The Genius

If my brain lacked a particular small wrinkle (the parietal operculum) that most people have and if other regions on each side of my brain were a bit enlarged --- the inferior parietal lobes, I would have become the Albert Einstein of this century. But that's difficult to materialise.( accepted reality )

Albert Einstein - the true legend whose five papers that he submitted 100 years ago (miracle year), revolutionised the physics which we had known. This year is being declared as World year of physics in recognition of hundred year anniversary of his papers he submitted which modified our view on physics. He had donned many a role as a scientist, as a political thinker, as a musician and as a humanist and that's more than required to be a humble human. That's what it makes him special !

Pic (marked) : Einstein in school class photograph in Munich,1889

Portable Collection

The Portable Freeware Collection - this website contains a collection of Portable freewares.

What is Portable Freeware ? - Portable Freeware is one which can work independently on any system without any need of installation.

The main function of these freewares is that they are portable. Portable in the sense they can work on any system without any pre-installations.They can be carried around using USB flash drive,memory stick and can be run on different PC's (that's the idea of portability). These freewares don't have EXE setups rather they have zip files which are to be extracted in any one of the devices and can be runned directly. Few freewares don't even have zip files, just open the directory where it is stored and run. As simple as that !

So what's the use of freeware? Imagine when you want your browser's settings,bookmarks,cache options etc., to appear same in both of your computers ( assume you have ) say one at your office and other at your home, when you change the settings, say theme of your browser or bookmarking a webpage, in one of your computer then you need to go through the same process again at the other computer. (This may seem simple in this case. But in few other cases it can kill your valuable time). Here is where portable freewares comes in handy and very useful. In this case, a portable browser (firefox available) can be stored or extracted in your USB device and you can run the browser from anywhere. You can update your bookmarks , download new themes, set other settings as you wish and the files are updated in the USB device each time you make changes. Wherever you run the freeware, you always get the resources and feel you want. This is one of the example of portable freewares. There are hundreds of portable freewares you can find in this site.

Why it is called freeware, not software or shareware or anyware ? Reasons revolve around distribution rights,personal use etc., concepts. There are few issues like the freewares suggested in this site are not platform independent and things like that. All details are available here. It has RSS feeds too and you can right away ping this site in your news aggregator.

Really Nerdy.

From this september 6, Nerd TV goes on air, err.. goes on internet. A new television whose programs are much tailored to the nerdies, techno savvies, techno hungries, high techies.... can be downloadable legally, according to the website.

Life is going to be so easy! Looking for it and lets see how it is going to get shaped.

Dada's yoyo - 1

The day has arrived. The entire human fraternity has witnessed what is considered to be unfathomable goodness. All nine celestial bodies arranged in 3 x 3 matrix style. "This arrangement" says one prophecy " is dawn of a new age of unprecedented elevation of human kind to new realms." The day started with torrential rains in most barren parts of world, bright sunshine in many parts of world indicates as though sun is welcoming the new metamorphosis,the cool breeze which shifted people from their worrying state of mind to their sweetest memories, blowing across new lands, animals are making sounds as though they are going to be alleviated from their sufferings. India became superpower, Indians are praised for their aesthetics. Indian politicians' bank accounts reached ground, Rivers are interlinked, Sourav ganguly back to his form, Narain won F1 race, poverty became history and as well as terrorism.........

Life is never been so good ! These are positive omens to the birth of one person. This person is none else, the one & only His holiness DADA.

There are numerous newschannels, print media, digital media, forums, e-mails, blogs, discussions verbalizing about Dada and his incarnation on earth. Dada became instant celebrity. Everywhere, people speak on DADA, DADA, DADA and only DADA.

Dada grinned with the happenings around him. He immersed in ocean of glorification. Wait, he heard a faint voice somewhere at the background. He tries to concentrate on it. He heard "Thunguthu paru sanniyan, enthri kadala poyiu samanu vangitiva, enthiru nayae". Suddenly he was jerked by someone and he opened his eyes to see himself on bed with his mother giving routine wake up greetings.

Dada's observation :

"Oh ! " thought Dada " This ought to become reality but I know it wont because the world will never change as one wants to".

Dada's yoyo

Q. Dada ! Who is he ?

A. He is neither our famous Sourav Ganguly nor Underworld don in Mumbai.

Description :

Dada is an ordinary mortal who looks gracious but feels otherwise. His experiments with things always gives him a sense of achievement though he never achieved anything. He wants to project himself at the top of everything he sees,he hears & he speaks, but always find himself nowhere when it comes to reality. Dada finds some way or other motivate himself to live upto his ideals only to find himself stranded in myriad confusion.

Dada's activities often not understood by himself. His belief system constantly changes with realities. He thinks he is made of different metal. He thinks he is special. But in reality that is not the case.......


In one sentence, Dada is marriage of fantasy and bitter truth.


There will be posts on Dada's sayings, seeings, sightings, hearings,doings,movings... et all -ings in parts. In other words Dada's yoyo. So tune up your ears to Dada's yoyo.

The 'That Thing'

Dada's logic:

Nothing is Something.
All Somethings are Nothings.(meta physically)
Everything is also Something.

and hence

Nothing is Everything.


Dada's Moral :

Nothing prevades all space including in us, since it is everything. Follow Nothing in you and you get Everything in your life.

Indian Union

"India's share of world income collapsed from 22.6% in 1700, almost to Europe's share of 23.3% at that time, to as low as as 3.9 % in 1952" - Source

Its really stunning information as editorial says. Looking this statistics isolately, I imagined what would happened all these years if we were maintaining the same income rate and if there were no british invasion,congress formation,freedom struggle so on and so forth, there would be no partition taken place,rather Indian Union of Princely states (IU) would have existed, similar to EU,as it would have been difficult to integrate princely states at that time without nationalistic ideas.

Thanks to British Raj, there is no 9/11 or 7/7 in Delhi or Bombay.

Anniyan - My View

Why should I review a film which is really anniyan to Tamil cinema ? Perhaps I should do for the same reason. At the end of movie I was happy for not that I like the movie but the presence of elements which can speak the Tamil cinemas new ventures into different plane. In my opinion, any film should not only entertain but should reflect society we live, educate the masses. Especially in our country cinema can be always a better medium to educate masses,because it can make subtler weaves in understanding patterns of viewers about society et others. In this film- Anniyan,the education is about Multiple-Personality Disorder. Not this going to help making enlighten minds but it atleast help people - majority -to add this term in their dictionary.

Coming to our film, Anniyan is not a repeated formula but certainly a new one to Tamil Cinema.One can watch the film for two reasons or for two V's i.e. for Vikram and Vivek .Multiple personality role each depicts extremist characteristics by Vikram is certainly applaudable. His roles which not only tested him but gave a new lease of life to Tamil cinema heros. Vivek , his irresistible wits left every one but to incessantly disturb ones laugh organs.

Shankar let down his audiences' expectation this time. Many unnecessary scenes included in screenplay like " Thiruvayaaru festival " . There are many a review to detail the full movie. I am not willing here as to follow my instinct to keep the write-up short.

In short,

First half of film : compromising expectations

second half of film : watchable

Overall : didn't specify that the inspiration of film is from the book "Tell me your Dreams"by Sidney Sheldon