My Perspective

I happen to read this article written by Prof. Arindam Chaudhuri You guessed it right. It’s about the Indian economy and the competition with China . A Fight of Elephant vs. Dragon. Here is the link  http://www.iipm.edu/iipm-old/india-future.html In the article, the author says democracy is our greatest strength, I feel it can well become our biggest let down. Yes, democracy will be the biggest strength of a country not when we have political parties run by communal fundamentalists, or by generations of a single political dynasty, not when we have a foreigner running the government behind the screens and our so called prime minister acting as a puppet. Yes, we do have democracy but we don't have inner democracy within each political party. The current political parties that we have are communal, or either communist, or corrupt, or run by family dynasties, or based on caste-ist politics. When will our political parties rise above these partisan politics based on caste,...

This is the summary of speech Given by Alex Stepenov (Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems) at Adobe India on 30 Nov 2004. Study , Study and Study  Never ever think that you have acquired all or most of the knowledge which exists in the world. Almost everybody in US at age of 14 and everybody in India at age of 24 starts thinking that he has acquired all the wisdom and knowledge that he needs. This should be strictly avoided. You should be habituated to studies...exactly in the same way as you are habituated to brushing teeth and taking bath every morning. The habit of study must become a 'part of your blood'. And the study should be from both the areas: CS, since it is your profession, and something from non-CS... Something which doesnot relate to your work. This would expand your knowledge in other field too. A regular study, everyday, is extremely essential. It doesnot matter whether you study of 20 minutes of 2 hours,...

The following is an excerpt from an news article... _____________________________________________________________ The Delhi police today lobbed teargas shells and used water canons to disperse hundreds of students of five premier medical colleges who staged a demonstration against the government's move to provide reservation in elite educational institutions. The police action came when an estimated 400 agitators were moving to another place from the scheduled venue of protest of Jantar Mantar, triggering a scuffle between the two sides. Accusing political parties of resorting to vote-bank politics while moving such a proposal, the protestors decided to go on a strike, demanding a roll back of the 27 per cent reservation for OBCs.. "At the moment it is an all out strike by students of AIIMS, Safdarjung, Maulana Azad Medical College, Lady Hardinge and Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital," Amitasha Sinha, a medical stude...

Here's a story about George Dantzig - the famed mathematician who's contributions to Operations Research and systems engineering have made him immortal. As a college student, George studied very hard and often late into the night. So late, that he overslept one morning, arriving 20 minutes late for Prof. Neyman's class. He quickly copied the two maths problems on the board, assuming they were the homework assignment. It took him several days to work through the two problems, but finally he had a breakthrough and dropped the homework on Neyman's desk the next day. Six weeks later, on a Sunday morning, George was awakened at 6 a.m. by his excited professor. Since George was late for class, he hadn't heard the professor announce that the two unsolvable equations on the board were mathematical mind-teasers that even Einstein hadn't been able to answer. But George Dantzig, working without any thoughts of limitation, had solved not one, but two problems that had s...