Time: 4:37pm
Date: 25 April o9
Venue: 7, Kinard Lab of Physics
Music: Nagumomu Ganaleni Fusion Click to hear
Thoughts: As follows


Life is going good except, for some breaks here and there,in b/n weekends. Wow the music is really good, I'm loving it. It is one of the real good refreshing pieces,and I use this every time I set out on a task to finish the finals. Ooof...A huge burden is on the shoulders, yet another time. May be this is the time I am really looking forward to a B on my grade sheet for one time in my life. Jason does not believe that I never made a B. But that's true. I never made a B. (I have my own secrets...the secret of energy). But that does not mean anything.


As I said 100 times before, this grade of mine is useless until some one else unrelated to me completely finds joy. Long since, I have been stopping myself from saying many things in this space. But this is my blog, isn;t it? and I am here only to say things that I want to. I am really happy that, I gathered enough energy to cross that barrier and say stuff. Once again, I am not here to criticize. That will be just waste of time. I am here only and only to make sure that I am working towards my goal.


Not to strike a chord of humility, but even at this point I feel the world has but progressed a little. 90% with out further question are not as creative as we can be. We want to simply follow a route. We want to believe and have faith in the theories that we study. We want to learn, the uncertainty principle and understand it. Why do you accept it? People accept Quantum Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Mechanics and Relativity. I can say that 99% of this is just because they are logical!!! But are these the only ways? All that I want to convey by this is, all of us are just trying to squeeze ourselves (Hearing this great piece by Sadhna and ARR) onto the path that was already traced out. We need to find another way. But we are often bound by many things and obligations. Hats off to people like Anthony Valentini. I am not going to die with out doing what I want to do to Physics....I swear!!!

Anyways, apart from that stuff, have expts to do and may be some laundry (I HATE tiger mart). I got to study for the Finals. As the speaker said while giving me the award, Excellence is not a destination but a journey

Wow....keka-o-keka, racch-0-raccha!!! It's friday again people. But this friday is going to be much much more enjoyable than the previous one, just because of the Relativistic Electrodynamics final exam. I wonder how these astronomers study stuff, with out really, unconstrained!! Thats okie. I think I really need a break today, a long awaited break. I was so inspired by the post below and decided to give my everything and see how much productive work I could do. Believe me, I worked 138 hours in one week!!!!! (and Jason says, I do not work!!!)

That was amazing to me. I did enjoy it. But I had to skip my gymming sessions. I have not been hitting the gym of late. Oh! God the fat is piling up and I am hating it. But that is okie, it is still well under limits. May be from May 1st, I have to be more regular. Another thing to be loved, is the qualifiers approaching with speed of light!! God, that is gonna be lovely and beautiful. When you can sit and relax and say that you cleared the quals with 90+%, it will be better than watching Laxman glance away Warnie or the pigeon!!

May be a desi (gal) is gonna join our group!! That will be always looked fwd to!! More desis mean reaching my aims are easier. So, I guess I am gonna fly back home pretty soon today, because the continuous work, i have been doing is putting me off. I am loving it, especially handling like (lemme count 1,2,3,4,5) 5 projects at a time. Btw we are inching nearer towards the 'Nature' paper!!! Touch wood!!!

and most imply HAPPY B'DAY SACHIN

luv,
Myself

Dear All,


We really have no time left for us. We have no time for criticizing and arguing. We need to pull up and start working seriously. This is my sincere call to the Indian scientific community. You and me are the ones who need to strive hard and produce good results. We are far far behind. We are growing (seemingly) but not fast enough to catch up with the world. I am trying my best to finish my PhD asap and be back to the motherland but we all need to work hard. I have but one thing to tell you, we have time only for, creativity, innovation and constructive design. Let us all leave our egos behind for a while and work in tandem, with each other. Time is running out.

If you would like to have a glimpse of how far behind we are, here it is:

No. of scientific papers published per year by various countries:

US: 19,500
Japan: 11,000
Countries of Westren Europe (United Kingdom, France,Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, Germany): 30,000
China: 5,500
India:2,100

Wake up, we need to work!!!!

Myself

Fresh weather, clear blue skies and divine aroma of coffee beans on a sunday evening!! What more can you ask for? This is bliss, believe me!!! It is....


Apart from that I guess, some dose of Veritaserum potion, the same one that Snape used on Barty Crouch Jr.,worked on me too!! Someone must have mixed it in my coffee. Too lazy to work now. The weather is so good, just putting me off to sleep. My eyes ever ready to close and sign off are really cooperating. But I got to kick myself, pull myself up and work because there is no time to lose. The world is going so fast that you sleep a while, people will run ahead of you. You got to keep climbing and climbing incessantly....

So I better wake up and work and be in the race...

Keka(n): Scream with overwhelming happiness!!!


So I guess those, who do not speak telugu, understand now, Keka-O-Keka...

Yup...it's friday again. Living life by counting weekends!! I guess I am taking this weekend off, if possible. The whole idea of a weekend refreshing you and getting you started again has lost it's meaning after I started out on PhD and I am lovin' it. (I am not a Mc.D fan tho'). The importance of this Friday is, my 1 semester course in Guitar comes to an end. Wow, I am a Guitarist!! ( How funny?).

I was missing those wonderful days at IIT. I miss that Doodh Patti, we used to have at like 2 am in the morning. I shld tell this to Jason, he will go crazy!!! I am sure every one of us has so many memories and so many moments of those college days, that we can never forget. The best moment for me was, apart from many trysts I had, when I got to know that I made it to IIT. That was so amazing!!! I still can not forget, running in B'lore on that rainy day, to find a vacant comp in a cyber cafe to check the results.

Life is going boring!!! God, Please send to Clemson, some enthu' ppl. At least some who will like n love our definition of enjoyment. I never saw a place like Clemson. Most of da Ppl sit in home, glued to da internet or the phones every moment. Oo!!so sick. PPl come all the way to US and still look for Indian places for throwing a party!! Now wut do i say abt that? Oof...it's a pretty difficult job to explain my defn. of njoyment.

Anyways, Party the way ya like ppl...the ultimate thg is to be happy!! I am happy as long as every one is happy!!!

So in the spirit of friday......

Keka-O-Keka!!!

I am angry, frustrated and irritated. Come and debate with me today and I bet you will agree with, what I am saying. We have youthful energy. It is going nowhere. We have the talent. It's use to India is in insignificant proportion. And then we have these souls, who think they are helping India and serving the society by collecting funds but often fail to realize that what India needs is human power and not financial help. I may not be eligible enough to speak about other factor that handicap or hinder the growth of our beloved land but I am sure I have enough knowledge to speak about the role of Indian youth in it. All that I wish to convey boils down to this. We do not need, students who want degrees, jobs and money. We do not need students, who after their education, can only self-sustain. What we need is entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and people who have the courage to start out with a rupee and make millions. We neither lack ideas nor the talent. We lack courage, commitment and dedication. I am here and I am telling you, from the bottom of my heart, though I am a scientist and I have little experience in Engg, I am willing to be an entrepreneur. I will spend time and learn because my dear friends are not. Had these people, like, my professor had the courage to go back to the country and start out, our life would have been different.

Dear people,India votes soon. I am not there to cast my vote. But those of you who have the choice, please make use of it. Often, we do not use it but complain a lot. If you do not have a voter identity card, just do not escape. Go and motivate people and let the ignorant know the truth and share your knowledge with those who can vote. May be with a chaiwaala, may be with that canteen man whom you meet daily, may be with the janitor, in your work place. Just tell them what is good and what is not. Change is in our closed fists, if we do not want to let it get out, we will never change.

Vote for change and if you can not, at least share your knowledge and motivate others!!


Found this on the rediff news. Really interesting!!


Reiterating his stand expressed quite explicitly in the party manifesto, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav asserted in Lucknow on Monday, "Let us put an end to any further computerisation in this country."
Wow great!! This is what, the so called, great leaders of our country have to say!!!!

Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, he said, "India is a country with millions of unemployed hands and if we go on computerising everything, we will soon have a bigger army of unemployed youth."
Ok, Sir. I do not know about your understanding of the scientific world and then what you think about how fast one needs to be, to stay in the race. Do you think computers are going to come out of Earth? Why don't you invest your money and make an IBM in India and employ the so called educated 'un' employed youth of the country? That way, you will develop the country technologically and also provide your 'unemployed' youth some salary.And more over, these machines aren't artificially intelligent sir, u still need humans

Unmindful of the flak his manifesto had drawn on account of the anti-computer and anti-English stance, Mulayam went on to point out, "Nothing should be allowed to go beyond certain limits. We have seen enough of computerisation and any further move in that direction would be detrimental to the overall growth of the nation." I do not know what to say!!! Speechless!!!

He felt, "Even proliferation of management courses seemed to have only resulted in producing more and more unemployed MBAs."
That's because you ppl just need votes, so you invest all the money still in agriculture and educated Indian youth like me and others are so sick of the politics that we do not vote. Progress is a cycle, you gotta invest to get results. For example, look at my family. Except for my mom and dad, all of us work for a non-Indian, foreign based company. Because teachers like my parents taught us and made us worthy enough but you ppl are not ready invest and exploit our talents!!! You are seeing youth as unemployed, I am telling you give them investment and then they will be entrepreneurs!!!


Mulayam said, "I have always been in favour of discouraging the use of machine in jobs that could be carried out easily by the human hand and mind." Great thoughts, wonderful. Had Tagore been alive, he would be crying. Did you hear of words like reproducibility factor, throughput, market value etc.,? Well, look how they improve as a factor of computerization (in thy parlance?)

Citing from Mahatma Gandhi's writings, he said, "Even Gandhiji emphasised on the need to promote agriculture, as the livelihood of more than 65 per cent of our population was dependent on tilling of the soil." Wake up sir, Nehru established IITs too!!! and all these Gandhiji said was when we got independence. Probably he did not even know or imagine what kind of computing power we have now.

Sticking to his guns on the issue of use of English, the SP chief said, "What is stated in the manifesto is nothing new, even though I am not against the idea of learning English language; I am opposed to making it compulsory."

And giving out his reasons in that regard, he said, "Inclusion of English language as a compulsory subject in the curriculum tends to deprive the larger chunk of the population."

He said, "We need to give greater encouragement to the use of our regional languages instead of promoting and pushing the use of English."

I am an Indian, reading this news on an Indian website in English and writing my blog in English. I can speak my mother tongue fluently and also write well. All that I want to tell you is, if we have an edge over Chinese or other countries, it is only bcoz of our English skills. BPO is all based on that. I don't really understand, what these 'politicians' want to do to India.!!!

It has been a long day. Though I have lot of work to do, I am back home and its 10pm already. Time runs, especially when you need it to go slow. My project on ZnO is getting more and more complicated and every single time, I discuss some thing with my advisor, I am more worried. Because every measurement I am making on the system is pushing me far and far away from the paper but it is also making it a good standard paper. Let me see how it goes. Have a lot on my 'plate' now to work on. Looking forward to it. Sometimes, 24 hrs is not sufficient. I have taken a step towards being an entrepreneur. Not the usual kind, but one in my own perspective. Though my ego made me hate the Solar Cells course in the beginning, I really enjoyed the course. I am much more comfortable with my work now. If I lived and survived with a hard core nano repellent then I have pretty good chances of making it into the wall street one day. But still, my primary goal remains the same, I am here to work in the Tagore's sense.



So I am planning for a short term summer project. Utopia is the tentative title of the short film, I wish to make. The main inspiration for this comes from current state of Indian student mentality. Here is what I am planning on. I hope I will find enthusiastic people to take part. I hope Babai will find an ink pen for me. I can start jotting down then.


It starts with an student packing his luggage to go home for summer vacation from the US and then I want to pretty much naturally show casual discussion that go on in general. Then slowly zoom into three (or four) students in the group and show their contrasting pictures of India and how they think they can help/effect the country's development? I have a real good idea on how to shoot this whole thing. It is going to be novel and a completely different perspective from what has been out there. It is going to be a kind of entertain and yet enlighten!! It depends on how you look at it. I hope I will make it!!!

P.S: If you are in Clemson and you are enthusiastic enough to participate in this, just lemme know or email me (ramakrishna6@gmail.com).


Oof!! that apart, nothing much going on here. Really looking forward to the weekend, as we do every time. Yup, another important thing, I finished filing taxes too!! Hurray, that's a gr8 achievement. I had to read at least 2-3 boring booklets for information!! Wish Tolkein or for that matter Dan Brown or Rowling had written them....

Thank you every one, for your hearty congratulations, thanks a ton!!! It was really a wonderful experience. I had dinner with the deans from all the colleges at Clemson. Though my research work at Advanced Materials Research Labs (AMRL) delayed my departure for the event, I made it there before the main even had begun. I liked some things in the addreess of chief guest L. Williams, Chief Diversity officer for SC.
One of them is this:

'Excellence is not a goal but an incessant journey!'.

I sincerely thank, each and every one of you, for your support, encouragement, and appreciation. There are so many things that I wanted to write here. I guess the tone is getting more formal than ever.


Okie...that apart, let me remind ya and welcome you once again to the most interesting space on the tech spider's web. I was talking to people working for AID sometime back. For those who are unaware of AID, it is Association for India's Development. It raises funds for developing rural India, i guess, mainly, from the US and other countries. The following is meant for those, who work for AID, not just to add another line to resume (Which I think is what motivates many people, at least the ones I got in touch with). I am your fellow Indian, studying abroad.


First things first. For god's sake, please do not portray Indians as beggars or poor people.Do not display pictures of Indian street children begging for food. Please, I request you. Next time, if you present anything that puts our country down, I am straight away going to come on to the stage and speak. I know, there are many people suffering in India. But that is not the way you ask for help. If you need financial help in order to serve the people back in the country, you can be dignified and still ask. You can still create a good picture of our country. India is a developing nation and please portray it as one. We are NOT a poor country. And if you think, you have to show such pictures for funds, India does not need that. If more than 10% grad students in US opt to pay full tuition amounting to at least a million dollars in a year, I assure you that our country is not poor.

If you want to ask an American for money, ask them in the Tagore's sense but do not show my brothers and sisters from the holy land of Bharat begging with their hands stretched. I am not against your idea of India's development but I am against the portrayal of India. Promote the sense of, 'Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls' but not rich and poor. Do not mistake the notion of patriotism with loss of self-respect. We are a developing country, still a kid after it's independence. US got its independence ages ago and if only 60+ years old are competing with such a nation, does that not amaze you? The problem is we have no self respect. I get no pleasure by criticizing you. But every time my American friends say India is a poor country, it hurts. Let us start from 'I' first. Let us all develop mutual respect and some self respect. Let us at least display ourselves properly