What if i may have been there

What a scene it may have been????????
What might i have done ?????
Weather i might have survived or lost in the lap of the mighty ocean??????
What might i have expected others to treat me like in case i may have escaped death????

This were the obvious questions which came to my mind when i imagined myself in the place of a tsunami victim. Long since i came to mybeing, i have fanatised myself enjoying myself in a beach house. Living with the waves & enjoying the beauty of sunset & sunrise in the sea were other benefits which had always made me envy of all the people living by the sea. But recent tsunami accident had about turned my perception. Why only me rather i should say it has shuddered whole world & i think that this may be one of the worst or who knows may be the worst accident in my entire life time.Its very ironic how the very same people who had always derived there livelyhood from the ocean were drowned to death by their own nurturer. How can nature be so cruel. How can god be so careless ( in case he is there).

But it's how the life goes where there are troubles there are escapades too but at this moment of grief it is heartning to see the whole world promising a grand relief. Every one is giving what he can magnimasly But what percent of the grand promises will be respected no one know but it is for sure that how grand relifit may be it can't relieve every one of his grief....... The echo of the incident will be heard for a long long time.......... But at this moment we should do what our beat we can so that when remembering the accident we can say that we have done what best we may had.

Half The Battle Won Other Half Yet To Win

Looking in retrospect just a few years before.......to me being an iitian was a dream to pursue It was the utimate passion fueling the desire to work hard......... to proove yourself ...........to show the world you deserve it ........... Time elapsed and dreams were fulfilled but desires remained back. The starving hungry desires with nothing to fuel them.
It was the end of another semester at iit kharagpur......I were quiet happy not because i did well in the exams but because it marked the end of one of the most horrible semester in my kgp life.Here i was enjoying the peace & planning my winter break, then i came to read the status message of one of my fellow mate which read as "Half The Battle Won" this line was there to say that i had completed half of my stay in kgp but i was not amused.Rather i was exasperated to guess the most appropriate completion of the above mentioned comment which read as Other Half Yet To Win...............What was the cause of this exasperation i don't know myself......Was it the mere fact that i have yet half of my stay due at this place...... what did that mean......... I have always liked the place kgp .......but why i don't want to stay here more .......... why i don't .......Do anybody has an answer to it.... may be the answer lies in the state of the same desire which is starving due to lack of fuel to consume.............. It is the same desire to proove my self............to show the world that i deserve much more then what i am getting.....................
I sometimes do think that .....Is this the same state that i had contemplated for while giving my best effort to get into this institute.........But then i had never thought of the things which i will have to do here .......i had always fancied the accolades and rewards which would be accompaning me after i will clear the jee. But i had never ever planned my aims and objectives after joining an IIT........ That is the reason why i am aimless and passionless now that is why i don't have something to fuel my desire to work hard this days......This was the conclusion i draw upon after my above mentioned moments of restlesness
I don't know how much furthur this state will remain how much furthur i will wander restless in search of a passion to fuel my desire but i hope to break the zinx soon before there is nothing left to do ..................

IIlu Kiske Bap Ki RK RK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi!!!!!! guys just celebrated the best diwali of my life. Eversince my childhood i have got great craze for this festival. It's most prominent festival there in our part of the country and being from a business family it's most celebrating moment of our year. Its having a great pomp and show unlike the other indian festival and best part of the festival is ofcourse the tradition of bursting crackers which i use to enjoy emmensely in my childhood days, But As i grew up my fantasy of crackers got away instead i begun to like diwali for the tradition of lighting diyas which i found best thing to do while celebrating. But two & a half year back when i landed at this sleepy rural town of kharagpur & got aquainted of the tradition of illu here. I was completely aghast to find out how grand and exuberant tradition of illu is keeping in view of all other mediocre and below standard practices being followed here so i decided to wait and watch what happens. When illu time came i worked a lot in making it a success, but inspite of best effort of our hall president and tireless effort from many guys we were not able to mach the expectations. I was very much upset What a nice diwali it was!!!!! nothing in your belly and ur wandering to see the ruins of other halls which were giving the same feeling as if inspecting a ruined city after a nasty devastation. But when we reached Rk where by chance it was about to begun and judges had just entered the erena i was quiet amajed by the twenty foot chatai which was placed 10 feet above the ground depicting krishna and arjun on there rath with 7 horses it was really awesome
the whole theme based on various incidents in mahabharat with central high chatai dipicting the epitome of whole theme it was really worth appreciating. After watching the view i got just a single want i wan't to be in this hall . I don't know what lead to the thought but i was completely aghast by the effort they have put to do that and i am sure the same would be the case with any guy having same traditional sense like me it was really awesome. May be god heard my prayers and i was alloted rk hall and there came the time i was waiting for. I found that illu work here was highly organised each and every thing done was well planed and done in best possible way. It was also very motivating to see the tempo of final years who worked whole heartedly to ensure that work get completed as planned and with all the perfection. I was alotted a chatai with two final years and four of us working on it. The chatai was depicting draupdi chir haran with lord krishna rescuing her reputation.We did our work very well and our grand structure was placed on time every thing was going on with perfectly.
The fateful day arrived when we were about to get fruit of all hard work being put on by us . But our luck bluffed for the first time in my life i experienced rain on a diwali day and illu was postponed to the next day.Next day also weather was not clearly but illu started amid a lot of uncertainity. It started with rp and they put up an excellent show but when it came to our turn it started dizzing & to our distress wind started blowing we were not able to lite our diyas even lited ones were blown off by the wind. Our loss was decided and we can't do anything other than waiting for humiliating roars of the rival winner hall. That was the worst thing to have especially when u were expecting gold and u have done ur best for it that was the worst thing luck can do.On that day after hearing the winning roars of rp hall ( traditional rival of rk) i decided not to work in any illu ever. Time passed and we came to third year all the grey experience of last illu were eroded but the decision not to work again was still as fresh as it was a year before. This year illu was very close to endterm examination that furthur lead to my disinterest in the whole affair. But as the work begun i began to remember the good experience of last illu. How we use to do a lot of masti the whole nite and was there for the class at 7.30 morning. Then i began to think that it has given m e enough memories enough good moments which were a lot compared to unglorious defeat. I found that illu was worth it & inspite of the defeat it had given a lot to the social life of the hall. Then i also remembered the rk illu two year before which had made me to crave to be part of such a glorious show. In the end my decision changed and i started working in the illu. We were alloted a chatai this time it was depicting meditating buddha under the famous tree. this time i will not say that i worked to the same extent as i did in my 2nd year but atleast i put on some effort in it. again the envitable Dday came, I were againt enthuthiastic but this time i were well aware of the luck factor and its role on the outcome but there was definitely a thought that every day is not sunday. And our prayers not remain unheard this time luck factor appeared to be with us.We were able to lite our whole structure & it was looking damn sexy man especially the center 20 feet high chatai depicting lord vishnu in sheshnagsayiya with laxmi. The moment i saw it i got in love with the scene and the same time i knew we will win it this time we will do it. Inspection by the judges was over & it was time to celebrate ur hardwork & to wish ur friends a very happy diwali which was indeed a very special one with thousands of diyas lighting ur garden and mighty figures depicting the grand tradition of iit kgp and saying in loud
illu is worth it !!!!!!! illu is worth it!!!!!!!!!! Finally time for result came traditional rivals rk rp were congregating opposite each other hopoing for the best. Also there were 10 rasgulla pots which were meant to be distributed to the winners & runnerups. among the pots there were some unlucky ones who were about to be given to the runner ups ( Damn loosers in kgp context) Unlucky because no one will savour a single of them and will we fetched to mess workers the next day. Other were the fateful few who were meant for the winners & will be eaten amid a very jubiliant & apetiting atmosphere.Finally the judges came for the thing that matter's the most. For the first time i was watching a typical college scene in kgp all guys shouting and passing on comments with authorities unable to control the mob. Then there came a wining smile from the RP's gsec gymkhana who was having a look at the result taking advantage of his position and our all hopes were shattered. Some of us returned back but i stayed as if i was saying it could not happen again this time. Then the result announcement started and in sequence announcement came 2nd prize for illuminition goes to rp and whole rk was shouting like anything .We were hugging each other and were about to attack our share of rosgulla. It was time for celebration, time for avenging the last years hard defeat. It was one of the most ecstatic moment in my life. We were all over the kgp with traditional tempo shouts of "illu kiske baap ki rk rk . Rp ke Ch...e hakke bakke . Rp ki le li zig zag zig zag" etc etc.
IT was really amazing i wondered what better a diwali can be celebrated.
Long live the Tradition of illu............... Long live the Win of rKThis tradition rocks man and i am sure we will repeat the same win next year when we will be there to defend the trophy and will have very sweet & everlasting memories of this years illu deep embedded in our heart with a deep longing from within to repeat the same glorious win & celebrate the tradition of illu at its best.

It's Nothing Personal, It's all about business

Hi guys a long time away which infused a lot of changes like weather has changed to somewhat cold and end semester timetable is out giving out a loud message "it's time to study.....so on your table and get started"................ But man!!!!!!!......... who is listening????????? As i see no one ...... all are in a strong grips of grand & exuberant kgp mania called ilu. Hey don't be confused by the abbreviated love proposal from the movie saudagar.It's nothing about romance but it's all about tempo & masti. It's kgp's unique way of celebrating the festival of deepawali. Right now i don't have enough time to describe it but it will be explained in my next post.
For the first time in my life i have got a thought to go abroad .It happened after watching the complete series of Apprentice on Lan.Watching it I was amazed by the exuberant living of the west. I also appreciated their way of managing business & follow the well selected principles being practised there. Apprentice is a reality tv show being aired in America which is nothing but a 15 week job interview for a high profile executive job with Donald Trump's company. Trump is a very rich and one of the most successful businessman in america who deals mostly in real state. He has numerous enterprises like golfcourses,casinos,hotels etc which are extensively shown during the course of the show. Initially there are 16 candidates in the game, who are the selected among total of two lakh applications.This are the people from all walks of successful people ie ranging from those who have very renowned educational & professional qualification from best B-schools to those who have barely passed high school but had lead & grown successful enterprises of their own. Participants are divided among two teams with eight participants each. Both the teams are given a task to perform each week, acording to there performance in the task winning team wins a reward and loosing team has to go to boardroom where one of them(who is considered to be the weakest link in the team & cause of defeat) has to be fired. Actually for each task a project leader is forwarded by the team who is always considered to be partially responsible for the lose.After preliminary discussion he is asked to select two members of the team whom he consider to be most responsible for the defeat.After it there is a fierce session of accusation and explanation among the three and the weakest one is fired by the trump himself.
This was for the first time that i had seen how politics play an important role in a successful manager's life. And for a smart manager he should know how to turn the wrong attention from himself & how to fight all odds before even they had arrived ie how to plan for the odds in advance.

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

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