Life is an illusion

Few time back in BC - Before Corona era, there was this meme which was quite viral - "there is no ctrl z in life" That saying was so accurate for me. There are some people who weigh each word - no, each syllable before they speak or act. Me, I blurt out and then keep repenting the entire day - I shouldn't have said that. I should have said this. I shouldn't have done that. and so on. But no, I can't undo any thing. And I never learn from my mistakes. Now there is another such quote I am about to viralize - there is no help button in life. Chronology   I was watching at my plant in my balcony. It had a one tiny, tired looking flowerette in it. Why? Aren't there any more flowers? Should I have watered the plant more? Should I have not watered it every day? Does it need sunlight? (Which is not possible unless I learn to hold it in my hand and stretch my hand till sunlight) So many questions. And the plant, nor the pot did not have any help button on

What is the correct way to write a blog about a language - not  a programming language but a human language? I can't just start with hello world program. Nor can I get solutions from stack overflow. I started with translating entire lessons - from Ruchira text book. I cannot just write equivalent English sentences. I should explain how do we arrive at each of the words - number, tense case etc etc. And these descriptions for each word in a sentence. And I translated 5 sentences before I realized how enormous and may be not so useful either. Then what is a better way? I can not go about writing grammar lessons - it will be too dry. It must be something like greenmessage website. This site has a collection of Sanskrit shlokas and their meanings. The important point is, if we click on any word of shloka, there will be popup with its meaning. Isn't the idea wonderful? But I think it needs a lot of java scripting. Like this < span class =' Sanskrit &

Clouds have silver lining, but ephemeral. Rest of the time it is just dark, gloomy clouds come to terrorize you All windows of my house show me a continuous display of these black, gray forms which are wandering. Showing a little bit of color here and there. To think that these are just water vapors who rose really very high and intend to return back very soon. Miracle!!

After a long time I came across a really good film and was happy about it. Gulaabo Sitabo is a English Hindi film starring Amitabh Bachchan and Ayushmann Khurana. The storyline is good the dialogue is crisp and witty and the acting is excellent. Mirza is a 78 year old man who owns a large mansion Fatima Mahal. A haveli where 12 families reside paying a ridiculous rent of Rs.50 per month. In fact the building is very old and in a very dilapidated and Mirza is a stingy old man who keeps picking fight with his tenants and steals from them. Bankey one of the tenants, bullies Mirza and makes excuses each time and escapes paying rent. He too is illiterate like Mirza and works in a flour mill  to support a family of three sisters and mother. Mirza is awaiting the death of his begum who is 17 years elder than him. Because the haveli is in her name - it is her ancestral property. She is very old and senile and very sick but she does not die. (She asks Mirza - did I marry you you or hav

Quite an old picture from Pinterest. But still very relevant!

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Which translates to "what is my name"? So who ever is asking this question is having an amnesia - a who am i moment, or an identity crisis. In Latin, quid est tibi nomen means what is your name. Mihi nomen est Usha or what ever is your name - unless you too have an identity crisis. Duolingo has added Latin as one of the language courses. And I am one happy woman. My earlier efforts in learning Latin were not very successful (read free lessons, you tube videos and free downloadable books) But duolingo at least keeps the lessons interactive - and that is the reason you feel you are learning some thing. And the funny thing about Latin is its vocative case - sambodhana. So Marcus become Marce. As in Salvete, Stephane et Marce. You are calling out them, so the noun form changes. Coming to think of it, it happens in Indian languages too. "Are O Samba" :)  or "Anantaaa, ododu bittu enu madta iddeeya". So the noun forms will end in long vowels - very

What's happening? Is the lock down still there? Which version? Version 5.0, I think. But it is almost absent. Except for the people in containment zones. But I think it has brought out the worst in us. I had heard that disasters unite us, make us braver and stronger. More empathetic. Exact opposite has happened. Looks like the virus has attacked our brains instead. And in news channels, corona is not the main and only topic of discussion. In american channels it is the death of a black man at the knee of a white cop - the same cop who is supposed to protect the people. In Indian channels, it is business as usual - anger against tukde tukde, Rahul Gandhi, and people who want to discredit our "nation".

You hear the word pixel when buying a mobile, right? What is a pixel? A pixel stands for picture element - a dot. This dot can be of different colors - white, black, green, any color. These dots make up images. Like this.    .   ....  ......   ...    . You can see a diamond there. But not very good drawing. I did diverge and completely forgot what I wanted to write. So if you have a mobile photo and zoom it to a large extent - you see a crude image made up of colored squares like this. OK, some graphics editor provide a tool to pixelate  your image.  But I don't need that tool. My images have in-built pixelator. Look at this image.   The secret is - you guessed it. The mesh.  I think there is some deep philosophy behind this. Sad, I am not getting it.  The problem with high pixel mobiles is that we all will try to be photographers. So much so that, not just mobile memory, even the memory given by google or icloud will be used up shooting clouds,

Shyam, let us call him Shyam. He is a reality show host - the scary kind. No, he is not hosting any news panel, but is running a show about ghosts. Or rather he is trying to demonstrate people that ghosts may not exist at all. In each episode, he goes to a location which is supposedly haunted. Spends the night there alone after setting up cameras all over the place. In each of the 99 episodes, he is unable to spot a ghost. But then an angry fan Mahantesh challenges him to visit haunted house owned by him. This house has the reputation that any one who goes there, becomes insane and dies mysteriously. And the owner himself seems little bit off. But TRP is all that matters to the producer of the show and he compels Shyam to accept the challenge and visit the haunted house. Shyam collects the keys from the Mahantesh's brother and goes to the house. And then starts all kinds of scary events. The show starts with lights getting turned on by themselves. Then there is a hand whic