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Good evening Can I link to this post please?

2010-12-05T04:50:51.740+05:30

Good evening

Can I link to this post please?

The iits were a very good concept and at one point...

2010-09-26T23:43:52.845+05:30

The iits were a very good concept and at one point of time we had a lot of iitians in govt. services contributing towards government and society.But human beings are rational beings .How can anybody who has come through the most gruelling of preparation and worked hard to achieve knowledge be expected to sacrifice better and well paying opportunities for public good and remain unappreciated.

Instead of being naive and coming out with solutions that do not solve the problem of brain drain we should rather improve compensation levels -not only does this imply monetary value but the job experience as a whole in the govt. sector to attract and retain best talents.

The suggestion of using only one competetive test is pure hogwash as it puts immense pressure on students to excel in that one test as opposed to various opportunities now.As the engineering entrance system stands today anyone who has worked hard and has good knowledge of Physics ,Chemistry and Mathematics definitely gets into a decent college rather than waiting a whole year to give that one proposed exam agin in case of a bad day.

The proposal of using marks of intermediate exams does ignore the following ground realities
(1) Different boards have different maximum percentages(difference upto 15% between toppers of varioys boards)
(2) Different boards have different parameters in case any scaling is tried-different pass percentages,different mean marks,different standard deviations
(3)The evaluation of exam papers is a subjective process with difference of marks depending upon the examiner evaluating the answer sheets.The evaluation of machine readable answer sheets is a far objective method (since most of the competitive exams ask for objective questions only and if subjective papers were conducted the same was limited to a select pre qualified people only).

Rather than changing the system by a less objective and less fair system for the sake of change and to show that something was done is not a solution to the ills of brain drain and young people remaining away from research and public service.

Legendary!

2010-09-13T00:12:30.648+05:30

Legendary!

"One cannot live without love." Malcolm ...

2010-08-16T22:59:25.374+05:30

"One cannot live without love."
Malcolm Lowry

You've come a long way, dude.

2010-08-16T22:56:52.112+05:30

You've come a long way, dude.

Congrats!

2010-08-14T05:30:51.059+05:30

Congrats!

Amiable post and this mail helped me alot in my co...

2010-08-13T06:45:32.064+05:30

Amiable post and this mail helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you on your information.

Well said. Don't worry you'd still be my f...

2010-07-05T15:17:26.080+05:30

Well said. Don't worry you'd still be my friend :P

@neeraj, Mike, 'Anonymous': Thanks for you...

2010-07-05T08:16:55.875+05:30

@neeraj, Mike, 'Anonymous': Thanks for your time.

@nkarocks Thanks!

2010-07-05T08:15:08.883+05:30

@nkarocks Thanks!

@Bharat :-) @AnaVar You're welcome!

2010-07-05T08:14:01.273+05:30

@Bharat :-)

@AnaVar You're welcome!

Thank you, Anurag Ji. You make me blush! I hope ...

2010-07-05T08:12:45.308+05:30

Thank you, Anurag Ji. You make me blush!

I hope that both of you keep producing awesome pieces of art like you do.

Sounds like an interesting book. Thanks for review...

2010-05-19T14:14:04.404+05:30

Sounds like an interesting book. Thanks for review!

Awesome review! All your reviews are so masterfull...

2010-04-22T15:00:10.610+05:30

Awesome review! All your reviews are so masterfully written! Thank God people like you are still around! I liked the movie rather more coherent than I had dared to hope. Ayesha Mohan was out of this world! Anurag Kashyap is so awesome but then that is perhaps because he shares my first name. LOL!

hi, really some great collection of poems and tha...

2010-02-14T19:26:30.677+05:30

hi,

really some great collection of poems and that too inspiring and motivating to follow ur dreams. Thanks for posting them here. Hope u post some more.

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2010-02-09T02:16:54.873+05:30

In case you do not like the comment, remove it.

But this was truly for you and no one has any right on it.

and I guess u know who it is....

If I do not talk to you, I miss thee
I say I do not love thee,
Then why my dream includes thee,
Words run away, the moment you enter into my thoughts,
Stupidity is my only plea,
To stay away from you is my only thought
Then why do I long to see thee...

When did it all start, I never realised,
However, the moment I hated thee, I said,
“Its him that I love thee”
I tried to curb my exuberance flipping off me
Even at the slightest thought of thee,
But this is not in my withhold,
It is not like you who is so cold.

Most of the people I know confuse love with posses...

2010-01-06T05:12:28.255+05:30

Most of the people I know confuse love with possession. It's easy to see why; it's built into the fundamental assumptions of our culture. "You're mine," says the popular song, "and we belong together." Hardly anyone stops to question the sentiment.
As soon as we feel love, we immediately attempt to possess. We speak confidently of my boyfriend, my wife, my child, my parent. We feel justified in holding expectations about those people. We consider that perfectly reasonable.
Why? Because all our concepts of love ultimately derive from romantic love — and romantic love is furiously, frantically possessive. We want to be with our lover, to have them to ourselves, to feel their eyes on us, to consume their minds and bodies...to possess them.
So strongly do we equate love with possession that we may even feel if someone doesn't want to possess us, they don't really love us. Yet I would argue that what we call romantic love is not love at all. It's a kind of emotional storm, an overpowering, thrilling attraction — but it isn't love.
Because real love isn't possessive. It can't be. We'd all agree that love involves giving, not taking. Yet the desire to possess actually springs from the lover's own need — the need for approval from the beloved, for support from a parent, for straight A's from a child, for status, for financial security — for something. A possessive lover is overly focused on what he's getting, not what he's giving. The lover may dignify his dependency with the name love, but it's a lie. How can you really love somebody when you're dependent on them for things you need? That isn't love, that's just manipulation to keep the needed stuff coming your way. Robert Palmer sings about being "addicted to love," but nobody really is. People are addicted to their needs.
And love isn't the same as need. It just isn't.
Of course, a loving relationship will produce interdependencies. But all too often, the pleasure of freely giving changes to a fear of possibly not getting. It's just that this person — your husband, your girlfriend, your child — is suddenly so important to you. You worry about what's going to happen. What they're going to do. And at that moment, love stops.
People sometimes wonder if they're feeling real love. These same people never wonder if they're sexually aroused, or sad. Then what's the problem about recognizing love? Most often, because they're sensing a conflict: they're feeling the depth of their need, not the heights of their love.
There are ways to know real love. It feels calm. It's steady, and it can easily last a lifetime. It's nourishing — people grow under its influence. They become who they really are, and now what someone expects them to be. Real love isn't blind; on the contrary, people feel understood, accepted for who they really are. It's healing. People recover.
So whenever you hear that love is blind, or love can't last, or love is destructive, you can be sure that you're hearing a description of lust, or desire, or need. And it's an accurate description, because needs really are transient and destructive.
But love is something else entirely. An emotion of deep caring that asks nothing in return, an emotion that is fulfilling without any expectation at all, is so rare that most people in our society can't imagine it. They can't imagine feeling it, or receiving it. They may even come to believe it doesn't exist. But it does.
And it's the best thing there is.

Hmm... an IIM dropout endorsing a medical dropout....

2009-12-29T16:51:57.877+05:30

Hmm... an IIM dropout endorsing a medical dropout... interesting!
I must confess, I've never heard of the novel. I'd love to read it now. It sounds good. :)
But, u also love Lucknow so much, don't u?

Luke and Tyler??? H.O.W?

2009-12-19T14:59:03.825+05:30

Luke and Tyler???
H.O.W?

Why would someone want to watch, let alone analyse...

2009-12-19T14:58:04.931+05:30

Why would someone want to watch, let alone analyse, this movie? Whatever intellectual-porn this might have been, the director was simply unable to express it properly. That is sheer incompetence for you; and Anurag hence loses the right to brag about this miasma.

2009-12-18T19:51:08.780+05:30

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Go AK! The film had a slick look. If and when Boll...

2009-12-18T04:43:48.460+05:30

Go AK!
The film had a slick look. If and when Bollywood does deliver a crossover hit, it's likely this film-maker will be behind it!

i also liked the movie very much. but i dont like ...

2009-12-17T12:09:29.362+05:30

i also liked the movie very much. but i dont like anurag kashyap.

beautifully captured... especially the para descri...

2009-12-17T12:06:41.314+05:30

beautifully captured... especially the para describing 'why'... :)

You 'adore' Anurag. Period.

2009-12-11T01:32:11.519+05:30

You 'adore' Anurag. Period.