Paparazzi…

I was just wondering after watching this movie paparazzi, how in life every episode has two sides of story. This movie is all about paparazzi where a celebrity actor is been shot all the time by photographers who end up writing their own stories on him. There was this scene in the movie where a photographer intentionally annoys the actor making him lose his temper and raise his adrenaline, he reacts exactly the way photographer wanted him to. He finally beats the photographer which’s been captured with flashes of camera. Next day there would be headlines ‘Actor beats a reporter’ with tens of pictures of enraged actor.

This small incident had made me think, how we always would see only one side of story. With the photographs of enraged actor beating a reporter we no doubt conclude that it’s actors fault whatever are the circumstances leading to it. Doesn’t this whole thing sound familiar??? Pawan kalyan beating a reporter for trying to shoot Chiranjeevi’s daughter engagement with Uday kiran… they were clear about not wanting any reporters on the occasion.

All these sting operations by news channels and papers are nothing but attempts to sell… who knows… they might create situations compelling the celebrities to react pretty rugged.

All this made me think how miserable is the life of celebrity… they have no personal life. They can’t go sit on necklace road and enjoy the breeze, they can’t watch a movie with popcorn along with their girl/boy friend . This reminds me of Princess Diana… poor she had to lose her life for trying to have normal romantic moments with her love. How greedy are paparazzi, their desire to sell has cost few lives. And what a fuss news papers and TV channels have made about the kissing scene of Kareena and Shahid Kapoor. How important is holiday/vacation for a celebrity, which is why we find most of the celebrities holidaying in foreign countries.

Well... now that i can see the other side of the stories in news paper/channel, they can't deceive me in an attepmt to sell :)

Pi invented…

Pi..??? 3.14159265… aaahh we always knew the value of pi… but seldom we ask ourselves who invented it… this is one of the ocean full of inventions where we are amicable with the invention but not the inventor…

Eureka.. Eureka… aahh now you know who I am going to write about… if your guess is Archimedes then you are right… this is how its been, we associate eureka more to Archimedes than pi. Pi wouldn’t be a great invention if it were invented some 5 or 600 years back. Reading a book about Archimedes made me aware of few amazing facts about Archimedes.

Archimedes was born in Greece in 287 B.C. some 2000 years back. This is a period when there was no paper or pen, a period when there were no present numbers, a period hundred’s of years before the invention of zero. The biggest number they knew was myriad, represented as word which equals to 10,000. There was no proper number system at that time. The Greeks used their alphabets as numerals; an alphabet with a small dash besides it represents a number.

I always thought that Archimedes was just into physics and invented pulleys/levers, objects floating in water, buoyancy laws etc etc. he was not just into physics,he was a mathematician, an astronomer, and a great scientist. His favorite being astronomy as his father is an astronomer too. He stated the laws of center of gravity long before Newton discovered gravity. All his inventions and discoveries were amazing considering the fact that he lived in the time before Christ. He invented pi when there were no proper measuring or drawing instruments other than a compass to draw a circle and a scale for straight lines. He fitted a circle in a 96 sided polygon and discovered that the area of circle is approximately equal to area of 96 sided polygon. That is how he computed the area of circle. There was no proper paper at that time; people learn things by writing with stick on sand. This is how he invented pi by drawing smallest 96 sided polygon outside the circle. Most of his work is lost in time and without proper evidences.

‘All great lives don’t end great’, this is what I feel and the life of Archimedes has disclosed it one more time. Archimedes lived in a small island called Syracuse. Their king Hiero had foreseen a threat to the island and asked Archimedes to build a machine which could fight the enemies. Archimedes was reluctant initially and said that he has more important things to work on and besides science is some thing constructive but not destructive for him. But the king would not listen to him, he kept on begging him and finally Archimedes made it. It was used years after the king’s death when Romans were trying to invade the island. The machines Archimedes invented were successful in throwing out the enemies. They were like canons throwing huge stones and arrows at the enemy ships when they were far off. He even used mirrors to reflect the sun rays and burn the enemy ships. The machines were so successful that the people there have started growing careless. One day when the islanders were celebrating a feast Marcellus and his army attacked the island. The islanders were running all over the streets, there were fires all around . Archimedes was at his home solving a problem unaware that the island has been occupied. General Marcellus ordered his men to bring Archimedes to him as he wanted to see the person who made others thinking dwarf. When a soldier came to Archimedes house he was solving a problem on sand with a stick, he was so intent on it that he did not hear the shouts and screaming in the city. When the soldier said that Marcellus wanted to see him, Archimedes was not ready to come. He said he is in the middle of the problem and he needs to complete it. The soldier got furious and stepped on his problem. Archimedes shouted stand off my diagram, and poked the soldier’s feet with his drawing stick. The soldier got annoyed and cutoff Archimedes head with his sword. This is how the life of a great inventor ended. Later Marcellus killed the soldier and built a tomb for Archimedes with a symbol of sphere inside a cylinder, his favorite invention which he wanted on his tomb.

Though Archimedes died, there is no end to him, even today; 2000 years after his death we still follow his laws. He is a great man who laid foundations to many further inventions.