The Letter That i sent to Academic Council

Hi al,

Thanks for the initiative. Though I will call it a little bit too late.

Anyways for the pressing matters my take on them are as under

1. BTP Policy: I am still not clear what you want to discuss. If it’s about the spi divided into 8 parts like (1.5, 2, 2.5 etc) as heard sometimes before then its ok.

1. Awarding first/second class etc: Already there is a crisis of name of the college in the outside world of academics. (Many MBA aspirants who have faced the innumerous GD/PIs will vouch for the fact), so making life more hectic for the students are not going to help the cause. So let the first class be at 60%. There are many institutes which have that criterion for admissions. If someone is able to get admission at those institutes then why cripple him because of the college policy. The criterion doesn’t make for a world class institute. One has to do more to achieve that.

1. CPI to Percentage Conversion Formula: If you are going to make life easier of the people who are below 2 anything easier then it’s ok(easier meaning above 60% anything below that is irrelevant). Just there are some ideas floating that because of the ludicrous conversion percentages of 3.99 people are thinking of changing it. Here one thing I would say that there are only couple of people going to be affected, which in any case doesn’t matter to them. Moreover I have heard (don’t know whether true) that at Nirma nobody has less than 60%. Which shows in the placement results and the number and standard of the company they were able to attract.

What is life: Does one have a control over it?

I haven’t found out the answer as of now. Another question that bugged me since childhood has been that, who am I? Am I the person who owns this body or much more? Why am I doing this and not that? Maybe the questions aren’t clear to me as it was then. Ok, many people will be saying that you are being philosophical and search for a spiritual guru. May be someday I will search for him too. But as of now I wish that I had some easy lucid fast convincing answers. Just like the scientific queries. Irrefutable logics is what I am asking for now. May be I am asking too much. But then I would love to have that Brahm gyaan.

May be I am deviating from the topic title but I think that all things are interrelated if one looks closely. But the thing that inspired me to post was a simple drudgery of life. Is one life one’s own. Why that one is has to run the rat race. Why one has to even if he doesn’t want to.

I wanted a real free life away from the pressures that you should do this and not that. I wished to join some Ashram when I was young, wasn’t allowed (maybe it was right for me from my parent’s perspective). I wanted to do farming so that I don’t have to run rat race. I always imagined what a life would have been at the iron-age civilization. I know that it would have been tough to survive. Diseases epidemics, predators etc, but worth a try just imagine! Leave difficulties alone for a moment what was a life gathering food and lying just under the sun. Quite close to monkey’s lives.

I know that there is also a race of mating, food. But then I would trade sex any day with a life without strings. May be you will say that I am being an escapist. May be, I am, but then maybe not. I just want to live a life where I don’t have to prove myself every time. I want to be as natural as I am, always. Way away from external influences.

What I think that I a looking for a life in which you have no responsibilities. Be it as a father, brother, friend or son. Every time I wish to do something out of the world and have real intention in doing so. Either I am directly stopped or now being considered grown up is more often emotionally black-mailed. I think that right now it’s only my parents whom I am answerable to. And even them I am not able to break fee. Later in life the bonds will be more rigid. How will I be able to break free then? Seems that I will have to do it sooner or stop worrying on that count. I want to lead a life of anonymity. And not be judged from what I have achieved materialistically. Do not try to judge me every time. Don’t expect me to follow what all people. In short I don’t want to be conformist.

Maybe you all will be thinking that what rubbish I have written above. So be it, I can’t help it. In starting I have written the questions aren’t clear to me and so have to forget the answer. This was the closest that I could get closest to my dilemma. So if you don’t get it don’t ponder much, I am still trying to figure it out. It’s written just for the sake that whenever I re-read this post some points may get clearer, to me, in due course of time.

Discussion Forums.

With the growth of internet and facilities of two way views it has become quite an good place to debate upon. Pakistan and India have good numbers of users there roughly 2.5% of the entire public (considerably large considering that Brazil has around 70% population.

Citing
the demographic percentage was for the insurance that both countries
are equally represented. And as will be expected there are two main
communities doing the round which is important for me as an Indian
first and Hindu next.

Now
what really caught my attention were the three topics which most of us
are ignorant about or want to know more about it. I spent entire day in
reading them. They being

1. India and Pakistan.
2. Muslims and Hindus
3. Indian Muslims and India.

I
really was spell bounded by what an average person’s opinion was on the
subject. There were two terrific communities which had quite a good
participation (Not withstanding few assholes.). Are ……..

1. http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=18389 (International relations)

2. http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=687469 (Indian Muslims)

The
above communities aren’t the usual hate groups that are in plenty. They
are the most genuine and most active. Which, I will, further edit in
due course of time. I shall definitely post some summary or things that
influenced my outlook regarding the same.

Just
one thing that I will add to here about the Muslim & Hindu populace
(Indian ones) is from good socio-economic background, keeping the fact
that they are using net in forums. So theirs view May not in entirety
represent all the people (It will not even be 0.1% of the entire
population). So the links while reading them one had to keep that in
mind that they are the elitist club and not the views of entire
community. Discretion is required. But for the first topic I think we
can assume that it was a reasonable reflection of thoughts of the
parties concerned.

Google vs Msn vs Yahoo ….. Search Engines

I won’t go into the fancy stuffs like number of pages searched or for that matter time taken for the given search. After all what will micro-seconds loss do to me!!

 

I will start with a general observation of mine which I felt right after I started blogging on this site. Just for the sake of fun I searched my link at Google (after couple of hours). Lo and behold, the link was there in the search. Just two hours and no publicity but it was still there. So its indexing of new site generation was quite fast.

 

Later I started the search with Msn search but it didn’t show up. But after a day the results were there. One thing that struck me was that the results were more comprehensive than Google.  So Mr. Gates pumping of money is doing some wonders.

 

Last coming up to another giant, Yahoo. It  didn’t showed the results that day. Not even after that day. The story that the search result isn’t there now too. Seems that acquisitions of overture haven’t done much wonders. But then its search capabilities are quite recent. One thing that came from yahoo usage from previous usage is that it has huge space for indexing. It’s display of the things that are in its index are quite huge. More than the other two. May  be because of redundancy.

 

Clearly Google is a winner. It’s  search capabilities indexing are quite fast and  not to mention to remove the redundancy faster too. Msn has leaped by leaps and bounds too. Yahoo isn’t that far. May be it just needs some time. Google will have to be constantly on its toes. But then why am I saying this. Google has always wowed us and delivered more than the consumer expected. Gmail is a classic example how it downed all the established email providers. The thing that yahoo couldn’t replicate in search platform.

I’m FINE, Thank You!

–Author Unknown– 

There is nothing the matter with me.
I’m as healthy as I can be.
I have arthritis in both of my knees
and when I talk, I talk with a wheeze.
My pulse is weak, and my blood is thin.
But I’m awfully well for the shape I’m in.

Arch supports I have for my feet,
Or I wouldn’t be able to be on the street,
Sleep is denied me night after night’
But every morning I find I’m all right.
My memory is failing, my head’s in a spin.
But I’m awfully well for the shape I’m in.
Old age is golden I’ve heard it said
But sometimes I wonder as I get into bed.

With my ears in a drawer, my teeth in a cup,
My eyes on the table until I wake up.
Ere sleep overtake me, I say to myself,
“Is there anything else I could lay on the shelf?
I get up each morning and dust off my wits
And pick up the paper and read the “Obits”,
If my name is still missing I know I’m not dead,
So I have a good breakfast and go back to bed.

The moral is this as my tale I unfold…
That for you and me who are growing old,
It’s better to say “I’m fine” with a grin
Than to let folks know the shape we are in.

We should be content with what we have. No complains.

Rampage 06 at synapse

She is the best bet for ours batch
at rampage 2006.

She participated in every cultural festival.

This year wasn’t present so thought to keep for the memory sake.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Myself………

This is the pic that was taken while en-route to dwarika. More than a year back. What a clear ocean quite a contrast to the mumbai waters.

It was quite in an isolated place. Far away from any human intervention and so quite an unspoilt beach. We were here for more than couple of hours.

Mumbai-Darshan — 19th March

As usual I had multiple wakeup alarm on mobile. Anyways got up and fast tried to get ready for the 7:07 train from Koperkhairaine. Just on time reached there and got into the train. It was the first experience of Mumbai local train. Being the Sunday and curfew there wasn’t a great rush. Anyways I had to change 3 trains to get to Vidyavihar. And there was usual great rush at Kurla. But I was saved because of my ignorance as I was sitting on first class compartment.

One more thing that I had heard about Mumbaites was they don’t give you any time and they are at great rush. But I never faced such thing. Whenever I asked for the directions they gave me (which was in plenty). It was just like any other place. Maybe I was lucky but I would prefer to consider it otherwise.

From Kurla to Vidyavihar, I met Arpil and then we reached the campus together. There at KJSOM they showed the presentation for the college. Such a huge college amidst the Mumbai main area is quite an achievement. Anyways the group was divided after verification of the documents. The case study was quite boring. One sided case and no one had to say something against the case. In PI me a lady and a gents. She was quite affable and I think that it was quite ok. Thereafter I had lunch. After asking couple of local students decided to go for India gate and then for Juhu beach cahupati.

Got a train till Victoria Terminus (VT). Really the look is like that of Victorian age. The railway station the police headquarters and all other offices or shops in the vicinity wore the look of the ancient times. Great grandeur. It somehow reminded me of the Delhi structures, but they are quite different that’s Mughals and this one is quite recent and quite European.

Taking directions I went to the Gateway of India. Gosh how much dirty the ocean water is there!! I had been there once more with my parents and stayed for quite a small time. This time all the time was mine and my train was at 10:00 pm. And now it was only 1:00 am. Got all the time to kill. Went there and tapa and naapa the foreign maal. Due to heat Arpil wanted to return to pune. I stayed there. Saw the people from different walks of life going for boating towards Elephanta caves which is 9 km from there on boat. Later on the park was opened and I was quite tired and slept and rested there for an hour. Then at around 6, I thought that I will utilize the time and see Juhu and Chaupati in the meanwhile.

I asked for directions and the person asked me to go to Santa-cruz. Whether it was my way of asking or what I believe that I was given a wrong direction. Reaching Santa-cruz was so late that I decided to return to Central. So went there. It was like Mumbai-darshan with bus. Saw many things from bus. I think that I traversed a lot there. Later on got to train and having a reserved journey had a good night sleep. Meanwhile I had a chance encounter with the Isro guy at train.

DA-IICT

wrote for da-iict rememberance

1. Bunking my first entire week in college.

 

1. Thinking of what to eat for afternoon when I bunked college.(at sector 7). Had to do with paratha-sak.

 

1. How I cycled to Rajshree for every movies.

 

1. How on weekends the R-world was full of Da-iict. And return trips of boys and girls alike on trucks.

 

1. Missing the first pop-quiz of college life and felt bad about it. Later left almost all the quizzes. Rarely ever I went to classroom even after shifting to hostel.

 

1. My friends. It may be hard to believe, but I had practically friendship with all guys of my batch (of course excluding the girls)

 

1. First blitz night and spending two camera rolls photographing entire batch girls.(sill have them). And how they avoided me.

 

1. How was I against ragging when I was new. Never ever been ragged then. But how quickly situation changed when I was senior (although it was the juniors fault, because they showed so much of aloofness).

 

1. My first fight in college in TV room at sector 7 because of some channel disputes.

 

1. College intense politics for onemanship.

 

1. My first fight with seniors

 

1. As Ashish said Mahabharat of  synapse 2004.

 

1. Some quite adorable juniors.

 

1. And now my relationships with ours seniors for whom I was quite disagreeable and vice versa.

 

1. My first and last crush at Da-iict.

 

1. Discussions on how the bad grades don’t reflect ours true potential. How never worried about grades, labs, lectures etc.

 

1. Liked Baba, Vishwas sir. And how much I hated Daddu.

 

1. All those nights on examination eve. When had to luk for a knowledgeable banda who could take care of my preparations. Especially roomie and couple of good friends.

 

1. How much I had to fight to get into the synapse 2005. It was the so-called friends whom I trusted had daggers in theirs hand. How my real friends helped me through it.

 

1. My bike at college. Endless discussion that why no girls sit on it.

 

 

1. All those nights when we in groups went to R-world and even Ahmedabad for just the pack of cigarettes.

 

1. Discussing all those bullshits for hours between smoke at rashmin galla. (during 3^rd year.) including why no girls of our college gives us a chance and then came a brilliant idea to try on localites  and now we are having couple of happy ending stories for now.

 

1. My first night of boozing and being caught by police. Weeds.

 

1. Never played computer games and now this semester I feel that how I lived without it.

 

1. Watching almost all the movies that came on the LAN and still looking for more.
2. BTP project in which I haven’t done a single thing till date (It’s another matter that I haven’t ever done in college). Thank you fellas who bore the burnt because of me.

 

1. Maskara lecture in which all used to come. I had only bunked three lectures in that course. For me quite an achievement because I never attended more than three in any course from first year onwards. Which is reflected in my grades.

 

1. Will definitely remember all my batch-mates( girls included [:p])

 

1. Last but definitely not the least all those misconceptions about me to the people who don’ know me