Random thoughts Archive
On the shoulders of Giants
May 31, 2024
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“Offer your strengths to others and you will be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you” Simon Sinek Right from my childhood I was perplexed by the oracle of Apollo of Delphi that Socrates is the wisest man ever born & Socrates famous statement “I know only one thing that I know nothing”It
Life as Random walk-Monte Carlo simulation of Life!!
May 27, 2024
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(A Monte Carlo simulation is used to model the probability of different outcomes in a process that cannot easily be predicted due to the intervention of random variables. Many physical phenomenon can be simulated this technique. In my Ph.D thesis I have used it to find the behaviour of electrons under various electric field conditions
Time of exile-Post card stories sent while I was away to CEERI,Pilani for pursuing Ph.D
May 26, 2024
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Why am I there in social media!!
December 6, 2023
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On 27th November 2023 I wrote something on FB as a comment which I do not do normally.I reserve such things to my blog site www.balaprasad.com Since it is a long comment and for wider audience I thought of posting it separately here.(It is written based on the feedback of some of my friends in
My Revelations!!
March 2, 2023
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Over the years some of the things revealed to me are listed.But as usual those thoughts are well articulated by Khalil Gibran (reasons elaborated in my old post http://www.balaprasad.com/why-i-love-to-quote-from-the-prohet-khalil-gibran/ )Following lines are from his work The Vision (p. 83-89). White Cloud Press. Kindle Edition My soul talked to me many a times : 1 teaching
My life in nutshell
October 12, 2019
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(Another borrowing of words not the feelings) I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.A tear to purify my heart and give me understandingOf life’s secrets and hidden things.A smile to draw me nigh to the sons of my kind andTo be a symbol of my glorification of the gods.A tear to
lamentations of a budthu
October 12, 2019
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(The words are borrowed but not the feelings.When you have issues with articulations it is better borrowed!!) He said: “My friends and neighbors and you who daily pass my gate, I would speak to you in your sleep, and in the valley of your dreams I would walk naked and unrestrained; for heedless are your
Life of a ZERO!!-Chronicles of a Budthu
October 3, 2019
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Very often we Indians boast about Indian contribution to mathematics especially in Arithmetics i.e zero. Zero has a different connotation also.It means nothing or signifying nothing.This is the context in which it is written.(Whenever I think of nothing it reminds me the famous dialogue from play of Shakespeare “The king Lear” to his dear daughter
A story which refused to fade out of memory.
September 25, 2019
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The following story I read long time back(ever since I read it remained with me).I read it in Malayalam manorama news paper sunday edition(I remember it vividly). Here is the english translation of it.An old Chinese farmer saved up small amounts of money over a year to buy a new horse. Just a day after
Mental compass-In conversation (Dr.Chandrashekar)
September 25, 2019
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I raised my concern about rising fundamentalism and intolerance in our society- the following was the response from Dr.chandrashekar, Prasad, we all have a mental lense that we subconsciously acquire as we grow. This lense is comprised of our ‘conclusions’, ‘learnings’ and ‘certitudes’, that our process of comprehension of events and experiences creates, as we
