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Independence day thoughts of a budthu
August 15, 2014
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I love my native village with some of my love for my country; and I love my country with part of my love for the earth, all of which is my country; and I love the earth will all of myself because it is the haven of humanity, the manifest spirit of God. I have
My lamentations-Reposted from old blog
July 21, 2014
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(I do not have better words to express my grief so borrowing words from Gibran.but thoughts are mine too ) THE LAST WATCH:Khalil Gibran “At high tide of night, when the first breath of dawn came upon the wind, the forerunner, he who calls himself echo to a voice yet unheard, left his bed-chamber and
LIFE -A SERIES OF FAILED ATTEMPTS !!
July 12, 2014
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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?
July 11, 2014
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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,
Lamentations of an old patriot!
June 15, 2014
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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
June 15, 2014
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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
June 15, 2014
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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-part2
June 9, 2014
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Why going public with QUEST?Is there any hidden agenda?To tell the truth there is nothing of that sort except for some head fakes in late Prof.Randy’s terminology. First thing, As Gibran said that Life is indeed dark except when there is urge-(yearning or craving) and all that craving is blind (unwilling or unable to understand
Genesis of the quest forum-A labour of love-part1
June 9, 2014
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(A few years back- we have gone through 5 seasons so far) along with some students who shared the same thoughts as mine ventured into the formation a forum which was christened as the quest forum-In August 2010 in a blog I had written its genesis and hidden agendas.Here I am re-posting it). Somebody may
Why I love to quote from “the prohet”-Khalil Gibran
June 9, 2014
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Many people may be surprised and may like to ask me this question that whenever I make any public appearance (not that very often I do that In fact it is rare.But in the recent past because my involvement with the quest forum the frequency has slightly increased) I often quote the works of Khalil
