Blue-Eyed Boy

Hum logon ko samajh sako to samjho dilbar jaani

2009-07-23T07:49:00.000-07:00

After a while my new blog. Its different (like maggi sauce is for Javed Jaferi) from my previous blogs.
The spark which ignited this thought in me; almost dead for a while was initiated by a series of incidents during my previous tour to Kahalgaon and Munger. I wish to ask pardon if this blog tend to hurt someone's faith. I like to clarify that these are my personal thoughts I'm not commenting on any religion or community of people.
As prologue I will like to mention that during this season KANWARIYAS ( followers of lord Shiva) came to pay visit to deoghar popularly known as BABADHAM. The numbers of visitors is huge.
Its known to us that we are residents of a poor and developing country and no matter what the data suggests I still believe that infrastructure supporting to such huge population is mere. I don't wish to mitigate the govt's feel good factor. And to add further Bihar being one of the last if not the last among indian states.
My journey encompassed the traditional path followed by kanwariyas to reach to their destination. In the entire span of journey I found all railway stations trains etc covered with GERUA (orangish) colour. At places it seemed that they outnumbered local people. Here please consider the fact that population density of Bihar is 880 as per 2001 census.
The trains, stations and other infrastructure crumbled under such a enormous pressure. The amenities meant for local catered these TIRHTANS ( holy travellers) the trains meant to carry people to their work places, homes were captured by KANWARIYAS. Though you will get your seat if you had your reservation but the shouting and smoking ( ganja ) by them will not let you comfort yourself, also you might have to share your seat.
During my outgoing journey I thought of these Kanwariyas as problems for others but it soon vanished as during my return I found how much they physically suffered for this journey. Heels bleeding, legs tired, some even lost their assets like money jewelry etc. Still they willing to do this again next year..
I wondered why? Why we are like this? We blame government for not providing enough facilities, but never think of caring them. We blame others when they are not performing their duties, I don't think all the Kanwariyas are jobless. Suffering in Pilgrimages is described as Tapasya, and causing troubles to others.. How can one describe that..
We are counting on our population as human resource, are these our resources or burden on resources. Mr Kalam visioned of developed India was he counting on these. Every year villages need to invest in facility for the guests ( kanwariyas) the same fund when used judicially would have added to development of village.
I had described a situation here, I guess similar things happen during seasonal pilgrimages like visit to Amarnath, Makka Madina visit as HAJ etc etc...
I only wish to understand us. Please leave your valuable comments.
I apologize for the poor language... but hope I was successful in conveying my thoughts...

Eve of last theory paper

2008-05-04T04:31:00.000-07:00

I'm feeling crestfallen for making your recent visits to my blog unproductive. I was busy in stamping my left days of BHU on my memory by doing the extreme masti. That I forgot to do every other thing in life. I m writing this blog on the eve of last theory paper and due to lack of time and prevailing influence of distracting factors ( xerox etc) I expect lot of bugs in the blog and I expect you to negotiate with those like you all had done in past and grasp the theme.

Bhawnao ko samjho yaar.

So the story starts at around 1:50 AM on 4th MAY, we were fighting with insects,mosquitoes (common in C.V Raman) humidity and temperature without the weapon (electricity). As usual these days our hostel was only one of the few victims of this power failure. I was carving my way to bed while lot others where busy dreaming, the sparks generated outside the room of Shukla left us lonely in the cumbersome battle. In no time our enemies succeeded and even our victorious fighters were found out of their couches.

The heat was unbearable and there was no chance we could have fetched the dreams of our desired/beloved ones. So I asked my padosi Bond to make a trip to Lanka like expected he was readily ready. Some other batch mates liked the idea and in no time mechites were on road brrming their bikes on the emptylanes of BHU.

We reached lanka had snacks and all time favorite special chai @ gumti near ims gate and as usual the bakar was on while we were served with snacks and tea. After that we reached PMC and sat their while some of our friends roamed around the vacant Varanasi roads ( a rare sight) to fulfill their desires ( of drinks and snacks obviously).

We spent 2Hrs and around 4AM we got confirmation that finally there is power in our hostel and the shriek of Tintin on someone of power office had worked.

By the way the night was ultimate cold and speedy cold air was blowing through our night outfits fondling our skin and making us feel blue( Imagine kar yaar Mahila mahavidyalya ke samne aisi pyari hawa kya feel degi).

Chalo yeh kissa hua we reached our hostels and by 5 we raided our beds. The next day starts like any usual day in IT. After we had lunch the power left us alone in the battlefield. I got the idea of taking some snaps of guyz preparing for last theory paper for some of us this will be last of life(pics available at my album on picasa).

In meantime Saand and tarun started battle of waterloo and in no time there was holi festival being celebrated in C.V Raman hostel. Holi for end of tortures exams. There were few rituals followed for this mech holi some of them being charnamrit snaan, ice skating(pulling) bums etc.

It was great opportunity for us to have the last paper of one of the coolest teacher of mechanical dept Dr Amitabha Bhattacharya. The level of confidence of students in his capability of clearing students is to the extend that there exist lot of guyz in branch like me who till now (6:00pm ) had not started the course. And going by the cliche all well if its ends well I wish all the fourth yearites all the best for rest of exams left in life and cheers for the start of new era.

Wish all the final yearites a happy and prosperous future.

The Influencive I

2008-03-30T18:21:00.000-07:00

In India cracking JEE is treated as arduous job and getting into IITs is ambition of all engineering aspirants. No doubt brand IIT add a lot to your resume and no doubt that the IITians are worshiped like god.
We ITians have a special privilege of residing on border line of this category of IITians. We accomplished the arduous job yet didn't got the pie. Sometimes we are considered as IITians and very next time become part of mushroomed unfamiliar engineering college. I had opportunity to represent my university in Table-Tennis in Inter-university and there my IT-Track was providing me identity of IITian and in the same trip I met an uncleji who didnt know about the college and told me that I had forgot how I admitted here it must be some state entrance test or AIEEE and can't be JEE.
Now we had NEWS that cabinet proposed the upgradation of IT-BHU to IIT-BHU and know that in a year or so this institute will joie de vivreradiance with the addition of dearly missed I attached to it.
I don't know the big flashback of this institute but still witnessed a lot of drama being played for the addition of I to its name. We entered the institute in 2004 and the word was on the street about upgrading this institute into IIT. Then the stage was set for upgrading this institute along with few others to upgrade. I remember the reaction of our batch mate Srikant ' Sabu' which he posted on yahoo groups in response to a mail forwarded by an alumni describing how other IITs are running campaign to stop the upgradation process.
The drama took halt the visit of a committee meant to site the feasibility of upgradation. After a long intermission of drama 'IIST' was the word that shook IT. Though govt. claimed upgradation but was obvious degradation of such institute. I recall Shahrukh's famous dialogue

"इतनी शिद्दत से मैने तुम्हे पाने की कोशिश की है कि हर जरे ने मुझे तुमसे मिलाने की शजिश की है"

IT was desiring the IIT tag with so much intense desire, that though it seemed that everything is over but

"ये भी हमारी हिन्दी फ़िल्मो की तरह रहा 'I' नही मिला मतलब अभी कहानी बाकी है मेरे दोस्त"

Every man should…

2008-03-04T20:47:00.000-08:00

Every

man

should…

Believe in his own ability,

but not be overconfident, never shy away from

hardwork, be down to earth,

yet dream of reaching for the

stars, try and make things happen rather than

waiting for them to happen~

He should fall in love atleast

once in his life, treat the woman in his life like

a princess, contribute equally

to a relationship, know what

to say, how to say and when to say it and when

to just give a quiet hug, try

to remain calm when she

is driving, atleast pretend that he is lisening~

He should have good

sense of humour and know

when to use it, now his way around the kitchen,

take failures in his stride and

never stop trying, never

flaunt his masculinity too much, make it a point

to send his mother a

token of his love, live

his life like an emperor, yet be child at heart

Hi guyz must be wondering, what happened to my prose....
Tell u its not my style..... this is the greeting message gifted to me on my 21.5 birthday by my friends...(paper magic/every man should/1222 printed in india by archies india limited)... Found it nice so wished to share.......

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with college education

2008-02-27T09:55:00.000-08:00

Like these vegetables I(refers to many more students, not to mention that I'm not Ishaan Awasthi ) don't find much of difference in my pre-college and post college wisdom. The class lectures seems to be delivered in alien language and ct paper's material look like "काला अक्षर भैंस बराबर" and the inherited characteristics of mechanical teachers to put down students does icing of cake .
Sometimes I think we are going to implement these theories in month or two and we had no clue what we had learnt in previous semesters. Not so far back, in BPCL interview I was asked about pumps and all and I was tangled in jargons like an art or economics student (not to mention I had recently passed course of turbo-machinery ) .
My interviewers (mostly MBA grads) were asking questions using alien mechanical mumbo jumbo. Apart from that interview, in each and every interview or vivas I was packed down like tender footed person. This is the status of final year, lets move on to find a reason to this miserable condition of more than 90% B.tech Grads of ITBHU.
Lets start with a poem written for all one night stand fan club....

कहाँ कोई किताब ऐसी मिली,
जिसपर दिल लुटा देते,
हर एक ने दिमाग खाया किस-किस को निपटा देते,
अब syllabus देखकर सोचते हैं
कुछ दिन और होता तो दुनिया हिला देते …

This night out system had helped us outperform our basic knowledge of subject we mug up and without digestion reproduce in papers. The 'Geeta Saransh' behind this idiosyncrasy of engineering students is depicted in following Image (to explain that this is geeta saar)Guys in BHU Kulgeet we refer our university as "सर्व विद्या की राजधानी " Did u ever bothered y? I put forward a reason

"Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates."

(courtesy Abbott Lawrence Lowell)

Like these analogous vegetables had some difference between them, there is one and weighty one between pre-B.Tech me and post-B.Tech me..... BPCL wouldnt had recruited me then even when I had promised them to work 4 them my entire life........... :)

2008-02-25T08:12:00.001-08:00

Getting Started

2008-02-24T23:02:00.000-08:00

There is an old saying "well begun is half done". Hoping that I kicked off in good fashion to post my first blog I will try my level best to maintain longevity of this leisure pursuit.
And as all my friends say "Chandu ka katna hi hota hai" so starting with the experience of getting a job worth 24 lpa (as quoted by chairman of co.) The co. that fooled almost entire IT, distributing a package of 24 lpa, job in USA and a MS degree from a US university to almost half of three figure no.
The fact is he is "thekedar" of software engineers who will give us work in US and will take commission from us. The irony is one who should be employed by us is employing us.
It was like any other placement day in IT a software firm offering 18 lpa was visiting campus. Not sure of our soft skills we guys were enjoying Sunday and co was giving away its presentation. After presentation i heard that anyone can apply and can give interview in casuals the idea of facing interview in casuals really fascinated me and in t-shirt and jeans I headed towards Training and Placement cell.
The news of this uniuqe hiring process spread faster than untamed forest fire and there was rush outside the interview room. After waiting for few minutes i got interviewed along with Pandit, Chotu and two other students of ceramics. Here's how interview progressed
He asks for CV and then
Interviewer to Deepak: Deepak tell me your branch
Pandit: Mechanical
Interviewer: rank
Pandit:8th ( fatta decided by us in beginning)
Interviewer: Any software experience
Pandit: No
Now he turns towards Chotu and repeats same question. Chotu has same answers ( except branch rank he quoted it 15th)
Now its my turn and I was asked same questions and gave nearly same reply. Same questions were asked with cera students and they replied almost similarly with one two answers varying slightly.
Now he "thanks us" all of us shocked what is this interview over. We thought it might be shortlisting procedure and will face main interview afterwards.
We all moved back to our hostels and spent an hour or so planning tour itinerary. Pandit shouts shortlisted candidates' list is displayed. Hoping against odds I made my way towards TPO and my name in the list took me to cloud nine.
I thought to give second round in same apparels but after seeing others in black and white I changed and went there to give the second round. The joke was over till then the guys moving out were saying all the candidates are selected this is briefing session.
This is not any co and we dont have any job we had made a new profile on naukri.com or other site which will do little more than that. By providing study material and arranging for visa. In lieu they will make us their servant working in other firm for them.
"सपनो का महल रेत के किले कि तरह ढह गया" now none was interested to wait but all was over and everyone was duped. After the conformational of tpr's that this wont be counted everyone dedicated their precious time ( AOE time). And briefing session was now done to group of students to say the end to the drama.
Rest story is known to all students of IT और बाहर वालों सावधान ऐसा prank आपके साथ भी खेला जा सकता है|