March 24, 2010. Who is middle class? Definitions are the most important thing to ponder when one tries to bring about an idea. India was able to define herself when she was liberated, thanks to a number of thoughtful scholars she produced. Pakistan was not fortunate enough. He never had a definition of his own. …
Nichalpur is a small village. It has a primary school. All of the nearby three villages had only one school that time. Just like everyone else in my village, from class 1 to class 5, I did my primary schooling there. COME, GET A DOB : ‘When was I born?’, I did not know till …
I was a M.Tech (Matka) in IIT Bombay during 2007-2009. These are few accounts of this life. HOSTEL 9 I stayed, all of my time during my post-graduation, in Hostel-9, Room No 133. In second year, masters student usually change their hostel to 12, 13 or 14. I did not like those big hostels. Hostel …
Have you heard a story of a spider which never lost hope and ultimately succeeds to climb up the roof of the cave. And a guy watching it ultimately learned the lesson that ‘never lose hope.’ As a little girl pointed out in her school, spider never lost hope because it had none. But that’s all right, …
After passing through A, B, C, D kind of exams (GATE 2007), I applied at IISc (Dept of Instrumentation), IITM (Dept of Aerospace) and IIT Kanpur (Nuclear Technology). Honestly, I am not a supporter of competitions, even if I have been successful in one of them. The discomfort is for various reasons, most prominent of them is that competitions …
My ancestor were so happy living in Iran. Avestan was their mother tounge. It was written right to left and have a strong emphasis on minute phonological differences. One day I dont know what happened, a group of dissidents broke away. They were literally pissed off. Why? Hard to say. May be because they were …