Chaos, Infrastructure and Jehad.

While we were in dandy of football worldcup, lot of interesting happenings around us in India. In Bangalore, the new chief minister makes right noise to give an air of optimism in infrastructure-plagued IT capital. Last week, the long awaited the airport road flyover in Domlur was opened to public traffic. Unfortunately it took more time than kannagi statue to get back to its place in chennai- Marina. Infrastructure projects in Bangalore need to be added to the long list of projects that are guided by chaos theory. I found the the chaos theory by James Gleick an interesting read. Recently writer sujatha used deep simplicity principle in his short story in a tamil magazine. "A butterfly flipping its wings in Ghana can cause a cyclone in India!". Can't get what this marketing statement means. In our world, no action is independent, all happenings are guided by complex non-linear equations. I am always in the last row gang who convinently dream, if our maths teacher try to teach us linear equations. In contrary to the general belief, Non-linear equations are simple in structure, but can result in millions of solutions. The stock market prediction comes first in explaining the chaos theory. Next is weather prediction. However we try to predict the monsoon in a year, the weatherman invariably end up with wrong numbers. A simple and repetitive phenomenon like monsoon in India has a big list of probable causes. During my training in ISRO, a scientist in meterology department in ahmedabad tried hard to drive the point that monsoon prediction is not an easy job. But in the end, the session ended with humorous question "Will we ever predict monsoons correctly?". No matter how much ever we plan, how much funds we allocate, the infrastructure projects in bangalore always has millions of reason to stop proceeding.

 

Mumbaikar's solidarity in fight against terrorism is worth a laud. But there are some friends like vatsan who consider all this solidarity business are not worth it. Mumbai is an active city, it will come back to normal even after a bad disaster. Yet it is unarguable truth that mumbai train blast brought all Indians together in a consensus against terrorism and pakisan's role in terrorism. Al-qaeda started operations in Jammu and Kashmir officially and it become significant because it coincided with mumbai train blasts. We have a long way to go in solving the problems with pakistan, but an amicable solution to all the problems including the big K kashmir has to be arrived at. Otherwise these jobless terrorists are going to kill more common people in the name of Jehad.

 

 

 

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