SRK's over (re)action?

SRK in news, for a humiliating reason (probably for the first time). He has been interrogated by the Immigration officers in US. For two hours.

Many of us who go to US face similar kind of security checks, sometime because of wearing turban, somtime because of wearing dhotis, sometime because of carryingpickles along with us! Last when I travelled abroad, I got stopped in one of the transit airports because I carried a nail cutter, now a days they stop for any liquid food also. It has always made me sense for these checks, after all, these checks make sure we are in a safe zone (country).

Now given these facts, any US entrant will go through these checks, and it doesn't matter to them whether he/she is "larger than life" icon of his/her country. So I feel SRK has over reacted to what had happened to him, which happens/happened for many of us. He has to understand the following:

- US in the past has done similar things to famous icons. Even Narendra modi faced visa issues (though he doesnt belong to "M" community, but because of the communal violence in gujarat).

- US is a country which cannot afford frequent terrorist attacks, unlike India. The security check
he has undergone is after all for the millions of NRIs living in US.

- Celebrities get indulged in crimes, and terrorist activities. (There are couple of examples to quote, but I don't want to do it now).

- VIPs in india can literally by pass anything and everything. How come he can expect the same in US?

- Moreover in US, film stars are not seen as idols. They are just like other celebrities. So as a general advice, we should remove our "social mask" of the current country while moving to the ther country, and be co operative to the immigration officers!

- "We will give the same treatment to Angelina jolie", can be a good dialogue for his next movie, "Phir bhi dil hai hindustani US jaane aane kae baath" (or you can it like as PBDHHUJAKB ;-) ).

- Even many other film stars faced similar problem while traveling abroad. Once Kamal hasan faced inquiries in the cannadian immigration when he told he came there for "shooting" (actually he meant film shooting). But I dont think Kamal made much noise that time.

Oops, now I feel I am over reacting, sorry guys.

Figuring out the figures

It was a fine day in my college, except for the boring lecture I was attending. I was least bothered about the lecturer's' preaching. I was scribbling some random numbers on my notebook and I observed a peculiar property of divisibility of numbers. It is, if the last n-digits of a number is divisible by 2 power n, then the number will also. I was fascinated by this, and I told this to my friend after the lecture. He told me that he already knew this, he said he read it in his text books during school days, but it was totally new to me. Not disappointed; to me, the real fun is not in finding something new for the world, but in something new to the self! Here are some of my other observations.

* A palindrome integer of even length will always be a multiple of 11.

* if (k, m) are co-primes then, k power n, & m are also co primes

* the difference between a number and its reverse will always be 0 or multiple of 9. This can be generalized to, the difference between a number in base N system and its reverse will be 0 or multiple of N - 1.

* log 1 to base 1 is indeterminate.

All these can be proven by mathematical induction, except for the last (which is intuitive)......

Are women from venus?

I found lot of interesting things from the last two books that I read, related to the universe & its origin. There are various compartments to be understood to get a picture of the universe, ranging from astronomy to astrology. Some of them are brilliant and many of them are to be disproved in future.

If we look back at the history, we have got misled by the events in the sky, many a times. Many of them had turned into false beliefs, over a period of time. I found these false beliefs more interesting than the actual truth our astrophysicists have found ;-). One good example is in believing the menstrual cycle of women related to moon's cycle; the former with a periodicity of 28 earth days, and the later being roughly the same. No wonder the word, menstruation is etymologically derived from the word moon. And of course it is just a coincidence.

The role of cosmic objects in mythology, has also interested me much. (I bet, its a great source of bed time stories). Each and every naked-eye visible object in the sky has played role in the myths. One interesting myth(or a belief) is that men lived in mars, women in Venus, long long ago. Venus (Aphrodite) is the goddess of love & beauty, 'manmathi' of the Greek mythology. But the actual facts found about the venus is disappointing, not matching much with the characteristics of women.

* Venus is the hottest planet in the system

* It rotates itself in a direction opposite to that of Earth, and of course opposite to that of Mars too :-p.. (FYI, Uranus is the only other planet to do so)

* Its atmosphere is full of droplets of sulphuric acid, and thickest atmosphere. Women & Venus are always toughest to deal with :-).

* And it has the slowest rotation rate, takes 243 earth days to make a rotation of itself, while it takes only 225 earth days to make a revolution around sun.

* It is one of the five planets that are visible to naked eye. The other four are mercury, mars, jupiter and saturn. These five visible planets played vital roles in ancient astrology. Sun & moon have also contributed their part. Later, the shaky astrologers included new planets, at their convenience. To me, astrology is nothing more than pseudo science.

Do you find them interesting?