Hi Folks,
I was occupied with some serious work and therefore did not have the time to spare for my post. But here I come again..... The gala time of IPL came to an end last week. As the probes go on deeper, it definitely looks very shady and murkier. Let us now leave IPL and move on to the next big thing ie T20 world cup. I watched the opening game between the Lankans and Kiwis. The competition was more intense and the game lived up to the billing of a world cup. That augers well for the tournament and also for cricket. Unlike IPL, where almost every other ball was dispatched to the boundary, T20 World Cup will feature low scores, tight finishes and exciting games. Good luck to all the teams and special wishes to the men in blue.
moving on from T20 to Vision 2020.....
Wings of fire is one of my most favorite books. It is an autobiography of Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam. He is a visionary who is a role model for all of us. He is one of the few people who truly believes that India can become a developed country by 2020. He is convinced that Youth have the power in them to change the destiny of the country. He therefore spends all his time to inspire the youth to come forward and rise to the occasion. Even at this age (he is closing in on 80) he is extremely busy working towards his vision 2020. I have seen him a few times when he came to my college and addressed all of us. He was a Bharat Ratna, President of the country, a scientist par excellence , philosopher, spiritual seeker, poet, musician.......What more can you expect. In fact, he was more than all of these. He was so simple and humble. I am reminded of a dialogue in a movie by name Bawarchi. The protagonist says " It is so simple to be happy, but it is so difficult to be simple."
Dr.Kalam with all these heavy and hefty tags was extremely simple. I would like to quote a few lines from the book "wings of fire".
"Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfill a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in this life is through His help, and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues, and when I am paying my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. All these rockets and missiles are His work through a small person by name Kalam, in order to tell the several million mass of India, to never feel small or helpless. We are all born with a divine fire in us. Our efforts should be to give wings to this fire and fill the world with the glow of its goodness."
These lines are some of my favorite lines and whenever I read these lines I feel very close and connected to God. These lines also throw some light at Dr.Kalam's personality. I can actually go on and on, but I realize that Dr.Kalam is no stranger and is obviously everyone's Hero. So let us all sit back and question ourselves, What am I doing towards Vision 2020?
The answer in most cases would be "nothing".
Never mind..... It is never too late. Let us all inquire within with all sincerity and analyze our actions. Let us all work constructively towards this and make Dr. APJ's vision as our mission.
May God bless us all.
Signing off for now,
KK
Friday, April 30, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Hi Folks,
India's GSLV-D3 powered by cryogenic engine developed by our scientists failed in its maiden mission as the rocket carrying a communication satellite deviated from its path and went out of control. It will take another year to fix and schedule the next launching. It was 15-18 years of hard and dedicated work by the ISRO scientists. This sort of unfortunate events often occur, but I am sure our scientists will bounce back and make it happen in the future.
I was not expecting a failure but the result did not surprise me as these unfortunate events always happen in R&D. But, I was extremely disappointed by the media for not giving due attention to such an important event in the history of space research in India. Media was very happy and busy covering the more important issues like Sania-Shoaib wedding, IPL-Modi-Tharoor rifts and scams etc etc. An Amitabh, Aamir and Shahrukh movie will be given all the limelight and details about how the movie was made, costumes and sets would be discussed for hours well before the movie would be released. The attention given to a very trivial issue such as a movie boggles my mind.
Here, we have a technology developed by our own people spending 18 years of intense research to put our country in the top league and our responsible media gloriously ignores the event and is busy giving us the details about the Mehendi on Sania's hand. God bless us all..........
ISRO has spent Rs 330 crore on this project till date. Some people might argue that the money has gone down the drain. Well, I think this money was used for a constructive cause and was definitely not a waste. Money was always pocketed by our great netas and babus as and when they wanted. Some all-time great political scandals are here :
Bofors Scandal ( 1990) worth 400 million Rs, Hawala Scandal (1993) worth 18 million dollars, Fodder Scandal (1996) worth 950 crores and more recently Madhu Koda scam worth 4000 crores .
Here we have a serious case where money was spent on a very useful and productive invention and I am sure we will all reap the benefits from this endeavor in the future.
There is no point in blaming the media alone, we all have to share the blame with it. We encourage media to glorify irrelevant and insignificant happenings while ignoring the more useful and important events. Hope we all will see the right things in the right perspective.
I am sure that ISRO will achieve the launching of satellite using our own cryogenic technology
and make all of us proud. Wishing them all the good luck and signing off for now....
KK
India's GSLV-D3 powered by cryogenic engine developed by our scientists failed in its maiden mission as the rocket carrying a communication satellite deviated from its path and went out of control. It will take another year to fix and schedule the next launching. It was 15-18 years of hard and dedicated work by the ISRO scientists. This sort of unfortunate events often occur, but I am sure our scientists will bounce back and make it happen in the future.
I was not expecting a failure but the result did not surprise me as these unfortunate events always happen in R&D. But, I was extremely disappointed by the media for not giving due attention to such an important event in the history of space research in India. Media was very happy and busy covering the more important issues like Sania-Shoaib wedding, IPL-Modi-Tharoor rifts and scams etc etc. An Amitabh, Aamir and Shahrukh movie will be given all the limelight and details about how the movie was made, costumes and sets would be discussed for hours well before the movie would be released. The attention given to a very trivial issue such as a movie boggles my mind.
Here, we have a technology developed by our own people spending 18 years of intense research to put our country in the top league and our responsible media gloriously ignores the event and is busy giving us the details about the Mehendi on Sania's hand. God bless us all..........
ISRO has spent Rs 330 crore on this project till date. Some people might argue that the money has gone down the drain. Well, I think this money was used for a constructive cause and was definitely not a waste. Money was always pocketed by our great netas and babus as and when they wanted. Some all-time great political scandals are here :
Bofors Scandal ( 1990) worth 400 million Rs, Hawala Scandal (1993) worth 18 million dollars, Fodder Scandal (1996) worth 950 crores and more recently Madhu Koda scam worth 4000 crores .
Here we have a serious case where money was spent on a very useful and productive invention and I am sure we will all reap the benefits from this endeavor in the future.
There is no point in blaming the media alone, we all have to share the blame with it. We encourage media to glorify irrelevant and insignificant happenings while ignoring the more useful and important events. Hope we all will see the right things in the right perspective.
I am sure that ISRO will achieve the launching of satellite using our own cryogenic technology
and make all of us proud. Wishing them all the good luck and signing off for now....
KK
Monday, April 12, 2010
Hi Folks,
The spring season is over and we are all set for a brutal summer. I just hope it would be bearable. April 15 does not remind us of someone special or something spectacular, but from now on, it would be remembered as an important landmark that would be reached on Thursday, 15 April, 2010. You all guessed it right.....ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) will be launching its Geosynchronous Sattelite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) into space. GSLV-D3 will inject the satellite GSAT-4 into the geostationary orbit at a height of 36,000 km over the equator. This will be the 19th GSLV built by ISRO. So what is so special about it this time?
Scientists and engineers of ISRO will be flight testing Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS) which is developed by them through intensive research over the past 15 years. This project took off when India was denied the CUS technology by the developed countries.
With CUS in it's kit, India would join the elite club of five nations namely US, Russia, Japan, China and Isreal which have all mastered the complicated technology of Cryogenic engine. Until now ISRO was using Russian made cryogenic engine but due to the technology denial policy of the US, Russia had to stop giving us the cryogenic technology. Thus, the project to build our own cryogenic engine was started in 1996. Hats off to the team of scientists and all other people involved in achieving this stupendous task. This is really a proud moment for all of us. Hope the technology succeeds so that we can use it to launch all our future satellites.
Signing off for now,
KK
The spring season is over and we are all set for a brutal summer. I just hope it would be bearable. April 15 does not remind us of someone special or something spectacular, but from now on, it would be remembered as an important landmark that would be reached on Thursday, 15 April, 2010. You all guessed it right.....ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) will be launching its Geosynchronous Sattelite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) into space. GSLV-D3 will inject the satellite GSAT-4 into the geostationary orbit at a height of 36,000 km over the equator. This will be the 19th GSLV built by ISRO. So what is so special about it this time?
Scientists and engineers of ISRO will be flight testing Cryogenic Upper Stage (CUS) which is developed by them through intensive research over the past 15 years. This project took off when India was denied the CUS technology by the developed countries.
With CUS in it's kit, India would join the elite club of five nations namely US, Russia, Japan, China and Isreal which have all mastered the complicated technology of Cryogenic engine. Until now ISRO was using Russian made cryogenic engine but due to the technology denial policy of the US, Russia had to stop giving us the cryogenic technology. Thus, the project to build our own cryogenic engine was started in 1996. Hats off to the team of scientists and all other people involved in achieving this stupendous task. This is really a proud moment for all of us. Hope the technology succeeds so that we can use it to launch all our future satellites.
Signing off for now,
KK
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Hi Folks,
There are days when I accomplish what I want to and then there are days when I just do nothing. I have this peculiar tendency to oscillate from extremely lazy to extremely active zone. I never gave it a lot of thought but I guess it is characteristic of a typical Libran. During one of these lazy days of mine, I decided to watch a movie which is my most favorite pastime.
I watched Well done Abba and I realized that I was actually smiling when the movie ended. The movie is set in a rural background and boasted no big names. There were no expensive sets, no romantic locales for picturing songs, no choreographers, no graphics, no stunts, simple costumes.......but not once did I take a break. Then I checked the details and found out that the directorial credit was by the Legendary Shyam Benegal. Then everything fell in place.
When the Master delivers his goods, all we have to do is to take a bow.
Bomman Irani and Minisha Lamba have joined his usual team of actors for this political satire. The movie is definitely slow to pick up, but once it picks up you are already hooked to it.
Benegal is always perfect with his casting. Go back to the days of Ankur, Nishanth, Manthan, Mandi and you realize that all his characters were perfectly casted. In here we have a very moving and strong performances by Bomman and party.
Benegal's movies always represent the grim realities of the social, cultural and political backgrounds of India, be it an oppressive landlord, corrupt official, subjugated tribal women, selfish politician or a bonded labor. The situations he portrays in his movies are all true and in fact taken for granted by all of us.
If you guys want to spend your precious time in a decent way, I will recommend you all to watch Well done abba. In fact if you have time please do watch all his movies. Each one of them is a masterpiece. He belongs to a rare breed of directors who gives value and respect to the audience and truly believes in delivering message oriented meaningful cinema. Hats off to Benegal saab.
Signing off for now,
KK
There are days when I accomplish what I want to and then there are days when I just do nothing. I have this peculiar tendency to oscillate from extremely lazy to extremely active zone. I never gave it a lot of thought but I guess it is characteristic of a typical Libran. During one of these lazy days of mine, I decided to watch a movie which is my most favorite pastime.
I watched Well done Abba and I realized that I was actually smiling when the movie ended. The movie is set in a rural background and boasted no big names. There were no expensive sets, no romantic locales for picturing songs, no choreographers, no graphics, no stunts, simple costumes.......but not once did I take a break. Then I checked the details and found out that the directorial credit was by the Legendary Shyam Benegal. Then everything fell in place.
When the Master delivers his goods, all we have to do is to take a bow.
Bomman Irani and Minisha Lamba have joined his usual team of actors for this political satire. The movie is definitely slow to pick up, but once it picks up you are already hooked to it.
Benegal is always perfect with his casting. Go back to the days of Ankur, Nishanth, Manthan, Mandi and you realize that all his characters were perfectly casted. In here we have a very moving and strong performances by Bomman and party.
Benegal's movies always represent the grim realities of the social, cultural and political backgrounds of India, be it an oppressive landlord, corrupt official, subjugated tribal women, selfish politician or a bonded labor. The situations he portrays in his movies are all true and in fact taken for granted by all of us.
If you guys want to spend your precious time in a decent way, I will recommend you all to watch Well done abba. In fact if you have time please do watch all his movies. Each one of them is a masterpiece. He belongs to a rare breed of directors who gives value and respect to the audience and truly believes in delivering message oriented meaningful cinema. Hats off to Benegal saab.
Signing off for now,
KK
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