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In the words of Irshad bhai only-- "हर आदमी जो सही दिख रहा है, कही अन्दर से टूटा हुआ है। " And in mine words-- "जीना महँगा हो गया है और ज़िंदगी सस्ती हो गयी है." I am just sum of these two lines in reality. Rest written here is broken and chaos of my mind. I am trying hard to inculcate and dissolve ideas into mine reading material, thinking and writing. From now onwards, the frequency of posting on blog will be low and only original matter will appear. More composition, less compilation and adaptation. Instead of plagiarism, a phase to produce mine naive thoughts has came. Shit does not always float. It has to be flushed in sewer one day. Things had changed inside me now!. Yeh woh Manzil to Nahin : This is not the article I want to publish here just a day before. A disorganised, disoriented and unthemed writing. But this is how life is, unclear and changing our subjectivity of perception on recollection. Too much order was taking the breathe of the blog,...

"Blogging won't make you a millionaire, so you should only blog if you love doing it. If you don’t enjoy yourself, your readers won’t enjoy reading your blog." -- Unknown. It is the first step for start of writing original writeup only. This post is written in the series of flushing collection of other peoples writing from my mind. Reminder, this post is full of plagiarism. Education-- Tell me about yourself: a brief introduction, talk about your skills relevant to the position, experience are transferable to position available and career objective. It is the sort of basic questions faced by us. For me, a college degree shows not that its holder has learned something but rather that he is the kind of person who could learn something. Today, a hybrid talk on education. Schools or Universities are places where most young people come together crossing the old boundaries of religion and caste. It is here where the new nation is being constructed in the minds of coming ge...

This is an aspirational information-gathering article. Don't consider it an inspirational or nostalgic write-up for the land of the leather industry, Kanpur. Kanpur is a big city rich in history. The summarized details are available on Wikipedia and the unofficial Kanpur  website. For highly irrational opinions, take a joy ride with me . Tourism: Places of Interest in Kanpur. For more queries, contact: Official blog page of the District Magistrate, Kanpur Nagar . Hotels and Food: A lot of hotels are established to cater to thousands of guests yearly. The Landmark Hotel, Kanpur with Mehak Restaurant serves authentic Chinese and traditional Indian dishes. The names are like this--Angithi Restaurant, Little Chet Restaurant, Chung Fa Restaurant. One person has taken a taste & reviewed nearly all of them. FYI, it's not me. Reviews are at --- My experience with Restaurants in Kanpur. Cuisine: Dish name: Kanpur Chapathi. The processing Technique is explained with photos here . S...

I have became 24 years old today. My birthday is like gentle reminder that I am much more nearer to death and consequently I have that much less time to do whatever I want to do. With each passing day, the indefinite future grows a little bit darker, but the past just keeps getting brighter with nostalgic and sweet memories. Girish Karnad had written his first renowned play 'Yayati' when he was a 21 year old in 1962. Orson Welles made "Citizen Kane" at age of 26 and Bhagat Singh became martyr at the age of 24. Here, I am inheriting this earth, still offering my service to a foreign company for livelihood rather than solving problem of un-proportionate distribution of power and wealth in my country. It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Still searching for that missing something ! What better to quote something bhokali on birthday: In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable drea...

Let me begin with the paragraph cited from above article: Redefining meaning of world class :- What a pity! 18% of the worlds population (Indians) call third rate colleges as world class and continue to delude themselves. Not only that, they fight tooth and nail to fight to get into universities which are trash by any standard. To add icing to the cake, these 3rd rate institutions say that they are better than Harvard (factoring in just the exclusivity factor) or say that they are "world class". Its better that they these institutes recognize the garbage they are in and first come out of the trash can, before trying to make any claims to delusionary greatness. Thats one reason why our colleges never look beyond national rankings. Every year, one sees different magazines coming up with headline breaking news, that some IIT has overtaken the other as the top college or that one of IIM's A/ B/ C has been ranked above the other. And the gullible Indians lap up this trash bein...

Every city has a character, a pulse of its own. Kanpur as a city is infamous for its uneven roads, irregular traffic and heaps of garbage. But its people love the city. They add color and spice to this city. They love to live here, no matter how bizarre their ways! This post is all about searching colors of life in this city in the images through the images taken by a foreign tourist. Business: Elgin Mill, Kanpur’s oldest textile mill, J K Cotton Mill, Pulse mills, J K Jute Mills, Kanpur Unnao Leather Development Company (KLC), Ghari detergent & Duncan Fertilizers were all part of the industrial culture of Kanpur. The city may have been robbed of its historic smoking chimneys and requisite infrastructure, threatening the expansion of existing industries, but Kanpur still remains a commercial hub for traders. For more, Why Kanpur is still UNDEVELOPED? Pollution & Traffic: There is nothing more for me to say about the Pollution of Kanpur. Kanpur has topped the list as the most po...

A collection of songs for provoking emotion of nationalism in this numb mind. Hum Hindustani Hum Honge Kamyaab Aye Mere Watan ke Aye Watan Aye Watan Sarfaroshi ki Tamana Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. Loving my country gives me courage to change it for better tomorrow and alter yesterday's mistake. Despite many intellectuals think 15th August,1947 as change of government, I prefer to stick to mine opinion. All those who sacrificed blood and life for this country were not fools and they deserve respect from our side. And there is also no use of silent gratitude for all martyrs. They deserve more than these patritoc songs, they deserve more... I know that hundred years of rule did not just colonize the land but it also colonized the body, mind, thought and culture of the conquered people. Independence to the Indian people was supposed to have come over 62 years ago but we are not free because of the brown sahibs surrender an...

A man far greater than you or me, Mahatma Gandhi gave us a talisman “ Recall the face of the poorest and weakest man you have seen, and ask yourself if this step you contemplate is going to be any use to him. ” I see this line in class 1st in ncert books. I was able to read this line in class 3rd in Hindi book. I understand true meaning of these magical words at this phase of life. I don't know when I will feel those words ? Leave this idealistic talk one way, be practical for a while. FYI, I have done a small share of mine social responsibility. I have just taken fees burden of Sruthi [ Profile ] completely and Hemant [ Profile ] partially for this academic year. This is made possible through a NGO , Sankalp Foundation . I had enquired about this NGO completely before helping the students in their educational endeavours. Arun Tangri [ CSE -06, ITBHU ] is the person who had arranged all the formalities and meeting with the parents of Sruthi and Hemant . Reason to take cre...

Lyrics : Varun Grover Sung By: Sumeet Raghvan Music : Claver Directed By: Abhigyan, Varun, Jeevak and Rahul Sure a big controversy will arise and I am waiting for moral scavengers to attack on this show [ Streisand_effect ]. My personal reason to cheer it, off course Varun Sir and plain satiric truthfulness of opening song.

JRD Tata had once observed “ I don’t want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country. ” Currently, there is the alienation of students from the ground realities of India. In the race to become technologically advanced, we have given no attention to social science and the rural sector. See, everyone knows and has seen the fact that if the rich sell a gun, the poor use it to destroy them. As long as the idea of 'potential resource' is equated to power and control, development will always be about money. Never about people or real social development perhaps. Deep Joshi, Magsaysay prize winner in 2009 points out the fact that "Development work is considered intellectually inferior, unlike high science, industry or diplomacy. We want to prove that it is both a challenging and a noble choice." The lack of social scientists is hurting the growth of India. There is a lack of serious study of economics and social science in India. Read Fracture...

1- What a College Education Buys: But the education kids are rewarded for may not be the same education their parents think they are paying for. Economists would say that a college degree is partly a “signaling” device — it shows not that its holder has learned something but rather that he is the kind of person who could learn something. Colleges sort as much as they teach. Even when they don’t increase a worker’s productivity, they help employers find the most productive workers In recent decades, the biggest rewards have gone to those whose intelligence is deployable in new directions on short notice, not to those who are locked into a single marketable skill, however thoroughly learned and accredited. 2- College Education and The Placebo Effect: The placebo effect is scientifically established, well-known effect in medicine. Basically, when doctors prescribe a sugar pill (a placebo), a good percentage of patients do get better. Note that while a placebo is just a sugar pill, the ef...

From RGV's blog, a thought for the day--- Q: Can you give me an example to differentiate between knowledge, intelligence, genius and wisdom? Ans: Knowledge is to know that a snake contains poison; intelligence is to figure out what the poison contains and how it can kill you. Genius is to create an anti venom. Wisdom is to know all this but yet not to fuck around with the snake just in case the first three go wrong. Capital gains : A vivid, wide-ranging (and very scary) portrait of unbridled consumerism in the post-liberalisation years. [ Thanks to Jai Arjun Singh ] Infamous List : To clarify, the people in these lists are/were good, honorable people. What is unpleasant/infamous about the lists are the circumstances in which these people found themselves. Rabindranath Tagore in Conversation with H. G. Wells Gapminder : Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Free Hindi Ebooks Download. Mentor Yourself : Five core strategies for developing a more satisfyin...