Its not IIT Mumbai .

This post is for those who cannot differentiate between brand names and city nomenclature.

I guess the Govt of India 50 years back while establishing one of the elite technical institutes, was unable to foresee the Raj Thackeray trend.(I guess there was no McKinsey at that time that could predict the Bombay to Mumbai campaign )
But then with absolutely no respect,(and yes I am being RUDE) IITBombay is a brand name and for the record its a single word.
Its not IIT Mumbai .

There is nothing like IIT Mumbai .
No body in the world knows IIT Mumbai.
People have known it as IIT Bombay.
Stop tagging photos on facebook as IIT Mumbai.
Stop referring it to as IIT Mumbai in thanking speeches,endnotes, debates,discussions.

Relative Terms

Relativity is a term that often goes beyond Einstein.Not the fact that Einstein's concept of relativity was false, but then the people we relate to are often not so compatible with the older version.
The concept of relativity and absoluteness has often resulted in laying down the foundation of the best of controversies ,errors,confusions not to mention the frustration.

Good Will Hunting , is one of the best examples that covers all the emotions when it comes to comparison and setting standards, because for more then once what seemed trivial to Mr Will ,was rocket science for his Professor Gerald Lambeau.
And when Will Hunting sets a paper on fire ,which had the solution to a equation that his Prof was struggling with, for ages and believed that it could fetch him the NEXT NOBLE, a flood of emotions are expressed in the scene when Will tells him that

"You know what is this..this is fucking easy for me "
And this is where relativity comes in.
While the Prof felt inferior, frustrated,helpless Mr Will simply moved on for his standards were beyond the scope of his professor.

Infact the concept of absoluteness itself is relative as there are no permanent standards.

So the next time you start comparing things, start getting judgmental, have prejudices, do consider the fact that You Cannot Compare APPLES and ORANGES.

Love Thy Smoker

Love Thy Smoker!!

With this blog post ,i would like to introduce Malvika Parmar, as a guest author on this blog. Malvika happens to be a old school friend, whom i met after 6 years courtesy Social Networking . Since i have only 1000 Mb of space left on this blog, i shall register a new blog to introduce the epical stories of Malvika.



I am a person of very peculiar and sometimes strange likes and dislikes, and I guess the latter outnumbers the former. So I thought that since this is my first post, let me just pick something on which I have plenty to talk about-the ‘dislikes’. Sounds contrary to the title? Well, I don’t blame the readers! But seriously, I am going to discuss one serious ‘dislike’ of mine.

I often come across people saying, “I hate smokers”. And this is exactly what I seriously, positively DISLIKE. I really fail to understand the logic behind it. Let me dissect the statement now, in an effort to understand the deeper meaning hidden within the spaces. To hate “smokers” means hating people who smoke (we are not talking diesel buses here for god’s sake). I don’t as often hear people saying, “I hate nose diggers” or “I hate men peeing on the pavement” as much as “I hate smokers”.

If you are so against smoking why don’t you say “I hate Marlboro” or “I hate cigarette lighters”? That would really be more logical. Its insane to hate someone for a habit that only goes to harm him. And yes this reminds me of the good old rationale of ‘passive smoking’ which people often come up with as a defence to their hatred. To all those people who think passive smoking of cigarettes would kill them, honey, the vehicular pollution affects you much more adversely. So you can start saying “I hate automobiles”!

I can understand if someone says that he/she hates the habit of smoking, like Mahatma Gandhi said, “hate crime and not the criminal”. Just imagine you have a very dear friend who you have known for a very long time and share a great bond with. Will you start hating him if he starts smoking? Will he suddenly be a less of a friend or a lesser being? He would undoubtedly hold similar importance and significance in your life. In fact you might just become a lot more caring for his lungs. I fell in love with a person who smokes and that really changed nothing, just like it wouldn’t have mattered if he snored while sleeping.

People, smoking is just another habit and I urge you not to judge a person’s character by a single habit. It pains me to think that people who lie, cheat, deceive, bitch and backstab their own friends get more respect just because the don’t possess any of the so called “anti-social” habits.

I am not a chain smoker. I smoke like ten cigarettes annually, but some of my dearest friends smoke on a regular basis. And whenever they are subjected to this social bias just because of one habit and others ignore any talent or the kindness they possess, it hurts me to be a part of such morally blind society.

This article was a result of a long argument with another friend of mine who apparently “hated” smokers. I managed to change his stance to an extent and thus I decided to write this article with the hope of changing a few more ‘opinions’.

So as they say, in spite of all the inhibitions and doubts, “love thy neighbour”, we can also follow another modern ‘sister saying’ “Love Thy Smoker”

Reality Check --India US Nuclear Deal !!!

These are the best of times.
These are the worst of times.
Today when we have access to a breadth and depth of information, some of us still continue to live in a virtual world. While some of us live in a world away from cause and effect, some of us live a life which is more driven by the things happening around. The latest thing happening around forced me to share some of the facts and figures.

And while I write this post,I continue to wonder over the Intellectual Immaturity the Media has been creating. The image as portrayed by the media of the Indo US nuclear deal is nothing less then " a step towards the Utopian World".

The quick check on what people believe Nuclear Deal is –

* It offers uranium at cheaper cost
* It provides us rocket science technology for Nuclear Energy.
* It offers us Cheap Reactors.

They believe so because they have been told by MEDIA –

· It provides us access to Latest Technology

---strengthening indigenous program.

· Access to Uranium and Reactors

---To help our power generation.



Reality Check –

· Since we use HW reactors, Fast breed reactors that are based on Thorium Utilization (a technology that is much better then Uranium based reactors) and we have 90% components that are indigenous ,why the hell do we need Tech Imports ?

· We have Uranium resources sufficient only for 10000 reactors,in a world where we hardly have 140 reactors operating.

· Quality of ore possessed by us varies from 0.1% to 14 -15% ,where as the Uranium Hubs in the world including Australia-Kazakhstan's exported ore is of < 0.1% quality.

· There is enough Uranium for all the Nuclear Supplier Countries but just not for us the lesser mortals.

· We are signing off with a nation that REFUSED TO ACCEPT US AS A NUCLEAR POWER AFTER POKHRAN.

Reality check for the Media---

Integrated Energy Policy, Volume I ,Xxii

---"Even if a 20 fold increase takes place in India's Nuclear capacity by 2031-2032 ,the contribution of India's nuclear power to energy generation, at best is expected to be 4 -6.4 %

For possibility of such a marginal contribution, our Government and Media are hell bound over mortgaging our strategic interests.

Growth of Nuclear power is indeed a definite solution for Energy Crisis and need of the hour but rather than continuing with the perpetual dependency and import we can explore our options and expand our capabilities.

Last but not the least—

Some more misconceptions—

1. 1.GOVT must see some point in this

* At a point in history our govt went to the extent of buying Cowdung
* We bought pulses,rice,wheat at very high costs while our farmers were waiting for their crops to be sold at nominal prices.
* We want to have One Laptop One Child program ,when we are struggling with figures at Primary level !!!

2. The Media –they cannot be stupid !!

Those who still believe in present media please mail me back, I have better reasons to not to trust them.


Facts and figures --
Collected by Anurag tripathi- anurag.r.tripathi@gmail.com-Phd Student -Dept of Chemical-IIT Bombay from Talks by Arun Shourie ,P.K.Iyengar,A.N.Prasad

Reality Check-Indo US nuclear Deal -

These are the best of times. These are the worst of times. Today when we have access to a breadth and depth of information, some of us still continue to live in a virtual world. While some of us live in a world away from cause and effect, some of us live a life which is more driven by the things happening around. The latest thing happening around forced me to gather few quick data analysis on "Indo-US Nuclear Deal".

And while I write this post,I continue to wonder over the Intellectual Immaturity the Media has been creating. The image as portrayed by the media of the Indo US nuclear deal is nothing less then " a step towards the Utopian World".

The quick check on what people believe Nuclear Deal is –

· It offers uranium at cheaper cost

· I T provides us rocket science technology for Nuclear Energy.

· It offers us Cheap Reactors.

They believe so because they have been told by MEDIA –

· It provides us access to Latest Technology

---strengthening indigenous program.

· Access to Uranium and Reactors

---To help our power generation.

Reality Check –

1. Since we use HW reactors, Fast breed reactors that are based on Thorium Utilization (a technology that is much better then Uranium based reactors) and we have 90% components that are indigenous ,why the hell do we need Tech Imports ?

2. We have Uranium resources sufficient only for 10000 reactors,in a world where we hardly have 140 reactors operating.

3. Quality of ore possessed by us varies from 0.1% to 14 -15% ,where as the Uranium Hubs in the world including Australia-Kazakhstan's exported ore is of <>

4. There is enough Uranium for all the Nuclear Supplier Countries but just not for us the lesser mortals.

5. We are signing off with a nation that REFUSED TO ACCEPT US AS A NUCLEAR POWER AFTER POKHRAN.

Reality check for the Media---

Integrated Energy Policy, Volume I ,Xxii

---"Even if a 20 fold increase takes place in India's Nuclear capacity by 2031-2032 ,the contribution of India's nuclear power to energy generation, at best is expected to be 4 -6.4 %

For possibility of such a marginal contribution, our Government and Media are hell bound over mortgaging our strategic interests.

Growth of Nuclear power is indeed a definite solution for Energy Crisis and need of the hour but rather than continuing with the perpetual dependency and import we can explore our options and expand our capabilities.

Last but not the least—

Some more misconceptions—

1. GOVT must see some point in this

· At a point in history our govt went to the extent of buying Cowdung

· We bought pulses,rice,wheat at very high costs while our farmers were waiting for their crops to be sold at nominal prices.

· We want to have One Laptop One Child program ,when we are struggling with figures at Primary level !!!

2. ShivSena is supporting them –Can they spell the word "uranium"?

3. The Media –they cannot be stupid !!

Those who still believe in present media please mail me back, I have better reasons to not to trust them.

Ant and the Grasshopper and the NEW VERSION

An Old Story:
The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and
laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the
summer away.
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or
shelter so he dies out in the cold.

Indian Version:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and
laying up supplies for the winter.
The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the
summer away.
Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and
demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed
while others are cold and starving.

• "NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
• The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
• Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.
• Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter .
• Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.
• Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.
• The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .
• Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.
• CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.
• Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.
• Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.
• Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.
• Bollywood launches a new Series of Movies over the scandal and of course ...
• eKta Kappoor launches another tv series for the "Krasshoppers"

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left
to pay his retroactive taxes,it's home is confiscated by the Government
and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.

• Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.
• Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.
• CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '
• Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly."

Many years later...

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar
company in Silicon Valley
100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere
in India,
..AND
As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the
grasshoppers
.
India is still a developing country…!!!
I know its stupid to post a forwarded mail but cudnt help avoiding it ..
We definitely need to send one copy to the Lok Sabha ,Rajya Sabha (if nybody has the address please mail them)
Can't think of better place to fire off a discussion like this one ..
wat say u ..??

This does not happen in India

Nishit told me about this ------
worth mentioning on the blog

Innovation beyoooond imagination ...
amazing idea ..seriously
http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=70579

I m Back ..

Its been over a month ,or perhaps more then that since i have posted nything here...
but the NO BLOGGING SEASON certainly had not so important things but they HAD TO TAKEN CARE OFF...

One of those not so important tasks were the famous ENDSEMESTER exams..
perhaps those of you who crossed that threshold level of NOT GIVING EXAMS mite actually get nostalgic after reading the post.....

The entire month ..no the entire last week starting from 11 of April was dedicated to nothing but building and development of a XEROX library of notes of the
"ONE WHO MUST NOT BE NAMED"for the person being talked bout is "Media Shy"
Nways after having the done with the library, came the most important task of

• OPTIMISED SHARING AND USAGE
• MAXIMISING MARKS
  
• DELETING PAGES
• escaping from the BAKAR....
• Avoiding the not so avoidable 9 hrs of dreamland...
• and of course the most imp Nite Tea in MESS

nwyas its over and hopefully out ...
untill and unless they wish to continue teaching me courses where the interest levels have fallen to sub zero levels ..
nways from now on the blog would be back to the old days ....
full of traffic...and some more secrets getting out ...

Nways i have a surprise for u this summers ....

keep waiting .:))