Immortality

The Magic words isn’t it? Right from the day Mankind/Womankind dawned on this planet , the quest for Immortality began.. Human experimented various ways to preserve his youth and life
Even Hollywood has captured this essence in movies like A.I, Ex Machina, Transcendence , Chappie , BI centennial Man where the concept is about duplicating Human memory or converting the human memory in the digital form and uploading it in the Internet to be everlasting, infact ,even Tamil Movies has jumped on the bandwagon to explore this facet of science right from storing the soul in a secret place and to the recent movie “Mayavan “ which explores the concept of Digital Memory.
Human Kind has always tried to play God or atleast they ensured they did something that this world remembered them even after they were long gone like Mayans, Ancient Egyptians,The Great Temple Building Legacy of the Tamil Kingdoms,Budhha his Teachings,Chankaya his Management,Micheal jackson his music,Mahatma Gandhi his Non –Violence , they etched their names in the history and so on but are these works reflect true immortality?,they will be long gone in some years or some millennium so that real immortality cant never be achieved?

The advances in Machine learning and the rapid progress achieved in the last five years has been astounding , especially with systems like IBM WATSON and recently there was an article on how computers started to speak to each other in their own language ( Google’s experiment was shut down because the machines evolved at a faster pace and the engineers weren't able to understand the language the machines spoke ) and more over these days the Big Digital New Age Billionaires are investing Billions in ensuring that their memory is protected and they are stored safely in electronic format so the Next generation of A.I would evolve with Human Memory ( in particular their memories ) or another radical though that their memories could be uploaded to another human being by this they ensure they are immortal.. Radical though or is to possible?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2017/10/25/getting-ready-for-prime-time-of-artificial-intelligence-investing/#44531f532010
https://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-07/billionaires-russian-mogul-wants-upload-your-brains-immortality
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/mar/14/googles-deepmind-makes-ai-program-that-can-learn-like-a-human
https://www.recode.net/2017/4/25/15424174/siri-apple-tom-gruber-ted-memories-artificial-intelligence

The race has already begun; will the new age technology succeed? What if I say we already succeeded but it’s just we weren’t revealed the secret???

Let me turn back the clock a bit,
The ancient India ( Bharatha Kande ) was a land of mystic and in Itsd Epics it is claimed or ingrained that there were Siranjeevis like Hanuman,Ashwathaman,Beehsmar( His death will occur only when he wants too ) ,it is said they invoked their boons to be Siranjeevi (Ever Living) but is it their Boon or is it just their power of mind?? Many Great minds lived among us Adi Shankarar, Ramana Maharishi,Vivekananda,Ramakrishna Paramahamsa but why were these people not Siranjeevi ? Why is that only few are destined to be Immortals? It’s claimed that there were Powerful Sages living in this land and by harnessing the power of their mind were capable of tapping vast knowledge encompassing all facets of life and they ensured they transcended time , dimensions and they were able to time travel and most importantly were capable of “transcending their body and entering in to another body “ this new body will have their soul and memories , it is said that they still roam this land and do their penance and they own over death and time. That’s mind blowing that they even though of a concept like that but were they successful .

If they were successful why didn’t they pass it on? Why didn’t they use this in medical science so that our body is not consumed by diseases?? Or it’s a part of our ancient manuscripts that we don’t understand yet or has the secret been overlooked? or did they know the future generation not worth passing the knowledge and they are going to be so corrupt and this immortality would be used for Harm rather than good ?Or is that they knew Human Kind will become so egoistic and narcissistic that they will destroy everything else around if the fear of death is taken away from them? Is it that they want us to dig deep AND FIND IMMORTALITY WITHIN OURSELVES?

Hollywood Humour!

Anil Kapoor, Aishwarya Rai, Priyanka Chopra, Deepika Padukone have all one thing in common!!It’s easy to say they are all actors, it doesn’t stop there, they have all acted in Hollywood Movies well err!!.. They all have acted in movies where they have made a fool of themselves
The dream of the next big step from Bollywood to Hollywood has become a reality for them but did they have really good roles and lets us assume they did have good roles but they did do justice to it?
Anil Kapoor in Mission Possible could have definitely avoided the role (he should have hung himself rather than taking that role: P, definitely not right! Priyanka Chopra in Baywatch the less said about it , it’s better. Deepika in Fast and Furious, her body language and her voice (sorry im not a big fan) didn’t suit her at all, she cut a sorry figure in a big action movie and it appeared her role was included just to appeal to Indian Audience. The Pink panther Movie where Aishwarya Rai played the villain, it was a painful role and she was making it even more painful. The lesser said about her lipstick at Cannes (Some Feminist will bash me for all the comments but the fact is the above mentioned roles are not worth it ).

It’s a big fantasy for almost all movie starts to land a role in Hollywood. Hollywood has started using Indian artist (also Technicians) not only for their skills but also to ensure to cater to the third largest English speaking market. There were good movies made as well like Slum DOG millionaires, Life of PI ( they are not great but good) Kudos to the Resul Pookutty and A.R Rahman for their Oscars , baring those two highlights most of them have been very jarring .
Indian artist should consider meaty roles, which has substance and which suits their personality well, rather than making a fool of themselves. Even the tryst with the small screen Quantico and 24 Hours were good in patches. It’s commendable that these artists are trying to establish a base there but again choose a sensible and appealing role which would bring out their best rather than just appearing in few scenes for the sake of appearing.

I still remember the role of Naseruddin Shah in the League of extraordinary gentlemen, though not a great movie but something to remember. The Indian King Portrayed in the Prince of Persia and the Indian Pirate portrayed in the Pirates of the Caribbean are stereotypical ( Overweight, with squeaky voices ), our artist should take care these roles are portrayed better next time and definitely add substance to it , would love to see a mature role which is portrayed with passion rather than a lot of cleavage .

The Great Indian Tamasha Continues

I will be the most happiest person if India becomes a real economical and military super power, this is a dream for billions of Indians, regardless of race , caste , creed or religion. When the IT and banking boom happened, it redefined the landscape for millions of Indian Middle class workforce, from having a just a few options of getting a job to big multinationals coming at doorsteps and recruiting and making millionaires (at least few) , this paved the way for the boom in consumption and in turn in real estate and made a lot of billionaires who became large empires overnight right from Ambani’s to Mallay’s. The spending power of a sizable population became a worldwide success story and in effect we can see a lot of changes in the traditional landscape in the Indian economy, Big Malls, Multiplexes, Fine dining restaurants, New brands of cell phones, from one sim cards to multiple sim cards and flying became a great option compared to the Rail and Road, average rent has skyrocketed , a plate of idli costs Rs.30 minimum !!! .. Last 10-15 years has been a great story for India! Or is it really?
The news about retrenchment, Big business empires having enormous debts especially Kingfisher, Rcom, Air India and coupled with slow GDP has started ringing alarm bells. Moreover, the real consolidation in IT as well as Banking has started to shape, the reality is lot of people would lose jobs , they may call it a phase but this is the reality , Big corporate cannot keep recruiting and moreover they don’t have the funding to retain already excess people , this not only happened because of a lethargic skill force but also because of Global factors of other counties saving their jobs and giving it to their own people. The real estate business has shrunk, many are laid off and they are unable to pay their long or should I say lifelong EMI’ and each of them are in huge debt jut to keep up with the consumerism and in fact its best to stay in a rented accommodation
The Agriculture facet of our economy is slowly disappearing and many farmers are coming out of their age old profession to pursue new horizons. Severe drought prevails in most parts of India, but there seems to be no back up plans to sustain the most important work in any country , Agriculture.
The other fact of the economy , the Big Corporate are swallowing huge amount of public money and are not able to repay the debts , the debts are astounding and astronomical figures ranging from Rs.9,000 crores to Rs 21,000 crores , when will they repay people’s money back !!
Lakhs and Lakhs of Engineers , Graduates are churned out every year but who will give them jobs or the question to be asked , do they really posses the skills to survive in today’s world , the irony is even when students pass out of schools/colleges/universities , there are so many scams coming out , they don’t have a clue in the subject they topped !!!
The common man still doesn’t care about Metro coming up in his area or a big mall coming up , what he cares his how tables his next meal, but his savings are eaten up by the banks to negate the losses they incurred by lending it to the so called Best Corporate. The Common man pays taxes as well..in order to bail out for all these corporates!!! He Runs , India Runs .. If he stops everything else stops!!!!
The super power and economy might is still a long way off! But I cant stop running , if I do,The country stops!