Do they still exist?

On Nov 14, in rediff.com president Kalam was answering children of different age groups ranging from 10-24. Questions were ranging from Poverty to Terrorism. But one question that was asked by many people including me was, What plan do our government have to stop the potential brain drain happening in the country right now?

Why we dont have someone selfless to serve the nation and fight with evils out here like corruption, pollution, ill-social-discipline and so on. Do any of us have the guts?. "No, None of us have" If you had asked me yesterday. But today I changed my mind to say "Yes". (read further to know why)

Because, today I found some one who was a trustee for a social welfare organization, improving the literacy of many villages in india, solving irrigation problems of farmers, trying to apply technology for the service of humanity. Immediately, you might think various reasons for him doing so. Probably he might not have had a good job, or rather he did not have a sound educational background to survive the thriving competition or something of this sort. But rather the truth is very simple, he says "he is happy doing this than many things in world". When he said "many things", i wondered "what could be they?".

He is one of those top 50 engineers of india who join IIT Madras for B.Tech in Electrical Engineering. He finished is M.Tech from IITM. Served for Some of the top multi nationals in world in US for couple of years, did some wonders in networking/operating systems area. Found something missing in whatever he did, he came to india and decided to do his Ph.D. You would wonder, if I say his Ph.D was in "Irrigation and Farmer Welfare".

Now he has decided to do social welfare for rest of his life. I wonder and am very happy that they still exist.

Mudivillai Itharuku......It never ends......

We run behind something all the time. Some time we call it aquisition of knowledge, sometimes money, sometime towards somethings for which the reason could be as stupid as "it is peer pressure, if i dont do it, i may be left behind in the race". We all run this rat race, for what? Is there a (meaningful) end to it?

Rats dont know where they run, but they join the rat crowd in the race.

My father once said looking at a street dog playing with its Puppies, "Probably this is the most happiest creature right now on earth". Who knows he may be right?

God made his things in such a way that it can never ever be measured by his bloody creatures (esp. creatures like humans, who think they are smarter than other creatures, may be they are not). But many of us boast and be proud of ourselves with things we measure with our own/global scale. Say, 95% in 12th Exam, or probably an onsite chance with in first 3 months of joining a company, getting an award, etc. But i think the best acheivement is something which can never be measured, it can only be felt, and you feel happy you did through out your life (like many of gods creations, say like happiness, depression, love, guilt all these things do not have a scale). I think my best acheivement ever in life would be when i accomplish something from my heart and i when i stop constraining myself with man made bounds. It is like this...

We all are trying to
Maximize: our benefits in some form (money/power/whatever)
contraint to: time, people, resources
But the constraints above can only be man made things, never ever god made things. (Have you ever said, i will work in this untill i feel happy/satisfied. No we always say, i will work in this for next 2 months or 2 years).

when we start working with objectives with constraints that are god made things, i think we will reach the boundlessness in our solution. I mean the real infinity, and no man-made-scale can ever measure such an acheivement. I think all genuises (einstien, isaac, ramanujam, raman) followed this funda.

Exams are nearing...

Finally, the semester is coming to an end 15 more days to go. All classes are over in last week of November. First exam for me is Data Mining on Nov 1st, followed by Supply Chain on 5th, Game Theory on 12th. Apart from that I have to complete around 3 projects one each in each subject. Also, I have a pending term paper to submit for SCM. I think all this will keep me occupied till Nov 28, 2005. Also, I should start my preparing for my final exams at-least by last week of November, else it will be impossible to score even 50%.

Only thing that keeps me alive here at IISc is the coffee in coffee board, if i can change its name, I will change it as splendid. Actually I think the coffee is served in a perfect blend of milk, sugar and Coffee decoction, which makes this coffee one of its kind.

Actually, I have strange thought couple of days back.

" 'Absolute' too is a relative to some thing, so there is nothing actually absolute. Absolute by itself actually would have no meaning until there is something relative. It holds true with ‘Relative’. Relativeness requires absoluteness. So, they both are needed to explain each other. Most of antonyms in English follow this kind of argument. To state with out loss of generality, we can say every thing in this world (not just language) is made of exactly opposite things which is completely balanced to zero."

I am out here with Night....

Last week I had an excellent night out, i think it was around 40 hours, non-stop continuously working, excellent experience. after which I slept for 15 hours straight (couple of breakfasts and dinners slipped thru). Anyway, finished both data mining and game theory assignments. Data mining was a bit killin'.

This week is full of mid term tests. For all subjects this week will be the final mid-term after which it will be only the FINAL exam in dec 1st/2nd week.

I actually forgot my office address and phone number, when, last week i called credit card helpline for some reason. Interesting...isn't it? Lets see what else i remember at the end of this course !!