Introducing Fourth Monkey of Gandhi ji?

 Gandhi Ji ke Chauthe Bandar 

(Introducing The Fourth Monkey of Gandhi ji?)

We are all aware (mostly) of the Three Japanese Wise Monkeys which became the visual metaphors of Mahatma Gandhi’s message of peace and tolerance.

1. See no evil - Mizaru
2. Hear no evil - Kikazaru
3. Speak no evil - Iwazaru

 

But somehow, I miss the Fourth monkey which I feel should be the foremost one. Think no Evil

Although the first three are good enough if practiced diligently in day-to-day life but they, being physical senses, represent Physical actions. And any Physical action can simply be an Act.

These three actions are more focused towards external world. Human beings are conscious animals thus, albeit unconsciously, the behavior is less real and more like putting on a performance for the viewers.

On the contrary, Thinking is a mental activity. It’s internal and more personal. We are very true to ourselves in those moments. Simple put, we do not lie to ourselves.

There is none Hundred percent Righteous or Malicious being in this world. Internally we are always in a constant fight on morality and our act is driven by the transitorily victory. With passage of Time if we can learn, to overpower the worse for better, then all these monkeys can merge into One. As the old saying goes-

“If you won’t stop something at Step One, you can’t stop it at Step Ten”

  

If the Fourth Monkey must lead the troop, he needs a name. So unselfishly taking the responsibility, I am naming him – Kangaru (Kan-ga-e-ru)

 

P.S. - One can comment that recently we already found a Fourth Monkey (Shizaru) – Do no Evil – but metaphorically it’s mere a physical manifestation of your Inner thoughts.

P.P.S – If still here then do comment if you have mispronounced/googled Kangaeru 😊

9/11 vs 911

I know it has been 20 years but was the Date 9/11 really picked up randomly or was it because the US Emergency number is 911 (Help us)???

Just a thought!!

Nanavati case (1959). Real or Inspired?

“A woman was humiliated by a man. Her husband, who was a Military personal, took his gun and shot the accused. Later he surrendered himself to the Law. The case was presented before a Jury, who after a trial, provided the Verdict - ‘Not-Guilty’.”

Any idea which case is being referred here? Nanavati you said?

What if I say that the story in context here is not about Kawas Nanavati? What if these events have happened in a Play, a Movie, a Novel, and in Real but not in India?

Intrigued?

 

While going through the best novels of the century I stumbled upon a Synopsis that felt too close to reality.  The similarity with Nanavati case (1959) literally perplexed me so I started digging a bit.

Initially it felt that, may be first time in history, we have a REAL event Inspired by a Fiction. But the more I dug, the deeper went the rabbit hole.

·        John D. Voelker was a Lawyer in Michigan. He represented Lt. Coleman A. Peterson as his defense attorney who was accused of killing Maurice Chenoweth. Lt. Peterson claimed that Mr. Chenoweth has raped his wife Charlotte. The Jury provided the verdict ‘Not-Guilty’ as they termed the act as ‘Insanity defense’ / ‘Irresistible impulse’. ^[1][2]

·        John D. Voelker under the Pen Name Robert Traver authored the Novel titled ‘Anatomy of a Murder’, based on Lt. Coleman case, which is celebrated as one of the best Court room drama in fiction.^[3]

·        Otto Preminger, who was a celebrated Director at that time, made a movie, with the same name, based on this novel. ^[4]

·        Elihu Winer and John Van Druten have turned the story into a play which premiered at the Mill Run Theater in Chicago in 1963.^[5][6]

·        Commander Kawas Manekshaw Nanavati was tried for the murder of Prem Ahuja who was having an affair with his wife Sylvia. The Jury provided the verdict ‘Not-Guilty’. The act was termed as ‘heat of the moment’ or in pop-culture as ‘Crime of Passion’. ^[7]

·        On March 11, 1960 and on November 24, 1961 both Maharashtra High court and Supreme court found and upheld the verdict that Commander Nanavati was guilty of murder. After around 3 years in prison Vijayalakshmi Pandit, then Governor of Maharashtra, pardoned Nanavati in 1964. ^[8][9][10]

 

To understand how these events may have affected Nanavati case, we need to investigate the timeline. 

• July 31, 1952 - Lt. Peterson shot Maurice Chenoweth
• September 23, 1952 – Jury provided verdict of ‘Not-Guilty’ to Lt. Peterson
• January 1958 – John D. Voelker (Robert Traver) published the novel
• April 27, 1959 - Commander Nanavati shot Prem Ahuja
• July 1, 1959 – The movie premiered in Detroit, Michigan
• September 23, 1959 – Jury provided the verdict ‘Not-Guilty’ to Commander Nanavati.

Commander Nanavati was in Military just like Lt. Peterson. All the events have happened before or during Nanavati case trial which elevates these concerns

• Was the case of Lt. Peterson discussed in Indian Military?
• Was Commander Nanavati aware of the actual case or the Novel?
• Were the Nanavati case proceedings got affected by the Case, Novel or even the Movie related to Lt. Peterson as it was released just after the start of Trial?

Its been over 60 years now of the Historical verdict but if an iota of the concerns is true then maybe it requires a fresh perspective.

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Fun Facts:

• On September 2019 AltBalaji and Zee5 released a series ‘The Verdict - State Vs Nanavati’. The title of the fifth episode was ‘Anatomy of Murder’. ^[11]
• The Nanavati shooting date on Wikipedia was wrongly mentioned as ‘1^st November’. During my research I have corrected it as 27^th April 1959 and provided the reference to the Supreme court verdict document. ^[12]
• The Nanavati case has often been tagged as the Case which stopped Jury Trial in India. But Jury were used up to 1973 (West Bengal). ^[13]

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Reference:

[1] https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/killing-michigan-bar-owner-1952-inspired-film-anatomy-murder-article-1.423705

[2] https://www.travelmarquette.com/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-murder/

[3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/994663.Anatomy_of_a_Murder

[4] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052561/?ref_=ttrel_rel_tt

[5] https://nmu.edu/voelker/

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_a_Murder

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._M._Nanavati_v._State_of_Maharashtra

[8] https://www.legalauthority.in/judgement/k-m-nanavati-vs-state-of-maharashtra-37520

[9] https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1596139/

[10] https://www.news18.com/news/india/nanavati-scandal-the-1959-case-that-shook-india-and-made-ram-jethmalanis-career-2301049.html

[11] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11041200/?ref_=ttep_ep5

[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._M._Nanavati_v._State_of_Maharashtra#Shooting

[13] https://www.academia.edu/36560172/After_Nanavati_The_Last_Jury_Trial_in_India

Being Human

The recent incident in Kerala resulting into the Death of a Pregnant Elephant made me recall an incident I witnessed few years ago.

I was as usual walking down the street completely indulge in ground breaking thoughts or as I felt they were. Suddenly few dogs charged running and barking from behind. I know I irk Humans but what did I do to them? I stood there waiting for them to initiate talk. But they ignored me and went ahead. Story of my Life.

So the center of attraction was not me but another dog walking ahead of me. It seems it was trespassing and local guardians decided to teach it some manners. They surrounded the dog and for few seconds were bossing around. That dog, like me, stood frozen and whimpered. But what happened next had left me part baffled and part in awe.

All of them suddenly stopped and gave space to the dog. They were still around but it felt that in place of threatening, they were actually guarding the dog and providing a safe passage. By that time I reached near and noticed that it was a female Pregnant Dog. They all slowly walked with her till she reaches the end of the street and then calmly came back once again ignoring me.

I remembered that just few days earlier (2014) there was an incident of rape and murder of a pregnant teenager in India.  

That, what happened recently and many more such events sometimes raises the concern that What is Humanity and Who are more Human?

Respect

It was rainy season in Kanyakumari. I was there with my family on a short Tamil Nadu trip.

My father was under the weather and preferred to take rest so I planned for a half day Heritage trip around nearby temples. I got into a local bus which was almost full. There were two seats available at the back. A local middle aged man was at the window looking outside. I picked the seat next to him. Few seconds later he turned and I realized my mistake. With the wind I caught a whiff of strong local liquor.  He was completely drunk. The bumpy ride, the smell and my misplaced civility of not changing seat was taking toll on me. But inside I wasn’t having civil thoughts about him.

Few minutes later, at next stop, a middle aged lady got inside. She came near to us and requested the man for the window seat. I took this as an opportunity and moved to a seat on my left. Unexpectedly the man, in place of sliding left, stood up and came near to me. He brought his face too close to my comfort and whispered in broken Hindi –“I know my mouth is smelling bad and I don’t want to sit near the lady so can you please move to your right and let me sit here”.

Respect!! That was the only word that resonated with me. It’s been 10 years of the incident and I still can’t forget it. Being Judgmental is the easiest thing we can do but having patience and maturity to provide an opportunity for others to explain themselves is the hardest trait to follow.

I remembered this as recently my seniors were forcing me to Respect few people because they are intelligent and high achievers. My humble reply is that Intelligence and Achievement warrant Appreciation but Respect is a different ball game. 

To earn Respect you just need to be Human Inside.

World...Together !!

Deriving Lakhan function

                                         courtesy: imageshack

Its acceptable to assume that Indians (if u aren't on Mars mission since 1989 or born recently) are well aware of Mr. Lakhan and his equally famous Equation - One Two ka Four...Four Two ka One.

I saw a post recently and decided to apply some mathe-magic to derive this function (if its not one of Bollywood's 'suspension-of-disbelief'). So, cross your fingers and scroll below...

To Derive: 
a) One and Two with a Mathematical operator should result into Four
b) Four and Two with Same Mathematical operator should result into One

Function:
a) f(x,y) = 4 when x=1, y=2
b) f(x,y) = 1 when x=4, y=2

say, f(x,y) = mx OP ny (also ny OP mx, in case of / and -) where { m,n ∈ R } and OP = { +, -, *, / }   [For brevity, we have selected the four-most operators. You are free to apply others and share the Result]

Thus,
a) 1m OP 2n = 4
b) 4m OP 2n = 1

CASE: OP = '+'
a) 1m + 2n = 4
b) 4m + 2n = 1

a) - b) : -3m = 3
           : m = -1
Thus, n = 2.5

f(x,y) = -1x + 2.5y                       Result 1

Wow, Strike in first try.............lets move on with other operators


CASE: OP = '-'
a) 1m - 2n = 4
b) 4m - 2n = 1

again, a) - b) : -3m = 3
                     : m = -1
Thus, n = -2.5

f(x,y) = -1x + 2.5y                       Result 1 verified (reversing the operands will result into same equation)


Lets see if we can get something simpler...

CASE: OP = '*'
a) 1m * 2n = 4
b) 4m * 2n = 1

a) / b) : 1/4 = 4    (clearly not possible till 10/26/2012)

CASE: OP = '/'
a) 1m / 2n = 4
b) 4m / 2n = 1

a) / b) : 1/4 = 4    (again not possible)

CASE: OP = '/' (reverse operands)
a) 2n / 1m = 4
b) 2n / 4m = 1

or, n = 2m
i.e. The equations are True for any n = 2m.

Say m = 1, then n= 2
f(x,y) =  2y / x                        Result 2


Lakhan Function

               f(x,y) = (5y-2x)/2 or 2y/x

So, with little bit of Maths and free time we have Proven the Genuinity of Mr. Lakhan. 
Hat's off to Anil and Subhash ghai...kudos Bollywood...

Being a ZERO!!

Any positive number appears A LOT to Zero. Why? Because, it is a Zero and whether it multiplies, adds or subtracts, it will remain the same. A ZERO.

The whole purpose of its existence is to walk BEHIND others. Even hundred of Zeros have NO Value unless they are Led by Some-ONE.

In this World, Zero simply outnumber others still, be POSITIVE. Just smartly put them in a line, stand ahead and bingo, you grow. But careful again and don't let them divide you, you know the outcome.