A tiny dew drop Caging in itself a sunlight. A sunlight that swallows. A cold tiny dew drop Lost. O sunlight! Do you feel possessed? Do you feel bit cold? Sunlight of your love Shone and swallowed My heart, my dew drop. My Love! Do you feel possessed? Do you feel bit cold?
I am a moist cloud. No corner of this infinite sky, could ever be mine. Born yesterday, today I died. That’s all of my history. That’s all to my life. This poem is greatly inspired by a poem by Ms. Mahadevi Verma.
I took my Master of Technology in Microelectronics and VLSI in Teaching Assistant category (2007-2009) from IIT Bombay. Although project work is an essential part of this program, it is more or less a taught degree. One does a certain minimum amount of course work in first two semesters and expected to contribute to a …
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One of my lab-mates hikes to psychologically anneal himself. May be hiking is some sort of spiritual experience for him as doing assignments is for me. He planned for a night hiking around Antergange. Oliver told me that we’d pass through some villages during trekking, I enthusiastically joined them. Also I like the company of …
At least during university ranking season, many of us show strong concerns about the shoddy state of affairs in which we find our higher education today. It will be an understatement to say that everything is not well with our higher education system. The rot has gone really deep. In some sense, some of our …
The rigor and enthusiasm with which economists have been advising government – and incidentally maligning each other – have naturally led some to reflect on the role of intellectuals in society. The role of social scientists have enlarged to a great extent in this world and they have come to play some sort of pre-eminent …
This article is written by Prof. S. D. Agashe. I greatly enjoyed it when I was a graduate student in department. I hope, some of you will enjoy reading this too. Euclidean geometry and the axiomatic method Euclid’s Elements constitutes the earliest extant substantial presentation of a body of material in the axiomatico-deductive form . …
The mind of a man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beam of things should reflect according to their true incidence: nay, it is rather like a enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture. — Francis Beacon Prof. Andre Beteille — whom I owe a great deal of …
In 1890s, Emile Durkhiem, consistent with his ‘The rules of Sociological method’, began his work on Suicide. He was seeking to establish that suicide is explicable through the social structure and its ramifying functions. The conclusion drawn in this book are nowhere near to surprising for modern mind. But the methods used, classifications, and commentaries …
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 …