Why is it that most men find their lovers fairer than other women?
This is Herculean for me to prove by experience and I do not assure the readers that I will approve this statement at the end of it! So I attempt a logical proof for this based on Set theory and Leo Tolstoy's famous saying: "All is fair in love and war"
To begin with,
The follwing statement is true, considering the stature of the author:
All is fair in love and war.
By the property of logical AND,
All is fair in love
All is fair in war
are both true.
Since, if (A AND B) is true, it follows that A and B are true individually.
We now focus on the first statement.
All is fair in love.
What this means is, if Love is a set (Set Theory), then all its elements are fair and none other.
So this gives rise to another set called Fair that, in this case, cannot be seperately identified from the set called Love. So we now have two completely merged sets: Love and Fair.
This implies that
Love is Fair
(This is the converse of the original statement: Fair is Love)
Now we know e raised to the power 0 is 1. (ie) e = 1, So Multiplying the Right Hand Side by e, leaves the equation unchanged.
Love is Faire
Now applying basic Mathematics, by adding 'r' to both sides of is (which I consider to be an abbreviated form of is equal to)
Lover is Fairer
Is this not what I sought to prove? Whew!!
All this for my love of Maths..!! Or is it Maths only??;)
Friday, September 26, 2008
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நான் அவன் இல்லை!!
நான் பிறந்து துறந்தவன் அல்ல; துறந்தே பிறந்தவன்;
நான் பிழைக்க வந்தவன் அல்ல; பிழைத்து வந்தவன்;
ஏ காலனே...
நான் உன்னையும் வெல்வேன்;
என் மரணத்தில்தானே உன் ஜனனம்!!
நான் பிழைக்க வந்தவன் அல்ல; பிழைத்து வந்தவன்;
ஏ காலனே...
நான் உன்னையும் வெல்வேன்;
என் மரணத்தில்தானே உன் ஜனனம்!!
Friday, September 12, 2008
Ode on a Russian Urn!!
Dham Dhoom..Here is something that this movie has achieved. It has made someone as lazy as me get back to my blog after a long hiatus. That is quite something, isn’t it?
Now to the much-awaited movie…You get the feeling that this movie was completed only to stand testimony to the following (I know this has been attempted too many times, but I just can’t wait to add to that list):
1. There is always another version of getting the most clichéd subject in Tamil as a movie (A City boy loves a Gramaththu ‘Gal’) (i.e) In the long run the profits never go to 0 in-spite of innumerable number of firms entering the market!! (Microeconomics always applies somewhere!!). Here are the variables that aid directors and story tellers in coming up with variations:
a. Number of pairs (Mr. Ravi loves Ya Ali lady and looked like this Lawyer madam was about to fall in love with Ravi at any moment and that Russian model who speaks Hindi with a Russian accent for the first time in a Tamil movie (whew..do we need another proof that globalization is indeed shrinking the boundaries???!!) always smiled at him..)
b. Varying the domestic and foreign locales (Russia and Pollachi??? Here)
c. Bringing in the most alien looking girl in paavadai and dhaavani and profess in all TV interviews that she plays a ‘bubbly’, ‘cho’chweet’ ‘natural’ village belle.
2. Village Villains always have a sister who loves a guy from the city and they end up leaving their ‘Gouravam’ for the love of their sister
3. The Indian hero and heroine make an enquiry at some help desk (the restaurant here) and look away from the customer service agent immediately. It is only when this agent calls back in the foreign language that our guy gets out of his thoughts (that flash across his mind at that instant, though he may have wandered across Russia singing duets, rolling on the floor, doing nothing et all)
4. When an Indian and a foreigner meet in a foreign location, the foreigner is always able to converse in the local Indian language or there is this ‘appavi’ character at the edge of the screen who asks every now and then ‘avaru enna solraaru?’ to God-only-knows-who, for the benefit of the audience.
5. When two Indians meet at a foreign location, they always speak in English, even if the location were to be Pakistan.(Fortunately, it was Russia here). And what a pity, it was only Indians who knew English in the whole of Russia, as per this movie.oops…Does Putin ever watch Tamil movies?? If only that happens some day, I fear we may lose our close ties with Russia.
6. When the hero hides from the police (be it local or otherwise), everybody in that area (be it kids playing around or housewives who were cooking or the innocent heroine who was walking by) would be able to see him latching on to an edge of the wall (just as the hero of ‘Prince of Persia’ did in those DOS game times), except for the police, who wouldn’t even cordon that area off.
7. The hero is able to outrun (or outcycle to be precise) police officers (riding Kawasaki Ninjas and Harley Comets) on a bicycle and believe me, he was handcuffed. Why don’t these guys give Lance Armstrong a run for his money??
8. The hero is able to jump atop buildings with the ease of a monkey (even after being shot midway in the air), that Newton, if alive, would want to check if he were sane enough to propose the concept of gravity.
9. Police officers never shoot heroes on open roads where there is not a single soul in sight. They always chase him for 3-4 minutes before sending across a bullet that grazes the heroes chest and lets him totter around for exactly 10-20 kilometers when he falls right in front of a house that has an Indian (an unmarried Indian woman to be more accurate) who has all the time in the world to help him. Else they miss him because our hero has got this uncanny ability of diving into any body of water that he finds on the way, only to be rescued by the heroine at the other end of the same (this water body may range from our local Koovum to the Pacific Ocean) and dries up instantly to sing a duet. Our guy can do it all..’Confident’ than romba mukkiyam
10. The heroine has this great habit of catching feathers all along the road and says that is an indicator of something/someone good to come (and this is always the hero!!) Why not a promotion or a first bucket in the appraisal or a bike being gifted?? Who cares as long as the heroine doesn’t?
Hmm..This is all I can write now…But are there reasons enough to make this movie a ‘can-watch’?…No..but there are couple of positives: Anu Hassan being the greatest of them and the other, the INTERMISSION!!
All in all, this is an Ode that should not have been...
Now to the much-awaited movie…You get the feeling that this movie was completed only to stand testimony to the following (I know this has been attempted too many times, but I just can’t wait to add to that list):
1. There is always another version of getting the most clichéd subject in Tamil as a movie (A City boy loves a Gramaththu ‘Gal’) (i.e) In the long run the profits never go to 0 in-spite of innumerable number of firms entering the market!! (Microeconomics always applies somewhere!!). Here are the variables that aid directors and story tellers in coming up with variations:
a. Number of pairs (Mr. Ravi loves Ya Ali lady and looked like this Lawyer madam was about to fall in love with Ravi at any moment and that Russian model who speaks Hindi with a Russian accent for the first time in a Tamil movie (whew..do we need another proof that globalization is indeed shrinking the boundaries???!!) always smiled at him..)
b. Varying the domestic and foreign locales (Russia and Pollachi??? Here)
c. Bringing in the most alien looking girl in paavadai and dhaavani and profess in all TV interviews that she plays a ‘bubbly’, ‘cho’chweet’ ‘natural’ village belle.
2. Village Villains always have a sister who loves a guy from the city and they end up leaving their ‘Gouravam’ for the love of their sister
3. The Indian hero and heroine make an enquiry at some help desk (the restaurant here) and look away from the customer service agent immediately. It is only when this agent calls back in the foreign language that our guy gets out of his thoughts (that flash across his mind at that instant, though he may have wandered across Russia singing duets, rolling on the floor, doing nothing et all)
4. When an Indian and a foreigner meet in a foreign location, the foreigner is always able to converse in the local Indian language or there is this ‘appavi’ character at the edge of the screen who asks every now and then ‘avaru enna solraaru?’ to God-only-knows-who, for the benefit of the audience.
5. When two Indians meet at a foreign location, they always speak in English, even if the location were to be Pakistan.(Fortunately, it was Russia here). And what a pity, it was only Indians who knew English in the whole of Russia, as per this movie.oops…Does Putin ever watch Tamil movies?? If only that happens some day, I fear we may lose our close ties with Russia.
6. When the hero hides from the police (be it local or otherwise), everybody in that area (be it kids playing around or housewives who were cooking or the innocent heroine who was walking by) would be able to see him latching on to an edge of the wall (just as the hero of ‘Prince of Persia’ did in those DOS game times), except for the police, who wouldn’t even cordon that area off.
7. The hero is able to outrun (or outcycle to be precise) police officers (riding Kawasaki Ninjas and Harley Comets) on a bicycle and believe me, he was handcuffed. Why don’t these guys give Lance Armstrong a run for his money??
8. The hero is able to jump atop buildings with the ease of a monkey (even after being shot midway in the air), that Newton, if alive, would want to check if he were sane enough to propose the concept of gravity.
9. Police officers never shoot heroes on open roads where there is not a single soul in sight. They always chase him for 3-4 minutes before sending across a bullet that grazes the heroes chest and lets him totter around for exactly 10-20 kilometers when he falls right in front of a house that has an Indian (an unmarried Indian woman to be more accurate) who has all the time in the world to help him. Else they miss him because our hero has got this uncanny ability of diving into any body of water that he finds on the way, only to be rescued by the heroine at the other end of the same (this water body may range from our local Koovum to the Pacific Ocean) and dries up instantly to sing a duet. Our guy can do it all..’Confident’ than romba mukkiyam
10. The heroine has this great habit of catching feathers all along the road and says that is an indicator of something/someone good to come (and this is always the hero!!) Why not a promotion or a first bucket in the appraisal or a bike being gifted?? Who cares as long as the heroine doesn’t?
Hmm..This is all I can write now…But are there reasons enough to make this movie a ‘can-watch’?…No..but there are couple of positives: Anu Hassan being the greatest of them and the other, the INTERMISSION!!
All in all, this is an Ode that should not have been...
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