Back Again !!!

Hi Everybody ,


Me back again at this blogging space.....but yes after a long long time....being a 15 month old "jobb"ed techie seems a sort of more of a "event" rather than a "experience"....times gone by have been very entertaining and limitlessly more non eventful.

Entertaining because bucks are in ready supply to the pocket at the last working day of each month....and with every spending they are also vanishing and have started vanishing in new and interesting ways.....

Non eventful because well you have to be in the position of a normal software engineer to get account of this fact....be it in any implementation project or so called "knowledge transfer" you are bound to find yourself significantly idle a lot of time and sometimes you start losing faith in the entire rules of the game....more so for me....I have always been a impatient soul.....some people have even gone to the extent that I dread every moment as if I would not survive the next one.....But "cannt help it" !!!.....where did i get this phrase man ? ...another part of story......

Still more important thing is that I spent considerable part of this period in cities of Bombay ( I will call it Bombay, though I was biased to call it Mumbai a few months ago...dont mess my feelings if you dont understand but they do have their own base...) and Bangy ( short form of Bangalore you all know)


Should I account the differences in these two cities here in this extract ??... Highly tempting as I have always been in assessing people and places.. a bit more rapidly and superficially yet two cities have their life of their own...true to the very sense of the word....just one liners Bombay is really full of never say die and never say slow down people mainly existing because they know life is what it is about felling yourself for you have to live in this moment ..... Bangy is well crowd of heavy headed "fools"( yes they are ...because I am saying !) ready to throw their bucks out because most of them have earned it warming their butts in air conditioned comforts....

And then among these 20 million and growing Bombayites and 7 million and succumbing Bangy'ites is me ..... truly unduly soul....having been unblessed with its purpose of life....and still getting kicks out of it and in turn feeling more and more unsympathetic and apathetic towards it !

Return to this page!!

>> First things first, I am blogging here after so long period that is seeming as a kaleidoscope of events for me...many of them are sad experiences...limits have ceased to the extent of misery caused...

>> Last time I posted one here was way..yes wayyyy (so many things have happened in my life since then) back in October last year...I was off maybe after a spell of midsems in 7th sem...now my IIT life is over...a lot of questions have not been answered till now which should usually have got answered within IIT stay...I am helpless to an extent and yet limitlessly more patient...confidence has deluded and perished and at the same time hope has seemed so abundant that I have failed to handle it in many ocassions...I certainly seem to lose control of my activities and happenings have taken their way out themselves...

>> I never blame anybody; not even God...I know for the fact that certainly things are bound to have their words...let them speak and speak to the fullest and then suddenly everyone will be waiting for me to speak...I in despair cannt find right words ...wat hell??...I fear that and sincerely hope that I will just be able to avoid that....

Wharton MBA

Rediff.com published an article informative about seeking admission into the reputed MBA programme of Wharton Business School; Here are some excepts from the article:

Why would you give up two years without a salary and get into significant debt for an MBA?" The question came from Thomas Caleel, director, MBA Admissions and Financial Aid, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA.

It was an extremely valid query -- one every student who decides to do an MBA ought to ask himself or herself even before looking for the right place where he or she could do it. Why do you want an MBA? Is it because you think it's the thing to have on your CV? Or is it because you know it will enhance your chances of success? Questions like these popped up repeatedly during a recent Indian reception for potential candidates at the Wharton School.

"Do your homework," was Caleel's advice. "Wharton is not the right place for everyone. Find out what a school's culture is." Again, a valid point. For those who have decided on an MBA, the choice of school is crucial, considering it is where you will spend a minimum two years of your life. As any student studying abroad will tell you, every university comes with its own character, its own culture, its own set of values. The kind of individual you are should determine the kind of school you pick.

"I would never say an MBA is the right thing for everyone," adds Caleel, "nor would I say an MBA at Wharton is right for everyone. I think it is very important for candidates to have a good understanding of themselves and why they are getting an MBA. Wharton offers tremendous things for the right person. It offers an unparalleled breath and depth of offerings in terms of curriculum. We have over 250 professors with over 200 electives being taught. It also offers a global network of nearly 80,000 alumni!"

So, assuming you would like to do your MBA at Wharton, here's what you should do.

For detailed study here is the link:

http://in.rediff.com/getahead/2005/oct/06wharton.htm

Gandhi and Nobel

Mahatma Gandhi never received Nobel Peace Prize; though he is seen as one of the epic human beings who walked on earth; comparision for him can be done only with the God's incarnates.
(Courtesy: Times of India Site)

Here is the link:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1256755.cms

Four Blogs within 40 hours..

So, I am about to complete my fourth blog indited within the past 40 hours.

Guess, how eventful these few hours have had for me!!

First things first, I have a midsem paper tomorrow. Junta in Kgp have started executing their celebrations plans which they had so carefully crafted while screwing their time on those damn notes of the professors for Midsems. Some are gone, going or will go(does not matter for me) to several hangout zones of Kgpians..Cal Park Street(bandis are too huhaaa here!!), Aquatica(ohh..this splash of water!!), and some have confined themselves to LS bar, Venky's etc etc or are boozing in their wing or room.

And see me, I have to give myself for the sixth and final assault by those 2 hour long midsem papers when half of the time is usually spent on leaving some papers of the answer sheet with the intent to clear some so unhealthy blockage in some distant corner of your short-term memory cells.(tissue would be the right word..but number of cells in the short term memory location of your brain has considerably dwindled over the last three years of your stay in IIT..no doubt about it.) Anyway, some how you manage to pen some formulae and solve some fraction of some problems and leave the room in a hurry to escape from that dyspneal surrounding.

By God, any how midsems' papers go by; but a somewhat wierd thing happened to me today.
We had our class on Evolutionary Computing taken by Prof.D.K.Pratihar today; hey i am so eager to make this issue publicly covert that i have mentioned the name of the professor also, come what may come!!So Pratihar Sir decided to give us surprise presentation of midsems' answer sheets fully checked. Midsems khatam nahi hua ab papers deekhana shuru...bachche ki jaan loge kyaa??..With his phenomenal pitch of voice, He didnot hesitate to take my name in front of whole class.."SK Sahoo, You are moving towards the end of the class.".Man, this man has not forgotten me, I had bunked only four classes that too, two for being suffering from malaria fever. Eventually the marks I received also didnot delight me. I am really obsessed with anathema for that course, I am so poor in coding stuffs(a poor soul somehow managing to be a mechanical engg.), algothirms dread me like anything and all of a sudden a course arrives in final year with "Evolutionary" tag attached to computing.

SRK:"I do not do anything overtly macho; so people think I am effeminate"

Excepts of an interview of KIng KHan :

(Courtesy: Times of India Site)

#On his recent ad campaign for a beauty soap making round of rumours about his act epitomising the 'gay man's fantasy':

>>>>I found it very strange. For me, when I signed the campaign there was no analysis attached in terms of sexuality. I think it’s an over-simplification of things, because I usually don’t do anything overtly macho, so people think I am effeminate, which is OK by me.

#Soaps's ad are traditionally women's domain:

>>>>The people who talk about me don’t know me well enough. I am very happy being what I am. I don’t need to make a gesture from charity to masculinity, from goodness to meanness to prove a point to anybody. I cannot sit down and rectify people’s perceptions. Unlike earlier, when I used to get affected by such comments, today I don’t react. I am very confident about myself, my children, my family and friends. That’s what matters. I am comfortable with my inner world. The outer world will have a lot of takes on me and now, I am comfortable with even that. I don’t have to prove anything to anybody.

#On the recent documentary on him to be made by Nasreen Munni kabeer named "Inner and Outer World of SRK":

>>>>It is very difficult to demarcate my inner and outer world. It’s the perception of the maker.

#On rumours that Chopra camp and SRK have drifted away:

>>>>We are not related to each other because of our work as people wrongly think ki char picture saath mein banayi toh close ho gaye. On the contrary, we made the films because we are close to each other. Adi and I have no problem, because we are the same age and know how things work here. But with Yashji, there’s an age gap and such rumours can get embarrassing. He is very emotional about all this. He tells me, log jab yeh sab puchte hain toh bahut sharm aati hai. We never discuss work. He calls me up and says, yeh film karni hai, and I don’t ask him further. I just do it. Even with Veer Zara, I didn’t hear the story. He asked me to do it and I did it. We never discuss money and don’t have any contracts. That’s my equation with him,”

#On rumours that there is cold war between Amitabh Bachchan and him:

>>>>I think all this is related to the set of rumours that talk of Yash Chopra and me drifting apart. Why should anybody try to spread something like this? Who has the time? Amitji is a gentleman and everyone knows him. He is a big star, somebody who we’ve grown up watching. I respect him for that. He is a friend and so is his family. Abhishek is a close friend. Jaya aunty calls Gauri and me her children.

Benefits of Nishkama Karma

Recently I read a wonderful article on the topic of fruitless(motiveless) service or "Nishkama Karma" in ET; and I positively felt for the intent that article desired to carry. I have decided to note down some lines of the article in this blog of mine.

>>Valuvar, author of great Tamil work, Tirukkural, notes that all worldly attachments should be renonced gradually and in right time.

>>Socrates declares, "To have no wants is divine".

>>Total renounciation of worldly bounds and possessions could actually prove impractical in many cases. However, the concept of renouncing the fruits of one's actions could, in fact, prove not only practical but also rewarding.

>>Bhagwad Gita has a famous injunction : "You have rights only to the action; never to its fruits".

>>In this state of reorientation of priorities, all actions are performed as discharge of one's sublime duty with joy and dedication, as rewards in themselves. In fact the Gita terms this approach as true sacrifice(tyaga) and total renounciation(sanyasa).

>>Modern management concepts and also scientific and practical studies, as that of American psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on 'flow' and clarity has also borne out the fact that power, concentrationa and effectiveness are concomitant with any work done for its own sake, regardless of status, money or acclaim that may accrue in consequence. This indeed is nishkama karma or Karma Yoga, whereby energy, anxities and obsessive analysis that would otherwise have been expended on brooding over the results are now channeled to constructive and effective work. This actually serves to contribute to the favourable final outcome.

BSE Index up and rising: Mt. 8500 scaled.

The journey of Bombay Stock Exchange over past months:

>>15th May 2003: BSE reaches 3000.

>>25th June 2003: BSE scales 3500.

>>19th August 2003: BSE marks up 4000.

>>3rd October 2003: BSE reaches 4500.

>>3rd November 2003: BSE crosses 5000.

>>19th December 2003: BSE reaches 5500.

>>2nd January 2004: BSE index scales 6000.

>>27th December 2004: Index reaches 6500.

>>21st June 2005: BSE reaches 7000.

>>25th July 2005: BSE crosses 7500.

>>8th September 2005: BSE reaches 8000.

>>20th September 2005: BSE scales 8500.



The story of BSE so far, has been bristling with a sense of urgency in rising to unscaled heights each passing day. It has brought unprecented profit to the stock investors who have been successfully able to multiply their investment money. But this success story also carries a malicious caveat too underneath its surface.

Official warning bells have been rung for the investors to be more cautious in their money-trading.

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