Devender

I am working on bio-materials and have been learning some very cool things. I am not really working on genetic engineering but I got interested after reading about a new discovery in which a group of scientists have mapped the artificially synthesized genes on a natural bacteria. Artificial genes overtook natural genes and replicated to make new cells. I am not writing this post to explain this discovery but about the ‘questions’ that have been erupted by this discovery within me. Let me first make a background first before raising my questions. We all know there are well-defined and finite number of elements (some may not have been discovered yet) but to our knowledge everything has been made by these elements or their combination. Our body, obviously, must have been made from these elements too. I have been working on making materials and know few techniques to make materials. But anything that has been made by any of the materials, that human has synthesized, can not have his own

I am writing this post after a heated argument with some of my friends on existence of ‘Ramayana’ and ‘Mahabharta’. I did some research and so writing this post based on conclusion derived from my readings. I will be happy to accept any mistakes or unsupported arguments. It’s just my perception made after reading and can be changed if you can furnish some facts and logics. I will be largely writing on Mahabharta as text on internet could be found on that only. Note: My take here is that I ‘doubt’ the existence of ‘Mahabharta’ and so furnishing some text on that. I believe, all these epics have been imagined, or an exaggerated version of some battle (as both Ramayana’ and ‘Mahabharta’ are built around battle), written by great scholars to influence the forthcoming generations. Please do not debate on irrelevant topics by giving absurd examples, but if you do have a fact then do share it. 1. Battle of ten kings: There was a mention about a battle of ten kings from different tribes

I come across this topic “do small states help in better governance”, so gave it a thought after doing some background study. After independence, a committee was formed to look into the matter of forming the states. Although committee was to suggest states on the lines of culture, language and social diversity, but little has been the logic so far in forming of states. As of now Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Naidu, West Bengal, Punjab and few more were formed on logical background. States like UP, Madhya Pradesh were formed under the pressure of influential leaders. Bifurcation of states have been done every once in a while but recently, the violent protests forced government to form a committee, which will look into the matter of formation of new states. At present demands are being raised for bifurcations of telangana from Andhra Pradesh, poorvanchal from UP, Bundelghand from Maharasthra, saurasthra from Gujarat and few in eastern states. Most of these demands are from regional pa

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

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 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

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