My VIEWS

Why I cant appreciate Dhoni....

2010-05-31T10:07:00.000-07:00

Sport is an emotive art transcending the realms of being Earthly. Its a field where winning and losing is secondary but imaginative and creativity is the focal point. What separates the sport from the real life is the ability to make things look simpler than they actually are. It is at this point I would like to stress upon the fact that the way a game is played is more important than the game itself. There will be dozen of Nadals, Dhonis, etc who can turn a game due to their dogged performances,but its the few Sachin, Fedderer and Zidane who take the game to next level. The teasing and tantalizing play which separates the moral spirit from the maestros.
Its their effortlessness and the tranquility which beholds us in a trance. It is this magic which makes us take a break from our daily life. It is the period when the game is made to look like a stage where the artist knows what he is doing, that beholds a sight. Its not the game that we are glued too, its the beauty of the way things are done in a way it must be,its the perfection which we lack in life.

I rember to forget everything....

2009-10-05T09:33:00.000-07:00

The naive or complex beauty of the world is the ability of our mind to simultaneously both indulge and withdraw from the externals. The social outlook of the mind cries for love and care while the other is busy feeding for itself. We cannot help but think to change the world but only after we have isolated and insured ourselves from the change. We cry for help with arms tucked in.The imbalance between our desires and thoughts hammers home when crave for power but not the responsibility associated with it. Voraciously vindicating our vestigial needs is our mind which veers out at every available path. it is this inability of our mind to accept the ground reality that everything which has a beginning has must have an end, that we wander helplessly in search of an objective which does not have a reason. We make up ourselves and believe that we are out of the reach of vicious tentacles of the void which perhaps is the only thing possibly not having a reciprocal.

Mending a broken glass

2009-08-10T08:31:00.000-07:00

There were times stuck in night and day,
When I think what has gone astray,
Our friendship which is lost and gone,
And has fallen like a failed dawn.

One thought which always makes me ponder,
That whom shall I have to make me reach yonder,
Why I wonder have things needed to be so bleak
When our friendship was meant to be as strong as the teak....

Am I not being true?
Or doing things not supposed to do?
Feelings left unfelt as we hardly talk,
Cold gazes burn me when you avoid me in the walk.

This path for me is untread,
For there is hatred everywhere to spread.
I believe not that our amity is fading away?
Let me know, if yes, can we patch up today?

You must know things which I really care,
Closest to my heart were the times we used to share,
But now the glass has broken,
Leaving pieces razor sharp to pierce my heart as token

I say we shall mend the broken glass, atleast give it a try
For I had a of time in solitude to cry.
Our relationship I felt was honest and true,
For I had many happy thoughts to accrue,

The time away from has made me realise,
And gave me a pair of swollen eyes,
I cry for the way our friendship used to be,
Is there a chance for it to be resurrected from the ruins?

Or has the company that I cherished..come to an abrupt end?
Is there a way to mend the broken glass??

Discipline an impediment to growth??

2009-07-26T12:13:00.000-07:00

Discipline in many cases has become strictly adhering to a set of rules preconceived. Discipline teaches us how to follow the rules to complete a project. Not that i am against reaching these objectives but i have a strong feeling that discipline lives by drinking the life juices of creativity. A disciplined job may satisfy all your basic quality requirement but it will not improve your standard. Discipline eschews experimentation which for many is the heartbeat of life.

Discipline does not provide the opportunity for a person to develop out of his shell. Discipline makes a disciple and not a student. For any observer it will be clear to him that nature its own follows disciplines. This is not because things are ordered but we are taught to see things ordered. We are made to model existing chaos into preconceived models. We simplify random happenings by fitting it in normal curves and Poisson distributions. But what we forget is by having a preconceived,that is, disciplined approach we are averaging out the exact edges. We are flattening the curves of nature. How nice would earth be if flatten the Mt Everest and fill up the Mariana trench?

A chaos approach to things teaches us how to see things differently, how physically force affects other, how one thing is the same and different at the same time. Its against the rule of discipline that the antonym of discipline be called indiscipline rather it must be termed undisciplined or random approach. Discipline is a mould which tries to suppress individuality in the person. It is mold which has grown on stale minds. It is a tool used by the weak at higher position of authority to stifle the creative and strong minds at lower levels.

Disciplinarism is anti-human in its root morals, more its anti -organic. The things that need to be disciplined are things which have no life. A disciplined child may stay away from the dirt of life but never shall he have the initiative to clean it up. The modern Indian society is a classic example of how discipline acts as a malaise. Every one is taught how to mumble on over population, poverty for five minutes but none is given a chance to get down and act to solve the problems. Every single child is brought up with the expectation that he/she will earn her life through a stable job. This unfortunately has meant a shockingly low percentage of entrepreneurs in our society. We as a society tend to accept the average the extremes will take care of themselves. Not only has this made our society dependent on foreign economy but has lead to a tricky situation in which there are trained personnels but no leader to direct them.

Many would argue discipline is necessary for a progressive upbringing of a child. Discipline will improve the money management skills and all those blah blah!!! Discipline is not going to improve you pocket balance, but what does save your pocket is common sense. Consider a simple case where you gonna buy a cola .Through which of the following statements would you be influenced on changing the decision.

You read in a book(occasionally :P )/mom advised(more often :( ) not to buy cola.
You see bulletin cola is good for suiciders as it increases the chance of all the unending list of diseases such as ulcer, insomnia.,etc.

In the first case you are instructed/disciplined whereas in the second you are asked to reason your choice. The satisfaction of making the right choice is robbed when you are disciplined. A discipline is best suited for people who deal in abstracts who I regretfully inform are called mentally under developed.

Well, for a while I have been about how to conclude this post. Meanwhile a thought crossed my mind aren't we disciplined to conclude every post with a proper conclusion. As a mark of breaking the shackle, I leave the post without a conclusion.

P.S.

Note 1:

This post was influenced by my 'quality management' albeit the other way around of stressing the need for discipline.

Note 2:

To any one in Anna university subject selection panel.

What is the need for such outdated management papers in engineering when an engineer is supposed to have a lot of logical reasoning??

Note 3:

To the economists who put up stupid theories in management

The above piece of text is also a theory which deals with a large proportion of people. Will I get any doctorate for authoring this??? :P

Note 4:

Rolling back I now feel discipline is extremely necessary because you must know the rules well before breaking them.

Two worries, which is bigger??

2008-12-15T09:16:00.000-08:00

Which is more grave situation

A state under the water and its chief talks about the problem faced by the people of neighboring country ?
-or-

A state or a historical spot under siege by terrorists in spite of prior warning?

Well certainly the politicos have gone mad here, at least for the time being. Humor is something which is difficult to extract from this situation , but ironically the leaders has given something to laugh about. May be they are trying to follow advanced philosophies regarding trouble management , that is, to laugh at the trouble itself. The secularism (pseudo -secularism) in parts have reached alarming prepositions, the entire India has now pockets of illegal immigrants who are ready to explode and rip the country apart.Well, the heart bleeds when our people are given sacrifice to the unmindful acts of the politicos...

Better Nation through Better I

2008-11-21T05:57:00.000-08:00

We(I) have always dreamed of India as a better country, better for its residents, better for the tourists, better for its flora and fauna too. Before I enter into further codswallop, I would put the gist ahead, "For a nation to be developed it is the duty of the citizens to put in the hard work".

Where are the pitfalls which prevent India from acquiring the developed status? It is our mindset that has to be blamed. We stood tall when markets fell, we had a reasonable rise in GDP, we are the second largest producers of rice and wheat, we produce the highest number of engineers every year, culture wise,technology wise we are the best!! But still we are calling ourselves developing.

The reason we call ourselves still developing is we ourselves. Imagine the same you in Singapore, Would you put the down the confectionery wrapper on the streets? would you go past an unmanned signal in France? Or would you bribe the traffic police in UK? Would you allow your dogs to litter in the open in Japan? No you will not, simply because you are in a developed nation. It is your mindset that prevents you from being a miscreant.

I cannot provide a befitting conclusion other than tell that I will take utmost pride being its citizen and help it realize its own strengths. Lets try to be model citizens even with no rules and prying eyes.

Points to ponder

2008-10-23T08:29:00.000-07:00

This label has special memories for me. I remember in eighth grade ,this was a special section in our social sciences book which me and my friend studied even before the lessons were started. These were things which instilled some interest even in such dead subjects(I meant history no offense). Usually it contained facts relating to the lesson such as time line, and other important event. One stark contrast with higher standards is that " I do not get to learn anything extra without any effort." What pains is that even people who have the power and who feel the system is severely flawed make no efforts to change the scenario.Some of my views about today's education which i personally feel are :-

"Indian education is similar to its democracy, both are flawed but there are no other practical solution to them."

"Marks (Grades, ranks etc etc.) are a prison.
A prison that a student's mind can neither touch ,smell or feel..
A prison which confines him from exploring himself and which
Detracts him into oblivion from the true goal of education."

"Are they the educated who know or are known only by the educated?"

Religion-- Is it???

2008-10-15T06:36:00.000-07:00

One of the few unsolved questions which will plague mankind is the "definition of Hinduism". You cannot define a religion which does not ask you to be part of it. It does not preach you but teaches you to live a moral life. The term Hinduism is pretty vague in itself, a term which encompasses all the social,mythical beliefs of people beyond the Indus river.
Hinduism unlike other religion has "multitude of many". Not only it talks of numerous gods, but also it does list the many ways of attaining salvation. You need not be Hindu to practice Hinduism. Contrary to beliefs Hinduism is one of the most flexible religion. It did not poison its scholars when heliocentric theory was proposed, neither did it prevent women to be on par with men.It did not preach tortured ,forced conversions, neither did it ask for patronage.The religion is so great that it could afford other religions to be preached under it.
One of the major banes associated with Hinduism is caste system. There is one point I would like to argue with such scholars. The religion tried to adopt a model society, a society in which all castes held mutual respect to one another. But like other social models( eg socialism) society can never be cast into a rigid model. The society itself is a multi-variable which will try to cancel all possible steady state solution. Hence the structure,flawed in concept, lead to a spiraling downfall in the society.

The simplest teaching applicable to the entire universe
Asothama Prayer
Asatho Maa Sad Gamaya
Thamaso Maa Jyothir Gamaya
Mrithyor Maa Amritham Gamaya
Meaning:
Lead me from untruth to truth; Lead me from darkness to light; Lead me from death to immortality.

Revolutionary

2008-10-07T23:10:00.000-07:00

O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.

Words will have no meaning if we are to discuss his loss to the team.Sourav Ganguly brings to us quite easily the concept of extreme duality. He was a god on off-side whereas a beggar on leg. He was not a shrewd tactician but an efficient man manager. He had both the extremes of media support from effigy burning to parliamentry debates about his selection, he had seen it all.
He had a rotten ODI debut back in 1992 and was duly dropped. But when he came back in 1996 he will not look back. He captured the imagination of players and viewers alike with his exotic off drives. There were not any full booded cuts but a caressing touch which will make the ball race away to the boundary like child who has been shown a lolly pop. But he had more to offer. After the match fixing saga and the unsuccessful captaincy of Sachin the selectors looked upon him to accept the mantle of captaincy. Here too he did not have one of the positive starts, but he asked for time to prove himself. The arrogance which would transform the team from a bunch of weak under achievers to one of the top sides of world was clearly visible. He gave the team a purpose, a reason to believe in themselves and naturally success was to follow. Under him the team became decentralized. People from all over India had an optimistic chance of donning the Indian cap. He was also a great politician. He would arm twist the selectors to get the players he wanted, thus prospered Yuvraj singhs, Dhonis, etc
Two moments will stand out in his career. First the shirt waving at Lord's .Lord's is considered the mecca of cricket and by doing this he showed he would do anything for a win. For him it was the result that mattered. This was like modernising the Indian cricket and not allow it to submit itself meekly to the englishmen. Second of course was the series against Aussies in 2001. He frustrated the aussies mentally in and out of the field. Bold captaincy with sublime performances by the individuals earned him the series win which would go into the history as the most closely fought one.
He knitted a team which was torn and stained. He had moments of agony ,joy ,injustice in plenty. But in cricket the "bad is oft interred with the bones" and the legend lives on. So will Ganguly.I pray to god to offer him all goods in his life. Thank you for all the entertainment......

Back To Square One

2008-09-28T09:32:00.000-07:00

After a few posts going around weird topics I am back to where I started criticizing the government. Well after umpteen blasts around the capital this will not be for its soft corner for terrorism, neither for its management (rather mismanagement) of Bihar floods. Those are bigger issues and are for the great politicos to decide who was responsible.I ,this time will write for a person who at the age of 24 captured hearts of millions, through his ideologies and sacrifice(s) for the mother nation.

In a time where the leaders are made holy posthumously(for the popularity of the party), why does our government fail to acknowledge the services of this man? When the govt. is spending millions of rupees to popularize the birth of Rajiv ,Indhra Gandhis ,why they have forgotten to celebrate this person's centenary. The person is none other than Bhagat Singh. He is the true icon for the generation of today.Bhagat Singh will be a name second in fame only to Gandhiji in the struggle for independence. He throughout was purer than Gandhi himself.

When will our govt stop crooning over its past leaders? When will the modern India start living in the present?

I do not criticize celebration of ones leaders but due respect in equal proportions need to be paid to those who demand it by their sheer virtue.

Sport is a sport here...

2008-08-23T10:00:00.000-07:00

This indeed comes from an anguished Indian fan with its one more dismal performance in Olympics. Though for the first time it has won three medals, it has a long and difficult path to overcome the super powers(of sport). Losers always have a reason, and I put forth some of the reasons which I believe are the reasons for the stupor state its in.

Firstly , there is a dearth of knowledge what sport can bring to a child. Parenting in India is a always a one way path which focuses only on the text book. Parents need to be educated about the importance of such sports. The curriculum in primary and secondary schools are one of the least thought off. Young sports person need to be ideally groomed at this age, but alas! our students are weighed down by the books.

Secondly, there is a dearth of sporting facilities all over the country. Only the rich have the access to all the facilities. For this the administration is the one which has to take the blame. Talking about administration our country has the best example of how a sports organization must be structured in the form BCCI. in spite of the numerical flaws one can point at ,it is a stunning example of what it takes to develop a game from the grass root level.

The third major flaw is a sports person in this country is supposed to earn his bread through non sporting medium. This takes away numerous hours of his training. Similarly a sportsman needs to learn his way through the toughest subjects in addition top his talent which would mean he is losing his prime asset. This can be directly through the promotions given to the olympians. What it not does is it steals
more hours of his training due to the increased work, and also ruins the company because of his inability to lead such roles. This is a stand out example of quality of management going on in India.

P.S All round growth is necessary to maintain the pride of the citizens. So the request to the concerned authorities and people is to raise the level of sporting and not to take sport as a sport.

RESILIENCE

2008-07-26T10:52:00.000-07:00

Sixteen bomb blasts in two plus some live bombs being recovered, not many countries would have taken it as another day in office. But what amazed me is the way people took it. People returned to their respective offices as though nothing had happened.Jump to the north and you would see a curfew,a bomb blast happening in Kashmir a.k.a A paradise on Earth every other day. You can see the unmistakable agony right in their eyes , but they carry on with their daily chores. So much is at stake for a human in India. He has to earn his living, his daily bread a direct result of his hard work. An average Indian has more scares than a bomb scare to be frightened of.

Talking of terrorists they are among the one per cent pessimists the world needs to be devoid of. Indulging in gorilla warfare neither earns respect nor is their end justified. They need to talk their way in to something meaningful. They do not have the right to harm a poor middle class bread earner who supports his family.

Governments across the globe have gone with the policy of a 'tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye' policy against combating terrorists.But what they have also done in the process is they have played havoc with the lives of millions more who are purer at heart.People have questioned the ideology behind our peaceful way of countering violence. As a child even I wanted to remove the demons with strike of power, but today I understand the logic behind this wait and watch approach. People have shunned the path of terrorism to live a life of purity.They had been given a new lease of life.A life which they would like to live rather than forced to.

Talking again about this wonderful attitude of Indians, I was truly amazed to see the number of train travelers in Mumbai had remained virtually the same even after the frightening serial blasts.The sole purpose of their bombing was defeated as they could not instill any sympathy towards them.

We have put up a face of stone,remained ice cold in spite of agony that has ripped us apart.We have lost innumerable brothers at the hands of terrorist but still we will give them a chance to come back in to the path righteousness.We wear them down not through violence but through peace for we are THE RESILIENT INDIANS.

class meet

2008-07-19T09:57:00.000-07:00

Dripping with sweat ,I came to the class committee meet.It takes place two to three times per semester in our department to hear out to the genuine (Genuine is a tag attached by them to ideas which will make life tougher for the students) grievances of the students. The thump in my heart had not yet died down,as they started to lecture on students behavior in class. They began to pour out their own usual statements like maintaining of silence ,etc in class whose details i do not want to go into.
But what caught my eye,rather ears is that the stress they give for the academic performances.Till date I had felt a school or a college is a place where one learns how to live ten years down the line. It must teach us the essence of hard work mixed with ideology to help. The age old syllabus of engineering does not need trainers or professors to do under graduation.What we learn in colleges is how to do group work.If a student is made to learn , without knowing where to apply he or she will be a bunch of misguided scientific psychos.
Ancient Indian education system acknowledges the need for a student to know the circumstances under which a lesson needs to be used.For example,when Rama is asked during his gurukula," will you kill an enemy just because he is an enemy to you?",for which he replies"A person becomes an enemy only to me, if he is an enemy to the society.I do not slay one for all humans are equal.I try to redeem him from the evil that possesses him."
Knowledge without guidance is a dangerous tool.A topper,a brainy,a psycho all are equal if he does not have the power of discrimination .Coming back to the topic,my college is(changing in to was) one of the rapidly progressing college, which holds dynamics views about students. But,recent trends have made me think whether they are slowly committing the same flaws of other colleges in the locality.I sincerely hold to the view that for progressing we must continually aim for higher position,try to follow the foot steps of leaders,but sadly the management has forgotten the basic faults and are back competing with the ordinary colleges.
Student independence is stimulator of growth.Curbing the dynamics of student is equivalent to curbing growth of education. I hold not any grudge about my college ,but feel it is moving towards stagnation and hence looking for a downfall. I look forward to the management to change its course and head back for another exponential growth.

Breaking The shackles

2008-07-12T11:50:00.000-07:00

One word which brings more frustration than hope in minds of many is "rules",especially when we are at the receiving end of any.Rules are meant to bring in order in a person's life.But what makes life hectic is mindless rules put forth only for the sheer satisfaction of rule maker.If we value the pursuit of
happiness we must be free to follow wherever the search takes us.The mind is not a barking dog to be tied down using a ten-foot chain.Rules bring in discipline to one's life,but who cares about it??What does discipline mean?Some say "discipline brings in life qualities like punctuality,respect,orderliness",but any person not out of mind will not reach his office late lest he will be thrown out of it.Most rules are the basics every human does by himself.

It is generally presumed that rule breakers are arrogant,rude and non-yielding personalities,living in this world only for the sake of breaking the rules.Remind you a clean desk is a sign of cluttered drawer.Many may think rules are the basic nature humans must follow to be human.If monotonicity and stereotyping are the universe functions why is that humans evolve? and why is that any system always goes towards randomness?

Sourav Ganguly is attributed to be the best captain India has produced because he has ridiculed cynics by holding his nerve, and thus his team's, in defeating the world's best side. He has brought a hard-edged passion to a squad that needed long hours on a therapist's couch. Even Steve Waugh, clearly not a signatory to Ganguly's fan club, writes in his new book that India has "a new steeliness". All this because of his no nonsense approach.He hasnt been the most rule following person with no less than twelve referee visits in less than a decade.

What rules fail to bring into life is the unquestioned loyalty towards oneself,the moment of self appraisal and most importantly passion for life.Rules act like built channel to fetch water to irrigation lands.What they fail to comprehend is that it is the flood water which makes soil fertile through silt deposition.They fail to see glee that a free flowing mind can possess.Yet not all men are philosophers; some, like Ganguly who once pulled on the covers himself in Sri Lanka to protect a pitch his team would bat on last, are men of action. Passion brings the best from you,the ones rules fail to.So,please try doing things the other way around for the sake that there is a rule to be done in a particular way.

PS:All Ganguly's episodes are taken from cricinfo.com a site which gives me my daily dose of cricket :P

Time travel

2008-07-08T11:10:00.000-07:00

The following post consists of my view of time-travel by cutting across time axis.

Consider a 2-d graph paper which is marked discrete units of time and deeds and let a plotter be placed which plots the deed done accordingly through the axis.now,lets freeze the present.We will get a graph based upon the quality of deeds done from our birth(0 in our time axis).The graph will twist and turn based on every decision taken by us(choosing science over commerce,engineering over medicine etc) and this graph will extend beyond.The basic problem statement to accomplish time travel is to go forward or backward in time so that we can modify the plot.

Travel in three axis:
Consider yourself standing on the origin of a two dimensional graph.Let us assume you are made to walk through five units in x-axis.Now,your aim is to go back to origin(analogous to time reversal),but you are not supposed to trod on the axis.So the obvious choice is that you cut across and through a curve not incident on the time axis to reach the origin,thus making use of points in other axis(y-axis).Thus, you have walked into a parallel universe with respect to x-axis.

Travel in time axis:
Now I would suggest the same analogy be applied to time travel,but the basic problem is finding the actual fifth axis.To cut out a branch we may have to go through from positive to negative axis.This is where the parallel universe concept comes into.Hence,to make time travel a reality we must fix a physical fifth axis.

Temperature as fifth axis:
We know that it is impossible to bring matter to absolute zero,as both volume and pressure will cease and become zero.But,what will happen below absolute zero??We know that to make any two functions compatible there must be continuity.Consider a body being hypothetically cooled to absolute zero.We are making the electron to slow down,slow down to rest ,that is, make the velocity zero and phew what happens the electron is no more.It gets converted to energy and this energy travels through as a photon(probably to satisfy Heisenberg's principle).Now on further cooling(hypothetically) the photon is converted back not into matter but into antimatter.It is in this world all the antimatter exists.All the things are unequal.So ,to travel back in time we must make everything as it was in the past.If we travel through this antimatter (which contains everything as opposite to matter world) we will be canceling out the deeds we have done in present.
By Einstein relativity theory,the sum of mass and energy must be constant everywhere).Consider ourselves moving 'B' units of time backwards.Let 'A' be the amount of energy spent in doing deeds in this 'B' amount of time.So to get back in time we need to regain this energy.This is again possible considering my postulate.While moving through the antimatter universe each deed will have equal and opposite sign.thus undoing the deeds we are made to spend '-A' units of energy making it zero joules. Thus no energy is lost and 'mass-energy' relationship is maintained.

The major drawback of this technique is to make ourselves pass through the zero degree barrier safely without destroying the organic structure of ours.Also, we need to find a way two magnetically separate ourselves with antimatter lest we will annihilate.

I am morally strong opposer of time travel.Life gives us only one opportunity and we must learn to live with it.But,as a science student I would love the prospect of time travel in near future....

Self Evalution

2008-07-04T06:19:00.000-07:00

This post follows a week of traumatic activity which saw me get my semester results(whew, what a pain it is to wait for them) and hence I will try to discuss the present crop of toppers.Firstly ,I am thoroughly against conducting a three hour exam to evaluate the knowledge that a student has aggregated throughout the year/semester.Secondly,the present trend tends to concentrate only upon the "text-bookly" knowledge attained by ramming the books a month prior to the exams.Thirdly,there is a heavy importance of detail answers rather than objective type questions even during the finishing stages of one's education.Fourthly, there is severe disparity in the marking scheme(a congruent answer will fetch different marks from different invigilators,even worse the marking will not be same by the invigilator during different times of the day).

During this sixteen year long student career I had never been at the pinnacle of class,throughout I have remained one of the attentive(except during boring lectures which happens once too many to my liking)but a nonchalant worker.Marks(grades to some) have neither bought any depression nor any happiness to me.I have looked up to first rankers as studious padips (though there have been exceptions).I have treated them in my mind as book worms crawling through it eating every bit of information they could muster.But,today with in a few hours of my result I have dawned myself to a harsh reality-"class toppers are hard workers,yeah real hard workers.

I have been loathing written exams since time immemorial(to me).Writing long answers were(are) never my cup of tea.But look at the Toppers(the capitals are the result of new respect I am giving to them),they write the answers till the final bell goes or till their knuckles fall off.I (this includes those who have now included themselves in my category) laze around the study holidays roaming the streets,playing,not missing even an ounce of cricketing action on television,picking up the most time consuming hobby,etcetra. But look at them they are as studious as ever,book in one hand sleeping or eating,walking or talking.They never waste a iota of time.

They are the reason for our education system to be a success in spite of various reservations as I mentioned in opening paragraph.They are the sincere hard working champions.They are the only reason we cannot ever find an alternative system of education as they will top even them through their constant efforts.

P.S.I will remain the same nonchalant,least working,lazy student even in spite of the inspiration they give to me.

DISCLAIMER:I am not responsible for those who get inspired my this blog and decide to read sincerely from now on.Hope you do not waste a couple of days of your life being them.

Understanding Multi-Dimensions

2008-06-27T09:50:00.000-07:00

Understanding Multi-Dimensions has never been a easy thing for me.I would sit and think how Earth would look when viewed under some octa dimensional system.To add to my misery they would always call Time as the fourth axis!!Now it was hard enough for me to switch over to 3d world of math(spheres and ellipsoids cones frustums.....),the fourth dimension was real tragedy.Lets join the commotion of axis and understand what the time(I mean time axis) holds for us.Now consider a ball released from a point A by X(let A be origin(0,0,0) for X) at 10 AM;now the ball is noticed at a point B by Y at 10.30.Also now Y is unaware that X has chosen A as his origin.Since he wants to take a measurement he assumes B to be origin.Now for a viewer at space(say Z) this looks as if the origin has shifted from A to B in half an hour.Now if he has to mention the position of ball at A and B he will specify it as A(0,0,0,10AM) and B(0,0,0,10.30AM).Thus there is a requirement of fourth parameter to specify a point in space(time-space).Now we are quite happy to satisfy ourselves with a measurable fourth dimension.The fright of my life was yet to come.....

A documentary on universe taught me the universe extends in no less than 12 dimensions,most of them curled up to a point of insignificance.So how are we going to explain 12 directions?Consider an ant moving along a stretched thread.the direction of motion for the ant is linear for us,that is,it can move only in one dimension.But,this is only a virtual thing.The ant even now is capable of performing 3-d motion.The thread to our view is a straight line,but for the ant it is cylindrical.This is what they meant by dimensions being curled up to a point of insignificance.Now consider THE EARTH moving in a straight line.For us this may look like a straight line but it may be spiraling towards _______(I do not know).thus the net direction is six.this again can undergo similar motion to give the required dimensions.To visualize n dimensions think of you being an ant walking along a cylindrical thread(3 dimension),now the thread is rotated along the two end points(3 +3dimensions) by two people and the two people are being twisted by a free fall(3+3+3 dimensions) and so on.....

The basic fault that we commit while visualizing n dimensions is we are not able to come out of the well known Cartesian system which blocks our thoughts to 3 dimensions.Also we do not think in terms of non-Euclidian geometry with spherical surfaces being the interface.
Can you construct a triangle can have two right angles(consider a triangle drawn on a sphere).Take two diametrically opposite points and a polar point .Join the three and construct a triangle.Since angle made by a diameter on surface of circle is right angle we get not two but three right angles in the sphere.

Extra Terrestrials-"A New Approach"

2008-06-27T05:14:00.000-07:00

This post is dedicated to all extra terrestrial life forms(if not life like forms) which had or had not existed,are or are not existing and may or may not exist.The question whether they exist may be even more complicated to answer! Before we go into the matter of extra terrestrial thing lets define what a living being is(I do not personally like to call anyone a living "thing"). As science defines it, to be living, a being must be capable of growth, reproduction and metabolism. I am pretty sure you know what growth is. Reproduction means being able to have offspring or otherwise duplicate oneself (like through cell splitting) and metabolism means to be able to extract energy from chemicals in order to sustain oneself. Among these I would suggest third condition to be sufficient along with the fact that living things must be intelligent.Intelligence in the sense living things must try to protect itself and if possibly can protect its species from extinction.Any organism which is able to recreate itself must also called living ,so is one which is able to mutate itself to adjust to the surroundings.Now our aim is to define an organism which satisfies the above three criterion without the need of oxygen,water,light and optimum temperature.

First we need to find an optimum source energy which can sustain any organism.We have found microbes at unfathomable sea depths,meters inside solid polar ice,volcanic lava,etc.We so should not be surprised to find microbes carrying solar panels as their back packs and living in Mercury,Venus or Mars.We have seen singular cells with chromatids producing own food,so may be we should think of organisms which can break sulfuric acids to make out a living.The biggest challenge for organisms of such kind is to organize itself into multicellular complex structures symbiotically.

The next condition for them to satisfy is to show growth.Growth perhaps will be the most difficult thing to notice in unicellular or simple organism is its growth.Growth in humans can be measured in terms of his height weight etc.But for smaller organisms growth is its variation in its subsequent generation.A solar bug may have achieved growth by simply increasing size and/or efficiency of its solar panels.so,even this condition is satisfied.Moving on a point of time would have been reached in its time scale where it would have grown its solar panels to a size which when broken would be able to support two separate life core(nuclei technically).So,this organism can grow reproduce and metabolize without liquid water or oxygen.

This post is for them who have narrowed down the possibility of life on other planets,comets,asteroids.Be cheerful there are thousands(if not millions) of place to relive.

Hail Murphy

2008-06-20T10:10:00.000-07:00

Murphy has become a common name for his uncommon sayings.The first which anyone associates with Murphy is "If anything can go wrong It WILL".Well for most it is just a logic.But saying this a logic is an understatement.Consider a situation in which two wires have to be connected head to head with the other.The general perception is there is a fifty per cent possibility of this being connected correctly.There is also a fifty percent chance that the thing is wrongly connected(what's big deal in this???).Hold on, consider an set up which requires ten such connections.Again raking up the brains we would tell the probability of the set up to give accurate results half the time.But, this where Murphy creeps in(rather blasts his way in).The probability that the set up gives accurate results goes down as one in every thousand.Not sounds good remember all the connections must work for set up to work,this brings in a series of intersections.Weak in probability ?consider the next situation.......

This law states that "When a bread falls ,it falls always with the jam facing the carpet".The side with the jam is naturally heavy and hence tends to go down(logic behind badminton!!).Hmmm,then Murphy had some brain before voicing his prophecies......This is bad news.

While going through his laws I came across a Paradox.Murphy says"If things left to themselves tend to go from bad to worse".While this law is correct entropy wise(According to second law of thermodynamics"all process go towards a higher degree of randomness"),the same when applied to Murphy law will give absurd results of nature"will not Murphy's law go from applicable to not applicable?" Then there is another Murphism of the form"The apparatus will work if you want to show it will not".This can be verified from the following law...
"If you wash your bike, it will rain."
If you wash your bike to make it rain, this law is not applicable.

Murphy's laws are a fight between fate and humans will.Well,I think its not important whether Murphy's law applies or not.The reason it is a law is because it is always applicable.Murphy deals in probability and not in absolutes.The only way u can say a thing is not applicable is if it is absolute!But if it is probable it is always applicable.

My only worry is if it goes from applicable... to reality!!!

And as a concluding I will add the original laws of Murphy extracted from "http://www.cpuidle.de/murphy.shtml"

Murphy's Original Law
If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.

Murphy's Law
If anything can go wrong -- it will.

Murphy's First Corollary
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

Murphy's Second Corollary
It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

Quantized Revision of Murphy's Law
Everything goes wrong all at once.

Murphy's Constant
Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.

The Murphy Philosophy
Smile... tomorrow will be worse.

Pointless Governance

2008-06-19T08:22:00.001-07:00

As we all know India had been enjoying its self-governance for the past six decades.We have witnessed the rise and fall of several political figures central and state alike.The once national party congress has proceeded well beyond its expiry date as suggested by our father(Father of nation).The once imposing dynamic figures have paved way for converted nationals to become PM(perhaps super PM in the present scenario) a concept even developed countries have failed to embrace.

I have certain facts(read them as "failed ideas").Certain ones you may argue but i deem them important milestones in the democratic India which may have pushed it to a point of no return. First of all I would like to question the logic behind the division states on the linguistic criterion.It has done nothing but increase the brimming communalist forces.Perhaps they would have had it based on geographic structures,local meridians,etc. I am unable to comprehend the logic behind creation of linguistic states.Will they consider a pocket of Tamilians living in Maharashtra as a separate state........?

My next facts pertains to the fact of reservation. I fully understand its objective,need and purpose. But what defeats me is the manner in which it is implemented.People fight among themselves to show that they are of a lesser caste.One more fact is the number of backward castes has increased past independence(does the logic strike you???).Another thing is the person to which these quotas are given.Being a forward caste does not mean that you have access to the highest level of human rights and vice versa. You cannot call the future generations of a president a minister as a part of lower echelon.They have been given the upliftment.What also pains me is that a rule that was brought out as an interim relief is still being played with for petty vote bank politics.

Moving our focus from the illogical planning to internal security, we are proud to possess one of the few superior quality satellites, a special force for border security but what we lack is that nationalist urge.Else we would not be having to part with our "heaven on Earth"(kashmir) or the rainbow states (north east eg. Arunachal pradesh to China).When we people speak of emulating USA economically talk about competing with China I ask the various ministry to have a look at them. They do not reel with border problems.Nearly all the borders of China are safe without tension.So is the united states.Whenever we have a terrorist incidence the center and sate point the fingers at each other(if they are different parties) or collectively at the intelligence(Total intelligence failure).

Certain nationalistic policies are being carried out on the whims and fancies of corrupt,aristocratic,self-centered(and the whole class of similar adjectives) politicians.Some examples are like the allocation of special economic zones,allocation of several hectares of land for genetically modified plants, projects like sethusamudram project,waiver of loans have not only burnt holes on pockets of the tax payers but also put the entire country on severe economic crisis.The entire eight per cent growth theory is goofy.Look at the growth in the primary sector and the Industrial sector in previous fiscal. The figures are crystal clear. Our economy has become a rusty steam engine(whose sounds are of inefficiency).

This post is not targeted towards any government or party but a feeling every pained citizen is going through.