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The last day or rather night of the year is the middle of the week! If you are travelling during the time you would not even realise how fast the time flies!

Your resolutions are getting formed and then getting broken just as soon!

The clubs are busy, streets are full of life and there is celebrations everywhere! If you had a good year then you will be so happy and hope that the coming year or years will be just as good! If you have had challenges then you should have hope that things will look better next year! There is always the next year!

You will meet your family and friends and may be have a party! Or like the good old days of the DD; stay at home and watch the idiot box which is just as entertaining though with the abundance of choice you actually feel left out! When we had only one channel; the late night DD new year special was the party to watch out for!

You had amazing stars and great personalities who would come and entertain us! Little did we know that it was all pre recorded! Even the count down! But it was still fun! Some neighbor would inevitably burst a fire cracker and we would all get to know that it is time to wish everyone!

The phone lines will be blocked and even later, the messages would not go through!
People would anticipate this and send messages as early as one week in advance! Some do not need to hurry and even wish one month after the beginning of the year!

These are what the average Homo Sapien who has made these ‘divisions’ of the year would do!

Then again you have these terms as the middle of the week or the end of the year and if you think rationally; these are only our concept!

For the animals and the trees and even the whole planet; except for the seasons which are the slow changes and the night and day which change faster; every day is the same!

The end of the year is only for us!

We have divided the year into the twelve months and we use them for everything in our life!

So if your wishes are unfulfilled or your quota of the ‘yearly’ happiness is not done or ‘met’ or your quota of ‘unhappiness’ is more then do not worry too much! Any day is the beginning and every day can be the end!

Years are only colorful symbols on your work calendar!

So just be patient, have hope and all will be ok; the next year!


May your ‘Prabhu’ bless you!

Shubh ratri and a very happy new year!

What is the common link??

Archimedes shouting ‘Eureka!’
The number one singles by Ed Sheeran, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie!
40% of Pulitzer Prize winners in the last ten years!
The composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s musical genius and his many compositions!

In fact the list is much longer but don’t want the suspense to be!

All these creative juices (literally!) And ideas happened in the toilet! Yes! The loo is a big creative zoo!

There are several reasons why we (just as an example!) Have amazing ideas in the toilet! There is SHOWER EFFECT/WHITE NOISE EFFECT an DOPAMINE!

This “shower effect” apparently allows for a break from analytical thinking, enabling more unconventional and original thoughts to emerge.


The biggest reasons why the creative juices are flowing is because of lack of social media! If you install a water proof screen in the toilet then you can finally say good bye to creativity!

The lack of external stimuli, such as emails and social media, in a bathroom allows the brain to “blink” and activate the insight pathway to solve problems! In fact as told in the novel Secret of secrets; once the brain is removed from all the distractions it is finally free to perform wonders!

Also the warm water of a shower and the general environment of a bathroom promotes a relaxed state , lowering stress and allowing the mind to wander freely!

Then you have the “White Noise” Effect! The sound of running water can act as white noise, blocking out other distractions and creating a calm, meditative state! In fact if you are reading, you can get the same benefit if you listen to music but make sure it is instrumental or even simply white noise!

This state of relaxation and internal focus is characterized by alpha brain waves, which help make the brain more open to remote associations from the right hemisphere of the brain!

Finally you have the Dopamine Release!

A relaxed and happy mood, often achieved in a bathroom, can be linked to the release of dopamine, a hormone that improves mood and enhances creative thinking!

Also when you are taking bath or using the toilet; you do not have any other ‘work’ going on! Then this is like a transition or the bathroom acts as an “incubation” environment for ideas, allowing the mind to process information and make new connections without the pressure of direct problem-solving!

The composer Ludwig van Beethoven’s musical genius is partly attributed to his early morning bathing rituals!

So maybe next time anyone complains that you or someone is spending too much time in the loo, maybe he or she is thinking the next Noble (or Nobel!) Idea! Just guide him or her to write it down though otherwise it may get washed down the drain literally!

Then again, the most important thing in the world is balance! Just because you get some good ideas in the loo; please do not make it a habit! ‘Loo’brary is not the place to read! Library is better!

Of course it is a natural thing so there should not be any shame in the bathroom effect!

Some talented people though would be the best everywhere!

Like R. Sundarrajan and his movies with great comic timing!

Now spend the second last night of the year in a blissful quiet with your eyes closed! In other ways; sleep!

Shubh ratri!

In older clocks especially with heavy hands you would notice that the seconds hand moves a little faster while coming down!

While it is a little slow when it climbs up! The time it gains to come down is usually equal to the extra time it takes to go up!

The net effect is that no time is effectively lost! That’s the effect of gravity!

This is what Kepler says in his second law!

Kepler’s Law of Equal Areas, or Kepler’s Second Law, states that a line connecting a planet to the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal time intervals, meaning planets move faster when closer to the Sun (perihelion) and slower when farther away (aphelion).

This demonstrates the conservation of angular momentum in elliptical orbits, as the planet’s speed changes to maintain a constant rate of area swept over time.


In fact in zero gravity a flame of a candle is blue and round! But under pressure you get the typical colours and features!


Practically though it means that do not worry if your start is slow! You will make up eventually!

Just like How the Ramayana by Ramanand Sagar started so slowly but then it is still a legendary piece of television!

Now start your slow pace towards the bed!

Shubh ratri…

There is an interesting story where a clever princess is asked by her father whether she likes sweet or salt!

She says salt!

As you grow older you actually realise it’s true!

The most important thing for the most tastiest food apart from looking good and you being hungry is it to have the perfect salt!

Interestingly we actually work for salt! Even historically!

Salt is such a basic need that a whole march and revolution is based on this!

Did you know that the word Salary is actually based on salt!?

Then again that may be just a myth!

This old story is pretty famous where the
word salary traces its origins to ancient Rome, deriving from the Latin term salārium, which referred to a stipend, allowance, or pension, particularly for officials or soldiers.

In fact salārium — Originally meant “salt money” or an allowance related to salt!

During those times apparently RomeSalt was a highly valuable commodity in antiquity—essential for preserving food, flavoring meals, and even medicinal uses—sometimes called “white gold.” !

It was then passed through Old French salaire and Anglo-Norman salarie.

This word then entered Middle English as salarie around the late 13th to early 14th century.
By the 14th century, it broadly denoted fixed or periodic compensation for services, extending beyond military contexts!

Now comes the myth!

A widespread popular story claims Roman soldiers were directly “paid in salt,” leading to the phrase “worth one’s salt” (meaning competent or valuable)!

It is more likely that salārium was probably an allowance for salt, not payment in salt!

Now don’t AsSalt me for that!

Salt or sugar; life without guide and Gurus is incomplete. One such guru was Guru Gobind Singh! He used to say that “Recognize the entire human race as one”!

May the divine blessings of Guru Gobind Singh Ji fill your life with peace, love, and positivity!

“Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh”

Shubh Ratri…

Sometimes luck can get you a Nobel prize!

In getting a Nobel; this pair could be considered most lucky!

So while working with the Holmdel antenna in New Jersey, the two astronomers discovered a background noise.

After ruling out possible interference from urban areas, nuclear tests, or pigeons living in the antenna, Wilson and Penzias came across an explanation which simply changed their life!

First to tell about the background noise; some background!

In the mid-1960s, while a professor at Princeton University, Dicke independently concluded that the early universe’s hot, dense state would have left a detectable thermal afterglow that had cooled over billions of years due to the expansion of the universe.

He estimated this residual radiation would have a temperature of about 10 Kelvin (later refined to approximately 2.7 Kelvin) and would be observable in the microwave portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

Dicke and his research team at Princeton (which included Jim Peebles, Peter Roll, and David Wilkinson) began building a special radio antenna called a Dicke radiometer to search for this signal.

But luck was not in their side!

The radiation was accidentally discovered by radio astronomers at Bell Labs just a few miles away.

So when Penzias and Wilson connected with the Princeton team, it became clear they had inadvertently found the very evidence Dicke had predicted.

This discovery of the CMB provided crucial, concrete evidence supporting the Big Bang theory over the competing steady-state model of the universe.

Now even though the whole theory was provided by Dicke; Penzias and Wilson received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1978 for their ‘accidental’ discover

Even when they did not know what it was!

Being first is important and it is also important is to have luck!

Then again it is also important to have true conviction and bravery to become one of the best officers of the army! One such amazing legendary officer was
Major Mohit Sharma AC SM!

Big salute to legends like him


A quick travel sketch and blog
Shubh ratri…

The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950 is a test of a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of a human.

Practically this means that as Turing proposed human evaluator would judge natural language conversations between a human and a machine designed to generate human-like responses!

Now in his original concept Turing replaced the abstract question “Can machines think?” with a practical experiment:

The Participants were a human judge, a human respondent, and a machine!

All parties are in separate rooms and communicate only through text to remove physical bias.

The goal was that if the judge cannot reliably distinguish between the machine and the human after a series of questions, the machine is considered to have passed.

Even Turing predicted that by the year 2000, a machine could fool 30% of judges during a five-minute test!

By 2025, advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated the ability to pass versions of the test!

The GPT-4.5 in a research published in March 2025 convinced human judges it was a person 73% of the time, surpassing the success rate of actual human participants in the same study!

Modern AI can now simulate casual language, handle unexpected questions, and express believable opinions and humor!

The ability of AI to pass many such modern tests has rendered traditional bot-detection systems like CAPTCHAs increasingly obsolete, necessitating new multi-layered authentication methods in 2025!

Over the years there have been many computers who have defeated this test but as technology progresses the issue is that modern computers who have to pretend to be humans must actually reduce their intelligence and make mistakes to be identified as humans!

Yes! The machines are so fast and accurate that the bot at the other end knows that it is dealing with another bot! You cannot be very good also!

It is like how Karna did not cry of pain even when the scorpion was biting him which Parashuram understood immediately! Too good is sometimes really bad!

Since to err is human! Only when you make mistakes and struggle can you be human and successful!

Successful also was the series by Tarak Mehta which was both funny as well as family oriented!

A quick sketch and blog made without any ‘Robotic’ assistance during a travel in a hotel room with a simple pencil and sheet of paper!

Beat that AI!

Now time to sleep!

Shubh ratri!

This simple game based on paper is now the inspiration to one of the most popular games which floods your WhatsApp group every other day!


The game’s core mechanics come from the older pencil-and-paper game “Bulls and Cows,” a simple code-guessing game with numbers.

In the game one player (the code-maker) creates a secret sequence, and another (the code-breaker) attempts to guess it based on positional feedback.

The game is traditionally played with 4-digit numbers, though versions exist with 3 to 6 digits or even words.

The code-maker writes down a secret number where all digits must be unique (no repeats! This is important and we will come to it later!).

The code-breaker submits a guess of the same length, also with unique digits.

After each guess, the code-maker provides two scores!

Bulls: The number of digits that are correct and in the right position!
Cows: The number of digits that are in the secret number but in the wrong position!

Did you get the modern version of the game with that description!?

There is an intermediate popular game which also got inspired by this one!

Telecommunications expert Mordecai Meirowitz invented the peg-based version of cows and bulls in 1970.

This game play included colors!

One player (Codemaker) sets a secret color code, and the other (Codebreaker) guesses, receiving clues (black/white pegs) for correct colors/positions!

Did you understand that one! Yes! It is Mastermind!

The famous computer scientist Donald Knuth analyzed the game in 1976, proving the codebreaker can always win in five moves or less!

Later on the colors were replaced with alphabets and set to six letters with repeats (which are the hardest clues to solve!)

So you have a six alphabets to solve in six tries or less!

Yes! The Wordle! You even have similar games with numbers and even they are real fun to play!


Fun also was to watch comedians like Raju Shrivastav!

Now finish your worldle of the day and sleep!

Shubh ratri…

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Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation
is a Book by Joseph Weizenbaum

It chiefly talks about ELIZA among other things of course!

So you know the popular coloumn agony ‘aunt’ right!? Well, though this was made for some other reasons, it soon became the first agony ‘AI Aunt’!

Historically ELIZA was created by Joseph Weizenbaum at MIT in the mid-1960s and is considered the first chatbot!

It was new in that it was simulating a psychotherapist!

If you actually think then you would realise that a psychotherapist is actually just the person who ‘listens’ to you! He or she may not have answers to your life problems! He or she simply make you aware of what you already know!

Many psychotherapist would actually just repeat your own words and add some phrases and use them for ‘therapy’!

The bot did the same and how!

ELIZA’s most famous implementation was the “DOCTOR” script, which simulated a Rogerian psychotherapist!

It functioned by mirroring the user’s statements back to them as questions (e.g., if a user said “My head hurts,” ELIZA might ask “Why do you say your head hurts?”).

Instead of “understanding” language, ELIZA used pattern matching and substitution. It identified keywords in user input and applied transformation rules to generate a response.

All said and done it worked! But it too well!

So much that you got a phenomenon called the “ELIZA Effect”

Weizenbaum was surprised to find that users often attributed deep understanding and human-like emotions to the program, despite its simple logic!

This phenomenon, where people anthropomorphize computer programs, became known as the ELIZA Effect!

Disturbed by how easily people were “deceived” by the software, Weizenbaum became a vocal critic of artificial intelligence. He argued in his book that computers should never be given tasks requiring human wisdom or empathy!

The sad thing here though is that humans need an AI to ‘listen’ to them!

Of course no AI or for that matter those with narrow mind can ever appreciate melodious music and songs!
Like the famous Dal dal par sone ki chidiya by Rafi ji!

Listen to some soft Rafi and sleep!

Shub ratri…

There are small invisible to eyes ‘alien’ like ‘entities’ which enter your body!

Once they do; they make you sick!

Sometimes they take full control of your body in spite of being so small that you cannot even imagine or even see!

Sounds ridiculous!?

Now when you put it like that it does sound crazy!

In the novel Bellevue by Robin Cook he mentions just the thing!

The theory and reality of today was the plot of science of yesterday!

The above theory sounds like the screenplay of Predator part 4! But it is actually the most accurate scientific theory modern medicine works on now!

The Germ Theory!

But when it was proposed; the biggest and the most intelligent and the most respected scientists and doctors all over the world not only ridiculed it but also called it pseudo science!

In fact several prominent individuals, particularly those within the medical and scientific establishments wedded to older theories, initially ridiculed the germ theory and its early proponents, including Dr. Henry Bastian, Rudolf Virchow, and Mary Baker Eddy!


Dr. Henry Bastian was a prominent English surgeon and physician and one of the most vocal opponents of germ theory, even after Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch provided substantial evidence!

He staunchly advocated for the discredited theory of spontaneous generation, which held that microbes appeared as a result of disease and decay (symptoms), rather than being the cause of it. He wrote books and articles against germ theory, influencing many in the medical community!

Rudolf Virchow is a well known academician in the medical world! There are many terms named after him even now! But even this highly influential German physician, pathologist, and statesman, mocked Louis Pasteur’s ideas.

He was a strong proponent of cellular pathology and once he famously boasted that he had never brought his eye near a microscope in this context. He found the idea that ubiquitous, tiny microbes could be responsible for widespread illnesses implausible at first!

Many doctors were personally offended by the implication that their own “uncleanliness” was killing patient!

British surgeon Joseph Lister, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery, was also widely mocked by his peers when he introduced the use of carbolic acid to sterilize surgical instruments, wounds, and the air during operations!

Critics found the idea of invisible germs absurd and the practice cumbersome, but Lister’s success eventually proved them wrong!

So next time someone comes up with an absurd statement which only ‘sounds’ absurd to the very ‘intelligent’ you; do not be in a hurry to dismiss it! It may be the next ‘Germ theory!’ Or it could very well be the ramblings of a deranged mind! Your choice!

Choice also is to listen to great music like carnatic music by Venkateswaran Dakshinamoorthy!

Now don’t worry about the little ‘aliens’ and sleep!

Shubh ratri…

When your life is goes like a clockwork; eat at this time, sleep and work and then repeat! You may feel that you are having a ‘robotic’ life!

No emotions and simply work! Which is what you think Robots may do!

It is interesting how the actual meaning of the word ROBOT when it was first used was FORCED LABOR!

Czech writer Karel Čapek introduced the word “robot” in his 1920/1921 play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots), but he credited his brother, Josef Čapek, with actually inventing the word!

The term comes from the Czech word robota, meaning “forced labor” or “drudgery”.

Karel Čapek intended to use “laboři” (from Latin labor) but his brother Josef suggested “roboti” (robots).

The narrative is set on an isolated island factory where a company, Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R.), mass-produces artificial beings from synthetic organic matter to serve as tireless laborers for humanity.

These “robots” are physically humanlike but initially lack emotions, desires, and individual thought, designed solely for efficiency!

Then enters Helena, the daughter of a prominent industrialist and a representative of the League of Humanity who visits the factory to advocate for better treatment and “souls” for the robots! This presence of SOUL is dismissed by one and all!


Over time, and partially due to a scientist, Dr. Gall, experimenting with giving some robots emotions and pain at Helena’s request, the robots begin to develop consciousness, self-awareness, and a shared hatred for their human masters!

A global robot uprising ensues, leading to the systematic extermination of the human race!

The robots kill all humans except for one man, Alquist, a construction worker whom they spare because he “works with his hands like a robot”.

But then reality strikes them! The robots cannot reproduce because, well they are not humans!

The robots soon realize that they are facing their own extinction without the secret formula for their creation, which the human Helena had burned in a desperate attempt to stop the factory.

In the epilogue, Alquist is unable to recreate the formula. He discovers two advanced robots, Primus and a robot made in Helena’s image, who show signs of love and a willingness to sacrifice themselves for each other!

Recognizing these emotions as the spark of new life and true humanity, Alquist declares them the new “Adam and Eve,” offering a glimmer of hope for a new cycle of life to begin!

You may not know the play but the term ROBOT is now something which everyone knows!

Everyone also knows who is Arun Ahuja! Yes! Even you do! Only thing is that you know him by his more common name; Govinda!

Now start your Robotic routine and sleep!

Shubh ratri!