Sunday, October 31, 2004

A lone mind with numerous thoughts

A long time without a blog but finally i am back after puja holidays which i enjoyed emmensely with my family back home.This time our community organised the gujrati tradition garva at home, a welcomed change from the moribund local tradition of erecting a pandal at every 100 meter and wasting a lot of resources without any fun. I enjoyed it a lot it was a informal but a decent & worth enjoying way of worshiping the diety in contrast to our formal & boring bhajans & kirtans. Secondly it gave me a lot of intraction with local people which i was creeving to, as i am being out of my home town from last 9 years.
Vacation gives me a lot of free time to read as many books as i can this time i completed three novels "The Firm" by JOhn Grisham by Ken Follet & The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy. Reading the third one was the best experience not just because it was my first novel from an indian writer. It was same as watching a hardcore bollywood oldies for the first time after doing a expertise in hollywood big shots. Reading the book i found contrasting way of describing an indian & western incident. There you can rely on lavish & expedient living but while discribing india you will have distress & distress every where after reading the book i came to know of ground reality what we were then........... & what we are now.......... thanks for all the good changes that we as a country managed & sorry for the factors that lead to our failure to get the other good changes which we should have got.But it was a good experience which will intice me to read english novels by indian writers in future too.
In vacation i wasted a lot of my time watching boring stuff in television ( being a kgpian i am bound by the habit of watching a movie daily) what i found was that the number of news channels are increasing at an astronomic rate but it is not variety which is increasing rather it is crap which they are selling. I don't know what is there to know of a village's ridiculous tradition of celebrating dusshera when u have various other serious issues to dig on. whats the use of interviewing each and every member of STF team who were barely able to catch a bandit after 15 years of there formation. it is nothing to boast about rather we should contemplate what had gone wrong so that such a large team with all the resources took so much of time to crack such a uncivilised & unequiped bandit. I do think that the channels are increasing the genral knowledge of public but there information are so much disorganised that rarely one can expert a topic he is deeply concerned in.
Rather than piling up same conceptualised news channel our broadcasting faternity should take initiatives in educating people with there own expertise field like what likes of discovery & national geographic do.I am also perturbed by the working of indian media. Some one has termed media as the forth estate with a purpose of keeping other three state aware of there wrong and good doings & warning them of there demonevours. Rather our indian media shows an exasperating sycophantic characteristic which should not be there in a democracy for it to progress. If i see in retrospect just a year before when vajpayee's govt was at center they were the star of every one's eyes. They were said to be doing a fantastic job by leading the country to an economic boom and making it an hotshot outsourcing destination. They were said to making country a reckoning name by an aggresive foreign policy & increasing forex reserves, of improving the status of living by improved telecom facilities & improving ties with pakistan.
But now i don't know what had gone wrong suddenly that the very same bjp has lost its charm in a short span of 10 months.They have again became an ill managed party with a rss ideology which had gained power by the use of keen communal politics. And the very same sonia gandhi ,who was accused to be a foreigner, whose hindi speeches were edited in english script so that he can murmur something in public gathering, that same lady who once was accused to get all what she had then just because she was the daughter in law of the first (nehru) family of country. The same lady now has became an epitome of dedication & devotion, one who has sacrificed a PM seat for the sake of country. What had brought this sudden change???????????This all happened just because her party, the very same party which had dominated the indian politics for about a century, emerged out as a single largest party(forget about the simple majority too) and was able to form a coalition govt, a highly vulnerable govt whose each and every policies are dictated by the left parties which works on communist ideolgy, which had been rejected as inefficient by the country it has originated from a long time ago.
I am not a ardent BJP supporter or an rss ideology holder but i don't like media to behave in such an immatured manner. Media is the greatest power and a must for a democracy to flourish. But a biased media is a highly repurcussive & selfdistructive entity which can dump a country to its doom. The same media if emphasise more on reporting the wrong policies and illfunctioning of the incumbent government they may become an aid for the functioning of the country & may present a bench mark for the people to know the credibility of a right party.Then only we can make this country a golden bird again. This was quiet boring stuff but as i have stated earlier i am a good reader and i give a lot of thoughts to the current hot issues & all the good and bad thing around me.I do know that some of my thoughts are not quiet ideal but they are acording to my perception which is not matured yet.This is what a serious contemplation is all about. Thank's for bearing me good bye

Tuesday, October 05, 2004

Fantasies The Unrealistic Desire

I like watching movies.They are my best companion when i feel lonely or when i am at my low.There are some which tell me all about famous anecdotes, person or practice.There are certain others which entertain me & fill my heart with vicarious happiness which it is creeving for in a world full of grief. But There are also a few movies which leave a great impact on my way of thinking & attitude.Such are the movies which all version of woods should creeve to make
I happened to watch such a movie yesterday.Although i am an ardent fan of bollywood & only rare bollywood movies can manage to skip my sight. But i occasionally watch english movies too but only after deep consideration & recommendation by my trusted friends.The movie at the point is "Life of David Gale".A must watch for all those who do n't want the world to be as it is today. The film is based on life of a fictious character (no price for guessing)David Gale, a renowned professor & deathwatch activist......An organisation fighting against the practice of death as a capital punishment.It is a thriller cum motivating movie which will leave u guessing all through its course.
But my main motivation to write this post came from the lecture bu Prof. David Gale in the movie about fantasies . The lecture goes on as " Fanatsies have to be unrealistic, because the moment u get what u seek u don't want it any more.Inorder to exist the desire should have its object perpetually absent.it's not it u want but the fantasy of it, so desire supports crazy fantasies.
This was saying the same thing as an obscure thought which came to my mind a few days earlier it was as, How ofen we try to seek a goal. We put on best of our endeavours & intense hardwork upto the extent our mind & body can tolerate & ultimately manage to achieve the desired objective.Then what happens ......Are we happy ever after...........I can bet if anyone can proove that.What happens most of the time is that we catch on some superior goal and begin to wonder in what a crap we were wasting our time & effort when we had got the opportunity to do many a big thing to do with fraction of earlier effort .This feeling motivate us to do a reoentance by seting us a bigger goal which would finally become trivial to us when we shall have achieved it.This is the truth of the life & no one can evade it.Human tribe has achieved current devlopment only by the desire to achieve big......&........bigger.The biggest has never ever happened in any ones life.That is the phenomenon which guides evolution . That is what fuels great discoveries exploration & deeds.Lets try to set us a goal which will become higher and more higher & someday so big that we would be remebered by future generation for the visions & ideas we had given to them.

My honeymoon with the place called KGP

Kharagpur, the place where i am currently studying is not a big city.Rather it is a small town with only two credentials to its name.The first one is the fact that it has world's longest railway platform, although i always wonder for what the hell this english man had built such a long platform which currently accomodate two trains simultaneously at a single side.The second big feature of this place is it has got one of the most reputed engineering college of india( even boasted of as the best engineering college in whole India).This both institutions ie railways (kgp is currently headquarter of eastern zone of indian railways) & iit is driving the life & economy here.
My confortment with kharagpur took place after i have visited IIT powai which has got great scenic & architectural beautiful campus.This very fact forced me to anticipate same thing from kharagpur,but after i came here to my great exasperation i found this place misfitting all my expactation & embedding all my inhibitions. In place of edifices & lofty buildings( i have seen in iit powai) i found damp & unvarnished buildings which should be declared national heritage untill now............ In place of beautiful loans & gardens there was land...hell a lot of land......... land full of green grass........ as if we are here to learn a lesson of how to keep our country green. Only the good facility which this place can boast about was 24 hrs internet & LAN connectivity. I was already down the dumps at that time due to my dismal performance in jee that i was furthur shattered by the place. My dismondency was upto the point that i begun to think that all my hardwork & labour which i have put to get into an iit was in vain.That was the hardest time i had ever faced which will haunt me all through my life.But i accepted it as my destiny & decided to adapt myself according to circumstances.
Today after spending 2 years at this place i can't say that it is a nice place but it do have something which gives it an edge over all other iits, that is its social life. IIT Kgp is sheltering around 15 hostels called halls. Each hall is having its own unique traditions and peculiarities. Each hall exist as a family where most of the guys know all other guys very well. This all interaction (each hall consist of 300-400 boys all having diverse hobbies & skills) lead to growth of overall personality & community skills which other places can only boast about.This is the attribute which make this place a unique one.Sometimes when i get frustrated by the place due to nonavailabilty of some facility or comfort which is considered to be must for a cultured being i do serious contemplation about the advantages & disadvantages of being here. But this is the place where i was destined to live for 5 years & i will like to make my stay here worth rememberable althrough my life so that at the end of the day i can say nostalgically....................... U Can Take An Iitian out of Kgp,But U Can't Take Kgp Out of An Iitkgpian.........
YO!!!!! Kgp..............Kgp ka tempo high hai

geagraphy of a women say's all about her history

Going through todays HT i got hold of this joke. This was in a an article by Renowned writer Khuswant Singh.Actually article was about the fact Restriction leads to proliferation ie if we want to restrict something by law the same thing will propogate by faster pace. I do agree with the same, I happens in our day to day life whenever we try to enforce some restriction or resolve not to do something we then only find how difficult it is to do that and after some fight back we give up. This incident generates a growth of feeling in our mind that we can't do without it and this is the time when problem gets perpetual and we get addicted to it.So in my view inorder to giveup a bad habit we should create an atmosphere which immediately and on its own can create perfect stage for outster of the bad habit.It was just a strange thought leave it.
Here comes the much awaited India-Australia test series.Captains of both the team have promised a tough battle and why not,It would be a tough battle because India are world champions at home & Australians are global world champion. This battle is going to be a fitness test weather a local maxima can beat a global maxima, If you answer it in language of mathematics the answer is no But in language of cricket only strange things happens so world is going to witness a grand battle. In which on a hand is australians who are the champions of the outside india. They will definitely like to win at this final battle field to win this empire of world cricket.On the other hand is young & confident team of Saurav Ganguly "The most Successful & the most aggresive indian captain ever" which is still afresh with the memories of australian tour where they had dared to mess up with best and were able to do so.I hope that the series would be a good one & Men in Blue will come out with flying colours.

let's get acquainted

Hi to all. Here is NITIN GARG. I am a student of the department of Industrial Engineering & Mangement at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.Just came to know about the site from a friend & could't resist myself to sign and create my first blog at this wonderful site. I know you all will find my writing quite boring & full of crap.I am sorry for that but keep on reading them & critics are always welcomed. I have got a great passion to debate on any contentious issue if any of you interested i am always there. Thanking you & hoping that we will have great learning together, I am ending my first blog