BE PREPARED TO BE SHOCKED (2 = 1)

Let a and b represent two equal quantities which are not zero
a = b

Multiplying by a
a² = ab

Substract b²
a² – b² = ab – b²

Finding out factors
(a + b)(a - b) = b(a - b)

Dividing by (a - b)
a + b = b        

Since we know a = b
b + b = b
2b = b
Which finally gives
2 = 1                 ;) 

INDIA INC.

INDIA 2025: DREAMS FOR A MARVELLOUS FUTURE

India 2025 holds in its arms a marvellous surprise to behold for all people of the Motherland. India shall be on top of the world. Every single Indian shall be educated. Not a single person shall be seen begging for alms on the streets.

In Rabindranath Tagore’s words the unchained mind shall reign over India and Indians shall innovate like they are not Indians at all. Gandhijis dream of an India free of poverty shall have been realized. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam’s vision of an India behind no one in- aerospace and aircraft technology shall be given wings to fly high.

RABINDRANATH TAGORE

DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM : VISION 2020

Black Money bolted to save havens in foreign bank accounts shall be brought back and made national property. Not a single corrupt politico shall live to see another day. Whistleblowers shall be aptly rewarded.

UNITED BANK OF SWITZERLAND

India shall gain complete control over its hinterland in land , waters and air.

Hi-speed public communication in the form of Bullet Trains shall be made possible.

As has been India’s sanskara, it shall never conquer any nation but win the hearts of all and inspire awe in them. The tricolor shall fly high and Indians would all come back and not leave the shores for a few extra bucks in the West.

The only question that stirs up in our minds now and then that dreaming is okay but who will make our dreams true.

Even Mr. Modi has only 5 years. Take a decade, if he is re-elected, which is only too sure.

But GenX has their lives ahead of them. We can change the world. If India cares to invest in its biggest wealth – youth power, we can show the world what India is. India should realize the potential  in a third of its population (under 14) and nurture them into responsible citizens of tomorrow.

Graduates from Indian Universities should not feel the urge to cross the shores for utilitarian comforts abroad. Corrupt politicians shall shudder to take bribes. Poor shall have a roof above them, food to eat, and clothes to wear. Students shall receive top-class education in India.

Children shall never forget their golden heritage and their great ancestry and at the same time keep pace with the world with electronic gadgetry. It was India where Universities like Taxilla and Nalanda were present. It was India where Aryabhatta, the renowned astronomer, Panini, the Sanskrit Grammarian, and the scholars of medical science Charak and Shushrutha were born. We had heroes like Bhagat Singh,

Rana Pratap, Rani Laxmibai, Mangal Pandey. It is here where innovators like Amar Bose (founder, Bose Sound Systems), Jagdish Chandra Bose, Sir CV Raman were born.

Amar Bose, Indian American, Founder of Bose Corporation (1929 - 2013), alumnus MIT, USA 

The page will run short if I begin to describe the many greatnesses of India. India’s children should be proud to be born in such a country.

It would then be possible that these children brew magic in India. India’s children are the torchbearers of its future, the harbingers of revolution.  The winds will be on India. Every Indian will be proud to call himself one. India Inc. a thumping organization of 1.3 billion hearts shall inspire awe in every person in this world.

Because in a few decades from now, people will look at the southern tip of Asia and say “Isn’t that INDIA??”

JAI HIND

RMS TITANIC

THE VERY DECEPTIVE NIGHT

“The ship leaves in 5 minutes”, “Jump Overboard!!!”

The huge engines driving the massive ocean liner roared into action. Whiffs of smoke, white and fluffy started to billow from the four smokestacks. The anchor was pulled out with a clanging sound. The Unsinkable Ship faced the mighty Atlantic, beginning what would later be etched into history textbooks as ‘the unfateful night’.

White star line could not but boast about the marvelous ship. The ships designers Harland & Wolff claimed they had added additional structural dynamics to covet the title the ship had been honoured with. So much sure they were that the ship would not sink that they lessened the number of lifeboats aboard.

Then came the day of 11^th April. The captain (Edward John Smith) was sailing through rough weather and in a region well known for icebergs. He sent a person up the mast to look for those murderous lumps of ice.

The person was latter heard yelling at the top of his voice, “Iceberg ahead! Turn the ship!!”

The captain gaped. A huge mountain of ice lay meters from the ship. He tried his way best to turn the ship but he could do nothing much. As the massive ship turned, the iceberg scraped the ships bottom.

The next thing they knew was that water gushed into the Engine Room first through Boiler 5. The inevitable had happened. The unsinkable ship was sinking.

They began to send SOS in all directions. The Carpathia, which was a little too far away, heard the ships signals and rushed to its aid. Rockets were shot in all directions. The lifeboats were loaded with people. People jumped into ice-cold waters and met their watery graves.

By the time the Carpathia could arrive, Titanic had long since sunk. Only a few handfuls could be saved. Nearly 1500 people left for their abodes.

The Titanic itself, lies in two on the floor of the Atlantic, humming a song few hear, lonely, its elaborate decks scattered with bodies and remains of those who were not so lucky that day.

We have moved far ahead in marine technology since 1912. We know more about the high seas than about our own land. What remains, are but memories, imprinted on the minds of the living descendants of the survivors of the horrific tragedy. They, who were lucky they survived, lived on, to tell the world about that day.

Scientists have conducted experiments on the wreckage in order to reveal the scientific facts behind the sinking of the Unsinkable Ship. Reports tell that the iron used in the liner’s construction was very brittle. The stars too did not seem to be on the ship’s side and were reportedly off the skies that day. As if it were not enough, all the ships nearby had switched off their radar systems. A small number of lifeboats only added to the long list of problems.

Also, experiments have shown that the man on the mast had seen a mirage. He saw the iceberg miles away when it was only a few metres form the ship. The Californian, a huge ship sailing nearby, seems to have seen a mere steamboat. The Captain too claims to have seen a mirage and thus ‘could not conclude’ that it was ‘a massive oceanliner with four smokestacks. in his words “IT WAS A VERY DECEPTIVE  NIGHT”

(A film has been made by James Cameron in 1998 on the ship. It was converted to 3D for the centenary of the sinking in 2012. Those who go to see the film return with a wet handkerchief)