The Great Indian Live-stock

Shashi Tharoor's recent comment on traveling 'cattle class' has made most of us question "How the F*** can a politician willingly dig his own grave? "

In my opinion he is right in his statement and my sympathies goes to Tharoor for people have been making a mockery of this tweet of his.

In the first place we don't know what to expect from our politicians. Shashi who has been a great diplomat throughout his career is finding it tough to survive in the political scenario. To me the 'cattle class' was very humorous, but I wondered why did people feel so bad about it.

The west calls it so because the seating arrangement in the economy class of aircraft's are very similar to the way cattle is transported in their country. Let's admit it, the cattle class of Sashi's is just second to the best transportation system we have in India. But folks in the MEDIA and some XYZ's don't feel good about this remark. Why? because this is their usual means of transportation. And our 'learned' people started comparing with the "Indian" cattle class (u can see the pics on the left). Feel so sorry for these 'next to VIPs' people. They are so cocooned to their thought and lifestyle that they feel ashamed and angry whenever they are brought close to the Indian reality. Its like, they feel accused. For once can't these LAME people can think out of the box.

Folks!! This is something to laugh and enjoy. I expect people and more than that the MEDIA to be 'realistically' BROAD minded in this regard.

Faith in God

An Atheist was I or not;

But sure that I had never seen him
For people told me that he was here, there and everywhere;
And he always looked upon us with his wide open eyes.

Those days I knew a few that were right or wrong
The rest was still for me to learn.
The right and wrong were not my own,
But it was just the way that I was told.

I knew one thing was certain
To thy self I needed to be true;
For the feeling that is good or bad in you.

That one day was not like any other day,
For I still remember it like yesterday.
I was a happy naughty kid of seven,
Still wondering about the difference between earth and heaven.

I was ready to go to school early that day,
Had my breakfast and was set to pack my bag right.
All was okay, but finding my almanac became a fight.

I searched here and there,
Ran my thoughts to trace back in time,
Wondered for where it had vanished without a trace;
Even my mother could see all the gloom in my face.

Went to school with my mind trying to search it from earth to sky,
At the prayer hall at school that day
I prayed to god like I never did till that day,
And looked up to the sky to search for that wide open eye,

I felt pain and could not stop my eyes from getting wet,
I begged for forgiveness
For all that I knew was wrong,
And also those for which I knew not.

In my prayer I said to god,
I will do well every time in my life,
And not suffer from within for doing any sin;
To smile at life as the way it comes to me
And enjoy it till the time it is with me.

Then I thought of the cupboard in my room
And in it the second shelf to the right
Just below few of my books I could see
The little green almanac of me.

All the day at school I prayed to god,
Never uttered to my friends about this a word,
I went back home at dusk that day,
Still had the gloomy face to my mother's dismay.

I pulled my laces of my shoe,
And tided myself from head to toe.
I walked to the cupboard in my room,
Hoping my prayers to come true.

I opened the door and looked for it right,
Couldn't believe my eyes as they lit bright.
There it was in the corner, my little green almanac
The book that had a few pages of my prayer.

NI to drive AI

Many a times we have come across the comparison of the human mind and the computer. Nothing new about saying that Manas (sensory part of the body) is similar to the various input devices of a computer, chitta being the memory out of which we have the active (RAM) and the passive (ROM) types and buddhi which is the CPU.
Here comes the interesting part, the concept of Artificial intelligence (AI). What is that component in the human mind (Natural Intelegence) that would be the key driving factor for a AI system? The answer to this lies with what we call ahankara, although we use this word very often as a negative notation but this word has got a much deep rooted meaning i.e. ‘I’. Ahankar is all about one individual stating his decision. The influence of this decision forms an additional input for his Buddhi. This is where the key to developing an AI system lies. You might notice a child of one year also has Ahankar. It is there with a person right from the time he is born. Just think of a situation where you are trying to stop a baby from touching a candle flame. Will the baby listen, it wouldn’t, why is it? This is because the baby has never experienced the physical pain that is caused when we touch a burning fire. Similarly an AI system would actually go ahead and try to experience this very act to know what the outcome of such an act is.
What made the baby to do such a thing? It was the Ahankar. But will this Ahankar still drive the baby in the future if he sees a candle flame. Maybe yes or may not. This is determined by how much strong is his Ahankar. An AI system that is being designed for war would require a much stronger Ahankar than those that would be used for domestic purposes.
Remember the Agent from the famous movie Matrix, the movie portrayed the Agent as someone having a strong Ahankar. In reality it was not the agent but the matrix (system) that was driving him. The system had a strong urge to beat Neo. And nothing would stop it from trying to do that till the very end, even if it meant self destruction.
An AI system will also be dependent on Manas and Chitta. Ahankar would be the driving factor, but physically it would be a very small component of this entire system. The size of the sensors (Manas), memory(Chitta) would be much huge, not to forget processing capabilities. The buddhi would be used to control the level of Ahankar required. A catastrophe is certain case when Ahankar takes over the Buddhi. Therefore this should always be kept in mind.