Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a fraud?

The recent vote fraud issue in Iran is surprising! Iran’s election monitoring commission has declared the result invalid and called for re-election.

One story is, when the ballet boxes arrived for counting, most of the seals were broken. The official explanation was seals were broken because of the transportation problems! Also it appears most of the votes in those broken boxes were for the current Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iran has already gained popularity by banning orkut. Now they blocked all the satellite TV, internet sites like you tube, face book etc. and reduced the internet bandwidth. But they almost failed to block twitter because of its nature. Now the inside story of iran is streaming through twitter

The news surprised me because very recently I received an email forward saying the Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a simple humble person, who does not have security officers, does not fear losing his chair etc. Have a look at this attachment. How well an email forward can deceive us.

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Something wrong with the TV ads?

Did you notice something wrong with the TV ads? When you watch your favorite program with a comfortable volume level, suddenly a commercial comes and the volume rises like hell.

Do you think this is some accident or unavoidable error? No! This is an understanding between the TV channel and ads company to drag more attention to ads.

This is a serious violation of our rights to set the TV volume according to our comfort. As a matter of fact there is a law in US which says, the volume of ads should not exceed the maximum volume in the show.

It may take few more years for us to raise our voice against silly (?) violations like this.

Nandan Nilekani’s ideas for India’s future

One of the TED talk which is of relevance to Indians. Nandan Nilekani, visionary CEO of Infosys, talks about evolution of ideas in India.

Fun with Google Suggestions

Nowadays we tell everything to Google. We think it is very safe to reveal our secrets to that tiny little search box. More or less it is true. But when it comes to the collective consciousness of the world that web represents, nothing is secret.

Here is a sample. How much fun we can have with Google suggestions?. Anyway Google suggests these words because these are the most wanted things and you may be looking for one among these. Are you?

What do you regret most?

How sad..

Words that saved me from a sea of sadness.

On 12th of August 2002, my very first girlfriend committed suicide. I was only 16 and my whole world had collapsed. I started drowning in the sea of sadness. Following are the words from a letter by my beloved teacher which saved me.

Something which is very important to us will have a unique form in our mind. Suddenly your physical senses realize that such a form is changed entirely from what it was. Your mind won’t adapt to it easily. In your mind, lots of other things are built over it.
This conflict is felt as sadness. Once you are able to resolve this conflict, sadness will disappear.

Are we in control of our own decisions?

Our power for thinking is very limited when it is compared with the complexity of the world we live in. It is evident from the mistakes we make in perception and thinking.

Here is a nice TED video titled Are we in control of our own decisions? by Dan Ariely.

The wrong map of India

Every Indian has a lovely picture of India’s map imprinted on mind. What do you feel if someone say that map is wrong?

Well, today’s most authentic public knowledge engines say it is wrong.

Following is a map of India from Google insights for a test query. See that Jammu & Kashmir.

Another one, the map of India returned from wolframalpha.com for query ‘India’

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The Wikipedia image shows some more decency. But we can’t tolerate this too.

Finally, one from Google maps. They show the correct map as we say it. Why? Because Google maps is the most viewed one? so that it won’t provoke a billion people?

What we should believe? They are wrong or what our teachers taught in primary schools is wrong? Definitely it hurts a true Indian.