AYON'S Thoughts

Transformers – The beginning. This is a sequel to my earlier post in the link http://ayonsblog.blogspot.in/2013/06/transformers.html . Well Chaotica had a very major transformation in 3014. The Regress Fraternity that was ruling Chaotica for a long time was totally decimated. The Chaotica General Fraternity led by Mr. Moody took over the reins of power. The changeover became even more dramatic because of the emergence of Generalized Commoners Sodality which was led by an immensely transformed member of the human species by the name of Err-Whined Crazy-Wild. This human had become popular by very uncharacteristic methods. He has tutored by an aged warrior by the named of Anna Thousand-Array. Anna Thousand-Array by himself was a veteran champ of the game of Truth or Dare. He challenged every possible person seating in some position of power to a game of Truth or Dare. Whenever he faced opposition of any kind, he went in a state of dormant activity by stopping his food intake. Every...

Demonetization - It made me feel so poor, so inferior these days. I am a central government employee with my salary as the sole source of income. Every year I pay tax which pinches my pocket dearly, still I had a sense of satisfaction I was honestly paying more taxes than many of my more affluent friends who earn from other sources. They manipulate the records to pay much lower taxes than me. But damn Modi. My superiority complex is now threatened. Why on earth did he have to take such a drastic step? The status quo would have been better. We Indians are programmed for status quo. We resist changes and we love to see things stagnant. So, whenever there is a change of any sort we protest. We don’t want better emission norms because that would mean our old cars need to be changed. We don’t want changes in the education system, for those yellow notes that have been preserved over the ages will be trashed. And how can these be trashed, after all these are a part of our heritage. Actually...

As I was watching an advertisement of some car tyre, this thought crossed my mind – do we always need to be politically correct? In that commercial a kid writes about his day out in his Dad’s car where he goes for an adventure and meets a monster that smiles at him. So far the visuals are fine. But in the next visual the monster is shown as a dead branch of a tree. That makes me ponder, do we need to kill imagination of kids in order to be politically correct. I ask this question because when I was a child I used to listen to stories and fables. In those stories the animals, birds and trees used to speak, there were giants and elves and gnomes and fairies and blood thirsty monsters. In tales of mythology there were Rakshasas and Asuras. Even a few years back there was the Harry Potter series with wizards and witches. But then some voices could be heard, some religious leaders on one hand and rationalists on the other opposed these books, though their reasons and domains were absolu...

Transformers Wiki defines transformers thus: The Transformers are a species of sentient, living robotic beings (mostly) originating from the distant machine world of Cybertron. The stories of their lives, their histories, and most especially their wars have been chronicled across many different continuities in the vast multiverse. The designation "Transformer" stems from the species' generally-shared ability to transform, to change their bodies at will, rearranging their component parts from a robotic primary mode (usually, but not always, humanoid) into an alternate form; generally vehicles, weapons, machinery, or animals. In some continuities this ability to transform is innate to all members of the species, in others it was a wartime innovation that was adopted by most, but not all, of the populace. Hollywood came out with the movie ‘Transformer’ in the year 3007.  The movie was a smash hit among especially among the kids. Due to the success of this m...

Secularism/Sickularism George Holyoake coined the term secularism in an 1896 publication (Holyoake, George J. (1896). English Secularism. Chicago: The Open Court Publishing Company) where he defines secularism as: Secularism is a code of duty pertaining to this life, founded on considerations purely human, and intended mainly for those who find theology indefinite or inadequate, unreliable or unbelievable. Its essential principles are three:  (1) The improvement of this life by material means. (2) That science is the available Providence of man. (3) That it is good to do good. Whether there be other good or not, the good of the present life is good, and it is good to seek that good. With the Modi vs Nitish show down the question of secularism again has raised its ugly head. To begin with let us try to understand secularism in the Indian context as it does not in any way pertains to its original definition cited above. What does that mean to a com...

Leagues of the Nation-I Circa 2008, 16th April. IPL- I ( Indian Political League) The IPL-I which began on the 16th of April will be played between two major teams and two major fronts. The entire league will be played in five phases and the champions will be declared on the 16th of May. This is the biggest league played in the entire history with crores of people involved in the process. Rules of the Game: There is no definite rule for this league. Teams may win by hook or by crook or by any means they deem suitable. They may choose a captain before hand or may also select him later. They may poach players from any other team or at times they may also poach entire smaller teams. Normal play procedures include debates, arguments, mudslinging, rigging, booth- capturing, lobbying, maligning, bribing and/or any other means, fair or foul. The entire league is conducted by the ECI (Empathetic Council of Incorrigibles). The Major Teams: UPA (Un Predictable Association): This ...

Globalization - Students and Changing Attitudes. Throughout history it has been found that changes are ushered by the youth. And what better represents the youth of the day than the students. Students today are a community who are directly exposed to the means and also to the ends of “Globalization.” With the advent of new information technology, industrial production and liberalized world trade, drastic changes are happening around us and they have a multidimensional effect on the entire population as a whole and students in particular. The society is changing in different directions because of variations in local resources and local conditions brought in as effects of globalization. Globalization is not as new concept and the arrival of Aryans in India is also considered by many as globalization. Some others visualize the voyages of Columbus, Marco Polo and Vasco da Gama as steps towards globalization. In the early stages of history the agents of globalization were traders, prea...