Jagan will eat chippa koodu

I think perceptive readers would remember the title (as above or something similar) some time ago in Bottomline. It was printed and published.

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What is common between Vive Kananda and Ramanujan?

They both vanished early. That is what they did, at different points of time. Osho put a stone on his grave saying he visited earth briefly (for all of 80 years)? And the whole of sex-crazed America is still looking for God and ecstasy.

Subash Babus is said to be alive, and May He Well Be Alive, in Viet Nam or someplace. His mission, whatever it was, is still unfinished. That is why you have Bharateeyudu even now.

But what did Vivekananda do? He came, he saw the parched earth, and he said: even god dare not appear before a hungry man except in the form of bread (roti). Gandhi then gave off his upper cloth to a woman whose child was hungry.

All of it, he did in 40 years and flew off. If you know what you wanna do and have a plan how to do it (a mission, as they say in the corporate world), you will do it in a quarter of the time it takes other people to mess around with others' lives and achieve nothing and vanish into thin air.

Vive, the bird, flew into outer space; and onto other planets. Holier than ours, maybe? More wretched than this earth? Maybe...

But before he left, he planted some earthquakes here: watch this space for late-breaking news and popular tsunami videos. When people realize God in the form of food security, remember it was He who awakened mother earth, and her children, to yield. More...

So did Ramanujan

In school we were told that Srinivasa Ramanujan planted a lot of landmines in math. This is what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan#In_popular_culture is perceived as:
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* An international feature film on Ramanujan's life was announced in 2006 as due to begin shooting in 2007. It was to be shot in Tamil Nadu state and Cambridge and be produced by an Indo-British collaboration and co-directed by Stephen Fry and Dev Benegal. A play, First Class Man by Alter Ego Productions, was based on David Freeman's First Class Man. The play is centered around Ramanujan and his complex and dysfunctional relationship with Hardy.
* Another film, based on the book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel, is being made by Edward Pressman and Matthew Brown.
* In the film Good Will Hunting, the eponymous character is compared to Ramanujan.
* "Gomez", a short story by Cyril Kornbluth, describes the conflicted life of an untutored mathematical genius, clearly based on Ramanujan.
* A Disappearing Number is a recent British stage production by the company Complicite that explores the relationship between Hardy and Ramanujan.
* The character Amita Ramanujan on the television show Numb3rs is named after Ramanujan.
* The novel The Indian Clerk by David Leavitt explores in fiction the events following Ramanujan's letter to Hardy.
* An episode of Ancient Aliens produced by The History Channel mentions how Hardy met Ramanujan. It goes on to mention that Ramanujan's work has application today in String Theory and might contain insights into future applications in science including multiple dimensions, wormholes, levitation and more.
* On March 22, 1988, the PBS Series Nova aired a documentary about Ramanujan, "The Man Who Loved Numbers" (Season 15, Episode 9).