CHRONICLES OF BUDTHU https://www.balaprasad.com/ Professor Prasad's Blog Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:03:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 69250444 From Bibliophile to Bibliomaniac: My Lifelong Obsession with the Printed Word http://www.balaprasad.com/from-bibliophile-to-bibliomaniac-my-lifelong-obsession-with-the-printed-word/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:03:32 +0000 https://www.balaprasad.com/?p=520 As I have written before, I have been a bibliophile since the very day I learned to read and write. But while reading has been my constant companion, writing was always an occasional visitor. I never really had a sustained passion for it, save for occasional bursts that started as diary entries and have now […]

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]]> 520 Budthu asks GEMINI-series1 http://www.balaprasad.com/budthu-asks-gemini-series1/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:44:14 +0000 http://www.balaprasad.com/?p=512 I am planning to start a new feature in quest.Ask questions to gemini and post it online.Others are welcome to correct gemini if it is misleading .I will ask random questions which troubles me and result if I find ok I will post.That is the plan. Name of the column ‘Budhtu ask Gemini ‘ It […]

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]]> 512 Being right for wrong reasons http://www.balaprasad.com/being-right-for-wrong-reasons/ Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:51:36 +0000 https://www.balaprasad.com/?p=503 There is an old science joke where a scientist trains a spider to jump when a bell is rung. The scientist then removes a leg from the spider under anesthesia and makes sure the spider heals. The scientist proceeds to ring the bell again. Even with one less leg, the spider manages to jump in […]

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]]> 503 On the shoulders of Giants http://www.balaprasad.com/on-the-shoulders-of-giants/ Fri, 31 May 2024 05:18:17 +0000 http://www.balaprasad.com/?p=489 “Offer your strengths to others and you will be amazed how many people offer their strengths to you” Simon Sinek Right from my childhood I was perplexed by the oracle of Apollo of Delphi that Socrates is the wisest man ever born & Socrates famous statement “I know only one thing that I know nothing”It […]

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]]> 489 Life as Random walk-Monte Carlo simulation of Life!! http://www.balaprasad.com/life-as-random-walk-monte-carlo-simulation-of-life/ Mon, 27 May 2024 03:07:44 +0000 http://www.balaprasad.com/?p=495 (A Monte Carlo simulation is used to model the probability of different outcomes in a process that cannot easily be predicted due to the intervention of random variables. Many physical phenomenon can be simulated this technique. In my Ph.D thesis I have used it to find the behaviour of electrons under various electric field conditions […]

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]]> 495 Time of exile-Post card stories sent while I was away to CEERI,Pilani for pursuing Ph.D http://www.balaprasad.com/time-of-exile-post-card-stories-sent-while-i-was-away-to-ceeripilani-for-pursuing-ph-d/ Sun, 26 May 2024 05:17:35 +0000 http://www.balaprasad.com/?p=446 Subscribe Latest Email Updates:

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]]> 446 My first project in second dimension!! http://www.balaprasad.com/my-first-project-in-second-dimension/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 04:08:34 +0000 http://www.balaprasad.com/?p=436 Though I went to Kurukshetra all the way from my relatively unknown village,Pandanadu(Kerala state) with the sole objective of doing my Masters degree so that I can pursue my dream of becoming a scientist abroad(Germany was my dream country!! Of course I read/ studied German history especially period of history pertained to Hitler only during […]

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]]> 436 Why am I there in social media!! http://www.balaprasad.com/why-am-i-there-in-social-media/ Wed, 06 Dec 2023 02:45:04 +0000 http://www.balaprasad.com/?p=440 On 27th November 2023 I wrote something on FB as a comment which I do not do normally.I reserve such things to my blog site www.balaprasad.com Since it is a long comment and for wider audience I thought of posting it separately here.(It is written based on the feedback of some of my friends in […]

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]]> 440 My Revelations!! http://www.balaprasad.com/my-revelations/ Thu, 02 Mar 2023 04:47:04 +0000 http://www.balaprasad.com/?p=422 Over the years some of the things revealed to me are listed.But as usual those thoughts are well articulated by Khalil Gibran (reasons elaborated in my old post http://www.balaprasad.com/why-i-love-to-quote-from-the-prohet-khalil-gibran/ )Following lines are from his work The Vision (p. 83-89). White Cloud Press. Kindle Edition My soul talked to me many a times : 1 teaching […]

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]]> 422 A quest that is unquenchable!! http://www.balaprasad.com/a-quest-that-is-unquenchable/ Fri, 05 Aug 2022 07:16:21 +0000 http://www.balaprasad.com/?p=401 This was a new beginning a kind of rebirth.Idea given by Mr.Abhimanyu Chawla who was pursuing his M,Tech from VIT accidentally came to do his M.Tech thesis with me for a year,That transformed me and was beginning of a new life for me.What we envisaged that time is shown here.We share the credit/discredit of founding […]

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