Pushpa: The Rise

 

Pushpa: The Rise a phenomenal movie released in 2021, has set the screen afire with its high-blasting action, drama, stellar performance and its energetic dialogues. The film made in the backdrop of red sandalwood smuggling led by an angry, adroit and passionate labourer Pushpa Raj , portrayed by Allu Arjun has been pathbreaking in bringing back people to the theatres after the Covid-19 disruption.

Pushpa Raj, an avengeful son of an estranged mother, works in the forest of Seshachalam. Just like many other labourers, he too in the lure of quick bucks ventures into the deep jungles to cut and smuggle the precious red sandalwood , banned legally, to be exported to far away countries like Japan etc. as gifts, momentos et al. DSP Govindappa a strict and honest policeman manages to create terror among the people involved in the trade. Pushpa, however challenges him and makes away with trucks of the contraband wood outwitting the DSP. He cleverly hides his own truck in a pond at the surprise of all, to successfully deliver it to his master Konda Reddy. Pushpa alongwith his friend Kesava purchases a car from the proceeds of the labour then.

Pushpa by his courage, adroit skills and clever tactics and successes manages to get bigger assignments from  his master Konda Reddy and climbs higher in the game very fast. In the mean time he falls for a beautiful rustic girl Srivalli and decides

to marry her. However , his half brother Mohan also an influential wood smuggler comes in between and questions Pushpa’s inheritage and creates a ruckus in the ceremony. Pushpa’s mother gets grievously injured in the fight which infuriates him. Pushpa vows to rise in the society to avenge his mother and break the pride of Mohan. During this time, he is assigned a big job of safely protecting a large consignment, 200 tons of the ‘red-sandalwood’ of Mangalam Srinu for further transport to Chennai. Despite a police raid, Pushpa cleverly drops the wood blocks into the flowing river and and captures the same with his aides. To quickly earn more, he decides to trade the wood directly to traders to Chennai at a higher price, ₹1 crore/ton and shares the profit with his partner Konda. When Konda’s brother tries to dishonour Srivalli,

Pushpa smashes him up to disability. Konda discovers about this and tries to kill Pushpa. But Srinu’s men come to Pushpa’s rescue. Pushpa however manages to kill Konda in the fight. Pushpa captures and kills Srinu’s brother-in-law Mogileesu.With the mediation of MP Bhumireddy Naidu, Pushpa and Srinu declare truce and Pushpa becomes the head of the syndicate. While Pushpa flourishes in his trade, a new SP Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat gets appointed in the district. Pushpa tries to bribe him which the SP rejects. In the ensuing tussle with the officer, Pushpa secretly meets the SP on his wedding day and drinks with him passionately. Stung by Pushpa’s arrogant and rebellious attitude the biligerent SP returns home angry and kills his own pet dog. Pushpa too fired by the insult to his clout vows to take forward his business more rigorously culminating the first edition of the movie.

                              

The Fastest Processor Available

By the processor, in IT-Hardware parlance we mean the large square metal component sitting most prominently inside the motherboard. It is responsible for conducting most of the arithmetic, logical, co-ordination, management etc. of the resources and tasks and operations inside the computer system. The processor does its activities in a systematic order of processes i.e. Fetch, Decode, Execute and Store. One such completion of the cycle per second is referred to as the clock speed or the frequency of the processor, calculated in Gigahertz. Other parameters like types of processes being executed, power consumption, over-heating etc. also matter in determining the speed or performance of the processor. A core of the CPU is central part of the CPU that receives instructions, performs operations for the instructions sent. A single processor can have multiple cores to accomplish a large number of operations simultaneously or do parallel operations on a single set of data/instructions. CPUs are classified thus as single core, dual-core, quad-core etc. Intel being the first company to produce processors is the leader of the pack producing the largest number of processors yearly. Other popular brands include AMD (Advanced Micro Devices), Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm, IBM (International Business Machines) etc. Launched in November 2020, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is a desktop processor with 16 cores – is one of  the fastest processors available. It has a boost clock speed of up to 4.9 GHz, a large 72 M cache (memory). Intel’s fastest processor the Core i9 10900K has a clock speed of 5.3 GHz. But with 10 cores compared with the former’s 16 the Intel i9 10900K gives a lower clock speed. That said both these processors are mostly gaming devices. However, the AMD TR3990X processor introduced before the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X is comparatively faster when it comes to being used for regular purposes like in office, professional or personal use etc. The AMD ThreadRipper 3990X has a clock speed of 4.3 GHz but with its massive 64 cores, it is able to process data more faster and efficiently.

The AMD ThreadRipper 3990X processor comes from the Ryzen Family of AMD. Other processor families from the same brand include AMD Athlon, Sempron, Opteron, Duron etc. A 3rd Generation CPU , the AMD ThreadRipper 3990X has the new AMD TRX40 motherboards featuring the debut of advanced PCIe® 4.0 connectivity on high-end desktop, delivering more bandwidth for creators than ever. The 3rd Gen AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper™ has already demonstrated its value to special effects artists for major 

motion picture studios. 64 cores provide an astonishing 128 threads of simultaneous multi-processing power, while 288MB of combined cache and vast I/O from the enthusiast-grade AMD TRX40 platform work together to deliver incredible performance. Although available in India at a cost of  a whopping ₹3-4 Lacs, the processor is a resource on its own. Called the ultimate in processing for visual effects and video editing professionals, this processor is a leader in the race of multi-purpose desktop processing. Although no processor can be said to be the best of the best of the league, given its multi-purpose nature and massive processing prowess the AMD ThreadRipper 3990X processor can be crowned as the top-most desktop processor available today.      

Economy during Covid Times

The Coronavirus or Covid pandemic wrecked havoc in the lives of a large number of people, societies, nations alike. Moreso, the economies of countries got affected drastically at the onslaught. The Indian economy was growing at a rate of 3% - 4% before the advent of the pandemic say, March-April 2020. Moreover in the year 2019 the economy was growing at the rate of 6% ,5%  annually. The first lockdown in India was announced in March 2020. All schools, colleges, markets, shopping malls, hotels/restaurants, parks, public and private functions/events were banned. Industries, factories ,construction activities etc. came to a halt. However online services like Work From Home(WFH) ,online shopping ,meetings via video conferencing were the order of the day. But a large chunk of the population were left jobless with little or no earning. The economic growth thus got slowed down. The profitabilities of companies – both government and private decreased, income from tax, incomes of employees, workers and daily wage earners too slumped. Covid-related expenditures both public and private inflated. Purchase of medicines, disinfectants, vaccines, drugs etc. cost the exchequer dearly. The economic growth rate moved to as low as almost -24% in the first quarter i.e. April-June 2020 of the Financial Year(FY) 2020-2021, followed by -7.5%   in the next quarter i.e. July-September 2020. Thus the annual growth rate of FY 21 i.e. April 2020 - March 2021 was -7.3%. Likewise a second Covid wave stuck the country by around March- April 2021. Although nationwide lockdown was not announced this time, partial to complete lockdown was imposed in most of the states. The second wave infected more number of people and more died than the last. The economy too is likely to contract, this time may be more.The last contraction was termed as a Technical recession. Although Covid infections and deaths have started receding since May 21 still some states have increased lockdowns. The Central government announced economic stimulus package worth 20L crores last time which would provide some resilience to a faltering economy. Moreover moratorium on EMI for six months, financial packages, cash-in-hand schemes in some states and reduction in IGST etc. on purchase of medical equipments would help the economy a lot better. Yet historic unemployment rates 14%, insecurities of sources of income/revenue and frequent lockdowns would be a dampner to the growth of the economy. The way forward would be to contain and fully get rid of Covid infections and the pandemic and putting the economy back on rails on a firm footing to achieve reasonable growth rates.