To one of his admirers, no less than a Ramachandra Guha, Ashis Nandy is ‘an unclassifiable social scientist’. He mixes psychology and philosophy with sociology to a magical effect, some would say to a corrupting effect. I can not imagine anyone who would read him without being deeply influenced. His masterpiece ‘The intimate enemy‘ have …
Your IITian-ness, You may or may not be conscious of it, but your appetite for comparison and self-congratulation if not narcissism is colossal. I understand that success in competitive examinations boosts one’s confidence and increases one’s pride in one’s abilities. If such a pride drives you to hone your intellectual abilities, technical capabilities and professional …
I have been a teaching assistant in IIT Bombay since 2007. In otherwise a continuous stint, there was a gap of one year when I worked in industry after completing my masters. I prefer programming and lab related courses. I take a perverse interest in figuring out which student has copied his/her assignment. There have …
I stumbled upon something on how to manage labels in mutt. See this post . I have been using mutt for two years but I never really needed this feature. As the usage of email is increasing, this is a great way to label the emails. It is much better than tagging. Good thing about …
That men do cruel things to women is widely acknowledged and accepted. What is often concealed, not always in innocence, is that woman cruelty towards woman is no less compared to men’s cruelty to women. This is not to condone any sort of violence to anyone but to draw attention to a fact. It has …
A small program tingu is implemented in haskell. It reads minterms from a file and produce the output on console. It is hosted on github. You can use it like ./tingu -i minterms Your minterms should be described in a file like following vars = 4 minterms = 1,2,5,7,8,9,10,13,15, Then output of program is Hello, …
“IF this silly fellow keeps writing the things he does and saying the things he says, then he has no future at all. Certainly no one in power or positions of authority can ever forgive him,” — Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, What I try to do is look at the survival strategies of the poor, which …
After completing my post-graduation from IIT Bombay and before joining my new job in Noida, I was at home when my mother asked me about my classmates: where are they and what are they doing. I told her that I know few of them and most of them are in ‘videsh’ (read Europe or US) …
Whatever you can rightly say about India, its opposite is equally true. — Teacher of Prof. Amartya Sen India is a pluralist society that creates magic with democracy, rule of law and individual freedom, community relations and diversity. What a place to be an itellectual! … I wouldn’t mind being born ten times to rediscover …
If your terminal is left in mess (line-break are messed up and newlines are not visible etc) due to ncurses-crash or seg-fault, you can make your terminal behave normally again. Type stty sane^j In current implementation of stty. stty sane