कबीरा़ खड़ा बा़जार मे

dacing like Madona

2006-09-02T23:29:00.000+05:30

one week to end term and I am doing what I am good at.
Watching movie. see a selected shot from the famous classic Pulp Fiction. Start of the best first date ever narrated.

Din Jaldi Jaldi Dhalta Hai

2006-09-01T17:26:00.000+05:30

Being so much abruptly away from bloggin is something not so new to me. Sometimes it is due to lack of something, sometimes it is due to brim of thoughts. My preoccupation with a certain topic over the months may be one of the reasons, why I deliberately kept myself away from it. People didn't want to hear about Purani Jeans(read genes).

Life in a new place where I am accidently taking morning breakfast after long hours in night, is no less than excitement which I want to sustain but can not do so. Din Jaldi Jaldi Dhalta Hai.The ppl who were strangers are getting real closer to me. May be it is dependence or mutual corporation, but people value affinity developed here more than those from IITs. But if I have to define this place I will define it as hot tomato chilli sauce( because its different) but the assimilation was too difficult for many of ppl who were thinking on these line in first few weeks. Umrao Jaan simply rocks.

ye kyaa jagah hain dosato, ye kaun saa dayaar hain
had-ye-nigaah tak jahaa, gubaar hee gubaar hai

ye kis makaam par hayaat muz ko leke aa gaee
naa bas khushee pe hain jahaa, naa gam pe ikhtaiyaar hai

Thankfully I am not one of them. I am trained to rest only on national holidays. Being creative is fun. Ashu and me years back derived and discussed control model for letter writing and here I developed model for Dilbert's thought process. Coming up with new definitions, solving toy problems, getting Lessor treatmaant, getting WACed up and last but not the least becoming Pub-Runner and then getting affiliated with Studio 620 is all the part of this process.

less than 2 weeks to go, time is running like terminal phase computations. I want to feel this moment. Maybe the thought that noone is waiting for me can retard this time expediting exercise. Reading to Dr. Bachchan again and again about the sweetness of this waiting. Kabira wants to say with him

Din Jaldi Jaldi Dhalta Hai,
Ho jaaye na Path mein Raat kahin,
Manzil bhi to hai door nahi,
yeh soch thaka din ka panthi bhi jaldi jaldi chalta hai,
Din Jaldi Jaldi Dhalta Hai|

Mujhse milne ko kaun vikal?
main houe kiske hit chanchal?
yeh prashn shithil kerta man ko, bharta ur mein vihvalta Hai,
Din Jaldi Jaldi Dhalta Hai.

Devil's Advocate

2006-05-22T17:43:00.000+05:30

After writing many blogs in last 2 months but never publihed ne because the only topic I want to write about was the Arjun Singh issue and I always used to thought that my views could be biased. Now have a treat all my argumentative Indian friends
real source is IBN

Karan Thapar: Hello and welcome to the Devil's Advocate. As the debate over the reservations for the OBCs divides the country, we ask - What are the government's real intentions? That is the critical questions that I shall put today in an exclusive interview to the Minister for Human Resource Development Arjun Singh.

Most of the people would accept that steps are necessary to help the OBCs gain greater access to higher education. The real question is - Why do you believe that reservations is the best way of doing this?

Arjun Singh: I wouldn't like to say much more on this because these are decisions that are taken not by individuals alone. And in this case, the entire Parliament of this country - almost with rare anonymity - has decided to take this decision.

Karan Thapar: Except that Parliament is not infallible. In the Emergency, when it amended the Constitution, it was clearly wrong, it had to reverse its own amendments. So, the question arises - Why does Parliament believe that the reservation is the right way of helping the OBCs?

Arjun Singh: Nobody is infallible. But Parliament is Supreme and atleast I, as a Member of Parliament, cannot but accept the supremacy of Parliament.

Karan Thapar: No doubt Parliament is supreme, but the constitutional amendment that gives you your authorities actually unenabling amendment, it is not a compulsory requirement. Secondly, the language of the amendment does not talk about reservations, the language talks about any provision by law for advancement of socially and educationally backward classes. So, you could have chosen anything other than reservations, why reservations?

Arjun Singh: Because as I said, that was the 'will and desire of the Parliament'.

Karan Thapar: Do you personally also, as Minister of Human Resource Development , believe that reservations is the right and proper way to help the OBCs?

Arjun Singh: Certainly, that is one of the most important ways to do it.

Karan Thapar: The right way?

Arjun Singh: Also the right way.

Karan Thapar: In which case, lets ask a few basic questions; we are talking about the reservations for the OBCs in particular. Do you know what percentage of the Indian population is OBC? Mandal puts it at 52 per cent, the National Sample Survey Organisation at 32 per cent, the National Family and Health Survey at 29.8 per cent, which is the correct figure?

Arjun Singh: I think that should be decided by people who are more knowledgeable. But the point is that the OBCs form a fairly sizeable percentage of our population.

Karan Thapar: No doubt, but the reason why it is important to know 'what percentage' they form is that if you are going to have reservations for them, then you must know what percentage of the population they are, otherwise you don't know whether they are already adequately catered in higher educational institutions or not.

Arjun Singh: That is obvious - they are not.

Karan Thapar: Why is it obvious?

Arjun Singh: Obvious because it is something which we all see.

Karan Thapar: Except for the fact that the NSSO, which is a government appointed body, has actually in its research in 1999 - which is the most latest research shown - that 23.5 per cent of all university seats are already with the OBCs. And that is just 8.5 per cent less than what the NSSO believes is the OBC share of the population. So, for a difference of 8 per cent, would reservations be the right way of making up the difference?

Arjun Singh: I wouldn't like to go behind all this because, as I said, Parliament has taken a view and it has taken a decision, I am a servant of Parliament and I will only implement.

Karan Thapar: Absolutely, Parliament has taken a view, I grant it. But what people question is the simple fact - Is there a need for reservations? If you don't know what percentage of the country is OBC, and if furthermore, the NSSO is correct in pointing out that already 23.5 per cent of the college seats are with the OBC, then you don't have a case in terms of need.

Arjun Singh: College seats, I don't know.

Karan Thapar: According to the NSSO - which is a government appointed body - 23.5 per cent of the college seats are already with the OBCs.

Arjun Singh: What do you mean by college seats?

Karan Thapar: University seats, seats of higher education.

Arjun Singh: Well, I don't know I have not come across that far.

Karan Thapar: So, when critics say to you that you don't have a case for reservation in terms of need, what do you say to them?

Arjun Singh: I have said what I had to say and the point is that that is not an issue for us to now debate.

Karan Thapar: You mean the chapter is now closed?

Arjun Singh: The decision has been taken.

Karan Thapar: Regardless of whether there is a need or not, the decision is taken and it is a closed chapter.

Arjun Singh: So far as I can see, it is a closed chapter and that is why I have to implement what all Parliament has said.

Karan Thapar: Minister, it is not just in terms of 'need' that your critics question the decision to have reservation for OBCs in higher education. More importantly, they question whether reservations themselves are efficacious and can work.

For example, a study done by the IITs themselves shows that 50 per cent of the IIT seats for the SCs and STs remain vacant and for the remaining 50 per cent, 25 per cent are the candidates, who even after six years fail to get their degrees. So, clearly, in their case, reservations are not working.

Arjun Singh: I would only say that on this issue, it would not be correct to go by all these figures that have been paraded.

Karan Thapar: You mean the IIT figures themselves could be dubious?

Arjun Singh: Not dubious, but I think that is not the last word.

Karan Thapar: All right, maybe the IIT may not be the last word, let me then quote to you the report of the Parliamentary Committee on the welfare for the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes - that is a Parliamentary body.

It says that looking at the Delhi University, between 1995 and 2000, just half the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Castes level and just one-third of the seats for under-graduates at the Scheduled Tribes level were filled. All the others went empty, unfilled. So, again, even in Delhi University, reservations are not working.

Arjun Singh: If they are not working, it does not mean that for that reason we don't need them. There must be some other reason why they are not working and that can be certainly probed and examined. But to say that for this reason, 'no reservations need to be done' is not correct.

Karan Thapar: Fifty years after the reservations were made, statistics show, according to The Hindustan Times, that overall in India, only 16 per cent of the places in higher education are occupied by SCs and STs. The quota is 22.5 per cent, which means that only two-thirds of the quota is occupied. One third is going waste, it is being denied to other people.

Arjun Singh: As I said, the kind of figures that have been brought out, in my perception, do not reflect the realities. Realities are something much more and of course, there is an element of prejudice also.

Karan Thapar: But these are figures that come from a Parliamentary Committee. It can't be prejudiced; they are your own colleagues.

Arjun Singh: Parliamentary Committee has given the figures, but as to why this has not happened, that is a different matter.

Karan Thapar: I put it to you that you don't have a case for reservations in terms of need, you don't have a case for reservations in terms of their efficacy, why then, are you insisting on extending them to the OBCs?

Arjun Singh: I don't want to use that word, but I think that your argument is basically fallicious.

Karan Thapar: But it is based on all the facts available in the public domain.

Arjun Singh: Those are facts that need to be gone into with more care. What lies behind those facts, why this has not happened, that is also a fact.

Karan Thapar: LetÂs approach the issue of reservations differently in that case. Reservations mean that a lesser-qualified candidate gets preference over a more qualified candidate, solely because in this case, he or she happens to be an OBC. In other words, the upper castes are being penalised for being upper caste.

Arjun Singh: Nobody is being penalised and that is a factor that we are trying to address. I think that the prime Minister will be talking to all the political parties and will be putting forward a formula, which will see that nobody is being penalised.

Karan Thapar: I want very much to talk about that formula, but before we come to talk about how you are going to address concerns, let me point one other corollary - Reservations also gives preference and favour to caste over merit. Is that acceptable in a modern society?

Arjun Singh: I don't think the perceptions of modern society fit India entirely.

Karan Thapar: You mean India is not a modern society and therefore can't claim to be treated as one?

Arjun Singh: It is emerging as a modern society, but the parameters of a modern society do not apply to large sections of the people in this country.

Karan Thapar: Let me quote to you Jawaharlal Nehru, a man whom you personally admire enormously. On the 27th of June 1961 wrote to the Chief Ministers of the day as follows: I dislike any kind of reservations. If we go in for any kind of reservations on communal and caste basis, we will swamp the bright and able people and remain second rate or third rate. The moment we encourage the second rate, we are lost. And then he adds pointedly: This way lies not only folly, but also disaster. What do you say to Jawaharlal Nehru today?

Arjun Singh: Jawaharlal Nehru was a great man in his own right and not only me, but everyone in India accept his view.

Karan Thapar: But you are just about to ignore his advice.

Arjun Singh: No. Are you aware that it was Jawaharlal Nehru who introduced the first ammendment regarding OBCs?

Karan Thapar: Yes, and I am talking about Jawaharlal Nehru in 1961, when clearly he had changed his position, he said - I dislike any kind of reservations.

Arjun Singh: I don't think one could take Panditji's position at any point of time and then overlook what he had himself initiated.

Karan Thapar: Am I then to understand that regardless of the case that is made against reservations in terms of need, regardless of the case that has been made against reservations in terms of efficacy, regardless of the case that has been made against reservations in terms of Jawaharlal Nehru, you remain committed to extending reservations to the OBCs.

Arjun Singh: I said because that is the will of Parliament. And I think that common decisions that are taken by Parliament have to be honoured.

Karan Thapar: Let me ask you a few basic questions - If reservations are going to happen for the OBCs in higher education, what percentage of reservations are we talking about?

Arjun Singh: No, that I can't say because that has yet to be decided.

Karan Thapar: Could it be less than 27 per cent?

Arjun Singh: I can't say anything on that, I have told you in the very beginning that at this point of time it is not possible for me to.

Karan Thapar: Quite right. If you can't say, then that also means that the figure has not been decided.

Arjun Singh: The figure will be decided, it has not been decided yet.

Karan Thapar: The figure has not been decided. So, therefore the figure could be 27, but it could be less than 27 too?

Arjun Singh: I don't want to speculate on that because as I said, that is decision, which will be taken by Parliament.

Karan Thapar: Whatever the figure, one thing is certain that when the reservations for OBCs happen, the total quantum of reservations will go up in percentage terms. Will you compensate by increasing the total number of seats in colleges, universities, IITs and IIMs, so that the other students don't feel deprived.

Arjun Singh: That is one of the suggestions that has been made and is being seriously considered.

Karan Thapar: Does it find favour with you as a Minister for Human Resource Development?

Arjun Singh: Whatever suggestion comes, we are committed to examine it.

Karan Thapar: You may be committed to examine it, but do you as minister believe that that is the right way forward?

Arjun Singh: That could be one of the ways, but not the only way.

Karan Thapar: What are the other ways?

Arjun Singh: I don't know. That is for the Prime Minister and the other ministers to decide.

Karan Thapar: One way forward would be to increase the total number of seats.

Arjun Singh: Yes, definitely.

Karan Thapar: But the problem is that as the Times of India points out, we are talking of an increase of perhaps as much as 53 per cent. Given the constraints you have in terms of faculty and infrastructure, won't that order of increase dilute the quality of education?

Arjun Singh: I would only make one humble request, don't go by The Times of India and The Hindustan Times about faculty and infrastructure, because they are trying to focus on an argument which they have made.

Karan Thapar: All right, I will not go by The Times of India, let me instead go by Sukhdev Thorat, the Chairman of the UGC. He points out that today, at higher education levels - that is all universities, IITs and IIMs - there is already a 1.2 lakh vacancy number. 40 per cent of these are in teaching staff, which the IIT faculty themselves point out that they have shortages of up to 30 per cent. Given those two constraint, can you increase the number of seats?

Arjun Singh: That can be addressed and that shortage can be taken care of.

Karan Thapar: But it can't be taken care of in one swoop, it will take several years to do it.

Arjun Singh: I don't know whether it can be taken care of straightway or in stages, that is a subject to be decided.

Karan Thapar: Let me ask you bluntly, if you were to agree to compensate for reservations for OBCs by increasing the number of seats, would that increase happen at one go, or would it be staggered over a period of two-three or four year old process.

Arjun Singh: As I told you, it is an issue that I cannot comment upon at this moment because that is under examination.

Karan Thapar: So, it may happen in one go and it may happen in a series of several years.

Arjun Singh: I can't speculate on that because that is not something on which I am free to speak on today.

Karan Thapar: Will the reservation for OBCs, whatever figure your Committee decides on, will it happen in one go, or will it slowly be introduced in stages?

Arjun Singh: That also I cannot say because as I told you, all these issues are under consideration.

Karan Thapar: Which means that everything that is of germane interest to the people concerned is at the moment 'under consideration' and the government is not able to give any satisfaction to the students who are deeply concerned.

Arjun Singh: That is not the point. The government knows what to do and it will do what is needed.

Karan Thapar: But if the government knows what to do, why won't you tell me what the government wants to do?

Arjun Singh: Because unless the decision is taken, I cannot tell you.

Karan Thapar: But you can share with me as the Minister what you are thinking.

Arjun Singh: No.

Karan Thapar: So, in other words, we are manitaining a veil of secrecy and the very people who are concerned...

Arjun Singh: I am not maintaining a veil of secrecy. I am only telling you what propriety allows me to tell you.

Karan Thapar: Propriety does not allow you to share with the people who are protesting on the streets what you are thinking?

Arjun Singh: I don't think that that can happen all the time.

Karan Thapar: But there are people who feel that their lives and their futures are at stake and they are undertaking fasts until death.

Arjun Singh: It is being hyped up, I don't want to go into that.

Karan Thapar: Do you have no sympathy for them?

Arjun Singh: I have every sympathy.

Karan Thapar: But you say it is being hyped up.

Arjun Singh: Yes, it is hyped up.

Karan Thapar: So, then, what sympathy are you showing?

Arjun Singh: I am showing sympathy to them and not to those who are hyping it up.

Karan Thapar: The CPM says that if the reservations for the OBCs are to happen, then what is called the creamy layer should be excluded. How do you react to that?

Arjun Singh: The creamy layer issue has already been taken care of by the Supreme Court.

Karan Thapar: That was vis -a-vis jobs in employment, what about at the university level, should they be excluded there as well because you are suggesting that the answer is yes?

Arjun Singh: That could be possible.

Karan Thapar: It could be possible that the creamy layer is excluded from reservations for OBCs in higher education?

Arjun Singh: It could be, but I don't know whether it would happen actually.

Karan Thapar: Many people say that if reservations for OBCs in higher education happen, then the children of beneficiaries should not be entitled to claim the same benefit.

Arjun Singh: Why?

Karan Thapar: So that there is always a shrinking base and the rate doesn't proliferate.

Arjun Singh: I don't think that that is a very logical way of looking at it.

Karan Thapar: Is that not acceptable to you?

Arjun Singh: No, it is not the logical way of looking at it.

Karan Thapar: So, with the possible exception of the creamy layer exclusion, reservation for OBCs in higher education will be almost identical to the existing reservations for SC/STs?

Arjun Singh: Except for the percentage.

Karan Thapar: Except for the percentage.

Arjun Singh: Yes.

Karan Thapar: So, in every other way, they will be identical.

Arjun Singh: Yes, in every other way.

Karan Thapar: Mr Arjun Singh, on the 5th of April when you first indicated that the Government was considering reservation for OBCs in higher education, was the Prime Minister in agreement that this was the right thing to do?

Arjun Singh: I think, there is a very motivated propaganda is on this issue. Providing reservation to OBCs was in the public domain right from December 2005, when Parliament passed the enabling resolution.

Karan Thapar: Quite true. But had the Prime Minister specifically agreed on or before 5th of April to the idea?

Arjun Singh: Well, I am telling you it was already there. A whole Act was made, the Constitution was amended and the Prime Minister was fully aware of what this is going to mean. Actually, he had a meeting in which OBC leaders were called to convince them that this would give them the desired advantage. And they should, therefore, support this resolution. And at that meeting, he himself talked to them. Now, how do you say that he was unaware?

Karan Thapar: But were you at all aware that the Prime Minister might be in agreement with what was about to happen but might not wish it disclosed publicly at that point of time? Were you aware of that?

Arjun Singh: It was already there in public domain, that's what I am trying to tell you.

Karan Thapar: Then answer this to me. Why are members of the PMO telling journalists that Prime Minister was not consulted and that you jumped the gun?

Arjun Singh: Well, I don't know which member of the PMO you are talking about unless you name him.

Karan Thapar: Is there a conspiracy to make you the fall guy?

Arjun Singh: Well, I don't know whether there is one or there is not. But fall guys are not made in this way. And I am only doing what was manifestly clear to every one, was cleared by the party and the Prime Minister. There is no question of any personal agenda.

Karan Thapar: They say that, in fact, you brought up this issue to embarrass the Prime Minister.

Arjun Singh: Why should I embarrass the Prime Minister? I am with him. I am part of his team.

Karan Thapar: They say that you have a lingering, forgive the word, jealousy because Sonia Gandhi chose Manmohan Singh and not you as Prime Minister.

Arjun Singh: Well, that is canard which is below contempt. Only that person can say this who doesn't know what kind of respect and regard I hold for Sonia Gandhi. She is the leader. Whatever she decides is acceptable to me.

Karan Thapar: They also say that you brought this issue up because you felt that the Prime Minister had been eating into your portfolio. Part of it had gone to Renuka Chaudhury and, in fact, your new deputy minister Purandar Sridevi had taken over certain parts. This was your way of getting back.

Arjun Singh: No one was taking over any part. This is a decision which the Prime Minister makes as to who has to have what portfolio. And he asked Mrs Renuka Devi to take it and he cleared it with me first.

Karan Thapar: So there is no animus on your part?

Arjun Singh: Absolutely not.

Karan Thapar: They say that you did this because you resented the Prime Minister's popular image in the country, that this was your way of embroiling him in a dispute that will make him look not like a modern reformer but like an old-fashioned, family-hold politician instead.

Arjun Singh: Well, the Tammany Hall political stage is over> He is our Prime Minister and every decision he has taken is in the full consent with his Cabinet and I don't think there can be any blame on him.

Karan Thapar: One, then, last quick question. Do you think this is an issue, which is a sensitive issue, where everyone knew there would have been passions and emotions that would have aroused has been handled as effectively as it should have been?

Arjun Singh: Well, I have not done anything on it. I have not sort of what you call jumped the gun. If this is an issue, which is sensitive, everyone has to treat it that way.

Karan Thapar: But your conscience as HRD Minister is clear?

Arjun Singh: Absolutely clear.

Karan Thapar: There is nothing that you could have done to make it easier for the young students?

Arjun Singh: Well, I am prepared to do anything that can be done. And it is being attempted.

Karan Thapar: For seven weeks, they have been protesting in the hot sun. No minister has gone there to appease them, to alley their concerns, to express sympathy for them. Have politicians let the young people of India down?

Arjun Singh: Well, I myself called them. They all came in this very room.

Karan Thapar: But you are the only one.

Arjun Singh: You are accusing me only. No one else is being accused.

Karan Thapar: What about the Government of India? Has the Government of India failed to respond adequately?

Arjun Singh: From the Government of India also, the Defence Minister met them.

Karan Thapar: Only recently.

Arjun Singh: That is something because everyone was busy with the elections.

Karan Thapar: For seven weeks no one met them.

Arjun Singh: No, but we are very concerned. Certainly, all of us resent the kind of force that was used. I condemned it the very first day it happened.

Karan Thapar: All right, Mr Arjun Singh. We have reached the end of this interview. Thank you very much for speaking on the subject.

Being Tough

2006-04-01T12:11:00.000+05:30

At 19, one is old enough for many things. One is old enough to elect members to Parliament and, as Michael Atherton now knows, old enough to legally drive a motorcycle. Then why one is not good enough o take the heat to write an exam, supposedly the mother of all exams, (ok atleast in India)

I am so much agitated by the report in Times front page (sorry if u r addicted to online version) about the exam of the IITJEE being tougher than ever from this year. I sensed some good in it and continued reading only to get that limited scope can made a person so crippled minded only to associate the toughness of the exam with the ratio of successful participants to all who appeared.

If I see the exams around me in last one decade, NTSE had 14,000 odd high school students appearing from Uttar Pradesh(that time including Uttaranchal)in two rounds of exams and one interview and the final list had only 76 odd guys selected. SCRA 2000 had around 80,000 students competing for mere 9 seats. Then University of Roorkee had 70,000 students for 180 general seats. Even the recently conducted CAT2005 had 150,000 odd pop for 240 seats in iima. All these exams are far more than projected ratio in IITJEE this year but the fact remain simple, terse but conclusive that JEE was the toughest of all I appeared in so far.

What makes JEE the tough exam in not the number associated that 4000 out of 300,000 will be getting through but the very nature to discover the problem solving skills involved. “ it should be objective in nature”, “ we will make sure that questions are easy this time’, “ there should not be extra burden on children” and many more popular orations that we have heard by senior ministers in UPA government. I still think the thing that make us different( sorry if I seem lil arrogant but ) is the fact that our application of fundamentals of engineering is more profound and dexterous and this lead to a confident and optimal solutions and these application and problem solving habits, I still owed to my JEE days. The very first week after admission and every other week after that only affirmed the belief that JEE prepared us for the heat. “you have won the battle but the war is just begun”. Ranked 3rd among the undergraduate courses in the world again put stress on the JEE system. We are not having the world class labs in IITs, we are not having that big research funding and infrastructures but still we are 3rd rank holder. Giving full credit to professors for it is again not correct because it they were the sole reason then why this result doesn’t reflect that way at graduate study level.

I still remember that some of our senior boasted all time that they have cleared JEE twice in a year(late 90s leak) so they are twice capable. If this trend of deteriorating the quality of this astute exam continues, I could be found after few years stating that we wrote the Real JEE.
But media will not listen.. One day back Indiatimes article mentioned that IITs and IIms found a way to tackle the new reservations policies of UPA government. Minority appeasement at its best. When my friend in his iim interview put it as the biggest problem for India, I didn’t realize the gravity. How they will ensure the same quality of education after increase in the strength, no body in HRD ministry have any clue but everyone is commenting.

The the plan of making new IIT campus in india. I know the person who is the head of the committee to suggest the government of its plan of action, very well. We discussed a lot on it as many names are put forward like anna university, osmania, JNTU, many Nits names are proposed. But the motives all the time remain plainly political. We have the example of Roorkee that is made IITR and the general theory of “funding alone can make miracle” busted. No significant changes are observed. While on the other hand, IIT Guwahati put a apt example of sincere efforts. A Institute is known for its mission and vision and changing names and giving more superficial fund can not bring about the changes. As in NITs, typically 10-15 % of faculty is having a doctoral degree( which is again earned in many cases in QIPs at IITs), do we have a mantle enough to dictate the terms that defines typical faculty of IIT Kanpur(One PhD and 3 year of work ex minimum), and the stringent requirements so that every year aero dept put simply NFS(none found suitable) after faculty search over years. Changing names and giving extra funds if simply can not change faculty, why expect then output.

All this will continue. Indiatimes editor will keep on refusing the honest comments on their articles as they acclaim that they cater to average human emotions. But I am mentioning again that 19 year is a big age for a person to identify the truth behind every speak however political it may be.

Hail Raina ( he is also 19)

Guten Morgan

2006-02-06T21:44:00.000+05:30

Time 6:45 AM .. Full mobile call
time 6:46 AM again one call
I smiled because I thought it was her as I told her in night to call me up in the morning but to the utmost surprise of mine, this could not be she. She just cant wake up before me. I didn't want to wake up and see who has called. Actually the assumption was that of mine not waking up inspite of how hard she tried.
but finally I struggled and wake up. ans it was not SHE . It was just the so called coworker of mine, the icing of that cuppy cake.

Now murphy came to meet me.
Me : Howz .Morning
She : I have to ask u.
Me : (what she could ask me in this hour of morning) shoot
She : I have to take leave today.
Me : (saying some craapy things I really dont remember rite now) then why do u called me
She : to tell boss about it.
She : i need not apply for casual leave in advance.
Me : U just talk with boss. Number is **** .
Me : and just dont disturb me in morning hours. I am always havin sweetie dreams this time.
She : OK

Then I remember around 8:15 Am that she had some dizziness of friday itself. She is new in town and I was reactin this way as if she is......

when will I change ??

She...

2006-01-28T11:42:00.000+05:30

with Rang de Basanti( now with new Eastman photographs) being slightly off-track, I should return to my general light blogging. So if your boss is a SHE. Many things happened and changed into your life and the typically correct things otherwise turned into unassumed philosophies.
The hero of the story is not a typical you know who.
Boss is in late 30s and has a great sense of humor, widely socially accepted, unlike the guys I have been with over the years.

Boss : so you are getting married ?
He : yes Mam.
Boss : you didn't invite me in engagement as well.
He : I was about to ask you but you were busy with Russians.
Boss : So what do you think is more important. Your engagement or Russians ?
He : (keeps mum)
Boss : You are goin to stay here not them. I hope you know it..
He : yes Mam.
Boss : What she do ?
He : a doctor( a lot of other stuff about her MD and blah blah blha)
Boss : She must be very brilliant in studies. not like u i guess?
He : no mam, u know general OBc stuff and all.
Boss : but still making it to Gandhi for mbbs is a big thing. dont u think so.
He : ya Mam.
Boss : so what's the specialization
He : she is a gynecologist
Boss : wow. Now I will be treated free naa ?
He : sure Mam.
Boss : but you are getting married within 3 weeks of engagement.
He : yes Mam.
Boss : why so much hurry. btw are u hurrying or she (with ;) )
He : no mam, parents decided so.
Boss : you meet her before. your girlfriend... ab dont say ki u met her first in engagement
( I couldn't stop laughing after this.. and left the room. so much grill from lady boss. )
I cant put all those emotions in the conversation but still this is fair enough to give the idea of what will happen to you when you go to her to invite for your marriage.

NOW WHAT MORE.. one more twist in the story... Now you are the boss and she is newly joined gal .
She : He is getting married.
Me : yaa.
She : Love marriage or ..
Me : madam, love marriage ka fashion chala gaya hai.
She : maine aise hi poocha
Me : what would you prefer ?
She : blush and slight smile. ( another 12 $ bottle of wine )
She : Can I go for lunch.
We started laughing...
She : why are you all laughing.....
Me : No you go for it. we generally laugh for no valid reasons.

Point is ki women empowerment has helped us by making the grass greener and these corporate a cool place to work with. with decent luck, which I dont have, you can get away without a lady boss. and a lady coworker or junior under you is just a icing in the cake which I am rite now eating.

Rang De Basanti

2006-01-26T19:40:00.000+05:30

When the day doesn't start with the regular ho halla means that it is some sort of holiday and when u turn up The Hindu, u find that it is the day to celebrate the Republic day. Suddenly u got the idea about seeing the republic day parade on DD1, best show DD1 ever organize over the years with almost highest viewership.

So turn on the TV and just remember when was the last time you have attended the flag hoisting. For me some 4 years back.. however ppl remember that day with bhuj earthquake. but no matter how much insensitive is you, u can still watch it on doordarshan, a real door dershan so to say. then try to see the show of the might that india really has and if you could do, dare to look that child in you who is going to school few years back with a flag in hand and smile perfectly suiting that neat uniform. get more deeper and remember the oratory skills of school principal and u are now near to get the exact words that excites you those days. Missile and fighter aircrafts used to give you the feelings Premchand explained in Idgaah. the inspirations were different, dreams were different , we were different. The people who used to encourage us those days, today show reservations on my credentials when I tell them about my contribution in some of the missiles. they expect me to leave this work and do something better, or in their words more rewarding ...

Suddenly you will realize that the past is not perfect, i better not see it. but if it is so, will future be. A country with almost 60 years of independence should have a bright future, BUT a future that still needs morning newspaper to realize about republic day, a future who still hardly dare to see its past glory, a future who has changed its inspiration ..is certainly not the future we ever thought of, atleast as a child.

The Vision 2020 lies not in the hands of IT and ITES professionals, it is not there in increasing purchasing power and FDI, it is there in the mindset of the people who dare to look back and take inspirations. Rang De Basanti is what comes to my mind in the morning after the republic parade and if all colours have faded out of our life, this is a colour of new dreams.

The Truman Show

2006-01-21T22:38:00.000+05:30

When it comes to being lazy and doing nothing, nobody beats me for sure. This is a perception ppl can form about you if you don't check all the mediums to contact them. My last blog was dated some five months back and reason for not writing is just lack of content. But when some fairer sex ask u about not writing for so long, surely u wont be disappointing her unless Murphy personally comes and meet you. And the hometown visit just provided the content.

Myself and ashutosh many times have discussed about family melodramas on various channels It usually happened whenever we came back after mid term breaks and what Mr. Bajaj is doing these days and how Anurag is recovering is shared. One half hour after six months was just enough for us to get how much serial have progressed. But this blog is not to tell ashu ki how kasauti is doin or jassi is jazzin but a postmodernist approach and reaction for the contemporary status of these never ending stories.

Those who have watched the Truman show must have remembered the way the promotional advertisements were presented. Here TV serials in India also reached the same level. To state a example, where a newly wed wife is telling her husband to postpone the honeymoon plan because the star plus award ceremony is being telecasted next week and by goin on the honeymoon,they will be not only missing it but also wont be able to enjoy honeymoon that way. Congrats Ekta kapoor ! U have just crossed landmark by giving a professional touch to TV serials and blessings to all would be husbands for having a big heart as no matter how much u prepare to settle down the post marriage hassles, u will find yourself cursing the day u decided for gettin engaged as the saas bah stuff(or what I shd call it) wont let you stand at ease ever and make u sleepless as if u r in Seattle.
Kabira is so much unhappy with one more reason, and as it goes

Kabira tab tab raat main, phaphak phaphak ker roe |
Jab jab Mirza sania, khel se baahar hoe ||
Kataa Asha parekh ka tha, dard jariwala ko hoe |
Kabira tab tab raat main, phaphak phaphak ker roe ||

2005-07-24T18:48:00.000+05:30

You scored as Postmodernist. Postmodernism is the belief in complete open interpretation. You see the universe as a collection of information with varying ways of putting it together. There is no absolute truth for you; even the most hardened facts are open to interpretation. Meaning relies on context and even the language you use to describe things should be subject to analysis.

Postmodernist

94%

Modernist

88%

Existentialist

56%

Idealist

56%

Materialist

50%

Cultural Creative

25%

Fundamentalist

25%

Romanticist

What is Your World View? (updated)
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nancy friday

2005-03-21T20:54:00.000+05:30

so whenever murphy strikes, it strikes at the most unassumed way and at unpredicted time. thats wat murphy supposed to do all the time. if things can go wrong, they will no matter what measures U take. and with the kind of friend circle I have, actually everyone of the wingmate is murphy in its own way.

i was at home and moi CD drive was not workin so decided to reinstall it all over again. searched for the place where I put all my hardware cds and to utmost surprize of my, I found the precious, which everyone knows belongs to whom. I dont know if my parents had seen it in home, but i wanted to get rid of the Nancy Friday's Secret garden as soon as possible from their sight. finally i managed, afterall I also belong to murphy own set.

do ganjin after a while thats too on a weekend. we got a place in motimahal ( thanks its lucknow yet and U can manage a seat very easily) not ate basket chat but some other spicy delights with kulfi to end with. the thrust we required on saturday, when ashu came here and we almost planned to brake all teh assumptions about his drinkin. shops at gate still closes at 10 :((. jhawar knows the pain and agony of it all.
decoding the path for U guys

alag alag path batlaate sab,
per mein yeh batlata hoon|
raah pakad tu ek chala chal,
paa jayega madhushaalaa ||

reportin from SAC DC

2005-03-16T13:21:00.000+05:30

so SAC DC is also changed.. ppl can no longer takes bricks out of it. Abhaga got the last pie. any many things has changed too. but all other is same same as ever. ppl still use newsgroup to leak their frustration out on system and hence dont offer any repulsion to its working the way it is.
here back in iitk and for ppl dont know SAC DC its student activity centre Dhandhe churaha. all other details for the ppl who knows this place.

ppl still recollect me when they meet me here, many of them still map a name with it, infact not many may be all. got to know that many of my batchmates got their best halves if not better , so no need for some efforts to be the ONE in that class. ppl gettin schols one after another makin it a perfect destination. also cant write something that way here as may be ashu's assumption of gals not readin the blog is not valid in my case.

will complete this blog may be tomorrow a bit

kabira

here I am

2005-03-11T19:44:00.000+05:30

Your Seduction Style: The Charmer

You're a master at intimate conversation and verbal enticement.
You seduce with words, by getting people to open up to you.
By establishing this deep connection quickly, people feel under your power.
And then you've got them exactly where you want them!

What Is Your Seduction Style?

search for the keymaker

2005-02-22T19:04:00.000+05:30

search for the key maker was the only option this weekend for me. the key member of the mechanism group of DRDO didnt notice that the lock of the new house had self lockin property and it all started... full 3 hours and finally I managed to get the
duplicates for the Sirf apni hi caabhi se khulte hain locks. ne ways new house is big enuf for atleast me. still feelin the do dare feelin when I sleep in night.and with summer arrangements like a personal bath tub.

Who acted in Malinaa ??? this is waht U least expect when undergoin a hard technical design review meet but U cant help it. seriously U cant tolarate much vibrations of silent mode( thanks it is not NOKIA, samsung only) and the person behind the scene is famous Al guptoo.. same fellow make me miss the saanwariyaa song in swades but who really cares.

with kabira goin international with Shelley on quotin that If winter comes, can spring be far behind? and since the winter had passed well, now spring starts from 13th feb( basant panchami) and wats more... keep gussin my wellwishers ;)

back 2 back

2005-02-12T18:13:00.000+05:30

it all started again with ppl saying me again to strap it down. and kapsi ghoda agar ghaas se dosti ker lega to khayega kya.. and grass is always greener on other side. the color is green ,, color of envy and also the color of card which is most sought one, may be for me also if I went for popular choice for medical as profession... but it didnt happened. go back in time for this happening year.
I shd have been today this time watchin final of WTA with sania slammin in final but shishir said NO. something never change ans surely shishir will never let them also. might go for PHL matches
so first city,hyd where U start the day with azaan from charminar of some nearby mosque I didnt know( I cant wakeup so early for it).. and where roads are so wet in the morning(as if it were rained) for the sole purpose for painting something with choonaaa .. ppl saying something to U U cant get,,only response bein Telgu radu( dont know telgu) city with imax and ramoji and most imp my own lab..
boastrin about lab is not my way.. but how many countries have self owned air defence and in them how many of them have anti ballastic missiles in their arsenals.. and as U will go on , set will be comiong shorter and shorter and when U come to this lab, U will find me again working with 2 different groups, only me given this chance, again critic choice goes for cms comment ;)
16-21 jan) last week in pune and so much to know.. meet SA to RM MR. Natrajan sir and he braced me with his gesture in the dinner where his random choice to start talks came to me. the evening when I ate my dinner with a gal which eventually went for more than 90 minutes. may be she was biddin a good bye or wat?? lesson learned EAT sLOWLY... also meet Jasmine( read Jasmine Shaan from japnese class) his husband was in IAT that time.
before that great goin in orrisa and here year starts again....
so valentine reachin fast as I write it, problem is not that I am not gettin, I am not trying may be.. but as they say to U in da vinci code U dont find the grail, holy grail will find U endin with promise to come back and also with some of great rhymes from pyasaa
yahan her jism ghayal,
her rooh pyaasi,
nigaahoon mein ulfat,
laboon pe uddasi,
yeh duniya hai ya aalam e badhawaasi
yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai ??

blogger's stop

2005-01-17T10:11:00.000+05:30

back to school after the 14 days visits to different places including islands.. a unconventional orrrrisa tour which include konark, puri, bbsr and wheelers island, chandipur beaches... so first hand report of orrriasa is good
this post was goin to be a travelogue but rethought as a blunt end. the romance predictions for me this year suggest that if last year was good, this one is even better. but as my last year was full of rejections in every field of life, ppl can extrapolate for this one tooo.
got comment about my passions,, all u care about is only your DRDO and your projects,,, and nothing else... and if it is said so let it be so.. bloggin seems to be a tough call... so a big NO
may be start it after a while after settling well in hyd... neway all the readers of this blog know me pwersonaally
aktub
kabira

Excuse me, this movie is U/A

2004-12-28T10:09:00.000+05:30

and then I realized that the gal standing before me is a minor. thats also one good thing about pune. U can (ok at least I) can not estimate the age of a person by her looks. the movie was Ocean's 12 . After taking the those 2 tickets( which shd go to those gals), I went to them and Ladies, Soft Luck ;) .
Movie is good, but as we ppl have seen the first one, we can expect the directional twists in this one too. the crowd sitting behind me though have 2 less than 12 years also. Say Merry Xmas and then give U shokalada in various flavours, I got it 3 times that day in MG road, even one satna gal gave me 4 pieces in a titan showroom.
Panwar was here for 2 days and when he will go back to meet ashu, he will tell him surely of the life, we are spending here. then ashu will write somethin about me here. and gaurav jain is also coming for new year eve in pune, ppl can remember the Don't get angry demo again.
A new microsoft ad in india saying that how to confirm that your XP is the correct one, and bought from them only. they boasted in ad that the real one consist of various security features. so guys, enlighten your hearts and buy the original. the bottom line is that This ad was on last page ;)
also expecting the USA guys cm, ravi, tarun and now our very own sardar there, to give new year adventures to share.

kabira

apna diya, lighting at neighbour's house...

2004-12-23T13:41:00.000+05:30

ppl must have watched swades and I will try to, rather not to get emotionaly taken away on discussing it but blogs are suposed to be personal statements and let them be so.
watched it yesterday and liked it. specially the script,,remember the rural touch in lagaan and U will remember the name of K.P. Saxena. I remember him as when I was a child I lived in indranagar in lucknow and my father used to show me his house, and he had delivered to bollywood two of its great dialogues in lagaan and swades, in his sixties, arare old wine to relish.
gayatri joshi per dil aa gaya. aur there are reasons for that. even srk had done his bit without his biggest problem (overacting). could be more eloborate on feasability for joining vikram sarabhai space centre after NASA. there are many such successful cases in past like ppl joining drdo or isro after 10 years of job positions in usa univs. Like ashutoshalways tellin me that it not the india which has become white elephant, but us only .
I scream Icecream and U gave me eye's cream. early voice recognition systems had this problem of when to make grouping. CM knows the whole technical keywords and prof VS Sarma of IISC comp science is teaching me system engg these days. nowI can appreciate cm's fascination about machine translation, knowledge discovery, congative sciences and all..solving spouse selection problem with satisficing and traffic solution models for IISc gates.
moi(pranshu's way) enjoyin the flavours and spice of pune more.
eat chicken biriyani (spicest so far), then kaju anjeer kulfi, and wat more after swades.
meet the dashing debasis dash before movie; got call from ashu about gatech grad school requirements, while mohan bhargava usa citienship is being confirmed ; a call from home and missed the whole saawariaaa song. conectivity at its good, got my personal saki story collection, ( CM I asked U so many times to get one from your home for me.)
also learned something like
it is not more important to do things rightly but to do right things.

kabira

hey i got the hair cut

2004-12-21T09:28:00.000+05:30

so next phase is starting from tomorrow after just finishing my sort of endsems on which this year confidencial personal assessment report CPAR wil depend upon. this phase will have some lectures from management gurus from iims and few technical case studies.
relaxin a bit these days by shuttling a lot in indoor, watching good movies on DVDs, hanging out more frequent,learning DSP( dont blame me).. and since chatu left mozart apart and sttart hindi songs, me also gettin sort of addicted to sony diskman these days.
and hair cut... after 4 years of having bigsidelocks and uncombed ones, I converted them in more serious cut "forrest gump frame" which accidently give a much needed defence scientist look and more accidently give an impression of NDA personnel when I went to FC road in white shirt and stee grey pants on this weekend. this NDA looks are great as every gal from ILS want to go on date with NDA guys and attend the famous NDA ball. ;)
searching for gayatri joshi of my life(swades frame) and one thing I also want to get this room bearer changed. I dont like his face. huh..

Phir teri kahani yaad aayi

2004-12-13T11:29:00.000+05:30

phir teri kahani yaad aayi, being nostalgic is not the first thing I prefer on weekends, specially when it only begets pain. still I remembered the whole lot of failure of life and feel low, surely not because of the cool mule suggested guide to losers Alchemist. After all System has to respond to small perturbations here and there.
One of the fellow scientist got schol from UIUC for spring (he is mtech dual chemical from iitm). Though they say the matching of 90% is good enuf in IP, my earlier rejection letter from the same place is still waiting to be disposed. Also one IISC gal is making me read her SOP and discussing the apping issues, showing her reco letters, making me remind of Munna Bhai of MMBS
Sapna toota hai to, dil kabhi jalta hai,
haan thoda dard hai, per chalta hai ||

but the weekend was still not over, completed the Half a life of VS Naipaul, I met Dr Pillai, the chief controller of R&D, most probably the next SA to Defence Ministry. the most noticable thing about this person is( which makes him in the limelight last week) He is the CEO and Managing Director of BRAHMOS AEROSPACE. the cruising supersonic antiship missile of india and russia is 3 times faster than next best TOMAHAWK. WE saw the videos of flight trials from different plateforms.
AKTUB
Kabira

Tamso Maa... Lost in translation

2004-12-08T17:06:00.000+05:30

It all happened in today's beam rider trajectory planning session. During break, one of the guy stood and asked the meaning of Tamso Maa Jyotirgamayah...and to best of our assumption, here comes the answer Tum so jaao maa, main jyoti ke paas jata hoon... means You go for sleep mother, I am goin to jyoti...
never lost in translation like this. also my Tshirt which read Workohalic, which sometime means better take alcohol before goin for work. Though being in pune was never a problem as the script is same and marathi is also much closer to hindi. But with less than 3 weeks for my goin to Hydarabad and I will be havin the frequent trips to Orrisa as well, problems will gonna be more. Ok U can learn Telgu but this is not the end. your aeronautical partner labs are mostly in Bangalore so kannad as well, if in Bhramos advanced phases then russian as well. so finally learning german is not paying much. Much like uniform civil code, we shd better have a uniform language scheme for a place like india for which it is famous that
Kos kos per badle pani, chaar kos per baani
means at every mile water taste changes and at every nibble mile language also changes.

food for thought,
kabira uwaach

Lost in translation

2004-12-06T19:18:00.000+05:30

reading the sunday Times is never been so amusing when the headline is Lost in Translation. For the whole saturday I keep cursing the indian govt for not making the perfect ten plans in terms of policies which affects the nation in long run. The Statement of Putin comes like a set back to all indian plans for a permanent seat in UNSC with full veto. But all well if end is well and sure it is so. Whatevr comes finally but India shd take few points from here about never being so sure about anything.
In all this huss huss one thing is forgotten ie Bhramos is finally ready to be marketted. AS per CEO of Bhramos Aeronauticals, around 10 countries are ready to buy this supersonic mlong range cruise missile. This is a marvel in its own catogory where the second best is TOMAHAWK. Right now only anti ship version is ready but when I join lab, the second phase of including it as a air to surface missile with SU30 as the launcher will be on the roll. As I promised, this is a titzbitzs of the unclassified information that I have. Obviously I am not gonna tell neone about the technical details. :-
with fellow bloggers not blogging these days, I am also finding it hard to keep writing. hey CM and ashu, jaago aur write somethin to comment upon and plz yaar comment karo.
I was surfing through my intranet DRONA and saw the details about my lab.ohh haa or aaho kuch bhi kaho.. 2100 acres of land..is neone comparing with IITK size ...no way.
kabira
Baahar mausam sardi kaa, kyon garmi hai andar |
Jangal hai aadhi raat hai, lagne laga hai darr ||

it was five past midnight

2004-12-03T09:16:00.000+05:30

It was 5 past midnight, ya some of U must have guessed right, it was 5 past midnight in bhopal. and today eveen after 21 long years have been passed, we are still recovering from the scar that the union carbide has given on our face, right on our forehead. and this scar is nothing to be proud of from the point of view of any harry alive or dead.
technology has its boons but when man starts to feel the butterfly in his stomach and try to become the avataar of the technology , the concept of the man and machine mingling starts to overdrive the personified assumptions, something is there to make us realize about our faults . And this case is also a one example of man over confidence to boost his own self where he start ignoring the basic philosphies , failure theories, do improper analysis and in the end just suffer.
Not goin in full details of what went wrong, how went wrong and why went wrong, better read the book by the same name. Having new friends specially few from bhopal itself make the issue more close to you, even more closer if U got to know that one was there right at the time of this happening.
feeling the shrill and chill in the spine, so going for dine
kabira

when he slaps (revisited)

2004-11-24T13:42:00.000+05:30

when he slaps a girl, we say how cruel he is, when a gal slaps him we say he must have done something wrong. In this women dominating world, you have to live by their rules, because U just cant Aitraaz.

may be modify this after a while

I guesses so and it happened that people are still finding it hard from my side to comment on the fairer sex issues. Thats why I promised to amend it.
instead of looking into the issue that from where it has been taken, the great concern should be on why I wrote all that which is never demanded or expected from me.
All this can be directly attributed to my recent visit to ILS Law collage at pune. Most of us have one time on another meet lawyers and advocates in life but having lunch with them and discussing some of the burning issues with them amidst of the ever burning FC Road of Pune is a certainity in my favoured lord luck. With that sweet voice crossing your words, U never mind the thought interruptions. But ashu called me and we almost discussed the DHL modalities. Thats what true friends are all about ,they come when U never expect them like ashu's hutch "our network will follow you".
with internal ballastics of rocket engine still bothering me, I might find weekend as suitable for more bloggin as many burning issues are here to write about.

signout
kabira

Namesake

2004-11-08T14:17:00.000+05:30

I was wondering, rather rejoiced,last week about the fact that someone in MIT was reading my blogs. same flare comes when CM read blogs from toranto, but should not I be that much concerned with the just namesake, otherwise how much it should bother if someone U dont know reads what U writes. but name matters. the adidas in sportwears and woodland in formals, levi for bottoms and john miller for tops, all these matters and matters a lot.
wondered more after readin the Namesake, the story by Jumpa Lahiri. again the name is defining the class. How much a name, subho naam, matters and how can it changes you is the theme and this makes me wonder if I could be a altogether different person if the lady doc of KGMC would have named me different ( for those new to me, Master Saurabh is what, she wrote on my birth-card and the journey begin) The name is nothin to do with ne indian god, probably escaped me everytime I had moral conflict within self.
Prakashotsava is coming and the big bang of sivakashi crackers are waiting at my place for me. Me leaving tomorrow for festival at my home and best wishes to all there in states and nearby; ppl from hyd who are not goin to home back.... lucky me and sweet november to all tired souls :P We have tested Dhanush, naval version of Prathavi yesterday at balasor. its my way of saying Happy Dewali from DRDO side
this is what I read yesterday in FC road on a gal's back I leave bite marks ;)
Kabira
Jalao Diye Per Rahe Dhyaan Itna |
Andhera Jahan per Kahin Reh Na Jaaye ||

Nasha

2004-10-26T13:27:00.000+05:30

Nasha, as the general perception is that specific state of the mind. Icould remember when we remind of the great short story by same name by none other than Premchand. Whenever I recall the story, I reassure myself that I wont do this, I wont do that but whenever i got the liberty, i am what they call in ads as " Yeh doo pair ka jaanwar"
it was the departmental store for defence personnels and whatever anyone say to me, i can never look like a major of indian army. though i enjoy the similar authority for all practical purposes in my day to day life, my hairs ( around 20-30 times more in length than a typical major) are surely the biggest problem. i have to remind people about my asoociated defence rank all the time and sometime in a rude way. this time the victim was a middle-aged CSD manager, though i apologize afterwards in his cabin but U cant get your words back in any case. earlier the burst was on a fellow officer on railway reservation issue. I am learning to escape from this newly found athourity and the nasha of it but the progress is too slow.

last few weeks were speedy fast as weekends were in khandala and lonawala. I can enter any restricted place in India with my powerful ID card. be it shirdi ka sai baba temple or the neval training ship Shivaji. Even they dont stop us at Amby velly (though we couldnt saw nething there due to a movement goin on) .also got the chance to taste the super Feni from Goa and I was jhawerred in a sense as i had last half of the bottle full neat behaving in typical impulserred mohit way. taste wasnt good but i never ever vomit in entire life so I follow the tredition but when I wakeup after 7 hours for dinner, vipul's chow chow smile was there with the devine light.
subho bijoya to all the felow bloggers from the pune, the city of festive mood .. no matter which celebration it is, they always keep their god in mobile vehicle, play around him, typical north india holi and so much hoo halla..
with CM starting the bloggin from toronto also at yetanotherguy.blogspot.com ,things are goin to change after dec 2004 as GATT will be there and only knowledge workers in india will survive.
kabira uwaach

Bell La Pedula

2004-10-14T15:03:00.000+05:30

starting with bell La padula seems to be a non conventional start by someone like Me but what I had yesterday was the lectures on information security from CAIR and I was feeling the zest and affinity for the persons who were my real buddies in terms of learning. surely need not name them. then finally I got to know about mobile counterparts.. wat jaggu had keep on tellin us as FDMA, CDMA blah blah blah.. really worth so. this is the second phase and I dont know how difficult will be Advance technology phase for next 2 months for me. being inducted in program AD and RCI as lab option, I will be working missiles and missiles only for next few years.

some adventure for ppl with big hearts.. yesterday me and some of the friends decided to go to near by lake side haweli where local ppl always bluff about being a ghosty place. it was the amawas nite and even finding the road was difficult and the legend tells ki she(notice SHE) used to come for takin the lift from road side or in a 4 wheeler. so much hua hua but in the end kuch nahi hua.
kabira

When Rome was Burning ???

2004-10-07T13:10:00.000+05:30

I have heard rumours about what the Nero was exactly doing at that time. All the recci informaiton tells us that he was playing flute and singing(may be), but it seems to be feign information, after all how can one be so involved in something taht he didnt react to impulsive situations. May be music is one such thing, for me dreams are other. Why i am starting like this is due to the fire that was there in our scientist hostel.
May be the hot persuit after dinner discussions had the HESHing effect on the current electricity board(MCB relay), I am on my foot at 3:30 AM when the smoke caused my sweet dreams to be unarmour, and my senses to be in unstealth mode. Fire Brigade (thanks for the IAT facilities) it was just around the corner of our hostel.( the distance is very much similar as of between RA hostel and GH in IIT) and the whole bus with al the on duty staff was there to protect us. but why use water...never ever use water on fire caused by electricity.
now everyone is safe, zero casuality,no incapacitance, no scientist lost.... but now it was 5:30 in morning and I knew about the nature of my alarm clock which will lauch its attack at 6:00 Am so nite is lost, now day dreaming is the option lift for guys like us who faught with much needed courage in this situation.
I am also thinking of writin g something general technical stuff on indian defence systems like LCA, MBT, Pinaka, armaments and like of explosives. maybe sometime this weekend I will pen all these. expecting ppl are there to read this cool stuff as well

direct dil se

2004-10-04T13:45:00.000+05:30

Kisi gul se titli ko uda ker dekho ,
aandhiyon, tumne darakhtoon ko bahut hilaya hoga |
us yaar ki yaadoon ko mita ker dekho,
mausam, tere patjhar ne baharoon ko ujara hoga ||

we bother, for sure

2004-09-28T13:25:00.000+05:30

I believe all of us do so. let's check how many of us. we phone to our friends from distance, even if they are ocean's apart. We keep chattin with ppl, even when we are on roaming, not giving a single hint to them about this very fact. We call ppl on their friend's mobile phone (in case person is not having a cell of his/her own) and never miss to give a firm and warm regard to facilitator in the end, we call ppl when they are not feeling well, we meet them when we are near to them or their city. say how many of us dont do so and I will tell you my reason of doin so. these feelings of bothering about others, being so much attached is in a way inculcated in some of us by the rich cultural heritage. so when someone call you next time and ask about your health( if he or she comes to know about some bad happened with you), never start thinking and reacting about Why this guy is bothering so much? because for some ppl it is the natural way of percieving things in general. use of Guy in last sentence had already made some issues clearer.

I had seen some episodes of Sex and the City and one thing I still remember from that series is You cant change a man,but U can change a woman on blue moon night and really something never change..for example my volconic eruptions. this time the fury was on some friend who went to city to book reservation tickets for dewali journey. we got waiting list 108 onwards and the time I started reacting on it , a co passenger( accidently a gal) triedt o comfort me by saying " clear ho jayega" enough for me to explode and I litrary propelled my fury in front of other officers to that soft spoken friend of mine.... main aisa kyon hoon!! may be I am destined to be so.

kabira feeling the vibrant vibes that

Hum unse khafa hain, woh humse khafa hain,
Magar baat kerne ko jee chaahta hai ||

2004-09-27T13:41:00.000+05:30

for the first time I am goin to write something about the weekend spend with much festive jolly mood. and ofcourse, it ought to be as it all started with the call from canada from my room partner. the joy and meehotic feeling that he could bring, no gal can ever match, not even the :P guy. the visit to armament R&D Establishment is then a more technical enhancement exercise. for techies queries are welcomed. the place is to deal with all types of ammunations and warhead( stretegic or non stretegic) of weapon systems.
Ganapati Visarjan is too popular in this part of world and I never miss a chance to a prt of local rituals. being in army area, buckets of wine were available to add to the mist of festive glory. went to officer Bar for the first time on saturday. still soft drinks to my account at IAT.

Desire

2004-09-23T18:25:00.000+05:30

I looked at the beautiful woman before me, who was discretely dressed in black, someone I had met by chance. I thought that she had asked me to desire her, and I desired her intensely, far more than she could imagine, but it was not the beauty or her body, it was her company I desired. I wanted to put my arms around her and to sit in silence, staring in infinity; that would be enough. Life was madeup of simple things; I was weary of all the years I had spent searching for something, though quite what I didn't know.
And yet, if I did that, if I touched her, all would be lost. For, despite the light I seen in her, I was not sure she realised how good it was for me to be by her side. It was best not to take any chances, not to rush things, not to say anything.
But I rushed; I made her know about the desires, I lost her. I learned though
"Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine"

2004-09-17T16:48:00.000+05:30

Many of you have heard about the cleanines drives in USA where all of the population go to roads and clean the whole neighbourhood. they have vacation on that day and the magnitude of the event is such that ki all the national highways arer cleaned by these people. this is something those (so called stupid whilte men..moore frame) do. many of us call it insane act but some of us indians realise that this is something we have to look for in ourselves. the so called Rashtrawaad feeling i ourselves might have lost somewhere. events like this makes us feel being a part of this 110 crore crowd.
I dont know the history, but today we worked after our session are over for this sort of drive. I have mentioned about the beautiful Kharag Wasla lake in our backyard. we are the one between this lake and singh-garh mountains and NDA is situated on one bank of it. A combine planned drive is organized today to clean the lake and the dam from where the water is supplied to the whole city. On the lines of "a small step for a person, a leap for mankind" , Kabira wishes you all the Ganesh Puja with vibrent vibes Ki
Kaun kehta hai ki aasmaa mein chhed nahi hota,
Ek patthar to tabiyat se uchhaloon yaroon ||

Happy Bday

2004-09-10T19:00:00.000+05:30

Happy birthday wish is also delayed due to server errors. But it is always better to be late not to be there. and I wish this great Almighty the Happy birthday. Janmastami is always so dear to me as I was laways part ofthe festive celebration where ver I have been to. And this time at a temple where gurudwara is sharing a common wall.

Once again great cheers to lord of Raas and bhakti (remember the great Gita where we are adviced to enjoy everything with tyaag)

Kanha Kanahiya Nandlaala,woh murali walla,
aisi bajaye Murali, muraliya Jaado Bhari ||

pune ke namoone

2004-09-08T09:38:00.000+05:30

Jis hindu raashtra ki parikalpana aur parniti ke liye woh sangharsh aur balidaani di gayi thi,uska praroop wartmaan mein parilakshchhit ho sake,iski aasha ek divaswapan maatra hai.. no need to think ki balasaheb is giving tone to me but whenever I wake up in morning,and open my door, I am spell bound by seeing the great Singh-Garh fort right in front of me (about 1 km). U guessed it right. I am reporting from the outskirts of pune.
On the balcony side, I daily watch biggest lake I have ever seen "Kharag wasla Lake". With clouds trapped daily in mountains around me I am having lil rain fall quite contrast to regular pune. Using blankets in nights, fogs in morning, place is 750m above sea level.
The whole pune treat this place as suitable one for weekends but I just happened to live here. the lake is good and also good is the market where everyone call you officer. With one room bearer at my disposal for all the personal work, I am also enjoying the course sessions out here. from 8:30 to 4:00 and then long nite hours for enemy spotting and here it is very easy.
Post is delayed due to server errors from last few days.

Muskuraaiye Ki Aap Lucknow Mein Hain

2004-08-31T19:19:00.000+05:30

and I am reading this msg on the walls of city from the childhood. enjoying the childhood memories. Sweet home lucknow, I must say , a too carefree a city for a capital, and its ppl are such adorable.yummmy yummy.
also leaving the iit is not that way nostalgic. faculty wished me luck. lab had arranged the Ford Icon for me to go back from iit to lucknow. and ppl in the neighbourhood were whispering on lines of " uski kameez meri kameez se safed kaise"ki "Inka ladka to icon se saaman shift kerta hai"
meet some old time bullies like yogesh, sachin, rajech, indra, vijay, himanshu. talked with fairer sex( not gonna name them as never a gal name is mentioned in this blogging so far). also do the query search for my all time top five crush list. 2 got married , I lot interest in rest of 3. didnt feel the heat to meet them atleast once.
shopping for rakhi was so eventful. been to this mithai mart and the crowd was more than ever in rave ne weekday. so again mukuraaiye ki aap
rite now doing some "enemy spotting exercise" this is what ashu call it these days. goin pune on 2nd. the reverbarating,pulsating vibes in sky of lucknow are airtelled"express yourself" these days and inspiring me ki

DHOOM MACHA DE DHOOM MACHA DE DHOOM

Kyon hoo gaya naa

2004-08-23T12:12:00.000+05:30

Blog is nothing to do with the film with the same name. After 4 years,last 4 days at iitk and the whole wind is saying to me Kyon Ho gaya Naa and seriously things just passed away. I was in my place this weekend as Papa was serious with his high blood pressure. I met one of my maternal uncle after 13 years, they shifted to states now. There only son Ram Srivastava is iitk grad in mid 80s and very own Maninder Agarwal was one year junior to him. I talked a lot about the place and feel like ki ppl in NJ are not too different either.

Blanks calls are the one problem I am facing these days at home after 17th. So irretated ki I decided not to say hello while recieving them. then one shy voice come "Hello" I wonder.. who is the gal. being too analytical is too problematic these days. finaaly she broke the silence, my loving cousin Parul. saw the old school building where I write my JEE.
Having the roommate like Chaitanya is finally paying off(no pun intended)
met a gal
she stopped her bicyle, say Hi to me
Hum: (within 5 seconds)Why are U goin to lecture of Principle of programming Languages? Tell me wat is going on these days, I can help U.
TUM : How U know ki I am having a lecture of programming languages. need less to say ki I got the hint from lil PL written on notebook in her bag. "Kyon Ho gaya Naa"

ending the story with the search of the... who could sing for kabira ki

Hai Hai yeh majboori, yeh mausam aur yeh doori,
Mujhe pal pal hai tarsaaye,
teri do takiya ki naukari me mera lakhoon ka saawan jaaye
Hai Hai yeh majboori|

Its mine, chinese style

2004-08-18T17:12:00.000+05:30

Metal Rooster

Rooster is often seen as the original strong silent type, not unlike the Humphrey Bogart and Greto Garbo prototypes. Most people consider them quite eccentric. Sad to say, relationships with other people are often strained. They are quite moody and can be too outspoken. They are often self-centered, but can be quite brave when the situation calls for it. On the other hand, Rooster People are quite talented and capable. They are always devoted to their work and have a reputation for being the hardest of workers. Rooster People are deep thinkers and are pioneers in spirit. They can experience the greatest of joy in complete solitude. Even though often alone, they rarely experience loneliness. Instead, they enjoy their own company and feel solitude helps them in their quest after knowledge.

Shark-tail Soup and fortune cookies are among the keys to good health.

Sometimes this one walks around with its head in the cumulus clouds, higher than the stars. You see, this rooster struts around with peacock feathers and they never ever ruffle. So much arrogance can make it hard to get along with others, especially when the Rooster is also intolerant of those who are less talented and a bit slower than normal. On the other hand, the Metal Rooster is extraordinarily talented. Of all twelve Zodiac signs, this one is probably the most high-minded of them all, with a very clean line of thought. The Metal Roosters can distinguish right from wrong very clearly and it doesn't matter which direction they pursue, they always wind up going the right way. If they confront a maze, or big problem, they will immediately see a solution because of their analytical, logical way of thinking. Through their perseverance, any hurricane becomes an orderly thing of beauty, just like that! When it's time for romance, the male Metal Rooster has no trouble at all, love just abounds; the female has a tendency to keep to herself, making connections less freely, but lastingly when they happen.

http://www.tuvy.com/entertainment/horoscope/metal_rooster.htm

Oath

2004-08-17T13:31:00.000+05:30

“I, SAURABH SRIVASTAVA, DOP/05/57518/03CAMP137, do swear/solemnly affirm that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to India and to the Constitution of India as by law established that I will uphold the sovereignty and integrity of India, and that I will carryout the duties of my office loyally, honestly and with impartiality,
(So help me God.)”

this was the oath that I had taken so seriously, but still something is missin in this oath. May be ppl outside can add some more dimensions to it. Followed is the most ironical declaration I had ever made in my life.

I, SAURABH SRIVASTAVA, DOP/05/57518/03CAMP137, in my full consciousness, hereby declare that I am unmarried and do not have more than one spouse living. Therefore, in accordance with the Central Civil Services (Conduct) rules 1964, I am eligible for appointment under Government of India.

Chaitanya would have bet nething on earth about Kabira's joining DRDO. Ashu almost have same thots about it. But finally kabira is goin to be the part of Defence research. So for the next time, when situation is hard on indo-pak issues, just pray a lil longer to God as who knows "what might happen"

Its high time I accepted the
fact..........................................
people know I love her,
Its not a secret anymore....!
She is Pretty... She is Hot......
She is an Angel.... She is so rich and cultured.....

Congratulations... !!!!! She turns 56 few days back...........
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Happy Independence Day........ :-)

Feeling Proud that she is mine..

Siddharth Mar Gaya ! (Allahabaad Revisited)

2004-08-17T03:17:00.000+05:30

Siddhath is not dead, contrary to people's earlier assumptions and more like the second half of movie, kahani mein twist hai. Story of "siddharth Mar gaya "was a attempt of using figurative language so to say but people around me are so much intellectual, I never knew it. Kabira went to Allahabad this weekend. Siddharth was sick. Siddharth is the name of vertical milling centre with 4 axis( remember the 4 compartment heart in earlier post)cost around 80 lakhs, wasn’t working for last 7 years though. Kabira worked like typical mechanic on compressor and manual and motors checkups. seems like I got my Midas touch back. Machine will be in running condition in 2-3 weeks. And if even U thinks ki this is not the same Siddharth I talked about earlier, keep reading.

Siddharth is not dead, as person who is dead in Dhananjay. the celebrated story of 14th aug is certainly not the story to rejoice for. 13 years back some one raped a girl and got punishment today. the most disheartening part of the last line is the time scale. Supposed if the girl had not died that day and would have been fighting from that day, will a decision after 13 years serve a good purpose? May be not. But at least one Dhananjay is dead. But the lot is big. One Dhananjay is there in each of us in the same way Siddharth is with us. reflections of our true soul with kind tender hreaty feeling shapes the Siddharth in us and Dhananjay is the distortion of similar imaginations. Both are there and may be equally important. We sometime think about people around us being so insensitive that make us feel "Siddharth Mar Gaya" but small incidences in life thrust us to feel differently about it.

Visit to allahabad was thus a not a superfluous attempt certainly. Tried to buy a small flag on 15th ( last flag I had , is given to me by ashu and I kept is for 7 month) but in whole city, paper flags were not available. The plastic flag that i finally bought seems like the old campaigning material for Congress I. Just tell me, with around 5 lakhs flag business in a single city, how much pollution we could expect on 16. Mother of all bhopal's is with us, still in us.
Thanks to the gal with the grin who bought 2 glasses of fanta for me. I owe U
To end the discussion in Kabira style ( a Hindi poem)

Mela Jitna Bhadhkeela, rang rangeela Tha,
Maanas ke andar utni hi kamjori thi,
Jitna jyada sanchit kerne ki khwahish thi,
utni hi chhoti apne kar ki jholi thi |
Ab mujhse poochha jaata hai kya batlaaon,
Kya maan akinchan bikhraata path per aaya,
woh kaun ratan anmol mila aisa mujhko,
Jis per apna mann praan nichhawar ker aaya,
yeh thii taqdeeri baat mujhe gun dosh na doo
Jisko samjha tha sona, wah mitti nikli,
Jisko samjha tha aanshu, wah moti nikla |
Jeevan ki aapadhapi mein kab waqt mila
kuch der kahin per baith kabhi yeh sooch sakoon,
Jo kiya, kaha, mana usme kya bura bhala |

Are Indians really dumb?

2004-08-11T13:01:00.000+05:30

'The whole process where people get an idea and put together a team, raise the capital, create a product and mainstream it -- that can only be done in the US. It can't be done sitting in India. The Indian part of the equation is to help these innovative US companies bring their products to the market quicker, cheaper and better, which increases the innovative cycle there. It is a complementarity we need to enhance.'

-- Nandan Nilekani, CEO, Infosys, quoted in The New York Times, March 7, 2004.

Translated into plain English, this means 'Indians lack creativity and cannot come up with the ideas to create and sell a product. Indians can only do the backend slog work that helps US companies create and sell their products.'

How about this?

Siddharth Mar gaya! (Part 1)

2004-08-11T12:07:00.000+05:30

Let’s start the story. Once upon a time, there ...oops ooops oooops.. Why I am starting the story with 'once upon a time' as "Once upon a time, there was no once upon a time". Moreover generally children story telling starts with this phrase and this is not a fairy-tale. This is rude, harsh, mirror cracking reflections of our own perceptions. Siddharth is dead, rock-dead as if u r dumped when an iceberg hits your titanic. But why every fairy-tale should have happy ending like "they lived happily ever after". That's why Siddharth story should begin like this only.

Once upon a time there lived a person named Siddharth in the city of allahabad. He had just crossed his teen and unlike the small town boyish image, who just want to be there for no reason other than the life itself, this guy had some dreams in his small eyes, dreams for which he could do anything on earth. And those dreams were not the dreams of wealth but of simple pleasure of life. But somewhere something was wrong. How one is supposed to have such a dream without having power to relish the same. Moreover the guy used to think "our heart has 4 compartments and at least four people can stay there for ever". But he forget the basic theme rather nature of this earth-bound species who always wish to get all that come in the way. If people around you have feelings like" if there is a will, I want my way in there", how can we expect people like Siddharth to succeed.
But Siddharth tried.

Rest in next.
kabira

What it is like to be an engineer?

2004-08-10T08:35:00.000+05:30

First read the blog by ashu with url http://ashutoshgupta.blogspot.com/ as this Blog is in response of the issues raised by him.

Being engineer is the most precious gift nature has bestowed upon some of us. and it is not just being there thinking innovatively and doing new things. Ok,, society is going to look upon us for the optimal solutions for its core complex problems, and for me those problem is not necessary be from the engineering sphere all the time.

going to shops and still we are the ones who buy stuff based upon the marketing, we are the one's who believe that mobiles are easily sold just on adding new features, we r the one's who dont read much despite of having the nice opportunity all the time, aren't we there totally insensitive to issues like dowry. We don’t vote, we don’t pay for our extra luggage in trains, we save taxes, we engage our extra money in those blood sucking corporations in name of investments and still we call ourselves as engineer.

situation is not sad just because ki we are not doin anything but it is rather pathetic because we can do it and we know it perfectly well. Following the dress code and other rules of our workplace is not that bad thing but only upto the point this is not inferring your natural ability to think and respond. The power of analysis and so called rational thinking, that is with us by virtue of being a true engineer will be lost.
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression.... You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. I think this should serve as a good option for an engineer.

be engineer, atleast behave like one if you are..
Kabira

Why I am behaving like a illitrate

2004-08-09T11:13:00.000+05:30

Seems a bit off track but how many readings I have this year till now. 8th month of the year and "Inscrutable Americans" and few more I have read in this period of time. My visit this weekend to delhi in a sense bring some flavor to my readings, abhishek gave me "Eleven Minutes" by "Paulo Coelho", The Alchemist frame or a big bet for Nobel in coming years, so to say. Not intended to discuss about the book but as a starter it is just fine. Paulo sensitively explores the sacred nature of sex and love and invites us to confront our own prejudices and demons and embrace our own "inner light." Maria is certainly mother of all Julie's of Bollywood.

Talking with some old buddies is always my first reason for trips to Delhi, all don’t care conditions for the ppl who think otherwise. Delhi is also happy ki whenever I visit it, dollops of love comes from sky to embrace delhites. Lodhi garden was also a treat for eyes, but U r not supposed to see whatever is shown to you, if u r with someone and ashu is more than someone to me.

"Stupid White Men" was another piece I read this weekend, another bestseller from Michael Moore, the hunt which started from flint in "roger and me", rewarded in "Bowling for columbine" is still on. Nice start again for me and I expect to continue from here. With 2 weeks left to leave this beautiful place, Pune will serve as a ideal place for relishing old hobbies again. Being alone is never this rewarding

Kabira
O Mary, conceived without sin,
pray for us who have recourse to you.
Amen

Gita

2004-06-16T02:29:00.000+05:30

Yesterday me and my friends watched the new flick by Goving Nihlani "DEV". Apart from some abrupt editing and some loose sequences, movie was awesome in terms of performance, Amitabh as joint commissioner of Police done a great job.. specially the scene between om puri and amitabh where they discuss the different versions of Gita for them is superb. For me its Shakti ki gita only, power dynamics only rules.

chhamaa shobhti us bhuganj ko, jiske pass garal hoo |
usko kya jo, dant-heen vish-heen vineet saral hoo ||

so if U wishes your greatness not to be inferred as your intimidation, you have to believe the shakti ki gita..

kabira also got the gmail account yesterday.. 1000 mb of mail space,means I will never need to delete even the spams for next 10 years or so.

Kabira speaking

kabira speaking

2004-06-13T19:26:00.000+05:30

Being the first B-log on the site, plz don't go for even the minute expectations. I would rather like to spend time telling the need of kabira being there in market..

Kabira Khada Baazaar mein, maange sabki khair |
Na kahu se dosti, na kaahoo se bair ||
khair (well being)
Bair( enmity)
this B-logging( as pronounced by dear abhaga) is supposed to be here for those moments of your life which are so special just because of u being involved in them.. kuch khaas hai hum sabhi mein...and kabira is here to observe those entangled impressions of life.
so get set go with this test b-log in to the world of your life and feel the essence and presence of Kabira having a close look at you.
(btw this post is from my new 2.6 kernel powered by Fedora 2. )

kabira speaking