THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACK BURKINI

“I created the burkini to give women freedom, not to take it away “-Aheda Zanetti

 1

Burkini is a language

Terrifying those ignorant of its text.

2
Cops patrol her tan lines

Like dams patrol

Rivers flowing above danger marks.

3

All you need is in that bag:

Change into a garment

More palatable for the cops in uniform.

4

Some garments cling too close to your surname

Like a metaphor

Too loud for good poetry.

 5.

Sea surfing can be tiring

Like an infinite ebb and flow of a questionnaire.

Batting an eye lid can be a tad too immodest.

6

Tether yourself close to the beach.

Do not surf too deep into the ocean.

Never self-intersect in circles of knots and tangles.

 7

Bruises sustained from frisking

Metamorphose into festering wounds.

Gangrene could gnaw at your surname.

 8

Erase your footprints from the sands.

Waves of time rarely wash the footprints of a scuffle.

Prolonged scuffle can bury us all in a deep hole.

 9

Do you remember the first corpse

The sea sucked off a turbulent beach?

The sea spat it out after three days of frisking.

 10

The footprints of scuffle

Implicates you from shore to shore,

Blowing up all bridges between you and anyone.

 11

During this conversation

Some territory has been ceded across

The tan lines of your body. 

12

Your body stripped off the garment

Remains an evacuated language.

Can a language be a scarecrow?

13

History will catch up with you

In your rear-view mirror

Even if you are full throttle in your

Pursuit of happiness.

(c) Chandramohan S

Salary hike for profs in India

This if done long back could initiate a reverse brain drain in Engineering and Management academia.As usual India is always late.but better late than never.

Indian Institute of Science Education Research at Pune ,Kolkatta and Buvaneshwar.
Integrated Masters after 12th 5 years. and Integrated PhD after Undergrad.

Institute of Space Science and Technology.Trivandrum. Kerala.
BTech and Integrated Masters in Applied Science.

Collapse of the US dollar?

If the US dollar collapses what could be the most important repercussions around the world?
Firstly what are the reasons for the possible collapse of the US dollar?
No.1.
Huge trade and Budget deficit of the US .America had been living beyond its means for far too long now .Trade deficit with China alone is $202 billion. ­The $US has declined 40% against the Euro over the last 2 years, and during this time America's trade deficit has continues to deteriorate.The decline of other currencies against the US dollar is not offsetting the balance.

No.2
China,Russia and Japan who have huge amount of dollar reserve are planing to shift a considerable amount of their reserves to the Euro .This will only hasten the lack of confidence in the dollar, creating a global lack of confidence in the currency, and setting it into free-fall. It will soon bring about the total collapse of the dollar, and the American economy.

N0.3
The US invasion of Iraq and hostile relations with Iran has prompted the Oil producing countries to shift crude oil transactions to Euro .This will also set the dollar into free fall.

Its impact on US and rest of the World



The collapse of the dollar will throw the world into a global depression. Those nations with large external debts will not be able to trade sufficiently to earn the income to service their debts, and will slide into bankruptcy. The economies of New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the UK will also totally collapse, as a result of their indebtedness and not being able to service their borrowings. Crime will become rampant. Law and order will cease to exist. Disease will become widespread.
Though Asian economies will also be affected....they will recover after a mammoth turmoil.


Impact on India

Millions of Indians in US...academia and industry will fly back home back launching India into utter chaos.Back in India the IT/ITeS industry will collapse and Infosys/TCS/Wipro/Sathyam will close down.

Who will recruit the thousands of Engineering graduates passing out each year other than the IT firms which are closing now.?

Highly qualified Indian Engineers from IBM/Bell Labs/Intel/Microsoft and Profs from MIT/Berkeley/Stan/CalTech might soon be applying for Faculty positions in the Europe/India.(Will this make IITs/IISc/TIFR leading centers of Research as their highly reputed alumni have come back to their alma mater ?

Will the leading US Universities be able to attract and fund the bright students of Asia and Europe?
where will the toppers of IITs/Beijing University and other leading Asian universities go ?
so "brain drain" to the US will come to halt? and Europe will be the new destination?

I think this will give a great opportunity for India to 'rise and shine" in this post American collapse world.

Terence Tao

He is the Mozart of Math .Professor at UCLA at 24.
Fields Medalist .
Here is another article which has his Biography.

Here is his own blog.

US afraid of a Rising China?

US Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton says "lets not FEAR or IGNORE this rising dragon "....
America's charge :
China had "manipulated" its currency (exchange rate) and earned an "unfair" advantage in global trade ..especially against the US which had been living beyond its means for a very long time by now and weakening its own currency and fueled speculations of a "collapse of US dollar" and the like...
The trade deficit with China alone is $202 billion and rising ...

Hillary is "afraid" that the new US president will have to "face" a dramatically empowered China....complains that the present Bush administration has failed to "curb" China ..to initiate dialog on trade , undervalued currency and human rights....

Obama too ....
The Harvard Law Graduate ..Illinous senator Barack Obama ..the rock star politician and Hillary's closest Democrat rival is also pessimistic about China.. he says
"China has manipulated its currency for years in order to gain an unfair advantage over the United States in trade. Unfortunately, the Administration has failed to effectively challenge or change China's behavior"...

effectively "challenge or change" Chinese behavior is going to be his strategy ?

China embraced communism two year after Indian Independence....initiated Economic reforms two decades before India and has leap-frogged into the fourth largest Economy of the world by dwarfing even the "world colonizer" Britain,..

what has India been doing all these years? We "missed the bus " on too many occasions....

Few Disturbing facts for India....
China has leveraged largest number of people out of poverty in the shortest period of time .
Microsoft Research Center at Beijing has become the "hottest computer lab" in the World according to MIT Tech Review .
The article is here
This place finds special mention in Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat"..

Beijing University finds a place in top 15 Universities of the World...but the combined output of IITs and IISc put together is equal to that of second tier Chinese Universities ....

China has mastered "Neutron" bomb technology ...,possesses inter Continental Ballistic Missiles ..has befriended Africa for its natural resources to fuel its "over heating " economy ....
India is sleeping .....I guess

Trade unions in IT sector -Need of the hour?

What will happen if a left party controlled trade union demand for higher renumeration and the like from an IT firm like infosys?
There cannot be a worse nightmare for Narayana Muthy(Infosys Chief Mentor)....but is it necessary?

are the graduates from Engineering colleges made to work like slaves for a pittance of an amount?
Is there a mismatch between the number of hours put in by a "fresher" at these IT firms and the profit these firms amass?

Will such a move hamper the prospects of thousands of Engineering students hoping to get placed in IT firms ?


looking forward to your valuable suggestions.....

Should all the white collar job loving Indians in the IT field do a "collective bargaining"( in the form of a Union) to fatten their pay packet?

It seems working conditions in many IT firms are very deplorable....with huge health hazards and the like this

Barack Obama

The first half black ( African-American) US presidential Candidate ...the rock star politician...the best orator among all the 08 presidential candidates.....
Outraised Hillary Clinton in primary fund raising :)
a remarkable acheivement surely....but still I beleive Hillary is too tough to be beaten by this 45 year old man :)

Obama's weakness

1.Lack of Experience. He had become senator just 2 years back and now running for President.( He says I have been in politics long enough to know that politics needs a change )
2. His race(colour)- Is US ready for a black President? He is supposed to be a black leader who does not scare white people....

H was born in Hawaii , father from Kenya and mother from Kansas (US) ,went to school in LA (Los Angeles) and Jakarta( Indonesia) ,went to college in New York, then at Harvard Law School( got his degree with Magna Cum Laude) and then lived in Chicago and now in washington and now want to move to White House...
A "unique perspective" in the globalised 21st century....

Interesting topics :)

The eldest child seems to have higher IQs.

Girls with faminine names seem to underperform in Math.

Veggies smarter???

The Jews !!! "Influence far disproportionate to the size of the community"

"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power and prominence in popular culture."

Michael Medved, well-known Jewish author and respected film critic.

Jews are only two percent of the US population yet comprise eleven percent of what this study defines as the nation's elite.
During the last three decades Jews [in the United States] have made up 50 percent of the top two hundred intellectuals ... 20 percent of professors at the leading universities ... 40 percent of partners in the leading law firms in New York and Washington ... 59 percent of the directors, writers, and producers of the 50 top-grossing motion pictures from 1965 to 1982, and 58 percent of directors, writers, and producers in two or more primetime television series.

Indian-Americans in US are also as populous as jews.but their impact on the US economy and foreign relations is too meagre to be compared to the "jewish lobby".

China again !!!

China shoots down its own aging satellite using a "long range missile".....
An early step towards "Space Wars"???

China commisions very fast trains ...among the fastest "non magnetic levigation" trains.

China puts into orbit "Compass" ..its own Satellite systems to compete with GPS(US) and Galileo(EU)
.
wat next?

Agni -III a step closer to IRBMs???

India on their way to indigenously built its own "Inter-Continental Range Ballistic Missile " ??? thats great news to all patriots ....India on a par with US Russia nd China???
Thats good news....

KILLING THE SHAMBUKA

KILLING THE SHAMBUKA

 Jim Crow segregated hostel rooms

Ceiling fans bear a strange fruit,

Blood on  books and blood on papers,

Black body swinging in mute silence,

Strange fruit hanging from tridents.

This poem draws its inspiration from the poem STRANGE FRUIT(1937) by ABEL MEEROPOL and is on suicides of Dalit-bahujan students in institutions of higher education in India.

Shing Tung Yau's Titanic Contriution to Chinese Mathematics

Finally, and most seriously of all, the article completely misrepresents the titanic contributions Yau has made to Chinese mathematics, and I feel I must briefly say something about these. I know a little about his work in China because Yau has always been uncomprisingly broad in his vision, and has strove to use his influence and institutions to develop all major fields of mathematical research, including number theory (my own area). I think, without doubt, his greatest contribution to Chinese mathematics has been his remarkable success in training a whole new generation of Chinese differential geometers, who are now at the forefront of research in this highly important field, with its links to physics and cosmology. Secondly, he has created from square one, and now directs, important research institutes in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Academy of Science in Beijing, and Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. In each case, he secured through his own efforts the funding for these institutes, built the buildings, and continues to work tirelessly to have excellent research done at them. Thirdly, he has now successfully organized, for the benefit of all Chinese mathematicians around the world, three highly successful International Congresses of Chinese Mathematicians over the last decade in Beijing, Taipei, and Hong Kong. I have had the good fortune to attend all three Congresses, and I am full of admiration of Yau's tireless efforts to get funding for the Congresses and to ensure that all Chinese mathematicians with interesting new research results should be given the opportunity to speak at them. Finally, Yau has been the driving force behind an imaginative scheme to encourage gifted high school students in Hong Kong to get a taste for mathematical research early their lives. This is only a partial list of Yau's work for Chinese mathematics, and I must stress that it lists only those aspects of his which work benefit research in all fields of mathematics. I do not think there is any other living mathematician who can claim to have even a fraction of achievements like these, which are aimed at the good of the whole mathematical community. It is very sad that the article in the New Yorker took no time to mention these great contributions, but wasted much time on gossip and irrelevant stories.
This is an extract from John Coates letter to New Yorker.

Another guy Yau !!!

Yau’s family moved to Hong Kong from mainland China in 1949, when he was five months old, along with hundreds of thousands of other refugees fleeing Mao’s armies. The previous year, his father, a relief worker for the United Nations, had lost most of the family’s savings in a series of failed ventures. In Hong Kong, to support his wife and eight children, he tutored college students in classical Chinese literature and philosophy.

When Yau was fourteen, his father died of kidney cancer, leaving his mother dependent on handouts from Christian missionaries and whatever small sums she earned from selling handicrafts. Until then, Yau had been an indifferent student. But he began to devote himself to schoolwork, tutoring other students in math to make money. “Part of the thing that drives Yau is that he sees his own life as being his father’s revenge,” said Dan Stroock, the M.I.T. mathematician, who has known Yau for twenty years. “Yau’s father was like the Talmudist whose children are starving.”

Yau studied math at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he attracted the attention of Shiing-Shen Chern, the preëminent Chinese mathematician, who helped him win a scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley. Chern was the author of a famous theorem combining topology and geometry. He spent most of his career in the United States, at Berkeley. He made frequent visits to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and, later, China, where he was a revered symbol of Chinese intellectual achievement, to promote the study of math and science.

In 1969, Yau started graduate school at Berkeley, enrolling in seven graduate courses each term and auditing several others. He sent half of his scholarship money back to his mother in China and impressed his professors with his tenacity. He was obliged to share credit for his first major result when he learned that two other mathematicians were working on the same problem. In 1976, he proved a twenty-year-old conjecture pertaining to a type of manifold that is now crucial to string theory. A French mathematician had formulated a proof of the problem, which is known as Calabi’s conjecture, but Yau’s, because it was more general, was more powerful. (Physicists now refer to Calabi-Yau manifolds.) “He was not so much thinking up some original way of looking at a subject but solving extremely hard technical problems that at the time only he could solve, by sheer intellect and force of will,” Phillip Griffiths, a geometer and a former director of the Institute for Advanced Study, said.

In 1980, when Yau was thirty, he became one of the youngest mathematicians ever to be appointed to the permanent faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study, and he began to attract talented students. He won a Fields Medal two years later, the first Chinese ever to do so. By this time, Chern was seventy years old and on the verge of retirement. According to a relative of Chern’s, “Yau decided that he was going to be the next famous Chinese mathematician and that it was time for Chern to step down.”

Fields Medals announced and the also rejected!!!

Terence Tao ,Grigori Grisha Perelman and two more guys ....but not Manjul Bhargava...its OK...there is till time.....
Terence Tao is of Chinese origin and Perelman and one more guy(among the fields winners) are Russians.
The fourth guy is from France.
China has produced two fields Medalists by now.When is an Indian gona get it and make India proud???

GRIGORI PERELMAN

Grigory Perelman did not plan to become a mathematician. “There was never a decision point,” he said when we met. We were outside the apartment building where he lives, in Kupchino, a neighborhood of drab high-rises. Perelman’s father, who was an electrical engineer, encouraged his interest in math. “He gave me logical and other math problems to think about,” Perelman said. “He got a lot of books for me to read. He taught me how to play chess. He was proud of me.” Among the books his father gave him was a copy of “Physics for Entertainment,” which had been a best-seller in the Soviet Union in the nineteen-thirties. In the foreword, the book’s author describes the contents as “conundrums, brain-teasers, entertaining anecdotes, and unexpected comparisons,” adding, “I have quoted extensively from Jules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mark Twain and other writers, because, besides providing entertainment, the fantastic experiments these writers describe may well serve as instructive illustrations at physics classes.” The book’s topics included how to jump from a moving car, and why, “according to the law of buoyancy, we would never drown in the Dead Sea.”

China had built one of the fastest trains inthe world and now the longest dam?

China -the roaring Asian dragon is flexing its muscles again .It has built one of the fastest trains as well as the longest dam in the world to solve the annual river flooding problem and also produce abundant electricity.
About the Chinese train.
``The successful test of the train shows that China has mastered the technology of low-to medium-speed maglev trains,'' said Zhang Kunlun, deputy director of the School of Electrical Engineering of the Southwest Jiaotong University in Chengdu.
The maglev(Magnetic Levigation) train was developed by a maglev research team of the university, one of China's key engineering universities.
With a weight of 18 tonnes, the test train can carry 60 persons. It can travel at speeds of up to 160 kmph.


The Chinese dam.
China completed construction of the world's largest dam on the 20th of May,2006, in Three Gorges area, central China's Hubei province, signifying a milestone accomplishment that aims to tame the flood-prone Yangtze river, the nation's longest.
This is also a major Hydro-elecric project.

China is building the much needed infrastructure to compete with their arch -rivals the US.The Chinese millineam is just unfolding.

US loosing the edge over R&D?

US has substantially increased the number of H1B visas which allows immigrants with an advanced university degree in Science ,Technology ,Engineering or Math to easily attain green card and help the Americans help consolidate their hegemony in the esteemed area of Research and Development.so are more Asians welcome to the US?
Already all major Universities have Indian & Chinese Profesors at the helm of their affairs. US seems to be slowly but steadily loosing its edge over technological research which is an after-effect of inferior Science and Math education at the highschool level.This is happening at exactly the time when the dollar is increasily losing its sheen.so are we all heading for a great American collapse?

World Telecommunication Day

Today MAY 17TH is World Telecom day....realizing the importance for a global movement to building up an information society and its potential for development ,The international Telelcomunications Union (ITU) has rightly called upon the telecommunity to celebrate this year's World telecom day as "World Information Society day".The ITU has also stressed the importance and urgency of promoting Global Cybersecurity in order to infuse confidence in the user-community of the cyberspace .

Gaokao-The fearsome Chinese University Entrance Examination

This is the University Entrance Examination of China ..which is sat by about 8 million(80 lakhs) 18 year olds a year and failed by 3 million of them ,unless you were a Math geek during your highschool.

again more about this after my exams.....