Reading is a Stubborn Habit.

I like reading books from childhood days. I am transferred to another land of beauty in my thoughts. I am enlisting here the books read by me in the time span at ITBHU. Most of them are not fabulous literature work but certainly popular ones in their category.

2007

Netaji Kahin - Manohar Shyam Joshi
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Out of Africa - Isak Dinesen
Shadows on the Grass - Isak Dinesen
iCon: Steve Jobs, The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business - Jeffrey S. Young and William L. Simon
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J. K. Rowling
1984 - George Orwell
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo
One Hundred Year of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
Omertà - Mario Puzo
The Sigma Protocol - Robert Ludlum

2006

The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Ek Boond Sahasa Uchhali - Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayana ‘Agyeya’
Sanskriti ke Chaar Adhyaay - Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling
Godfather - Mario Puzo
Mother - Maxim Gorky
Digital Fortress - Dan Brown
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

2005

India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium - Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Swami and Friends - R. K. Narayan
Wings of Fire - Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
The Lost World - Michael Crichton

Any comment and suggestion will increase my appetite to enjoy literature around the world.

Ekla Chalo Re

You can see the shades of past on my present.
Three words are enough on valentine day for me “Love Lies Bleeding”.

Valentine Day is just another day in the history of ITBHU and mine. Nothing new has been done by me on this day. Remembering old memories was the best way to do celebrate Valentine Day. I remember that day when I was mesmerized by her first look. Image of her is a part of mine now and no one can take it from me, not even death. But that’s old story.

I am murmuring the lines of Bob Dylan “Like a Rolling Stone” and often called myself 'Yayaver' to counter these feelings from now on. For me Valentine Day is remembering the moments of togetherness with her love. Now tragedy comes in other way. After many years, I put feeling of my heart on Google-Talk status. "I cannot emotionally attach to another girl after failure of my first love. I ask to my heart how to move forward in life???"

Tragedy of my life became only quotation for others.

A morning scene in ITBHU

It sounds like freaking topic on first view to write on my blog. It seems like a school essay “A Morning scene in the village”. Hence, we should cut the crap part of its resemblance with any other topic and stop making parody of it. The scene is actually damn funny if you are involved in it. Now I will optimize the situation. An ITian really enjoyed the situation best if he is in 4^th year. With a job in the pocket, you feel like a saint devoid of worldly pleasures. Also to remind that winter will be best season to describe the scene.

When the fog is in the air and sun is behind clouds, it makes you little more than lazy. But you have to get up for classes. The reason behind that is simple. It is due to short attendance. Hence all of us are in awkward position of presenting physically but sleeping mentally in classes.

Alarm bell rings at its natural time of just few minutes before 8’o’clock. You whisper 'WTF' in your dream. Some harsh sound is threatening to destroy your romantic or wet dream. You shut the alarm off. Plight of student reaches peak on snoozing of alarm. Despite in what year you are, only one word will express the heartily feelings”FUCK”. It also sucks specially on Monday. Hey, it’s just another dull day in the boring life before weekends.

In 1^st year, I would wake up and say, “Hey man, mark my proxy in the class”. 10 persons would go and 40 will be class strength in attendance register. Ahh those Golden Days!!!!

In 2^nd year, some guy will shake me to attend classes. I will open my eyes with uneasiness and recall that I am in department right now. I must attend classes. Now came in life the Silver Days!!!

In 3^rd year, I would rise by remembering my short attendance, grades and image of a strict professor. That's bronze period due to your struggle for training and tension for next year placement.

But 4^th year is the ultimate. All the wise and cool guys are sleeping. Dead silence is spread in the lobby of 4^th year. The attitude is simple "attendance will come through BTP". These are Diamond days of engineering. I am feeling it right now.

These scheduling do not operate on a GMAT. I think that all the ITians know the full form of this word. It is the highest abuse from anybody to a cool guy.

Not diverging from the topic anymore, we will move ahead in post. In morning you can go easily in the toilets in ITBHU, 0.8 toilets per 100 students. What a hectic day!! One have to control their shit and wait in queue for toilets. 3 guys are just ahead of you and you can feel the pressure in your stomach. Man, this is the real test of character and patience of a guy. Now, only 50% of guy will take bathe in the morning. These figures are quite high and less than 10% is easily achieved in winter days. Time swings away and I am ready for class. It is exactly 8’o’clock. You must not forget an important point here. Witness the fact, no one even worship God (if it exists) on an empty stomach. How can ITian attend such boring lectures without breakfast? Hence, most of guy march ahead to LC or mess. With handful of bread butter and a cup of tea, they fulfill their mind and soul. Now, we all move towards our respective departments. Till 8:30 most of the batch makes up to lectures. Oh! That is the end of the beautiful morning scene and start of super boring classes.

I forgot to mention that all of us look to VT in our way to class. We appreciate its beauty and want to get grace from BABA VISHWANATH. These are best days of my life whether you agree or not? Check also one more post by me on morning scene.

Re:Anti-NET Surfing Laws in ITBHU

Ok,not my voice has done the winning effect.But all ITians have done it.Now, most of the useful websites are open to us.The jaws of websense has been removed from most websites.Hail democracy!!!!
PS:I was using yourfreedom software to counter websense.

Anti-NET Surfing Laws in ITBHU

What an average guy of ITBHU wants in his span of 4 years stay at institute with B. Tech degree. A little bit of free space and time taken from society to live best years of his life. He enjoys his life to full extent with little bit of studies of engineering. Most of guys aim for MBA, GRE, Core area or a Software job. Nothing more and nothing less is expected. He is self content with his studies, entertainment and extra circular activities. Surfing Internet is primary pass time for ITians except playing games on LAN or watching movies.

He surfs Internet, watch movies (rarely porn) but all in limits. Guys uses proxy server to open the ORKUT or any other website (for minor purpose) banned by CC at ITBHU. Now all this is going to be changed by the shrewd behavior of our college.

Now new software has been in testing condition by CC. They are using software called Websense. Some of the affected sites are imdb, YouTube, cricinfo, stage6 etc. It is the courtesy of this software that blogging is also banned. On putting my blog address, it replies that the Websense category "Social Networking and Personal Sites" is filtered.

I am blogging this in night after 12’o’clock. Now, that will be the time for entertainment. Anyone wise enough can tell that banning site like cricinfo, imdb, santabanta is insane. They also do not put a heavy load on server. Hardly any student can read news all the time and closed its room for entertainment. To enjoy life and build career is the basic philosophy of student life.

Surfing the Internet is not a big issue to blow up but due to courtesy of CC it became. They can counter-claim that downloading movies, games, songs are misuse of Internet provided in the hostel. But any student will denies the fact that he did not watch movie or play games.CC has crossed the limits of power by banning all sites that fall under the category 'entertainment' , 'streaming media' , 'hacking' , 'proxy avoidance' to name a few there may be more categories We guys need to something about it. Even Wikipedia states that "It has come under criticism from civil liberties groups on grounds that it restricts the free flow of speech".

PS some of the affected sites are imdb, youtube, cricinfo, stage6, blogger, most of the forums etc..... About WEBSENSE in the public forum : “Hehe, the whole idea of Websense is so you cannot bypass it. The only way you will get this to work is by using an anonymous type proxy that Websense have not yet classified in their database. The other issue you will have is if your organization is running the Websense Webcatcher. This will send a list of uncategorized website to Websense. The more hits they get the high up the list for checking it goes so it basically gets added into their database quicker.”

It sounds patriotic but this is time for all of us to stand together and fight for free voice. If this websense is put by force then student community will find a way to nullify it. Because this is a challenge for ITians to counter these preservative measures. I hope that authorities will realize that buying software like websense will be wastage of money for ITBHU.