[Assam] banana...

[Chan Mahanta]

O'Deka:

Don't mention it. The pleasure is all mine.

If something looks too good to be true, it usually is, ne' ki koy?

O'm









At 7:17 PM -0700 6/18/08, Dilip and Dil Deka wrote:
>O'Mahanta,
>That's why the sceptic in me asked who took the picture.
>Thanks for your analysis.
>O"Deka
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>Thanks for sharing the picture Babul. While it is
>quite amazing at first look, the skeptic in me
>raises the immense possibility of a pretty fair
>Photoshop job.
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>There are several reasons:
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>A: Knowing how a 'kolor thwka' develops, from the
>top towards the bottom, this picture looks
>unnatural. The bananas in the lowest 'aankhi's
>are large than those in the middle. While one
>cannot entirely discount the possibility  that
>somehow later in the development of the 'thwka'
>the tree got some steroids
>fed to it, but that is a veeeery long shot . And
>perspective  distortion--of foreshortening, as we
>call it ( as in the enlarged nose and fattened
>lips of a man's face photographed with a wide
>angle lens) -- was not the cause. This was
>picture taken with a 'normal' lens.
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>B: The arrangements of the bananas in an 'aankhi'
>are random, as the uppermost ones will testify.
>But in the lowermost ones certain patterns repeat
>themselves, a tell-tale sign of a liberal but not
>too careful application of the 'clone stamp' in
>Photoshop.
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>C: The 'kolor thwka' matures top down. The usual
>'thwka' completes its cycle of generating the ten
>or twelve 'aankhi's in about a  month. In this
>picture of about 70 or so 'aankhis', while  the
>lower ones
>continue to form from the flowers, the upper ones
>would have ripened and gone, unless, again
>intervened either by divine powers or a mad
>scientist who has gone bananas with her invention
>of eternal youth for banana-life.
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>D:  In nature, the 'dil' --flower - of the banana
>starts out quite full at the outset and gets
>depleted to a shriveled remnant of its original
>size by the time it is done with its production
>of ten to twelve 'aankhi's.  Here is the fatal
>flaw of the photoshopper, whose ignorance of the
>biology of a banana flower  or his carelessness
>gives the whole thing away. Look at the 'dil' at
>the bottom. It not only does not look depleted,
>but actually has widened, as if by the
>obstruction by the concrete slab and holding the
>promise of keeping on producing for ever, from
>the look of the flowers still in bloom, while the
>sharp conical point of the dil got truncated in
>the 'clone stamping' process altogether.
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>Assuming the forever-thwka was indeed destined
>to keep producing come hell or concrete slab, by
>this time, the 'thwka' would have taken a slight
>curvature towards the bottom.  Again our picture
>doctor forgot that possibility .
>
>It is all in the details!
>
>At your service,
>
>Sherlock  Mahanta
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