JUVENILIA

Suicidal Engineering

2011-02-12T16:05:00.005+05:30

People say, “When Engineers play, the world sees a revolutionary way”. I concur. Most of you would agree. But how do these Engineers play. A burning question, do they even play?

Like every day as we assemble in the Mausi (read: tea-shop), even today we did. But unlike other days when our center of discussion were ranging in a very narrow bandwidth of Start-ups to internships. Today we had a sad story in store. A dear friend of ours had left us forever. Although none of us had seen him earlier, neither of us could trace who he was. But he was someone within our family our very own NIT family. For the administration, he did commit suicide. And the best here I can do, I mourn for the departed soul. May his soul rest in peace!

Does the story end here? It has been 29 months since I came into engineering and this was the 6^th condolence meeting I was in. I was sobbing while in the condolence. How these suicides and deaths have become the run-of-the-mill for the engineering institutes. After all where is the flaw? The administration obviously can’t evade, it is to be blamed. But is it only the administration which is to be blamed? Aren’t we also responsible to an extent? People jump from the fifth floor just because they failed in love. Can you imagine more stupid reason for a suicide? Agreed, I’m not the right person to comment on love and valentine. But suicide isn’t sublime.

And strikingly, more reputed the institute, more suicide cases buzz. Students are stressed with the curriculum unreasonably. And the ones who attempt suicide are a subset of the union of the two mutually exclusive sets.

Set 1:

Students who aren’t endowed with extra ordinary intelligence. (I personally believe, talent can never be nurtured, it is always god-gifted) This type of students are either in Engineering because, the government treats them as their son-in-law and reserves seats for them or because they couldn’t think of any other career option after class XII and iteratively tried for Engineering exam and made it somehow after ‘n’ number of attempts.

Set 2:

Students who are endowed with intelligence but they don’t have faith in their intelligence. Rather they prefer working hard which brings them among the elite in terms of GPA. Even if you burn the midnight oil in Engineering, you can’t be satisfied being second to any XYZ. And if it becomes repetitive the bad consequences start popping. Had they kept faith on their intelligence and would have done smart work instead of working hard, they would have never been in the elite group but would have done fairly well and been above average.

There is another set of students, the Set 3:

These students are in engineering not because they are super talented but because they are lucky to have affluent fathers. Any engineering college can be their dream alma mater they just need to throw in some cash. This set of students unlike the previous two, don’t bother about GPA and so are rarely stressed. But a fair part of this set goes insane, when it comes to love and valentine. And a few cases of suicide do come out of this flock, but the reasons are different, for their father’s would have thought, Engineering was not their cup of tea. These students would have done miracles in the domains they loved.

Fortunately, IITs and NITs are devoid of such set 3 students. Had they been not, maybe I would have attended few more condolence meetings.

WAKE UP PARENTS !

Don’t be so obsessed with Engineering. Stop saying to your children, “ Beta Engineering Entrance me to baith hi jana”. There is no dearth of lucrative career options. Just put yourselves in your children’s shoes and see the world. The world would look better and brighter.

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The Shift . . .

2011-01-16T23:17:00.007+05:30

The excerpt that follows may sound a little trendy as you find in autobiographies but is apt sans any exaggeration. I recall the shattered face of that lady who rented me a room in her flat in Kota for two years for my engineering entrance preparation, when i first uttered that I am a Bihari after a fair deal of finalising the room for a couple of thousand bucks a month. She was like, 'oh my god, Bihari !! My goodness , what if you use my ally to shit.' I ain't expecting any cheap laugh at this point. I guess, even she doubted if i would rape her daughter. This was sad but it was moronic on my part that I couldn't blame her for this after my worst possible insult.
If you remember the movie, 'Ye Mera India'. There is a still in which Rajpal Yadav arrives at the Mumbai CST and begs for job to a beggar over there. And even that beggar kicks him saying,

"Go back to Bihar, you Biharis come and pollute Mumbai."

In the same movie, the Mumbai traffic police stops a car walla just because he doubted him to be a Bihari, because his audio player was rhythming at

'Main aayi hun UP Bihar Lootne'.

Though I liked the movie, its very sad for me and the Bihari community (which I never endorse as such) that our conditions have been a source of inspiration for such movies. Aweful ! Yesterday when I was searching for the nearest Subway outlet in Patna on subway locator, you couldn't imagine it was in Durgapur (West Bengal). What is, that made Subway to prefer Durgapur over Patna ? Not a single Subway in entire Bihar. Even, I bet if some one has travelled entire India except one state, that one would be Bihar !

But then, There's a paradigm shift . . .

Today, contrastingly, if any leading firm wishes to expand its span, the first state it travels is Bihar. Untill recently there was not a single Shopping Mall in the state capital, but today there are a plenty of and a dozen under construction. A single man makes up the majority if god is with him.

Imagine the case when thousand men will be having thousand respective gods with them, and thus they will be making up thousands of majorities. Won't they bring about the change thousand times as Bihar had recently. I say, crap the thousand deal, just 28 + 7 of them are enough. But, the question arises, who should they be ? I have laid down three criteria:

1. He should not be even a distant kin of Mr. Karunanidhi.

2. He should not be a PhD holder from any of the Bihar Universities during 1990-2005 (The infamous Lalu Kingdom).The degress were all fake.

3. He should not be an Anti-Hindu Muslim or an Anti-Muslim Hindu.

Just these three criteria make up the things. Apart from this if he happens to be an Engineering student or in a case any graduate from any reputed institute is all enough to flagshipize the Indian Glory. Why did I say engineering student and how do I define a reputed institute ? I will come to it in a while. At this point, I say,the power and the enthusiasm the youth possess is incomparable. You can't expect a septuagenerian Prime Minister with a bye pass surgery done to handle the Onion Price, check the Naxalite attacks, Scrutinize the corrupt cabinet ministers, attend the G-20 summit, fight for the permanent membership in UN security council and to deliver the convocation addresses in Universities all in one stretch. It's is simply impossible.

India now needs people like me and you who has education, who knows the societal set-up of rural India and also has been an intimate denizen of the breeding mall culture. The person who can sip his morning coffee in the Starbucks and while on the way to his uncle's place, can also stop by 'amar dhaba' and can have his Gold Flake. Such a versatile personality is all what Indian politics lacks as on date. The Indian Politics is corrupt. Young people should survey out the society. Their needs should be properly analysed. A proper frame work has to be made. And then youth should launch their campaigns in accordance. The honesty, the dire to work hard, and the thirst to see India developed is at its trough in the 35% young enthusiasts of our nation. Just put the onus on us and see the miracle in a decade.

For God's sake, if I become the cabinet minister then, will drive straight to Kota just after the oath and will kill Mrs. M.L Sharma in my first agenda. And then the drive to flagshipise India will take precedence over even extra marital affairs.

I'm waiting for the day when Bhartiya Janta Party will come to NIT Rourkela for recruitments. Just they need to drop in a mail to the Training and Placement cell. A pick -up to the airport will be sent for sure.

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My secret page !

2010-12-16T12:30:00.008+05:30

When I was offered the joining letter by Schlumberger, people raised their eye-brows as if I would mine Copper from their Gold mines. I was placed in some sub Saharan African oasis. Life Expectancy was too low. Demographics said, only 1.5 % of the total population were immigrants. Of which only 30 % could return back safely. My decision to join the firm came as the biggest surprise to their lives. But I didn't have any other option to choose.

The days and years passed by, neither did I mine Copper nor had I faked their Gold with the fool's gold. Life was going at a very smooth pace. Parents agreed to marry me to my love. As none other they could find who agreed to stay with me in the Sub Saharan Burkina Faso. I felt like arranged marriage was invented for me, but it was falsified then. No tops ! No turns ! Life was moving on in a way expected for a mining engineer. She too adopted herself with the Burkina Culture. In the subsequent years, We had a baby daughter. My wife got another "human" to play with. She was admitted in a French school there when she grew little older.

One sunny morning, I got a call from one of my best school friends who was working with some news channel in Latur, Maharashtra, India. He invited me to India for his wedding. I flew alone to India to attend it. It was the first time that i flew alone since I stayed in Burkina Faso. I was feared if my wife would stay safe.

This India visit came as a even bigger surprise to my wife. I resigned Schlumberger and chose an independent profession in India after my return to Burkina.

I started liking the new job. It fetched me a handsome salary but lesser than that in Burkina. But, me and my wife both were happier. My daughter started learning Hindi.

One October morning, I woke up with a call from a person saying, "Is this Mr. AR ? you are saying to the Chief Minister of Karnataka. See, I am impressed by the ways you reveal scams and publicize it on the television. Owing to your virtue, I wish to see you once in my office. It will be very kind if you please visit me this friday."

I was perplexed. The best I could expect was an excellence award. That Friday, I went to see him in his office. As soon as I reached, he ordered his men to shut the doors and put before me a cup of coffee. You won't believe, he said,

"See, Mr. AR I'm gonna give away the government land to two of my sons and a daughter-in-law for a price which will be much below the market price. So, it will be your day, if you reveal this scam in the news channel you work for. And yes, don't forget to say that, the land is worth many crores. This will fetch you big leap in your career as it will then be a multi-crore scam."

I disclosed his scam. My popularity grew. My wife was skeptical about this. She doubted why would one ask to reveal his/her own scam.

In a couple of weeks, I got a call from A.Raja. He was very much enthusiastic about his project. He came up with a scam which worthed more than 5 times our yearly national budget. But he was desperate as no body was taking up his case. He was being cursed by his secretary for not being able to get even one media person at his door. He was like bubbling out with his scam. he had done all his job . He was just waiting for a platform upon which he could shout about his scam to the entire nation. I took up his job and publicized his scam of whopping amount.

I grew much more with this project. People having done scams of merely 100 crores too started approaching me. I felt very disappointed when I could not help them. I didn't have spare time to publicize the scams of less than 1000 crores.

When at home, my cellphone rang every minute. My wife and daughter did not like my busy schedule. They wished me to spare time for them. In the mean while, I got another call from Mr. Suresh Kalmadi. And when I was talking to him. My cellphone beeped many a times. It was Mr. Ashok Chavan's call in waiting. I dealt with both of them and helped them gaining popularity.

Now, I had grown a national figure. People were queued up in front of my house with their individual scams of various capacities, when I left home in the morning for the office. Things turned their way. I had a wikipedia page for me now. I was a very popular figure among the lobbyists and the people who did scams did honor me a lot.

One day, when I was in a cocktail party organised in my honor by one of the clients whose scam I had successfully busted , Rahul Gandhi called me. And while I was talking to him, I got a call-in-waiting by Manmohan Singh. I immediately swapped the call and answered Mr. Singh, "Sir, Rahul Ji is on call, I'm calling you back in a while !"

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BJP minus Hindutva.

2010-12-14T11:12:00.012+05:30

I time and again use to confess, I hate mythology and the spiritual talks kill me. But does that mean, I am anyway shallower ? Do you conclude with my negligence towards these, that I can't be of any solid notion towards an aspect ? Is it so ? You morons have already built a strong point some where deep inside your cerebrum ,that understanding India means to understand the Hindu mythology and neither can anybody understand the later skipping former.

Another day, when in a comment on Facebook, I wrote: "wreck this congress government and substitute it with 'BJP minus radical Hinduism' ", I got three texts back on my cellphone. One of them asked, "Do you think, After Subtracting, Hinduism from BJP, BJP does exist even? " I couldn't send an instant reply to her. But, I had to think over it and I was able to answer her after a detailed analysis of the BJP and its agenda.

It is indeed obvious, that BJP has its image as a Hindu political party. But let me put up a question, suppose,

I'm leading a political party and will put before you the agenda of just making Hindu community stronger and will also assure a temple at Ayodhya. Another day, other person comes leading another political party, and assures you, economic development, better roads, technological development, uninterrupted power supply and education for all.

At the polling booth, for which party, will you press the EVM ? Atleast not for the former.

But in the recent past, India has seen the Prime minister from that party. Do you think people of India are so feeble that they lack even the simple sense of judgement. Certainly not. And what does that mean, BJP is not only about Hinduism and the Ayodhya temple. And if it would have been, do you think Kishanganj would have voted for BJP in the Bihar assembly elections which has 70% muslim population ?

Infact, in the Bihar elections, BJP won 91 of the 102 seats it contested. Do you think people have just voted it to ensure one ram temple in each of its constituency. No, people believe that, if BJP subtracts Hinduism from its agenda, it becomes their favorite. For the election campaigning, Narendra Modi was not called because he is regarded as a Hindu icon, neither BJP discussed the Ayodhya temple issue during it's entire campaigning in Bihar. And this bore the fruits. People sweeped the way for BJP because then BJP proved to be the best option.

In the past also, whenever BJP insisted on its, orthodox Hinduism views, it was wrecked. A couple of years ago, after the Kandhamal riots, BJP has to loose it's share from Satta in Orissa ! Kalyan Singh lost in UP.

People take Narendra Modi as an orthodox Hindu leader. I wondered then how is he the Chief minister of a state for so long. I surfed his official website, and i found the answers. He has done fantabulous work in the female literacy, Special Economic Zone and agriculture. Which means it is impossible for a party to win the hearts of the people on this orthodox folio.

And yes, when BJP deletes this Hinduism agenda it becomes the strongest contender to rule the nation. The present government lacks the unshaken hands to initiate. India has so far conducted 6 nuclear tests out of which 5 have been conducted in 5 years tenure of the BJP government. Don't you think US hadn't tried to forbid India from doing so. Even The then prime minister turned down the US request to sign the CTBT. Isn't this a sign of strong governance.

Today, in USA, one or other Indian citizen is stripped at the airport every hour for the sake of their security. Even top officials like Meera Shankar and Hardeep Puri were asked for security check.

Isn't this an act of sheer coward that, we at India welcome Hillary Clinton without passing her through any security check who is at a post at par as George Fernandes was then, when he was security checked by the TSA.

A simple solution, every day the Ambassador of USA to India visits the south block in Delhi. Just one day, check him thoroughly in an typical Indian style at the South Block entrance i.e shake him from top to bottom. USA will learn the lessons. But no. Present UPA government can't dare do so. What will be the fate of nuclear deal then ?

And so I put my step forward and support "BJP minus radical Hinduism".

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Cosmetics changed !

2010-10-15T12:50:00.022+05:30

Juvenilia is glad to see its first guest post from Mr. Raghav Lal, a prolific writer and a social worker in reply to the post by Himanshu Shekhar titled Macauley's Legacy - 2. Owner of Juvenilia is the grand son of Mr. Raghav Lal.

The legacy of Indians with scholarly English aptitude is large and commemorable. With the advent of long slavery and consequent feeding of Indian School of thoughts and their applied sociology, the Indian entrepreneurs were compelled to search the centre of live institutes in English medium in the country and Oxford and Cambridge abroad. Institutions abroad were compelled to appreciate the Indian talents even in their 'racial hatred' and 'false white pride'. Indian students did establish their flag mast in every sphere like science, Mathematics, literature, politicsal aspirations, weaponry and battle field. Their curious learning, sincere research and appropriate use of vocabulary received appreciation on the world platform of genius.

1. A physicist Shri Jagdish Chandra Bose's experiment to prove life in immate bodies was a miracle.

2. Shri Satyendra Nath Bose's is still on the record in the form of Bose-Einstein Theory.

3. Indian Young students in London established a hostel for themselves where world class rebellions and freedom fighters could find a cordial shelter and framed the blue print of their future government. And the same hostel is known as 'India House' now. Lenin, De- Belra, Maxim Gorkey and M.N Roy may be counted in this context.

4. Many freedom fighters like Shri Vinayak Damodar Savarkar wrote his famous book, 'the first war of Indian Independence' in English.

5. Shri Aurobindo Ghosh, Shri Subhash Chandra Bose, Mahatma Gandhi, Shri Raj Gopalachari and Smt. Sarojini Naidu preferred English language to express their claim for freedom of the country and exposed the tyranny imposed by the British rule.

6. The English answer sheets of M.A class were sent to Oxford from Calcutta for usual assessment and the answer sheet of an ordinary examinee, Rajendra Prasad was sent back with glamorous remark

The Examinee is better than the examiner.

7. And most importantly, one can't forget the mesmerized faces of the delegates when Swami Vivekananda began explaining the values of Indian life and Religion in the Chicago world Religion Conference in English.

All such prestigious records were established by such Indian youths whose sole aims and objectives were to earn prestige for the nation. They preferred high thinking even in scarcity.

Now a days India has top educational institutions to teach all wordly go of the life, which are at par with those abroad. Many foreigners are longing to get education here. Many so-called advanced countries prefer to get their patients treated here, even in a critical case. Many American and European big countries of hardware and software have established their branches in India with confidence of perfection in their product in India. President Obama regularly expresses his anxiety over growing competence of the Indian youth in production and the managerial skills of the industries.

So, the problem doesn't lie with the media of expression, but with fading the national pride. The present national scenario of aspirations in India has synchronized itself in the self domain and singularity.

I must earn money and avail a lavish life

This is the goal insight. Thus they are earning and shaping life like crorepati in individual capacity. So, they do not take it bad to project advertisement with wrong spell like the one in Child bear'.

They have love neither for Indian arts, culture, books or lifestyle nor for the same imported from abroad. They seek money, apply sure success tools for that and enjoy satisfaction in life.

Please wait for the time of saturation to come....

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I'll vote for the leader, if he uses Garnier !

2010-10-12T13:39:00.005+05:30

I remember when I came home from Sainik School in the preparation leave for class Tenth boards, to be precise in February 2006, I brought along with 'Five Point Someone'. And when I was supposed to study for the boards, I kept my self occupied in this novel. One day, Dadaji astonishingly held the book and turned a few pages of the same. None of my surprise, he warned me for reading that book saying, this poor chap (Chetan Bhagat) knows very well how to write bad things in a good manner and knows very well how to distract the teenagers. Today once again Dadaji confronted with the same chap's article in TOI. But this time that poor chap is no more a poor. He has grown into a man of deep insight for the nation. Dadaji was so impressed with his article that he asked me to translate that article in Hindi so as to make that article reach a larger mass. The article that follows is a sole work of Chetan Bhagat. The only credit that Juvenilia possesses is its translation in Hindi.

इससे पहले कि मैं शुरुआत करूँ , मैं ये स्पष्ट कर देना चाहता हूँ कि मैं न तो किसी राजनीतिक दल का समर्थन कर रहा हूँ, न ही मुझे किसी राजनीतिक दल से कोई क्षोभ है l मैंने ये लेख अपने निरीक्षण से और देश में हो रही हलचलों को भांप कर लिखा है l

मुझे ऐसा लगता है कि भारतीय जनता पार्टी अभी अपनी अब तक कि सबसे मजबूत स्थिति में है l पर क्या ये सत्ता में आ सकती है ? बेशक, ये संभव है l पर एक मजबूत स्थिति में होने से सत्ता में आने के लिए उसे कुछ कदम उठाने पड़ेंगे l मैं उन सारे संभव प्रयासों को आपके सामने लाने कि कोशिश करूँगा l मैं ये इसलिए कर रहा हूँ, क्योंकि मैं ये समझता हूँ कि एक मजबूत विपक्ष देश के हित में अत्यंत आवश्यक है l

सबसे पहले तो, मैं भाजपा को इस बात के लिए दाद देना चाहता हूँ, कि उसने अयोध्या मसले के कोर्ट के फैसले के बाद भी अपने पर पूरा नियंत्रण रखा l जरा सोचिये , इस फैसले ने पूरी तरह से भाजपा एवं उसकी मांगों को सही ठहराया l ये वही मसला है, जिसके लिए भाजपा ने पिछले बीस सालों से सिर-पाँव एक कर रखा था l यहाँ तक कि उसने अपनी साफ़-सुथरी छवि तक को दांव पर लगा डाला था l जनता में एक गलत सन्देश भी गया था l भाजपा ने अपने कुछ वोटरों को भी इसकी खातिर गंवाया था l

पर इन सब के बाद भी जब कोर्ट का फैसला आया तो भाजपा एवं उसके मित्रों- राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ , विश्व हिन्दू परिषद् एवं अन्य भगवा प्रेमियों ने जीत के जश्न का इजहार तक नहीं किया l कहीं जीत की रैली नहीं दिखी, उत्सव का माहौल नहीं दिखा l नहीं, क्योंकि भाजपा ने शान्ति को तवज्जो दी !

एक राजनितिक दल के लिए विपक्ष में होते हुए ये कोई आसन काम नहीं था l ऐसी जीत तो पार्टी के कार्यकर्ताओं में जान फूंकने के लिए एक उम्दा वजह थी l इसे प्रदर्शित कर भाजपा जनता में अपनी पैठ को और भी गहरा कर सकती थी l

पर क्यों ? आखिर भाजपा ने ऐसा कोई जश्न या उत्सव क्यों नहीं रखा ? भाजपा अपने अन्य भगवा प्रेमियों को कैसे शांत रख पायी ? सिर्फ इसलिए की उन सबने शान्ति को तवज्जो दी l

उत्तर स्पष्ट है - भाजपा को ये बखूबी पता है कि अभी वो अपनी अब तक कि सबसे मजबूत स्थिति में है l

और कांग्रेस द्वारा अपने ही पाले को ध्वस्त करने की कोशिशों ने काफी हद तक इसमें भाजपा की मदद की l बजट में अनियंत्रित व्यय ने मुद्रास्फीति के दर को लगातार बढ़ने दिया l राष्ट्रमंडल खेलों में हुए भूचाल भ्रष्टाचार के भी दोषी अभी तक सलाखों के बाहर हैं l कश्मीर मुद्दा एवं अन्य कई ऐसी गलतियाँ हैं जो की सत्ताधारी दल ने की हैं l

अतिरिक्त इनके, उनका सिरमौर सभी कुछ नियंत्रित करता है, पर जिम्मेदारी किसी बात की नहीं लेता, कभी कुछ बोलता नहीं है -- एक गैरजिम्मेदाराना हरकत का उम्दा उदाहरण !! और ये कोई सुन्दर दृश्य नहीं है l

पलड़ा अब भाजपा की तरफ झुक रहा है, और वैसे भी पिछले चुनाव में भाजपा ने महज ४ प्रतिशत वोट ही तो कम पाया था कांग्रेस की तुलना में l मतलब इसका ये है कि महज २ प्रतिशत वोट सारा पासा पलट सकता है कभी भी l

मगर,

कांग्रेस द्वारा खुद के पाले को ध्वस्त करने की कोशिश और उनकी गलतियों की वजह से जनता भाजपा को वोट देने लगेगी , ऐसा नहीं है l आवश्यक ये है की जनता भाजपा भाजपा की तरफ आकर्षित हो, न की कांग्रेस से विक्षुब्द हो कर भाजपा की तरफ आ जाए l

एक उदाहरण देता हूँ -

Apple ने हमेशा से Microsoft पर निशाना साधा है l Apple ने इस वजह से कुछ चुतपुतिए प्रशंशक भी पा लिए l पर कभी भी Apple , Microsoft के लिए तगड़ा प्रतिद्वंदी नहीं बन सका. जब Apple ने अच्छे सामान बनाने शुरू किये तभी लोगों ने Microsoft से Apple की तरफ रुख करना शुरू किया l आज बाजार में Apple का शेयर Microsoft से कहीं ज्यादा है l

ठीक उसी तरह आज भाजपा को भी अच्छे सामान देने पड़ेंगे जनता के लिए l

सबसे पहले तो भाजपा को अपने मूल्यों और लक्ष्यों को संक्षिप्त में समझाना पड़ेगा l भाजपा के सिद्धांत काफी लम्बे और नीरस हैं. लक्ष्य इतने छोटे होने चाहिए की उसे हम एक विजिटिंग कार्ड के पीछे लिख सकें या फिर एक SMS में आसानी से भेजे जा सकें l और साथ ही साथ आसान भाषा में भी होने चाहिए l

लक्ष्य ऐसे होने चाहिए जैसे -

जनता के प्रति जिम्मेदारी, भ्रष्टाचार का पूर्ण बहिष्कार, युवा प्रतिनिधित्व एवं धर्मं निरपेक्षता l

दूसरा ये की इन सभी लक्ष्यों को निर्धारित करने के साथ ही एक ठोस कदम भी निर्धारित किये जाने चाहिए l उदाहरण के लिए जनता के प्रति जिम्मेदारी हेतु, हर MP के लिए ये आवश्यक कर दिया जाना चाहिए कि वे अपनी कार्यों कि डायरी को एक online platform के माध्यम से जनता के सामने रखें l भ्रष्टाचार के पूर्ण बहिष्कार हेतु पार्टी को अपने अन्दर से उन सभी भ्रष्ट तत्वों को इससे पहले ही निकाल फेंकना चाहिए कि उसे कोर्ट दोषी ठहराए l युवा प्रतिनिधित्व हेतु, पार्टी को कुछ प्रतिशत टिकट युवाओं के लिए आरक्षित कर देने चाहिए l

ये सब कुछ ऐसे कदम हैं जिसके लिए भारत को ऐसी राजनीति देखनी पड़ेगी जो कभी इसने देखी नहीं है, पर आज भारत इन सबके के लिए अवश्य रूप से तैयार है l

तीसरा सामान जो भाजपा जनता को दे सकती है, वो थोडा रंगीन प्रतीत होता है परन्तु उतना ही आवश्यक भी है l नेताओं को ऐसा बनना पड़ेगा कि वो युवाओं को प्रोत्साहित कर सकें l ऐसा होने के लिए सारी चीजें महत्त्वपूर्ण हैं- योग्यता, जनसंपर्क में सिद्धता ,कर्मठता एवं सक्रियता l और हाँ उनका रंग-रूप, कद-काया, और चेहरा भी !!

ये सब गुण थोड़े दोयम दर्जे के प्रतीत हो सकते हैं पर ये वही गुण हैं जो मीडिया को अपनी ओर आकर्षित करते हैं | और आज के समय में मीडिया कि ताकत को नजरअंदाज नहीं किया जा सकता है |

अंतिम परन्तु सबसे महत्त्वपूर्ण प्रयास भाजपा का ये होना चाहिए कि वो अपने-आप को उत्तेजक भाषणों से जितना दूर रख सकती हो, रखे | ये पागलपन में बोले गए उत्तेजक भाषण कभी भी विश्वास जीतने में सफल नहीं हो सकते| घृणा का भाषण करने वाले बिलकुल सिनेमा में आईटम नंबर करने वाली नायिकयों के सामान होते हैं, जो तात्कालिक आकर्षण तो पा लेती हैं परन्तु अपने मूल्यों को गवां देती हैं|

इसलिए आपका ये अत्यावश्यक प्रयास होना चाहिए कि आप ये निर्धारित कर लें कि आपको आईटम नंबर वाली नायिका बनना है या मुख्य किरदार वाला नायक !!

बहुत जल्द राष्ट्रमंडल खेल ख़त्म हो जायेंगे, संसद का सत्र पुनः शुरू हो जायेगा | सच्ची आतिशबाजी का लुत्फ़ तो तब आएगा जब सारा विपक्ष , भाजपा के नेतृत्व में एकजुट होकर राष्ट्रमंडल खेलों के भ्रष्ट अफसरों को सलाखों के पीछे करवाएगा | इस बूते पर भाजपा अपने पुराने रंग धोकर एक नए सुन्दर अवतार में आ सकती है | एक नया आधुनिक अवतार , धर्मनिरपेक्ष अवतार एवं एक शालीन राजनितिक दल की छवि वाला अवतार | और तभी मंदिर की घंटियाँ बजेंगी | तब न केवल हमारे पास रामजन्मभूमि होगी , एक राम राज्य भी होगा |

तो क्या भाजपा इस चुनौती के लिए तैयार है ?

PS: I'm sorry for those who clicked on this article assuming it to be in Engilsh. Please find the original article by Chetan Bhagat in English here.

Saffron Terror !!

2010-09-05T02:15:00.008+05:30

[Note: This post is written as a reply to Himanshu Shekhar's post on his blog. He goes on to elaborate that nothing called 'Saffron Terror' exists in this nation. Lets analyse.]

Chidambaram utters and a shoe sways on his face!! If not today, may be next time when he commits this crime. Chidambaram, you are the home minister of a country which is just by fluke a secular country. It ought to be a Hindu nation and no matter what, we experience a royal hospitality because we are magnanimous ‘one billion’ of ‘one point some billion’ population. You may be assigned to maintain a state of welfare for all the citizens but we least bother. For us, development of other under privileged sects at the cost of our community is what we can sue you for.

Let’s have a look on what else this saffron brigade has in its store to present before you which by the matter of the fact of being in a country of pro-saffron majority, you may have skipped.

Saffron Terror 1 : Killing of Graham Staines :

In Mayurbhanj, Orissa, on 22^nd January 1999, Graham Staines was brutally killed with his two sons in an attack by a lead saffron organization people. Dara Singh, the prime accused had connections with the Bajrang Dal and was sentenced to death by a special court of CBI for this brutal act on 22 Sep, 2003. Graham Staines actually worked for an Australian missionary society in the area of Mayurbhanj. Ms. Stains still selflessly runs a leprosy house for the welfare of the leprosy patients in Baripada, Orrisa.

Before I proceed further, let me beforehand confess that all the data and facts have been compiled from various reliable sources and these data and facts have been further blended with the emotions of the people belonging from Christians, converted Christians , re-converted Hindus and the tribal sects of Orissa, fortunately, I share my dinner table with.

Saffron Terror 2 : Rape of sister Meena Lalita :

On 25^th August, 2008, Sister Meena Lalita was allegedly raped in Nuagaon, Orissa by a fanatic Hindu mob. She was even dragged alongside a priest. She hid herself because of the fear of Hindu extremists for long. It was only after the suspension of a police officer for delaying the investigation that the case came into mass picture. The woe is that, then BJP was in alliance with the ruling government of Orrisa and the Saffron-BJP conundrum is all known. Archbishop of Cuttack further insisted for the CBI probe of the alleged rape by Bajrang Dal Activists and then the case swayed further.

Saffron Terror 3 : Atrocities on Christians of Kandhamal :

Following the killing of Swami Lakshamanananda Saraswati on 23^rd August,2008 a violence led by VHP activists gripped Kandhamal intensely. The VHP activists led none of the stones unturned in devastating Christian base in Kandhamal which according to them where responsible for Swami’s killing. Without giving any heed to the claim of the killing by the Maoists, Vishwa Hindu Parishad men took all their hands out in revenge for their earlier enmity with the Christian groups. They set Christian orphanages on fire, killed Christian employees of the missionary charities and raped the Christian women.

P.S: I further googled the history of Kandhamal and what I found is much more revealing and shocking for pro-saffron people. The clash between two odd village groups was firstly intensified by these communal brigade and was then given a shape of riot because coincidently the group belonged to two different religions. It will be explained in the follow up comments section.

Saffron Terror 4 : Malegaon Blasts :

On 8^th September 2006, in the shiny afternoon when some muslim pilgrims were returning after Friday prayers on the holy Shab-e-barat day in Malegaon,Maharashtra, some Hindu extremist organization targeted them and killed 50 in a series of a blasts inside the Muslim cemetery and injured hundreds others in the stampede that followed. The prime accused Pragya Thakur is the protagonist of the saffron brigade.

Saffron Terror 5 : Mecca masjid blast, Hyderabad :

On 18 May, 2007 Mecca Masjid of Hyderabad which is very close to Charminar, was targeted and was blasted at the time of Friday prayers aiming the lives of innocent Muslims. The explosives used and pattern of attack pose a serious threat to the internal security of our country. The chief suspect in this case is also a guiding Saffron group.

If this is not enough to put the threat of Saffron terror before the country there are cases of Ajmer blasts on 11 October 2007.

In a nutshell, if we say, government is creating a ‘pseudo terror’ in the form of ‘Saffron Terror’ just to hide its incompetency to fight the ‘Jihadi Terror’, then it will be too impatient of a comment by a sensible person. The government is incompetent in fighting Jihadi Terror but at the same time it is not creating a pseudo terror in the shawl of saffron terror. To be in the realistic and logical ambience, ‘Saffron Terror’ too exists in parallel. We should make the actual figures handy and moreover must not shut the mouths of the oppressed few crores of our population. Rather should lend our supporting mouths to guide their words to the proper platform . . . .

S-word and the non-engineering girls !

2010-08-28T00:10:00.006+05:30

[Disclaimer: This work is completely fiction yet the author doesn't deny its resemblance to any real incident.]

“Hey dear, U still awake. Txt me few Girlie vulgar msgs within d limit of decency.”

Hell, I was astonished not because the message came at 0245 hours but was amused to guess, how can a message be vulgar and at the same time decent. An engineering student’s cell-phone usually hosts only two kinds of messages, first is the hell stock of decent messages (read: romantic) sent by his girlfriend or the other one is equally hellish stock of vulgar( read: non-veg) messages sent by his male friends consumed in other 2299 engineering colleges. A few pedantic friends do send messages to enquire about class timings and assignments but I don’t think they are saved by any of the dumb-academia like me unless the cell-phone hosts a 32 GB memory card.

The problem began here. To find a message with vulgarity and decency both was tougher than watching ‘Twilight.’ I scanned my inbox a multiple times. After every round I eliminated a few messages which didn’t comply with the criteria set by me for being decent. I considered all those messages which had objectionable F-words or were having those restricted biological terms which even our bio teachers refrained to utter, as vulgar. And yes, those Naughty-America inspired messages were nowhere in the queue. Rather, they should be in porn category with restriction for people below 18 to read.

Any way my initial few rounds yielded a few results.

Consider,

‘Height of pressure in corporate, An employee for the company goes to toilet and sits on the seat. Front wall reads, “Had u given so much pressure on sales, company wud’ve achieved it’s target”.’

Umm no, this message can count for being in the limit of decency but is nowhere vulgar. And after all, if you are to send this to a girl, you have to be a pinch more conscious. So, I went for some more trials.

Successive rounds brought some more,

“Why are boys so careless and irresponsible ?? Coz they know that somewhere some sweet and innocent girl is learning to be responsible for him.”

Way too romantic !! Nowhere vulgar. According to her demand, it should be vulgar as well. My frustration rose exponentially. And being an engineering student, I couldn’t ignore a girl so easily. DAMN ! ! ! So I went for two-three more trials. Many messages plummeted on the cell screen but none exactly fit into her criteria of ‘vulgar as well as decent’.

"A guy wid green, red n blue colord hair said 2 an old man staring at him, wats up oldie ? never did anythng wild ? Oldie: Yup, fucked a peacock once, and wondering if u r my son ! !"

Damn !! I can’t send this F-word message counting in a limit of decency that too when the word is not used as a simile. It is used to make its actual meaning. Hell. I’m sorry. I scanned my cell once again for the last time. And after that I would have ignored her. And yes remember, If it comes to an extent that an engineering student is ignoring a girl can be a consequence of only two possible cases. Either the girl is way too boring or the guy is drunk. And I don’t drink and neither I wanted to place this girl in ‘way too boring’ sect. So, I finally sent her a message without this time really concerning if the message really complies with her criteria.

“2 sperms chatting on mobile, 1st: I’m sumwhere b/w fallopian tube n uterus, r u nearby ? 2nd : No no I’m on a different route, just crossing oesophagus !! :P :P.”

Within a second her reply popped up,

“U r too saintly of a person. Is dis msg girlie ? Send a msg which shud b girlie as well”

I read the message umpteen number of times to check how come this message was not girlie. I didn’t find any reason. And when I reached the verge of my sore I replied her,

“Dad on call, watching Salt; will catch you later.”

And then I switched off my mobile and slept without giving any heed to the authenticity of my text, That why would Papa call at 0335 hrs ?

Crap… But am still wondering, how the hell that message is not girlie ? Whether that S-word or what ?? Does this S-word really have no relevance with the girls? I wonder…

" Do non-engineering girls too drink ? "

Is Banning Child Labour the Solution ?

2010-07-12T16:09:00.004+05:30

I yelled "Ramu" and he replied, "Yes Sir !" And every one there with me in that coffee shop amusingly stared me for 17 seconds !! And yes the reason for that was obvious. They all wanted a straw for their floats and so they tried their lingo best to call that under 14 guy employed with that shop. "Chhotu" and it failed ! "Munna" it too failed ! "Oye Hero" again no response from the other side ! Some chap with embedded etiquettes (Ode to HRCs and CCDs) even called “Excuse me !". Needless to say, no response I doubt, even he could understand what it meant ? A big question for them was, “How on earth did I know his name was 'Ramu'?”

*FLASH*

I'm no SUPER SOUL. I have been to many such shops which employ children who should rather be in schools. I've gauged the trend in the names by now. That’s it the case.

This was the stuff that amused them but the actual thing that should’ve amused them was that, the chap was happy working there. I was not stunned at this. I know how it feels earning some money. His smiling face was an obvious consequence provided he’d get some coins in his pocket while returning home every evening. He has become self-dependant to some extent. He doesn't need to plead before his father for Rs. 2 lottery card. He can purchase his cap out of his own savings. There are reasons for him to be happy.

What role should we play for them? NIT boasts of being a premiere institute in terms of providing quality education, what about the kids employed in institute’s canteens and food corners? They don’t demand quality education they just wish to enjoy a basic education. And unfortunately NIT fails on this part.

On our part we hardly heed into whether our paperwala is a child laborer or not. The person who comes to deliver milk at our door has reached 14 or not? Add to this we have now developed a trend of keeping a child-servant in our homes. Awful!

I ask what if we really grow conscious and stop employing kids? Will it be the solution? What if I visit a shop and force the shopkeeper to down the shutter for he employs children in his shop? Will it work? They will instantaneously migrate to another shop for job. May be experience fetches them more salary then. A very odd scenario, let us suppose all of us swear not to employ child laborers so as they do not get jobs anywhere. Or better take government banning child labor. Have you ever thought who will feed their bed ridden fathers then? I can hear voices saying they will admit them in the schools. I bend before you! AASRA , your work is worth admiring! But what about the father then who in no time will bid adieu to all of us if his child fails to bring Rs.50 for his bread any evening.

Your social service is solicited but at the same time it needs to remove the potholes of the process. Things have to be thought from the roots. Stopping child labourers is no act of praise unless you ensure their family’s well-being which forced them for so. Stopping child labourers is just like forcing a wall with no displacement. Zero work !! You stop one and the other will employ him. It can’t be eradicated unless child labourers' employment don’t remain their family’s necessity. Rather we should generate employment for their fathers and mothers of their caliber.

Just for a thought, “ A night watchman can be a job for a deaf person.”

Think for some more, so that your noble causes really bear fruits !!

Image: Rooted and Muted by Sourav Pattanayak- Degree 361.

Jawaharlal Nehru was the father of Farooq Abdullah ?

2010-07-03T13:08:00.011+05:30

I remember, I won a treat for winning a bet against one of my friends when I was in Class VIII i.e 7 years back. The thing was, he favored the fact that Farooq Abdullah is the son of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru and I was strongly opposing. Actually i wondered how he could be. His complete family tree and who's who were in our course. In fact we had grown up mugging that. Moreover it was ridiculous to accept " Farooq Abdullah as the son of our first prime-minister Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru."

Yesterday the same friend of mine visited me. He had a three page printout of some article taken over from internet. Although he could not prove Abdullah being the son of Nehru. But many other derogatory facts about the Nehru-Gandhi Family were there in that printout. I will reveal all of them one by one.

Indira Gandhi converted to Muslim before marrying Feroze Khan:

Indira Gandhi came close to Feroze Khan while in England and she married Feroze Khan in a London mosque. Before marrying she converted to Islam. Probably that is why she wasn't allowed to enter Jagannath puri Temple. And when later she managed to enter because of her power the temple was completely washed when she returned.

Mahatma Gandhi was the father-in-law of Indira Gandhi:

Yes, Jawahar Lal Nehru and his wife Kamla Nehru were not satisfied with their daughter's marriage to a Muslim. So Mahatma Gandhi suggested Feroze Khan to adopt the surname 'Gandhi'. There is also a fair claim that Feroze Gandhi was adopted by Mahatma Gandhi. Feroze Khan's mother's was a parsi before marriage and her surname was Gandhy. The resemblence of her surname with Gandhi was probably the reason for him to adopt the surname of Mahatma Gandhi.

Feroze Gandhi was not the father of Sanjay Gandhi:

Father of Sanjay Gandhi was Mohammad Yunus, a close associate of Indira Gandhi and not Feroze Gandhi. And in fact Mohammad Yunus was the one to weep the most when Sanjay's plane had crashed and he died. He wished Sanjay should marry a Muslim girl so he was against the Sanjay-Menka match. Sanjay Gandhi also blackmailed Indira Gandhi a lot because he knew who his actual father was.

Sanjeev Gandhi had stolen a car and so he became Sanjay Gandhi:

Sanjeev Gandhi was arrested for a car theft in UK and so his passport and other documents were siezed. The then Indian ambassador to UK, Krishna Menon changed his name to Sanjay Gandhi and procured a new passport for him.

Rajiv Gandhi turned catholic before marrying Sonia Maino:

It is widely accepted and easily accessible fact on the internet that Rajiv Gandhi changed his name to Roberto before marrying Sonia Maino and he turned catholic too. His son was Raul and daughter was Bianca and not Rahul and Priyanka.

Ghiasuddin Ghasi was the grandfather of Jawahar Lal Nehru:

Nehru's grand father Ganga Dhar was employed in the Bahadur shah's court during 1857 when British took over Delhi. At that time none of the employees in his court was Hindu. according to mughal records. A Muslim kotwal named Ghiasuddin Ghasi was there who had to flee to Agra to save him self from the British. And he changed his name to Ganga Dhar.

Jawahar Lal Nehru was born in a red-light Area:

It is alleged that Jawahar lal Nehru's father Motilal allowed his wife to stay with Mobarak Ali in whose office Motilal was employed. Motilal's wife stayed with Mobarak Ali in his bungalow named 'Irshad Manzil'. Jawahar lal was not born to Mobarak Ali but to Motilal but in a small rented house in the middle of a redlight area. Probably, that is why Nehru's birthplace is not a tourist spot.

I'm cutting it here. Although ,there is also an allegation that Nehru had a sexual affair with Edwina Mountbatten, the wife of last Viceroy Louis Mountbatten. I browed internet for hours but could not find anything revealing Nehru's sexual affairs with Edwina. So, I won't comment. And neither could i find Farooq Abdullah being Nehru's son. So no chance of retro-treat my friend !!

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I'd smoke..

2010-06-19T09:59:00.005+05:30

Disclaimer: This post has no intentional resemblance to any one. Even if it goes that way then is sure to set for your benefit. Even if you wish to endorse smoking after reading this post then comment section awaits your fervent response. Remember your endorsement for smoking doesn't mean that you are a smoker.

Yes,I'd smoke....if Slovenia wins this Soccer WC. And I’m sure the latter isn’t going to happen and so neither I’m going to smoke as a consequence. And I also wish not to, when I’ve got umpteen other options to have. I wonder why they smoke. Don’t they have these options? They do have, but they are just little carried away, and I feel myself a little more conscious. I am not going to explain all those hazards of smoking and its dire consequences here on my blog. The target readers of this post are aware of them very well. And moreover I’m not being paid for that. I bet, hold a cigarette pack without touching that deadly crab and I’ll gift you with a ‘Gudang Garam’ for sure. The government has already made cigarette brands to place that crab almost all over the packet. So, I don’t think I can better create awareness through my blog.

Even then if you ask any smoker, “Why do you smoke?” he/she will entertain you with a free comedy show for the next fifteen minutes. He/she will present before you every hell reason and you won’t be able to resist laughing. For some it is a status symbol. My milkman is a chain smoker and he smokes every day when he comes to deliver milk at my door. Do you want that status? You may say, people like Enrique, Shakira, Pattinson and Selena Gomez smoke and so they have gained status. Then I would say , there are people like Kofi Annan, Amitabh Bachchan, Javed Akhtar and Hillary Clinton too who never smoked. Buddy it’s not the number of puffs that matters it’s the inner zeal and vigor that count.

I’m stunned to hear that there is also a buzz in the campus “B.Tech is incomplete without Beers, Babes and Bunks”. I ask what about the fairer sex then? Do they need to thank Article-377 !! I’m not intended to get your cheap laughs here (Read: cheap moronic laughs; if you are a smoker).For these smokers, beer inherits puffs. I’m scared if I’m going to be B.Tech or not. I’ll be happy if I don’t get B.Tech at the cost of smoking.

I ask the non-smokers, what you love eating the most be it “Mc puff with Fanta float” or “Chicken Wings with Cappuccino”, will you drop down your apartment in the hot summer afternoon when the temperature outside is 46 degrees just to walk to the nearest Mc D or KFC. I’m sure you won’t. But these smokers love their puffs more than you love your Chicken Wings. I have cases with me among my friends who walk more than a kilometer to get that bloody cigarette when we plan a bunk in between the two lectures. They have a much better option of enjoying Cold Coffee in the canteen and air conditioned net surfing thereafter.

Dear friends, still you have got enough time. If you plan to quit smoking once engineering is over why not today. After all this cigarette won’t fetch you status neither will it help you getting out of your stress. This will just add to it. There are better options to fight stress. Come with me and I’ll tell you how to pelt the professor’s residence who didn’t give you good Teacher’s assessment marks. It’s fun. I will tell you how to persuade HOD’s daughter for Computer lab’s key for late night surfing. Come, just join me and I’ll take you inside the Canteen through the ventilator at 2 AM. You will just enjoy.

All the smokers in general and my dear friends in particular you all are intelligent enough to understand this complete phenomenon. When you can crack one of the toughest engineering examinations then I’m sure you can sense my nerves too. So come join me in this campaign of making India Healthy India. Click here to join this campaign. Your single click will ensure a big step towards this dream. So, let’s join our hands together for this noble cause.

And yes I'm afraid in case Slovenia wins !!!

Love, Sex aur ab ye khap !!

2010-06-12T22:37:00.005+05:30

Disclaimer: After umpteen requests to write something humorous I'm again with the same serious topic. I'm sorry. But i assure ,this is my last serious post in this vacation.

Aware! The next time you chat with an anonymous guy (or the gal as the case is) on Google talk, and he/she is in deep distress then there are more permutations favoring that he/she had been a victim of the Khaps. It may also be true that he/she is waiting for being sentenced to death. The next Kasab in waiting…

There is one more Kasab here, who is messaging me for the last couple of months. I really don’t know who he/she is? But the messages are too cute to delete. And yes the good night messages he/she sends are worth saving in that delicate case if you have a fiancée. But right now at this point you would ask “ what on the earth made you to save his/her name as Kasab ?” I would answer equally innocently “ It looks freaky when Kasab pops up on the cellphone screen every other hour !” :P

But I don’t wish this Kasab to be the one who wishes to marry a girl of his own gotra. This Kasab is my friend for sure. It is just, that I mistakenly erased him/her from my contact.

My dear Kasab,

You are my true friend and I don’t wish to lose you anyhow. If mistakenly you are in love with a girl who is of your own gotra and you are planning to marry her then please for my sake rethink. There are far more trained terrorists than you to sue you. Indolent British formed a local judicial body khap just to ease the burden of the supreme court and now they are no less than your Al - *&^%. Dare to legalize a death sentence for marrying a girl, not of your choice. Does any INDIAN MUJAHIDDIN have this courage ? My dear friend, ask your fiancée to search for another guy. Sex ratio says there are already 72 unmarried grooms on every 1000. I’m sure she will get one. I don’t want to risk your life. There is Navin Jindal there to safeguard the khaps. And you won’t be able to escape from the claws of this emerging terrorist – Mr. Navin Jindal. Who says terrorists are well framed and they conspire very minutely. This New terrorist has forgotten that he once fought for the rights of the people to hoist the National flag and now he endorses this bloody khap.

My dear friend, in your religion it may be a tradition to marry any girl who is not breast-fed by your mother but these khaps won’t listen and they firmly announce a serious health risk to the kids of the couples of the same gotra. Oh, I forgot. Do you know what your gotra is ? I won’t be baffled if you say “NO”. Neither will it cause any despair to me if you admit that you don’t even know “What Gotra is”. Believe me I too Google searched it a lot before initiating this post. I didn’t find any firm information on this so as to share it here but yes when I searched “khap” on Google, then I got something to show you.

( if you can't view this image, click on the image)

Dear friend, if you bet that you have a very good maths, then it’s of no use. Khaps claim that there are genetic similarities between you and your same gotra fiancée and so your kids may suffer health risk. I can’t help you getting them understand what % of DNA are actually inherited after tens of generations. These khaps don’t even bother. They have decided to hang if anybody is found marrying a same gotra person. Kasab, I’m afraid. I won’t be receiving such romantic messages then.

Friend, do one thing, give these khaps few more Navin Jindal(s) and within no time honor killing will be legalized under some article of the constitution. How will it be then , that every murderer (if the murdered one is a girl) will claim that his honor was on stake so he murdered. It won’t take long to relate any person as some sort of chacha, mausa or mama in our family system.

My dear friend, so if you still plan to marry that girl of your own gotra. I’m sure you won’t live for long. And then I may not miss you but I will miss your messages for sure. So, Please for my sake and for the sake of those messages, don't sacrifice yourself and your fiancee. I would have helped you find another girl if you knew your gotra. I too do not know my gotra but for my case ; believe me, I am searching for an alien girl to marry just for being on the safer side. You need not wonder if I take you in a UFO for my baarat. And yes, I will take these khaps too with me. So do you !

P.S: My dear friend I've again received a good night message. I'm sorry but i can't figure you out. I'm sure you aren't Kasab. But please reveal this mystery.

A letter to the people of Jharkhand….

2010-05-21T15:56:00.003+05:30

I beg your pardon and ask :

Are you really the descendants of Manu as we are? Where goes your conscience every time while choosing your leader? I doubt, a normal human can’t elect (I repeat “ elect”) a person to represent his/her constituency whose husband had just been arrested for a whopping 4000 Cr scam while in the chair of Chief Minister. Isn’t it a shame that your state has seen 7 chief ministers in just 10 years of its formation in a democracy where election is scheduled after a term of 5 year? Oh.. I forgot even one independent candidate had been a Chief Minister of Jharkhand once.

I was not very mature when the partition took place but yes I do remember, the same month Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh parted from UP and MP. It needs no mention that today they are far richer in Literacy, Per Capita Income, Life Expectancy and all other aspects that the govt. considers in its census. And your state has just missed the prestigious lowest position in Literacy. It is meager 53% dear. Oh ! That means half of you people can’t even read my this letter. Fuck !!

You know 53% is the literacy when government of India considers the person who can just read and right as literate and amazingly all the children below 7 years of age are literate by default. I can’t resist laughing. Ok, leave aside these data. Just ask yourself “why is it that the 'Operation GreenHunt' is rampant only in Chhattisgarh and Orissa when your state is equally Naxal affected. Isn’t this your Chief Minister’s negligence? Don’t say that Mr. Chidambaram is more cooperative to them. I won’t believe. They both have anti governments as is yours.

May be I’m over simplifying but answer my this question, Why I’m suggested to hide my laptop in my trolley bag while on train when my train passes through your state? Stunned, but this is the fact. Why does it take 8 hours for just 170 Km if I alternately take road route to reach Ranchi from Rourkela? By the grace of the god I haven’t been by road yet. But Yes I have to spend sleepless nights in train just for the safety of my luggage. Unfortunately Jharkhand comes in Between Bihar and Orissa, So, I don’t have any other option.

I hate to say this but I hate the people of Jharkhand. You don’t stink nor have you claimed my paternal properties but just because you don’t have the capability to select the right person.

I have heard people voting in the name of caste and clans and it is prevalent in the regions of uneducated majority. Then where does your flagship record of 53% go. Had this 47 % illiterate people given vote to a single leader of any single caste, your state would have seen a stable government at least. Being precise, all the 7 Chief Ministers those you have chosen were all scheduled tribes and your state has a total 27 % of its population as scheduled tribes. I’m no wrong if I say that 27% votes give a clear majority in a type of democracy that India has. (I’m not endorsing caste based voting, it is just if it comes as a boon for this poor state).

Mr. Shibu Soren, I can’t refrain highlighting your name. You are truly a saint. I bow to you. After a period of just 4 months your pseudo-stable government went into minority when you supported UPA government on some issue in Lok Sabha. Did you forget that you had a coalition government and BJP is your blotted partner in this unfair trade? I’m much unbiased in criticizing BJP for supporting you in formation of the government in December 2009. (Fortunately I had been in Jharkhand in the month of December. So, I have been very close to all this). They had a better option if they would have supported Congress party then.

Now in May 2010, you are deciding that 28 months you will rule and for the next 28 months BJP will rule. What the hell is this? Where on earth has this phenomenon been introduced in this scene? You are ruling a state which requires the most of your efforts. And you are behaving as if two brothers are parting their properties before mortgaging them. Still you have time, Mr. Soren Keep your palm on your chest and ask yourself, “ Am I really the one that Jharkhand needs today?” If you get a positive response, Carry on ! My wishes ! And in case you get a negation, that I’m sure you will, then please let the efficient ones come. There is no dearth of capable persons in this state. Let them shape your state for you.

People of Jharkhand,
After a good deal of “28 months” it was decided that Mr. Soren will step down on 25th. And a news has just popped up in my window saying “Mr. Shibu Soren has denied resignation” He’ll continue. Comments from BJP awaited.”

God save this state. I pity when I see my state prospering at a rate which is the second fastest in the nation and my younger brother succumbing in this unfortunate paucity. You are the one responsible for this. Sometimes I think, what’s wrong when Naxalites strive to form a parallel government when the existing government is of this type. They may give comparatively better governance. After all, patience has to break some day. It has already been a decade….

I’m waiting for the Elections 2014 . . . .

Faisal v/s Faisal !!

2010-05-17T12:28:00.008+05:30

If You figure it out , You’ll find; today I had Rafael v/s Roger in Madrid Masters final, I had England v/s Australia in T-20 men’s world cup final, It was India v/s South Korea in Azlan Shah hockey final, even there was T-20 women’s world cup final between Australia and New Zealand and the very same eventful day I’m busy figuring out Faisal v/s Faisal. A planned stymie of 80 days, which eventually locks me in the third least socially developed district of our Nation probably carves it out of me. I’m happy people see my this face too that I’ve grown so deceiving to myself that I have started writing on potential stuffs like this too. May be my next blog comes on Teenage pregnancy…. Ha ha ha !!
I’m sorry !! F5 ..F5.. F5 !!!

These two Faisals I’m talking about are both born Muslims. The first one is Faisal Shahzad and the second one is Shah Faisal. Both are of roughly the same age. The only difference that has caused all other differences in them is that Mr. Faisal Shahzad is born in Pakistan and Shah Faisal is born in India. And unfortunately Mr. Shahzad’s Father happens to be the Air Vice Marshal of Pakistan, on the other hand Mr. Shah’s father was brutally killed by the terrorists when Shah was just 17. Today Mr. Shahzad is locked up behind the bars in New York Jail for conspiring Bomb in Times Square of New York and our beloved Shah Faisal has topped the prestigious Civil Services Exam. This is the difference in how we nourish our children and how they.

Mr. Shahzad’s father sent him to some royal school of Pakistan and then to ‘US of A’ for higher studies spending a lavish amount while Shah Faisal continued with his studies in the same Kupwara town where he was born. He had a deep faith in Indian system and Indian Administration and he left none of the stones unturned. And in USA Mr. Shahzad came into contact with the top offices of the Talibans and probably on their direction he parked the Bomber Car in the Times Square.
Famous Pakistani reporter Nazam Sethi has very genuinely raised a question : “ Why is it that every terrorist attack has some Pakistani mastermind behind ? ” And you will be stunned to know that a Sri Lankan citizen Mr. Rohan Gunaratne has researched this topic too. My goodness !! People get so crazy when it comes to the research. Now I believe “ There is no bigger room than the room for research.” Mr. Gunaratne has authored a book “Inside Al- Qaida” and has precisely answered Mr. Sethi. He says through the mouth of Osama Bin Laden.

1. Educated Muslims of USA and Europe should be brought to Al- Qaida as they have been very close to the atrocities of White men to them. So, they can be easily persuaded for the cause.
2. They are affluent in general so they have a good pocket to loosen.
3. They have a good knowledge of Technology.
4. South Asian Muslims are not suited for this.

Believe Mr. Gunaratne, the uneducated Muslims of south Asia join Al-Qaida because they are assured the pleasure of 72 babes which they call ‘apsara’ who will be waiting in the heaven to hug them and also they are assured of a crown with embedded ruby in it. Moreover their ‘allah’ will forgive their all sins there.

Why is it then none of the Indian Muslims is in Al-Qaida and more significantly there are Muslims from almost all major Muslim populous countries other than India ? I ask Why? Why is it that two Indian Muslim sisters fight with terrorists killing three terrorists and in Pakistan they are trained for Jihad right from their childhood. Isn’t it an outcome of the way we nourish them.

They say illiteracy, unemployment and poverty forces youngsters for this. But I ask, Leave aside Kasab and please list a few terrorists of such type. I have a big list with me. Terrorist Omar Sheikh who had killed famous reporter Dainy Pearl was educated in London School of Economics. Mr. Faisal Shahzad himself has a very elite family background. One of his two brothers is a doctor and the other one is studying in Canada. And the list goes this way…

[Should I move a little westward and then all the tussles among Hazaras, Pashtuns , Sunnis and Shias will be revealed ? Should I ? ]

sssShh… Keep all your justifications in your pocket and believe me it is the Indian culture which restricts its citizen going the illegal way. India has a rich culture and etiquettes embedded in the genes of its beloved, which do not allow her children go wrong way.

And this is why our Faisal is of this type and their Faisal is of that type.

Give it a thought…

Facts and data compiled from : An article by Mr. Rajiv Shukla, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha.

SAINCHIT......... we have it in us !

2010-03-27T14:21:00.012+05:30

Disclaimer: This post has been created after a special request of a very special friend of mine and is dedicated to all my friends of Sainik school Chittorgarh.

This is 6 a.m and I have initiated writing a post just now.

I thought of writing a post since long and when I got a competition from a fellow blogger , then writing a blog never remained a voluntary act for me rather I was compelled to write.
A lot of controversy over M.F Hussain's exile and his citizenship of Qatar has been confronted amidst, IPL has flung in between (Though I hate it ), My own insti. has its annual cultural fest that means some beautiful chicks from various parts of the country walked over to our "estrogen starved" campus for those three days.

*I have stolen this word and added it aptly to my vocabulary. Believe me, its an awesome word to describe a ‘Sarkari Engineering College's campus.

Moreover Bihar has celebrated its first Foundation day after 98 years of its foundation on 22nd March. Three cheers for Nitish Kumar. Long Live this " Bihar Day. "

Sachin has added a double ton to the record book of One day internationals.

But still my target readers are the people who can't sustain more than a paragraph on any of these. If I start writing on the issues like 'Should Government have censorship on WWW". I'm sure majority of them will back off the screen !!
Meanwhile I got an invitation to join the google group of Sainik School Chittorgarh. Let me publicly announce beforehand that full credit of being of mine goes to this school.

दिल से बोलूं तो इसी जगह ने मुझे दुनियादारी सिखाई है.

The same day I downloaded four documentary videos of Sainik School chittorgarh from the you tube. It sometimes comes from within. I can recall few very funny moments of my days at this school. These rejoice me. I want to share one of them here on my blog.

22.02.2006 (preparation leave for 10th board exams)

I was in class 10th. Class 10th and class 12th both were known to be the most notorious batches of the school then. We studied in the reading room till late night and sometimes even early morning for our board exams. Late night dormitory cricket, Dagla-ka –khera ke namkeen, choorma, dish connection with the housemaster’s TV, Bed tea and all were very common.

But on this day something very astonishing happened. We were challenged by class 12th students to call a girl to our campus back post at that time i.e 1 am. (It wasn’t a cake walk then, Let me again recall you, It was Sainik School, where hardly a dozen of chicks lived that too in the teacher’s quarter area in the entire 273 acre campus).

Adding to it we had some criteria for that girl. Its really funny.

1. She should be in between the age of 16 to 20.
2. She should not be a prostitute.
3. She should not be among the friend circle of any one of us.
4. She should give her intro in English when asked to. (Probably to ensure we don’t take any one from the rags)
5. She should be taken in a car !!!
6. Nobody other than us should accompany that girl.
7. And moreover we had in total only 90 minutes for this starting at 11:30 PM. That means we had to come back with a strange girl in a car at the back post of the school latest by 1 am on 23.02.2006.

We started off at 11:30 PM. Seeing the lust in the bet a student of class 12th too came to our side. We three went outside wondering how come we will get a girl at this deadly hour. Jumping the boundary wall of the school itself was an offense. But we had to, after all 2500 bucks were on stake. We wondered, which father will allow his daughter to go with us at that time. We made plans sitting on the railway track about how to convince the father to leave her daughter with us for just half an hour. ( see how we were hopeful then).In first two or three homes we ran away after ringing the call bells. Gradually we gathered courage and in the fourth home we waited at the door for someone to come out. But no , he didn’t allow as expected. We roamed in the streets of Pratap nagar colony, then Meera nagar after that Zinc colony for another 35 – 40 minutes. We could meet with only barking Alsatian and poodles.
At one instance, I turned little hopeful because the girl’s brother opened the door and all other were asleep. I tried to convince him in the best possible manner to please come with us. I just requested him to stay away for 50 meters at the time when I would be calling them to take her intro. ( Criterian no. 06 ). But this annoyed him and he refused.

I thought to get help from one of my local friends who stayed at his home. But we didn’t have cell phones (we weren’t allowed to keep) and you can’t expect telephone booths to be open at 12 midnight. That friend of mine had a scooty too which could have helped us then. Finally with all our efforts we tracked his home and reached. All were asleep. His mother opened the door. We told her about the challenge after modifying it a little bit. We told her that the challenge was to bring her son to the campus at that hour. And she agreed later after a rigorous convincing. Then we all four rode his scooty and went straight to the petrol pump. We spent money hoping to win the bet. He took us straight to his relative’s house living in some other corner of Chittaurgarh. He asked us to wait at some distance and he went in and negotiated his ‘masi’ (probably it means mausi) to come with us. Nobody other than his masi (she was fulfilling all the criteria) knew that she was going with us. Everybody thought it was my local friend with whom she was going. So , they didn’t doubt a lot.

Now we had to arrange a car. Yet another big task!! We went to Chittorgarh railway station to get one taxi. (The criterian no. 05 doesn’t clarify that taxi can’t be hired). So we went for that. No taxi driver agreed for this purpose. What it had to do was just pick this girl from some chauraya (away from her home), take her along with us to the school back post had to wait there for 10 minutes till the intro is done. Then had to come back to some other chauraya where my local friend would be waiting in his scooty to take her to home. We could manage to spend maximum of 500 rupees for this as we didn’t have much amount. But no taxiwala agreed in this amount at 12:25 AM.

As our last desperate attempt we approached a Maruti Van Of Dainik Bhaskar Press. The driver was sleeping inside. He had to go on duty at 2 AM. He agreed thinking it will be bonus amount that he’d earn apart from his salary. So he agreed in 300 bucks to do our job. We three sat inside that van, my local friend was waiting on his scooty at some chauraya with that girl. We picked that girl in the van. And my friend followed us on scooty.

Three times we were stopped on the police check post. Thank god this van had written over it PRESS in bold letters. Else in no time the chain of calls would have rang up my father through the principal of my school. And you know what, the road on which we were travelling was a part of Golden Quadrilateral which eventually ran through the city. So It was on high alert.

And yes we reached the back post sharp at 12:58 AM. I called those seniors from the hostel who had challenged us. They took an intro of her in English.

They were stunned to see that we did it !!
They were fully confident of winning the bet. But I say we had something in us that day, that we accepted their challenge!

But later a controversy arose over the time, they said it was 1:03 AM when we reached so we had lost. But we were there at 12:58. Any way later it was settled with some negotiation. They gave us 1400 bucks instead of 2500 bucks for this reason. We had already paid Rs. 120 for petrol, Rs.300 for taxi and Rs.250 as enticement to the police. So were left with only Rs. 730 with us. And we had to gift that girl and that local friend of mine too within this amount. So we weren’t left with any money. But it was really cherishing !! We enjoyed it a lot !!
ROTFL !!!

There are few more such funny instances that I won’t be writing, else those who are not a Sainchit will kill me for boring them on my blog !

Love you all Sainchits !!!
Love you a lot !!

Do You want to Hear " I QUIT !!! "

2010-02-17T17:43:00.004+05:30

Disclaimer: I am writing this disclaimer after I have written the whole post, else I think it would have been little more temper struck. I chilled while I wrote. This post is solely an attempt to make some of my batch mates realize what they are through our eyes. Any type of unsocial word uttered is solely meant for them. I am sorry for those who haven’t seen me in this driven mode. Those who wish to see a well justified post as of my earlier posts then please sign off !!!

Can any one of you imagine an engineering student’s life without any mass bunk. But god bless some of my batch mates here. For them , mass bunk is like an assault for attempt to murder. Huh.

These creepy chaps can never go for a lusty life. I am not saying going for a mass bunk will fetch them a lust in their life. But I’m sure for these fellows, engineering is like getting up in the morning at 6, going for a yoga and then morning 8 to evening 5 classes. First bench rendezvous with the professor in the lectures. No hexagons, No Calories, Neither a minute late in the classes (I remember the way they ran holding their asses as if it would have fallen down of their bicycle seats for Nimaje’s class yesterday after maths lab). Can’t you name them ?? Moreover after the classes they stick to their lappies for “HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER” or they get lost in their world of class notes

Its not just like that, they even suggest to ask the professors for mass bunk as if they are his son in law and are going to marry the professor’s daughter after B.Tech. They more or less swallow the course content and boast of their CGPA as if we are the dumbest chap they have ever seen. God knows, is the CGPA , a justified scale to gauge one’s intellect. The answer as of my perspective is a big ‘NO’. What do you think ?

I don’t want to name a single but still I can make a point forward that there is a chap in our batch who was distressed just because we were not having our Maths lab classes since last 3 weeks. And you know he was the one who called up the HOD (maths) for this cause. And the consequence …….we were queued up infront of the maths lab the same day. How can anyone survive with chaps like this ? Moreover there are numerous cases where they try to win the impression just for a credit. I doubt whether they would even give out their kidneys in barter for marks if professor asks them !!

I ask what do you get in blind following a so called superstar of your GMAT association. Did you not appear for the AIEEE like your super hero did ? Are you lagging in any sense ?? Then where is your conscience ??? Have you lost your own voice ??? or ‘VOICE’ has made you to lose your voice??? I pity on you.

When I called one of those creepers to persuade for the mass bunk none of them were ready to face us, in fact none of them were ready to be the leader of their ‘SAY NO TO BUNKS’ group. God knows from where has the question of a leader arose? I don’t know whether that chap has developed a fascination towards the sole girl of our department or what. May be he attends all the classes just because of her. But Yaar, I even asked that girl to persuade that chap for the mass bunk , still for him when classes are on stake no more affairs.!!! Huh.

You are truly a saint !!

You ought to join ‘Art of Living’ dude.

Its not the question of ,why we could not arrange a mass bunk, we were still in majority. 18 were outside and 12 were inside. But that hardly matters. The question is : how can anyone survive with fellows like these who are more troubled of the course completion than the professor himself.

My dear Friends, ours is a University, and the same professor will set the question paper who teaches and moreover the same professor will correct your answer sheets. So why don’t you take a chill and just enjoy it the fullest. Do you wish to hear somebody’s last word “I QUIT” or what ??

This post is just to remind you that we still have 2 ½ years to go. If it goes like this , I doubt whether there will be 30 in the convocation!!

Friends please try to cooperate with us. Mend your ideologies a little. And enjoy NIT at the max !!!

Good luck !!

Federer , I'm Sorry !

2010-01-31T20:12:00.011+05:30

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.

2010-01-18T19:11:00.010+05:30

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.....

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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 ! !

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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 ^

2010-01-04T20:46:00.008+05:30

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" ! !

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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.

Farzi Engineers "Manufactured" !

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Ques no. 7 (a) :- Explain ‘Wein Bridge Oscillator’ . [8 marks.]

Ans:
I. Wein Bridge is an oscillator.
II. Wein Bridge is a bridge kind of oscillator.
III. This oscillator consists of a bridge.
IV. Wein is the name of scientist who has invented this oscillator.
V. There are many kinds of oscillators.
VI. E.g- Wein Bridge Oscillator.
VII. It is known as oscillator because it oscillates.
VIII. This is how Wein Bridge Oscillator works.

Hey, I’m not expecting all my readers to be a technocrat, even if you are not , please give a second glance to the eight points explained above by a so called bestowed talent in accordance to the question set by another bestowed talented professor. Isn’t it humorous. Your lips have stretched to smile for sure. Ha ha ha   
This is how an engineer is “manufactured” in one of the most reputed engineering institutes of the nation. And you would be stunned to know their price value what they possess, once they graduate with this shallow depth of knowledge. Yesterday when I was walking past my hostel notice board, I stopped there for a while seeing a number of red pages pasted on it (Placement office has its notices in red color pages).

Airtel, Samsung, Microsoft, Accenture, IBM, Wipro, Barcalays, Fiat, Google, Indian Army and many more were there each of which corresponded to one red coloured notice. Unfortunately they will be placing the students into their firm with a repute of an engineer and will be paying them a handsome pay package, when they visit the institute in the month of December.
When I say ‘unfortunately’, I presume myself to be an honest analyst. It is indeed the truth that they pay them the salary just because they are the proved talent of the nation as they have cracked one of the toughest engineering examination of the nation. What the HR people of these companies think is : “Even though they don’t know much about the subject , they will very easily grasp the concepts if asked to .”

I am not going to debate over this topic whether they are right or not. But I just want to say that the case is not true with me. I know how I pass my exams here. Yesterday, I had my ‘Cryogenics Engineering’ paper and you know I didn’t know the topics till 2315 hrs the day before. I thought to Google search the subject. The second thought came to ask to some GMAT (I can’t publicly expand it here, it is a word used for ‘ghissu muggers’) for the guess questions and then I would have searched them on Wikipedia. Unfortunately, even Wikipedia didn’t have content on Gifford Mcmahon Refrigeration cycle neither it could explain Stirling Cycle, nor the Pulse Tube Refrigerator nor Linde cycle nor Claude.

God knows from where have these demons come ? ? And also what is the utility of these topics for a Mining Engineer ? Fortunately at that instant I saw Ankur asking one of his classmates to mail her assignment to him. And you know the technology behind this, She took the snaps of all the pages of her assignment notebook by a digicam and transferred those pics to her lappy through a cable then attached that folder and then she mailed it to him. Gmail allows only 25 MB of maximum attachment so she used the inter hostel file transfer software “Spark” to send it to Ankur. Thanks to her and thanks to the Computer Science Department for procuring such a wonderful software. And above it all, thanks to Ankur for his apt timing of doing it.

I immediately rushed to get one digicam and one notebook of some GMAT. But for my fortune, I saw the technology had gone much forward. In the very first room I entered, I saw someone had multicast the whole cryogenics notes on LAN (Local Area Network). I immediately rushed to my room to see my lappy screen and I saved it to the desktop. Thank god ! I got the notes (though a soft copy of 159 MB, a total of 47 snaps). It was 0215 hrs the same day of the exam and the immediate second job was to mug them up.And I then started mugging up those 47 snaps by zooming out every snap on the screen. And you know this night out could not make any sense as in the question paper I answered all the questions in exactly the similar manner as pasted in the starting of this post. Every answer was the same , if one was in active voice the other one was in passive voice and the third one in some other voice.

CUT THIS CRAP........XXX

I at the outset here confess that :

“ Cryogenics was the subject not forced upon me, indeed I chose this subject as an elective one”.

Yes the curriculum of my institute says to choose one subject every semester from any department other than yours. And god knows what made me to choose this one. And I am screwed.
Frankly speaking , I am a back bencher , I hardly even sit on the second last bench of the class, but still I manage every subject. But ah.. the cryogenics was the subject which I could not understand even though I desperately wished it to. Not that I am that dumb. Perhaps the pre requisites of the subject were not properly arranged.

And unfortunately, this f**ked my GPA. And now it will take me another two-three semesters to compensate it.

Enjoy this funny flow chart, its awesome !!

Indian Railways beckon you !!!

2009-11-05T23:58:00.005+05:30

Umm !!!! So, now I think apologising every time for the long seclusion should be understood by the frequent visitors of my blog. I got fed up with the curses of my friends who every day typed my blog URL in their Mozilla address bar but could not find any new stuff over there. The immediate step they used to take was to ping me up in g-talk and abuse me with the best use of the vocabulary that they possessed.

But friends, actually I was preoccupied with some other commitments. I had to give a presentation at IIT Kharagpur. I had to brand my dept T shirt here in my institute. I had to plan my strategy for the end – semester exams as I completely screwed my mid semester exams. And now you know nothing less than 100% in end sem is going to work. So, GOOD LUCK Ashesh ! Try out your best.

Shift + Delete

Friends, this whole Kharagpur chapter has acquainted me with various true pictures of our Indian Railways. Although the hospitality the IIT guys showered on us was really must praise. They were there on the platform (the longest in the world) at 4 a.m with a taxi ready for us just to take us to their institute. No wildest guess could have predicted this. Hats off to their hospitality !!! But when I delete all what I experienced there in IIT I am remained with very deadly scenario of the Indian Railways.

It was 30^th evening around 10:30 PM , place- Rourkela railway station. I had a general class ticket from Rourkela to Kharagpur. The train Sambleshwari Express arrived and the Ticket collector got down. I walked to him and asked to upgrade my ticket to some other class but he refused saying there is no seat vacant in any class. Presuming him to be Bengali , I asked my Bengali friend to talk to him in Bengali for the same cause. You know some times regional propinquity solves the purpose. But this time it didn’t. He again refused. Now seeing no other option, I got up to the sleeper class with my three friends who had their seats reserved in that coach. And so the drama started, every time he walked past me he asked to get down to general class. But I realised his intention as he never insisted me firmly to get down. He just used to say and crawled to the next compartment without paying any heed to whether I really was shifting or not. One more thing, he ensured every time that the pitch of the voice he used must not cross a certain critical level, else I would have really shifted to general class and his sole purpose with me would have been done.

Clock turned to 12 mid night. It was now some place near Jamshedpur. The coach was silent as hardly someone was not sleeping and this Bengali ticket collector was standing near the wash basin probably chewing ‘khaini’. This time I myself went to him and asked to upgrade the ticket. And for the first time he agreed but had he upgraded it then and there only again his purpose with me would have been done. So, he asked me to sit at my friend’s berth and he was coming. Again for one more time he walked past me and did not say anything about my ticket. I got up from my seat and followed him and finally caught him two coaches ahead to mine (I mean where I was sitting). Again I showed him my ticket and asked to upgrade but the generous reply was again to sit at my berth and he was coming.

Actually there was a big purpose behind this generosity. And I had already sensed that in the beginning. He could have easily penalised me with the fine as he had already warned me not to board the sleeper class before hand at the Rourkela station itself. But he didn’t. It was now around 2:30 a.m. Jamshedpur was gone. The train had entered Bengal. And some RPF men came to us. They asked us not to gather at a place and instructed us to go to our respective berths. And yes they meant it because they stood there to see whether we were really moving or not. For me the case was different, I had no place to move to. I didn’t have a berth. In fact, I didn’t have a sleeper class ticket even. For god sake , they saw my other three friends moving to their berths so they assumed I too have one and they walked away. Now Kharagpur was hardly half an hour away and this Ticket collector once again appeared. He asked me to accommodate with my friends somewhere. Now, I had no intention to ask him for my ticket upgradation as I was almost to Kharagpur. But this Ticket collector was waiting for this moment only. What he asked me you know..let me quote it in Hindi :

खड़गपुर जाओगे ना, तो आराम से जाओ कोई बर्थ देखो खाली है तो सो जाओ । वरना अगर नीचे बैठोगे तो आर0 पी0 एफ़ वाले आकर के पंगा करेंगे , कोई दिक्कत से नहीं जाये यही हम लोगो का कर्त्तव्य है देखो स्टुडेंट लोग हो देश का फ्यूचर है तुम्हारे ऊपर एकदम मजे चैन से जाओ और हाँ जो खड़गपुर का बनता है दे दो.!!!

Yes he asked me for enticement. This was the sole motive for which he didn’t penalise me. That is why he didn’t upgrade my ticket near the wash basin. That is why he was getting so generous that he even arranged a berth for me. This was the purpose for which he did not use a high pitch voice. He was actually waiting for people in the compartment to sleep.

And seeing a beneficial deal, I gave him Rs.120 after a lot of silent bargaining. Had I upgraded my ticket with a proper receipt, It would have cost me Rs. 370. So, It was good for me and for the T.C too as in the prior case he couldn’t have got a single buck in his pocket.

And so this way I finally reached Kharagpur with a general class ticket + Rs. 120 in a sleeper class.

So, this is how India progresses !!!! I’m not sarcastic, when I say , I really mean it.

It was an example of the state from where our honourable Union Railway Minister hails from. I don’t say these T.Cs don’t ask for enticements in other regions, the situation is similar everywhere in our country. The unfortunate part is that, one finds no solution of it. No one will pay Rs.370 if his/her purpose is solved with Rs. 120. Who cares for legal or illegal if monetary benefit comes into play. No one !!! I’m sure.

The return journey was a little more hellish. There are in fact trains which restrict the passengers from travelling a distance lesser than 300 kms in them and unfortunately the Kharagpur – Rourkela distance is exactly 299 kms. This 1 km had troubled me a lot while returning.

It’s too late tonight. I’ll blog it some other day. I also have my Mechanics of Solids lab grand viva tomorrow so , I have to go through it at least once.

Else I’ll be screwed in sessionals also.

Buddies, this post is just to make you THINK ABOUT OUR NATION AND SUGGEST SOME DYNAMIC WAYS TO ERADICATE THIS TYPE OF CORRUPTION !!!!!

cry - o - genics.........but the Thackeray duo !

2009-10-05T20:58:00.007+05:30

Sorry friends for my long absence, sorry to my so called determined effort to make every week a new blog entry. But yes this long absence gave me numerous very haunted topics, which I can’t further resist myself to write upon.

For the first time in my academic career my one night stand before exam has failed. Yes , I am expecting exactly 2.5 marks in my “Cryogenic Engineering” paper that counts to only 8.33 % of the total. And what is going to fetch me those precious 2.5 marks are the questions those a 8th standard kid can answer if properly stressed. I was asked the boiling points of Hydrogen, Helium, Oxygen, Methane and Argon; each of them carrying 0.5 marks each. And fortunately with the mutual cooperation of the fellow examinees, I answered at least this precisely correct. But you know, I brought back the graph sheet which was attached with the question paper which I was expected to detach and then fix it with the answer sheet. Actually I found no reason in fixing a blank graph sheet.

In simple words...”I AM SCREWED” in a subject which unfortunately is taken by the Director of my institute who fortunately happens to be one of the best professors of Cryogenics in India. God knows the consequences , but right now I just wish not to become the dumbest student of this best professor. The quantisation of marks allows one to get even marks like 0, 0.5, 1, 1.5, 2 etc. So hoping for the best out of it.

The second stuff that got its place here on by blog hails from some good offices of Maharashtra. If you have been regular with the newspapers for the past few days, you must be aware of the recent statement of Shivsena –BJP alliance for the upcoming state elections.

“We Will Not Allow Outsiders In Mumbai.”

Earlier, Raj Thackeray used such controversial language and that too from the platform of MNS, Which got many revolts and rebukes from the people of BIHAR and UTTAR PRADESH. And now the same is being endorsed by Shivsena-BJP alliance. The Interesting part is that these two organisations are rivals in the field of this upcoming election in Maharashtra and even then if they are common at some point , it is this one. Disgusting ! Isn’t it ? ? Unfortunately BJP (read: Bhartiya Janata Party) which literally means ‘the party of Indian mass’ which was formulated to give a strong opposition to the then ruling Congress Party at centre ,is now endorsing this regionalism just to get some cheap political benefits. Unacceptable. Isn’t it ? ?

Let me ask you one seemingly irrelevant question here. “Have you watched the movie ‘Wake Up Sid’ ?” If not , just walk out and enjoy it and do one favour for me. Just count how many times ‘Mumbai’ has been referred as ‘Bombay’ in the movie. And you know because of this only Karan Johar was threatened by MNS (read: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena) activists on the indications of their messiah, Raj Thackeray. Even screening of this movie was hampered in Mu
mbai. Theatres, screening this movie were attacked by the mob. And finally Mr. Johar had to apologise for this and he also promised to insert a grovelling disclaimer before the movie. One thing for sure here is that Mr. Johar did this not because he wanted to be a brave voice of dissent, Actually he felt it a better option than to go for an inconvenient enmity with Raj Thackeray in Mumbai.

Mr. Raj Thackeray (for MNS) and Mr. Uddhav Thackeray (for Shivsena) just answer my few questions on behalf of your outsiders:
1. Why you didn’t send those non Marathi NSG commandos out of Mumbai when they were fighting with the terrorists last year in Hotel Taj ?
2. Why you didn’t send your activists to fight with the terrorists then ? Do you attack only poor Bihari taxi drivers ?
3. You come and act when people speak Hindi in your state . Why don’t you ban Bollywood , the Hindi – Film Industry , based in your Mumbai ?
4. Why you take stand only when there is peace and you arrange the condolence for the martyrs then ?
5. And Mr. Thackeray one last question there is something called ‘INDIAN’.
Are you one?

N.B:

1. The NSG chief is a Bengali. An Indian.
2. The Major who died in Taj was from Bangalore. An Indian.
3. The NSG commander who died in Nariman House was from U.P. An Indian.
4. And the population which suffered was of Mumbai. The _____________.
(MNS and SHIVSENA activitists ask your Messiah to come and fill this blank.)

Huh ! ! that girl............and the protest ! (Week - 04)

2009-09-02T23:37:00.012+05:30

Today when I sat down in retrospect just to make certain relevant blog entry , I couldn’t decide which one to prefer over other coz every single event possessed its own magnanimity. The week started with an incongruous chat with a dudette (if I’m not wrong) on the Google talk. I don’t have any reason to justify why the f**k she kept me busy till 2:37 am that night. Frankly speaking , I wasn’t interested in the chat and that too at that deadly hour. If you go through my chat history (if she allows, I’m sure she won’t), you will see every fifth quote from my side is “You should sleep now , we should not chat at this hour”. And you know what the hell she replied to it, “to kya Brahma muhurta mein baatein karoge ? There’s no specific time for chatting. Man ! ” Legendary ! ! for a girl. Isn’t it ? :) :) :)

Why the hell she was so interested in this stuff, God knows ! Virtually, she had talked to me hardly once or twice in the campus and that too for professional reasons and that day she gathered this courage to tell me the name of her crush in the institute and yes she asked mine too. For god’s sake, I don’t have one. In fact no guy can have in this institute, coz it has 50% seats reserved for the state students, and the state itself has more than 50% population of "better not stare me" type ! ! So I didn’t tell her.

She was getting little bit sarcastic sometimes but for most of the chat either she was mistaken or I was. I don’t believe, even she called herself possessive of me in a way. Huh ! I’m not that delicate. Gal ! ! The most fascinating part of the junk is that she couldn’t gather courage to talk to me when I phoned her at 2:39 am (remember I ended the chat at 2:37 am). Her friend lifted my call and very hastily replied “she is asleep I will tell her your message if any” , without giving a sole thought to the authenticity of the quote. Obviously my message wasn’t good for her.

Many more insane acts followed ! She called up one of the common friends of ours to convey her message to me. And you know what the hell was her message “Please ask Ashesh to apologise for what he did . He got very arrogant on the phone. Had he called me , it would have been ok but he called up my friend. It’s not fair. He should at least say sorry so that I will feel relieved.” And yes I called her back not because I was wrong but because it is the universal theory that , the boy has to apologise irrespective of who is actually wrong.

I was very much sure that I shouldn’t say sorry to her just because she would feel relieved by this. Although she herself knew that she was wrong. And you know one more mystery was revealed by her on the call. It was not she ,who was chatting . It was her friend who was getting so illogical that day. That very girl was sitting beside her and watching the whole drama. Why the f**k she allowed this girl to log into her account , and even if she , why the f**k she pinned me up. As if I’m a chatter box jiska man kiya baitha aur chat liya !
I know this very blog entry is going to be very controversial. But remember our 59 year old constitution gives it’s every citizen the ‘right to expression’. And I’m just enjoying it at the fullest.

Huh ! again the irrelevant blog post. I started with thinking to write on the first arranged mass protest in my insti. , although it was non – violent but it bore the fruit for us. But alas ! I ended with this controversial post.

Week 02-03 ( H1N1 )

2009-08-20T00:43:00.007+05:30

You don’t have many options to choose among , when devil is at your very own door. What exactly one does , when he/she is confronted with an H1N1 confirmed positive guy ? ? ? Nothing legendary I’m sure. Precisely the same situation was here yesterday. I was in my ‘Mechanics of Solids’ class scuffling desperately with ‘shear stress’ and ‘buckling of columns’ and some good fellow messaged me at that hour, which goes like :

“oye , Positive H1N1 in Amit Sir, chal be ghar chalte hain, kya kehta hai ! wo ********* ko chutti dena hi padega , nahi to.....”

And believe me, news was known to even saplings of the campus in no time. Everybody was seen murmuring about the instance when they last saw Amit sir. Someone was worried coz he had shared the dinner table with him. Other one , coz he was his lab partner. Some other guy, coz he stays adjacent to his room. And similarly every other chap found some or other correlation with him. God knows , ‘why we are interested in getting such inept correlations , when actually we should have done some noble act of empathy.’ Huh !

Whether I should attend the scheduled 5:15 meeting of my club, I myself was not sure, ; just because Visveraya Hall comes in the way. I was sure nothing was going to happen, if I merely walked past the hall in which the patient lived , but even though , why to take chances? Better stay off the risks. The situation was more stern because that patient lived in the hostel with his mates for the last five days , the period for which his sample was sent to Kolkata for testing. An another issue of debate in itself , “Why the local doctors relieved him to stay in hostel ? Why they didn’t wait for the result of swab test to come?” Yet another evidence of their negligence.

When we expressed our concern on this issue (although our sole motto was to somehow arrange leave for ourselves), See what was the reply from the green end , “ We are a family ,and we will die as a family if it goes to that extent.” They also denied any chance of calling off the classes and arranged a screening test for SWINE FLU in our institute dispensary which itself has no cure if something goes beyond common cold and coughing..... as if they are willing to recompense.

And yes , One more thing to mention , yesterday our female companions also gathered courage to stay off the classes ; Probably , for the first time our mass bunk resulted in zero attendance. Thanks to the fairer sex , at least they co-operated in this sensitive issue and proved that they too are adept.

So what we concluded out of this complete scenario is that
1. Administration can’t take it’s own decisions, we have to force them to do so.
2. Only one H1N1 isn’t enough for them to declare leave in the institute. They are waiting for few more to come.
3. Delicate fellows can also co-operate in our mass bunks , so now we can arrange some more of them in a week.

And above it all – “ I have bought the disposable face mask”

In the loving memory of ..............

2009-08-11T23:27:00.005+05:30

They say , ”Soul becomes divine when it departs the mortal possessions .”
Samanyoya ,
we can’t believe , this jolliest of our friends is not with us. Sam, You had been our best companion in both the joviality and the sorrows. It is very tough for us to visualise any get –together without you. It was you, who had always encouraged all of us for our mission ,be it in any way positive or negative. We can’t forget the bunks of classes arranged in your leadership and at the same time, the memories of your valuable suggestions to get in touch with the profs. are deeply entrenched. You were the kind of soul, that we can only say , we were blessed with. Your ‘never – say – die’ attitude and the ‘me – too ‘ portfolio are the remains that we can cherish now. Although you are not with us, but we swear ,we will not let any stone unturned to turn all your dreams those you ever possessed ,into reality.
Sam , For the first time today I ‘m falling short of words. I can just say that, You were just the superb person whom I ever met with . Within a very short span of just one year, it was you who could make this strong bonding which is impossible to weaken. Your back bench nuisances and the distribution of roll numbers for proxy are among those, that our department will miss forever. Sam , it was you because of whom we gathered courage to make the most out of frenetic situations. Samanyoya , It is impossible for us to fill this cavity. We can’t.

Now we all are left with only two things to wonder upon :-
1. Why the god takes great souls earlier?? Probably he too goes crazy then.
2. Why sometimes sobbing becomes the last option??

Long live great soul ! !

Week - 01

2009-08-08T23:34:00.009+05:30

This harsh week made me realise that I'm not yet as matured as I'm expected to be, specially in context of the worldly knowledge. Many a times I cater to those decisions; sometimes of mine and even many a times endorse the others' which actually deepens the pit for me. Last week I got indulged in many such situations where hardly some one expects me to be. Every night before going to bed I had been thinking “oh shit ! I lost one more day”. Why? ? ? What I actually mean by ‘losing the day’? If I would have catered to the usual routine of 8am to 2am , would I have called it a perfect day ? yes ....... no........... don’t know ! Actually I ‘ve to choose between these two schedules.

The first one starts with morning 8 alarm , lab classes till 11 ,manipulating data there ,so as to get the required value without actually doing it , there after one more lecture with the director upto 12 (no proxy, so a must attend) , lunch in the Visveraya hall (illegal , but it is the nearest to the department), back to the department at 1.15 and upto 4.15 ... a triplet of one hour lectures (some bunks can be managed , as making proxy in these classes isn’t a big deal), hangover iced tea at NESCAFE just after the classes at 4.30 , back to the ALLOTED Homi bhabha hall , signing in the g-talk at around 6.30, there after tennis court call for an hour upto 9.., dinner at 9.30, and finally 28 in room B-109 late upto 2 am. That is all the making of a ‘farzi engineer’. NO ASSIGNMENTS ! NO PROJECTS ! NO PROF RENDEZVOUS EVEN !

The second one starts the same way , same lab classes , same lectures , equally refreshing NESCAFE stuff , but it varies with the earlier one at the point here after. No tennis , No signing in the g-talk , No 28 , no assignments , no projects , no prof rendezvous even. Instead I’ve made some friends hanging out with whom makes me feel having a killer instinct. I feel like I’m losing my own potentials. It equalises our stamina and in the process I’ve to lower mine and raise theirs. I should have worked for my own cause , instead I’m interested in theirs. And it’s not coz some one has planned it for me or is in my nature. Rather I can neglect them , but alas! I can’t say no to my friends. They get benefit out of my humility. They may even overlook me ,once their interests are done. And I know this harsh reality as well.

I rove with these friends when I’m supposed to read the last few pages of ‘VERONICA DECIDES TO DIE’. I chat with them at the back post when I actually should be at the tennis court. I meet these friends’ friend when I must install ALLPROPS, for my cryogenics assignment . I go for the dinner in the group with these friends ,which I could have managed at a time of my own convenience. They are definitely not intended to hurt my sentiments, but it indirectly gives me that deadly instinct of which they aren’t aware. I even sometimes postpone my idea of writing for the blog , Probably they don’t know how I’m touched to these stuffs. Anyway Its obvious . And here comes the difference between a ‘friend’ and an ‘acquaintance’. Had they been my friends they should have known the traits I love, the choices those differentiates me ,the passion that raises me above many ,the desires those I possess irrespective of the probability of fulfilling, the very random aspirations those I’ve already expressed somewhere earlier in this blog.

Why?? Why do I ? ? Why I’m expressing all these seemingly delicate thoughts over here. It isn’t the post break-up consequence ! Neither is it the frustrated output of their continuous stymies. But one thing for sure, I didn’t come up with some lively article once again. And I got its permanent remedy as well, I have initiated the chain of weekly blog entries. A week time in a ‘farzi engineering student’s life is more than enough to express. I suppose ! !

Long Live Technocrats ! !

2009-07-23T23:18:00.021+05:30

The very first day in the second hellish year of engineering and what the hell are these stuffs ?? gonna be a mining engineer or a geologist ! ! ! probably even god doesn't know the answer.The stones those I would have kicked away had it come on my way. And today they were graced by me just coz some inhuman fellow gave them a worthy of respect and so they are in the 'mining geology and exploration lab' of my department of mining engineering. Huh.... what i was doing ! Colour, texture, streak, hardness, magnetic property (god knows why the f*** is this property useful for them), diagnostic property, lusture, cleavage, fracture........and the list goes on. Believe me I prepared a chart too. F*** that chart ! ! And so the department ! !

Anyway I'm now 25% b.tech , the only thing to cherish at this moment. Really the last week had been very hectic. Ran for F.I.R to the GRP for the theft of luggage of my friends in South Bihar Express that included three laptops and two trolley bags.It would have been more cruel if my insti. hadn’t provided it’s students with travel insurance. Long Live NIT Rourkela ! !

Got shifted to the new hostel this year , and frankly speaking I realised there’s no tougher task in the hell than to set your room and that too when a final year student is it’s pre-occupant. The only thing I found arranged in the room was the beer cans in the shelf in increasing order of their sizes. One could barely see the floor beneath the bed out of well laid cigarette heads. Long Live Engineering ! !

Mining engineering , a male bastion ,got a fairer sex this time. Yeah ! the only girl missed her last chance (by luck or by chance) to slide to some other branch. So now we aren’t 31 we are 30+1. Long Live Mining Enginering ! !

New faces have landed in the insti. No buddy , No ragging this time. I’ve already signed two anti ragging undertakings, one on my own behalf and the other one on behalf of papa. So , freshers live at your best. They have already been provided with security this time, pichle saal jo hamein bachate the, wo is saal humse bacha rahe hain ! Long Live that damn MHRD ! !