Beautiful Mind

As of now could not think of anything else, but a nice & beautiful song for this cool afternoon of the season winter. Aa aa.. a a aa. a a aa. a a aa.. a a aa aaa............

I never loved nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost in the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind all this music

And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart

And suppose I never ever met you
Suppose we never fell in love
Suppose I never ever let you kiss me so sweet and so soft
Suppose I never ever saw you
Suppose we never ever called
Suppose I kept on singing love songs just to break my own fall
Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Just to break my fall
Break my fall
Break my fall

All my friends say that of course its gonna get better
Gonna get better
Better better better better
Better better better

I never love nobody fully
Always one foot on the ground
And by protecting my heart truly
I got lost
In the sounds
I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind
All this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart
Breaks my
Heart
Breaks my heart

I hear in my mind
All these voices
I hear in my mind all these words
I hear in my mind
All this music
And it breaks my heart
It breaks my heart
Breaks my
Heart
Breaks my heart
and it breaks my heart
it breaks my heart
and it breaks my heart
and it breaks my heart

In the recent times Marathi cinema has not only regained its Shwaas (breath), it seems to have won back some shine too.

If Shwaas was all about local soil and universal sentiment, Smita Talwalkar’s recently released Saat Chya Aat Gharaat (Back home before 7 pm), which portrays the conflict between conventions in Indian homes and a perceived urban unrestraint, finds a fine balance between local ethos and Western liberalism.

Incidentally, both films are set in Pune, of which in Saat chya Aat Gharaat this is a key (background) element of the plot. Directed by Sanjay Surkar, it has an ensemble cast that has managed to use the next generation of actors. If you've been in Pune for about 4-5 years (or any other city going through a similar transition), you'll instinctively react to the idea of the film. Using a real-life incident as its core, it explores the overt frictional dissension because of westernization and the "new age" urban lifestyle that accompanies big pay packets in the white-collar industries. Discord not only among generations, but among people in different strata. A latent animosity against the more hedonic aspects of such a life comes to the fore when incidents like the ILS ragging incident take place. Pune is churning and that Saat chya Aat Gharaat is about a certain viewpoint in the middle of this.

The film’s lead actor Kartikadevi Rane plays a rich Pune girl who is both a witness and participant in a clash of cultures. She is part of a crowd of trendy management students who are out to make the most of what life offers. Then, after a late-night bash, a college friend of hers is raped, and the world around her changes. Seven close friends who never bothered about their different cultures and ready to give anything for their friends, gets separated from their friend who got raped. The opinions and views of each friend changes after the incident. Some friends turn support her, some show sympathy where as some turns their back to her.

The film in essence is her (Kartikadevi) character’s reaction to the weird events that unfold after the rape incident, and her ultimate questioning of the ways of modern youth.

The title creates fears of Balaji-like traditionalism, but the film is, for the most part, an argument against excesses. Kartikadevi packs a powerful performance, demonstrating the tumult of her character with control. The character she was playing was westernized and
yet slightly traditional, with her grandmother and mother as her rallying points, so that balance too had to be maintained. After the rape incident, she asks herself questions like what if this was to happen to her, what if her
boyfriend wouldn’t have supported her after the incident, etc.

The film is not about time, but roots. It’s a comment on youth; a film for us youngsters, made by us. When you see the film, you feel close to it, and the characters are people you’ve seen and met.

After a long time I am posting something on my blog. Some of the mind blowing questions which I got from one of the books. Lets see how many of you can answer them. 

1. Take the letters ERGRO. Put three letters in front of it, and the same three letters behind to form a common English word.
2. What number gives the same result when it is added to 1.5 as when it is multiplied by 1.5?
3. Which of these numbers is the odd-one-out?
   43, 26, 50, 37, 17, 82
4. The following number has a rather special characteristic. What makes it unique?
   8549176320
5. What do the following numbers have in common?
   3, 7, 10, 11, 12
6. A certain number consists of two digits. The number is equal to five times the sum of its digits. If you add 9 to the number, the order of its digits is reversed. What is the number?
7. Replace the asterisks by the correct mathematical signs to make the expression equal to 99.
   16 * 12 * 2 * 3 = 99
8. What should the tenth number in this series be?
   3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4, ?
9. Rearrange these letters to form the name of a famous writer:
   I AM A WEAKISH SPELLER
10. What are the next four letters in this series.
    Y, Y, H, L, Y, E, Y, T, ...

Best of luck.

Kant_

The Roman conqueror Julius Caesar used an easy substitution cipher for sending his secret messages. He simply replaced each letter with the third letter after it in the alphabet, so that plaintext “a” became ciphertext “d” and plaintext “b” became ciphertext “e”, and so on.

Because it is difficult to remember an incoherent string of 26 letters, cipher alphabets are often based on a single word that is easy to memorize. The simplest method is to write out the keyword, omitting any repeated letters, then to follow it with the remaining letters of the alphabet in order. A keyword should be between five and nine letters long. It must only have one of each letter in it. If you keyword does have more than one of any letter, omit any repeated letters. For example, if your selected keyword was “cookie” you would use “cokie” – leave out the second “o”.

Here is a Substitution Cipher with zebra lips as the keyword.

Based on these methods cryptographers built many algorithms and used as the powerful communication mechanism in the national security organizations.

You can find many novels and books. Dan brown’s “Digital Fortress”, “Da Vinci Code” and Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” inspired me read more about the cipher text and messages. Some of the links that I found more interesting to read are

THE DANCING MEN

CLASSICAL CRYPTOGRAPHY

CAESAR’S CIPHER I AND II

Try this.

http://www.iimi-iris.com/iris/irising/klueLESS/

Amazing!!!!!