Federer , I'm Sorry !

Don't you get fed up watching the same person being the numero uno ! Uh!! I should not use these words I know my readers don't have patience, so I must stick as simple as I can. They can't bear more than 3-4 un-understood words before they quit.

Do you Remember the day when Serena Williams climbed to the number 1 spot, I have stopped watching women singles from that very day(these black beauties can suck interest out of any straight oriented guy !! but then yes it strikes me that Naomi Campbell too has her fans !! ). Eventually I switched to men singles, and there I got confronted with Federer , the other demon who has a record 237 weeks at number one spot. I repeat, it is 237 weeks not days. Isn't these the heights ?

Serena sucked with her ferocious looks then Federer was there to compliment her with his untampered winning streak. What I am saying is, Did you really wish Federer to win one more Grand Slam when he had already a bunch of 15 in his hand before this ? you know I, personally favoured Rafael whose I am a big fan too to win this Australian open but he couldn't. But I'm more disappointed because Federer did. For me the loss of Nadal to Murray didnt hurt as much as the loss of Murray to Federer did. Why doesn't he quit and let the youngsters come in ?


Similarly in cricket also you can virtually see Jayasurya addressing "son" to some of his team mates on the field. Shouldn't he quit ? After all he is 40 and is still sharing the dressing room with chunks of 20 ! What the fuck !!

This 16th grand slam may be a day to celebrate for Mirka Federer but for the remaining 6 billion enthusiasts it worked to betray the spirit of the game. It soothes more when an emerging superstar defeats the existing superstar. Every one including me wished to see Andy winning the grand slam. (After all Federer should have atleast seen the frustration of Murray, It has been 74 years since a grand slam did not reach England).

One of my friends has very finely blogged his similar thoughts in his blog citing a very good example. Don't you favor England in the Ashes ?? Why ? ? Isn't it because Aussies have fed up the cricket fans with their winning habit ? Check out his full post by clicking here.



Friends Just think over it, Weren't you charmed when Rafael defeated Federer in the Australian Open final 2009. It wasn't merely a defeat for Federer rather it was a blot on his career. Federer could not even walk to the dias out of shame. It was Rafael who accompanied to the dias with him in his arms. It was a wonderful moment for each of the Nadal fans. Rafael had become the sporty guy in all the Melbourne atleast for that very moment. And I really loved it.

Federer , just in one word I want to say , "Quit".



Let the emerging stars gain their flow, and after all let the spirit of this game be alive in the fans like me.

I love this game but I don't love you !!
(yes, But I love your nation and will tour it for sure if somebody finances!!!)

And I loved Mirka too !!

Convocation Speech By Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.

I am here with my promise. And so here is the link of my institute's weekly e-newsletter 'MONDAY MORNING'. You can go through the full speech Of Kalam sir in that newsletter.

And I urge you all to have patience and reach its end. This one is really fantastic. The best of his all speeches. What a deep perception this man has, for a developed India by 2020. Fabulous ! !

To go to that newsletter click here.

I feel I must quote his full speech over here. This will surely augment the number of readers of this speech a little. And also I ask you all to please forward this to as many 'Indians' as you can.


Here is his Convocation Speech (for my indolent friends) :

(Still I say please go to that link instead of reading it here on my blog. It has a wonderful photo gallery also there in that link. Have a look.)

Entering Into Knowledge Society

I am delighted to participate in the 7th Convocation of NIT Rourkela in this famous steel city. I congratulate all the graduating students for their academic performance and faculty members for shaping their young minds. My greetings to Chairman Board of Governors, Director, Faculty Members, Staff and Students of NIT, Rourkela.

During the last 5 decades, NIT Rourkela has contributed significantly to the techno-economic growth of the country by providing quality human resources who are functioning in the industry in various capacities both in India and abroad. Large numbers of alumni of NIT Rourkela have become entrepreneurs, and thus, employment generators. The government of India has recognized the institute as a premier institute of repute. The modernization of materials and metallurgical Engineering and Computer Science and Electronics department will substantially enhance the research capability of the institute. I congratulate the pioneers both present and past years who have strived hard for laying a robust foundation for technical education in this institute. Today I would like to talk on the topic ”Entering into knowledge society”.

Friends, when I see you all graduating today, I was thinking what thoughts I can share with you. First and foremost, any establishment, any organization you will be joining or you create, your own enterprise becoming an employment generator, always one demand that will come in front of you, that is: the experience of system design, system integration, and system management of the assignment or the task taken by you. I would like to present my experience of learning system design, system integration and system management while I was studying aeronautical engineering in MIT, Chennai, (1954-1957) during the third year of my course.

Learning integrated system design.

I was designed a project to design a low-level attack aircraft together with six other colleagues. I was given the responsibility of system design and system integration by integrating the team members. Also, I was responsible for aerodynamic and structural design of the project. The other five of my team took up the design of propulsion, control, guidance, avionics and instrumentation of the aircraft. My design teacher Prof. Srinivasan the then Director of MIT, was our guide. He reviewed the project and declared my work to be gloomy and disappointing. He didn’t lend an ear to my Difficulties in bringing together data base from multiple designers. I asked for a month’s time to complete the task, since I had to get the inputs from five of my colleagues without which I cannot complete the system design. Prof. Srinivasan told me ”Look, young man, today is Friday afternoon. I give you three days time. If by Monday morning I don’t get the configuration design, your scholarship will be stopped.” I had a jolt in my life, as scholarship was my lifeline, without which I cannot continue with my studies. There was no other way out but to finish the task. My team felt the need for working together round the clock. We didn’t sleep that night, working on the drawing board skipping our dinner. On Saturday, I took just an hour’s break. On Sunday morning, I was near completion when I felt someone’s presence in my laboratory. It was Prof. Srinivasan studying my progress. After looking at my work, he patted and hugged me affectionately. He had words of appreciation: ”I knew I was putting you under stress and asking you to meet a difficult deadline. You have done a great job in system designing.”

Through this review mechanism Prof. Srinivasan really injected the necessity of understanding the value of time by each team member and brought out engineering education has to lead to system design, system integration and system management. I realized that if something is at stake, the human minds get ignited and the working capacity gets enhanced manifold. That’s exactly what happened. This is one of the techniques of building talent. The message is that the young in the organization, whatever is their specialization, be trained to systems approach and projects, which will prepare them for new products, innovation and undertaking higher organizational responsibilities. Friends you should get ready to acquire knowledge in an integrated way for using multiple disciplines towards product development and its management.

The second aspect, I would like to discuss is, what type of India you are going to see in the next ten years. What are the challenges you will undertake and participate? I am going to visualize the type of India in the year 2020, so that you can build the capacities to participate in this movement.

Distinctive Profile of India by 2020
1. A Nation where the rural and urban divide has reduced to a thin line.
2. A Nation where there is equitable distribution and adequate access to energy and quality water.
3. A Nation where agriculture, industry and service sector work together in symphony.
4. A Nation where education with value system is not denied to any meritorious candidates because of societal or economic discrimination.
5. A Nation, which is the best destination for the most talented scholars, scientists and investors.
6. A Nation where the best of health care is available to all.
7. A Nation where the governance is responsive, transparent and corruption free.
8. A Nation where poverty has been totally eradicated, illiteracy removed and crimes against women and children are absent and none in the society feels alienated.
9. A Nation that is prosperous, healthy, secure, devoid of terrorism, peaceful and happy and continues with a sustainable growth path.
10. A Nation that is one of the best places to live in and is proud of its leadership.
Integrated Action for Developed India.

To achieve the distinctive profile of India, we have the mission of transforming India into a developed nation. We have identified five areas where India has a core competence for integrated action:
1. Agriculture and food processing.
2. Education and healthcare
3. Information and Communication Technology
4. Reliable and Quality Electric power, Surface transport and Infrastructure for all parts of the country
5. Self-reliance in critical technologies
These five areas are closely inter-related and if progressed in a co-ordinated way, will lead to food, economic and national security.

I have given you, how to transform yourself to meet the professional challenges as system technologist and contribute in realizing any one or more of the ten pillars, I have described.

Mission in life.
While entering into such type of mission in life, you need unique traits for achieving success in your missions. First of all, you have to have an aim in life. You have to set a goal. Second one, you have to acquire knowledge continuously as a life-long autonomous learner. Third you have to put in honest hard work and fourth is: you have to have perseverance in life. Here I would like to give an example of a visually challenged young boy, who was not deterred by his physical challenge.

I can do it

Friends, when I was the President of India, on 28 Aug 2006, I met the group of tribal students from Lead India 2020 movement. I asked all of them one question: ”What you want to become?” Out of many responses, one visually challenged boy studying IX class got up. His name is Srikanth, he answered me ”I will become visually Challenged first President of India”. I was very happy to see his vision and ambition. Small aim is a crime. Hence, I congratulated him to realize his vision and told him to work for realizing his vision.
There after he worked hard got 90% in Xth class and 96% in intermediate and he set a goal to study Engineering in MIT, Boston USA. His relentless hard work not only secured seat but he got full fee waiver from MIT, Boston. Srikanth’s achievement has brought change agents of Lead India 2020 and inspired to set a high vision for every student who undergoes the training process. Seeing this impact of Lead India 2020 training, GE volunteers have funded Mr. Srikanth for his travel to USA. Today he is pursuing his studies at MIT, Boston. When the GE offered him a job on completion of graduation, he told them that he would certainly come back to GE, if I couldn’t become the President of India. What a confidence that boy has amidst of difficult and the challenges in his life by being visually challenged. What a great transformation that has brought into a visually challenged boy’s life by Lead India 2020 movement through value based education intervention.

Diligent and sincere evaluation

Another important quality is, the ability to work with knowledge acquisition constantly for an aim and convert it into a certain outcome. To achieve this, you will need to constantly practice and evaluate your own actions and ideas at all moments. Only when they pass the most rigorous and honest tests, you can be certain of the outcomes of every action you take. This would require great diligence and sincerity in all your efforts. Let me give an example. When Lockheed introduced the Tristar 1011 plane, the company decided to determine the efficiency and safety of the plane by a process of rigorous tests. These evaluations lasted for 18 months and cost more than $1.5 Billion, putting the various parts of the plane through a simulation stress equivalent to 36,000 flights which is equivalent to almost 100 years of service. It was only when the plane passed all these tests, without a single malfunction, was the aircraft given a seal of approval. Dear students, all of you must derive a lesson from this example- practice and constant evaluation will make your ideas and actions perfect and inject the self confidence in you that ”I can do it”.
Now I would like to share with you the life of two great personalities who would combat all challenges and succeed in their mission through their creativity and passion.

Birth of Creativity in a difficult situation
Mario Capecchi had a difficult and challenging childhood. For nearly four years, Capecchi lived with his mother in a chalet in the Italian Alps. When World War II broke out, his mother, along with other Bohemians, was sent to Dachau as a political prisoner. Anticipating her arrest by the Gestapo, she had sold all her possessions and given the money to friends to help raise her son on their farm. In the farm, he had to grow own wheat, harvest: take it to miller to be ground. Then, the money which his mother left for him ran out and at the age of four and half years, he started sometimes living in the streets, sometimes joining gangs of other homeless children, sometimes living in orphanages and most of the time hungry. He spent the last year in the city of Reggio Emelia, hospitalised for malnutrition where his mother found him on his ninth birthday after a year of searching. Within weeks, the Capecchi and his mother sailed to America to join his uncle and aunt.
He started his 3rd grade schooling afresh over there and started his education, interested in sports, studied political science. But he didn’t find interesting and changed into science, became a mathematics graduate in 1961 with a double major in Physics and Chemistry. Although he really liked Physics, its elegance and simplicity, he switched to molecular biology in graduate school, on the advice of James D Watson, who advised him that he should not be bothered about small things, since such pursuits are likely to produce only small answers.
His objective was to do gene targeting. The experiments started in 1980 and by 1984, Capecchi had clear success. Three years later, he applied the technology to mice. In 1989, he developed the first mice with targeted mutations. The technology created by Doctor Capecchi allows researchers to create specific gene mutations anywhere they choose in the genetic code of a mouse. By manipulating gene sequences in this way, researchers are able to mimic human disease conditions on animal subjects. What the research of Mario Capecchi means for human health is nothing short of amazing, his work with mice could lead to cures for Alzheimer’s disease or even Cancer. The innovations in genetics that Mario Capecchi achieved won him the Nobel Prize in 2007. Noble laureate Capecchi life indeed reveals:-
”When you wish upon a star,
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you.”

A genius well ahead of time: Failure did not deter him

Ramanujan, born and raised in Erode, Tamil Nadu, first encountered formal mathematics at the age of ten. He demonstrated a natural ability at mathematics, and was given books on advanced trigonometry by S. L. Loney. He mastered this book by age thirteen, and even discovered theorems of his own. He demonstrated unusual mathematical skills at school, winning many awards. By the age of seventeen, Ramanujan was conducting his own mathematical research on Bernoulli numbers and the Euler-Mascheroni constant. He received a scholarship to study at Government College in Kumbakonam. He failed his non-mathematical coursework, and lost his scholarship. Srinivasa Ramanujan lived only for 33 years and did not have formal higher education or means of living. Yet, his inexhaustible spirit and love for his subject made him contribute to the treasure houses of mathematical research – some of which are still under serious study and engaging all-available world mathematicians’ efforts to establish formal proofs. Ramanujan was a unique Indian genius who could melt the heart of the most hardened and outstanding Cambridge mathematician Prof G H Hardy. In fact, it is not an exaggeration to say that it was Prof. Hardy who discovered Ramanujan for the world. Professor Hardy rated various geniuses on a scale of 100. While most of the mathematicians got a rating of around 30 with rare exceptions reaching to 60, Ramanujan got a rating of 100. There cannot be any better tribute to either Ramanujan or to Indian heritage. His works cover vast areas including Prime Numbers, Hyper geometric series, Modular Functions, Elliptic Functions, Mock Theta Functions, even magic squares, apart from serious side works on geometry of ellipses, squaring the circle etc. One of the tributes to Ramanujan says that, ’every integer is a personal friend of Ramanujan’. He was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society (F R S) in 1918.

Ramanujan used to say ”An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God”. For him the understanding of numbers was a process of spiritual revelation and connection. In his investigations into pure mathematics, he drew extraordinary conclusions that mystified his colleagues, but were usually proven, eventually, to be right. He opened a universe of theory that still today is reaping applications. The landscape of the infinite was to Ramanujan a reality of both mathematics of spirit. His love for numbers led Ramanujan to number theory. Despite being affected by chronic health problems, he was breathing Mathematics throughout his short life and his genius was recognized internationally. So friends you saw, how great creative minds, gave problem to the problems to succeed through the instrument of

Dear friends, let me take you to the type of society we are entering and challenges.

The knowledge society in 21st century

The world in the 21st century will be a knowledge based society with multiple opportunities. I was reading a book, ”Empires of the Mind” by Denis Waitley. This book gives, what type of the new world which we are facing now? What was yesterday and what is today. I have modified certain points of the author to suit our conditions. I have also added a third line which relates to action of educational institutes.

It specially says that ”what worked yesterday, won’t work today”.
1. Yesterday – natural resources defined power
Today – knowledge is power
Educational Institutions will be a powerhouse for knowledge

2. Yesterday – Hierarchy was the model
Today – synergy is the mandate
Educational Institutions will be enabler of intersection of multiple faculties towards mission goals

3. Yesterday – leaders commanded and controlled
Today – leaders empower and coach
Potential Leaders will be empowered through exposure to the needs of sustainable development

4. Yesterday – shareholders came first
Today – customers come first
Education should inculcate sensitivity to ”customer” needs

5. Yesterday – employees took order
Today-teams make decision
Educational Institutions can inject team spirit

6. Yesterday-seniority signified status
Today-creativity drive status
Educational Institutions is the breeding environment for creativity

7. Yesterday-production determined availability
Today-Competitiveness is the key
Competitiveness is powered by research and university has to have the motto of ”teaching-research-teaching”

8. Yesterday-value was extra
Today-value is everything
Objective Value judgment to be introduced in education

9. Yesterday-everyone was a competitor
Today-everyone is a customer
Educated customer is also from Educational Institutions

10. Yesterday-profits were earned through expediency
Today-Work with integrity and succeed with integrity
Education with value system is the need of the hour.

I am sure, the curriculum and the method of teaching in the institute has been designed to cater for the needs for 21st knowledge society.

Conclusion

Friends, finally I would like to ask you, what would you like to be remembered for? You have to evolve yourself and shape your life. You should write it on a page. That page may be a very important page in the book of human history. And you will be remembered for creating that one page in the history of the nation – whether that page is the page of invention, the page of innovation or the page of discovery or the page of creating societal change or a page of removing the poverty through development of PURA complexes (Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Area) any part of the country or the page of fighting injustice. I will be happy if you could write this page and mail it to me (apj@abdulkalam.com).
With these words, I once again congratulate the graduating students. My best wishes to all the members of NIT Rourkela success in the mission of developing quality technological human resource for the nation.

May God bless you.

P.S : In the first pic Kalam sir is addresing us. In the second pic, Director of our insti. Prof. Sarangi is addressing us and in the third pic, Kalam sir and the Director of our insti. Prof. Sarangi are there. ( I specially mentioned it coz u may get confused by the second pic.)

I won't wash my hands.....

Rather I would like to preserve my hands in POP. One does not get this opportunity everyday to shake hands with personality like Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.. To those who have already listened to his any of the lectures Dr. Kalam is god for sure. And for those who did not get this opportunity yet, I can just say that ‘He is far far more wonderful person than any one of you can assume’.

He was scheduled to visit our campus as the chief guest for the convocation ceremony today. He had to fly from Bhubaneswar to Rourkela but unfortunately his chopper could not fly because of bad weather. And it can’t be anyone other than Dr. Kalam that he decided to travel the 10 hrs overnight journey to Rourkela by train just to meet us. Hats off to you Sir !! Hats off to you !

Moreover we were here overwhelmingly excited to listen to his words and more than that to get his glimpse. We thought we won’t be able to see him (Convocation Hall was already occupied with the degree recipients and their parents, so I could not even dream to get into it ). Still we were waiting for him outside the hall and You can’t imagine how down to earth he is ! Although the security guys opened the door of his car towards the auditorium still he got down the other side just because we (students) were standing there. I also clicked some snaps there to preserve the moment. Although I could not get very good one still its manageable.

Hardly a distance of a meter and I was among a very few lucky chaps to shake hands with him. He waved to us even while walking towards the hall.

Rather I should say Dr. Kalam didn’t miss any opportunity to get a glimpse of the students. I have earlier heard about him that he is fond of students a lot and what today I saw I can just say that he loves us more than his life. Hats off to u sir !!

See in the above pic he isn't in the proper convocation dress and now see the following pic.

One can aptly see in this snap that to which side he got down off his car. In the background you can see the the entrance of our institute's convocation Hall.

Finally coming to the point , his address to the young graduates. An arrangement of the live telecast of the convocation ceremony was made in the lecture gallery so I took my seat there. First and the foremost thing what he observed in the hall was the mission statement of NIT Rourkela.He liked it and said this is what he wishes every Indian to make his mission statement.

Moreover he loved the way the graduates were dressed. Unlike the traditional convocation dress of gown and the cap which according to him was a British Culture, Our graduates wore the Indian attire. Kudos to NIT Rourkela !

He narrated a few wonderful stories of his engineering days at MIT Madras. His rendezvous with Prof. Srinivasan was really inspiring. I will try to upload the .pdf of his lecture by Monday once the institute releases it. It’s really worth going through it. He urged us to join politics and he said ,Indian politics needs the technocrats in today’s scenario. He also narrated the story of a tribal young boy he met at Rashtrapati Bhavan. When Dr.Kalam asked him, “ What you dream to be in your life ? ” He unhesitatingly replied,” I want to be the first Visually impaired President of India.” He asked us to get inspired by his determination.

He asked all of us to say with him,

"I Can do it, We can do it, India can do it."

He also urged us to make live his dream of 2020.

His speech was as usual miraculous. I will try my best to make it available to all of you. Also he laid the foundation stone of the “Centre for Technology Innovation and Industrial Research” in our institute.

Although our institute conferred Dr. Kalam with the honorary degree of D.Sc but for us you are God, Dr. Kalam !

Also to receive the honorary degree today was Prof. Damodar Acharya , director , IIT Kharagpur for being the distinguished alumnus of NIT Rourkela.

Oh Snap ! ISM Dhanbad ! !

Yesterday i was in Hexagon (the food court of NIT Rourkela !) at around 7 PM with some of my friends. And you know ISM Dhanbad has pasted over there a big poster publicizing their annual technical festival of Department of Mining Engineering. My techie friends need no introduction of this Mining Bison. And also if I explain my non techies about what is ISM Dhanbad on this blog then it will be a big question mark on the repute of that institute. This institute has been ranked as the Number 1 institute of mining Engineering in Asia and second only to Stanford University in the world. And also there is a lot more to know about this if you go for wikipedia search.

Coming back to that poster, yes there was an invitation for presenting a paper at ISM Dhanbad during this "RADIANCE 2K10". But unfortunately it is scheduled from 15th to 17th January. And on 16th Jan our institute is having its convocation and Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam will be the chief guest and I dont want to miss this opportunity to listen to his words. Even then I thought whats wrong if i just send an abstract Let's see whether its selected or not ?

Last october i had presented a paper at IIT Kharagpur so i had an abstract ready for this. I mailed the same abstract to ISMU Dhanbad ( It's Indian School of Mines University). Fortunately it got selected within 24 hours. And they asked me to fill up the form for accomodation. When I opened the hospitality page of their website see what i found. They were giving us the accomodation but the last line said : "The team of Great Step or IIT Kharagpur shall not be responsible for theft or loss of participants belongings" (IIT Kharagpur is being responsible for the event at ISM. ha ha ha... :) :) :) ) Have a look on that web page ( for the first time i have used the prnt scrn button of my lappy):
Click on these pics to get a better zoomed view.




Also have a look on the chain of mails right from the abstract sending till i urged them to rectify this blunder. I was expecting a reply from them after they change it but no they didn't so it beacme one of the reasons of this blog.


"कहते हैं ना नक़ल में भी अक्ल चाहिए होती है "

I would have given you the link but no they rectified it within 15 mins. I did inform some of my friends studying in ISM who were online at that instant to inform this to the TEAM RADIANCE. So it took no time for them.

ISM ! This was not expected from your institute.. !!!

P.S : My friends at ISM , I'm sorry to you especially Pankaj and Ganapati.
Thanks Ganapati that you informed them immediately after I pointed out this to you.

^ Mine the Business Administration ^

No astonishments !! No Surprises !!

Its not a conclusion of just one day. In fact its a cumulative result of the one month trauma given to me during my industrial training. Added to this is the greed of lustrous MBA career that has mined this blog from my heart.
Its not that I’m discouraging my fellow batch mates here in Mining Engineering. But being my self a mining engineering student I have got full liberty to criticise Mining. Friends I assure you that I won’t be biased in making the comparison and if you find some anomaly anywhere down from here , the comment section awaits your fervent comment.

So, Lets play the game,


You will start early at 21 or 22 and so you will be at a more reputed ( when I say repute, its social repute not monetary repute) place at the instant when an MBA grad will just start.



You will have your job secured as most of the Mining companies are in Public Sector both in India and abroad. (Engineers for Indian PSU’s are like their son in laws, they will die but can’t throw you out.)


You will be having an option to switch your career to almost any field of your choice at any point of time if you are an MBA grad.


You will be forced to work in remotest possible region if you are an Mining Engineer unless you are that lucky to be the 1 billionth child of India. (I myself had to travel 15 kms to Jamshedpur when I was in Narwapahar Uranium Mine Township to get a CCD for a coffee and believe me we all travelled 250 kms to Kolkata to get a ‘(K)entucky (F)ried (C)hicken’ for chicken burger .)


You will have to study even after you get a reputed job as a Mining Engineer as you will be asked to compete for the FIRST CLASS MINE MANAGER’s CERTIFICATE and before that you will be required to qualify the LAMP HANDLING CERTIFICATE too. So, GPA will be running behind to kill you there also.



As a Mining Engineer you will be paid with a very high salary as you will be in very high demand as total number of Mining Engineers passing out every year from colleges of good repute is merely 230. (2,50,000 software engineers pass out every year in our country)



If you work in a PSU you will be credited for your contacts in top offices not for the work you do. (Its a harsh reality). And if you go for any private sector company in Mining they will pay you in scraps.


Every Mining Engineer has to deal directly with the fourth grade employees which means a gradual downfall in your personality. You will have to shout at them as they are generally mulish and refrain doing any task assigned to them.


Mining Engineers and their families are generally deprived of literally and culturally high environment. Their world becomes confined to their township and they won’t have much topics to discuss. They have very limited social life as most of the townships are located far from the cities.

Mining Engineers are very prone to health hazards like pneumoconiosis and leukaemia arising out of inhalation of coal dusts in case of coal mining and due to radioactivity of Uranium in case of Uranium Mining.

Moreover if you are a mining engineer you will have to continue with that till you say good bye. The best thing you can do is to enter the R&D or be a professor or enter any mining consultancy but be sure you won’t be able to quit Mining field completely.

If you want to go for higher studies and you plan to get admitted into some international university ,then you will have to go for Geology and Earth Sciences.(Although the competition for Mining Engineers is easier as compared to other branches of Engineering).

And the last and the foremost thing for we bachelors that Mining Engineers are not made for Girls. GIRLS and MINING ENGINEERS are like ‘oasis’ and the ‘iceberg’.


P.S: All the views about Mining has been compiled after author’s personal stay in a township of Uranium Mine at Narwapahar, Jamshedpur for a month.

The "6.88" ! !

6.88 and a steep fall of 0.33 in my Cumulative Grade Point Average this semester. GPA of 7.67 means, I am no longer eligible to hold an Honours certificate.
Before I commence , I wish

Happy New Year to all of you.!!

May this New Year brings success and fun to all of you.

With this post I will no longer sugar-coat my posts and no longer will I deliberately try to make a post just for the sake of making a post. I will be much straight forward now onwards, may be in the process it may hurt someone. But I can’t help it. You have to take it that way because I will be presenting my sole thoughts. And if I don’t, that means I am a fake portrait. So, better let the world get acquainted with reality. It has been since long that I decided to be this way. Its neither a post break – up consequence nor a New year resolution; although both makes a sense here !

I had been in a traumatic one month of my life which my friend Maharshi had already blogged very nicely. To go to his blog Click here. He had shared that bitter experience along with me.

Some of the very nice snaps that he clicked over there are featured here. Have a look on them. Don't get confused by the dates on the snaps we forgot to set the correct date on the cam. All the pics have been taken in the month of december in and around Narwapahar (Jamshedpur, Jharkhand)

Kudos ! to his photography skills ! !

Now I have concluded of what I will be opting to go for after my engineering. I will go for an MBA. May be this came at a wrong time because right now I’m “The 6.88 guy” and I require a semester to prove myself. I have never gone for mugging a content just for the sake of a good GPA but probably this time I will have to mend my ideology and will have to walk with class - notes in the hostel corridor on examination times.

It has been just two days that I’m back from my hellish Industrial training which fully motivated me for MBA and I was fully determined to begin my CAT preparation right from the day 1 but alas ! I was given my grade sheet and I require to pay attention to my engineering career and GPA at least for coming one semester. Once I rectify the loss of this semester I will go for my CAT preparation for sure probably from 5^th sem.