Do we appreciate anything or anybody?

"Appreciate" as per oxford dictionary is : "recognize the full worth of" but today it seems that we have forgotten this word. We are so much interested in our own selfish needs that we are never grateful for anything that comes our way. The mindset that:people are supposed to help me, i should get this/that, its my right to claim this, is certainly making us rude. There is this overwhelming sense of entitlement. We take things for granted and thats where all goes wrong. We don't care for what others do for us, we just think that they are supposed to help. But this is not the case. Everybody deserves some thanks and gratitude for helping us.

With people getting richer, we are forgetting the virtues of gratitude and have started to believe that money has the power to get anything done. Well it sure does have the power to get you materialistic things but what about relationships? How much do we interact with our subordinates, our colleagues or our friends. We just think that these people are there for us. If somebody makes a mistake, we are all guns over him forgetting that its human to make mistakes. But then we are divine and we don't make mistakes.

So next time your friend helps you, somebody offers you his support or you buy something from a general store remember to say 'please' and 'thank you' coz it is all that is needed to make things work.
So please say please. [:P]

what have i learnt from IIT

IITs may be among the most coveted colleges in India but is it really the mecca of education? Is the best research centre in the country? What do students in IITs really learn, why are they seen as some of the best brains in the world? Well to the common man the answers to these question may be immaterial because after all you want is a good job after graduation which come as a guarantee with IIT admission. But are IITs really worth it.

According to me IITs are the toughest colleges to get in but the easiest to get out (of course wid a degree) of. All the hard work, determination, number crunching stops when you enter IIT. People here have a laid back attitude in general and will do everything and anything to avoid an assignment. Copying assignment, getting profs to postpone deadlines is everyday affair. The real education starts a week before exam but that is forgotten once the exams are over. After three years of studying in a branch of the so called best engineering colleges in India I now wonder what really have i learnt. I am certainly not the master of any subject and not even a jack of most. What really have i learnt????

The only thing that I can safely say about my college is that it makes you an all-round personality. Interacting with people who have such unique talents teaches a lot. Its the people, my friends, my classmates that have taught me the best lessons of life. Everybody here is skillful in one or the other thing and gyaan-dhara never stops. Everybody is always bubbling with new ideas, new information that is how we learn what we learn. From politics to cultural fest, from technical quest to daaru-party, from night-outs to complete bunks, from four-star to dhaba, from pub to hostel terrace, from campus lake to brahmaputra, from hostel field to hilltop, IIT has taught me all.

I thank my friends, my seniors, my juniors and everybody else for teaching me all the important things in life. No matter how much I hate our college for its shortcoming but my Heart, my Soul, my Love will still be with IITG.

luv u all.......

We indians are all rapists.....

Fueled by the anger of reading repeated cases of rape, sexual assault etc I began to think if we Indians will ever come to terms with open mind when sex is in question. The more thought i put into it, the more i realized that 90% of indians are rapists in one way or the other. Yes this may be disturbing for you but i think this way. Apart from the numerous cases of unreported rapes and sexual harassments, there is another category that I consider rape. Its the legal rape. This is surprising but yes in india there is a license available to rape and this license is called arranged marriage or generally marriage in which neither the broom nor the bride has a say. How much do the bride and the groom know about each other before they get married. Two months or at max six months, this is the time between engagement and marriage. Within this short period of time I personally don't think its possible to know the complete personality of anybody. With intercaste weddings a big taboo in our country, either the bride or groom or even both are left to wonder about their future. This is the category of legal rape and this isn't gonna stop till we do something about our "Dharam ke Thekedars".

When will we grow up? When will lovebirds of meerut and places alike feel free to sit in a park and enjoy their talks? When will these ever increasing rape cases stop? Its time the youth put a brave step in front of their parents and let the world know that we live in an open era with no restrictions. And for God's sake please provide some sex education at school level. Its better to talk about than to rape somebody to get to know about sex. Kick the bastard politicians in their balls and beat the hell out of those who seek a ban on sex education.

The above are my personal thoughts and I welcome any comments that you have. So next time you read a newspaper article about rape ask yourself if you are in some way or the other responsible for it....

Top Ten Reasons for Upgrading to a PC instead of a Mac:

• 1. You enjoy reading computer manuals
• 2. Buying parts 'not included' is your idea of being patriotic
• 3. Blaming it on the PC is a great excuse... for anything
• 4. Tech support is your idea of telephone dating
• 5. Your favorite computer game is figuring out where your files are
• 6. You look forward to today's new virus (or worm, or both)
• 7. You like listening to telephone support hold-button music
• 8. Letting the kids play on the Mac next door frees your time (eliminates after-school kid sitters)
• 9. You think Bill Gates deserves the money
• 10. You have nothing better to do with all the extra time

iitians who we really are...

Iitians in India are a famous and respected breed. Wherever you go and tell people that you are in IIT or u are an iitian, there will surely be some moms and dads coming upto you asking some advice for their children. Common perception is that we are complete nerds who are really good at understanding things and studying hard. We are seen as descendants of goddess Saraswati (the goddess of knowledge). but little do the people know that beneath this aura of geekdom we are people with very rare and mostly unacceptable qualities.

let me tell the world what we really are. Every iitian has two sides to him, the one he maintains at home and with other non-iitian (no hard-feelings) friends and one tht he has in college. They say that things come into their best when they are in congenial surroundings. And iit campus is the best place for us to come into our own and live the real insane side of our life.
Every iitian loves pink-floyd coz it is the best music that has ever been played. We call it the psychedelic music and as the saying goes:

To fathom Hell or soar angelic,

just take a pinch of psychedelic.

But we being from the Satan side need a little more than that so its elixir of Satan (usually rum, vodka, whiskey, smoke n sometimes dope) combined with Pink Floyd that takes us higher. Almost all the discoveries (there aren't many to boast about) are made in this phase and this is the time that we actually do something other than watching movie, tv-soaps or playing games.

About the movies and tv-soaps thing, you will always find an iitian who has seen whtever movie u think off and who knows every episode of FRIENDS by heart. The gaming (SOF n AOE in my campus) is another religion here. Late nite gaming is just another chore that most of the iitians have to do. Its the only way to get you frustration out, u cant kill a prof, atleast kill another player who plays by your prof's name.

Even though what I am going to say is a well-kown national fact but for the records i have to repeat it. "Iitians are sex-starved." Yes it is as true as any other theorem in the world and is perhaps the easiest to prove. We people will approach anything which even remotely resembles the female side of human life. Even though we may maintain a high taste amongst ourselves but the truth is that we are always looking for a glimpse of some female counterpart. We might be the most eligible bachelor education wise, money-wise but beware of the wild side.

Lastly I may have degraded my fellow mates by my harsh comments so to even out things let me enlighten some good things about us. Yes we are workaholic but only when its a day or two before the deadline. We can work for 4 days in a row and yet show no signs of tiredness of sleep. And the very next day we can sit in an exam and still perform better than most people on earth. Yes we are geeks, but geeks who know how to study and how much to study and most importantly when to study. Yes we can work like an ass but only when it comes to organising cult-fest, rock-nites and tech-fest.

The most important thing is that we don't live our lives as the world wants us to do, we just live it the way we want to. We dont care if people idolize us our despise us, we don't care for any dams thing on earth coz thts the way we are.

IIT SUCKS but I LOVE it STILL.........