I am what I am

Kempe Fort Temple, early morning visit

2012-08-13T07:47:00.001+05:30

Today, we went to KempeFort Shiva temple early morning. (Reached there at 545am).
When we reached there, it was still almost dark. Twilight was not yet there. No rush. Thank god. Last time when I visited, I had to stand almost an hour in queue to get darshan.
Had very nice darshan. The poojari told us, there will be aarti in 5 minutes. You may want to wait. We were not in hurry and waited. There was option to get one pooja lamp with Ghee and every individual can do aarti. The aarti went on for 10-15 minutes. In this 10-15 minutes, slowly twilight started coming out. The big Lord Mahadeva idol got illuminated in the twilight. And it was as if day is brightened.

After coming out of temple, with fresh mind, i was wondering, how many times I get up so early? How many times I do visit temple early morning? But why I am thinking about it?
Do I really need to do all this? Does the worshiping god gives everything one need?

No. But still I feel, I should worship god. But where is the time?We all are busy with our lives and jobs. We cant wake up 430-5am everyday because many times late night calls (this another sad story, are we really independent after independence?or still working for white skin?But this is not the point i want to make here.) or at least have to finish some work today and work late. Sometimes, we are proud nocturnal. Then where will we get time.

Whatever may be the reasons, only my question to self is, am I loosing my culture?Am I loosing the heritage we have? Am I loosing my identity being Hindu?

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Royal Sujit

Corruption

2011-04-25T10:52:00.000+05:30

politicians are corrupt...but it should also be noted that corruption starts with self....many submit fake house rent receipts to save on tax....if caught by police for not having DL or insurance...or breaking signal...how many really pay full fine(paying full fine may not make sense as also it is doubtful really it goes to govt or they are giving fake receipts, but my question is how many would really pay fine provided the receipts are genuine)...and how many prefer to opt to bribe him with smaller amount and get away....do people really think y just sharing posts giving numbers about money in swiss banks or supporting anna problems are going to get solved....when on large scale common individuals are also corrupt...some may argue...lok pal bill is first step...but if we don't try to solve the root problem...just taking first steps occasionally is not going to solve problem....every individual first should try to remove this(corruption) from his/her attitude...should not bribe anybody....should not cheat govt by fake bills....should not avoid tolls.....ya...i hv seen many individuals...who try to cheat toll system on roads...just pretend that they are giving toll at the counter....and then speed up....there are many ways by which people can start from self...even everybody reduces such activities partially..i would say...that is much bigger first step and which will lead to solution....Jai Hind!
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Grenoble and Marseille

2010-08-20T16:30:00.001+05:30

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Royal Sujit

Lisbon

2010-08-20T16:26:00.004+05:30

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Royal Sujit

Primes in P

2010-02-04T21:30:00.002+05:30

Hello All,
I used to follow a blog Crypto Crats....and once I planned to write about a Primality testing by AKS for the blog. It was supposed in two parts, first one being very simple and describe the algorithm. In second one, I planned to describe the imporant steps in the proof of correctness of the algorithm. However, Royal Sujit never wrote the second part. So thought, let me publish the first part here. If at all I write second part too, I will request the managers of the Crypto Crats to post my articles. I know this being a technical blog, many of you won't be interested. However, if at all it interests you, you can definately give me comments and tell me how this article could have been better for a layman to understand. Thanks.

Primality Testing

What is a prime number? A number for which the only divisors are 1 and itself is called a prime number. e.g: 5 is a prime number. How? 2, 3, 4 do not divide 5. Consider, 9, it is not a prime number. 3 divides 9. Is 101 a prime number? One can check whether any number from 2 to 100 divides 101? If yes, then 101 is not prime else by definition it is. It is tedious to check all numbers. One important observation we can make here, if no number less than or equal to 10 divides 101, then no number will ever divide 101? Why? 10*10 = 100 and if p divides 101 then 101/p also divides 101. So at least on of these has to less than square root of 101. So the job is simple. Now suppose the given number to check is very big like in thousands, then checking this manually will be laborious. However, we can write a small computer program and leave it to computer to check whether given number is prime or not. This problem is called primality testing. The problem of primality testing is:

Given n to determine whether n is prime or not.

What if somebody asks is n prime, where n may hundred digit number. Then this naive primality testing would take millions of years to decide whether the n is a prime or no. Do we really need to deal with such big numbers? Yes!!! RSA, the celebrated public key algorithm in cryptography starts with two primes. Many cryptography systems require large prime numbers. How does one get these numbers? The answer is simple, generate a random number and check whether it is a prime or not. But as pointed out above the naive algorithm requires time which is proportional to square root of n. We will say it has running time O (√ n). To represent n in computer we will need log n bits. Now √ n is same as 2^{(log n)/2}. That is running time of the algorithm is exponential in size of the input.

In cryptography we will be dealing with 1024 or 2048 bit numbers. So there is need to have to faster algorithms. Number theory is of vital importance here. So in this article, I will talk about primality testing.

Before starting with primality testing of given integer n, some basics:

We say a ≡ b mod (n) when n divides a - b.

(Note: mod operation is defined for all integers. This is not restricted only to primes.)

e.g. 36 ≡ 24 mod 12. Now suppose n is prime number.

Then, Fermat's little theorem states that a^n-1≡ 1 mod n, if a is not a multiple of n.

Now suppose we could assume that the reverse is true. That is, if a^n-1≡ 1 mod n for any a not multiple of n implies n is prime. (Here, we are checking whether n is prime and not a). Then it would have been a very simple job to decide the primality of the given integer, n. Randomly choose a between 2 and n. And check whether a^n-1≡ 1 mod n or no. This can be done in polynomial time in log n.

The bad news is that, this is not true. But variant of this has been used by Miller and Rabin for the primality testing and Miller-Rabin test runs in polynomial time. It randomly generates number, a, to check whether n is prime or no. When a test with this a returns n is prime, then a is said to be a witness of n to be prime. If n is composite and randomly chosen a still says n is prime, a is said to be a liar. It can be shown that for any composite number at least half the a are not going to be liars. When n is prime all a < n are going to be witness for n to be prime. Thus when this test says n is composite then n is definitely composite as for any prime all a are going to be witness, no a can return n to be composite. However, when test says n is prime, there is some probability that n is composite due to presence of liars. Though this seems a problem, it is not a big problem. The probability of error is < ½. At least ½ elements are not liars, they will declare n to be composite. So repeating test k times we can reduce the probability of error < (½)^k.

Still this is non-zero. Can we have deterministic algorithm? In 2002, three Indian scientists from IIT proved with an explicit algorithm that given a number we can check whether it is a prime or no in time which is polynomial in size of the number (i.e. log n) and not number (n). The previous algorithms like Rabin-Miller test are also polynomial in log n. The problem with those is, they are not deterministic. If an algorithm gives answer that n is prime, then there is some probability that n is not prime. These IITians have developed an algorithm which is polynomial in log n and when it says n is prime then n is prime and when it says n is composite then n is composite. In short this is deterministic polynomial time in input size. The authors of this paper are: Manindra Agrawal, Neeraj Kayal, and Nitin Saxena. All three received Gödel Prize and Fulkerson prize for their contributions in 2006. This algorithm is known as AKS primality testing.

Again one fact from number theory:

If n is prime,

(X + a)ⁿ ≡ Xⁿ+ a mod n for any a =1, 2, … , n-1. (1)

That is, consider polynomial (X + a)ⁿ and take coefficients modulo n.

The above statement states, we should get Xⁿ+ a.

This is true only if n is prime which means, if n is composite, then there exists a a for which (1) is not true. However this will lead to exponential running time as (X + a)ⁿ has n coefficients, and we have to keep track of all of them.

The remedy is, we will take mod with polynomial as well.

That is, when we say p(X) mod (X^r - 1), we mean X^r ≡ 1, X^r+1 ≡ X and so on. e.g X^r+1 + X+1 ≡ 2X+ 1 mod (X^r - 1). If we use mod (X^r - 1) operation as well, we have to keep track of only r coefficients. If r is of size polynomial in log n, then running time will also be polynomial in log n. Beauty is the algorithm works if r is suitable prime.

Thus we will be checking, (X + a)ⁿ mod (n, X^r - 1). If this does not happen to Xⁿ+ a mod (n, X^r - 1) then n is composite.

The AKS primality testing is as follows:

Input: n >1

Output: n is prime or composite.

Algorithm:

1. If n = q^s for some integers q and s, then output composite.

2. Find suitable prime r which is roughly polynomial in log n.

(I will explain about this r in analysis of this algorithm)

3. If 1 < gcd (a, n) < n for some a ≤ r, output composite.

4. For a = 1 to √ r * log n, check

whether (X + a)ⁿ = Xⁿ+ a mod (n, X^r - 1).

If not then output composite.

5. Output prime.

So the algorithm is very simple and runs in polynomial time since all the steps can be performed in O ( polynomial (log n)) time and there are at most polynomial log n steps.

Though this is deterministic polynomial time algorithm, still running time is too high for practical usage. Miller-Rabin test runs in O (log n³) time. Nevertheless this is an important milestone in primality testing, a truly wonderful elegant solution for primality testing. Mathematicians were surprised how they overlooked this for such a long time. This has lead to mathematicians to search for any other important simple facts which have been overlooked and can be used to solve many important problems like factoring.

The algorithm is deterministic. We will see why this algorithm works and what I mean by a suitable prime r in the next part of this article. Though the analysis is simple, few basic things from abstract algebra will be assumed:

Group, Subgroup, Order of a group, Lagrange Theorem, Field. I will cite suitable references as well in next part.

To conclude this part:

We have seen AKS primality test. This takes O (log n¹²) time.

Hendrik Lenstra and Carl Pomerance showed that this algorithm can be improved to O (log n⁶).

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Royal Sujit

Night life

2010-02-02T21:52:00.001+05:30

By title don't expect anything flashy or some rocking life....
I dint mention title fully...actually I want to write, 'Night life @ IISc'

I has already blogged Fragrance of a Morning, Woh Shaam Kuch Ajeeb Thi, Summer of 09...freshness of IISc Morning, beautiful evening in IISc and numbness of a noon in the woods of IISc...Then obviously one may expect Royal Sujit to write about night life of researchers...

Truly speaking, I also don't want to not up to expectations of my fans..(I doubt if any???)But..kya are...Royal Sujit aalsi bahot hain...(Royal Sujit is a lazy person) Since long thinking about writing on night life...So that I can complete the series....

However, I feel I don't have enough vocab or writing skill to describe this special life...For many of IIScians...day starts in the night....I remember the song long time back...

"ye to hain aamchi mumbai...raat ko bara baje din nikalta hain...."

(This is our mumbai, here day starts at night 12)

ya for some of iiscians its true...day starts in the night with dinner...either in the mess or gym cafe...or
nesara or more recently PVR (Bangalorians, we also do have PVR well within campus...Prakruti Veg Restuarant ha ha ha ha)...and for most of others too...dinner time is like there is still lot more time for bed...
so in IISc there is lot of activity in night :o don't worry...I mean is lot of people do research.....work in labs...there will be some people in library till almost 2300 hrs....(closing time...)I am not sure whether there was any incidence of somebody getting locked in lib for whole night....but its highly possible event...you can definitely find T-board running till atleast 2am... that indicates that people are not asleep....

so far so good...(you have to say so...though) I am talking about only boring life of reaserchers in IISc....however, life can be romantic as well....just one has to keep his eyes open and mind awake...recently I had captured some photos in IISc in night time....neither I am professional photographer nor do I have some high fundoo camera with tripod.....still I bet you will like it or at least will get feel of what I am trying to say...they are worth taking look at it....

For more photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sujit.gujar/Full_Moon_Night_IISc#

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Royal Sujit

I lied

2010-01-16T11:38:00.000+05:30

Today I am confessing that I lied to you all!!!

While creating the blog, I promised, I will use it for one way communication with you all my dear friends..I will share my thoughts...or shed some light on Royal Sujit's life...Also I mentioned, I will use this blog as an opportunity to improve my writing skills.

Today, I am feeling, I lied... In recent times, I am only putting some emails on the blog. I am not writing on my own. Hereby I confess that, I lied to you. (Also, some of the readers; whom I sent an email for today's post, stating they will enjoy today's post; may feel that I lied that they will enjoy this blog a lot ;) )

However, do not worry, I assure that I will post my own created blogs...(Else who will bore you in this life?) I promise, no more lies...only truth...and if at all I lie, it will be true lies! ( :P )

Chalo bye world, it was just for fun, do not worry, enjoy your day!!!
Royal Sujit has to get back to his work....

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Royal Sujit

Stupid Software Engineer

2010-01-16T11:14:00.001+05:30

Another forward email.....
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All of you who have seen the movie ‘A Wednesday’... will love it...

Commissioner Rathore : kaun ho tum..??? kya pehcan hai tumhari ?

Unkonwn Caller : Kaun hoon mein...mein vo hu jo aaj commintment karne se darta hai, Mein vo hoon jo aaj ghar jaane se darta ha, ye soch ke kahin ghar wale pehchanne se inkar na kar de...

mein vo hoon jo, aaj job change karta hai to sochta hai ki kahin recession mein mujhe company se na nikal de..

mein vo hoon jiski girlfriend usse friday ko dus bar phone karti hai, "kya kar rahe ho..?? kaam jyada hai..?? thak gaye ho..?? "
mera haal poochne ke liye ya kaam poochne ke liye nahi, rathore saab... balki vo ye jaanaa chahti hai ki... kahin hamesha ki tarah end moment pe
boss ke bulane pe mein satrudary ki date cancel to nahi kar raha...

mein vo hoon jo breakfast ke time pe dinner karta hai, lunch time pe breakfast karta hai, dinner ke time pe lunch karta hai.. vo bhi time mil jae to...

mein vo hoon jo aksar phasta hain
kabhi Interviews ke sawaal mey phasta hai , kabhi Badi companiyon ke jaal mey phasta hai, kabhi boss aur client ke bawaal mey fasta hai.

Project office ki bheed to dekhi hogi aapne rathore saab... us bheed mein se koi bhi chehra chun lijie.. mein vo hoon..

I'm the same old .. STUPID SOFTWARE ENGINEER....

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Royal Sujit

Welcome 2010!!

2010-01-09T17:11:00.001+05:30

Hello all,

First of all a very warm happy new year!!
I wish you all a very prosporus, healthy, wealthy, joyful year ahead.
I wish all your wishes come true!!

Some time back I received a nice set of words, titled '10 Words'.
I am sure everybody mus have received it from some where or the other source.
However, thought of putting those here too.

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Royal Sujit

A Letter to Every Indian by APJ

2009-12-08T09:01:00.001+05:30

I don't know whether really Dr Abdul Kalam said this or no.
However, the thoughts in this email are really provoking.
So thought of putting it on blog.
Jai Hind!

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Royal Sujit

A Letter to Every Indian - APJ

Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?
We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.
Look at Dr. Sudarshan , he has transferred the tribal village into a self-sustaining, self-driving unit. There are millions of such achievements but our media is only obsessed in the bad news and failures and disasters.
I was in Tel Aviv once and I was reading the Israeli newspaper. It was the day after a lot of attacks and bombardments and deaths had taken place. The Hamas had struck. But the front page of the newspaper had the picture of a Jewish gentleman who in five years had transformed his desert into an orchid and a granary. It was this inspiring picture that everyone woke up to. The gory details of killings, bombardments, deaths, were inside in the newspaper, buried among other news.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.. Why are we so NEGATIVE? Another question: Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? We want foreign T.Vs, we want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology.

Why this obsession with everything imported. Do we not realize that self-respect comes with self-reliance? I was in Hyderabad giving this lecture, when a 14 year old girl asked me for my autograph. I asked her what her goal in life is. She replied: I want to live in a developed India . For her, you and I will have to build this developed India . You must proclaim. India is not an under-developed nation; it is a highly developed nation.
Do you have 10 minutes? Allow me to come back with a vengeance.

Got 10 minutes for your country? If yes, then read; otherwise, choice is yours..
YOU say that our government is inefficient.
YOU say that our laws are too old.
YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.
YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke. The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination.
YOU say that our country has been fed to the dogs and is the absolute pits.

YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?

Take a person on his way to Singapore . Give him a name - 'YOURS'. Give him a face - 'YOURS'. YOU walk out of the airport and you are at your International best. In Singapore you don't throw cigarette butts on the roads or eat in the stores. YOU are as proud of their Underground links as they are.. You pay $5 (approx. Rs. 60) to drive through Orchard Road (equivalent of Mahim Causeway or Pedder Road) between 5 PM and 8 PM. YOU come back to the parking lot to punch your parking ticket if you have over stayed in a restaurant or a shopping mall irrespective of your status identity… In Singapore you don't say anything, DO YOU? YOU wouldn't dare to eat in public during Ramadan, in Dubai .. YOU would not dare to go out without your head covered in Jeddah.
YOU would not dare to buy an employee of the telephone exchange in London at 10 pounds (Rs.650) a month to, 'see to it that my STD and ISD calls are billed to someone else.'YOU would not dare to speed beyond 55 mph (88 km/h) in Washington and then tell the traffic cop, 'Jaanta hai main kaun hoon (Do you know who I am?). I am so and so's son. Take your two bucks and get lost.' YOU wouldn't chuck an empty coconut shell anywhere other than the garbage pail on the beaches in Australia and New Zealand ..
Why don't YOU spit Paan on the streets of Tokyo ? Why don't YOU use examination jockeys or buy fake certificates in Boston ??? We are still talking of the same YOU. YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India ?

In America every dog owner has to clean up after his pet has done the job. Same in Japan ..
Will the Indian citizen do that here?' He's right. We go to the polls to choose a government and after that forfeit all responsibility.
We sit back wanting to be pampered and expect the government to do everything for us whilst our contribution is totally negative. We expect the government to clean up but we are not going to stop chucking garbage all over the place nor are we going to stop to pick a up a stray piece of paper and throw it in the bin. We expect the railways to provide clean bathrooms but we are not going to learn the proper use of bathrooms.
We want Indian Airlines and Air India to provide the best of food and toiletries but we are not going to stop pilfering at the least opportunity.
This applies even to the staff who is known not to pass on the service to the public.

When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home. Our excuse? 'It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry.' So who's going to change the system?
What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government. But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr.Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.
Like lazy cowards hounded by our fears we run to America to bask in their glory and praise their system. When New York becomes insecure we run to England . When England experiences unemployment, we take the next flight out to the Gulf. When the Gulf is war struck, we demand to be rescued and brought home by the Indian government. Everybody is out to abuse and rape the country. Nobody thinks of feeding the system. Our conscience is mortgaged to money.

Dear Indians, The article is highly thought inductive, calls for a great deal of introspection and pricks one's conscience too…. I am echoing J. F. Kennedy's words to his fellow Americans to relate to Indians…..

'ASK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR INDIA AND DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE TO MAKE INDIA WHAT AMERICA AND OTHER WESTERN COUNTRIES ARE TODAY'

Lets do what India needs from us.

Forward this mail to each Indian for a change instead of sending Jokes or junk mails.

Thank you,

Dr.. Abdul Kalam

Vande Mataram!!!

2009-11-26T12:51:00.003+05:30

Hello all,

It has been one year since 26th Novemeber 2008, when India faced a terrorist attack. The brave soldiers fought to rescue innocent people at the cost of their lives. It reminisces me the famous poem sung by Legendary Lata Mangeshkar

ऐ मेरे वतन् के लोगों

तुम् खूब् लगा लो नारा

ये शुभ् दिन् है हम् सब् का

लहरा लो तिरंगा प्यारा

पर् मत् भूलो सीमा पर्

वीरों ने है प्राण् गँवा

कुछ् याद् उन्हें भी कर् लो -२

जो लौट् के घर् न आये -२

ऐ मेरे वतन् के लोगों

ज़रा आँख् में भर् लो पानी

जो शहीद् हु हैं उनकी

ज़रा याद् करो क़ुरबानी

for whole poem:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye_Mere_Watan_Ke_Logo and

youtube of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvG6ptzc1Go

The following thing is from an email received today:

(Instead of Forwarding, I preferred to put it here)

WEDNESDAY

Let us all come together and stand for a 2 minute silence

on 26.11.09 at 9.00PM wherever you are.

Vande Mataram

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Royal Sujit

India is Rising, be proud to be an Indian

2009-11-26T09:40:00.000+05:30

Hello world,

I am proud to share the following two news with you all. President of India, Pratibha Patil has created history. She is the first woman president to fly in fighter plane.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/President-Patil-makes-history-by-flying-in-Sukhoi/articleshow/5269672.cms

Though it is not mentioned in the news on times of India, its not just that she flew in fighter plane, she also took control of it for a while.

Other important story: The USA is recognising the power of India. President Obama, using hindi words in white house, 'Swagat' , 'Namaste'.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Colours-of-India-light-up-Obama-banquet/articleshow/5269502.cms

The white house celebrated Diwali and Guru Nanak Jaynati this year.

Jai Hind!!!

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Royal Sujit

Royal Sujit Launches New Blog

2009-11-21T04:36:00.001+05:30

Hello all,

Its era of computers, people are becoming more and more internet savy....academia is not exceptional...These days many eminent professors are maintaining their blogs. e.g. Field Medallist Terrance Tao, Paul Goldberg, Noam Nisan...the list is endless...

Royal Sujit is not doing anything...he launched his I am what I am blog long time ago...expecting to be active..but still not much activity....Royal Sujit has now decided to come out of lethargic state and be active....

so he is now set to launch new blogs. Let him maintain his blogs which are technical and talks about research.....What will he write there?

the papers he is reading?the conf deadlines?any technical articles?...all the above....

But who will be reading all these stuff where dada lok (big shots) are already doing all such things...Then y one wud come and visit royal sujit's blog?obviously not...

but..do royal sujit should care about this?NOT at all....y should he blog then?He should write for himself...He is king in his own small realm...so he is not worried about people reading his blog or no...he will be writing for himself...and by any chance, if somebody lands on his blog, and finds useful, its bonus right?

So finally Royal Sujit is launching the new blog...About the areas in which he is currently doing research...That is econ-cs...sounds interesting na?If you find my blog useful do definitely help me in posts over there....

The blog is: http://econcs.blogspot.com/

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Royal Sujit

Summer of 09

2009-04-05T22:59:00.000+05:30

Hi all...

this Sunday i was roaming in the woods of iisc...

sky was blue..sun was silently pouring heat on the trees..
which they were drinking and giving shadows to the earth...
In spite of hot summer out side campus...
in this garden...it was cool at mid-day...there was no wind...
everything was silent..except few birds chirping here and there....

it was great pleasure to feel silence of the nature...
there was no human created noise...
as i was spending more time in the golden jubilee garden of iisc,
i was feeling that vibrations of thoughts in mind are diminishing and
just mind is subsuming to the nature in the after noon of the summer...

i took some snaps...i don't know whether u can also feel the same silencing of mind through photos or no.. just sharing picasa photo link here for you to enjoy the snaps...

http://picasaweb.google.com/sujit.gujar/IISc_Summer09#

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Royal Sujit

Hello

2009-02-23T18:57:00.000+05:30

Hello all

Some time has elapsed while I chatted with you here. But why I am blogging? Just like that... I guess I can share my experiences/views with you. And also you have full freedom to skip reading... not get bored if u don't want to be...

Slumdog Millionaire slammed at 81st academy awards ceremony with 8 Oscars. Congratulations to all winners...

Wait a minute..if you start to think I am going to say about the movie or Oscars or related with this event..then you are wrong....I am not interested in talking about this...

Truly speaking, today I don't have any specific to talk about.

Thinking same way, I had been away from blogging for a while.

Then I thought why not to post some of the quotes which I liked...

Now these are the quoted I saved at various times...

There is no particular reason why I saved a particular quote...

There are plethora of good quotes than what I had saved..

So whats particular about these quotes...nothing special...

At that moment i liked it and i saved...

One thing I will surely say, some quotes, just read again some other time.. and you will realise that you have understood it better...

So these are the quotes which I would like to share with you:

"The difference you make in someone else's life, will always be smaller than the difference it will make in your own"

"Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well." Aristotle

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." Albert Einstein

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." Danny Kaye

"Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today."

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever." --Chinese Proverb.

"Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."

"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough."

"Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

"One can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." --Henry Ford

"The whole is more than the sum of its parts. " Aristotle

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. " Mark Twain

"You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters." Plato.

The ultimate:

"I am not a star. There is no halo over my head. Fate doesn't like the colour of my eyes. Struggle and strife are old friends of mine. Who am I ? I am survival. I am guts. I am pride. I like odds. Especially when they're stacked against me. Because there will come a time,when I will stare them in the eye. And smile the smile of the one who's pulled it off. I am the guy who will have deep lines on his face someday. And it'll make me look good when I laugh. Because that is the day I will fear no fear. And taste sweat that is sweet. And look back for the very first time and say, I did it my way. The long hard way."

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Regards,

Royal Sujit.

Woh Shaam Kuch Ajeeb Thi

2008-12-31T00:45:00.000+05:30

28 December 2008, the last Sunday of the year…. It was evening time…finished my tea and came to room expecting to study….but not gearing up for it… the thought process was consuming lot of (already limited) brain resource … what to study…should I read some research paper… or should read some text book… now I have to serious about studies…31st Dec’07 seemed to be just like yesterday…the time flied away… just similar to the quote in Munna Bhai MBBS, (“yeh karma to shuru hote hee khatam hota ye..”) ‘ye saal to shuru hote hee khatam ho raha hain…’ ..

the one of major resolution made last year was to wake up early morning everyday and study hard in the morning session only… Couldn’t follow it after writing blog on it… (Fragrance of a Morning)…..

Every year…when it comes year ending… lot of (my) time is spent on making new year resolutions… but never made any of it :) Just day before Sunday one of my friends told me… “My New Year resolution is to not to make any resolution this year…” …good one..... :) It reminded me a story.. Once a king asks his barber “whom do you shave”? Barber, “I shave only all those in the city who don’t shave themselves…” Now the question is does the barber shaves himself? ... If you say “yes,” then think, he shave himself, means barber is not suppose to shave himself… and if you say, “no”, again, then he should shave himself according to his statement… this is actually a famous Russell's paradox in math.. So…that resolution of no resolution leads similar to Russell’s paradox… so what to do… how I should plan for 2009….

How about studies that was supposed to take place in the evening… more than 20 mins passed … it was some wonderful evening… sky was clear and blue…sun was going far at west… the whether was pleasant cool… the evening breeze was not allowing me to be at study… finally decided to roam in the beautiful IISc campus on this beautiful evening.....

So… gave up thought of studies…took digital camera with me…. In this digital era... u may not be an expert at photography; still u can take good snaps with the help of these new cameras... So started wandering around the campus with digi-cam... looking at the sun through trees…was a splendid vista…

birds were returning home…

reached the main building… it was simply magnificent… the building was illuminated by the orange sunshine, the scene was making me speechless…

Then went to gymkhana… students were playing on the ground…

I was astounded…. I was just feeling that this evening is different…. on the verge of the new year…

So this is time to look back and look ahead both…. Evening like this is a bridge between the year passing by and the new year arriving soon.. New Year, new beginning, full of promise and opportunity and the chance to make dreams come true

It was dark when I returned back to room with pleasant mood… with loads of hopes about future….

I take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy new year… I wish you all a wonderful, exciting year ahead!!!

With Warm Wishes,
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Regards,
Royal Sujit

(For more photos taken on this evening: http://picasaweb.google.com/sujit.gujar/IIScPhotos# )

The upper reaches of the sea

2008-12-26T16:33:00.000+05:30

Hello world!

It has been long time since I blogged... These days royal Sujit is really leaving royally in Hostel Complex of IISc. So, he is not getting time to blog... :D

Hey actually its not that life is really busy. But the thing is I don't have any specific topic to bore you with. However, I have something to share with you folks... (Its most likely that I have already told you about this... :) ) I traveled to Shanghai recently. I thought lets take this opportunity to blog...

So, today I am going to tell you a tale of my travel to China.

It so happened that one fine day GOD smiled and thought let Royal Sujit have some more royal life... and he made a small peg of WINE (ha ha ha...click on the word to know what it exactly means) for me. In short, star of riches was shining on me when my (research ???) paper got accepted in this workshop.

You see GOD just didn't stop there. He made my prof to ask me to travel to the city on the sea. ( Shanghai literally means: on the sea, the upper reaches of the sea, that is the title of this blog.. otherwise no relation between content and title... :) )

Shall I tell you one thing, when GOD is with you anything can happen. The conference people were not willing to give me original invitation letter. And here VISA consultant was asking for it. Finally I submitted documents without original invitation letter and without accommodation details... and my VISA got stamped...

So now no problem for travel. Lot of friends helped me in packing, preparing for the travel and off course for the main purpose of travel, presentation.

The flight took off @ 300am 16 DEC 2008. After one more experience of take off, (If you have not read my description of take off, you may read my blog Unprecedented). I slept. Somehow I woke up around 500am. Just opened the window and realized that sun is rising...it was amazing view..and was lucky to wake up at that moment.

I landed in Hong Kong... spent 3 hours on the air port.. So got to know this airport much better.. I reached Shanghai @ 420pm (local time, IST+2Hrs30mins). When came out of air port, realized that its really very cold outside, as stated on various web sites. Took taxi and reached the hotel. In the night, just roamed nearby hotel to find out that day here ends little early...

Reached in time to conference venue on 17 DEC...

Conference got inaugurated well...after lot of good talks, it was lunch time... was interacting with many people... It was fun to talk with people coming over there from various parts of the world... I had little trouble in understanding their accent and they too in understanding my poor and fast spoken English... however we overcame it soon...

After couple of tutorial talks by some of the top researchers, the day ended with grand dinner. ( FYI: I had to survive during day on fruits only.. all the food served was non-veg.. :( people were somewhat skeptical how one can be such stubborn... I guess, they should visit India to realize that still considerable fraction of people here eat only veg food.... I had carried MTR ready to eat packets...so food was not a big problem )

Now set for my presentation, which was on 18th December... I was constantly wondering whether I would be able to finish my talk in 13mins... (that was the time alloted to me). And I did it.... finished few seconds early...

On eve of 18th DEC, conf people organized a trip to 'Yanshan Deep Water Port'...This is harbor constructed (also phase 2 still going on, and the tour guide told us, this will be the biggest harbor in the world after phase two, expected to be finished in 2012) 32.5 km inside sea... This has enabled a lot of trade...there is a long bridge to this deep water port... I had seen a nice sunset while traveling to the port...

This day banquet was arranged near a river side...Huangpu river....it is a big river in Shanghai... so east part is refereed as Pudong (dong in Chinese is east, Pu is taken from river name) and west is Puxi (xi - west)

The night time in Shanghai is really amazing... the lightning... the buildings.... the bund area near Huangpu river is astounding in the night time... roaming on pedestrian roads in night time is surely a wonderful experience...

I have not explored any of food items.... So can't comment on that...

On 20th we visited few museums in Shanghai.... with one museum is planning urban museum... which shows how they planned and developed Shanghai in 20 yrs...

We may find that this, the city above sea, is not as clean as US cities... there are some slum areas... but it is constantly improving... and shown to the world that they can progress fast in short span of time... they have targets for developments... and achieving them...

In India many times we say we want to make Mumbai as Shanghai...I think we can make change happen....but we have to work much harder....

On my last day in the city, I traveled back to airport in Maglev...this is magnetic train, covers distance of 30 km in just over 7 mins...with maximum speed of 431 kmph... Traveling through Maglev was simply superb....

So I returned early morning on 21st December with loads of memories from China....

(Click on the photos for full resolution,

For more photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/sujit.gujar/Shanghai02#
If you use orkut, same photos with captions:
http://www.orkut.co.in/Main#Album.aspx?uid=14838297282072092347&aid=1229895804 )

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Regards,
Royal Sujit

Zero and GOD

2008-09-11T19:04:00.000+05:30

Sometimes we do some fundamental mistakes..But what are this fundamentals...How are they defined...Don't you sometimes feel that these fundamentals are themselves fundamentally wrong....

Now, let me clear the hell I am talking about...
Consider the figure drawn here...
Its basically I had drawn a unit square.

I want to reach from A to C. I travel from A to B and then take upward turn and travel B to C. I call this path as P0. Along path P0, I would travel distance 2.

Now suppose, next day, I would explore another path. I will travel from A to A1, then I turn upwards and travel A1-B1, B1-C1,C1-C. I call this path P1. Again if you see, I have to travel distance 2 along P1.

On third day I decide to travel A-A2,A2-B2,B2-C2,C2-B1,B1-D2,D2-E2,E2-F2,F2-C. I call this path P2. Still I am traveling distance of 2. Like wise I would define my path on (n-1)^th day as Pn. I hope u got how it would be like. It would travel horizontally half the distance I had traveled horizontally on (n-2)^th day, then upwards to touch line A-C. Then again right turn...and so on.

If you have understood my path Pn, you would notice that, along Pn I would travel distance 2 for any n. But as n tends to infinity, i.e. Limit n -> infinity Pn will converge to line segment AC. So every day I will travel distance 2 but when if I travel along AC, I will be traveling sqrt 2. Mathematically,

Length(Pn) = 2 for each n. So, Lim n-> infinity Length(Pn) = 2.
Also, Lim n-> infinity Pn = AC and Length(AC) = sqrt 2.

Now, that's the point. One way I am traveling distance 2. And if I converge path Pn to AC, as AC is sqrt 2, I am traveling sqrt 2 in limit though traveling 2 every time.

So something wrong. :( . Ya, there is fundamental blunder in this. I am assuming,

Lim n-> infinity Length(Pn) = Length(Lim n-> infinity Pn ).

This Lim interchange business is not allowed here. But y?
I feel we define our things so that previously defined things don't fail. If they fail, then we re-define new operations . Mathematicians will give big explanations for this....but y should i trust them.

Neways, one funny idea came out of my discussion with my lab mate, we allow this Lim interchange business...then, we will get,

sqrt 2 = 2.

Okey, Assume that, it is true. So, squaring both sides,

2 = 4 and dividing both sides by 2, we get
1 = 2 and adding n to both sides,
n + 1 = n + 2.

That is all integers are same. So all mathematics developed to construct rationals and reals will say all numbers are same. That is everything is zero, with which whole things started. So everything is zero. By starting with zero and creating all mess, we end up in zero.

I do remember, when I was kid, there used to a TV serial named Mahabharat.
Its starting always used to say

"Main shoonya hoon. Sab shoonya se suru hota hain. .....Aur sab shoonya mehee vilin hoga."

Zero is GOD. Everything started from him and finally it will evolve to merge into zero.

(Thought in this post is my personal and it is not
precise. Here I am just sharing it with the world.
I am not here to defend it. If you have any comments, do post comments and no personal mails.)

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Regards,
Royal Sujit

Happy Independence Day

2008-08-13T22:39:00.000+05:30

Hello All,
It has been since long time I had blogged...Truly speaking I am not a writer. Also I have nothing special in mind to write.....But now I thought I will write few lines...on the occasion of 61st Independence day of India. Don't worry I am not going to bore you this time with loads of philosophy..

I am sure everybody will be proud about Abhinav Bindra..the first ever individual gold medalist in Olympics...So...hearty congrats to him!!!! I think, on this occasion we should also remember, Khashaba Jadhav, a first individual medalist in Olympics for India.

Any way, I thought I will wish you all happy Independence day, one day in advance. (Some may be busy in celebrating long week end..some may not have i-net access....rest anyway won't mind)

This is our 61st Independence Day!
Freedom is not a Right but a Feeling!
Let's be proud to feel the Freedom!
Let's say loud we are INDIANS!!!
Let all of us get to-gather &
Let's Celebrate Our Freedom!
It is our duty to preserve this Freedom!
Carry this forward to the future!
We did,We do,We will do!!!

Set the celebration on Air, Share your Joy, You're Free to do it, Send this to every Indian, to say Vande Mataram!

Jai Hind

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Regards,
Royal Sujit

To Be Or Not To Be

2008-06-29T19:09:00.000+05:30

The title may sound that I am gonna to be philosophical in this blog...
Or is royalsujit confused? Not exactly...

I just want you to ponder over...
You might have thought over this...might have answer to this....
I am putting it here....because I thought, just in case if you have not given a thought..you should!

By now, you must be wondering what the hell I am talking about?

It so happened that, few days back, I received one mail....the message was that you should be proud to be an Indian because:
"X% of NASA scientist are Indians. Y% of Microsoft employees are Indians.....". And many other such statistics....Also, it contained glory of Indian History....How India was a great country? How we had eminent personalities...starting from Ayabhatta to Ramanujan...And list was endless....

Yes, I was, am, and will be proud to be an Indian. The question is should I be happy with that? should I be contented with these facts? Have we wondered, in spite of being the second largest population wise country...how many noble laureates we have given to the world? How many field medalists? How many Olympics medals?What if the most of those X% scientist work for ISRO?Why not those we can have an organization which will give the operating system to the world...

We are working for MS...writing codes for them to build OS..and finally we are the ones who will be purchasing it...It has been more than 60 years, after independence...still we are developing country..not a developed one....

Ya, I know there can be questioning/counter questioning to this...Sure....The difference in salaries..kind of working environment people getting in FOREIGN countries....system over there....Many facts are there....and the answers are not simple...After all everybody has his own priorities....

Here I am not for criticizing anybody..I don't want to blame ..nor do I want to praise anybody...

Just I want everybody to mull over "should I be contented with the glorious facts about the India? Or not to be just contented with it..but should contribute in someway that will help the country grow...thrive for better and better India....the Bharat..."

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Regards,
Royal Sujit

Driving to Shivanasamudra

2008-06-22T19:49:00.000+05:30

"Are Dost, week end ko nandi hills ghumne chalna hain kya?"
"Haan chal sakte hain, bolo chalna hain kya?Last moment cancel mat karo...mera mood kharab karoge..."
"Are nahi yaar, pakka chalnege...bahot din se baher ghumne nahi gaya.."
"To chal sakte hain, I will come to IISc, on sat aur raat me niklenge 4o'clock..aaram se jayenge..."
"Yep, done.."
Thus we planned for Nandi Hills on Sunday morning.
After some time, dost called me back,
"Are soon"
"Bol"
"Are How about going to Shivanasamudra ? Nandi hills ja chuke hain hum pahele bhi"
"Kitna Door hain"
"120 km"
"hmm.."
Then I searched for Shivanasamudra on google. I had herd of this place, but never planned to visit. Now I was seeing nice pictures of water falls on net.

"Yeah, we should visit this place man..bol tuze koi prb nahi na dost..."
"Are nahi yaar..muze bhi kuch naya try out karna hain isliye to suggest kiya"
"Okey done. We will start around 400-430...and may be back by late evening.."
"Thoda jaldi niklenge bhai..taki uder enjoy karne ke liye time milega.."
"Okey..to pakka, this saturday night we will decide when to leave."

Thus my dost and me planned for 'Shivanasamudra falls on Sunday'.

it was hardly 3/4th day trip, so nothing much to manage. Dost made his bike ready to drive.
My friend gave me his digi cam with 10X optical zoom to take snaps. We took some bingo (wafers) and two bottles of water. Thats it. Last thing was to make sure we reach properly on NH 209, as Shivanasamudra falls are located around 120kms south-west from Bangalore on NH 209 in Mandy district of Karnataka.
This era of Internet had made our lives easier. We could see our all route from my friends home to destination on-line.
It was almost 200 am. Set to go. Dost said, "ab sone ka kyon, aur thodi der me to niklana hain.."
"are nahi yaar, thoda so lete hain,...atcha rahega..."
"main to 245 ko uth jato hoon...330 ko niklenge.."
"k...main 300 baje utheta hoon..wasie bhi ready hona sequential hoga to dono ko ek sath uthke phayada nahi...aur suru ke half main drive karoonga..fir next half u...
while returning, it will be reverse. To pahele muze drive karna hain to muze thodi jada neend lene de"
"OKs..koi problem nahi"
"Chalo good night then."

"Abe sale uthe, 330 ho gaye...too bada 245 ko uthne kee batye kar raha tha.."
"yaar 5 mins.."
"nahi..uth...nahi to late ho jayenge hum.."
"5 mins yaar..."
"Okey fir main pahele taya ho jata hoon.."

We made sure that we are not carrying any valuables apart from cell phones..
And started from his room at sharp 410. Approximately 40 mins delayed from schedule.

Had some tea and now charged up for driving.
I just sped up to 89kmph..and crrrr.....all of a sudden there was a speed breaker...
it was night mare in that dark to control the raised speed...
but somehow it got managed...thank GOD...
My dost used his tongue freely to praise Bangalore roads...
I really wonder why they don't put signs for speed breakers....other wise it might turn out to be
life breaker for somebody....I don't thing driving at that speed is crazy..if provided roads are good and driver is confident...about driving as well as vehicle...

Anyways, decided hence forth no much raise inside dark....unless road is clearly visible...

Okey we now continued to catch the NH 209...
I was excited about driving on NH...after long time it was ride for me on bike outside city...

Outer ring road was nice to drive on.... we were on Kankanpura road and finally we on NH...
There was no much rush...
It happened that, I was following a car...Don't know where it was going..but it was also on NH209..and driving as fast as we were traveling...
Hey it was good advantage now for us...
Bike high beams were insufficient to learn the road faster....
so we were limited in 70's....but this car's high beam were so powerful, we could see far long than just with bike headlights...So, we raced the car...and obviously he increased the speed...as what was intended...and he overtook us...and now he started driving in 80's..so i increased the distance between us and i also went in 80's...it was nice road and was completely comfortable to drive at that speed...the car was helping us to drive due to his powerful beams...

Now I was completely engrossed in driving...I was completely unaware of the rest of the world..I was knowing only driving...and wished to race higher and higher speed...but everything should be in control...I was speeding up and so do the car...
I touched 97kmph...my highest speed on bike....was thrilled to touch 100...waned to see 3 digit number on speedometer... but..but hard luck...the car started showing right indicator...and was slowing down....I had no option to slow down...Finally car took the turn...I was driving now in 70's and sometimes in 80's...but still it was dark...the clarity of the road was limited...
so driving in 80's..then came a straight road...it was much more clear...and I was feeling like..I am on runway and driving a plane...no obstacles....that's it....accelerated to full extent...and touched 99kmph.... completely concentrated...and shit...almost a km long...a vehicle was just standing in the middle of left half of the road....

So I missed the target again....Anyways...now Kakanpura, one town on the way was nearby...
so no point in racing....
just came down in 60's....driving in 60's is also has it's own fun...you can enjoy the surroundings...feel the freshness of early morning...finally had to give dost a chance to drive..
We took small break in Kakanpura..had tea...and positions interchanged...

It was 710, when we reached Gaganachukki falls...
It was beautiful scenery around. The hight of the fall is around 1000 ft and there is no way to go below it...still we enjoyed the water fall from distance..the scenery surrounding the waterfall....

Our feelings were mixed....whether it was worth to travel t this place 120km away...
water was not roaring as we had seen in the snaps...
Also we were now hungry and started hunting for food...
Some local person came asking for bike parking charges...
he said its too early to get any food item here...
we asked him, "Is there anything else to see here..."

He said, "This is Gaganachukki falls, why don't you go and see Bharachukki falls, its you go back to NH...take left and around 10-12 km from there, you wil reach Bharachukki falls.."
"Which falls?"
"Bharachukki "...
"Thanks boss..."

"Are dost, chalo abhi itna doot aaye hain to woh bhi dekh lenege.."
"Haan..waise bhi hume jaldi kaha hain"

So we reached the bharachukki falls...
It was amazing...and as it had not rained yet this year, the water flow was not roaring type...
We enjoyed walking on rocks in water...We were lucky in that sense that we could walk there..

Finally we reached from where we could not walk under the main water fall..but there were few boatmen...who were willing to take you under the water fall through there boats with nominal charge...

It was very enjoying to travel through boats.....the water was cold and fresh...
it was fun to put hands inside water...and playing with it...So finally we reached the destination...
The water was bellowing...the flow was thick...it was looking like doodhganga is coming to planet earth from heaven...it was giving feeling that energy is flowing to us...with no delay..

i just went below it to drink the zeal..to get bath with the fall...
I don't think I will be able to explain those moments in words...I was not me..I was just subsumed to nature...

Few days back somebody asked me what is enjoyment...?
I am not sure how to answer this question..but surely the state of mind I had in those few moments..was surely enjoyable...

Now it was time to turn back...

The return journey was also enjoyable..had reached new peak of my driving speed...
I drove back as fast as 107kmph.....that was also one of most enjoyable moment...when I was driving at that speed..with full control over my driving...

Finally we came back to real world..with more energy..more enthusiasm...
more vigor...

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Regards,
Royal Sujit

(For more about Shivansamudra: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sivasamudram_Falls )

Fragrance of a Morning

2008-06-08T17:45:00.000+05:30

Working late nights and waking up late is quite common in IISc...
And I was not exception to this...

Many times I decided to change the schedule to day time...
And u must have expected, could not implement it for long time...till, till I implemented it finally...

Still there was a problem, as I was not used to this kinda schedule for long time..
(haan..in my school days I used to wake up early @ 530am regularly)
I used to feel drowsy..i use to walk towards lab half sleep...
Slowly, my body clock started getting used to this new schedule..

That day, I woke up before alarm...
had nice bath...and was feeling very fresh...

Just had daily pooja and decided I will go immediately...
it was hardly 645...

So took, my bag and started walking to lab...

The campus was getting bathed in the 'nesara', the rays of morning sun
( nesara is Kannada word for morning sun rays...
I came to know this because we have one restaurant in our campus named 'nesara')
It was giving a feeling like GOD is painting planet earth...
the rays were like strokes of HIS brush...The scene was very amazing...
There were lots of flowers on road...might be different shades in the HIS
painting....The trees were blossomed with flowers...
The birds were coming out of their houses..they were singing there songs...
I say, rather GOD was playing music in back ground while painting the beautiful
planet earth...

The morning was very very energizing..rejuvenating...
And there was freshness in the air, in the morning breeze...
and it was like I was smelling the freshness...
The morning had its own fragrance...

That day onwards I realized that....morning has its own fragrance..it's own aroma
and scent of a morning is always cheerful, giving freshness..

It's just that we have to smell it..feel it...

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Regards,
Royal Sujit

Unprecedented Part 2

2008-05-30T00:28:00.000+05:30

(This is in continuation of Unprecedented )
Plane was climbing higher and higher cutting through the clouds...
Now it got sufficient altitude...

It bent right, to take right turn...
(Bangalore is south of Delhi and when craft took off, it was facing the East..)
That turn..that turn made that evening unforgettable...
made me witness of unprecedented event in my life...
I could clearly see the sun rising from west...
As plane was ascending, sun was rising...
I just thought it is simply a miracle...
I was stunned for long time....
After some time....
sun reached was like steady
in his position...and then it set very slowly...
it was like elongated sun set...very elongated...

Now technical part of it...
It is not a miracle..
As altitude of the craft was increasing...my horizon radius was increasing...
and it was increasing faster than the sun was going west with respect to plane...
So relative to me, the sun was moving east...or u can say I was catching the sun...
Pink Floyd's Time song says:
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking

But I can say I caught the sun...
leave fun part of it...

Now once plane reached the stable height from the ground...
my horizon was fixed...and now its radius was not increasing...
so sun started setting.
But why did I observe elongated sun set?
There is also technical reason...Its not that sun set at higher
altitude is prolonged...

As it was winter, daskhinayan of the sun was going on...
so sun was relatively towards south...
The day length increases as we go to south in winter (winter in India)
I was moving towards south, as day length was more, or
we can say at place A, south to place B, will be having sun set time later than the sun set time at place B.
the sun was expected to be in sky at place A even though it had set at B.

Few more such things which might be possible:
If you are flying west, at sufficiently faster speed, you might really feel like sun
has risen from the west for complete journey.
If you are going west, you might experience sun set at east...
and prolonged sun rise is also possible..

Finally the sun set that day...
but it left its traces permanently into my memory...Like a line carved on a stone...
Though technically it is not any surprise...
it was an unprecedented event in my life..and not sure whether I will be able to see this things again?
When I will be able to experience again?

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Royal Sujit
I Am What I Am

Unprecedented

2008-05-30T00:22:00.000+05:30

It was Sunday in cold winter. I was in Delhi for short visit. I had been on flight few times, still I am always excited about the take off..
That day, flight was at 545 pm from Delhi to Bangalore.
I reached airport that day well in advance...wanted to make sure that I will get
window sit. I approached the counter to get my boarding pass....

The lady at the counter checked my ticket and asked, "Any preference sir?".
"Yes, please give me window sit", me.
"Sure", the lady.
Yeah...so I got the window sit.

Now, I had to kill almost one and half hour ...
Every moment was like an hour...
Was checking for boarding call for me every 5 minutes....
In between watching females/gals (;)) roaming here and there...

Finally they announced the boarding call...
I immediately went to gate number 2...
and within few minutes I was on my sit...overwhelmed about the take off.
Just was looking outside the window...
On west side horizon I saw the sun was sinking..
I was just watching him descending @ west...
West horizon was full of orange and saffron color....
I was in completely in a different world...
the sun has said good bye...I just happened to salute him...

"Excuse me sir, can you please put on seat belt please?", air hostess on board...
I was back to reality...
"Yes, Thanks!!"
And normal instruction set on flight was being announced while plane was moving towards airstrip.

Plane took a turn,
I was not able to see the saffron horizon after the sun-set, as plane was headed east...
Then slowly plane came on the runway...

Now plane geared up ..all wings ready...crafts engine is roaring....
and booooooooooom..
Within few seconds it got the speed...
The building were going backwards at very high speed...
Ecstasy of take off was at its peak and the plane was in the air...
I lost the sensation of the speed...
it was feeling of void between me and earth...
but it was giving a nice feeling...
I guess some sort of piece of mind...
(Its just like a single cycle of saw tooth wave..)

Remaining part of this will be posted in Part 2.

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Royal Sujit
I Am What I Am

Time

2008-05-20T13:33:00.000+05:30

Hello everybody,

These are lyrics of song 'time' by Pink Floyd. Though these are easily available on net, to share it with folks here....

...and have your comments on the lyrics....actually not on the lyrics
but how u feel after reading this lyrics?
Honestly, when I heard this, I felt,
R I have to think whether my life is also becoming like this or what?
I liked this line most : No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun...
(Does not mean it happened with me ;) )

So here is the song,

Lyrics

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way

Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun

And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but its sinking
And racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but youre older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death

Every year is getting shorter, never seem to find the time
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over, thought Id something more to say

Home, home again
I like to be here when I can
And when I come home cold and tired
Its good to warm my bones beside the fire
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees

To listen to the song click here.

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Regards,
Royal Sujit