Tuesday, December 8, 2009
ConFusion
You know what happened when I tried studying CONvection & difFUSION for Transport Processes exam... I found my self in CON-FUSION. :)
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Diwali- ones again away from home
Ones again I couldn't be at home for Diwali, 7th time in past 9 years.
But this Diwali was not that bad. We three (Alok, Deepti & me) had great time.
Diwali celebrations this year included lightening candles and deepaks in our rooms, having sweets and a grand dinner at Mint Masala and taking lot of pics. Here are some of them showing the celebrations.
Technology came to rescue when I didn't have a proper poster/idol to perform pooja.
Diwali - A festival of lights
Just lights!!! Thats not enough! How can you call it a festival without sweets?
People who made it great.
Finally at dinner in Mint MAsala - Delicious food, efficient service, lovely ambience. Unfortunately nothing visible in this pic :)
I had a great time this Diwali! Can't wait to celebrate it next year. :)
But this Diwali was not that bad. We three (Alok, Deepti & me) had great time.
Diwali celebrations this year included lightening candles and deepaks in our rooms, having sweets and a grand dinner at Mint Masala and taking lot of pics. Here are some of them showing the celebrations.
Technology came to rescue when I didn't have a proper poster/idol to perform pooja.
Diwali - A festival of lights
Just lights!!! Thats not enough! How can you call it a festival without sweets?
People who made it great.
Finally at dinner in Mint MAsala - Delicious food, efficient service, lovely ambience. Unfortunately nothing visible in this pic :)
I had a great time this Diwali! Can't wait to celebrate it next year. :)
Thursday, October 15, 2009
"2 States: The story of my marriage" by Chetan Bhagat
Chetan Bhagat is back with one more masala & drama filled novel.
Krish, a panjabi, IITD student meets Ananya, Tamil Brahmin, Economics topper, while standing at IIMA. Both of them soon become friends. Friendship turns into love when they spend a lot of time studying together in dorms. Both get their dream jobs and want to get married, but now the problems start.
The great difference in the families of these two, their opposition of duo's marriage and efforts taken by both of them to get the consent of each family are dramatically narrated in rest of the book.
Flow while reading is disturbed when the narrator changes from Krish to the third person. I found it discontinuous. Annanya's intervention in Krish's cousin's marriage & Krish's family's consequent liking for Ananya; Krish's bitter father suddenly getting filled with great love for his son and removing the obstacles in the duo's marriage seems stolen from typical Bollywood movies.
All in all Chetan has nothing new to offer to readers than telling the same old, repeatedly told stories. But book will be instant hit and best seller as its a story told by IITD/IIMA graduate.
Krish, a panjabi, IITD student meets Ananya, Tamil Brahmin, Economics topper, while standing at IIMA. Both of them soon become friends. Friendship turns into love when they spend a lot of time studying together in dorms. Both get their dream jobs and want to get married, but now the problems start.
The great difference in the families of these two, their opposition of duo's marriage and efforts taken by both of them to get the consent of each family are dramatically narrated in rest of the book.
Flow while reading is disturbed when the narrator changes from Krish to the third person. I found it discontinuous. Annanya's intervention in Krish's cousin's marriage & Krish's family's consequent liking for Ananya; Krish's bitter father suddenly getting filled with great love for his son and removing the obstacles in the duo's marriage seems stolen from typical Bollywood movies.
All in all Chetan has nothing new to offer to readers than telling the same old, repeatedly told stories. But book will be instant hit and best seller as its a story told by IITD/IIMA graduate.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Recommended reading:
1. What is living and what is dead in Indian philosophy? by Debiprasad Chattopadhyay
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Democracy in India as perceived by JP
Sunday, September 27, 2009
I wish I could...
There are things that I want out of life and I want them really badly. I want to get started with my experiments and bring my life back on track. It has been a long time since I did any "productive work" or I must say just "work". I have been fooling around for a long time. Day after day is being wasted in chatting, orkutting, having one cup after the other of coffee in T-board & going out for dinner. Eventually I have turned myself into a "wastrel".
It is not so that I'm not aware that I'm heading towards disaster, but I find myself not bothered enough to take sincere effort to tackle the problems head-on and work hard to make things better.
I want to follow Abraham Lincoln who said, "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." But my actions and attitude are best described in Abigail Adams following words, "We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
I wish I could gain enough strength to slough off the laziness and get going. But nothing happens by mere wishing. I need to fight with my biggest and more powerful enemy... my-comatose, pessimist-self.
It is not so that I'm not aware that I'm heading towards disaster, but I find myself not bothered enough to take sincere effort to tackle the problems head-on and work hard to make things better.
I want to follow Abraham Lincoln who said, "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." But my actions and attitude are best described in Abigail Adams following words, "We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
I wish I could gain enough strength to slough off the laziness and get going. But nothing happens by mere wishing. I need to fight with my biggest and more powerful enemy... my-comatose, pessimist-self.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
SP's manifesto: Mulayam Singh was joking, right?
The poll manifesto released by Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh gave a break to the citizens of India who were bored and tired of the spat going on between the BJP and the rest of the parties over Varun Gandhi issue. It seems like a joke to me which Mulayam Singh delivered well after 1st April!!! In this manifesto he promises to abolish schools providing quality education in English, use of computers and technology in all fronts of life. If he rally said all that as a joke then its all right, but if he was serious then its shame for India. Instead of promising for the development and progress of the country he is proposing to take it back by decades in the field of technology and the education. Seems he thinks if only he could make all the Indians uneducated, unaware of world and technology he would be able to ride his cycle and pass through his contemporary politicians towards the coveted PM position. :)
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