A Village (II)

A Village (I)

गूगल गौड़ है

न्यूरल नेटवर्क्स भी गौड़ लेवल हैं

"ऐ आई" तोह कल की बात है. न्यूरल नेटवर्क्स रुल !

Gairik: This is very cool!

en2hi.translit: थिस इस वैरी कूल!

Escherichia coli

Isn't it magnificient?

And After the Rains ...

Rainy Days

A shame!

Its a shame, this is what the nation does to its most treasured and impressive system of education. Although, the newspaper I quote here is one that I find among the least reliable ones for the true perspective ,I read it for other reasons ( ;-) ) ! These however, still highlight what the goverment and even the IIT management themselves are upto, and it sucks!
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3178940.cms
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3178940.cms
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3178940.cms
http://infotech.indiatimes.com/Careers/Education/Indias_first_women-IIT_in_Maharashtra_/articleshow/3163698.cms
Politcising the 'premier institutes of technical education' is just as egregious a violation of sustaineable development as any. And, I say that not because I am fortunate enough to have studied at one of the IITs, but because it is very apparent how obnoxiously close these measures are to the country going to early assembly polls. And ya, btw, the country might lose sucha fantastic goverment for reasons like : The CPI (read Chinese Party in India) is very upset over India's strong strategic deal with the US, and the aam aadmi (the unsatisfiable) is upset over inflation which is derived from OPEC controlled forces.
Its a pity. Its a shame.

I'm glad, something motivated me to come back to the blogosphere!
Hope to follow it up with much more about Delhi, its tome-like huge newspapers (full with no information at all), the Delhi metro, the Taj! , Chadni chowk and my romantics with the french language!
Au revoir!

Thump

I get knocked down
But I get up again!
You're never gonna keep me down...

The Rail

I believe

I believe in Karma, What you give is what you get returned,
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned,
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side,
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye.

I believe in love surviving death into eternity

I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands

I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone

~Affirmation

Co-existence

e-haze

Trapped

I Like This

Its suddenly all so good again.
I'm beginning to enjoy life and spending time just like I used to, maybe, only way back in the 11th grade. :)
It just feels good to do the same ole things again, and maybe even do some new things. But I feel about them all just like I used to feel in those days. Suddenly its very comfortable to spend a whole lazy weekend by myself, just rearranging the minimal furniture in my room, listenin to some old tracks and lots of new ones, enjoying music in the same way again. I feel so comfortable spending entire mornings watchin cricket, leisurely getting ready only to spend the afternoon snugged up alternating the two books that I am hooked onto for this week. Spending time with myself, doing so much and yet doing nothing at all is something I have missed for a long long time.
Suddenly I feel, the life that I've been livin for the last three-odd years has been so unlike me. I treasure my time with myself all over again, with a clear white mind every morning, with the day spent with my guitar, my books, arbit photography enthu here and there, checkin mails infy times in the day... catching up with long lost mates ... a day I am making sure is always followed by great dinner (read meat and spice, not at mess ;) ) ... and sleeping so sound - an entire 8 hours - cherishin the day and really looking forward to the next day.
I love that I am reading again and music feels so good and so unrelate-able again ;) !
U2 rocks and John Mayer soothes me ... replacin the teenage days of Bryan Adams and Boyzone :P gosh its almost embarrassing to confess that now!
I'w gonna post more often now, with this photography enthu .

Aah, its me all over again ... I am so proud of myself!

Red Hot

My mouse is on fire!
PS : Original Picture, increased exposure, no Photoshop :)
thanks Varangi for the idea!

Change

Change is good :)
I hope!

dvorak
....
and a lot more has changed ... :)

Life, where've you been? - Part 1

Its probably small instances and unexpected experiences that end up really showing you how essential it is to make the most of every breath taken. Just seems like life's walking back into me. Just seems like something new happens all the time, and all of it just tells me that good times don't come by themselves, but good times can be easily sought.
Breathing the calmingly warm humid breeze, standing in queue at the Andheri station, to get that ticket to Churchgate... I couldnt help smiling to myself. It had been an year since I'd been into those trains. The Chennai locals just cant match the speed, the haste, the rush to get it and jump out even as the train screeches, its exciting. Bombay just brings a smile to you. You can stop and talk in Hindi to the vendor and enjoy the most amazing vada pavs. I forget the routes and the directions all the time, and when I'm on a bridge, I never really know which direction I should go to get to the local for Bombay Central, or which direction Santa Cruz is at. But then, I just love to ask strangers, in a fake gujju-like hindi accent which way to go. Amuses me how many times I get replies in Gujarati! Bombay can make everyone feel very comfortable.

As I sit by the Marine Drive, its chilly. Bombay hasnt been this cold in 10 years. And I am just enjoying the evening by the Arabian Sea, in a half-sleeved tee, with one of my oldest friends ... it'd been 5 years. When I click the setting sun, she says it looks just like one of those wallpaper pictures. I couldn't agree more.

I'm getting better at this!

So here I am, just staring into the setting sun and looking all around, watching the 'queen's necklace' light up, the very cool breeze is almost making me shiver. I turn to the sky and huge seas and ask, "Life, where've you been?"
The evening is well spent, great dinner and I feel great. Almost as if, I've just quenched my regular half-yearly craving for being at the side of the Arabian Sea.
The train journey is just the same as always... snuggling into the upper berth in my AC/2 with oldies murmuring away in gujju ... I began reading my copy of Tehelka (something I always catch at any railway station/bookshop I go to, sadly thats not often enough these days) ... and I slept surprisingly sound.
The next morning is so beautiful. Baroda hasn't been so cold ever ... its just the most beautiful time of life, as everyone's getting ready to start the day, I am cozy in a huge blanket on Dad's bed with Mom's most amazing hot coffee, wasting all morning watchin Sachin smash away a 150 :)
"Life, where've you been?"

Bits of life

Baroda Outskirts

Chennai at night

I love travel

Feeling the force of the wind, push at you .... But you push back, feel it hittin you, feel the force and push back at it.Keep movin and keep travellin. There's nothin quite as good going new places, meeting new people, eatin new food and enjoying it all .... knowin you might never go back the same roads again.
Thats travel, thats the joy of roaming. Keep as much as you can with yourself, of every moment, you're not gonna live it again, not the same way.

Finally

Finally it seems to fade a little,
for a bit.
I laugh, I sing,
I listen, jump,
I play.
I smile, happy.
Memories, the pain,
hurt and sorrow
wont give way,
they shouldnt.
But finally,
I play.
There's room for more,
Hope happens.
Bright days end
in darkest nights
sleepless,
waiting for the day
that'll make you laugh,
feel, act, anew,
the day that you wish
wouldnt end so soon.
Time, shall do it;
Now I know.