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Language is a barrier sometimes! The knowledge of English is very necessary in these times to show that you know things!

Someone may be clever or intelligent in his or her own native language but the lack of knowledge of English may be an issue.

Of course in the times of the information technology and Translate, things are much easy and of course the knowledge of English does not necessarily mean you are clever or intelligent! 

There is a chart called the Gantt chart, this is a commonly used graphical depiction of a project schedule. It’s a type of bar chart showing the start and finish dates of a project’s elements such as resources, planning, and dependencies! Officially Henry Gantt in 1910-15, an American mechanical engineer, designed the Gantt chart and this is used in so many prominent companies all over the world including and not limited to Amazon and Ikea!

Gantt originally created his tool for systematic, routine operations. He designed this visualization tool to more easily measure productivity levels of employees and gauge which employees were under- or over-performing. Gantt also frequently included graphics and other visual indicators in his charts to track performance. One of the first major applications of Gantt charts was by the United States during World War I.

The earliest Gantt charts were drawn on paper and therefore had to be redrawn entirely in order to adjust to schedule changes. For many years, project managers used pieces of paper or blocks for Gantt chart bars so they could be adjusted as needed!

Of course later on the development of computers made way to develop and create complex and more streamlined Gantt charts which are used even today!

Now where does the language issue come you would ask?

Well accurately speaking the first charts similar to Gantt was actually developed in 1896 by Karol Adamiecki, who called it a harmonogram!

Adamiecki, however, published his chart only in Russian and Polish which limited both its adoption and recognition of his authorship! In 1896 Adamiecki invented this novel means of displaying interdependent processes so as to enhance the visibility of production schedules. In 1903 his theory caused a stir in Russian technical circles!

Adamiecki is the author of the law of harmony in management and in 1972 the State College of Economic Administration in Katowice was named after him, and in 1974 it became the Karol Adamiecki University of Economics!

Better late than never which proves that English language or not, real talent shines no matter what! But still English knowledge does help! A big bag of real talent also was Pankaj Udhas who like his name can give you so many emotions and if you listen to his song “Chitti ayi Hai”, you will definitely feel Udhas or sad especially if you are far from your near and dear ones.

Listen to his soft songs to give you a nice warm sleep!

We will miss you Pankaj ji; heartfelt condolences, Om Shanthi…

Shubh Ratri!

Absolutely delighted with this blog! Hope you like it too! Sketch could have been a tad better!

Everyone wants honey! I am writing about the original liquid nectar one and not the nick name you give to that someone special or specials!

Bees are probably one of the most important species in the world and all they do their whole life is work! In fact the average male in the colony who has done his function of reproduction is thrown out as soon as possible! While the workers work to collect honey from so many flowers in a complicated routine and contribute to pollination.

In contrast you have the Hornet! This is a devil! All it is capable of is stealing and killing! Some of them are called the Murder Hornets which are a particularly ruthless breed of hornet assassins!

The Murder Hornets like to attack and try to raid honey bee hives for food! Unfortunately for them, the honey bees have come up with a defense against their raids. What the honey bees will do is surround a single hornet with multiple bees, creating a tight, spherical formation around the hornet. The bees then begin to beat their wings ferociously. The beating is rhythmic and constant and in a specific direction! The unidirectional flow of air causes the heat to build up in the center! The miracle of nature is that the bees have naturally evolved in such a way that they can survive in heats just a couple or so degrees more than the hornets which literally gets cooked alive in the ‘Tandoor’ made by the bees!

Ingenious you would say but then nature finds a way!

And in Vietnam, that’s the giant hornet Vespa soror!

The Vespa soror has figured out a way to avoid this trap or heat ball!

Giant hornets will hunt honeybees on their own and grab them one by one!
But what is really lethal to honeybees is when they flip into a multiple hornet attack strategy. And when they do this, they essentially want to kill all the adult defenders so that the colony is no longer protected!

Which essentially means the thing which you have been listening to since ages! Unity in strength! The heat ball or the bee Tandoor will only work if everyone cooperates and does this united! Or else it fails! Much like how the attackers take out the scouts!

But do not worry for the, the bees have one more trick up their…wings!

A handful of beekeepers saw these spots! Whenever the bees detected a giant hornet nearby—but not other, smaller hornets—the honey bees began to arrange bits of these secret substance near the entrances to their hives. And the hornets themselves were less likely to land on a nest adorned with these spots which used to stink and stick!

Yes! The spots are cow DUNG! or Bull SHIT! sometimes even other poop is used!

This was surprising since bees generally keep their nests clean and tidy. They’re good at keeping diseases and pathogens out—two things that could be hiding in animal poop!

It isn’t clear why or how the poop shield works, but there must be some chemical inside the poop—presumably derived from the plants that the animals originally ate—that either actively repels the hornets or camouflages the scent of the bees’ nests!

Some beekeepers call this the Bull Shit defence!

Now next time someone exclaims bull shit! Do not get offended especially if you are a fan of the Honey (all kinds!)! Hope all this was not confusing! As confusing as reading out the name Danny Tshering Phintso Denzongpa! You can simply say oh! The birthday celebrity Danny Denzongpa!

Now wish good night to your Honey (s)!

What is the relation between Kodak the photo company and a product which fixes things (not your broken heart though! That cannot be fixed!)?

The link is a person called Harry Wesley Coover Jr

His dissertation was on commercial synthesis of vitamin B6! But that process was taken over by army so this blog is not about that link!

Harry then joined as a chemist in the company Eastman Kodak! One of his research and his team’s major focus was to make clear plastic gun sights! This was of course for use by allied forces and his repeated experiments created one candidate with a minor flaw! It was clear but it was sticky!

He stopped the research during the war for almost nine years and came back to further the research.

The original material he discovered was cyanoacrylate! and so Coover and his team at Eastman Kodak examined cyanoacrylates again!
Coover was overseeing Kodak chemists investigating heat-resistant polymers for jet canopies when cyanoacrylates were once again tested and proved too sticky.
Then tragedy struck when a chemist in the group informed Coover that he had permanently damaged an expensive refractometer by gluing it together!

The material when dried not only glued the substances together but also used to do it with so much strength that is was permanent!
Coover with his inventor mindset did not think much about the expensive refractometer which could be adjusted in the coming budget! But he thought out of the box and refined the process to make this material liquid which later on solidified as a glue!

Now Cyanoacrylate is used as a forensic tool to capture latent fingerprints on non-porous surfaces like glass, plastic, etc!

While much attention was given to the glue’s capacity to bond solid materials, Coover was also the first to recognize and patent cyanoacrylates as a tissue adhesive after his eldest son cut open his finger while making a model and glued the cut closed with the glue!
It was also first used in the Vietnam War in a spray form as a hemostatic agent to temporarily patch the internal organs of injured soldiers until conventional surgery could be performed. Tissue adhesives are now used worldwide for a variety of sutureless surgical applications in humans and animals with the same material!

Coover said many times that he was most proud of the medical applications of cyanoacrylates, that they had saved many lives and would continue to do so

Every home of course knows its final form which is used every other day! The first version of this adhesive was released in 1958!
Since it marketed by Kodak, it was known as Eastman 910.

You and me know it as, The Superglue!
Like the super glue fixes or joins two broken things, actors such as birthday celebrity Venkatesh Prabhu Kasthuri Raja known professionally as Dhanush, join many industries with their performances which transcends the boundary of language!

Now close the cap of the super glue (It is often marketed as one which can be used more than once but I have never been able to use it more than once! It normally gets solid or wasted! So I stick to the smallest pack for single use!) and sleep!
Good Night!

Who is Antonio Meucci?

The name does not ring a BELL?!

For an Italian old timer though, he is well known and this is his story!

He was a Florentine immigrant who was born in 1808, he studied design and mechanical engineering at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, and as a stage technician at the city’s Teatro della Pergola developed a primitive system to help colleagues communicate! In the 1830s he moved to Cuba and, while working on methods to treat illnesses with electric shocks, found that sounds could travel by electrical impulses through copper wire. Sensing potential, he moved to Staten Island, near New York City, in 1850 to develop the technology!

When Meucci’s wife, Ester, became paralysed he rigged a system to link her bedroom with his neighbouring workshop and in 1860 held a public demonstration which was reported in New York’s Italian-language press!

In between giving shelter to political exiles, Meucci struggled to find financial backing, failed to master English and was severely burned in an accident aboard a steamship.

Forced to make new prototype machines after Ester sold his machines for $6 to a secondhand shop, his models became more sophisticated!

An inductor formed around an iron core in the shape of a cylinder was a technique so sophisticated that it was used decades later for long-distance connections!

Unfortunately, Meucci could not afford the $250 needed for a definitive patent for his “talking telegraph” so in 1871 filed a one-year renewable notice of an impending patent. Three years later he could not even afford the $10 to renew it! It is criminal since patent is a big gift to society and must be kept free! This is another way how some very rich ‘inventors’ could suddenly invent so many devices and file so many patents just because they had money to buy!

Now finally Meucci sent a model and technical details to the Western Union telegraph company but failed to win a meeting with executives. When he asked for his materials to be returned, in 1874, he was told they had been ‘LOST’. 

Two years later another “inventor”, who shared a laboratory with Meucci, filed a patent for the machine, became a celebrity and made a lucrative deal with Western Union!

The name of the other inventor was Alexander Graham Bell and the invention was the telephone! Meucci sued and was nearing victory – the supreme court agreed to hear the case and fraud charges were initiated against Bell – when the Florentine died in 1889. The legal action died with him.

In 2002 Historians and Italian-Americans won their battle after the US Congress recognised Antonio Meucci, as a father of modern communications and as the true inventor of the telephone rather than Alexander Graham Bell 113 years after his death! Better late than never!? Life is not always black and white! There are areas of grey and other colours! Just like the Movie Black which is dark followed by his other movies which are actually very colorful by Birthday Celebrity Sanjay Leela Bhansali!

Now than Antonio Meucci for inventing the predecessor of your mobile phone and sleep!

Good Night!

When we were young(er!), we used to be awed by so many inventors and there may not be a kid who would have not heard about Edison!

I remember his many inventions like the Fluoroscope, moving pictures and of course the light bulb!
Not really actually! If you search and try to find out who has been wrongly been credited as the inventor of many inventions, you will find Edison’s name right there on top!

While it is true that Edison’s Fluoroscope became the standard in medicine, it was not the first example of x-ray photography. on 22 December 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen (a German physics professor) saw a picture of his wife’s hand on a photographic plate formed due to X-rays. His wife’s hand’s photograph (shown above) was the first ever photograph of a human body part using X-rays. His contribution to the science of X-rays and X-ray photography is so significant that they are also called Röntgen rays!.

Now it does not mean that he was not a good inventor, it just means that he was a better businessman and much more powerful!
The best selling writer may not be the best writer! And in the same way the most famous and popular singer now like Taylor Swift, may not be the best singer!

Like the journey song goes, so many messages are lost in silence! It is possible that so many get silenced!

Now read the story about the actual inventor of moving pictures!

The first moving picture) was recorded at 12 frames per second by French inventor Louis Le Prince. It was filmed at the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England on October 14, 1888 and the people who appear in the movie are Adolphe Le Prince (Louis’s son), Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley, and Harriet Hartley.
Ten days after filming, Sarah Whitley died. Two years later Le Prince vanished mysteriously from a train traveling between Dijon and Paris. Another two years later, Alphonse (the eldest son) was found shot dead in New York after testifying at a patent trial against Edison by the American Mutoscope Company.
Edison’s first moving picture (Monkeyshines) did not appear until 1889 or 1890!

The story of light bulb inventors is for another day!
Just remember that growing up you must realise that it is normal for you to accept that even great people are mere mortals only. Being human is your natural trait, being humane; well, that is up to you! But make sure that if you do something, or invent something; feel no shame in taking credit for it! That is your right! What is also right are the roles Birthday celebrity Annu Anil Kapoor is doing nowadays!

Now turn off that non Edison invented bulb and sleep!
Good Night!

This is a Tamil thriller movie which after having a good round in the theatres is now available in Amazon OTT!

Now before you see the movie as a normal or regular movie watcher please know the background! The movie is produced by my dear friend and frankly an inspiration to many, Dr Amar Ramachandran! (The Ram in the name is the added bonus!).
Again if you think what a doctor (before that you will also think whether he is a real doctor or even a successful doctor!) is doing in a movie! Let me tell you how he is a leading Gynecologist and Lap specialist so much so that he has demonstrated his surgical skills in national and international conferences! He does not have to make movies to survive and this is definitely his passion!
I have seen many of my friends get the midlife crisis and start new things albeit half heartedly and give up! But Amar’s steadfast dedication and commitment to his hobby and passion are movies like Route no 17!

Starting from smaller roles to full blown roles, he has climbed the ladder of movies and there is no stopping there!

One fine morning you will find him operate on a complicated case or give good news to a couple (he is also a well-known infertility specialist in case you are wondering on his limits!) while the next day he is playing the role of a stylish police officer with conviction of a seasoned actor!

If in any reunion our batch is asked who is the most successful person in the batch then without a doubt Amar’s name will come on the top and stay there!
A well settled family guy like Amar is an inspiration to one and all! And the cherry on the cake is how the whole family is involved and sharing his passion! The movie also has his son and his doctor wife in important roles!
With this background you can watch the movie! It is of course for mature audience only and there are some thrilling scenes which will definitely give you chills! Being a big fan of horror and thriller movies, I thoroughly enjoyed them!

The essence is a route seldom taken where a young couple go and what happens to them is the movie! Some of the scenes especially how the police investigate have some superb editing and clarity! How it is all linked to the past is the final twist! I was particularly interested in Amar’s role and he plays the role as if he was made for it! So you have songs and trills and a mystery all culminating in a superb ending!

All in all Route No 17 is a route you MUST TAKE!
Amar Ramachandran
#routeno17
#amazonprime

This is a Tamil thriller movie which after having a good round in the theatres is now available in Amazon OTT!

Now before you see the movie as a normal or regular movie watcher please know the background! The movie is produced by my dear friend and frankly an inspiration to many, Dr Amar Ramachandran! (The Ram in the name is the added bonus!).
Again if you think what a doctor (before that you will also think whether he is a real doctor or even a successful doctor!) is doing in a movie! Let me tell you how he is a leading Gynecologist and Lap specialist so much so that he has demonstrated his surgical skills in national and international conferences! He does not have to make movies to survive and this is definitely his passion!
I have seen many of my friends get the midlife crisis and start new things albeit half heartedly and give up! But Amar’s steadfast dedication and commitment to his hobby and passion are movies like Route no 17!

Starting from smaller roles to full blown roles, he has climbed the ladder of movies and there is no stopping there!

One fine morning you will find him operate on a complicated case or give good news to a couple (he is also a well-known infertility specialist in case you are wondering on his limits!) while the next day he is playing the role of a stylish police officer with conviction of a seasoned actor!

If in any reunion our batch is asked who is the most successful person in the batch then without a doubt Amar’s name will come on the top and stay there!
A well settled family guy like Amar is an inspiration to one and all! And the cherry on the cake is how the whole family is involved and sharing his passion! The movie also has his son and his doctor wife in important roles!
With this background you can watch the movie! It is of course for mature audience only and there are some thrilling scenes which will definitely give you chills! Being a big fan of horror and thriller movies, I thoroughly enjoyed them!

The essence is a route seldom taken where a young couple go and what happens to them is the movie! Some of the scenes especially how the police investigate have some superb editing and clarity! How it is all linked to the past is the final twist! I was particularly interested in Amar’s role and he plays the role as if he was made for it! So you have songs and trills and a mystery all culminating in a superb ending!

All in all Route No 17 is a route you MUST TAKE!
Amar Ramachandran
#routeno17
#amazonprime

This is a Tamil thriller movie which after having a good round in the theatres is now available in Amazon OTT!

Now before you see the movie as a normal or regular movie watcher please know the background! The movie is produced by my dear friend and frankly an inspiration to many, Dr Amar Ramachandran! (The Ram in the name is the added bonus!).
Again if you think what a doctor (before that you will also think whether he is a real doctor or even a successful doctor!) is doing in a movie! Let me tell you how he is a leading Gynecologist and Lap specialist so much so that he has demonstrated his surgical skills in national and international conferences! He does not have to make movies to survive and this is definitely his passion!
I have seen many of my friends get the midlife crisis and start new things albeit half heartedly and give up! But Amar’s steadfast dedication and commitment to his hobby and passion are movies like Route no 17!

Starting from smaller roles to full blown roles, he has climbed the ladder of movies and there is no stopping there!

One fine morning you will find him operate on a complicated case or give good news to a couple (he is also a well-known infertility specialist in case you are wondering on his limits!) while the next day he is playing the role of a stylish police officer with conviction of a seasoned actor!

If in any reunion our batch is asked who is the most successful person in the batch then without a doubt Amar’s name will come on the top and stay there!
A well settled family guy like Amar is an inspiration to one and all! And the cherry on the cake is how the whole family is involved and sharing his passion! The movie also has his son and his doctor wife in important roles!
With this background you can watch the movie! It is of course for mature audience only and there are some thrilling scenes which will definitely give you chills! Being a big fan of horror and thriller movies, I thoroughly enjoyed them!

The essence is a route seldom taken where a young couple go and what happens to them is the movie! Some of the scenes especially how the police investigate have some superb editing and clarity! How it is all linked to the past is the final twist! I was particularly interested in Amar’s role and he plays the role as if he was made for it! So you have songs and trills and a mystery all culminating in a superb ending!

All in all Route No 17 is a route you MUST TAKE!
Amar Ramachandran
#routeno17
#amazonprime

Shortly after Barack Obama announced he was running for president in the fall of 2007, Google’s CEO, Eric Schmidt, interviewed him in front of a large audience of Google employees. The hall was full of fresh and experienced tech graduates with tech knowledge tsunami! 

In that tense situation, as a joke, Schmidt’s first question was, “What is the most efficient way to sort a million 32- bit integers?” 

If you were a presidential candidate but have limited knowledge of computers and algorithms then this question would have confounded you! Now of course no one expects you to answer the question in a technical manner but still whatever you answer would make or break you or your run to the election! 

Obama with his calm mind and demeanor answered confidently and boldly: “Well, I think the bubble sort would be the wrong way to go,”! 

Schmidt slapped his forehead in astonishment, and the room broke out in thunderous applause. This particular interview is available online and is mentioned in the Book Algorithms to live by; the computer science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griggiths!

Now you would ask the wrong question what is Bubble sort? Well, Bubble Sort is the simplest sorting algorithm that works by repeatedly swapping the adjacent elements if they are in the wrong order. This makes it easy to understand and implement, it also does not require any additional memory space and it is a stable sorting algorithm, meaning that elements with the same key value maintain their relative order in the sorted output!

That is not the real deal! Even Obama may have only a passing knowledge of Bubble sort but he knew where it could not be used! Bubble sort has a time complexity of O(N2) which makes it very slow for large data sets! That means this algorithm is not suitable for large data sets as its average and worst-case time complexity is quite high!

The relevance here is not that Obama knew Bubble sort! He knew how to handle any questions with just basic knowledge of the tech terms or references! Just how Leil Lowndes mentions in her book. “How to talk anyone 92 little tricks for big success in relationship”!

In the present era of the internet in your palm, information is not far! No one knows everything! But if you prepare yourself with some key points then you can handle any situation! Even if it is a hall full of tech wizards! And you do not have to say or feel sorry! Just thankful! No sorry and no thank you reminds me of birthday celebrity Sooraj R. Barjatya and his numero uno Maine Pyar Kiya!

By the way what would you have answered!?

I would have told, “I will Google!”

Now wrap yourself in the bed and sleep!

Good night!

Do you remember listening to Chitrahar on the TV or the Rangoli on sundays!?

Then later on came the music countdown shows which were very popular like the Superhit Muqabla and of course with the advent of Mtv and other channels, countdowns became more of the videos than the songs itself!

The paucity of good music makes sure that there is no good countdown now! There were days when one film would have more than ten good songs! while nowadays you have ten movies with not even a single good song! Whatever Spotify or Apple music says! 

This is the age of singles! One hit wonders and songs which you sing for some time and forget the next day! The music is produced and orchestra is artificial! The singers are auto tuned and the lyrics are repetitive and garbage! The songs nowadays need a single point of click bait which can be used as a reel and your work is done! 

Did you know that one of the first music (actual music and not garbage of today!) countdown was in India in Radio ceylon and later on Vividh Bharathi which started way back in 1952!?

At its onset in 1952, the program did not rank songs, but rather played seven contemporary songs in no particular order! This was really good since those days the songs were so good and so full of soul that to put a number to it would be an arduous task indeed! 

Later on the program started ranking the most popular Hindi film songs. The songs were initially ranked by a combination of the number of records sold in India and listener votes which were collected and recorded in no particular order since this was not an official countdown but still it was a matter of great pride when the song came in the top three! 

Popularity was gauged by record sales, verdicts from record store owners, and popularity among the shrota-sanghs or ‘listeners clubs’. Each week, the shrota-sanghs would send the radio station their list of popular songs. The clubs were formed because it was possible for a record to be sold out at stores and although there was interest to buy more, the interest would not show up in record sales! 

The year-end lists were compiled based on points earned by songs through the year. Between 1966 and 1970 there would sometimes be no points on the weekly broadcast, but the year-end show would be based on point system!

I still remember how my mother used to be glued on to our old big radio with the dial stuck in AIR and she used to listen to the songs in full blast!

When you see the number one songs the singer on top would undoubtedly be Lata didi!  

It is probably one of the longest running countdown shows ever! Starting in 1952 to 1988 in Radio Ceylon and then from 1989 to 1994 in Vividh Bharathi! With subsequent revivals also in later years! The names used to change but the presenter is one of the most recognizable voices in Radio! His start of  “Behno aur Bhaiyon ”  has been imitated in many movies and songs and is instantly recognizable!

The name of the countdown was Binaca Geetmala, and its subsequent incarnations named after Cibaca—Cibaca Sangeetmala, Cibaca Geetmala, and Colgate Cibaca Sangeetmala! 

And of course the iconic voice of Ameen Sayani…

We lost that eternal baritone and melodious voice today.

My mother would have shed a tear for you sir, I will shed two, one for her and one for you…you will be missed…

Heart felt condolences; OM SHANTHI…