CERN has finally announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September.
Anyone who has read angels and demons will probably remember the LHC... it is that big big machine that is in the breaking news right now.... it is also the reason for the post....
before i go on further.. i'll give you an idea of wht the LHC is meant to do... no.. i wont write it... why should i? when wiki has sone it for me? its CtrlC-CtrlV all the way....
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelorator complex, intended to collide opposing beams of protons. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model,the current theoretical picture for particle physics. The LHC was built by the European Organisatin for Nuclear Research(CERN huh?), and lies under the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva. Basically it will create a collision b/w particles in order to find out if smaller particles exist... these smaller particles might be antimatter... which you can look up.. i'm not going into tht now...
anyway.... when matter meets antimatter they both vanish and produce energy... (anyone remm e=mc2?) anyway... so this monster of a machine is going to be fired up tomm..
but news ppl in india (and also abroad if the internet is any indication...) are already fired up abt there being a possible doomsday tomm... they seem to think that this thing is going to misfire and tht the earth is going to open up and swallow us all and will become a blackhole.... india tv has gone to the extent of saying tht a "mahadanav" is going to come out of the earth as it tears open and swallow us all..... what a load of shit....
{a} i think 1800 scientists who are working on this wouldve thot of every possibility of how things could go wrong taken care of things...
{b} even if some unforseen calamity happens, why would you want to predict it and scare ppl now? if wht you're saying is true then arent we all dying tomm? then whts to fear? does it make any difference? no.... so stop...
anyway.... if i dont die tomm... see you next post...
Ciao!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Jaya Vs Raj? Or is this just sheer loss of common sense?
Jaya Bachchan, at the music launch of Drona said tht the movie was in hindi and hence tht hindi should be spoken... she then added tht since they are from up they should speak hindi...
so wht is wrong in this? beats me... ask raj thackeray... raj thackeray went on record to say tht jaya bachchan saying tht was an insult to the marathi manoos...(manoos meaning man... or aadmi if you please....)
excuse me... i may not be well known but.. what a load of crap.... i'm half marathi and i dint find wht she said even a wee bit offensive.... so wht if she wanted hindi to be spoken in a function in mumbai... its her city too... who the hell is anyone to say anything abt it?
language is supposed to be a medium of communication... so where does the marathi vs hindi part come in?
we live in a country that propagates atithi devo bhava... meaning guest is like god... so more often than not, we go out of our way to make sure that anyone who comes home is made to feel welcome.. so how come this rule does not apply to bigger "homes"? if raj thackeray(i mention raj thackeray co he made the recent remarks but isnt this applicable to most of us?) considers maharashtra to be home, and anyone who's not marathi to be an outsider, then shouldnt he be welcoming them instead of shooing them out? why this shor sharaaba abt marathi? our country is a multilingual country and is counsidered a whole... not just states meighbouring each other,, the same rules apply to every state, to every city, to every town.... so why distinguish?
i stayed in hyderabad for 12 yrs... and i refused to speak the language..... many of those who know me find this very odd... i can understand telugu, read telugu, write telugu(to a certain extent) so why dont i speak it? ive lived there long enough to have picked it up....
fact is... i dont speak telugu coz i dont want to.... there is a certain dislike for it... why?
because when i moved there, it was difficult to understand anything... noone made an effort... ppl continue to talk in telugu regardless of whether the other person can understand or not... as a 10 yr old in such a circumstance, it is easy to develop dislike something.. and so i did... as i grew up, i realised tht it is not just the kids... everyone does this... the minute ppl know you dont speak a language they try and confuse you...
why do i hv to learn a new language to fit in? its not like i dint try... i distinctly remm trying to learn to speak and being laughed at... this put me off forever... when you go to an english medium school and are proud of it and we have a language in which we can speak then why do i hv to learn a new language? i dont hv anything against learning the language mind you... its just the principle.... did the other person ever say... oh you're marathi... why dont you teach me some? yes they did... you know who did? my friends who were non telugu.... telugus... almost all of them, are extremely clannish in behavior and will treat you like an outsider no matter what....(i hv met some who are very very sweet tho....)
i know wht it felt like to be an outsider all the time... its not nice.... and i wouldnt want to face it again....
now tht i'm back in bbay, it feels nice to be in a place where you're not an outsider... but wht do i see? tht ppl are treating others like they are outsiders... how many of us make an effort to accomodate an outsider in our midst? is saying something secretive or nasty or just plain gossip so necessary tht it cant wait for sometime? why do we endorse a person's outsider status using language? why not just forget the language and make new friends? why remind someone tht he or she is not at home? and wht abt the ppl who are not marathi but consider bbay to be their home? how can anyone call them outsiders? bbay is considered to be a melting pot of cultures.... one tht is a microcosm of all of india... every community in india has a representative here.... so why spoil it? why not focus on the niceness in us all? why not be welcoming? why do you want to criticise all the time? is it so difficult to praise someone? or do you want to be clannish,(sorry couldnt find a better word here....) and then finally end up disintegrating this melting pot of ours?
so wht is wrong in this? beats me... ask raj thackeray... raj thackeray went on record to say tht jaya bachchan saying tht was an insult to the marathi manoos...(manoos meaning man... or aadmi if you please....)
excuse me... i may not be well known but.. what a load of crap.... i'm half marathi and i dint find wht she said even a wee bit offensive.... so wht if she wanted hindi to be spoken in a function in mumbai... its her city too... who the hell is anyone to say anything abt it?
language is supposed to be a medium of communication... so where does the marathi vs hindi part come in?
we live in a country that propagates atithi devo bhava... meaning guest is like god... so more often than not, we go out of our way to make sure that anyone who comes home is made to feel welcome.. so how come this rule does not apply to bigger "homes"? if raj thackeray(i mention raj thackeray co he made the recent remarks but isnt this applicable to most of us?) considers maharashtra to be home, and anyone who's not marathi to be an outsider, then shouldnt he be welcoming them instead of shooing them out? why this shor sharaaba abt marathi? our country is a multilingual country and is counsidered a whole... not just states meighbouring each other,, the same rules apply to every state, to every city, to every town.... so why distinguish?
i stayed in hyderabad for 12 yrs... and i refused to speak the language..... many of those who know me find this very odd... i can understand telugu, read telugu, write telugu(to a certain extent) so why dont i speak it? ive lived there long enough to have picked it up....
fact is... i dont speak telugu coz i dont want to.... there is a certain dislike for it... why?
because when i moved there, it was difficult to understand anything... noone made an effort... ppl continue to talk in telugu regardless of whether the other person can understand or not... as a 10 yr old in such a circumstance, it is easy to develop dislike something.. and so i did... as i grew up, i realised tht it is not just the kids... everyone does this... the minute ppl know you dont speak a language they try and confuse you...
why do i hv to learn a new language to fit in? its not like i dint try... i distinctly remm trying to learn to speak and being laughed at... this put me off forever... when you go to an english medium school and are proud of it and we have a language in which we can speak then why do i hv to learn a new language? i dont hv anything against learning the language mind you... its just the principle.... did the other person ever say... oh you're marathi... why dont you teach me some? yes they did... you know who did? my friends who were non telugu.... telugus... almost all of them, are extremely clannish in behavior and will treat you like an outsider no matter what....(i hv met some who are very very sweet tho....)
i know wht it felt like to be an outsider all the time... its not nice.... and i wouldnt want to face it again....
now tht i'm back in bbay, it feels nice to be in a place where you're not an outsider... but wht do i see? tht ppl are treating others like they are outsiders... how many of us make an effort to accomodate an outsider in our midst? is saying something secretive or nasty or just plain gossip so necessary tht it cant wait for sometime? why do we endorse a person's outsider status using language? why not just forget the language and make new friends? why remind someone tht he or she is not at home? and wht abt the ppl who are not marathi but consider bbay to be their home? how can anyone call them outsiders? bbay is considered to be a melting pot of cultures.... one tht is a microcosm of all of india... every community in india has a representative here.... so why spoil it? why not focus on the niceness in us all? why not be welcoming? why do you want to criticise all the time? is it so difficult to praise someone? or do you want to be clannish,(sorry couldnt find a better word here....) and then finally end up disintegrating this melting pot of ours?
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Parting is such sweet sorrow....
wellll.... the time to leave seems a lot closer when you are actually involved in the work going on.... not that there is any sort of labour involved, neither physical, nor mental... but then the thought of leaving behind a place that has been a part of your life is difficult... it might be easier if you have made the choice to move, but when it is unexpected, the idea is difficult to get used to... it is more difficult to digest if you dint like the where you are in the first place, but you have a lotta memories associated with it none-the-less... ( or is it nonetheless??) whatever...
i will always have very fond memories of hyd, no matter how much i used to dislike it... i guess going out so much wid akshay has added to the emotional/sentimental value of places here....
i think i'm straying from the topic... but yeah.... i will miss hyd... 12 years is a long long part of anyones life... life is a little laidback here.... and moving to bbay, where everything is at such a breakneck speed is going to be .....umm.... maybe challenging is the word i'm looking for...
leaving just when you get used to a place, you know the in and out of the city, you know which bus goes where, which restaurant is good, where you can go to just hang out, is tough... but is made easier by the knowledge that all my friends are moving out to wherever as well.... and that someday, this had to happen.... (i was thinking abt an analogy that had to do wid dandelions in the breeze but (a) it would have been too corny, and (b) i've never actually seen dandelions in the breeze... so there you go... no analogy...)
also, it is extremely comforting to know that i will be moving back to bombay (i know it is mumbai but whatever....) it is a place where i never feel like an outsider no matter what.... i guess noone does... it is a place like that.... and having stayed there earlier and being a regular visitor has not dulled the charm one bit... and then there are people who are just fr me.... or maybe all of us to move back, so much so that they are more excited abt us coming than we are...
anyway... before i bore myself too much, i think i should sign off now...
ciao!
i will always have very fond memories of hyd, no matter how much i used to dislike it... i guess going out so much wid akshay has added to the emotional/sentimental value of places here....
i think i'm straying from the topic... but yeah.... i will miss hyd... 12 years is a long long part of anyones life... life is a little laidback here.... and moving to bbay, where everything is at such a breakneck speed is going to be .....umm.... maybe challenging is the word i'm looking for...
leaving just when you get used to a place, you know the in and out of the city, you know which bus goes where, which restaurant is good, where you can go to just hang out, is tough... but is made easier by the knowledge that all my friends are moving out to wherever as well.... and that someday, this had to happen.... (i was thinking abt an analogy that had to do wid dandelions in the breeze but (a) it would have been too corny, and (b) i've never actually seen dandelions in the breeze... so there you go... no analogy...)
also, it is extremely comforting to know that i will be moving back to bombay (i know it is mumbai but whatever....) it is a place where i never feel like an outsider no matter what.... i guess noone does... it is a place like that.... and having stayed there earlier and being a regular visitor has not dulled the charm one bit... and then there are people who are just fr me.... or maybe all of us to move back, so much so that they are more excited abt us coming than we are...
anyway... before i bore myself too much, i think i should sign off now...
ciao!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Hey there,
this blog is a result of a lot of thinking on my part abt whether or not i should blog... sitting online everyday just to tell the world wht i had for breakfast did not appeal to me at all... but then, i'm so full of thoughts that i'd like to put down somewhere, to share, that i had to start one...
maybe this was an impulsive decision that i'll regret someday... but i'm sure thats not gonna happen anytime soon.... well anyway.... hope you enjoy the ride.... buckle up!!
Devika..
P.S. This post did not have ANY history whatsoever abt me coz i the only ppl i intend to allow onto this page are ppl who know me... if you dont.... hard luck!
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