Whats in a car name

When I was travelling to office in the morning in my CBZ, I started thinking about something and I made an startling discovery about cars in India. The discovery is so exciting, that made me write this post after almost an year.

This is very specific to India. Think of few car names that comes on top of your mind, there is something strangely common with all car names. Probably this is not deliberately done or it was the other way round. I am not sure if you have still guessed it, i am going to write some of the car names in , probably u an guess it

1. Alto 
2. Santro
3. Estillo 
4. Indigo 
5. Scorpio
6. Punto
7. Figo
8. Rio 
9. Polo
10. Pajero
11. Verito
12. Brio
13. Vento
14. Aveo
15. Bolero 
16. Sumo
17. Xylo
18. Rhino
19. Nano
20. Montero

all cars end with the same sound 'O'.

Will SIRI evolve into VIKI of I-Robot ?

Its been a long time since my last post., i did not find anything interesting to blog about. Just like millions of people waiting to see what breakthrough change Apple had to provide this month. As usual they dont live stream and only bloggin is allowed. Everytime before the show, the geeks predict wats gonna be the big change from iphone to ipad. Everybody predicted a bigger sized iPhone 5 improved camera, improved antenna but it was shocking for everyone when they announced iPhone 4s without any change in the form factor except for the improved OS with some attractive features. Everybodyh were so dud tht apple stocks plummeted. Without Jobs the presentation lacked character, And introduction of SIRI was also dull and not very impressive.

As usual my negative thinking resulted in trying to foresee the negative things that could happen with Siri. I always hate the freaky idea of a man talking to machine and worse it replies.  I Robot was a movie that had a great story line and screenplay. The reason why I talk about iRobot is that the main villain in the movie VIKI ( the Super computer with AI)  must have been an evolution of the SIRI the intelligent speech recognition software.

A machine should never understand what we talk. Earlier speech recognition software just types what we speak or it works only if you say certain words.   The scary part is it learns and becomes better as more people use it. Now with millions of people using it, it might actually evolve into a very strong super computer.


Probably u may think i am exaggerating. Like everybody else i am also waiting for the chance to use SIRI probably it might take a year. I may not be surprised if Apple withdraws SIRI.


Also did Jobs die beacause he realised that SIRI could be more powerful , just like the doctor in I Robot.


Hopefully its 3 laws safe.

What could be behind wikileaks ???

Typical Hollywoodish, thts the first impression I get when i hear about Wiki leaks. A mysterious organisation hacking into the highly secure classified and confidential documents and publishing them.  The founder or editor in chief Julian Assange,born 1971, is an Australian and an ethical hacker who has written books. I am not going to talk about the issues tht wikileaks has dealt with but what i am trying to do is to apply common sense approach.

My theory.

Developed Nations are under sever stress financially. Their development is at an all time low causing widespread  unemployment, jealousy and hatred towards other nations. Ask anybody how some countries became developed 60 years ago, when many countries have not even seen the light of the day with rich resources. The so called developed nations knew two things better Manufacturing and trade.




War a boon.

Countries tried to steal what the others had best. As a result it caused chaos, confusions, cultural issues and separatisms. Small fights leading to wars. Wars became a boon to these nations, started setting up huge manufacturing facilities to manufacture arms, ammunitions, food, clothes, vehicles... As they say necessity is the mother of invention, the war created lot of opportunities to invent, test and manufacture. .Countries that not even had any link to the issue tht had created wars started seeing that as an opportunity to grow and started supporting the other countries.. The wars rapidly catapulted few nations due to the opportunities that war had created for their people.  This is why a meal in this developed nations can be equated to 10 meals in countries like India. Or a normal meal cost is equal to a 5 star meal.

I disagree that wars created depression, they created economic power houses.

The situation now

There are no major wars now. Countries have become educated and apprehensive about involving into wars due to the loss. Now what can the developed nations do, they have huge manufacturing facilitiies set up... how much will government spend to keep it in operation. They have to convert them from cost center to profit center. That can happpen only wars occur. Developing countries have struggled their way up to develop without using 'Wars' or 'Destructions'. They can easily survive without wars.

But what about developed nations, they need to trade their manufactured goods inturn for money..  Developing nations have become self sufficient and the under privileged nations are fullly controlled and used.
The developed nations were so selfish and greedy for money that they forgot to take care of their home and children and failed to have a family. Thats taking a huge toll, for eg UKs has more colleges than kids... they colleges are filled with other nationals and they survive with the money they bring in. Now rules getting stringent and education visas being curbed, there was only one way to deal with the shortage and thats rising the education fees..for which they are already facing the heat wiith the wide spread protests all across UK.

Why Wikileaks now ??


 

Now coming back to the topic. We all know and even America accepted that war againt Iraq was base less as they found no bio weapons. And also afghan war taking a toll, developed countries are left with limited options to revive from recession. As countries have become intelligent it has become hard to create a war like scenario. This is why they silently support and fund pakistans in the pretext of helping them set bas to wage war aginst Afghan.. I truly found no beleif in working out an exact strike at WTC towers by guys sitting in an mountain in afghan. It was staged so tht, US can enter into afghan to exploit the oil resources, the same applies for Iraq too.. Also it was a double boon by gaining access into pak and aggravate the enemity within India and Pak.  Like the stagin of 9/11 attack, now wikileaks is also staged by the top conspirators to develop a war scenario. But i guess,  this is only going to backfire.


Its a known fact that top hackers and criminal master minds find a special place in the US intelligence. I am not saying tht its impossible for a security breach, but its easier when it is staged by them, So tht they can release only the info tht they want others to see. Its going to be a cake walk for the security experts to trace down the people behind and arrest them. Interpol arrest warrant for Julian for a sex crime is only laughable as they did not find any other reasons to issues a global arrest warrant.. Another eyewash... Even if the rival nations sit to gether and sort out the issues.. the developed nations will go totally job less and face the most extreme threat of extinction due the financial crisis.

Sonia Gandhi

I wanted to write a blog about Madam Sonia Gandhi for a long time. The controversial novel and the movie Rajneeti just reminded me that I should write about her. I feel so privileged and honoured.

I was thinking when was my first link with her.. It should be in the early 1990's much before she entered Indian political scene. I was probably 10 year old then,, when my parents took me to Delhi, to spend vacation at my uncle's place and happened to visit the Indira Gandhi museum where i saw pics of beautiful white gal along with Rajiv Gandhi.. then i visited the same place during my college days and admired how beautiful she was.

I searched wiki to get a trivia abt her

Edvige Antonia Albina Maino is her original name born in Italy , 9  Dec 1946.  (cant beleive she is 64 now..) Rajiv met Sonia in city of cambridge in a Greek restaurant and married her in 1968. As they say rest is history, to me its a legend.

Rajiv & Sonia did not get involved in pollitics and led a normal life with Rajiv working as a pilot and Sonia , a happy house wife taking care of their two children. Assasination of  Indira Gandhi and death of Rajiv's brother Sanjay forced Rajiv into active politics. The Nehru family was instrumental in building India post independence. More bad things were in store for the Nehru household, when Rajiv was assasinated by LTTE for his stand which LTTE said was the worst decision they had ever taken. LTTE though fought for a good cause, after this incident lost any and all support from the staunch supporters of LTTE s cause which had a bitter end recently. ( Story of LTTE is something which is still on my mind for blog, i am not tht educated enough to comment on that)

Back to where I had begun, a normal Italian girl with no ambitions to even look at politics had to enter into Indian Politics.She could have gone back to Italy or lead a non political life.Its not a family who earn their bread and butter out of politics like thousands of politicians in India. An MLA or MP ticket or even a local councillor ticket is enough for them to legally become millionaires and industrialists.. A woman who has seen her mother in law assasinated and before she could recover from shock her loving husband was assasinated, its indeed a brave move.


why Sonia, why did you have to take this scum on your head? , why did you  risk your life?, why did you think of us when they were not ready to accept you as an Indian and humiliated you in all possible ways? Why did not you remarry ? Why dint you go back to Italy ? Why did you take the pain to recreate a totally devastated Congress  Why why why ...

When the congress opposition used all their might to create parties for all dominant castes, and get sponsor and votes from them.. artificially creating communal disruptions to win votes... while the congress party senior members were busy fighting among themselves for leadership.. She had to step in to organize.. She took the pains to learn Hindi, she took over the reins and gained the support of masses.. she won.. Running an national party is not a joke.. and winning the elections hands down. would have just sent guilt feelings for the insecular parties trying to play with religions and castes.........

 Above all after winning the elections she did what nobody could have ever imagined.. It was all set for Sonia to step in as Prime Minister of India no one could have ever questioned or raised their voice.. But she made Manmohan Singh as Prime minister , probably the most learned PM any country to have.. people fighting for power and seats  should just learn from the most powerful woman in Indian history..

again Why Sonia? why u did this ? why did you choose the Road less travelled ??


As they say, there are lot of questions that will never be answered,, probably autobiograhy of Sonia will only answer.

Selfless people are always an admiration and inspiration ....

Octopus Paul predictions

It might be strange.. but looks like i have theory for octopus answers.. Paul rests on the box which is left to him .. thts when we see the video or pics it always sits on the right side.. probably the octobus is comfortable turning to the left... but guess once it has done it the reverse way... so exceptions are bound to be there..

Deccan 360 - Captain Strikes Back

No No No.. its not the name of any movie.  I have been recently seeing a lot of Deccan 360 cars running around in the city, but i just thought its another courier company. When i was casually browsing jobs at Naukri, i stopped at a marketing manager requirement from Deccan 360, then i got little curious to see what is the back ground. It is think tank Captain Gopinaths new venture after successfully carrying out the aviation business. Now i know its not just another courier company, its going to be the DHLs and Fedexs from India with love. All the best sir. I am getting little interested towards brand management now. talking abt DHL... DHL has an interesting history, will bog abt it later...

Pranav Mistry , Sixth Sense technology and differently abled people

I have been hearing abt Pranav Mistry's ground breaking Sixth Sense technology for a long time, but never saw his presentation on TED.

What Pranav is trying to commercialise is a wearable device with a camera, which converts any surface into a computing device, intelligent enough to understand whatever it sees and provide info on the same.. Its a bridge between Physical and virtual world..

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

Absolutely mind blowing presentation from Pranav.. But one thing stole my heart, which could be the most useful thing humans have ever built.

Answering the questions pranav says, NGOs in India have full faith tht this technology could assist differently abled people and they have asked Pranav to check the feasibility... Imagine people without vision, getting all the details in front of them as an audible.. Hearing impaired people can see whatever the person talks in front of him... People who are deprived of their speech could communicate easily with people ... they can lead a life which will be closer to normal..

Hope Pranav could help those millions of differently abled people in their life... As he says Imagination is the only limit....

good luck pranav on ur endeavour.. urs is an innovation tht will truly be remembered forever...