Life is an illusion

 I have almost stopped posting silly memes from pinterest. But this one really touched my heart (and made me weep silently)

This post does not have word of the day. Instead I have some beautiful resources for Latin and Sanskrit Latin coloring book: This page has a coloring books with Latin words for the young learners. Even old learners might like it. I do. Latin online dictionary There is this online dictionary for latin words.   Sanskrit online dictionary I find Spokensanskrit.org very very useful. It can translate sanskrit words to english and vice versa. There will be an occasional sentence.  Note: Typing in Sanskrit may be tricky at the beginning. But English to Sanskrit always works. Just now I noticed that the above site also has some stories in Sanskrit from Panchatantra and Hitopadesha Green message  This site has many shlokas. When you hover over a word in the shloka, you get its meaning - very useful I think. It also has many sanskrit grammar tools like verb conjugations, noun declensions, sample sentences also.  Latin Charts This site has l atin grammar charts which ...

 Latin word of the day : Porto Meaning : carry (v) Conjugation: porto partas portat portamus portatis portant  E.g. Nauta sagittam  portat. - the sailor carries the arrow.  Related English words: porter, portable, transportation, supporter. Sanskrit word of the day: नय  Meaning : carry (v) Conjugation:  नयति नयतः नयन्ति  नयसि नयथः नयथ  नयामि नयावः नयामः  e.g. अहं पुस्तकं नयामि | 

Latin word of the day : filia filia - noun f. = daughter I declension  Plural : filiae  e.g. Agricola filiam amat. - The farmer loves (his) daughter. Filia pulchra fabulam narrat. - The pretty daughter tells a story. Synonym of filia : nata The masculine counter part of this word is filius. - son Related word in English : filial. : of or pertaining to son/daughter e.g. : My brothers, meanwhile, were clever, sensitive boys, who had already accrued a bank of happy filial memories. What about other members of the family? Filius - son Pater - father Mater - Mother Soror - Sister Sanskrit word of the day : पुत्री  पुत्री : daughter (noun f) e.g. तस्य पुत्री बहु दयावती | - His daughter is very kind.   Related words : पुत्र - son, मातुलस्य पुत्री - cousin Synonyms of पुत्री : जाता, कन्यका, कन्या, सुता, पुत्रिका, नंदना, तनूजा, तनया  Family : मातृ / जननि - mother  पितृ / जनक - father  भगिनि - sister भ्रात​ृ - brother     अनुजा - younger si...

Today’s Latin word of the day is dea. (Noun f) Dea - Goddess e.g. Diana est dea silvarum. - Diana is the goddess of the forests.  Related words - deus - god  Divine - of god or pertaining to god Divus - god Similar word in Sanskrit देवी  Meaning : goddress e.g. देवीं प्रार्थयामी  I pray to the Goddess.  Are these two words देवी and dea related? I am not sure. Related words: देवता , दैविक , देवालय , दैवी घटना  On a lighter note, I am preparing for ultimate entrance test. If I pass i will enter heaven. If not, I will go to hell or worse sent back here. As I am not sure which God will be the interviewer, I am preparing for both. 

Latin word of the day : Stella (fem. noun) Meaning : star Example : Puella stellam videt. - Girl sees the star.  Related words in English constellation - group of stars perceived as design interstellar - between stars stellar - related to stars, outstanding stellate - shaped like a star Sanskrit word of the day : नक्षत्र (ne. noun) Meaning : star Example : स: त्र नक्षत्रं पश्यति | - He sees the star Related words  नक्षत्रविद्या - astronomy नक्षत्रादर्श - astrologer नक्षत्रमाला - star group नक्षत्रमण्डल - star cluster   ... to state a few. There is another popular word for star in Sanskrit which is तारा       

I have this idea. May be silly. But idea nonetheless. We all know that the pandemic has played havoc in our lives. And even our government is struggling as it does not have much money. Economy is not doing very well. But there is one thing which goes on - the show - the elections. How do we use this eternal game to our advantage? We know that because of elections, political parties have to canvas and hold rallies and functions. And we can only guess the amount of money which gets spent on these canvassing. What if the candidates have to pay an extra fees for each public function they hold, each rally they take? An astronomical amount may be? Some thing like 20000 rupees for each of these events? No, certainly this will not stop the candidates from canvassing. But it will add the much needed revenue to our government. Revenue to fight the pandemic, to improve our hospitals, to create jobs etc, etc.  While we are at it, may be we can also think of pakshantara danda - a fine for defec...

 Today's latin word is agricola .  Meaning: farmer Origin : ager - field cola-cultivator e.g. agricola sum. - I am a farmer. agricola filiam amat. - The farmer loves his daughter.  Agricola is the origin of the word agriculture in English.  Today's Sanskrit word is कृषिक  Meaning : farmer e.g. कृषिक: अन्नं ददाति - The farmer gives us food Related words : कृषि , सामूहिक कृषिकरण 

 Do I create a new blog? Do I change this blog's name? Currently I don't do anything. I just post my posts on words of the day here. Latin word of the day : ante  Meaning - before, previously e.g. Cogita ante salis.  Think before you leap. ante is found in many words in English.  e.g.  Antechamber : A small room before a big room  Antepenultimate : Before the second last in a sequence  Antedate : Date before another event in time  Ante meridian : Before noon  Antemortem : Place before death  Antediluvian : Before the great flood  Antebellum : Period before the war  Antechoir : Section in the church before the choir  Antelucan : Before dawn  Antenuptial : Coming before marriage  Antelude : A play before the main play Antescript : A note added before a script Antevocalic : A letter before a vowel Antetype : An earlier type of something Antiquity : Ancient times Antique : Belonging to the earli...

 I was very young then. I used to wonder, if the earth is round, why do the people on the other end - the ones below us, not fall down?   I knew that earth is round, but obviously I didn't know about concept of gravity. Now after knowing all those concepts I still wonder have we some how come to an upside down world. In a world where right is wrong and wrong is right. In a world where a person who commits crimes is a very good person and a person who strives to help people is a very bad person. In a world where intellectuals, writers and free thinkers are demonized and politicians are deified.  In a world where not hating others is a very big crime.  In a world where science is bad but blind beliefs are good and sacred.  Yes, I think, one day when we were all sleeping, we were moved to this upside down world. And we are not realizing this change at all.

 What do women of my age do in the afternoons and evenings? Those who do not have grand kids to take care of or house filled with people to manage? That will be 90% of us.  Because, I am bored beyond limits. How long should I keep repairing my laptop, my network issues in order to write apps and blogs with no audience. I have started writing Maths puzzles. But then the question is, should these puzzles be extremely difficult, or mildly confusing or downright simple?  And how long will I continue to write these posts? One month, one year? Again who is the audience? But I have to write these things in order to be productive - what ever it means.

In Harry Potter books, there are these characters called dementors. They are foot soldiers used Voldemort (one who must not be named), Harry's nemesis.  These dementors suck out all the happiness and good from you. Only way to survive their attack is to remember your happy memories.  A very good analogy - I feel. The bad thoughts suck out everything from our mind. And we can only defeat them by reminding ourselves of good memories. Most often we feel we do not have such memories. Which is not true. We do have our share of good memories. But we do not think of them as often as we should. So they are clouded away by our defeats, our regrets and our sadness.  So let us beat dementors by thinking of good thoughts. 

Aren’t we! So, are we as trusting as God, as trustworthy as God or as trustful as God? Or we are God because we we trust in God? This trucker must be a great philosopher akin to Nietzsche.

 Kids would advice us "Believe me, I have studied biology" when advising about any thing on earth which pertains to living things. Ok, Kiddo, as you say. I am saying now to you "Believe me, I write apps". I know as much about vulnerabilities of the various apps as much as these biology students know about diseases. But I know just enough not to trust them. I am extra careful (paranoid) of these payment apps. Let us look at an example phonepe. I installed the app and I also added some money to it. But I can't use that to transfer to someone's account. (I agree I am new to this and do not understand much). And the best part is I have to add a bank account to my phonepe account. And don't worry, I need to scan my passport. I don't even have to give my account number or ATM card number. My mobile number is more than enough. The moment I entered my mobile number, the screen showed me, three account numbers. An SB account and the other two I think are FDs....

No, I am not going to blog about my Java quizard app.  ಅದರ ಬದಲು ಕನ್ನಡದ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಮಾತಾಡೋಣ.   ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಬರೆಯೋಣ ನಿನ್ನೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ. ೧೯೫೬ ನವೆಂಬರ್ ೧ರಂದು ಕನ್ನಡ ಮಾತಾಡುವ ಪ್ರಾಂತಗಳನ್ನೆಲ್ಲ ಒಟ್ಟುಗೂಡಿಸಿ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ ರಾಜ್ಯವೆಂದು ರಚಿಸಿದರು. ಅದರ ವಾರ್ಷಿಕೋತ್ಸವವೇ ನಮ್ಮ ರಾಜ್ಯೋತ್ಸವ. ನಿನ್ನೆ ಎಲ್ಲರ ಸೋಶಿಯಲ್ ಮೀಡಿಯಾ ಕನ್ನಡ ಪ್ರೇಮದಿಂದ ತುಂಬಿ ತುಳುಕುತ್ತಿತ್ತು.  ನನ್ನದು ಒಂದು ಅಳಿಲು ಸೇವೆ ಮಾಡೋಣ - ನಮ್ಮ ಭಾಷೆಗೆ, ನಮ್ಮ ಭಾವಕ್ಕೆ.  ನಿಮ್ಮಆಂಡ್ರಾಯ್ಡ್ ಫೋನಿನಲ್ಲಿ  ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಲು ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಹಾಕಿಕೊಂಡಿರುತ್ತೀರಾ. ಆದರೆ ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ನೀವು ಮಾತಾಡಿ ಮಾತಿನಿಂದ ಶಬ್ದಗಳಿಗೆ ಪರಿವರ್ತಿಸಿ ಫೋನೇ  ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮಾತನ್ನು ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡುವ ಸಾಧ್ಯತೆ ಇದೆ. (speech to text) ನಿಮ್ಮ ಫೋನಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಜಿಬೋರ್ಡು (Gboard) ತಂತ್ರಾಂಶ ಇಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದರೆ ಅದನ್ನು ಹಾಕಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ.. ಆಮೇಲೆ ಸೆಟ್ಟಿಂಗ್ ಗೆ ಹೋಗಿ. ಅದರಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾಷೆ ಕನ್ನಡ ಎಂದು ಅರಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಿ..  ಈಗ ನೀವು ಏನನ್ನಾದರೂ ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡಬೇಕಾದಾಗ ಸ್ಪೀಕ್ ಬಟನ್ (ಮೈಕ್ರೋಫೋನ್ ಚಿತ್ರ )ಅದನ್ನು ಒತ್ತಿರಿ. ಈಗ ನೀವು ಕನ್ನಡದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಿ. ನಿಮ್ಮ ಫೋನ್ ಅದನ್ನು ಟೈಪ್ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ.  ಇದರಿಂದ ನಿಮ್ಮ ಕೆಲಸ ಎಷ್ಟೋ ಸುಲಭವಾಗುವುದು.