A realistic assessment of Tehelka

A very nice article by Kishore Asthana on the recent Tehelka Expose.

I agree with most of the arguments there. Very well written!!

My specifications

Off late, I have become so rigid that I can't tolerate so many things. May be it is time I consider living alone. But may be if I get my room for myself I shall be fine. So 2 more weeks!!

13 miles

i successfully ran 13 miles and man it was tough!!

He is back

So happy to see Sehwag back. I hope he can play like he used to in his glory days. The more important of the announcement, however was the dropping of Dravid. If he has been rested thats fine. But if he has been dropped because of his performance over the last ten ODI's nothing is more ridiculous. We are talking here about a great performer over the years and a guy who just renounced his captaincy. He should at least be given to settle back in his own team. Somebody please put some sense into the selectors!!

Weeping

Many of you might laugh at this, but for me weeping is one of the nicest forms of relieving stress and even finding a special kind of happiness. Watching good movies that touch you, for the way they connect with society or the issues that they tackle will move you, and if they can make you cry there is no good substitute for such tears. It makes me feel light hearted and much better. I don't know why!!

I still remember the day I read Kite Runner. There was something in the book that I connected so deeply I was crying for more than an hour and after all that I finally realized what I connected with and it made me exactly identify my mistake. I know I don't have the chance or the power to correct it but at least I can now clearly admit it.

Movies and life

Was watching movies of various types. "Kannethal Muthu mittal" and "Shankarabharanam".....

Watching them you realize there are so many pressing things in the world and yet you carry on in your life as if everything is fine and work on solving research problems that actually amount to solving nothing but trivial issues. I know I am ranting but being a Phd student and working on "research" yoiu sometimes feel is it all really worth it. It is not because I am finding it hard, but it is because I am not sure if this is what I was meant to and should be doing.

I am yet to find a goal and I hope it is something I can be satisfied without any qualms when I am close to the end of this life.

Well, was it right?

I would not have accepted what happened today during my first year at UT or any time before. Am I becoming so liberal? or is it being ... I even don't know what it is. But I am sure it was inappropriate

Life however moves on

Three mails today

Well, It is surely time I needed to move on in life with my Degree. This is what I learned today. Three mails were waiting for me today morning. Two made me happy and the other one could not affect me. Clearly, I need to start doing what I think is important !! Hopefully in a year or two.

Trip to DC et al

Went to Dc for the nth time this year. The conference was short and sweet. The weekend was amazing fun with lost of movies, tennis, chit chat with old buddies and a very interesting argument. By the way food was awesome.

Now its back to work again

One of the many moving

stories in the Real India

Hopefully somebody will read

this article on www.livemint.com

After many days its back

The orkut fortune
"You are going to have a very comfortable old age"

Interesting Map

Link via Indiauncut

Happy Days

A very nice movie. Enjoyed it !
However I just can't exactly place it, but something surely is missing in it. May be its the too much stress on girl friends :P. Of course I agree the movie would not have clicked if the story just has guys. But looking back at my btech life I can't find many girls in any of my friends life. Or may be I was in a bunch of guys without girls. Not that i mind though especially being in IIT M (is it any different anywhere?).

But looks like I will watch it some more times! Lets see if it grows on me like "Anand" did.

An integral part of a grad student

happens to be his/her professor. So many things are influenced by that individual. His interests, biases, idiosyncrasies affect the grad students life so significantly that it is necessary to be a grad student to understand it. For some its a pleasant and smooth relationship. For some its a very rough ride.

I know how mine is! I guess everybody does :P

8 miles and more

Yes I successfully ran a little more than 8 miles today. Good job no?

India and Caste

A nice article from economist

What more can we say

about the state of politics

A great article

by shoba naraya on livemint.com discussing mathematics and more

A little long

just like most of his books.. but the end is awesome - Orhan Pamuk's speech at the Nobels

Not bad huh?

How to become a famous blogger
Link via ipatrix

A nice post

on relevance of Gandhi and how its misused

Good Job

I managed to successfully complete my first long distance (if 10k can be called so) run!

Love....Marriage

This is a summary of a nice story

"They say 'Marriages are made in heaven'. Made or not, I do not know, but one thing is for sure - the one whom you're going to marry, would have already been decided by The One above. No matter how many crushes you have in your life, no matter how many infatuations you go through and no matter how much you try to get into a relationship with someone, you're going to marry the only one you're destined to. If that 'one' happens to be the one you're already in love with, then you sure are lucky, or else, better luck next time! ;-) "

A walk across the woods

or so it felt. I just took a small walk around my house for 30 minutes and I feel I should do that more often. I do run around my house but there is something to do with doing it slowly that appeals to me.

I have a 6 mile run tomorrow. Last year Vibha was the first time I began considering running as an exercise seriously. Now this year it is apt that I begin my season (Don't laugh, I will run some races!!) with the 6 miler tomorrow.

Hoping for a good start!!

Really nice one

Letterman... making paris hilton feel why she came

Articles giving reasons why there should be more reforms

by Amit Varma
http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/the-myth-of-indias-liberalization/

http://indiauncut.com/iublog/article/william-easterly-on-inequality/

A nice article

on gifts to people (the haves mostly)

Will something be done

It is really sad to see the state of affairs

Simply unbelievable

Really an interesting

approach to batting

A nice article

by Amit Varma

One of those sad pieces

from cricinfo
1862
Birth of the tragic Johnny Briggs, a brilliant slow left-armer who achieved the sort of penetration that modern English finger-spinners can only dream of. His 118 Test scalps came at the Waqar-esque strike rate of a wicket every 45.19 balls, and his 21 wickets against South Africa cost just 4.81 runs each. At Cape Town in 1888-89 he returned match figures of 33.3-16-28-15 (14 of the 15 were bowled) as South Africa's tyros were skittled for 47 and 43 in only their country's second Test. But in 1899 Briggs had an epileptic fit after being struck over the heart, and he ended up in an asylum where, so the story goes, he would imagine himself bowling down the ward and tell the nurses his bowling figures at the end of each day. He died in Cheshire in 1902.

So nice to see this orkut fortune :P

"You and your wife will be happy in your life together"

Hehe