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LIFE -A SERIES OF FAILED ATTEMPTS !!

When you have crossed more than half of your lifespan it is quite natural that you tend to look back and see the path you had come. Of course life is not linear and you cannot extrapolate your tomorrow from today nor you could have extrapolated from yesterday and reached today. This is one fact

WHY I STARTED LOVING THE GITHA?

  Even though I live in a place where this scripture was supposed to be originated (If you go by the epic Lord Krishna has delivered Geetha in Kurukshetra. The natives have even preserved the banyan tree which witnessed this celestial inspirational message!!( Of course, I find it difficult to believe, on two counts firstly,

Creative Communities Are Key to Innovation -reposted from Scientific American magazine

The best actors, directors and screenwriters receive Oscars; the top scientists, Nobel Prizes. Society doles out a multitude of awards every year to celebrate the creative achievements of individuals. Such events feed a popular conception that creativity is a gift only certain people possess and constitutes the apotheosis of individuality. Albert Einstein once observed, “Everything

Lamentations of an old patriot!

  During my school days I have been an ardent patriot greatly influenced by Gandhi and his auto-biography “My experiments with truth” and many other factors.Partially this spirit might have influenced my decision to stay back in this country and share/endure with fellow brethren rather than pursuing my first passion-pursing science/research.This feeling changed my life

An idiot’s comment on 3 idiots movie

Watched this movie twice. Normally I won’t see a commercial movie twice. This because of the theme and because of Aamir. I am a great fan of him.Secondly the theme. It is too relevant today. Our education system may collapse because of too much emphasis on mugging and less motivation for creativity or original thinking.

Impulse response

In signals and systems the impulse response means the response of a system to signal of very small duration which abruptly occurs.We studied (thanks to ISTE workshop on signals & systems in Jan2014) that even though the impulse lasts for a very small very duration the response of the systems may not be so.It can

Genesis of the quest forum-A labour of love-part 3

Now coming to second point –Knowledge and understanding of things (knowledge is not just data collection-but first part of knowledge is data collection-data collection can have many ways(reading books, watching TV, interacting with people who has already got data in that area of knowledge, internet etc)data collection should be followed by processing of that data