Wow!!!I am happy to be here once again, just before a friday evening though I have already posted what I was supposed to do over the weekend!!! People, this is a moment to celebrate....3 years of 'D-Inc';

For those who are unaware of the D-Inc:

D stands for 'Dula'

Dula (n): Surplus energy that can be vented out in many ways that seem unusual, innovative, unexpected and extraordinary

So those of us at IIT-Roorkee, who had a lot of 'D-factor' established in the late fall of '05 'DP club' that stood for Dula and it's promoted activities. Primary activity of DP club was to boycott classes and the motto was to encourage 'Bittu' (the canteen waala)business through unpaid propaganda.

As the time went on, members from various hostels like Cautley, Ganga, Rajendra, and Azad Bhawans joined the so called DP club and increased the activities. Hence DP club turned itself into a firm, owing to the tangential increase in D-activities at IIT R and was renamed 'D-Inc' (no copyright is reserved) on this day of 2005!!!!

Though the founders and sustainers of D-Inc have moved away from IIT R, D-Inc is still active and is now wide spread in US too!!!

Some of the top D-activities during the time of founders and sustainers:

1) Going all the way to bus adda of roorkee walking in the cold at 2 am in the morning from Ganga Bhawan, just 6 hrs before the final eam of Electrodynamics just for drinking a cup of tea!!!

2) Trekking up and down of Mussorie though the car was available and trkking of 13.2 kms walk of Vaishnodevi!!!

3) Running away from Bittu with 100 Rs debt though we had the money(Babai ZIndabad)

4) Losing the semi final match of AP meet, just in order to go back fast and have a chai and chit chat in the canteen.

eetc...etc...

With all credits to the members of the D-Inc, here is what we are now

1) One of us is still at IIT- R searching and searching (oh! sorry....researching)
Suneel.....

2) One of us came all the way 10K miles across searching and searching
Myself

3) One of us is back in Vizag teaching and merrying with students
Ananth...Bava


4) One of us now works for Verizon@ Hyd...the only one who got thro a dream company in placements

Pandu....Kalyan

5) Satish had a lot of 'D' that he is married to 'Deepika'; They both work for TCS now

6) Bangaram alian Venki fell in love and left a job at Hyd....

7) Bhadram is in BARC searching and searching....proposed a girl who never deserved him!!! it's okie!! he was lucky

(From left: Kalyan..Bhadram...Jones)

After a brief visit to India...D-Inc is still vibrant and active with all it's doola activities...if you wish to be a member do let us know....

Qualifications:

1) Must be below 8 Gpa

2) Must not be academically oriented

3) should be ready to chat anytime in the day n night

4) Should encourage a doola activity (like me gymming though i hav hell lots of work)

5) should study only b4 eams or work just before the deadline

6) Should be as smart as us.....

Please send in you reume./..we are hiring

ramakrishna6@gmail.com

Oh! God, Fear of something can drive you crazy and at times can make you do things.After a long time, I am getting back to what I was. I started planning, charting out and tabulating things. With so many things going on simultaneously, I guess it helps you to stop and put things down,


As of now my primary fear (rather excitement) is about the upcoming APS talk. I need to prepare a lot. It's been more than a semester, since I stopped working on ZnO. Let us see where this goes. I have given my best and I will leave the rest to Him. But the human excitement is too much for me to take. Ooo!!!

Apart from that I have many 'non' weekend things that I would need to do this coming weekend. With the job market down, I have decided to make myself more marketable. One of the profs. X was invited to write an article and in turn he invited me (thx!) the problem it is more of an engineering thing than a Physics issue. But it would add some more shine to my resume. Hmmm...so I said 'okies' It is like you want to be a chef and some one calls you for serving the dinner and decanting the wine!!!

My Guitar Practice is really going bad. But the good news is Abhay is doing good by His grace. His current tumor is okie now and doctors said it is operable. I hated that women (Mrs. K, for her pessimism towards that young boy. Abhay's Story

Here are weekend plans.....

My ideas for writing a new post come gushing into my mind as often as dry eyes in a obama speech. With all the work mounting up, I am here yet another time (I am tired of using this sentence) to dump in. Work is going good and the chinese cookie other day read my fortune as, 'Your efforts will be rewarded in this month'. Keep fingers crossed and touch purest of the things!!!

Currently I am strictly adhered to the diet plan and waiting for one more week to lose that extra oblique fat and start off on a 6p. Life looks really busy for sometime now, yet I find time for my things. I had been wanting to list out things ever since I read Last Lecture. You see, getting time is really difficult. I am happy now that I have resolved things that were taking away too much time. After the vacation my life seems similar to opening the idle task manager from it's hiding and slumber to cut down processes taking up most of my 'RAM' (pun intended;....did ya get it?? i hope).


Guitar classes are going good. No wonder, being a Ph.D student I have no time left for practice. I am planning to finish upon those wretched 4 problems on Quantum Mechanical theory of Spin angular momentum (you see, the name itself is so painfully long!!!) tonight soon and work on Guitar. I am yet to prepare my talk for the long awaited Pittsburgh APS talk...ha !! ha!! I know I would not do it until 2 days are left. That's the way most of us are!!! Like George Costanza in Seinfeld, never ever opening the Pensky file (that's hilarious)

OOps!! with India touring srilanka night outs are on the cards. Loving life as much as I can...and enjoying my acads to the fullest of extent!! (sarcasm at times may not be understood in the right way) .....I forgot yet another thing...talking in telugu, in order to teach Pooja...It is only getting longer. Now she says lke 'Dustbin lo Phek chestunna' ha! ha! ha! lol!!!
and Pawan Kalyan is rocking the AP politics!!! Pawan Kalyan Zindabad!! ;)

I picked up a book to read, after a long long time. With the wi-fi on 24 hrs a day and 365 days an year, I was so disinterested in books. I should thank my Guru'cool' hostel for letting me develop this good habit of reading things. There are two kinds of books: the first one is you skim through the book, read between the lines and you are satisfied reading it. For example, something like a John Grisham's novel, the other is you read the first few chapters, skim through the middle and read the last chapter, something like Dan Brown stuff; But there is a third kind: You can not say, I read the book until you read each and every single word of it. Very rarely you get such book. I am lucky to have got another after 'The Fountain Head'.




The Last lecture is an inspiration to every grad student, to every employee, to every son, to every father; The fact of it being a real and true story adds to it and amplifies the inspirational values embedded in those real life experiences of Dr. Randy Pausch. The very fact that he dreamed big but stopped the elevator in the third floor on the wall painting shows how balanced he is!! Thanks to the knowledge bestowed by Linda Goodman, I could easily make out that he was a Libra (born on Oct 23). Every single chapter pushes you, awakens those dreams that you kept it all for yourself. You never ever told anyone. May it be the Coach Graham, or Captain Kirk or a disney imagineer, all those childhood dreams of Dr. Randy or someway or the other similar to ours. We all dream of similar things. But to be more pragmatic, you have to dream, what can be achieved. He teaches you to strike a balance, yet compromise not!!

It does not even make you feel pity for good old Randy, for his disease. You will love him. It is not a book where you are told of what it means to be a patient of cancer. It is a book that tells you what it takes you to achieve things and what it takes to fulfill your dreams. It is a story of a professor for his kids, which one day will wash up on the beach in a bottle like in good old bard's story.


I would suggest this book to every grad student, especially those who are doing a Ph.D. The attitude you should have and the passion .....he is simply amazing in writing about those. I can not wait for the day, when I would become a professor. Only some books on this holy earth get a 5 stars....Randy for you, now in heavens ,I give 10 stars kneeling and bowing!!!


A must read!!!

Randy's Home Page

The Last lecture.....

It is simply not a book! It is a lecture of a father who is still alive with those words; lecture of a professor, who had helped himself and his students to achieve childhood dreams; lecture of a husband, showing his life partner how much he cares and how far he can go to send out a message!!!


Thanks to my brother...he suggested me this book and thanks to Pooja, for buying it. Thanks to Randy, you not only got me to the habit of reading but also inspired me!!! I do not know randy, how many more you inspired!! Thank you from all of us. May you be blessed with peace!!!



I suggest this book to every grad student. I want to be a professor and I think this should be the kind of books that will make good effect on grad students. If you are a grad kid, still going to school...buddy, pick it up and read it; It is such a book that you will be inspired so much that you would do double the work in the same amount of time....



here you go people, (I am shortly coming up with excerpts from this book and a own review !!! ha ha) if you have time go buy the last lecture and read it. Five stars to randy. Now we have one more to join the league with Howard Roark, Dr. Randy Pausch!!!!

There you go, if you are falling short of some inspiration!!!!






Okie, people; As usual for those who can not understand telugu, here is the literal (truly) word to word translation!!!

If your eyes (vision) are filled with dreams (to be achieved),where is the place for tears?

If your body is completely occupied by the passion to do the same, where is the thought of tiredness?

Will the breeze stop blowing, deeming it went all around the Earth a hundred thousand times?

Will fire stop burning things, taking time off to relax; as it had been on work ever since the beginning?

Will time stop ticking, simply because it had been running all the time in all the wall clocks and watches in world?

If you can not bear the sun glaring on your sword, how will you be able to face the scorching heat in the battle field??

If your feet move briskly towards the heavens of perfection, how will you reach if you forget the path?

If victory is desired, then do you have enough energy to get up, dust yourself and walk every time you fall?

If you wish to let your breath take rest for a while,then are you ready to compromise with defeat of death?

Self confidence is never on sale; It is to be developed and nourished.
If you wish to win and build your dream land around you, then first you need to wake up from the deep slumber!!!!

Now with the relaxation coming from the MLK day, I am here yet another time while the glue on counter electrode dries to write and dump in stuff!! With my hair rapidly falling off my head, reminding me every time of the hereditary baldness I might have to live the rest of my life with and with the adipose tissues expanding another time with all home made sweets and foods, I am all set once again to repeat the magic, for the third time. This time I am hoping to extend it beyond just simple fitness to a six pack. Well, it will take time but let me see if it can be done with all the load of academics sitting on my head. I have also opted for a guitar class this semester.So, I got more busy with practicing stuff.


Well, this is actually the fourth time I would be setting out to tome down my body. My first humble attempt was in Bachelors, when I lost 3 kgs in 2 months with simple yoga and jogging. Second attempt was in M.Sc. Then I went much more serious as I had propose; That took me a lot more time. From January up to March. I hit the gym @ IIT and the ground and lost a whopping 6 kgs and toned the body. Thanks to the summer vacation and the lovely tasty home food, I was back to normal BMI for the second year. The summers of 08 at Clemson were yet another time where I had lost a mind blowing 12 kgs in a period of 3.5 months!!!!

So I am here to repeat it yet another time with increased motivation aiming for complete fitness. Let us see what happens. I am giving it a time period of 5-6 months!!! Wish myself all the best in this effort.....

Keep going!!!!

That is the word....'iititude'. After many days, I am here on a bright sunny friday afternoon writing about what is 'iititude'!!!
It may at first sound synonymous to attitude but this is strikingly different. Now I am here evangelize all of you and get you the iititude. This is a naturally developed outlook and feeling, after studying in an IIT. It is a feeling that gives you a pleasure, every one can not claim of...


to be simple iititude works anywhere, irrespective of where you are!! iititude is not simply to watch a movie or gym to refresh the night before your exam. It is not only about being smart but also about doing the right things at the right time. If iit teaches you anything, it is to be simple. No iitian would proudly scream out it in a crowd that he is in fact one. If you introduce yourself, it will be a soft mellowing reply that he is from iit. You would not see a reaction, until provoked strongly.

iititude is being simple, smart and go the right way. iititude is all round development. It is to enjoy life and not to be bogged down by academics, job or work pressure. IItitude is to stay calm, cool and chill out. It lets you flirt but stay commited. It lets you flunk but puts you out on top. It lets you fail, but to pick you up. iititude is not about ability to solve any problem or to propose a great innovative experiment but the confidence to do the same, the faith in one's self.


iititude is simply iititude.....

WoW!! first of all a happy and holy makara sankrantri to all my readers!!! Here yet another time, with the same pupose of dumping stuff in.


Oops!! Being a science grad it is very difficult for me to sit in an engineering class. I 'had' to take a course on solar cells!!! and the professor looks at me at least thrice in every two minutes only to say that nano is just a hype and it is not going to work. I mean it is so embarassing for me to sit in that class.

{Defn: My definition of Engineers excludes those who program on the computers. Computers is a science by itself according to me. I am speaking of Mechanical, Electrical and all other kinds.If you are an engineer, I am sure you would be annoyed at me. But that is primarily ego.Thats okie. Ultimately you or me, we all are working towards the same goal}

An engineering class is like eating the the molasses and leaving out the sugar cane. I do not say that engineering is unnecessary. But there are too many people into it wasting time. Science is the way to go. India should soon learn this. There are things engineers do with out 'proper' understanding and when one lacks understanding, development goes ages away. Any field requires a harmonious blend of science and engineering but to me, there are many things that we do in science and engineers have no clue about.

Some things, I think engineers need to understand

1) We do not do everything just because it leads us to money.

2) When we say something is possible, it means laws of physics allow it. And as long as things are allowed, it is feasible to get a device out of the principle. All that you need to do is give it time and money and some engineers like yourself.

3) For God's sake do not interpret science the wrong way. We are here only and only to make you understand. So do not say a magnet is magnetic because it is ferromagnetic. That means nothing at all!!!!!

4) And most importantly, believe in us and our science. We know what can work out!!!

I am sure most of my world would agree with these. I never proved Heine-Borel theorem or Schur's lemma for making a device but tha gives you the joy and more importantly logic and intuition.

Okie done with the engineers now.. just one last thing. One day, a kid doing MS (I guess in Comp. Sci.) said, "What's in a Ph.D? and that too in Physics? you struggle for 5 years and get a job just like me". My dear buddy, sorry for the misconceptions.
You need to know the 'real' world!!!1

Apart from thrashing engineers in and out:

I started gettign back to Fike. 2 days into it. AAAh....aches all over the body. After putting on with mom's food, it's hard time out here shedding it out.

and some song suggestions for your iPod:

1) Javeda Zindagi: Kshitij, Shilpa Rao (Anwar)

2) Khwaja Mera Khwaja; A. R. Rahman

3) Baawre: Luck by chance S.E.L

4) Sapno bhare naina: Luck by chance S.E.L

5) (for Gulti folks) Preme paravasam: Chukkallo chandrudu Chakri

Keeping up the spirit of the 'phir bhi dil hain hindustani' post below, I am here again to self motivate and self trigger...

This number from the magician works wonders. Studying solid state physics while ear phones are vibrating to the tunes of ARR is simply an experience...the inspiration u get from the song is just too good...the beats and the frequency is just simply amazing!!! I am just awaiting to get done with this doctor of philosophy stuff asap...
Just awaiting to teach!! and this song always inspires me for many reasons towards the school of physics!!! One day its gonna be there!!! C'mon gear up have a go hear the song



Click here to hear in Telugu

Once again hats off to sirivennela's pen......I love this one from Ashta Chemma...Ashta chemma is worth watching. I am giving it 4/5.
I could not find it on youtube. But incase you wanna hear it, click here to download
(download Tidatara Kodatara)
and now the lyrics

Tidatara? Kodatara? evaraina eppudaina??
sthiram leni shivalendukani nindistara? bhandistara?
Hadavudiga padi leche ningi alani
baladoor tirigi vacche gaali tereani!!
ade paniga parigettevendukani,
adigo alaga, adupe telika nadiche kadam idi
Yadalo ilaga, nadi horu laaga palike padam idi


Krishna Mukunda murari, nishturamaina nijam cheppamannare
ishtanusaaram ga ponire, saashtanga padi bhakti sankellu kadataare
nee alayana gaali ayina ila vesena
ye keli kaina ila kaina vela kudirena?

Devudilaga unte freedom anta suluva?
aawaraga nuvu aanamdinachagalava?


sri ramudu antunte antha, shiva tandavam cheste chedipoda maryada?
matimarupu miti meeri pokunda, ati podupu choopali naavaina nadkaina
ee framu daati paiki vaste lokuvaipova?
Nee padavi needa, nee paruvu needa??
prajaladi anukova??

chiraggunte ee mari pedda taraha
sare ayite ido chinna salaha

We sometimes speak with out having any knowledge about things. Love for your own country should not call for hatred for others. It is true that USA is much more developed than India. But that does not mean that we are looked down upon. The youth of my country will not let it happen. When a lab mate of mine was blabbering about the Indian Millitary, my patriotic self was enraged. He said, 'India does not want to fight Pak because we do not have as good military as Pak and we are scared'. With all due respect, these people in this country are so damn d**b.

I am not here to comment on another country but I am here only to enlighten them on what my country stands for. It is a country whose youth is intelligent, smart, hard working, confident and most importantly thinking of it's country. It is the land where children are taught lessons of winning the enemies with love and not with war. We are taught to be patient enough and we are. Sixty years into it's independence and giant economies like US are now staring at us. Sixty years into the largest democracy in the world and yet that has not crumbled. When denied by the others, we developed our own indigenous technologies like micro processor 8085. Indian youth is working hard, may be for some companies that are not Indian but yet helping the economy of the country. We use colgate in the morning to brush, ponds for the face and nescafe for coffee but still we go to temples, mosques and churches and we use shikakai for head bath. We are striking the so called balance. We have not forgotten our roots.

If today we had given other to point a finger at us and comment us, it is only because we depend upon them. Had some Indians in my earlier generation been back in the country teaching, educating and mentoring the youth, India would have progressed a lot more than now. I would not have come all the way to this country. I am working here under an Indian professor, so are my lab mates. Had they said, 'come what ever it may lets go and be in India', our science and technology would have improved today. All those patents developed for DoD would have been India's today. Our brains are not working for our country. Even if I am to make 1000Rs a month, I am going to go to India and teach. That's my duty. I do not want my kids to go abraod searching for assistantships, looking for part time jobs to study in a grad school. I want to make every college in India an IIT. I know, I can not do it alone but no single individual can. I am going to be one amogst many, Join me and help me and let us together help the country. I know when we are younf, we are naive and pretty dumb. But that is good. All that we need to do is to channelize this energy, this vigor....

And for the so called lab mate of mine....here is an article on India's military

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1735912.stm

For the first ever time I am blogging in air…on the way to Chennai airport from the city of Nawabs. So here I am presenting myself yet another time, now to describe the past one month: my wonderful vacation. It was a mixed bag of things. There were happy unforgettable moments while there were also times of sadness. It was life and the best part of it is, it was life at home. Probably I have been long since awaiting this vacation, for a lot of reasons. This vacation had really helped me learn a lot and refresh myself… It gave me back the taste of home food, the smell of paradise biryani, the pleasure of being a friend and the warmth of family and a lot more.

To be chronologically right, I would have to start off with my amazement of looking at the new Shamshabad airport. I awed at it. On the flight, I met this simpleton with whom I started blabbering like hell. I talked all the shit in the world and he kept nodding his head and involved in the conversation.. Oops sorry monologue!!! At the end of the discussion, I realized that I had been speaking of Indian Judiciary system and other things and commenting on them with the director of NALSA (google it!!!) in India. Wow!!! It was great meeting Dr. Bimal Patel. I never knew that people could be so simple. So my vacation triggered off teaching me the importance of being simple. I always believed in simple living and high thinking. As a part of the list of new year resolutions (quote unquote) I would include this into the roster (kindly don’t mind my sentence formation, syntax, semantics and grammar in here on this space at any given time; Turning off and prepare for landing @ Chennai)

My ride with Krishna Bobbili, (continuing the blogging now on good old earth awaiting Pooja’s arrival in the Zara Tapas food court @ Anna intl. terminal) the taxi driver drove me all the way back home. For the first time I was charged a thousand bucks for taxi in Hyd!!!! So learning again!!! NRI tag is not as good as it feels!!!


Believe me people (I know you will) it is good and great to be back home.... with my favorite dishes guttonkanya and chamadumpala vepudu on the platter, I quite enjoyed the food!! Is anything grater and better than mum’s food?? Life looked real real good…Jet lag had taken me over and I did enjoy the afternoon naps which I dearly missed at Clemson University!!! 3 days more of getting over the jet lag and there I was ready and set to hit the road…hit the road and meet up with all the good old buddies….the plan was to meet ananth at vizag first and then proceed to Puttaparthi and meet my school mates and then to B’lore and then get back to hyd!!

Trip to Vizag:

That was one of the wonderful trips I ever had in life. I met Ananth after 1.5 years and he looked still the same and in fact did not even change a bit in his demeanor. He came to the bus stand to pick me up but was on a phone call all the time. (Just got a call from Pooja, she boarded the flight to Chennai at Mumbai…wow!! I am damn relaxed now….)
That reminded me of the good old IIT days when I used to always be over the phone with Pooja chit chatting after 10pm. I hated SB 4 that bcoz it closed at 10pm. Isn’t it too early for IITians? Now, with out detouring much Life @ ananth’s place was as wonderful and fresh as our fren’ship. For that week I wanted to modify the oxford’s lexicon definition of life….

Life(n): Bachelors earning and staying with room mates in Vizag and partying wvery night!!!

Yup, that’s life to the fullest. If you want to love your ‘singularity’ (Pun intended, I mean single status) the best way is to stay with your best of frens in a place like vizag. Except for it’s humidity, it was just amazing. May it be warm ppl or the beaches or the scenic beauty or food vizag scores and rocks!!!

(Now sipping the café coffee day’s espresso and enjoying it’s divine aroma) We went around Kailasa giri, Rishi Valley and a trip to Borra caves. A surprise was Bangaram’s (Venkat, jr. @ IIT) presence for various unknown reasons at vizag. It was great. I was reminded of the match where Bangaram went 7th down and lead us to victory on the green fields of IIT in the knock-out match. I dearly miss bowling good length deliveries and wristy Yorkers and playing cricket. If any one would ask me (if at all) to pick my best performance, then I would not pick the hat-trick I got at the Lal Bahdur Shastri stadium while playing as a part of the Tachyons (google the term again!! Kudos to PV for encouraging googling!!!) (Jus’ got a call from Satish, he is on the way to meet me @ Chennai airport…today is his b’day) but I would rather pick the 2 overs I bowled for Ganga Bhawan team for AP meet when I just gave 3 runs away and helped the team win!! Ananth and myself played cricket after a long time again in Andhra University. Ananth kept for me….if you were ever to bat when I am bowling and ananth is keeping the wickets, by default fourth ball will be a surprise (it will either be a googly or a slow delivery)!!

Every single day was amazing at vizag. I made friends with Koti, ananth’s friend at vizag. He is such a jovial person. That he would completely uplift the atmosphere and fill the air with nitrogen dioxide. We adopted the blue denim and black polo as the dress code for the trips…ofcoz, choreography and concepts were from my humble self….

It was amazing to bike again after a long long time. We enjoyed the trip to borra caves, not only bcoz of each other’s company but because of the adventurous trek to Katiki waterfalls. Small skirmish with the jeep driver was so amazing! I really loved it a lot!!!

Thanks buddy for refreshing me yet again…








Strangers on the Train:


I really love that movie by Hitchcock. It’s a master piece. If at all you wish to pursue direction as your career then all that you need to do is watch a lot of movies especially the ones shot by this all time great director. He is simply amazing. The reason for me to name this part of the trip as the one of the great Hollywood titles is Abhinav. The train journey for a day will be boring unless you have a company. Abhinav works for HP and I poked him a bit. He was one of those few people, I am aware of who did a course all the way in Economics. I did enjoy the talk with him all night long. We chatted over every single thing and anything under the sun. I even went to the extent of opening my lappie and explaining to him Ferromagnetism in doped Dilute Magnetic semiconducting nanowires!!! Now you know what kind of a ‘monologue’ it was…


Back Home:


Please do not mistake, I was back at the good old hostel of mine that taught me 99% of what I know now. I was back at the Satya Sai Boys hostel in Puttaparthi. (Now I should stop writing for sometime or else this will get too boring to be read bcoz my diction will be montonus…If you have sustained your interest till here…u must be a real real good buddy of mine…plz hold on I will complete it)

Come lets sip a kuppa @ Café coffee day again…a lot can happen over a coffee!!!

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