Avatar: The Message

The recent blockbuster 'Avatar' is refusing to leave the news. It has aroused so many criticisms as well as bounty of praises. The movie has been praised for its animation as well as the bold story - a human being choosing to live the life of an alien. On the other hand many people condemned it for wrong teachings. Wikipedia's article is protected to avoid vandalism and flooding of so many ideas.

One may see that story is not a seminal. It combines the elements from history, literature, science and philosophy that we already know.

These all are interrelated as they touch the topic not of how humans relate to each other but also to how we relate to nature - living vs. non-living. Moreover, I feel that the movie matches a lot more, than just the concept of avatar, with the Hindu philosophy.

The dark blue colour of the Na'vi people might have been inspired by the similar complexion of the God Vishnu and his avatars Lord Shri Ram and Lord Krishna.

Na'vi people have almost similar emotions as human beings. For example politics in the clan, building the trust, love sacrifice and urge for self-preservation. The living styles are very equivalent to the iron age man. They hunt animals for food and wear primitive clothes. What sets them apart is their close communion with the nature, not only as ecosystem or symboysis but the very nature of life('soul') and the communication with it not in language but in thoughts. Even this very concept of soul exists in the religious texts of Hinduism and Jainism. Many stories of Hindu mythology tell about the saints and Gods roaming in others bodies.

The movie also touches upon the fact of blind exploitation of resources for the business profit, disregard for others be it aliens or even human beings. can't we say that the Earth is the for all living beings and humans have encroached upon it. At some point one may think that how man went away from the nature. And now our environment problems are the effects of our own activities.

Avatar pronouncedly also shows the traits of the racism. The technologically advanced race killing the other race. And those from the former who cannot stand the violence switch sides to help (reminds me a lot of the freedom struggles in Asia and Africa)

The Vatican has condemned the movie as Christianity condemns worship of nature [link].

Names of Chetan Bhagat's Novels

1. Five Point Someone



2. One Night @ The Call Center




3. The 3 Mistakes Of My Life



4. Two States


All the names contain a number. Why? Is it Chetan's own style, some hidden meaning or he likes numbers? And will he continue this pattern later. Lets see what he comes up with.

I wrote this just to let you notice this.

Dreams Of A Free Phone

Gnu describes freedom as freedom in speech not in beer. GNU/Linux on PCs had given us the freedom. But what about the mobile computing devices i.e. simply smartphones. Lets take a look at the available options:

Symbian: Used chiefly on Nokia phones. From version 9.0 onwards Platform Security has been introduced. Means a developer needs to register with Nokia to obtain capabilites to use all features of the platform. Only applications signed by phone manufacturer can be installed.

iPhone: Applications can be installed only from the App Store. Apple has the right to remove the applications from it.

Blackberry: Same story again.

Andoroid: Much hyped to be an open mobile platform. Android's source code is open to everyone, but OEMs are allowed to disable software installation at will. Link1. Link2.

In brief, all popular handset makers keep the platform locked.

I think closed source MS Windows do much better. I get a PC, purchase Windows license and I am free to do whatever I want to do with it.

From Inside

I was sitting in the class,

Watching the view across the glass

Felt like grabbing out a pen suddenly

To write this poem, coming out automatically.

I'm not well, well that is true

But who gives a thought to it, neither I nor you.

I am sitting here, shutting up my mouth,

Well, right now, this is something, I can't do anything about

Loads of bricks as if sitting over my chest

My lungs feeling like taking a life time rest.

But its not much, it will just soon be past.

May be its a preparation for days which will little more last

But as dawn always comes after the night,

I've to maintain my spirits in a state that is just right.

All I need to do is to patiently wait

As in due course of time, I will be out of this fate

Well, writing this poem gave a little relief

Physically though, well that's my belief.

Caz I can award it the second best

In helping me forget all the pains tat truly rest.

All that I am writing is what my body speaks

My mind is shut up and is in constant peace.

The moment this agony of my body goes away

I know I will, once again, sway and sway!

-Anonymous

Linux on iPhone

Yes again a new hardware platform infiltrated. And here is the video to show you its right there.


iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.

How To Use Two Google Accounts With Firefox
(Applies to Firefox on all platforms)

It's quite annoying for us to have two Google accounts (or whatever) and keep signing in and out between them. A simple solution is to install different browsers. A simple solution is to use same Firefox with two profiles, but Firefox is too great to leave. You need a bit tweaking with the command line. The commands to use and their description are as:

firefox -ProfileManager Start with ProfileManager

firefox -no-remote Open new instance, not a new window in running instance

firefox -P profile Start with profile

Start a Firefox instance. Next go to command line. Start Firefox as:
firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote
You will get a window as:


Create a new profile here and start Firefox with it. Viola! you get a new instance of the browser. This profile you can use with other accounts.

To start Firefox with a specific profile use the command:
firefox -P -no-remote

Or simply use the command:
firefox -ProfileManager -no-remote
and choose the profile you want to use.

You may also create shortcuts for these commands in Windows as well as Linux for these.

(For Windows replace Firefox with the path of %INSTALL_DIRECTORY_OF_FIREFOX%\firefox.exe )