Life is an illusion

 I had been trying to publish my Shataka app for the last 2-3 days. Due to increased anxiety and paranoia, and increased unsolvable hindrances, I had to name my version of app as 1.01. Now I am terrified as I can hear your favourite anchor screaming in my living room and is audible in the entire Hosur Road. Where is version 1 of the app? The nation wants to know. What kind of nefarious codes were hidden in that version. Is this person planning on attacking the people and their lives with virus hidden in this version 1.0. Which foreign force is collaborating with this lady?  But there are many such precedents. The file system used in Linux starts with ext2. Was there an ext1? I don’t know.  The programming language c had a predecessor b. Was there an a language?  So to conclude it was an honest mistake, which is common for one man team consisting of one older woman. 

 As the project is almost complete, I move farther and farther away from my development IDE. I can't release until it is completed. What if there is a silly mistake? What if ? What if?  So far it is looking good. I have added a new feature - negative sum. And the color looks really "cool". But I did not convert from Java to Kotlin.  May be another week. And your wait will be over. You will be able to download one "ekamevadviteeya" game of the century by our own Indian developer - hundred!

 Heidi Bergman - played by Julia Roberts is the program administrator in a rehabilitation facility for war veterans. It is called Home coming. Its intention is to make the soldiers' lives easier by helping them to cope with their PTSDs and other traumas and prepare them for outside world.  She holds regular sessions with these inmates and records their conversations. She talks to Walter Scot - one such soldier. Walter had made friends in the war, played pranks with them and also seen them die in front of his eyes. He gradually opens up about all these in his sessions.  Walter's room mate Joe is skeptic. He says that the facility has no intention of helping them and they have been lied to constantly. They may not even be in Florida. So to prove who is wrong, they decide to venture outside the campus. The receptionist asks them to wait while she talks on the telephone about some form. Joe snatches the key of a car from her desks and run towards the parking. Walter tries to ...

 My "experiments" with books is going on a bumpy road - in typical Bangalore traffic style. I progress 10 steps and then I am stopped for days (by me-self). After successfully finishing 3 books, I took up Sartre - Nausea. Which obviously was a wrong step for one who is so much corrupted by Netflix and other internet ills. The narrator in this book is trying to analyze or research into the life of a 18th century politician while struggling with some kind mental trauma - nausea.  When I realized story and my reading of this book is progressing as much as the life of a house-wife in lock-down, I gave it up and took John Updike's Run Rabbit.  But Rabbit is running away. Is he running away from his wife, his life or from himself? Not a good choice. And then I read some bad reviews in goodreads. So the book had to be given up. May be I will take it up some time when my mind in tranquil - it was a joke.  Now I have picked a book by Chinua Achebe. Hopefully this will be read...

I would always find the peoples' passion in getting offended on behalf of God - any God, ridiculous. If we look at it rationally, the "almighty" God, can he not take care of himself and if necessary punish those who "offend" him? So, why are these mortals doing that work for him, snatching that satisfaction from him? But now I realized, I am doing a similar mistake. I am getting offended for minorities, opposition leaders, oppressed people and even black people. The last type of people  I have interacted only through television. How is their plight my concern in any way? There are exploiters and there are exploited. If the exploited can't figure out a way to come out of oppression - it is their fault. So I don't come in the picture in any way. And I shouldn't. And I shouldn't say it is my country, I have a right to protest about injustices in my country. After sitting isolated, and so far away.  So people, if you want oppress, oppress. If you wan...

 Due to the current environment - cloudy, without a ray of sunshine, I had a blog-hesitancy. But I wouldn't be much of a blogger if I don't blog, right? So, now I have come across a topic, which I am sure will not offend the sentiments of people, nor will it get me into lot of troubles. And the topic is vaccine hesitancy. I read a news-paper article about a naxal - a non-urban one, I think, surrendering himself because he was getting some cash for rehabilitation. That is good news, one less naxal to worry about. But that set me thinking, we Indians are very financially motivated people. We will do most things if we get some "free offer". So why can't this nature be put to use for getting maximum people vaccinated. People bhi khush, corona bhi vanish! So let us say it will be announced that any one who gets a vaccine gets one liter of petrol one kg of rice free. There and then, in the vaccination booth - get the jab, fill your bag with rice! Won't it be wonder...