I am not a very social person. I have few friends. When I lost one of them to suicide recently; I came to know how much it can disturb one. Siva was my classmate when I was doing my masters at IIT Bombay. In social hierarchy of IIT he belonged to a higher caste (Dual …
Students of psychology and history will have to tell us why M.S. Dhoni is not considered the greatest of Indian cricketers while many others with much less to show for themselves are considered worthy of this title by many? I agree that comparison between generation can be misleading but comparison between achievements should not be. …
“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 …
(Following obituary was sent to IITB community by director of IIT Bombay. This is written by his colleagues) Prof. R. E. Bedford 1926 – 2012Prof. R. E. Bedford, Professor Emeritus at IIT Bombay, passed away in Chennai on 25th June 2012, aged 86. He was a faculty member at IIT Bombay from 1958 to 1986, …
P. Sainath on Western democracy. On ‘How planning commission measure poverty’. <iframe width=”420″ height=”315″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/RaGZHBIWpU0″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen>On Economics of Food
I am interested in greatness, not in damn dots. — John Arlott, writing on W. G. Grace It is said that cricket chauvinism runs across two axes, those of nation and generation. So when Steve Waugh came to the crease in the first test of the 1998-9 Ashes, A fellow countryman Bill Lawry welcomed him …
It has been said that ‘behind every great thinker lies a lesser begin who shall translate, collate, annotate or otherwise facilitate his work.’ So James Boswell followed Dr. Johnson around the pubs of London, first ‘committing to memory, and thereafter to print, every word uttered in cups’. Ernest Jones and Strachey assumed the job of …
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one. — …
“There are two kinds of journalists. One kind are journalists, the other are stenographers.” — P. Sainath In last sixty years, overall degradation of public institutes in India have been quite troublesome. It is remarkable that a generation which was 70% illiterate could built up such kind of institutes which were among the best in …
Path breaking inventions in any country were the priviledge of ametuer apprentices rather than artisans who followed the profession traditionally and carried forward the technology mechanically. — Shankar Abaji Bhise How should I justify title of this blog when every Indian is a born engineers. Go to any Village, you’ll see them inventing ingenious solutions …