*From & To Sathish* - Thread 4 - Page 15

Redemption 253

The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a collective term for scientific searches for intelligent extraterrestrial life, for example, monitoring electromagnetic radiation for signs of transmissions from civilizations on other planets.

Before broaching the subject of SETI,let me talk to you and remind you of the world before FM radio stations and Digital tv broadcasts for back then most of us only knew about " Vividh Bharti" provided by All India radio services and Doordarshan .Then came private tv channels,radio fm channels and they kept multiplying in number and are doing the same at this moment.

I got my own cable tv connection back in 1992 to see the cricket world cup and also accidentally became the first person in my circle to try out cable tv and although most of my friends came over with beer and food and watched the live transmission on star sports many did not immediately jump onto this new medium of entertainment,not because of any particular reason but because it was too good to believe that you could watch other english,tamil and hindi channels that did not carry the Doordarshan logo.But it happened along with a lot of other things and all that began under the leadership of the late,former prime minister p.v.Narasimha rao.

In a matter of few years,ambassadors,Premier padmini,herald,morris minors gave way to maruti 800's,zens,gypsys,esteems,contessas,118 ne,lancers,ford escort,daewoo cielo,opel astras and two wheelers from yamahas,suzukis,hondas took over from rajdoots,enfields,lambretta scooters and india was not the same.

Today,a typcial tata sky,dish tv,reliance tv will offer 400 to 500 channels tv channels ,100s of radio channels and also other premium pay per view channels and you sit stumped not knowing what to watch and i bet you go back to your favourite tv channel,time tested and best friend and for me it is vadivelus comedy time on Aditya and Siripoli channels.





Gentle,Genius and Autistic



Malcolm chambers was born 1989 had been diagnosed as Autistic in 1992 when he was about 3 years old and this was a cruel blow for his parents Andy chambers and Petrucia chambers for whom Malcolm had been born to them after many years of trying for a child.Both were in their early 40's and Petrucia and Andrew had given up praying to god asking him for a child and had gone back to the grind of their middle class lives.He worked as a foreman at a construction site and she worked at a day care center.

And then,Malcolm had happened and Petrucia looking back had known the exact moment that she had conceived her son and that moment had been on their terrace,one night when they had made love under a clear sky filled with stars that twinkled.

It had been a pleasant night and they had made slow,sensuos love and well,it happened.How, one single sperm carrying some genetic mutation managed to slip and swim past the barriers put up by her uterus was a million,no a billion dollar question that her doctor did not have an answer for.And after Petrucia had missed her periods and had put it down to the onset of menopause,the small bulge in her tummy made her and andy nervous and they rushed to see their doctor,mind full of worries about that dreaded word,that starts with " C" and becomes even more awful and tragic when the doctor looks at you sadly and confirms that the cancer is Malignant.


But instead of cancer and its associates,Benign and Malignant,the doctor had examined her and then hurriedly felt her pulse and again checked her thoroughly with a stethoscope and had looked at petrucia with such shock and awe that andy her husband wondered for a moment if his wife's blouse had suddenly parted itself and her generous breasts had spilled out it.But to his petty relief about his wife patty,she was as always dressed,buttoned up,prim and proper like a Nun and then their doctor had jumped up excitedly ' Miracle,it is really a miracle' and looked at them ' congratulations,you are going to be parents soon.'


Finding the swelling and its resulting implications had reduced andy and patty to nervous wrecks but they were battle hardened veterans of life and its disappointments and took the ominous and creepy bulge as another gift of misery by their god,Lord jesus and mustering courage had come to the hospital.

But the news that the bulge was not some kind of cancerous growth but really a baby,that they were going to be parents hit them so hard that they could not absorb and express what they felt and just sat staring at the doctor who was jumping up and down excitedly and displaying all the emotions that they should have been doing.

Andrew and petrucia smiled and holding their hands went to their knees and prayed and thanked Jesus for his grace and the gift that he had bestowed on them.

Eight months later Malcolm arrived quietly and grew up quietly and then the quiet became a bit creepy and after a few tests were done,he was diagnosed as autistic.

But more than anything,one of the reasons that had led them to take malcolm for tests was the way he handled numbers and geometrical shapes and also his super hearing that could pick up the tiniest noises and detect frequencies,Vibrations that would put expensive sensory equipments to shame

The doctor who diagnosed Malcolm looked at them and confirmed softly that indeed there was something wrong with their son ' Malcolm is autistic and the reasons for his behavior is just that people suffering from his condition sees and relate to the human world in a different way.'

Petrucia looked back at her ' doctor,there is a reason why malcolm has come to us and that reason is jesus.We will love him and cherish him like the baby jesus himself and that should do.'

Educating autistic children can be a challenge in the best of circumstances. Autism is a developmental brain disorder that affects social and communication skills. A "spectrum" disorder that includes other diagnoses like Asperger's syndrome, its symptoms vary widely, but people with autism generally can't understand other people's thoughts and motivations, and so they aren't able to respond appropriately to their environment and form relationships with other people. Many people with autism also have associated language delays and mental retardation, while others have average or above-average intelligence but the same communication problems.

There's no one "cure" for autism, and although there are medications that help with some of the associated symptoms--for example, Ritalin for hyperactivity--the major treatment for autism is early and ongoing educational intervention. And that education, for the most part, is the responsibility of public school districts.

In america,Some autism treatment programs require more than 40 hours per week of one on one work between a child and a trained therapist,which can cost between 40,000 and 80,000 dollars per year--and many school districts argue that such expensive services are not necessary for a child's education, let alone affordable.

But Andrew and Petrucia decided that their Malcolm would get the best of education and also learn to live a normal life and they succeeded,partly.Their efforts to do their best for their son only seemed to motivate him more and somehow sensing their pain,angst and worry,he responded magnificently and all three of the family worked for a better future.From 5 to 20 years of age,one could always find Malcolm in the local library,where he sat,read and learnt everything about physics,maths and Astronomy and maybe because he was conceived that night under the stars,he spent most of his night time looking up at the stars.

At the age of Ten,he managed to hook up his computer to a global space program that had begun by SETI called SETI@Home.

When the researchers launched SETI@Home, in May of '99, they thought maybe 1,000 people might sign up. That numberand the bleaker view from outsiders, who said perhaps no one would join the crewinformed a poor decision: to set up a single desktop to farm out the data and take back the analysis.

But the problem was, people really liked the idea of letting their computers find aliens while they did nothing except not touch the mouse. And for SETI@Home's launch, a million people signed up. Of course, the lone data-serving desktop staggered. SETI@Home fell down as soon as it started walking. Luckily, now-defunct Sun Microsystems donated computers to help the program get back on its feet. In the years since, more than 4 million people have tried SETI@Home. Together, they make up a collective computing power that exceeds a premier supercomputer.

But they have yet to find any aliens.

At least that is what they thought and believed but for Malcolm chambers for he had been blessed by Autism and not cursed by it.Through autism,he had been given ears,understanding and vast knowledge that unknown to most was far superior to any super computers that existed as of to this day.

He was 10 back in 1999 when he had first detected the small signal that had its own frequency and he kept seeing it on his computer and soon isolated it as something mysterious and also not from a natural source like a comet,asteriod or other near earth space object but from something artificial and intelligent.

Malcolm had been a child back then but then he had grown up and along with him had grown this obsession about that mysterious signal that came and went regularly and seemed to enter earth's atmosphere with ease and did it all over the planet.

One night,he had stood before his parents as they were watching some late night show and had requested them if they could shift their house to a quieter neighbourhood,preferably far away from the city.

Andrew chambers who had muted the tv,now switched it off and looked at malcolm who himself never looked directly at the person who spoke to them ' son,we live in new jersey and i commute to new york by train and that is pretty hectic and stressful.So,it will not be possible to move away even farther from new jersey for that will add to my daily commuting time and honestly son,i am getting on in my years now and soon,i will be retired and we will only have my pension and your mothers day care center salary to survive on.

This house rent is taken care of by the company i work for,but all that will stop once i am retired and then i will have to hunt for another job which will be pretty hard to come by.'

Malcolm stood nodding and rocking on his feet and then burst out ' I heard you,i saw the engineering sketches for your company's new project coming up in california and i can help you with that.'

Andrew chambers knew that his son was a kind of genius,a savant even but then this was something to do with his work and that meant their livelihood.

Malcolm continued ' please take me to see the one who did those blueprints and let me talk to him.'

That is how it started and things went off pretty well from that moment on for malcolm the next day,stood calmly in his dads company and in the conference room among many architects and pointed out all the major and minor flaws in the blue prints of the upcoming mega mall project in downtown los angeles and the team of architects sat stunned and grateful and then showed malcolm all their projects and designs and the young boy revealed the flaws in them too and with those actions revealed to everyone what he was,a gentle genius who happened to possess one of the greatest scientific minds that had ever graced this planet.


Malcolm's father sat with tears in his eyes as his boss gave him a cheque for a 100,000 dollars as a yearly retainer fee for his son and all he had to do was go through their engineering designs and check them and approve of them.

The genius brain of malcolm got better and better and slowly his talents spread out and helped other companies and then one day,the most important phone call in the lives of the Chambers family came and it came from NSA.

The National Security Agency (NSA) is a national-level intelligence agency of the United States Department of Defense, under the authority of the Director of National Intelligence. The NSA is responsible for global monitoring, collection, and processing of information and data for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, specializing in a discipline known as signals intelligence (SIGINT). The NSA is also tasked with the protection of U.S. communications networks and information systems.The NSA relies on a variety of measures to accomplish its mission, the majority of which are clandestine.

Present day,Right now in

When the agency was first established, its headquarters and cryptographic center were in the Naval Security Station in Washington, D.C. The COMINT functions were located in Arlington Hall in Northern Virginia, which served as the headquarters of the U.S. Army's cryptographic operations. Because the Soviet Union had detonated a nuclear bomb and because the facilities were crowded, the federal government wanted to move several agencies, including the AFSA/NSA. A planning committee considered Fort Knox, but Fort Meade, Maryland, was ultimately chosen as NSA headquarters because it was far enough away from Washington, D.C. in case of a nuclear strike and was close enough so its employees would not have to move their families.

The main NSA headquarters and operations building is covered with one-way dark glass, which is lined with copper shielding in order to prevent espionage by trapping in signals and sounds. It contains 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m2), or more than 68 acres (28 ha), of floor space and the U.S. Capitol could easily fit inside it four times over.

Paul Miki Nakasone (born November 19, 1963) is a senior officer in the United States Army and is the commander of the United States Army Cyber Command. Nakasone was also the commander of the United States Second Army prior to its inactivation on March 31, 2017. He took command of the Second Army and Cyber Command on October 14, 2016, from Lieutenant General Edward C. Cardon. On February 13, 2018, he was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as head of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command.

The phone rang and it was the red one and the flashing light on button 4 meant it came from the division that monitored signals that were from earth and from outside earth.The call came from the cabin of the quiet genius,Malcolm chambers and the director of NSA,Paul Miki Nakasone picked it up and answered ' Malcolm,what is it?' and malcolm replied ' sir,a surface to air missile was launched but exploded on the ground.'

Paul Miki Nakasone went still and warily ' was it an ICBM ( Inter continental ballistic missile) and was it from North korea?'

Malcolm chambers calmly replied ' sir,the signal came from the Hindu kush mountains and just north of Kandahar,Afghanistan.'

The Director of NSA,Paul Miki Nakasone breathed ' thank god for that.Malcolm,what kind of missile was it?' and savant malcolm calmly and in his own unique,slow pace ' It was a SAM sir.( surface to air missile) meant to bring down a plane.Buuut.'

director of NSA knew very well that malcolm could not be stressed by hurried bombardment of questions and answers and so struggling to keep his voice calm,squeaked softly ' But,what but malcolm?'

Malcolm answered ' sir,the missile was destroyed by a beam from outer space and then i picked up a signal,a sound that is very familiar to me.'

The director of NSA wanted to yell out his frustration at malcolm for being so vague and frustratingly slow with his thoughts and the ulcer in his gut that had been troubling him from the time he took over the job of the director of NSA came back and filled him with pain because of his stress that was rapidly escalating.

He took rapid breaths and calmed himself down and in a whisper ' malcolm,please,could you kindly elaborate what you just mentioned about beam from outer space and that you are familiar with that signal that is caused by that object.'


Cool,cucumber cool Malcolm replied ' yes sir,right away and you need to be in the "large display room",where we see the images in great detail that i have got by processing the radio waves from outer space .I will see you there in about 30 minutes.'


The Director of NSA,Paul Miki Nakasone said ok and leaned back,thinking to himself ' malcolm,you genius.where are you going with this,young man?'

Deciding that it was better to keep most of the information given to him by malcolm to himself,he called his secretary and ordered all his section chiefs to assemble in the " Large display room" in 20 minutes and popped an Antacid tablet into his mouth and wearily and also nervously got up from his chair and walked out of his cabin and headed to the basement that was five floors below ground and insulated from any attack but for a direct impact from an object like the 15 km sized asteroid that impacted earth and wiped off the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.



Rudran felt the vibration and the surge of power all around him and he quickly reached and touched renuka's womb and Nikhil conveyed the same knowledge.Something had happened and it had been very powerful and yet very brief and it had something to do with them both and with all aliens like them.

The jet kept cruising towards london and neither rudran or nikhil had any clue as to what had taken place and soon both father and son relaxed but remained alert.


Nearly 11 kms down below them and now just a smudge in their views,the hindu kush mountains hid from everyone the destruction that had been wreaked on the vehicle that had carried ten sams ( surface to air missiles) and were all of the latest technology.


Spy Satellites belonging to many of the global super powers picked up the massive explosion and soon began to maneuvere their spy cameras to see what the explosion and most importantly to see if a nuclear test had been secretly conducted and even more importantly if a nuclear missile had been launched at their countries.


The space craft hovered about ten feet away from the ground and then one of the doors opened silently and through it jumped out a tall human like figure who was suited in some kind of shimmering metal armor.

He stood tall and stared at the remains of the missile launcher and a cold breeze picked up his long,curly hair and it floated around him like dark cloud.

The man sensed them enemies and glanced sideways and then slowly turned and the dozen men who had the man surrounded went still first in shock and then in fear for the man's eyes glowed green and his lips snarled in anger and retribution.

All the men clearly saw the strange markings on the mans lower left arm and then a few of them committed suicide by trying to raise their guns and shooting at the man.

From the spacecraft above,multiple red flashes beamed down at the speed of light and the men who had foolishly attempted to kill the stranger died and disappeared into ashes.

The remaining men dropped their weapons and ran off screaming into the trees and the man stood quietly and then looked up with his powerful eyes at the disappearing jet that carried rudran,bhairav,nikhil and their family.

' Bon voyage my prince and lords and happy hunting Rudran, and you too Bhairav.Watch over your brother as i watch over all of you.'

They have always been here.To watch over and to protect and defend.They are called The Ancients and they are led by the legend called Azhagan.


The boy who went into the dark and came back with light.

Getting by


Every moment of my awake time these days,i am bombarded with news in papers,tv channels,whats app and my recently disconnected Facebook account and the bombs are all about what he said,she said and he and she are from all walks of life.

In the rat race of ratings and viewership census,the information about the world has erupted like the Proverbial Big bang and like the terms used in the universe by astronomers,such as Dark matter and Dark energy,off late,i find my daily life full of the same above mentioned terms and they seem to fit the description.

To remain sane in this rather insane world,i read what i like and more importantly don't spend to much time on what does not interest me or educates me and elevates me to a better soul.

But then,i get links,stumble open links and sites,wherein another fellow human being is saying something that is good and useful for all mankind and then i do this.That is,share them with you.

I am sorry if i am in anyway imposing my likes and dislikes and honestly that is not my intention and i share others thoughts and others creations simply because i think that you souls,my friends will enjoy them too and find them uplifting.

Today,i am sharing this small speech about The Bhagavad Gita by a a really well spoken and intelligent lady and i hope it sheds more light on the sometimes overwhelming message of life that Lord Krishna delivers to Arjuna.

But,i will also share with you,a passage from the Gita that really grasps me and has held me from the time i evolved into an adult.And,happily the evolution of satish is still an ongoing process.

"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection. The Bhagavad Gita


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckaEwJj2A1U

Decoding the Gita, India's book of answers | Roopa Pai | TEDxNMIMSBangalore

With knowledge and profound meanings done and dusted above,i now share what only human beings can do to the maximum and that is humor,comedy and laughter.

If i am asked to name one of my favourite speakers who can make you laugh,think and cry and all at the same time,only one name springs to my mind and that is the late Thenkachi Ko. Swaminathan

Thenkachi Ko. Swaminathan (1946-2009) was a popular orator, an author of various Tamil books, Deputy Director of "All India Radio" a-k-a AIR, radio channel, a host of the daily programme Indru oru Thagaval on All India Radio (AIR). A down-to-earth human being, genius in Life Improvement, Positive Attitude and Story narrator.

Million people across Tamil Nadu woke up to his voice every morning for several years. The five-minute programme, presented in simple colloquial Tamil, the common man could relate to and punctuated by anecdotes meant to make you smile and ponder, was broadcast without a break from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Many still remember Thenkachi Ko Swaminathan for his popular daily programme "Indru oru Thagaval "on All India Radio (AIR) The show was a hit and was broadcast for 12 years. A humorous piece at the end of the programme was something for which the listeners looked forward to. A simple man, he delivered messages that provoked one to reflect, think and make personal mends to oneself.

The collection of his Indru Oru Thagaval talk show was later published in 25 volumes. Swaminathan gave the entire remuneration he got through these books to charities.

Later when TV became popular, on Sun TV, a popular Tamil-language channel, he gave a similar program in the morning called Indha Naal Iniya Naal (i.e. It's a Good Day Today).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsjKW2CnOc

VAZHGA VALAMUDAN VETHATHIRI MAHARISHI Thenkachi Swaminathan Speech

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Music and love


One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. Bob Marley

These words from the late Reggae singer Bob marley just about sums up my thoughts and feelings.Anytime,when i am writing,walking,running or just lying down in bed,i listen to my favourite songs and let me confess that my taste in music swings wildly across languages and eras.

To make my thought clearer,i just love this song sung by lata mangeshkar for the film,Bhabhi ki Chudiyan (1961) and i listen to this at least once everyday and it just takes me to music and my own private heaven.

Only recently did i realise that i love music when it has a lot of classical feel to it and maybe it has to do something to one of my previous lives when i must have been either a singer or dancer and scarily both freak me out.

Whatever language it may be,if a song has a classical or even semi classical feel to it,my ears will tug my soul and i lose myself to that music until my wife will slam the dosai pan on my skull and bring me out of my trance and well,that will be the end.


Here is a list of my favourite songs with a classical background and i am also giving you the youtube links to it.

I wish you all a great day and also wish you a great week.Lots of love from satish.Be well.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFSuo9qY9s

Jyoti Kalash Chhalke-Bhabhi ki Chudiyan (1961 )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRdqoJPc6bQ

RAHEN NA RAHEN HUM -Mamta 1966

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soyx2Ynuaz8

Devasabhaathalam | His Highness Abdulla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLwa6YEh5MQ

Nadha Vinodham Song - Sagara Sangamam Movie Songs - Kamal Haasan - Jayaprada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBTQ3Qb7nww

Sankarabharanam - Sankaraa Naadasareeraparaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AX0o-_EXA1I

Singara velane deva_Konjum Salangai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0wLIArAayY

Oru Naal Podhuma Tamil Song - Thiruvilayadal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_hBWlR3h0

Paattum Naane Bhavamum Naane - Thiruvilayadal Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKxLoBcfcTs

Moham Endra Song - Sindhu Bhairavi - Sivakumar, Sulakshana & Suhasini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onl4JkIeQpE

Manathil Urudhi Vendum Sindhu Bhairavi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok2PDA0rF2g

Kamalam paadha kamalam

Redemption 254


Writing chapters for Redemption is sometimes a real battle and feels like an uphill climb and that is why sometimes,the chapters get delayed and me,i take the easy way out and quickly write chapters of Jannal oram and post it.

The reason for this is that Unlike Jannal oram,Redemption is filled with so much tech stuff and science related terms that my mind gets boggled and confused as to what to use and what not to use.

But,starting with this chapter,i am going to give it a try,an attempt to simplify the tech and sci-fi stuff and work harder on the story and its principal characters.



The private Gulf stream jet carrying Rudran and the rest was already into turkey airspace and far away from the Hindu kush mountains,from where unknown to them,a surface to air missile had been launched but destroyed by The Ancients and many had been killed on the spot and only a few had managed to survive.

But,the bloom of the missile as it had fired its engines in an attempt to launch itself had been captured by the cameras of a geo stationary spy satellite that belonged to the united states.

The Director of NSA,Paul Miki Nakasone entered the darkened room called "Large display room" and told everyone to remain seated and addressed them. 'About ten minutes ago,a SAM was launched from the Hindu kush mountains but was shot down by some unknown party.'

Immediately,General John Kelly raised his hand ' But Paul,that place called hindu kush range is very desolate and nearly uninhabited and what was a surface to air missile launcher doing there and who destroyed it.It cannot be us for we don't have any presence there or any boots on the ground that far away from our base in Kandahar.'

Paul Miki Nakasone looked at general kelly ' John,all answers in good time for i have none and am only certain of a few facts.But,malcolm will be able to explain everything in more detail.'

Turning to Malcolm chambers ' Malcolm,i leave the floor to you' and again facing the nearly dozen men and women gathered in that highly secretive meeting,he stressed his words with great deliberation ' for god's sake,no questions until malcolm has finished or unless he says it is okay for anyone of you to pose your questions.Is that understood?'

Malcolm chamber got up and stood in the center of the room and as was his autistic habit,looked away and thanked The Director of NSA and then did the same thing with all of them.

' Hi,i am sure that in these 3 years and the many dozens of meetings that has been held here,all of you know that i am autisitic and that it is my habit and the curse of my affliction that stops me from making contact with you directly and seeing you,eye to eye.Please bear with my disability.'

In one voice,everyone roared ' malcolm we all love you and you are on of us and we assure you that you are neither afflicted not disabled.'

General John Kelly,nearly 70 years and a veteran of the vietnam and korean wars gazed fondly on the young malcolm ' son,you are different and all of us are different and that is the beauty of gods creation and rather than dwell on the difference,please think of it as a gift by the almighty and that each one of us is blessed in a certain,unique way to solve another life's problem and help many with their own differences.'

A bull of man,who never stopped himself from speaking out,now roared like a lion ' Malcolm,if everybody were created the same then this bloody world would be a huge f...g bore of a planet and would have died away a long,long time ago my child.'


Malcolm chambers stood transfixed at this show of respect,love and trust that was showered on him and he smiled shyly and mumbled his gratitude.

Then it was back to his,normal self and using a remote,clicked it and the large screen shimmered and instantly lit up filling the entire space with a satellite image of the Hindu kush mountains.

' This image was captured just 40 minutes ago as the time stamp on the top left hand corner denotes and this was taken by one of our geo-stationary satellites that covers India,pakistan,afghanistan,nepal and a little bit of china that borders nepal and India.'

Clicking on the remote,Malcolm brought up another image and this was from another angle and totally colorless but for a small streak of white,far below on the ground.

Malcolm continued ' this is an infra red image taken by one of our weather satellites that was passing by at the exact moment that the missile was launched and shot these images at an altitude of 800 kms.'

He clicked the remote and another image filled the screen and then he pressed a button on the remote and zoomed into the image and everyone seated there gasped in shock and fear as the image dived from its 800 km altitude to just above the ground and showed clearly 20 men standing around a missile launch vehicle that held ten surface to air missiles.

Malcolm looked at the NSA director and back to the people in front of him ' these last images were shot by a powerful camera that lies inside the weather satellite and hence the depth and clarity of the images.But our satellite was moving at such great speed that is soon passed the point that lies before us and only managed to click a few more images.'

Malcolm again clicked the remote and an image came up that showed a large plane hovering over the missile launcher and soon the images became blurry and worthless and that was it.


The lights were switched on and malcolm covered his eyes and then slowly adjusted them to the brightness.

Philip,an expert in satellite imagery stood up and spoke ' firstly,who are those men for they don't look anything like the taliban or any islam related fighters and secondly how did they manage to lay their hands on such an advanced missile launcher and to add to that second point,that missile launcher is our own product and it has been supplied to only a very few countries namely Israel,saudi arabia,India and south korea.So,how is that one of our own elite and highly secretive weapons happens to be in the hands of some unknown operatives and that too in that goddamned forsaken place called Hindu kush range.'

General John kelly stood up and the whole room fell silent ' my question is who the heck were they shooting at and why the hell were they shooting at them.Lets find out that first and follow that lead and we will have answers to all these questions.'

The phone rang with a quiet and subtle tone and The Director of NSA,Paul Miki Nakasone picked it up and answered it and listened and nodded and placed the receiver back to its cradle and said ' General,that question of yours has been answered and the images are being fed right now onto the screen as i speak.'

All eyes turned towards the large screen and the lights went out automatically and the screen filled itself with a beautiful,white gulfstream jet flying over the hindu kush mountains.

Malcolm chambers stood up and spoke in the darkness ' this private jet was the only one flying over that region at that exact time when the missiles were launched and from the numbers on its tail fin,we have identified its owner.'

He looked at all of them ' the private jet belongs to a company and its owned by one Mr.kandaswamy mudaliyar.'

Movie bytes-Come away with me


I sit with the title already written and that too a rather bold invitation to you readers and i will start with a memory of me in the year 1979 wearing my birthday dress,a khakhi half trouser and some multi colored half hand shirt holding my elder sister sujatha akka's hand and going to see kamal and sri devi's film " Kalyanaraman" for the matinee show in Alankar theater,near LIC towers on mount road and coming back jumping with joy and doing kangaroo jumps.I am not sure who gave permission or how we managed to sneak out for a film,but there you have it,we did and that is one of my happiest memories of my life.

I remember diwali being a big deal for crackers and for sweets and a little for new clothes from age of 6 until 12 but 1978,october diwali was the topper for my aunt had booked tickets for Rajini's " Thai meethu sathyam" and coming back home after 9.00 pm or so we spent the next few hours bursting crackers and then my uncle lit the climax 1000 wala with his half smoked cigarette and walked away from it stylishly like rajinikanth and we cheered and screamed our throats and lungs out.


Last month,i sat in S2 Thyagaraja,Thiruvonmiyur to see the film " Black panther" with my gym pal Avinash and i had booked the tickets online and chosen the best seats and well leaned back in the comfort of the plush seats.

The theater was only twenty percent full although it had only been four days since the film's release and we sat in relative silence with the air now and then broken by the odd ringtones of some uncouth and uncivilized person who had forgotten to silence his mobile and was soon silenced,when somebody from the front row questioned if he was born to one father.

Without even realising it,i burst out laughing and avinash too joined and the whole theater joined and the person whose mobile phone had broken the peace and also happened to be a woman sneaked out with her boy friend cursing the phone for they had been busy exchanging toothpaste flavors in the darkness of the backseats and now had to sneak out in shame.



A few months back,i stood in film city with the current chief minister,Edappadi palaniswamy as he clapped the board with the title"MGR" on it and i was the hero,acting the role of the ultimate hero of tamil movies " MGR" and i stood with the slight smile that the real hero had always worn and only when i came back did i realise that every tv channel and news paper was carrying my photos as MGR.

I remember " Pallandu vazhga,Meenava nanban,Idayakani,Nazhai namathe and ulagam sutrum valiban" and watching them all on big screen while MGR was still acting and here i was standing in the center of many ministers,chief minister as MGR himself.

WOW! If there was a wow moment in a person's life,then maybe this should be it.But,i calmly raised my hands and flashed the two leaves symbol and the crowds roared.

I stood with my eyes covered by dark glasses,head covered by the famous sheep skin cap,watch on my right wrist shirt cuff and i stood as satish but with the world seeing me as " MGR."

As an orphan i sat along with my other cousins in the movie hall and with big eyes saw actors do incredible things,tell incredible and awesome stories.

But see,your writer here in this forum has an incredible story about himself.

Who would have thought that a small,skinny,shy,brown and dirty looking kid who stood near the gate of his compound seeing the world outside in a small gully street called Doddamavalli in Bangalore would be standing in the guise of MGR,the center and object of everyone's interest and attention.

Idhu Podhum Enakku.Idhu podhume,Verenna vendum enakku.

Come whatever fame and glory,i will remain that kutty satish who boarded the train to chennai at the age of five leaving behind everything for a part of me still remains in that road,mingling with my lost parents and lost brothers and a lost life from another life.

Who am i? I am satish,just simply satish.And,i too was here and am here.Good day to all of you.

Redemption 255

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ? Roald Dahl

They core group of the NSA made up of a dozen people sat in the cool and brightly lit confines of the " Large screen room" for the screen rightly named son did dominate the entire room with its presence.It was in this very room that the former President Obama had sat along with his team of military advisors that was made up of members from the CIA,Marines,NSA and together all had watched live as their elite warriors had entered the building in Abbottabad, Pakistan in the early hours and had finally killed Osama bin laden on May 2,2011.

Although the film " Zero dark thirty" billed as the greatest manhunt in history had been nearly correct in many parts,it did not and could not show the final act of Osama being put down by a navy seal for that would have incited anger and violence in the muslim world and would have given zest and motive to new jihadists.

It was on this very screen that they had all sat and watched as their nuclear submarine USS VIRGINIA had launched a Tomahawk missile carrying a thermobaric weapon and into the deep jungles of Thailand where criminals were preparing a biological weapon that would soon be deployed.Their missile had wiped out the deadly threat and that had been many months ago.

Sivaramakrishnan was born in washington and raised in washington and was a true american but still held a lot of his values that had been bestowed by his indian parents.

He looked at the Director of the NSA ' sir,the general is right.If we can get the passenger manifesto of that private jet then we can see who it was that the missile was aimed at.It will be like any ordinary crime and we just have to find the motive and then we follow the leads given to us by the high value targets that were on the plane and maybe they will shed light on the terrorists below.'

The phone rang again and after answering it,the director looked up at the screen and soon the passenger manifesto flashed largely and one name immediately caught General john kelly's eyes and he nearly yelled out the name " General Rudran."

He immediately pressed the green button on the phone in front of him and spoke hurriedly and The NSA director Paul Miki Nakasone looked at him with concern ' john,what is it?'

General John kelly held up one hand ' one minute paul,please just a moment before i speak.'

Everybody stared at the large screen as it filled with a close up photo of Rudran in his military uniform and then photos of him in various situations of gunfight flashed past them and then the screen went blank.


The general john kelly sighed in relief and looked at sivaramakrishnan ' siva,please explain my concern and relief to the director.'


Sivaramakrishnan was a veteran of the CIA and he stood up and looked at the director of NSA ' sir,this information that i am going to divulge happened during the last week of the former president Obama and it has to do with the bombing of an undisclosed situation in Thailand.'

Paul Miki Nakasone nodded ' I know mr.sivaram and it has to do with the destruction of that terrorist hideout where deadly biological weapons were being made and tested on humans.'

Sivaram continued ' sir,that whole operation was made possible because of this man called Rudran for it was by hacking his mobile that we traced the location of that terrorist camp and launched the missile.'

The NSA director Paul Miki Nakasone went still in shock ' you mean we launched the missile even though we had a friendly in the area and that too a mad who had just helped us and most probably saved our nation and the whole human race.'

General john kelly shrugged ' paul,we didn't have time.The threat was too great for us to waste time dilly dallying and the president himself made the decision.'

Everybody remained quiet and General john stood up ' i am glad,i am really glad that this brave soldier is alive although how he managed to stay alive is beyond my knowledge.'

Sivaram looked at everyone ' we tracked his mobile phone and with that tracked the camp of the terrorists and we know for sure that Rudran was just a km away from the camp and minutes later the missiled exploded over the camp and its blast radius is 5kms.I have no clue as to how this man made his escape and survived and is now on that plane that is heading towards london.'

General John kelly looked at the director ' one more thing paul,this is the same rudran of the indian army that rescued those UN hostages in the middle east a few years ago.And he did it singlehandedly and in the process was shot several times and yet managed to kill everyone of the terrorists and come out alive.'

Soft whistles flew and filled the air as everyone grasped the heroism and survival skills of the Indian called Rudran and then sivaram delivered the punchline.

' All of you have heard about a secretive indian intelligence group that is headed by the prime minister himself and this group is made up of only four or five people and we have no clue as to its function,name or the identity of its members.But i can be very sure and 100 percent certain that Rudran will be a part of it and most probably is the tip of the spear for in layman's terms,he is " The judge,jury and executioner."

The room darkened and the large screen filled with an image of Rudran bleeding from many bullet holes and carrying one wounded soldier on his shoulder and holding another one in his right arm and walking towards his team.

Whoever had captured this image had captured every small detail and more importantly the eyes of Rudran for they were the scariest eyes anyone in that room had ever seen in a human being.

NSA director Paul Miki Nakasone clapped his hand ' now that is a real hero.A true blue hero and i guess it is obvious why an attempt is being made on his life.

Loooking at everybody ' I am going to pass on all this information to the head of CIA and request that a team is in place in london to monitor and watch over Mr.rudran for i doubt if he will be left in peace while he is there.If there is an attempt on his life,then we can hopefully identify the men and the group behind the attack and then try to get information on how they managed to lay their hands on one of our very own missile launchers that remains unknown to most of the world.'

If everyone in the room thought that the meeting had been concluded,they were in for a surprise and shock when the NSA Director announced ' But,now we come to the real reason for this meeting and we will start that once the President makes his way here.'

General John kelly leaped out ' What? POTUS is arriving here for this meeting? But paul this is just a usual attack and scare that we see on a weekly basis and what is the necessity for the president to sit in on this mundane meeting?'

POTUS means President of the united states.

NSA director Paul Miki Nakasone nodded ' i understand john but that is now in Malcolm chambers hands for what he has to say is for the president himself and us included and also he is waiting for more information and images from out other satellites that are passing over Afghanistan,right now as we speak and they have really powerful cameras that can see even a lizard among the grass,down below from their place in the skies.'

All of them looked at Malcolm who was busy tapping the pads on the computer and then the door opened and the secret service men came in ' gentlemen,the President of the united states.'

Vacuum and Chaos


For want of a nail the shoe was lost;
For want of a shoe the horse was lost;
For want of a horse the battle was lost;
For the failure of battle the kingdom was lost
All for the want of a horse-shoe nail.


On 8 November 2015, during the annual cyclone season, a low pressure area consolidated into a depression and slowly intensified into a deep depression before crossing the coast of Tamil Nadu near Puducherry the following day. Because of land interaction and high vertical wind shear, the system weakened into a well-marked low pressure area over north Tamil Nadu on 10 November.The system brought very heavy rainfall over the coastal and the north interior districts of Tamil Nadu. On 15 November, well-marked low pressure area moved northwards along the Tamil Nadu coast, dropping huge amounts of rainfall over coastal Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh with 24hour totals peaking at 370 mm in Ponneri. Chennai International Airport recorded 266 mm of rainfall in 24 hours. On 2829 November, another system developed and arrived over Tamil Nadu on 30 November, bringing additional rain and flooding. The system dropped 490 mm of rainfall at Tambaram in 24 hours starting 8:30 am on 1 December. Very heavy rains led to flooding across the entire stretch of coast from Chennai to Cuddalore.


On 5th december,Jayaram Jayalalithaa(born Komalavalli) but popularly known as and addressed as Amma passed away and yes,the cyclone came but came late with its eye aimed at chennai and tamil nadu came with fury and massive destruction.

Whether,Cyclone Vardah was crying for the loss of Amma or it was crying for what the loss was going to do to the state of Tamil nadu is debatable but it is now widely accepted that the loss of our late chief minister,jayalalitha is huge and the vacuum created by her is irreplaceable.

Starting with the Jallikattu protests,the ruling party breaking into three,eps,ops and ttv and the now cauvery water protests,the rule book has been torn and thrown out of the window.

The same did happen when MGR died but then presidents rule was imposed and public safety and security was maintained and people went about their lives.

But,now,an average citizen of Tamil Nadu is being called,badgered,pushed and pulled on a daily basis to prove that he is a Tamizhan.

First of all,let me announce it loud and clear that i am a citizen of this earth first,a human being next,an indian then and only lastly am i Tamizhan.

The vacuum that Amma has left behind is being fought over and being fought over in all the dirty ways possible and many new and unknown film and public personalities have entered the fray,beating their chests and screaming loudly that they are the answer and that they will save Tamil Nadu.

Honestly,i think most of them are doing it for publicity and for furthering their own needs.

I am not sure what all this protests,bandhs,violence and name callings are going to achieve but i know one thing that it is only going to anger and harden the people who everyone is protesting against.

Modi and the state of karnataka to put it simply.

How did Mahatma rally this nation and fight against the english rulers and in the end achieve freedom for us?

Ahimsa,Non-violence and through peaceful protests.

If,such an impossible dream was made a reality,then why can't a small river be shared peacefully and without violence.

If countries can share rivers peacefully,can't two states of one country,neighbors that too sit down and work out things peacefully and in a brotherly fashion.

The problem is that all these so called leaders of this protests are doing things in a very shallow manner and only with their political careers in mind and also on caste and creed basis.

Tamil nadu is quietly going through a major change,a revolution even and i guess such chaos and idiocy will be the rule of the day.

But it is really hilarious that all this has been precipitated by the passing of one great leader and the saddest thing is that there is nobody else on the near horizon that can even fill a fraction of the vacuum left behind by AMMA.

I had a lot of hopes and faith in M.K.STALIN but the shenanigans he and his party indulge in last year in the parliament had me hang my head in shame.The speaker was booted out and some unknown dmk mla sat and took photos and stalin himself came out with his shirt torn when he should have calmed everyone in the august place that is the seat of power and houses the people whom we elected to serve us.

Today,M.K.Stalin stands once again with his reputation at stake and i honestly believe that he had more respect and was widely appreciated when AMMA was around.But this desperate hunger and moves to grab power and rule once again is sad and honestly unbecoming of a senior politician such as Stalin.

Maybe,it is true that he is really unwell and that the clock is ticking and maybe these are the reasons for his desperation for his dad MK himself is on the last steps of his voyage and his passing will be a real tsunami for DMK and the real picture of all the cracks might just begin to emerge.

And if sadly,stalin himself should succumb then dmk will be lost for AIADMK has floundered but managed to hang on by the skin of their teeth and EPS himself has been slowly but steadily increasing his popularity and if he should lead his party through then remaining three years then who knows,maybe AIADMK will come back to power with EPS and OPS and maybe even with a subdued TTV.

On the fringes we have seeman,vaiko,Vijaykanth,kamal and rajini along with the BJP,Communist party,janata party scurrying for power and making their moves but we will see what we are going to see.

Kamal is white but brahmin and rajini is black but kannadiga.

Subtly but within their earshot both of them are being asked to forsake their kavachams and kundalams.

Sad for rajini for his family is in karnataka and try however hard and now with the cauvery dispute,he is going to find it tough to rally the same support as MGR,STALIN and AMMA.

Poor rajini for he is going to be asked again and again to prove that he is a real tamil citizen and that is going to surely take its toll and he is going to break or simply wash his hands and walk away from it all,muttering ' ungale thiruttave mudiyathu.'

That is exactly what his opposition want and at nearly 68 years and with many doubts cast on his health,will rajini be a serious force in this state's politics is a matter for debate or will he once again resign himself to those occasional punchlines in some meeting and be relegated to the has been or could have been pavilion.

Redemption 256


The president entered and said ' As you were gentlemen' and everyone sat down leaving Malcolm chambers and the NSA director still standing.

The president looked up at both of them ' Okay people,i am here and all ears and paul,don't forget that we are playing golf later this week.'

Folding his hands on his chest and stretching his long legs out,The president looked at all of them ' okay guys,what is cooking and is important that you have me down here with your entire core team.'

NSA director Paul Miki Nakasone calmly ' Mr.president,we realise that this is all rather sudden and that i met you at the Oval office only yesterday to brief you of all the current happenings.But,Malcolm here urged me to request your presence here while he is about to talk about some important discovery that he seems to have made.'

The president knew Malcolm pretty well and that he was some kind of Savant and also that he was a huge asset for the NSA and had been for many years now.So,he looked at Young Malcolm ' Mr.Malcolm,whenever you are ready?'

Malcolm chambers bent his head slightly and thanked him ' Thank you Mr.President,i guarantee you that it is not a waste of time but worth a lot for all of us.'

Everybody murmured to each other wondering if Malcolm had stumbled on some hidden russian nuclear arsenal or some new movements on the Korean border by the north koreans.

Malcolm chambers raised his hand ' What i am going to show you has nothing to do with the Russians,Chinese or the Koreans and is of no value to any of us for this information is beyond us.'

Looking at all of them without looking at all of them directly as Autistic people do,Malcolm continued ' as always,i request all of you to wait until i finish my work and switch on the lights and then ask your questions.'

The president jokingly ' no question people and that is an order.'

Everyone smiled and the room went dark and Malcolm stood before the large screen and pressed the remote.

' In the year 2000,i hooked up my home computer to the SETI network to help them sort out all the information that their radio telescopes were gathering and i discovered a very weak signal on a totally unused frequency and kept trying to find the source of that strange noise on the strange frequency.

Over the years,i have captured the same signal many times and coming from all over the world and also from space itself.'

The president completely forgetting Malcolm's request ' but a signal can come either from earth,man made or from space from some satellite or from outer space.so,what is it?'

If Malcolm chambers was irritated by this sudden interruption by the president,he did not show it ' sir,that is what i have been trying to find through all these years of many hundreds of hours of monitoring and without success.But,i have also been using the radio waves to form a structure and to get an idea as to the phenomenon behind this sound anomaly.'

The words structure and phenomenon were enough to send a electrical charge up everyone's back and all sat straight in rapt attention.

Malcolm chambers pressed a button and slowly a round shape began to form on the screen,vague but still barely discernible.

The president an engineer himself ' Malcolm,you say you have used the sound waves to form a structure and that means like how we use radar to bounce signals and to get the objects,speed,distance and size.If so,then why is this image so blurry and so vague and that too after all these years of monitoring them.'

Malcolm chambers smiled ' Mr.president,in your very question lies the answer.'

Mr.president getting a bit irritated ' Malcolm,i know and recognise that you are a genius and of vital strategic interest to this nation but then please understand that i too have a job to do and so if you can,please come to the point.'

Malcolm chambers calmly continued in the same vein ' sir,when i said that the answer was in your question,i meant that if i considered by all as a genius and a savant can have so much difficulty in tracking this object then imagine what the rest of you will face if left on your own.'

The president looked at the NSA director and Malcolm caught their exchange of looks ' sir,i mean no disrespect but this is what makes me a genius and more importantly one who is suffering from autism.For people like us have no clue to the subtleties and finer nuances of manners and courtesy and also human interactions.I know that you are the president but i don't feel anything like what others feel when they see you or talk to you and for me you are like everyone else.I am sorry but that is the way i have been made or that is the way my brain has been hardwired.'

The president realising his mistake ' please accept my apologies malcolm and please do continue.'

' Thank you sir.Now for the most important part of this meeting.The radio signal that i told you all about and its strange frequency that i have been tracking all these years has popped up again.'


He brought up a location in outer space and looked at them ' I discovered the signal coming from somewhere near the vicinity of the moon ' and then Malcolm brought up a location that hovered over the Hindu kush mountains ' then a few moments later i found the very same signal coming from this location.'

Shock,fear and amazement filled everyone's face and then the president timidly ' but that is impossible Malcolm for then it means that the object was travelling at nearly the speed of light and we know very well that there is nothing,no matter that can travel faster than light.So,maybe it was some sort of anamoly like you said,maybe some sort of sunlight emission.'

Malcolm chambers smiled and shook his head ' maybe but not in this case for this object or whatever it is is moving up and down and sideways unlike any matter or space objects like meteors,asteroids or space dust.'

Then the large screen went blank and suddenly it filled itself with a painting and quickly everyone realised that it was the painting that had been just put up for auction in Christie's the previous day and it showed a tall and handsome young man with flowing curly hair standing over the bodies of many huge giants and behind him stood many figures dressed in some strange armor and hovering over them was a large spaceship.


The director of NSA felt his head spin and he weakly asked Malcolm ' but son,that painting is supposed to have been done in the 13th century and what does that have to do with this strange signal.'


Malcolm smiled and again pressed the remote and the large screen went dark and flickered back with a shot of the Hindu Kush mountains and quickly zoomed in on the ground and everyone there nearly had a heart attack for there clearly visible was the same space craft that had been painted in the 13th century.'