Two, tiny LCD screens try to communicate through entangled Ethernet cable, using text from crowd-sourced emails on long distance failed love. Art installation by Riley Harmon.

Without thinking,
Without the familiar company of ones’ self.
Without time.
Without the craving for experience.

Without words and images!

There was this one jerk who was picking on the old ladies and orhpans, at the place where I volunteer (for dying kids). I was talking to this really hot chick, who was totally into me (she had really big boobs), while I was helping a blind little girl learn to read Braille.

The totally hot girl (who was naked) said what a travesty that this jerk was kicking puppies and shaving homeless kittens. So I stood up (all 7′ of me) walked over to the jerk, and told him, “Look, bro, you’d better stop causing world hunger, or we’ll have to fight.” After the jerk (who was the Devil) took one look into my eyes, burning with passion. He tried to run away (he looked really strong but not stronger than me), but I pulled him back and made him wear a skirt in front of everybody, including my best friends, President Obama and Isaac Newton, before I made him hurl himself into the sun.

Afterwards, I took said hot girl (really big boobs) and her 3 even hotter friends, and her mom (even bigger boobs), and they were like, “Oh, you’re so brave!” I could tell my brother (Jesus Christ) was looking down smiling upon me that day.

There is a strange beauty in all this.

The Asteroids Galaxy Tour are a soulful psychedelic pop band based in Copenhagen/ Denmark.
Formed in the summer of 2007 by Mette Lindberg (Vocal) and Lars Iversen(Bass) the band
released their debut album ‘Fruit’ in September 2009 through their own label Small Giants Records
and BMG Rights. The album was written, recorded and produced in Lars’ small home studio.

Click to play track titled “Around The Bend” for some soul poppin sounds.

Something to ponder with all the music :)

If you’re in a happy, optimistic, ambitious mood, check the weather. Sunny days make people happier and more helpful. In a taste test, you’re likely to have a strong preference for the first sample you taste—even if all of the samples are identical. The more often you see a person or an object, the more you’ll like it. Mating decisions are based partly on smell. And what we think of as memories are merely stories we tell ourselves anew each time we recall an event.

I woke up late. The corporate-law II paper was to start at 9:30. I could manage to get in the car only at 8:30.
The drive, much like television, puts one in a state of sleep. My thoughts were wandering aimlessly to elsewhere while scenery was pouring in through the six windows of the car.

Just before womens college, I saw three women, all of them municipality workers. They were sweeping the road with over-sized brooms. Amazingly, they were sweeping in synchronization.

It looked much like a dance.

I paused for a moment to wonder, what probability is there of such a thing happening. Choosing to ignore for the moment, the seemingly trivial hypothesis that they were doing so out of mutual agreement or that it was an intentional performance of some inside joke that the three shared. It was obviously happening out of sheer chance, and I was taken back, briefly, by this sudden metaphorical experience of intelligent design.

The situation began to crystallize into concepts and questions. “Lets standardize the problem, if the women always sweep the broom in identical strokes, with only three observable position in each standard stroke. Then what is the probability that at a particular moment in time they would be sweeping in synchronized strokes……”
I realized that my predicament was clearly Vikash’s doing. He is preparing to write for GMAT, so he keeps asking me such questions. I was still left facing the problem. This situation was sustained for some time.

I knew that either, I didn’t know enough math, or that I did not have enough attention left, or both, and so I couldn’t arrive at an answer that I could be sure of, in my ignorance. On the other hand, I remembered though that it is an error often made while considering the paradox of the little probability of there being human life, and the factual reality that there actually is human life. People resolve this by attribution to the intelligent designer, some Godlike being. Intelligent people, who understand evolution, attribute it to chance.

But I still could not face up to my ignorance in mathematics. I needed to learn math. Math is a language too, the language of nature, as some famous science guy once said. I am all for learning languages. Limits of my language are the limits of my world, and everything.

Then suddenly, I was made to remember, by the random movements of my memory. I had attended this conference on Commercial Arbitration. This person who was heading Becker & McKenzie’s office in Hong Kong was speaking about how China was the largest economic jurisdiction for legal settlements. Past year’s legal claims ran into 60 billion U.S.$. He went on to narrate how the knowledge of Chinese language had recently become a necessary requirement for CEOs all over the world so that they could at least fight their disputes in the same tongue.

I was left with a choice yet to be made, but the university appeared in sight. It was time to write my 3 hour long examination.

The chemicals between us. A pitter-patter of thoughts.
Time and Space with people and things.
A wide assortment of polarized concepts.

I wonder what I would feel,
If I didn’t tell myself.

As my hands sweat beneath the clouds.
People around me, talking; Slowly.
Vocalizing sentences I put in their mouth.

I wonder what they would say,
If I didn’t tell them.

Minutes to hours to days.
Everyday is a new day.
This moment.

I dont think things would change,
If I didn’t blink.

You part your lips, and begin to speak.
The light of a million suns; more than going wow.
I squint my eyes to let it through.

You cause a light breeze to move,
I wonder where I would be if not here.

The track titled BKAB is an acronym for “Bed, Kitchen, Attic, Basement”.
This track appears in the credit roll for the movie V for Vendetta.

The track consists of electro remix of samples from Bollywood songs
Chura Ke Dil Mera and Pardesi Jana Nahi!

The track is composed  by Ethan Stoller.

Due to rights issue with wachowski brothers, the track is not credited in the movie, and the
title and the composer of the track are not revealed.

I had been searching for this track for years. But with a name which you don’t know,
its a tough task. Finally found the original “Speechless Version”.

Click to play streaming.

Arithmetic (~20,000 BC) - Counting abstract objects
The invention of arithmetic provided a way to compute abstractly about numbers of objects.

Written language (~4000 BC) - A systematic way to record knowledge
A central event in the emergence of civilization, written language provided a systematic way to record and transmit  knowledge.

Babylonian astronomy (~500 BC) - Using arithmetic to predict the heavens
The Babylonians introduced mathematical calculation as a way to find the behavior of planets and a few other systems in nature.

Pythagoras (~500 BC) - Numbers are the key to nature
The Pythagoreans promoted the idea that numbers could be used to systematically understand and compute aspects of nature, music, and the world.

Panini (~400 BC) - Finding the rules of human language
Panini created a grammar for Sanskrit, forming the basis for systematic linguistics.

Aristotle (~350 BC) - Classifying the world, and introducing logic
Aristotle tried to systematize knowledge, first by classifying objects in the world, and second by inventing the idea of logic  as a way to formalize human reasoning.

Library of Alexandria (~300 BC) - Collecting the world’s knowledge
The Library of Alexandria collected perhaps half a million scrolls, with works covering all areas of knowledge.

Archimedes (~250 BC) - Computing as a basis for technology
Archimedes used mathematics to create and understand technological devices, and may have built gear-based, mechanical astronomical calculators.

Ramon Llull (1300) - Creating knowledge by combinations
Ramon Llull promoted a scheme for systematically creating knowledge from formal combinations of ideas.

John Graunt (1662) - Inventing the idea of statistics
Graunt and others started to systematically summarize demographic and economic data using statistical ideas based on mathematics.

Gottfried Leibniz (1684) - Answering questions using computation
Leibniz promoted the idea of answering all human questions by converting them to a universal symbolic language, then  applying logic using a machine. He also tried to organize the systematic collection of knowledge to use in such a system.

Isaac Newton (1687) - Mathematics as a basis for natural science
Newton introduced the idea that mathematical rules could be used to systematically compute the behavior of systems in nature.

Carl Linnaeus (1750) - Creating a taxonomy for life
Linnaeus systematized the classification of living organisms, introducing ideas like binomial naming.

Encyclopædia Britannica etc. (1768) - Printing collected knowledge
The Encyclopædia Britannica—and the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d’Alembert—attempted to summarize all current knowledge in book form.

Charles Babbage (1830) - Printing mathematical tables by machine
Babbage constructed a mechanical computer to automate the creation of mathematical knowledge.

Melvil Dewey (1876) - Classifying the world’s knowledge
Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal System for classifying the world’s knowledge and specifying how to organize books in libraries.

Gottlob Frege (1879) - Axiomatizing knowledge through logic
Frege created a formal system and language in which mathematical and other knowledge could be represented in terms of an extended form of logic.

Oxford English Dictionary (1880s) - Collecting every word in English
With extensive information supplied by a network of volunteers, theOED was a systematic project to get complete knowledge of all the words in the English language.

Alan Turing (1936) - The concept of universal computation
Turing showed that any reasonable computation could be done by programming a fixed universal machine—and then  speculated that such a machine could emulate the brain.

Digital computers (1940s) - Automating the process of computation
The arrival of digital electronic computers provided the mechanism by which computations of all kinds could be automated with increasing efficiency.

Computational linguistics (1950s) - Algorithms for human language
Computational linguistics put the concepts of grammar into an algorithmic form that promised to automate processes of language understanding.

Computer languages (1957) - Languages for programming tasks
Fortran, COBOL, and other early computer languages defined the concept of a precise formal representation for tasks to be performed by computers.

Pop-culture computers (1950s-1960s) - Imagining intelligent machines
From the Tracy and Hepburn movie Desk Set to TV’s Batman and Star Trek to HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey and the  robots of Isaac Asimov, the public became used to the idea that computers would eventually have human-like knowledge  and reasoning.

Artificial Intelligence (1950s-1960s) - Making computers intelligent
Artificial Intelligence defined a research program for developing computers that show general intelligence–and led to many spinoffs important for specific purposes.

Interactive computing (1970s-1980s) - Getting immediate results from computers
With the emergence of progressively cheaper computers, it became possible to do computations immediately, integrating  them as part of the everyday process of working with knowledge.

Neural networks (1980s) - Handling knowledge by emulating the brain
With precursors in the 1940s, neural networks emerged in the 1980s as a concept for storing and manipulating various types of knowledge using connections reminiscent of nerve cells.

Cyc (1984) - Creating a computable database of common sense
Cyc has been a long-running project to encode common sense facts in a computable form.

The Web (1989) - Collecting the world’s information
The web has grown to provide billions of pages of freely available information from all corners of civilization.

Google (1997) - An engine to search the web
Google and other search engines provided highly efficient capabilities to do textual searches across the whole content of the web.

Wikipedia (2001) - Self-organized encyclopedia
Volunteer contributors have assembled millions of pages of encyclopedia material, providing textual descriptions of practically all areas of human knowledge.

Web 2.0 (early 2000s) - Societally organized information
Social networking and other collective websites defined a mechanism for collectively assembling information by and about people.

A New Kind of Science (2002) - Exploring the computational universe
Stephen Wolfram explored the universe of possible simple programs, and showed that knowledge about many natural and artificial processes could be represented in terms of surprisingly simple programs.

Please watch and provide your feedback on One Night In Delhi,
a documentary, made by my dear film-maker/activist friend Jharna Jhaveri.