Let the music play

These are some of the best musical pieces I've heard till now,
Surely could've included more. But there is always something known as "Top Ten".

1.Carry you home -James Blunt
2.Brothers in Arms -Dire Straits
3.Life in Technicolor -Coldplay
4.East Side Story -Bryan Adams
5.Take me Home, Country roads -John Denver
6.Coming back to life -Pink Floyd
7.Another Day in paradise -Phil Collins
8.I still havent found -U2
9.Still Loving you -Scorpions
10.A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics -James Horner

PS: Any suggestions? 

The Intricacy of technical sabotage

For me, getting into an NIT (National Institute of Technology) was always not less than a dream. However, not very late though I realized that it wasn’t all about ‘technology’ which spells here. Seniors, all of them like a herd getting their well sought after technical brains dumped in solving mere Cat Sample Papers for not days but months. Irony isn’t it?
They, it seems have forgotten all their 14 years of efforts to be a good engineer/scientist. As if engineering is just a degree before IIMs just like BA, B. Com. The Govt of India spends millions in subsidising these technical Mecca (NITs) only to make sure that the money the students saves by paying less fee goes to n no. of coaching institutes who teach basic maths, english, how to sit and how to sleep etc. Irony isn’t it?
Sometimes I just don’t find any usage of a B-school, simply nothing. The monetary hype these schools have generated will make India completely insufficient in technical brainpower, which actually is the mainstay of any economy for that matter. The World Wars were only possible because of the technical might of various nations, and now its the scientific technology only which is powering and sustaining the world nothing else, simply nothing.
I hereby warn each and every student who aims to be a good scientist/engineer to stick to his goal of being the same and create a sense of patriotism which brings about the much needed scientific revolution in this great nation INDIA.

Wish you were here: Acknowledging Seniors @ NIT

A Tribute to Recent Alumini:

Although at the time of entrance examination a JEE or an AIEEE guy burns equal midnight oil, but there lies a changed course ahead. At an NIT the number of inspiring-seniors is far less than at IIT or BITS, leave the infra, that’s quite ok!
Probably one of the best guides you can ever have when you enter NIT, and I say it again, an NIT. Here they are some great Intellects for whom I’ll always long, till I’m here, In the surroundings which we once shared, the Gyan which you taught me and the experiences you showered!


Harsh Shukla:

I was in my second year, when quite fortunately, I got my room in third-year dorms. It was a substantial knowledge-seeking-driven time. In late 2009 when this guy came to our Dorm to address juniors about DAAD, the German Student Exchange Program (he was the first SVNITian to make it through it all by his own). He remarked, in his small seminar that, “Guys! This is not for MBA or IIM driven students, only those people interested in real Sci-tech , stay!”
But captivated, lay every one and none left the room. He talked about his own branch, ie. Electrical Sciences and the interests, along with the amenities that were provide, the financial aid and the requirements in Germany. He said he saved lotta money by cooking food by his own, and went to Paris too. ouaahhh!!! (Yeah its not that hard, either!)Later through several chat process and messages we met at, Nescafe and had some fine discussions on GRE and Germany.
At personal level I loved his presence, and his true respect for a technology driven society. He exhibits an imbibed shadow of European style of talk-n-walk, generosity and simple living.


Mohit Bora:

I had seen this guy, when I was a fresher, mostly because of the glowing white complexion [Oh sorry sir I know this isn’t any way to give an intro :)P ] Well this guy is one of the most noblest-tech-guy on campus to know about. I loved talking to him for hours on some of very out-of-the-common-day topics, like the ultimate reality of human existence and like sorts. I met him for the first time at a seniors room when I went for some work related to Techpedia (discussed later), with whom he was associated as a starting member. He was happy to see someone (ie. me) from Uttranchal, his home-town and it seemed we were poised to be not just good acquaintances but great friends.
One of the most non-regular NITian, who laid stress to watch documentaries and read novels from Narmad-Library rather than continuing one season after season of Priso-B, Heroes or HIMUM ....
Quite an unusual quality of quoting finest examples, which comes after a lot of mature reading, was worth appreciating always. One or two I better mention..
Imagine a god has given you a superb quality car, which can even start in its 5th gear and everyone around you is driving that car (the same is provided to them too). So coz everyone is driving it in 5th gear and zooming hard, you‘ll also do this, and everybody will do that, saying that why not me when everyone else in doing the same. BUT! Wait had it been so, then why had god-provided us five gears or rather four gears before the final one?
This is an exact analogy to the prevalent trend of Entering IIMs, immediately after BTech or Graduation, Hold on guys! have some experience first and then try to know whether you even want to go there or not. This rat race is a bull shit!
He also notified a point that people also get fascinated by the infrastructure of foreign universities rather than technology. And the ultimate example of teaching a dog Differential equations or Fourier transforms was hilariously content.
And with all those unstoppable discussions the night ended and we parted, only to remain great friends a meet again. Miss you Bora Saab!


Hiranmay Mahanta,

Action speaks louder than words, or words speak louder than actions?
I guess its true both ways, for you’ll know if you be with this guy, one of the most ‘big’ svnit alumnus till now and times to come.
I remember meeting him for the first time at my own hostel in first year, when being Convenor of our Techfest, Mindbend he had come to deliver participation syndrome and infuse tech-enthu into the fresh junta.
The man behind ‘Techpedia’, an online database-venture funded by a sub-organisation, Sristi at IIM-A. The site aims at bridging the gap between the academic and industry by making available the final year technical projects of B Tech and MSc. Students to the industry with proper database behind the screen workouts, thereby creating technical wealth of this country.
He had always inspired me to work for our Institute and then after a time, focus on own to forge ahead. The best part was that he was available 24- hours, and our most fruitful meetings used to start at 2 in midnight.
The basics of how to make better presentations to the personal id of APJ , all the info was of great help, and unlike his many batch mates he had a ego-less personality which gained huge respect in very short time amongst juniors and the faculty. You will surely inspire a generation to come!
One of my personal favourites, he has surely made significant contributions to my life as a whole, miss you guru, and I wish you all the best for your future endeavours in the field of Management and Education.


Some lines:
This isn’t ‘this-is it’!
For the times we’ve been together,
Had been memorable

From tech, life and management,
You taught me the requirements.

The grey-less shadows you casted,
For me to follow and rejoice
In my heart or brain,
Will forever be pasted

For,
This isn’t ‘this-is-it’!

Internship : The IIT B Experience

Learning never stops, and especially when you work in environment like the NANO-FABRICATION LAB at the electrical department, here at IIT-B. The lab is partly funded by US Based Applied Materials and the Govt of India and is one of India’s finest research facilities in the field of Thin Film coating, VLSI fabrication, and Solar PhotoVoltaics. The team of young research scholars, the great and experienced professors works in tandem with visiting scientists from various centres like, BARC,TIFR, PRL etc. The very first sight was not more than a dream come true, from the modern biometric access to dedicated lab culture.
My professor, Dr. B M Arora, who has headed the Dept. of Condensed Matter Physics at TIFR, a true gentleman, is making noteworthy contributions in processing innovative lab manufacturing and guiding various JRFs, PhD, and Post Doc Students along with the summer interns.
I met Karthik who was working as a JRF after his undergraduate studies (from Anna University) under Proff Arora in the field of Coatings and also Conductivity measurements of metal-semiconductor junctions. He arranged a guided tour of the lab for me and explained and tested my concepts. On that note, I realized that working here would mean to be really demanding both in terms of the concepts and hard-work.
You are totally surrounded by people of great intellect, who don’t bother to eat or drink till they are satisfied by the experiment results. Within two days I went so busy that even I relied on only Maggie and NesTea, which was available alongside the Deptt for hours..
Very soon clarifications will come out, as to what exactly will be my area to work on and the project title and with this note I’ll be back again, with more to speak of the work and the temperament.

China .cn

Google's withdrawal.. has from the beginning been implicated in Washington's Political games with China.
-"China"

Well whatever it is, as for us Indians, It gives India an opportunity to provide an attractive alternative business destination.
The Indian "Intellectual Property Rights, (IPR)" like the Chinese are not entirely problem free and need to be revisited, nor do we have the extent of broadband penetration needed to require the kind of these multinational Companies require(as cited in detail in my earlier article.)
But Err.. we are being muddled by the hierarchy but implementing the capital-intensive broadband laying rather than quicker and less expensive wireless networks.

Guys, rise! help address the problems and take advantage, as its high time to realize that its not ethics but big business which is speaking here.

College Chunks, 50 Commandments thats it..

Hi guys, although I generaly do serious and orignal blogging but this cauaght my eyes like none other... believe me u'll forget all bhagats and rupa publications ...
Just damn go for it ...

Alright its all about how to live college, written for MIT nerds but u know na we are'nt nerds, we are ever worse!

This guy "Ben Jones" here he goes...

http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/life/workplay_balance_at_mit/50_things.shtml

Govt to Invest 18K Crore in Broadband Connectivity

Review:
The Global Innovation Index has seen India falling another 13 places, & one of the reasons cited is lack of availability of broadband. It actually is an irony that internet penetration is so limited and of mere speed in a country that prides itself on its IT prowess and that its telecom success stories. Broadband internet has the capacity to accelerate growth and facilitate socio-economic change by improving service delivery to the people.

What is being done?
The govt plans to spend Rs18K crore in the span of next three years in laying five lakh fibre-optic cables and reach every gram panchayat. The infrastructure company will be carved out BSNL, PGCIL, and RailTel all three PSUs (Public Sector Undertakings)

So what’s wrong in it?
This plan may be, needlessly expensive. Laying fibre optic cable across country is both time consuming and costly. The better alternative is to pursue wireless broadband connectivity.
According to the International Telecommunications Union, there are more mobile than fixed broadband users in the world already. It would be wise to invest in developing wireless internet networks, with cellular penetration crossing 50% marks globally and in India.

Saputara Springs

“ATM Receipt Dated 16th Feb
Account holder’s Name: Neeraj Pandey
Avbl BAL: Rs 600
Withdrwal: Rs 0 ”

Indeed, this was the most adventurous and cool weekend in past all times of my college life (despite of my available balance).
I was talking to akash, discussing my intentions to visit Ranthambore National Park upon which he made faces showing his light wallet. Arrived Saturday and our exams went concluding. Our unfortunate no-net connectivity in dorms left us with no-Google option for Vibrant Gujarat destinations. Meanwhile, Saputara as was recommended by some of mine civil-engg peers was a, can-be looked-at-option.
For a end moment decision one doesn’t needs million people’s suggestions and I thought to have a small group for the weekend trip for our finally agreed desti, Saputara, a Hill station near Gujarat-Maharashtra border.

The Auto and the Bus Moves:
Finally we had six Bag-packs DJ, Khandelwal, Senti, Mmhenndra, Bharat and none other than me.
“We dined near station, and went to bus stand
For hours...
With eyes closed, and hands in hand!”

Anecdote:
“Yaar next bus to jaegi hi, Abey Yarr!!!
Yarr Next wali honi chahiye......
Damn!!
Look another’s one is coming...
Saputara.....Saputara....
Get in guys, Fast!”

Now with recently rejuvenated marooned moods (because of 4 hours wait) we got into the bus and got seated, unfortunately uncomfortably for the next couple of hours.
With the usual bus junta (Indian), busy in snoring, we could not sings songs at least and found ourselves doze and dizz. The bus halted, to have its tea-time manorajan at a roadside chai-wala.
We had our, some of it and some of that!
Some of the first sights were not less than a delight, the jungle-feel, the upraised hills, tribal habitations. After some four hours we were there! And yes we were there!
The main entrance had a big square, with four roads as four options....First road leading to the boating lake, second to the chain of hotels, third to suicide and sunrise point and other to the bus station. The hunger led us to nearby dhabas, restaurants and took brunch and beverages.
We then entered The Museum and Aquatarium, it was damn cheap!
Taking pics was a high priority at every spot(for details visit my facebook/orkut account).Boating lake was one of India’s cleanest and largest, for sure, we spent some hours there before getting dehydrated, which led us to drinks-stand. Now, it was time to visit the Sunset point and the thrill of Ropeway and we hired a TATA-sumo for mere bucks (yes unlike other tourist destinations saputara is indeed cheap).
Nothing can be as trilling, than you in a trolley hanging 500ft above plains! I don’t know why but when we came back from the ropeway, we saw the queue getting a lot longer, god! We reached on time, else we had to be in that damn line! We then went to Echo-point which wasn’t that efficiently working and was more of a natural structural beauty. We shouted like hell, ran here and there fighting and playing like anything, everyone.
The final phase was done in quite a hurry manner and we rushed to get into the bus which also was in hurry. It stopped in between, while our way back to Surat and we got out of it to have tea and a glimpse of the ongoing match of India vs South Africa. Meanwhile, we missed the waterfall and the Wildlife Sanctuary on the way back. Alas, had we not to get into college prior to in-time!

Towards the end we had a database of 1 GB of pics/videos and 1 TB of memories and fun which will never be erased or over writed. Every moment was raw and unexampled, a shiver in itself.Upon reaching surat, I went to The Pastry Point (upon DJ’s Suggestion), and had my manchurian roll, took the auto and slept like anything.... (abhi abhi utha hun yaar!!!

Confessions of being an Ambitious ‘junior’.....beta

Context: NITs/Technical & Scientific education

Why not begin this write-up by saying that the honoured and well criticised post that I hold at SCOSH(Science Committee @ NIT Surat) is worth it's diabolical epithet. Moving on to NIT, It will be hard to find areas where my NIT cannot have improvements in. Be it the Institute’s small and shabby canteen or it's Wikipedia presence, everything is actually an 'uncomplicated and elementary child’s play'.

We (you as well as me)have put our 14 damn years to have schools completed to become Engineers/Scientists , in a way serve this world with our very basic purpose of getting educated, ‘by Technology’. If this is not wrong then how on earth can you imagine yourself sitting with your wives/husbands and getting a call for your boss, who asks “Dude, how many soaps today?” and damn you reply , “Boss, I got 100s of them sold”. wt*(Pardon for expressional error)!

I don’t know the exact stats but in our NIT (‘Never an Intuitional Technocrat ‘/ ‘No Interview in Technology’) more than 80 percentage of guys write this recently-upgraded-through-technology exam, CAT. I guess either they forget all that they have studied for 6 years(#include<11,12th>;) or are seriously misguided. In a way, this rat race is actually doing no good, especially if we look the technical requirement of our country, India.

Well, I sympathies to the final year guys (and one day I too would need sympathy) for their craving for a ‘Second Degree”, for this is NIT after all and we cannot see our Insti’s Notice-Boards with Internship notices from Imperial College or our Training department mailing Google to visit the campus. In a way this college itself limits our ambitions despite, that the only difference between us (me) and a guy sitting in an IIT dorm is, of some Physics or maths problems. Gosh! Why this world does isn’t stable?