Rocking BOSEs! Ha .. Ha!!

 So many things which prove the extreme egotism of human being. So, when it comes to feel proud for others achievements our dimensions keep shrinking on situations. We definitely will feel proud for the achievement of  peoples from our planet if there is an another planet to compete with us. The dimension keep reducing as per our desire, from our country to state, then to city and so on. Today, being a Bose myself, I will be always feel proud of other namesake too. Today it is all about Amar G. Bose, because he was a real achiever. Being in the computer field many times when people ask for the suggestion for what type of speaker or sound system they should buy, my advise always was “if you can afford then go for BOSE”.

There were many Bose who made me proud for the lastname which I shared with them and A. G. Bose was one of them.

Amar Gopal Bose

Amar Gopal Bose was born in 1929 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His father Nani Gopal Bose was a revolutionary freedom fighter who emigrated from Calcutta. Amar Bose was interested in electronics right from his childhood and used to make small electrical toys to supplement his family's income. He did his schooling Abington Senior High School and graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from MIT in the early 1950s. He also completed his Ph.D. from MIT.

While doing graduation from MIT in 1950s, Amar Bose purchased a new stereo system. But he was disappointed with the performance of the speakers. Despite their impressive technical specifications, the speakers failed to reproduce the realism of a live performance. This led Bose to start working on stereo speaker. He aimed to design a speaker that would emulate the concert hall experience in the home. Amar Bose's early patents won him great respect within the industry. But Bose needed capital to do further research and begin production. Amar Bose received financial support from MIT professor Y. W. Lee and in 1964 he founded Bose Corporation.

In 1968, Amar Bose invented the 901(R) Direct/Reflecting(R) speaker system. They were one of the first stereo loudspeakers to utilize the space around them instead of reproducing sound as if in a vacuum. Bose's 901(R) speakers remained an industry benchmark for 25 years. Amar Bose also captured the car stereo market, with systems that transformed the on-the-road listening experience.

His products can be found in Olympics stadiums, the Sistine Chapel, NASA Space Shuttle, and the Japanese National Theatre. Amar Bose was also a professor of electrical engineering at MIT for many years until he retired in 2000. Amar Bose featured on the 2006 Forbes Billionaires list with a personal wealth of $1.2 billion.

Amar Bose has 98 patents in sound technology.

!!!The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household. – Amar G. Bose!!!

!!!The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.  – Amar G. Bose!!!

Free Fall!

During the years when I drawn my salary in dollars, the rupee dollar relation was around one-to-ten. Throughout my brief  tenure when I provided BPO jobs, exactly between  late nineties and early 2000, a dollar cost 45 Rupees. However after 2010 dollar surges ahead and now standing around Rs. 61. Why and how Rupees falling?

Rupees V/S Dollar

In 1947, the exchange rate was 1 dollar equal to 1.00 Rupee but with the introduction of 5 year plans government needed foreign funds and started devaluing Rupees. It further devalued after Indo-China war.

Growing differences in our imports and exports is making the different. India spend more then earn concerning dollars, because whatever we are selling are fetching less dollars and what we are buying, are demanding more dollars from us. Due to large population, India’s imports are increasing and exports are decreasing. That means we earn less dollars compare to what we spend. Another reason for declining dollars is restricted FDI policies. There are many sectors in which FDI is restricted such as retail, insurance, defence etc

India's imports of gold and silver are a major reason for the rupee's slide. However, with a lower rupee value, key sectors like Information Technology, Pharmaceutical and Textiles will benefit from a higher dollar value as bulk of their revenues come from overseas markets.

Rupees against Dollar since 1947

Year	Exchange rate Rupees v/s Dollar
1917	0.07692307692
1925	0.10
1947	1
1952	4.750
1966	7.50
1975	10.409
1980	7.887
1985	12.369
1990	17.504
1995	32.427
2000	45.000
2006	48.336
2007 (Oct)	38.48
2008 (June)	42.51
2008 (October)	48.88
2009 (October)	46.37
2010 (January 22)	46.21
2011 (April)	44.17
2011 (September 21)	48.24
2011 (November 17)	55.3950
2012 (May 23)	56.25
2012 (June 22)	57.15
2013 (May 15)	54.73
2013 (June 12)	58.500
2013 (June 27)	60.73
2013 (July 08)	61.14

!!!The love of economy is the root of all virtue.- George Bernard Shaw!!!

The Eavesdropper V/S Whistleblower

One have to agree that whatever USA accomplish always does it in style and so I am not surprised when they did it again. In the name of security and cyber scrutiny they caught spying on other counties. US, the mother of all trouble is back in the business or rather caught red handed while doing old business. However, snooping and sniffing remind me to a four legged animal but never imagine any human being at that position, specially not from a thirsted one. After Wikileaks this time around they are facing the challenge within, as whole thing blown up by a very own insider, who is himself an employee of the NSA. While on medical leave in Hong Kong, Edward Snowden, leaks the details how USA spying on other countries within USA that included Indian embassy in USA. I wonder, is USA suffering from inferior complexity?

Edward Snowden

Edward Joseph Snowden  is a US former technical contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee who leaked details of top-secret US and British government mass surveillance programs to the press.

Snowden grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1999, Snowden had moved with his family to Ellicott City, Maryland, where he studied computing at Anne Arundel Community College to gain the credits necessary to obtain a high-school diploma, but he did not complete the coursework.  Snowden  worked at a US military base in Japan and reportedly had a deep interest in Japanese popular culture and had studied the Japanese language. He also said he had a basic understanding of Mandarin and was deeply interested in martial arts, and he listed Buddhism as his religion.

In May 2013, Snowden was permitted temporary leave from his position at the NSA in Hawaii, on the pretext of receiving treatment for his epilepsy. On May 20, Snowden flew to the Chinese territory of Hong Kong. He was staying in a Hong Kong hotel when the initial articles revealing information about the NSA that he had leaked were published. Among other specifics divulged,

Snowden revealed the existence and functions of several classified US surveillance programs and their scope.

Snowden explained his actions saying: "I don't want to live in a society that does these sort of things [surveillance on its citizens]. I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded."

The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA's history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows

Making a fortune off of snooping

Corporate execs at firms like Booz Allen and Carlyle make fortunes doing "systematic snooping" for the government. These execs have a vested self-interest in pumping up demand for their snooping services - and they're indeed, the Washington Post reported, pumping away.

This past April, the Post notes, Booz Allen established a new 1,500-employee division "aimed at creating new products that clients don't know they need yet." This new division is developing "social media analytics" that can anticipate the latest "cyber threat."

In other words, this new unit will be figuring out how to get the federal government to pay up even more for investigating whom we "like" on Facebook.

Manhunt

An international manhunt has been under way after Mr. Snowden fled the U.S., initially to Hong Kong, and then on to Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, where he has been stuck in legal limbo in the international transit area.

After China, Russia also rejected a asylum plea from Snowden and now he holed up in the transit area in Moscow as Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, told Reuters that Snowden was in the transit area of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and had not crossed through passport control into Russian territory.

Snowden asylum plea outright rejected by Brazil, Finland, India, Poland when still pending with following countries :

Austria, Ecuador, Norway, Spain, Venezuela, Bolivia, China, Cuba, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Switzerland and Russia.

It is like enjoying a prime time movie with a pack of popcorn, I am luving it!

!!!A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill!!!

The Fury of a Sleeping Giant!

The modern amenities too good to resists yet given a chance then certainly will prefer to live in a place which very close to the nature sans all comfort. I was lucky that a quite a few time I had the chance to visit places of such which can be call as ‘virgin nature’. Be it a waterfront or a thick forest or  mountains all attract me equally. Unfortunately most of my journey took me to the places that only can be described as  concrete jungle. My ultimate dream was to visit Himalaya but only three years back I able to fulfill my long cherished dream. That tour was more memorable because I travelled all by myself to the Valley of Flower and Hemkund Sahib. While returning  I stopped at Badrinath for a night. Things was not good even that year, a couple of days before I started my Trekking expedition, the weather was very bad and local peoples from Haridwar warned us against the expedition but miraculously we completed our expedition with any fuss and trouble but once I returned to Kolkata weather at Himalayan state was turned very hostile and many tourist got struck. Even our tour too was delayed everyday and every point for landslides. During my journey what surprised me more was the multi-stored buildings that either situated on the hilltop or on the river bank and finally today I am not surprised to see the structures are falling in the river like a pack of cards.

Most of the tourist who travel to Uttarakhand are on pilgrimage tour to Char Dham or on a trekking expedition. The peoples who touring to upper Himalaya to Char Dham are mainly families and hardly can cope with any natural disaster that can happen anytime there but people go for trekking are better prepared for it.

Basically the Char Dham are the names of four pilgrimage places in India that are widely revered by most of the Hindus: Badrinath in north, Dwarka in west, Jagannath Puri in east, and Rameshwaram in the south. However the char dham of Himalayan state widely trevelled and was known as Chota Char Dham. The Chota Char Dham  or  'the small circuit of four abodes/seats', is an important Hindu pilgrimage circuit in the Indian Himalayas. Located in the Garhwal region of the state of Uttarakhand, the circuit consists of four sites - Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath is also one of the four destinations of the longer Char Dham from which the Chota Char Dham likely draws its name. While each of these sites is unique in its own fashion, inclusion in the Char Dham has, over time, caused them be viewed together in popular imagination and in pilgrimage practice.

The Chota Char Dham included representatives from all three major Hindu sectarian traditions, with two Shakta (goddess) sites, (Yamunotri and Gangotri), one Shaiva site (Kedarnath), and one Vaishnava site (Badrinath). Accessible until 1950s only by arduous and lengthy walking trails in hilly area with height repeatedly exceeded 4000 meters, the Chota Char Dham was regularly done by wandering ascetics and other religious professionals, and those who could afford a traveling entourage. While the individual sites and the circuit as a whole were well known to Hindus on the plains below, they were not a particularly visible aspect of yearly religious culture. After the 1962 war between India and China, accessibility to the Chota Char Dham improved, as India undertook massive road building to border area and other infrastructure investments. As pilgrims were able to travel in mini buses, jeeps and cares to nearest points of four shrines, the Chota Char Dam circuit was within the reach of people with middle income. Vehicles reach upto Badrinath temple and Gangotri,Yamunotri and Kedarnath are at a distance of 10 to 15 k.m. from nearest motorable road.

¨  Yamunotri, the source of the Yamuna River and the seat of the goddess Yamuna.   

¨  Gangotri, the source of the Ganges (River Ganga) and seat of the goddess Ganga.   

¨  Kedarnath, where a form of the Hindu god Shiva is venerated as one of the twelve jyotirling (linga of light).   

¨  Badrinath, the seat of the Hindu god Vishnu in his aspect of Badrinarayan.

!!!Man's dominion over inanimate and other living beings granted by the Creator is not absolute; it is limited by concern for the quality of life of his neighbor, including generations to come; it requires a religious respect for the integrity of creation. - Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2415!!!

The End of an Era of Suspense!!!

In our school going days having a telephone was a distant dream. But I consider the life was more peaceful without the device than with the device, because it hardly worked on those days. I remember often we used to go to the local post office to make a call. However, my blog is not about the telephone, I already spared a page for it before. I am writing about Telegrame,  a service too provided by the same company, I mean BSNL.

Telegram or Telegraph

Telegraphy derived from Greek word Tele "at a distance", and graphein "to write" is the long-distance transmission of messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus semaphore is a method of telegraphy whereas pigeon post is not.

Telegraphy requires that the method used for encoding the message be known to both sender and receiver. Such methods are designed according to the limits of the signaling medium used. The use of smoke signals, beacons, reflected light signals, and flag semaphore signals are early examples. In the 19th century, the harnessing of electricity brought about the means to transmit signals via electrical telegraph. The advent of radio in the early 1900s brought about radiotelegraphy and other forms of wireless telegraphy. In the Internet age, telegraphic means developed greatly in sophistication and ease of use, with natural language interfaces that hide the underlying code, allowing such technologies as electronic mail and instant messaging.

Telegraphs have existed in Europe from as early as 1792 in the form of semaphore lines, or optical telegraphs, that sent messages to a distant observer through line-of-sight signals. In 1837, American artist-turned inventor Samuel F. B. Morse conducted the first successful experiment with an electrical recording telegraph.

The story of Indian telecom began with the telegraph when the first experimental electric telegraph line was started between Calcutta and Diamond Harbour in 1850.

The telegram also known as taar, disappear for once and for all on July 15, outpaced in the age of text messages and emails. The telegraphic service began in India in 1850  by cable, later wireless but what spurred the Indian telecom revolution has eventually been overtaken by it. It is the end of an era. The last telegram was sent on July 15. After that, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has decided to discontinue the service which started the Indian telecom revolution in 1850.

Whenever, I think of a telegram my mind swipe away to the days when a telegram means either good news or bad news. It also bring back the memory of a friend who was my neighbour too in Mumbai. How terrified she used to be only by sighting a khaki clad man armed with a telegram at her doorstep, as if she was going get a heart attack.

!!!This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. - Oscar Wilde!!!

!!!The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life. -  Daniel J. Boorstin !!!

The Buzzing Bees that doesn’t Sting.

It is hearting to see the PIO’s ( Person from Indian Origin) and NRI’s to prosper in a big way. We feel proud with their success stories even they prefer to distance themselves from us like Venkataraman Ramakrishnan. For your kind information that Venkataraman Ramakrishnan an Indo-American has shared Nobel Prize for Chemistry along with a co-American Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath of Israel for mapping ribosomes, the protein procuring factories within cells at the atomic level. He was immensely irritated by the accolades generated from India and mostly from his native state. We are equally proud for Sunita Williams and she generously acknowledge it, that divide between best and better.  However, that is another story but when we get up to find the young faces flashed over the television from Indian origin we may be still shameless to rejoice it selflessly and feel proud. So, congrats to Arvind Mahakali for winning Scrips Spelling Bee.

The Scrips Spelling Bee

Nine newspapers collaborated to start the National Spelling Bee in 1925. In 1941, Scripps took over sponsorship of the National Spelling Bee. There was no Scripps National Spelling Bee during the war years of 1943–45.

The word bee, as used in spelling bee, is one of those language puzzles that has never been satisfactorily accounted for. A fairly old and widely-used word, it refers to a community social gathering at which friends and neighbors join together in a single activity

The program experienced steady growth between the between 1980 and 1990 the number of participants doubled. In recent years the program underwent a second growth spurt and a significant surge in popularity  thanks to live coverage on ESPN.

The first winner of an official spelling bee was Frank Neuhauser, who won the 1st National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. in 1925 at age eleven.

Controversy

Arvind Mahankali, successfully spelled the word "knaidel", which refers to a small mass of leavened dough, to win the high-profile contest. But linguists at the New York-based YIVO Institute for Jewish Research have told the New York Times that the preferred historical spelling of the word is "kneydl."

Eleven of the last fifteen winners including the last six years have been Indian Americans, reflecting the recent dominance of students of this community in this competition. Indian Americans make up less than one percent of the U.S. population.

Year	Name	Winning Word
1985	Balu Natarajan	milieu
1988	Rageshree Ramachandran	elegiacal
1999	Nupur Lala[G]	logorrhea
2002	Pratyush Buddiga	prospicience
2003	Sai Gunturi	pococurante
2005	Anurag Kashyap	appoggiatura
2008	Sameer Mishra	guerdon
2009	Kavya Shivashankar	Laodicean
2010	Anamika Veeramani	stromuhr
2011	Sukanya Roy	cymotrichous
2012	Snigdha Nandipati	guetapens
2013	Arvind Mahankali	knaidel

!!!Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt!!!

!!!If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it. - William Arthur Ward!!!

Not! Just Another Love Story!!

Sad to see that more often inhabitants overlook greatness of the other people and try to dig into their personal life to ridicule them for some or other aspect. We have to wakeup to the realization that what is normal for me may be abnormal for others. Not only in my state alone, or in India but as a citizen of the world we are yet to accept certain things what we called as abnormal. We, collectively always failed to understand the peoples with different sexual orientations or preferences. Often peoples from different walks of the life never failed to humiliate them without bothering that it is none of their business. After sad demise of renown director Rituparno Ghosh, it is time for us to realize that a human should be treated by his or her merit. Rituparno Ghosh was a genius of his own right. When he made award wining movie ‘Unishe April’, Bengali cinema was going through dire straits and the movie can be described  as trailblazer. A small tribute to the genius who died on 30^th May, 2013.

Rituparno Ghosh was born on 31 August 1963. He completed his schooling from South Point High School, and obtained a degree in economics from Jadavpur University. In 1992, his first film 'Hirer Angti' released. His next was 'Unishe April' in 1994 and won National Film Award for Best Feature Film.

He has won 12 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad. He also have 19 awards in his name for work in advertisement he worked for. Here listing is some of his works :

Year	Flim
1994	Hirer Angti
1994	Unishe April
1997	Dahan
1999	Bariwali
1999	Asukh
2000	Utsab
2002	Titli
2003	Shubho Mahurat
2003	Chokher Bali
2004	Raincoat
2005	Antarmahal
2006	Dosar
2007	The Last Lear
2008	Khela
2008	Shob Charitro Kalponik
2010	Abohoman
2010	Noukadubi
2012	Chitrangada
2012	Sunglass
2013	Satyanwyashi- Unreleased
2013	Mumbai Cutting - Unreleased

He also worked as an actor in the following movies.

Year	Flim
2011	Arekti Premer Golpo (Just Another Love Story)
2011	Memories March
2012	Chitrangada

!!!The Best Way To Get Praise Is To Die.!!!