The three words  

Created by Rakesh Prabhakara

It was night and the growing tide never knew its strength,
As it just swept itself through the ferocious tempest.
The tide hit the shore, eating off the words a boy had carved in the afternoon,
the boy with his dachshund besides him, burying it's bone.
The words he would never have thought of, the words he carved with pride.
The tide never knew the words the boy had thought of.
The boy saw the sea curving the rocks; The sea saw the boy carving the words.
The boy slept somewhere afar with the words in his dream, the moon was awake, rowing the sea. The words were so mighty that the tide felt the bolt that it would never have reckoned of.
The boy was dreaming of the words,with his spidy gecko besides his bed, while 
his Dachshund was dreaming of the buried bone.
The boy hoped that the shore would guard his carving; the void in sands of time. The dog, the bone and the same hope.
The next day he woke up with the same pride, looked through his patio,
And to his surprise, discovered that the carvings were so intact,
That the tide had failed to eat off, even the buried bone.
The three words you have been waiting to know, the three words.
“thy son liveth……..”

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A collage of INDIA  

Created by Rakesh Prabhakara

This video is a mix of memories mortared with emotion and the kind of attachment I've been having , and shall have, with this beautiful country of mine: INDIA

I thank the Internet and the photographers, who deserve all the accolades, for providing me resources for the collage and I thank A.R. Rahman for the wonderful music composition, and I finally thank Asutosh Gowarikar for making such an inspirational movie 'Swades".



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ENERGY  

Created by Rakesh Prabhakara

Contemplating on where the future might drive us to, I realized that CLEAN n GREEN ENERGY would be the holy grail of mankind. The future civilization will have energy as their flag emblem; the whole world will unite to overcome the energy crisis which is sure to whip the crap out of every oil toper.  The dot com boom, the space age, the mobile communication, fancy electronic gadgets, convertible sedans, the greedy politicians and the endangered species: all have one thing in common; they need FOOD to survive. The food comes from the SUN and the SUN god pities the stupidity of current market trend, despite his hinting in the form of global warming, raising sea level and hyperthermia.

Well, what ENERGY am I talking about?

Certainly not oil, certainly not coal, certainly not batteries and certainly not cheesy burger and bean dip; it is Mother NATURE: she is the solution for all the above, she has the ingredients needed for the alchemists from across the world, to build her the sheath. But there is another thing apart from this that is as important as harnessing the free Palm Beach tan salon from the skies, it’s our MINDSET. Yes my dear people, it’s time for us to CHANGE.

Well, what CHANGE am I talking about?

The insalubrious market has become a necessary evil. We choose our career by looking at the epicenters of global transformations; we choose our jobs where there is prosperity in the form of Pandora boxes on the drawing tables of Engineers and Scientists along with free magazines with fancy beach resort advertisements in them. The change I am talking must come from within: one scratch in the space and time barrier would create an inexorable force of attraction towards goodness, and it all happens when we start THINKING about the safety of the future of mankind. I am not offending the current market but I am defending my propositions.

Mother NATURE, what is your opinion?

We have SUN; we are metaphysically SUN since we are made of elementary particles that sprouted out of the big bang and supernovas, and we need SUN. The factious Palladium based miniature Arc-Reactor, succeeded by the more powerful anti-metal called Vibranium which was found at the meteor crash site at Wakanda, could make Tony Stark’s second Marvel movie a box office success, but this ain’t reality dear: We are living in the era of dependency and we need to look at the holy-grail which has been shining upon us right from the time of our birth, timed and synchronized to 6’O clock in the morning depending on the earth phase, converting carbon-dioxide into sugar in plants and make sure we have a sound sleep every day (if you have a nagging wife or snoring roommate, it’s a different story). Following is a famous quote by the famous American Radio talk show host Thom Hartmann:

“In a very real sense, we're all made out of sunlight.
Sunlight radiating heat, visible light, and ultraviolet light is the source of almost all life on Earth. Everything you see alive around you is there because a plant somewhere was able to capture sunlight and store it. All animals live from these plants, whether directly (as with herbivores) or indirectly (as with carnivores, which eat the herbivores). This is true of mammals, insects, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and bacteria . . . everything living. Every life-form on the surface of this planet is here because a plant was able to gather sunlight and store it, and something else was able to eat that plant and take that sunlight energy in to power its body.”

I will end it this way:

SUN is, and has been a terrific energy resource for humanity in general and the output of power that reaches the earth from the sun is several times as much energy as people use every year. But the only limitation is TECHNOLOGY, the same  technology that has brought us all that we have desired. Now is the time to give a new shape to this Technology which shall not only benefit us, but also encompass the safety of the species around us, the ecosystem and specially the cute little polar bear cubs which are facing severe survival rate due to the warming…………


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Mind: A hyperbolic inferno  

Created by Rakesh Prabhakara


Man is a good trait follower and it is inherent in his DNA: he plays with action figure dolls while she prefers Barbie or kitchen set, he picks up the best of the apples in the orchards, she chooses vibrant of the colors to decorate her home. There are, however, other traits that are present in few and hence we posses general and specific traits. The general traits are apparent in most circumstances, while the specific traits are the tricky ones and very much proprietary of the beholder, hence, not traceable by the people surrounding him. The two major words: Concealment and Transparency can fetch right from a kid not willing to accept the fact that he messed up the refrigerator, to the white house bureaucracies. I have been trying to trace these specific traits, provided, they are interesting and worth possessing. Everything comes at a price, and time is more expensive than your VISA card can hold. We have the riches and their aphrodisiac being money, we have the poor’s and their inability to catalyze their subservience, nonetheless, the groups being the riches and the poor’s, have one thing in common: MIND. Our minds follow a hyperbolic trait: you have the asymptote being your place of origin; the rest is taken care of, by fortune or misfortune. The hyperbola could span as long as you live and remember that once it mobilizes, once your heart started to beat 22 days after your conception, there is nothing else other than death that has the access code to terminate the hyperbola, the flow of life.

But mind is such a complex paradigm that it allows him/her to maneuver his chariot through detours and shaggy country roads. Now, I can confidently slip in the word “Generation” which is a complex amalgamation of traits, and a generation does not consider the term “progress” as a positive connotation of flow of life. Notice that few hours of time spent by a group of aspirers in their garage led to companies that made profit beyond their expectations. The recession turned the table by directing the same company employees to head back to their respective garages, and their despair would not help them build another ham-radio in the garage and create waves of hopes: they would rather sell their cars and feed their family. So, now you know that money is no more the decider of riches and the poor’s: it’s the MIND. What I noticed was that rich traits are not found in the riches; when diamond is dug out of the earth, it is covered with soil and it is usually mistaken to be a rock which holds no value. Great minds are never found on the podiums or Dais; they come at a cost of “failure”.

The A-S-A model

There is no definite theory that could explain why few men succeed and most of the men fail. Three words: “Action”, “Situation” and “Appreciation”: with their permutations and combinations, could be used as a model of success, but what is Success. The guys who build ham-radio in their garage would have no idea of what their invention could lead them to:

MODEL A --> They could as well demonstrate (Action) them in front of their classmates (Situation) and get some applause (Appreciation).

MODEL B --> They documented and proposed their prototype (Action) to a bunch of capital raiders (Situation) and got funding to further their research and establish their base which would later become a landmark for those who had to retire from that very base (Appreciation).

Now “trait” is the only foe of the above model, some people value success by getting a job with a handful of salary, some by getting recognized for being a valuable employee, or some by getting a permit from local constable to beg besides a 5 star hotel. “trait” is in direct correlation with “Generation” and your perception on success depends on the way people around you perceive at it. Choose your people wisely.

We have two men within us

Imagine a ship with two captains, imagine a country ruled by two leaders, and imagine an automobile with two steering and two drivers: Hold your dismay because you too have two identities within you. You watch a movie in which Al-Pacino gives a great motivational speech on the stage, you then climb on the stage and start shivering seeing the disciplined crowd. The two men within you cheated you: one of you made adrenaline flow through your brain while watching the speech, while the other YOU put you in a state of diffidence when you moved onto the stage. It is a typical “You think you will, but you won’t” situation. One of YOU believes in the A-S-A, while the other YOU opposes it. Unless both of you merge and form an alliance, you will not be able to SUCCEED.

Only our MIND can control the two men within us

Our flow of life might be hyperbolic: You become an engineer, and later, you will be appreciated for your work done on the infamous Mercedes Benz head-base architecture while your friend, within the building, will be appreciated for his work on conceptualizing the automatic parking system for the next generation automobiles. What I mean to say is that ones you pick up the tone of excellence, you will witness an exponential progress in your life, whether you intended or not, it’s like your mind takes over you and pulls in the Auto-pilot mode and you can relax. You will never have time to remember whether you shivered on the stage or not, since you will be busy holding the wireless pointer, controlling the slides, and explaining your company’s next release onto the market. Now, who do you give credit to: the YOU who followed the A-S-A model or the YOU that had once made you shiver on the same stage few years ago? Your excellence diverges like a hyperbola only when your dual identities converge to singular agreements.

How to control your MIND: how to be the charioteer

Steve Jobs says "stay hungry, stay foolish". Your success model depends on how much you are satisfied with it. Some become millionaires, some become Billionaires, and some become subservient enough to feed their family. This again depends on the rate at which the dual identities within you come into harmony. Like in case of the Billionaire, one of his identities helped in becoming a millionaire while the other kept pestering him to push the throttle to ten digits from six. In case of a millionaire, the two identities within him came into a premature agreement of satisfaction, if seen through the eyes of the Billionaire. So:

“Never let your two identities within you converge soon, never look at success the way your peers have been embracing, always be in opposition with the cause of your success and treat both success and failure equally, because "Failure" is the only sibling of success that helps in elongating the convergence .”Stay hungry, stay foolish...........

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push-ups, an egg-beater , and dollar bills!  

Created by Rakesh Prabhakara

The A-C-N model

Or technically “Activity-Commodity-Necessity” has been throttling the everyday life of each of us, no pun intended. Of the species, I am the one with legitimate documents showing that I am wise enough to live a life dictated by the Excellency, the humans. My torch light seems to dim when I project it over the two ‘hyphens’ between the three golden words. Did you notice how connected these three words are: you need to burn calories by doing exercise, add protein to your diet by having a glass of beated eggs, and produce your expense report to yourself since you had to buy eggs and egg-beater, and CYBEX 750AT or Fitstar V320N depending on whether you are planning to beef up your leg muscles or reduce the fat off the tummy so that you can tug your new shirt and expect it to be tugged in even after having Mexican food for lunch. Now, if any one of these is off the list, there is ambiguity: no exercise and you build up body temperature momentarily, no egg and your exercise goes for a waste, and no money and you had to steal eggs, and exercise equipments, unless you are happy with nothing.

Application of the A-C-N model

How compliant is the A-C-N model with your life? I mean, how much is it going to violate the basic life standard? Come on, you guys are with me: The model is stable, at least until you are happy being a couch-potato or frugal enough to be happy with nothing. Now comes the real part of the show: what if I implement this model onto a business/mathematical phenomenon? Great men like Fourier, Kekulé, Laplace, John Nash, Bill Gates, and Myron Scholes and so on, started thinking like ordinary people( see the big picture), and later, in their lives, started seeing the unnoticed things like the ‘hyphen’ I mentioned above. Like Alchemists, these men knew ways to make gold out of shit: they emulated simple exoskeletons with complex backbone networks.

The ‘Hyphen’ is nothing but perception
Now, I can relate the A-C-N model with umm, say, our metabolism: The cell activity (transportation of chemicals to your DNA, Genes etc), the reason why you have nose of your father and eyes of your mother, is a result of converting sugar (glucose) into energy, and this has been happening since you were breast-fed, and in the later stages, you buy pina colada and enjoy the drink (you are supplying calories and carbs to the cells) , I mean you are basically feeding yourself, again no pun intended.

Here ,
A = Cell Activity, Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP)
C = Glucose/ Sugar / Pina colada / Rasam n Rice (I miss it) and
N = Money, you need money honey! (to buy food)
Now, let me violate one of them:

“You had no MONEY (the ‘N’ factor violation) to FEED (‘C’ factor degradation) your wife and you will later notice that your daughter has your wife’s eyes and your neighbor’s nose(‘A’ factor degradation) , your neighbor being a rich guy :)”.

My intention of building this article is to convey the following: You graduated from one of the top 5 schools in the world, you were permitted to wash your rear in the river Thames, you are a cobbler, you are a lumberjack: you must choose between being Mr.X or Mr.Y in your life.

I would like to mention few such revolutionary models:
Mr.X being creator/ famous people, Mr.Y being any one of us:

“Mr.X saw water flowing out of a tap --> Mr.X imagined of electric current flowing out of a tap -->Mr.X built transistor -->Mr.Y watched a 720p movie on his iPAD. “ (Transistor -> Digital -> consumer electronics)

“Mr.X being Kekulé, in his dream, saw six snakes biting each other’s tail forming a hexagonal pattern --> He proposed the Benzene ring --> Mr.Y drove Murcielago LP640 with high octane gasoline” (benzene, gasoline, octane, come on! Make up the picture)

“Disappointed of not having filed any of his theses to claim scholarship, John Nash, being Mr.X, saw a bunch of girls in a local bar near Princeton. --> He developed a way (game theory) of claiming the best amongst the girls and not disappoint his friends who too had their eyes on the best amongst the girls

He later developed Governing dynamics, well, the sad part being that the best amongst the girls didn’t know she was staring at the best amongst contemporary Mathematicians, at that moment --> I, being Mr.Y, am using Facebook, a social networking site, which uses algorithms based on game theory.

So, I can relate individual accomplishments with the A-C-N model:

 A, the activity, being imagining and dreaming (sleep as much as you can).
 C , the commodity, being paper, pen, stool, pina colada
and N, the necessity, being patience, perception and BELIEF.

Now, let me violate one of them:

" You have good imagination, you have all the resources, but without belief, you are just one of your classmates."

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My love to the Jews  

Created by Rakesh Prabhakara

“Father God, we just ask you to open your wide, wide arms and look down upon us, Lord, and lead us, and let us know what we should do to stop this, this terrible, terrible holocaust.”


I, for once, ask myself what is life?a life not dictated by the lord, not dictated by the evil, not dictated by the fate itself? A child playing with her doll, when entering into the gas chamber, is as good as a goddess playing with her miraculous presage. I see that I have a loving family and yet I see hatred in the eyes of my foe in spite of seeing his/her stupidity or that of my own. But hatred to an extremity of killing innocent ones is just as good as loving your profession as a confused human being, not knowing the real purpose of surviving the recently advocated word LIFE.

After having meticulously studied the documents, literature and visual documentaries of the happening of the events during the times of the NAZI rules during the end of 1930s and the beginning of 1940s, I have realized that I am more educated and at the same time am serving no purpose to the realization. There is no definitive cause of my sudden transformation based on my conscience, the feeling of remorse when human does things that go beyond his/her moral values, and believe that I am blessed for having that conscience.

Following music is dedicated to all the young angels resting in the heavens.....



What is happiness? How do we embrace it without knowing its significance even in small quantities? Like bread satisfying our hunger than the crumbs or crumbs satisfying our hunger than nothing, or nothing satisfying our hunger than death itself? There is a saying that in order to know the path that leads to the destiny being good or bad, we need to keenly observe the successful people or the lucky survivors and look at them in the same perception. For me, happiness is all about embracing the ‘good’ and excluding the ‘bad’. The only thing that has changed with time is the goodness of good and badness of bad. We now feel that getting a job, earning money to survive, living a comfortable life and marrying another soul results to happiness. But there was a time when feeling good was all about being alive for the day and hopefully stay alive for the next day as well, and believe me, these men/women lived ten years of our life in one day. Happiness comes from the ‘feeling’ alone and not from the material world surrounding us.

What is Love? When the entire family got off the train and the moments before they were executed in the gas chamber, when the women and children were separated from their men, when the parents were separated from their children, there was love everywhere, a love of unimaginable magnitude, a love so pure that even death would fall on to the ground, bare feet. This scenario defined ‘love’ which cannot be found in any modern dictionary, For it shall manifest itself when there is no alternative way of looking at your family for the last time. But this term is misused in other circumstances; love for money, fame, and prosperity. It’s not real; it’s as synthetic as the money or the fame or prosperity. For me, love is respect, love is a real spring flower that shall die but when in bloom, it would display wonderful colors attracting bees to pollinate and also contribute nectar, and this is how love should be.

PHOTO: Family members say goodbye to a child through a fence at the ghetto's central prison where children, the sick, and the elderly were held before deportation to Chelmno during the "Gehsperre" action. Lodz, Poland, September 1942.

What is fear? Fear serves no purpose in life, but if seen as an opportunity, might help us overcome it and help ourselves to excel in life. The NAZI perpetrators feared of losing their career, had they not met with the objective of executing the innocent Jews, in large numbers. The Jews feared losing their loved ones, losing their life, had they not met with the objective of being brave, bold and fight for their life. Interestingly, the perception is what separates and/or masks the true meaning of fear like in the case of happiness, hatred and love. The fear of being shot at the forehead, is way too dense than the fear of losing one’s job. The only way to experience fear is during the moments before being shot at. We experience fear when being belittled, when being laid off a job or when being betrayed by the loved ones, in which case we are to tag ourselves of being immature and illiterate. It is always good to weigh the fear before letting it affect us like plague. Fear of going to the stage and giving great talks, mesmerizing people is like a baby excited by the banging door, But, if counteracted more than required, could lead to becoming someone like Hitler himself. Hitler was the baby excited by the banging doors during his childhood that led him to excite hundreds of thousands of soldiers or executioners in disguise, by banging the speaker table.

Being spiritual myself, I have practiced accepting all religions, colors and ethnicity, but deep down the line, I provide room for my religion, color and ethnicity as a mark of respect to my parents, my creators who have bestowed lots of love to me and I safeguard them by respecting their beliefs and Morales. Do good deeds, help people, protect nature and all the living creatures, conserve forests, water resources, soil and air. We must expand our identity and promote global citizenship. The age of harming, harassing and hatred is over and this generation must be a total transformation series, a global unity and a struggle for peace.I saw more than the media seeking discretion, I felt more than the spectators could swallow, I realized that lord was not really on vacation, but was in need of good souls in heaven. The new generation dictates a need for breaking of disparity in thoughts, feelings and love. Let there be love everywhere.....



"Angels sail through our lives like ships of light visiting us through the portals of our hearts."

An angel is like an arrow of light cutting through the dark.

The light in children's eyes is the reflection of Heaven peeking through."

PHOTO: Two young brothers, seated for a family photograph in the Kovno ghetto. One month later, they were deported to the Majdanek camp and killed. Kovno, Lithuania, February 1944."

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