Operation Cyclone - Did the media spoil PAK support?

While Tamil Nadu was reeling under the pangs of cyclone Nisha and killing in hundreds, the west coast, Mumbai, tasted the stabs of terror, again.

Operation Cyclone stormed the terrorists and brought relief after 70 hours of courageous fight. While all of this was happening, it was sad to see the media go berserk. While they all had the same scenes to telecast, just for the sake differentiation, the dramas that they played was pathetic.

Starting from bothering the security personnel and the fire brigade for sensational news for their channels, they have gone to the extent of cursing the Pakistanis who appeared on their channels. Those Pakistanis, who in spite of their country's dismal record in freedom of speech, for the first time appeared to have shown real concern and sympathy to what's happening to India. And what did our media do? Crucify them, as if the were the sole representatives of Pakistan. What were they expecting? Beg for mercy and punishment? The media have gone to the extent of projecting the impending arrival of the ISI chief as a summon by the Indian government. Whats India, a super power to summon the neighbour's Intelligent chief? Now, that appears to be impossible and a chance of lost opportunity for the countries to work together against the cancer.

Lets understand that Pakistan is screwed beyond a easy recovery from the mistakes of its past leaders. If India wants a peaceful boarder, let us better help that country's young civilian govt to fight terrorism. We must strive to utilize every opportunity for the betterment of the situation.

Indus Valley Civilization

Is there any other subject as controversial as "The Indus Valley Civilization"? One's opinion seems to reflect on the origin, whether you are an Indian, Pakistani, North Indian, South Indian, Aryan, Dravidian, religious, Scientist, Parthasarathy, Seshadri, Kandasamy or Murugan. And so is one's acceptance of the umpteen theories doing rounds. Foreign researchers’ theories appear to attract less criticism than an Indian researcher’s. Varnam’s (http://varnam.org/blog/archives/history_before_1_ce/) postings are “colored”!

Mind over matter

One of the very early works of Science fiction in Tamil may be attributed to Pudhumaipithan (புதுமைப்பித்தன்). In this Kapadapuram (கபாடபுரம்) written in 1945, a head with no-body lives, speaks and cracks jokes with the hero. One's body and it's parts perform acts to satisfy the needs of the brain. If the brain can achive it's needs in some other way then there is no need for the body. Taking it further, if the brain attains a state where it has no needs then there is no need for the body. The ultimate human evoluation?!

The Hindu, Friday, May 30, 2008: Two monkeys with tiny sensors in their brains have learned to control a mechanical arm with just their thoughts, using it to reach for and grab food and even to adjust for the size and stickiness of morsels when necessary, sceientsits have reported.

Science and Science fictions, what follows what?