Aseem's Blog

Just imagine yourself into this…

You take your family out on a drive to enjoy the nature in this beautiful rainy season or to a local temple to pray to god for the well-being of your family and India. On the way, while crossing a bridge, the water level suddenly rises and your new Tata Indica is soon submerged under water. You with your family climb atop the car and cry for help. People gather around the river banks watching your plight. You see the forest minister of the state standing across the river, you feel relieved. You know that someone will save you now. But after being strangled for 8 hrs… amidst the river, you are swept away by the vigorously flowing waters… and India just watches you…die…

If you feel that this story is just for imagination, sorry to say, this is what happened to a family in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, a couple of days back. Five members of the family drowned while the insensitive crowd simply saw them struggle for life.

You can get more details here: http://in.news.yahoo.com/060822/211/66vhb.html

While this situation stranded the family struggling for life for eight hours… I wonder where the media was all that while. (more…)

Let’s have a small retrospective session. Ok I won’t stress your memory. Let’s talk about just a day back in time. So what did you really do on India’s 59th Independence Day? Sat at home all day enjoying your holiday? Ok… made it for the function for the flag hoisting? Is it enough? Neways, even if you did that, I am glad. But I can bet most of you just, looked up to the flag in great pride may be for a few moments and then you were back onto your couch watching some latest pirated cd/dvd movie and enjoying the holiday. Your feelings need to extend from those few moments you looked up to the flag to your entire day, from this one day in the year to the entire year, and yes certainly for your lifetime. And remember you are not the first one to do this… Martyrs have lived, died and relived in our hearts being as true Indians. Just an Indian citizenship doesn’t really make you an Indian dear!

The very fact that you are reading these lines now, is that I have got you interested. Those who weren’t have left long behind. Well yesterday I just managed to write a few lines on reviving patriotism in India. I hope that it can motivate you enough to put these thoughts into your actions…

Here is goes – (more…)

Right in my twelfth it was my dream to study in any one of the IITs, but sadly could not crack the JEE exam. So finally I had to do what most of my batchmates did. Joined Goa Engineering College. The not so bright students (now including me) didn’t really have a choice. Now that I know its ranked 75^th in India… ok I am there somewhere! :)

Our faculty here… I always admired them for being so meticulous over the fundas and concepts but never really wanted to be like them. I was happy with my five pointer sorta life. But suddenly there was this hype about selecting a project for our final year. I don’t know what hit me, but I thought this would be my last chance to really study something in my four years of engineering life. Most of which has been spent sitting and chatting in the college canteen.

So we spoke over to our professor and managed to contact a professor from IIT Powai. We decided to leave for IIT on the immediate weekend. Our college has a MoU with the institution that allows use its resources for our final year project.

WAY TO MUMBAI

Just as ideal students should be doing, we attended the morning half of college, and left to board the Konkan Kanya train. We spent most of our time, standing and sitting at the door of the train, watching the scenic beauty… the forests and rivers that passed by. It was so very refreshing. (more…)

To all those regular blog readers, sorry for not blogging for quite some time now! You cant really complain though. Right in my first blog post, I had made it clear that I am a very lazy writer…

Newez… I was soaked up in my academics and some website designing & development projects. Also busy coding a community website. Ho ho nothing to beat orkut, but definitely only one of its kind. Coding it all alone is sometimes a real mess. But PHP my first love, doesnt really disappoint me. :P It will surely take quite a while for it to be up and running.

By the way, had been to IIT Powai for my final year project. Will post my trip details soon…