Things I thought I would never write...

Here it is. Diveagar 2. It's been almost a week since we have returned. No blog yet? Not fair. There were many firsts in this trip. It was the first time I was going to Konkan. We set out at 6in the morning...just imagine!!! For the first time localites were accompanying us on a holiday and for the first time they were not there usual bore selves and thank god for that. Our driver had no clue whatsoever about the roads that led to Diveagar. He still looked and talked as if he had mapped the entire western Maharashtra region. Thanks to him we travelled an extra hundred kilometres. Now I feel, thank god! we lost our way. We got to saw Wai - village where some of the most interesting scenes of Swades were shot. Picturesque! Then we went to Panchagani. There we saw the location where Taare Zamin Par was shot. Breathtaking! Finally we got on track. We reached Diveagar after spiralling our way through the Sahyadris for nearly two hours. No points...

Dive Agar beckons! It's been quite a while since I have been to any exotic location for a holiday. Well, not exactly, as I had been to Mahabaleshwar less than a year ago. But who wants to miss an opportunity to holiday? I certainly am not the one. We are planning to leave tomorrow morning. It's Saturday tomorrow and a welcome holiday as we have had a very short vacation. We hardly had time to unwind before we had to pack our bags again for destination PUne. (PU - Pune University). It's going to be eight of us guys. Entire weekend by the sea. Soaking in some calmness of the place. I think it's going to be really helpful for we have subjected ourselves to extreme relaxation by partying the hard way at Mood Indigo, the cultural festival organised by IIT Bombay. Hope this trip brings us back to our senses and makes us ready for our humdrum lives in our college. We are having some tense moments as for the planning for the trip. But we ...

This is my new laptop. Dell Inspiron 1520. This thing rocks! and why shouldn't it when it belongs to a rockstar! This thing is all curves. No perky edges. No sharp corners. Just smooth curves with great finishing and styling. The touchpad is extremely cool. It's sensibly sensitive. Could not have asked for a better keyboard. The touch of the keys is heavenly. The speakers sound better than Altec Lansing. Headphones are mindblowing. Screen is crystal clear with every aspect customizable. Rock steady performance with great functionality makes this package worthy of praise. Camera is not as powerful as it should have been. Chalta hai. Windows Vista is all glossy. A welcome departure from style-starved XP. This interface is extremely user friendly. IE 7 looks a little messed up. I think i will go for firefox instead. Connecting to the internet has never been easier even with PC Suite. DELL Media Direct is a patchy replica of Windows Media Center. Cool way to access media without ac...

This is my new laptop. Dell Inspiron 1520. This thing rocks! and why shouldn't it when it belongs to a rockstar! This thing is all curves. No perky edges. No sharp corners. Just smooth curves with great finishing and styling. The touchpad is extremely cool. It's sensibly sensitive. Could not have asked for a better keyboard. The touch of the keys is heavenly. The speakers sound better than Altec Lansing. Headphones are mindblowing. Screen is crystal clear with every aspect customizable. Rock steady performance with great functionality makes this package worthy of praise. Camera is not as powerful as it should have been. Chalta hai. Windows Vista is all glossy. A welcome departure from style-starved XP. This interface is extremely user friendly. IE 7 looks a little messed up. I think i will go for firefox instead. Connecting to the internet has never been easier even with PC Suite. DELL Media Direct is a patchy replica of Windows Media Center. Cool way to access media without ac...

Once in a while a day comes...a special day. It was today for me. Raghunath Mashelkar came to my college. Who is he? He is a motha manoos as we say in Marathi. How big? He holds twenty nine doctorates. He was the director of csir for 12 yrs or so. He is the scientific advisor to the prime minister of India. He is a fellow of the royal society. I don’t remember other details but he has a terrific personality for a sixty five year oldie. He came, he captured. He inspired nearly a thousand in an hour and left in awe still more. It was his knowledge and way of putting forward ideas that captured everyone's mind. He literally left the audience spellbound. He kept stressing over and over again that the future lied in the youth of the world. And that came from a man who himself is sixty five years old. He is a proud Indian, he said. Oh yes, he is. He fought for turmeric and neem patents for the country. But that did not ma...

India poised! thus goes the slogan of a campaign run by a newspaper house. May be they are true. Not that we won't like them to be true. It is just the way that this campaign is being carried out which makes the whole concept shallow, to say the least. On one hand they talk about people in different fields doing something for the nation in their own ways and on the other hand they talk about aishwarya rai. Well,who doesn't like thinking about aishwarya but what on earth does one have to do with the sindoor smeared on her forehead. Who gives a damn about her engagement or amar singh's presence at her engagement! Another thing that has come up in this campaign is India becoming a soft power.No doubt, India is fast becoming a soft power but we need to take it in the right sense.We can't see India as a soft power just because people in Afghanistan can't stop themselves from watching "Kyunki saans bhi kabhi bahu thi". If soft power ...

With the formation of the GOM comprising mostly pro-reservation individuals the hopes of anti-reservation protestors have almost evaporated. The best thing that can happen now is increasing the number of seats in national institutes and implementing quotas at the same time. This will definitely take time and so the protestors should get back to their respective jobs and put a stop to their hunger strikes and et al. The way protests were conducted and as a result handeled was definitely not correct , to say the least. The thick-skinned politicians hardly had themselves affected in any way. The most negative part in this whole thing was undoubtedly played by the media. They instigated the students all over the nation by glorifying the wrong means adopted by the protestors and showing the police in poor light. What else were the police expected to do - allow hundreds of protestors to enter a ministers house to kill him or to be a mute spectator to the violent clashes that would ha...