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Ravan the enemy of aryavarta by Amish Tripathi

Book review

Spoilers none since it’s based on Ramayana, one of the most well known puranas!

Rating-3.5/5

According to the famous director Mani Ratnam, every story can finally be attributed or linked to the Puranas that is Ramayana and Mahabharata!

No wonder then that everyone wants a piece of the puranic pie with so many stories to eat!

And by humanizing the characters, you can tread in safe territory!
Many authors including Amish have done that successfully and how!
First the very famous Shiva Trilogy and now the Rama Series!

The problem with series is the wait! After gobbling Rama and Sita, I had to wait close to two years for this installment and apparently there will be two more!
So the confusion is whether to wait and binge read all the books in a go or read as they come!

Luckily I did not face the same problem with the Shiva Trilogy since I started reading the first one when the last one was getting released! Plus it was only three books!

Of course like everything, the first is always the best! And even though the Rama Series is more elaborate and descriptive, it tends to be repetitive and there seems to be an urge to infuse gore and violence to elevate the squirming…

Then came the Sita and I was really amazed at the credit and respect given to a lady and deservedly so!

Coming to this particular book, you can understand that however you narrate the circumstances, Ravan will be cruel and a Asura so to speak!

As in his previous works, Amish has tried to infuse puranic lores and tried to give his twist!
He had a good run with the Shiva Trilogy and here also he does get some of the emotions right!
A similar attempt was done by Anand Nilkantan in a book called the Asura. But I felt that book lost its direction in the middle and a side character called Bhadra got all the meaty role!
At least for now, Amish has kept the narrative going smooth with a good grasp on the linking of the three books which is not a small feat!
Many stories as we know have been twisted and modified to his desire! It may sound off but it also implies that Amish has read the Puranas and it’s versions!

He also sometimes goes for monologues on Dharma and Karma using different characters which like the John Galte monologue of Atlas shrugged may be tiring for some!

As expected, Ravan is shown to be having the intelligence of ten heads! Cunning and very egoistic!

Like his previous novels, he does try to infuse current affairs in the Puranas! So while the Nirbhaya influence was seen in one episode of Rama, here you have an explanation of the Sabarimala fiasco! Mild spoiler alert!! Imagine kumbakarna going to Sabarimala and both Ravan and Kumba uttering, ‘Swamiye!’

Many characters from Ramayana have found their place in different forms though the treatment of some may not gel well with some!

The battle scenes have been the highlight of all the books and they have been repeated in this one too! It was a good revision for me since it’s been years since I read the last one! But for someone who is planning to read in one go it may be irritating!

The famous Vishwamitra Vs Vasistha battle may be explained in the next book!
At this rate though it’s going to be a long wait! The reason why I hate series!

All in all I would actually rate this one better than Sita since it took time to release and it shows!

Now the long wait starts!
“Jai Rudra!!”
Write fast Amit, we aren’t getting any younger!

JEFFERY DEAVER- THE NEVER GAME

BOOK REVIEW

SPOILERS-none; but it is no big secret that this is first of a series and so there will be some things left incomplete!

RATING 3.5/5

Jeff (deaver and certainly not Archer!) is one of my favourite authors after I was left spell bound reading a novel by him called the Blue Nowhere (Ironically I had bought that book mistaking it to be written by Jeffery Archer!).

That and the Bone collector and his short stories and I have been ardently following him and reading all that he has written!

This book is a departure from his very popular series which had the Quadriplegic Lincoln Rhyme who in spite of being able to only move his fingers; had enthralled us with his razor sharp mind and kept us on our toes! Here the lead investigator is not even a police, or a detective but a very generous version of a Bounty Hunter!

The book goes back and forth between times and tends to get confusing since in typical Deaver style the story is not linear! Then you have so many past stories giving emphasis on the origin which was missing in Lincoln series! In fact this is like the Bizarro Lincoln series! The lead here is physically perfect but mentally is not as sharp! Also Rhyme had the support of the cops most of the time while here it many times gets heated!

The root of the book should have been the latest craze to hit this planet after mobile! The gaming zone! So in typical deaver style you have loads of Gaming trivia and details including how Games can do data mining (the new gold!) and how they can spread misinformation through ad free games (as if whatsapp and FB were not enough!).

The gamer in me was very entertained in these pages and then it dulled to the chase and catch and then it picked up with the twists!

Of course the book starts with an end scene! But just when you thought it will end there you have 30 odd pages to go with many twists and half stories which will be dealt in the next book poerhaps!

His own aknowledgements in the end ends with Deaver mentioning to read about games in his own book! But the way he mentions is very funny!

Regular Deavers will lick it up and still miss Rhyme while others can start this without any expectations and you will be pleased!

My clinic some years back…

“So I live in a collge dormitory and the bed is very small, so last night I got up suddenly and fell down from the bed and hurt my ears!”

That was my last patient of the day and I had some time to kill, and normally I try to avoid small talk since talk is costly!

“Let me see your ears then”

There was a little clot in the canal but the drum was ruptured. The tell tale sign of a traumatic rupture; the traingular irregular edge with fresh bleed!

“Ok that is a traumatic rupture of the ear drum usually caused by a slap! Now would you care to tell me the actual story!”

He looked at me sheepishly and said, “guess it was not an intersting story doc!, well this is what really happened!” (just look out for the star!)

The dormitory…

Basanth and Sonu were best friends and my roommates, and Basanth was in love just like most guys in college and especially in dormitory!

“I think she likes me!” Basanth was singing!

“Why do you think that?” asked Sonu

“Well, she smiles at me everytime she looks at me!”

“Are you sure she smiles at you? We are always together! May be she is smiling at me! Tell me her name and I will try to help you!”

“Thanks for your offer but please do not offer your help! I know what happened to Vineeth when he told you guys about his crush on Tina!”

“You guys teased him so much and Tina was so embarrased that she avoided him like plague and whatever chance he ever had went out like smoke!”

“No bro, I will try to help you out!”

“Oh please! I am happy with an open sided love rather than telling her and ending it completely!”

“Remember bro, it’s not love until you express it! Many messages get lost in silence!”uttered Sonu

“Oh thank you Guruji! Will remember that! For now just remember that my work is worship!”

Yet another day…

“Why are you smiling so much today bro!?”asked Sonu to a widely grinning Basant!

“I dropped my book and she helped me pick it up and my hand touched her hands! It was so soft!!”he said

Thats when my big mouth said,”soft you say? Was it her hand you touched!?” I said laughingly!

Then Thud! Silence and a loud ringing followed by pain in my ears!*

The first time Basanth ever slapped anyone…

Years later Basanth’s house

“Dad your phone password can be assigned to a name you know!?”

“Really?” Quipped Basanth

“We are doing this assignment on number and words as per the old numpad!”

“So what was the name?”

“According to my assessment, it’s Pooja! Anyone you know by that name dad!?”

“Nah! Anyway it’s a common name right!?”

“Got your mail Basanth; you got a card for Sonu’s marriage”

“Sonu weds Pooja!”…

“Don’t worry” quipped the wife!,”Pooja is a common name right!?” She told with a twinkle!

Sonu’s house…

“See your cousin has come from London!”

“So what work do you do nowadays Sonu!?”

His friends were teasing him, “nowadays, kaam hee uski Pooja aur Pooja hee uska kaam hai!”

“What!?”

Sonu translated, “they meant, work is worksh…oh!!!”…

Arjun Reddy/Kabir Singh- the lead role is of a doctor but it can never be true!

Since I have only seen Arjun Reddy and since the review of Kabir Singh is in the same lines, the summary applies to both though for now it is mainly for Arjun Reddy…

All those numskulls who are raving after or about this movie let me bring you to the reality of medical life and being a doctor/ surgeon who practices evidence based modern medicine!

So the movie shows an apparently succesful and the best (as if that’s a thing!) Ortho surgeon who cannot keep his lust in his pants and like a dog in heat tries to screw anything remotely feminine! Yeah that sounds crude but it is what it is! And that is just the trailer to this absolute filth!

Disgusted yet? Ok then, the surgeon here apparently operates under alcohol and smokes like a chimney! And yeah he also does drugs and one surgery he apparently did under the influence so the medical council pulled him up!
In this day and age when a fully concious able doctor gets beaten by the public if he or she is not able to change the course of nature and prevent the death of a patient!
The movie seems to have this surgeon living in the land of the blind (and deaf and mentally retarded like the people who liked this movie and made it a big big hit!).

Still not disgusted?; ok then, he is also the college bully who selected this girl and announced that she is his property and of course used her like that!
Well, let me tell you the reality of a medical college romance!

So if you are an arrogant egoitic dolt then the very intelligent MBBS girl will move on rather than suffer your atrocities!
And also understand that you may be very intelligent but you gotta read and pass the exams and that includes the maximum number of written and oral tests in the world! You also got to remember what you read in the first day of the medical school to the last or else you will be nothing in the post graduate examinations.
Since he was an ortho in what I can only assume to be a government college then he must be getting a good rank! And believe me that cannot be achived by doing drama and romance over your apparent girlfriend!

Still not convinced?!
Ok then, this guy apparently has a fling with the by stander’s wife! Now that is just wrong in multiple levels! He also beats his girlfriend, maid, his flings and almost everyone else!
In reality you will be beaten by those very people in the same order!

The most distressing thing is how women are treated and in spite of that the actor has so much of support especially for this role just because apparently he looks macho in beard and he looks very cute without that!
So is how the guy looks gives you the basic differrence between harmless flirt and harassment? For the sake of feminism I sincerely believe that is not the case.

Then you have the arrogance of apparently being the best doctor in town! Let me get you back to earth! Almost every nook and corner has a good hospital especially in a city and almost all ortho doctors with a fair share of experience are good!
So if one doctor is not feeling well or like in the movie under the unfluence of drugs then you will have ten doctors who can do the job equally well and even better (considering the fact that they would not be drunk or drugged like our hero!)

Also interesting is how the hero can have one night stands all over and with everyone; the heroine has been kept ‘pure!’ for him! Hypocrisy just took a nosedive!

Finally remember that almost all who come to a government medical College in merit are intelligent so there is no one who cannot be replaced! So if you feel you are good then that’s just you! There are ten who can easily take your place!

And even if you are good or intelligent, that does not give you the right to be a pompous arrogant ass! Which is actually a one line summary of the movie!

So watch the movie and feed your machismo but remember to keep all that in the theatre only!

That’s because in the real life Arjun Reddy would have been thrashed, the girl would have ditched him in the first year itself, the Dean would have suspended him, he would have become a chronic failure and finally would settle to be the broker for supplying food and occasional drinks to the men’s hostel!
And that too if he was really the best!

Book review

Rating 3.5/5

Disclaimer- this is only the review of the book on the lines written by the author! None of it is my personal opinion!

No spoilers as it’s non fiction! But believe me facts are stranger than fiction!!

My first Hussain Zaidi was the Dongri to Dubai followed by black friday!

If you have also read these then you know how Hussain Zaidi is the literal encyclopaedia of Mumbai underworld!

Every page is a script for a movie or a series! Even the director Vishal who has given a foreword mentions that Hussain had been immense help for his movie Kaminey!

So the book concentrates on only the ladies!

Moving like a dictionary, Husain has divided the book into individual biggies like the sister of Haji Mastaan then moving on to a queen of the red light area! Then come the wives, girlfriends, mistresses and bar dancers!

So the book starts with the sister of Haji and Vardan Dons! And also the mother like figure to Dawood Ibrahim! How she was instrumental in the dons of Mumbai truce! Of course her rise and fall is narrated as clear as possible!

Then you have the Matriarch of Kamathipura who even silenced Nehru apparently as the story goes! The way the red light area and the prostituting is described was bang on!

The next story was of Ashraf or Sapna didi who almost made hell for Dawood to extract a revenge! Why and how is an interesting read which I will leave it to you!

Then you are treated to the big bad world of drugs and you meet the most formidable narco queen ever! Mahalaxmi Papamani! The disciple of don Varda and a force to reckon with!

The chapter called Monsters moll deals mainly with the very infamous Monica Bedi and her love affair with Abu Salem! This was a flavourful page turner penned by Monica’s own narration!

The next chapter deals with the wives of dons namely Padma the wife of Rajan’s aide Ravi Poojari, Sujata the wife of Chhota Rajan, Asha the wife of Arun Gawli and Ashwin Naik’s wife Neeta! More domestic control of underworld!

The gangster girls were Mrs Paul and Rubina Siraj! Even this chapter was a bollywood masala movie script!

The final chapter was of the bar gals! Tarannum and Archana! From dancing to cricket betting; you get the juice!

Like I mentioned before, the narration is crisp and engaging!

The very notion that most of it is true makes it an interesting read!

Although the violence and description is less but when it comes the rest assured it is gruesome and cruel!

Some stories start well and end so abruptly while others go out with a bang! Which is real life where nothing is consistent!

The simple language and familiar settings and character makes it an easy to read book!

Kudos to Hussain for his meticulous research and his dramatization of events to make it easier to read and imagine!

Read at your own risk and remember that even girls can be don!

Chernobyl- a summary of the HBO mini series and the book by Svetlana Alexievich

The easiest and most apt description of Chernobyl accident is that a nuclear bomb blast happened in Chernobyl on a place totally unprepared for any such contingency!

The mini series is one of the most accurate depiction albeit with some creative liberties of what transpired during the events which lead to the nuclear explosion and the half baked attempt by the government of the time to clean up (read cover up!) the incident.

Starting with innumerable factors which lead to the final explosion-
-the blatant violation of permission given to a nuclear power plant inspite of not having done all the safety test
-the extreme mountain sized ego of the person in command of the reactor in the conduct of the test reflecting the ego of his supervisor and so on!
-the test was conducted after a ten hour delay in the night! With people who know something already having sleep deprivation while those in the night shift don’t have a clue of the procedure of safety testing! (Though the refused to admit it in front of a superior!)
-people in failure living in denial of failure and reporting to the authorities that it was a small well contained explosion!
-If it was not for some bravehearts who dared to tell the truth and do the right thing then it would have been an even greater catastrophe!
-the government apathy in getting the cheapest and inferior equipment and keeping important secrets which would have saved lives!
-the non working fail safe switch which was reported earlier but it was carpeted and ignored!
-even then the reactor like a sling shot should not have been pushed to the brink of depending on the failsafe…

Then as always you have the realisation of global condemnation and reluctantly you start the clean up!

Start with acceptance! The concrete like structure is graphite! A part of the core!

The radiation level is not 3.6(which itself is high!) But much much more!- here also the good dossimeter is under lock and key! (It’s a cruel socialist joke that’s all!)

The first to report rescue were the fireman who tried to put out the fire but in vain. All of them die later on

Then you have the helicopter pilots who put boron and sand and many die though they get some respite.

Then you have the three bravehearts who risked everything to open the water valves and preventing even major catastrophe!

Then where the German robots fail you have the bio robots (in HBO) OR the green robot (in the book)! Yes, humans with time limits of less than 2 minutes to take a shovel and push the graphite from the roof to the core below! Most got radiation poisoning…

All the pets including cats, dogs, cows were killed the buried in concrete

All humans who died also got the same treatment…

The tragic story of the woman who lost her fire fighter husband and subsequently child has been described in both very tenderly. That she begets another kid later on is a small silver lining on the big mushroom cloud…

Then you have the government cover up, blame game, arrests, politicians who have no knowledge on what happened and what to do! And the constant back scratching is the reality and nothing else!

The book gets monologues from many and makes the feel more human while the mini series concentrated on the cause and affect of the explosion with lots of overlaps.

Though the book is accurate, the mini series had some inaccuracies like
-no character who uncovered the truth single handedly but it was a team (though this has been mentioned in the end credit)
-no one would say am in charge in Russia!
-talk or you will be shot! That was the warning to Valery Legasov though it does not work that way!
-the blame has been completely placed on Dyatolov who is portrayed as the villian without listening to what he had to say and what actually happened. He apparently wrote a book on his version too!
On the whole though the series has been fairly accurate

The final incident which actually made the series possible and made the government wake up and take notice was the suicide of Valery Legasov. Before that he had recorded audio cassettes on what happened and this was received by the scientific community and made the Russian government machinery realise that stringent measures has to be taken if this problem has to be dealt with properly.

Finally even Gorbachev mentioned that this incident is one of the chief reasons of the failure of the USSR…

All in all the very highly rated series is a grim reminder of government apathy and cutting corners with a dose of pseudo nationalism whenever sanity tries to creep in!

Don’t miss it for the world and read the book for a recap and more feel!

An alternate retelling of GOT ENDING!

First of all rest assured than there are no spoilers here! If you have not watched the final episode of GOT then don’t worry! These are the various endings which would have been better than the pretty awful ending which was aired today!

A decade of watching this epic show only to see the dragon mother literally fall down to great depths!

So let’s see two possible broad endings!

One whole set in which Daenerys is alive!

Ending one-
After the bells start ringing she stops her mad rampage and literally gets down to earth!
Compromise with Jon and they rule democratically!
Cersei killed by Jamie!
Arya and Sansa the queens of North!

Ending two-
The rampage happens but after a while she realises she is pregnant with Jon’s kid!
Realises that the reason why she could not become a mother was that no one loved her truly except Jon!
Understands compassion and Jon!
Makes him he King!
Retires to atone for her sin of killing innocents!
Cersei killed by Arya!
Jamie survives to be the hand of Sansa!

In both the above Bran goes to North for research on tree creatures and to give advice when necessary!!

Another set of endings where Daenerys is killed (by who you know if you have watched or if not let’s keep it a guess! But the fact is that the mother of dragons is dead!)

Ending 3-
Jon becomes the King since the dragon choose him (how cannot be revealed without spoilers but it’s not important!)
Unsullied and Dothraki are free to do whatever they want!
Arya commander in chief
Sansa accepts Jon as king and becomes lady of North!
Tyrion the hand of Jon!

Ending 4-
Jon becomes King since everyone realises that what he did was the sane thing to do!
Arya and Sansa back to North as independents
Tyrion retires to enjoy his wine!
Unsullied and Dothraki serve him now!

Ending 5-
Sansa becomes the ruler of seven kingdoms!
Frees Jon and makes him hand and commander
Frees unsullied and Dothraki!
Arya becomes lady of Winterfell
Tyrion becomes the advisor and coin!

Ending 6-
Arya becomes the ruler of six kingdom since she was the one who killed the night King and saved the world!
Sansa lady of Winterfell!
Arya also frees Jon by using words like/or NEEDLE!
Jon doesn’t want to rule but always ready to help if needed
Tyrion hand!

Of course the list goes on and on!
But the fact of the matter is that any imaginable ending would have been better than what we just saw!

So much hype and finally it was such a disappointment!
All that indigo and it turned out to be just another blue!!
Let’s hear what ending you would have wanted??!!

Time travel marvel and dc style!

Time and tide wait for none
Everyone is trying to catch up with time
You would think money is precious but as you grow older you will realise that time is the most precious thing ever!

After all the philosophy let’s get little light!

Now the discussion is related to time travel only in movies and not in comics which is a huge topic!

It all started when in one of the original Superman movies starring Chris, Louis lane dies and Superman gets so distraught that he rotates in the opposite direction of Earth’s rotation and does it so fast that earth also rotates backwards literally turning the clock back and saving Lane!

Then you have so the justice league animation where one of the supervillain goes back in time and starts changing things!
At one point he even makes the batman disappear! Batman and Green Lantern learn a lot about their future when they go into the future but as decided they keep it to themselves so that it will not hamper the timeline in any way!

So one thing is clear that if you change the time or past then it will affect or impact your future!

Another DC movie was the flashpoint paradox which was a time reversal, a theme common in flash stories since he can move so fast he can stop time and also reverse it! In the movie, it is Bruce’s father Thomas Wayne who is a Batman like vigilante!
This is further elaborated in the dc series called the flash and here the flash mentions how going back in time changes things! So therefore it implies that if you change certain vital events in the past then you alter the future!
Also you tend to create an alternate timeline which may change the future as the flash finds out much to his dismay!
In flash going back and forth he also creates time remnants which are flash left in a particular time period! Getting confusing? That’s the idea!

Finally the centre piece is the time travel described in the AVENGERS END GAME! and in Avengers animated series! In the animation version, Cap America is able to change one thing and that was making Sure Bucky doesn’t die and we all know how that ended up! (The winter Soldier catastrophe!)

So in the movie, as Dr Bruce Explains, if you go back to past then it actually becomes your future and the present becomes your past! So it’s important that you don’t change anything major! You don’t try to contact your past selves so that they cannot change their future or create an alternate timeline! Phew!
Add to it you have Tony Stark explaining how instead of you passing through time, time passes through you as shown in the movie with ant man becoming old and young!

Finally when they do go Back in time and get the infinity stones, it is imperative that they return the important stones back to the time so that the timeline remain intact!

Captain America though does go back in time and as advised by Iron Man in Avengers Ultron movie, gets a full life and grows old and content!

So that’s a short synopsis of time travel marvel and Dc style!

Of course actual time travel may need quantum mechanics and what not! For now it’s only a dream!

Understand then that not everyone can be Captain America and get a second chance at making amends!
So treat time with the respect it deserves and hopefully one day time will be yours!

Avengers end game

This is not a review
Just a summary of the events leading to the end game!
No spoilers!
Just a refresher for those who are not big comic nerds and for others it is like a recap of the story till now and what you can expect!

A culmination of more than ten years of a single storyline is no mere feat indeed and never has a movie series done this before!

Let’s see how the characters have developed over the years till the previous installation of Avengers infinity war starting of course by captain America and Iron Man but keeping the best for the last!

Thanos!
The huge supervillain who was given lots of end credit appearances and later on made a full blown entrance with the Guardians of the Galaxy! Everytime he enters a scene, the audience literally shivered!
He can single handedly defeat the whole avengers and how! What happened with just a snap of his fingers we all know!
His quest for infinity stones and the eventual destruction of universe makes the final central storyline! His two daughters fight with themselves and with their conscience and choose a side!

The guardians of galaxy
There were two movies with the first one being a racy entertainment! You would think Quil would be the star and for the first two movies he was until the last Avenger and then we have Rocket Racoon taking the centre stage! Groot comes and goes!

Black Panther
The surprise hit! So black panther takes over his father’s Kingdom and leads Wakanda once again by giving support to the avengers!

Ant man
Develops as a super hero in the first film and due the consequences of the second one he somehow survives the infinity catastrophe and becomes one of the keys in the end game! (This much you know even from the trailor so no surprise there!)

Black widow and hawk-eye
There’s something special about these two who have no special powers!
Though black widow aka Nat was introduced in iron man 2, it was in the original avengers where both their characters grew into a formidable force! In the subsequent avenger movie (the age of Ultron) they became more serious with family (hawk-eye) and friends (hulk and Nat may have had something going on!). Nat was seen also in cap America second part and the third and the last Avenger while hawk was visibly absent in the last one! Both of them come back in this one to play very important role!

Hulk
Hulk should have been called sulk! Starting from the first Avenger he was expected to smash and he did in the first two avengers! But his last three appearances were more low key and that was the plan all along! He just survives the Avenger infinity war and becomes both calm and dependable in the end!

Spiderman
With a mix of costume given by iron man, Spiderman becomes more iron spider with incredible New powers and his growth from the first homecoming to his guest appearance in the civil war to his final act, he has been consistent and his growth is a special treat to watch!

Thor
Three movies in avengers storyline! Develops from the god of thunder to an Avenger! He teams up with hulk in rangrok which was one the best Thor movies with an awesome soundtrack! And finally teams up with the unlikeliest of the friends! In the serious movie the two big guns that is hulk and Thor actually provide the much needed comic relief and how!

Supporting stars guests!
Captain Marvel! You gotta see the movie to know that she rocks!
Doctor strange! You know the future and there is a reason for your every decision!
Wanda or scarlet witch! She had grown stronger in each movie! Nuff said!

Captain America!
Starting with the first Avenger movie which was just a base he followed it up with the winter Soldier and in this juncture there is a scene in the elevator which you must see again! Then the third installment of cap was civil war which was almost an Avenger movie! The first Avenger is fit as a fiddle and looks so young even after ten years of this series! Like all Avenger movies, here also he gets one of the chief roles and in one scene reminiscent of the popular animation he says AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! That was literally the top adrenaline surge moment in the movie!

Iron man
It all started with him and his brain! Three amazing stand alone movies and his special appearance in Spiderman and cap America makes him the chief Avenger! Just like the first Avenger movie he forms the final in the finale!

The infinity stones- a recap of where and when you came across them
You have five stones
The first one is the tessaract in the first Avenger
The second one was in Asgard mentioned in the second Thor movie
Then we have the stone described in the guardians of galaxy which Quil takes and tries to sell!
Then we have the stone given to Doctor Strange in his stand alone movie which was also awesome by the way!
Finally the soul stone which demands a soul! Always!!

So don’t forget to refresh these scenes from the previous movies!
first Avenger war scene!
The cap America escalator and meeting Howard Stark scene!
Guardians of galaxy star lord intro scene!
Thor dark world scene with Thor’s mother!
See the infinity war again just to be lucid!

So you have your heroes and villians and stones and characters sorted out then you can go ahead and watch this three hour emotional action packed roller coaster ride!

Have fun but don’t forget to take your tissues just in case! And rest assured, the future is bright!

Aspirin vs Morphine

Morphine is one of the most powerful pain killers ever!
In fact in heart failure or attacks, the drug of choice to alleviate the pain is Morphine!

It gives immense pain relief which is unparalleled to any of the common pain killers!

Aspirin is also a pain killer! But (this reminds me of a toon wherein the character tells a girl to not to say anything after but! Since it will never ever be good! But, but is important here! But don’t worry! It will be good eventually!); the pain killing ability of Aspirin can’t ever get close to Morphine! In fact even in doses which is hundred times that of norm (of course no one will give that though!), the efficiency of Aspirin can’t ever be as good as morphine!

So you would think that when it comes to heart attack, Morphine is the nectar! Or in other words, a life saver! But (a good but!) as far as heart problems and attack is concerned, it is Aspirin which is the vital drug and life saver! In fact the humble Aspirin has saved hundred times more life than Morphine!

How you would ask!?

Well, the answer is Multitasking!

Though as a pain killer Aspirin is weak, it has another function also which makes its an invaluable tool in the armament against heart diseases! It is a very effective anti platelet drug! Effectively it means that it keeps the blood in fluid form and avoids the production of clot! Blood clot is one of the common cause of block and complications both in the heart and the brain! Imagine that this was a side effect of Aspirin which the modern medicine made use of effectively!

What about morphine you would ask?

Well, Morphine is the king of only one act and nothing else and has no effect on the platelets!

All this talk about Morphine and Aspirin was my way of making a valid point!

The point is that we must not compare! Whether it comes to person or situation!

Maybe that person is rich and famous but he may turn out to be Morphine while another not so rich and popular bloke is just Aspirin for now who has yet to show his or her prowess!

Aspirin may not have MORPHed! into a great pain killer but over some time it ASPIRed (!) Into an awesome anti platelet drug!

So after completing 40 glorious years in this amazing World and sorrounded by awesome family and friends, I am grateful to one and all!

I have always tried to be Aspirin in that if you cannot be best in one thing, you can still learn and be good in many other things! The day you start learning is the day you stop living!

And another important thing which I learnt from Aspirin is Multitasking! You can never be the best in anything forever! One slip and you can be replaced! You are always replaceable!

But (another good one!), If you multi task then you would be good at many things and you will enjoy life!

Even while workout (which is very important esp after 40!), I never stick only to running, I always alternate between running, skating, cycling, badminton or swimming! It keeps the variety on and keeps me hooked!

Even job wise, I have always wanted to multitask, so you not only work! You can also cook, draw, sing, play an instrument or even dance! (Which I do! Or at least try to do!!).

Remember that at the end of it all, life is not just a 9-5 job (which as a surgeon it is not anyway but that’s not the point here!); But life is to live life as it is meant to be!

To have fun, take care of you parents!, Love you kids and spouse!, Respect and keep in touch with your friends!, do your job properly and come home to the joy that’s life!

In other words don’t be naughty after forty!!

Thanks a million for all your wishes! It really made my day!