tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59968442011-12-15T08:04:14.114+05:30Ramblings by Jaya JhaJayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09739951508347074067noreply@blogger.comBlogger4141100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996844.post-1130051337045628242005-10-23T12:38:00.000+05:302005-10-23T12:38:57.126+05:30

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This blog has moved to jayajha.wordpress.com. More details here.Thanks a lot to Diwaker for sparing the wordpress.com invit :)The old posts will still remain here. So, if you are a new visitor, the archives might still be a good place to start on my blog...Categories: Information

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The example of dominant paradigms in any area going in circles with time is evident in several spheres of lives. Recently, was thinking about this in terms of content organization.In particular the swing between tagging and searching. Tagging appears to be the buzz-phenomenon of these days. There was a time, when search held the same position. Now, come to think of evolution. People find that

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Okay - I have no first hand experience, but I have almost heard "horror-stories" (there is a reason, it is in quote - do not take it too literally) about them. Is it that they really have no work to do. From what I hear, it is true. The idea apparently is that a company like Infy needs to have trained people ready, in case a project comes in. They can not bid for a project saying they *will*

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Well - more or less "silence", this blog has witnessed. The silence will be broken today, but would most likely be resumed soon as I am leaving for home on Tuesday, immediately after finishing my exams. Only for one week though. Hence, come September 15th and the blog will be in action again. However, some compensation needs to be made for this long period of inactivity. So, I start from here :-)

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If you are the kind who makes use of the "Categories" feature of this blog (which I have so labouriously created), you might wonder as to why is this categorized into "TimePass". I am afraid, but there is no way to find that out except by going through the post. Of course, you might want to decide that it is not important for you to find out the reason. In that case, of course, you can skip.Ok-

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Relax, Bill Gates; It's Google's Turn as the VillainBeing a fan of google is the closest I have come to being a fan of anything/anybody in my life. And of course since they came out with GDS v 2.0 and then Google talk, I just can not stop almost worshipping it :-DIn such a context, above was a nice change. No, not that I completely believe in it. Due to its commitment to open standards (as Abhaya

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India tries exam to boost quality of outsourcing.Okay - so apparently is playing with the idea of having an exam in place for giving some kind of certification to wannabe BPO employees.Now, for the regular readers it should be no new as to how worthless I find things like exams. But this one triggered me to write about exams on a different note. It had been on my mind but somehow never came here.

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Thinking of death, there are two people, whom I just can not forget. One was my maternal grandfather and the other my Music teacher(Mr. Anshuman Banerjee) in Purnea. My grandfather died around 15 days after Raksha Bandhan. In that year Raksha-Bandhan was during a weekend; and hence I had come to home from Navodaya. So, accompanied my mother in her trip to his place. After living a fairly healthy

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Was Wikipedia gamed by the BBC?This is just one "high-profile" cases. It needs no rocket science to understand as to how obviously the two "Democratization" and "Reliability" of Information are in conflict. Will it be possible to keep a check on it? While what the above article has been criticized for may still not do much harm, there certainly are more pathological possibilities. What if a

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One and single conclusion of the whole-night administration-bashing (it was a particular person - but for politial correctness, let me omit the name!) at IITK this time was that our fears were not misplaced. In many of the incidents that were recounted recently, I could see a "history repeating" or put in other words institutionalizing the wrong processes.The beauty of the IITK administration has

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Another trip to IITK... and the walls are more in number.To start with IITK did not have a wall around the academic area. Why? Because Prof. Kelkar (the founder director) did not think that academic area and residential area for the students should be separated. It's the same. Openness, freedom to just walk-in, no distinctions between places and areas and corners!At some unfortunate point in the

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Okay, I have been always advocating the importane of nurture in the observed differences between men and women. The following, which is a descriptive research not going into underlying causes, would certainly delight the mars-venus proponents... (they ARE different!)Key Website Research Highlights Gender BiasBut at the same time there is this, which highlight the role of nurturance - Why more

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Oxford Dictionary talks techNow, this is a clear indication of how languages change. I have always been skeptical of language fanatics. No, I do not say that individual languages should not be protected and promoted, but have never sympathized with the rigidity some self-proclaimed promoters advocate. Languages change, they have always changed and any irrational attempt at their preservation in

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Okay - could not give up the temptation of making the 400th post on this blog. (yep! This is the one :-D) So, decided to put this up.A 'story' again - though elsewhere, I have mentioned my limitations with story-writing. And once again, it was written long back - 18/08/1997). That is almost 8 years back. So, please keep the age of the author in mind, while reading the work :-D--विद्यालय परिसर

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Today is my official birthday (no - do not flood the comments with wishes, since it is only official and not the real one :-D)And today Nagasaki Bombing completes its 60 years.Today the arrest of Mahatma Gandhi and several other prominent Congress leaders for Quit India Movement completes its 63 years.During the same movement on August 11th, seven young people were killed in an attempt to hoist

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Drawing here can be taken as a common term used for all related art-forms like painting, sketching, moulding etc. where words are not used to express oneself. I am using the words drawing because this is what came to my mind while I was thinking on this topic.I, in general, do not have much complaint against writings or words as a medium of expression. Of course, there are exceptions, but

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Guide for buying a printerCategories: Information

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Security researchers problematic bunch?.This was needed after the last posting on Cisco Routers.Though I think the language could have been less "retortionary" to make it more convincing, there is a genuine point in what has been said.Categories: Information Thoughts

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I sometimgs look back at my life and I wonder at all that adds to the "successes" of my life. In particular, I recall numerous exams and try to figure out what was tested in all of them? Yeah - starting right from the exams at school, the board exams and then the much touted JEE and CAT!! A month from JEE - 2000 (the results were declared approximately then, I get 88th rank and I am sure I could

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बचपन में बताया था किसी नेकि तारे उतने पास नहीं होतेजितने दिखते हैं।नहीं समझी थी मैं तब,अब समझती हूँ।बचपन में बताया था किसी नेकि सूरज बड़ा दिखता चाँद सेफिर भी वो ज़्यादा दूर है।नहीं समझी थी मैं तब,अब समझती हूँ।बचपन में बताया था किसी नेचलती गाड़ी पर कि पेड़ नहींहम भाग रहे हैं।नहीं समझी थी तबअब समझती हूँ।कोई पास होकर भी दूर कैसे होता हैनज़दीक दिखती चीज़ें कितनी दूर होती हैंऔर हम भाग रहे होते हैं

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I am facing this irritating problem in firefox for quite sometime. While typing in a textbox (like the box for typing post or comment on blogger ), the cursor positions keeps going haywire. Usually it will be little left to where it should be and hence hides the letter I am typing!! Has challanged my vision to quite an extent, because when I think I am deleting 'a' of "challanged", I end up

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Here is a sensible argument by Nanda (as a comment on one of my earlier posts) regarding the application of traditional IPR system with Software -There are many issues related with software patents.ObviousnessProblem with most software related patents is that they're highly "obvious". Now this point may be debated to death, obvious to one person does not mean obvious to the other. But think of a

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Today in the QAF (Quantitative Applications in Finance) class, the professor insisted on our using SAS as the statistical tool, and not SPSS. For the uninitiated, SPSS is a menu driven, fairly powerful SPSS tool and because it is menu driven, it is simple to use. SAS on the other hand needs to be programmed, but is much, much more powerful than SPSS, in terms of things it can do as well as in

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Have you noticed that the Google ads on GMail beside your messages are extremely relevant. So, somehow it analyzes the content of the mails on the fly and presents the ads. The ads on blogs, on the other hand, are often irrelevant unless your blog has a focussed content (technology blog, marketing blog etc. etc.). Now, this is not fair. And if blogs have to be so specific their beauty is lost,

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This is the first play of G. B. Shaw that I ever read and am thoroughly impressed.The play is based on the story of Joan of Arc, but it's not just about the way her life has been depicted (which, by itself is pretty engaging and interesting). The genius lies in the epilogue, where the author has so pressingly conveyed the point that posterity may praise the geniuses and radicals of the past (who

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Who wants the skyI only want a bit of fresh airWho wants the starsOne flash of light on earth is enough for meI do not care when heavens fallBut it break my heartWhen a small pleasure is taken awayDon't take that awayThat's all.Categories: Own-Poetry

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While I had gaim installed on my computer for quite sometime, I was not the really using it to the fullest... Was basically using it as a substitute for yahoo messenger.Right now I am logged on to my yahoo, msn, aol as well as jabber accounts (It's a different matter than on my aol and jabber I have just one friend each and on msn none :-D). In fact I am using two jabber accounts - one at

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Google trying to patent web-syndication ads Amazon trying to patent online marketplace where consumers search and pay for Web servicesAnd finally the increasing load at patent offices due to a deluge of patent applications in software and business processes.Of course, one issue that will bother a certain section of people is if web-based aplications and software should be taken to IPR

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You all had something in commonTo start withThe virtue of innocenceOr the pride of loveOr a friendship making senseOr a motivation due to awe.At the end of itThe consolation of victimizationAnd the resort to self-pity.All I have isA burden of cruelty.Categories: Own-Poetry

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Cisco Routers' FlawI don't know why but sometime such news items actually make me kind of 'philosophical' :-D (No discussions intended on what is philosophy. I am using it the way common people used it in day-to-day language!)...How fragile things can actually be. It is no surprise that if something happens to Cisco Routers, Internet will indeed be on its knees. And so much in our lives revolve

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Okay have a look at this - Forgetting bad memoriesApparently, we can blod out bad memories!!Okay - I know it is meant for extreme situations, like when people are traumatized due to, say, bomb blasts... But just got thinking. Do we really want to forget things, even if they are bad!Was reminded of this poem of mine - Navvarsha. It's an old one ofcourse.Categories: Thoughts

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Whoops! At this rate I will be pretty good a hacker soon :-D What happened all that love-hate relationship with anything even remotely related to programming??!!Okay - so here is another piece of information. Previous post gives link to a hack to easily include del.icio.us "Categories" in your blog. This post points a ways to easily put your post's link on del.icio.us.For details see -

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This is to inform you of and also check the followingUsing Greasemonkey and del.icio.usCategories: Information

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Look at this - http://jayajha.blogsome.com/. Quick, quick - tell me if there is some catch here. Else I am feeling like ditching blogger this very moment... If only it hadn't been the repository of my close to 400 posts :( Categories: Information

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Check this one out!Okay - do not know what exactly is the status of researches like this, but come to think of it. Can future be predicted? What is the real problem in prediction the future? Is it that the past just does not have sufficient information for the prediction of future or is it that we are not in a position to store and analyze the information, because a single piece of information

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Okay, I had this wonderful realization yesterday evening - that I am wasting a lot of time on Internet without doing anything that adds to my knowledge... Ahem!! What a realization Jaya and so early in life??Okay - point is not that simple. While I was at IITK, there were certain things I used the Intenet regularly for. These were mostly guided by what I was involved in at that particular point

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This would of interest to you only if you use Mozilla Firefox as well as some download accelarator/manager like FlashGet (which integrates with IE but not with firefox and leaves you frustrated!). Get this extension from firefox website here Categories: Information

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I am having a tough time searching for the lyricists of the posts on Ghazal Lyrics. Most of the time it's very easy to locate a site selling the CD containing the Ghazal with name of the singer is big, bold letters. But in product details or list of tracks, they do not care to give the name of the lyricist... And this is so absurd. So much of the fun of something like a Ghazal is actually there

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Categories: Movies

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Business Schools world-over talk too much about the use of cases for pedagogy. It used to sound a sophisticated tool, before coming to B-School indeed. And if you are exposed to it once in a while, like I was, it appears interesting to use to...But come the second year in the B-School. Bombarded with case studies and discussions you are... And what the hell - I am supposed to enjoy those

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एक समय संतुष्ट बहुत था पा मैं थोड़ी सी हाला।भोला-सा था मेरा साक़ी छोटा-सा मेरा प्याला। छोटे से इस जग की मेरे स्वर्ग बलाएँ लेता था,विस्तृत जग में हाय खो गई मेरी नन्हीं मधुशाला।( Dr. Harivansh Rai Bachchan, Madhushala)(Complete Madhushala in Devnagri is available on my "Writings Page". Check out the section "Hindi Poems by Others")Literal Translation (To the extent I could do it)

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Finally I think my stipend has arrived. On saturday I got a mail from the dispatch section to collect a courier and I very firmly believe that it is my stipend. If it is not, I should lose any hopes of getting it either :-). So, here I go with the Pepsi Talk!So much time has passed; I really do not want to crib about the bad experiences. And an ensuing discussion and preaching of the kind "this

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Lot is being discussed in the "Imrana Case" these days. And I really do not know what to talk about it... Which age are we living in? And the most surprising part of the whole incident is that nowhere do I hear what the husband has to say? Or have I missed something? Has he no stakes in his marriage whatsoever, not involvement emotional or otherwise? Is it of no concern to him that his wife is

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Ah! So it was a 13th...The wedding of a friend's sister is there in Gorakhpur tonight. I had made this wonderful plan to leaving by a train which was to leave Lucknow at 2.50 pm and hence enabled me not to miss any classes today and reach Gorakhpur by 9pm (quite in time to enjoy the wedding). Further I could take a train back from there tomorrow at 5.20 and hence reach here in time so that I

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Okay - since I did this exercise of figuring out the number of posts in this blog for whatever reasons - let me announce this!This is 375th (meaningless!) post on this blog... :DCategories: Information,

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Ok - now you can see the "Categories" for each of the posts. Using del.icio.us and the script I got here. It's still a messy business, but something is better than nothing. Have not put the categories on all the posts. After I do that, shall give the list of categories in the side-bad. It should help in navigation. (Of course, I reserve the sole right to decide on what goes in which category :-

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There was this nice, stylized statement I had read somewhere. I do not remember the words exactly, but what it talked about the youth and had something like - "In 40s they fought for freedom, in 50s against poverty...., in 70s for socialism...... in 90s they do not have anything to fight for!" (Of course, I read it in late 90s). And what is the situation in 21st century? I am afraid no better.

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Offshoring.I had almost forgotten I used to think over topics like that. Was reminded of it today, when somebody, who stumbled on this blog, wrote me a mail mentioning that post.Somehow, these days, I have stopped thinking about any issues seriously. I never feel like doing so.Once it becomes your job, once you are amongst people who do things as job, something, some liveliness is drenched out of

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Spent almost two hours on this today with no results whasoever...Ok - what I was trying to achive was a complete list of titles of all the posts on a blog with the titles linking to the posts, of course. This is for the Ghazal Lyrics Blog, where I want myself and readers to be able to view the complete listing at one place.Now this could be in the form of a post or say a drop-down list in the

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It *had* to come after Mars-Venus Saga(?), isn't it? :-)Focus this time is "Feminism: Are we worse off?" athttp://blog.ccsindia.org/mt/archives/2005/06/feminism_are_we.html.The idea presented is perfect. The whole idea is that one should have choice.But what is problematic with the above view is its restriction to the women. Choice should be there for everyone - not just women. And not just in

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I have been terribly curious about this Mars-Venus stuff for quite some time now. Yeah, yeah - I mean that bestselling "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" by John Gray.Given the reputation it has, I am not likely to agree with the philosophy of the book, but then it is even more important to hear out those who differ from you. At the same time I did not want to spend money buying this one!

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Read the lyrics posted at the following location - http://ghazallyrics.blogspot.com/2005/07/blog-post.htmlI was wondering about this piece. The idea it conveys is simply beautiful and very catchy. But there was something about the words, which either I do not understand because of very limited knowledge of Urdu or has got the deficiencies I am thinking of.The idea of the shers is to show the

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How has Art, Literature etc. thrived through the human history? True there have been people who just loved their work so much that they did not care for any other worldly considerations and went ahead with it. Still for a large part artists and writers were dependent on the royal patronage for their survival and enrichment. It was due to this patronage that a poet or an artist could devote

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Okay - when the topics for conversation do not crop up or when they start getting exhausted, people start talking about weather (yeah - it happnes even at mess table of IIML!). Talking about weather is also supposed to be a good way to start talking, if you are not sure what else to start with. Further, if there is someone whom you really do not want to talk to, but have to (and probably the

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Okay, another ambitious project at http://ghazallyrics.blogspot.com/Any contributions, of course in Unicode, are welcome.Any more information that can be put up is equally welcome.And wishes that it continues are more welcome.Categories: Information

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At some other place, I had addressed the issue of apparent contradictions in the writings by the same person. Of course, I was talking about the specific case of my writings, but have a feeling that it could apply to lot many other people.The explanation of contradictions there was change. Things change, lives change, people change, circumstances change and writings reflect that.But there could

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तिनके जोड़ लोगो कोघर बनाते देखा है।बाढ़ में बहते हुएघर को बचाते देखा है।गिरते हुए घर कोमजबूत कराते देखा है।शायद कभी गुस्से मेंघर को जलाते देखा है।पर कभी गिराने के लिएअपने ही हाथों से, किसी को घर सजाते देखा है?Categories: Own-Poetry

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किसी और को सौंप दूँ तो क्याक़िस्मत तो वो मेरी ही रहेगी।जो लिख गई लिखने वाले के हाथोंकहानी तो वो वही कहेगी।आँखें मूँद भी लूँ मैं तो क्याबंद पलकों से ही बहेगी।राज कर सकती है मुझपरबातें मेरी क्यों सहेगी?अजूबा लगता हो लगने दोअँधेरा होता है चिराग तले ही।Categories: Own-Poetry

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कभी ज़िन्दग़ी को हाथ से फिसलते देखा है?कोई वज़ह नहीं कि जी न सकें,हाथ में रखा जाम पी न सकें।मजबूत हाथों के होते भी, फिसलन की वजह सेकभी प्याले को हाथ से गिरते देखा है?कभी ज़िन्दग़ी को हाथ से फिसलते देखा है?Categories: Own-Poetry

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I have pondering over this issue for last one year. (Okay, does not mean a great literature would come out of this pondering... There, sure, were other things I was doing too :-) ).What makes more sense in a B-School? My opinion follows.Quantitative Courses help you get a job. (Oh! Now you are writing like an MBA student, Jaya. You start off with "job"! :-D) Because usually you start at lower

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Updated (June 20, 2005)Now, everything should be up and working. In case you are unable to access something, please do report.--My web-site is partially up at http://www.atgig.com/jaya/.In Writings Section, right now only the links to My Hindi Poems would work > More is ready, but the interface has gone down. So, I have no option but to wait. I know more interesting portions are what are not

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All right - so got book-tagged by Abinandanan quite sometime back. Have been strictly against forwarding chain-mails, but then this is about my blog and not somebody else's Inbox. So, I think I can go ahead with the concept, whatever purpose does it serve...Total number of books I own: Over 130Last book I bought: The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset Maugham.Last book I read: (Currently reading) Women

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The following two posts have been updated to show the text in Devnagri now -चलना और बदलनाताजमहलCategories: Information

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Blogs were under attack in today's meeting with PGP chairman and Dean, Academic Affairs, particularly by the later and I am scared to hell (All right! I am not. And not that there were any threats :-D. But concerns about what people write in their blogs about IIML was certainly there).Oh! And I might be one of the culprits, though I sincerely believe that if more people started cribbing about the

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So, finally its over... With my boss signing the certificate less than 12 hours before my scehduled departure from Ahmedabad!! (My departure was at 8 in the morning!)Though I do not know how enthusiastic I should feel about going back to whatever I am going back to... It's once again good old avoidance-avoidance conflict. However, the state of mind I have spent last two months in makes me welcome

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Now, I am really not sure if anyone would review this movie from this point of view, but since I am not a good reviewer (yeah - that is what I have come to conclude recently), I just post bits and pieces which I feel there is something different to be talked about...The movie I am talking of is "D" and at the cost of offending people who like it, I must accept that I sort of got bored with the

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Left the guesthouse at 11 in the morning and by 2.20 pm I was having lunch in a restaurant after having visited Kankaria Lake, Kankaria Zoo, Jhulta Minar, Bhadra Fort (including the Bhadrakali Temple) and Hathisinh Jain Temple!!Two months of supermarket visits seem to have made me really fast when it comes to going around Ahmedabad... :-)Anyway, the zoo and lake had nothing unusual, one is not

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This is supposed to be the cause of economic problems - that resources are limited and wants are unlimited. And it should not be an exaggeration to say that this in turn is also the reason behind most of the social problems...Read "Baaisween Sadee" by Rahul Sankrityayan few days back. It is presented as a narrative of the world of 22nd century by a person from 20th century who had somehow fallen

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This is the latest reading - a novel by Phanishwar Nath Renu of "Maila Aanchal" fame. Hope some of you remember the TV serial from DD 1 days. And also the famous Raj Kapoor, Waheeda Rehman starrer "Teesri Kasam" (remember melodies like "Duniya banane waale kya tere man mein samai" and "Sajan re jhooth mat bolo"?) was based on one of his novels...Apart from every thing else, my affection for him

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of mine from the blog, which is likely to continue further till I go back to Lucknow. The 'real world' has overwhelmed me...One thing is sure, if I do get into this real world the most important requirement at home would a computer and Internet Connection!!Categories: Information

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Okay - now I can update this post to let you see the text in Devnagri. At some stage I had stopped writing this warning on my blog, but I guess it is a good idea to resume it.(Your browser needs to be unicode enabled to be able to view this text in Devnagri)पागलपन है पर पागलपनसे ही दुनिया चलती जैसे।इंसानों के लिए इंसानियतसौ बार देखो गिरती कैसे।चिल्ल-पौं ये भाग दौड़,इक दूजे पर गिरना-पड़ना।गर्व से

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I have disappeared. Unable to find enough time and energy to do the most relaxing thing I can do - that is write/blog - for the heck of it. Probably not so much a matter of time as it is that of environment!! Somehow in these stuffy cubicles of cyber-cafes the independence of attitude, which drives my writings (whatever they mean to others, I do not know), feels suffocated. But proabably even

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This post too has been updated to display the text in Devnagri.(Your browser needs to be Unicode enabled to be able to view this text in Hindi)--सदियों से मनाते आए होतुम यहाँ मोहब्बत का जश्न,पर कोई तुममे से सुन ना सकाएक ख़ामोश मूक सा प्रश्न।उपेक्षित कुछ पल इतिहास केजो तुम्हारे सामने रखते हैं।पर जिनकी कमज़ोर आवाज़ कोतुम्हारे कान नहीं सुन सकते हैं।मैं मुमताज महल हूँ - हाँ वहीजिससे हर प्रेमिका

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I do not know why, but automatic lifts appear to be a rare sight in Gujarat. Most posh of the apartments and even hotels have this "something-in-between-hand-pulled-and-automatic" lifts. If somebody gets down at some floor and forgets to shut the outer door - you can keep crying for the lift at other floors, it won't buzz. In some of the apartments it makes that shrieking sound, so that the

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Fighting what I think is wrong is in my spirit. When I fight against someone else, people admire me. When it turns against themselves, people hate me! How can I afford to care about people?Categories: Thoughts

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How does it feel to live life in pieces? Each piece different from the other? Each refusing to talk to the other. The sorrows and delights of one would not permeate to others. The sorrows of one can not be compensated by the joys of the other. That each important part of your life ultimately just becomes the same - another piece - ek aur katra...How does it feel?Categories: Others

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Have come a long way through "I Dare". I will not go on and on about the praises for her. All my appreciation for her stays there without saying.But one thing that this book (basically the many chapters devoted to Tihar Jail) forced me to think about is prisons, to look at the issue philosophically as well as operationally. I think no one can really trace who thought of a system of prisons for

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Once again - the acknowledgement of inspiration where it is due:RaggingHow I was ragged at IIT Delhi and why it was no jokeHaving been a pretty strong "anti-ragging" person myself, my interest in Sujit's article was obvious. And I find it pretty much to the point. What Nanda is saying is also correct about IITK ragging. It is nowhere close to what happens at several other places. Still, I do not

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This post is more to check the "Recover Post" feature of blogger than anything else. In case you are wondering what have I been up to recently. Well for the first time in my life talked to 95 (actually more once you take into account those who refused to 'spare 5 minutes of their time') strangers in two days! Yep - consumer survey for my project. Now, am waiting for my boss to 'spare his laptop'

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"Furthermore, I don’t understand the worlds fascination with reality shows. Survivor, The Bachelor, Murder in Small Town X, Faking It, The Contender… it’s endless. Is life so boring that people need to watch the conjured up lives of others?"(Baghdad Burning)It's been said in a particular context, which is much graver than anything I will say here, but in general, even I have been wondering about

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Though the job is tiring (and stuck right now :( ), the only thing I can do while not working (or while waiting for people) is to read. So, it is proceeding pretty fast. After finishing Pather Panchali, read some stories from a collection of comptemporary Indian Love Stories (no, the selection of the book has got nothing to do with the subject of my last post). The best part of the book was the

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What is the closest to God that exists on the earth? "Kids" you said? I beg to differ. If you look the qualities like omnipotence, omnipresence and difficult to trace the origin of, the only thing that qualifies is a rumour. Yep! I very strongly believe that rumours are what come closest to God in the real world. There is no way you can fight and defeat them - they are omnipotent. There is no

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Yep! You got it right. I am not done with my ranting and complains yet... The title of this post, by the way, comes from a column that used to come in 'Sarita' a women's magazine in Hindi (that was long back - I haven't looked at an issue for quite sometime - so do not know if they are continuing).Yes, so this time 'mujhe shikayat hai' (I have a complain against) dealers of pre-paid sim cards.

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Finished reading 'Pather Panchali' yesterday. Although the preface to the English translation seems to appreciate it most for the way it has captured the mind of children - Opu and Durga - the protagonists of the novel, I would still appreciate it more for its brazen description of a poor high-caste family. There is no idealization, no judgement or contempt either. It presents the situation as it

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The localization efforts of McDonalds is a much talked about subject in Business Schools for sure. Who does not talk about the vegetarian dishes and more than that aaloo tikki offerings by McDonalds?I had never visited a McD outlet till I found that one was situated so close to my guest house here. I entered it and whoa! That's the heights of localiation. Menu is printed in Gujarati. All those

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I was discussing this with Apurva yesterday. Blogging give a tool to produce crap. I had discussed about the lack of quality writing in blogs in an earlier post. And its not just a complain from others. As I look at my own blog, I can see how much of crap is there (including this one?). Writing is not planned and focussed.Somebody will say it's 'unleashing the creativity'. Well, yes - in some

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... my blog has been looking like a rant-log! Complains and condemnations :-DWas thinking of writing about the experiences of my project; but heard that people have been losing their jobs because of blogging. Can not afford to lose summer project and the degree in consequence. Have already tortured my brains for 3 terms now... So decided against writing about it :-PBut summer projet is certainly

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Can't read or write devnagri text in Unicode :( Though the cyber-cafe guys have windows 2000, the systems do not seem to have the unicode compatible fonts :((Categories: Cribbings

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Train journeys are certainly the place to findsome of the most interesting and/or weird people. This time, while traveling to home, there was this woman sitting in the compartment next to mine, traveling with her son. And my God! How do people manage to chatter at that rate? Wondering if her jaws didn't ache. I heard her story of why she was visiting her brothers without her husband accompanying

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The air-fare and 2AC fare Pepsi was willing to pay notwithstanding, had a bad journey to Ahmedabad. First the AC ticket from Katihar to Patna had to be cancelled at the last moment, because my dad, who was to accompany me till Patna had to change his plans and so my cousin brother had to come with me. He could not have disguised as a 52 years old man! Then we did not get another ticket in AC and

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I absolutely hate Aaj Tak for what they have done with placements of B-Schools and IIMs particularly. Yeah, even those, who would not know what does the acronym IIM stand for, know now what the highest salaries in different categories for all the B-schools are. Thanks to some special programme by Aaj Tak on the same. The result? Back home I was being dragged into the analysis of statistics, I

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Yeah - it's the time to update after my unexlpained disappearance for quite some time. After spending a week at home, I am at Ahmedabad - doing my summer internship with Pepsi. Staying at the company guesthouse (free lodging and food, which they hadn't promised earlier!) in Satellite. My number has changed. It will take me sometime before I can inform everyone. There are lots of mails to reply to

Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09739951508347074067noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996844.post-1112414227243859012005-04-02T09:27:00.000+05:302005-07-15T23:29:32.050+05:30

Sometime back Priya had forwarded me the following mail from an IITK newsgroup asking me to explain if it is true. --Newsgroups: iitk.miscSent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 3:05 PMSubject: Give it a thought...> SAVING IS SIN, SPENDING IS VIRTUE">>>> Japanese save a lot. They do not spend much. Also Japan exports far more> than it imports. Has an annual trade surplus of over $100 billions. Yet>

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After the link of the previous post, this might come on a more serious note. A blog maintained by Dr Parth Shah, an Economist, who runs the Centre for Civil Society, New Delhi (okay this is a copy-paste from the mail, in which I have gotten this link). -http://blog.ccsindia.org/I am yet to check out posts (the dreadful Financial Management exam tomorrow :( ). But thought some of you might be

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You might want to check this out :-)Things I Hate about my FlatmateCategories: Information

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सोचती हूँ ख़त्म कर दूँ तुझेऐ ज़िन्दग़ी की खुली किताब,आज ही, जब सब ख़ुशनुमा हैऔर पूरा निकला है माहताब।दो पल मुसकरा दे कोईतेरी एक झलक पाकर,काम तेरा हो जाएगापूरा दुनिया में आकर।कल अँधेरे हो सकते हैंज़िन्दग़ी में, और उसका असरपड़ेगा तुझपर भी, अगरटूटा कहीं वक़्त का कहर।क्यों आँसू से धोऊँ तुझको,क्यों छीनूँ तेरी मुसकान?क्यों ना बंद कर दूँ तुझकोअंत आज ही तेरा मान?किसी ने फिर उठाया तुझेअगर कभी बरसों के बाद

Jayahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09739951508347074067noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5996844.post-1111897950001513632005-03-27T10:02:00.000+05:302005-07-15T23:21:37.146+05:30

Call it an academic year. It's not really a year going by the calendar (and okay - a week is left even for an academic year to be completed). I have been mentioning it off and on that the kind of life I have managed to live here surprises me. And another year will be spent in a similar fashion, I guess. Because nothing seems to convince me to change really.Nakul, in one of his posts, talked about

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एक बरस में एक बार हीजगती होली की ज्वाला,एक बार ही लगती बाज़ी,जलती दीपों की माला; दुनियावालो, किन्तु, किसी दिन आ मदिरालय में देखो,दिन को होली, रात दिवाली,रोज़ मनाती मधुशाला!Happy Holi to you all anyway :-)Categories: Excerpts

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What our instructor said in the "Communications for Management" class today was some practical word of wisdom - at least for me. She said something like this - Do not get put off by the task because it is mediocre. You have some wild dreams about how exciting, challenging your job is going to be. Fine, once in a while you will get challenging tasks, but for most part the job is quite routine. So,

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