Diwali at IIT Kharagpur

This was my second Diwali in Kharagpur..... Each time i have been just overawed by the kind of effort that IITians put for the celebration... for many it is the one single event of the year.... for others it is a waste of time and money..... I belong the first kind... I really love the dedication put into this single event... and with so much dedication how can anything in the world not be achieved!!!! Obviously it has been a huge success over the last many many years....One thing that did dishearten me and probably any other RPian or RKite was the judging...this is one sureshot way to kill the whole passion for the event..... My salute to all the students who put in even a single moment of hard work into either of Illu or rangoli.

To anyone who has not seen Illumination ... i would definitely say..... If by any chance u happen to be in Calcutta during Diwali... do come down to Kharagpur....

Then and Now

The last few years have been all spent away from home.. some things have changed, others haven't....

Delhi... the first time i went away from home...I still wonder why suddenly so many people really thought I was good in studies and why they had so high expectations of me... I entered the school.... with one of the lowest grades among students there....i still found praises from all !!!! Whatever the reason... I think it has helped me a lot....even to this day.... I though I did well in most thing....well almost.... These two years had a huge impact on the way I 'think'....

Bangalore....After the failed dream tryst with 'IIT', I joined ISI not so willingly......'research'.....something that I was sure I would I would never do...I think destiny took me there... Still it was the two best years of my life....even though I saw everything but success..... I think that it was a closed world.. we did not know what there was in the larger world and were satisfied with whatever we had.... I had the best experience a person can probably get.... FAILURE..... At this stage I think that this is one thing that every individual should go through.....without failure life is definitely incomplete..... After Banglore i was sure that i can see through any kind of challenge in life..... Banglaore changed me a lot.... May be a transition from a kiddish mind to a more mature one took place there......

Have i changed ... Probabaly yes....Welll i actually dont know ..... And there hasn't been one single person who's lived with me to see the changes.... To me it's all the same.......

I really hate the Comp.....

If television was the 'Idiot's Box', computer is the 'Maniacal's Box'. Anyone who's lived with me for even six months knows how much this one thing has screwed me... Probably this is the one and only addiction i have in my life.. no daru no sutta but all bakchodi on computer... be it internet be it AOE, be it quake be it baldur's gate or be it some low level games...be it audiogalaxy be it Kazaa or be it spending long hours on the net collecting photographs of my favorite actresses, you name it and i have spent hours on that thing in front of my comp...

I hope I'll change before it is too late!!!!!