ROYAL ROBOCOPS

General Singh: - Yes, you have got the right information. Instead of sending inefficient and coward CRPF men, we will send robot cops, known as ‘ROBOCOPS’ to kill all the Maoists in the Indian jungles. Also the Indian Air Force will help these robocops. 4 fleets of planes will fly in the sky at a time. We will spot the Maoists territories by using our Global Satellite mapping system. Already, we have marked those corridors, through which the Maoists cross the state borders. Already, we have started paying huge amount of money to those tribal villagers. The tribal villagers are giving us good information in time. We have also tracked 5 special hide-outs of Koteshwar Rao. Three of his faithful commandos are working under us as spies. They will help the robocops to gun down Koteshwar Rao.

Arindam: - Robocops are the robot cops. But, how do they look like? How does it function?

General Singh: - To know that answer, you need to meet Scientist Sain, who has created these robocops.

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Scientist Sain: - Oh! You are Arindam, right. Hmm…I know you. Come in and have some coffee with me. So, you want to know about robocops in details?

Arindam: - Yes, Sir. Actually, we, the media people want to know that how much efficient are these robocops in comparison to CRPF jawans or Indian Army men.

Scientist Sain: - A Robocop can kill 100 humans within 10 minutes. Come with me in my technical room. I will show you. See, this is a Robocop. Its height is around 8 feet. It has four cameras attached in the head. The cameras are in the forehead, back head, right side and left side portions. All the weapons are in-built. This is the box kept near its chest, which contains the bullets. In the right portion of its waist, there are three types of daggers. It can use anyone of them. At its backside, there is small couch-type bag, where a boomerang, star-weapon and 50 poison needles are kept. This robot can sense any landmines within the range of 10 meters both horizontally and vertically.

Arindam: - But, where are the guns? These robocops need to fight with guns also.

Scientist Sain: - Look at the left thigh of this robot. Three guns are attached. One is AK-47, another one is Sniper Gun and other one is a special revolver, which has three openings. That means; with this revolver it can fire three bullets at one shot. Now, there are rollers attached to the feet of this robot. Anytime, they can speed up in the road, by using these rollers.

Arindam: - Are their body completely bullet-proof?

Scientist Sain: - of course, yes. You can fire at them as much as you can, nothing will happen to them. Rather, they will automatically counterattack you.

Arindam: - There are no grenades kept in its body?

Scientist Sain:- No, I have not kept that provision, because if I keep grenades attached to its body, then its enemies will try to fire bullets at those grenades only. And the explosion will create some technical faults in the Robocop body.

Arindam: - Will the body of these robots get destroyed completely, if it experiences a landmine blast?

Scientist Sain: - The body of this robot will only get destroyed completely if it experiences at least 6 landmine blasts, otherwise, it will keep on fighting like a deadly warrior.

Arindam: - How can you control or send signals to these robots?

Scientist Sain: - These are self-controlled robots. They will behave like humans only. If you don’t attack them, they will not counterattack you automatically. But, yes, if we order them to attack, then they will attack anyone within their range of 5 meters. Suppose, these robocops are patrolling in the Maoist infested jungles, now, a group of Maoists have attacked it. When the robocops get attacked, automatically, a red light will glow with a beep sound in our control room. Then we will give the instruction ‘Go for the kill’, in our terminal. After getting that message, all the robocops get activated to start counterattacking. Then they will not stop fighting unless their enemies get killed or we order them to retreat. Basically, the psychologies of these robots are controlled by customizing the artificial intelligence and neural networking programming every month.

Arindam: - Hmm…I have no doubts that these “ROYAL ROBOCOPS” will destroy the Maoists.

CHEERFUL CARIBBEAN CRICKET CRAZY CROWDS (CCCCC)

Mitchelle: - Oho! Your Indian Cricket Team has played very poor cricket in this ICC T-20 Cricket of 2010. I really feel pity about your team. I have never visited India, but I have heard that in India, Cricket is like a religion.

Samir: - Yeah, quite true. You must watch a cricket match at Eden Gardens of Kolkata; then only you will understand how much crazy are the Indians, towards the game of Cricket. But, I am also amazed to see the West Indian crowds in this stadium. All the people are happy and enjoying themselves like anything. Many little children are blowing pipes. It produces more sound than our Indian blowpipes. Also, I can see some hot chicks dancing on the dais with the sponsored sky blue dress of Reliance. There is pink color at their back. One thing I don’t understand that why they are shaking their hips so much rather than other parts of the body.

Mitchelle: - Oh! That is our traditional tribal dance and if you don’t shake your hips, you can’t seduce a gentleman towards you, while dancing. See there, the girl who is dancing at the middle of the dais, is Christine, my younger sister.

Samir: - You people are dark-skinned, but your minds are like crystal-clear water. So, simple, you people are! By watching all the Caribbean people in this stadium, I feel as if there are no tensions in you people’s lives.

Mitchelle: - There are tensions, but can you ignore those from your life. So, why waste time in thinking about those tensions and depressing yourself. Drink alcohols, beat the drums, bath in the lovely beaches, play volleyball, dance like a crazy pirate and blow the pipes with your full breathe. There is only one life. No one knows when he or she will die. So, no matter, how much time you spend in this world, just live it fully with lots of fun and entertainment.

Samir: - This is the first time in my life, that I have visited West Indies. I came here to watch the ICC T-20 2010 tournament only. I have never seen the national flag of West Indies. I am seeing it now. Wow, in the national flag, there are three stumps of Cricket, which means that Caribbean people are also crazy about Cricket.

Mitchelle: - Of course. There was one time when West Indies Team used to rule the World Cricket like Lions. This small island country has produced cricketers like Sir Gary Sobers, Clive Lloyd, Vivian Richards, Joel Garner, Malcolm Marshall, Gus Logie, Curtly Ambrose, Courtney Walsh, Keith Atherton, Richie Richardson, Carl Hooper, Brian Lara, Patterson, Kalicharan, Chanderpaul and many others. We have won World Cup cricket for 2 times.

Samir: - Well, You cannot also take away the credit from the Indian Cricket Team of 1983. The Indian Tigers, under the leadership of Kapil Dev Nikhanj defeated the Caribbean Lions by scoring only 183 runs on board. The Indian players like Mahinder Amarnath, Sunil Gavaskar, Roger Binny, Ravi Shastri, Syed Kirwani and others were in rocking form at that time to stop the Caribbean cricketers’ journey of victory. After 1987, Australia started ruling the World Cricket.

Mitchelle: - Indian Cricket Team is not so bad at all. I am a fan of both Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara. Both are legends to me, but of different kind. Brian Lara should also play IPL. Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard are firing in IPL, then why can’t my favorite Brian Lara do that?

Samir: - Accha, what are the different professions of these Caribbean crowds?

Mitchelle: - Our country is a poor country. Majority of Caribbean people are farmers and fishermen. Mother Nature has given us ample resources to survive well in this island country. Not only have that, the natural beauties of this country are superb. Tourism earns around 38% revenue of our country. People from all over the world come to visit our tourist spots. If you love beaches, forests, hills and fishing, then West Indies is our ideal place to enjoy. Hey, what is that sound in your laptop? Someone is pinging in your facebook chat.

Samir: - Ya, he is Arindam from India. He has spotted me inside the stadium, while viewing the live telecast of this Cricket match in Star Cricket TV Channel.

Mitchelle:- Tell your friend, Arindam, that you are enjoying the lovely ambience of “CHEERFUL CARIBBEAN CRICKET CRAZY CROWDS (CCCCC) “.

KING OF MOUTHSHUT.COM

Arindam: - Viewers! We have kept our promise. Today, in this episode of ‘WINE WITH ARINDAM’, we have invited the Mr. WWOW (Writing Wizard of Wonderland). Welcome to the show, Mr. WWOW. This is a special branded French Red Wine, specially ordered for you only. Just enjoy drinking it. Accha, Mr. Wwow, what is the secret behind your unique writing? I mean, how do you strategize, before writing on anything?

Mr. Wwow: - Strategy? Ha ha ha…very funny question! Well, before writing on anything, you need to ask the question that ‘why am I going to write about that topic? Am I trying to convey any message to the society or am I trying to raise a question, which will be answered by the readers only?’

Arindam: - why do you write dramas, rather writing it in a straightforward fashion?

Mr. Wwow: - If I tell you that you must never feed milk to a poisonous snake, then you will hardly respond to it. But, instead of doing that, if I create a character, which is exactly similar with your character and create a real-life look-alike drama, where you are bitten by that poisonous snake, then that message will directly impact in your heart. Then, you will understand that these things can happen to you also.

Arindam: - but, to do that, why you create too many characters, which remains inactive for most of the time?

Mr. Wwow: - When you go to eat some hi-fi dishes in a 5-star hotel, have you noticed the dishes very carefully? There are some ingredients in those dishes, which do not change the taste of that food, but still they are used, because it gives a good presentation of that dish. When you are ordering a chicken curry dish in a roadside restaurant, a boy will come and give you a bowl, full of chicken curry only, but that same curry will be served to you in an aristocratic manner by a chef in a 5-star hotel. In my stories or articles, the inactive characters are used to add momentum or twist to the story. These characters will enter in the story at anytime, and will steer the story to a different route, where the thriller starts.

Arindam: - Many characters in your story are totally out of imagination. But, those characters become realistic, during the later part of the story. Is there any motive behind it?

Mr. Wwow: - All characters are not imaginary. The blogs on travel and tours do not have any imaginary characters. The story and the characters are all real, only the names of few characters are changed due to some security purposes. But, if you look at the other stories on romance, thrillers and terrorism, some characters are totally imaginary and providing proper justification to those characters is a challenging task. The biggest problem I face is when I create too many new characters inside a story. In those cases, you need to think like a football coach, about where you should fit the right player at the right spot to make it a fantastic story. As a writer, when you create fictitious characters, you will feel as if you have given life to some robots and they are continuously interacting with you in the virtual world. That’s where the ball starts rolling on the floor. Imaginary characters become realistic at the end of the story, because I always start thinking by putting myself on the shoes of those characters. After all, I cannot deny that I think like a human being, not like an alien.

Arindam: - Why do you write in such a pace, where the readers don’t get the time to finish reading your articles at one shot? Is it a strategy to eye-wash your readers?

Mr. Wwow: - Writing is directly proportional to your moods, no matter, how much experienced a writer you are. Just by reading an article, an experienced reader can make out about your mood at that point, when you wrote that. When I am in a writing mood, I can even write 10 dangerous articles within 6 hours.

Arindam: - Hmm…You are still rocking in Mouthshut.com, and hope you will continue that. Are you trying to prove that you are the “KING OF MOUTHSHUT.COM”?

Mr. Wwow: - Not at all. I am rather happy and contented to rule like a King in my own creative world. Faisal’s Mouthshut.com and Google’s Blogger.com have just provided me that space of creativity, where I love to rule and rock.

Arindam: - Viewers, we will end our show, here. See you later, till then, Goodbye.

BLOGS VS BOOKS

Victor: - Nowadays, that hype is not there. Earlier, the Book Fair of Kolkata had its own charm.

Brown: - The people of City of Joy are fond of reading books.

Arindam: - Don’t have a wrong perception that all the people who visit the Kolkata Book Fair are fond of reading books. There are many visitors who just go there to have a nice adda session, to see some beautiful girls, to eat foods in different food stalls and to sing songs with a guitar. If you see a book stall, where the old people are standing in queue, then it has to be the stall of ‘Mousumi Prakashani’.

Meenu: - Actually, the location of Maidan was the rocking place to enjoy Book Fair, but, due to some complaints from the Military people and the environmentalists of Kolkata, the book fair has shifted its venue to the outer area of Salt Lake Stadium. Also, it is true that the visitors of Book Fair used to create more pollution, by not following the strict guidelines.

Victor: - in these years, people are not visiting the Kolkata Book Fair with too much enthusiasm. Their attitude is like, ‘Accha, samay pele jaabo ekhon, naa geleyo hoy.’ Earlier, that same person used to shout like a little boy, ‘arrey, mama, boi mela abar suru hocchey kaal theke…ekdum jomiye adda maarbo boss…kaalkei plan kar…sabai miley ekta reunion kori at the Kolkata Book Fair’.

Brown: - Hmm…so you want to say that for changing that location of Kolkata Book Fair, people have lost interest in books or are it that the readers of our young generation using electronic gadgets to read stories and articles, instead of buying books from the stalls.

Meenu: - Yeah, the latter one is definitely true. In these days, companies like Samsung, LG have launched mobile phones, where you can store any .PDF files and read it. Maybe, who knows, after the completion of 3G Auction, the laptops will become obsolete also.

Victor: - I don’t think that for these things, readers will stop buying the books. Readers still prefer books rather than E-books in .PDF files.

Arindam: - No boss, the concept is changing nowadays. In earlier days, a writer used to write in a piece of paper or diary with an ink pen. Today, a writer only needs a PC and MS-Office software installed in it, to write an article.

Victor: - how a reader can read that article, unless it is printed or published in any magazine or newspapers?

Brown: - Ha ha ha…Victor, Nowadays, you don’t need to run after those editors. You can publish your article in any blog site, if you are a registered member of that website. Many eminent writers are now writing their articles in MS-Word and publishing it in their personal websites in the form of blogs. They are even converting their entire article in MS-Word to a .PDF file and uploading it in a website, where they display free e-books of eminent writers. This is the age of globalization. You can access any e-book, by sitting at one corner of your house. To read a book, you don’t need to visit book fairs or stalls. You don’t have to spend too much of money for buying a particular book.

Meenu: - but, then, how will a writer earn his living? The concept of royalty on a book is dying out in this case.

Arindam: - Not at all. There are big companies, who have created the blog sites. Now, they hire eminent writers to write blogs. These blogger get good sum of money from the company. Now, the online readers will also have to get registered with that blog site, by paying some amount annually to get access to the blogs of those eminent writers. Ultimately, the bloggers and the readers are protecting the environment only. No papers and inks are wasted, so, there will be less demand for woods and water and hence cutting down of trees will decrease automatically and some amount of water can be saved. There are also no tension that the books will get torn or burnt due to some accidents or natural hazards, because all the writings are now saved electronically in several databases with proper authentication and backup. Moreover, one day will come, when school students don’t need to carry their heavy bags loaded with books. They will just sit in the classroom in front of a laptop and will read the e-books and the teacher will teach them. Therefore, in the war of ‘BLOGS VS BOOKS’, the Blogs are the winners and here to stay in India.