Rangin and I were sitting side by side, commenting on the appalingly poor standard of the kid batting, hoping he’ll do better when he grows up. He certainly didn’t deserve to be in the club which gave us our first batsman in the national team.
Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams
W. B. Yeats
Contrary to the popular assumption, I do read newspapers, whenever I can. I have even watched two episodes of Coffee with Karan (the point I’m trying to make is, I also watch tv, whenever I find the time). I note down a lot of things that I find funny, but I always end up loosing them. Here are the ones that have survived.
“When I heard that, I knew the film would not work, as youngsters were not able to relate to its basic premise. But mark my words, Kisna will prove to be a classic.”
(Subhash Ghai, as told to Mini Anthikad-Chhibber, METROPLUS (The Hindu), Chennai Edition, 7th September, 2006. link)
To appreciate this comment, one has to watch the movie “KISNA, the warrior poet”, but I don’t recommend it because I don’t want to loose my blog readers. The classic catch-22 situation.
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AM – His Life
Years and years pass away, and a myth takes shape. Centuries of solitude and years flow by, and a legend is made. But only once in the lifetime of a human race, if at all, an AM is born.
“AM about to flash!”
Dumb arrogance and idiocy lay hid in night;
God said ‘Let AM be’ and all was flash light.”
Some people are born great; some people achieve greatness; and some people just define themselves to be great. As past historians tell us, AM did not stop at defining himself to be great. Inspired by his newfound greatness, he went as far as spending the rest of his life trying to prove his greatness.
Some time back, I received a group mail from the only mailing list that I subscribe to outside of my institute. The sender conjectures from empirical evidence that if the solutions of the N-Queen problem are seen as elements of S(N), then the group generated by them inside S(N) (let’s call it Q(N)) seems to be isomorphic to S(N) for N>=7. She has already verified it for N=7, 8, 9 and 10 computationally.
This – one of my favourite poems when I was seventeen, and when I was eighteen, and when I was nineteen; well, pretty much ever since… I almost fell in love reading this poem – almost because I couldn’t find a girl walking by the pale light of streetlamps to fall in love with.
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