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World Cup Final

Excuse me if you are not from India and thought that World cup means SOCCER world cup, for here in India the WC by default means Cricket.

Was having a chat sometime back with my colleagues and learnt that 17 terrorists have bought tickets for the world cup finals. Quite terrifying but along came a question. What if India and Pak have made it to the finals and the terrorists are in that final. What would they do ?

Shouldn't be that difficult to guess ... is it ?

Coz I know what they would do ... they would watch the match ....

Welcome to the World Cup fever !!! Lets hope the Cup comes HOME

The Friction of Corruption

Few days ago I read an article which said abt wat was possible, if by the turn of a wand, corruption was erased in India ... the growth rate would be 10% it is said from the current 8%. This looks mostly to be true especially after movies like "Knock out" (I know its almost a copy) tell the huge amount of money  swashed in foreign banks by Indian power class.

But lets take a moment off and look from a different angle ... In a sense Corruption can be equated to friction ... its mere presence reduces the efficiency of the system. I hated friction when I was a kid ... why did it always had to come up whenever anyone planned to do anything ... I thought tht one fine day we can live in a world without friction ... I dont wait for it anymore not because I think it is not possible but coz I have learnt that it is not possible to walk without friction. So that brings me back to the point of comparing friction with corruption ... anyone can write tonnes of lines abt why corruption is bad ... I am trying to get something on the other side...

 Lets take an eg. I repeat just an eg .You go to a government office to get something done ... now you dont meet all the requirements ... this has to happen because the government machinery functions in that manner ... There are 10s of thousand of things that you are supposed to know and till you are a professional at that dealing daily with such activities it is impossible to know all of them ... but there is a way out of this ... pay bribe ... get you job done ... now ur working day "chutti" to go to that office has been useful and things are pretty much OK. 

There are many companies in India that are in the position they are primarily because corruption exists in India ... and one of them is pretty successful ... they say enough to buy the entire stock exchange market  of Pakistan . I am not sure their rise is good or bad ... but I am sure they had their contribution to the 8% growth rate which we are boasting off ... 

I dont endorse corruption ... I realised that in the current socio economic conditions, corruption is more like friction ... hate it .. love it ... but you cant get rid of it and it is not always useful to get rid of it either ... we are not at that growth rate just in spite of corruption but also because of as the title puts it ..."The friction of corruption"

So Sonar ki ... Ek Lohar ki

Yesterday was a special flight for me ... not because it was my maiden one but for other reasons. Now the reason  why I was flying ie. 2 attend my convo was quite special but that is not the main focus of this post.

I was flying with two more classmate of mine who were placed with me in the same company... Mr P and Mr C. Both of them, humongous creatures, well not that huge but for me with a modest height of 5f 6' they do seem humongous. I hope they dont get in a bad temper after reading my description of them .... after all I need to spend most of my day with them ... and m in no position to defend myself if both of them decide to explain to me the standard deviation in manpower.

Well back to the main topic ... this was a maiden flight for Mr. C ... It was fun to relive my 1st flight through him .... guess this is wat Pops must be feeling wen they learn of their son's crush ... :D ... reliving gr8 moments ... after all that is what life is all about .... Unfortunately for him this was a budget flight .... typical cramped seats ... wait cramped .... I never felt they were cramped ... but both of my buddies took no time calling the flight cramped .... Poor P sat with his knees touching the front seat still lucky that the guy in front decided not 2 recline his chair .... C was no better .... and here it was me ... lying comfortably as if I was sitting in some charted flight ... for quite some time after living with these guys ... I have been wondering that gr8 height must be awsum ... well I have wondering that for most of my teenage life but now that I have to roam around with these 2 guyz the feeling sometimes gets stronger ... we all kno the inherent benefits .... tall chicks among the big list which I miss but today was my day ...

The flight was a moment of realisation .... to cherish the gifts we have ... to be happy about the numerous graces of the Almighty ... to understand that good moments spent are the real treasure of this temporary life .... and last with when we got down from the flight with a crooked smile on a face come the words .... "So Sonar ki .... ek lohar ki"

I dont know ...

I walk into my guides cabin ... I show it to him ... He asks me wat is it ? ...

One day earlier:

I am a Masters students and am supposed 2 do research ... so accordingly I was trying to achieve something ... lets cut the details out.

Interestingly I get some deposition of it in my beaker which I was not expecting ... after keeping some solution overnight ... I am startled ... so I take it to my guide and show it ... he asks me what is it ...

I reply ... "I dont know" ... we both laugh .... literally and I smile again while writing this blog ... research is a lot of these I dont know stuff ... Sent the deposition for some probing today ... but it was cool man ... because in this wen u say ... "I dont know" ... u are actually up to something ... u got the most cherished thing in research ... a problem to solve :)

ESA presents ....

ESA is short for "Energy Students Association" our departmental consortium ... somehow indirectly I am a council member of ESA (lets not get into the complications Y is it indirect).

ESA has not been doing good last year ... there were absolutely no activities ... even the pride of ESA the "Energy Day" was not credited to it this year ... As I said earlier lets keep the complications out as to Y ... but rather concentrate on facts ...

So me a member and indirect council member of ESA could take it no more ... I arranged a talk by our distinguished alumnus Mr Girish Sant of Prayas. Check more about him here. Now unfortunately due to lack of his dates .. the chosen time was 10 am Sunday morning ... trust me a very bad time ... any one who has arranged talks will know ... but there was not much I could have done.

Finally the proud moment arrives for me to announce " ESA presents talk on ....". I have been anticipating this day for some time. The talk was supposed to start at 10 am. Around 11 am a minuscule 20 gathered as audience of which 5 were definitely not students ... they seemed too old ... may be some people concerned abt sustainablity ... I think I had managed some good advertisement with the ESA presents stuff. But 20 in a room capable of 200 was too embarassing.

So after the talk was over and I was pondering whether I did manage to beat Prof X class' attendance, the worst ever reported, Mr Girish offered to buy me n my buddies some tea. We discussed some real good stuff. I think we r really lucky to have had the chance to sit with him and talk about the core issues our society faces. After some 45 mins of intense discussion when we were taking leave I finally said what I had to ... "Sorry for the poor attendance Sir"

Mr Girish looks at me ... smiles ... and then says "it happens ... more so on Sunday mornings ... by the way ... in 1988 when I was of your age I had arranged a talk on AIDS awareness in the campus, I thought the news would spread like wild fire. But on the day only 4 ppl turned up ... the speaker, me, my frnd and the slides man" .... We burst into laughter and so ended a remarkable meeting ...

PS: I am working on implementing the discussions we had then ... I know I wont fully succeed but I can definitely make a start ... and besides earning some fame for ESA it might change some lives for good and that would make all the difference.

Some awsum quotes

I never let my schooling get in the way of my education - Mark Twain
Sep 2012

In the long run, all of us will be dead
-Old saying
[Feb 2012]

With great responsibility comes great power [:P] - Sweetswatster

Tumhar pyar ishq aur mera pyaar friendship request - BT

I don’t have a license to kill. I have a learner’s permit - stolen by some one

Life is not fair. But Life is not fair to anyone and that makes life fair - Jeet's gtalk status

Integral from birth to death of luck = 0; but that does not tell anything about the instantaneous value of luck - PK

You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments; then the wind blows your footprints away. -Arlene Blum

You dont conquer the mountain. You conquer yourself - Edmund Hillary (Apr 2015)

I was put on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind, I will never die. --Calvin

E-Insulated (Feb 2011)
-Smriti Ojha

Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
  - Dame Edna Everage

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
 - Zen Buddhism, Steve Jobs and his biographer

Big problems are never solved. Big problems can only be broken down into tiny problems whose solution is known a priori (09 Apr 2015)
-Udayan Ganguly