Exams are here....But i can't stop blogging!!!

Check out these illusions..........Got hold of these after long time.....Used to have hard copies of these while in school....

We have passed the litmus test again !!!!

Time and again certain sectors of our system fails....This has led to breaches, which cause enormous devastations, at all levels...Lives are taken,an air of hostility becomes prominent, the entire country is thrown numb...This time again the security cover at thresholds has let us down.....
We are, i beleive witnessing the peak of a demonic, at the same time moronic atrocity of another sector of the mankind who proudly call themselves the propagators of terror....But, they themselves would not have understood the true motive of their actions...These are souls Instigated by extremism, blinded by futile-courage and sacrifice, perpetuating poison within themselves and their brethren and trying to accomplish a formless goal...
A battle of this kind is really hard to fight...You do not know who your enemies are until they say so...After that, whatever you do is just the process of healing.....
Now, due to negligence of the officers at the rudimentary levels the entire society is affected...In the subsequent process of recovery, we've lost many great selfless men who have fought for our sake...
It is in times like these we get to know the true colors of our politicians...Even now there has been no solidarity between them,in atleast showing compassion...They are trying to maneuver this issue as they would have done to any other issue, to favor their parties....
But the winners of this ghastly battle have been-We the people of India ...There has been overwhelming support for the victims of this incident from every corner of India...We have led our leaders to follow us in a path of mutual harmony,self support and solidarity....

PRAY FOR THE UNLUCKY VICTIMS AND HAIL THE HEROES OF THIS HOUR.........
JAI HIND......

Still a distant dream....

Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake

Rabindranath Tagore

When will we pay obituary to irresponsibility....

I feel infuriated,reckless,agitated,stirred from within. I witnessed the most horrifying sight in my life. An old woman was run over by a car,right in front of eyes... It was heart wrenching...It is so hard,i felt a jolt and grew numb. After years i started crying, on the road.
It wasn't the mistake of the car driver,the old woman was trying to cross an expressway and had slipped and fallen on the road.But, the driver didn't even stop and check what had happened,the driver slowed down,and after seeing the crowd flew away.
It wasn't the woman's fault either,as there is no provision to cross these roads. No subways,sky walks or zebra crossings monitored by a signal or traffic police.

These roads and systems are designed and implemented by morons with no foresight.You don't require foresight,just a fraction of common sense and responsibility would have averted many incidents of this kind.

The worst part of all this for me is that, i had to be a silent spectator....This mishap happened within 2 seconds....I had a myriad of emotions,thoughts and then my mind got blank and i started to cry...

But, later i got angry thinking of cause for incidents like these...I pray that she survives....

Consistent Fluctuations !!!

I try to be consistent consistently,but it goes the other way round,i'm consistently fluctuating....I consciously try to be fickle minded on a few issues,but the harder i try,i get averted from my motive...When i try to get conscious of getting consistent,i lose it out and never deliver my best...
Its like this line i heard in Dil Chahta Hai-"Try to grab sand in your fist,...the harder you try, the lesser you hold....."
Nowadays, i've left it all to my instincts and intuitions. They are helping me out.....

Can it get bigger and better???

Two veterans up to give their best shot...

Both these projects are already being speculated to be the greatest ventures movie ever in India.

Rajni has tied up with director Shankar,one of the splendid directors in the industry. This project has been the dream project of Shankar,after repeated approaches to various actors and production houses,now it is the Superstar in it. Initially titled- Robot,now it is being called Enthiran in tamil which means the same.

Now talking about the other icon-Kamal,he is doing a period movie which can be compared to Apocalypto. He is directing it,supposed to be again a radical movie that has not been thought of in India.

Now,how do these interest me apart from these two legends. It is another legend- A R Rahman, who is composing the music for both these movies... Both these will definitely be benchmarks for future music composers.

By the way,both are projects with budget more than Rs.120 crores as if for now,realising in late 2009 or 2010. So i just can't wait for these two,like the many millions.

Interest is directly proportional to obscurity......

When is a thing interesting?
I believe that interest level is a term which cannot be constant. It's attribute is to keep deteriorating. It has to come down. You can never be interested in a particular thing for a long time. You can, if it remains obscure to you forever.
I claim that, this is the same when you consider interacting with people. You can't always be interseted in a person,look at him or her in awe forever. So to keep relationships alive we need to reinvent ourselves. We need to grow,get better,renew ourselves,so that your counterpart(could be your friend,lover,spouse...) remains attached to you. If you bore them,and if no obligations are in place you ll lose them subsequently.

No Purpose...No need to exist...

Actions without purpose,without any consequences,which create only nuisance. Most of our population is engrossed in pursuing deeds like these. I really wonder,as to how people can dedicate their energy,time,resources to things like these.
I was in the middle of a swarm of vehicles carrying supposedly the activists of a major political party. I'm damn sure that majority of these people would not have the slightest clue of the reason for which they are gathering.
Forget about wasting their energy over nuisance like this,they don't realise the extent of trouble and ruckus they are creating to other relatively useful souls around them.
I've been trying to analyse as to what is the cause for such actions of these people- i end up reaching the same reason which is the root cause for so many other problems faced by Indians- illiteracy,as a consequence lack of realisation of their responsibilities,a careless attitude towards everything.
I'm again sure that until and unless we tackle this problem,India will always keep dreaming of becoming a developed country and of achieving what it is deserves...

We've rocked Chennai !!!!

Both our subsystem papers have won the BEST PAPER AWARD in different categories at ESSTA-2008,an International Space Conference........
Congratulations to TEAM STUDSAT.......
Dr. Kasturirangan (Former ISRO Director) presented us the awards....

Hospitable to us but hostile to their own -:(

A barricade in the bus to separate boys from girls....Different classrooms for boys and girls....A student was sent back to the room from the hostel entrance,for he was wearing a cargos pant and another for wearing a shirt with two breast pockets...
A finger print scanner at the entrance of hostel to identify them and restrict them from leaving hostel unnecessarily....
If you wanna come back early from class to hostel,you are expected to bring a permission letter from dean...
No cell phones in campus(really no cell phones!!!!), 5 BSNL lines are placed at the reception in booths,it is open only2 and a half hours a day,except on weekends....
This is what poor peers of ours are being put through at Satyabhama College...

Contemporary Buddha

Have a look at him....

The saga continues ...........

Started of the day with a rehearsal of my presentation at 7,after a cold water bath at 6... Then all of us moved out of hostel to hog... The menu was sophisticated but the breakfast could not have got simpler and unexciting...
After registrations,we had the biggest acknowledgment for registering in the conference- a huge travel bag!!!
Then,it seriously got better, we were in front of Dr.Madhavan Nair-the man of the hour,after launching Chandrayaan-1 and its successful entry into the 100 km lunar orbit...
The inauguration ceremony was overwhelmingly filled with big names in space technology. We also happened to listen to an obscure speech by Satyabhama's Chancellor,ignoring his mediocre English.
Then came an inspiring and motivating talk by Dr.Madhavan Nair. At times like these,after seeing people like him and his team is that i really begin to question the path i've chosen for myself...
Then came our presentation....This must have the first time that i didn't commit any faux pas in my presentation...I always do one or the other inappropriate thing...It was an almost a perfect shot...We received lot of appreciation for our work and the presentation... -:)

Almost like a baby's day out !!!!!!!!!

This must have been the first time, i have had a one on one encounter with what can be called peak of absurdity.I'm at Sathyabhama University,Chennai preparing to give a presentation of our team's paper....
But,i have been overwhelmed by the ridiculous things happening around me...First of all,we got into a room which is very spacious...The bathroom is as big as the room provided to me in IIT,Madras...
Next,just listen, this is the first time i've seen such atrocity anywhere...There are no power plug points in the room...When asked why,they say students are not allowed to use cell phones,so no plug points...I know it can't get more atrocious than this..
And,girls are not supposed to mingle with boys !!!! Imagine us, in Bangalore,it is heaven for us....
But, after seeing all this, i was consoled by a dinner with heaps of chicken...(I'm lovin it!!!)
Anyways,looking forward to my presentation tomorrow....

V for Void and Vacuum

At times i feel that i'm being pushed into Vacuum....As if my entire existence is becoming Void.....I just can't explain as to why i feel that way....Obscurity will be at its peak.....Cynicism surfaces up in my perception of the world around me....I refuse to trust anybody around me....
Don't panic it is just impulsive...And it usually happens when i'm both mentally and physically exhausted....I again get back with more enthusiasm than before.....

My day---- fatigue..stress...a bond movie and ended with loads of fun

I really don't know as to why i'm put through days like these where nothing goes as it should...I'm exposed to a diaspora of events which trigger torrents of feelings and situations in a single day....
First of all,I'm fed up of trying to atone my actions...I hadn't realised these things to turn out like this, but it is very frustrating...
Over this the fatigue,courtesy a viral fever and a persistent cold....
Combine these two and it is the perfect melancholy....As a consequence,I was not able to keep up my commitments,including my record submission and more importantly i could not meet two of my tribe members( check out the post "Small tribe of mavericks").
Later in the evening, seeking some relief, me and my group reached a theatre to catch the latest Bond flick,as planned earlier....That i guess made me detach from my entire day's hang over...The movie wasn't a masterpiece of sorts,but it was able to keep my mind free from all the things left behind me...
Then,it was my friends' turn to immerse me in a small sea of joy...We had good fun on our way back home...
Now, i'm into the next day,without taking a break...Hope today is not as demanding as yesterday...It is not fear or disinterest...It is just that too much is too bad and nowadays i have got a blessing of some sort i guess-i'm always getting more than what i aspire for...

~^~^~^~^~^~Small tribe of Mavericks~^~^~^~^~^~

I had this thought in my head that, people around me think quite the opposite to whatever i think. No one's thoughts were in sync with those of mine. There wasn't anyone who could understand my way of thinking,no one who could anticipate my reactions,no one to judge me credibly. But,by now i know atleast three people whom i'd call like not just minded with me but more than that. I see reflections of each other when i'm with them. It makes me happy to get to know and interact with such people. Calling us friends does no justice to our perception of each other. We are personified portions of each others' personalities. It makes me feel proud and humbled at the same time,that we belong to this small tribe of mavericks.

Lost and recovering !!!

While talking to one of my friends,i just realised that i hadn't been dedicating substantial amount of time to few of my interests, which are really close to me. I just realised that it had been quite some time that i had read my favourite literary works from Kannada- the vachanas. I used to be obsessed with these literary masterpieces. Now,i've lost the touch of using them as quotes. I used to use them appropriately while in converstations. I miss them now. I must get back to them,it would be really nice for me to read them and use them,you ll enjoy the way i use them.
Also i've been trying to plan and watch a play at Ranga Shankara. I should soon do it,i would love watching it.