Life in Gaza

A Gaza Artist Creates 100 Square Feet of Beauty, and She’s Not Budging

We all have heard violence and misbehaviour against muslim women who tries to defy tradition, especially in the muslim countries. The article which i came across was a peculiar one as it provoked rather unique thoughts. A lady named Nida Badwan is an artist and a photographer, who lives in Gaza. She was submitted to harassment from the authorities when she tried to roam the city in loose attire. Despite here telling them she is an artist the authorities blamed her sense of dressing an ordered her to change it if she wants to go out anywhere. Now i would have understood if she wanted to leave the place or done something like that, but, she stayed in her room and created artwork. She never came out of her room to see Gaza. In the past 15 months she only once saw gaza through skype for her art exhibition and when she went to doctor in which she deliberately closed her eyes for the whole way. This is also a silent protest against the orthodox, freedom hating world of islam from an artist. I admire her courage and wish her protest is considered by the educated people there.

Many Worlds Interpretation

Many Worlds Interpretation commonly abbreviated as MWI within the scientific community. Scientist, physicist, philosophers and every other person who practice ontology have been interested in the evolution of human and the very start of being. Some of the commonly known physicists and scientists such as Albert Einstein, Stephan Hawkings have proposed several theories about start of the universe and their theories about various topics. Among such topics are some long debated questions; are we alone in this universe, or are their any other universe. The fight for the right answer goes well beyond my scope of present knowledge. But a group of physicists are arguing about a Multiverse, in layman language, a universe existing parallel to ours. Some questions arise in the minds of scholars that even if they exist there is no way to prove the theory, even though mathematically there is a probability of  their existence. In a recent article i read there was one such debate ongoing whether the theory was right or wrong or even if the discussion for the same topic is worth or not. The major debatable topic among them was how to validate this scientific argument or rather a very specific judgement: Even if this is right there is no way to prove it. As much as i like to make a judgement for the decision but my knowledge for the history of the topic is limited. The author Sean Corell seemed too aggravated that the mere possibility of its validation was waved off because of the limitation of our technology and scope of knowledge. His basic proofs provided some mathematical explanations which seemed decent enough to be taken into consideration. Not to jump to conclusions here but i for one would like to take this topic more practically than theoretically. Not going with the explanation of the author lets not hastefully jump into conclusion. I would like the probability of its veracity to be taken into account along with other theories and lets take our chances on the most probable ones. I have no doubts that the scientist would have taken a lot of possibilities into account but no theories should be taken on faith.

Selma the movie

As appealing as it sounds, the movie is not about the incidences in Selma its another movie over Martin Luther King. Don't get me wrong i have no grudges against him neither i am of the type who hates movies over legendary personalities. Although the movie gave a view of what happened in Selma in 1960's but it screamed for sympathy and hatred for racial discrimination. Although racial discrimination by all means is wrong and not acceptable but the event that actually happened in Selma were far more diverse than that. The incidents of Selma were in a way similar to Jallianwala bagh incident which happened in India. A group of people that were targeted by the authorities to put an end to revolution led to an exactly opposite outcome. The events in Selma not only ignited the feeling of injustice among the American citizen which is much more evident in the movie but also gave the start to a civil war. The start of the Voting Right Act by Martin Luther King that took place after the event, was an initiative for the black people that will allow them to live peacefully. The movie captures initiatives by Martin Luther King but the civil war has not been shown with any sense here. Moreover the movie felt like another Martin praising movie.In my opinion the movie is more commercial than factual. In the movie some facts of the governor of Alabama will lead you to believe that he was a villain but actually he was not. He was looking from the perspective of white people that by giving a considerable amount of colored people the right to vote might lead to several administration problems. By watching the movie you would assume that a whole lot of whites hated the colored not only because of them being racist, but the fear of losing several of them their jobs due to additional voting right given to the colored was not shown in the movie. Which is exactly what happened, several administration people lost their jobs after the VRA. Please understand, that i am not saying the racial way of discriminating people was right, it was not all whites who discriminated colored. Some of them came out of their shell and joined the march later. But the movies fails to the understand the concept that there was more to the incident in Selma then being racist or multiculturalist, heroes or villains, but struggle of different middle class people to accommodate few other among themselves on the expense of their economy. 

Shimla

Any one of you who has been to engineering college will understand if i say how satisfying it is not going to class and spending some time with yourself and your preferred colleagues. Not to demean any other graduates but in India where engineers (other then some premium institutes since i don't know what happens there but i am pretty sure it's similar if not same) are made in a factory where educations have reached new levels of ridicule. Practicality has been replaced by course books of outdated knowledge and sincerity by the amount of classes you attend. The only thing left is to label them and give a bar code. Well i brought up this because i am an engineer too or should i say a factory product. It was around six years back when i was in third year of my college. Me and my colleagues rented a flat and stayed there for attending college. Trust me when i say attending college was the last things in my mind. Don't think of it we were bad students or so but classes were just not appealing to us. After the break preceding the start of 5th semester we barely went to college 3 or 4 classes in one month. Other colleagues was remarkably impressed by our feat and so were we but the dean was not. So he called us for expressing his anguish towards us and we never showed up. The following day we received calls from our parents, courtesy dean. They told a lot about some important stuff which we don't remember, the only thing that stuck in our mid was" suna hai tumko paper nahin dene de rahe hain" ( we have heard that you are not allowed to give the sessionals). The expressions on our faces were exhilarating. For reasons of short attendance we were barred from giving sessional exams. It is not to give an exam due to short attendance especially if the others have to and you have been expelled. Next day we packed our bags and decided to go somewhere. One of my friend told me Chandigarh, good place never been there should try out. Since we stayed in Delhi it was too near from the place we lived. Siddharth one of my friend just had his maternal uncle shifted to a big MNC and placed at Shimla. A hill station seem a decent destination, but how to get there. Now we are not from a rich background but we belong to a decent middle class families. But the fact that we just received a call from our parents with some excellent verbal abuses and talks about our future prospects didn't urge us to call them back and ask for money. So where will the money come from. We had some money with us for one month's ration and rent already with us and a television set top top box of our senior. Now as any sincere junior, we sold the set top box and went to station for tickets.While he was giving exam we went for a jog in the park ( We told our senior what happened to the set top box and he is one of our very good friends now). We barely had enough money for the tickets to Shimla so we bought tickets till Chandigarh and decided to see what happens there.
We got to Chandigarh the other day and asked for the next train to Shimla, it was later that evening. So we took our bags and decided to roam in Chandigarh that day. It was a beautifully planned city of the likes none i have seen before. Time was short so we went to a few places only of which one of them was the Rock Garden, a beautiful place to visit. Then we took our bags and went back to station for our journey to Shimla. We reached Shimla the other day and luck was on our side too. Siddharth called his uncle for advice regarding affordable places to stay which he denied and said he had the company bunglow there and a driver. His uncle was out for some business so we had the bungalow and the car with us for the whole week. We went to whatever places we wanted as the food, conveyance and lodging was not our concern now. Shimla itself was a beautiful place and we admired its as we went. The journey to Shimla was my first unexpected ride with friends which till date i remember.

Pakistan and its journalism

Like most Indian kids i too grew up listening stories about how Pakistan and India got separated by partition after the end of British Raj.Which left us divided not only in people but as well as in financial assets. From childhood memories i remember Pakistan was described as "a bad nation" which in various ways still many of us believe. Many governments have changed,  many wars have been fought for various reason between our countries.I always had doubts in mind that how can be a nation of roughly 180 million never demanded its government to look for logical solutions for ending war and terrorism.
Earlier today i read a few articles of Zaheer Shah Sherazi and Shahid Kardar ,journalists of pakistani origin, debating over the problems and the actions taken by their government and public reactions over the same. I am not so well read but the fact that these gentlemen had published in their articles are the signs of genuine concerns of their people over some terrible facts. Sitting here one can only guess so much about the internal problems of other nations. But when I think of a developing Pakistan I had always imagined it as purana lucknow. The image fades as i recollect the verses from the articles of these gentlemen about the policies of their government and their lack of decision taking abilities.The articles somehow mourned about how,when,where,why a number of people killed by militants in several areas.
When i come to think of it these are not only concern within our borders but also in Pakistan too. The fact that gave me relief that the people of pakistan are not supporting these heinous acts of vandalism and slowly moving towards eradicating the same by refusing Taliban for supporting it. These reporters were criticizing the government of pakistan for their delayed diplomatic approach towards terrorism by Taliban in their homeland and on the same page appreciating some measures taken recently by government for increasing the security near border areas to seal their borders from Taliban. In a way they were mentioning how measures were/are taken by government to minimize the threats. But the writers had similar concerns as to when and how will these acts of terrorism will stop.

Return to castle wolfenstien

Its been a long time since i wanted to start a blog. Well here i am finally making an attempt. Please do not look for some hardcore intellectual stuff, its more like an opinion. The name of the blog goes so because i am huge fan of Agent Blaskowicz ( most of you who don't know he is a fictional character fighting Hitler and in his course he encounters many foes in the franchise Wolfenstien). Well i will be writing here more stuff about my travels, game, the beautiful people i met in my way till now, and as time comes. Thank you for your time.
Signing out,
Maverick