Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Thursday, September 15, 2005
Mahabharata and the -ism(s)
Read this interesting link forwarded to me where
Dhraupadhi is a Naxalite
Dharmaraj a Socialist
When Krishna went to Kauravas, He requested like socialism,
threatened like communism and showed His readiness to kill
them through the vision of Viswaroopam like Naxalism.
And Lot More....
Dhraupadhi is a Naxalite
Dharmaraj a Socialist
When Krishna went to Kauravas, He requested like socialism,
threatened like communism and showed His readiness to kill
them through the vision of Viswaroopam like Naxalism.
And Lot More....
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Some more links
A Study on Studying Methodoligies
International Cartoon Center
Sort of Free Journalism portal
Mumbai Local Trains' Map
Sepet - More than a love story
Image taken from WIRED.COM
Revenge of the Right Brain
Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.
By Daniel H. Pink
Intersting Definition of Academic Research
International Cartoon Center
Sort of Free Journalism portal
Mumbai Local Trains' Map
Sepet - More than a love story
Image taken from WIRED.COM
Revenge of the Right Brain
Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.
By Daniel H. Pink
Intersting Definition of Academic Research
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
Marriage
I was so happy that i couldn't resist writing a blog.
This is what happens when studies and fun marries.
I have been reading about Genetic Algorithms (GA) for the last 10 days or so but it didn't fuelled that much excitement until today when I was solving a Sudoku puzzle and got to know that my friend Venkat has made a program to solve it. Immediately, the idea of using GAs to solve SUDOKU striked my brain and hence i am here.
Excuse me! the program isn't written yet but searching for the GA and Sudoku i found a good link which cleared a lot of my misconceptions about GA.
At least, now thinking in GA has got a head-start in my grey cells. :)
Update:
This is what happens when studies and fun marries.
I have been reading about Genetic Algorithms (GA) for the last 10 days or so but it didn't fuelled that much excitement until today when I was solving a Sudoku puzzle and got to know that my friend Venkat has made a program to solve it. Immediately, the idea of using GAs to solve SUDOKU striked my brain and hence i am here.
Excuse me! the program isn't written yet but searching for the GA and Sudoku i found a good link which cleared a lot of my misconceptions about GA.
At least, now thinking in GA has got a head-start in my grey cells. :)
Update:
- has come with a GA based solution to generate Sudoku Puzzles. Earlier he coded a Mastermind Computer player using GA in C#.
- PalmDoku by
Too much words
Eskimos have 43 words to describe SNOW
Brazilians have 8 words for COFFEE beans
Americans have a rich SEX related vocabulary
Indians have rich vocabulary for RELATIONSHIPS
RIVER in Chinese
This all and more support a theory saying that the importance of a concept in a culture is determined by the number of words used to describe it (in its various forms). I first came to know about it from my friend Venkat (an NCSTian).
For more:
1. Read the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which is composed of two basic principles: linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity.
2. "Centrality of Snow in Inuit(Eskimo) culture is an exaggeration"
Brazilians have 8 words for COFFEE beans
Americans have a rich SEX related vocabulary
Indians have rich vocabulary for RELATIONSHIPS
- (For eg. mamaa, chachaa, kaaka, taoo to describe UNCLE)
- Sehnsucht - Longing
- Heimweh = "home ache" = homesickness
- Fernweh = "far ache" = the yearning for somewhere far away
- Nahweh = "near ache" = the feeling of sadness that comes when you return home to find it is not as you remember it
RIVER in Chinese
This all and more support a theory saying that the importance of a concept in a culture is determined by the number of words used to describe it (in its various forms). I first came to know about it from my friend Venkat (an NCSTian).
For more:
1. Read the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis which is composed of two basic principles: linguistic determinism and linguistic relativity.
2. "Centrality of Snow in Inuit(Eskimo) culture is an exaggeration"
Friday, September 09, 2005
Thursday, September 08, 2005
Teacher's Day
The kids don't know how much you know, but they certainly know how much you care about them. And if you care about them, you would have breathe life and inspiration into the subjects you teach. And if you care, your words and actions will resonate in the lives of those lucky children for many many years to come.
The alchemists who have helped me follow my dreams:-
Humanities Tridev (Vishwajit Pandya, Tridip, Shiv Vishvanathan)
movie course ITD's Bini Ma'am :)
Prof. Amin's microscopic pen running on the exam copies making them look like a part of some RED revolution
Details Later
The alchemists who have helped me follow my dreams:-
- Gosai Ma'am, K.G. and Prep., Holy Child School Ghaziabad.
Nobody can handle kids better than she. - Sister Roseline, Vth Std., Holy Child School Ghaziabad.
My Moral Science teacher, the job she was extra-ordinary at. - Mrs. P.K. Sharma, VI Std. , Holy Child School Ghaziabad.
Patience at its peak. - Mrs. Kala Nagarkoti, Mathematics, VIII - X std., D.P.S. Ghaziabad.
Before I took tuitions from her, I used to mug up geometry related reasoning questions. She gave me the confidence to take on the science stream in my 10+2. - Mrs. Renu Kaushik, History & Civics teacher, D.P.S. Ghaziabad.
I remember one question asked by her in the Civics class "Do you know where and how you will get the divorce from your wife if required" and the whole class went lol. - Mr. Virendra Chandela[Chandu Sir :) ], Mathematics Tutor, XI-XII std. Other than mathematics (which he can teach even to a below-average but sincere student), his ideas in philosophy, religion, politics and what not were thought provoking (including the free homeopathic treatment to his ailing students). I also learnt some homeopathy basics too.
- Dr. Bhushan, Physics Tutor, XI std., Though he wasn't able to get the physics into my brain that much but he induced the necessary interest in me without which learning the subject would have been an entirely a different ball game. Not to forget his idea about late-comers that I heard 1st time from him that "even if a person is coming 50 minutes late in an hour long class, he might learn something in the next 10 minutes"
- Sheoran Sir, Physics Tutor, XII std., My journey to the ancient town of Physics starts with him. The 90% score in PHY in 10+2 Boards was a shock to my sub-standard brain faculties dealing with PHY.
- Nandita Aunty, Chemistry Tutor, XII std., Under her, I got a daily dose of mysterious Organic Chemistry before my morning breakfast.
- Mr. Vinay Panday[Bunny Sir :) ], Computer Science and C++, XI-XII, D.P.S. Ghaziabad. An ideal Computer Science teacher. He is the best memory of my school days. I can definitely write a book blog on "He, Me and my 10+2 days".
- DA-IICT profs - Samaresh Sir, Sanjay Sir, Biswas Sir, Sinha Sir, Jotwani Sir, Maitra Sir, Abhinay Pandya Sir, Mathuria Sir (Details later)
- Ashok Singh, My Mentor, Research Internship (part of UG curriculum), ORF, Delhi. One of the true Alchemists of my life.
Humanities Tridev (Vishwajit Pandya, Tridip, Shiv Vishvanathan)
movie course ITD's Bini Ma'am :)
Prof. Amin's microscopic pen running on the exam copies making them look like a part of some RED revolution
Details Later
Friday, September 02, 2005
Nationalism or Evilism
"...If some day the folks in power ..... can REALLY see all people as equal human beings deserving of equal treatment in life, we can drop the pervision of patriotism and bring the world to a new era of true peace without the need for those at the top to live off the economic slavery of the rest of the world."
-Johann von Schnell
wrote in a review on atomic bomb test video-Johann von Schnell
In my words, Nationalism is a patchwork done on our mother earth.
We have f***ed up our mother earth and produced 200+ motherlands.
Sorry for the use of the censored f word in the above line but this is the real truth.
Note: The readers may raise their voice pointing to the Indian section in my blog.
I do agree with them and want their suggestions as to how should I tag these things in some other way. Further, I also want to add that I also like rock music which is a Western thing. I have equal sympathy and interest in American army and all other armies in the world who are just chess pieces of our political leadership. Liking something which is region specific does not signify that you are a nationalist.
Yes I am also against many policies of America but that is true for my Indian government true. You need some nomenclature to point out things but the words should not create a general rhetoric. There are lot of other clarifications and explanations that this blog entry needs but I am not planning a book blog. So as and when the questions will come, I will answer to them.
Wednesday, August 31, 2005
What is NLP?
So if you are from a computer science stream, then you may instantly de-abbreviate it to Natural Language Processing. But the context I am writing this blog entry is Neuro Linguistic Programming. But still you might think of it as some theoretical approach in programming.
It is a therapy which claims to help people change by teaching them to program their brains.
For more, Refer
It is a therapy which claims to help people change by teaching them to program their brains.
For more, Refer
http://www.holistic-online.com/hol_neurolinguistic.htm
http://skepdic.com/neurolin.html
and you can also search our beloved Google
Friday, August 26, 2005
We are FORTUNATE enough in any case
Misfortune is a hidden fortune for those who believe in them
Proof:-
Steve Jobs speech at Stanford Univ - look at the life this man has lead; in comparison, we are living a luxurious life and doing nothing useful!
Credit of this blog entry goes to my Sasi sir.
A must read for our generation.
Proof:-
Steve Jobs speech at Stanford Univ - look at the life this man has lead; in comparison, we are living a luxurious life and doing nothing useful!
Credit of this blog entry goes to my Sasi sir.
A must read for our generation.
Sunday, August 21, 2005
Is Society a Disease?
Everybody seems to be blaming govt., population, corruption and blah blah blah.
People consider society as a disease and try to keep themselves and their children away from it. They don't know the severity of this or may be they don't want to because it hasn't caught them.
Common Man is as indifferent to society as any politician or a high profiler is. Then what right do we have to blame anybody.
We feel helpless only when some outsider is burning in a fire. If our own piece of heart is there then our helplessness starts melting into panic induced movement.
I request you to please not throw the blame if not share it. If you can't cure your society, at least cure yourself and your perspectives.
People consider society as a disease and try to keep themselves and their children away from it. They don't know the severity of this or may be they don't want to because it hasn't caught them.
Common Man is as indifferent to society as any politician or a high profiler is. Then what right do we have to blame anybody.
We feel helpless only when some outsider is burning in a fire. If our own piece of heart is there then our helplessness starts melting into panic induced movement.
I request you to please not throw the blame if not share it. If you can't cure your society, at least cure yourself and your perspectives.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Friday, August 05, 2005
All about RUNNING
Just because somebody is running ahead of you doesn't mean that you will lose the race.
Don't stop, keep running.
If the race has just been started, you can't make any assumptions about who will lose in the end.
If the race is near to its end, stopping is anyway going to waste all your effort.
In the middle of the race!!! "WHY YOU STARTED AT ALL AT THE FIRST INSTANCE IF YOU HADN'T PLANNED TO COMPLETE THE RACE?"
So again, No use of stopping, RUN better every time someone gets ahead of you.
Don't stop, keep running.
If the race has just been started, you can't make any assumptions about who will lose in the end.
If the race is near to its end, stopping is anyway going to waste all your effort.
In the middle of the race!!! "WHY YOU STARTED AT ALL AT THE FIRST INSTANCE IF YOU HADN'T PLANNED TO COMPLETE THE RACE?"
So again, No use of stopping, RUN better every time someone gets ahead of you.
Thursday, July 28, 2005
Monday, July 25, 2005
Dream
Everyday I see a dream in which I dream of becoming a protagonist, protagonist of my dreams. My father sometimes comment on me and advise me not to only dream like mungerilal but do something in reality.
And as always the question comes, how can you remark dreams as not reality. He may be right in his own real world but I am also not wrong in my dream world.
I sometime imagine what would have happened if there would have been no dream. Sleep would have been dry, monotonous and unattractive. Imagine a sleep without a single dream all year round.
The song from the movie DADDY comes to my mind in this context :-
dhoondne se khusiyon ki rahein nahin milti
jaagne se mann ki muraadein nahin khilti
mile jo na tujhe des mein humare
de jayenge nindiya ke andhiyaare
ghar ke ujiyaare soja re
daddy tere jaage tu soja re
The paths to happiness can't be searched
Your ambitions doesn't get fulfilled even by being awake
Oh my son! Whatever you don't find in our world
The darkness of sleep will give you
Oh light of my home
Your daddy is awake, just sleep peacefully
And as always the question comes, how can you remark dreams as not reality. He may be right in his own real world but I am also not wrong in my dream world.
I sometime imagine what would have happened if there would have been no dream. Sleep would have been dry, monotonous and unattractive. Imagine a sleep without a single dream all year round.
The song from the movie DADDY comes to my mind in this context :-
dhoondne se khusiyon ki rahein nahin milti
jaagne se mann ki muraadein nahin khilti
mile jo na tujhe des mein humare
de jayenge nindiya ke andhiyaare
ghar ke ujiyaare soja re
daddy tere jaage tu soja re
The paths to happiness can't be searched
Your ambitions doesn't get fulfilled even by being awake
Oh my son! Whatever you don't find in our world
The darkness of sleep will give you
Oh light of my home
Your daddy is awake, just sleep peacefully
Theme of a screenplay - Queue
Before reading this, I want the reader to make a note that the below text is not in any manner concerned with my life.
My only relation with the below text is that i have written it.
The protagonist says:
I, the protagonist of this whole drama, was born on 31 Dec 1983.
My father remained in a queue to fill the form of the hospital to get my mother admitted.
My mother had to remain in a queue after her labor pains got started.
My elder came before me. So, in a way GOD kept me also in a queue after my brother.
My younger brother was yet to be born.
Being in the middle of the queue is the biggest dilemma to be in because neither your heart will allow you to leave the queue because you are ahead of those standing behind you nor it will be enough to convince your impatient brain that you will get a chance soon because there is a crowd equal in number ahead of you.
The people behind u push u and the people ahead of you blame you and abuse you for the fault you haven’t done.
peeche wala dhakka deta hai aur aage wala sunata hai
beech wala pis jaata hai
khadi queue ko dekh kar diya kabira roy
do paatan ke beech mein sabut bacha na moy
Queue that has become the truth of every living being in our country
Queue for water in the neighborhood community water pump
Queue at the medical shop, ration ki dukaan
Queue for admission to a school
Queue for every aspiring doctor/engineer
Queue at the railway reservation counter
Queue at the hotels and restaurants
Queue at the canteen of my college where I met Madhavi.
Now an exception here
I was the first to propose Madhavi and so was not in a queue or may be I can at least say that I was the first in queue and made others in the queue so hopeless that they left.
They say relations are made in heaven. But if they are made in heaven then why the couples meet so late...I think GOD has a separate queue for the relationship clearance too...
Even the girl I got my first crush on had 3 boyfriends waiting for her YES.
Queue for the interview to a company
My promotion was in a queue of 5 people of which 2 were more senior than me.
Queue didn’t left me even after my death
Even the graveyard I was buried in had a queue when my dead body reached there
People waited in a queue to make offerings to my corpse.
Don’t know whether I will have to wait at the heaven too in a queue. I will request HIM that better send me to hell than to make me wait in a QUEUE for heaven.
My only relation with the below text is that i have written it.
The protagonist says:
I, the protagonist of this whole drama, was born on 31 Dec 1983.
My father remained in a queue to fill the form of the hospital to get my mother admitted.
My mother had to remain in a queue after her labor pains got started.
My elder came before me. So, in a way GOD kept me also in a queue after my brother.
My younger brother was yet to be born.
Being in the middle of the queue is the biggest dilemma to be in because neither your heart will allow you to leave the queue because you are ahead of those standing behind you nor it will be enough to convince your impatient brain that you will get a chance soon because there is a crowd equal in number ahead of you.
The people behind u push u and the people ahead of you blame you and abuse you for the fault you haven’t done.
peeche wala dhakka deta hai aur aage wala sunata hai
beech wala pis jaata hai
do paatan ke beech mein sabut bacha na moy
Queue that has become the truth of every living being in our country
Queue for water in the neighborhood community water pump
Queue at the medical shop, ration ki dukaan
Queue for admission to a school
Queue for every aspiring doctor/engineer
Queue at the railway reservation counter
Queue at the hotels and restaurants
Queue at the canteen of my college where I met Madhavi.
Now an exception here
I was the first to propose Madhavi and so was not in a queue or may be I can at least say that I was the first in queue and made others in the queue so hopeless that they left.
They say relations are made in heaven. But if they are made in heaven then why the couples meet so late...I think GOD has a separate queue for the relationship clearance too...
Even the girl I got my first crush on had 3 boyfriends waiting for her YES.
Queue for the interview to a company
My promotion was in a queue of 5 people of which 2 were more senior than me.
Queue didn’t left me even after my death
Even the graveyard I was buried in had a queue when my dead body reached there
People waited in a queue to make offerings to my corpse.
Don’t know whether I will have to wait at the heaven too in a queue. I will request HIM that better send me to hell than to make me wait in a QUEUE for heaven.
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The Astonishing Love
Dil to hai dil dil ka aitbaar kya kije
aa gaya jo kisi pe yaar kya kije
Heart is unique, Heart can't be trusted
If it loves somebody, you can't do anything about it
The deadly disease of love and the intensity of the addiction of this drug can only be treated by love.
Love is a great drug. A lover doesn't need any whisky, wine or marijuana to get inebriated.
Pehla nasha, pehla khumaar
naya pyaar hai naya intezaar
First love, first intoxication
new love, new expectations
Love is like another planet where earthly laws don't work
especially the law of gravity
aaj kal pao zameen par nahi padte mere
bolo tumne dekha hai mujhe chalte hue
My legs don't rest upon earth these days
Have you ever seen me walking?
Tum paas aaye dil mein samaye, tumne ne na jaane kya sapne dikhaye
ab to mera dil jaage na sota hai, kya karun haye kuch kuch hota hai
na jaane kaisa yeh ehsaas hai, bujhti nahi hai kya pyaas hai
kya nasha is pyaar ka mujh pe chaane laga
koi na jaane kyun chain khota hai
kya karun haye kuch kuch hota hai
aa gaya jo kisi pe yaar kya kije
Heart is unique, Heart can't be trusted
If it loves somebody, you can't do anything about it
The deadly disease of love and the intensity of the addiction of this drug can only be treated by love.
Love is a great drug. A lover doesn't need any whisky, wine or marijuana to get inebriated.
Pehla nasha, pehla khumaar
naya pyaar hai naya intezaar
First love, first intoxication
new love, new expectations
Love is like another planet where earthly laws don't work
especially the law of gravity
aaj kal pao zameen par nahi padte mere
bolo tumne dekha hai mujhe chalte hue
My legs don't rest upon earth these days
Have you ever seen me walking?
Tum paas aaye dil mein samaye, tumne ne na jaane kya sapne dikhaye
ab to mera dil jaage na sota hai, kya karun haye kuch kuch hota hai
na jaane kaisa yeh ehsaas hai, bujhti nahi hai kya pyaas hai
kya nasha is pyaar ka mujh pe chaane laga
koi na jaane kyun chain khota hai
kya karun haye kuch kuch hota hai
what to do
Either life is playing with me or i am playing with life
Is it justified to share the blame with life
Has my life anything to do with my conditions
I think as an indivdual I am more responsible for everything that happens around me
Sometimes, i feel the need 2 create a secret blog and post everything anonymously
but would it not be running away from the truth
the truth that th chap called Rahul Gupta has some serious problems which he avoids to discuss even with himself somtimes.
WE always say...why this happens to me only...why that happened to me only
and then let question remain open
Note: I don't think whatever i wrote after this was worth of anything other than a trash
Is it justified to share the blame with life
Has my life anything to do with my conditions
I think as an indivdual I am more responsible for everything that happens around me
Sometimes, i feel the need 2 create a secret blog and post everything anonymously
but would it not be running away from the truth
the truth that th chap called Rahul Gupta has some serious problems which he avoids to discuss even with himself somtimes.
WE always say...why this happens to me only...why that happened to me only
and then let question remain open
Note: I don't think whatever i wrote after this was worth of anything other than a trash
Monday, April 25, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
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