Bhootkal Vartmankal Bhavisyatkal

After a long time, I was going on a trip to a few temples in South India along with my family. To kill time during travel, we started talking about random topics. Quite a lot of them were really thought provoking. I would like to post one such very interesting topic here –  “Are you controlled by karma/fate OR do you have the power to change your karma/fate?” Let us validate each argument separately. In India, we have always believed in karma as concept wherein the good & bad deeds done in one’s previous life(s) will have a direct bearing on the subsequent life(s). We are controlled by karma/fate: Now we start by assuming that we are controlled by karma/fate. Hence, when a person is born, his fate is already decided. The decision each person takes in his/her life will make sure that the person is moving on the track towards this “intended fate”. This would mean all good deeds & bad deeds that a person would do are already pre-decided so that he achieves...

Today is the 28th of August, two years since a dream named "The Seventh Sense" materialized!! ;-) ;-) :-) I was just thinking about the entire episode and thought this would be a great opportunity to recognize & thank each one of you who were involved in this. The entire department including 1000 odd students, 75 odd staff(teaching & non-teaching) were a part of this, so please excuse my limited memory if i have missed out on anyone. First and foremost, all the event coordinators.. Once you talk about events, the first which comes to my mind is paper presentation.. The reason - I dint know "a..b..c.." of what is supposed to be done there and therefore we wanted someone really really competent!! Our answer - N.S.P Aravinth & Pranesh. Paper presentation always is an integral part of any Techfest and if that failed or something went wrong during the event, things would turn out to be pretty bad. But the way they handled it made sure we had one...

I just saw this movie - Three Idiots and all i have to say is - "What a way to begin this new year!!!". Aamir stands out again as an amazing actor and is extremely superb in this movie. For those of you who have read - "Five Point Someone" by Chetan Bhagat would find lot of similarities between the book and the movie. I am yet to check on the internet to validate my claim.:-) As of now, my mouth is shut as far as new year resolutions are concerned. I just hope that this year is also as successful as the previous one. Immediate plans for the new year includes watching two movies - "Paa" and "Avatar". I guess i am pretty late in watching the former. Wishing friends is next on the list. I consider these celebration times - new year,christmas,festivals as great excuses to catch up with long lost friends, professors et all. Nothing more..Just wanted to scribble something on the blog on the last day of this year and also because i had no...

When i joined the college, there were talks about TOEFL. I paid little attention to them as i thought - "Itna tention kay lena hai? Jab semester holidays mein India jaunga, tab dedunga.Simple!!!" Infact i felt pity on some of the guys who bunked classes to go and give the exam back in India. I was totally confounded by their attitude. Firstly, they could have given their exam in Dubai itself instead of spending a fortune on the tickets to India plus the TOEFL examination fee. Secondly, they could have given the exam when the semester ends. Finally, i thought i should ask one of them the reason for their behaviour. ----The conversation---- To be honest, i was equally perplexed by his answer - "Dude..TOEFL is much easier to give in India. You score more when you give in India. Here it is very tough and you may not get the minimum required score set by the Management" and added - "You are not giving it or what?". I cooly said - "No dude..I...

It was quite a hectic week around. Mid-semesters, assignments, case studies and presentations!!! I am happy to be alive!! The Eid holidays is a welcome break. Though there is a group project, two journal reports and a 4000 word report, the word "Holidays" has a soothing effect and surpasses all these. So coming back to the main reason for writing this entry - a mail from "My DAD". I got a mail from him couple of days back(2 to be precise). It read: "Based on the facts of bankrupt company, analyse whether it is worthwhile for Reliance to take over. This will be a good learning exercise for you." Helluvah!!! What a surprise!!! The case is about the proposed take-over of LyondellBasell (world's third largest independent chemical company in terms of net sales) by Reliance Industries Limited. In the month of January,2009 LyondellBasell filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. I have started working on it and i hope to do a proper analysis and try to figure out what...

In this article, we continue on from where we left.... We concluded in part 1 by saying that since atmospheric events are truly random, RNG's which use them would indeed produce random numbers. Or does it??? Read on... Let us again start with the most simplest of the physical events - tossing of a coin. We can only be sure that the probability of both a head and tail is equal and is half. We can not even tell the number of heads or tails we would get by tossing a coin 100 times(though we could say with certain confidence level say 90% that there would be 40 to 60 heads approximately, as your confidence level increases the range also increases. So for saying with 100% confidence, we would have to include the complete range - 0 to 100) leave alone the exact sequence of heads and tails. Now let us move further. What if i say the mass of the coin is 1 gram? Does it make any difference to what we have talked till now? Answer: YES it does. This is a very ...

My first MBA mid-term exams and lo!!! how royally i screw up my paper. What a start man!!! I am truly amazed that after putting in lot of hard-work for the past few days to ensure a  perfect 100%  score, i end up messing a golden opportunity. What surprises me even more is that except perhaps one soul in the class(which is unfortunately me)everyone knew the most liquid asset is "CASH". Now i get it why people say students from engineering background find it tough. It is not because the course is tough or that you would not understand the concepts or any other such related reasons, it is only because engineers love to go "into" the problem, analyze it - using existing definitions, theorems, laws et cetera and finally arrive at "the correct answer". So one may say - "Is mein kya galath hai?" (What is wrong in this?). Well, while its common sense/hard-wired fact that cash is the most liquid asset for students from commerce or finance back...