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Infer vs Believe

About small window of understanding and logic About gut feeling About how western thought tells us to believe what you infer About how eastern thought only believes by gut feeling or by belief on some other belief or believable person (which is also a belief) About the two sides in the movie avatar will write this one soon!

20 questions... that's all

It has been ages since I have updated this space. It surely does not mean that I have not been thinking. In fact for the first time I am also actually acting (acting as in action not in movies), because lately I have started to believe in many thoughts like "Action cures fear", "To think you need a busy life not a leisure time". Anyways my point is that actions have started eating into my time of documenting my thoughts. On the mention of thoughts... Lets ask in the same way as Douglas Adams did "How many thoughts is a man comprised of?". Paraphrasing it simply , if you are asked think about something, anything in the next 5 seconds, how many different things can it be. Initially I thought it was infinite. I am having second thoughts now. Why? Try this... http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#2dct1X/20q.net/pflash/index_content.html/ One of the most amazing things that I have stumbled across lately.

Ambigram for Tryst

Tryst is the Technical festival of the best Technical Institute in India namely IIT Delhi. For the past few years, sadly, Tryst has not been performing to it name, worst being the last year, when Tryst was virtually non existent. This year I wish that Tryst gets better, at least as good as Rendezvous (the cultural festival of IIT Delhi), because after all we are (at least are supposed to be) much better at technical events. Anyways, cutting on chase, I have the following contribution for the revamp. It reads tryst even when rotated P.S.: sorry for the crappy video quality!

awesome stop animation

talking of animation, seen a film which 1. is the first 3D film[citation needed] 2. has the smallest name for an animated film ever. 3. is another one from Pixar 4. is as awesome as the others "UP" wit, quality, adventure! anyways enjoy this one for now..."people out there are really doing awesome things yaar" is what my mind says. Hope yours does too... COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo .

My second speech

Here is my second speech at toastmasters. I must say it is the most constructive entertainment, and the best place to take your creativity out. (I go onto the stage with 3 balls in hand and start juggling.While still juggling I start)Good afternoon , Ladies and Gentlemen. Why am I doing this? (then deliberately dropping the last ball, showing that I could have easily caught it) or this? I can see a handful of reasons (I count 4 without using the middle finger).The first, the most obvious yet the most irrelevant is to show off my new talent. The second is in response to Manoj's evaluation to my ice breaker last week. He told me I kept my hands clasped and what better way to free them but to juggle.Speaking about ice breaker and slowly moving towards relevant reasons. I think it is a sound reasoning that if I could properly juggle balls on this sacred stage, juggling sentences while speaking would be easy. The fourth and the most relevant reason at least for today is that I want to c

Juggling lessons

When majority of people hear the word 'juggling' , their thought process goes like this "wow! -> esoteric -> useless -> not for me". These are the normal people. For some , like me, the thought process goes like " wow!-> wow! -> wow! " and they are stuck with three balls in 2 hands. I entered a trance as soon as I took hold of the balls for the first time. I could not complete a single cycle of three for the first 2 hours, but I never even looked at anything else. I feel both proud and stupid stating the above fact. Anyways exactly after 5 minutes of this 2-hours span I was able to complete 30 throws and was already praising myself. Again I was both happy and sad. Sad because I came out of the trance. The challenge was over. I had already lost half the interest in juggling that I started with. Now only incentive I had to keep juggling was to tell, show and perform in front of people (mostly wing-mates), to earn praise. Not that none of them we

I's breaker!

Convinced about power of the ability to communicate and an utter lack of it in me, I have joined a club named Toastmasters. This saturday I have to give my ice breaker speech, in which I need to talk about myself. Following is what I plan to say. (I will go upto the dias and take out my mobile and start speaking)Nokia 6500. I met it exactly 22 years after I was born. It is heavier than its counterparts. It is rugged. It has had its hardships. It is unique. It is artistic and it is still technological. I love my phone . I connect with it! (pun intended) . Good afternoon friends! I am Tejesh Kinariwala and it is a privilege for me to speak about myself generally. It is more than a privilege today, because you will not only let me speak but also listen to it ... and even go further to actually clap at the end. Any ways, one more thing I forgot to tell you about my phone was that it has a loud speaker (through which it speaks and sings), but a relatively quieter mic (through which it liste

How the sewing machine actually works

Its beautiful. Intelligent and elegant at the same time. Like watching a dance.

Nostalgia

This beautiful song is written by Sankalp Dayal ( aka chacha)  in first year. I have added some music to it (not so much a music as a tune). We planned to compose a good song. Sankalp did his part. As always, I was the spoilsport. Hope to post a link to the complete audio some day Chahta hoon zindagi se milna par zindagi hai ke milna na chahe mujhse Har dayre ki jeet pakadna chahta hoon main par do mutthiyon mein thami hi na jaye Aasman ko lena chahu aaghosh mein Mar aasman hai ki simta na jaye mujhse Badhta hi chala jaye.. Li hai aaj pawan se dekho nayi hod maine Par zamee hai ki chodna na chahe mujhko Khwaish insaa ko badalne ki rakhta hoon zahan mein Par insaan hai ki sunana na chahe mujhko .... Riff .... Ansuni hi kiye jaye Sudharna hi nahi chahe Ubharna hi nahi chahe Mujhko hi badale jaye... main badalta chala jau dar jau sikud jau har kadam pe ladkhadau kuch kam har din ho jau... sau bahane main banau khwab takna bisar jau daldal mein ghusta jau

What is intelligence anyway?

By Isaac Asimov I know many of the readers of this blog will connect to it, as much as I do What is intelligence, anyway? When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me. (It didn't mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen police - as my highest duty.) All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too. Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents similar to mine? For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly h

On proverbs, religion, princes, sine series and doctors (part 1)

The antithesis involved in "Too many cooks spoil the broth" yet "Many hands make the work light" have intrigued me since I first learnt them. So has also the existence of almost opposite religious beliefs. Both sides are right. Both sides are wrong. I believe that both are right, because the prescibers believe that they are right. But I think they are wrong because they prove others wrong by the following argument. I am right for sure (agreed). He thinks exactly opposite of what I think (agreed) and so he must be wrong for sure (naah!). The whole thing is a logical trail followed by a presumption that the nature is defined by one rule. And what do we do when we arrive at a contradiction following a logical argument? We say that the presumption is wrong. So it is wrong to presume that there is one rule ,or religion,or proverb for life. Let me jump into something totally unrelated (and it would be cool to show in the end that , they were related. Or did I already spoi

Conform to Reform!

It is actually beautiful, as beautiful and incredible as how the million stars don't fall into one another even when gravity is the only force present. The fact that the society is still running 'smoothly', in spite of the presence of radically different people, that are a part of it, is incredible. The magnitude of its awesomeness can be grasped better , if you realize that in every 200 years the society is virtually new (as a human can barely live up to a 100 years) , composed of no individual from the olden society. Yet the society is apparently the same. I know it changes. But come on, you still brush your teeth, take a bath, grow up, want to earn money, earn money, repent wanting to earn money, never repent earning money and do all the things that your father's father's father's father's father's father's father did. So, anyways, my point is that society plays a crucial role in sustenance. And by society I mean the mass. The majority of the soc

How silly to ask!

Indians have long confused respect with "not doing disrespectful jobs"! I don't want to bias this thought further by explaining it more. Moreover, I don't have any example in my life to support this strong statement strongly enough. But I want you to think about it for a moment, at least, and longer, if you will to. An anecdote: P4 batch (where batches ranged from P1 to P5 and then Q1 to Q5 each with a decreasing 'calibre') at Bansal Classes Kota. It was a maths class. The topic was 'Logarithms' (The first chapter). Teacher was Siddharth Premi. We were 'discussing' a tutorial sheet on log. It would be better if i write it like this Tejesh(thinking to self) : I am from State board I know nothing as compared to these people from CBSE SP: So any doubt in question 1? (no reply) Tejesh (thinking to self) : O god! please somebody ask the doubt in the second question. How dumb it would sound if I ask the first doubt. If to no one else, it would pro

Mesmerised

Few things make my hairs stand on end (like when A.R. Rehman goes slightly higher the lasttime, as compared to the other times , when he goes 'Vandeeeeeeeee Mataram' in his song "Maa tujhe salaam" ). Few make my face blow like a balloon, as if I am trying to contain all the tears that are produced inside it, and then finally they start leaking through the orfices of the eyes.I cry like a baby (The last 3 minutes of Persuit of happyness) Some make me laugh my stomach into a daylong pain while some titillate me and make me hug myself... yet this is something which I experienced for the first time. A bit of everything. I understand the word 'Mesmerise' now! let yourself feel. from Esteban Diácono on Vimeo .

What's in the words?

Is it only the words or is it something deeper that, when we refer to the time when British rule ended in India, we call it the time when "British Left India" ? But when Americans talk about the end of British rule in America. They say that it was when "We got independence" I am not saying that we don't use the words "We got independence " off and on, what i am saying is that America never uses "When British (or French for that matter) Left America".

Speeeeeeeed Reeeeeeeead!

They say the Process is more important than the Product . I take a particular case of this generic adage to say Preparation for entrance exams is more enriching than the actual college education . Particularly I have learnt more (academically) in the 2 years of Bansal (Kota) than in 4 years of IIT. And I don't know about IIMs or whether I would make into one sometime now, but I am sure that the preparation for CAT is enriching me.Here I share with you one of the things I am learning. I, having read lots of novels in the past 5-6 years, thought that my reading speed was fairly good. When I wanted to boost my morale, one day, I told myself why not find out how much actually my reading speed is? I did and shocked myself with mere 130 wpm (words per minute). To give a perspective an average reader has a speed of 250 words per minute (or did it say average American reader , but how does it matter). I was not and never will be satisfied with average. After all average means neither good

About life universe and everything!

The appearance, algorithms, applications, competition, market, revenue earning methods, time to load etc. for the different search engines like Google, Bing and even Wolfram Alpha, may be different. But what unites them is their metaphysics. Try searching 'answer to life the universe and everything' in either one. Their calculators come forward with the answer "42" which, according to the original proposer, was a random number which came to his mind when he looked out of his window and he thought that it would be a good joke. Douglas Adams says that there is nothing special about the number and that even if there is, he did not mean it that way. But this has not stopped people from coming up with theories. After all why only 42, why not anything else like 32! I thought if there was really this game going on about making useless hypotheses, how can I not participate? After all, this is what I am good at! So I jumped in. 42 is a decimal representation of the more fundam

Optical spiral!

Out of the many optical illusions I have had the honour to see through books, stumbleupon, mails, t-shirts and all the other places they have found home, I like this one the best for a single reason. The others cause a slight optical illusion, I mean if you know that the two circles are equal , or the crooked lines are really same...then you can easily convince yourself that they are.This one is different. Try convincing yourself that the orange spirals are really not spirals but circles. Cannot do it right?Oof course you cannot because they are really spirals. Anyways how about convincing yourself that the blue and the green spirals which you see, are actually of same colour! :) Hint: After you have tried to look with one eye, two eyes, three eyes...printed it , inverted it...and done all sorts of things with it, try the colour picker in paint. Start>Accessories>paint>coloupicker!

Draw your mind

I found these class of software which help us draw our mind and present it effectively. I must sayy they are not obviously what exactly they aim or boast to be, but surely are little helpful in the stated direction. I used Edraw Mind map V4 and here is the first thing I started drawing. I found them good for putting down possibilities. They are also good for things like first draft of novels and projects and for time planning etc. etc. So all in all a decent find.

Ali

These are some awesome digital art pieces made by my friend Murtuza Ali Hussainy. I am using his work as an advertisement poster, so that people visit my blog :) Note: I did not make them, though I wished I did. And now I wish I could. For those who are interested, Ali uses Bamboo fun as tablet and Artrage as his drawing software. For seeing more of his awesomeness visit his blog here

Recursion

Today Natthu's status message led me to another of google's fundoo easter eggs. Try googling recursion! or click here No doubt they are God

Deadlines

Its an irony that Deadlines are called Deadlines! After all those are the times which attest that life is really present in the living. Heard about the 80-20 rule? That 80 % of the work is done by 20 % of the people That 80% of the money is with 20 % of the people That 80 % of the work is done in 20 % of the time allotted to it I would like to edit a little That 80 % of the work is done in the last (deadline kissing) 20 % part of the time allotted to it

The ' What if ? ' illusion

As humans, our mere ability to think 'What if?' makes us believe that we are in control. But do we really change things, do we affect the reality. If we do , to what degree? It is said that if a butterfly makes an extra flap of its wings, the reality can change so much so that after a decade a nonexistent cyclone can result.Is it really true? Even if it is, does the butterfly really have a control enough to make that extra flap? Is it really free will or an illusion of free will? A very fascinating example is seen in first person games like Prince of Persia or God of wars and so on.The game makers try hard to give the gamers a feeling that they can do anything in that virtual world. The game programmers know very well though that they can program only a limited number of options. There cannot be more than a finite number of stimulus- response pairs that they would have programmed. Even then, while we play the game we feel that we are in complete control (at least that is the ai

Lets start at the start!

This is an early post to direct you to a new story (slowly converting into a novel) which I have started writing. Hope you enjoy the start of the "start at the start" novel. http://www.storyofthebeginning.blogspot.com/ In fact the regular followers of my blog (who includes me and only me for now) would have realized that this is somewhat like the older post I wrote. I would say to them "Thank you very much for following the blog so intently and yes you are right. That is were this all started". For others, this is the link to the old post the older post .

Knowledge Spiral

About 5 years ago I read an article by some guy who used to write in the NY times, science column. I don't remember the guy's name or the exact story, I only remember what matters. It is the crux. Here I rewrite the story from what I remember (and of course add some of my style) One day I was sitting in my study trying hard to come up with an idea to write an article on. I knew it had to be on Fermat's theorem. This theorem was so very peculiar because, it was found written in the small top-left margin of his notebook. without a proof, without any preceding thought.It was written as a matter of fact.Great mathematicians have since tried their lives out in proving the theorem or maybe disproving it, without success. Maybe I was trying too hard, or maybe i was disillusioned by exhaustion, but i saw a shiny warp in my garden , just outside the window. I could not resist so i went near it and before i knew through it, and literally before i knew, i came out of it, knowing not w

Art Rage + Kaup beach =

This is made as a word of appreciation to Jatin for arranging all the superb trips in Bangalore

A wonderful ambigram I found on the net!

Awesome awesome! Note I did not make it, but i wish i did! I will make a better looking version of it though.

Tandem

My friend Torka and I have started writing a tandem novel.Basically we write one chapter each alternately,without ever discussing the story outside the blog. Do check it at http://www.chapters09.blogspot.com/ and whether you like it or not please comment.

Charcoal

These are the links to my other two blogs.They have a collection of charcoal paintings made by students of IIT Delhi First year and Second Year

Jai Batti

An ambigram design for our dear Batti. Hope to wear a t shirt with this design

TED

The following are the answers that I wrote for the Ted fellowship form. I write them here because they provided me with wonderful insight Tell us about yourself We take this portion of the application very seriously. Please take the time to answer the questions thoughtfully, with enough detail to help us understand who you are. All responses are limited to 1500 characters except where noted. If a friend were to describe your accomplishments in up to three sentences, what would he or she say? * Tejesh, who has got dozens of different pet names owing to his social circles, has his biggest achievement as cracking IIT JEE which is the world's toughest entrance exam. He cracked it big time by being 147th out of 3 hundred thousand people that appeared. He has a powerful analytical mind, which is evident from his affinity to solving puzzles and his ability to think freely.He has an addiction for outings and knows the mountains and forests of India alike. What other achievements (not only

Indi trips

My friends Jatin and Nishant are planning to start a webbased enterprise called "Indi trips". I have plenty leisure time here in Bangalore. I downloaded a cool software called ArtRage (though stil trial version) All these combined ; here are some logos I designed for them or rather myself. I have thoroughly confused them, I bet, so the logos are of no use to them anymore. by the way their site is at www.inditrips.com An ambigram of IndiTrips: So simple but ,I think elegant and rich: Using the Art rage for the first time:

Did they really land on the moon?

An idea for a poem

There is a tree which has survived the hot summers for months. For the initial months it survived because it thought that is what it was supposed to do. Then he started questioning why is it trying so hard to survive. Then when it is about to give up hope it is told that if it survives till the end the universe or God will tell it why. So at the end where it just makes it, he is answered with a lot of wind and a sudden but abundant rainfall. Now it again doesn't know what it is supposed to do because again if it gives up the the wind will bring it down in spite of the rain , but if it wishes to survive the wind does not stand a chance before the rain and its will. So what should it do? 1. the decision is left to the reader. 2. initially the poem starts with it but then when the tree develops some human thinking it is addressed with he. Or maybe i can be creative enough use "he" where it thinks rationally and "she" while it thinks emotionally.

superb presentation

came across this awesome presentation style...loved it will use it one day! the pace, the innovation at every step,the simplicity, the beats utilization...pure awesomeness! did not really get a chance to appreciate the girl effect though..was so engrossed in the presentation!

So apt...as if written for me

i stumbled upon this.this text pricks me enough to make me want to do something about it: T hose who assume (often unconsciously) that it is impossible to achieve their life's desires-and, thus, that it is futile to fight for themselves --usually end up fighting for an ideal or cause instead. They may appear to engage in self-directed activity, but in reality they have accepted alienation from their desires as a way of life. All subjugations of personal desires to the dictates of a cause or ideology are reactionary no matter how "revolutionary" the actions arising from such subjugations may appear.

fundoo photos

condensed wisdom ... will remain with me forever, after today

by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical abo

this is what happens when...

you have a broken mirror and book shelf and much more time at hand than required to just get it repaired... ya you actually just let it be This has nothing to do with the mirror but, with the following man..i so love him i call him Tuddi Just see his effort: my Tuddi man is able to ... support a thriddi (i mean 3D) bookshelf by sheer will ya this is the mirror i was talking about !

A Structure A Day

12th February: THE HAMMERHEAD RATTLESNAKE by me 11th February: THE TRANSFORMER by Aditya Pant 10th February: THE BENT TOWER OF ... by Aditya Pant 9th February: WALL - E by me

It would be better, I suppose

On the contrary, I reason it ought to be like that, I remind ; what I forget, - as opposed to what? Doesn't matter, does it? when the grass there is green And here it never tidies as much as you clean. Immaculate is possible but never at home, then we wonder why winds blow, why from here they go. the reason for travel is a yearning for some where , it would be better, I suppose if we roam without care. "It would be better , I suppose" -the reason for dissatisfaction, for improvement, for jealousy, for comparision, for our action. 8th february 2009 IIT Delhi

does faith have economic value

Frankly, I don't understand recession. The irony is that nobody really does (at least in my vicinity) but everybody talks about it. Like Feynman said On the contrary, it's because someone knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance ... so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about! Anyways, here is one of my economic meanderings. Nothing related to recession though or maybe.(I don't understand money enough to even say whether this is related) I go to a snacks-shop (where I go regularly).Eat at whatever I like and then I realize that I have forgotten my wallet. One option now is to look around and see if there is some friend who can lend me some money. Another way should be what if I promise the shopkeeper to pay him la

Multilayered EGO

I often, generally in moments of relaxation, have tried to learn about ego. My usual procedure for doing this is to think-a-thought about ego, any thought .Then as though someone up there, desperately wants me to think about it,I suddenly and surely get a second thought to jump onto and then its not too much time before I am really sinking in the process of learning about Ego. But thinking can not make you learn the whole concept, just like learning theory about, say operating a computer, cannot teach you to operate one. So, you need to take lessons from life, the rude way in which she teaches- by giving the test first. The thinking only helps to be aware about the oncoming test. Every time I think something I fail to document it. So eventually it evaporates. So this time, here I am, writing what I feel is the crux of my last such thinking session. It started with—everybody has (an) Ego (whatever it may be).How do we know it? Because we associate a boundary inside which we call our SEL