Not all evil has gone, O Ram,
Not all evil has gone.
Evil hasn't extinguished itself:
It made one go with blood in her eyes,
Others may go just by fasting,
Least help them break their Fast, O Ram,
Give them a break, My Lord.
Kill the Evil with your little finger,
And give the Evil pause.
You know all too well, O Lord,
Not all evil has gone.
There are wrinkles in the sky,
Wrinkles that are hard
For God to iron out,
And, the sky is smooth no more.
Not everyone gets the same sky,
Some get a warped sky,
Some a sky too blue.
Some get a sky too high,
Some a sky too low.
Some say, there's been a sky quake,
Still, not too late for me to wake.
Five killed, scores injured. This wasn't a stampede in a religious congregation event. This wasn't a creaking railway footbridge that gave way. This wasn't a stampede due to change of platform in a railway station that awaited an arriving train. These were spectators watching an air show put up by the Indian Air Force. No, there wasn't a mishap or a crash of any of the airplanes doing display. These were enthusiastic folks trying to exit after catching a glimpse of the aerobatics over a Chennai beach.
This wasn't even a stampede as we know a stampede. Folks died due to dehydration and heat, as per reports. In how many ways can unsuspecting people die?
Aphorisms of Alfred E Neuman of the Mad comic strip are legion. Some of them are given below:
"Medical insurance is what allows people to be ill at ease!"
"How come stealing from one book is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research?"
"Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!"
"America is still a land of promise, especially during a political campaign."
"Most people are too lazy to open the door when opportunity knocks!"
"Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for and politicians find out what people will fall for."
"These days, the only time politicians tell the truth is when they call each other a liar."
The last of the quoted aphorisms - These days, the only time politicians tell the truth is when they call each other a liar - may not be entirely true.
I'll stick out my neck and say, the other times when politicians are telling the truth is when they say, 'I'm a liar'. If such an utterance were not true, then politicians would be truthful all the time.
The other night,
The new moon blocked the sun,
And created an eclipse,
And, it changed many fortunes.
A little nothing changed fortunes,
A shadow threw a shadow -
Some came under the umbra,
Some under the penumbra,
Some remained in the Light.
I found this video in the Internet. Watch this video:
In my view, one reason why the aspect ratio (the width to height ratio) of the standard paper sizes remain same even after halving the longer side is due to the following:
The seemingly strange ratio of length to breadth is because the ratio remains the same when the longer side is folded by half. So, if the ratio is 1:√2, with the longer side being √2, when we fold the longer side by half we have a new ratio of 1:(√2/2). This is the same as 1:(1/√2). This is again the same as √2:1.
We know that the ratio does not change if we multiply both sides of the ratio with the same number. For example, if we have a ratio of 2:3, the ratio remains same when we multiply both sides of the ratio by the same number 2 (say). So, the new ratio 4:6 is the same as 2:3. So, if we multiply, 1:(1/√2) by √2 on both sides of the ratio, we get, √2:(1/√2)x√2, or, √2:1. So, the ratio keeps oscillating between 1:√2 and √2:1, as we keep folding the paper on the longer side by half. So, when we start with 1 square metre of paper for A0, we need a ratio of length to breadth of √2:1, in such a way that the product of length into breadth is 1 square metre. So we have, 1189mm x 841mm = 9,99,949 square mm, or approximately 1 square metre. And the ratio of 1189:841 is 1.41..., and therefore approximately, √2.
Because we started with 1 square metre for A0, A4 has seemingly strange dimensions.
Lonely as a shipwreck,
Lonely as a heart break,
Lonely as a buried time capsule,
Lonely as a forward post.
