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How common man can play its part in curbing terrorism:

Last year on this very day, 10 gunmen arrived here from Pakistan with their weapons to snuff out the lives of 166 people. India has been worst terrorist-hit country for past decade. All these terrorists used to hide in public and execute their plan from our country itself. Now BIG QUESTION is can we (public) can help in any way. I think YES! I was thinking about this idea which will not only reduce burden on intelligence and police but if implemented can be very effective. Idea: We are having websites of all major cities maintained by municipal corporations. Idea is to have a subscription type facility on each of these websites. We need to have moderator for each city website, let us have some local intelligence guy. Now people i.e. residents of the city can subscribe themselves on this facility and are allowed to send any mail to whole city community, which have subscribed, about some suspicious character or activity. That mail after approval from moderator will be sent to all the m

What did I do on 2nd of October

Well, this is what I have done.. Link There you will find a pdf containing some of the suggestions I made to Honorable VC and Dean of students. Let us see..if they follow it or else we will use Gandhigiri ;)

Hinduism and Quantum Mechanics

Hinduism is often confused with that Vedic system and often criticized for its caste system. I was writing this paper on Indian spirituality and its relation with quantum mechanics. So, came across some much concealed aspects of Hinduism from literature study. There are three basic ideas of Hinduism or its teaching. First comes, the idea of the One Existence of the Eternal, the Infinite to whom sages give different names Permanent of the Buddhists, the Absolute of the Illusionists, the supreme God or Purusha of the Theists. For its second basic idea is the manifold way of man's approach to the Eternal and Infinite. The third idea is of the inner spiritual life. In fact during Vedic time, sages knew that common people are ignorant and cannot be directly taught these things. So, they gave physical symbols and name to this Infinite which in fact is composed of many infinites. They made ideal figure everywhere, for sun, plants, animals etc. Sages during Vedic time created Vedas, subli

You involve me, I will learn

I saw these lines in status message of one of my friend, can’t remember exact lines but theme was something like this: “You won’t teach me, I won’t learn You teach me, I will mug You involve m, I will learn.” We all cleared a very prestigious examination-“JEE” and considered  to be brightest and sincere students but now a t college, we bunk classes, sleep in classes. In short, we have lost that zeal of learning. Big question, WHY? Students blame inefficient teaching by Profs. Teachers on the other hand complain about sincerity and discipline in classes. We; JEE qualified students, professors; considered to be best in India, and one great institute- seems a perfect hub for learning, but is it so? What is the reason? Who is to blame for this- students, teachers or system? I have following feedbacks: i)    Good teaching facilities in classrooms: Each class must have at least one mike and one projector for teachers. This way hey can be

Why does one go to temple?

I am currently studying in Varanasi , which is considered to be one holy and sacred city. One can find many temples like main VT, Sankat Mochan etc. Thousands of people daily worship GOD in these temples. I am also used to go to these temples, at least once a week. God is considered to be supreme power, which controls all things. God is believed to be origin of everything as per ancient literature. I being into research, always try to find logic behind any process, event or thinking. So, one day I was just questioning myself, “what is god? Why am I going to these temples?” I was just going to temples, praying to god without even knowing what is god, but still I was praying to him. So, I started making assumptions like god is nothing but a power which is there to balance whatever you do. If you do something good, he would something good and if done something wrong, he would return something bad. But, once while discussing this with one of my friends; he countered me if this has been

H1N1 scare and strategic mistakes by Government

In recent times, you might have encountered people wearing weird masks, boards with messages from government on swine flue and group of people debating and giving advises on swine flu. If you happen to open TV and come across some news channel, they all are full of reports on new swine flu cases and at times, a doctor sitting and discussing prevention, causes and symptoms of swine flu. One of the news channel has also started a count of swine flu cases and death toll. Swine flu, now technically termed as H1N1, is strain of influenza virus and is a transmittable disease. H1N1 cases were first reported in Mexico . True! It is a transmittable disease with no antibiotic developed till now, likely to make by the end of this year, Tamiflu is only one antiviral drug and can make the illness milder but still a lot of hype has been made of it. People are so scared that schools have been closed in some parts of country. It is not such a dangerous virus.

Comparison of Indian and US education system

Education is means by which young minds try to accumulate knowledge, experiences, skills etc. learn t by society. Here I will first talk about High school education system and then at college level. High school, students in US are never burdened with facts and information. They do not learn much as compared to Indian students. But one good thing about this system is that students there are free to choose some courses. So, what it does is that it helps a dedicated student. Let us say some student is interested in Electrical Engineering, he/she can opt for some courses like basic electronics. In this way a US student is much more prepared than their Indian counterpart when they are about to enter college. In India, till high school, students are given basic knowledge of almost everything but not specifics and they are not allowed to choose subjects. What this leads to is confusion in their mind. They are good in almost all but not perfect in one. So, you can see a Indian student can perf

Lessons learnt during internship at Penn State

This post has been copied from the report on experiences and lesson learnt, asked by my advisor. This intern has been full of learning and events. I am going to divide this report in two sections, in first I will describe what I have learned as a researcher, and in second, as a person. Research: I just love doing research. I mean it makes me feel good. I always have difficulty in cramming stuff but in research you try to understand principles rather than mugging them. I had a mindset, before coming, about research and how to do research. This internship has made me matured and experienced as a researcher. I always used to think research as a task; so, it is like any other competition. I think taking part in competitions invoked such attitude. It had been winning and loosing that competition for me, and research used to be no exception of that attitude. So, winning this competition would have been getting a paper published. All my efforts were focused on achieving that very goal. But af