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IISc Mess Subsidy Protests
Apr 11, 2014
On Thursday, April 10, the students of IISc protested the administration's proposal to cancel the mess subsidy. I myself participated and was witness to the proceedings. Here is a short account of the events of the day and a comparison of various newspaper reports on the incident.
Like Frogs in a Well
May 23, 2013
Simple visualizations (such as the one shown in the figure) of this curvature, typically appeal to a 2D fabric of space curved into a third dimension by the presence of a mass such as the earth. This curvature creates a three dimensional "well" into which other masses fall, thus resulting in what we perceive as gravity.
On the Power Crisis
Feb 13, 2012
Now, unless people really start understanding the underlying environmental issues, and take action, nothing is going to happen. It is time to be self-reliant, find our backbones, and get started shaping our own futures. A much better idea than depending on spineless governments, methinks.
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Google and the Classroom
Aug 21, 2011
It is true the average classroom is a really boring place to be in especially when the teacher is unable to effectively deliver the content. And when students find that their questions don't get satisfactory replies, they lose interest and enthusiasm. But there is also another important factor involved - the Internet.
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No End to This
May 18, 2011
One generation passes and another comes. And another… And another… Each more discontent with the ways of their fathers… For fathers and sons tend to work that way…
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The Dimension of Time
Feb 14, 2011
One has had the strangest ideas in the past, one still has strange ideas in the present, and one surely will have stranger ideas in the future.
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Memory
Jan 30, 2011
We ourselves grow older because every experience we have had has left us changed. We have been modified. We are not our old selfs anymore. For the better or for the worse, we have changed.
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Endless Recursion
Jan 16, 2011
Either you see it as the absolute infinity, where "the real truth" is infinite-dimensional and beyond one's comprehension. Or the infinity as in undefined, where something as "the real truth" does not exist.
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Of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies
Jan 11, 2011
…prophecies, forecasts and predictions, like measurements, are only self-fulfilling and are not pictures of "the real truth"… And for that matter, is there a "real truth"?
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