Some Random thougths

Baadlon se dil ka rishta hai purana re!
Hai safar anjaan lekin aazmana re !!

A great song with a really great singer who has done a faboulous job.

Why some random thoughts..

Because i couldnt come up with a specific title for the post. I actually wanted to rewrite the post i wrote yesterday i.e. How the elite of country, the best minds of this subcontinent respond to a teacher who puts in his heart and soul in teaching.

Todays class was not a revelation to me, its just that i like to be learning from both the sides of coin. It has happend before but when i think from the professors point of view, the insult( which is a understatement) and how he dealt with it are both things which cant be done by a normal student. It has to take some guts to be on either side.

What actually happend !!:P

Well in class one of the two enthu profs that we have this semester caught one of the many great souls who were enlightening themselves by reading novels which is still a mystry to me( how can some one concentrate and read a novel in the back benches...either you sleep or listen).

And to my greatest surprise he let go the issue just by saying that it hurts his ego...that too in a funny way. Had Masa or me been in his place that person would have screwed his life. And perhaps that is the only reason i am not in the professors shoes.

How patient can one be and how enduring can ones patient be. I simply have no answer to that. But its one of my wishes to have one of the most patient minds ...that i am angry only on a superficial basis...Its a great assest to have so much control on your temprament. If you can be angry like Dharam pajee from outside and still thinking rationally with the calmness of sherlock holmes. All the impediments in the way would be so easy to cross.

Any other random thought!!

Yeah after getting this view counter(courtesy: Dearest Doga) on the blog i know that atleast a few people read my blog. But this anonymous commenting is a cause for concern. People think that whenever i write something, i am writing like an expert on the issue....
Arey Bhaiyon aur unki Behnon.....I just write whatever comes to my mind and dont think much about it...so
"Bhawna ko samjho"

The randomness of my thoughts is increasing.....like the bubbles that we see in the movies whenever they have something dangerous....

ak

Agony of good teachers in IIT

guru brahma guru vishnu, guru devo maheswaraya !
guru sakshat parbrahma tasmay shree guruven namah !!

Surprised,

I am still a final year student of IIT...still attending more than 80% of the lectures and certainly not wandering in the caves of himalyas.

Then why such a legendary shloka to begin with. I will be directly accused of starting a satsang. But i dont mind because i want to look at both sides of a coin. I have already completed my duties as a student of critcizing the professors as much i could, opening my heart to all the pain inflicted by the most soporific, irritating, US accented, Painful and what not profs of IIT bombay.

But are all the profs like that....MOST DEFINITELY A BIG NOOOOO...!!!

So who are these kind hearted, loving, helping, good teachers.....who are the messiah of the people who app and go to MIT or Stanfy.

In this semester i have good or bad luck of running into two such professors who have infinite enthu to teach, interact and do things well in the class. But how do we students respond !!!
By sleeping, talking, turning up when half the class is over... How can they stand it. I dont know, and had i been in there place i would have given FR to all such students. But they dont do that.

What is the problem...Problem is that our department has hidden the best of its professors till the very end when i have no desire, requirement to study. Why cant prof XYZ who is one of the best teachers of our dept. take the introductory course. I dont have an answer and i dont think the dept has it either. The system seems like a draw of lots rather than a strategic decision to get freshies intersted, and ethusiased about chemical engineering. But by blaming the department i and other students cant get away from the responsibility of killing the teacher inside such a kind and fighter heart.

The result !! this guy would also stop caring for Btechs and his teaching after a few years and will only care about his research. I would do the same in his situation ...why wont he....And i do believe that this would have happend to many profs who could or still are really good teachers.

Solutions to this situation...!!!
I cant think of any...

I would end this post with a thanks to my physics and chemistry teachers who made me a responsible student for their subjects...but sadly my maths teacher couldnt and i still am bad at the subject.

Guru govind dou khade, kake lagoon pair!
Balihari guru aapke, govind dio batay!!

ak

liberal vs conservative

This debate can go far as long as there are elections for presidency in america. But how do i reach to a conclusion. Well i cant do what president bush did with the help of his brother jeb. I have to find other ways to settle the arguments.

But first of all why this debate??

Actually with nothing productive left in life to do, I waste time reading blogs of other people. And i find a group from IIM cal writing really great stuff. From that blog i reached a blog written by a female called sunshine. She wrote about the stuffed environment that we have in our marriages and her mother making all efforts she could to get her to marry, although the feel i get from her blog is that she is already commited and her mother doesnt read blogs.

So how does her blog bring in the topic of this posting!!!
I noticed a few things in her blog which reflect the changing mindset of indian women to me.

• "If you know that you are gonna be raped anywayz and you can’t help it, you might as well start enjoying it." that is said by her fav. student!!!
  

• "My nani would have had a shock had she seen a 50-plus lady giving me such. boob-kissing hugs."

I may be accused of 'baal kee khal nikalna' here, but 'khali dimag shaitan kaa ghar hota hai'.

I dont know how many girls or for that matter boys would be comfortable typing these lines on a public forum like this. To bring in perspective, I pride my self being the most liberal of all my friends as yet. I havent had to face problems where my openness would be tested, but my friends do feel and say that "teri life ke fundae alag hain bilkul".

And i dont mind such comments. I believe in freedom and believe that i should share the same with whosoever i am with equally. Not many would agree, but it cant be helped.

But what do these changes mean to us indians!!!

Well they do mean a lot. They tell us that there are people who arent frightened to express what they think. I think i need to make a distinction between, liberal and vociferous(i hope that this word means, not being frightened to express your thoughts).

I strongly believe that these changes which have happened over past 10-15 years will go a long way in making india a better country in terms of freedom for women. Its highly frustrating to see that even education at iit cant make people understand the value that women have and the quantum in which they can contribute to the building of indian nation. After all they are aprroximately 50% of our workforce.

When i find my friends in IIT saying that women belong in houses, girls coming to iit is an opportunity denied to a better candidated and so much more crap ...i cant help but 'Sir pakad ke baith jaane ke alawa kuch nahin kar sakta'.

Do i sound feminist. Probably!! but its not that...i mean business. Its all economics.
And one great thought that i always remeber, strue in context of rural india.
"If you educate a man, you educate an individual
But if you educate a woman, you educate a family"


ak

Ak Unplugged

Well dont get any funny ideas that i have become a legendary musician like my favourites and am trying to force you to listen to all the screetching noisious music that i may generate in a bad situation somewhat like what kajol did for ShahRukh in DDLJ.

Well but still i am going to talk about music an inseparable part of everyones lives except for the people who are less blessed by god and my heartfelt sympathies to them.

I have been blessed with one of the most diverse chice of music one can have. I like Classical indian instrumentals (especially string equipments), typical bollywood,ghazals,soft english,rock,some not hindi and english music(i.e. telugu songs for there tune).
I havent yet heard a lot of western classical hence havent developed a liking for that and there vocals (no offence meant but i cant stand).

My dad has a lot to do with the kind of music i listen to. He likes to listen to ghazals and i think i also developed a taste from there itself. He kind of pushed me to listen to classicals and i liked it.

But i feel that developing a taste for music is also a very gradual process like any other. To substantiate if you want to listen to ghazals, and directly listen to mehdi hasan or begum akhtar, you wont survive that long haul of.....one line repeating till you have slept 10 times. It goes on and on...A ghazal in a live performance can last for as much as 15-20 mins. There is no way one can appreciate the ghulam ali's versatility at the first go.

So whats the way out....very simple....start with jagjit singh, pankaj udhas, then listen to older songs by ghulam ali and then his live performances and then if you still like it...then you can listen to the MEHDI hasan......But this process cant be forced on anybody. if it happens in that fashion then you will develop a taste other wise you will fall asleep wishing the ghazal being played in the neighbouring room ends. I am lucky that it happend in the same way for me.....

Same is true for rock in my case....i started with one of the best songs of nirvana...."The man who sold the world" and similiar gradual process followed, today i was trying to find out a few good tracks in hybrid theory of linkin park.

I talked about my choice of music in the britannia interview also and luckily for me the V.P. was also a ghazal fan, so we had a small chat.

Whatever....Music is a part of life and for me tunes are more important so i can listen to songs of any language.

I thank all the great musicians who have made this world a better place generating such great tunes and what not.....especially A.R. Rehman
ak

The happy go lucky things

"Ishq to ishq to gale se laga le....
ek jhalak ko taras gayi...
aa saamne aur tham le...meri aamanat yaar be
Deedar de..deedar de....deedar de"

ohh....so why start with such a song ...well it came at random in my winamp play list and i felt like writing so i did.

Today i realized that i havent been writing about good things in my blog since i started. Not my type of job. I like to shy away from criticizing people, then how come my writing different from me???

I simply dont know.
I also realized one more thing today....Bloggin is addictive and can get you killed. How !!!
Let me explain. After completing my paper which was the last of my midsems, i first thought about some new yahoo status message for myself like

• "Every beginning is and end, and every end is a beginning hence there is no point being happy or sad about things."

And to be very true i have lost the feeling of being happy when exams end.
I was actually surprised when two of my batchmates hugged and said "The End". But they were DD's so they have one more year hence probably they are still very much in the game and havent been able to disconnect from the happenings here, as much as i am. But this is too long a status message by my criteria. Hence i cut that short

• "Every beginning is and end and vice versa", But when i came to my room i randomly put "Tera suroor", i dont know...probably i am in a romantic mood.

But what has all this got to do with addiction of bloggin...!!!
Well after my yahoo status message i started thinking about what could i blog about....
And the topics that went through my mind.

• The way chemical engineering dept. IIT bombay has treated us in approximately four years of our stay, the title i came up with was

"The orphans with parents still there". I dont intend to write about this before i get hands on my degree and am safely out of any DAC jurisdiction.

• I also thought about my tendency of not feeling very comfortable at home and staying at IIT instead during all these four years and how would my loving,caring,worrying mom be thinking about that. I wont write more on this....!! as the suspicious me still is awake and wins the battle.

Still how can bloggin get you killed !!!

Well i was riding my bicycle and thinking about all this stuff which i have typed. And no one should do that because i wasnt aware of what was going around me. Brushed an accident with another bicycle. Which could have got me killed...:P "Abey dubla patla aadmi hoon yaar" kabhi kabhi bure fatte bhi maar leta hoon.

"Tu jo nahin to aise piya hum, jaise soona aangna
Nain tehari raah nihare, nainon ko tarsaao naa
Mora saiyan mose bole naa,Main lakh jatan kar haari" Not the reality ..but this song is really great....too good man.

The problem of being a writer !!!

I have started to write with such consitency for the first time in my life. It doesnt mean that i havent been writing and come to IIT without writing anything(I am a firm believer that writing is the best way to remeber things, which i am good at....dimag kahan se laaon yaar). But when it comes to writing my mind.....I havent done that before.
But there is this suspicious me, sitting inside who always thinks...should i write this?? Wont it make me open to everyone?? And to be truthful uptill now that insider is winning the battle. I was actually perterbed when i realized that even the profs might be surfing this blog of mine !!! and what if the lone hero of this semester who has been causing all the ruckus of studying reads my words of appreciation .....I dont know
I actually thought about re.reading my posts and removing Objectionable content . But i havent been able to generate enthu to actually read all the crap i have written in last few days. Any ways after getting my second job i have become more carefree...But still the suspicious me at times makes me worry a bit.

This is not the real problem that i have faced as a writer in last few days, the probable reason is that i also know that there is nothing that offensive in my posts. And they carry much less venom compared to the first article i wrote which may not see the light of insight because of its content. So whats the real problem !!!!

Well the problem is that whenever i am free, i start thinking what could my next blog be about !!
My post dinner walk and inter study session walks have become home to such wandering thoughts that i cant even write about all of them here....since the suspicious me is still the winner.

What was i thinking about writing before i hung up this title !!!....i was thinking about how the youth of today has fun...what are the things they enjoy they most...What are there favourite passtimes.....

And the kind of content that came to my mind was not all that unobjectionable....and suddenly this title came up....which i didnt feel like changing ...so...

ak

Cliches...

Being an iitian and indian there are some obvious things about which i dont even have to think to write. They include....

• Cricket
• Corruption
• Politicians
• IIT
• Bollywood
• Booming economy
• Infrastructure bottlenecks.
• Chinese dragon etc.
• Impact of Left front on govt.
• United states and nucler deals with them. etc. etc.
  

I hope to come up with a few more while i complete this post. So what are other issues that matter to us and arent as obvious.

Actually there used to be a term called "Brain Drain" which has suddenly popped up in my mind and i have to think about it for writing. There used to be alot of hue and cry about the elite of india running out to mainly USA, Europe and to some extent gulf.

Why would a person who is recongized as the best of the lot and has proved himself "go out and forget his motherland" in the words of critics. Why ??
They claim that these people use the money of indian tax payers and dont contribute back to the society.
I havent always held the same views regarding this phenomena of people searching greener pasterus. Indians send the highest amounts back home in the world. This fact proves that people actually dont forget their motherland. I am a firm believer of the theory that all these people who left india years ago are the ones who actually by their hard work have built a positive image of the country whose effects are being reaped by the whole country today.

But still the question remains why would one leave his home and go as far as seven seas??
Well not a very tough answer actually...What has india got to offer to the people who are the best in what they do....

• archaic old instruments for research in IIT.....what happens in other colleges which arent as well funded by the govt. can only be imagined.
• The companies in india are so small that even if you become CEO you dont stand any where as soon as you go on a global platform.

Actually the way indian education system has developed the best of the people graduate from IIT's and IIM's and that is why i have taken these two examples.

I believe that the basic problem is with the psyche of the coutry. We used to be a country with one of the highest savings rate in the world. It means that we dont want to take a risk and dont want to grow. The reason lies in the way mixed economy in which government used to take the initiative in most of the projects not allowing the entreprenures to function freely. The quota system being responsible for that.

What has changed now that we dont talk about it any more???
Well to quote Anand Mahindra

"Mahindra&Mahindra is leader in tractor production in Indian market which is the largest in the world so it should obviously be the world leader in tractor production."

With the opening of economy which has been a gradual process we are looking at Indian MNC's like Aditya Birla, M&M, Tata's....
The opportunities coming to india and pay packeges rising faster than anywhere else in the world the elite has started to think about staying here. There are trends that suggest that people are actually thinking about coming back to india.
I am firm believer of the theory that man is born free and should have right to exercise his freedom and use his talent where he feels comfortable and is able to give his best.

Its us who have cut this mother earth into parts.
"Panchi nadiya gagan yeh taare, Koi sarhad naa inhe roke
Sarhadein insanon ke liye hain, Socho tumne aur maine kya paya insaan hoke"

Actually it makes business sense to be indian today and talk about globalization about which i will talk more later otherwise i have no liking to be this philosophical and cliched

ak

The wise ones

I wrote this post for wisdom of chem junta when i was invited to write the first post and someone else stole the honours.

any ways thats how it goes

When sabby created and invited me for this blog the first thing that struck me was the title....."The wisdom of chem junta"

Then my thoughts took me to a more holistic question. Why do we actually consider ourselves as wise???
Why do i go to a more holistic perspective....all the blame goes to the GD practice i have done in which the person giving feedback tells you " You people confine yourself to more obvious things...think big...think all around the topic". But that makes you like a circumference missing the centre.

How easy and peaceful life is without all this wisdom, intelligence. How great it is be a child. It probably is my insecurity of getting out of this shell of iit(which has given me shelter and saved me from all my worries for 4 years) which takes hold of me when i say all that.
The only thing that comes to my mind is an old song

"Hum bhi agar bacche hote naam hamara hota gablu shablu, khane ko milte laddu,aur duniya kehti Happy birth day to you"

It may not make much sense to the people who havent heard the song..which is actually a good one.

So as freud said when we feel uncomfortable or vulnurable we sleep curled up because thats the way we were in the womb of mother.
Probably ture...These are the days when i want to run away from everything else Not be wise, responsible......Just craving for the olden days....

Let me be optimistic

I was just browsing through my blog page and the first impression that i got of myself was of being a very pessimistic person. Which may not be entirely wrong. But as others i also do hope for better future for me for everyone around me, for my country and for everyone else.

I have found a lot of people criticizing indian policymakers and what they have done and as a result of that what india has achieved over last 58 years of indepence. Constructive criticizm is good and i would use a cliched DOHA

Nindak niyre rakhiye, AAngan kuti chabaya !
Bin saabon pani bina, nirmal kare subhaye !!

This is one of the famous dohas of most probably kabir. Which in essence means that you should critics around you who will tell you what you is correct or not.

Nice idea actually, but how many of us actually are able to take the criticizm in right sprits, i know a lot of people who shun away criticizm as politicians like govt. does to opposition.

Getting back to indian policymakers and what we have achieved. As i said in earlier post that the best idea is to see what you have achieved and to where have you progresses rather than comparing with others.

• Dont we have enough to eat today may be excess
  
• Our literacy % has risen to well above 60
• We are starting to make forays into world of Mnc's with a lot many indian companies doing great job.
• Success stories of IT companies is not unknown to anyone
  
• We are the outsourcing hub of the world and are being seen as the country of 21st century.

(Actually i dont remember too much of data to substantiate but if look from the perspective of such high population we have made considerable progress despite impediments like being one of the more corrupt societies, most uneducated politicians and lesser developed infrastructure.)

So what is the point!!!
The point is that we have made significant progress and it took USA 90 years to become a developed country, so give india atleast that many years. You will find the differnce.
I may seem to have contacted the current emotion of booming economy but what i want to talk about is raw facts and things we have done with huge population which 10 years ago was seen as burden has started to be seen as assest not in india but also in the world. And i am one of the elite of this lot. That is why i am more excited.

Death of anonymity.

Why does one want to hide behind the garb of anonymity???
Well the obvious answer to me is that he has done something wrong. But there is one more answer..one wants to do something wrong and knows it and still does it. Why would someone like me who should be a satisfied iitian do that?

Basically here the important thing that comes is satisfaction. I dont know why, but satisfaction still lies in the deepest of my minds unexplored layers where i have failed to venture with all my might.
I crave with all my heart for satisfaction. But i am not a ideal human who does what should be done. I am the kind of non ideality which knows about ideal and still tries to run away from it as far as possible.

So what is the best way to satisfaction. I remeber a very good friend of my dad saying.

Never compare yourself with others, think how you have become better from past(in interview terms, added value).

Great advice but i find it difficult to follow. I know that whatever i do, i give it my best shot. But when i dont see success knocking my doors with the same attitude, its a huge disappointment. But as i always say.....
"Learn, Learn,Learn......and learn...and learn.......and learn"
As time changes people and their attitudes also ...so i have also changed what i say
"Learn, Learn, Hope,...Learn, Learn and hope and learn....and on and on"

I was crying about death of my anonymity which was because of my own deeds. It began with my own habit of writing ak the end of all my posts and learning from others. And then what happend is anybody's guess. All my friends and people who are not so friendly also know about it. And that is why i cant go to the depths where i had wished to go in the first place. Any ways it will prove a good practice session.

ak

The unfortunate IITians

"If a drop of water falls on lake, it loses its identity. If it falls on a rose, it shines. If it falls on a shell, it becomes a pearl. The drop is the same but the company matters"
Why starting with such a quote when the title is kind of unrelated???
well this one of the usual yahoo messenger forwards which i found good.

hmmm every one of us is bound by duties and so am i...
I have chosen a title and have to write somethings about that.

How does one become IITian???
No single answer. But a few could be

• Dreams of parents.
• Your big B or a close relative bhaiya is in iit.
• Hunger of earning money.

The resons for which most of us havent become iitians

• Becoming great scientists or engineers.
• Because we were genuinely intersted.
• Because there was an inner voice inside me calling me to become an iitian.

There could be a lot many points added to both these ways but the jist of story is that many of us wouldnt have been iitians had we been given more lucritive choices in the fields of our interst. Badminton court has been like a dream to me. I would have loved to be a good baddy player given a choice, and i was elated to see that iit bombay has a baddy court when i saw the prospective of iitb.

But this is the gradual process of degenaration which many of my friends have gone through and some of them have been grim casualities of the same. The brand iit is of paramount importance when the career choices are decided for a child. The coaching starts in class 8th. And goes on and on.

This post has been inspired by nuke who was one of the more recent of the casualities and one of the guys who got genuinely trapped in this IIT system.
To become an iitian what you have to do is shut yourself from the world for 2 years in things which may or may not be intersting to you. But it becomes a troublesome situation if the same continues after you come to iit also.

IIT is not that gentle a place given the system Relative Grading. It is one of the better systems but it still makes life compititive but the argument is that it is much better than IIT jee. I dont know how can you compare two hells(Only regarding the grading system...iit otherwise is a great place to be) and say which one is better. So iit system also starts differentiating among people and this process goes one till we complete the degree. And the differences get starker as the time passes by. You get branded as a cracku, haggu, maggu, 9 pointer, chaggi wala, etc.
The differences are at highest level when we pass out. Some are MITins, Stanfians, some earning $80,000 or 65,000, some others only getting 2.5 lakhs. And do we crumble to such pressures. Most of us dont and wow to work even harder but this toll gradually rises with people giving up on their lives slowly and the best minds of the country dying because at the first palce they werent supposed to be here.

Can the situation improve. I dont think so. There are pros and cons of every good or bad thing. This is the darker side of The dream of JLN. It cant be helped. But lets hope that the iitians that come are better prepared and more intersted in what they do and get more opportunities to pursue their intersts.

How pessimistic can it get.

Well how ingrained is this word iit in our minds i dont know.
"Once an iitian, always an iitian"
I dont know where i heard that but i find it true. The everlasting impact of these 6years (i am not saying 4 because i believe that this process starts even before entering iit i.e. with the preparation) will remain with me as far as i can think of. It change the way i would have lived my life. And if someone asks me at a later stage of my life in an interview when i become "someone" . What if not an IITian ...i would say nothing. Because i cant even dare to imaging my life without this phenomena.

Many outsiders and many of us think that this IIT tag or stamp or brand arms us with arsenel to change the world. But does it really do that???
The answer is rather disturbing.
Where do iitians go after this sacred place.
It is being said that iitians are one of the best researchers, ceo's, and what not today. We have a big number of such people out there shining in the sky.
But does it change the ground realities of this poor country where still 35%(a debatable figure) of people are BPL, 35% of us are uneducated, where the number of pending court cases runs in crores, where we woo children to come to school by using 1 time meal.
I am sounding a bit pessimistic when i say all this and i have a reason. How many iitians are policy makers of this country. I know only one name which is exCM of Goa. Why havent iitians been able to excel in this front. I go back to the movie about which i talked in one of my earlier posts. The director didnt give a happy ending to the movie Rang de basanti why??? Those students could be one of us also but since we dont even think about a happy ending why would we go for such a thing. This pessimism comes from one of our professors helplessness who talked about one of the indian companies fabricating cutting edge technological equipment for china, but similiar equipment is not being made for resource utilization in india because our policy makers havent woken up to the need. And by the time they wake up it will already be a technology of olden days.
"Apne Ghar ke safai khud hee karni padti hai"
We have to clean our home ourselves. But who cares. And i am one of them, I would fly out of this place given a chance as early as possible. These are my sentiments today, but they may change and this country would hope that they do.
"HOPE IS WHAT THIS WORLD RESTS UPON AND LETS ALSO HANG ON TO THE ROPE"
But the situation is tricky if you yourself are the hope....

ak

How could i resist the temptation

hmm....success is sweet...is it??
well i have different view regarding that whether one should taste the fruit of succes and be happy or one should see that fruit as any other vegetable that we eat without any particular like or dislike....
what i mean by that is.....philosophy of geeta....sukh aur dukh mein sam raho....behave equally in joy and sadness.....but this is very difficult
And since i am not as great a man as many others i am happy that someone took the pains of reading this blog of mine and commented. Thanks...thank you very much.

The issue which i have been asked to deal with is " Outsiders not giving bhaw(value), expected status to iitians". To an outsider that would sound strange but it at times is the grim reality that many of us face.

So as iitians we do recieve lots of attention, respect in society but we do get disregarded at one of the most important things of life which is......
There is a saying "All the fights in this world take place for only three things jar(money), joru(wife or womenn), jameen(Land)".
I find this more or less true.
Now with regard to iitians which one do we lack....we obviously have lots of status, money and land is also not an issue at least in these four years.

But we lack joru, its one of the realities about which every engineering student who has studied hard and hard enough wonders all the times. Why do women dont study mathematics and come to iit.
The answer that comes to my mind is"Man are from mars and women are from venus".

Sorry for not being able to give a very pin point answer but i cant help it because i myself dont know the answer. Why women(or i should say girls) dont like to study mathematics. I can remember of the controversy that came into lime light after one of the harvard HOD's commented on this issue saying women lack something. I wont like to get involved into that.

But i do believe that men and women are fundamentally different. God has decided a few things for us which hold true for a majority of population. I dont need statistics to tell that women dont like mathemactics but by that i dont mean that even if women want they cant do good at maths and engineering subjects. I firmly believe that even the most dull of the students is capable of being iitian, if he or she is ready to work hard and hard and hard and hard..........

So we dont have girls in iit and it cant be helped either.
This makes iitians one of the most desperate speices on the earth looking for friendship with fairer sex. Its an undeniable truth which holds for majority of iitians.

Again i come back with a saying to seal this argument
"Bin maange moti mile, maange mile naa bheekh"
if you dont ask for something you could get the best of it but if you beg for it then you would probably not get it.

Now comes the part i have only heard about. IItians are famous in bombay for trying their best to befriend girls by hook or crook. Chat rooms are filled with them. In both MI and Techfest you could see groups of iitians searching with hungry eyes .....one and only thing....

And when that happens
" Beggars are never the choosers"
To bhaw milna to door ke baat hai bhaiya laat bhi mil sakti hai...aur milti bhi hogi

I dont have personal experience of any of these things so cant say much about it.

Hence my remedy to the situation is...NO REMEDY....because when a disease is there i cant be cured without medicine and if medicine isnt there then disease will be there

Too much of fart for my first comment.

ak

Something away from IIT

I have heard many people complaining that IITians live in a world of their own. Not giving importance or Bhaw to outside people as much as actually deserved.
What could be the possible reasons??

Well nothing that i can think of. So to solve a problem lets go to the roots of it.
How does one actually become an iitian...By atleast two years of eating,sleeping,drinking,thinking and doing everything with IIT books.

And 99% of us do go through these two years. And after coming to this dream of JLN(Jawahar lal nehru) we tend to use this freedom in such ways that it at times hurts the ego of outsiders( this word outsiders in itself is show of my ego). But i believe that inferiority complex of non iitians also contributes equally to this process making iitians a community in ourselves.

This is not common to IIT B only.
During my summer internship at RCF i meet with people from IIT KGP, IIT kanpur, IIT madras. And it doesnt even take 5 mins for us to talk at similiar frequecies. We have similiar cult prevailing at all these places. Reason being similiar process of agony and IItianization for 3 years. And people who have lived in same way for 5 years would be able to find themselves at ease...I dont think many would disagree to that.

So actually i couldnt drag my self away from iit issues during this post also.
i will try to do better later on.

ak

Learn and Hope

Its always good to learn from the misatakes.
And when you dont, the pain that comes is exponential. Similiar thing is happening with me. We had a thermodynamics course in 3rd semester. I did really badly in the course because of its mathematical nature. I also didnt like the style of the teacher also. But since my inability to understand mathematics has always been with me, so i dont blame the teacher and take full blame on me.

BUT but but

This is my last semester. I have only 4 courses. Already a job (a good one). And what went wrong, i dont know. I take a course under the same professor and am not even able to repent. This is the only course in which i have to fight and try and solve problems by myself, which i havent done in 99% of my degree, because i have a very good friend who has always come to my resuce. But his priorities are different this time, So i am suffering.

So whats the learning. Never go by the same path in which you have already seen a lot of thorns.
Dont even go near that path. And the hope part....hope that you dont do that and live better.

So let me do a little bit more of the same course...exams are coming:)
LIFE mein peace.
ak

professors @iitb

i have found myself criticizing them time and again which i shouldnt be doing but i am not an ideal man rather i am a man who knows the ideals and tries to reach them still i have found myself incapable at times which i believe is good....atleast i am making an effort in the right direction.

My principle in life is to never critcize anybody because you normally dont get benefitted by cricticizing anybody. And there are so many things in myself which need to be corrected, so why find mistakes in others. Better criticize or evaluate or introspect myself. Basically the way i have been brought up criticism is a strict no no.

But why is it that there is always conflict situation between the way professors at IIT want to funtion and the way students want to do things. And why havent we been able to find a solution other than letting the status quo go on and on.

Professors always complain of lack of interst, low attendance etc. And some of them make some real effort in order to generate interst.
But i think the damage is done in the initial part.
IITB atleast doesnt have a system where it showcases its best professors to the freshers turning them off in the first year itself.

But i still dont want to take away the credit from some of the better professors.
There are different kinds of professors.
The kind i cant gel with or i cant manage to get good grades are the ones who seem to put a lot of effort into there teaching, are really very dedicated to what they are teaching,
but have been forced to teach the subject or dont have a command over the subject.
They also know that they can do a better job at other subjects but they are trying to experiment on us like guiney pigs or whatever.

I am being taught by one such professor right now and with time passing my enthu to ask questions is going down.

anyways this is the last semester so doesnt matter.

all about acads

hmm just came back from a quiz.
what the heck is this quiz...my mom when i used to tell her in the first year that i have a quiz, she used to think that there is some oral session of asking question, like we used to when we were kids.
But iitian system of quizzes is a very deep rooted one and forms part of the so called continuously evaluations through out the semester.
But this continuous evaluation(CE) has a disadvantage also. if there are a lot of quizzes and exams every where we loose the feel of exams ultimately leading to a tendency of going unprepared in the exams. To most of us in chemical engineering this happend in 3rd semster because we had so to say infinite quizzes and i still believe that "3rd was the toughest semsters chem engg has in iit Bombay"

So how was the quiz.
a very valid question. But i would relate it to what our philosophy prof taught us today. He said that if a person who has got a job or has already an admission in MIT doesnt perform in the tests and just manages to pass the courses, He is rational in his behaviour. I being a more than rational being would love to agree to him but as usual while giving the quiz i had things in my mind like,
you cpi is what your resume will have for all your life...so be careful do all what you can.
but still i left the paper as soon as i finished it . which i normally dont do. i try and revise and see if there are mistakes. but didnt have the enthu to do that today

whatever.
i have started blogging from yesterday only so i have a lot of enthu in me to write a lot.
i dont know till when this spirit will go on.
but now i am getting itchy to play counter strike or aoe.
so i will finsih it
ak

quiz....(all about them

after the quiz
ak

season of treats

this is the first time in my life when without a compulsion i am going to have 3 straight treats
am i happy....i dont know
this job treat
todays is the most grand one it is supposed to be a 5 star hotel.my first such dinner.
lets see how it turns out
the usual process of before the treat is different this time accept for a few more than routine things like one of the friends getting angry.

job job......the uncertainties in my mind are increasing
I clearly remember the quote of my mps vice principle at our whatever ceremony in class 12th
"you are going to get out of this cocoon in which we have taken special care of yours"
i extended my cocoon for 6 more years after that. And did my best to extend for 2 more years with an MBA in which i have falied this time. But as usual i still seem to have energy to slug it out. Lets see how that turns out an year from now.

But for now it seems that i have reached the gate to this cocoon and am going to enter the world sooner rather than later.


ak

debate of a director

day before yesterday...went for a one of the better hindi movies of recent times..."rang de basanti". I dont like movies with sad endings, and i already knew it had that. So i felt like leaving the hall after intermission but couldnt because 115/- rs kaafi zayada hote hain. I had made the mistake of going to a multiplex.

So the movie had a sad ending. The youth who tried to change the things in society with violent means killed in the end by a commando operation. Could the director not keep them alive. I believe this is the pessimism of society that is reflected in the ending of the movie also. I accept that for changes in society some people have to sacrifice but, even if our movies cant portray a picture which is rosy than how can a comman man think about surviving the change process.What is the incentive to work for change. This is a big negative. I am not the one who would work for making a better tomorrow for my decendants or work for praises after my death. I want to get whatever i can in this life itself.

So what should be done, so that people get energized for change and counciously make an effort for the same????

I dont know the answer but would think about it.

start of life

i am starting this new blog which i would like to updated.
there are a lot of reasons. The reason is that, i have had a firm belief that i have a really great writer burried inside me but because of my priorities it hasnt been able to find a place any where. Now that next few months are the most lukkha of my life, i can afford to spend sometime to experiment with my life style. Also me being a marwari who sees benefits in whatever he does would like to gain, these so called psychological benefits of self introspection and everything else like confessions.

ak