can promote development ground up. For even after the existence of all the social evils, the United States remain to be a global superpower. Not just rich, that would be an understatement, they are filthy rich! The defense budget of the United States of America remains to be more than the 26 other countries right behind it, 25 out of which are its allies. The country spends recklessly for its citizens and cities to make them more livable areas. The final learning that comes out of the article is that we need to set up a system that helps us grow the way they do, develop a market policy that allows stable commodity rates and helps people led a more consistent life in terms of living funds.

Misplaced Water Diplomacy-editorial review

2012-07-04T19:14:00.000-07:00

July 3

Misplaced Water Diplomacy

Brahma Chellaney

This is one of the very worked around articles about a simple yet very stupid mistakes that the nation is committing. Call him the right person placed at the wrong place, but Manmohan Singh has made some really big flaws in terms of the Indian foreign policies of natural resource sharing. In that particular sector, water is one of the most basic and essential commodity obtained exclusively out of rivers and rain waters. As the country faces constant deficit of water, we have landed some really compromising water treaties with our unthankful neighbors. Starting with the Indus River Treaty, India gave away more than 80% of the total Indus river water to Pakistan soon after being declared a republic, keeping to itself less that 20% of the total share even though the nation caters to a major section of the upstream branch of the river. Apart form that we have also shared 50% of the waters with Bangladesh derived from the common rivers according to the Teesta River Treaty despite of the fact the India plays a sole role in the upstream development of all the shared rivers. This immense generosity towards her neighbors has only invited trouble for the country. The diplomacy has never been backed with proper purpose. Pakistan, even after enjoying immense freedom of region and resources, has sought to takeover more from the nation. Ever since the war of 1965 when India had hardly recovered rom the 1961 war with China. They still stand to occupy a majority of Kashmir and are demanding more. It has become very crucial from the country now that it stops the charity spree as its own citizens are dying under the weight of the something along the lines of a deliberate inflation. The nation has also been providing billions of dollars of aid to the neighbors despite of the fact that its own citizens crib every night with only with the sky as the shelter. This may be backed up by the argument that the center is trying to maintain strategic ties with the surrounding nations but that infact has not been fruitful directly in any manner. We do not have any solid grounds of support for that fact, and to add to that misery, we have our past experiences to prove the point that being friendly to these nations (say China and Pakistan ) has never been of very much benefit to us and has always opened gateways towards troubles. It is very important for the country now to for a very strict and strong foreign policy towards its neighbors and act accordingly. There is also a constant necessity to make the water laws (which already are but not strictly followed) a state matter and not a federal matter. This will allow stronger governance at the border and a multilateral solution to every problem that we face in terms of resource sharing with our neighbors on international grounds. To sum it all up, it is high time that we may act greedy and shellfish for our own good.

Shift Course Now- Editorial Review

2012-07-04T17:11:00.002-07:00

July 2

Shift Course Now

Amidst much ado, we finally have one article that is pointing to wards a small yet significant change in the recent economic. With the resignation of Pranab Mukherjee, Manmohan Singh has taken up the post of the interim finance minister. The place that I felt he was always most suitable for. As we all know, he did form the policies for the globalization phase of India pot 1991 and that has always been his domain of expertise. Though the PM right now denies this, it is pretty clear that the ex-FM office and the current interim office did had a slightly different schools of thoughts. The current office is now looking forwards towards changing policies for FDI and making a lot of other changes, the absence of which has been repelling businesses and investors from putting in their money. A lot of changes have been put into place to bring the economy to stability. And possibly they might also be aiming at more flexible laws for FDI and some more changes in the oil and gas laws. Why that becomes critical for any government in the first place is explained by a simple example. India is the fourth largest consumer and fifth largest importer of oil and oil equivalent. Now the three companies that are ahead of us in consumption are USA, China and Japan in both the cases with Germany added in the latter. Now all of these are far better off than our own nation. The simple reason being the gas prices. The rates are so high in India compared to anywhere else in the developing and developed nations, that it becomes a big question of viability for the companies to set up their plants in India. So we are pretty sure that the interim office will surely be working upon the fuel prices as well and we will get a better picture soon. The current office is also probing into the coalition's sluggishness in implementing reforms and is asking them to act with greater agility. Not being an expert on economics myself, there isnt exactly much that I can share about this topic, but of course, we can rest assured that at least for a short time, a more able finanace minister has taken the spot.

The underage optimist-editorial review

2012-07-04T17:03:00.003-07:00

July 1

The Underage Optimist

By Chetan Bhagat

Again a person who I particularly dislike, and so choose to write for my own dose of morning humor. This article in particular dealt with the favoritism towards Modi over Rahul Gandhi (the congress in general) that has recently taken over the popularity scene of politics. The author takes the basis of an internet post he made asking for responses between the two posed as the next CM to India and a phenomenally huge number voted towards the snow white of Gujarat. Yes, I use that simile simply because he does match the profile. Every morning Sonia Gandhi wakes up, goes to the mirror and says, "Mirror mirror on the wall, who d'most favorite of em'all?"
for the last 10 years, the mirror has always said," you my queen". Yes the mirror of public ignorance, the mirror of irresponsible systems, the mirror of a state destined to economic anarchy in an absolutely unchecked state. Just as they say, 'the world suffers a lot not because of the violence of the bad people, but more because of the silence of the good people' , the only reason why all these years, the mirror on Sonia's wall never raised a voice over her rule. But off late, people have started questioning, for however low, the people of a country do posses, at least a minimal, threshold of tolerance. Below that, the first criticize, if not answered they then question, and if not responded to they revolt. We have been cursing the government since ages, then we critically questioned it in the past decade and when that too didn’t avail any answers, we go down to revolt as is clear from the last few years. Congress on every occasion has turned it's back towards the nation and so the people are having the most natural reaction. Even if a majority are not exactly in support of Modi, the fallback from congress has only one spot of salvation, and that is this public figure. So adapting him was quite natural. In the wake of such circumstances it was pretty certain that a national youth figure and once very proudly posed Rahul Gandhi is now finding it very difficult to gain public support even on cyber media at large which consists of people who are relatively more educated and well informed than a lot of others. To sum it up, the author has tried to point out how constant ignorance of a party resulted in the loss of popularity of their only remaining trustworthy candidate and how this helped the BJP to rise from ashes in the central government forming scenario.

Mahi and State Indifference

2012-07-03T18:18:00.002-07:00

June 30

Mahi and State Indifference

This article in true sense revokes the concept of contemporary media. It deals with how inactive the executive powers of this country are. Taking up the subject of the recent rescue of Mahi, a toddler stuck in a 700 ft. bore well, the author probes of how the district based executive authority are showing a lethargic attitude towards the protection of the people and enhancement of civic security. The acrticle further states that the district collector holds the right to protect the lives of the people of his region and has complete jurisdiction over collecting funds from the errand for the repairs or compensation purposes. This fact is not unheard by the collectors of today, but they simply choose to ignore it and move ahead. People in urban areas are more sniffy about their security and so such incidents do not very often happen in the urban areas, but still, we find numerous places and half-done municipal corporation jobs that can take a toll of anybody's life under a set of simplistic circumstances. This only tells us that not just the people who are ignorant, but those who take cautions as well are no longer safe. The simple reason being that the state executives simply refuse to take interest in this very basic safety operation for the people. Having talked about it, it becomes necessary now for the citizen himself to take a stand for his own rights in front of the government. It becomes necessary for us as 'the people' to make it clear to our executives that such ignorance which can cause even the slightest harm to the life of a citizen cannot be taken for granted.

Power Drive

2012-07-02T18:58:00.001-07:00

June 29

Power Drive

This article mainly talks about fighting the electricity shortages of the country. It quotes about how there has been an 8.8% rise in the power demand and only an 8.2% rise in production. It is quite clear , even to a normal mind that the power supply, and infact a consistent and ample power supply is necessary to the growth of the nation. This fact needs to be drastically addressed in our country. It is in fact quite clear that any sort of lousy attitude of the government in implementing policies can result in the country falling back by decades compared to its competitors. We have already been declared as the first fallen angle out of the four BRIC countries. This only is a sign that we should be more vigilant about the corner stones that make a country strong. Even more vigilance is required on the utilization of these corner stones towards efficient sustainable development. Some of the examples are, electricity being the most important, followed by transport, communication in terms of voice as well as high speed data, stronger legislature, a more powerful and determined executive, and a way more active judiciary. Coming back to the point of power, the government is already facing losses by providing free power to a lot of farmers as the political obligations of some of the leaders which is again taking toll on the revenue. The government is already on a loss of Rs. 45000 crore and looking at the current election scenario, It is poised for more. This all in all sums up to the fact that we need a more reasonable structure of subsidies if at all we do give them out. The power sector is certainly a very important part of the economy and must be addressed appropriately for a brighter future.

One Two Buckle Your Shoe - Book Review

2012-06-30T00:44:00.000-07:00

One two buckle your shoe is that book that I took up this week to suffice the mental craving of a stale mind. A book written Agatha Christie, its one in a quite a few you would pick up, just as most of her books are. A very vivid and thoughtful crime and mystery writer, Agatha picks up really small things that form the environment of a crime scene and uses them to form a bigger plot that makes the book, many a times, un-put-donwable. It is most amusing of how she acquired these skills as she was born dyslexic. More about the author and her writing style can of course be found in most of catalogues of such kinds.

Coming down to the book, this is one with Hercule Poiriot, a French private detective residing in London, as its protagonist. The books starts with the murder of Poiriot's dentist the very day that he had been to the dentist for a regular check up. The story overall covers a lot of aspects of the crime. The order here being the most important. The book is dated back to 1940's and so forensic science was naturally not that well developed. Putting constraints of time upon its character's death AC deals around the plot with her protagonist moving around whole of London first trying to judge the exact time of the death by interviewing various patients who had an appointment that day. While this interplay is in course, there is a second murder of a foreigner who had been to the dentist that very morning. The reason of death being the overdose of a particular drug used to make the nerves around a particular region of the mouth numb. Following this, one of the prime witnesses of the murder goes missing right after the first chapter. Three murders and not a clue who did them all. One woman missing and the stage was set for Poiriot to profess his intelligence.

The books looks very deeply into the environment that Poiriot experiences every time he enters a new region or in proximity of a witness. This elaborate description gives AC a lot of room to explore possibilities of how the murder could've been committed. There is yet another murder down the line which of course I shall not disclose, just in order to keep you waiting.

The crux of the book lies in the way AC has dealt with the plot and placement of each and every character and the way that she has dealt with the ideology and work ethics of her protagonist. It gives us a far more realistic personality and the sense of being right over his shoulder as all the things happen. The book is filled with numerous different twists and turns each time Poiriot hits a new incident. It is commendable how AC manages to put so many aspects into the book and yet it all finally fits in by the climax.

A classical climax as expected, Poiriot directly confronts the murderer and explains how he came to conclude so. A very typical and every so liked format of a mystery. Its requires the reader to be at par with the author at all times. There are no places where you may skip an event. It all falls in line by the end of the story and everything that at first seems to be random compilation of events forms a line up for the almost perfect crime.

Though one thing that goes against the book is the fact the other than Poiriot himself, none of the character are so vivid that you may be able to imagine them as a very strong personality. Something that quite few other authors pay great deal of attention to. Human emotions and behavior do not play a very significant role. Only to a certain extent. I would say the hasn’t been so very well simulated as it could have been. There are certain wild card characters that appear seldom in the book but have been cast with fine details. Mr Barnes of that matter has been put up interestingly.

The book can do far better of a general scale. Nevertheless, it certainly is a must read for every novice reader that wants a bit of thrill and some brain working in a relatively simplistic manner. The novel being British has a touch of typical British vocabulary that an Indian may find a tad more over the surface in the beginning, but a little make do does help making the process far more interesting.

There is as such no particular moral that one can derive out of the book as the most important piece of a crime story, the motive, has only been cleared in the ends and puts to question the fact of what is more important? The economic well being of a country or the lives of humans.

Not spilling any more beans, I end this review here by simply mentioning that if you're home for long and if time goes by hard, picking this one up will surely help you great deal. I shall be looking forward to reading more of her works.

Just a morning post

2012-06-28T20:10:00.001-07:00

And once again, i start mobile blogging
More like tweeting, only more subjective
Haha
Anyways, so, this seems to be a really awesome day to do some good work, finish that slimy book report hanging off my head, some 500 questions from topics like what not and if course, the picture of this day is none with a relaxed posture, rather you may expect things to be perplexed
Nevertheless we have a lot to look forward to and so keep track
Do good things and have an awesome day ahead..!!!
Buenos dias..:)

Killer Instincts- A complete Waste of Space

2012-06-28T06:01:00.002-07:00

June 28

Killer Instincts

Bachi Karkaria

This particular article was once again the death of classical print media and a complete hoax in terms of a good read. The writer, being a lady, has her own go about modernizing her writing style and has in that very glory, completely and irrevocably yet miraculously managed to pick up an already stupid topic and make it all the more idiotic.

Coming to what this is supposed to be, the article was about the raving competition between Delhi and Mumbai, two of the major news making cities of the nation. While people like you and me are drowning in the sea of a terribly disorganized economy, as the corruption in the state rises, as the politicians play cards to irreversibly jeopardize our future, this lady chooses to talk about how one city rages against the other in terms of how "cool" people are. Her vocabulary has been blessed by koalemos himself as she foolishly tries to incorporate multilingual terms into the passage and completely misses out on making a point, at least to me.

As much as this article was a waste of newspaper space, it also did tell us how much we need to improve the way we receive information about the country and the world. We need to improve the information channels in such a way that we can achieve the least manipulated first hand information. A lesser corrupt media would of course be a wonderful place to start with, accompanied by a more frequently updated and less adulterated news channel.

Not pondering more on this already over-discussed topic, I terminate it here, to your discretion. Read the article, and embrace a challenge. And come on, you after all bared with twilight, this is a piece of cake.

A New Era Blasts Off

2012-06-28T05:43:00.001-07:00

June 27

A New Era Blasts Off

Saswato Das

A new type of editorial I would say and certainly something that points towards a concept that has till date been thought of to be rather unrealistic.

We are talking about the privatization of some of the biggest enterprises of a country. Here in focus was space travel. The first dream of a lot of toddlers and the biggest to many who grow up to be in it. The recently launched Dragon-X unmanned spacecraft by a company called Space Explorations Technologies (Space-X) was the center of discussion in this editorial. Dragon-X recorded itself in history by becoming the first privately developed spacecraft to make a successful space expedition and return in full health. It certainly did markup to be the "blast off of a new era". And that metaphor has come by to be looked upon by a lot of other industries. Here, this particular event does not simply point towards the privatization of space travel, but it is also points out the great possibility that the current services that a government is providing to its people can be done better by private organizations and this therefore leaves more room for the government to provide us with the services that matter more.

The postal service is one big example. Private organizations can provide a huge leap in the postal industry with very viable and functional implications and can possible, according to my logic, do better than the current government operated post. To add to this, such industries can be monitored by the government in order to prevent and misuse of power by the companies. Apart from post there are several other industries that private companies can play a vital role in.

This not only provides better functionality for the people, and less burden on the government but this also helps in the upbringing of a nation that has state of the art technology available to the lowest section of the society.

We can get better cities, better postal services, better logistics, more integrated and accessible telecomm networks (part of which are already there but we lag to a great extent compared to the international market) and many more innovative ideas that may crop up in the process.

It therefore goes without saying that privatization of industries can definitely lead to a better governance of the people make the country a much more resourceful place.

Although it has to be considered, simultaneously with these applications, that the increase in the cost of day to day facilities does not crumble the common man. This of course in the first place requires a very stable economy which has a considerable overprice tolerance. As such, the current overprice tolerance of this economy is negligible, which makes us very vulnerable to a downfall, and which in fact is the case right now.

To sum it up, privatization is a very good idea to be implemented but we first need to strengthen the economy, give the rupee some back, give our citizens more room to accept a change.

Split Wide Open

2012-06-28T05:42:00.000-07:00

June 26

Split wide open

Neeraj Chowdhary

This article mainly dealt with the complicated political situation that arouse lately owing to the interplay of various small and big decisions taken by some of the most prominent leaders of the nation. The main focus was on two things, first were the presidential elections that have pitted Pranab Mukherjee and Sangama against each other and second was the tentative stand of CM Narendra Modi as the PM candidate for the upcoming lok sabha elections. Both of these topics were dealt in detail and described as to what all led to the present scenario.

One of the prime focus was on the poor integrity of the NDA and how vulnerable they are to the interests of the coalition parties. That in fact has remained to be the major concern with every type of coalition government India has ever had right from the time of establishment of the republic and it is one of the major concerns of today as to how each and every party that forms a coalition is only interested in fulfilling its own agenda. And the complication doesn't end here. Within the party itself, people, rather leaders, perceive the party policies in their own manner and discretion. This further leads to a variation in the demands of people within the party itself and this as we all know leads to cracks within a single party, a further division of manpower, further division of opinion and a further division of the credibility of that alliance.

This has been a major problems with most of the parties within the country which has also, to a great extent, hampered the performance and pace of performance of these parties.

All in all, under such circumstances, the more legible candidates fail to express their presence on the national podium and a more devouring lot of power playing politicians takes the stand of ripping the country off its integrity.

To sum up with, there is certainly a lot more room for (improvement would be the wrong word) reconstruction and for an integration of various different arenas and expressions such that we can make a government who is there for the people in distress, a government that is made by the people that form one of the world's biggest democracy, and a government that is made of the people that represent what the nation is poised for.