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SRIDEVI in MR. INDIA (1987)

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the calendar folds today.

he's been a inspiration with his comic timing/intense roles, humbleness.

for me his favourite ones were :

- Calendar in Mother India

- Road

- Thar

- Gharwali Baharwali

- Swarg

- Scam 1992

- Roop ko Raani Choro ka Raja (director)

- Mr. & Mrs. Khiladi

- Hamara Dil apke pass hai

- Hadd Kar di aapne

- Kyuki Mai Jhut nahi bolta

- Brick Lane

- Double Dhamaal

- Bhopal : A Prayer for Rain

- Udta Punjab

- Tere Naam (director)

no one can fill this void.

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RamNiwas Malik getting his beefy body all cleaned up. Anyone wanna help him get his back?

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Boney Kapoor And Khushi Kapoor Pay Tribute To Sridevi By Inaugurating Chowk In Her Honor | People News

In a heartfelt tribute to the late legendary actress Sridevi, Boney Kapoor and his daughter Khushi Kapoor inaugurated a Chowk dedicated to her in Mumbai.  In a video shared on Instagram, Boney Kapoor and his daughter Khushi Kapoor are seen unveiling the Sridevi Kapoor Chowk in Mumbai. Boney lifts a curtain tied to a rope, revealing a photo frame of his late wife, the iconic actress Sridevi, with…

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The Modern Alchemist

By Arjuwan Lakkdawala

Ink in the Internet

It is said that the arrow of time always travels in one direction, time and the events that unfold in it are linear. The First Law of Thermodynamics states that the energy in the whole observable universe is the same, except it changes its state, like when you burn firewood and it turns to smoke. The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that Entropy increases and is irreversible, like when you break an egg, and that systems always go from orderly to disorderly.

And then there is the matter of reaching equilibrium, like when you pour milk into a cup of tea, the milk will flow through it till it is evenly spread.

When scientists study any phenomena, the wisest know that the main objective should be to find principles and laws about how a certain entity, or system functions, this is very difficult, and could be considered the greatest secrets of the world as we know it.

Why the fundamental laws are so elusive and mysterious we don't know, but it is clear that whenever scientists were able to establish (even if to a certain percentage) a law or principle, it was a catalyst for inventions, technology, and scientific developments.

The history of scientific studies dates way back to a branch of the science of the time called 'Alchemy" originating from the Arabic 'Al Kimia." In present day Arabic the word means 'Chemistry.'

Historical records state that Alchemy very likely started in Egypt and Arabia, and then the knowledge was passed down to Rome and ancient Greece, and then to the west. However, whatever were the scientific endeavours of the original Alchemists, it became generally indistinguishable from the other non-scientific ideas and theories that are part of Alchemy.

Western medieval Alchemists had three priorities; Find the Philosopher's Stone - which they believed has supernatural powers, find the Elixir of life and youth - possibly using the stone, transform common metals into silver and gold.

While these are fantastical aspirations, somehow the experiments that the ancient Alchemists did with the elements, was the start of sciences like pharmacology, metallurgy, and chemistry.

I do think there is a linear learning connection throughout the past centuries, and into the future, perhaps a pattern of the methods of discoveries, or fragments of information that will fit together like pieces of a puzzle.

In this century scientists and thinkers are the Modern Alchemists, and chemistry is the real scientific Alchemy.

But do we still try to attain things that seem on the boundaries of the supernatural - while I was going through the collection of H.G. Wells books, I read The Invisible Man, a masterpiece like his previous books that I have read.

(Spoiler Alert)

In the science fiction story he explains invisibility through chemistry, and I have seen various movies with similar ideas, the most memorable to me is the beloved Walt Disney classic: 'Now You See Him, Now You Don't,' and the Hindi classic: Mr. India.

In the first it is invisibility through chemistry, and in the second it's invisibility through the bending of light.

The two movies sum up the whole business of hypothetical invisibility by light and chemistry.

My interest sparked by Wells and the movies, I found invisibility really interesting to explore scientifically and I did a web search.

A 2022 Big Think article came up in the search, titled: 'Invisibility Cloaks Are Not Just Possible, But Are Becoming Reality'

Feels like the quest for the Philosopher's Stone, or the Elixir of Life (Modern Alchemists at work)

Perhaps this is a pattern of human curiosity that won't stop even at what appears (or literally doesn't appear) impossible.

The writer mentions science fiction invisibility in Star Trek, and goes on to explain a scientific project involving cutting edge technology, materials, and lenses.

The aim of the project is to combine "Metalenses with Metamaterials"

Metamaterial will be engineered using nanotechnology to bend light, while the Metalense will pace the wavelenght speed of each colour of light (invisible in white light) to appear again as white light after passing over the Metamaterial.

To give a more precise description:

The reason is that each colour of light has its own speed, and this is why a prism is shaped to split white invisible light into a rainbow because they don't travel through the prism at the same speed. The Metalense will balance the speed to equilibrium and so it will appear as white light again. 

When travelling in a vacuum the different wavelengths of light can travel at the same speed but not when going through a medium.

We are in 2024 so I'm guessing the "invisibility cloak" which I think will be like the one in Harry Potter, is still in the making, pretty much like Alchemists trying to turn common metals into gold.

When it comes to nature camouflage is the closest thing to invisibility so far discovered.

The relation of colours, wavelengths of light, and nano structures will require volumes of books, but I have a few fascinating brief examples. The colour blue that we see is an illusion caused by nano structures, and most of the time in nature when you see blue it is iridescence, and not a pigment, it generally doesn't exist as a pigment like the other colours.

Bats hunt moths with radar like sound waves that detect them, so to counter this there are moths with hairy coating which deflect the sound waves - making it invisible to the bat.

In technology stealth planes are designed to deflect radar detection like moths, so they are invisible to radars.

However, I found more astonishing than all this was the creation of light by chemistry; such as bioluminescence and chemiluminescence. The first happens in living things, and the latter in non-living.

Light of this type is 'cold light' (very low heat.)

But how is it used for camouflage - well here comes the Hatchet Fish, it has organs that create light and point downwards, so that its silhouette against the surface of the ocean is camouflaged (in this case called counterillumination) as sunlight, and predators swimming below cannot distinguish it. Organs like these are called 'photopores.'

Another sea creature the Brittle Star uses the bioluminescence it can make in a rather ingenious type of camouflage or a decoy, that is when it is threatened by a predator it detatches a glowing arm (which it can regrow) and leaves the predator following the arm while it sneaks away.

The sea cucumber detaches its luminescencent parts on other fish, so the predator follows the glowing fish instead of it.

Bioluminescence is produced by the compound luciferin; with a chemical reaction either with the enzyme luciferase or the chemical photoprotien.

An example of chemiluminescence is the element phosphorous, officially discovered by the German alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669, when he was trying to create the Philosopher's Stone, he named the element from the Greek meaning "bearer of light" because it glowed. White phosphorous is highly flammable and toxic.

Glow-in-the-dark toys and products have phosphor. How it glows is like this: when light is shone on phosphor, its electrons get excited and are dislodged from their 'ground state' to 'intermediate state' and when they return to the ground state the energy of this is emitted in the form of the glow, it is more precisely termed 'electroluminescence.'

Arjuwan Lakkdawala is an author and independent science researcher.

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Email: arjuwan.writer@gmail.com

Copyright ©️ Arjuwan Lakkdawala 2024

Sources:

Flights of Fancy by Richard Dawkins

Big think - invisibility cloaks are not just possible, but are becoming reality, ethan siegel

Royal society of chemistry - what is alchemy

NIH - National institute of general medical sciences, biomedical beat blog, phosphorous: glowing, flammable, and essential to our cells, abbey bigler-coyne

Britannica - philosopher's stone, written and fact-checked by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Britannica - alchemy, pseudoscience, robert p. multhauf, robert andrew gilbert,

Fact-checked by the editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Ocean conservancy - here comes the hatchet fish, billy unotti, former communications assistant

National geographic, bioluminescence

Science direct - chemiluminescence, and overview,

Science world, chemical light reactions

Secondary article, the science behind glow-in-the-dark toys

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Sridevi's Charlie Chaplin avatar in Mr India

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Woman alleges foul play in Satish Kaushik death over Rs 15 crore dispute, Delhi police rule out unnatural death - Times of India

ETimes brought you an Exclusive interview with the late Satish Kaushik’s manager Santosh Rai wherein the man who had been with the ‘Mr India’ actor for 34 years revealed intimate, heartbreaking details about his last moments. Santosh confirmed that Kaushik suffered from breathlessness and then passed away in the early hours of March 9. But news reports have emerged online which offer a shocking…

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My design for female India

I just gave up on the background

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NO BECAUSE I NEED TO KNOW. WHAT HAPPENED IN INDIA ????

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i love!!! pavitr!!!! best part about him is that the astv creators just said he's indian. he could be any type of indian and you wouldn't be wrong. maybe he's malayali. maybe he's from mizo. maybe he's from punjab. maybe he's tamilian. maybe he's from sikkim. you decide!!!!

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I am sitting by the gate in shock, I have never experienced such chaos at an airport in my life. The word queue lost its meaning entirely. It was survival of the fittest. I was no match for the pack of Indians with luggage trolleys who brashly cut the whole entire line at check-in, but I was steeling myself to fight the old French people behind me if they tried the same thing. Who knew where the trays were coming from at security but clearly the only way to obtain them was to steal them from someone else and fight for a gap in the mass of humanity by the luggage scanner, whose conveyor belt and the metal-detector wanding station were at opposite ends of the room, so one just sort of surrendered one's bags to fate and oneself to the thorough prodding.

It makes me almost miss the security check in Delhi, which, while being the slowest queue I've ever experienced in my life, at least had a queue to experience.

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another easy adventure for spider-man! :D

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Red Velvet Cape, 1893-1895, Indian.

By Mrs. Ball.

Victoria and Albert Museum.

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not sorry bc im drinking so of course im gonna talk about labor and culture issues. anyway i dont wanna say blue collar workers are more real bc thats an unfair generalization but my coworkers at the factory would always offer rides home and just be generally upfront with me and i never felt blindsided by anything. meanwhile at my current job everyone talks in fucking riddles and hides disdain through sarcasm and i have to wait until my quarterly meetings with my manger to figure out if im completely fucked or not.