Darth Chatri

I have been wondering why all this while we have been trusting historians. How can I be so sure that the events reported by history have actually happened. Contrast this with science. In science, things are stateless with respect to time. There is no 'event' which has 'happened'. Its all just there in front of you whenever you want it. You can test it whenever you want. Of course, one can argue whether you can trust your senses in the first place, but lets not get into that. Lets assume that the whole world is what you percieve with your senses. But even then history is just something that is fed into your brain so as to give you a basis on which you can justify your existence. The worst part is that you are taught to change your view of looking at the world and your way of interpreting information from your senses in way that is consistent with the so called history. For example, history has taught me that Hitler was cruel and he massacred a lot of Jews. How can I be s...

I was actually having fun at the embassy when I went for my visa stamping. The security check seemed so cool and it even beeped when I passed through the detector. It was something in my wallet. Then they asked for the documents, which I produced, all in order. Except that one was missing ... my passport. I experienced a kind of adrenalin rush that I have never experienced before. Then I calmed down and tried to remember where the hell it could have been! Finally I went out again, back to the car, opened my bag and there it was! Once again through the security checks and everything. The actual interview was very trivial. After a couple of questions the lady said something that I tried to interpret as a question but failed miserably. A second later it registered that the interview was over and I had been issued a visa. If there is anyone out here who has forgotten his/her passport while going for a getting a visa, please mail me. It will make me feel much better.

Please join me in welcoming to the club of people who have lots of time and nothing to do and hence think that spending time writing blogs is a pretty neat idea, a friend of mine - Manas Alekar (http://manasalekar.blogspot.com). Maybe he will blog regularly from now on and go on to become a prominent member of the club. Or maybe he will just stop like many other clever people who realise the truth do. What truth? That there is no blog! Then you will see that it is not your blog that people should be talking to ... but you. Urgghh ... that was a bad one.

The only thing I wish right now is that people respond to my mails! (Sigh).

I got to know just before the match today that Infy had qualified for the semi-finals just by winning one game in the super-six, thanks to the outstanding performance in leagues. I actually had fever when I started the game. But once the game starts, you forget all these things. Geometric started well and put pressure on our defence in the early minutes. But Infy scored off a counter attack against the run of play with Peeyush finding the back of the net. Geometric came out attacking in the second half. We managed to hold on and midway through the second half I scored from a good five metres outside the penalty box. That pretty much sealed the game. I'm beginning to feel the pinch now, and I hope tomorrow morning I wake up fit enough for the match against PSPL.

An 'eye opener' Let's say that you are teaching a class. Let's say that you are teaching Unix. You have drawn a neat sketch of the inode-wise layout of the disk and you are explaining the concept of the hierarchical filesystem and directories and inodes and hard and soft links with the help of your neat diagram. Suddenly you discover that one of the students is not getting the whole picture ... because he can't see ... *because he is blind*. At that moment I didn't really feel the impact because I was too engrossed in the subject, too engrossed in teaching. But the whole thing really hit me hard on the bus ride home. A thousand questions were raised, not many answered. First, about teaching - in such a situation, do you teach for the lowest denominator or the higher one. Doing anything is going to unfair to the other category. But in this case, the whole problem is magnified to a huge extent. I obviously cannot rely so much on gr...

It's not often that music can bring a smile to your face ... just like that, out of the blue. Hats off to Indian Ocean for 'Kandisa'.