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“Honest Differences are often a healthy sign of progress.” – M K Gandhi

In the past 2 weeks we saw a few resolute people standing against the Indian government to bring about a system in place which is expected to provide a fix for corruption in India. This small group of people who call themselves the Civil Society regarded the LokPal bill proposed by the parliament incapable of solving the corruption problem in India. They suggested a Jan-LokPal bill of their own which was proposed to be much more effective. The difference in opinions did not boil down to an open discussion and rather took form of a protest movement which attracted eyes from across the globe as well as the support of millions of Indians. The desperate need of this country to lighten itself from prevailing corruption requires no explanation. This post comments on the effectiveness of the bill and the response of the people associated with it.

Thou shalt be compliant !

The bullish surges and the nose dives, the bursting bubbles and the depression fears……if the system could contain itself with some grace at all, there would have been no policing. Every time we see the market crash, be it the black Friday , the great depression or the 2008 Credit Crunch, it brings out the need to put in place some sort of discipline in the market.

MAX Dope

Have you ever felt the frustration of waiting for your data to be fetched while your Sql query is taking millions of years to get executed? Sometimes it goes fast when the server is moderately loaded, but rush hour time and yo ! you are staring at the thing looking as dumb as a person staring at the hot toaster. So it is the mark of an educated mind to strive and make your queries as efficient as possible. Here I wish to mention one way you can make your queries get executed faster.

The Wishing Well

"How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd." ~ Alexander Pope

Wishes are terrible things! They can make you create wonderful things which might change the world around you, they can make you strive and take your abilities to their limits, they can push you out of your bed early each day. At the same time, they can make you jealous of others, corrupt your mind and make you run after mirages you never can get close to.

The BIG quake : How far has the shockwave gone

8.9 on the richter scale, that is the biggest I’ve ever heard in my life. The ground shaking tremors followed by 7m high Tsunami waves and then blasts in the nuclear plant and nuclear radiation alerts, life couldn’t be worse for the Japanese. They say, ‘the Japanese are always waiting for the big one’. It is not a coincidence that Tsunami happens to be a Japanese word. But for a quake this big, even the expecting and suspecting couldn’t be prepared.