Lying posture makes you creative!

Last updated on: August 1, 2008 at 6:58 am By Desh Kapoor

Does posture help in problem solving or thinking differently? BS, you would say... right? Well, a new study says (Prelim albeit) that lying down significantly helped the subjects in solving anagrams and thinking creatively. Ostensibly, it had to do with brain chemistry and the production of noradrenaline while standing up. No wonder, I used to have my best creative moments in my childhood and youth lying down. Half of the time when I used to have any issues that needed to be thought out, I used to go and lie down on the bed. I thought it helped me focus.. but that was probably because I used to cut out the rest of the stuff by simply lying down. Anyways, so if you are in search of that next ad - look at the couch in your room. You might get the next award... Read more

Why Human Spirit has little future in India

Last updated on: July 31, 2008 at 9:52 pm By Desh Kapoor

This guy is one, who is the most loathed of the terrorists (if there could be a classification) by the Kashmiri Pandits. Why? You will know that automatically when you listen to this interview. Just listen to the answers and the information he gives to one of the most renowned journalists in Indian media today - Manoj Raghuvamshi. It is just mind-boggling at the extent of dehumanizing that occurs in the name of religion and "freedom"! So, when we talk about justice and religious freedom - then I think we all need to pause for a moment and think what we are saying! Also, when we fight those who plant bombs in the trauma center of a hospital (killing those who are fighting death itself!), you know what mindset they have and whom they are following in the first place!! Now, this was then - when he was caught. The LOUSY and the shameful judicial system of India - and the absolutely downright racist and communal that the entire gang of Human Right activist community that we have - this man was set free! Yes, he was set free AFTER what he says here. And then we wonder in India why innocents are attacked? When the butchers - without remorse for their inhuman actions - get freedom then its a certain eventuality.. isnt it? When you VALUE Bittas of the world, you automatically devalue the most basic human spirit! The choice is our. Read more

Is Nuclear Deal a smokescreen?

Last updated on: July 31, 2008 at 6:05 pm By Desh Kapoor

All that horse trading was ultimately for useless gains in the Nuclear deal. It was just a smokescreen from the US afterall. So it now seems. The chief negotiator of the India-United States nuclear deal Nicholas Burns has categorically said: "No aspect of this deal recognises India as a nuclear weapons state." Oh really? Then who the f*** needs that recognition in the first place? On the eve of the vote by the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors on the India-specific safeguards agreement, the chief negotiator of the India-United States nuclear deal Nicholas Burns has said the 123 Agreement 'absolutely is consistent with every part of the Hyde Act'.After a hiatus of four months and speaking for the first time since leaving the Bush administration, Burns, currently on a short stint with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, emphasised, "The 123 Agreement does not supersede the Hyde Act. It's a complement and necessary part." Now, this is something that our dear PM needs to explain at length. I have said earlier, that this deal was never about the Nuclear energy independence and all that jazz.. that was nonsense to begin with. It was first and foremost about being a legitimate Nuclear power. And if THAT is in question, then I think US and India are talking about two different things. And it is imperative for the PM to explain it to the country! Read more

Explosive defused on route of Amarnath

Last updated on: July 31, 2008 at 5:56 pm By Desh Kapoor

Image via WikipediaAnd now, a bomb was found on the route of Amarnath pilgrimage. I just find the entire deal just sickening. One the one side are the terrorists who have a totally screwed up idea of a God that is full of vengeance and anger, other the other side are these Pakistani organizations who, while their own country burns and dissolves into anarchy, are busy thinking up stuff to hurt another (Ya khuda mera bhala kar na kar.. doosre ka bura to kar hi de - kind of a prayer they say perhaps five times a day??).... and then there is this Government led ostensibly by an honest intellectual which went about buying everyone and his Uncle who had a right to be in Lok Sabha and could breathe. Meanwhile, India and its citizens can go to hell. Nobody gives a damn! A major tragedy was on Thursday averted by alert Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) when they detected and defused a powerful Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted on Srinagar-Baltal yatra route. Had it not been detected and defused it would have caused much damage to life and property, a CRPF spokesman said. He said a Road Opening Party (ROP) of 118 batallion CRPF was searching the yatra route when they found some suspicious packet under some stones at Manigam on Srinagar-Baltal, base camp of the Amarnath cave, route at 0730 hrs. Read more

And the world remained silent Part II

Last updated on: July 31, 2008 at 5:22 pm By Desh Kapoor

This is part two of the same movie. It is made by Ashok Pandit, a known film maker. Read more

And the world remained silent! Part I

Last updated on: July 31, 2008 at 5:00 pm By Desh Kapoor

Sometimes it sickens me when certain communities keep justifying their "violent streak" on the difficulties and the "atrocities" they face. And in India, such a fantastic "business of sorrow" to reap violent harvests has become an art and a "right". I have believed that two communities that our country needs to be thankful to are the Sikhs and the Kashmiri Pandits. If anyone, then these two communities had reasons to go out and kill (which some in the former community did - but blindly!).. but they restrained. Watch this movie on how Kashmiri Pandits were driven out of Kashmir.... were ethnically cleansed in their own homeland.. and the world remained silent! It also shows how Benazir Bhutto was instrumental in instigating the ethnic cleansing and gave speeches to arouse the baser elements in the Muslims of Kashmir - daughter of another India hater ZA Bhutto - who uttered those famous words "I will see the Hindu Bastards" after starting Pakistan's own nuclear program on the back of stolen Nuclear secrets by AQ Khan.. who somehow reached Pakistani shores, while there was an Interpol alert in Holland and rest of the NATO countries. Benazir's death (and ZA Bhutto's as well) shows that anyone in the Islamic world who thinks that he/she can open the lid on the baser elements within that community with the hope of getting power on the base of religion and use those sentiments is a fool. He/she is just digging their own graves. For madness of religious violence that is once unleashed can not be easily reigned in... it ultimately devours you as well. The ordinary citizen of Pakistan is learning that himself - the very organizations that they thought were created and given money to defeat the "Hindu bastards" are now orchestrating mayhem in their own home. Of course, at this time, the linkage is very difficult to see for that ordinary layman on the streets of Karachi or Lahore.... but for this ignorance, their kids and grand-kids will pay a very dear price! Read more

Minds behind Indian Serial Blasts

Last updated on: July 31, 2008 at 7:06 am By Desh Kapoor

The masterminds behind the bomb blasts are Rasool Khan Parti and Mohammad Sufiya Ahmed Patangiya - both, currently residing in Karachi (Farahan Arcade Gulistan). They are originally from Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. Both were from Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami, but found Students Islamic Movement of India to be the best hiring ground. They were also responsible for murder of Gujarat Minister, Haren Pandya. The planning was obviously done in Kotli, Pakistan in May this year. So, these blasts will be watershed in the Indian history - as this is the first time that Indian Muslims became the canon fodder instead of the poor Pakistanis and Bangladeshis who end up in the terror camps across the border. All the folks were sent to UAE for "jobs" and from there to Dubai and then to Muzaffarabad in PoK. That is where they were trained. The report says that they avoided the use of RDX as such a large operation could have been detected with the kind of risk involved in bringing RDX to India. The training thus had a new nomenclature - Alternate Explosions! So, RDX was replaced by Ammonia Nitrate. The bombs were assembled locally and the Ammonia Nitrate came in from Kerala. The trained boys were brought into India via Dubai and then Bangladesh. Read more

Analysis of the Bomb terror in India

Last updated on: July 31, 2008 at 4:11 am By Desh Kapoor

Three more bombs were found in Surat. With that the number of bombs found is now 23 and two explosive laden cars! There were 16 bomb blasts in Ahmedabad. At least 9 blasts happened in Bangalore. So, around 50 bombs were used at least! Now, behind each bomb is at least ONE perpetrator. And it can be reasonably assumed that backing every person who actually plants that bomb is one more person providing the logistic support. Soon, we are looking at 100 people who were mobilized across the country to orchestrate a series of terror bombings within a few days! Of course, the Indian intelligence is really not the most stellar organizations in its class in the world by any stretch but to pull this off even with the low levels of CBI and RAW's expertise, would have required some amount of heavy expenditure - to train and to provide logistic support from the place of training to get to the place of action and finally getting the bomb material to them!! Now, we are looking at substantial investment in money terms. So, who was it that could have done it. Not many such "terror investors" out there with some good and ready-to-go training facilities.. are they? B. Raman, the guy I believe in most in these things points to Dawood Ibrahim. He may be right! After all he does have the patronage - unflinching and unwavering - of the Pakistani Intelligence agency (ISI) - who also double up as a good training instructors. There are a few schools on terror training in this region, but the ISI run ones are certainly the elite ones! The other peg in this entire game that I can think of is LTTE. That organization is the hidden joker that not many think of, but which has a rich (infamous certainly) history of having made deals with Pakistan's ISI for various gains including arms and money. That it fights for its "Tamil Hindu cause" is absolute nonsense if ever there was one of those causes!! Sheikh Hasina's assassination attempt and helping ISI smuggle arms to Gujarat by providing maritime help have been recorded by Indian intelligence services even earlier. While ISI might have succeeded in establishing a base in Gujarat, it lacks the capacity to operate in a coastal environment, which needs specialised skills. LTTE has mastered the skill of carrying out maritime operations. Highly placed intelligence sources believe that a 'deal' was struck between the ISI and the LTTE earlier this year in January-February, at Colombo. "Under the deal, the LTTE will train militant organisations (for maritime capability) of the ISI and in return they will be provided with arms and financial resources," said an intelligence source. What can be done to fight terrorism in India? HT's Neelesh Mishra talks of 10 ways to fight terror, which are as below (with my notes and changes): Read more

Living with Sorrow

Last updated on: July 31, 2008 at 1:19 am By Desh Kapoor

We all have sorrow. Don't you have sorrow in one form or another? And do you want to know about it? Read more

Soy Intake can lead to infertility?

Last updated on: July 29, 2008 at 8:57 pm By Desh Kapoor

Most vegetarians use soy as a source for protein foods. In fact most simply cut out all the animal protein (milk and derivatives) and replace it with soy. Now, a study, on merely 99 men has found that intake of soy can reduce the sperm concentration and count - even at low levels of intake. Soy eaters had, on average, 41 million fewer sperm per milliliter than those who avoided soy products. That association held up after other factors potentially affecting sperm health, such as smoking, alcohol and caffeine intake, age, abstinence time and body mass index were considered. The minimum count in the normal sperm range is however 20 million, so its not as if you will become infertile or something, as per study results. But the small amounts taken by the study subjects was really very low. Consumption of the study's 15 soy-based foods, from miso soup and tofu to soy burgers, ice cream and energy bars, was low, an average of one serving every other day among the highest-consuming group. Actually soy has isoflavones, which are tied to infertility in many animal studies. So this finding is not too surprising. Read more