Unreliable but faster connection: Netconnect+

To all my friends who ask me about Reliance Netconnect+ Broadband service.

I have been using it since its inception.

The speed is very good,on FTP you can get up to 2Mbps. Normal download is 600-700kbps which is fairly acceptable to me when considering it is a wireless modem.

However,it is an unreliable connection...sometimes you will loose signal strength completely or even if signal is full you will stop receiving data stream or it will suddenly change to 1X from HSD for no apparent reasons.

If you are planning to have some important activity where you need to be connected continuously,like stock trading, please watch out- you may not be able to close your deal and may either loose or miss out on an opportunity in trading.

Earlier I was using a ZTE card and hence had specified to supply the other card so that I could use the 1X card also (as I wanted to take a city specific 10GB plan). However,the representative dropped in my house when I was outstation and dumped ZTE Netconnect+. Now if I wish to use old card I have to uninstall the ZTE Netconnect+.

When I changed my plan from Freedom to 10GB, I had asked to commence the new plan from the next billing cycle and I was assured that. However, later I found that it was activated much earlier.I felt cheated as I could not take advantage of higher volume plan earlier and yet I was charged for it.I was told that an email to that effect was sent by them but could not locate on my Gmail account. Obviously that was a white lie. But that is their (Reliance) reputation and you have to live with it.

This service is a big leap over 1X service and even with some,even major, problem like unreliable connection, one would like to go for it if you think it as a necessary evil.

Now this is addendum:
At a request of one of the reader I decided to test the Netconnect+ in a running car albeit in a crude manner.
On a relatively small stretch between Mulund East to Kaparbawdi / Majiwade,Thane on Eastern Express Highway-NH4 / LBS Marg between 6.45 a.m. and 7.15 a.m. the signal strength remained remarkedly same....full scale over the stretch. None of my friends was ready with mic/camera then on Skype. So I logged on YouTube and videoa played flawlessly. Wanted to download a large file and see graph of download speed, but that is for later. Testing during the peak business hours and travelling through the known blind spots remains to be seen.
It appears that the product is performing reasonably well (unlike in the past with 1X product.. Reliance Data card).

5th sentence on page 56

One of my contact on Facebook, Chuck Zdrojowy, in his post said:

" Grab the book nearest you. Right now. *Turn to page 56. *Find the fifth sentence on that page. *Post the sentence as YOUR STATUS. *POST these instructions as a comment to your status. *Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, or the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST book."

It was around 7 O' clock and I just thought to play on this. I reached for the book case. There was this " Notes To Myself" by Hugh Prather. I knew the book pages were not numbered. Still uncertain, not believing in myself...catching up with 50s...I opened it and found it to be unnumbered.

I turned to the next book which was " How Starbucks Saved My...." byMichael Gill. The book was numbered but the problem was this it had few quotations on the page 56. Incidentally that was a beginning of the new chapter and have these quotes before the text of the chapter starts. Had a dillemma as to where to start from and thus count the 5th sentence.

I turned to the third book, "Simple Abundance" by Sara Ban Breathnach. I started turning the pages...Oh! The pages of this book are also unnumbered.

So I stopped for a while. I said, "let's see what is in the fate." Take case of each book...

1. Notes To Myself - " I am not interested so much in what I do with my hands or words as what I do with my heart." is the 5th sentence on page 56th from the start of the first 'Note'.

Of course the result would be different if you take the page immediately after the inside cover jacket as the first page for our purpose.

2. " The train from Bronxville to Grand Central took at least thirty minutes." is the 'sentence' from ...'Starbucks..'

3. Simple Abundance was infact physically closest to me when I was on PC....see the position (yet to add the pics taken by Nokia 5800).

" You move into a completely empty house and start over from scratch-money is not a consideration." is the 'sentence' from the first page of the Diary (1st January): Simple Abundance is "A DAYBOOK Of Comfort & Joy".

It was an interesting excercise as I wait for vehicle pick which is scheduled at 08.30 local time.

False update on Twitter from 1kfollowers.com

Has anybody witnessed a false post/update on their Twitter account from :

www.1kfollowers.net ?

I am getting an hourly update on my Twitter account as an update from me which is not posted by me.

vu2cbuCHECK out this site, im a member of it, It gets you more followers: http://1kfollowers.net

Something seems to be fishy...or may be something in fineprint which we do not read.

Be careful of http://1kfollowers if you wish to be a member of it.

See how BSE sensex is recovering....

ZX Spectrum software

I am displaying a collection of software for Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128 that I wish to give away.

The 128 was my second computer, after Commodore 64.

A friend who had used Spectrum 48 earlier and was interested to have 128 as a collection, took this computer (but didn't take the tapes).

I know that these tapes may not serve any purpose other than a simple nostalgia to anyone who wish to dwelve in to the past.

We, at home, are on a mission to make our home clutter-free and have got a permission from my "home ministry" to keep them for a week in which I need to find a donee. Else it would find a place in a dust-bin.

Anyone interested?

Thanking automan

My daily travel rituals involves :

1. going to a nearby railway station,Mulund, by an autorikshaw or walk

2. local train up to Ghatkopar station

3. take bus or autorick up to my Marol office.

Very often I go by auto and charges as per its meter varies from Rs. 30 to Rs.45 depending on how fast the tampered fare meter of that auto is set. It there is heavy traffic or jam it can easily go up to Rs.50-55. Once I have even paid Rs.75 fo the same distance. That's okay.

I had reasons to believe that fair charges are around Rs.30 to Rs.35.

It happened this that one day a meter of an auto clocked only Rs.28. I was concerned for the the poor driver; why should he suffer on his legimate right of earning. I gave him Rs. 30 and told him to check his meter saying that his meter is running slow unlike all other autos. He humbly replied that his meter was in fact correctly set and tested as per RTO norms. I couldn't believe this. He said that he was not bothered if his tradesmen are earning more by incorrectly setting their meters. He was contended person and could sleep well.

I was taken aback by this revealation. I gave back Rs.2 that he was trying to return me as a tip which he accepted saying," that's your (my) khushi (pleasure)".

Portable Social Networks: Take Your Friends with You

Many times you get bogged down when you have to type in data again and again as you register at various sites, mainly the social networks. It happens that your dear friend has sent yoy info about new networking site dedictaed to a particular interest, may be travel related, and you feel like registering there, But alas !... you stop in the middle as you know the pain of entering the same data once more. Agreed, you have been done it and doing it so many time Not again ! .. you may think now; enough is enough ! Is it happenning in this modern world...that you need to enter the same data again and again as you move across different sites? Why can't somebody remember that ?

If you are with me let's go and see the latest development here :

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/social-networks-take-friends

I must mention here that I got this link from one of my newer friend Kris Rackham on Ecademy.

Hope you will enjoy it too!

Dr. Shivaramakrishna : Lifestyle Management

Rtn. Dr. Shivaramakrishana. RC Chembur was the guest speaker at our weekly Rotary meeting dated 25^th July,2008. Dr. Shiva, as he is called afectionately, gave an excellent speech on LIFESTYLE MANAGEMENT.

We present few salient points from his speech.

Today relatively younger persons are succumbing to certain diseases that were hereto were earlier known to have affected aged people only.

Blood pressure, diabetes and obesity are commonly know diseases or disorders that are related to one's lifestyle ….much attributed to present lifestyle where physical activity is reduced due to modern day comforts on one hand and a changing eating habit on the other hand. Rich, processed food has also brought in increasing level of stress. It should be remembered that stress is our response, physical or mental to a physical, mental, or emotional factor that causes bodily or mental tension. Again, in today's world stress is more due to more and more emphasis on performance.

Body is continuously aging and no one can stop that, but we can regress progression of aging by lifestyle management.

Dr. Shiva gave the following formula, which he called D A R E S :

D	Diet	Proper Diet-Indian Thali is considered to be the best balanced diet offering all the minerals & vitamins that are required by our body, whereas fast food or junk food that is more popular among younger generation may rob your body of the requisite constituents for your body.
A	Activity	Implies physical activity which is very much neglected in today's fast paced, facilities laden life. He stressed on brisk walk, jogging or any other cardiovascular exercise on regular basis.
R	Relaxation	Stress today is mainly mental stress which remains constantly. Stress is an ability to perceive implied threat. Therefore it is needed to keep proper balance between Work & Life. Relaxation in any form that soothes your senses, relieves or reduces your tension or stress is very much important. Light music, hobbies that divert your mind is recommended. Involvement in volunteering like in Rotary work also gives much needed fillip to your mind.
E	Empathy	Empathy as different from sympathy is caring for others by putting yourself in others shoes. Compassion or Empathy takes you to think beyond "I" or "me". It is the ability to experience the world from another perspective, often the perspective of another person. Lack of empathy leads to poor communication and a failing to understand others which may anger you.That's bad for your health. While we cannot control other's thoughts, feelings or behaviors, we most certainly can increase our empathy skills : listening, self-awareness and acceptance.
S	Spirituality	Being spiritual mean remaining positive, optimistic, supporting worthy causes, remaining cheerful. In fact Various practices associated with the path of spirituality—meditation, breathing exercises, physical exercises (yogakriyas/yoga practices), and practice of positive thinking make one physically and mentally better equipped to manage stress.

Errorology

Officers and Board

Rtn. Sudhir Hanmante President 2007-08

 
 

Position	Name
Secretary	Prakash Mane
Vice President	Avinash Patil
Director and Chairman Membership President Elect 2009-2010	Vinay Kulkarni
Director and Chairman Public Relations	Pradyumna Mokashi
Director and Chairman Club Administration	Avinash Patil
Director and Chairman Service Projects - Medical	Milind Sawant
Director and Chairman Service Projects - Non Medical	Abhishek Pradhan
Director and Chairman Service Projects - Youth & Partners	Nilesh Choudhari
Director and Chairman Rotary Foundation	Satish Khadake
Director and Chairman Polio Plus	Sunil Bhagat
Director and Chairman Thrust Area	Prashant Koli

Apologies to Mr. Lawrence

Prelude:

(on Ecademy )

22-Apr-08 6:49pm
Hi ,

Visited your excellent profile.

I'd like to add you to my network on Ecademy.

-Prashant

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22-04-2008

So Prashant .... why do you want to add me to your network .... also what is so great about my profile?Laurence

PS - Please at least put my name in to show you actually read my profile.

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Hi Laurence,

Sorry for a delayed response.

My sincere apologies.

Now few issues:

1. Yes, it was a mistake on my part that I didn't put your name. I accept that and I can understand your feelings over it. Sorry...

2. Even without reading your profile I could have put your name and I guess you would have believed it.

3. What is so great about your profile: Mr. Laurence, there are few things in my life that do not form part of my profile on any networking site. I was a student of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering in a prestigious institution.I dropped out of the program, but liking for the subject and the fact that I had given up engineering degree program was haunting me. (BTW, Indians attach a lot of importance to education and an engg. degree then, some 25 years back, was looked upon as passport to the road of success & riches).In a wilderness that followed, took me to obtain a Ham (Amateur) Radio licence; thought of becoming a Marine Radio Officer; tried doing many courses.

In the process I obtained many degrees but could not forget my passion for engineering,technology in general and communication and telecommunication in particular.My present job has got nothing to do with communication/telecommunication technology but the subject has remained at the core of my heart.I became a gadget freak...became an audiophile, owned dedicated audio processors,owned all the formats of audio & video cassettes player/recorders.I realised that although I couldn't do engineering, definitely I can be an end user and simply use fruits of the the technologies that I earlier fancied working on. Do you know that my house has three occupants,2 internet users but 3 computers ( a desktop & 2 laptops- all for personal & not business use), 5 internet connections ( 3 broadband,1 datacard,1 usb data modem ) that has unlimited download? My funda is straight, come what may be at least one internet connection should be working. (Again, to appreciate that one has go through a society that faces frequent power cuts & interuption in telco services).

In this light when I saw you are connected with telephony, the internet,fundraising (again, I am a Rotarian), I thought you have an interesting profile.I know that I may not subscribe to your telephony or other telecom services; I may not be of any help in your fundraising activities ( I donate to Roatary International,.my local Rotary club and few organisations dealing with old-age,cancer,children, etc.), even then I may like a personality that is behind such profile.

4. I received a lot of messages from fellow networkers. My current status was also showing that " I started answering mails from my Inbox...." . I could read yours today only and after reading your message I thought this needs to be addressed on a priority basis.

5. I would like to thank you for providing me this opportunity to write on something that I have avoided so far and now should be a part of my blog and may be my profile.

6. I have tried to explain you what I felt when I saw your profile.

I am fascinated more by people, of diverse culture,their viewpoints,etc. As correctly pointed out by one of the Ecademists, most of the profiles are blatant sales pitch. But not always.And there are some others - watchers - who have nothing on offer to sell ! They are probably intrigued by the diversity (in terms of skills,attitudes and perceptions) of people in the world and like to see people with interesting profiles.

Thanks for the patience.

Best regards,

Prashant Koli

Physical Excercise

My physician has advised me to take a brisk walk and not do weight training exercises due to some of my health related problems. She added that I take a walk during evening also besides the morning walk.

Earlier I was not a regular walker. But since 22nd April, 2008, I am very much regular, as far as my walking exercise is concerned. I ensure that I have atleast 1, 5 to 6 km walk. So, on most of the days I walk briskly for 10 to 12 km.

It has really helped me in weight reduction and other situations.

On 21st april 2008, my physician's weighing machine was winking at me with 90 kg and today morning weighing machine at my home was smiling with cool 81 kg.

I know that my target should be 72-73 kg, given my height, 171 cm (and a broad frame), but why not celebrate this small victory!

The Dream

A man lay on his bed at the end of his life waiting to die.
His dream came to pay his last respects and bid farewell to the man who had never used it.
As it entered the room the man looked down in shame.
"Why did you not realise me?" the dream asked.
"Because I was afraid," the man said.
"Afraid of what," said the dream.
"I was afraid I would fail."
"But haven't you failed by not attempting to use me?".
"Yes I did, but I always thought there would be tomorrow."
"You Fool!" said the dream" Did it never occur to you that there was only ever today?
The moment that you are in right now?
Do you think that now that death is here that you can put it off until tomorrow?".
"No". Said the man, a tear gently rolling down his cheek.
The dream was softer now, because it knew that there were two types of pain, the pain of discipline and the pain of regret, and while discipline weighs ounces, regret weighs pounds.

Then the dream leant forward to gently wipe away the tear and said, " You need only have taken the first step and I would have taken one to meet you, for the only thing that ever separated us was the belief in your mind that you couldn't have me".Then they said goodbye and they both died.

Mark Baker 2000
(Taken from profile of my fellow Ecademist,Mark Baker)

Three things of every kind

Three things of life that once gone, never come back:
Time, Words & Opportunity .

Three things of life that must not be lost:
Peace, Hope & Honesty.

Three things of life that are most valuable:
Love, Self-confidence & Friends.

Three things of life that are never sure:
Dreams, Success & Fortune.

Three things that make a man:
Hard Work, Sincerity & Commitment.

Three things of life that destroy a man:
Wine, Pride & Anger.

(From profile of a fellow Ecademist, Parag Shah)

Transcend

Why not, I say,

Stop for a moment,

ToLook beyond the horizon,

Think outside the box, and

Act beyond the present.

I

I

I

Travel through the Netherlands,

Through the Europe, and

Why limit yourself,

Bound not thyself,

Transcend all the boundaries,

To reach the ocean of humanity

....all inspired by your lovely words and your beautiful art form...
....best of luck...

( a reply to Jet Rotmans over Ecademy)

First Goa Trip...SBI (1981-82)

First Goa Trip...SBI (1981-82)

I quite vividly remember my first Goa trip. My colleagues, peer group from State Bank of India decided to go to Goa. We thought it would be a good idea to travel by rail and bus.

We had reached Goa and were put up at Calangute Beach, at Hotel Avazado, our bank's official guest house. We were allotted a room and one of us anxiously asked the care-taker of the hotel if a girl from our branch, who had married few days ago and was to go to Goa, was still there. We were promptly told that she had left a day ago and had stayed in the room next to one which was allotted to us.

That was it! We had a lot of fun discussing what might have happened in the next room, how they would have mate for the first time, how he might have begged and how she might have refused, what were the sounds heard by the four walls of the room. The whole experience was a hilarious and fun.

I also remember that we had traveled up to Miraj, near Kolhapur, from V.T. and from there we took a meter-gauge train. I remember meter-gauge train as a somewhat lean replica of a broad-gauge train which was different than a narrow-gauge train that we take to Matheran.

At Londha, we entered in to Karnataka and thereafter at some place in to Goa and finally got down at Madgaon in the late afternoon. We had a lunch at Madgaon in a small hotel where the food tasted somewhat like a malwani/gomantak style. But there was a handful of serving of some kind of a small deep-fried fish served as a chuttney. This was not seen by us in Mumbai then. Quite a satisfactory experience!

We took up a bus to Panjim. Bus operators would not leave the buses unless they are fully packed with no space for an ant to enter! But the fares were very reasonable...that's what we always wanted then.

I don't remember much about Panaji on that evening when we came from Madgaon. What I remember now is a jetty at Panaji where Mumbai-Goa ships would dock, buildings that were distinctly different from what we used to see in Mumbai and a vegetarian dinner that we took at one of Kamat's restaurant. Kamat restaurants are almost same everywhere (even today). And therafter we proceeded to Calangute.

One day we travelled to South Goa to see churches and on the next day to north Goa. I do not remember much, from this trip, what we saw there except that Goan churches were fantastic and temples were more serene (as there was less of crowd we used to see in Mumbai/Shirdi and other places even then...that’s 25 years ago).

We drank lot of beer on the Goa trip as the same was available for a dirt. I really didn't like the Goan or Konkani food....I must correct myself, the one with heavy Portuguese stamp...and not the Goan curries, which we savored a lot.... that we ordered, probably a pomfret..a boiled and garnished with finely chopped vegetables and some sauces. We in fact felt like omitting...it was smelling horrible, thought it was not properly cooked. So we ate a lot of cheese (eating food like cheese and butter wasn't a health problem then for many of us, I believe).

Two of our vegetarian friends, however, would go hysterical as we were merrying drinking beer and feasting on other non-veg dishes. So they would order any weird snacks...and as it happened on many occasion that the seemingly veg food would smell like a non-veg dish in Goa. One had ordered a Cadbury chocolate when we were drinking and when asked why he was ordering it, he replied that since he was contributing equal money and was not drinking beer or eating non-veg he felt like helping himself. We said," God, save your child!". Yes, we also recognised his right to enjoy every penny that he shared in the contribution.

I also remember that we were discussing miniaturization of many products. a friend citing his neighbor who was in AT & T in the USA, said that old rotary, circular dial phone had given a way to new push-button type phone and the bulky 'Black-Box' was on the way out giving a way to slicker push-button phones. He further claimed that there was a saturation of the technology and no further reduction in size or miniaturization in case of phone was possible. After his entire neighbor was there in the dreamland called the US of America and how can we not believe him. We also affirmed his stories. And we now what has happened and from our experience we now don't like to say in any concrete manner where we may head as far as the technology is concerned.

One of my maternal uncles was a habitual drinker. I had purchased 4 bottles of liquor for him. I remember how much my older mama was upset when he came to knew that I had brought liquor for his younger sibling. Finally I had to surrender those bottles and what happened to them I have never realized. My younger uncle did not, however, forgot to thanks me saying that he was happy that somebody cared for him.

Reviews without reading a books

Reviews or Presentations without reading books

Recently at a local Rotary Club meeting there was a speech and presentation on "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps". I remembered that there was a book by the same name, and Google tells me that, it was written by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease. I learnt that the book describes how men and women think, perceive and behave differently. I must say that the small reviews at on Amazon.com were interesting enough to entice interest in the subject.


The speaker at the Rotary Club was using a PowerPoint presentation. A the outset, we were told, by the speaker, that the presentation that he was using was not his own but was a copyright of somebody else....and he showed at the part of some remarks, on the slide. We were further told that that somebody had also used the presentation of some other person. The presentation contained only text of salient features of finding of Pease duo and the same is widely and freely available on the internet.

I was amazed why was it called a copyright then? What was under copyright? Was it the text? Or was the process of first copying of the text on to the slide of PPT? Or the second copy that the speaker brought along was a work of copyright...that is to say that no further copying is allowed?

I seemed to get more confused. Why the speaker did insist that it was a copyright?

Well, the answer seems to be that I may not recognize my responsibility in protecting the intellectual property of others but I would insist that others need to follow copyright of my material, which itself has been obtained by infringement, stealing.

I do not intend to review the presentation. However, I asked the speaker if he had read the original book and he said that he hadn't. It was good that almost nobody, from the audience present there, had read the book; nobody asked him probing questions. The questions asked were sort of " how can you say this....?" and to which the presenter would reply, 'those are not my views but are of that author...?"

One of the Rotarian opined that these days nobody has a time in the world to read books however interested one may be in reading and hence it was okay to read review or somebody present the review even if the reviewer might present his review from the another review or from reading the executive summaries that are available on the internet. And thus the speaker was helping the club and its members.

And yes, he was correct. The whole internet generation is doing that. One of my friends sent me a request to view his picture album on Great Wall of China. Quite enthralled I opened it only to find a link taking me to a site where there was a huge collection of images and photographs from sites including Google Images, Flickr and Picasa. Not long ago I heard one such talk / presentation on 'Conquering the Everest"...just 2 days before Sir Hillary died. The presenter had gathered all important photos and information from the internet but presented it effectively.

Bottom-line is : present effectively even if you go to the extreme of calling for a copyright of your work when you have unashamedly not recognized other’s copyright.

Ang mardan : Maalishwalas of chowpatty

maalishwalas or masseurs of Mumbai

Long before 'massage' as a form of treatment became popular due to growth of Health centers in Mumbai, there were two types of massagers : massage offered by bhaiyyas on the streets of Mumbai or Chowpatty and then there were ( and they are still there) those Massage Centers , where massage was for namesake only but they would offer many value added services. The second type of massage centers still make their presence felt in the classified section of all major & minor newspapers claiming to offer ‘fresh stock’ and we know that the girls there are train in offering services more than just a plain massage.

My mind goes back to those male masseurs who used to wander around the streets and by lanes of Mumbai-mostly in South Mumbai during evening/night. They would offer head massage or body massage. In head massage they would put strong smeling oil and would massage your head vigourously. I quite vividly remember those days when we would get a head massage occasionally, down below our chawls. He would do a ‘chop’ on your head with his fists, ‘pull’ our ears to make a ‘click’ sound, ‘break’ our neck and then do knuckles, and finally ‘beating’ our back.

This type of massage, I believe, is quite different from the massage that you get in modern Health clubs, where it is a sort of soothing massage with an aim to relax muscles (that’s what people say) whereas the massage that I have been talking about is a hard massage given by hard-strokes and you would derive pleasure out of pain.

There were masseurs operating at Chowpatty offering the same hard massage but they must have been different. Much later, with the advent of the internet, we have learnt more about these people. But we would hear, with interest, from the older boys, that these male masseurs at Chowpatty would offer you to massage private parts also. And we were thrilled, horrified and ashamed, all together.

Morning Glory

Isn’t that a lovely scene?
That of a landscape? A picture ? Or that of weather?
That can’t be behold in,
The camera of eyes that is aging.

The foggy sky across the skyscrapers,
Dews making merry on the tree branches,
Yellow flowers piggybacking on green leaves.

A narrow lane sparse with bypassers,
Birds flying out of their nests from trees,
Chirping of birds mixed with,
Rumbles of buses plying across.

And lo! The sun also wants to be part of this ,
Adding his splash with his ambassadors.

And me, sitting across the window sill,
Confronting with nature,
In as yet slow pace of life,
Knowing fully well that it won’t last for long.

SRK... a fading hero ?

They say that Indian youths dream about SRK and Dipps...

I have a latest update...

...as a thing forthcoming...

Whenever my 13 year young daughter sees SRK she refers him as "budda"... ( old )

I believe that this is a precursor to an impending future...that SRK may not be no. 1 in the dreams of Indian youths, in when these 12-15 years something will be termed as youths...

Taare Zameen Par

This is not a review....

Whosoever might have walked away with awards and rewards,
I must say that acting & perfoemance of,
All the stars was shining...

Father portrayed by ... who cares for the name...
...from my reflection....shows all the anxiety of living in a modern competitive world...
And the mother seemed to have been torn between father and son...a hapless....

If I were some kind of an authority I would not only make it a Tax-free,
but I would give few bucks as an incentive for every ticket sold and that sum collected would go to a charity... organizations and people working for kids...

Don't think that TZP is about the Dyslexia cases....

I was stunned while watching the movie...
...it is about you and me... and kids and family....
...tension, anxiety of a modern age is taking it's toll when we are after our kids to excel, show performance, while forgettig to realise that every child (for that matter a person) is unique and he needs his own space to breathe in before he can take a flight... to an achievement...

(develop further)