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China…. Karakoram….. Pakistan

Many moons ago I made a prediction on the Karakoram China nexus. 

Here 

This was also a reason for the start of the Kargil war and the Siachen conflict. 

With the current situation in Pakistan, it is this close to become the next Afghanisthan.Floods, Terrorists, Drones,  Riots. Just watching what the nation has done to itself is a pleasure. Mhd Ali Jinnah (Quiad -e-Azam) must be rolling in his grave. 

Now everything I predicted  seems to be coming true..(don’t you just love when that happens? I must rename my self to the oracle or the soothsayer or something :D Although I cannot see my own future, but none the less) 

I don’t really understand, at times they say India steals its water, They the records prove it is the mis management on the part of the Pakistanis (well Duh!) 

Please see the video that I embedded. 

  

Pakistan does a back flip on India stealing water. 

  

Corruption is our right
  

I love this dude…he speaks his heart out!!!! 

Now Pakistan is flooded and they blame India for that. Too bad they cannot blame the jews for this 

 
 
 
 
 
 

  

India now trying to flood Lahore, alleges daily

 
 
 2010-08-28 17:30:00
India has caused the devastating floods in Pakistan by releasing excess water into the Satluj and Beas rivers and now is trying to inundate Lahore by pumping more water in the Ravi, an editorial in a Pakistani paper said Saturday.

Here 

 Anyway now coming back to the point, China and Karakoram. I was mentioning China was making a second port in gawder to take the gold copper and  mineral out of  Pakistan.  Here  

Now the chinese are smart, they do not want to keep all their eggs in one basket. They want alternatives to the ship route. they have seen in the past that the Indian navy has very effectively blocked the Pakistan ports and has brought things to a halt in the port .This can harm the Chinese manufacturing industry., So now they decided to make a road from all the way from Baluchistan to China via the Karakoram. please read my article on the karakoram highway kargil war and Siachen  here 

Now with Pakistan being in a Mess of a situation and the Army having no control over 80 % of the Pakistani land mass,  helping the Americans kill their own people, helping people in floods and killing innocent people in Baluchistan,  the Chinese decided to send their own people to protect their investment. 

While the world focuses on the flood-ravaged Indus River valley, a quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China. 

China wants a grip on the region to assure unfettered road and rail access to the Gulf through Pakistan. It takes 16 to 25 days for Chinese oil tankers to reach the Gulf. When high-speed rail and road links through Gilgit and Baltistan are completed, China will be able to transport cargo from Eastern China to the new Chinese-built Pakistani naval bases at Gwadar, Pasni and Ormara, just east of the Gulf, within 48 hours. 

Mystery surrounds the construction of 22 tunnels in secret locations where Pakistanis are barred. Tunnels would be necessary for a projected gas pipeline from Iran to China that would cross the Himalayas through Gilgit. But they could also be used for missile storage sites. 

  

The New York times 

To break it down for you , China has sent 11,000 of its soldiers to Baltistan and Gilgit  which are essentially marked in red, in this picture. 

The Region in red

The Region in red

 

 Now this regions is PoK 

PoK, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

PoK, Pakistan Occupied Kashmir

 

So  what Pakistan is doing is “allowing” Chinese people to come in  PoK , which  Indians claim as theirs, And allowing the Chinese construct a High speed railway and a high way,  which will connect China to Iran and then to the Middle east. just to give you an idea how big this road will be, It will start some where in Bejing go via Tibet, to Pakistan, Iran and reach the middle east and then  probably Africa and all this bypassing India. They are restructiong the Silk route, this time by a high speed train link and now instead of trading  of silk they will be trading energy and chinese junk. 

Silk route

Silk route, Red is Land routes and the Blue is sea routes

 

Now, not only have they sent workers to do the jobs but they have also sent 11,000 army men to protect the workers from the local disturbances. 

The entire Pakistan-occupied western portion of Kashmir stretching from Gilgit in the north to Azad (Free) Kashmir in the south is closed to the world, in contrast to the media access that India permits in the eastern part, where it is combating a Pakistan-backed insurgency. But reports from a variety of foreign intelligence sources, Pakistani journalists and Pakistani human rights workers reveal two important new developments in Gilgit-Baltistan: a simmering rebellion against Pakistani rule and the influx of an estimated 7,000 to 11,000 soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. 

The New York Times 

 This is essentially a problem and there is nothing Indians can do about it but to keep a ever more watchful eye on the Siachen glacier. 

Just wanted to pass a casual warning to you guys 

The Importance of Siachen glacier In context of the Karakorum glacier here. 

On the Chinese govt side, their economy is growing at  double figure, If i remember the agriculture industry in the soviet union grew in triple figures in the mid 60′s but in the end it eventually broke  like a wine glass with thousands of pieces every where, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine etc. Anyway, what i am trying to say it, The bigger they are the harder they fall. 

What is India doing? 

Well, With the incompetent Manmohan Singh and his foreign policy over China I cannot anything more  from him. Apart from building a few dams here and there in the Kashmir region, Nothing much. 

Please read ” Sleeping tiger, Crouching Dragon” by me.

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Of Kashmir and the Kashmiri trouble

I have worked for an oil company in Jammu and Kashmir. I was the S&D incharge of oil (petrol and ATF). I was based in Jammu.One of my priorites, Well the only priorty, was to make sure no matter what happens keep oil in Kashmir flowing.
The oil was transported from Jammu to Kashmir via trucks. And I would sign off some 100-150 trucks any given day before september.(Winter) Hence the reason for my love for the song,”Wake me up when September Ends”

The owner of these trucks was a chap who had some one in his family married into the Abdullah family (the Cheif minister) and some one married into the Gelani family (Hurriyat).One smart chap he was. Out of my fleet of 200 trucks half of the trucks were operated by him.No matter what the strike was about, His trucks would go around J&K uninterrupted.

For every trip a truck made from jammu to the valley they got some where around Rs10,000 to  Rs.13,000.

(Just to do the maths for you Rs.10,000 x 100 (trucks per day on average)=Rs.1,00,000, per day)

Coming to the point.
If you remember not so long ago there was a Amarnath sangarsh Samiti, who were protesting the withdrawl of land from the Amarnath shrine board by J&K Govt.

It was suddenly urged that the sangarsh samiti was imposing a blockade in the valley.

What blockade ??? My life was hell in this period of time, At the scorching summer heat I was unloading rakes ( Train Oil tankers) ever second day, loading  100 trucks per day. The Srinagar depo  was over flowing with excess.They sent the trucks to the dealers to unload them for them as they did not have the space. A one point in time the entire valleys petrol pumps were over flowing.
I was pumping out 100 to 150 trucks a day full of ATF and petrol, There was no blockade for me.

The main point of this blockade is to suspend the construction of the railway track which is being made from jammy to Srinagar. If they disrupt it till spetember, After september it will be too cold for any work to be done.
I think they have managed to sucessfully do that.

“Service is totally disrupted since Sopore station was set on fire and it is too early to say when it could be restored because at present we cannot even assess the damage due to the security situation,” he said.

http://www.sananews.net/english/2010/08/05/trains-in-held-valley-on-hold/

Because once the railway line is fully operational it will render the trucks which carry food medicines and fuel from Jammu useless.

Look at the map

Everything will direclty reach Srinagar from Delhi. Lot of pockets will become light
It was all bloody natak by the media and pro congress elements that BJP was starving poor muslims of the valley to death.

One more quick point that I would like to make.
As a part of my job I was to inspect pumps in the regions of Annantnag, Kistwar and Doda.

In one of these pumps I found a store room full of gunny bags with tea powder. (Kava)

I asked  the owner if he had opened a tea powder agency, To which he replied that he had stocked tea powder in case of a strike or hartal.
This amazed me.

If he can stock up 50 bags of tea  Just imagine how many bags of rice, wheat, and other food stock he must have stocked and the amount of cash he must have in his house.!

Poor kashmiris …naaah!!!!
Rich spoit Kashmiris…… O ya.!

We need some one like Indira gandhi to use an iron fist  and put out this to fire. Congress will not do this as it needs to prove to the India’s 20% minority that it loves Muslims much more than the integrity of the country itself.

All the Hartals start in summer and end in winter, we had a term for that  March to September  was Hartal season or  the Hurriyat season for us.
As soon as winter sets in no more hartals, people are at home enjoying the warmth of wood fire and drinking their beloved Kava.

They only want Azad Kashmir in Summer, Huh!!

Fair enough, I only want to go to Hawaii in summers, Who would want to go there in winters?!!!

Have no pity for them.

And please Mannu (Manmohan Singh) stop trying to appease the Kashmiris by bribing them

Border Tension a Growth Industry for Kashmir

Manmohan to offer Jobs to Kashmiri’s

Links Via Great Bong

Great Bong’s post on Kashmir

A DMU train proceeds towards Budgam amid heavy snowfall, as a security personnel looks on.

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Iphone 4…..ha ha!!!

This post is directed to my sister who recently brought a Iphone 4.

” Ha ha……you cannot use the phone  you want to ” – Nelson Muntz

Give the hatred i have for the biggest con man of the century, Steve jobs, My sister , my own blood, went ahead and brought herself an Iphone 4g with out even my consultation.

And now she will be paying for it….very very dearly.With the legendary poor service of AT&T in America,  and the fluctuating signals and the grip of death

Now before we proceed I think it is essential that you see this clip from “Futurama” season 6 titled “The killer App”

Iphone 4 futurama

Coming back to the grip of death, this is what Steve Jobs had to say initially about it

Steve Jobs wrote back to one Engadget reader with a terse one-line response: “Just don’t hold it that way.”

And this is what Nokia said indirectly poking fun on the Iphone.

The Cup

The Thumb

The balance

4 edge grip

You can hold  nokia phone in any direction with out effecting the reception and call quality

I mean really Steve? really, You are going to tell people on how to hold a cellphone instead of fixing the glitch.

Then came a series of so called “fixes”.

You need to buy a rubber bar for your iphone if you want proper reception

This is the iphone 4 g bumper that you need to BUY in order to make it work.

Now a few days later Apple guys came to an conclusion and announced that the glitch was in the phone s/w which calculated the bars to be wrong

Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars. Users observing a drop of several bars when they grip their iPhone in a certain way are most likely in an area with very weak signal strength, but they don’t know it because we are erroneously displaying 4 or 5 bars. Their big drop in bars is because their high bars were never real in the first place.

Now I am wondering what good is a cellphone which cannot make calls?

Its just a Ipod touch, is it not.?

Anyway now after that email from Steve jobs there was one more rumour that Apple already knew about the glitch and wanted to ent up the sales of the its iphone covers

Interestingly, a user on our sister forums who took back his phone to complain about this problem was given a free £25 ‘bumper’ case – perhaps adding fuel to the rumor that Apple was fully aware of this issue before launch…

here

This is just wonderful.

It keeps getting better and better by  every single passing day.

I knew some thing was wrong when the iphone 4 demonstration went wrong at the keynote
Do watch.

I love the part when one of the guys says use Verizon !!!
A shorter version of the same

Steve sells you a iphone

Steve tells you how to hold a iphone

Steve tells you how to dress your iphone

Steve tells you who to call from your iphone

Steve tells you what to wear when you use an iphone

Steve tells you how to live with your iphone.

Ahh Steve..you never cease to surprise me.

New features of the Iphone 4

Video calling

My motorazer v 6 ferrari edition had video calling….. I brought it 2 years ago. I used it once as i thought it was redundant  but i was very happy with the performance

Video calling, notice two cameras

Multi Tasking

I mean really, I never knew that the iphone did not have multi tasking until now….none of the iphones had multi tasking?

My Motorazer had multi tasking, my nokia N79 had multi tasking, My Blackberry ( my precious ) has multi tasking

No wonder the greatest con man on earth is Steve Jobs….

All his fan boys are like Zombies, o better put by this guy  “like democrats”

Also to add that there is one more thing common between Apple fan boys and Aamir Khan fan boys…they will just buy any thing their leader has to offer…even Poop

So in short… to my sister…may the iphone 4g bring a little superficial and pseudo happiness in your life.

This is what happens when you deceive your own blood.

The deepest circle of hell is reserved for betrayers and mutineers


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The Big Crunch and Hinduism

This is more of an interesting observation that I have made about Hinduism and one of the theories of end of universe

Let’s start with defining the Big Crunch.

Before we can do that we must explain big bang theory

According to the Big Bang model, the Universe expanded from an extremely dense and hot state and continues to expand today. A common analogy explains that space itself is expanding, carrying galaxies with it, like raisins in a rising loaf of bread. The graphic scheme above is an artist’s concept illustrating the expansion of a portion of a flat Universe.

Now I think this was simple enough to explain . All the matter was in universe was concentrated in a very small shell. It got unstable and a big bang.

As of now the big bang theory is the most accepted to all theories. It is  reinforced by the doppler’s effect as observed by hubble telescope

Now the Big crunch

The big crunch is again a theory, which is still a not so widely accepted theory, now it says that if the universe is finite and the galaxy’s, which are moving away from each other after the Big Bang , do not reach an escape velocity then they will all start attracting each other at one point in time and start collapsing into each other.

This starts of a chain reaction and eventually every thing collapses into each other and everything comes down to one big shell.

If the universe is finite in extent and the cosmological principle (not to be confused with the cosmological constant) does not apply, and the expansion speed does not exceed the escape velocity, then the mutual gravitational attraction of all its matter will eventually cause it to contract. Because entropy continues to increase in the contracting phase, the contraction would appear very different from the time reversal of the expansion. While the early universe was highly uniform, a contracting universe would become increasingly clumped. Eventually all matter would collapse into black holes, which would then coalesce producing a unified black hole or Big Crunch singularity.

Now this theory at the moment is not very popular

Recent experimental evidence (namely the observation of distant supernova as standard candles, and the well-resolved mapping of the cosmic microwave background) have led to speculation that the expansion of the universe is not being slowed down by gravity but rather accelerating. However, since the nature of the dark energy that drives the acceleration is unknown, it is still possible that it might eventually reverse sign and cause a collapse.[3]

Coming to Hinduism and its origin

The Nasadiya Sukta of the Rig Veda describes the origin of the universe. The Rig Veda’s view of the cosmos also sees one true divine principle self-projecting as the divine word, Vaak, ‘birthing’ the cosmos that we know, from the monistic Hiranyagarbha or Golden Egg [7].

Now the golden egg has a importance here.

In the above Gif picture you can see that the universe collides into one big shell like thing. Could this be possibly to what the Rig veda was referring to?

More from Rig veda.

Once the Universe has been destroyed by Shiva, Brahma starts the creation once again. This creation-destruction cycle repeats itself almost endlessly

Both the Rig Veda and Brahmanda Purana describe a universe that is cyclical or oscillating and infinite in time. The universe is described as a cosmic egg that cycles between expansion and total collapse. It expanded from a concentrated form — a point called a Bindu. The universe, as a living entity, is bound to the perpetual cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

The later Puranic view asserts that the Universe is created, destroyed, and re-created in an eternally repetitive series of cycles. In Hindu cosmology, a universe endures for about 4,320,000 years—one day/Kalpa of Brahma, the creator) and is then destroyed by fire or water elements. At this point, Brahma rests for one night, just as long as the day. This process, named Pralaya (Cataclysm), repeats for 100 Brahma years (311 trillion, 40 billion human years) that represents Brahma’s lifespan.

Further more in the veda it is said that

Indra and the Ants

In this story from the Brahmavaivarta Purana,[14][15] Indra defeats V?trá and releases the waters. Elevated to the rank of King of the gods, Indra orders the heavenly craftsman, Vishvakarma, to build him a grand palace. Full of pride, Indra continues to demand more and more improvements for the palace. At last, exhausted, Vishvakarma asks Brahma the Creator for help. Brahma in turn appeals to Vishnu, the Supreme Being.

Vishnu visits Indra’s palace in the form of a brahmin boy; Indra welcomes him in. Vishnu praises Indra’s palace, casually adding that no former Indra had succeeded in building such a palace. At first, Indra is amused by the brahmin boy’s claim to know of former Indras. But the amusement turns to horror as the boy tells about Indra’s ancestors, about the great cycles of creation and destruction, and even about the infinite number of worlds scattered through the void, each with its own Indra. The boy claims to have seen them all. During the boy’s speech, a procession of ants had entered the hall. The boy saw the ants and laughed. Finally humbled, Indra asks the boy why he laughed. The boy reveals that the ants are all former Indras.

Another visitor enters the hall. He is Shiva, in the form of a hermit. On his chest lies a circular cluster of hairs, intact at the circumference but with a gap in the middle. Shiva reveals that each of these chest hairs corresponds to the life of one Indra. Each time a hair falls, one Indra dies and another replaces him.

No longer interested in wealth and honor, Indra rewards Vishvakarma and releases him from any further work on the palace.

Well it all does make some sense, doesn’t it now.

Every time the universe is destroyed by the big crunch or the golden egg  what ever you might choose to call it, it is reborn again with the big bang and the circle of life continues, A new Indra is born and a new human life.

It all seems a bit far fetched and unrealistic, but hey it might just happen.

The universe might not be all that infinite. I mean we as humans have a no idea. It can be like a ripple in a tub of water. Once it reaches the end of the universe, it will come colliding and collapsing into a golden egg.

Well it is a bit hard to believe that the universe has a limit, but then. you never know that the Dark matter which is accelerating the universe right now, might get to the end of the universe .

Anyway I am no astro physicist , Please leave your comments and brick bats here.

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3 idiots .. Really?

Am I the only person who did not like 3 idiots?

It was a stupid movie.

The movie was supposedly based on the book “5 point some one” and Chetan Bhagat had a spat over it with the producer over the book

I mean yes the movie is a copy of the book with a few hindi movie touches here and there ….but if i were Chetan Bhagat I would have disassociated my self from the book because the book is a insult to my intellectuality (even though I think I am saturated with foolishness but hey nothing is 100%)

Where do I start my ranting…?

Ya the first day of your college ranting you electrocute  your senior ….believe me no matter how big a hotshot your dad is, you are dead the next day.

In our engineering college if we had a junior who spoke to us in a slightly high tone we made sure to set an example of his actions to others.

but no…our Amir khan (Rancho) electrocutes his senior with no consequences. huh!

Ya, Amir khan is a “know it all” guy who can read faces, give parents a parenting class, ride around in Delhi with out a helmet, triple with three people on the bike, Knows more than the University Dean him self.

I mean really, The main emphasis of this university dean was to ” Learn by Rote”,  How the hell did he become the dean of a university if all he did was learn by rote?  You just do not become a professor by teaching, there is a big and a steep curve to become a professor, you need to write journals and articles which need to be published in magazines and reviewed, You need to guide 10 to 20 students to a PHD. And please, Boman Irani , no matter how good a actor he was was looking stupid in the portraying of the dean.

He can write with two hands at once…really?

Only sleeps for 4 hours in a day, and gets his shave in his sleep, powernap….!! Come on.

Vaccum cleaner modify , flooding in delhi…. O come on!!!

Half of the jokes were stale and have been heard over and over again

1. Why did the Americans not use a pencil in space?

Of course they could have used a pencil in space, that is what they did before they made the pen.

There exists a common urban legend claiming that the Americans spent millions of dollars developing the Space Pen, and the Russians used ordinary graphite pencil.[1] Russian cosmonauts in fact used grease pencils on plastic slates until also adopting the space pen in 1969 with a purchase of 100 units for use on all future missions. [2] NASA programs previously used pencils (for example a 1965 order of mechanical pencils[1]) but because of the danger that a broken-off pencil tip poses in zero gravity and the flammable nature of the wood present in pencils[1] a better solution was needed. NASA never approached Paul Fisher to develop a pen, nor did Fisher receive any government funding for the pen’s development. Fisher invented it independently, and then asked NASA to try it. After the introduction of the AG7 Space Pen, both the American and Soviet (later Russian) space agencies adopted it.

2.Working of a 4 stroke engine?

Bhrummm…bhurmmm bhurmmmm. Really? this is the first joke you crack when you enter an engineering college

3. Do you have any idea who I am ?

The movie copied this ad in the movie

The movie was not funny.

I will count out the bits where I laughed.

The scene with the dogs named a kilo bit , mega bit and giga bit,that was genuine joke . I cannot think of any more….

O wait…. I know… Hmmm the one where kareena says “Why Gujjus name their food so dangerous ?”

And I think that is it.

O please, chatur’s balatkar speach was pathetic… I was twitching in my seat. But apparently I was the only one in the hall twitching and crumbling

I really thought this was a insult to my intelligence.

My friend Sameer dev did have the opinion that this was the best movie ever….what does he know… he almost  got me killed an he is a economist and a Amir khan fan boy.

I will tell that Rang de Basanti was a nice movie which had a social message and was some what funny and genuine.

How the hell is the movie supposed to be in connection with Engineers.?

In what way and in what universe?

If you want a movie which relates to academic and engineering  then see  “A beautiful mind”

A little bit about the protagonist  of the movie John Nash

Or  “The big bang theory”

Try watching this

Schrodinger’s cat  from the series “The Big bang theory”

and read the wiki article on it here

Now this was both educational and funny, Wouldn’t you agree??

But No…. Amir khan was a exceptionally great dude who could make final year project in his first semester itself, break doors with one hand, has the knowledge of good will of a saint, give parenting lectures, Child mortality rate, suicide rates in India, can bring the dead back to life  etc.

We were all expecting the story of the book rather than a moral science lesson from Amir khan

Well none the less with all of Amir Khans trips and hypes all over the country he did manage to pull of the biggest hits of the century, and thanks of his image  no one dared to speak against the movie.


Amair Khan Promoting the movie

Now he is in banaras

Sachin Promoting the movie

But I am a man who appreciates talent ( Or so I have been brought up to think) I will give amir credit where it is due..

this was one of the best marketed films. A medocare film made hit with a excellent marketing.

Great going Amir!

But the movie was not as good as hyped by the media.

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