From shadows to the stars

Note: If you are intending to read/ in the process of reading Dan Brown's latest book "Inferno", I advise you not to go through this blog. Maybe about a month ago, I had written down "Fuel Shortage. Water Shortage. Food shortage, Electricity shortage. Land shortage." on a board in my room. It's obvious to anyone who is not a mimbo or a bimbo that there are just too many people on the earth and that there are not enough resources to support them. The evidence is right around us, everywhere. Living in India, it is even more painfully obvious than in some other countries, maybe. A couple of weeks ago, Dan Brown's latest novel "Inferno" was released and I got my hands on it, ASAP. I was rather pleased to see that it dealt with overpopulation. There were some staggering revelations in the book and I now fully appreciated the serious nature of this issue. In the book, the antagonist is a genetic scientist who, like me, feels that humani

Time travel is not only one of the most intriguing and curious concepts that humans have come across, but also one of the most complicated and confusing. I first came across the concept in H.G Wells' "The Time Machine", a science fiction novel. Since then, I have read various other books and watched movies that deal with time travel. I remain just as much, if not more, curious about time travel. Anyone who has read up a little on time travel and other related issues will surely have come across some of the paradoxes that arise from this concept. One of the most common one is the "Grandfather Paradox". Let me explain this to you. Suppose you travel back in time to a year when your grandfather was still a young man, before he he has had kids (your father or mother, uncles, aunts). Now let us say that you shoot your grandfather and he dies. Because he has not yet had kids, it would not be possible for your father or mother to exist and therefore, you wouldn&

When I say a printer, what comes to mind is a device that prints stuff on a paper. But recently, using something called a 3D printer, scientists at Princeton "printed" a bionic ear. i.e a working ear piece that anyone can use (and supposedly, it works even better than a "real" ear). Calling it a printer makes it hard to imagine how you can "print" an ear. It's more like a mini-factory and you can programme it to manufacture anything, provided you know how to do so. Just imagine the endless possibilities this technology offers. It's quite conceivable that we will start 3D printing every organ, not only human, but of that of every living being. This of course would be the logical thing to do. To help people and make the world better. But who wants that? What is the first thing that Americans do when they get a hold of this 3D printer? That's right, they print a gun. It's not good enough that you can buy a gun without a license, pe

I hope that this will be a recurring gag, like the "Random Observations". Basically, this blog will be a list of rules that I will make up if I ever become a dictator. 1) Death penalty to anyone exposing their butt cracks. 2) To anyone honking excessively and/ or unnecessarily, death by exhaust fumes. 3) Any people participating in processions, functions, etc that hinder traffic will be executed and buried under the roads. 4) No eccentric hairstyles. Spikes? Okay. Anything more, you'll be tonsured for the rest of your life. Donald Trump will be the first to be tonsured. 5) No hip hop or rap music.