Life is an illusion

One of the reasons I am not an "excellent" cook (!) is .... No, it's not laziness. Don't you dare point your fingers at my laziness. You talk about my laziness. Where were you when for the last seventy years people were lazy and corrupt and communal? Where were you in nineteen eighty four? Where were you when Nehru was being lazy? It is not laziness. The reason I don't excel in cooking is that I am not particular about ingredients. I just work with whatever is at my disposal. And then I add my own tweaks to the recipe. So the result is - I am as famous a cook as a certain R is as a journalist. So now let me see, what is at my disposal now. I have lot of anger, a small tablespoon of fear - about the future of the "nation", and small cup of grip over the language - over angrezi - courtesy my habit of reading a life time ago . And don't you forget about 1.5 giga of data bytes and lot of free time - courtesy my umm....unbusyness. What can I "

I am not saying I will start visiting places of worship as soon as this lock down is lifted. I am not even saying currently I pray to the God, bow before him. But I am really thinking there is some thing about bhakti - devotion. Or at least devotional music. Devotional music makes us calmer if not better. It does not matter what language or even what God it is about. In the good old days, I think it was before all this Jio data revolution. Mobile data was not cheap and music streaming was not what house-wives did. Those days I used to listen to FM radio in the mornings. Many stations used to broadcast devotional songs from 6 to 6:30. And beginning my days with those bhakti geet was good. I used to love those mornings. And I was  a semi-atheist that time too. And I heard some church songs or christian devotional songs in the TV show Glee. Loved them immensely. So the question arises - why do devotional music sound so good? Is it because of my age? Or is it because the other cat

So sorry. I have almost forgotten all about my appy-life. I try to get some questions on Java and then spend rest of the days in meaningless internet world - being bored utterly. I have an app called called memory ace - I have developed it. Now this app is for bored days - like these corona days. You can spend some time staring at your phone - but not eating your data. And more importantly giving some work to your gray cells. Download the app - and give me your feedback. Also give me suggestions for my next app - if you still think I should develop my app :) As shown in the image, it has the memory we play with playing cards where we keep the cards face down and open two cards at a time. If they are similar we clear these cards. Another game is called Simon. The game plays one or more note with blinking of lights in an order. You have to replicate that order. Third game is called faces - where some faces are shown for a minute. Then they are shown with one wrong face. You

There are so many voices in my head currently - all of them stifled. I am trying to be funny here - unsuccessfully so. Well as everyone is saying, people really had something to worry about other than communal divide and er.. hatred. The question of life and death - literally. But that was made into a communal issue. Please realize that there are idiots in every religion, caste, creed and nationality. To equate this stupidity to a jihad and a plot to kill crores of Hindus is simply - stupidity. Or an effort to divide this fragile country even further. And then china conspiracy - we really don't know the reason behind the virus. Nor do the whatsapp professors. Let us take it for what it is - a new disease which is proving to be very difficult for us to overcome - and try to find cure. And then there is question of lock-down continuation. I, a house wife, who have spent most of my life behind closed doors, not stepping out of the house for months together, am finding it very

Let us start with some good news. Headspace is offering you a new guided meditation video on youtube to reduce your stress. You can try to relax with the help of this meditation . Crisis and life and death situations will bring out the best in us too. Look at this landlord who has offered his house for the migrant labor in Surathkal. We do need such good Samaritans now more than ever. But these situations also bring out the worst in us - the racism. Now people from north east are being called Corona and are being discriminated. There is a pattern emerging in the spread of Covid-19 in our country. The 80% of the cases are in 68 districts. So these districts may have continued lock down. If you like some inspirational videos, you can always look at some TED talks here . And for all those who are missing your office, here is how it was earlier

I tried writing some linked list programs in Java. In my mind. OK. First step, get the questions ready. I got them ready (find the middle node. Find if there is a loop. find nth node from end of list etc. etc. etc). And I remembered how I had solved them. In C language. Now for the second step. Start java code. May be in Eclipse IDE. But eclipse IDE kept crashing mentioning errors I could not fathom. Do you ever "fathom" these error messages? No (unless it is Nullpointer exception aka segmentation fault)!!. You just google them - or stack-overflow them. I didn't do that either. Third step. Write actual code without IDE. Many of you many not know - but you can still write java code in vi editor. And then compile it with java -ka (javac). I had done it with all my test programs so far - which means I can do it with linked list program as well. But you already see the problem. Don't you? vi does not give you suggestion about methods and syntax errors. Unless you

This is day 9 of lock down. Things are quite quiet here in Bangalore. Deserted roads completely empty, almost looks like some scene from a horror film - I dare not say apocalyptic film. But we are getting milk regularly, no newspaper. Vegetables vendor visits the apartment regularly. The latest rule was that people should not use two wheelers or four wheelers unless they have a pass. Pass is given to delivery people and people working for essential services. I wonder how will people walk for kilometers to buy groceries. In our native town, it seems some NGOs are taking your grocery list in whatsapp message and delivering them to your home in 24 hours. Vegetable vans and medicine vans are visiting quite frequently I believe. That's is quite a good step. Especially when many people residing in these small towns are aged. Our counterpart Pakistan has not yet declared a lock down, I believe. And their premier Imran Khan is being criticized by opposition for not locking down the